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I've reached an odd but, I suppose, inevitable state. When I got to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, I asked around about what I should see and do there – locals, other tourists, hotel staff – anyone who might have an opinion about what wonders Chiang Mai had to offer. Well it turns out that what Chiang Mai can boast a reasonable list of interesting things that I have already done. There are Buddhist temples in abundance – done that. There's a highly recommended zip-ling day trip – obviously that was out. There's a well-regarded elephant sanctuary – remember Nepal? How about white water rafting? Uganda. Cooking class? Jungle trek? Night Market? Check (x2), check, check. Stifling heat? Friendly people? Spicy food? I could go on and on. I realize this sounds sort of ungrateful and jaded, but it's honestly what happened.
Errr… another temple (Actually, Wat Chedi Luang. I think.)
So what did I do? Well, I finally decided to use the money given to me by the Winnipeg Hashers when I left town lo these many months ago and splash out on a really nice hotel. I know it was intended to be used in an extreme circumstance, when I really needed to retreat and regroup in total luxury, but I think I may have waited too long. Also, the trouble is that most of those moments of despair came when there really wasn't an upgrade possible – like, for instance, that rainy Christmas morning in Africa. If I'd had the chance I certainly would have strolled down to the Serengeti Hilton, but it turns out there were all booked up (the holidays, you know). So instead I decided I'd treat myself after the sweatiness and rusticity of Tree House 7. Also, I stretched the rules of the game a bit. Rather than one night in the best place in town, I opted for a 3-night package deal at a really nice boutique hotel in the old city. I figured the most relaxing thing would be if I didn't have to up sticks and move to a new place just as I was getting used to the good life.
And that's how I ended up at the Tamarind Village in the old city of Chiang Mai, on their 3-night "Simply Lanna" Package. It included:
- three nights of boutique accommodations
- breakfast buffet every morning (with omelet bar!)
- a dinner of traditional Thai food
- two 90-minute massages (Well, it was actually a package intended for two people, so I just booked one person twice!)
- a private temple tour
It wasn't cheap, but the Hash money added to the amount I would have spent on food and accommodations anyways meant that it was still in the budget, so off I went.
Ha! Did you see how I said, "off I went" as if it was a simple thing? Nothing is simple in Southeast Asia. In reality, this is what happened:
Woke up in Tree House 7 and made the sweaty one and a half hour trek to get to the village. Waited in the village. Got into the back of a tuk tuk for a trip that seemed eleven times longer than it was on the way in. Arrived in the bustling metropolis of Huay Xai and checked at the old guest house to make sure my pre-booked, pre-paid minibus to Chiang Mai was all still fine. Found out that only one other person had booked the minibus, so the minibus was about to be cancelled. Had small freak out. Asked how many people were needed to ensure the departure of the minibus. Press-ganged Todd, Kat, Christina and Cecelia into taking the trip with me on the promise of an half-empty minibus with air-con (they were going to Chiang Mai anyways, honest). Checked email. Raced over to Narlene and Marcus's hotel room (other gibbon buddies) and used their generously-offered shower to become human. Started sweating again before I've even walked out of the bathroom. Ran around gathering some food for the trip. Waited with the gang for the 4:00 pm minibus. Checked with the weird old guesthouse lady the confirm the bus was really coming. Was told that we were supposed to meet the bus on the other side of the river in Thailand, but don't worry, it bus wasn't leaving until 5:00pm. (We were supposed to know this…?) Race to Laos customs to get stamped out of the country. Pay ridiculous "overtime fee" for arriving and expecting service between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm (Ok, it was only $1 USD, but still). Get into a small canoe-like boat and cross over into Thailand. Pass through Thai customs. Try to find the minibus. Get found by a tuk tuk driver who says we are to get in the tuk tuk and it will take us to where the minibus is. Obey. Arrive at a guesthouse that is, apparently, the jumping-off point for the minibus. Check at reception only to be told the bus actually leaves at 6:30 pm. Speak strongly to the guy behind the counter to no avail. Resign self to 6:30pm departure, and also discover our half-empty minibus that had been in danger of not going at all for lack of passengers now has eleven people booked on it. Wait more, sweat more, fret more, feel bad about getting my TH7 buddies into all this, wait a bit more. Pile onto minibus at 6:30 pm, which miraculously turns out to be as advertised – comfortable, clean, modern and blissfully air conditioned. Ride for four hours through the dark and arrive in Chiang Mai at about 11:00 pm. Take yet another tuk tuk to Tamarind Village Hotel. Check in. On the way to the room, notice a six inch long scorpion scuttling across the floor of the open air reception area. Get to room. Drink beer. Reflect on the interesting and fluid nature of travel and life in Southeast Asia. Collapse.
So like I said, off I went.
Tamarind Village was great. You saw the pool. Here's my room:
Many pillows! A choice of bathrobes!
It wasn't over-the-top opulent, but there were the bathrobes, a well-stocked minibar, a basket fruit fruit, very nice toiletries and big fluffy towels. And of course there were the massages… On Friday afternoon I booked a Thai massage, on Sunday morning I had an aromatherapy oil massage. Each was done in the hotel's spa (of course), and started with a cup of cold tea and a cold towel. The cold towel is a fantastic thing that I ran into a few times in Chiang Mai – a damp, tightly rolled and very chilled towel is presented on a tray and you unroll it and use it to wipe your face and hands. It feels AMAZING.
Each massage started with a ritual where the massage therapist washed my feet. There was a brass-lined tub of warm water, and into that she crushed slices of orange and chunks of lemongrass and salt. Then she scrubbed my feet with a mixture of oil and salt and rinsed them and dried them off. Needless to say, it was very nice, though it was a bit weird having my feet washed by someone else – too much symbolism there for my tastes. (Naturally, more pictures of my feet are at Flickr. I should start a Flickr set of pictures of Pam's feet.)
My aromatherapy massage lady, with the tub and accoutrements for foot washing.
The massage rooms were really nice – dim, cool, and nicely decorated in subdued colours and rattan and such. They had full bathrooms and showers, and closets for your clothes. The Thai massage was done dry – I wore a loose top and pants that were provided. The aromatherapy massage was oily, so they actually gave you a throw-away set of underwear! Friday's Thai massage was sort of like therapeutic massages I've had in the west, except that I could tell the therapist wasn't just using her hands – she used her elbows and her knees and her feet. And she'd grab an arm or a leg and move it around and stretch the muscles and well as massaging them. And I'm pretty sure she was using power tools when she got to my neck and shoulders because: Ouch! At the end she strongly recommended I come back for a long session just to concentrate on my neck, back and shoulders. Yeah, right. Sunday's oil massage was much more gentle, and very thorough. Front and back, arms, legs, feet, hands, neck, shoulders, head. I was pretty well-noodled by the time it was over.
Other than the massage, I had a really excellent dinner on Friday evening. There was a brief problem with them having taken my reservation for dinner without realizing it conflicted with a wine-tasting event that had booked the whole dining room, but eventually they made up a table for me in the corner, and were excellently fawning about the whole mix-up, so that was kind of cool. And the food was worth the wait.
The final part of the luxury package was the included temple tour. I did this on Saturday morning in the hotel's minivan with a driver who took me up the big hill outside of town to see Wat Suthep, one of Thailand's most famous temples. On the way up we stopped at a scenic overlook, though the skies were so hazy you couldn't see much. And of course the driver offered to take my picture, because he was worried about what Rob H might say if I didn't get one.
Me with hazy Chiang Mai in the background.
Once we got to the top I got the luxury treatment again. When the driver dropped me at the bottom of the steps up to the temple he opened up the back of the van and gave me a cold bottle of water from a cooler full of ice (I could also have had pop or beer). And he told me to give him the receipt from my entrance fee so the hotel could reimburse it. And he waited for me while I toured around the temple at a nice leisurely pace. Nice.
The temple was pleasant enough, but my favourite part was the staircase leading up to the main entrance. Each side was decorated with glazed tiles that looked like scales and the railings undulated up and down like a dragon all the way up.
The neatest part was how the colour of the dragon changed to yellow when you looked at it from the top down. Because of how the tiles were glazed it all looked predominantly green from the bottom and predominantly yellow from the top. Very clever.
Of course I also did enjoy having a look around the temple area. It's a very popular tourist destination, especially for Thais, so there were quite a few people around, but it didn't feel crowded or anything. What did seem crowded was the space around the outside of the temple – a sort of covered walkway that was completely crammed with lots of Buddha statues and zillions of donation boxes of every shape and size soliciting money for anything from temple upkeep to education for monks to support for the aged to sports complexes for hill tribe villages. There were so many I decided to do a complete circuit and count every one. One hundred and eighteen.
Well if they don't need a donation, I don't know who does.
The main stupa of the temple was being renovated (obviously, the donation boxes work) so I did get good photos of it. Though I was pleased to see that the shrouding they used to cover the scaffolding and work area was all bright, shiny gold cloth, so it blended in quite nicely.
The golden top of this stupa is quite famous, but not really shown to best advantage here.
The temple tour was nice, but perhaps the nicest part about it was that I got back to the hotel in time to have a beer, a quick dip in the pool, a longish laze reading on a poolside lounger, and a short nap before I ventured out to meet up with the Chiang Mai Saturday Hash House Harriers. But the Hash and my other adventures in Chiang Mai don't really have anything to do with my three days of luxury living. For now let's just remember me with my feet up poolside, muttering quiet but profound thank yous to the Winnipeg Hash House Harriers. I've said it before, but you guys are the best. Thanks.


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Dialogue in slow motion - links
These are the links used in my keynote for Blogtalk 2.0 in Vienna 2004.
Why do I blog
Anders Jacobsen's "Why I blog" post from March 6th 2003.
Elmine Wijnia's "Why do I blog" post from March 31st 2004
Aldo de Moor and Lilia Efimova's working paper An Argumentation Analysis of Weblog Conversations
phaTTboi's "why I blog" post of June 16th 2004.
Simpleton's "Why I blog" answer May 26th 2004. Quote
The virtual and the factual other
Abraham Maslows's pyramid
of needs.
The original slime
Time, space and blogs
"Blog this", two comments and links to Henry Jenkins' article of 2002. The article is today only available to subscribers of Technology Review.
Spitting Llama, Dave Winer
Since 2003 Technology Review has a blog, where Henry Jenkins is one of the writers.
Astri Heen Wold, Quote 1, 2 and 3
The tyranny of here and now
Some (in)famous conversations
Dave Winer and the Winer Watcher
Jogin.com on the conflict between Dave Winer and Mark Pilgrim
Jonathon Delacour on "Doing a Dave"
Dave Winer took down 3000 blogs.
People were unhappy.
Dave Winer replied in an audio file.
People were not any happier.
Dave Winer presented a new plan for hosting.
Some people are still not happy.
Dave Winer thanks the professional sites for clearing up what the bloggers didn't understand.
Sidewalks and gaps
Anne Galloway: First Count
Wolfgang Iser: quote
Danah Boyd: The privilege to not fight
Pete: Again with the "Women and blogging meme"
Challenge, mastery and pleasure
Steven Johnson: Quote
Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi: Quote
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Monday, July 05, 2004
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As the Fish of the Month for November, there will 2 lots of bags of 10 x Tropheus sp. Black "Bulu Point" around 4-6cm available at the PCS Meeting for auction. These are special lots to raise money for Stuart Grant Fund for Cichlid Preservation and have kindly been donated by one of our PCS Members - The Chief.
Tropheus sp. Black "Bulu Point"
This species is from Bulu Point, Tanzania.
Maximum length is around 5.8″ (14.5cm).
Order: Perciformes Family: Cichlidae
Tropheus are found all over Lake Tanganyika. They inhabit shallow waters around rocky parts of the shoreline.
The Tropheus species are technically omnivores, but should be fed heavily on vegetable matter. In the wild they are specialized aufwuchs feeders, aufwuchs refers to tough stringy algae that is attached to rocks. Tropheus are all algal grazers, feeding on algae and microinvertebrates they rasp from the rocks with specially adapted underslung mouths. It will accept most foods offered but vegetable matter in the form of Spirulina flakes, blanched spinach, nori etc. should form the basis of the diet. This can be supplemented with small feeds of live and frozen varieties. Never feed beefheart or any other animal meat as it interferes with the digestive system of these fish.
Feeding Frequency: Several feedings per day - Generally feed 2-3 small feedings a day rather than a single large feeding for better water quality.
These fish are suggested for more experienced aquarists as they are rather demanding to keep. This is due to their susceptibility to certain infections of the intestinal tract such as "bloat", so require more stringent requirements with diet and habitat. They also have a highly aggressive nature. They can be moderately easy to keep if it properly fed and the water quality is kept up, but difficult if not. They do best in a species tank, and only with other herbivorous types of cichlids included if the tank is large. The aquarists must be willing to do frequent water changes and provide appropriate tank mates.
Many aquarists keep Tropheus in bare setups to reduce territorial behaviour but they can also be maintained in decorated aquaria. If you wish to decorate the tank, use piles of rock work to form many cave-like structures and hiding places, interspersed with open areas for swimming. In either case use sand as substrate, and ensure the water is well-oxygenated.
Water Changes: Weekly - Water changes of 15% twice a week or 30% weekly are recommended.
Temperature: 73-81°F (23-27°C) pH: 8.0-9.5 Hardness: 8-25°H


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Yesterday's 30 Days Wild found me strolling around one of my favourite places, the National Trust's Anglesey Abbey, which luckily for me is just up the road. Normally I go just to have a wander and an explore but yesterday I had a purpose. I was feeling creative and wanted to have a think about the role of nature in art, especially with children. I am a huge believer in helping children see the links in the world and I think linking art and nature is a wonderful start. Not only does it help the children be creative but it also gives them an opportunity to observe nature in a bit more detail and from a different perspective.
As I was exploring I came with these handy ideas for getting children to think about art in nature.
Explore texture/ colour / shape
Once I started looking for interesting textures, colours and shapes in the nature of Anglesey I couldn't stop finding some gems. I even filled up my SD card with pictures! Getting children to photograph what they see would be a great way for the children to observe the nature around them. You could get them to focus on finding different shapes in nature of different colours of the rainbow? Depending on the age of the child you could give them a range of different things to look for that use their senses. These photos could then be used back home to generate their own art work using different textures. Have a look at some of the photos below for some starter ideas.
Look at the smoothness of this bark. It just calls out to be looked at and remarked upon. Whenever I wander around Anglesey I always happen upon someone remarking on its smoothness and colour!
These pictures would be good for looking at patterns in the world around you. These patterns could then be recreated back home. Warning- pattern spotting can be quite addicting!
You can't beat Spring and Summer for a lovely bit of colour! (ok, ok Autumn and Winter has some beautiful colour as well!) This would inspire me to do a bit of colour mixing to try and recreate some of these stunning colours. This would also be an ideal opportunity to find out what difference it would make if you used different paints and materials. How can you create different strengths in colour?
You don't have to have all the art fun at home! Get the kids to take their sketchbook with them and do some on location sketching. This would also be a great task for their nature journals!
Come back later in the month when I will share some more creative ideas for combining art and nature! Have a great day!


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I'm linking up with Speech Room News again this month for her Love It & List It link-up. This month's topic is favorite technology. Here's what I use and love in my speech room.
1) iPad
I feel like I'm preaching to the choir here, because the iPad and apps are EVERYWHERE, but it is truly the number one piece of technology I use every day. Obviously there are tons of apps out there which are great for use in the speech room, but the iPad goes way beyond apps too.
It's all that and more. I am so fortunate that my employer also sees its value and is willing to provide me with one. Now, if only I could triple the amount of memory available :)
BTW, I was supplied a case with attached bluetooth keyboard by my employer, which is great for writing reports on the go, but I'm looking for something less clunky sans keyboard for everyday use. What's your favorite iPad case? Let me know in the comments please.
2) Boardmaker Plus
Need a visual schedule for a student? Boardmaker. Need a token board to keep a student on task? Boardmaker. Need pages for a communication device? Boardmaker. Need a sheet of words containing target speech sounds for progress monitoring? Boardmaker. Need to write a social story? Boardmaker. It's such a versatile tool, and I use it all the time. Be sure to check out Boardmaker Share and Boardmaker Achieve to download ready-made activities from other users! Again, I am so very grateful to have this provided to me by my employer.
3) Voice Recorders
The top two I use are Quick Voice (on the iPad) and Audacity (on my laptop). They are both free to download, and perfect for taking language samples, screening a student, and recording story retell trials. I like Audacity on my MacBook Pro because I can turn it on and then tilt the screen down until almost closed so the student isn't distracted by the recording. However, I'm almost always working with students in their classroom or in the hallway and don't drag my laptop along, so I use Quick Voice on the iPad the most. Check it out!
4) Social Media
This isn't really something I use directly in therapy, but social media is definitely something that affects the activities I'm doing in therapy! Pinterest is overflowing with amazing therapy ideas! I have connected with a whole bunch of SLPs on Twitter and love using it to find information about current research and upcoming events. But my favorite right now is Instagram. It's such a great tool for connecting and interacting with other SLPs and I find a ton of great ideas from the creative people I interact with. I don't know what I'd do without these tools!
So there you have it! My favorite technology tools for speech. What do you like to use? Go check out what other tools SLPs are using!
Abby wishes there were 30 hours in a day so she could catch up on everything.


text: Justin OOC 7 Posted May 20, 2019 1945 changed The world in so many ways. There'd always been rumors of superhumans before then. Legends and myths people would say, they weren't real. Those who said this, are wrong. They just weren't as common as they are now. That's not to say the world is overflowing with people with special abilities, but they aren't hiding so much anymore, indeed, more than a few cannot hide who they are, or what they have become. Technology advances ever onward, and along the way produces new and strange creations along the way, and some that are uniquely powerful and dangerous. The world at large still thinks of Magic as fake, the sort of show that people use to draw attention to themselves. True magic exists, and it is powerful. The harnessing of the Atom, the exploration of space, these drew the attention of Other spacefaring races, and while humanity at large still remains unconvinced they exist, There are certainly those who know otherwise. Not all who have come are friendly, mostly they simply react to the antics of humanity with amusement, and some disdain. What most separates this world from what we know is a sort of Tolerance for Vigilantiism. The public sees their heroes taking down badguys, fighting the Good fight, and they cheer. Few know real details of the Agency behind the scenes that's actually regulating things. Assessment and Emergency Global Initiative and Security, or known simply as the AEGIS agency is one that carries the primary backing of the United States, as well as many First world Nations, and it is solely responsible for regulating the activities of the Metahuman population. For every scene of a Hero taking down the badguy that gets play in the news, there are five instances of AEGIS agents doing the same that never see the light. Everyone knows AEGIS exists, and only the unwise garner their attention. AEGIS has access to nigh unlimited funding, and the bleeding edge of technology. All of this serves to let AEGIS see the big picture, and react at the Strategic and Tactical levels, Often working with the various heroes. Now this is where you all come in. You may be any sort of hero, save Alien. You must have a form that is looks completely human. You may have any sort of powerbase, though I reserve the right to say no to anything I think will not fit this game. This game is meant to resemble Marvel, let's be honest, AEGIS is SHIELD. Don't expect me to follow it precisely, or to not put an homage to the comics or movies we've all come to enjoy over the years. I intend for us to have fun with this, and will probably be going fairly rules light on it. -----------------Chargen rules------------------- You may choose your origin p56 those that give bonus powers must be rolled as normal. I am not allowing actual Alien races, if you want to play an angel or a demon, fine, but no outright aliens. What this means in game terms means you cannot trade in your unearlthy origin for 2 other origin benefits. For attributes we'll use the following A La Carte atributes Roll 2d6 8 times, dropping the lowest 2 and assign these to your attributes Powers Atts beyond 6 don't count as powers (you are allowed 1 att beyond 8 free, any beyond that will be counted as a power. I am giving you all 4 powers. 1 of these, you get to choose what it is. All 4 will require rolls to determine how powerful the abilities are. Specialties I will allow you to choose your 3 specialties (nothing can be +3) Qualities choose 3 Determination All PC's start with 2 Determination Please post your interest here. We Will be using Orokos for the die rolls, so include the links in your character submission PM, please. We will not be starting as a team, but with the assembly of said team. What this allows is a chance for me to offer you all +1 to any stat on your sheet (that is in a stat less than 10) for an origin fiction. If you choose, you may collaborate with another player and write together and it will count for both of you. This +1 can only be earned once. My plan is to begin the game officially on May 31st, making May 30th the cutoff for character and origin submissions. Once I have 3 character submissions, I will create the game, and a character profile thread. If all character profiles and fictions are posted by the cutoff, I will award an additional +1 to everyone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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text: Tomorrow's only a day away, but whether we love it or not will depend on each individual sneakerhead's ability to get their hands on something for which we've been waiting for ages. The Air Jordan III '88 Retro releases tomorrow, February 6th at select Jordan Brand retailers including NikeStore's Twitter-only engagement in the afternoon hours. The return of 'NIKE AIR' branding ensures this is one of the most coveted releases in recent memory and an early contender for 2013 sneaker of the year, so have a closer look below and get your cold weather camping gear ready.


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Trash and horror fans, do you know about the new Asshat podcast? Movie fans Newt of Double T's Blog of Reviews and Nadia of Nadia's Necronomicon chat about gore, satellite television, Mississippi race hatred, British juvenile delinquency, exorcism, Amish organized crime, heroin, Breaking Bad, corporal punishment for children, and all sordid and sundry points in between in this thrilling second episode of the program. Also, in his patently idiosyncratic "Ten Minutes of Fury" segment, the Fucker from Hell rants about how cultural conspiracy theorists are ruining Disney movies for kids!
All three contributors' social views probably fall slightly to the right of those of the typical neo-Marxist university sexual degenerate and so do not meet with the full approval of the dread bastion of crotchety codgerism that is Ideological Content Analysis; but because they are friends of the blog, they nevertheless receive the prestigious ICA power plug with accompanying lousethyme achievement award. God's peed, you bulk importers.


text: I'm considering buying an Android tablet and I'd like to be able to use it to view/show photos directly from flash media. The Toshiba has some advantage here, as it can read SD cards directly (I've verified that on a display model), but I'd like to use it with CF cards. That means using a USB card reader. Anyone tried using one of those to read a CF card on the Acer or Toshiba models, or on the Asus with the keyboard unit attached?


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These conditions are very severe...
J. D. Lawson, 1955
In 1955 a young engineer working on nuclear fusion decided to work out exactly how enormous the task of achieving fusion is. Although his colleagues were optimistic about their prospects, he wanted to prove it to himself. His name was John Lawson, and his findings - that the conditions for fusion power relied on three vital quantities - became the landmark Lawson Criteria.
The genesis of Lawson's Criteria is simple enough - he calculated the requirements for more energy to be created than is put in, and came up with a dependence on three quantities: temperature (T), density (n) and confinement time (τ). With only small evolution thanks to some subtle changes of definition, this is basically the same figure of merit used by today's fusion scientists - the triple product, nτT.
The amount of energy created relies on particles colliding and fusing - the number of collisions is related to the number of particles in a certain region - thus n, the number density (not mass density) is Lawson's first criterion. This would seem encouraging for the prospective experiment, as creating high pressure is relatively easy. However there is a catch. At higher densities a process known as bremsstrahlung rears its ugly head, in which collisions between nuclei and electrons generate radiation. Bremsstrahlung can become so dominant that all the power in the plasma is radiated away - the optimum density conditions are surprisingly low, around a million times less dense than air.
Nonetheless the fusion collisions - between the nuclei - have to be at high speed. This allows the nuclei to overcome their electrostatic repulsion, and get close enough for the strong force - that governs fusion - to take over and stick the particles together. The speed of a gas or plasma particle is equivalent to its temperature: the second of Lawson's criteria. Again there is a limit - if the two particles are moving really fast then the time they are in close enough proximity for fusion to occur decreases. The bremsstrahlung also increases at higher temperatures, due to faster moving electrons. The Goldilocks temperature turns out to be in the vicinity of 100 - 200 million degrees, a seemingly huge task in the fifties that has become a standard condition today.
With the first two criteria satisfied fusion reactions can occur, but to get a substantial amount of power generated you need time to allow the reactions to happen - on this basis Lawson's third criteria comes into play, the energy confinement time. This is the time that energy remains in the plasma before escaping, and it is here that the most remarkable gains have been made during the course of fusion research. From only microseconds in Lawson's time, the confinement time has improved by a factor of a million to reach about one second in JET and is planned to hit around 5 seconds in ITER.
It is a neat quirk of physics that conditions for achieving ignition in a tokamak depend linearly on these three quantities - just multiply them together to get an indication of your tokamak's performance. The magic figure for ignition is a triple product of greater than 5 x 1021 m-3s keV . In its high power experiments of 1997 JET achieved around one fifth of that value.
Thanks to the years of study of fusion, our knowledge of how to achieve these criteria is very detailed. An appropriate value for density is easily achieved and tokamak heating systems have successfully created the necessary temperatures with radio-frequency heating and neutral beam injection. The remaining piece of the puzzle is the confinement time. Great improvements have been made in the plasma profiles and magnetic control that influence the confinement, but the largest improvement can be made simply by building a bigger tokamak, thereby increasing the plasma volume relative to its surface area.
John Lawson died in 2008, and so did not live to see ITER turn on. However, with its ten-fold increase over JET's volume, the huge fusion experiment will put the last piece into place and see Lawson's criteria finally satisfied.


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Hayat Ghallaya: The Forgotten Sands by Kail
Hayat Ghallaya: The Forgotten Sands
Kail arrived safely through the portal back from the Keisoran home world, but he didn't find the familiar landscape of Orin Rakatha he had expected. Instead he found a strange new land. Luckily it didn't take him long to make his way to the new Keisora camp and find out what was going on. He was informed that the armies of Orin Rakatha had traveled to a new land; to the land of Hayat Ghallaya.
It was here that the various factions enacted their attempts at rituals; to try to renew their previous powers which had waned with the recent changes to the land and to the magic all around them. Kail's Keisoran employers successfully completed their ritual and he shared in the power they received. Other factions were not so lucky, however, as various beasts and monsters seemed intent to stop them.
As they roamed the new lands they found an ancient tomb. They decided, however, not to enter this tomb, as the Keisora disagree with disturbing tombs that may hold great secrets; secrets kept buried for a reason; especially when they heard that it was house to a long dead great knight of the cold dawn. The Keisora do not disturb the dead. And Kail will not risk his life without a sufficient price.
Kail continued to roam the lands, coming across an assassin, suspicious monsters called Yokai, and new members to the factions who had only recently joined the force of Orin Rakatha upon Hayat Ghallaya. Various factions were suspiciously drawing ritual circles in the sand rather than using the actual ritual circle of Hayat Ghallaya. Kail's Keisoran masters seemed to know what this was for, but they felt no need to tell him. Not that he minded. The less he knew, the less trouble he could get into. By theory, anyway.
Kail was itching for some action, and finally it arrived when Sand Devils were spotted. The Keisora Dynasty rushed to the battle; only to find it over. Kail was greatly disappointed, but as they readied to return home more Sand Devils appeared, and the Keisora took up arms to fight them. A mighty shield wall was erected, with warriors from other factions even joining in, ready under the command of the mighty Lord Gin Keisora. The Sand Devils were made short work of, as they couldn't get past the defence, while Kail swiftly cut them down. Kail rushed immediately to find loot in hopes that this battle would prove profitable, but as he neared the Devils they simply disintegrated into sand and were gone before his very eyes.
After nightfall on that same day, the Keisora met the Herald of the Savage Chieftain, drumming away and shouting that the Savage Chieftain would arrive. Then the Keepers showed up and killed him. Their work done, the Keisora left, as a Keeper arrived with a flaming branch, and assumedly set fire to the corpse.
The next day the Keisora heard from their scouts that Fire Elementals were arriving near the Asgard's Mead Hall. They arrived to greet these mighty creatures; obvious servants of Huo Lan; the Kami of fire. Other factions did not seem so friendly, however, as they were intent to attack the fire elementals. With the help of the Crimson Winter, the Wizards Concillium, and even the help of the Cold Dawn, all enemies were defeated. The Fire elementals turned on them, however. After they had killed the factions who had helped them they even turned on the Brave and Honourable Keisora. They were obviously demons just disguising themselves as servants of the Fire Kami, so the Keisora struck them down and emerged victorious.
The Knight of the Cold Dawn, Sir Blaze, was summoned. From the dead? Perhaps. The Keisora disapprove of the revival of the dead, but this man was clad with a flaming shield and sword. Was this man blessed by the Kami? Kail wondered. Perhaps so. The Keisora let him pass, as they could not be sure. This man was to come and fight the Savage Chieftain, it would seem, which couldn't be a bad thing.
Soon the inevitable battle between Sir Blaze and the Savage Chieftain occurred. Some of the armies of Orin Rakatha had decided to side with the Savage Chieftain. Why? Kail could only guess. As the fight started the Shadowsfall enacted a mighty magic, and Sir Blaze's gathered army was made short work of, and Sir Blaze himself defeated. His crown was even stolen from his corpse as further humiliation.
The main battle lost, the Keisora saw no reason to continue fighting. Another way would be found to defeat the Savage Chieftain. A final ritual was enacted to destroy the Savage Chieftain. Kail and the Keisora defended the ritual sight as the Savage Chieftain's minions sought to interrupt the magic. They failed, however, and the Keisora defeated the dark forces; the Savage Chieftain finally slain.
It was finally time to return to Orin Rakatha, a far more familiar, but likely no more safe, land.
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Al Monitor
Mohammad Ad-Fdeilat
Jordanian politicians are good at using a sieve to hide the sun — even the bright sun at the height of summer. Worse, they are convinced of what they are saying, and they try to convince the people, too. They try to address the country's most difficult problems using slogans that become legally binding without being stipulated by law, and that makes these slogans vulnerable to being replaced by new slogans at any time. Thus, the problems remain unresolved and end up exploding later. This is what is happening with Jordanian-Palestinian relations in Jordan now.
A problem that slogans cannot hide
Jordanian-Palestinian relations have been complicated since the establishment of the Emirate of Transjordan in 1921, which became a kingdom after gaining independence in 1946 and the Palestinian nakba in 1948. The root of the problem is that Palestinian refugees were forcibly moved to the other bank of the River Jordan without the ability to return and became Jordanian citizens in accordance with the Jordanian-Palestinian unity decision of 1949. The latter claimed the Palestinian territories that were not occupied in the nakba as part of Jordan, under the throne of King Abdullah I. The constitution stipulated that the non-occupied lands were an integral part of Jordan and that their inhabitants were Jordanian citizens.
The matter became even more complicated with the June 1967 defeat, in which Jordan lost even more land, over and above those areas lost in the nakba of 1948. After the defeat, more Palestinians in the West Bank moved to Jordan (the East Bank) and became Jordanian citizens.
Then, in 1988, Jordan's late King Hussein disengaged Jordan administratively and legally from the West Bank, a decision that violated the Jordanian constitution. Jordan justified that move by claiming that Arab pressure was exerted on Jordan to empower the Palestine Liberation Organization, which had been recognized as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinians in 1974. The Jordanian and Palestinian public criticized the decision, which they considered as conceding occupied Jordanian land that was not occupied on unity day.
Jordanian-Palestinian relations have been formed by political decisions taken by the heads of the political structures on both banks of the river. Those decisions have affected the entire structure of the two peoples, whereby any change will collapse the whole structure.
At first, the relationship was marked by sympathy for a people who had lost their land and become refugees dreaming of return. That sympathy developed into active support for a cause that was considered the primary cause of the Arabs. Moreover, the Palestinian cause became a Jordanian cause in the unity framework. But that didn't last; in the wake of the 1967 defeat, a new terminology appeared: east Jordanians and Jordanians of Palestinian origin. The objective of that terminology was to consecrate the idea that there are two separate peoples and reject the two peoples melting together into one.
East Jordanians feared that the Palestinian majority would crowd them out of the country's resources and control the Jordanian economy. Thus, east Jordanians rushed to fill the top positions in the state and said that they feared for their national identity. They revolted over losing benefits they would have had were it not for the Palestinian presence.
Racial division was thus established in Jordanian society, and that division was reinforced by the events of Black September in 1970 between the Palestinian resistance and the Jordanian army. This ended with the exit of the Palestinian resistance from Jordan forever.
The Palestinians said that they left Jordan after a massacre that targeted their presence, while the Jordanians said that they protected their country from the ambitions of armed gangs. Each party retains a painful memory of what happened and considers itself the victim.
Amid this complex relationship and the growing racial discourse, the Jordanian government did nothing to address the root of the problem in the historical context that created it. All the government did was adopt the slogan launched by the late King Hussein: "A country of immigrants and supporters." But the slogan failed to address the problem because it consecrated the notion that there are two peoples in Jordan, with the east Jordanians having a privileged status over Jordanians of Palestinian origin.
Then the king repeated other slogans whenever the Jordanian-Palestinian relationship was tense: "Jordanians from various roots and origins" and "National unity is a red line." The elite produced its own slogan: "We are all Jordanians for the sake of Jordan and we are all Palestinians for the sake of Palestine." Under these slogans, it was forbidden to talk about problems in the relationship and the fears of both sides. East Jordanians who raised the slogans "Jordan is for Jordanians" and "Let's preserve the national identity" were fought. And slogans launched by Jordanians of Palestinian origin, such as "Fair representation in state institutions" and "Those with transgressed rights," were also fought. The latter slogan was used after a campaign of systematic exclusion, which Jordanians of Palestinian origin considered a denial of their role in building the country.
The "fire under the ashes" ended up burning the "romantic" slogans, and east Jordanians ended up clashing with Jordanians of Palestinian origin. They traded accusations. The Palestinians were accused of "selling their country," while Jordanians were accused of being "conspirators against the cause."
The two sides are fighting to control the majority
The Palestinians are not the only ones who were added to Jordan's demographic makeup. Before them came the tribes that migrated from different Arab countries over the years, and earlier came the Circassians who took refuge from the Tsarist invasion of the Caucasus in the 19th century. There are also the Chechens, the Armenians and the Hijazis who came with the army of the Great Arab Revolt, which was led by King Abdullah I, the son of Sharif Hussein bin Ali. Then came the Iraqis in the wake of the occupation of Iraq in 2003. And today, there are the Syrian refugees.
In all this mosaic of Jordanian society, east Jordanians have no quarrel except with Jordanians of Palestinian origin, who make up one side in the eternal bilateral conflict for the majority.
Official Jordanian statistics show that the number of Jordanians in 1948 was 400,000; that, in the wake of the nakba, the country received 100,000 refugees; that Jordan's population in 1967 reached 1.2 million and received 400,000 new refugees; that the population in 1990 was 4.17 million and received 300,000 refugees — the Palestinians who were living in the Gulf. The statistics ignore the fact that the latter already had Jordanian nationality and that non-Palestinian Jordanians are also diverse. The statistics make it look like Palestinians were being added to a pure east Jordanian people.
Amid the competition for the majority, the two biggest components recognize that Jordanians of Palestinian origin make up about 35% of Jordan's 6.5 million people — a figure that has remained constant throughout the history of the relationship, with the rest being east Jordanians — without considering the other components of the social fabric.
A "Catholic marriage" and charges of treason
Efforts to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations aimed at reaching a "final solution" to the Palestinian cause usually raise the tension in Jordanian-Palestinian relations, while that tension declines when the negotiations stall.
The negotiations harm Jordanian-Palestinian relations whenever the proposed solution doesn't allow for the return of the refugees. Such solutions raise the fears of east Jordanians that Jordan may turn into an alternative homeland for the Palestinians, an idea promoted by the Israeli right. Some fear the formation of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation, where the Palestinian identity will predominate over the Jordanian one.
Throughout the 66 years of the Jordanian-Palestinian "Catholic marriage," both sides have accused each other of treason. Therefore, both sides settled on being afraid all the time. Moreover, that fear will continue amid the slogans that try to address the imbalances in the relationship. The latest of these slogans is "in defense of Jordan and Palestine." It was devised to face the growing racial discourse that accompanied the tour of US Secretary of State John Kerry in the region. Under the slogan of "harmony," the two sides traded accusations that are sometimes whispered and sometimes said publicly, to assert their inability to reach a final resolution for the relationship.
The above article was translated from As-Safir Al-Arabi, a special supplement of As-Safir newspaper whose content is provided through a joint venture of As-Safir and Al-Monitor.
Original Article اقرا المقال الأصلي باللغة العربية
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/03/jordan-palestine-relations-tense-peace-talks.html#ixzz2wv3Dm4B4
Author Mohammad al-FdeilatPosted March 23, 2014
Translator(s)Rani Geha
Read more: http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/politics/2014/03/jordan-palestine-relations-tense-peace-talks.html#ixzz2wv3Dm4B4


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Autism is a disorder that just inspires controversy. Maybe its because we know so little about what causes autism or maybe its because of the emotions connected with childhood problems. Either way, any debate about autism tends to become very polarized and nothing divides people more than the question of mercury, chelation and autism.
The controversy started in the early nineties when it was become apparent that mercury contamination, especially in fish, was become a significant issue. About the same time, there it was there was a growing number autistic children around. Finally someone noted that the symptoms of long-term mercury poisoning in young children is similar to the symptoms of autism.
Chelation itself is a term coined in the 1920 for a chemical process. A ligand or agent attaches itself to a metal molecule to form a chelate, a new, inert substance. The chelate can then be removed thus carrying away the molecules of metal. As a medical treatment, chelation has a long history. In World War I, chelation was used as a treatment for arsenic based poison gas. It also used for treating heavy metal poisoning such as mercury, arsenic or lead. In the UK incidences of heavy metal poising are very rare because of our strict environmental and health & safety laws. However once someone pointed the finger at mercury as a cause of autism then it was obvious that chelation would be tried as a treatment for autism.
It is with doctors interested in alternative medicine that chelation has taken off. No mainstream hospital or clinic offers it but Defeat Autism Now has a list of several hundred doctors who offer chelation. This grass roots movement in favour of autism means there is little direct scientific evidence on the effectiveness of chelation. Consequently we are left with anecdotal evidence about the treatment's effectiveness which cannot be trusted because parents and doctors involved in the treatment both want the therapy to work. The parents are desperate for any glimmer of hope and may well notice a difference when in fact there has not been any. Doctors providing the treatment clearly believe in the treatments effectiveness so may not be as rigorous as an independent doctor. This does not mean that parents or doctors are deliberately misleading others about the success of a treatment. Strict double-blind protocols for testing medicines have been developed over the last fourty years because time and time again human nature and the subconscious desire to see the what you want to see has made a fool of even the best scientists.
It is not only autism that chelation is believed by some to treat. Since the 1960's, heart and vascular diseases have also treated using chelation by practitioners who believe heavy metals can cause a range of diseases. Fully controlled, double-blind studies have found no benefit to chelation in these area. Lead poisoning also damages the brain and chelation has been used by mainstream medical practitioners to treat it. The results are mixed with some studies showing no cognitive improvement after treatment and others showing some improvement.
The chelation treatment is normally administered through an intravenous drip though some oral treatments exists. It is a slow process requiring regular doses of the chelation agent over weeks and months. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) is the most common chelation agent and it comes in two forms, Calcium Disodium EDTA (generically known as Endrate and Disodium EDTA (known as Versinate). In 2005 an autistic boy died during chelation because the two agents were mixed up and he as given Versinate by mistake, causing a cardiac arrest.
Whether chelation works or not is highly debatable. As a treatment it is based on the idea that mercury is the cause of autism. This in itself is far from being proven and many if not most in the medical profession do not believe mercury causes autism. If we accept the mercury is the cause then chelation is the logical treatment to remove the mercury. However there is no evidence that once the mercury is removed the autistic behaviour will be reduced. Based on the current evidence chelation has little or no benefit as a treatment.
Previously on Myomancy: Of Mice and Mercury: Big Heads and Thimerosal, Autistic in the 1930's. Playing Golf Today
Sources: Wikipedia – Chelation Thereapy, Generation Rescue, Quack Watch – Chelation Therapy: Unproven Claims and Unsound Theories; Declining blood lead levels and cognitive changes in moderately lead-poisoned children; Effect of Chelation Therapy on the Neuropsychological and Behavioral Development of Lead-Exposed Children After School Entry
Coverage of Chelation on the Myomancy Blog Roll


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Any employer who has faced an accommodation-related claim understands that assessing the scope and extent of their duty to accommodate is often a challenging process.
Some helpful direction arrived in Poursadi v. Bentley leathers (2015 HRTO 138), which pitted Ms. Robabeh Poursadi, a retail store manager, against her employer, Bentley Leathers Inc. (Bentley), in a case which ultimately turned on the identification of the employee's essential duties.
The decision from the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO) provides employers with some further guidance for navigating the often murky waters of accommodating employees, particularly when an employee's essential duties are in dispute (which is often). One key to success in these cases, as this decision illustrates, is being prepared to provide a sound evidentiary basis for what constitutes an employee's essential duties.
With over 300 small retail shops across Canada, Bentley promotes itself as a pioneer in the luggage, handbag, and related accessories industry. Ms. Poursadi began working for Bentley in 2005 and, by 2008, she was a store manager at the Promenade Mall location in Thornhill, Ontario.
In August 2008, Ms. Poursadi injured her wrist on the job while unpacking boxes. She made a successful WSIB claim and eventually continued working full time, subject to a certain set of restrictions and modified duties. She later underwent related surgery, which did not improve her condition. Due to her ongoing physical restrictions, Bentley came to believe that Ms. Poursadi was unable to perform all of the duties of a store manager, which included assisting customers to retrieve merchandise from in-store shelving units.
By July 2012, Bentley concluded that it could no longer accommodate Ms. Poursadi, and referred her to a WSIB work transition program and terminated her employment.
At the HRTO, Ms. Poursadi argued that Bentley could indeed have accommodated her. In brief, she proposed the following accommodation: while working alone, if a customer needed assistance that went beyond her restrictions, she could request that the customer return to the store at a later date.
Bentley took the position that this was untenable. They argued that it is essential that a store manager be able to assist customers whenever there was need for such assistance. If Ms. Poursadi could not perform certain essential tasks, Bentley contended that they were not required to provide further accommodation.
The Tribunal's Decision
The HRTO Adjudicator, Jo-Anne Pickel, agreed with Bentley and held that they could not be expected to accommodate Ms. Poursadi by allowing her ask customers to return to the store at a later date if they wished to see or purchase items that required her to go beyond her physical restrictions. In brief, the accommodation sought by Ms. Poursadi would, in the Adjudicator's words, "not enable her to meet the essential duties of her position."
As the Adjudicator put it, the duty to accommodate "does not require permanently changing the essential duties of a position or permanently assigning the essential duties of a position to other employees." In reference to the specific facts of the case, the Adjudicator held that it was an essential duty of a store manager to assist customers at all times while on duty, not "most of the time."
In reaching this decision, the Adjudicator cited the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Hydro-Quebec v. Syndicat, 2008 SCC 43 at para. 16 in which the Court stated, "the employer does not have a duty to change working conditions in a fundamental way, but does have a duty, if it can do so without undue hardship, to arrange the employee's workplace or duties to enable the employee to do his or her work."
In this case, the evidence suggested that customer service formed 65 – 70% of a store manager's duties and that store managers were expected to work alone in their shops for close to 20 hours per week. As such, the Adjudicator concluded that customer service, which included assisting customer with requests to view merchandise, was clearly an essential component of Ms. Poursadi's role.
The Adjudicator made some additional general instructive statements regarding the accommodation process, as follows:
- each accommodation case must be decided upon the particular facts of that case;
- the accommodation process is an individualized process and accommodation cases must necessarily turn on their particular facts, including the precise nature of the work being performed, the nature of the employee's restrictions, and the nature of the workplace;
- accommodation cases often turn on the identification of the essential duties of an employee's work; and
- evidence will be required to determine whether a duty is or is not essential.
Key Takeaways
This case highlights how important it is for employers to identify the essential duties of a position at the outset of any accommodation process. If challenged at the HRTO, evidence, in the form of notes, job descriptions, assessments, and other supporting facts, will need to be marshalled to illustrate that a particular duty is in fact "essential" to the job, i.e. that the duty is vital, necessary and indispensable.
Ultimately, this case helps to support the position that the duty to accommodate does not require a fundamental change to an employee's essential duties.
As with all advocacy, preparation is the key to success. For counsel, when making an argument about the essential duties of a given job, it is critical to be well prepared with cogent supporting evidence in order to successfully persuade an adjudicator of the employer's position.


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Ashray Akruti is a registered nonprofit, non-religious Non- Governmental organization working for hearing impaired children from underprivileged backgrounds. The organization strongly believes in the potentials of persons with disability and envisions a society where people with disability lead a life of dignity as equal citizens with equitable access to opportunities and services.
Established in Hyderabad, Telangana in 1996, Ashray Akruti runs educational institutions with residential facilities for hearing impaired children. Ashray Akruti started with five children now caters to the educational needs of 350 children. Since our inception in 1996, more than 150 hearing-impaired children have been integrated into mainstream schools, colleges and Universities. Among them, many were skilled in our Multimedia and Animation Training Centre at Sri Nagar Colony. The organization also caters to the educational needs of the slum children by giving equal opportunities with the Hearing Impaired children.
Ashrau Akruti is empanelled with the National CSR hub of Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Ashray Akruti is the NGO member on the ethics committee of Gandhi Hospital, Secunderabad and the Indian Institute of Public Health, Hyderabad.
Apart from the objective of impacting the lives of hearing impaired children with education and employment, Ashray Akruti works with people at grass root level implementing interventions like free diagnostic facilities for new born and rehabilitation facilities for children with disabilities.
Empower people with disabilities and people from underprivileged background through quality education, health care and sustainable livelihoods.
To create institutional, non-institutional and community based interventions for the people to help them become independent self-reliant and contributing citizens of the country.
Accountability and Transparency
Provide comprehensive teaching program for the hearing impaired children
Provide market aligned skill training for the hearing impaired youth
Provide early intervention facilities to children with disability
Support and facilitate Cochlear Implant Surgeries /Aids and appliances for hearing impaired children to promote health care
Offer hearing screening facilities for new born children in public hospitals and diagnostic facilities
Organize ear care health camps for the children and the aged
Build capacities of human resources with disability and their families
Develop trained professionals and human resources for the disability sector
Work with corporates to advance social responsibility and development


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The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Hilary Swank and her husband, Chad Lowe, recently announced their separation, but the Oscar-winning actress says they hope to rescue their eight-year marriage.
"We're still trying to save it," Swank told syndicated TV entertainment show "Access Hollywood" at the Golden Globe Awards, which were presented Monday in Beverly Hills, California. "It's not over, we're not divorced. We've been together for over 13 years, and there's a lot of love there."
Swank, who wore her wedding ring to the awards ceremony, added: "We're still married."
Swank, 31, and Lowe, 38, announced their split Jan. 9. They were married in 1997 and have no children.
The actress, who won Oscars for "Boys Don't Cry" and "Million Dollar Baby," next stars in the Brian De Palma-directed crime drama, "The Black Dahlia."
Lowe won an Emmy Award in 1993 for his performance on the U.S. TV series "Life Goes On."


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The Top 20 Christian Apologists
Frank Turek with the world's most credentialed and likable apologist, Dr. John Lennox.
These are the Top 20 Christian Apologists from whom I've learned much. They were the subject of today's radio program.
Outside of Dr. Norman Geisler being in the top spot (since I studied under him for several years), the rest are not necessarily in order. Do I agree with everything these men say? No. (I don't even agree with everything I say!) But I think you'll find a wealth of wisdom and practical insights about the truth of Christianity from these men and organizations. Many of these men have appeared on our radio program. You can listen to them anytime by downloading our free app here.
- Norm Geisler: normangeisler.net.
- William Lane Craig: Reasonable Faith.org
- Ravi Zacharias: RZIM.org
- John Lennox: John Lennox.org
- Greg Koukl: STR.org
- J. Warner Wallace: ColdCaseChristianity.com
- Paul Copan: PaulCopan.com
- Ed Feser: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/
- Lee Strobel: Lee Strobel.com
- Josh McDowell: Josh.org
- Discovery Institute (Dembski, Meyer, Richards, Luskin, Wells): www.Discovery.org
- C.S. Lewis: CSLewis.org
- Gary Habermas: GaryHabermas.com
- Timothy McGrew: http://historicalapologetics.org/
- Dr. Michael Brown: AskDrBRown.org
- Richard Howe: Richardghowe.com
- Tim Keller: TimothyKeller.com
- J. Budziszewski: Undergroundthomist.org
- Hank Hanegraaff: Equip.org
- Hugh Ross: Reasons.org
Bonus (includes some cultural commentators):
Free CrossExamined.org Resource
Get the first chapter of "Stealing From God: Why Atheists Need God to Make Their Case" in PDF.


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This salad is quick, fresh, and elegant. You can toss in a few hemp seeds or roasted pistachios on top for some added crunch and flavour.
Fresh pea shoots (Micro greens, spring mix or arugula can be substituted)
Truffle infused olive oil, extra virgin olive oil mixed with a few drops of white truffle oil
White balsamic vinegar
Balsamic vinegar
Half a lemon
Salt and pepper
Place pea shoots in a large mixing bowl. Drizzle with truffled olive oil, white balsamic, and regular balsamic. Squeeze fresh lemon over top, and sprinkle with salt and pepper to taste. Toss, and serve!
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~The Vegan Project


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The Rapid Action Battalion on Tuesday claimed that they detained four operatives of banned extremist outfit Ansar Al Islam at Puthia in Rajshahi.
Identities of the detained persons could not be known immediately.
A team of RAB-5 conducted drives in Jamira and Bharuapara areas and arrested the four, read a text sent by the battalion.
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What if You Could Improve Referral Capture by 25%?
May 27, 2016
Referral capture is a critical factor for health plans and health systems alike. It has tremendous implications for population health as well. But what exactly does it entail? You can think of referral capture as ensuring the patient is referred to the desired provider.
Referral capture is a complex process with many moving parts. It is hard to do well. It is also difficult to measure.
So, how do leading health systems and health plans get it right? The trick is in scheduling the appointment and tracking attendance.
Consider the example of ED over-usage. Patients without a primary care physician often wind up at the emergency department when a healthcare need arises. It's not enough to have an assigned PCP. Patients need to leave the ED with a scheduled referral appointment.
EDs with this ability – to schedule patients with a referral appointment to a new PCP before the patient leaves the ED – see tremendous reductions in unnecessary admissions. In one instance, we have seen a healthcare system increase referral capture by over 25%.
This has huge implications for the bottom line:
- A 25% increase in referral capture led to an annual increase of 1,100 PCP new patient visits.
- These 1,100 patients at minimum drove $150 of revenue per visit, although we have found the value of a new patient to a system to be much higher for some.
- Reduction in ED visits led to substantial additional savings for the system through operational efficiencies
- The total value per referral captured was estimated at ~$530.
From this, it is clear that a strong referral capture leads to a significant stream of revenue, which only becomes more dramatic as the size of a health system scales.
To learn more about improving referral capture, read our free report Convenience Drives Change.


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Welcome to Mrs. Ferguson's New Mexico History!
You can reach me by e-mail or phone. Please include your child's name in the subject line for any e-mails.
891-5335 ext. 54674
All assignments, notes, worksheets, etc. are on Google Classroom.
Forgot how to sign in? Google Classroom Instructions
I will be using Remind 101 this year to send reminders about upcoming tests, due dates, etc. Please click on the link below for directions how to sign up for this great, free service.
remind 101 invite 2018_2019.pdf
In this class, we will study New Mexico history from 11,000 B.C. to 1912 statehood! Some topics we will explore include: geography's impact on culture, early Indian tribes of New Mexico, Spanish exploration, cowboys and outlaws in territorial New Mexico, and the long path to statehood.
By the end of the year, each student will meet the learning goals listed below:
History~ Students are able to identify important people and events in order to analyze significant patterns, relationships, themes, ideas, beliefs, and turning points in New Mexico, United States, and world history in order to understand the complexity of the human experience.
Geography ~ Students understand how physical, natural, and cultural processes influence where people live, the ways in which people live, and how societies interact with one another and their environment.
Government and Civics ~ Students understand the ideals, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship and understand the content and history of the founding documents of the United States with particular emphasis on the United States and New Mexico constitutions and how governments function at local, state, tribal, and national levels.
"Email to be used by those with Hearing Difficulties for Attendance and Emergency messages only. General inquiry messages will not be answered. Please call the school if you require further assistance or information. Thank you."


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Football: Brazil win 2019 Copa America
ANKARA. KAZINFORM South American football giants Brazil won the 2019 Copa America, beating Peru 3-1 on Sunday in the final.
Tournament hosts Brazil took an early lead in the final match at Maracana Stadium, as left winger Everton Soares put the ball into the Peru net, Anadolu Agency reports.
Peru scored the equalizer by a penalty kick, near the end of the first half. The Peruvian striker Paolo Guerrero converted the penalty into a goal successfully.
Brazil scored the leading goal once again, as forward Gabriel Jesus made it 2-1 for Brazil in the first half's injury time.
Jesus was sent off in the 69th minute of the final, after a foul as Brazil were down to 10 men.
Brazil went defensive and started to waste time after Jesus' expulsion.
In the 86th minute Brazil were awarded a penalty, as Everton was brought down in the area.
Richarlison hit the ball from the penalty spot into the nets, making Brazil to clinch the 3-1 victory over Peru.
Everton was named as the player of the final.
Brazil won the Copa America title nine times in history. But Uruguay still lead the titles, having won the cup 15 times.
During the ceremony, Brazilian captain Dani Alves received the 2019 Copa America trophy to cheering crowds.


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Autumn Statement 2015 – Winners and Losers
George Osborne's Autumn Statement and Spending Review on Wednesday 25th November was seized upon by some as a U-turn damaging his austerity credentials.
It was certainly surprising to hear the Chancellor reversing his tax credit proposals, offering significant incentives to home buyers and ensuring that pensioners continued to be treated as almost a special case – all made possible from reduced Government debt charges and increased tax revenues.
Poorer families in particular welcomed the reversal of the tax credit announcement in July of this year. However, the pain has only been delayed rather than abandoned. Due to cuts made to Universal Credit, the benefit intended to replace tax credits by 2020, the Government still estimates that it will achieve the promised £12bn of welfare savings by the end of parliament.
House buyers were pleased also with an extension to the help to buy scheme, available to both first time buyers and home movers. For buyers in London the equity home loan scheme has been extended to 40% of the value of a new build property. Buyers can get equity loans of up to 20% of a new build property outside London.
The Government has also pledged to build 200,000 new 'Starter Homes' over the next five years. These are new build homes offered at a 20% discount to first time buyers meeting certain criteria.
Pensioners will see a 2.9% rise in state pension to match the rise in earnings, which is the highest real terms increase in 15 years with the new basic state pension set at £119.30 per week.
Unfortunately the announcements were not all good news. An increase in Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) will be introduced from 1st April 2016 for people buying second homes or 'buy to let' properties. This is an additional 3% charge on any property worth over £40,000, effectively raising the SDLT charge on a £250,000 property from £2,500 currently, to £10,000 after 1st April 2016.
The announcement that measures would be introduced to end the right to cash compensation for minor whiplash injuries has received a mixed reception. There will be a consultation on the details in the New Year and the Government expects the saving to be passed on by insurers, reducing annual insurance costs for drivers by between £40 and £50 a year.
Overall then, a welcome Christmas bonus for poorer families but middle England may feel a little less pleased.
Ashley Partridge. Trusts and tax administration department.Business, Commercial Property, General, George Ide, News, Private Client, Residential Property Conveyancing


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The final plug in boards are in hand.
Blue is top side, green is bottom side.
The ECM boards have pads to attach the FAS system.Three etch cuts at the fuel injector locations (oval silk screen)are required when FAS is attached. A single etch cut on the DC/DC enable line on the MCM board is required when FAS is used.The circles around a pad indicates that a pin wire must be attached. The thick circles indicate a large pin, thin is a small.
The ECM board has three extra conductors, E1,E2,E3, which can be used to bring any ECM signal to the distribution board. The Neutral,Clutch, Brake, and NEP(rpm) signals are included on the ribbon.
The MCM board has pads for seven spare conductors, M1 through M7, which can be used to bring MCM signals to the distribution board.
The distribution board ties everything together.
A breadboard area provides a place for expansion, both as a breadboard, or a place to mount a future interface board. The display 16 conductor ribbon connector can be plugged into the breadboard so other displays can be interfaced to that port. This expandable harness interface should provide all the future expansion that we will require to take the MIMA system to the next level, while making the system much simpler to install.


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3 Pandas: In Japan is an exciting Puzzle Game and published on Jan 29th, 2015 and has been played 6,911 times and has a rating of 91% after 122 votes.
1945, northern Europe, secret wonder weapon laboratory. there was an enemy attack. equipment has been damaged and there was a strange leap in time. defend broken equipment from hordes of enemies. collect weapons and ammunition, collect items and use it, improve the skills to repair the equipment as soon as possible to get out from this bloody hell.


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Too many harsh words with negative and misleading connotations from law enforcement, prison management, and emergency services are becoming commonplace in the too-often careless lexicon of American language. These are words that are neither clear nor accurate. At least in my view.
Some uses of language are just meaningless and confusing, such as the common use of, "Hey, ya know what I mean …?" Actually, no, we don't know what you mean until you explain what you are trying to say. Yet, "Hey, ya know what …" has become an overused phrase by everyone from the President and pundits to people being interviewed on TV news programs who use the phrase seemingly to buy time as they think of something to say that does actually mean something!
That takes me to the widespread misuse of the word, "Lockdown."
Established dictionaries define the word as: "The confinement of prisoners to their cells for all or most of the day as a temporary security measure."
Lockdown is law enforcement slang, used in the environment of prisons and jails, to impose severe and quick restraints on the actions or movements of prisoners. How many times have we seen the stereotypical prison guard in movies or TV shows bark out, "Lock 'em down," sometimes in a bullying tone?
The word is used widely by law enforcement… and hence, by a news media that freely and unthinkingly parrots jargon … to describe keeping children safe during a threat, real or perceived. Lockdown does not mean protected, safe and secure. It means confined!
As a parent and grandparent, I find it offensive to use the word "lockdown," when we're talking about protecting children in their schools and classrooms. What sort of impression do such words make on children, let alone the public-at-large?
The police and prison guards can say anything they want but how about something less condemning, less harsh, and words more clear when referring to children or office workers temporarily confined to their workplace for safety and protection. What about simply saying, "The school is safe and secure … the children are safe." It starts with a news media that pays closer attention to words, clarity over jargon.
The words we use as adults make lasting impressions on children. We have long known that when a parent calls a child "stupid," there's a risk of real and lasting damage to a child's sense of self-worth. Why, then, impose the brutal words of prison incarceration on the children and the public when clearer language is more effective?
Lockdown is a term that equates those in lockdown to veritable criminals being further imprisoned, not citizens being protected by law enforcement officials. "Lockdown" means confined, not safe, secure, or protected. It's okay to say, the children … the residents … the citizens, are safe, secure, and protected.
In an emergency — such as the recent terror attack in Boston — the broad use of "lockdown" by authorities and the mirroring media was merely jargon that told us nothing. I would hope for words more professional, accurate, and clear, from law enforcement or whoever else is in charge.


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Game Date: 6/16/14
Pitch Counts:
GIANTS: Brendon Lewis 76
DODGERS: Brendan Murphy 86, Cameron Poklop 22
Home Runs:
Quentin McLeod, Dodgers -1
Game Summary
Brendon Lewis, 1-3, 1 run
Gabe Taylor, 1-2
Oliver Muz, 1-2, 1 run
Leo Barron, 2-2, 1 run, 1 rbi
Eoin Rogers, 1-3, 1 rbi, 1 run, 2 doubles
Mikie MacKool-Wiener, 2-3, 1 rbi, 2 doubles
Brendan Murphy, 2-3, 1 run
Omar Silas, 2-3, 2 runs, 1 rbi
Caleb Harvey, 1-2, 2 rbi's
Cameron Poklop, 3-3, 1 run, 1 rbi, 1 double
Quentin McLeod, 1-3, HR, 1rbi, 1 run
Bryce Lewis, 1-1
In a game that could have gone either way, the Dodgers barely edged the Giants 5 to 4.
With the season ending, the Giants and Dodgers were surging, and met to make their respective claims on the North Division's top spot.
The Dodgers put up three runs in the first and grabbed a quick lead and possibly the momentum.
In the top of the 2nd, the Giants seemed ready to strike back with Eoin Rogers on base, as Jemi Pearson lifted a long fly ball to left field headed for extra bases. As the ball came slicing down, rookie Jules Hansell stretched out and snagged it safely in his glove just before it hit the grass.
And in a league where siblings are spread across teams, Dodger rookie Bryce Lewis stepped into the batter's box in the 2nd inning to face one of the best pitchers in the League, his brother of the Giants, Brendon; and he somehow managed a base hit. And though it couldn't be verified, the older Lewis brother looked both proud and annoyed.
By the top of the fourth inning, the Dodgers had a semi-comfortable lead of 3-0, when Giants scored a run to close the gap a bit.
After putting another run on the scoreboard in the 4th, the Dodgers led 4 to 1, and some breathed easier, but only for a second.
In the fifth, the Giants came back all at once with 3 runs to tie the score at 4 a piece, and the tension set in as the momentum seemed to be shifting.
In the Dodgers' half of the fifth, however; Quentin Mcleod stood in and clocked a home run over the left field fence and suddenly the Dodgers led again.
In the last inning, with the bases loaded, two outs, and the game about to get away from them, the Dodgers held on by their fingernails and escaped the sixth, winning the game by one run.
Well played by both teams; but it was the Giants who showed great resolve & grit throughout; and never more so than at the end.
A close finish to a close race - and still one more game to go, at least; before anyone knows who will go the Mayor's Cup, representing the Major League - this weekend.
Written and submitted by:
Jeff Hansell
Major Dodgers 5 - Giants 4
Game Date: 6/16/14
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