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Community Health Workers
Also called: Community Health Outreach Worker, Community Health Program Coordinator, Community Health Promoter, Community Nutrition Educator
In the military: see titles from the Air Force, Coast Guard, or Navy.
In the Air Force: Diet Therapy; Diet Therapy Apprentice; Diet Therapy Craftsman; Diet Therapy Helper; Diet Therapy Journeyman; Diet Therapy Superintendent
In the Coast Guard: Health Services Technician
In the Navy: Religious Program Specialist
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For community health workers, your health is their business. These professionals devote their careers to building healthy communities by advocating for individuals and groups to meet their wellness needs. Community health workers and educators improve access to health information and care in many ways; they perform basic diagnostic procedures, attend community meetings, advise on and refer people to health services, collect information on the wellness concerns of the local community, develop programs to combat health issues, and much more. Community health workers may work for hospitals, nonprofit organizations, government, doctors' offices, private businesses, or colleges. Depending on their geographic location and sector, community health workers and educators may do research and develop educational materials or programs surrounding themes such as proper nutrition, immunizations, HIV/AIDs, stress management, or emergency preparedness, among many other topics. While community health workers almost always have an office, many of them spend the majority of their time in the field, distributing flyers, carrying out health awareness campaigns, and attending community meetings. Community health workers often work full-time. If you want to educate people about the importance and availability of healthcare services and work directly with people to address barriers to care, then you may want to become a community health worker or educator. As a relatively new profession, requirements to enter the field are not very consistent. A bachelor's degree, or a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credential may be helpful. Some states have their own certification programs for community health workers. To excel as a community health worker or educator, you must be an excellent writer and oral communicator, compassionate, patient, and dependable. The wellness of individuals and communities can be significantly improved through the effort and dedication of community health professionals.
What they do:Assist individuals and communities to adopt healthy behaviors. Conduct outreach for medical personnel or health organizations to implement programs in the community that promote, maintain, and improve individual and community health. May provide information on available resources, provide social support and informal counseling, advocate for individuals and community health needs, and provide services such as first aid and blood pressure screening. May collect data to help identify community health needs.
On the job, you would:
- Maintain updated client records with plans, notes, appropriate forms, or related information.
- Advise clients or community groups on issues related to improving general health, such as diet or exercise.
- Identify or contact members of high-risk or otherwise targeted groups, such as members of minority populations, low-income populations, or pregnant women.
Arts and Humanities
Education and Training
Basic Skills
Problem Solving
Ideas and Logic
People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking.
They do well at jobs that need:
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See more details at O*NET OnLine about community health workers.


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Back in Issue 244 Andre Jennings extolled the virtues of ultrasonic LP cleaning in his review of the Klaudio KD-CLN-LP200 machine. I've since had an opportunity to try this record cleaner myself and will share my impression of the product.
But first a recap. The KD-CLN-LP200 is a very stoutly made, fully automatic record cleaner that uses ultrasonic energy to remove contamination from LP grooves. It operates on the principle of cavitation, in which the ultrasonic energy creates tiny bubbles that agitate the cleaning solution on a microscopic level. The high-frequency energy also pushes the cavitation bubbles into the LP grooves to scrub out debris. Ultrasonic cleaning is widely used in many applications, including cleaning surgical instruments, jewelry, and electronic components. Ultrasonic cleaning is ideally suited to LPs because the tiny cavitation bubbles can penetrate into groove modulations that are just too small for even the finest brushes to reach. (See Andre's review for more details, as well as a full description of how the KD-CLN-LP200 operates.)
After using a vacuum-based cleaner for years I switched to the Klaudio. The Klaudio cleaner is fully automatic; just insert an LP into the top-loading slot and it goes into a clean-then-dry cycle, the length of which you can select from front-panel knobs. The dry cycle is quite loud, but your LPs emerge completely dry.
But the best part about the Klaudio is how it transforms the sound of LPs. I was expecting a reduction in ticks and pops, but wasn't prepared for the way in which it improved the entire sonic presentation. In addition to making surfaces much quieter, the Klaudio cleaner rendered an improvement in clarity, soundstage depth, and transient performance. The reverb around instruments and voices was more apparent, as was the sense of space between images. Depth increased along with the ability to more clearly hear instruments at the back of the stage. Transient information sounded a little quicker and more prominent in the mix, which gave the music more life and verve. Even new LPs benefited from ultrasonic cleaning; the first thing I do after opening a new LP is pop it in the Klaudio.
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Clearly I'm finding a little bit of time in the post Thanksgiving Day period to catch up on some blogging.
Here are some new browser bits I've tucked away over the past several weeks.
Tracking & Security
- Protecting Microsoft Edge against binary injection - Microsoft Edge Dev Blog
- Analytics services are tracking users via Chrome extensions - Help Net Security
- Google Updates Safe Browsing to warn about Deceptive Sites - BleepingComputer
- Case of the Unwanted Chrome Search Modification - chentiangemalc
- TaoSecurity: Seven Tips for Personal Online Security - TaoSecurity
- Vivaldi launches its first beta – Vivaldi Blog
- Finally: Vivaldi Beta is now available - gHacks Tech News
- Snapshot 1.0.334.3 - Fixes for tab title cropping and Windows XP – Vivaldi Blog
- Snapshot 1.0.330.3 - Trash folder for bookmarks and notes, plus panel hiding – Vivaldi Blog
- Snapshot 1.0.321.3 - Tab closing improvements and extension fixes – Vivaldi Blog
- How To Change Vivaldi New Tab Or Start Page Background - IntoWindows
Firefox and Mozilla Developments
FavIcon Reloader - Add-ons for Firefox - having two primary systems, and two Mozilla based browsers (Firefox and Pale Moon) means that my considerable bookmark library often gets out of sync. I don't use an on-line sync solution but rather back-up/restore the file between apps/systems. That's great but I loos my favicons if the difference. FavIcon Reloader works great to get the icons back. I tend to use them as visual clues a lot more than I realized.
ConfigFox - utility update to version 1.4.3
- Firefox 42 Released - Firefox Extension Guru's Blog
- Firefox 42: Find out what is new - gHacks Tech News
- New Features In Firefox 42 For Desktop And Android - addictivetips blog
- Updated Firefox Security Indicators - Mozilla Security Blog
- Firefox's new security icons and the reasoning behind the change - gHacks Tech News
- Everything you need to know about Push notifications in Firefox - gHacks Tech News
- How to disable the Firefox Saved Telemetry Pings and archive folder - gHacks Tech News
- Mozilla clarifies what the removal of full themes actually means - gHacks Tech News
- Good News, Pocket to become a Firefox add-on once again (sort of) - gHacks Tech News
- Firefox users are stuck with unremoveable Pocket... for now at least - BetaNews
- Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 43 - Mozilla Add-ons Blog
- Firefox Add-on Signing criticized for being ineffective - gHacks Tech News
- Firefox 64-bit to support Microsoft Silverlight after all - gHacks Tech News
- Silverlight Support Returning To 64-Bit Firefox - Firefox Extension Guru's Blog
- Win64 Firefox IS here… - Firefox Extension Guru's Blog
Firefox finally comes to iOS - Ars Technica - meh..
Pale Moon
List of Pale Moon specific about:config preferences - gHacks Tech News
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Come To My Exhibit in Great Barrington, MA
September 17, 2010 Leave a comment
I am so pleased to to have the opportunity of exhibiting my sepia portfolio, Portraits from the Garden: An Uncommon View, at Art on Main in Great Barrington from September 24 through October 29. I printed these images in my darkroom, toning them a rich, warm sepia. It is a project dear to my heart, shot in my own garden over a period of several years. The gallery is a beautiful space within Barnbrook Realty on Main Street right in the center of town, and the curator is Peggy Reeves, whose blog is artonmain.blogspot.com.
Here is more information about the exhibit and the opening reception:
The opening will be festive and I invite anyone in the area with an interest in photography to join us!


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Recently, I visited Chhalava Cafe (छLava) which is located at one of the most happening location of Delhi, M Block Market, Greater Kailash-2. Being a regular visitor of GK-2, I saw this name very first time. A newly launched cafe with an attractive name made me to explore it. What was my experience with them, I am sharing it with you here.
The two floored cafe has a good atmosphere inside. The lower one has a decent bar and dance floor as well. Whereas the upper floor has open area and a good restaurant type look. Sitting in the balcony was a good experience. Even the lower floor has giant glass windows which makes it attractive.
The DJ was awesome and music system was great. You will be able to listen all kind of music over there i.e. Sufi, Punjabi, Bollywood, Hollywood, Pop etc. In short, it will be difficult for you to stop yourself dancing.
A large range of food menu is enough to give you taste. I am Biryani lover and I actually got a decent dish over there. We have also tried few other veg and non-veg snacks too. Nothing can be downrated among them.
Variety of alcohol in variety of brands are available in the bar counter. In fact, we have also tried a giant fire shot there. It was enough to make us move.
The staff of Chhalava was really cooperative, decent, professional and highly responsive. Since it's a newly launched place so may its obvious. But still, even after visiting thrice I found them like that only.
For Hookah Lovers
As I am a big hookah lover, I would suggest you to visit this place at least once. I haven't had such kind of hookah on so many places in Delhi. It was awesome and they prepare according to your demand. I will highly recommend you to at least visit once for the sake of Sheesha only.
Everything was very decent over there. Being a recently started cafe the crowd as a bit less. But I hope by the passage of time it will also increase. As for now I will rate Chhalava Resto-Bar as :
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Melbourne Daily Photo
Wednesday, 30 March 2011
Pigeon loft - Batman Park
Pigeons in the city have been a nuisance for decades and their droppings cause uncleanliness generally and also damage to city's buildings. Sitting in Federation Square you're surrounded by them.
The loft is painted with light coloured corrosion resistant to reflect the heat and minimise internal over-heating. It houses two hundred nesting boxes for pigeon breeding. Eggs laid will be replaced with artificial eggs intended as a humane way to control and reduce pigeon numbers.
Bird feeding around the loft base is permitted to attract birds out of the CBD to this area. Bird feeding is not permitted in any other area around the CBD.
I wonder if people had a problem in the old days when pigeons were used to carry messages? Perhaps governments could re-introduce this practise - think of the savings you'd make not having to buy postage stamps!
Today's quote: I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them ~ Tommy Douglas.
10 comments:
- irinapictures said...
Great find. I will send the link to my friend, he is in love with pigeons, maybe will make the same "apartment building" for them))
- 30 March 2011 at 18:13
- diane b said...
Very apt quote. It sounds a good idea with the loft. I hope it works.
- 30 March 2011 at 18:41
- Andrew said...
I enjoy seeing the loft when I pass by. I'm afraid I can't stand the pigeons in the city and I am not sure that this loft has succeeded in reducing their numbers.
- 30 March 2011 at 20:46
- Bell x one said...
Its my first time on your blog !
great photos ! i will follow you :)
Greetings from Bordeaux
Bell x one
Bordeaux Daily Photo
- 30 March 2011 at 22:45
- Lois said...
What a wonderful idea! We could use something like that around here.
- 31 March 2011 at 01:15
- Luis Gomez said...
Love it. This is so cool.
- 31 March 2011 at 02:03
- Unknown said...
Cool thing!
Remembering me, when I was a kid, taking care of some pigeons... but, with a small loft, of course. :)
- 31 March 2011 at 05:51
- Stefan Jansson said...
Never seen anything like that before.
- 31 March 2011 at 09:17
- arabesque said...
oh, that is a nice nook for those pigeons and a cool idea as well. ^0^
- 1 April 2011 at 01:56
- Lowell said...
That's a funny saying. Do you think this pigeon "coop" does any good? Do the pigeons flock here and stay away from other areas?
We had lots of pigeons are the school where I taught. One day an assistant principal put up a bunch of fake owls on the roof to scare the pigeons away. The first thing I saw when I came to school the next day was a pigeon sitting on the head of a fake owl!
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The Secretary of State for Transport announced in October 2010 a review of Britain's aviation policy. A Scoping Study for the Review was published for comment in March 2011. The Department for Transport ('DfT') engaged with Transport for London ('TfL') in preparing the draft Study. The importance of aviation to London's businesses, jobs and prosperity means that the Mayor should be fully involved as London's elected leader, in the formulation of the new aviation policy. To help inform this, the Mayor's report 'A New Airport for London – Part 1' was published in January 2011 with a second report published in November 2011. The Mayor also responded directly to the Government's Sustainable Aviation Framework: Scoping Document, in October 2011.
As the Government's Policy review continues, further work will be required to assess issues associated with aviation to, from or within Greater London, including but not limited to aviation capacity issues and impacts of proposals, and to engage with Government in relation to aviation policies as appropriate. This includes responding to DfT consultations. In May 2011, the Mayor directed Transport for London to undertake this work and do any matters ancillary to it ('the Direction'). The Mayor delegated his wider powers to TfL so that it could comply with his Direction. The Direction was time limited to 31 May 2012 when it was to be reviewed. As the Government's aviation policy is still in the process of being developed and it is anticipated that the DfT will consult on its draft policy framework in the near future, the need for the Mayor to influence aviation policy as it affects Greater London and engage with Government on aviation matters remains. The Mayor is, therefore, asked to extend the Direction for a further 12 months when it will be reviewed again and further authorise TfL to exercise certain of his powers.


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Lady ROAR
Since I am UNABLE to tell anyone just what a kerfuffle I got myself into on Sunday… allow me to attempt to amuse you with what happened TODAY.
I am just so SICK and FED UP of being involved in accidents. Of ALL the accidents that happened to me, it ALWAYS ends up with people knocking into my poor little old car. Dear Universe, when I was asking to be knocked up to satisfy my maternal yearnings, this was NOT what I wanted! *huff.
Went down to my local car dealer to check out prices and models of cars. Ah, a happy zippy and spacious SUV! AHA, I thought, this could be IT! This could be LOVE! I sung to myself happily.
Got in the car. Checked it out. Asked the salesperson the toughies questions. Played around the boot. WOO USB and Bluetooth port! OK FOCUS. WOO hello sexy cup holders. OK FOCUS. Woo hello space!
In short : It's a start. And I can already see me in it.
Salesperson : OK Miss Mei. So let us book the right time for you, because I am sure you would want to bring your husband here to test drive the car too …
To which I suddenly went so high-pitched, Lassie would've died.
Me : OH! Er. Well! No husband! No! I'm not married! Only me and myself! And my cats! No kids!
Salesperson : So sorry Miss Mei.
Fine. Apology accepted. Moving on. Hmm. Maybe the SUV is TOO family-like… I thought. Though I could really really do with a spacious boot [to dump the bodies of all the useless jerks who made me invest feelings in them before I find out that they're attached…. BUT THAT'S FOR ANOTHER DAY!] ….
And then I saw her. The coupe.
The SEXY SEXY coupe.
Sure she has a long and wide ass. Sure it's a 2+ 3 anorexic model seater …. SURE it's a mid-life crisis car… BUT HOT DAMN I LOVE HER.
THE LINES. The sleek body. OH THE LINES.
I formed driving plans in my head. I will drive down to Singapore at 1am, banging this baby at 160km/h … and drive up north…. maybe up and down some winding roads to get a good feel of her …
If I sound like a man salivating and dreaming of sex with Natalie Portman, you are probably right.
I got into the driver's seat. Felt the leather encase me. At once, I couldn't wait to see how she'd handle me slapping her wet and wild on the roads up to Genting.
Again, sorry. I sometimes think I am a man stuck in the body of a girl.
As I was forming great driving plans … the other sales assistant slid up to me :
Salesperson 2 : So, no kids?
Me : NO. NO KIDS. NOT MARRIED. NO NO NO. *Whiiiineeeee Lassie pitch WHIIINEEEEEEEE
Salesperson 2 : So you're not married? Why not?
Me : Uhm. Because I scare all the men away? [someone said I should've answered "Because I killed my last husband"] …. OH LOOK THIS IS MY MIDLIFE CRISIS CAR ALTHOUGH I HAVE YET TO HIT 30 OH WHAT COLOUR DOES THIS COME IN WOW SO PRETTY WEE
I think I got a little too loud and over-defensive that the first salesguy said I can come back and test drive the coupe. WITH NO OBLIGATIONS.
I am a happy girl indeedy.
And I still don't get why a single lady can't just waltz into a car dealership to buy her own car? Tsk.
9-week Stand, Anyone?
If you haven't read this article by Clancy Martin of Details magazine, please click here.
I have a few minor problems with the article. Namely the fact that *I* did not get any hook-ups AT ALL during my 9 weeks of Teacher Training. Nope, I didn't make out with anyone, never held hands, and I do not recall following a man with "perfect, rippling muscles" back to his room.
Instead, I found myself either :
– memorising dialogue like a loon
– doing yoga poses in the hallway of the Las Vegas Hilton with my groupmates [at 12am, nonetheless]
– crying
– doing bodily functions
Apparently the advanced seminar had "libidinal energy" pulsating throughout the resort during the Fall 2010 Advanced / TT. I think she has confused great yoga energy with sexual energy. Sure your Kundalinis open and what not, but if ANYONE has the energy to even last through the whole day AND return back to the room for some BoomBoomBangBang, you have my TOTAL respect.
I mean, sure I felt like I wanted to get laid, but even the mere thought of having sex was tiring enough. Seriously. I'd rather sleep than rub privates with someone else.
And "hundreds of gorgeous, fit women everywhere" ? Let me tell you a story of how I gained 6kgs during training, acne flared up and Bikram confused me for a boy [and this happened to a majority of my friends, the weight-gain part, not the "boy" part]. The end. The AVERAGE age of trainees at my TT was 40. The youngest was 18, the eldest 60-over. Gorgeous and Fit? Definitely. But not in the sexual snide undertones that the writer had in mind.
Maybe I should get my money back since I did not hook-up at all during my 9-weeks in Sin City. *sadface pout*
Beautiful Collision
What a start to November.
First, I get a serious eczema outbreak all over my arms, legs, neck and torso. Everyone thinks I have some sort of fungal outbreak [IT IS NOT CONTAGIOUS] and EVERY. ONE has been telling me not to scratch. I cannot tell you this enough – it is almost like telling the sun not to shine or the earth to stop spinning on its axis. I have eczema, I will scratch and IT FEELS SO DAMN GOOD WHEN I DO SO. Then suffer later and start crying about how much of a leper I look.
Secondly – sciatica. Or a pulled muscle / tendon / thingajigbobfunk in my hip / pelvis. I can't bend forward, can't kick up my right leg in Standing Bow and Head to Knee hurts. It hurts when I sit down, and after I sit down I can't get up and I can't sit down for too long a time because "something funny" will go on in my left hip joint / girdle. My boyfriend felt sorry for me that he got me cake. Yay! Cake!
Thirdly – an accident. Just as a friend got into my car as I'm about to drive off … this …
MOTHERFUCKER taxi driver reverses his car … into my passenger door.
My first reaction was "oh, I think it should be ok. My car's continental and his is local … La la la!". When I got out … There was a dent and a scratch. My door could not close properly as well 😦 I leaned on my friend's shoulder and was about to cry. Then I realized … That mofo REVERSED INTO me.
I got mad.
Really really mad.
A red cloud overtook my vision, my hands were balled up into fists.
"Did you not see my car?!" I yelled at him in (horribly mangled cantonese), my voice betraying how I really wanted to punch him and may he get VD.
Cab driver began talking in Cantonese. I was too angry and shocked to comprehend what was being said, so I turned to said friend and asked, "What the FUCK is he saying. I do not fucking understand".
Lucky for me, my friend did the translating and cab driver agreed to meet back at 3:30pm to assess the damage (he had a passenger, friend and I had errands to run).
Thankfully I met with an accident with an honest person because not only did the cab driver agreed to come back, we went to the workshop and he agreed to pay the cost of the repair. Thank you universe 🙂
They say all things happen for a reason. Still trying to find the reason for all bad things happening right now … And hoping that this will lead to bigger and better things.
Some excerpts from my bitchtastic rant that my poor friend had to endure :
"You will shut up and let me rant, because I said so. If you disagree, shut up as well".
"Its not your fault. It's the driver's fault. Actually, it's your neighbour's fault for calling a cab."
"Your neighbours are a bunch of bachelors? Good. Because I will send over a STD-riddled whore so they will all get herpes".
I Give Up.
While scrolling through my Tweetstream yesterday … this came up :
@ninieahmad BANNED from #projectalpha on Astro as she's a Malay yoga teacher.
Quick background for my non-Malaysian blog readers :
@ninieahmad : Famous yoga teacher in Malaysia. Sponsored by Adidas and Stella McCartney. Link to her blog here
#projectalpha : Reality TV based programme of sorts about bloggers and their lives
Astro : Cable TV network
Malaysia : In a sum, consists of 3 major races – Malays, Chinese and Indian
WHY was she banned? Was it because she's MALAY [and hence, a MUSLIM]? After last year's fatwa [decree] on Muslims being BANNED from yoga [which incidentally, has been lifted but I have since blogged about it here], there has been furor, uproar and confusion on the whole of Malaysia as to whether Muslims can do yoga.
To me, yoga is a form of exercise. Again, I am speaking from my point of being a certified Bikram Yoga teacher, so my comments and opinions based herewith cannot be compared with say, an Iyengar teacher who has had a different method of training / schooling. I have been practicing Bikram Yoga for 2.5 years and teaching it full-time for 6 months, and if the Malaysian Fatwa council has deemed yoga as being religious,I cannot fully comment on this matter as I am not a Muslim nor do I profess to have fully read and understood the Qu'ran.
However, I can say with absolute certainty and confidence that Yoga is NOT a religious experience. It is an experience allright, but it's more of an exercise. Never before have I seen people of different backgrounds, races, creeds and nationalities together, in ONE room, for 90 minutes, staying absolutely silent and bending, twisting, compressing and sweating [some more profusely than others!]. And the sight after class absolutely warms my heart. Everyone sitting around, joking, saying 'hellos' or 'goodbyes' and doing some catching up, and the occasional banter / tirade / questions that come my way.
Hmm. Come to think of it, maybe Yoga really IS religious. See Exhibits below :
#1 : Oh God Mei, the room was so hot / humid!
#2 : Oh GOD Mei, I can't get my knee locked / suck my stomach in! [precisely how I was when I first started]
#3 : Oh GOD is she ever going to get us out of [insert posture] ?! I can tell by the looks on your face. Seriously 😉
Jokes aside, it really seems to me that it is really a lack of understanding and tolerance that has led to this fiasco. Already Malaysia is dealing with brain drain of young professionals to other countries, international headlines of us sentencing a woman to whipping for drinking beer and RM8billion [US$3billion] of our taxpayers money going to build a new national palace, when our current national palace is PERFECTLY FINE.
Some days I truly wonder WHY I bothered coming back to a country that already feels alien to me. If doing what I like in my country may soon result me in being banned due to some preexisting fear / judgement, why the hell should I even pay tax and be treated like dirt?
If my job allows me to travel the world, than travel I shall. Perhaps I will settle down eventually, in the future, somewhere where I will not feel alienated and ostracized just because I am doing what I love.
The Great Fall
Very dramatic title, but that's how I roll. Drama!
Sooo, I fell down. On concrete. Whoop de doo!
My problems began on Wednesday right after I fell down. It started getting uncomfortable standing / sitting for long periods. On Thursday my hip / pelvis / groin started swelling. On Friday a great big RASH appeared on the area of swelling, which I attributed to a food allergy, but the damn rash didn't go away even after I applied anti-rash powder on it religiously like a zealot possessed. On Saturday my hips started clicking when I walk. My femur bone hurts, my lower back hurts, and if I were to push my hips forward my whole leg goes numb. On Sunday I couldn't even walk, watching Toy Story 3 brought tears to my eyes [in part due to the movie and my damn hip].
I know, I should've immediately checked myself in to the Sports Clinic, but I had to teach. Yah, I know, it's not about me, it's about my students. In fact, I had some newbies and demonstrating a locked knee and bending forward just pretty much hurt like a bitch on steroids.
That was it. I am going to see a hip doctor. If there ever is such a thing! [Shakira's Hip's Don't Lie is playing in my head now!]
Booked my appointment with the "Hip Specialist", but as the next slot was at 2:15pm I decided to see an orthopaedic surgeon at the private hospital just 15minutes from where I live.
La di da, booked myself in for a 1040am consultation. So I registered myself, proceeded to get my details in order "WOW you've been a patient here since… 1986!" and happily plonked myself in the corner. A few minutes later, the nurse sheepishly tells me that the surgeon is in surgery. WHAT? I booked my appointment and she tells me that the surgeon is in surgery?! Why bother with a booking?! At this point I figured I had better luck getting knocked over by a bullock cart than seeing a surgeon. OK. Chill the fuck out. Out came my feminine wiles [it's deeply hidden under my macho manly exterior]
M* Uh, so, no possible doctor? I came all the way, and I have been in PAIN since Thursday, please could you get me another doctor? *SMILING through cracked lips
Nurse : Ok Madam [MADAM? WHAT THE EFF? I AM 24 25 24! ROAR!] … do you want to see a Chinese or Indian doctor?
M* : … I. Don't. Care. Chinese, Indian, Malay, orang putih [Literal : White Man, Caucasian] … I just want to see a doctor. Preferably NOW. I don't want to come back at 1pm. Please. I'm not fussy. Man, Woman, as long as the person is qualified, I don't care.
Nurse : *dials away.
HISS. 1Malaysia my ass.
After getting a substitute doctor, hobbled my way down to the 2nd floor… to see… the… Gastroendologist. WTF? Apparently she got the room wrong. Sigh. Hobbled to the next clinic, the ORTHOPAEDIC doctor. Honestly, I didn't feel bothered one bit, I was just amused! I said my hip hurts and she refers me to a digestion doctor! LOL.
FINALLY, I get to see the doctor. A Dato' [kinda like a Lord of some sort, we're absolutely crazy about giving people titles here] Doctor with a bad hair dye job and by bad, I mean, seriously, I know you're 60+ but please embrace your salt and pepper hair and not resemble a wretched politician at that.
After much prodding and examination [the rash surprised him], off he sent me for an XRay and MRI. WOOO! I get to pretend that I am in an episode of House / Grey's Anatomy! BRING ON DR. KAREV AND DR. CHASE. Ahem. Except this is real life and there are no hot doctors / radiologists. In fact, I was the YOUNGEST patient in the orthopaedic room. Yes, I even tried LOOKING for a hot doctor or intern. NONE, I TELL YOU, NONE. What? I know I'm sick, but can't I just amuse myself? :p
Before I got my xray done came the usual barrage of "Are you pregnant / Do you suspect you may be pregnant?" questions. Again, I found it hilarious that the attending had to pull me to one corner and ask me [before he got too embarrassed to continue the line of questioning and got a female nurse to help me out].
Nurse : So you're single? Not married? And 25?
M* : Yes.
Nurse : Have you had SI before?
M* : What's SI? You mean, STI?
Nurse : Er, no no, SI … *whisper Sexual Intercourse.
At this point I had to surpress a giggle and a laugh, though I'm sure the attending and nurses thought I was crazy.
Got my xray done [JESUS THE ROOM IS COLD], and since my MRI was scheduled in 2hours' time, I decided to hobble around the hospital to look for food. And my hobble, I literally mean, HOBBLE. I must say, the curry noodles at SDMC is pretty awesome! Coupled with chocolate milk I was in absolute bliss. Hobbled back to Imaging and waited. And waited. And waited. While watching.. XMEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE !!!! Oooh Hugh Jackman… the only decent looking person I've seen the whole day and he came in a small little black box, not exactly the package I was looking for 😉
Did my MRI and slept through the process. If you've ever done an MRI, it's actually quite … noisy. When the magnets are being fired up it sounds and feels like I'm in a pod [woo Dollhouse!] and someone's banging on plastic bucket repeatedly. When the images are being taken it almost sounds like the middle C, D, F, B note being blanged on repeatedly [in that order].
After my report was done [it was already 3:35pm by then …] I hobbled back up to see the surgeon, who is supposed to leave at 4pm! ROAR! I made it a fast hobble [think Frodo the Hobbit hobbling like his feet became dainty little size 5s] … JUST IN TIME!
Diagnosis : Hematoma [blood clot / bruise] on my groin/pelvis, around the size of my palm. Not a torn ligament / tendon, thank kitties and ponies.
Prescription : Acroxia 120mg [the same stuff they use to manage osteoarthritis / rheumatoid arthritis / gout pain]
Treatment : Rest, don't aggravate the area, or I'll have to go for surgery to drain the blood out. YEEECK!!!!
As for now, more rest is in order along with lovely episodes of True Blood and Dollhouse [OK OK I'll get a book to read!].
I guess this had to happen before I knew how to take a fucking chillpill the size of China and… REST. 😉
My return to the hot room should prove interesting, disgusting foul medication aside.
Weirdest Week. EVER.
This week has sort of turned out to be the weirdest one I've ever lived. Wonder what the universe is trying to tell me.
Monday my heart did backflips, backward bends and [HOLY HELL] 600 jumping jacks when I found out my privacy was compromised. I felt claustrophobic, like I COULD NOT breathe [don't tell me to do breathing exercises – I did, and wanted to DIE after doing 3 sets of Pranayama breathing]. I suppose the wanting to die feeling was due to doing THREE sets of Pranayama, and not because of the situation. Hmm…
Friday I was supposed to meet a friend for coffee after teaching the 815pm. Lovely Pickway gave me a bottle of pepper spray cause she owes me one [heh]. Random dude approaches us and tells us how he pepper spray'd his dog and it died. or something equally horrid. Random Dude proceeds to ask us "Why are you giving her [me] pepper spray?" to which I replied "It's a birthday present" whilst calculating how much do I have left in my bank to survive AFTER I pepper spray this weirdo and figuring out how to push him down the stairs.
This morning absolutely takes the cake. Popped my Lady GaGa CD out and turned the radio on [until Justin Beaver, or Bieber, or whatever her name is OFF the airwaves I'm listening to Lady GaGa!], grooved to Alejandro for a bit before switching to my favourite channel. Lo and behold, Alejandro was on again!
Weird. Weird. Weird.
I think it's time to sit and home and grow mouldy.
Don't Put Your Feet In Different Boats…
… or when you're travelling down the river the boats will diverge and your ass will split into two.
That was one of the most valuable lessons I learnt in Bikram Yoga Teacher Training. That and when you even "think of cheating, you're cheating your own soul and hurting it".
I also learnt self-respect and self-love. As someone who struggled with confidence and esteem issues, it felt very empowering to go up in front of 310 people [including Bikram!] and teach 3 demonstrators Ardha-Chandrasana ["Arms over your head sideways, interlock the fingers, release the index finger, thumbs crossed……COME DOWN AND PUSH, AND PUSH, AND PUSH"]. I can ONLY respect myself and treat myself the way I want to be treated, or, how else are my students going to respect me?
As I woke up this morning at 4.44am [I can only sleep for 5 hours a night now… thanks Boss!], I realised that my WHOLE life, right before TT, I was being a doormat for SO MANY PEOPLE. You feel like crap, had a bad day at work/uni? It's okay, please hurl abusive remarks my way and I'll be cool with it – although I did not react, I would still think about the hurtful words said and let it fester in my mind, like seeds of a rotten plant taking hold in my head.
Those days are now way behind me.
It's NOT OK to walk on over me just because you need to make yourself feel better about what a sorry state you are.
I've also learnt how not to rest on my laurels and just.. get up on do it! THAT'S the aim of self-realisation- you are worth more than you think you are. Afterall, what's the most valuable thing in life? "YOUR life, you idiots!" Boss would yell at us, every. single. time.
So enough with all the bullshit I've been living with for the past 24 years of my life. Time to start afresh and anew. Afterall, 2010 is only a few days away 🙂
"Can I Help You SIR?"
This story will probably see a particular friend rolling all over the floor laughing his ass off. You know who you are!!!
Called my mobile service provider (DiGi) this evening to suspend my line while I am away in Vegas. After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, going through the INSANE voice commands and THEN waiting some more for a human to pick up.
Ah, after I get through, this customer service drone says :
"Good evening, my name is so-and-so, how may I help you sir?"
Oh lord.
My voice isn't THAT low, and while I know my hair is short, that person can't see it over the phone.
Even Geeks Have Social Lives
If I'm not mucking at home after Yoga, I'm at home trying to :
– muck around the css of Yogameiniac [and killed a kitty in the process]
– pack my bag to Vegas
– Unpack the boxes of stuff from house renovation and shove it into my closet. Or luggage.
all at the same time. Eek!
So I basically killed the CSS on my blog [sigh]. Searched my contact list and there were NO GEEKS online! Ack!
Till finally, one showed up. *grovels on floor
[21:40] FoOie: You WHAT?
[21:40] (@) Mei*: fret not, i killed a kitten on my blog
[21:41] (@) Mei*: in other words, the css and widget-ry is squeezing me dry
[21:41] (@) Mei*: fuck, no geeks are online so i can bother them.
[21:41] FoOie: Oh okay.. Haha I guess u wouldn't be so calm if u really did kill a kitten
[21:41] (@) Mei*: even geeks have a social life. *stabs self
[21:41] (@) Mei*: if i did i'd be sobbing i think
[21:42] (@) Mei*: so uh, don't think you'd want to help me while you're on mobile web
[21:42] FoOie: What social life lol. I'm heading home on a fri night, lugging a 4kg boardgame with me
[21:42] (@) Mei*: but you bought something
[21:42] FoOie: I can't help much on mobile web
[21:42] (@) Mei*: i sat in front of the computer figuring out how i killed kitty and at the same time trying to shove clothes into my luggage
[21:42] (@) Mei*: yeah so no sweat
[21:43] FoOie: Which u do all the time
[21:43] (@) Mei*: … no.
[21:43] (@) Mei*: that is a lie.
[21:43] (@) Mei*: *obama voice* that is not true.
Sigh. You know you're in trouble when even the resident wordpress geek says that I spend all my Fridays doing geeky / yoga-dorky stuff. I swear I'm 24 going on to 42.
Now excuse me while I muck around the CSS one more time before I squeeze Edward kitty till his eyes pop out.
Airport Lessons
Been staying online, googling and searching and STALKING travel sites and airline sites for the BEST deal for KUL-LAS [that's airline speak for Kuala Lumpur – Las Vegas].
EVA air (run by Taiwan) has a pretty good deal! Though my transit from LAX [that's Los Angeles] to LAS is TEN freaking hours. Can't imagine dragging my bags with me to the loo, and draping myself over my bags to protect them from theft. No, I am not going to fork out US$110 for a room, because I'm that much of a cheapskate. And THEN the whole shebang of getting a connecting flight [So far the best deal is Southwest, but I may be wrong…].
Air China (run by China) is also pretty freaking awesomely priced, but The Boyfriend, whose client is an airline corporation, declared that Air China is spotty and dodgy and insisted that I don't take Air China *whimper [But BABY, I'm on a BUDGET. BARJET!]. Not to mention the route is pretty damn crappy – KUL – Beijing – San Fran [overnight transit] – Vegas. My GOD I will be so wasted and bent like a scallop when I arrive in Vegas onto Michelle's doorstep [THANK YOU THANK YOU! I will name my first child regardless of gender after you!]
Korean Air has the route of all, KUL – Korea – LAS, barring a 13 hour stopover in Korea. [Is it time to start watching Korean dramas?]. The best part is that Korea has a rather awesome looking airport hotel that's decently priced too. The drawback? It is RM800 [around US$300] more expensive than EVA air.
And I'm sure by now everyone of you know that I've got a rather sharp tongue / quick wit / lack of brain-tongue filter, so I've blurted out things straying in my head [that were supposed to STAY THERE] and getting looks of disgust, horror, or both. Or the occasional "What the HELL Mei!!". OK, must control filter. So my well-travelled aunt and uncle were quick to tell me that "When at border control at the US, just answer, "Yes", "No" and straightforward. Don't need to elaborate so much. AND HOLD THAT TONGUE OF YOURS!". They're British, holding a British passport [plus my uncle is Caucasian!], so I was very surprised to learn that they were given a little heckling at border control.
Uncle Michael entertained us with a few gems that night, telling us how he was writing the speech for my cousin's wedding, with his eldest daughter, Emily, saying, "Just use some adjectives to talk about Alex, dad! It's EASY." "Well, does 'Wanker' qualify as an adjective?"
Gotta love British humour.
p.s : I really can't believe it. I'm closer to getting to Teacher Training. The universe really does let things fall gently in to place. All you gotta do is HAVE FAITH!


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Listening skills need to be developed in our littlest learners!
Like many topics in the Primary grades, listening comprehension skills need to be explicitly modeled and taught. We sometimes assume that K-2 kids know how to listen, but they don't always know how to listen actively and retain what they have heard! Our young students especially need to be trained with those skills for active listening and comprehension, such as making predictions and making text to text or text to self connections. Most teachers model these things while reading aloud with students:
"I wonder why the character did that..."
"That reminds me of a time when I..."
And after hearing this modeled, students need practice doing this on their own! We need to offer them exposure to a wide variety of texts read aloud to have them practice those essential listening comprehension skills.
While we want to read every wonderful picture book to our kids every day, sometimes there just isn't time to get to them all. And sometimes, you might want to read a particular book on a certain day, but you manage to misplace your copy.
No worries! We have options! There are some great FREE online resources for digital read-alouds that let your students listen to the texts! And since they are online, won't get lost in your bookshelves!
Justbooksreadaloud.com is a website that has curated a thorough collection of YouTube read-alouds some of the most popular picture pics. They are searchable and sortable by author and topic. Most of these are made by teachers.
Storylineonline.net also has a collection of popular stories! They are read aloud by celebrity members of the Screen Actors Guild.
So how does this look in the K-2 classroom?
Differentiated Guided Reading groups are so important in the Primary grades. But one of the biggest concerns K-2 teachers have is, "But how do I manage the rest of the kids while I work with small groups?!?"
Running effective and engaging literacy centers is certainly an art. Especially with little learners, you need to have clear and consistent classroom management routines in place. The literacy activities need to be adequately challenging (not just busy work!), but should also be something that the students can work on without a lot of teacher guidance.
During my 14 years as a teacher of primary-aged students, Listening Stations were one of my go-to activities during Guided Reading and literacy centers. Students would sit in a group, and everyone would plug bulky headsets into a big, bulky block. Someone would push PLAY on the cassette and then they could all listen and follow along.
During my 14 years as a teacher of primary-aged students, Listening Stations were one of my go-to activities during Guided Reading and literacy centers. Students would sit in a group, and everyone would plug bulky headsets into a big, bulky block. Someone would push PLAY on the cassette and then they could all listen and follow along.
Now we can use our digital read-alouds and give students access to listen to so many wonderful pieces of literature! And as a bonus, since they are being accessed digitally, There is no need to rewind a cassette tape between groups. Did I just date myself?
Students can gain access to these titles through a link in Google Classroom. Another option might be to have little ones scan a QR code on an iPad or other mobile device. If you're worried about sending little ones to YouTube because of the sometimes terrifying comments or suggested videos, try using ViewPure to clean up YouTube and make it more friendly for littlest learners.
If you don't have a device for every student, here's a quick and inexpensive way to use just one desktop, laptop, or tablet and turn it into a listening station for an entire group.
This splitter takes the single headphone input on a device and allows five students to listen to the story together. There are a wide variety of these available on Amazon, ranging in cost from about $6-$12.
How do you know they are listening?
When I used Listening Stations in the classroom, sometimes the students would simply listen to the story and then move on. Other days, I used a Listening Station response page that the students were to fill out when the tape was over. I created this form when I first began teaching, and duplicated it over and over again. I must have made at least 8,000 of these sheets during my classroom days!
These days, in order to have students show some kind of accountability, teachers sometimes use commercial online programs to have the students check their comprehension after reading or hearing a story. These programs offer a multiple choice quiz full of recall/DOK Level One questions. While designed to motivate readers, these programs sometimes have the unfortunate secondary effect of squashing the joy of books out of our kids.
What if we offered them something else?
What if students had better options? Modern tools allow for so much personalization and creativity! Here are some fun Google Goodies and more that can be used for accountability and extension after a Listening Station:
Listening Station response on Google form - Automate it! Save time and paper!
TK Story Elements activity with Google Slides (Credit: Amanda Ibal)
Little learners can watch or listen to a digital read-aloud many ways! This set of Google Slides has the video embedded right into the slide, where it can be played. Using this method, the little ones get the YouTube content without actually visiting the YouTube website (and all of the scary elements we mentioned earlier!)
Little learners can watch or listen to a digital read-aloud many ways! This set of Google Slides has the video embedded right into the slide, where it can be played. Using this method, the little ones get the YouTube content without actually visiting the YouTube website (and all of the scary elements we mentioned earlier!)
Time Magazine Reading Summary made with Google Drawings. 2nd Grade students listened to a text about Barack Obama and recalled key details to create their Magazine cover. This works really well with non-fiction and biographies, but what if they made a cover for a character in a piece of literature? (Inspiration: Ryan O'Donnell)
Here's a Blank Template of the Magazine cover you can use with your students! Open it and then Click File>Make a Copy.
Amazon-Style Book Listing and Review on Google Slides: (Inspiration: Ashley Ochoa)
After listening to a text, students can write an amazon-style review!
After listening to a text, students can write an amazon-style review!
Story Summary with MyMaps (Inspiration: Will Kimbley) Students can retell a story using location! In this book, a girl flies around the world to gather ingredients to make an apple pie. Students place a pin where she stops and lists the ingredient she finds there.
Google Form with embedded video (Credit: Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern) Going further with Google Forms, we can also embed YouTube videos right into a Form! This is yet another option for avoiding some of the inappropriate comments and suggested videos that show up directly on the YouTube website. After listening to the video, you can use Form items to ask little ones to tell their favorite part, answer comprehension questions, or have them describe story elements such settings or characters.
Reading Rainbow style book talks on Screencastify or green-screened with DoInk (Credit: Anne Kozma) After hearing a story, have students write scripts and record book talks!
You can also record and create your own read-alouds using the camera on your phone, tablet, iPad or with Screencastify on a Chromebook. This allows you to ask students your own questions throughout the read-aloud while modeling think-aloud comprehension strategies, too! These videos can be uploaded to YouTube or Google Drive for sharing with students.
If you want to try a tool that embeds additional listening engagement, consider checking out EdPuzzle for your Digital Listening Station! This tool lets students listen to the texts, but can also automatically pause the video periodically to show embedded questions, play voice comments, or ask for other types of responses from the students.
I hope you can see that the creative possibilities are endless! Pick one thing and try it! SHARE how it goes!
Give them options!
Give them options!
Books are so fun. Don't forget to let your students have plenty of CHOICE in what they read or listen to! One added benefit of having students listening to the stories is that they have access to texts that might be outside of their own reading ability. Let them listen to stories to build a love of literature, which can motivate them to want to read more.
Using Digital Listening stations, we can offer our students a wider selection of books to read or hear even when visiting a library to get an actual book isn't always an option. We can also let our non-readers and language learners hear stories being read by fluent models. Some parents may have internet, but don't have the means to provide a large library of books in their home. Sharing these resources with them lets your young students also access these books from anywhere!


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National Conference on Jewish Affairs: Trump Hits Home Run
"Under President Trump, our State of the Union is vibrant, secure and replete with moral clarity"
January 31, 2018 - San Francisco, CA – President Trump's State of the Union Speech is being very well received by American Jewry.
Commenting upon the address, which was historic in a number of ways, Rabbi Aryeh Spero, spokesman for The Jewish Council for Public Affairs [JCPA, the national voice for more than 125 local Jewish Community Relations Councils and Community Engagement Committees, and 16 national Jewish agencies] released the following statement regarding the president's State of the Union Speech:
Tonight we heard a President that made us proud again. President Trump's delivery, his message, his sincerity and conviction regarding the historic high ideals of America and her people were inspirational and timely.
"We are extremely gratified by the President's enunciation of great Biblical values expressed in the Old Testament. He spoke of the dignity of man who is independent by virtue of work. He spoke of the Biblical need of self-defense against those who would harm innocent people. He expressed the need, as often done in the Bible itself, for protected borders so that the inhabitants therein will be safe. And he spoke of compassion for those who strive to live by not harming others."
His love for America and freedom, his reaffirmation of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, and his call for all Americans to reach their full potential is something the majority of Americans agree with and have longed to hear. It was refreshing to hear a President emphasize what is good and heroic about America and her people.[Read More]
Peace or Jihad? Abrogation in Islam
By DAVID BUKAY
Crossposted on the Middle East Forum
January 29, 2018 - San Francisco, CA -That there is no compulsion in Islam and that Islam is a religion of peace are common refrains among Muslim activists, [1] academics, [2] officials, [3] and journalists. [4] In an age of terrorism and violent jihad, nowhere, they argue, does the Qur'an allow Muslims to fight non-Muslims solely because they refuse to become Muslim. [5] Proponents of Islamic tolerance point to a number of Qur'anic verses which admonish violence and advocate peace, tolerance, and compromise. [6]
But not all verses in the Qur'an have the same weight in assessment. Unlike the Old or New Testaments, the Qur'an is not organized by chronology but rather by size of chapters. [7] Even within chapters, chronology can be confused. In sura (chapter) 2, for example, God revealed verses 193, 216, and 217 to Muhammad shortly after he arrived in Medina. God only revealed verses 190, 191, and 192 six years later. [8] This complicates interpretation, all the more when some verses appear to contradict.
Abrogation in the Qur'an
The Qur'an is unique among sacred scriptures in accepting a doctrine of abrogation in which later pronouncements of the Prophet declare null and void his earlier pronouncements. [9] Four verses in the Qu'ran acknowledge or justify abrogation:
- When we cancel a message, or throw it into oblivion, we replace it with one better or one similar. Do you not know that God has power over all things? [10]
- When we replace a message with another, and God knows best what he reveals, they say: You have made it up. Yet, most of them do not know. [11]
- God abrogates or confirms whatsoever he will, for he has with him the Book of the Books. [12]
- If we pleased, we could take away what we have revealed to you. Then you will not find anyone to plead for it with us. [13]
Rather than explain away inconsistencies in passages regulating the Muslim community, many jurists acknowledge the differences but accept that latter verses trump earlier verses. [14] Most scholars divide the Qur'an into verses revealed by Muhammad in Mecca when his community of followers was weak and more inclined to compromise, and those revealed in Medina, where Muhammad's strength grew.[Read More]
Looking Through A PRISM - The NSA' s Metadata Problem
By WILLIAM MAYER
January 23, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - This article was first published four years ago [January 20, 2014] during the period of time immediately after the Snowden revelations. We are reprinting it for two reasons. First we hope that the information might help to understand the importance of [and some of the issues regarding] the WikiLeaks Vault 7 data dump and secondly we wanted to revisit a bit of the modern history of U.S. signal intelligence [SIGINT], especially as it relates to the capabilities of the first genuinely global data collection network which was developed by the U.S. and its closest allies in the mid 1980s under the code name Project Echelon...
The word "metadata" is on the lips of a lot of media types these days.
Our guess is that most of them have little or no idea at all what they are talking about.
The term itself is imprecise; some say ambiguous, others say it's meaningless without being placed in context. The way the punditocracy is using the word, they might as well just say data, because in their frame of reference it's [as applied to NSA and other government intel organizations] simply information.
There is a technical definition however, which is a lot more esoteric as it applies to the format into which information is put, essentially data about the data, the way databases are constructed, display characteristics, relationship matrices etc.
Both of these apply to the current controversy but given the emphasis of the press and since they are using the word indiscriminately [most of them simply to appear to be brighter than they are] let's deal with it as one concept, an approach which should promote a broader discussion of the weighty issues involved.[Read More]
Representative Paul Gosar: Obama Weaponized Federal Government
January 23, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - Yesterday, Congressman Paul Gosar [R-AZ, 4th] sat down with Breitbart News's Senior Editors-at-Large Rebecca Mansour and Joel Pollak [Sirius XM broadcast] in a wide ranging, and for some, shocking discussion of the Obama administration's blatant and illegal weaponizing of the federal government against its "enemies."
In this first cut, Gosar explains that Fast and Furious, the Benghazi cover-up, the IRS persecution of conservative organizations and the unmasking of Trump officials must be seen as a whole, an entirely illegal and unprecedented use of the national government to shut down the president's critics.
"Well, this memo is a summary of emails and traffic that has been picked up by the intelligence and judiciary systems. Some of it is exactly what you may have seen that has been exposed to the sunlight already. Other things may not. But what it basically does is, that, if you don't think that Fast and Furious, if you don't think that Benghazi, for the lack of accountability, if you don't think the IRS, and if you don't think the unmasking has something to do with the weaponization of our Department of Justice and our intelligence services, think again."
As to the question of whether or not Congress should release the already infamous, "Four Page Memorandum" that has been characterized as containing information about Obama administration programs that will "shock the conscience of this country, Gosar insisted that it was only a question of how soon, not if, the committee released the document."
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"In our conference, there is a heated debate about when, not if, and we want it out sooner than later. The American people need to see this. There are other things associated with it because this is just the tip of the iceberg. It names names, and those names…they should be owed their day in court…[and if that is] what's presented, there are some heads that need to go to jail and not come out for quite some time."
215,000,000 Christians Persecuted, Mostly by Muslims
By RAYMOND IBRAHIM
Crossposted at the Gatestone Institute
January 22, 2018 – San Francisco, CA – PipeLineNews.org - "215 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world, according to Open Doors , a human rights organization. On its recently released World Watch List 2018, which ranks the world's 50 worst nations wherein to be Christian, 3,066 Christians were killed, 1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped or sexually harassed on account of their faith; and 793 churches were attacked or destroyed.
The Islamic world had the lion's share of this persecution; 38 of the 50 worst nations are Muslim-majority. The report further cites "Islamic oppression" behind the "extreme persecution" that prevails in eight of the 10 worst nations. In short, the overwhelming majority of persecution that these 215 million Christians experience around the world - especially the worst forms, such as rape and murder - occurs at the hands of Muslims.
These Muslims come from all walks of life and reflect a variety of races, nationalities, languages, socio-economic and political circumstances. They include Muslims from among America's closest allies (Saudi Arabia #12 worst persecutor) and Muslims from its opponents (Iran #10); Muslims from rich nations (Qatar #27 and Kuwait #34) and Muslims from poor nations (Afghanistan #2, Somalia #3, and Yemen #9); Muslims from widely recognized "radical" nations (Pakistan #5), and Muslims from "moderate" nations (Malaysia #23 and Indonesia #38).[Read More]
Communist Party USA Classes
January 21, 2018 - San Francisco, CA – We subscribe to a large number of hard left/progressive/Marxist/anarchist mailing lists so we can keep our readers informed as to what is happening in the various communities of unapologetic revolutionaries.
That said, we just received the following. The hyperlinks have been eliminated in order to preserve our anonymity [please don't ask, it's complicated].
Announcement: 2018 Winter Marxist Class Series
Section 1
Lenin (2017: October Revolution 100th Year Anniversary)
DuBois (2018: 150th Birth Year Anniversary)
Marx (2018: 200th Birth Year Anniversary)
CPUSA (2019: 100th Year Anniversary)
In Recognition of African American History Month
Session 2
Ben Davis:
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Mattis Releases National Defense Strategy - More Lethal And Flexible Force Structure
Increased Emphasis On Countering China And Russia
January 19, 2018 - San Francico, CA - PipeLineNews.org – Today Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced the new National Defense Strategy during a speech at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Its release is considered significant since the last such review occurred a decade ago, a very long time in the rapidly evolving, technology rich world of modern defense theory.
Overall the document embodies and is consistent with President Trump's campaign pledge to return to the Reagan era strategy of peace through strength .
Defense officials were quick to point out that "this is not a strategy of confrontation, but it is strategy that recognizes the reality of competition." [source, Jim Garamone, Rebuild Dominance, Enhance Deterrence and Lethality , U.S. Department of Defense]
While still engaging terrorism and the global jihad, the emphasis will shift to large state actors, China, Russia, Iran and North Korea.
As DoD spokesman Elbridge Colby stated, "the erosion of U.S. military advantage vis-a-vis China and Russia, which, if unaddressed, could ultimately undermine our ability to deter aggression and coercion and imperil the free and open order that we seek to underwrite with our alliance constellation."[Read More]
The True Story Of The GOP's Historic Fight To Advance Genuine Social Justice
January 19, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - The video presented below, demonstrates the historic truth - going back over 150 years, to before the Civil War - about the Republican Party, that nearly every laudible social jusice cause in the past from ending slavery to enforcing the civil rights of black Americans, to a women's right to vote came to fruition due to the intercession of the Republican Party.
Today however the GOP is a pale reflection of its former glory, slinking around like spineless weasels to assuage the absurd narrative that the party has allowed itself to be tarred with by the historically racist, sexist, bigoted Democrat elite which has convinced apparently uncaring, ignorant [primarily government schooled] Americans that the GOP is the enemy of social progress.
Nothing could be further from the truth...please listen as Carol Swain, a black American scholar from the James Madison Society sets the historical record straight.[Read More]
Florida Rep Gaetz: Release Memo Proving "Jaw Dropping" Deep State Attempted Coup
January 18, 2018 - Washington, DC - PipeLineNews.org - Congressman Matt Gaetz (FL-01) today released the following statement after reviewing information from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, including a memo held in the Congressional Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) that contained previously-undisclosed information involving the Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) and Department of Justice (DOJ).
Congressman Gaetz stated:
"The House must immediately make public the memo prepared by the Intelligence Committee regarding the FBI and the Department of Justice. The facts contained in this memo are jaw-dropping and demand full transparency. There is no higher priority than the release of this information to preserve our democracy."
In December, Rep. Gaetz questioned Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the House Judiciary Committee hearing about the clear examples of bias and conflicts of interest at the Department of Justice (DOJ), and within Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team of investigators. In his questions, Rep. Gaetz asked when the DOJ learned that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce J. Ohr had contacted Christopher Steele, former British spy and author of the infamous 'Trump dossier,' a document called "salacious and unverified" by former FBI Director James Comey.
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A Tale Of Two Cultures – The Ever Widening Clash Of Civilizations
By VILLEM MAHERSTEIN
January 17, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - There is currently a controversy, a firestorm actually, raging against YouTube's refusal to remove a video depicting various methods of desecrating the Holy Eucharist under the guise of artistic freedom.
The topic is vitally important to many devout Catholics who believe that during the Mass, the host and sacramental wine become [through transubstantiation] the literal body and blood of Jesus, which is the central aspect of the Catholic Mass.
Coincidentally, at the same time there is another [related] development which finds ex-Muslim Middle Eastern converts to Catholicism, beseeching the Pope, asking him to justify his conflating of Islam with Catholicism, which to them is an heretical proposition.
In the letter, these newly minted Catholics call the Pope's attention to the genocide that is daily taking place against Middle Eastern Christians, being waged [of course] by the sons of Allah as a means of, hopefully, connecting the dots and providing guidance for the straying Catholic prelate who has fallen victim a moral relativism based upon the corrosive ideology of multiculturalism.
It doesn't take much in the way of research to prove the charge of genocide since as the renowned scholar of Arabic and Middle East historian Raymond Ibrahim states:
"A document drafted by members of the global Christian community convening at the 3rd International Christian Forum held in Moscow, detailed how over the past 10 years the Middle East's Christian population has shrunk by 80 percent and warned that unless current trends are reversed Christianity "will vanish" from its ancient homelands in a few years' time. Around the year 2000, there were 1.5 million Christians in Iraq, whereas today there are only 100,000, roughly a 93 percent drop, the document notes. In Syria, the largest cities "have lost almost all of their Christian population." [source, Raymond Ibrahim, " Clean Our Excrement Every Day or Die": Muslim Persecution of Christians , August 2017]
The letter is beautifully written and powerfully reasoned, using Francis' own Encyclicals [pastoral teaching documents considered authoritative] against his refusal to deal truthfully with the ongoing Muslim slaughter of Christians in lands where they were historically the majority.
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"You do not like to beat around the bush, and neither do we, so allow us to say frankly that we do not understand your teaching about Islam, as we read in paragraphs 252 and 253 of Evangelii Gaudium , because it does not account for the fact that Islam came AFTER Christ , and so is, and can only be, an Antichrist (see 1 Jn 2.22), and one of the most dangerous because it presents itself as the fulfillment of Revelation (of which Jesus would have been only a prophet)."
We Have Come To Bury Twitter…Shadow Banned In San Fran
January 15, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - We here at PipeLineNews.org have reached the end of our multi-year experiment with the social media platform Twitter.
While at first one could not help but be impressed by the ability to transmit little information packets consisting of 140 characters or less anywhere in the world, Twitter has, along with its almost literal neighbors, Facebook, YouTube, the 800 pound gorilla Google et al., turned even farther left than many thought possible.
What was once a reasonably free environment for public discourse - given the politics of social media giants' founders - has along with the Democrat party and the vast majority of Western media, gone full-tilt Marxist, now presiding over and nursing what is in effect a secular theocracy based upon the sacralized ideology of collectivism.
It's unsurprising therefore that PipeLineNews.org's Twitter account has over the years been suspended so many times that we have lost count, and it now appears that our Net presence there has been shadow banned, which might be a big deal except for the fact that our operation does not depend on that kind of monetization.
Of note, though some seem to think shadow banning is a reasonably new development, its essence - unequal treatment of political speech - has been at the heart of Google [and Silicon Valley] for at least a decade, where even the most innocuous of inquiries involving anything marginally "to the right of center," returns a spewing of leftist bile while, let's say doing a search for President Barack Obama, gives one the impression that the former junior Senator from Illinois walks on water, though not the semi-solid variety leaking out of Democrat stronghold Flint, Michigan.
So that's about all there is to the story, we refuse to feed the hand that suppresses, so color us gone, the account closed afte one final posting
Sic Semper Tyrannis.[Read More]
French Muslims Beat Policemen Senseless And Burn 1,000 Cars - Media Ignores
The West's Islamic Revolution Will Not Be Televised
By WILLIAM MAYER
January 9, 2018 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - Celebrating the incoming New Year in France will never be the same after last weekend's horrifying attacks across the country culminating in a Paris Muslim ghetto exploding in violence, with numerous assaults on law enforcement personnel, one of whom, a woman officer was beaten and kicked into unconsciousness.
As has become de-riguer in this kind of criminality, the attack on the woman was videod by the primarily North African attackers and then streamed live on the Internet.
It shouldn't surprise even casual observers of Europe's social breakdown that though the police were armed, none of them drew their weapons despite being in life threatening situations...a fact not wasted on the defiant immigrants.
The practice of Muslim "refugees" refusing to acculturate, instead, crowding into lawless mini-suburbs in major cities which have been abandoned by law enforcement is well established. The phenomenon is widespread to the point that it is now common knowledge among the populace that are likely over 1,000 these "no-go" areas are scattered across Europe, given that the police now grudgingly admit that there are at least 900 of them.
The abdication of secular legal authority in these areas has allowed, what can only be called the occupiers, to establish and enforce a mixture of gang-land bandidtry within a larger governing regime under a particularly nasty Salafist reading of the Shari'a, Islamic law.
"In the heart of Paris, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Marseille, Grenoble, Avignon, districts here and there have been "privatized" by a mix of drug traffickers, Salafist zealots and Islamic youth gangs. The main victims are women. They are - Muslim and non-Muslim - sexually harassed; some are sexually assaulted. The politicians, as usual, are fully informed of the situation imposed upon women." [source, France: No-Go Zones Now in Heart of Big Cities, Gatestone Institute]
Signifying the magnitude of this societal dislocation - one that looks very much like "low intensity" guerilla warfare - is that in addition to the more serious violence, over 1,000 automobiles were torched in a few evenings, a new "record" as these things go which represents tens-of-millions-of-dollars in losses.[Read More]
Anti-Jihadist Author Robert Spencer - The PipeLineNews.org Interview
By CHERYL GATESWORTH
January 1, 2017 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - What follows is an interview of the noted authority on Islam, Robert Spencer who maintains a counter terror news website entitled JihadWatch.org as well as being the author of nearly 20 books.
Q. Given the current state of affairs vis-à-vis the Muslim population of Western Europe, what do you predict if current trend continue, will be the future of Sweden in five years?
A. You're going to see just more of the same, a great deal more conflict, a great deal more assertiveness and aggressiveness on the part of Muslim immigrants, and ultimately civil war. If there is a sufficient number of Swedes who don't like the way things are going, and want to stop the country's descent towards Shari'a and chaos, if that is indeed the case, there will be conflict. But I don't know that conflict is avoidable at this point.
Q. What do you see as the future of Sweden in ten years?
A. More of the same, unless these trends are stopped, and there's a huge turnaround in terms of the country's immigration policy. Then there's going to be conflict between those who believe Islamic law ought to be the law of the land, and those who would rather live in a free society.
Q. What do you see as the future of Germany in five years?
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A. It's the same answer for every country-there's got to be a massive change in policy and that has got to come quickly, or there's going to be conflict and civil war. There's going to be an increased number of people who want shari'a law, and an increase in the shari'a enclaves that are already in place in several countries in Europe. And as those enclaves grow and begin to swallow up more and more of the countries in which they're located, they're inevitably going to come in conflict with those who want those societies to remain free. So I don't know if civil war can be avoided at that point.
The PipeLineNews Review - Robert Spencer, "Confessions Of An Islamophobe"
As Reviewed by: CHERYL GATESWORTH
January 1, 2017 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org -"Confessions of an Islamophobe" is Dr. Robert Spencer's 17th book and reestablishes him - as if it were necessary - as one of the nation's foremost authorities on Islam. For readers who are just beginning a study of Islam as well as those who are already well-informed but want to fill-in some gaps, Dr. Spencer is the go-to writer. To be sure he is a presence in many venues, but for the sake of brevity, I will analyze only his latest work.
The book's title is very appropriate, chosen to put "Islamophobe" into proper focus as a term used by Muslims and their non-Muslim sycophants with the intention of stifling, or preferably extinguishing, any rational discussion or debate regarding the dangers inherent in the Islamic faith.
The term itself, "Islamophobia" was originally conjured up as part of the leftist/Islamist tactic of weaponizing language, done under the theory that he who controls the language, controls the dialogue and he who controls the dialogue will prevail in any argument pertaining to it.
In stark contrast to Western judicial principles, simply telling the truth is not a defense against the charge by Muslims of religious and ethnic bigotry and hatred, as if all incriminating evidence against guilty defendants were perpetually ruled inadmissible.
For thousands of years [for example, Sun Tzu's Art of War, circa 500BC] one of the most basic principles for nations at war is to be able to name the threat as well as to understand as much as possible about the enemy's ideology. Failure to do so makes it impossible to develop what military planners call a "threat doctrine" from which is crafted a plan to combat the enemy not only kinetically on the battlefield but in the larger and often more important intellectual war of ideas.[Read More]


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It was clear that they do, though, considering that they customize your ring to meet your needs. They also ship out of New York, too! Since the shop's established in New York and I am not, I was hoping the shipping might last longer than usual. But the whole interaction was so smooth and I was really delighted with my ring when it came. Wedding Ring Trends
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I believe it's best if you do a little research on rings before customizing your own. There's a lot that you will need to know about jewelry first before getting into this, particularly once you want to look into how much you are spending.
While the artists were accommodating, I honestly think that this can not be for someone who's hasn't done their research on diamond rings ahead. In addition, it is a lot easier if you already have a certain style in mind. But then again, it was fun playing around with the styles and the colors it was easy to change my mind.
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the modification button seems to be sometimes broken (only on first post of thread i think). Dont think it's been officially reported but I've seen it happen a few times now in the last weeks (duplicate post created when modified).
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