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PSI Technics offers customers a wide variety of supplemental modular analysis services that are specifically tailored to intralogistics environments and production facilities. By offering a modular service portfolio, we provide optimum solutions that match your individual requirements:
Service Life, Motion Path and Control Technology Analyses
Energy Consumption and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Analyses
Temperature and Humidity Analyses
Custom Analyses, such as Virtual Modeling (Finite Element Method)
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To identify hidden optimization potential PSI Technics' unique FLP6000MA Motion Analysis Software evaluates the acceleration, velocity and traveling path of your ASRS system. The software shows every value that is sampled during a long-term motion analysis. In addition to providing a graphical representation of the system's motion profile, FLP6000MA enables a substantial increase in productivity that is based on the optimization model of our FLP6000MC positioning algorithm. The FLP600MA software helps to considerably increase motion path efficiency as well as cycle times.
Energy Consumption
PSI Technics' energy consumption measurement delivers insight into the energy consumption of your ASRS machines. A comparison between different drives or closed-loop control settings reveals the machine's energy usage and offers a means to identify both energy consumption and optimization potential and take appropriate measures.
Baseline Analysis
Our baseline analysis combines motion analysis and energy consumption measurements and is the ideal entry level analysis for an evaluation of your intralogistics system.
Temperature and Humidity Analysis
PSI Technics' temperature and humidity analysis helps to identify weak spots, problems and sources of interferences at an early stage to prevent consequential damages. Miniature data loggers* are used to strategically record long-term ambient temperature and humidity. This allows for an easy and reliable monitoring of areas that require a precise, diversified and detailed temperature control. After the recorded data has been analyzed and evaluated, weak spots can be diagnosed and eliminated.
*PSI Technics will be using data loggers solely for providing analysis services. Individual counts are still available to existing customers upon request. As of January 1, 2017, the data logger software and data logger starter kits are no longer available.
Strain Gauge Analysis /
Component Service Life Calculation
PSI Technics' strain gauge analysis calculates the service life of individual machine components that are subject to particularly high stress or strain. Stress-related data is obtained through measurements and enables the recording of even the smallest peak loads that are then factored into the expected lifetime calculation.
EMC Analysis (Baseline)
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) can cause operating problems as well as costly downtime of electrical and electronically controlled devices, machines and facilities. EMI can pose health risks to your workforce. On-site EMC analyses are conducted at the client's facilities and document the electromagnetic conditions, which are analyzed and evaluated to identify sources of EMI so corrections can be made.
Strain Gauge Analysis /
Machine Service Life Calculation
Compared to the baseline offering, this analysis covers measurements and service life calculations for an entire machine. Measurement points are selected based on a comprehensive finite element calculation. For particularly critical spots, a more comprehensive level II analysis is performed and the results are combined and compared.
EMC Analysis (Detailed)
PSI Technics performs on-site or laboratory electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) analyses on behalf of its customers to detect and eliminate sources of electromagnetic interference. This includes the recording of electric and magnetic fields as well as performance-related values that frequently impact the electromagnetic compatibility of machines. In addition, EMI may cause inexplicable disturbances or malfunctions, and impact the client's workforce. We then work with the customer to develop appropriate solutions.
Custom Analyses,
such as Virtual Modeling (Finite Element Method)
Virtual modeling is part of our portfolio of analysis services. To date, renowned companies successfully rely on this service offering to achieve substantial improvements in cycle times, energy conservation, reliability and facility lifespan. We empower customers to fully utilize the hidden potential of positioning technology to achieve tangible results. For additional information about this service offering or supplementary case studies, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Best Shots Advance Review: LOGAN'S RUN: LAST DAY #1
Writer: Paul Salamoff; plots by William Nolan, Jason Brock and Salamoff
Artist: Daniel Gete
From: Bluewater
Available: February 03, 2010As perhaps the only member of the Newsarama team who (deep breath) read William Noland and George Clayton Johnson's original book; saw the 1976 movie in the theatre; watched the TV show (most of you have mercifully forgotten about that one, but not I;) stalked the quarter bins for the forgotten seven-issue comic series put out by Marvel (George Perez! Klaus Janson!); and even hunted down an eccentric series in the British TV magazine Look-In, I am in a unique position to review this new book.
That position is: Obsessed, monomaniacal Logan's Run fan. (In fact, I leapt so quickly at the chance to review this book that I think I trampled Michael Lorah.)
Why Logan's Run? I don't know. Some of you love Star Wars, some of you collect lunch boxes: I happen to adore a mildly campy genre book that has somehow enjoyed a greater afterlife than it ever truly deserved. I know that Logan's Run isn't Jules Verne. It's not even Blake's Seven. I still love it. Sue me.
But: I have to mention all this because that means this review is completely tainted by critical bias. If that bothers you, stop reading now.
For those of you who don't know the mise-en-scene: In the near future, the human race lives in mega-cities run by a sentient computer. Population control is draconian: You're bumped off as soon as you hit 21. Those who don't willingly report for Sleepshop are hunted down and terminated by the Sandmen. Logan 6, the anti-hero of the book, is the best of these killers — yet will soon be tempted to run himself.
This new comic book starts exactly where the original novel and the movie did, with a quick review of who and what Logan is, but in the comic book, we get to see a bit of a flashback to just how much attention the society's computer paid to young Logan in his training to become a serial, cold-blooded killer.
This is a departure that opens up some other threads I hope will be explored later on — in the movie and other spin-off media, the Thinker has been played as the straight genre mad-computer; perhaps after seeing what Joss Whedon did on the X-Men with the Danger Room, Nolan and Salamoff were inspired to give the machine a bit more complex backstory.
The writing is pretty taut and immersive, making the book a speedy yet satisfying read. A lot of this is due to Salamoff: He's a long-time horror and sci-fi movie writer and effects man with at least 40 film credits. While he's a newcomer to comics, his dialogue is snappy and tense, as well as professional.
As for the art — well, Bluewater's books, in general, haven't really found the mark yet on that score. It isn't going to make you forget Perez and Janson's run on the short-lived Marvel book… unless, uh, you already did. (Note to Marvel: Reprint this one.) Having said that, this isn't a bad-looking book; based on what I've seen, I think it's the best looking one from the studio yet. Daniel Gete's art is serviceable and crisp, and looks as good in black and white as it does in colour.
Bottom line: I loved it. And I hope that those of you folks who don't have the crippling Logan's Run-related issues I do will enjoy it as well. As I've mentioned, this isn't world-changing literature. But it is a sturdy example of the genre, and it's a lot of fun.


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This Lifestyle German Kitchen in Epping is packed full of innovation and fits in well with this high tech home. The furniture is Cristall Polar White Handleless with a gorgeous Stella Negro Quartz 30mm work top with a shark nose edging which also forms the island top and sides too.
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As usual we have some great storage solutions too.
They also bought their Gate dining table and New York Scuba Black chairs and matching bar stools from us too.
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Non-Governmental Programs
To fill gaps in government efforts to wipe out poverty, private, non-governmental organizations and individuals have stepped up to help in different ways. For example, for many years the founders of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream shared corporate wealth with employees by maintaining a 7 to 1 ratio between top executives and entry level employees pay. They also created a foundation to further their efforts to do good in many areas.
In 1983 Muhammad Yunus founded the Grameen Bank for making sure the poor had access to small loans for enterprise, education, housing, life insurance, and retirement. As individuals paid back the loans new ones were made to others in need. Other countries began copying this approach and micro-credit institutions sprung up.
Potential of Promise Neighborhoods (modeled after the successful Harlem Children's Zone in New York City) attempt to tackle the generational cycles of poverty in bounded neighborhoods. To be successful, however, requires sustained long term leadership and a range of ongoing services to support education of children at all levels: mentoring, tutoring, nutrition, career training, college preparation, and child safety, health and productivity.
Individuals or families waiting for evaluation and approval to enter the government welfare system in America may obtain temporary assistance from non-profit organizations or religious groups such as The Salvation Army, a church, synagogue, or temple. This support may be in the form of temporary shelter especially in winter months or soup kitchens for meals and clothing closets for free or nominally priced garments. In some instances individuals may not be eligible for government assistance and religious support may be their only hope. Organizations such as The Salvation Army and Goodwill have provided employment opportunities to aid individuals in getting better jobs and eventually escaping poverty.
Local food pantries take advantage of unused but still good food from restaurants and businesses as well as donations and make these available to families in need.
Other projects such as New Hope Project serve as models for helping the working poor rise above poverty lines. This project provides income supplements, subsidized health care and child care and a job when unable to find one under a social contract. Read details in the book, Higher Ground.
Sources of Poverty
There are many individualized reasons someone is poor and these begin with being born into a family that is poor. Having role models who are uneducated, unskilled, and dependent on others for income contribute to the cycle of poverty. Other contributors include:
Poverty is a global problem.
In every nation there are individuals with insufficient resources to meet their basic needs for nutritious food, clean water, adequate shelter, adequate clothing, and protection from predators. In most nations there are also individuals with wealth sufficient to enjoy the best material goods that life has to offer. In the United States of America efforts have been made by governmental and non-governmental organizations to reduce poverty and close gaps between rich and poor. Before reviewing these, consider sources of wealth and poverty.
Government and Poverty
In America the government collects taxes to pay for public services available to all its citizens. Income tax rates vary according to tax brackets with the wealthiest expected to pay the most. American laws require all working citizens to pay into its social insurance programs (i.e.,Unemployment, Social Security, and Medicare). The government also makes laws and sets policies to assist with income equity such as minimum wage, student loans, and children's health insurance. Through its states, government provides welfare assistance and work incentives to families living below the poverty line as well as rehabilitation assistance for persons with disabilities.
Sources of Wealth
There are several ways that an individual or group become wealthy: an inheritance, results of a successful innovation, measurable and leveraged earnings, taking risks, and long term savings. Inherited wealth is passed down from one generation to the next in the form of land, mines, slaves, or cattle as well as money, stocks, bonds, or other assets. The Kennedy family is one example of inherited wealth.
Bill Gates illustrates innovative wealth by developing Microsoft, a software product still in use years later.
Individuals who produce something measurable that has leverage illustrate a form of earned wealth. Musical and film stars, athletes, salesmen, and Chief Executive Officers help produce income for themselves and others in measurable terms such as gold label sales, theater or sports events attendance, or inclusion in the top 500 companies status. Well known examples include Madonna, Michael Jordan, and Oprah Winfrey.
Meanwhile there are those whose wealth comes from taking major risks. They get lucky gambling on Wall Street, at the race tracks or casinos, in the lottery or contests.
A very few individuals become millionaires by doing without useful or luxury items for many years and socking a way that portion of their income for distant future needs.


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I enrolled my eldest in a transition to school program a few weeks ago and got a letter in the mail about the program's start date today. It was addressed to my partner. Then to me. My partner has never set foot in that school, hasn't called to coordinate anything with the school. Hadn't heard about the program until I told him about it. Probably won't go to any of the school days with our child. But you know, it's not a big deal. It's just a little thing. (The municipality and miscellaneous government offices do the same? It's just easier to be consistent with these things. No misogyny here.)
I go to our local agricultural store to buy a waterer for the laying hens. The guy working there tells me that if my husband is handy I can get this here product and just punch holes in a tote, way cheaper. He meant well, not a big deal. (Huh, I wonder if hearing comments like these for thirty years contributed to my feeling less handy than All Of The Men? We'll never know. Let's just chalk it up to biology.)
We get a care package in the mail addressed to : ' family « partner's name » '. So nineteen fifties vintage erasure. No problem. An honest mistake.
We move a herd of cattle across the road. I stop the traffic coming in one direction and my partner puts up the fencing and beckons the bulls and heifers across. The woman in the car that I stop asks if it's my parents cattle. « No. » Smile. « Then what's your husbands name? » Not a big deal. It was another generation. Women were farm wives never farmers.
A neighbour comes to our place to ask for a donation for a health cause. I give twenty bucks and start saying my full name for the tax receipt but am told « your husband gave last year, I'll just leave it under his name. » (I get treated like a very uptight person when I insist on having my donations filed under my own name.)
I don't even want to get into my encounters at the local hardware store.
Every day there's a thing. There's just a little thing. A 'lighten up, not that big a deal' thing. The sort of encounter that you could shrug off if it was a one-off, if that sort of misogyny and sexism didn't happen almost every single day. When I'm in a good mood. When I'm excited to be doing this thing by myself. When I'm feeling competent or proud even. When I'm out and about with my boy children. When I'm starting to feel at peace and at home here. To be put back in my place, and by well meaning people, for the most part. The hot rage. And the fucking loneliness that follows.
(The city's the same or almost, don't get me wrong. I just had well honed coping mechanisms and pretty robust support networks there.)
I saw this image yesterday. (posted by feminists united)
I needed the reminder that, while feeling like a nag sucks, it's the best of my options here.
Given all of this, seeing interviews and comments written by people who support the ban on the burkini makes me want to rage-vomit. You want to talk about women's oppression? Check yourself, Westerners. Et la France avec son Académie Française et son amour du « masculin à valeur générique. » J'en ai plein mon casque.


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James Charles and Tana Mongeau just roasted Oscars outfits and they did not hold back
12 March 2019, 12:55 | Updated: 12 March 2019, 13:31
Stars like Halsey and Shay Mitchell had their outfits judged - but who came out on top?
Tana Mongeau and James Charles recently sat down for a delicious roast, and the meat that was served was celebrity.
The YouTubers and pals sat down to review outfits from this year's Academy Awards (the Oscars, baby!) No one was safe from their expert eyes, with everyone from Awkwafina to Halsey getting their fashion choices analysed.
Some celebs got an instant seal of approval from the pair. Madeline Petsch, Emma Roberts and Shay Mitchell all got good ratings - but unfortunately others weren't so lucky.
Tana and James admitted that they were fully biased when it comes to who they were rating well - "if we like you, you'll get a better rating" Tana says with a smile and a shrug.
James spiced up the video by trying on a variety of stylish wigs, which really brought a touch of class to the proceedings, wouldn't you say?
Some fans faves had a hard time, like Halsey
James' reaction to singer Halsey's outfit was simply a startled "...oh".
Tana didn't dislike the outfit, but felt it was more fitting for the VMAs than the Oscar's. But they both spent a long time talking about how great her boobs look, so there's that.
Overall, Tana seemed perplexed by the casualness of some of the outfits. "If I was going to the Oscars I would be so fucking regal" she says. "Well you'll never be invited so let's not go there." James quips back.
Both James and Tana have been in the news recently. James just hit 15 million subscribers, making him the most subscribed beauty YouTuber in the world. Meanwhile, Tana sadly announced that she is no longer in a relationship with Bella Thorne.
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Stop Making Sense is, and this is not nearly as common and ubiquitous a statement as you might imagine, a truly singular film experience. Sure, there are great concert films; Martin Scorsese's The Last Waltz is very likely a superior concert film with more to say about the nature of music as it exists in the ether. But Stop Making Sense isn't a concert film, at least in the traditional sense. It is a film about cinema, and about what cinema can do to transform the ethos of a concert beyond what a concert is in person. If this extends it beyond the realm of a concert, it also does more to make us think about what a concert entails as a realm for voyeurism and socio-spatial art. Stop Making Sense does not merely hit the mark for a concert film; it transforms it. Continue reading
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Paul Verhoeven: Showgirls
How does one approach the colossal elephant in the room that is Showgirls? Outside of perhaps Battlefield Earth, it may be the most lambasted and popularly despised film of the past quarter-century. At the time of its release, it was an unmitigated commercial disaster (unmitigated commercial disasters being the unofficial theme of the film year that was 1995), and to this day it almost universally reviled. Those that don't revile it, a group that includes a heavy swath of more youthful critics and viewers who indulge in the film for its unapologetic descent into high camp and subversive anti-populism, mark it as some sort of misunderstood modern masterpiece. It is a deeply confusing film that openly solicits both interpretations with arms wide open and no concern whatsoever that its two guests have opposite aims and hate each other. But that is Paul Verhoeven for you folks, and whatever you think of Showgirls, it is probably, for better or worse, the culmination of everything he stands for. It is nothing less than The Paul Verhoeven film. Continue reading
National Cinemas: The Wages of Fear
The Wages ofFear, Henri-Georges Clouzot's famed French-Italian white-knuckle thriller was and is almost incomparable as an exercise in hair-raising. It is so well edited, choreographed, acted, and composed that one almost wishes to reduce it to the level of thriller alone (not that, with this skill, it would be "reducing" per-se). Yet Clouzot was not, nor was he ever, simply content to thrill. His scabrous films simply used the conventions of thriller cinema to chill to the bone, to indict and valuate, to scare, to hope, and to leave nothing in their wake. His 1953 work is absolutely one of the most thrilling films ever released, yet this does the texture of the piece a disservice. If it is Hitchcockian, and Hitch is the director Clouzot is almost always compared to, then it evokes Hitch on all his levels, not simply thrilling but tacitly provoking and confronting society's very base construction and the nastier aspects of the human condition under a thin membrane of sharply composed set pieces. Continue reading
American New Wave: Raging Bull
Ahh, the biopic. Lionizing and valorizing when you ought to humanize and critique, you are the greatest filmic manifestation of the hyper-individualist tendencies of modern America society which favor a view of the world where-in individuals are its chief agents. You emphasize not the complicated and conflicting causation of change in society, but the "greatness" of certain individuals who can rise above others and lead. As a result, you tend to see something innately compelling about individuals and displace how these individuals developed in the first place, what social factors drove their development. If you are particularly adventurous, you will pay lip service to how complicated and flawed these individuals can be in secret, but nothing more.
You give us a sort of "greatest hits" version of a life, where we see important events we are familiar with and learn how individuals are connected to them, and often influence them. You are a lecture in a film's clothing, not a living and breathing account of human frailty but a waxworks show for middlebrow suburban types interested in a patina of depth without willing to truly seek it out. You suffocate on your own boredom. You are formally stifling, for you rely on "historical evidence" in lieu of storytelling prowess, banalized content rather than form, and you place all your cards on one "Great Performance" as a galvanizing center in hopes that he or she will distract from the lack of directing or scripting skill on display around them. Continue reading
Movies and Music and Magic and …Malaise: The Last Waltz
Martin Scorsese's lived-in film adaptation of The Band's legendary, star-studded farewell concert, cheekily titled "The Last Waltz", is wholly at odds with the fundamental logic of the conventional concert film, and it is all the more fascinating for it. At the eve of their dissolution, Scorsese chose to film the Band warts and all. He captures, more than anything, their own distance from the music they no longer necessarily want to call home. You can feel his love for the energy of raw music, yet he uses this energy to capture a fundamental malaise. His camera becomes their most knowing fan, giving the film a live, human physicality even as it deals in the deadened decay of men too tired to care anymore. The Rolling Stones' documentary Gimme Shelter, itself fairly stunning, is haunting for the way a single tragedy intervened and permeated the celluloid of the whole film. Here, however, we come to understand something more deadening: the perpetual tension of joy and melancholy of life on the road, something a tragedy wouldn't so much break-up as become one small portion of. On this tension between the lively and the embalmed, the film presents a fascinating vision of humanity and performance equaled by few films. Continue reading
Bonus Genre Month Reviews:The Proposition and Brick
Or: a couple of short reviews I had penned and linked together in one of my patented "just made up on the spot" combinations, namely that they are both products of 2005, they are both depressingly cynical and nihilistic modern reflections of the long history of their respective genres, and they, respectively, fit into the genres I've covered in the past couple months: the western and film noir. Again, don't think too much about why I posted these films together. Just enjoy the ride.
The Proposition
The significant resurgence of the Western genre since about 2005 (for reasons I'm not entirely sure of) is one of the few truly surprisingly revelations from the cinematic world to be found this past decade. It's all the more notable particularly because the Westerns themselves have taken so many different forms, from pure, effervescent myth-making, to black-hearted heaving gasps of grimy moral decay, to slowly gliding, almost Impressionist location tapestries where characters serve merely as extensions of the environment, to plain ol' rootin-tootin shoot em' up character studies.
One of the first, and among the absolute best, in this trend was John Hillcoat's rusty nail mauling of the gaping, open wound flesh wound of Australian history, The Proposition. It wouldn't emerge the best Western over the past ten years (my vote would probably go to the sensuous The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford), but it's within earshot of the title. Considering the film's swaggering aimlessness and rough-around-the-edges decay, it may even graze that ear. Continue reading
Film Noirs and Cinematic Scars: Kiss Me Deadly
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Kiss Me Deadly, released in 1955, is one of the last great classic period film noirs, but it wasn't often acknowledged as such originally. It was fought by politicians and "moral" figures at the time of its release, seen as the kind of film dangerous teenage types went to see in hopes of engendering social subversion. And this concern, about the danger it posed to accepted, conservative social mores, was valid: not only is this a lurid and exploitative film, but it has the gall to elevate these qualities to high art and use them to reflect on the luridness and exploitation perhaps intrinsic to human nature. Continue reading


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Bangladesh Madrasha Education Board has published Dakhil exam result 2019 on 06 May, pass rate 83.03% in Dakhil exam. SSC Result and SSC Vocational Result also be published on same day.
Bangladesh Madrasha Education Board has taken Dakhil examination 2019 few days back with SSC exam.
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Dakhil is a SSC level examination taken all madrasha in the country same time. Bangladesh Education Board also taken SSC examination 2019 in February to March.
Result 2019: Bangladesh Madrasha Education Board has published Dakhil exam result 2019 on 06 May 2019 at 12:00pm as it should be published within 60 days after finishing the examination.
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Transforming Endless Struggles Into Limitless Hope
How Buddhism taught me to transform every single struggle into a source of rich benefit and value.
Living Buddhism: Thank you, Gina, for sharing your story with us. Can you tell us about your childhood?
Gina Aguirre: I was born in the late '60s in Oakland, California, to a single mother who struggled with mental illness. When I was 8 months old, my mother took her own life. I was told that I was left alone with her body for several days, crying and hungry. I was adopted by a woman who also turned out to have mental health challenges. As a result of her instability, I spent my childhood walking on eggshells, searching for love, acceptance and safety.
It must have been so difficult for you. What struggles did you face in your new home?
Gina: My adoptive mother worked long hours and would often leave me home alone—the drastic consequence being that I was sexually abused by one of her boyfriends. My world felt anything but safe.
I have a distinct memory from age 11 of finding a book about Buddhism and being drawn to it. I remember thinking to myself, There has to be something better than this life I'm living. At age 12, I ran away from home in search of that elusive "something." I hitchhiked around the country and jumped from place to place, experiencing hunger, vulnerability and sexual assault.
How did you survive these unspeakable times?
Gina: When I was 15, something amazing happened: I ran into Janet, my best friend from the fourth grade, and she invited me to an SGI meeting. When I attended, I remember thinking that all the smiling faces I saw were too good to be true. But soon after, I experienced another deeply traumatic event that convinced me that I needed to change my life. I decided to receive the Gohonzon right away at 15 years old. This "something" that I was looking for found me.
What was it like for you to practice Buddhism?
Gina: Naturally, I had many internal demons to battle. In those early years, I struggled with loneliness, depression, suicidal thoughts and self-destructive behavior. I longed for love but had no idea how to develop healthy relationships. However, it was my good fortune that I started practicing at such a young age. I infused my life with the values of the SGI, just as a child does with their family. I learned everything from my seniors in faith. I always had someone who I could trust and do activities with. I changed dramatically by immersing myself in the rhythm of joy and value-creation that SGI activities afforded.
It took me a long time to believe in my own Buddha nature and see the value of my life. But year after year, as I have changed, grown and evolved, I have experienced one great breakthrough after another.
Can you share a turning point in your faith?
Gina: At 19, I moved to Riverside and got involved in a relationship with a much older man. He was violent and manipulative, often hurting me physically and frequently trying to convince me that I was crazy. But, he said he loved me. At that time, I couldn't tell the difference between love and abuse. We married, had three children and spent the next 12 years together. I felt like I was re-experiencing the instability I tried to leave behind in my childhood.
But this is when I deepened my Buddhist practice and began to fully understand the concept of changing my karma into mission. During my third pregnancy, I chanted many hours a day to change my circumstances and create a safe and healthy environment for my children. During the delivery, my uterus ruptured, I hemorrhaged and my heart stopped beating. I was clinically dead for a brief period until doctors resuscitated me. I was on life support for 10 days.
I came out of this situation realizing the preciousness of my life and refreshed my determination to change my relationship with fighting prayer. I chanted every spare moment I had to change things for my children and myself. To be honest, I was terrified at the thought of living the rest of my life trapped in this relationship. The many details of my transformation could fill a book. So I will just say that, ultimately, my children and I were able to begin a new life, free of violence and abuse.
I decided to win. Even if I did not see a path to victory, I decided I would not be swayed. I realized that it was up to me to find hope.
How did you persevere as a single mother?
Gina: No matter what happened, I always relied on my prayer to make the impossible possible. I was raising my three children on my own when I took on legal guardianship of my ex-husband's twin nieces, who were removed from their home by the state.
While raising five children, I obtained a bachelor's in sociology in 2007, followed by a master's in social work in 2009. With an advanced degree, I began working for a foster family agency. Four years ago, I was promoted to director of the agency. In this job, I help children who have suffered abuse and neglect find healing environments with new foster and adoptive families. It feels as though I have truly changed my karma into my mission.
Every bit of abuse, fear and trauma that I experienced in my young life enables me to do my job that much better and connect with youth who have lived through similar experiences.
What a victory! How did your health fare in the process?
Gina: In 2010, shortly after obtaining my master's degree and beginning a new job, I experienced kidney failure due to a hereditary kidney disease. The doctors told me I needed a kidney transplant but said my chance of finding a kidney match was about 1 percent.
I continued working while receiving home dialysis, a treatment that I did every night while sleeping. This was a very difficult time for me. I feared leaving my children and fought doubts about whether I was worthy of receiving a new kidney.
I went through seven long years of being on dialysis while working, raising my family and opening my home for Buddhist activities. Many days, I felt sick and weak. In my darkest moments, I would say No! to the fear and then find the will to fight another day using my Buddhist practice.
What was your turning point?
Gina: In early 2017, I remembered this quote from SGI President Ikeda: "When your determination changes, everything will begin to move in the direction you desire. The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success. On the other hand, if you think, 'This is never going to work out,' then at that instant, every cell in your being will be deflated and give up the fight. Then everything really will move in the direction of failure" (Faith Into Action, p. 108).
I decided to win. Even if I did not see a path to victory, I decided I would not be swayed. I realized that it was up to me to find hope. I was no longer afraid. I chanted with a fierce determination to live and accomplish my mission as a Bodhisattva of the Earth. I made every cause I could conceive of to improve my health, drastically changing my lifestyle to take better care of myself. On May 1, 2017, I got a call that my new kidney was waiting, and I underwent a successful kidney transplant!
Looking back on the process of being sick, I now see clearly that my illness taught me how to nurture and care for myself. Until then, my history made me nearly incapable of this. I care deeply for my life now.
What has been the key to never giving up amid your most pressing challenges?
Gina: I understood my mission as a Bodhisattva of the Earth—that I'm here to show actual proof of the power of the Gohonzon through my life. Because of my Buddhist practice, every single thing I have been through has become a source of rich benefit, fueling my sense of mission. I always heard that, in Buddhism, nothing is wasted, and I have found that to be absolutely true as I reflect on my life.
As we advance toward the 50,000 Lions of Justice Festival in September, why do you think it is important for youth to practice this Buddhism?
Gina: In these difficult times, it's not easy to live with hope. You can feel run over by the world. But when you start chanting and embrace the SGI's movement for peace as part of your own personal mission, then you can infuse your life with limitless hope. That is why the SGI is so vital. It keeps hope alive in the hearts of the people.
What is your determination toward the 50K Festival?
Gina: I am determined that all five of my children will attend the festival. All my children chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Two of my daughters hold SGI leadership positions, and two more have received the Gohonzon in the past year and are introducing their friends. Three are college graduates, including one with a master's degree. The other two are pursuing college degrees. I am incredibly proud of them all.
As a district women's leader, I want to embody hope and show how we can always win with the Gohonzon, Sensei and the SGI. I am determined to send as many youth as possible to the festival next year! I know that as long as I don't give up, I will win.


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Our mind is our passport to any place we want to go. When we believe in ourselves, we can climb mountains. When we have faith in others, our relationships blossom beyond our expectations. When we remain positive in the face of adversity, we find blessings in what we already have. When we trust that life can be different, we have the power to change. When we master our mind, we master our body, our happiness, our success, our relationships, our confidence, and so much more. All our cans and cannots are figments of our mind. Our life achieves what our mind believes.
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The Main Cities of Europe Michelin Guide has been released in Brussels on Monday. Every Michelin starred Hungarian restaurant managed to retain their title except for Tanti, so there are now four Michelin-starred restaurants in Budapest, 24.hu reports.
Borkonyha (Wine Kitchen), Costes, Costes Downtown, and Onyx managed to keep their Michelin star, while Tanti didn't.
The restaurant Tanti received their first Michelin star in 2015, under executive chef István Pesti, who later left the restaurant to take over Platán in Tata, saying he was fed up with Budapest and the future of gastronomy is in the countryside.
Here are the top ten Hungarian restaurants in 2017
Three Hungarian restaurants were highlighted in the Bib Gourmand section: Petrus, Fricska and the LaciKonyha. The Bib Gourmand status does not include a star, but, nevertheless, it is a great recognition for restaurants which offer great food at moderate prices.
The Michelin guide also includes recommended restaurants which did not receive stars or Bib Gourmand status. Several Hungarian restaurants made it into the 2017 guide, like
Salon, Baraka, Babel, St. Andrea, Fausto's, Tigris, Nobu, Aszú, Mák, Pesti Disznó, Bock Bisztró Pest, Alabárdos, Arany Kaviár, Pierrot, Csalogány 26., Baltazár, Vendéglő a Kisbíróhoz, Zona, 21, Déryné Bistro, and Tanti.
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Paternity leave is changing with fathers and mothers being able to share time off work.
From 3 April 2011 fathers can take up to 26 weeks' extra paternity leave, in addition to their current entitlement of two weeks' statutory paternity leave.
For the father to qualify for additional paternity leave, the child must be expected to be born or be matched for adoption on or after 3 April 2011 and the additional paternity leave must be taken before the child's first birthday.
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If they qualify, mothers will be able to transfer up to six months of their maternity leave to fathers, giving parents flexibility as to how they use maternity and paternity leave.
Fathers can even take the place of the mother at home for the last three months of her nine-month maternity leave.
Employees taking additional parental leave will be entitled to a statutory rate of pay while on leave, provided that the mother has not used up her full entitlement to statutory maternity/adoption pay.
The rate of statutory maternity, paternity and adoption pay will increase from £124.88 per week to £128.73 per week, as of 3 April 2011.
Employers should conduct a detailed review and update of their relevant policies and procedures - and, if maternity or paternity rights are contained in their employment contracts, those contracts - to ensure that the new paternity rights are covered.
Written by an employment law solicitor, Lawpack's Maternity, Paternity, Adoption & Parental Leave Policy has been updated to include this latest legislation.
Published on: March 24, 2011


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High summer package offer
2x Overnight stay in a Economy or Comfort room , 2x Varied breakfast buffet, 2x 3-Course dinnerView this offer
Exceptionally welcoming
You can endlessly cycle, sail or walk in our backyard
- 110 comfortabele rooms that offer a wide range of amenities. Your home away from home.
- Located in close vicinity to National Park Weerribben-Wieden. The direct surroundings of our hotel offer endless cycling, hiking and sailing possibilities.
- 6 Multifunctional meeting rooms for all your small and large events. We make sure all your needs are catered for.
- An excellent restaurant and cosy hotel bar. Delicious food and drinks in a homely ambiance.
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- A free cup of coffee
- No booking fees
- Cancellation free of charge on day of arrival until 12 am. Excluded are non-refundable and early bird rates
Culinary delight
Our à la carte restaurant can accommodate 275 guests. With its warm and cosy interior we can guarantee you will have a lovely night out! In addition to the traditional Valk Classic we offer a wide range of international dishes. Let yourself be surprised with culinary delights!More information
3-day Tulip Package
Around Emmeloord you will find the longest route of the Netherlands the drive along the tulipsfields. The majority of the tulips in The Netherlands are being grown here on the former bottom of the 'Zuiderzee' (Sea) You can choose to walk, cycle or take the car to fully enjoy the beauty this area has to offer.
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Experience our personal approachSee our function rooms
Our enthusiastic team ensures that everything is arranged in detail at your meeting. With us, your meeting, presentation, family celebration or wedding is in good hands. Your guests will lack nothing.
Discover the surrounding area
Discover the nature of the Noordoostpolder. The central location of the hotel in Emmeloord makes it possible to visit Friesland. Interesting places such as Lemmer, Dronten and Urk are also easily accessible from Emmeloord.
Let yourself be pampered with a luxurious overnight stay
Take a break? Enjoying romance in all luxury? That is possible at hotel Emmeloord. Come and discover our beautiful theme suites!Read more
Trips in the area
Take a look
Discover the Noordoostpolder. The nice places like Lemmer, Urk, Schokland and Blokzijl are definitely recommended for walking or cycling. Rather walk in nature? Then certainly a trip through the Weerribben is worthwhile.
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Hotel Emmeloord
Nice stay
This is a high quality hotel built in a beautiful countryside location. The room was slightly outdated but was very comfortable and clean. They have an excellent restaurant. Meals are well prepared and served. Breakfast is of the buffet type and offers a wide selection. All staff were courteous and helpful. Highly recommended by me.