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I have to admit I actually paid full price for this vintage 1980s dress, a whopping $8! But that is a drastic increase from my usual .50cent steals!
After our dental hygiene class we stopped by the Blue Water Bridge (Goes across to Canada) for a quick picture! It was pretty wiiiindy!
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- Buy online in advance: Buying your textbooks online allows you to save money, but they must be purchased in advance. After the first week, very few teachers will let you submit late assignments if your text hasn't arrived yet. I start to look up textbooks a month prior to the start of classes; this allows me to buy the cheapest book that could take a month to arrive.
However, if you rent your textbooks, you might need to wait to order them so that the start date of your rental is closer to the beginning of the semester. Most rentals will start on the day the book is delivered; you don't want to have to return it before the semester is over simply because you ordered the book too early.
This is a great option if you don't want to stress about whether or not your textbooks will arrive by the beginning of the semester.
- Buy online at the start of the semester: Occasionally professors change the textbook requirement or tell you that they never use the textbook, and therefore you don't need to purchase it. To save yourself the hassle of returning your book, you can wait until your teacher confirms that the textbook is required, and then order it online.
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- Buy from friends: Instead of buying your textbooks online, find a friend who's taken the class before and buy or borrow the book from them! Alternatively, take advantage of your school's Facebook group to find sellers (most schools have a Facebook group for students to buy and sell textbooks amongst themselves). Stay tuned for a blog post about utilizing social media effectively at college!
- If you're really short on money and don't mind going to the library on a regular basis, borrowing your textbook(s) from a library can be a great option. Whether you check-out the book and take it with you, or if you hang out in the library to finish your assignments, this could save you a couple hundred dollars each semester.
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I've never been to the Rocky Mountains, but I got to fly over them this summer. I must say that even at 30,000 feet in the air, they were very impressive. They are so different from our Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. By comparison, the Blue Ridge Mountains are gently rolling foothills. They say that the Blue Ridge is much older than the Rockies and that time has worn them down from their former glory.
One of things that you can do on the Blue Ridge is what we call "running the ridges." It can be strenuous at times even in the Blue Ridge, but I would think that it would be nearly impossible in the rugged Rocky Mountains. Oh, there you can rock climb or hang from a cliff face, but you can't ridge run. (Well, I imagine the Rockies have a few level places. Do the Rockies have foothills?)
Though it can be demanding, ridge running is a great experience. You can go along the tops of the mountains and find yourself in a beautiful forest (the Blue Ridge has trees to the top of the mountain), or it opens up into a beautiful view of the Shenandoah Valley. Sometimes, if you have the skill, you can ridge run quietly and chance upon a deer or two, or maybe even a bear.
You know, there are various degrees of sainthood in the Orthodox Church.There are
passion-bearers, hierarchs, monastics, martyrs, confessors, and saints. I thank God that in my spiritual pilgrimage, I have attained to the title of "ridge runner."
One of the things that attracted me to Orthodoxy was the book The Philokalia. I read that our emotions are disordered by our sinful state and our spiritual enemies stir up our emotions as a weapon against us. These emotions are gifts from God, but in their disordered state, they become like a great cloud of dust that blocks our vision of God. Since we cannot see the light of God, we begin to experience acedia. (pronounced (ah-CEE-dee-ah) This emotion is akin to depression, but is even deeper and more profound than most depressions. All of the Fathers agree that acedia is a very difficult state of emotional and spiritual dryness. I like the description found in the classical protestant story, Pilgrim's Progress. The author calls such a state "The Slough of Despondency."
There was a time in my life, not so long ago it seems, that my emotions were more like the Rocky Mountains. There were great heights and deep sloughs, yet there were very few level places. Sometimes, the view from the top was dazzling, but soon after, I would be in the shadow of the valley. It was a rugged place to exist. I don't know which was more tiring – the climb up or the tumbling down.
As a priest, this emotional battle has not only been a personal issue, but has been the main topic of most of the confessions that I've heard. Usually, the penitent will say that they "feel" a certain way about some issue or sin. They might say that the feel depressed, or anxious, or sad, or lonely. They will speak of how they feel little love for God and their prayers have become dry and fruitless. Then, come another day and life is good, the sun is shining, and they are on top of the world. The Bible is correct when it says "as a man thinks, so is he." The problem is that our emotions make us think one way today, and another way tomorrow. Frankly, I learned to put little trust in my feelings.
You might think that these people are bi-polar, but most aren't. I've dealt with some seriously bi-polar people and I must say that I didn't deal with them very effectively. But I have come to realize that the Fathers of The Philokalia are correct. Our spiritual warfare is most often waged against our feelings and emotions. Should we try to make any spiritual progress, some event will occur that will bring our emotions to the boil. It can be something as simple as a minor irritation (like a stoplight that won't seem to turn green), or it can be words from a friend or loved one that cut us to the core. It can also be feelings of boredom and distraction that make us leave our hearts at the door, and turns prayer and liturgy into meaningless ritual.Quite often, our feelings are fed by hurts and tragedies from the past.
It is good to know where we are headed in this warfare. The goal is apathy. Apathy? Yes, but not as we usually think of it. Spiritual apathy does not mean that we are emotionally dead and with no will to action. Proper spiritual apathy means that our emotions are healed, that they have found their proper place and function. Having been healed, our emotions help us to serve God and to live the Orthodox faith. This is why we can say that in the crucifixion of Christ, He suffered a "passionless passion." That is why we might say that the Lord had "righteous anger" when he cleared the temple of the money changers. He was in no rage or anger as we sinners know the emotion. Being "fully human and fully divine," his emotions were in there proper place and function.
Having marinated in Orthodox services for almost 14 years, by God's grace, emotionally and spiritually, I've stopped climbing in the Rocky Mountains. I'm now a ridge runner and though I sometimes go down, I soon come up again. Its still a little tiring, but not like the old days. Most of the time, I run along the ridge and enjoy the view. Have I attained apathy yet? No, I'm still running the ridges. Yet, as I run, I think of what St. Paul wrote in Ephesians 2: "Even when we were dead in sins, he hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved); And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus."
Mountain climbers and ridge runners – have hope. He has set us in heavenly places far above the ups and downs of life. Didn't the Prophet say that "every valley shall be filled and every mountain made low?" In the mean time, I'm ridge running. I have my two faithful hound dogs with me –Goodness and Mercy." They have followed me all the days of my life and they still follow me along the ridges.


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Software Testing Problems 5: Starting to Test Connected Applications
If no one has completely solved issues surrounding the testing of Web Sites or traditional
Win32 applications then you can assume that there are problems abound testing applications
that connect to either other networked applications or web services. Advancements
such as Indigo will
only make these types of applications more prevalent moving forward so you're going
to have to get used to it. Having tested
the Start Page in the VS 2002/2003 releases and now leading the team responsible for
testing what will be a very connected help system I can offer some advice…
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Know Thy Dependencies: You need to know
all of the services that are required by your application and you'll need to know
the services and data stores they depend on. It
helps to make sure you have a detailed map of your service architecture both in and
out of your span of control.
Control Dependencies: Strict
control must be placed on the data going back and forth to each service. If
you have a shared Schema you should put a lot of effort into making sure that this
schema is bulletproof and as restrained as possible given the needs of the application. If
a service is meant to return you a set of contact information for customers that match
search criteria you have to make sure you have restrictions on each part of the contact
information. The phone number should
only be acceptable phone numbers, the name only valid characters, etc. The
data store needs to have checks in place to verify this is the case, the service needs
to make sure that's all it returns, and the application requesting the information
needs to be sure it only uses data in the correct form.
Your dependencies have to lock down early and stay that way. Once
you have defined the communication arrangement you have to be sure that the call remains
the same throughout the expected life of the software unless you are prepared to test
and deliver updates to your client app as often as a web site could change. It
would be bad if, for VS users, all of a sudden online help searches were returned
in a different format than the UI expected and was unable to display.
Think about your edge cases here… What is the max number of records that could be
returned? What is the max space allotted for each field? How
long will it take this full dataset to return over a 28.8 modem?
Goals need to be set early and monitored often at every level when it comes to the
service level your application expects. If
you expect a user to be able to see their search results in under X seconds the UI
must be able to display returned results in a fraction of X, the data store must be
able to fetch the results in Y and the service must do its job and bundle the results
in Z. Each step must be tracked both
independently and with the combined round trip to ensure the proper user experience.
"Trust No one": So you've setup testing
and contracts with your dependencies. This
doesn't mean your application can assume it always gets data in the right form. This
means you'll need a hefty set of negative tests that attempt to bring your application
to a halt at each level with invalid data. What
if you get back more than the expected max? What
if the name contains invalid characters? Can
you sneak an XML tag into the results with hidden script calls? Be sure your application
ignores or reports any data it's not supposed to use. The
VS Start Page simply chooses to ignore data it doesn't know how to display so, hopefully,
a poor return set won't result in a completely blank set. Since
it's not a mission critical VS component we don't mind the loss in fidelity.
Expect the worst from your transporter :
I don't care if Jason Statham is
moving your data around; he's going to get stuck in network traffic, pulled over by
your users' proxy servers, and potentially tripped by aggressive anti-virus software. So
this means your app has to know how to handle all of these situations appropriately. For
example, the VS Start Page used the MSXML object to fetch data from online XML stores. Unfortunately
there is a bug in the MSXML object we didn't know about that allows it to be interfered
with by some proxy servers even when a standard HTTP request would work to access
the data. We could have made the call
simpler and not relied on the MSXML component to avoid this. In
this case the transporter pulled over. I unfortunately have example bugs that fit
each of these categories and more so make sure you have given your transporter a good
work out in conditions you expect your users to encounter.
Test with Overlap: If your dependency
chain is A->B->C->D you could test D and call it a day. I'd
recommend that in addition to testing D you work on testing the various combinations
as well. You should also ensure
that even if A is tested by someone else that this person tries testing through D
on occasion. It will help the A tester
understand how their component is being used up the chain as well as give you another
set of eyes on D. Yes, fair trade and
all, it also means the D tester should overlap and test individually down the line
as well.
That's all for now I probably missed some important things and may not have gotten
specific enough.
I'd love your feedback on the content and depth of these testing entries.


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Gloria Steinem — journalist, feminist, activist — was at the Rosewood Sand Hill hotel in Palo Alto on Tuesday night doing what she does best: Celebrating the accomplishments of women.
The occasion was a preview of "Makers": a project backed by PBS and AOL that includes a documentary that tells the stories of the women's movement's next generation. These are social leaders, corporate CEOs and politicians who have pushed hard on glass ceilings in the decades since the early 1970s.
"I just want to express how important this is," said Steinem. Further she noted that the project, calls out "the many pioneers who we haven't heard about or maybe we just haven't heard the whole truth."
Even at 78, Steinem remains awe-inspiring. With her penetrating gaze and youthful vigor, she was a rarefied presence, even in a room where the crowd included 14 of these "makers," among them BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone; Esta Soler, founder of Futures Without Violence in San Francisco; and civil rights pioneer Aileen Hernandez.
"Makers" Executive Producer Dyllan McGee says the project grew out of a desire to make a documentary about Steinem, who initially refused. "She said her story only has meaning as part of a collective of stories," McGee said.
And now those first-person stories are being told, too. Many of the videos already can be viewed at www.makers.com, and McGee says more will be added before the documentary airs on PBS in February.
DIPLOMATIC HONOR: This Sunday, Congregation Beth David in Saratoga will honor Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a Portuguese consul stationed in France during World War II for issuing visas to more than 30,000 refugees, including 10,000 Jews, in June 1940.
The 1 p.m. event will include a plaque dedication and a screening of a movie about Sousa Mendes. Congregation Beth David, at 19700 Prospect Road, has previously honored Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg and Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara as Righteous Gentiles.
FINAL CURTAIN: Pioneer High School drama teacher Steve Dini says the Glue Factory, the adult theater group at the San Jose school, is disbanding after 15 years and a lot of shows.
Their last hurrah is "A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum," which opened Thursday at Pioneer and also has shows at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $15 at the door ($7 for students and seniors).
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In the face of South Africa's obligations ahead of the World Cup in 2010, the country's proposed economic growth targets and other developments that have attracted public attention, such as the Gautrain and pebble bed nuclear reactors, developments throughout the country are attracting more attention from the point of view of the impact that such developments may or may not have on the environment. Environmental concerns, in the context of such developments, are thus becoming more important and attracting more public attention. The regulations that are now proposed, for the purposes of regulating environmental impact assessments, will be an increasingly important element of any development. South Africans are becoming increasingly aware of their environment and the impact that a development has on the environment. This awareness is reflected, to a degree, in the new environmental impact assessment regulations. This edition of EnviroWerks explores the proposed regulations ahead of the commencement date of these regulations on 3 July 2006.
The Department of Environmental Affairs ("the Department") has taken another step towards ensuring that environmental concerns are fully addressed when doing business in South Africa. Regulations to the National Environmental Management Act No. 107 of 1998 ("the Act"), which will come into effect on 3 July 2006, prescribe far-reaching amendments to the current organization and application of environmental impact assessments ("an environmental assessment"). An environmental assessment is necessary before undertaking certain projects or developments that are identified in the regulations and which projects or developments may, without proper control, adversely affect the environment.
To date the environmental assessment application process has been riddled with delays and problems. The blame for these delays has been placed on severe capacity restraints within the Department and the inadequacies of the previous regulations relating to environmental impact assessments. The Department has stated, in its presentation accompanying the regulations, that the scope of activities covered by the previous regulations was too wide resulting in an inconsistent application by authorities. Accordingly, the new regulations are streamlined and designed to narrow the spectrum of activities that are subject to an environmental assessment by differentiating between different types of assessments for different kinds of activities. For example, an application for the construction of a small sports facility is subject to a basic assessment while large projects, which are more likely to have a more significant adverse impact on the environment, are subject to an extensive "scoping" process. Higher risk activities, such as mining activities, are therefore subjected to a thorough and more comprehensive assessment process.
In terms of the new regulations, a number of significant changes are introduced into the assessment application process -
- the applicant must appoint an environmental assessment practitioner who is independent, objective and who has the required expertise. If the competent authority is of the view that the practitioner managing the application is not independent, it may, subject to appeal, refuse to accept any reports from such practitioner and require an external review or complete revision of the work at the applicant's cost;
- the environmental assessment practitioner has the responsibility, under the new regulations, to consult extensively with interested and affected parties in order to facilitate proper public participation;
- time frames are now prescribed in order to speed up the assessment application process. In this regard, the Department or responsible provincial government must acknowledge receipt of the application within 14 days of receipt of the application and then has 30 days to either grant or refuse an environmental assessment authorisation;
- an applicant who intends to undertake more than one activity, as part of the same development, is required to submit a single application for all the activities comprising a particular project or development;
- the compliance and enforcement provisions of the regulations have been strengthened. A person who provides incorrect or misleading information in an application or who fails to comply with the regulations or continues an activity without an authorisation, is now subject to a maximum of two years imprisonment or a corresponding fine determined by the Minister of Justice;
- the new regulations provide that the competent authority is now entitled to have access to all information that may reasonably or potentially have an impact on or influence any decision it takes. The applicant must, on request by the competent authority, disclose such information, unless the information is protected by law.
The new regulations also introduce new activities that are subject to the environmental impact assessment process. The previous list of activities merely included 11 categories and sub-categories. However, the new regulations create two separate lists; one dealing with activities requiring basic assessments and the other dealing with activities that require comprehensive scoping. Thresholds have also been designed in order to differentiate between the types of assessments. For example, construction of facilities for the generation of electricity, where the output is more than 10 megawatts but less than 20 megawatts, are subject to a basic assessment, while any facility generating more than 20 megawatts of electricity is subject to a comprehensive scoping process.
New activities that are subject to basic assessments include the construction of sports facilities with a capacity of more than 8 000 people, the construction of a road wider than 4 metres or the transformation of undeveloped, vacant or derelict land in order to establish urban development. The last-mentioned of these activities includes residential, commercial, retail, institutional, educational and mixed-use development in a built-up area that is at least 50% abutted by urban development. Activities that fall exclusively within the ambit of "scoping" include the construction of petrol filling stations or any other facility for the underground storage of dangerous goods and the refining of gas, oil and petroleum products.
The regulations do allow an applicant to apply to the competent authority for an exemption from certain provisions of the regulations in respect of a specific activity. An exemption will only be granted by a competent authority if the rights and interests of other parties are not likely to be adversely affected.
The regulations also set out certain minimum requirements regarding interested and affected parties. The person conducting the public participation aspect of the application process must give notice to all interested and affected parties of any project or development identified in the regulations. In terms of the regulations, such persons include -
- the owners or occupiers of land adjacent to the project or development site;
- the municipal councillor of the ward in which the site is situated;
- any organisation of ratepayers that represents the community in the area in which the site is located;
- the municipality that has jurisdiction over the area in which the site is located; and
- the organ of state that has jurisdiction in respect of the activity that it is proposed be conducted on the site.
Additional obligations that are imposed upon the person interacting with interested and affected parties include primarily the following -
- advertisements must be placed in provincial and national newspapers if the activity will have an impact that extends beyond the boundaries of the metropolitan area in which the activity is undertaken;
- the applicant or environmental assessment practitioner must open and maintain a register that contains the names and addresses of the interested and affected parties who are entitled to comment on all written submissions made to the competent authority;
- the environmental assessment practitioner managing the application must ensure that all comments made by interested and affected parties are recorded in the reports that are submitted by any applicant, in terms of the regulations, to the competent authority.
The regulations will come into effect on 3 July 2006 except for those regulations relating to mining activities, which will only come into force at a date yet to be fixed. This delay is due to the required reforms needed to implement an effective assessment system in the mining sector.
In the interim, transitional arrangements are provided for in Chapter 9 of the regulations. Anything done or any authorisation, issued in terms of the previous regulations and which is in force when the new regulations take effect, will be regarded as being authorised in terms of the regulations. Any pending applications or appeals must still be dispensed with in terms of the previous regulations, as if they have not been repealed.
The provisions of the Act allow any person or group of persons to seek appropriate relief in respect of any breach or threatened breach of any statutory provision concerned with the protection of the environment or the use of natural resources. Therefore a person or a group of persons, in its own interest of or on behalf of another, in the public interest or merely in the interest of protecting the environment may bring a company or person to court, for not complying with any applicable environmental legislation.
A court has the discretionary power to enquire into and assess the monetary value of the loss or damage caused to the environment or the costs likely to be incurred in rehabilitating the environment. A court may order the transgressor to be liable to pay the reasonable costs incurred. These provisions of the Act will also apply to the regulations.
The liability of a person who does not comply with the Act or the regulations is severe. No person can commence with any activity listed in the regulations unless the competent authority has granted permission in respect of such an activity. It is an offence if a person proceeds with the activity without the required authorisation to do so. A person convicted of such an offence is liable to a fine not exceeding R5 million or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten years, or to both such fine and such imprisonment.
Any person who is or was a director of a company at the time of the commission by that company of an offence shall personally be guilty and liable on conviction to the penalty specified in the relevant law. The court may also declare any item that was used for the purpose of or in connection with the commission of the offence to be forfeited to the State. These penalty provisions apply to a body incorporated in terms of any law, including a partnership.
While the regulations provide some clarity on the types of activities that are to be regulated and the extent to which these activities are regulated, there seems to be a considerable overlap between the lists. Certain activities are included in both lists, such as mining exploration and reconnaissance and it will be up to the Department to explain which assessment process in the regulations, applies to which activity.
The regulations will have an extensive impact upon many businesses, especially those in the mining and property industries. The potential costs and the consequent liability, should a company fail to comply with the regulations, are extremely onerous.
The content of this article is intended to provide a general guide to the subject matter. Specialist advice should be sought about your specific circumstances.


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Off-duty action
Generally it's strongly discouraged for police to take action off-duty (in the next post there are some comments on the subject). But deep down the city seems to like the idea of off-duty cops being like plain-clothes cops working for free. It's one of the reason many police don't like to live in the city they work.
Outside of people pissing in my alley (which happened to be the only way I could enter my apartment), I rarely if ever took police action off-duty.
One time I parked outside Whitey's Newsstand on Broadway--I had a little side-business buying and selling vintage 1960s "adult" books (ie: smut paperbacks)--and a well-dressed hispanic guy came up to me offering to sell me weed. I think it was something about the TransAm I drove that made people think I was a good target.
I politely showed him my badge and gun and in no uncertain terms told him how that was very bad idea. But I didn't take any police action. I didn't want the hassle. But it sure would have been an easy lockup. He apologized and explained how he "didn't mean any disrespect."
And one time in Brooklyn, New York, I badged a bum harassing a female bartender. That is the type of situation you don't want to escalate, because I was unarmed and without any police power. But the bluff worked and he quickly left the bar.
But I think the highlight of my off-duty police action was taking a beer away from some crazy belligerent fat lady on the bus.
When I was about to get on the bus a lady got off and said, "Hallelujah! It's a zoo in there." The Number 10 bus often was. In the back of the bus, a woman was going on and on, shouting and yelling about everything in general and white people in particular. She would end a few comments by saying: "Bet that scared all you white people!"
She asked a lady she seemed to know for $2 but didn't get it. Then she popped a 40. I was dressed for court downtown. Without a word, I went up to her, showed my badge, took her bottle and deposited it outside the bus.
"I knew he was police!" she shouted, almost with glee.
I thought with the smug satisfaction that came from knowing she didn't have money to buy another: "Oh, no, you di'int!"
5 comments:
- Richard P. said...
St. Louis requires policy officers to live in the city limits.
- June 16, 2009 at 10:43 PM
- PCM said...
Boston and Chicago have residency requirements as well.
- June 16, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- Richard P. said...
Police! I wonder if they require policy officers too?
- June 16, 2009 at 10:51 PM
What is the reasoning behind residency requirements, and do they have the effect they are intended to have?
- June 17, 2009 at 10:31 PM
- PCM said...
There are a few reasons behind residency requirement.
Police-wise, there's the idea that police who live in the city understand the city and its residents a little better. Even though police tend to congregate in certain areas (think Jefferson Park in Chicago or Staten Island in NYC), I don't think it can hurt.
By no means do I think you need to live in the city to be a good police officer, but I do think that police officers who have never lived in the city are at a disadvantage.
And there is something a little strange and mercenary-like to tax people in the city to pay people from outside the city (who generally hate the city) to lock up people in the city.
The downside to a residency requirement is that the more you limit your pool of potential employees, the worse quality you're going to get. It's inevitable. The question is whether this trade off is worth it.
Policy-wise, and this applies to all city employees and not just police, there's the simple idea that if the city pays your salary, it wants your money--spending and real-estate tax in particular--to stay in the city.
Cities need a strong middle class and since the city is usually the biggest employers, it makes sense to keep these middle class employees in the city.
Needless to say, most employees hate the idea of being told where they can and can't live. Understandable, certainly. But for my tax dollars, residency requirements seem fair to me. Nobody is forcing you to work for the city.
And I generally think that if a city can get away with a residency requirement (and still get enough good applicants), it's good for the city.
- June 18, 2009 at 12:28 PM


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Dr. Nazilla Khanlou is the thesis supervisor or thesis committee member of the following graduate students:
Doctoral Supervision- In Progress
Attia Khan
Bio: Attia Khan, MBBS, MSPH, PhD (Candidate), is the recipient of the 2015-2016 LaMarsh Student Leadership Award. Attia is in her third year of doctoral studies in the Department of Health Policy and Equity, at the Faculty of Health at York University. Under Dr. Nazilla Khanlou's supervision her doctoral research examines the significance of resilience in promoting and sustaining mental health in first generation immigrant youth. As a LaMarsh Student Leader she will be engaging graduate and undergraduate students in a range of research focused activities including workshops, talks and seminars. Research topic: Resilience and mental health among immigrant youth.
Candice Christmas
Bio: Candice Christmas, MA, PhD (Candidate), is a doctoral student in Health Policy and Equity at York University, focusing on youth and mental health. She has a dual major DEC in psychology and philosophy from John Abbott College, a Minor in Political Science from McGill, a BA Honours in History and a Master of Arts in Health Geography from Queen's University. With 13 years of experience in project management of inter-disciplinary research in the private and public sectors, locally, regionally, provincially, nationally and internationally, Candice is an expert in knowledge translation and exchange. She has been a recipient of the Lillian Wright Maternal & Child Health Scholarship and the Penelope Jane Glasser Award. Research topic: Youth mental health and eating disorders.
Master Supervision- In Progress
Jennifer Arthur
Bio: Jennifer Arthur RN, BScN, graduated her Bachelor of Science in Nursing with Honours at York University in 2013. She is presently enrolled within the M.Sc. Nursing program in the Thesis stream at York University. She brings experience from a multitude of nursing settings including critical care, emergency, community care, youth justice and corrections. She has a desire for education, public policy and public safety, and is passionate about effecting change through advocacy and leadership. She plans on embarking research in the area of the social determinants of health and the impact on child development. Research topic: Youth mental health in corrections services.
Babitha Shanmuganandapala
Bio: Babitha Shanmuganandapala, RN, BSc, graduated from York University with Honours in 2014. She is in the Masters of Nursing program in the thesis stream at York University. She started in community nursing where she designed the Migrant Agricultural Workers Program, which aims to break down barriers to accessing healthcare by addressing the social determinants of health through health promotion initiatives, community capacity building and primary health care. She now works in the mental health field and will focus her thesis on immigrant and youth mental health. Research topic: Tamil-Canadian youth mental health.
Tanya Bostock
Program and year: MA, Health Policy and Equity - MRP Completed 2011
Committee members names: Nazilla Khanlou and Mary Wiktorowicz
Research Interests: Tanya's research interests include mental health policy, recovery as well as the broad determinants of health. Tanya is also interested in the role of interest groups in formulating mental health policy. Her MRP conducts a systematic literature review to reflect on the level of mental health policy change in Ontario since the 1980s, particularly to include the broader determinants of health which have been shown in research and government documents to encourage positive health outcomes.
Mary Smith
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Program and year: MScN,- MRP completed 2011
Supervisor: Dr. Nazilla Khanlou
Research interests: Mary's interests in research include the history and specialty of psychiatric mental health nursing. In addition, she is interested in the advancement of the Canadian role of the nurse practitioner in mental health. Her MRP offers a contemporary reflection of psychiatric mental health nursing in Canada in terms of history, gender, education and quality of nursing work life through an integrative review and synthesis and also won the Best Major Research Project award – June 2011.
Carina Zimenkov
Program and year: Master of Arts- Health Policy and Equity, 2012
Supervisors: Dr. Farah Ahmad, Dr. Nazilla Khanlou
Research interests: Carina's MRP explores whether the impending pan-Canadian electronic health record system can adequately protect the privacy of vulnerable patient groups such as the elderly and chronically ill. Furthermore, it assesses whether provincial privacy policy is able to sufficiently reflect these impending health information technology changes. Carina is currently employed within the Veteran's Centre at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Thus, her research interests have been fuelled by her firsthand experience with issues of privacy for elderly individuals living with chronic conditions. Please click here to read Carina's completed MRP.
A Pan-Canadian Electronic Health Record System: Privacy Implications for the Elderly and Chronically Ill
Emily Hostland
Program name and year: Master of Interdisciplinary Studies - Community Approaches to Collective Trauma - 2nd Year
Committee members names: Nazilla Khanlou, Susan McGrath and Michaela Hynie
Research interests: My research explores community approaches to collective trauma using a psychosocial framework. This research is interdisciplinary and informed by social work, psychology and peacebuilding disciplines. Qualitative research was conducted in Rwanda in 2011, specifically looking through the lens of service providers working at organizations in Kigali, Rwanda. This research explores the link between community responses to collective trauma with building peace at the community level.
Ruby Dhand
Program and Year: Ph.D. in Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University - 2nd year
Supervisor: Professor Roxanne Mykitiuk
Thesis Committee: Professor Aaron Dhir, Dr. Kwame McKenzie, Professor Nazilla Khanlou
Ruby Dhand has recently been appointed as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Thompson Rivers University. She obtained her LL.M from the University of Toronto in 2009 and completed the joint M.A./LL.B program through the Norman Patterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa Law School in 2007. She is nearing completion of her Ph.D. at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University. Ruby's research examines the intersecting inequities faced by ethno-racial people with mental health disabilities in the legal system. Through a qualitative methodology using interdisciplinary research, she has conducted extensive field-work with ethno-racial people with mental health disabilities, mental health lawyers, psychiatrists, service providers and government advisors/academics to develop a cultural analysis tool. Since there is little empirical data on this particular topic, Ruby's research can be used to understand how disparities of outcome for ethno-racial people with mental health disabilities interacting with Ontario's civil mental health laws can be better addressed. Ruby has been awarded the Social Science Research Doctoral Fellowship (SSHRC) to pursue her research.
Farah Islam
Program and year: Doctorate in Kinesiology and Health Science - 4th year
Committee members names: Nazilla Khanlou, Alison Macpherson, and Hala Tamim
Research interests: My research interests include: mental health, mental healthcare utilization, and mental health stigma in immigrant, ethnocultural, and racialized populations. My doctoral dissertation employs both quantitative epidemiology and mixed methods research to study the mental health and mental healthcare utilization of Canada's immigrant and South Asian populations.
Andrea Mazzocchi
Bio: My research interests include: mental health, mental health stigma, and access to mental health services for low income women in Canada. For my master's MRP, I will be looking at low-income women's access to health care resources from the asylum era to modern times. This will be engaged within the long-term health care context.


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Despite extensive search, fishermen still missing
By Monique Washington
Two men who reportedly went on a fishing trip last weekend are still missing despite the Coast Guard's search operation this past week.
According to a police report, Vernon Pemberton of New Road was last seen by members of his family Sunday, June 3, sometime after midday. He had indicated that he was going out to sea to fish with Hayden Langley of Buckleys. Neither have been seen since. On Tuesday, they were reported to the police as missing.
The Observer was informed that the two men were last seen on Motor Vessel V4-537-BW, which is owned by Pemberton.
"On Tuesday, the organization conducted a day-long search exercise that included three search operations: one south of Nevis and two near Redonda down to the St. Eustatius channel," read a police statement.
"The Coast Guard has also asked for assistance from within the region. As a result of that request, two fly-over searches were done by the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre based in Martinique. The neighbouring Dutch islands have also planned fly-over exercises for this week. Notification of the situation was sent to the Department of Maritime Affairs, as well. That entity has asked vessels passing through the identified areas to look out for debris, a submerged vessel or [people] in distress. If anything is found in relation to the case, they have been asked to report it immediately."
Police investigations into the matter continue.


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The talented twin sisters, Cheryl & Sherie at Merrymint Designs have created a lovely new invitation collection inspired by the timeless elegance of the Art Deco period. Here's what they have to say about the collection:
We've always been inspired by vintage design and the glamorous fashion of the 1920s. With the new Great Gatsby movie coming out this year, and the popularity of Downton Abbey, we wanted to create some wedding designs that would celebrate and commemorate the best parts of that time period!
See more of the gorgeous collection after the cut:
Thanks ladies! For more about Merrymint Designs, check out their WeddingInviteLove profile, or head straight to their website.
Which new design is your favorite? Let us know in the comments!


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Pre-diabetes, also commonly referred to as borderline diabetes, is a metabolic condition and growing global problem that is closely tied to obesity.
If undiagnosed or untreated, pre-diabetes almost always develops into type 2 diabetes; which whilst treatable is currently not fully reversible.
The increasing number of new cases of pre-diabetes presents a global concern as it carries large scale implications towards the future burden on healthcare.
A potential 670,000 New Zealanders have pre-diabetes. 18.6% of the population 15 years and over have pre-diabetes and the prevalence of diabetes is 7.0% (Coppell et al, 2013)


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Pieces of You is the second in the Shattered Hearts series, featuring Claire, the daughter of a rape victim who committed suicide when Claire was seven.
Claire is now a young adult trying to finish college, dealing with the heartbreak of giving her own child up for adoption, and trying to choose between the two men who love her. Chris is her ex-boyfriend and her child's father, a rock star who's trying to help her fight for an open adoption and secretly doing his best to get her back. Adam is her current boyfriend, a surfing competitor who has been essentially coerced into working for his father rather than taking a job nearer to Claire.
When Adam's work takes him out of town for several weeks, he can't stand the fact that he's leaving Claire alone in the same area as Chris. So he breaks up with her, in part to take the pressure off her, but ends up hurting her badly and driving her back into Chris's arms. Can he make things right with Claire? Or was she always meant to be with Chris all along? Can she figure out which guy she wants, convince her child's parents that she's stable enough to be a healthy presence in young Abigail's life, and get her life back on an even keel?
This is a deeply emotional book, full of tension and drama. The characters are engaging, and it is possible for the reader to root for either guy – possibly even both, at different times in the book. All of them have well thought-out backstories that give their emotional issues roots in past events, making them more sympathetic than pitiful.
Claire's grief and conflicts over giving up her daughter will wrench any parent's heart, and her own history adds a poignant touch to her feelings of guilt. The love scenes are passionate and intense (with both men), and the ending leaves the reader on a cliffhanger, waiting to see which, if either, she ends up choosing (presumably in the sequel).
The reader who has not yet read the first book in the series would be well-advised to do so before reading this one – there are a number of loose ends left over from the first book that may confuse the reader attempting to start in the middle. Depending on the reader's taste and perspective, also, the emotional tension that makes the book as intense as it is may end up being too much psychodrama for some.
The main characters are none of them terribly emotionally healthy, and often behave in annoyingly childish ways (understandable, given their pasts, but frustrating). I must admit that at points, I wanted to put on my best Oprah impression and hand out therapy sessions instead of cars: "YOU get a therapist! And YOU get a therapist! and YOU!"
This story is best enjoyed in its proper place in the series, by a reader who is looking for an intense and dramatic sort of romance, rather than a light and fun piece of mind-candy.
Reviewed by Catherine Langrehr for IndieReader


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John Wind
Assistant Professor of Theology, School of Humanities and Sciences
Dr. John Wind holds a Ph.D. in Missions and an Adv. M.Div. in Theology from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and a B.A. in Biblical Studies and Communications from Northwestern College. He served as a missionary in China with his family for eight years, and is a member o both the Evangelical Theological Society and the Evangelical Missiological Society. He is a professor of theology and worldview studies at Colorado Christian University.


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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The world's best table tennis players from 21 countries will compete in 86 divisions for $65,000 in prize money when the DeVos Place hosts the U.S. Open beginning Tuesday.
The participants will compete on 100 tables over five days, capped by the finals on Saturday, July 5. The winners in the men's and women's finals receive $7,000 each.
There are a variety of categories to watch besides the pros. There are doubles, ranging from juniors to over age 80 as well as wheelchair and specialty divisions such as hardbat (old-time paddles). There are also a number of strong young players. Including 13-year-old Kanak Jha, who is on the men's world championship team.
It is the third time the event has been held in Grand Rapids, the last coming in 2012. It also hosted in 2010.
"The challenge we have is the same challenge we had last time: getting people excited for what many know as ping pong," said Mike Guswiler, president of the West Michigan Sports Commission. "When you get into that building and see 100 tables set up, and see an Olympic sport with the very best of the sport, you are in awe. But it is getting people to that point."
The unofficial hosts and ambassadors for the event are Dell and Connie Sweeris, Grand Rapids residents and members of the USA Table Tennis Hall of Fame.
Two defending champions in the Men's Division are returning in 2014: top-seeded Keinath Thomas from Slovakia who won the 2011 and 2009 US Open, and two-time US Open defending champion (2013 and 2012) and second-seed Zhen Wang from Canada, where he is the top-rated player.
Organizers from the West Michigan Sports Commission expect the event to generate $750,000 in economic impact along with 1,500 hotel room nights booked and 1,000 spectators.
The sports commission said the total economic impact of hosting the event in Grand Rapids for three years is estimated to be about $2.25 million.


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Gabriel Jesus and Marcelo earn Brazil recalls
Marcelo and Gabriel Jesus have been handed recalls to the Brazil squad for next month's Brasil Global Tour double-header versus Saudi Arabia and Argentina.
The Real Madrid defender and the Manchester City forward were the two biggest omissions from last month's squad as coach Tite trialled a number of fresh faces for his first post-World Cup internationals.
Inter defender Miranda has also returned, as has Man City's Danilo. Goalkeeper Ederson is back, too, after missing last month's Brasil Global Tour wins over USA and El Salvador to witness the birth of his child.
Renato Augusto also comes back in after missing the September squad for personal reasons.
Watch #Brasil name their new squad - LIVE! https://t.co/xbUmZ3lGLq— Brasil Global Tour (@BGT_ENG) September 21, 2018
The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) had previously confirmed that, for these two matches, players involved in the Copa do Brasil final will not be eligible for selection, ruling out those from the current semi-finalists.
Flamengo duo Hugo and Lucas Paqueta, and Cruzeiro defender Dede, subsequently drop out.
Thiago Silva (PSG), Felipe (Porto), Flipe Luis (Atletico Madrid), Andreas Pereira (Manchester United) and Willian (Chelsea) were dropped.
Juventus' Douglas Costa is also missing, with Tite citing the player's recent indiscipline as the reason for him being cut.
More new faces, then, join another experimental squad as Tite trials new players ahead of next year's Copa America on home soil.
Olympic gold medalist Wallace has returned in midfield, while young Gremio goalkeeper Phelipe was handed his first ever call-up, as was Bordeaux defender Pablo.
Barcelona forward Malcom is another newcomer who received his first invitation to the senior squad.
Brazil meet Saudi Arabia at King Saud University in Riyadh on October 12 before meeting Argentina at King Abdullah Sports City in Jeddah on October 16.
Full Brazil squad
Goalkeepers: Alisson (Liverpool), Ederson (Man City), Phelipe (Gremio).
Centre-backs: Marquinhos (PSG), Miranda (Inter), Pablo (Bordeaux), Eder Militao (Porto).
Full-backs: Alex Sandro (Juventus), Danilo (Man City), Fabinho (Liverpool), Marcelo (Real Madrid).
Midfielders: Arthur (Barcelona), Casermiro (Real Madrid), Fred (Manchester United), Philippe Coutinho (Barcelona), Renato Augusto (Beijing Guoan), Wallace (Hannover).
Forwards: Everton (Gremio), Roberto Firmino (Liverpool), Gabriel Jesus (Man City), Malcom (Barcelona), Neymar (PSG), Richarlison (Everton).
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What if a buyer falls in love with the first house they see?
You make a list of houses to see, hoping one home will check off most of those boxes. Your agent brings you to the first home, you walk in and it just feels right. Does it check off every box? Maybe not. But you feel like this house could be your new home. You ask yourself and your agent, "Should I jump on it or wait and see all the other houses in my price range as well?"
For the record, without a doubt you must see more than one house before you decide on buying a home.
In fact, seeing several other houses is imperative. Buying a house is often the largest purchase you will make in your lifetime, so it's crucial to shop around and see all the options.
But the other side of this scenario is that sometimes you must trust your gut to win a house that you truly love. In fact, your gut and the feeling you have for a house is often going to be the deciding factor, and the best guide.
While being clear on what features you are looking for is important, it sometimes doesn't anticipate qualities of a house that you may find are invaluable to you once you experience them in a home.
I recently sold a home to a family who ended up buying the first house they saw. We did go out and see other properties, but none felt quite as right as that one.
Of course, it's always beneficial and important to see other options that top your list. But there will be that one where you walk in and feel happy, feel at ease, feel at home. This is where you may need to trust your gut and go with what feels right.
Alyssa Capone,
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Another royal baby is on its way. The Duchess of Sussex and her husband, Prince Harry 'have fallen' pregnant and the whole world is waiting for their first child to come out.
But to be honest, the beautiful phase of pregnancy that Meghan is living right now has its own constraints that many of us find them strange. Monarchs have the whole slew of protocols and traditions which Megan Markle is bounded to follow. Read on and find them out.
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Women in STEMM Australia is a non-profit organisation founded in 2014 which has grown into a nationally recognised association for women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM).
Our over-arching goal is to connect women in STEMM regardless of their discipline and profession. The momentum this has stimulated is exciting! Our website and social media profiles are our primary engagement platform and through these we connect with extraordinary people – hearing their stories, ideas and opinions, and networking like never before. Non-voting membership is free – register here – and our activities aim to benefit all women in STEMM.
Increased gender equity and diversity benefits everyone. If you identify as a woman in STEMM, or you are someone championing change in STEMM, then Women in STEMM Australia is for you. Men and women are welcome and encouraged to join – we welcome all. We adhere to the highest ethical standards and advocate increased diversity amongst women in STEMM. Our philosophy is "Pay It Forward".
Our blog aims to highlight and examine the issues, but importantly, to then extend the discussion to solutions. What can we do to address these issues as individuals, institutes and at a national or international level? How do we encourage girls to pursue STEMM? How do we retain our talented women in STEMM? How do we increase the number of women in STEMM leaders in senior positions? Articles that propose ideas are welcome. We are also interested in hearing career journeys, personal stories and perspectives, so if you are willing to share, contact us!
We also want to increase the visibility and profile of women in STEMM, so we regularly feature Australia's remarkable women in STEMM at all stages of their various careers and professions – be sure to visit STEMM Profiles.
Together, we can do amazing things. Women in STEMM Australia welcomes everyone to join this important discussion and learn more about the phenomenal women in STEMM Down Under!


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Hello all! I have neglected my beloved blog for a couple of months now, and I do apologize. I plan to do better with that in the future. More on that shortly. So! It's New Year's Eve. The Big One. The last hoorah, as it were. People everywhere are posting their year in review, and I am a total bandwagon-hopper, so here's mine. Enjoy!
For starters, in 2013, nobody died. Not in my family, at least. Last year my father lost his mother and his baby sister in the same damn year. It was pretty bad. Thankfully this year, we have not lost any close family members.
My weight loss efforts, on the other hand, suffered an untimely demise. Well, maybe not entirely. I have sort of continued to half-heartedly fight the battle of the bulge, but overall this year, I am up by 10 pounds since this time last year.
Ah, the children. Yes, of course. From the beginning of this blog, my kiddos and their progress in life have been a continuing topic of discussion, and they are actually doing pretty well. Daughter S. is taking college courses, and passing them, and although she is in a temporary lull with regard to having clarity on what she wants to do with her life and how she wants to do it, I think in general, she is in good shape. Daughter J. is in a period of great growth and striving toward what she wants. She has a job and a boyfriend and plans for her future. Next on her list: she wants to learn to drive, and she wants to get married. THAT particular goal of hers is going to require a lot of work and planning for her to be able to have independence, given her and her boyfriend's developmental limitations. Also a lot of therapy for ME, to be able to handle such an event.
The Boy deserves his own paragraph. After struggling his last few years in public school, we home-schooled last year, and this year we found him a small, private Christian school which uses a homeschool curriculum, and he seems to be growing and making progress and fitting in quite well. He still has difficulties expressing himself appropriately when he gets really mad, (and he often gets mad for the most incomprehensible of reasons) but when it comes to the expression part, who doesn't?! Anyway. His physical growth and changes in the past year are somewhat mind-blowing to me. He has outgrown his sisters, his feet are bigger than mine, and I feel pretty certain by this time next year he will be taller than me as well. NOT looking forward to that, I'll just be honest. He will be 13 in May. For now I will just enjoy not having any teenagers in the house! (The girls turned 20 on November 29.)
And where do we even begin with my own personal progress in 2013? It has been a year of stretching my horizons and trying new things. I took a solo vacation for the first time in my life, and traveled to Charleston, SC to spend a weekend with a bunch of people I didn't know, and it turned out AMAZING. Even before that, though, I did the unthinkable. I auditioned for community theater. I got up on a stage and sang for a bunch of people I didn't know, and just like the Charleston trip, it was an amazing thing for me. I was cast in the Ardmore Little Theatre production of Les Miserables and made so many new friends. It was literally a life-changing decision when I dug up from somewhere deep inside me the bravery to actually get up on that stage and try out.
If you have been reading me throughout this entire community theater journey, you will know that I also developed a major crush on someone from the theater, which followed me from June through December. Unfortunately, the person about whom I was obsessing did not think I was special in the same way that I thought he was special. Right about the time I got clear on that, he decided that one of my best friends was special in that way instead. And after watching me pine for this person for six months, his sudden attention to her made her decide she thought he was special in that way, too. That is one of the reasons I haven't written much here lately. On a scale of 1 to 10, this infatuation was a 15, so it has taken me some time to begin to heal from all of that. But I am, finally. I have had no other choice but to forgive, and my friend and I are still friends. Possibly better friends than before. At least, I hope so.
Before all of this romantic drama happened, the theater journey continued with a leading role in a play that was making its world debut on our stage, which was something I NEVER thought I could do. Wow. I never thought I could act, and it turns out, I am not too bad at it. It helps that the character I was playing was very close to my own personality, so I may not actually be as good an actress as I like to think, but we won't dwell on that. 🙂 The journey is scheduled to continue as, a week from tonight, I audition for the next ALT production, Young Frankenstein. I only hope for a chorus part in that one as well.
To wind up the year, I have been conducting a personal test in the last week or two. After all the drama with my friend and The Crush hit the fan, I deactivated my Facebook temporarily. As you will know if you have read me much, Facebook was one of my major outlets, the primary way I connect with people, but I decided it was best if I take a break. I had said I would probably reactivate it after the New Year, but we'll see.
This is getting long, so very briefly, my hopes for 2014: just happiness. Beyond that, I'm open.
My GOALS, on the other hand, are a whole other story. I want to renew my Weight Watchers efforts with enough dedication and determination that I will remain on the downward slide with regard to scale numbers, and be under 200lbs by this time next year. I want to steal one of my little sister's goals and make it a point to connect more with my family. I want to start saving for my Long Dreamed Of Trip to Alaska for my 45th birthday (which isn't until 2017!). And finally, I might just write a book. My poetry got a lot of attention in 2013, and I hope to draw on some connections I made from that, and maybe let it take me somewhere.
Above all, I am going to TRY to live in the moment. Wherever I am, I am going to be intensely focused on being there. Enjoying where I am, what I am doing, and WHO I am with. I am not going to be wishing I could be somewhere else or with someone else (read: a romantic relationship). I am going to focus on trying to be myself, love myself, and perhaps in 2014, finally grow up. The following are two quotes I want to try to live by in 2014:
If it's not challenging you, it's not changing you.
Life is a result of the choices you make. If you don't like your life, start making better choices.
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Run to God
And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and let him down with his bed through the tiles into the midst before Jesus. And when he saw their faith, he said, "Man, your sins are forgiven you." And the scribes and the Pharisees began to question, saying, "Who is this who speaks blasphemies? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts? Which is easier, to say, 'Your sins are forgiven you,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'? But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins"—he said to the man who was paralyzed—"I say to you, rise, pick up your bed and go home." And immediately he rose up before them and picked up what he had been lying on and went home, glorifying God. And amazement seized them all, and they glorified God and were filled with awe, saying, "We have seen extraordinary things today."
~Luke 5:18-26
Let me ask you… is it more impressive that Jesus forgave the man's sins or gave him the ability to walk? If you're a Christian, you know the "correct" answer is that he forgave the man's sins. However, the paralyzed man was brought to Jesus to be healed of his physical ailments and not to be forgiven of his sins. We ourselves would be upset if Jesus didn't heal our ability to walk. If Jesus only healed the man's legs, at first he would be ecstatic, but it would only take a month or two before he felt the same eternal longings he felt before, leading him to turn to something else to fill that emptiness.
We all have things we think we need more than Jesus: this is called idolatry. An idol is literally anything you worship other than God. Sometimes I believe that if only I had a husband, my life would be perfect. Obviously this is false, but there are times when I let that be the driving force in my life, and not Jesus. The second most important commandment God asks of us in Exodus 20 is to have no other God before him, yet we mess that up every day. God tells us not to have idols because he knew we will!
I once heard a sermon by the Austin Stone Church pastor Matt Carter that acknowledges we all struggle with idols. He says idols aren't things like working, money, or drinking -- those are all symptoms of something bigger. Instead, he believes there to be 4 main root idols in which all sins originate from: comfort, power, approval, and control. Essentially he's saying all things we long for fall into one of these 4 categories. When we crave Whataburger or an afternoon of binge-watching Netflix, we are longing for (1) comfort. When we get mad when our accomplishments aren't recognized at work/school, we are longing for (2) power. When we are upset when we aren't invited to a party we are longing for (3) approval. When we don't like deviating from our set schedule, we are longing for (4) control. There are many other ways in which idols rear their ugly heads in our lives, these are just some common examples.
I think recognizing them is the first step toward repentance. I personally struggle with letting the approval of others come before my desire for God's approval. And after a long day, I want to be comforted by being alone and watching "Friends" instead of resting in the presence of Jesus. Idols can even be good things, like exercising or saving money, but those things shouldn't be what we live for, God should be. God should always be first in our lives. Wherever you are today, run to Jesus. He may or may not fix your present circumstances, but he will fulfill the deepest longings of your soul.
Written by Alexa
The Challenge
Occasionally, I have stubbornly resisted doing or following…or even investigating a suggestion offered by someone whom I deeply respect. Such is the case with my husband's recommendation that I read the works of C.S. Lewis.
Even though I long ago read The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, since my husband and I married about 16 years ago, I've not been tempted by any other of the C.S. Lewis books hubby brought to our home. Lately, I've discovered that this was a mistake!
One of my husband's books is a collection of "short-novel-length" works entitled The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics. In it is The Great Divorce, an allegory examining the idea that no evil of the smallest amount can exist in Heaven.
Recently, The Great Divorce was mentioned at church (in a sermon, maybe), and it piqued my interest.
"Well! If TWO people are talking about it, perhaps I should at least skim it. "
I'm a very fast reader, so, I DID try to skim it. Wrong.
Another mistake I made while reading The Great Divorce was to read a bit each night after I went to bed. I kept falling asleep, and the crazy dream of the narrator was making little sense to me. However, after several nights of rereads, I finally understood the message.
One of Lewis' most interesting points in The Great Divorce is about the difference in the sizes of Heaven and Hell. The dreamer's heavenly Teacher tells him that Hell and all of its evil is "smaller than one atom" of Heaven. Such a comment set my brain whirring.
I thought about all sorts of earthly applications, including the idea of "small-minded" people. (That comparison did not work out for me, btw.) Finally, I came to some conclusions…and I'm still thinking about it, which was probably the author's intent for his readers.
Overall, Lewis believes that we cannot expect to get to Heaven with even the most miniscule remnant of evil within us.
Nonetheless, as Christians, we know that we are imperfect and sinful creatures.Therefore, we must have faith in and accept Christ as our Redeemer. He alone is capable of washing away all of our sinfulness.
HOWEVER, each of us is responsible for accepting Christ completely and letting Him direct our lives. In fact, Lewis talks about the essentiality of risking all we know and are comfortable with for the gift of Heaven.
Thus, if we are unwilling to accept Christ completely, perhaps our door to Heaven may be a bit more difficult to open than we have anticipated!
With this in mind, my next point to ponder is how I can improve my acceptance of Christ.
Plus, I may want to pay more attention to my husband's reading suggestions!
Written by Becky
Promises are fragile things. They are ephemeral ties that bind us, encouraging us to do exactly as our words have dictated. Inevitably, whether by choice or situation, those promises are sometimes broken. How many times have we in our day to day lives forgotten to live up to our word? I know I have made promises to those I love that I have unintentionally broken. It happens. We are human. Our words have so much meaning, but often, it is the actions that prove to mean the most.
This time of year always makes me think about why our promises matter. The Easter story, which tells of Jesus's death and resurrection, is both a story of sacrifice and promise. Jesus's sacrifice on the cross embodied God's covenant as a man with all people. A promise of life after death. Of the opportunity for us to redeem ourselves. Who hasn't needed that? A second chance, an opportunity for compassion. I can say, easily, that I require that almost every day.
When I think about my relationship with my faith at this time of year, I try to focus on how I can honor such a sacrifice. What can I do that would make such an act of love seem worthy? And this year my thoughts have turned to the people surrounding my life that need an equal measure of forgiveness and love. Because we try, as human beings, to give each other compassion and understanding, right? We need it so often ourselves, isn't it fair to offer it in equal measure?
But so often we don't always succeed.
That guy cut me off!
This person is totally weird, they are so different from me.
I don't agree with that point of view at all, they are wrong!
They have such different political views, they must be crazy!
I have seen it in my life. I have seen it in my social media feeds. I have witnessed this as I have grown up. Contention and anger because we are different. And here at last I am finally beginning to understand why this time of year is so crucial to christianity.
"Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you, always, to the very end of the age." (Matthew 28:18-20.)
It is a reminder that Jesus died for all people. For those who believe and those who do not. For every last soul on Earth. And if he can make such an all encompassing promise, how can we not offer one another the gift of compassion? Recognizing our strengths and our differences with tolerance and with love? To all nations and all peoples Jesus made this promise. So perhaps, with this reminder, we can make a promise to try to offer love instead of hate. Understanding, not anger. Forgiveness. And in doing so, perhaps become an embodiment of the Easter lesson that was taught to us with such sacrifice.
Written by Meredith
Trying on Shoes
Recently I've been struggling with how to better relate to someone I don't like. Seeing this person only occasionally, I've been able to deceive myself about the state of our relationship for some time and avoid owning up to my feelings. But as our paths have started intersecting more and more, I've slowly awakened to the depth of this struggle.
For a few weeks now I've been praying about this particular relationship. I was in conflict with myself, uncertain how to reconcile my feelings of uneasiness around this person with the call placed on me as a Christian to love my neighbor as myself. I somehow convinced myself that the uneasiness I feel around this person was only known to me, that it had no real bearing on how I treated this person. I was comfortably convicted, thinking recognition and prayers would be enough. But then I found out this person had questioned some of my actions that were the result of my uneasiness.
I'd like to say that I immediately saw the error of my ways and mended fences, but unfortunately nothing could be further from the truth. I was ashamed. Ashamed for having been found out. Ashamed for failing to live out my beliefs. With the shame came the painful realization that I couldn't keep brushing this off: I had to figure out how to love someone I cannot stand to be around.
How? That's the question plaguing me. I've had some intellectual answers, none of which sparked a change. Then last week I dropped in a Sunday school class. The thought-provoking question of the lesson was, What does love require of me? I was practically dumbstruck, the topic was so timely for me. The pastor giving the lesson said, "You will change someone by hurting them deeply or loving them profoundly." Wow.
As someone who's been hurt deeply, this message hit home. It changed how I'd been approaching this struggle and turned it into a matter of the heart rather than the head. I saw how I'd unintentionally reduced this person down to their actions and was disregarding their humanity. I got to thinking about this person's story, so much of which I do not know. My heart began to soften towards this person as I imagined myself walking through some of the challenges they've faced, wondering what I would have done if it had been me.
What I'm learning through this is that oftentimes relational problems cannot be solved with the head. Attempting to do so may help me in some small way, but it likely won't change the relationship much because the other person is left out of the process. If I want to be someone who loves profoundly, putting myself in the other person's shoes is a good place to start.
Written by Whitney
Out on a Limb
When I was a freshman in college, I felt very far from God. I had gone almost 7 months without going to church, without having any Christian friends, and without being a part of a ministry group, which was far from my Christian upbringing. I felt like I had forgotten about my relationship with God, or worse, that He had forgotten about me. Even though I was completely unaware of how lonely I was at the time, I knew something important was missing in my life. And the longer I went without God, the farther I got away from Him with my words and actions. Then one day a friend in my math class invited me to her Bible study.
I showed up to the study, weary of what would be said and fearful of feeling like an outsider. The speaker, Josh, set up an insane situation where he had us imagine being on a plane that was going down. He said, "You only have 1 more minute of life before the plane crashes. You are thinking about your life. Do you believe you are going to heaven?" And he went a step further: "If you think that you would go to heaven, raise your hand." Wow, this was not a good week to decide to come to this Bible study.
Since this was basically a room of believers, everyone in the room raised their hand. Except for me. I felt like I wasn't worthy of going to heaven since I had ignored God for so long. At that moment, envelopes containing a single piece of paper were handed out to each person. I heard a collective grumble as everyone else opened their envelopes, so I held back on opening mine. Every person's envelope said the word "Hell." Josh said this was not real, just a means of humbling us and a conversation starter. However, Josh looked confused and asked, "Wait… who got the one different envelope?" I read my piece of paper and it said "Heaven." I was the one person not to raise my hand and yet the one person whose paper said Heaven. I have never felt God speak to me more clearly than in that moment. He went out of his way to find the person furthest from Him and said, "I want you, and there's nothing you can do about it."
I think this is a lot like the story of Zacchaeus. He was an outcast because of his profession: tax collector. He was infamous for being a crook and stealing people's money. However, the Gospel of Luke describes Zacchaeus as being curious about Jesus. He went to town where Jesus was passing by, and when he couldn't get past the crowd, he climbed up a tree and literally went out on a limb for Jesus, just like me going out on a limb and showing up for the Bible study. And it paid off for Zacchaeus as well: Jesus looked directly at Zacchaeus, invited him to come down, and asked Zacchaeus to dine with him that evening. In return, Zacchaeus repented and repaid all the money he had stolen!
Luke 19:10 declares: "For the son of man came to seek and save the lost." The Bible doesn't say seek and save the perfect. And I think that's all of us out there. None of us has it all together—we all equally need Jesus today. Let's all go out on a limb for Jesus; you might just be surprised to see how He shows up.
Written by Alexa
Measuring Up
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
The 12:12 Project is sponsored by Katy First United Methodist Church.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
the 2-state solution
"Indeed, it seems that the western countries backing Israel and calling on Mahmoud Abbas to return to the negotiating table are also those turning a blind eye to the illegal arrests and torture. According to Wisam Ahmed, advocacy officer at Al-Haq – West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists – both PA and American officials have been notified about the widespread use of illegal political detention and torture by PA security, yet it has continued." (thanks Olivia)
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Presentation av Examensarbete C: Linear-scaling recursive expansion of the Fermi-Dirac operator
- Datum:
- Plats: Ångströmlaboratoriet 64119
- Föreläsare: Linnea Andersson
- Kontaktperson: Denis Gaidashev
- Seminarium
To assess the electronic structure of a large system of molecules calls for a method to efficiently evaluate the Fermi-Dirac matrix function. A recursive expansion resulting in an implicit expression which can be solved as a linear system of equations is explored and is demonstrated for the first time to achieve linear time complexity with the use of sparse matrix algebra. Two methods, linear conjugate gradient and Newton-Schulz it-eration, are investigated with regards to their performance in solving the linear system at every step in the recursive expansion at finite electronic temperature. At zero temperature the recursive expansion method is com-pared to the second-order spectral projection method, which is known to be one of the most efficient methods.


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Chamber Friends of Berlin
|Fan Club
|Chamber Friends of Berlin
|Uschi Behr, Monika Kerwin, Daniela Völker, Bob Kerwin
|Country based in:
|Beauty and the Beast
|External Links:
|Click here for related articles on Fanlore.
Chamber Friends of Berlin or "Chamber Friends" was a German Beauty and the Beast fan club. Like The Helpers' Network US, the club offered a weekly answering machine recorded that offered updates on events. The fan club also published a subscription-based bi-monthly newsletter, the Chamber Friends Newsletter. The club also published at least one German-language fanzine, Beneath the Serpentine.
From their flyer in Tunnelcon #1: "To be as active as possible in supporting BatB. To be an outlet and forum for fans wishing to express themselves through writing, artwork, music and video. To keep the dream and feeling portrayed in BatB alive - no matter what they throw at us! But most of all, to promote tolerance of, and friendship towards one another."


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Bergenia cordifolia Winterglow description
Dark pink flowers on upright stems in the spring and autumn.
Evergreen glossy leaves that turn red in colder weather.
A pollinator friendly plant including bees.
This is an early butterfly friendly plant.
How easy is it to grow:
Good for the front or middle of a border or in a Cottage Garden, or by a patio.
It is easy in most soils, including heavy or clay soils, provided it's not too wet, but there must be no Vine Weevil in your garden (see 'Care and maintenance' below).
Buy alpine plants with confidence, because we don't give you false information.
Common names: Elephant's Ears Vinterglöd and Elephant's Ears Winterglow and Elephant's Ears Winterglut.
Also known as: Bergenia cordifolia Winterglut and Bergenia cordifolia Vinterglöd
The best position in the garden:
Sun or semi shade or shade.
Is it useful as a ground cover plant?
Yes, it will fill a space at the front or middle of a flower bed.
What type of soil:
Any reasonable soil, also tolerates chalky soil and clay soil.
How much moisture:
Hardiness and, or, lifespan:
Care and maintenance:
When newly planted always keep it watered until the roots have grown down and it is able to find its own moisture.
It is susceptible to Vine Weevil which lay their eggs by the plant and these develop into white, banana shaped grubs that chomp the roots. Biological control is pretty good at controlling it.
Size of plant:
Height 40 cm.
Spread 50 cm.
Planting density – to calculate how many plants are required in a planting scheme:
Allow 4 plants per square metre.
Mail order perennials, alpines, rockery plants, herbs, wildflowers and ornamental grasses.


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It's that time of year again when we all start thinking about the festive season.The annual Ajax Christmas dinner will be held at Rhiwbina Recreational Club, Lon-Y-Dail, Cardiff CF14 6EA on Sunday 4th December 2011.
The format is for those who want to go straight to the event can do so for 12 noon, to sit down for the meal at 1pm. The Sunday ride will leave Maindy at 9:30am that day and end up at 13:30 hrs at the event.
Partners and children are encouraged to attend and can meet you there, or attend with you if you're not going on the ride.
The menu and prices are here –
- Soup, Turkey Dinner and Christmas pudding £10.
- Vegetarian Option. £10.
- Children's Chicken Nuggets and Chips £3.
- Children's portion soup, turkey dinner and ice cream. £3.
There will be bike storage on site.
Father Christmas will be attending and handing out gifts to children under 14 years of age.
Stand Up Bingo – Raffle – And a BAR! So what do you need to do now?
Please contact one of the ticket sellers for details. With name(s) of people attending, any special dietary requirements, menu required and ages of children 14 and under.
Don't forget your children's names so that Santa doesn't get it wrong when handing them their present!
How Do You Pay?
You can pay prior to the event or pay on the day. It's up to you. Please let us know as soon as possible if you are going.
Ticket sellers include:
- Tony Carroll on Wednesday nights at the trackside
- Bernard Brown Sunday ride
- Pat Jennings on Wednesday nights at the trackside
- Jack Gibson Students only
- Lisa Chichester Barry and Vale members
- Ceri Price Penarth and Vale members
Alternatively, please enter all your details into the comments box below and I will pass this on to Mark Austin.


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- Description
Linearly Polarized RFID Antenna, 880-960 Mhz, 3 dBiL, 3.1 x 4.3 inch, Fixed SMA-Female Connector.
Laird's RFID microsphere antenna gives clients an aesthetically pleasing product with wide angle coverage for any RFID application. Their surprisingly small size allow the antennas to be hidden almost anywhere, providing a nearly invisible solution for most applications. The field pattern is toroidal, providing omni-directional coverage in any plane around the long axis of the antenna, and two lobes in any plane parallel to the long axis.
• Wide frequency range 880-960MHz for FCC focused band
• 3 dBi Gain with Linear Polarization
• Small size - can be hidden almost anywhere
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SKU CAF95956 Mfg Part Number CAF95956 Manufacturer Laird Technologies Product Condition New Antenna Category 865-928 Mhz | Wide Band RFID Bands Single, Multi Polarity Linear Gain (dBic) 3 Horizontal/Azimuth Beamwidth 360 Connector Type Connector - Rear Connector SMA-Female Height/Length (inches) 4.3 Height/Length (mm) 109 Operating Temp (celsius) -30 to +70 Thickness/Diameter (inches) 0.01 Thickness/Diameter (mm) 2.5 Width (inches) 3.1 Width (mm) 79 Color White Mount Style Flush Includes Nylon Screws
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Arrest made in Westland Street Shooting
On August 22, 2015, at 2:07 pm, Hartford Police Department responded to 170 Westland Street on a report of shots fired. Upon arrival, HPD Officers spoke with a male victim. The victim stated to HPD Officers, that while he was in the rear lot of his residence, he was approached by a male who immediately became confrontational with the victim over a prior incident. During the confrontation, the male suspect reached behind his back making the victim believe he was reaching for a gun. The victim grabbed the male suspect in an attempt to restrain him and a physical altercation ensued. In the scuffle, the suspect dropped a small firearm. The two males separated and the suspect recovered the firearm. As the suspect was leaving, he turned and fired one gunshot in the victim's direction. The suspect left the scene in a silver Nissan Maxima, north on Barbour Street. Although projectile damage was sustained to a vehicle no one was struck by the gunfire and the victim sustained only an abrasion on his knee. The Hartford Shooting Task Force was notified and responded to the scene, where the incident was further investigated.
The Hartford Shooting Task Force and HPD Officers were able to locate and interview several witnesses. HPD Officers and Detectives developed a description for the suspect and a street name of "Dread." The male suspect was identified as Jervel Johnson, 24, of East Hartford, CT. With the identification of the suspect and sufficient probable cause developed, Hartford Shooting Task Force Detectives and officers from the East Hartford Police Department responded to the residence of Jervel Johnson, where Johnson was taken into custody and transported to the Hartford Police Booking facility for processing.
Arrested: Jervel Johnson, 24, of East Hartford, CT
1. Breach of Peace 2nd Degree
2. Carrying a Pistol without a Permit
3. Criminal Attempt Assault 1st Degree
4. Unlawful Discharge of a Firearm
5. Reckless Endangerment 1st Degree
6. Criminal Mischief 3rd Degree


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A day is not far when we will witness differences between the PPCC President and former CM Captain Amarinder Singh and party strategist Prashant Kishor.
Prediction came as a result of closed-door meeting between Kishor and former deputy Speaker Bir Devinder, which was not disclosed to Captain. As per the sources, Kishor had met the suspended leader where he promised him a more active role in the party. Also, without getting Captain's 'go-ahead' Kishor assured Bir that Amarinder would now bury the hatchet publicly and work in coordination with Bir Devinder.
Bir Devinder notified Kishor that the one-sided communication "is not good for the state Congress ahead of the elections". Bir Devinder is learnt to have told Kishor that since Amarinder "should not only be more communicative with his party men but also listen to their grievances and suggestions".
It is worth mentioning here that Bir was suspended from the primary membership of the party for his write up which accused Captain for his dictatorial and autocratic behavior. He had been vocal against Amarinder over his "inaccessibility", which was not acceptable by Captain.
After Bir, Jagmeet Brar second in a row
After Bir Devinder another senior party leader Jagmeet Brar is Captain's next target for his recent acts of "indiscipline" to the party high command.
"The case of action had been sent to the party's high command Sonia Gandhi, since Brar is a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC), the PPCC cannot technically act against him" said sources.
Captain upset over Kishor's move
Kishor met the suspended Bir Devinder without Captain's consent, which made Captain furious. Amarinder never failed calling the suspended Bir an outsider. "It is a clear message for all including you, Kishor. Internal matters are not to be discussed publicly." "Such indiscipline in the party would not be tolerated", Captain further added.
His same dictatorial behavior was seen when he became reluctant to hear any plea of the strategist, when Kishor tried to justify his move.
Congress will be ruined
It would not be wrong to predict Congress party downfall with such autocratic attitude of its chief, Captain Amarinder Singh. In a row, it would be defeated for the third time in Punjab because of simple reason and this is 'lack of unity' within party leaders.