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Her spine, ribs and kneecaps were broken, her legs dragged behind her and her nose was completely cut off.
There are no answers to how anyone could endure such inexplicable cruelty. But a dog named Khaleesi, found deformed and starving in Orlando, Florida, is proving to everyone that she's a survivor.
"She went through a lot of pain," Dr. Kerri Slomcenski, who is caring for Khaleesi at Hays Towne Veterinary Hospital, told WFLA, "and she had no one there to help her."
But the desolation Khaleesi, a 2-year-old pit bull mix, had suffered is coming to an end, as animal experts are fighting to give her the normal life she deserves.
Dr. Colby Burns of the North Tampa Veterinary Specialists performed reconstructive surgery for five hours so that Khaleesi could not only look normal again, but breathe easily.
"We're going to elevate some of this tissue and bring it around to the front to allow that to heal," the surgeon explained beforehand, "while actually creating two openings so she has a nasal passage."
Already looking like a new dog, Khaleesi is currently recovering from the surgery that gave her a new nose.
When she's ready, Khaleesi will undergo surgery on her legs to help her walk again. She has a long road ahead, but her friends and fans know that she was born a survivor.
"Her attitude is great, here energy level is great, she wants to be a great dog," Dr. Slomcenski told WFLA. "She wants to love people."
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The Dodo is joining the Huffington Post in celebrating Pit Bull Week, a week-long, community-driven effort to bust the myths and raise awareness about pit bulls, a maligned "breed" that often bears the brunt of dated, discriminatory legislation that can make it near impossible for these dogs to find a forever home.


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As an independent consultant my focus is on providing friendly and professional services to my clients. I cover a wide range of products (pretty much anything in a prepress department) and have 20 years of installs, which help me to be able to integrate proofing systems with almost anything I run into. Many of my services are used directly by manufacturers or graphic arts dealers to perform or troubleshoot installs.
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Law is very limited and it must side, as much as possible, on that of not overreaching. This is an appropriate ruling in my estimation. Obviously what a school can do is make it against their policy as well as an entire state school system. Legal adults must be treated as legal adults. Now, if the state wishes to change the status of consent to 21, well they might be successful in passing this law but then we enter into an even more ridiculous stage of self-righteous draconian babyboomerism and it is bad enough as it is.
Of course someone might introduce the 21 and over drinking restriction which I personally wish it, too, were struck down on the same basis because it should be. It is just as inconsistent.
Maybe so...
Not everything wrong should be illegal.
We're on the wrong track as a society if we think the abundance of laws can serve as a substitute for virtuous citizens.


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Road Race Club Championship 2016
The 2016 Club Championsip will cover 17 races throughout the year.
All runners completing 7 or more runs will receive a prize.
2016 Championship
Congratulations to Liam Hosier and Andrea Finnigan for winning this seasons Club Championships!
The final standings in the (handicapped) club championships for this season are
1. Mike Search 221
2. Liam Hosier 195
3. Wiz Bunce 126
4 = Andy Powell 104
4 = Richard Taylor 104
1. Andrea Finnigan 361
2. Nora Holford 157
3. Lucy Tapper-Howe 122
4. Stephanie Poulson 102
5. https://www.devonhealthandwellbeing.org.uk/antibiotics-online-uk/. Becky Shorrock 96
In addition, congratulations to Liam Hosier, Andy Powell, Michael Search, Stephanie Poulson, Andrea Finnigan, Sarah Scaife, Nora Holford, Lucy Tapper Howe, Mark Harkess and Rebecca Shorrock for completing 7 races! Great effort!
- The KRAC Road Race Championship this season will be the 17 events listed below.
- There will be separate Men's and Ladies competition.
- ALL of your placings count and there will be a handicap system used.
- Points in both Men's and Ladies races will be awarded as follows:
First KRAC finisher 25 points, 2nd 18 points, 3rd 15 points, 4th 12 points, 5th 10 points, 6th 8 points, 7th 6 points, 8th 4 points, 9th 2 points, and 1 point for 10th place and all other KRAC finishers.
- Club vests must be worn.
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|20th Mar
|Banbury 15
15 mile race set in the countryside around Banbury. This buy accutane online canada pharmacy race is not flat and can be challenging, but it is an ideal warm up race for London or another Spring marathon.
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|White Horse Half Marathon
The race is run on a level and attractive rural course through the country villages of the Vale of the White Horse. Starting from Grove the course follows quiet country lanes through the villages of Denchworth, Lyford and Charney Bassett.
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|Chalgrove 10k
10km race. The course is an undulating 10km single lap race through local villages and the beautiful surrounding South Oxfordshire countryside. The race is held the same day as the Chalgrove festival.
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Fast 5k course, slightly undulating on quiet country roads.
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Half Marathon distance, on roads, fields and trails. It happens on the day of the Village Fete, and is a lovely run around Otmoor – an area of fenland between Oxford and Bicester.
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12.12.2018 @ 09:00 - 17:30
AI Day 2018 brings together researchers, companies, students and the public sector involved in the fast-developing field of AI. The event promotes matchmaking, information sharing and cross-border collaboration.
The current, top-level AI research and education in Finland will be displayed during our whole-day event. Introducing the leading trends of AI research, the program includes four plenary sessions on data efficiency; privacy, security and fairness; understandability; and ethics of AI. Along with the keynote speakers, the event highlights a wide set of posters, demos and short presentations of the latest AI research in Finland.


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Sad as it is, sometimes Christians fall from their steadfastness. When this happens, what does it mean? Generally speaking, the loudest voices among Christian leaders would insist upon one of two realities: Either a person who falls loses their salvation, or they never had it to begin with. Popular as either of those ideas are, what does the Bible specifically say about this issue? Join us for a biblical examination of this concept.
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Tracy has been promoted. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Tracy McNamara. She has been promoted to Senior Loan Servicing Representative.
Tracy starting working here in October of 1998 as a teller. She has also worked in the Service Center and as a Mortgage Loan Processor.
To quote Nick Brooks, our VP of Lending. "Tracy your years of experience, dedication to your work and excellent member service are greatly appreciated. Keep up the GREAT work!!!!
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15 biggest disappointments of NFL Week 8
Week 8 started on Thursday night with a blowout win for the Baltimore Ravens.
Week 8 started on Thursday night with a blowout win for the Baltimore Ravens.
With all the excitement coming out of New Orleans Saints practice over the way Adrian Peterson looks, it's easy to forget that Peterson may not even be the team's starter.
With the New Orleans Saints having signed one of the best running backs in NFL history in Adrian Peterson, there have been some rumblings that Mark Ingram could be on the trading block.
Shortly after the Cleveland Browns selected Miami tight end David Njoku in the first-round of the 2017 NFL Draft, veteran Gary Barnidge tweeted at the newcomer, welcoming him to the family.
Mark Ingram may not have to sleep with one eye open after all.
Mark Ingram and several of his New Orleans Saints teammates were turned away from a nightclub in London on Monday night, and early indications were that the decision was racially motivated.
New Orleans Saints running back Mark Ingram and three of his teammates say they were denied entry into a nightclub in London Monday night after being told they were "too urban.
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Cedar Rapids and Estherville, Iowa
Hundreds of workers lost their jobs after the Rockwell-Goss printing press factory closed here in Cedar Rapids in 2001. The hulking empty shell sat idle on the outskirts of the city for four years.
But that was before wind power blew into town, bringing thousands of clean-tech manufacturing jobs to Iowa and the Midwest.
In many cases, the new industry is setting up shop in defunct heavy manufacturing plants, bringing new economic life and vitality to old settings.
Bob Loyd, who once oversaw crews manufacturing the last printing presses to leave the old Rockwell-Goss factory, now manages workers assembling the newest generation of giant wind turbines in the same building.
"We've all watched the demise of heavy manufacturing in the Midwest in recent years," says Mr. Loyd, plant manager at Clipper Turbine Works, a division of Clipper Windpower in Carpinteria, Calif.
"I wouldn't say it's all returned. But wind power is definitely helping bring some of that manufacturing muscle back."
(CNN) — Environmentalists are encouraged by President Barack Obama's focus this week on renewable energy and stricter emissions standards, although some economists are skeptical he can pull the country out of the recession while cleaning up the planet. Obama must strike a careful balance between stimulating the economy in the coming months and investing in the long-term future of the environment, said Raj Chetty, professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley.
If not, you're not alone. It is an unfathomable amount of trash, approximately the SIZE OF CANADA, made up of millions of tons of garbage, mostly plastic, floating in vortex currents in the western Pacific Ocean. It is estimated that it causes the death of about 1,000, ooo sea birds and 100,000 mammals each year. Scientists are also watching another garbage patch (albeit smaller) off of Antartica, and a recently discovered one off the coast of Chile.
Wonder we we don't hear about this in those TV commercials by the Plastics Council touting the wonders of plastic products…
After a couple of presidential terms, mismanagement in every area of policy — foreign, domestic, even extraterrestrial — starts to add up. When George W. Bush entered the White House in January 2001, he inherited peace and prosperity. The military, the Constitution and New Orleans were intact and the country had a budget surplus of $128 billion. Now he's about to dash out the door, leaving a large, unpaid bill for his successors to pay.
To get a sense of what kind of balance is due, Salon spoke to experts in seven different fields. Wherever possible, we have tried to express the damage done in concrete terms — sometimes in lives lost, but most often just in money spent and dollars owed. What follows is an incomplete inventory of eight years of mis- and malfeasance, but then a fuller accounting would run, um, somewhat longer than three pages.
Remember Lee Iacocca, the man who rescued Chrysler Corporation from its death throes? He's now 82 years old and has a new book, 'Where Have All The Leaders Gone?'.
Lee Iacocca Says:
'Am I the only guy in this country who's fed up with what's happening? Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder! We've got a gang of clueless bozos steering our ship of state right over a cliff, we've got corporate gangsters stealing us blind, and we can't even clean up after a hurricane much less build a hybrid car. But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, 'Stay the course.'
Stay the course? You've got to be kidding. This is America, not the damned, 'Titanic'. I'll give you a sound bite: 'Throw all the bums out!'
You might think I'm getting senile, that I've gone off my rocker, and maybe I have. But someone has to speak up. I hardly recognize this country anymore.
The most famous business leaders are not the innovators but the guys in handcuffs. While we're fiddling in Iraq , the Middle East is burning and nobody seems to know what to do. And the press is waving 'pom-poms' instead of asking hard questions. That's not the promise of the 'America' my parents and yours traveled across the ocean for. I've had enough. How about you?
I'll go a step further. You can't call yourself a patriot if you're not outraged. This is a fight I'm ready and willing to have. The Biggest 'C' is Crisis! (Iacocca elaborates on nine C's of leadership, with crisis being the first.)
Leaders are made, not born. Leadership is forged in times of crisis. It's easy to sit there with your feet up on the desk and talk theory. Or send someone else's kids off to war when you've never seen a battlefield yourself. It's another thing to lead when your world comes tumbling down.
On September 11, 2001, we needed a strong leader more than any other time in our history. We needed a steady hand to guide us out of the ashes. A hell of a mess, so here's where we stand.
We're immersed in a bloody war with no plan for winning and no plan for leaving.
We're running the biggest deficit in the history of the country.
We're losing the manufacturing edge to Asia,
while our once-great companies are getting slaughtered by health care costs.
Gas prices are skyrocketing, and nobody in power has a coherent energy policy.
Our schools are in trouble.
Our borders are like sieves.
The middle class is being squeezed every which way.
These are times that cry out for leadership
But when you look around, you've got to ask: 'Where have all the leaders gone?' Where are the curious, creative communicators? Where are the people of character, courage, conviction, omnipotence, and common sense?
I may be a sucker for alliteration, but I think you get the point.
Name me a leader who has a better idea for homeland security than making us take off our shoes in airports and throw away our shampoo?
We've spent billions of dollars building a huge new bureaucracy, and all we know how to do is react to things that have already happened.
Name me one leader who emerged from the crisis of Hurricane Katrina. Congress has yet to spend a single day evaluating the response to the hurricane or demanding accountability for the decisions that were made in the crucial hours after the storm.
Everyone's hunkering down, fingers crossed, hoping it doesn't happen again. Now, that's just crazy. Storms happen. Deal with it. Make a plan. Figure out what you're going to do the next time.
Name me an industry leader who is thinking creatively about how we can restore our competitive edge in manufacturing. Who would have believed that there could ever be a time when 'The Big Three' referred to Japanese car companies? How did this happen, and more important, what are we going to do about it?
Name me a government leader who can articulate a plan for paying down the debt, or solving the energy crisis, or managing the health care problem. The silence is deafening. But these are the crises that are eating away at our country and milking the middle class dry.
I have news for the gang in Congress. We didn't elect you to sit on your asses and do nothing and remain silent while our democracy is being hijacked and our greatness is being replaced with mediocrity. What is everybody so afraid of?
That some bonehead on Fox News will call them a name? Give me a break. Why don't you guys show some spine for a change?
Had Enough? Hey, I'm not trying to be the voice of gloom and doom here. I'm trying to light a fire. I'm speaking out because I have hope – I believe in America. In my lifetime, I've had the privilege of living through some of America 's greatest moments. I've also experienced some of our worst crises: The 'Great Depression,' 'World War II,' the 'Korean War,' the 'Kennedy Assassination,' the 'Vietnam War,' the 1970's oil crisis, and the struggles of recent years culminating with 9/11.
If I've learned one thing, it's this: 'You don't get anywhere by standing on the sidelines waiting for somebody else to take action. Whether it's building a better car or building a better future for our children, we all have a role to play. That's the challenge I'm raising in this book. It's a "Call to Action" for people who, like me, believe in America'. It's not too late, but it's getting pretty close. So let's shake off the crap and go to work. Let's tell 'em all we've had 'enough.'
Make your own contribution by sending this to everyone you know and care about. It's our country, folks, and it's our future. Our future is at stake!!
TVA: Waste pond in Alabama ruptures
STEVENSON, Ala. (AP) — A waste pond at a coal-burning power plant in northeast Alabama ruptured early Friday, but the spill was quickly contained, utility officials said.
The spill, about 30 miles southwest of Chattanooga, Tenn., was the second rupture at a Tennessee Valley Authority facility in recent weeks. In late December, a dike burst at a plant near Kingston, Tenn., releasing more than 1 billion gallons of toxic-laden ash into a neighborhood.
The leak was discovered at about 6 a.m. Friday at the plant near Stevenson, said TVA spokesman John Moulton. Most of the material from the leak flowed into a settling pond at the plant site, but some spilled into nearby Widows Creek, he said.


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Reality star Spencer Pratt has reacted to his wife's marathon plastic surgery session. The most amazing part of this is finally he scores brownie points for not looking like a total a**hole. Pratt gave his reaction to People magazine in the article on news stands he says
Anytime I hinted that it might be a little much or if I just asked if she was sure, I even felt like I was crossing lines, "I'm not in charge of what she does with any part of her body. I'm her husband – not her owner."
"But everyone sees themselves differently when they look in the mirror," he says. "Nobody truly understands how she feels except her. I may not be okay with things, but it's not my call."
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This week on Episode 46 of the Knockahoma Nation Atlanta Braves Podcast, the boys are without any guests for the first time in a few weeks. Translation - They're left to their own devices.
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adaseb wrote:I love you charts es/pip
Please keep posting them.
If you post, i will post mine also.
i will start posting some charts again.
i am mostly trading longer time frame stuff on the zl/mz stuff, and scalping the euro off the m1-m5. Using the principles i showed in the above charts--- s/r, s/d zones and zl's.
i am by no means recommending anyone to do this --its just what i am doing
when i say scalping i mean scalping---lots of trades.
initial 10 pip stops and then adjusting based on PA
started at 1% risk per 10 pip currently trading 3% per 10 pip and getting ready to move to 4% and stay there
taking every trade that i can net 4 pips on
trades normally are 4-15 pip scalps, until i see something that i like and i
may hold for a m15- h1 target
lots of small losers and b/e
i dont have a goal, but would like to think i can average 30 net pips a day at that r/r
have a slightly better commish rate than advertised
using an ecn so i can bid and offer
when i say scalping the m1-m5 i still know where i am at through the h1 time frame as far as s/r and PA
1. i like scalping
2. if the s**t hits the fan with the 10-1 leverage i will just take this to the cme currency futures( may move over there anyway)----better commish initially 3.3-3.80 per round turn and good leverage 500margin at 12.50 per tick
3. also very liquid usually 200 lots (at 12.50 per tick) on the inside levels
4. also can look into leasing a cme seat and paying very little in commish
5. i can det the time i want to trade ie London and Frankfurt open and us open---- generally 145 am -5 am and 8 am to 11am eastern. hit it hard when its moving and then be done. the hrs i was spending trading was killing me at 16+ hrs a day
6. if i move to the cme then i will also scalp the pound, which on the cme has only a 1pip spread and still good liquidity as well
but when i have time i will post what i see on zl/mz
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As DNA reported a few days ago, there has been a very troubling uptick in rapes in Greenpoint. Reports of assaults in the neighborhood were up 62% last year.
Police Captain Peter Rose got himself in a lot of trouble after the article ran by saying he wasn't "too worried" since most of the rapes weren't committed by strangers:
"Every rape should be investigated. I wish we could do more," Captain Peter Rose, head of the 94th Precinct, told DNAinfo New York.
"It really becomes a balancing act for the investigators. Some of them were Tinder, some of them were hookup sites, some of theme were actually coworkers. It's not a trend that we're too worried about because out of 13 [sex attacks], only two were true stranger rapes," he explained.
Following the much deserved criticism, he has since issued an apology:
My sincerest apologies for the comments I've made. pic.twitter.com/TL4yC8JChq
— NYPD 94th Precinct (@NYPD94Pct) January 9, 2017


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Signs & Symptoms of Neuropathy
Neuropathy is a serious complication of diabetes. It is thought that prolonged exposure to high levels of blood glucose (blood sugar) damages the nerves in people with diabetes. Damage to blood vessels caused by diabetes means that the nerves do not get enough oxygen and nutrients. Other factors, like smoking, can increase your risk of developing neuropathy.
The most common type of neuropathy seen in diabetic patients is called Peripheral Neuropathy which causes pain or loss of feeling in the toes, feet, legs, hands, and arms.
Symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy include the following:
Symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy include the following:
- Tingling of the lower extremities and feet
- Numbness (severe or long term numbness can be permanent)
- Burning (Especially in the evening)
- Pain
- Sharp, jabbing or electric like pain in your feet
- Lack of coordination
- Muscle weakness or paralysis if motor nerves are affected
- Foot or ankle pain
- Foot or leg swelling
- Indigestion, nausea, vomiting
- Diarrhea or constipation
- Problems with urination
- Weakness


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I have to confess, as much I would love an Apple watch, let's face it, I am already addicted to my phone. If someone stole it, I'd probably break out in hives in ten seconds (on the longer side) so I do not need it attached to my wrist (it's already attached to my hip). But I do need a watch so I am not late for everything. Something about having kids makes you appreciate the value of time- yours and others, and being late is no longer an option so living without a watch is not one either.
Jord Watches was kind enough to let me hand-pick my favorite watch from their gorgeous collection of wooden watches. I chose a women's watch in walnut with rose gold details; the Cassia. To say I love it is an understatement. The color and style of this watch is unique, and feminine. It has a slightly oversized face that pairs well with a fun arm party, and the rose gold is such warm color that it makes a beautiful statement on its own as well. I've been wearing it with everything since I got it. (See above looks here.)
I love these timepieces for a holiday gifting. A lot of people do not wear watches anymore, but there is something charming about putting down your phone and using your watch to the tell the time. Stop the presses, watches are still a thing…For women, there are a ton to choose from ranging from a subtle, simple maple watch to a one with a turquoise face for the girl that wants to make a little statement. You can see all of them here, but I've linked my personal favorites below.
For the men in your life, I have my favorites and I've checked in with a few guys I know, with discerning taste, to get their take on these and find out which ones they love. And, no surprise, they loved them all. I did hear a number of guys say they would never wear a black watch (never say never). When they saw my favorite picks (all black, minus one), they were impressed. These watches are masculine, cool and look good with everything. A lot of people associate silver and gold bands with high-end time pieces, but the black wooden watch is effortlessly stylish and the perfect thing to get the guy who has everything. My top picks are below, but you can see the whole collection here.
I've picked out my top three favorites for men and women, and psst, you all get 25% off these watches. Click HERE to redeem your code. Happy Holidays!
Top Women's Picks
Top Men's Picks
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That's a pretty big order for a Gramma to produce, so I guess it's a good thing I'm staying near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. I picked up Robyn and Avery at the Gulfport/Biloxi airport last night in the middle of a torrential downpour. We made it back to the rig in the rain, had something to eat, and then Avery about passed out from exhaustion. It had been a big, long day for a four year old. Two different plane rides, and then a drive in the dark to Gramma's house.
Both Avery and Emma are early risers, so we were off before 8:00 this morning to hike the rather soggy Dee's Trail. One of us was lucky enough not to get our shoes wet after the 2.5" of rain yesterday.
After going out to lunch with the rest of the volunteers for a shrimp po'boy (which was Robyn's request), we headed for the Biloxi beaches so I could grant Avery her wish.
I got to show her the sea, and her mother…
got to help her build a sandcastle.
Avery is one of those children that really gets into her 'work'. She doesn't care how down and dirty she gets. My kind of girl!
When she was only 15 months old, her mother referred to her as a Relocation Specialist. She would move dirt, rocks, sticks, etc., from one place to another without abandon. She hasn't given up that hobby. There was a stiff chilly wind blowing, but Avery felt compelled to do her best to relocate as much sand as possible.
We postponed our hotdog cookout until tomorrow hoping for less wind and warmer temperatures. What a joy it was this evening to listen to the two of them taking a shower together in the RV. And what a shock it was for them to step out of the shower into the chilly air whisking past them up and out the ceiling fan that is turned on during showers to help remove the moisture in the rig from the hot showers. Ha, ha!
'Emma the Gog' is doing a pretty good job of behaving herself, and little Avery is doing a pretty good job of trying to tease her. It's about par for two four year olds…
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Swiss Government Issues Bill of Rights for Plants
Store Wars!
Revolution is in the air, as the Swiss Government's Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology concludes that plants have rights, and we have to treat them appropriately. A majority of the panel concluded that "living organisms should be considered morally for their own sake because they are alive." The Weekly Standard, which is appalled, gives an example of how a farmer mowing his field is OK, but if he carelessly decapitates flowers while walking home, that is immoral. It suggests that "The animal rights movement grew out of the same poisonous soil." Patrick Metzger at Green Daily suggests that "this concept is a little extreme even for the most committed treehugger."
Having scanned the report, I am not so sure that it is that far off base. It isn't just Julia Butterfly Hill who has fought for the rights of trees, and there are many who fall in love with their garden and protect their tomatoes like their pets, and give them the proper reverence when they are eaten. They don't pick them and throw them against the wall.
Millions of Jains refuse any food obtained with unnecessary cruelty, and many will not eat root vegetables because it kills the plant; it is not like this is a new idea.
They are not, like the Weekly Standard suggests, writing a vegetable Bill of Rights, they are only saying that all living things should be treated with respect. How can one argue with that? Download the PDF report here.


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I have read extensively. Worked in numerous jobs. Graduated from university and, met a whole range of wonderful people. My purpose and sense of knowing, was always to help others to improve their lives, and this is something I do from a very early age. The last five years of my life have been fascinating, having gained the insights and knowledge which allow me to make a real difference in people's lives with very effective and fast methods.
Whether it is depression, counselling, heartache or any other existential dilemma we all have at some point in our life, I have an incredible rate of success in dealing with these matters. I also help others to see that they are leaders with enough ability, intuition and knowledge to take control of their destinies and have a peaceful and successful life.
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Christmas Cards
You can buy them early in the shop and you have them in all shapes and sizes, the Christmas cards! Today you have much more choice about the way you sent your Christmas card, you can get them still, as always, send by mail, with its Christmas stamps. You can make them yourself, and you can also own designs, with a nice picture of their own design. You can also send via e-mail or you can make them online and order and that they are sent, you try to have no more trouble by the company. But what is the best?
Do you have a busy job and keep it Christmas cards, then you can go for the best digital cards, you can design them yourself and write, and you do not suffer from stamps and envelopes!
Are you creative, it's always nice to make your own Christmas cards this can be at home with your own equipment, but you can also use the internet card designs, you get them sent to your home and you can write them yourself and send!
Or are you not of the cards, but you would be happy to send your friends a nice Christmas wish? You can always send a nice message via e-mail!


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Proverbs 18 Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
18 He who separates himself indulges his desires
2 A fool takes no pleasure in trying to understand;
3 When a wicked person comes, contempt comes too,
4 The words of a man's mouth are deep water,
5 It is not good to be partial to the guilty
6 A fool's words get him into fights;
9 Whoever is lazy in doing his work
10 The name of Adonai is a strong tower;
12 Before being ruined, a person's heart is proud;
13 To answer someone before hearing him out
14 A person's spirit can sustain him when ill,
15 The mind of a person with discernment gets knowledge,
16 A person's gift clears his way
17 The first to state his case seems right,
19 It is harder to win an offended brother than a strong city;
20 A person's belly will be filled with the fruit of his mouth;
22 He who finds a wife finds a great good;
23 The poor man speaks beseechingly,
24 Some "friends" pretend to be friends,
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The Bear FlagSonoma, city park plaza Map
The original Bear Flag consisted of a 'crudely drawn bear, and a star drawn on unbleached cotton with blackberry juice along with the words, "California Republic." A piece of red flannel was sewn onto the bottom to produce a red stripe. The whole flag was about three by five feet. It flew over Sonoma for nearly a month until it was replaced on July 9, 1846 by the Stars and Stripes. Reference: Additional information is available under "Bear Flag Revolt".


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Innovation with Earl Howe and George Freeman MP
2020health Expert Breakfast Roundtable on Innovation with Earl Howe and George Freeman
2020health roundtable discussion on Innovation with Earl Howe and George Freeman.
- Date
- February 8, 20112011-02-08T08:30:00 - December 8, 2010 2010-12-08T10:00:00
- Time
- Location
- Westminster, London
1. Earl Howe, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
2. George Freeman MP
3. Mark Lloyd Davies, Head of Government Affairs & Communications, Janssen
4. Nick Bruce, Customer Access Director, Pfizer
5. Miles Ayling, Director of Innovation and Service Improvement, Department of Health
6. Kate Eden, Director of Market Access and Public Affairs, Shire
7. Judy Britton, Deputy Director, Government Office for Science
8. Steve Bates, Senior Director of Government Affairs & Market Access, Genzyme
9. Mark Wilkinson, Director of Life Sciences Innovation, NHS North West SHA
10. Dr Panos Kanavos, Senior Lecturer in International Health Policy and Head, Medical Technology Research Group, LSE
11. Professor David Taylor, Professor of Pharmaceutical and Public Health Policy, London School of Pharmacy
12. Katy Peters, Head of Pricing, Prescription and Supply Team, Department of Health
13. Michael Garrison, Head of Business Development, Health Enterprise East
14. Julia Manning, Chief Executive, 2020health
Good innovation background
- The NHS has a worldwide reputation for innovation and R&D
- Advances in technology have driven improvements in patient care
- There is no shortage of intelligent people with good ideas
- Example of Royal Brompton Hospital which is collaborating with PCTs to develop a pathway for children dependent on ventilation, to get them out of the intensive care unit and back home
Improve communication of ideas and best practice across the NHS
- Innovation needs to be both invention and adoption of good practice, new technologies and new medicines
- Need to find new ways of spreading new ideas at scale
Significant challenge ahead
- Challenges of rising demand, ageing society, rising public expectations
- Without significant innovation we will see the costs rising faster in the NHS than in the rest of society
New NHS landscape and government localism agenda
- As the landscape shifts, so too will the role of the Department of Health
- The uptake of innovation will be less about mandating from the centre, and more about creating a culture of innovation and empowering people to innovate
- The Big Society gives us the opportunity to enhance innovation at the front line
- The conditions need to be propitious to allow research and innovation to take place
Government encouragement of innovation
- £20m available through regional innovation funds, with high interest - 10x more applications than funding available
- £2m prize money available to reward ideas that tackle challenging areas of healthcare
- Legal duty for innovation – currently residing with SHAs, but will move with new landscape
- NHS Innovation Expo – the largest event of its type in Europe. Opportunity for those working within the health services to see innovations that are deliverable now, and hopefully to copy these ideas!
Life Sciences
- Life sciences research makes a large contribution to both our economy and to our health services
- The Academy of Medical Sciences states that the current regulation is too complex. The Government agree with the need to streamline and coordinate regulation and governance, and are considering recommendations from the report
- Patient access to drugs – Mike Richards' review looked at international variations in medicines usage. Showed that in the UK we have a mixed usage – high usage includes lipid regulation drugs, but low usage on the newer cancer drugs
- Intended to give clinicians the confidence that the medicines they are prescribing provide value for money, so that prescribing decisions can be based on clinical need alone
- NICE to be expanded into social care, and with increased focus on developing quality standards
- In relation to medical devices and diagnostics, support iTAPP, which is repositioned to the heart of QIPP
Changing the culture
- It isn't possible to legislate for a culture of innovation. Innovation is people under pressure trying to solve problems. People have to feel responsible for innovation and able to realise the benefits – this doesn't work currently in the NHS
- Many of those in the NHS do not like thinking in terms of markets, there is a need to encourage a shift in mindset
- We need a stronger culture of entrepreneurialism in the NHS
- Factors which should help change the culture: outcomes framework, financial incentives, patient power, holding the health service to account
- Need to get the macroeconomic rules right, and let the clinicians who are enthusiastic go ahead with innovation
Spreading current technologies
- Not everyone is an innovator, but need to get other trusts to take up good ideas
- Need uptake of technologies which are already available
- Want uptake of innovations to happen quickly, not everyone reinventing processes
- Benchmarking should increase the pressure to encourage trusts to take things up quickly
Levers for change
- We are losing some of the current levers for change e.g. targets and some additional money for QUOF.
- To replace these we will need new levers – benchmarking, with comparable information on performance should be one
- Need to improve on current benchmarking e.g. current benchmarking reports do not name individual PCTs
- Need to free up capacity of clinicians to innovate – many currently don't have time or energy
- Need incentives and rewards for the individual to encourage innovation
Nationalism vs. Localism
- Currently in the NHS, have to sell to the top before a product is used locally
- In other countries can make deals more locally
- Worry for pharmaceutical companies that new scheme will have no obvious incentive for drug uptake – NICE will no longer be able to decree that a medicine should be offered country-wide
Balancing economic policy and health policy
- NHS has not historically seen itself as a driver of economic growth, but it should be
- The private patient income cap has previously discouraged the NHS from behaving economically
- We need to exploit the resource in terms of expertise which we have in the NHS – many developing countries would like to partner with us and benefit from our expertise
- GPs as small businesses are already entrepreneurial
- The old PPRS was explicitly about balancing health and industry policies, and any new system needs to do this better
Current DH innovation agenda
- Moving from Research Assessment Exercise to Research Excellence Framework
- Patent box
- R&D tax credits
- NHS as a showcase for British industry
- Skills needed for companies – lab skills as well as business skills for small companies
- Small Business Innovation Research programmes – providing capital for early stage innovative thinking
The pharmaceutical industry in the UK
- UK has a well structured healthcare system
- NICE assessments are useful for pharma companies, to study the value proposition of drug
- Whether technology works in the NHS is a good test for how it will do elsewhere
- An additional benefit is that the UK government very approachable to industry
- Worry of changes causing loss of speed for drug uptake
- There are benefits to UK economy of being a launch market for pharmaceuticals
- Message that UK is a good place to launch drugs not getting back to home headquarters of multinational companies.
Benefits and drawbacks of Value-based pricing
- NICE will have a role in evaluating drugs
- Different philosophy from PPRS
- Want to move to a system that is much more predictable
- There is current need for better incentives for innovative medicines
- There is a case for paying higher prices for medicines if there is a breakthrough
- VBP must still bring together health policy and industrial policy
- Need to be careful of making generalisations about different types of drug or different sectors of the population
Definition of Value
- NICE is currently very focussed on maximising health gain
- We also need to consider value to society – tackling health inequalities, supporting lower ends of society. These additional values could be incorporated into the ICER and the QALY
Additional questions to consider in relation to VBP
- How strong is the evidence that prices set for medicines determine pharmaceutical investment in a country?
- If we change how we price medicines, will we be referenced on price as widely? – is it because we have free pricing?
Earl Howe
Earl Howe has been Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Department of Health since May 2010.
Between 1997 and 2010 he was opposition spokesman for Health and Social Services in the House of Lords. He is an elected hereditary peer under the provisions of the House of Lords Act 1999. Apart from his frontbench responsibilities, Earl Howe has previously been a member of the all-party groups on penal affairs, abuse investigations, pharmaceuticals, adoption, mental health and epilepsy.


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Best of luck to the Irish Power Soccer Team
21st June 2017
Best of luck to two of our Leaders, Aoife McNicholl and Emer O'Sullivan, and the Irish Power Soccer team who are representing Ireland in the Power Soccer World Cup!! They are flying out on 1st July to Florida. Wishing the team all the best!!


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You shouldn't treat fitness as a distant goal on a pedestal. You don't need to wait to get fit. Exercise doesn't have to disrupt your life, either. You can reach your fitness goals with only some of the ideas in this article.
If you want to increase your muscle quickly, you need to ramp up the weight you use in your resistance exercises. This is because you will only build muscle when you experience a level of resistance that is new to your muscles. Repeating the same amount of weight over and over, will give your muscles more endurance, but it won't build new mass.
Here is a fitness tip! If you experience post-workout fatigue, try to avoid taking painkillers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen. While these drugs do well for problems like inflammation, they are not very effective after a workout. In fact, some experts warn that using these drugs can actually hinder muscle development. If possible, try and stick to a hot shower and a good stretch to ease your soreness!
If your goal is to become more physically fit, but don't know where to start, try meeting with a personal trainer. Good trainers know how to get you started on activities you will enjoy, how to keep you motivated, and get you to the next fitness level, injury free.
Increase the effectiveness of your walking workout. Bend your elbows at a 90 degree angle and pump your arms with every step you take. This encourages you to walk faster, increases your heart rate, and can burn 15% more calories than if you keep your arms by your side. Try to walk for at least 30 minutes a day, and you will see the results in no time.
This article will give you some great ideas on how you can be a healthier and happier you. Incorporating new fitness ideas, even if you have an established workout routine, can improve your results. The end result is important, of course, but there's no one set way you have to achieve that result, so keep introducing new things.Copyright 2016 , All rights Reserved.


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Scottish primary care physician and author of The Great Cholesterol Con Dr. Macolm Kendrick began his blog post yesterday with these words:
I thought I should tell you that I am about to be deleted from Wikipedia. Someone sent me a message to this effect. It seems that someone from Manchester entitled User:Skeptic from Britain has decided that I am a quack and my presence should be removed from the historical record.
Although I don't agree with Kendrick's statin denialism I do find him an informative, entertaining and different voice in the field of atherogenesis and it didn't seem right that he should be deleted from Wikipedia.
Apparently, articles on Wikipedia can be proposed for deletion and at Wikipedia: Articles for deletion/Malcolm Kendrick there is an ongoing battle between the forces fighting for deletion of kendrick those fighting for maintenance of his Wikipedia entry.
This wikipedia comment is what initiated the deletion proposition:
Malcolm Kendrick is a fringe figure who agues(sic) against the lipid hypothesis. He denies that blood cholesterol levels are responsible for heart disease and in opposition to the medical community advocates a high-fat high-cholesterol diet as healthy. Problem is there is a lack of reliable sources that discuss his ideas. His book The Great Cholesterol Con was not reviewed in any science journals. Kendrick is involved with the International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics, I suggest deleting his article and redirecting his name to that. Skeptic from Britain (talk) 20:29, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
I have no idea what are valid criteria are for a human becoming an article on Wikipedia (in fact I've often thought that I should have an article) but none of the "Skeptic from Britain's" arguments would sway me to delete Kendrick's article.
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A friend recently asked, "Giff, what's happened? You've lost weight!" He was wrong, as my weight has remained the same for years. But this is not the first time this has happened. It's because I've never liked dress shirts with tight collars. Loose collars exposing the neck convey the impression of weight loss. But surprise! They also help to protect wearers from glaucoma, the second leading cause of blindness in North America.
While a student at the Harvard Medical School, I heard this story: A 55-year-old businessman complained of headaches, blurred vision and a tingling sensation in the right ear. Harvard professors were not able to make a diagnosis. So he consulted doctors at The Mayo Clinic and famous Harley Street doctors in London, England. None could diagnose his problem.
Years later he was at a convention in Atlantic City. He needed a new shirt and walked into an unremarkable store and asked for a size 15. A young salesman suggested a size 16. Irritated, the man replied, 'I've been buying shirts since you were in knee pants, and I want a size 15! The salesman replied, "That's fine with me, Sir, if you want to suffer from headaches, blurred vision and a tingling sensation in your right ear!"
Tight collars are not hard to find if you watch television. The ones I often see are on overweight males whose necks are bulging out over their collars, and they look awfully uncomfortable. Snugness, whether in woman's stockings or men's shirts, is not a healthy habit.
A study in the British Medical Journal of Ophthalmology states that tight neckties increase the risk of glaucoma. Dr. Robert Ritch of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary several years ago agreed. He stated that tight neckties constantly pressing on the jugular vein increase intraocular pressure (IOP) which is one of the risk factors of glaucoma as this continual pressure destroys the optic nerve.
Other eye specialists point out that a false diagnosis of glaucoma can be made if a tight necktie is worn during an eye examination.
But how many men wear shirts with tight neck collars? Dr. Susan Watkins at Cornell University reported that there are two chances in three the neck size of a man's shirt is too small, and his necktie too tight.
Her study involved 94 white collar males. Researchers first measured the circumference of their necks with the collars buttoned and the ties knotted. The neck measurement was then repeated with the collars unbuttoned and the ties loosened. Watkins discovered that 67% were buying shirts with collars that were smaller than the size of their necks.
Dr. Watkins claims this tightness is causing more than discomfort. It's also triggering visual problems that can be scientifically proven. For instance, men were asked to tell researchers when a light, flickering at increased speeds, appeared to be constant. The tight collar wearers were found to have poorer visual discrimination those than those who purchased the right neck size.
I could not find any research that explained why so many males bought shirts with collars that were too tight. Maybe it's a more macho look. But good sense dictates the constant pressure on jugular veins impeding the flow of blood from the brain is not a healthy situation. Nor is it prudent to decrease the flow of oxygenated blood in carotid arteries to the brain. So my advice is to forget about Harvard doctors that are unable to make this simple diagnosis. But if you need a new shirt and are in Atlantic City, seek the young salesman. I'm sure he will tell you that it's prudent to be able to insert two fingers between the neck and buttoned collar.
But what about man's best friend? How many realize that dogs can also develop glaucoma? Veterinarians at the university of Madison-Wisconsin reported that tight dog collars increased optic pressure. They too suggested the two-finger test and to remove your pet's collar at day's end. What's good for humans is also good for dogs.
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Israel advocacy group "Stand With Us" says pressure against sociology professor sets a precedent for action on campuses worldwide
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Roz Rothstein, international director for Stand With Us, told the University of California at Santa Barbara's student newspaper, The Daily Nexus, that the investigation against sociology professor William I. Robinson could set a precedent for more action against Israel critics at other universities.
In a June 4 article, the Nexus reported that Stand With Us sees the Robinson case as a potential model for the future.
"Her organization is particularly interested, Rothstein said, because this could be a major building point for academic freedom cases around the world," wrote staff writer Elliott Rosenfeld.
Rothstein told the paper: "This could be a precedent setting case for other universities."
The comments may shed light on why pro-Israel groups have taken such an active stance in the Robinson case.
Stand With Us and the Anti-Defamation League have spearheaded an aggressive campaign to push UCSB to investigate the professor for "anti-Semitism" after he introduced materials critical of Israeli state policies in a class on global affairs last January.
The materials included a photo essay that Robinson forwarded to students from the Internet juxtaposing images of Israeli abuse against Palestinians with Nazi abuses during the holocaust. Two students took offense at the images and withdrew from the course, prompting pro-Israel groups to demand that the university censor the professor.
Richard Falk, the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories and a visiting scholar on global studies at UCSB, said Rothstein's candid remarks indicate a "disturbing" escalation in pro-Israel pressure on college campuses in general, and at UCSB in particular.
"Apparently, they have decided enough vulnerability exists in the university community for them to mobilize pressure campaigns," Falk said. "They're making this (the Robinson case) into a litmus test to silence criticism of Israel."
Stand With Us set up a Web site to rally pro-Israel organizations and individuals to pressure UCSB officials. It launched a massive letter writing campaign, that includes threats by UCSB donors to withdraw support for the university.
Such efforts reflect Stand With Us's founding mission to counter criticism of Israel on university campuses worldwide. Created in 2001, the group is headquartered in Los Angeles and maintains offices and chapters throughout the U.S., Canada, Israel, the UK and Australia.
It's Web site openly calls college campuses a "modern-day battlefront" for Israel.
"Today Israel faces a new global threat, one that is fought in the media, on university campuses, and in the court of public opinion," reads the Stand With Us home page.
The Web site for the Bay Area chapter of Stand With Us is even more candid: "Our mission is to stand up to anti-Israel speech wherever it may surface," reads the site. "We are (unofficially) representing the state of Israel."
It's unclear if the pressure has affected university officials, but in late March the Academic Senate launched a formal investigation to determine if Robinson violated the Faculty Code of Conduct.
The Senate action generated an angry backlash on campus. In April, students formed a Committee to Defend Academic Freedom (CDAF), and in May, more than 100 professors and 20 department heads signed a petition demanding that the Senate cease its investigation. In fact, the petition led to a faculty vote on June 4 to form an ad hoc committee in the Senate to investigate the apparent mishandling of the Robinson case.
Nevertheless, university officials refuse to drop the investigation against Robinson.
Falk said the outcome of this case may directly impact future debate about Israel on college campuses.
"The stakes are high," Falk said. "We need to keep open the discussion of American policy toward Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and not let it be affected by externally generated pressures. That's of fundamental interest to the American public and U.S. scholars."
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Ditch the green beer this St.Patties day and swap it out for a green smoothie! Packed full of protein and other nutrients, this Protein Shamrock Smoothie will give you boost you need during this festive day!
Courtesy of: https://www.heandsheeatclean.com/blog/2015/03/clean-eat-recipe-shamrock-protein-shake
Nutrient Breakdown (Per Smoothie)
306 Calories | 32g Protein | 31g Carbs | 5g Fat


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Sunday Reads: Fountain Pens, Green Ink And Puppies03/24/2019
For notes and private writing, I tend to favor aqua and green inks although Stipula Verde Muschiato is neither but still a favorite. Mountain of Ink has an excellent green ink comparison page that includes most of my favorites. The colors are displayed beautifully and revealed how dissimilar are the inks in my green rotation. That variety keeps green fresh and lively for my daily use. How do you maintain your interest in ink?
And then there were puppies. Lots and lots of puppies…
- Fountain pens in middle of a renaissance
- 22 Words: Here Is The Most Popular Book From the Year You Were Born
- This new Chrome extension lets you adjust the dial on the toxicity of comments
- The Pen Spreadsheet
- A World Record for a Dog
- Mountain Of Ink: Green Ink Comparison (Great swatches!)
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The unemployment rate rose to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since June 1983, as employers eliminated a net total of 216,000 jobs.
Analysts expect businesses will be reluctant to hire until they are convinced the economy is on a firm path to recovery. Many private economists, and the Federal Reserve, expect the unemployment rate to top 10 percent by the end of this year.
While the jobless rate rose more than expected, the number of job cuts is less than July's upwardly revised total of 276,000 and the lowest in a year, according to Labor Department data released Friday. Economists expected the unemployment rate to rise to 9.5 percent from July's 9.4 percent and job reductions to total 225,000.
If laid-off workers who have settled for part-time work or have given up looking for new jobs are included, the so-called underemployment rate reached 16.8 percent, the highest on records dating from 1994.
But earnings rose and the number of hours worked stayed above a recent record-low. Average hourly wages increased to $18.65 from $18.59, the department reported. Average weekly earnings increased to $617.32.
The number of weekly hours worked remained at 33.1, above the low of 33 reached in June. That figure is important because economists expect companies will add more hours for current workers before they hire new ones.
The recession has eliminated a net total of 6.9 million jobs since it began in December 2007. There are now 14.9 million Americans unemployed.
Job cuts remain widespread across many sectors. The construction industry lost 65,00 jobs. Factories cut 63,000, while retailers pared 9,600 positions. The financial sector eliminated 28,000 jobs, while professional and business services dropped 22,000. Even the government lost 18,000 jobs, as the U.S. Postal Service cut 8,500 positions.
Health care and educational services was the only bright spot, adding 52,000 jobs.
And the pace of layoffs is slowing. Job losses averaged 691,000 in the first quarter and fell to an average of 428,000 in the April-June period.
Other economic data released this week has been positive. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group, said Tuesday that the manufacturing sector grew in August for the first time in 19 months. On Thursday, the ISM said its service sector index rose to 48.4 last month, the highest level in nearly a year. Home sales, meanwhile, have increased for several months and prices are stabilizing.
Federal Reserve policymakers said in minutes from an August meeting that they expect the economy to recover in the second half of this year. But labor market conditions are still "poor," the Fed minutes released Wednesday said, and many companies are likely to be "cautious in hiring" even as the economy picks up.
Some economists credit the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus package of tax cuts and spending increases, along with the Cash for Clunkers program, with contributing to a recovery. But they worry about what will happen when the impact of the stimulus efforts fades next year.
Vice President Joe Biden defended the stimulus package Thursday against Republican critics who say it is too costly.
"The recovery act has played a significant role in changing the trajectory of our economy, and changing the conversation in this country," Biden said. "Instead of talking about the beginning of a depression, we are talking about the end of a recession."
Republicans criticized Biden's speech. "The Democrats' rhetoric on their economic experiment doesn't match with the reality of millions of Americans remaining unemployed," said Republican Party chief Michael Steele. "The stimulus was an economic experiment that failed Americans."
More job cuts were announced this week. Washington-based manufacturer Danaher Corp. said it will lay off about 3,300 of its roughly 50,000 employees, an increase from the 1,700 cuts it announced in the spring. American Airlines said it is cutting 921 flight attendant jobs as it deals with an ongoing downturn in traffic and lower revenue.


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As the governing body that makes crucial decisions on behalf of organizations, the board of directors is an essential part to building a strong not-for-profit. This case examines the inner-workings of the board of directors of National Sawdust, a contemporary music venue, during the organization's infancy. The study reveals expectations of National Sawdust's board members and issues around recruitment and accountability.
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Short stories have a bad habit of disappearing, originally showing up in little mags with small circulations and then appearing in collections that seldom get reviewed, get no publicity, and then languish on library shelves, which fewer and fewer people populate. If literature profs and academic critics do not find them teachable enough to anthologize in textbooks and explicate in the classroom, or complex enough to write about in journals, they just die. In my never-ending battle to keep good short stories alive, I occasionally call the attention of my readers to short story collections that, in my opinion, deserve to be read. Today, I highlight the first collection of Michael Byers, The Coast of Good Intentions, published in 1998.
Byers, born in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, received his B.A. degree from Oberlin College in Ohio and taught elementary school in Louisiana for two years in the Teach for America program. He received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Michigan and attended the writing program at Stanford University before moving back to Seattle. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University between 1996 and 1998. His story "Settled on the Cranberry Coast" was selected for the O. Henry Prize Stories in 1995; "Shipmates Down Under" was selected for The Best American Short Stories in 1997. The Coast of Good Intentions was a finalist for the Hemingway/PEN Award and won the Whiting Award of $30,000, given to "emerging writers of exceptional talent and promise," in 1999.
The stories of Michael Byers belong to a tradition in the contemporary short story, represented by Ethan Canin's 1988 Emperor of the Air and Christopher Tilghman's 1990 In a Father's Place. Like Canin and Tilghman, Byers affirms, in a seemingly simple, matter-of-fact way, the solid, unsentimental values of family, commitment, and hope for the future. This is, of course, the kind of fiction that John Gardner urged in his book Moral Fiction (1978) and that Raymond Carver embodied in his 1983 collection Cathedral, hailed as mellower and more hopeful than his earlier, so-called "minimalist" stories.
Such understanding, loving, and forgiving values are, of course, hard to resist, but they are also hard to present without either irony or sentimentality. Byers manages to avoid both, giving the reader characters who are neither perfect nor petulant, neither ironically bitter nor blissfully ignorant, but who are rather complex and believable human beings simply doing their best, which, Byers seems to suggest, is simply the most human thing anyone can do. Here are some comments on the major stories in The Coast of Good Intentions
"Settled on the Cranberry Coast" is a satisfying story about second chances or the pleasant realization that it's never too late to live, "Settled on the Cranberry Coast" is narrated by Eddie, a bachelor who has just retired after teaching high school for twenty-seven years and has taken up part-time carpenter work. When Rosie, an old high school acquaintance, who has also never married, hires him to repair an old house she has just bought, the story focuses quite comfortably on their inevitable gravitation toward each other. Rosie not only fills Eddie's need for a caring companion, her six-year-old granddaughter Hannah, who lives with her, gives him the child he has never had.
Because Byers was only in his twenties when he wrote these stories, reviewer made much of his understanding of older characters, such as Eddie in "Settled on the Cranberry Coast." In "Dirigibles," Howard and Louise, in their late sixties and retired, are visited by James Couch, a friend from the old days, who is stopping on his way from Seattle to Montana. Couch talks about his daughter hang-gliding in outer space, and Howard realizes that he has "gone a little way around the bend, and he wasn't coming back." When Howard sets up a movie projector to show Couch old home movies from the time when they were friends, it turns out he has put in the wrong film; what they see instead is a very brief scene of Louise, young and thin and almost all legs, running naked from one doorway to another. Howard and Louise both laugh, remembering the event when he came returned from the navy and she came to the door nonchalantly nude.
After putting Couch to bed, the couple lie awake, and Howard says he played the greatest concert halls in Germany before the war, with ten thousand women waiting on his every need; he tells Louise to think of him like that, and she says "yes." He tells her he flew "great dirigibles of the age" over the "great nations of the earth," and she says "yes." And in the last line, when he says "It's true. Everything is true," she says, "Oh, Howard. Howard." The conclusion is a great affirmative paean to love and union, much like the end of Molly Bloom's famous soliloquy in Joyce's Ulysses.
"Shipmates Down Under" focuses on the protagonist's relationship with his nine-year-old son, who seems principled and controlled; with his six-year-old daughter, who becomes mysteriously ill; and with his wife, who feels an outsider to his connection with the children. Because the daughter's illness threatens to dominate the story, the underlying marital conflict, which is its real subject, does not become apparent until the end when the child improves just as mysteriously as she fell ill.
The boy, who intuits the unspoken conflict between the parents, says he is writing a sequel to a boy's adventure book his father has recommended, and urges his father to take his mother on a vacation, since their planned vacation to Perth, Australia, the father's home, has been cancelled by the daughter's illness. When the protagonist talks to his wife about this, she calls him "Mister Distant, Mister Nowhere, Mr. Say Nothing," accusing him of living in his own little world with the children while pretending she does not exist. Although he denies this, when he sees the first sentence of his son's sequel--"My father and I live in Perth in a tiny white house with a wall around the garden"--he feels a "little bloom of secretive joy" in his heart. The story ends with his thinking that he will apologize to his wife and that they will make it. However, when he imagines them finally taking their disrupted trip to Australia, what he thinks of is the children remembering the experience, the hotel standing strong and unchanging, "the solid keeper of my precious cargo, these two damaged packages of my detailed dreams."
The central character in the story, "In Spain, One Thousand and Three," Martin Tuttleman, tries to cope with the loss of his wife at age twenty-five to cancer. A computer game designer, he has been off work so long with her illness that he now, at least temporarily, works in the support department, giving phone advice to kids playing the game he helped design. The primary focus of the story is Martin's constant sexual fantasies about women. Before his marriage, he had slept with every woman he could, and thinks of himself as having had more sex than anyone he knew. Now that his wife, who completely filled his sexual life during their marriage, is dead, he has begun to fantasize about other women again.
The central crucial event in the story is an ambiguous encounter with his mother-in-law in his wife's old bedroom. When he takes one of his shirts out of her closet, the mother embraces him, and he compares the feel of her body to that of his wife. They begin rubbing against each other, like "shy dancers" and then abruptly push away. The story ends with his father-in-law angrily confronting him, demanding that he apologize. When he does so, he feels good, as if he were saying he is sorry to all the women he has seduced.
"A Fair Trade" is the longest story in the collection, and covers the longest span of time, practically the whole life of the central character Andie, beginning at age fourteen with her trip to live with her aunt for a period after her father's death and her mother's emotional breakdown, and ending with a visit to her aunt some forty years later when she is in her fifties. However, most of the story focuses on the time Andie lived with her aunt Maggie; the rest of her life is recounted in brief summary.
During this period, Andie has fantasies about a mysterious European man who works for the elderly couple who live across the road. The only real plot complications occur when Maggie's unscrupulous boyfriend, who, trying to get the elderly couple's farm, threatens to tell the authorities that the man has made sexual advances to Andie; when Maggie finds out, she sends the boyfriend packing.
During this period, Andie has fantasies about a mysterious European man who works for the elderly couple who live across the road. The only real plot complications occur when Maggie's unscrupulous boyfriend, who, trying to get the elderly couple's farm, threatens to tell the authorities that the man has made sexual advances to Andie; when Maggie finds out, she sends the boyfriend packing.
The last part of the story covers Andie's life after she returns to her mother--summarizing her marriage, divorce, her daughter's going off to college, and finally her move back to Seattle when she is fifty-five. Seeing her aunt's old boyfriend, now in his eighties, on television prompts a visit to her aunt, who has adopted a gay man, and who has a boyfriend in his seventies. Although her aunt tells her she should have a man, Andie looks forward to twenty more years of being alone. She feels she has made a "fair trade," that her way is not a bad way to live. As she sits in a restaurant with her aunt and her adopted son, she shuffles her feet under the table, thinking that from other tables she may appear to be dancing.Michael Byers has published two novels and several short stories in the last two decades and is an assistant professor of literature at the University of Michigan. The Coast of Good Intentions is a book that deserves to be read and reread.


text: Psychobiography, and in particular psychobiography-by-diagnosis, really gets on my nerves. Diagnosis is a useful tool in the practice of psychology/psychiatry, certainly -- it allows one to create a simplified model of a person (or an aspect of the person anyway) and thereby help them more effectively. But as a biographical tool? What use is simplification in trying to create a picture of a life? I haven't yet (and admittedly I am still young...) managed to create anything resembling a neat, consistent, coherent concept of myself, my own beliefs, and my own priorities -- to think I could do this for someone else seems the height of arrogance. And these psychobiographical diagnoses are often given with such a tone of authority, too...as though to say "this is how you should understand this person, end of discussion." I find this especially problematic with post-mortem psychobiography, since the person in question is no longer able to challenge the propositions made about them. Any competent psychiatrist should see the problem with this approach, as a diagnostic session always involves interaction with the patient himself, a process that often leads to considerable insight. (I expect a forthcoming detailed rebuttal of this argument from S.F. Lemming ;>) Etha On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:15 AM, Houpt, Fred <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > I am not sure (because all my sheet music is at home) exactly which > piece he plays on the television studio spot. For me it is so charged > with power and very satisfying. > > On one of the CBC English spots (on the web site link I gave yesterday) > there is a clip of a GG documentary and in it you get several "experts" > chime in on what they figure GG had. There is the guy who figured it > was aspergers (sp??) syndrome and a psychiatrist said it was mental and > emotional stuff. Who knows. > > I think so called experts make much too much of how artists sway and > move and bop at their instrument. Did these same experts decide that > Oscar Peterson must have had a problem with his mind because he hummed > like a buzz saw, all throughout his career? Who cares if they do that? > Listen to how he rips up the keys and gives you goosebumps. That's what > is important. Who cares if they drool, have their eyes roll up into > their skulls. They just might be caught in an updraft of creative > power? > > Maybe these so called experts have never felt ecstasy at playing a > musical instrument? How else is a person supposed to "look" or appear > when they are in an ecstasy? Calm and subdued? Honestly, we should > honor and respect our musical performers and just let then howl. I can > still hear Keith Jarrett as he pounds his feet, shouts, howls and > screeches his way through the immortal "Koln Concert". A rendition that > his admirers feel is his very best and still moves the heart deeply. > > Perhaps what we GG fans need to do is to re-educate the critics and open > their eyes to other possibilities? The human condition, when it > encounters music, just makes us act differently. Think of all those > African tribes that drum themselves into a total frenzy, often enabling > many of them to enter high shamanic states of trance. What of it? Are > they freaks? Ok, I'm in a froth now so I better stop..... > > Fred > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: firstname.lastname@example.com > [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Brad Lehman > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:03 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: > [F_minor]http://archives.radio-canada.ca/arts_culture/musique/dossiers/3 > 09/ > > Yes, well played. It really gets him sweating, too: how hot was it in > there with the lights and that coat? I think it's kind of funny how GG > swings around so much...and the cameraman tries to keep him in the > shot.... > > I put on GG's later recording of this piece after watching the > television version. It's much slower, taking two minutes longer. What > a difference! I like the drive of that televised performance better. > > It's not really "late" Beethoven; B was only 31 when it was published. > Same year as the so-called "Moonlight" and a bunch of other sonatas. > > > Brad Lehman > > > Houpt, Fred wrote: > > The first sample on this page "homme au piano" has Glen playing a late > > > Beethoven sonata. It is simply spine-tingling. Listen for the power > > of the fast sections, contrasted with the most loving and delicate > > aria notes of the solo (voice), sung (played) with such pathos. 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by Andrew Redden
on 13.01.2015
While on Twitter, I noticed this article titled, "How to keep small towns from disappearing". While it was published almost two years ago, the points made throughout haven't aged.
The key message is that entrepreneurs may be the answer to small towns. The author, Rick Spence, notes that the best solution would be "for local communities to forget about attracting industry, and focus on retaining people, especially creative, entrepreneurial types who don't need to go to big cities to start companies." He goes on to note that locals and leaders in the communities need to "talk up their communities" and encourage young people and other current residents to stay citing the lower cost of living among other benefits.
Spence's message supports the measures as outlined in Hastings County's new Economic Development Action Plan. Have you viewed it yet?


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On August 27th, 2011 several members of MMRA hosted a workshop for not only the 10 new Flint teams, but other rookie/veteran teams. The workshop was held at Mott Community College with the help of Dr. Bill and Carol Welch. The workshop was led by both judges and FLL coaches. Every topic within FLL was covered, including programming, building, project, teamwork, core values, spirit along with a question and answer session. These 10 teams were given the ins and outs on how to run a successful team.
After all the teams received the delivery of the computers, NXT, tables etc, it was time for the teams to get to work! Several members of MMRA made themselves available to these teams for support. Support was given by email, phone and physical visits. Several of our members made weekly trips to help these 10 teams. Together we worked on programming, research and core values, the heart and soul of FLL.
The 10 teams were able to compete in 2 tournaments; Lego Fever I, which is a warm up tournament and Lego Fever II, which is the district event. The excitement, smiles and laughter that shone from within these 10 teams was an amazing sight to behold. These teams led cheers through the gym and hallways. The teams competed like they were seasoned veterans at the tournaments. Six awards were handed out amongst the ten teams.
This was a great opportunity not only to spread the concept of FIRST but to give back to a community that we care about and live in. The 10 teams have all agreed that while this was a difficult challenge, they can't wait until next year to begin. In the meantime these teams will be hosting mini competitions amongst themselves to keep sharpening their newfound skills. Don't be surprised when 1 of these awesome teams wins the State Championship!