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We talk about having a clear mind all the time and our goal is to pass on to you how we came to have and constantly keep our mind clear. We have said that a clear mind will hear the answers when they come to you, no matter how small or even in someone else's passing words. Here is are most recent example that led to this post, which we have been pondering for months and have asked The Universe for some guidance.
Tonight on Americas Got Talent near the end of the show the trio from Oregon named We Three Music (wethreemusic.com) came on and performed and original song named "Lifeline". In this song were four words "Got to be real" that triggered the following thought process. At the very moment we heard those words we instantly knew we were meant to hear those words and we started to think about what other events brought us to this moment. The first thing we though of was when we had the near death experience (NDE). We have never thought of why until tonight. We did we go to the other-side and experience the beyond beautiful place where we wanted to stay. Then that voice said, "You must go back, you're not done with your journey." We did not want to go back, but we did. (Note to self: Be sure to find out whose voice that was) Because the Universe does not make mistakes why did we have the NDE? We know now it was because we were shown what the "other-side" is like and when someone says "Their in a better place" when someone dies, we know they are.
Then many years later, another experience to go with the N.D.E. was when we received a phone call from my Fathers head nurse saying "I think your Dad is going to pass soon. I suggest you get here soon." We were there in two days and we were with my dad when he passed three days later. We will never forget every moment leading up to the last five minutes. All of a sudden it was like the room was full of Love so thick it felt like we were in a swimming pool full of Love and Joy. Then we heard music and signing by what seemed like thousands of voices coming from far away but moving toward the room. We moved over to my Dad and looked in his eyes and he sent us a thought "Son, please move out of the way, they have come for me." So we moved to the end of the bed and knelt down and prayed "Dear God, thank you for this beautiful moment of peaceful passing of Dad." We felt like we were directly connected to God at that moment. The Love energy grew stronger and the only way we can describe the following is that a celebration broke out. It was like a thousand Angels were singing and full of joy as they left with Dads soul and grew quieter and finally were gone. We sat there and cried, not from being sad, but from being joyful and blissful. We had never experienced someone passing and this was amazing. This was no doubt a celebration of my Fathers life and we made sure that the funeral was a celebration. Everyone seemed to get it and they all celebrated with our family.
So tonight four words "Got to be real" from the song "Lifeline" led to our N.D.E., which led to my Dads passing celebration, and finally led to this post. How amazing is The Universe? When you have a clear mind you get to find out and we are constantly surprised. We have heard from one of our friends that was present with his grandma when she passed she cussed until her last breath. Maybe they just did not hear the Angels nor did they feel the love? It all was there, but busy minds sometimes miss the important stuff.
We must admit that this post has cleared our minds even more and it feels like we have grown with the knowledge that "Death is in fact a celebration" and we will treat it as such always. We once learned when we were studying reincarnation that suicide is not a solution to this life because when the soul starts the next life it starts right where it left off. All the same circumstances take place in the next life right up to the moment a life was taken and it will be re-run until the person changes the outcome and calls for help (Hotline 1800-273-8255) or gets inspired to change their life and move on.
Thank all of you for your support and we constantly send you healing energy. God bless and be safe my friends.
We have nothing to add right now except to remind everyone that "You are never alone! God is always loving and with you."


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Dearest Bubs –
You turned 15 months yesterday! Wow – time is just flying by! (and if Brady Gaga were on your timeline, s/he'd already be born!) You are really becoming a little boy, with so much personality! Though you are becoming a bit more clingy – but that is just the age.
A lot of changes have been happening around here – about a week or so ago I decided that you need to start climbing the stairs yourself instead of my carrying you – since my belly is so big. You are not a huge fan of that – but you are learning. You cry less now when I don't carry you, and you know that I will hold your hand. It is good to have a little prize that I can move up the stairs, just out of your reach – and then you get to have it at the top of the stairs!
Despite my not carrying you up the stairs, you are still my boyfriend:
I love love love this picture! So glad my friend was able to capture it! How adorable are you?! Way too adorable!
You love being outside and are really happiest when we are at the park or somewhere you can just run and play. or when we are at home reading a book:
Sometimes we have to read books 4-5 times in a row! I hear that is rather unusual for such a young boy to have such a long attention span – I love it! You are still a huge Dr. Seuss fan, and have been loving Ten Apples Up on Top. The drama with the mop! the mop! gets you every time!
and if you are inside, you do love your creature comforts:
You always call dibs on anything soft. It is really quite hilarious.
You are obsessed with trucks and puppies… and since we unpacked him, MoBo.
MoBo was your Grampy J's childhood toy! And Dada remembers playing with it hwen he was little as well – very special to have a toy that all 4 generations of JJB's have had interactions with. You are still a little unsure of it, but are clearly intrigued. You try to say MoBo (comes out BoBo) and like to point and look at MoBo, but getting to close is not really something you are interested in. Dada and I will need to do a little work on MoBo to get some of the rust off and then to seal him up.
You also love helping Dada run models – garsh, some of them are so simple….
and you don't mind helping Dada correct some of the books that come his way.
We did our first at-home craft with our friends J-Burk and B-Burk – it turned out quite well:
You both were good sports – and after about 4 1/2 minutes, you guys were over the crafting. So then we played. and you guys really played well together! Which was so great – giving J-Burk and mama time to catch up a bit.
You are really good at waving and saying "Bu-bye". and you have recently been very interested in babies – which is a good thing. You can mimic me when I tell and show you how to be gentle by patting the baby's foot. You also sign baby very well – and that always impresses people. I wonder if you know that you are about to get your very own baby soon!
You also have been wanting Cowgirl to hold you, which I think is adorable! We see them enough that you are very comfortable with her – too bad she is also preggers – there is always a belly in the way!
We've had a lot of fun this month – with the weather improving, we've been able to be out and about, which is good. and you are just so smart, a baby genius really – so many times you do something or put things together that surprise me. I just shouldn't underestimate you! For example, the other day you were pointing at the closet – and then you signed shoes, because you knew that the shoes were in the closet!
I am excited to see how you interact with Brady Gaga – I know you will be the best big brother. You are the best little guy in the whole world – mama loves you so so much. Everyday, even if I am tired and grumpy, I am so thankful and grateful that I get to spend it with you. There is no harder or more important job in the whole world than raising a good person. Hopefully we are well on our way!

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BELIZE CITY, Mon. Nov. 30, 2015–Although Belize was spared many major storm events during this year's Atlantic Hurricane Season, which concludes today, November 30, the El Niño phenomenon which suppressed storm activity in the Caribbean led to very dry conditions which caused "severe drought" in northern and western Belize, as well as hotter than normal temperatures during the summer months—oftentimes feeling like in excess of 100 degrees.
This was confirmed by Chief Meteorological Officer Dennis Gonguez, who informed today that: "The strong El Niño event prevented even the tropical waves from supporting significant amounts of rainfall as they crossed the Caribbean Sea."
The unusual heat which made many uncomfortable during the summer months was also a consequence of El Niño, Gonguez confirmed to Amandala.
Information published by the National Meteorological Service indicates that drought conditions should continue into the dry season. A drought warning is in effect for northern, inland, and central coastal areas of Belize, while a drought watch is in effect for southwest Belize. Drought concerns will continue to year-end.
Despite the extended drought forecast, there has been periodic reprieve, as the dry conditions were recently alleviated towards the end of the rainy season, with two major flood events occurring only weeks apart.
Gonguez said that one of these systems moved across the country over the weekend, of the 17th and 18th October and dumped 28.75 inches of rain over a three-day period, primarily over the Belize City area. On the Saturday alone, Belize City received 10 inches of rainfall, causing evacuations of certain flood-prone parts of the city.
Gonguez said that the second spate of rains which resulted in flooding of central, western and southern Belize in November was worse because of the prior flood event. Additionally, its impacts were more widespread.
Belize was minimally impacted by tropical waves, and a few smaller systems forming in the Gulf of Honduras area.
"This put an end to some of the rainfall shortage that was being experienced around the country," he added.
Gonguez forewarned that Belizeans should not become complacent, thinking that next year's hurricane season will be the same as this past season, since the El Niño will transition into a neutral phase early next year.
According to Gonguez, the El Niño phenomenon should fade out around May and June next year. This, he said, could lead to heightened storm activity next season.
The season summary provided by Gonguez reveals that the 2015 Atlantic Hurricane Season was below average. There were 11 named storms, 4 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes, categories 3 to 5 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. This was slightly below the season average of 12 named storms, 6 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes. The initial season forecast had predicted 7 named storms and 3 hurricanes but 1 major hurricane.
Although the season officially opens on June 1, the first named storm emerged as Ana on May 8.
The year's most destructive Atlantic Hurricane was Hurricane Joaquin, which swept over Central Bahamas as a category 5 storm. The National Hurricane Center's (NHC) summary said that Joaquin, which maxed out at 155 miles per hour, killed 34 people.
"Based on a, 30-year (1981-2010) climatology, two named storms typically form in the Atlantic basin in October, with one becoming a hurricane. A major hurricane forms in October once every other year," the NHC said.
The 7 tropical storms formed were Ana, Bill, Claudette, Erika, Grace, Henri and Ida; while the 4 hurricanes were Danny, Fred, Joaquin and Kate, for a total of 11 named storms. The two major hurricanes were Danny and Joaquin.


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Warwick Davis wants to be a Doctor Who villain
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With reporting by Scott Neumyer
Veteran actor Warwick Davis has played everything from an Ewok and a Leprechaun to a fictionalized version of himself in the new television series "Life's Too Short."
IFC spoke with Davis earlier this month about his recurring role in the "Leprechaun" franchise and other memorable characters he's played over the years, and discovered that there's still one sci-fi franchise he's hoping to add to his resume: "Doctor Who."
"I want to be in 'Doctor Who,'" he told IFC. "I think I could play a good villain. Just a cameo, a kind of villain that The Doctor's up against."
Being a British actor, it's no surprise that Davis hopes to someday land a role on the classic BBC series, which currently stands as the longest-running sci-fi series in television history and is riding a massive wave of popularity here in the U.S.
"I'm not asking to be The Doctor." laughed Davis. "I mean, I'd love to do that as well… No, no. I'm joking. You know, I pitched it to the producer and he kind of looked at me blankly."
And just like The Doctor, Davis is also a popular guy these days, thanks to his new hit series and a long list of roles that have made him an icon of the sci-fi and fantasy community, from his turn as Wicket in "Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi" to the title character in "Willow," and more recently, as Professor Filius Flitwick in the "Harry Potter" movies.
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Engage in comprehensive planning and coordination of managed lanes projects.
The experience of managed lanes projects in California, Texas and New Jersey.
November, 2004
New Jerse Turnpike,New Jersey,United States; Houston,Texas,United States; Interstate 15,San Diego,California,United States; State Route 91, Orange County,California,United States
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Lesson Learned
Based on the experiences in California, New Jersey and Texas, the following lessons learned are offered with regard to the planning and coordination of managed lanes projects.
- Coordinate with other agencies. Managed lanes projects are generally large undertakings, often crossing jurisdictional boundaries, and thus require the cooperation of multiple agencies. Institutional roles and responsibilities should be identified and documented at the outset with project agreements that define each agency's role. The agreements should also be flexible enough to allow for unforeseen circumstances.
- The QuickRide program in Houston, the I-15 Express lanes and SR91 Express lanes projects were undertaken as part of the Federal Highway Administration's Value Pricing Pilot Program. Implementation of these projects required close coordination with FHWA, the departments of transportation and local agencies.
- The QuickRide program, the I-15 Express lanes and SR91 projects involved a broad range of stakeholders in order to identify issues that may not have been addressed by the planners.
- Incorporate managed lanes projects in long-range planning. The pricing projects highlighted in this study were not initially developed out of a long-range plan for the community (in the case of the HOT lane projects in California and Texas, implementers had the benefit of having HOV as part of the long range plan). However, now that the projects have been in operation for a number of years, the agencies have been able to incorporate findings from their experiences into updated long-range plans.
- In the San Diego region, managed lanes and HOV improvements and expansion are important elements of their recent regional transportation plan, Mobility 2030.
- Engage in corridor planning. To date planners and engineers have relied on experience and careful monitoring of roadway conditions to develop an operational strategy for managed lane facilities. Traffic and revenue studies have provided insights on operations, and surveys and focus groups have been useful in providing information on travelers' willingness to pay as well as their driving habits. However, the need exists for a more comprehensive tool to address the impacts of managed lanes design, access, and operational strategies on factors such as demand management, revenue generation, and air quality confirmation.
- Consider legislative authority. Using pricing as a lane management strategy may require the need for legislative changes at both the state and national levels, as tolling is not explicitly allowed on the interstate system. In addition, automated enforcement, a critical component of tolling, may require enabling legislation. Legislation also may facilitate the cooperation between local agencies, state agencies, regional transportation authorities, and private developers.
- Consider institutional arrangements. Since managed lanes projects may involve a variety of operational strategies, this will result in the involvement of a number of stakeholders, including transit authorities, toll authorities, and possibly private interests. New institutional agreements may be necessary to define the scope and operation of the project.
- With the SR91 project, for example, the construction and operation of the Express lanes by a private company (California Private Transportation Company, or CPTC), required new institutional arrangements. California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and local agencies worked with CPTC to develop a franchise agreement. CPTC designed and built the facility in the median of State Route 91 on right of way owned by the state. However, the non-compete clause written into the agreement (Caltrans was prohibited from making other improvements in the corridor that might reduce traffic in the toll lanes) resulted in frustration amongst all the stakeholders, including the public.
Lesson Comments
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Managed Lanes: A Cross-Cutting Study
Author: Collier, Tina and Ginger Goodin (Texas Transportation Institute)
Published By: Operations Office of Transportation Management - Federal Highway Administration
Source Date: November, 2004
Other Reference Number: FHWA-HOP-05-037URL: http://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freewaymgmt/publications/managed_lanes/crosscuttingstudy/final3_05.pdf
Lesson Contacts
Lesson Analyst:
Margaret Petrella
RITA/Volpe National Transportation Systems Center
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Goal Areas
congestion pricing, value pricing, variable road pricing, managed lanes, high occupancy vehicles, carpool lanes, high occupancy vehicle lane, HOV


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D.J. Showdown – Johnny P, Tuffest, Bunny General
Treasure Isle Dub – Arthur "Duke" Reid
Umkhonti We Sizwe (Spear Of The Nation) – Prince Far I
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American forces say they are still fighting small pockets of insurgents in the city of Falluja.
Our correspondent, Paul Wood, is with American marines in the city. He gave the following interview to BBC Radio 4's Today programme:
If you look outside of my window now, you can see a deserted street with about five bodies on it.
They still have their weapons with them - [you can hear] a little bit of what they call "suppressing fire" from the marines, because occasionally people are still circling around.
These are bodies of insurgents who tried to attack the base over the last couple of days.
These bodies still have their weapons with them, because the marines think it's just too risky to go out a couple of hundred metres further from this base to take the weapons away.
The consequence of this, for the ordinary people of Falluja, is that for four days now there have been bodies lying in the streets.
It is starting to become a serious health risk.
I spoke to an officer who had been a little way out from the base and he said that cats and dogs are now starting to eat these bodies.
Q: What resistance is there left? To what extent do the Americans now control the city?
They do pretty much control it, but there is still intense fighting going on.
Now remember that on Sunday, the Iraqi government declared mission accomplished.
Well, we're not quite there yet.
There are still injured coming into this base, yet you might hear occasionally at this base thunderous explosions - those are mortars firing volleys in support of the mission of the rest of this unit, which is now right in the south of the city.
The attack, to quote one officer this morning, "is being pressed very hard in the south of the city".
But the character of the fighting has changed.
It is no longer through extremely dense narrow streets and alleyways.
I went out with the marines doing a little bit of that on Friday and it was absolutely horrific. We took casualties on just 15 minutes into that fighting. The marines were being peppered with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades constantly.
They dragged these casualties on - one guy literally bled all over my right trouser leg as we brought him back. They both survived.
The character of the fighting is changed now, because they have pushed the insurgents right to the edge of Falluja. The insurgents have nowhere else to go - there's only desert and the US army beyond them.
Q:If it's not safe to go out on the street, what is the situation for civilians there, as far as food and water is concerned?
Well, these are the crucial questions.
As an embedded reporter, I have a very limited ability, to be honest, to answer those. I see what my unit sees.
We have heard from the Iraqi Red Crescent that in their view, conditions are catastrophic inside Falluja - no food, no water, no medicines, no electricity.
On the other hand, the Iraqi health ministry, for instance, which is visiting this unit this Monday morning, says that the Red Crescent simply isn't in a position to make that assessment, precisely because it hasn't yet been allowed inside Falluja.
And the Iraqi health ministry's own figure for civilian casualties is 20, because it says most people are out of the town and those that are in have very sensibly - in fact they're compelled to - have stayed literally on the floor of their homes.
But given the volume of gunfire which is being poured out by the Americans, any civilians who are still here, of course their plight is desperate.
Q: But as you travel with the American soldiers, do you come across civilians?
We saw literally a glimpse of civilians.
We were on the roof of a building - this was the first day of the battle in fact on Wednesday - and saw people waving white flags running away. And the marines stood up to say "Keep going, it's dangerous, don't come in this direction" and as soon as they did that, a volley of gunfire came in, because they'd revealed their position. And that was the only view of civilians that we have had.
One female civilian came to be treated at the medical post here and left before I had a chance to speak to her.
But I've questioned ordinary marines, officers and they say quite truthfully, we literally don't see civilians and that is the position of, I think, most of the US forces here - they do not see civilians.
Having said that, a big civil affairs effort is about to start.
The civil affairs people are arriving today with, just for this battalion, $20m to start very rapidly paying out compensation for damage, trying to repair things because they know - the marines know - they're going to be back here again unless they can win those famous hearts and minds.
Of course, I don't know how people are going to feel when they see their city and they see the holes in the mosques and they see the destruction that has been wrought by this battle.


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Eu acho que deveria estar escrevendo sobre a Arábia Saudita, que começou a atacar os xiitas que moram na parte que tem mais petróleo do mundo. Mas, vi no blog de James Delingpole que o jornalista australiano Andrew Bolt do jornal Herald Sun entrevistou ontem Jill Duggan (foto acima) da Diretoria Geral da Comissão Européia para Mudança Climática.
Bolt, com a entrevista, destruiu a idéia de controle de gases de efeito estufa pela Europa. Duggan mostrou que não sabe quanto custa a meta de redução de 20% das emissões européias até 2020, nem se funciona. Sabe apenas, o que é pior, que a meta não adianta nada, mesmo se houvesse mudança climática provocada pelo homem. Duggan estava na Austrália para convencer o país a seguir o modelo europeu. Não conseguiu.
Delingpole, no seu blog, mostrou o aúdio da entrevista, mas eu encontrei o blog do próprio Andrew Bolt, e ele reproduz toda a entrevista. Aqui você consegue ler toda a entrevista. Mostro abaixo a parte mais relevante. Onde estiver AB, leia-se Andrew Bolt, e JD, para Jill Duggan.
AB: Can I just ask; your target is to cut Europe's emissions by 20% by 2020?Acho que a CNBB (ver post abaixo) deveria ler (o papa não precisa), além dos repórteres que fazem o Jornal Nacional. Ai minha paciência! toda vez que vejo o assunto mudança climática na televisão brasileira.
JD: Yes.
AB: Can you tell me how much - to the nearest billions - is that going to cost Europe do you think?
JD: No, I can't tell you but I do know that the modelling shows that it's cheaper to start earlier rather than later, so it's cheaper to do it now rather than put off action.
AB: Right. You wouldn't quarrel with Professor Richard Tol - who's not a climate sceptic - but is professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin? He values it at about $250 billion. You wouldn't quarrel with that?
JD: I probably would actually. I mean, I don't know. It's very, very difficult to quantify. You get different changes, don't you? And one of the things that's happening in Europe now is that many governments - such as the UK government and the German government - would like the targets to be tougher because they see it as a real stimulus to the economy.
AB: Right. Well you don't know but you think it isn't $250 billion.
JD: I think you could get lots of different academics coming up with lots of different figures.
AB: That's right. You don't know but that's the figure that I've got in front of me. For that investment. Or for whatever the investment is. What's your estimation of how much - because the object ultimately of course is to lower the world's temperatures - what sort of temperature reduction do you imagine from that kind of investment?
JD: Well, what we do know is that to have an evens chance of keeping temperature increases globally to 2°C - so that's increases - you've got to reduce emissions globally by 50% by 2050.
AB: Yes, I accept that, but from the $250 billion - or whatever you think the figure is - what do you think Europe can achieve with this 20% reduction in terms of cutting the world's temperature? Because that's, in fact, what's necessary. What do you think the temperature reduction will be?
JD: Well, obviously, Europe accounts for 14% of global emissions. It's 500 or 550 million people. On its own it cannot do that. That is absolutely clear.
AB: Have you got a figure in your mind? You don't know the cost. Do you know the result?
JD: I don't have a cost figure in my mind. Nor, one thing I do know, obviously, is that Europe acting alone will not solve this problem alone.
AB: So if I put a figure to you - I find it odd that you don't know the cost and you don't know the outcome - would you quarrel with this assessment: that by 2100 - if you go your way and if you're successful - the world's temperatures will fall by 0.05°C? Would you agree with that?
JD: Sorry, can you just pass that by me again? You're saying that if Europe acts alone?
AB: If just Europe alone - for this massive investment - will lower the world's temperature with this 20% target (if it sustains that until the end of this century) by 0.05°C. Would you quarrel with that?
JD: Well, I think the climate science would not be that precise. Would it?
AB: Ah, no, actually it is, Jill. You see this is what I'm curious about; that you're in charge of a massive program to re-jig an economy. You don't know what it costs. And you don't know what it'll achieve.
JD: Well, I think you can look at lots of modelling which will come up with lots of different costs.
AB: Well what's your modelling? That's the one that everyone's quoting. What's your modelling?
JD: Well, ah, ah. Let me talk about what we have done in Europe and what we have seen as the benefits. In Europe, in Germany you could look at, there's over a million new jobs that have been created by tackling climate change, by putting in place climate policies. In the UK there's many hundreds of thousand of jobs.
AB: Actually, that's not right, is it? I just saw research. Did you see this? It came last week. Verso Economics saying that, for example, in Scotland the investment in green power has cost 3.7 jobs for every one green job created. And there are similar figures; I'm looking at Italy here, Germany, Spain. They're all the same figures.
JD: They're not all the same figures. You can pick figures to support any argument. What I'm saying is that the experience in Europe is we've done things well and we've had some things which we wish we'd done differently at the start. The impact on the economy has been that it has stimulated growth in jobs that will last. It's not been noticeable in the impact on households. Not compared to gas and oil prices and the impact that they have on households. And that we actually have governments in Europe including the UK, Germany and France who are asking for tougher targets now. Now governments aren't in the business of trying to undermine their economies. They want their economies to grow. If the UK, Germany and France did not believe that this was good for their economies and good for the planet they would not be asking for tougher targets.
AB: I wish I could believe that. We're talking about a region - Europe - that has unemployment at 10% and a growth forecast this year of 1.6%. I don't know what we could learn from Europe actually.
JD: Well. Europe is not all the same. Different bits of Europe have different experiences, clearly, and different economies. Germany is an economy that's a coal state like Australia and there may be things that you can learn from Germany. I would not pretend that the UK is the same as Australia. I recognise that Australia has its own special circumstances. But I think if you look at how you want an economy to grow over the next 40, 50 years then you can either embrace what is going to be the way forward - and what the rest of the world is looking towards doing (including China and India) - or you can say "No, I'm not going to look at this, I'm going to stick with the same old ways of doing things". Now, actually, it takes time to change and it takes a lot of creativity and thought and I'm not saying that every country in the world should change at the same rate. But this is a serious issue. I realise that I'm talking to climate sceptics here.
AB: Ah, look, economic sceptics as well, Jill. Because, really, when you say for example that China and India will do something: they won't. China will, in fact, be responsible for more than three quarters of the world's growth of emission in the next 20 years. But look, I know we are not going to agree on this…
JD: That's right. There are 1.3 billion people in China who would probably like the same standard of living that Australians enjoy.
AB: Precisely my point. Exactly my point.
JD: But they are also investing very heavily in wind. They're the largest manufacturers of wind turbines in the world now.
AB: We won't get into an argument because they're building a coal-fired power station every week. Thank you for joining us.


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AlterNet: 50 Percent Pay Cuts at GE's Plants: Is This the Future of American Jobs?
The company President Obama called a "model for America" is squeezing its workers, cutting pensions, wages and benefits--but workers are organizing to fight back.
-By Mischa Gaus This piece was originally published by Labor Notes.
April 16, 2012- If the war against unions has reached a tipping point, Wilma Smith is among those determined to rebalance the scales.
The 58-year-old assembler at the General Electric plant in West Burlington, Iowa, was called back to work in September.
She had been on layoff since 2007 from the non-union factory, which makes electrical switch gears for municipalities and energy-hungry factories, hospitals, and call centers. "You know how you have a fuse box in your house?" she asks. "These are like fuse boxes for a city," the size of a refrigerator.
But the job came with new terms: a 50 percent pay cut—she'd now make $12 an hour. No health care coverage when she retired. And no chance she'd get the $5,000 bonus GE's union workers won in last year's national contract.
"You know what the deal is, so I don't want to hear any complaining," the manager at the 150-worker plant told her at orientation.
Six months later Smith is a leader in the Electrical Workers (IUE-CWA) organizing committee that's expecting a Labor Board election in April.
The campaign was buoyed by a successful January vote at a GE factory that refurbishes locomotive motors in Kansas City, Missouri, the first GE plant to go union in a decade.
Success breeds success, and organizing is now under way in several other locations. "As soon as they heard the workers in Kansas City won, another group called us up immediately," said Mike Knox, an Electrical Workers (IBEW) organizer involved in the Missouri win.
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"The favourable response from global investors indicates... their support of Hong Kong's determination and efforts in promoting sustainable development and combating climate change"
- Hong Kong sells first green bond under HK$100 bln scheme
- Orders for bond exceed $4 billion
- Green bond issuance expected to grow in Asia
By Julia Fioretti
HONG KONG, May 22 (Reuters) - Hong Kong raised $1 billion from the sale of its first green bond on Wednesday, as the former British colony looks to establish itself as a centre for green finance.
Hong Kong sold a five-year U.S. dollar-denominated green bond with a coupon of 2.5%, attracting over $4 billion in orders from investors globally, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said.
The proceeds from green bonds get earmarked for investment in environmentally friendly projects.
Wednesday's bond is the first to be issued under Hong Kong's HK$100 billion ($12.74 billion) green bond programme to fund projects around clean transportation, air quality improvement and green buildings. It is one of the largest green bond schemes globally.
"The favourable response from global investors indicates not only their recognition of Hong Kong's credit strength, but also their support of Hong Kong's determination and efforts in promoting sustainable development and combating climate change," said Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of Hong Kong.
Green bonds account for a small portion of the global bond market but are expected to gain in size, particularly in Asia which has lagged other regions such as Europe.
Worldwide corporate green bond issuance is at $41.3 billion so far this year, Refinitiv data showed, while sovereigns have raised $17.8 billion.
Asia accounted for $12 billion of the corporate green bonds and $2.6 billion of the sovereign paper, the data showed.
Over 100 global institutional investors placed orders for Hong Kong's green bond, with 50% going to Asia, 27% to Europe and 23% to the United States, the HKMA said.
Sovereign wealth funds, supranationals and central banks took up the biggest share of the bond at 41%.
Indonesia was the first Asian country to sell a green bond in 2018, raising $1.25 billion. (Full Story)
Credit Agricole and HSBC were joint global coordinators for Hong Kong's green bond.
($1 = 7.8490 Hong Kong dollars)
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A storm generating 45 mph wind and four inches of rain near Cleveland Saturday is now in New England.
Clouds are thickening and lowering as rain advances southwest to northeast overnight. By sunrise, only northern and eastern Maine is not in the rain and wind.
Rain will end in Connecticut by early afternoon, about the same time the rain arrives in northern and eastern Maine.
Rainfall amounts of one to three inches may generate minor flooding of roads, small streams and basements.
Wind gusts of 45-55 mph at the shore and in the hills caused scattered power outages. Around 9 a.m. on Sunday, over 11,000 people were without power in costal Massachusetts. By 11 a.m., that number was down to 3,000.
High tide is early in the day, with seas of four to eight feet, causing coastal erosion. But tides are not running strong, so coastal flooding is not expected.
New England is on the north side of the front, so most of us have high temperatures of 55 to 65 degrees. Perhaps we get some sunshine along the south coast where temperatures my warm to 70-75 degrees.
The first to see the rain, southwestern New England, is first to see the rain end during the early afternoon. Last to see the rain, northern Maine, will be wet into early Monday.
Monday looks mostly dry in New England as weak high pressure results in a mix of sun and clouds, a few mountain showers, and highs in the 70s to near 80. Wind should be from the west 10-15 mph.
Another energized weather system approaches from the west Tuesday. Wind from the southwest increases 15-25 mph, pushing in warmer air with highs in the low 80s.
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High pressure arrives Thursday and Friday with sunny warm weather.
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50th Anniversary of Eisenhower Military Industrial Complex Warning - the UFO connection
January 17, 2011. Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.
January 17, 2011. Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.
Today is the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower's warning about the dangers posed by the military-industrial complex in his farewell speech televised on January 17, 1961. It was the most unusual of farewell addresses for a U.S. President, especially so for a retired five star general. What exactly did Eisenhower have in mind with his farewell address? More importantly, what did Eisenhower tell President-Elect Kennedy about the military-industrial complex in his confidential meetings with him away from their staffers during the Presidential transition period? After all, the issues that so concerned Eisenhower would be passed on to Kennedy. It would be only natural that Eisenhower would confidentially brief Kennedy about critical policy issues that he could only vaguely allude to in a public speech. This leads to the critical question. Did these confidential discussions away from presidential staffers, play any role in what subsequently happened to Kennedy less than three years later? Most Kennedy assassination theorists ignore any direct link between Eisenhower's farewell speech and the Kennedy assassination. The reality is that there is a direct link between Eisenhower's warning of the military-industrial complex and the actors that conspired to physically eliminate Kennedy in 1963. The link in question was executive Presidential control over advanced technologies associated with the UFO phenomenon.
First, let's begin with Eisenhower's farewell speech itself and the
he gave exactly fifty years ago:
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Eisenhower emphasized the importance of "an alert and knowledgeable citizenry" in ensuring a proper balance of national security interests and personal liberties. Clearly, what Eisenhower had in mind was that the citizenry would be sufficiently informed about national security issues so that a balance could be reached in the policy making process. When the private citizenry, along with elected political representatives and the mass media were not informed, the potential for disastrous misuse of power under the guise of national security existed. Eisenhower desired transparency when it came to the national security process, and saw this as the means of maintaining a proper balance between security and liberty. Given Eisenhower's military background and long familiarity with the need for secrecy on vital national security issues, it is an extraordinary statement from him. So what was it precisely that so concerned Eisenhower that he would take such an extraordinary position in his farewell address?
Most assume that the military-industrial complex referred to the enormous armaments industry developed in the U.S. to feed the growing appetite of the U.S. military in policing the world. Enforcing Pax America would require long range bombers, aircraft carriers, nuclear missiles and a whole array of armaments that would be built by private contractors and spawn a vast military-industrial complex. Herein lay the danger according to the conventional view where highly paid corporate lobbyists would exercise undue influence over legislators and the mass media to justify expenditure on more powerful armaments. There was, however, a deeper aspect to the military-industrial complex that concerned Eisenhower above all else. Something so veiled in secrecy that the citizenry, elected political representatives, and even the President himself was out of the loop of the policy making process. The issue concerned advanced technologies associated with UFOs.
Insight into the thinking of President Eisenhower in referring to the danger of the military-industrial complex was given by Steven Lovekin who worked during the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations in the White House Army Signal Agency, and later retired as an Army JAG officer with the rank of Lt Colonel. From 1959-1961, Lovekin was in an elite group of military servicemen whose job it was to maintain the integrity of Eisenhower's communications channels. This brought him into close proximity with Eisenhower who confided to this elite military group some of his private concerns. This is how Lovekin describes Eisenhower's concerns over the power of the military-industrial complex, and its handling of the UFO phenomenon:
We would sit around with him when we were at Camp David, and he knew who each and every one of us by name. That was the great thing about being under him. I was just a sergeant at the time. I was still privy to some stuff that some people wouldn't be privy to . When he said the main thing we have to fear is the military industrial complex, he wasn't kidding, and he had the subject matter we are talking about [UFOs] in mind. He was quite explicit about that.
Lovekin's testimony is an eyewitness account that Eisenhower believed that the danger posed by the military-industrial complex was directly related to management of the UFO phenomenon. In another interview, Lovekin described Eisenhower's growing frustration with the way the UFO issue was being managed:
This frustration, from what I can remember, went on for months. He realized that he was losing control of the UFO subject. He realized that the phenomenon or whatever it was that we were faced with was not going to be in the best hands. As far as I can remember, that was the expression that was used, "It is not going to be in the best hands." That was a real concern. And so it has turned out to be...
So if Eisenhower did privately warn Kennedy about the threat posed by the military-industrial complex in managing the UFO issue, how might this be related to the Kennedy assassination?
There have been a number of whistleblowers who have come forward to reveal that President Kennedy actively sought to be briefed about UFOs, but was denied access by senior policy officials. Kennedy tried to do an end run against those denying him access and visited military bases to learn directly about classified projects conducted there. Kennedy also sought to be briefed by military intelligence officers who knew about the UFO issue and how it was being managed by an elite control group. This is confirmed retired Lt Col Philip Corso who worked in the Eisenhower administration, and during the Kennedy administration, claims to have worked in a Top Secret Army project to seed civilian industries with recovered UFO technology. In an interview, Corso revealed that he personally briefed Bobby Kennedy about UFOs, who relayed what he had learned to his brother, the President.
I have written elsewhere about evidence suggesting that President Kennedy from the beginning of his administration, did indeed attempt to re-establish direct Presidential authority over management of the UFO issue. Kennedy was thwarted again and again. His assassination was a direct consequence of his final, and most audacious effort to regain control of the UFO issue. In September, 1963, Kennedy proposed joint space and lunar missions with the Soviet Union. This would have required an extensive information sharing program including data about UFOs. On November 12, 1963, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev finally accepted Kennedy's offer. Ten days later Kennedy was dead.
President Kennedy's efforts to declassify UFO files & the MJ-12 Assassination Directive.
Kennedy's efforts to re-establish Presidential control of the UFO
phenomenon can be directly traced back to President Eisenhower's warning
about the dangers of the military-industrial complex; and what Eisenhower
had, almost certainly, privately confided to him about the secret
management system for UFO technology. 50 years ago the world was warned
about the dangers of the military-industrial complex. Few are aware
of the extent to which President Kennedy tried to secretly deal with
the danger that Eisenhower had only vaguely described in his farewell
address; and how Kennedy's efforts to decisively act on Eisenhower's
warning was directly related to his assassination.
If you wish to comment on this article, click here & scroll to bottom.
Further Reading:
- President Kennedys deadly confrontation with the CIA & MJ-12 over ET/UFO X-Files - Part 1; Part 2.
- Eisenhowers 1954 Meeting With Extraterrestrials: The Fiftieth Anniversary of First Contact?
© Copyright 2011. Michael E. Salla. Exopolitics.org


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People tend to view product innovations as distinct points on a timeline, but new things are often a culmination of technical progress and human acceptance. This is never more true than with the future of the automobile, where automated driving appears to demand such an exacting blend of technology and humanity.
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.vimrc lately, and this is one of the more useful things I've added. I have forgotten where it came from exactly, but here it is:
let $GROFF_NO_SGR=1 source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim nmap K :Man <cword><CR>
What's it good for? The default key binding for K (that's "shift-k" I guess) in
vim is to look up the word under the cursor using the
man command. The sad thing about this process is that
vim gets replaced by
less (or whatever pager you happen to be using), and that once you're done reading the page, you have to press "Enter" one additional time to get back into
vim and back to whatever you were doing. Kinda breaks your flow, you know?
Once you've added the three lines above to your
.vimrc things are quite different. When you hit K, the man page opens as a new split window inside of
vim so you're staying in the same environment. All the usual binds for switching between windows work, so you can keep the
man page open while going back to your code. Better yet, the
man page will be "syntax highlighted" using different colors for headings, text, and (you guessed it) references to other
man pages. And the best thing? You can browse
man pages the same way you browse
tags: use "ctrl-]" to open another
man page and use "ctrl-t" to "go back" to the previous one.
Now that's how
man pages were supposed to be integrated with your editor. Very nice indeed... :-D
There's one small problem that I have not been able to work around yet: The original K could be preceded by the section number to look in, but this won't work in the replacement above. I am not enough of a
vim hacker yet to add that capability. Shame on me?
Update: Actually, I forced myself to learn just enough of
vimscript to cobble together something ugly for section numbers:
" experimental hack to get section numbers to work as well function ManWrapper(n, w) if a:n > 0 let cnt = a:n-line(".")+1 execute "Man" cnt a:w else execute "Man" a:w endif endfunction com -count=0 -nargs=+ CMan :call ManWrapper(<count>, <f-args>) nmap X :CMan <cword><cr>
Yes, I know, it's quite horrific! If you know this dreadful language better, please tell me how to rewrite this cleanly.


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Effective Collaboration Training
While working together in groups can be fun, it's not always easy. How can we collaborate with others without replicating hierarchical structures or getting too bogged-down in group process? Specifically designed for Transition Initiative leaders and those working towards social change, this dynamic, participatory training will provide you with everything you need to build organizational capacity and skillfully navigate the inevitable ups and downs of group life. See more information about the Effective Collaboration (aka Effective Groups) course here.
Presenter Bio: Don Hall has had the good fortune to participate in the Transition Movement in a variety of capacities over the past decade. Initially serving for two years as the Education and Outreach Coordinator for Transition Colorado, he went on to found and direct Transition Sarasota (Florida) from 2010 to 2016. A certified Transition Trainer and experienced facilitator, Don currently works part-time for Transition US. He holds a Master's in Environmental Leadership from Naropa University.
Skilling Up For Local Economic Resilience
This two day course is designed for community organisers, activists, entrepreneurs, civic leaders – anyone who is interested in making real economic change where they live. Based on our experience in Totnes and elsewhere, this course will include useful ideas and theories, and lots of practical tools. Participants will come away with a solid understanding of local economics, how to organise change making projects, and a real feeling of confidence. Topics include:
economics – assumptions and aspirations
key ideas in local economics
mapping and assessments
networks beyond the usual suspects
Note to participants - this won't be a course on how to start a 'transition enterprise', but rather how to create the conditions for many 'transition enterprises' to emerge. Some practical, actionable work people can take home, but no business plans. *Please note - this workshop requires a minimum of 20 participants. In the event we do not receive enough participation and need to cancel the workshop, your ticket can be refunded or put toward another intensive workshop.
Presenter Bio: Jay Tompt is a co-founding member of the Totnes REconomy Project and independent consultant. Since 2011, the Totnes REconomy Project has developed an innovative approach to economic regeneration and resilience, which includes the Local Economic Blueprint, Local Entrepreneur Forum and the REconomy Centre. Jay has also worked with groups across Europe and Japan. Jay is a graduate of the Monterey Institute of International Studies and San Jose State University. He's also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and is associate lecturer in economics at Plymouth University.
From Meetings to Movements: Social Permaculture Strategies for Transition
DATE: Thursday 7/27
How can Transition form unlikely alliances and spread its message "beyond the choir"? Can relocalization advocates start to shape local public policy? Join permaculturalist, author, and social entrepreneur Adam Brock in this interactive workshop designed to take our local initiatives to the next level. Please note: This workshop requires a minimum of 10 participants. In the event we do not receive enough participation and the workshop is canceled, your ticket can be refunded or put toward another intensive workshop..
Presenter Bio: Adam Brock is a social permaculturalist based in his hometown of Denver, Colorado. As co-founder of The GrowHaus, Adam led the transformation of an abandoned half-acre greenhouse in Colorado's most polluted zip code into an award-winning permaculture demonstration site that engages thousands of residents per year. Adam is active in the local and national permaculture communities, serving as co-founder of the Denver Permaculture Guild, co-organizer of the inaugural North American Permaculture Convergence, and a contributor and guest editor at Permaculture Design magazine. Adam's most recent project, "Change Here Now," is a social permaculture pattern language published by North Atlantic Books in 2017.
Community Rights: We thePeople Are More Powerful Than We Believe
DATE: Thursday 7/27
Imagine activists beginning to redefine ourselves as We the People, with the inherent right to govern ourselves where we live. Imagine us turning our Energy Descent Action Plans (EDAP's) into rights-based local ordinances with ten-year locally enforceable timelines for full implementation. The Community Rights movement has already helped more than 200 communities and counties in eight states to realize that they in fact do have the RIGHT to a Sustainable Energy Future, the RIGHT to a healthy climate, the RIGHT to clean water and a local food system, the RIGHT to a sustainable infrastructure, etc. As locally enforceable laws! We need a scale of local organizing and educating that few of us have ever witnessed. We need to start seeing ourselves as The Deciders. We need to start thinking and acting as a self-governing people. Expect to be provoked and stretched in your thinking! Click HERE to read the speech Paul gave to the Portland, Oregon Transition group in 2012 which will help to clarify his perspective on how the Community Rights movement's strategy and vision could profoundly transform and expand the work of Transition. See the CommunityRights.us website for more info.
Presenter Bio: Paul Cienfuegos is a nationally prominent workshop leader and community organizer in the Community Rights movement, which works to dismantle corporate constitutional so-called "rights" and assert the people's inherent right to govern themselves and protect the community's health and welfare. Paul has some very provocative ideas about how Transition could rapidly expand its impact across the US by teaming up with the Community Rights movement and its ongoing success in helping more than 200 communities to successfully pass locally enforceable laws that transition us away from unsustainable energy and resource depletion and towards our RIGHT as We the People to a sustainable future. Paul recently co-founded Community Rights US to further this work nationally. More info at www.CommunityRights.US and www.CommunityRightsPDX.org/podcast .
Deep Resilience: From Me to We - An Intimate Communal Exploration
DATE: Friday 7/28
This interactive and experiential intensive focuses on the inner transition, "the changes we need to make within ourselves to transition to the more caring, equitable, beautiful, sustainable and resilient world..." (Transition Network). We will attend to our internal humanity, the fertile inner territory where we discover the ingenuity and power to cultivate resilience. We'll be tapping into sources within that give rise to and invigorate our healthier responses to the challenges facing us - to ultimately blossom as trailblazers and game-changers in ways that can be sustained over time. Then, we will investigate how our own deep resilience can foster wellbeing in our communities. Throughout the day, we'll weave in practices that involve self-reflection, helpful unlearning, contemplation, conversation, and more.
Presenter Bio: During the last four decades, Rebecca Blanco has served as a psychotherapist, presented an array of personal growth workshops, and completed a Masters and a Doctorate. Feeling concerned about the severe challenges we are facing, Rebecca delved into eco-psychology and deep ecology, perspectives that enable us to understand the interconnections between ecological-social-psychological forces and the manner in which these reveal the complexity of our planetary crisis. Rebecca participated in numerous programs/trainings, including the Transition Trainer Course, Permaculture Design Course, consultations with eco-psychology instructor Andy Fisher, Ph.D., Animas Valley Institute's wilderness-based programs, The Work That Reconnects, and an Awakening the Dreamer Facilitator Training. As the founder/chairperson of The Bridge, a community-oriented organization designed to explore paradigm-shifting ideas, Rebecca has organized over 100 educational events. She is full-heartedly dedicated to facilitating workshops that support eco-centered personal transformation.
Taking Your Transition Initiative to the Next Level
DATE: Friday 7/28
Join colleagues in a highly interactive, sharing and problem-solving workshop addressing key challenges of growing a Transition/resilience/eco-collaborative community. Give and receive in-depth support. Explore pros and cons of different approaches to communications, outreach, growth, group structure, community development, choosing goals and projects, facilitating outer and inner Transition, with other groups and local government. Share and discover "best practices", fantastic resources, and how to choose among Transition ingredients to best support collective genius and action in your unique community. A leading global Transition Trainer, Tina will share insights from local eco-economy-community projects from her Transition consulting work in Denmark and Europe. Format: participatory exercises, small groups, large group discussion, presentation.
Presenter Bio: Tina Clarke has been a professional community organizer, trainer, facilitator and speaker since 1985, and a Transition Trainer since 2008. She directed national citizen training programs and founded campaigns on energy, environmental justice and toxins. As a consultant she helped 422 organizations with strategic planning, program expansion, fundraising, and public engagement. Working with Transition Network Tina has served over 240 communities worldwide, given 61 official Transition courses, and provided hundreds of Transition presentations. Her Transition articles have been published in two scholarly books. She is currently consulting for Transition Initiatives and model local eco-economy projects in Denmark.
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Friday Lust List
It's Friday! Are you screaming it from the rooftops?
Here are some fancy things that have caught our eye in Georgia Land all across the Interwebs this week… a little Friday inspiration as we start to make our holiday lists:
After spending a long day outdoors, I want nothing more than a seriously heavy-duty shower session to wash all the adventure away. The Healing Garden's Bamboo Charcoal Soap really gets in your pores, not just the surface like other soaps. It can also be used to treat acne, eczema, psoriasis, and dry/cracked skin. Plus it's shiny and green! Who doesn't love shiny green soap.
Identify the cheeses and hors d'oeuvres for your party guests with the Slate Cheese Board by SPARQ Home to let them know exactly what they're sampling while keeping the presentation sophisticated yet playful.
Make your hanging garden masterpieces take center stage in these lovely Palm Leaf Hanging Planters. These are great for when you don't have any land to plant in but want some green in your life.
Take this Garden & Gun Cooler to your latest BYOB, or even on your next dove hunting trip to keep your victories nice and fresh. It comes in two equally amazing prints… I can't decide which one I love more.
Hunt in style with this drop-dead gorgeous Garden & Gun Gun Case. You can choose between American Heritage leather or Graystone waxed canvas.
Grab a signed copy of On the Run by David DiBenedetto, Garden & Gun's Editor-in-Chief and go on a mental adventure through the fall run, with first-hand accounts of interesting characters along the way.
Every outdoors (wo)man should own this Cast Pewter Box With Antler Engraving, handmade by Match Artisans. Throw in essentials like a pocket knife, a compass, even a deck of cards, then carry it in your cargo pocket and you're ready for your next adventure.
Don't wait for the cold weather to bite you in the butt before you gather your winter hunting wardrobe. Start this year's collection with a Wool Shooting Sweater.
These adorable G&G Arrow Letterpress Note Cards complete me.
Brush up on your southern hospitality with experts who know the ins and outs of life below the Mason Dixon Line in The Southerner's Handbook.
Scream your patriotism from the mountain tops! Pitch your pride with this American Flag Tent by FieldCandy.
Whether you are hunting deer or just wearing an awesome Antler Necklace, you can look like a fierce woman.
Don't just have hand me downs and kids crafts on your Christmas tree this year. I found you the perfect Dr. Seuss inspired ornament for your Christmas tree.
Adorn your table or bookshelf with an amazing brass electroplated deer skull.
This ring is Katniss meets Pocahontas and good for day or night time outings.
Campfire in a can?? Yes! You can have a fire in your backyard or bring it with you camping.
Happy Friday friends!


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A recent grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia will fund a new study of advanced transplantation techniques. The study, which is being led by Children's Hospital's Wayne Hancock, MBBS, PhD, FRCPA, will focus on vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA), a type of transplantation in which multiple tissues — such as an entire hand — are transplanted "as a functional unit," according to the American Society of Transplantation (AST). In particular, Dr. Hancock and his team will be working to develop "new approaches to immunosuppression," he said.
Dr. Hancock, the chief of Children's Hospital's Division of Transplant Immunology, will act as the project's principle investigator, while L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania, will lead the University of Pennsylvania's efforts. In addition to Drs. Hancock and Levin, Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania Matthew H. Levine, MD, PhD, will contribute to the investigation.
With this four-year, $2 million grant, CHOP and Penn join a consortium of institutions — including the University of Maryland and the Christine M. Kleinert Institute for Hand and Microsurgery — led by Emory University that will examine advanced transplantation techniques through the DoD's Restorative Transplantation Research program. Overall, the research program seeks to "make a significant impact on improving the function, wellness, and overall quality of life" for wounded members of the military.
A study published last year in the Medical Surveillance Monthly Report, a publication of the Armed Forces Surveillance Center, underscores the DoD's interest in advancing VCA. The study found that between 2000 and 2011, U.S. military service members underwent 6,144 "traumatic amputations." Of these, about one third were "major amputations" of a hand or limb.
"Because of improvements in protective equipment and innovations in medical evacuation procedures and battlefield trauma care … many severely injured service members, who might have died in earlier wars/conflicts, survived their injuries with significant disabilities, including amputations," the study's authors note.
Weighing Transplantation's Costs, Benefits
According to the AST, there have been a number of hand and face transplants over the last decade worldwide, with approximately 46 patients receiving 66 hand transplants. However, while clinicians can perform hand or limb transplants, whether they should is in question, as the burden of requiring ongoing immunosuppression when performing such transplants still outweighs their benefits, Dr. Hancock said.
This is because the effects of the immunosuppressive drugs that accompany any transplantation can outweigh the procedure's benefit. After receiving a liver, kidney, heart or lung transplant, patients must agree to undertake a lifelong regimen of medications to prevent organ rejection, including the immunosuppressives tacrolimus or cyclosporine, mycophenolate, sirolimus, and steroids like prednisone.
There are a number of adverse effects associated with these drugs, which patients must take for the rest of their lives. For instance, some of the many side effects associated with tacrolimus are diarrhea, constipation, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, hypertension, liver and kidney issues, neuropathy, seizures, and depression.
In the case of organ transplants — without which one cannot live — the "risk-benefit ratio weighs in favor of taking the risk, because the benefit is one of life," Dr. Hancock said. The ethics of performing a limb transplant remain less clear, he noted. And managing the body's immune response to a transplant can be as tricky, if not trickier, than the surgery itself, Dr. Hancock pointed out.
So with this project Dr. Hancock and his team will work to "come up with some new strategies that don't involve conventional immunosuppression." The investigators' work will begin in mice, eventually moving to humans once the researchers show that their ideas work. "We're using knowledge that we've developed over years to show that we can do limb transplants in small animal models," he said.
And though the project is not pediatric-specific, Dr. Hancock noted that it was "possible that the techniques developed could eventually be useful for limb transplants in kids." Researchers might eventually be able to use what they learn to perform limb transplants on children with congenital limb abnormalities.
To learn more about The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's transplant services and research, see the Pediatric Transplant Center.


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In 2013 Matt and Paul exited startup alexandalexa.com, an online luxury childrenswear retailer in which they invested in 2008, for more than 4.5 times invested capital. They went on to form True.
Since then, Matt and Paul have been joined by a like-minded and ambitious team, and today True is Europe's only consumer and retail sector-specialist that operates across the entire investment vertical.
CEO and Co-Founder
Matt has been involved in the retail and consumer sector for 16 years. Graduating from the University of London with a 1st class degree in business and economics, he began his career at Deloitte before joining Lehman Brothers as an equity analyst, where he was made Head of Retail. He subsequently joined JP Morgan where he led the European retail franchise. Over his 13-year career in the City, Matt advised a collection of the largest and most disruptive retailers in the world. He co-founded True with Paul Cocker in 2008, initially as a private investment vehicle to build and ultimately realise his own e-commerce business in his spare time, before launching the business full time in 2013.
Matt sits on the board of True portfolio companies: Ribble Cycles, The Cotswold Company and Tyres on the Drive.
Paul started his 20-year retail and consumer career at Deloitte, meeting Matt in the process. He then spent seven years as a corporate financier while at the same time, joining forces with Matt to build AlexandAlexa and subsequently launch True. Paul focuses on True's investment portfolio, whilst also ensuring that True delivers against its long-term strategy.
Paul sits on the board of The Cotswold Company, Ribble Cycles, Tyres on the Drive and Frugi.


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Having read the Pavement, Pocklington Footpath – Work Instruction it is clear that ERYC have no understanding of basic disability legislation. How could the work cost £20,000?
It states that there is likely to be a positive impact for those with disability. What rubbish. The impact is a disaster for those with disabilities.
The Pocklington and Wolds Gateway Partnership have congratulated ERYC "works has been very well done".
Gateway have representatives from Pocklington Town Council and ERYC. The ERYC representatives are Councillor West and Councillor Mole.
How is it possible that neither PTC, Gateway, Councillor West, Councillor Mole or ERYC collectively have no understanding of disability legislation?
Due to my concerns I have asked for a full Access Audit from outwith ERYC.


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What Does an Infusion Nurse Do? Interview With An Infusion Therapy Nurse
By Lee Nelson
The first day Michelle Berreth headed into her surgical unit as a student nurse, she came upon an infusion nurse hanging a patient's antibiotics next to them.
She watched this nurse, who became her mentor, go from patient to patient to see how they were doing, and how everything was working with their IV medicines or fluids.
"I knew right there, that's what I wanted to do. You take that passion for IV therapy in whatever setting you are in," says Berreth, who now is educator for the Infusion Nurses Society (INS) in Norwood, Mass. "I have found that with any nursing specialty, you just know the minute you come in contact with it, that you want to do it."
However, she has found that many nurses aren't familiar with the terms infusion therapy or infusion nurse. But infusion therapy can involve anything from a football player playing too hard in the hot summer and needing IV fluids, or someone with a bowel problem who cannot digest food so requires nutrition through an IV.
One patient Berreth will never forget was a 16-year-old boy who had bone cancer. He had just had surgery and was dealing with chemotherapy and IV fluids at his home.
"I had just started as a home infusion nurse. It was Thanksgiving night when the boy came home, which was out in the country," she says.
The parents were so afraid of what they were doing. But having a nurse there to set up the infusion therapy and to explain what they could expect made all the difference in the world. Berreth spent a lot of time with them making sure they were comfortable with what was going on.
"This guy was very special. I loved this kid and will never forget him. But many of my home care patients were amazing people," she says.
How did you get involved with infusion therapy?
Berreth's career began in a very small, rural hospital as a staff nurse. She was asked to revise the organization's policies and procedures for infusion therapy.
"Not quite knowing what to do, I turned to a nurse that I knew was an expert in infusion nursing. She introduced me to the Infusion Nurses Society as a resource for infusion nursing standards of practice," she says.
"Over the years, I've worked in many different areas (home infusion, acute care and medical oncology infusion), and infusion therapy was a part of every position I held."
What is an infusion nurse?
An infusion nurse is a resource, advocate, mentor, and a collaborator, Berreth says.
Infusion nurses ensure that patients receiving intravenous (IV) therapy receive care that is appropriate for the therapy ordered, from choosing an appropriate infusion device to the management of that device as well as monitoring and evaluating the patient's response to the IV therapy.
An infusion nurse can work in any practice setting where IV therapy is administered including the patient's home, skilled nursing facilities, hospitals, clinics or offices. Most of the training is on-the-job.
What special certifications, personality traits, training, etc. does it take to become an infusion nurse?
There is no special certification to become an infusion nurse. However, there is a certification for infusion nurses. The Certified Registered Nurse Infusion (CRNI®) validates the knowledge and skills a nurse has acquired and indicates that nurse is an expert in that field.
What does the Infusion Nurses Society do for nurses?
The Infusion Nurses Society (INS) provides education, guidelines, and standards of practice that enable nurses to provide evidence-based infusion care to any patient receiving infusion therapy.
What is the salary range of an infusion nurse?
This will vary depending on location, practice setting. Certified nurses may receive additional compensation.
What is the job outlook for infusion therapy nurses?
As awareness increases about the specialty, the importance of infusion nurses to obtaining positive outcomes continues to become evident. It's been reported that more than 90% of patients receive some sort of infusion therapy during a hospital encounter, Berreth says.
What destinations and areas of the country and the world are these jobs available?
"Infusion nursing has truly expanded globally," she says. "Each year, there are attendees at the national conferences from many countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Japan…the list goes on. Anywhere there are patients receiving infusions is where an infusion nurse can, and should, be found."
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