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Karine Jean-Pierre on her mental health struggle and a blueprint for activism
Judy Woodruff: Many of our viewers known Karine Jean-Pierre as a Democratic strategist and one of our analysts.
In her book "Moving Forward," she shares her personal story about growing up the eldest child of Haitian immigrants.
I sat down with her recently and began by asking her how her upbringing shaped her life.
Karine Jean-Pierre: That immigrant upbringing, growing up in New York, it shaped everything and anything that I'm about, right, who -- the person that I sit here -- that sits before you, my hard work, my perseverance, the way I meet, see people and talk to people.
It has made me who I am, the type of mother that I have become, partner that I have become. My parents, Haitian immigrants, it's like the immigrant experience. They came here for the American dream that in many ways eluded them. They still live check to check, but in their eyes, because I made it to the White house, because their daughter went to Columbia, they have received it.
So it's been interesting watching their experience. They have been knocked down , and they get back up. And so, when I'm knocked down, I get back up. Some that experience with them growing up has really made me so much stronger.
Judy Woodruff: Your family is threaded through so much of this book, your father a taxi driver, but trained as an engineer.
Karine Jean-Pierre: Yes. Exactly. Yes.
Judy Woodruff: And your mother had been a nanny and then a caregiver.
Karine Jean-Pierre: Yes, a caregiver.
Judy Woodruff: Both of them very involved in you life. High expectations for you.
Karine Jean-Pierre: High expectations. And it was overwhelming.
Being the oldest of three siblings, I had to take care of my siblings while my parents were working six, seven days a week. I had to feed them. And I'm 8 years older than my sister, 10 years older than my brother, so I was pretty young when they were toddlers, and make sure their food was cooked, make sure diapers were changed, because they had to provide for the family.
And all of that heaviness, all of that responsibility led to some dark times as well.
Judy Woodruff: You write about secrets in the family. There were things your family didn't talk about.
Karine Jean-Pierre: Yes. Yes.
Judy Woodruff: You write, Karine, about your own struggles at points in your life with emotional difficulties, your own sexuality, coming out as a gay woman, and how your parents responded to that.
So one of the things -- there are so many things that I bring up that you just laid out perfectly, but one of them is mental health. And one of the reasons I talk about it in the book is because there is a stigma connected to mental health.
And people don't want to talk about what they go through when they are in dark times and they don't know how to get out of it. And because of the pressures of me growing up, and just feeling like an outsider all through my growing up, my young -- young days, there was a time where I attempted to take my life. I attempted suicide.
And it was a dark, dark time in my life, clearly. And so I put that in the book. I put it in the book because I want to help people. I want anybody who has ever felt that way to feel like there is a way out and to know there is a way out.
Judy Woodruff: What do you think got you through that?
Karine Jean-Pierre: I think back again -- even though there was pressures from the community, pressures from my family that I put on to myself really in many ways, I think because, growing up, my parents always instilled in me that I was going to survive, that I was going to be a star, that I was going to do anything that I wanted, somehow, somewhere, that was still there, even though I was so down and out.
Judy Woodruff: And you kept pushing through. You finished college. You went on to graduate school, ended up going into politics.
Judy Woodruff: Why do you think you did?
Karine Jean-Pierre: I think I just persevered.
I think it's the being knocked down and going back up again. I now teach at Columbia University, an Ivy League school. I have to mentor and teach young people and help them get through their lives. And I have a 5-year-old. My partner and I have this beautiful 5-year-old daughter.
And I think that helps me persevere, and that helps me understand, what kind of world do I want to leave for her?
Judy Woodruff: You talk about advice to young people, that they don't have to work at the White House, which you said, or the state capitol.
Karine Jean-Pierre: Yes. Yes. Yes.
Judy Woodruff: That they can make a difference in politics and policy at the grassroots level.
Karine Jean-Pierre: Yes.
I believe that they can. The way they're going to make that change is if their voice is in the fight, if they step into the political arena, whether it's working on that issue, or deciding to run themselves, or working for a candidate that they really believe in and want them to decide their future.
And I tell that in my book. And I lay out the blueprint and the playbook for doing that.
Judy Woodruff: In fact, there is a point of the book where you have not only worked for President Obama. You worked for Anthony Weiner. You worked for John Edwards.
Karine Jean-Pierre: I did.
Judy Woodruff: Politicians who didn't exactly end up in the right place.
Judy Woodruff: And it's an interesting lesson you learned, isn't it?
And I say in my book, don't put people up on a pedestal. Right? Care about the issues, for sure, but don't put people on a pedestal, because people are flawed. We are flawed individuals.
And I also tell young people, if you do end up working for a flawed candidate, make sure you -- you got to make sure you take care of your career as well. Right? You have to make sure that you navigate through those waters, so that you can continue your career.
And so it's just a fine line the walk on, but you have to continue sticking with what you believe in.
Judy Woodruff: You are political strategist. You're a Democratic political strategist.
Judy Woodruff: So I'm not going to let you get away without asking you, how do you believe Democrats can defeat Donald Trump next year? Do you think they have a good chance of winning?
Karine Jean-Pierre: I do.
And the reason why is because we have been energized the past three years, we, the Democratic base, the resistance, if you want to call it that, and we have shown up in races in big ways, in historical numbers.
And there is an energy there. When you look at the polling and it says, what do Democrats want the most, they want somebody who can beat Donald Trump. That's the thing. Whoever is the nominee has to understand it's going to take a movement to beat Donald Trump. It's not going to be easy, but we can do it.
You got to get young people out. You got to get people of color, black voters, black women who have been the backbone of the Democratic Party. You have to get women, educated white women out. You have to get everybody. You have to get that coalition and people who don't normally vote or don't think their vote matters. You have got to convince them to get them out. It's going to take a movement.
Judy Woodruff: The book is "Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America."
Karine Jean-Pierre: Thank you.
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On 12th March 2005, a new broom wielding deity, MANUSHI Swachha Narayani, Goddess of Good Governance and Citizenship Rights, chose Sewa Nagar street hawker market as her abode. At the time, Sewa Nagar was being developed by MANUSHI as a model market for street vendors. The Goddess took her avatar in form to lend strength to MANUSHI's long battle to protect street hawkers from routine human rights abuses, assaults on their livelihood and huge extortion rackets legitimized by archaic laws which treat their legitimate occupation as an "illegal activity" despite the fact that the city cannot function without street vendors.
The use of draconian laws and policies against vendors has not made street vendors and hawkers disappear, except in some elite enclaves in select metros where the city governments have not allowed vendors to reappear through sheer terror tactics under the influence of upper class citizens who want their cities to resemble the suburbs of Los Angeles or Sydney. But in most instances, vendors have learnt to survive by placating the police and municipal officials with money offerings. That only brings temporary respite from clearance operations. The repeated use of such removal drives, aided by the police, has only strengthened the hold of anti-social elements and extortionist mafias who prey on the "illegal" status of these hard working people.
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1.	A judgment pronounced by the Supreme Court on 30th August 1989 in the Saudhan Singh and Others Vs NDMC (1989) case which ruled that "... the fundamental right to livelihood under Article 19(1)(g) of the constitution cannot be denied to street / pavement hawkers..." and that "street trading" should be seen as a "legitimate trade, business, or occupation." The Supreme Court also ruled that proper hawking zones should be created in the cities and towns so that hawkers may operate without inconveniencing other road users."
3.	Setting up of a National task Force by the Urban Development Ministry in 2001 for evolving a new national policy for street vendors. MANUSHI was a member of this Task Force. This policy was adopted by the Central Cabinet in January 2004.
However, at the ground level, we faced determined hostility in getting this policy implemented.
The standard response of the city administration against legalizing the status of street vendors is that hawkers cause obstructions for other road users and spread chaos and squalor. They also argue that legalizing the existence of vendors will mean rewarding illegal encroachments on "government land". Officials claim that if life is made easy for rural migrants, millions more will flood the cities and start squatting all over the place causing a total civic breakdown. Most administrators are also convinced that street vendors are a sign of a backward economy and that the India of the 21st century ought to eliminate hawkers if we want to have modern cities.
Frustrated at this deep seated prejudice against vendors, in late 2002, we offered to demonstrate by concrete example how vendors can be accommodated in the city landscape in an aesthetic and orderly manner, and how the existing system of payoffs and protection rackets can be replaced with a fee based access to market space which enhances municipal revenues and curbs the growth of criminal mafias who parasite on vulnerable hawkers. We were fortunate that Rakesh Mehta, a citizen-friendly IAS officer, happened to be the Municipal Commissioner of Delhi at the time. Despite initial misgivings, Mr. Mehta agreed to sanction two pilot projects to create model hawker markets in order to let us prove our claim. For this experiment, we chose two hawker markets which had witnessed repeated clearance operations--one at Sewa Nagar and the other one opposite the CGO complex near Lodhi Colony--as the site of these pilot projects.
c) Stay within the agreed-upon Sanyam Rekha, (Line of Discipline).
e) Not sell or rent out the allotted stall. Those who sold or rented out the stall would face loss of membership and be made to surrender their stall.
f) Abjure the use of violence or abusive behavior to settle internal disputes between vendors.
g) Avoid bringing in party politics into MANUSHI Sangathan.
Members of these projects agreed that those who violated any or all of these disciplines would be subject to punitive fines. Repeated offenders would have their membership cancelled, have their stall sealed and be denied space in the model market area.
MANUSHI committed itself to bearing the cost of administering the project, overseeing civic discipline on a daily basis and ensuring rent compliance from all those street vendors who opted to become part of the model market project. MANUSHI also took the responsibility for redesigning the vending platforms to improve their functionality and aesthetic appeal. In addition, we arranged ICICI loans for vendors to pay for the cost of new stalls. MANUSHI Governing Board Member, Dr Renuka Vishwanathan who was then posted in Delhi as a senior IAS officer played a vital role in building communication channels with the bureaucracy as well in arranging micro loans.
In order to protect this project from sabotage, the Municipal Commissioner sought the permission of the Supreme Court for collaborating with MANUSHI for these two pilot projects. He informed the Court that if they proved successful, the same model of civic discipline would be implemented all over the City.
"...The implementation of any policy or project, howsoever well motivated it may be, depends on the bona fides and whole-hearted faithful implementation by the agencies involved in the execution. We only hope and trust that such projects and policies shall not be shadowed by corruption and red-tapism which, unfortunately, has become the order of the day..."
A registered Agreement was signed between MANUSHI and the MCD on April 10, 2003, giving MANUSHI the responsibility of executing these two projects. But the MCD claimed it had no money for the required infrastructure. The job of raising the required money was also left to MANUSHI. In March 2004, two Rajya Sabha MPs, Mrs. Ambika Soni and Dr. Karan Singh supported the project from their MPLAD funds for building the required civic infrastructure, including a drainage system, neat pavements, park plazas etc. Sewa Nagar got Rs 25 lakhs from Mrs Soni's MPLAD Fund and CGO Complex project was given Rs 10 lakhs from Dr Singh's fund. Unfortunately the CGO Complex project was sabotaged right at the start because of repeated assaults by the local police despite security clearance from the very top. We decided to focus on Sewa Nagar so that we could, with a concrete success in hand, fight other battles from a position of strength. In the first phase, we were given permission to cover only a portion of the Sewa Nagar market that accommodated no more than 158 existing vendors.
Much before MANUSHI got formal clearance for turning Sewa Nagar into a model of civic discipline, Sewa Nagar vendors had already hired the services of a Cleaning Brigade to prepare themselves to take responsibility for making it a role model of cleanliness by ensuring that the model market area be garbage free. Despite getting substantial salaries and other benefits from the government, municipal sweepers do a shoddy job of cleaning once in the morning.
For this, they take a daily bribe from each hawker. In 2003, each vendor of Sewa Nagar paid Rs 60 to Rs 100 per month to the municipal sweepers, with fruit vendors who generate more garbage paying a much higher amount. Any vendor who refuses to pay up faces the ire of the Health Department whose inspectors don't hesitate to misuse their power by removing vendors on charges of creating unsanitary conditions. As in other public spaces, Sewa Nagar too had piles of garbage strewn all over the place through the day. But with Sewa Nagar pilot project actually becoming a Garbage Free Zone, 4 full time persons were hired directly by Sewa Nagar vendors to clean the market 3 times a day. Each vendor began contributing Rs 30 to 50 per month to pay the salaries of the Cleaning Brigade.
We realized that as long as the vendors did not internalize the importance of cleanliness and did not imbibe it as a necessary discipline, merely hiring additional sweepers would not achieve the purpose. If they continued to associate low status and the stigma of untouchability with those who perform sweeping and other sanitary functions, they would never learn the value of maintaining cleanliness as an important sign of self-esteem.
To drive home the message that cleaning one's physical environment is as sacred a duty of every citizen as cleansing our system of governance of corruption and abuse of power, from August 2001, in all our meetings we began the practice of worshipping the humble Broom with all the rituals that go with worshipping regular deities.
In order to emphasize that those who perform the vital task of keeping our homes or public spaces clean should not be looked upon with disdain or treated as untouchable we also began to honour the Cleaning Brigade employees with special rituals in all our important meetings. In addition, each vendor was required to keep a broom and a garbage bin so that they did their bit by keeping the pavement or road in front of their own stall clean.
Much before the pilot project got official sanction in 2003, the local committee of vendors at Sewa Nagar agreed to my proposal that on December 19, 2001, we would collectively draw up a Line of Discipline (Sanyam Rekha) to earmark the area beyond which no stall owner would extend his/her stall space or spread her goods. Some vendors suggested that we also involve the blessing of Lord Ganesh, the remover of obstacles along with the worship of the Broom which had by then become a regular feature of our meetings. Since I had for months been hammering the message that Lakshmi (the goddess of wealth and prosperity who they ritually worship by starting their day with her puja) cannot be expected to dwell in unclean and unhygienic environments, some vendors wanted to include Lakshmi in our special puja of December 19.
I readily agreed on condition that they take a collective oath to keep the market clean since a well-maintained clean market was bound to bring more business to Sewa Nagar hawkers and enhance their incomes. But I insisted that the worship of Lakshmi be accompanied by the worship of Saraswati, the goddess of wisdom, arts and learning because the money earned through judicious and honest means alone brings true prosperity.
It was our hope that the blessings of Saraswati would bestow on pilot project members the foresight and wisdom to build their inner organizational strength through self-regulation. But for that to happen, they needed the wisdom to avoid internal quarrels and conflicts which are cleverly used and manipulated by those who have a stake in keeping them divided against each other and, therefore, easy to terrorize and fleece. I also warned them that none of the above would work if we did not have the courage to be fearless in our battle against exploiters. Hence, the blessings of Mother Durga were needed in order to get the requisite strength and power to combat the forces of evil that engulf the lives and livelihoods of street hawkers. Our Broom Deity slowly absorbed the qualities and powers of Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga and acquired her own distinct identity as MANUSHI Swachha Narayani. Its literal translation means the Goddess of Cleanliness but she represents many more qualities than mere respect for physical cleanliness. We often also refer to her as our Mother India.
1)	Starting from the local SHO, to the Municipal Councilor, the MLA and MP of the area, each one wanted us to allot a few stalls each for "their men". We tried explaining that MANUSHI did not bring any new vendors. The project included all those who were already vending in the area. But the police and politicians let loose the local mafia on us to attack and blackmail us. Each of these goons also wanted some stalls under their direct charge. We refused to succumb to this blackmail because we knew that yielding to their demand would negate the very purpose of the project since "their men" would become absentee owners who collected rents from vendors for space allotted to them. This meant each one of these worthies became an open or covert enemy of the project.
2)	Since membership of the project gave vendors legal protection and they began to pay a monthly tehbazari fee to the MCD, pilot project members stopped paying the weekly hafta (bribe). Sewa Nagar thus became the first Bribe Free Zone in India for vendors. The local mafia was outraged at this. Politicians, the police and municipal officials all worried that this message might spread like wildfire and inspire vendors from other markets as well to resist paying bribes. They could see that numerous vendors from other parts of Delhi began to come and plead with us to adopt their markets as well offering them a similar discipline.
As a result, the new civic infrastructure was repeatedly damaged and the new pavements, drains and stalls were time and again vandalized during and even after construction. Project members as well as MANUSHI volunteers, including me, were repeatedly subjected to violence, intimidation and-threats on our lives to make us abandon the project. Every second day the local police would swoop down and vandalize the stalls of project members. On numerous occasions, the construction workers building the civic infrastructure were roughed up and taken to the police station. Our architect and contractor were ordered to stop "illegal construction" or else face action. The police would come and break down the stalls of our key members despite the MCD Commissioner's orders that pilot project vendors should not face harassment or "removal operations".
The situation became explosive when on December 15, 2004, they collected a whole gang of goons who pitched a big tent in the middle of the market and sat on indefinite dharna against us and used physical violence to stop the construction of new pavements. For at least 10 hours every day, they hurled abuses at MANUSHI and leveled all kinds of false allegations on loudspeakers, threatening vendors in order to get them to withdraw from the project. They formed a bogus Residents Welfare Association to bolster their case in court that the pilot project caused inconvenience to the inhabitants of the area.
Some of these gangsters have long criminal records and were undergoing trials for serious offences, including murder, kidnapping, sexual assault and fraud. Even the Municipal Councilor of the area, who was behind the attacks, had 45 criminal cases on him. And yet he became an MLA on a Congress party ticket in the next election.
Such criminal elements attach themselves to whichever party is in power and both the Congress as well as the BJP openly patronize them. That gives them added clout with the police. Fortunately, at that time, hardly any vendor from the project area fell prey to their machinations. Unable to break the unity and resilience of project members of Manushi Sangathn through violence and threats, Umesh Rawat and Dharam Singh, two class IV government employees living in the area propped up by this extortionist gang with the political patronage of the municipal councilor and the local M.P. - both of the Congress Party, approached the High Court in January 2005 to get a stay order against the pilot project on the basis of bogus and flimsy allegations. Their absurd charge was that MANUSHI was illegally occupying government land for personal use. The High Court refused to grant a stay. But these goons kept filing more and more bogus objections to harass and tire us out.
In addition, they continued to stall the construction work through the use of violence and strong-arm tactics. The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Kotla police station lent full support to their criminal activities. Many vendors had their stalls vandalized or forcibly removed and goods confiscated by the local police. Even though MANUSHI submitted concrete evidence of the criminal activities and past record of this gang to the High Court, no action was ordered by the High Court even while the Court gave MANUSHI a go ahead with the project.
The routine acts of vandalism and harassment of pilot project members were beginning to demoralize some of us. Even I began to wonder if we would be able to hold together the group and be able to complete the necessary infrastructure, pavements, new stalls, beautification of the park and the plaza around it in order to make it visibly different and more functional than the rest of the markets in Delhi.
The powers and attributes of our ten-armed Swachhnarayani, with each hand carrying a unique "weapon", caused amazement but she was lovingly and as spontaneously accepted as our ritual of Broom Worship. The following description of her attributes shows that she represents a creative amalgam of the traditional female trinity - Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati - with many new attributes and powers required to meet contemporary challenges.
1. Cleaning Broom - the main identity marker of our goddess--to symbolize our respect for cleanliness of the physical environment as well as our resolve to cleanse the government machinery of corruption. The broom also represents the strength of the weak and poor that comes from unity. Each stick that constitutes the broom is by itself weak and can be easily broken into pieces. Alone, it is of little value. However, when the same sticks are tied together for a common purpose, they cannot be broken except by pulling them apart. This gave the message that vendors have a chance of winning their battle only if they stay united against the demonic forces exploiting them.
2. Clock to emphasize the need to change with changing times and dismantle all the archaic colonial restrictions and laws that act as an instrument of exploitation and tyranny.
3. Coin placed in the palm of the Goddess held in abhay mudra to communicate the message that citizens have a right to earn a dignified livelihood without fear, harassment and extortion.
4. Weighing-balance symbolizes commitment to social justice and careful weighing of truth and untruth as well as honest evaluation of issues.
5. Video camera to remind us and our policy makers that our laws need to take careful account of ground reality. A large part of the success of our campaign for policy and law reform for street vendors was due to our recording on videotape the violations of the human rights of vendors and using the documentary films we made on their problems and using them as an integral tool in our advocacy campaigns.
6. Diya (earthen lamp) symbolizes dispelling of darkness and bringing hope for the poor and vulnerable.
7. Calculator to remind us to keep honest accounts of our all financial dealings and demand similar financial accountability and transparency from the government.
8. Pen as a symbol of wisdom and learning associated with Goddess Saraswati. It acts as a reminder that the pen is mightier than any sword.
9. Conch shell symbolizes purity as well as a clarion call for self-organization of citizens so that each one of us can become an active player in democratizing governance.
10. Stalk of barley to symbolize multiplication of wealth as well as the spread of the message symbolized by the Broom Goddess. Just as one seed can produce an unlimited number of grains, we hoped that this modest initiative becomes the harbinger for many more endeavours to strengthen the rights of citizens.
11. The Lotus flower on which the Goddess stands conveys the need to create beauty and prosperity by enabling people to move out of squalor and poverty.
(To view the video of Swachhnarayani aarti (Song of the Broom Godess) , click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m5qQzLunK0) To read the text of the aarti click here, Swachh Narayani Aarti in Hindi-English.
While our goddess has Durga like ability to battle tyrants, none of the weapons and symbols associated with her have violent or bloody overtones. While the foremost symbol of Swachhnarayani is the Broom representing her creative energy to cleanse wrongdoing, she is as much the goddess of self discipline - the power of the individual as a member of a group to create order and withstand chaos.
The impact of her presence was far greater than we had anticipated. It not only energized the members of the pilot project but also became a live link with local residents. They began to come and express solidarity with our project by coming with floral offerings and joining in the evening aarti. Most important of all, she struck a measure of fear in the hearts of our tormentors. Starting with the SHO of the local police station and the beat constables, they all came and paid homage to the goddess without our asking.
Even those sitting on dharna against us for over two months, sent a message asking whether we would let them also come and offer their prayer to the Goddess. We welcomed their coming, not only because Ma Swachhnarayani's doors were open to all but also because we hoped that might start the process of reconciliation. The very presence of the Goddess managed to bring a measure of calm in the area. The disruptive activities did not stop altogether but came down substantially so that we were able to resume work on building the necessary infrastructure.
Within a year of her coming, the project area had been transformed from a slummy hawker market to one of the most colorful and orderly markets in Delhi. We also built a shining bright toilet block with vendors' contribution because the entire place lacked a public toilet. The head of the United Nations Commission for the Legal Empowerment of the Poor made a surprise visit to the project and commissioned a documentary film to be made on the Sewa Nagar experiment advocating it as an international role model for the legal empowerment of the urban poor.


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In the good news/bad news department, the City of Vancouver has announced a "Request for Expression of Interest (RFEOI) "on a proposed master plan for four iconic west end parks, their beaches, and the adjacent street networks. Noting that there is an expectation of 18,000 more residents in the West End by 2040 and the fact that this area is heavily frequented by tourists, the City is looking at a refreshing rethink of this place that is so loved by locals.
That heavily used parks that are older are being considered for a facelift is great, with enhancements being proposed for Morton Park, better connections for cyclists to the seawall, better readable open space, and an emphasis on biodiversity and festival space.
The Vancouver Aquatic Centre built in 1976 is over forty years old and is due for an overhaul. It would benefit from a redesign that tied it into Sunset Park. The RFEOI also wants to explore climate change and sea rise, and do work differently. Noting that these lands are on the unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, any proposal must include meaningful engagement with the Nations. This could be very exciting to have placemaking and marking from the indigenous perspective, and explore culturally and historically the use and importance of this site.
The bad news was it appeared that some City Councillors and Parks Commissioners were unaware of this city proposal and initiative, which follows city policy to improve and manage public amenities and improve active transportation connections.
John Coupar of the Parks Board told Global News "This looks like a big, big project with a lot of moving parts from what I read, and we were not aware of anything like this. It shouldn't have come to us this way."
Hopefully there will now be a briefing for City Councillors and the Parks Board to understand the scope of the proposal and why it is important for a densifying downtown. There will also be the need to think about resiliency and how best to adapt the space to potential water level changes in the future. Other issues that will be sure to be contentious are commercial facilities for selling food and beverages and what those operations will look like near these iconic beaches.
The deadline for the Proposals for Expressions of Interest is May 30. From there a shorter list of respondents will be requested to prepare more in depth documents.
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Georgia Baptists who want to be involved in Acts 1:8 outreach will have three opportunities for international missions ministry without leaving the state.
To Patrick Deneut, ministering in the south of France is not unlike serving in New England.
Kimberly and Hillary leave their apartment, walk a few blocks to a subway and then emerge a few miles away. They walk down a half-dozen blocks and enter a storefront where others begin to gather for an evening of playing board games.
Year-to-date contributions to Southern Baptist national and international missions and ministries received by the SBC Executive Committee are 7.01 percent below the same time frame last year, according to SBC Executive Committee President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Page.
Hillary Smit from Albany and Kimberly Prescott from Wrens are representative of hundreds of other Georgia Baptist collegians who become the face of Christianity for those they meet during their missions experiences.
The day, January 22, is approaching when America acknowledges the Supreme Court's 1973 controversial landmark Roe v. Wade decision to legalize abortion on demand in the United States.
The old building on the patch of land where Shiloh Church Road and Penfield Road meet had surely seen better days, thought Pastor Norman Waldrip as he stood in the dusty parking lot last March.
The Christian Index is beginning a new feature this issue - a column on Christian apologetics.
A large church in Florida invited me to preach a revival. The pastor said, "For the last revival I did a great deal of preparing. For this revival I decided to do no preparing. I wanted to compare the difference."


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North Staffordshire and the surrounding areas have so much to offer, from stunning countryside to huge attractions and of course our pottery heritage.
This Area of Outstanding beauty has plenty to offer, from bike trails and picnic tables to play areas and woodland walks.
You can also choose to Go Ape on their treetop obstacle courses or even enjoy a session on a Segway – but be aware that both will bump up the price tag of your day out.
Please note parking is paid for, £4 for all day, and the money goes towards the management and improvement of the forest.
On 5 July 2009 the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver metalwork ever found was discovered with a metal detector in a field near Lichfield.
Consisting of over 3,500 items with extremely high quality of workmanship, they have been dated to the 7th or 8th centuries. The majority of these items are warlike in character, for example swords and helmets.
The hoard, valued at £3.285 million, has been purchased by The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – both of which now display items of the Staffordshire Hoard.
Based in Hanley this museum has some great collections of Staffordshire ceramics, a World War II Spitfire and more.
With art from names like Picasso, Durer and Degas on display there's lots to see, and there's even a secret garden tucked away - where you'll find a sensory oasis of plants and fungi to smell and touch. They have a café for refreshments and admission is free with donations optional.
Located near Leek, the reservoir was first constructed around 1858 and now stores and supplies water to parts of the area.
It has two main walking routes, one five miles long and another shorter 1.5 mile trail. You can enjoy watching birds and wildlife from one of two purpose built hides and there is also a children's play area.
You'll find picnic areas, along with a designated BBQ area, and the visitor centre has a café and shop. There is a parking charge, £4.70 for all day.
This beautiful park in Newcastle-under-Lyme has lots to do - with a sensory and rose gardens to explore, a playground with a giant sandpit and a water play area as well as an aviary and a pond.
You'll also find a little miniature railway which runs on Sundays May to September in good weather and not forgetting the family friendly museum and art gallery.
The museum, which has free admission, includes a Victorian Street scene and 1930s/40s house where you can take a step back in time and a toys gallery with teddies, dolls and games up to 150 years old.
The Roaches is a wind-carved outcrop of rocks in the Peak District National Park about 4 miles north of Leek.
Here you'll see plenty of climbers scaling the rock faces as well as walkers enjoying this scenic location which benefits from stunning views.
One unusual sight you might be lucky enough to see is a Wallaby. Wallabies, along with other animals, escaped from a private zoo at Roaches Hall during World War II and bred, with some sightings still occurring to this day.
There is free parking available and a family run tea room nearby with other pubs slightly further afield.
Discover the history and heritage behind Stoke-on-Trent which has been shaped by the pottery industry for over 300 years with this trail.
Affectionately known as the Potteries, the industry flourished with revolutionary ideas from the likes of Wedgwood and Spode.
Go on a factory tour, learn about the skills and craftsmanship involved and even try your hand at making your own masterpiece.
Stafford Castle has dominated the local skyline for over 900 years, with the site first being built on by the Normans in 1100 AD. Discover the rich history of this site and take in the spectacular views.
The site itself extends to over 26 acres and with a visitor centre and car park there's lots to do. The centre has hands on items including arms, armour and costumes to encourage a 'hands-on' approach to history as well as a film which tells the history of Stafford Castle and admission is free.
This two and a half mile long lake is located in thickly wooded hillsides, making it a haven of peace and tranquillity.
It offers walking, boating, sailing and fishing for visitors with day tickets for canoeing costing £7 including parking or £10 to hire a row boat for 30 minutes.
You can even take a boat trip, available from Easter to the end of October, with up to 12 passengers. The trip includes an informative narration about the lake's history and wildlife and costs £4 for adults and £2 for children.
The village of Mow Cop straddles the Staffordshire/Cheshire border and is home to the Grade II listed Mow Cop Castle, which is actually a folly that was first built in 1754.
In 1937, the deeds for the castle and land were given to the National Trust who has since carried out repairs and now have a small car park that visitors can use for up to two hours .
You'll find a number of popular walks in the area as well as theannual killer mile which sees people take on the challenging mile long route that has a total climb of over 550ft.
See a different side to Stoke-on-Trent by exploring the 40 sculptures throughout the city.
Whether you choose to do it by foot, on a bike or in the car, you don't have to do it all in one go as it's been helpfully split into geographical clusters.
Or you can view the trail by the three different themes associated with each work - great people, local history and inspirational.
Take a factory tour and glimpse behind the scenes at the Emma Bridgewater factory, they last around 45 minutes and cost £2.50 for adults with under 16s free. Make a piece of pottery your own in the decorating studio with the help of experts for £2.95 plus the cost of the item you choose.
The discount factory outlet is great if you're hunting for a special gift or just love a bargain and you can enjoy a bite to eat at their café, whilst using their free Wi-Fi, which serves lunch and cakes as well as hot and cold drinks.
This National Trust site has a babbling stream running through it, with cycle trails and miles of footpaths as well as picnic tables and benches dotted throughout.
The rock pillar, which stands at the highest point, shows you surrounding landmarks that can be seen in the distance on a clear day.
A great place to walk your dog or just get some fresh air, there's ample parking and you can try bird-watching or wildlife-spotting here – you might even spot the blue flash of a kingfisher.
Joanne Richardson-Deakes at The Potter's Barn, Trentham Estate.
This Trentham based attraction has a shopping village, stunning gardens, 140 free-roaming Barbary macaques at Trentham's Monkey Forest and a high rope adventure at Aerial Extreme.
Spanning over 725 acres there are activities to suit all the family – from a stroll around the mile long lake or in the woodlands, to counting fairies, enjoying a sensory delight on the barefoot walk or hopping a ride on the miniature train.
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Founded in 1995 and set in historic downtown Mesa, Arizona, Heritage Academy is one of Arizona's oldest charter schools. Heritage offers a classical education for the leaders who will shape the 21st Century.
Heritage Academy is dedicated to youth, their growth and development. Heritage believes in building sound character which will result in strong families, strong communities, and a strong nation.
We hope that as you plan your academic future, you will take time to look closely at the special opportunities Heritage Academy has to offer.
Not only will you make lifelong friends at Heritage Academy, but you will have more success than you imagined in High School.
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Heritage Academy is dedicated to youth, their growth and development. The purpose of education is to build strong character. Strong character is reflected in strong families, strong communities and a strong nation.
While teaching the academic disciplines, Heritage Academy is dedicated to instilling into the minds and hearts of today's youth a knowledge of and respect for the ideals and values of the great men and women of history, including those who founded the American nation.
As today's rising generation gains an appreciation of these people of accomplishment, they will be ready to provide the selfless service to their fellow citizens and to their country which will be required in the coming years to assist in preserving America's greatness. Heritage Academy exists to this end.
Heritage Academy maintains a clean, moral, positive atmosphere where scholars can feel safe in the environment – safe from physical harm, from addicting substances, and from damaging gossip and stereotyping.
Heritage Academy teaches the mastery of primary and secondary skills in the fields of history, math, writing, literature, reading, science, music, foreign language, visual art, performing arts, and physical development.
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Heritage Academy is known as a school of excellence where all scholars and parents honestly say that the time spent at Heritage has been the best schooling experience of their lives.
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Roads are open again after a two-car accident at the intersection of E. Justis and Marshall streets in Newport on Thursday evening.
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City water was corroding the inlet solenoids, liming up the cooling coils, and causing a maintenance headache.
Hausers Water Systems designed a space-saving high input R.O. system.
In the first month of operation, the ice machine ran more efficiently and doubled the output of ice.
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Key Terms and Context, or What is She Talking About Again?
I'll be leaning a lot – a whole helluva lot – on things that I found/discovered/created before I started this "demonstration project" throughout this experience, and it's going to get repetitive and not a little bit artificial if I keep spelling out the full title of things and recapping them every time I start a new post. Plus, let's be honest: if this process takes (which is, of course, the plan), I'm almost guaranteed to forget I need to explain concepts more and more frequently. So rather than spell out each term the first time I use it blah blah in each post, I'm just going to link it to this page, and if you want to check it or follow up for more info, the choice will then be in your very capable hands rather than mine.
'Your Commercial Foundations' is the name of the business I established in 2013 as a vehicle to teach Conversational Commerce. It's also the working name of the startup at the heart of this experiment. For the course of the experiment, the YCF website – www.ycf.net.au – will primarily be the home of the on-line experiments for this project, as well as hosting general information about Conversational Commerce. It will, however, err on the side of too little information – sorry about that – because part of this process is to figure out what the product needs to be and do to meet my vision, and not the other way around. Which, if I define either YCF or Conversational Commerce in too much detail at the outset, is sort of what I would be doing.
The Business Model Canvas is a one-page depiction of the business effectively in motion, emphasising the connections and relationships between its 9 core aspects, so one can not only innovate, but at least in my case the first time I used it, make sure one has actually thought about all of them. The 9 aspects – in no particular order – are Key Partners, Key Activities, Key Resources, Value Proposition, Customer Relationships, Channels, Customer Segments, Cost Structure and Revenue Streams. From the canvas, one can experiment with each aspect and thus the model itself, using the BMG methodology and a whole lot of sticky notes to see what-would-happen-if rather than bricks or mortar or a seriously complex spreadsheet, and in the process really test one's options. 2014's Value Proposition Design is a sequel of sorts, diving deeply into the front-of-house Canvas aspects of the Value Proposition and Customer Segments to not only embed resilience into the overall model but to provide the footings of a growth path forward, plus some great case studies. FWIW, if you are only going to buy one book, I'd buy the latter.
I came to SOM through the Canvas – in following up on a recommendation about Alex Osterwalder and his Youtube canvas presentations, I found one where he shared the stage with Steve Blank and suddenly, the lightbulbs that had been going off as I learned about the canvas morphed into klieg lights. This 2012 book and the Customer Development process it discusses showed me a pathway to take through what til then had felt like stumbling blindfolded through a Scottish bog. In the rain. Barefoot. Not because it promises you success, cos it doesn't – actually it promises you quite a lot of failure, but failure on a small scale and for an informative purpose: finding out where the solid ground is, and building on that. As Steve Blank and Bob Dorf say in the opening How-To, "This book is a step-by-step how-to guide that details a process for building a successful, profitable, scalable startup." It doesn't pretend to have all the answers, but it does show you the right questions to ask, and where to ask them – outside your own four walls. Both Steve and Bob have active presence on the web, and I hope the latter forgives me for my tendency to only use Steve's name when referencing their work, as the former never would.
While Osterwalder and Blank met after developing their respective fundamental concepts, and seized on the synergies between them to serve a greater purpose – us – Steve Blank was part of Eric Ries's story from very early in the evolution of what is now a global movement. And, for that matter, Eric's Lean Startup ideas had a significant impact of the evolution of Customer Development as it expressed in SOM. In mid 2004, Steve was a successful entrepreneur and investor in tech startups, and Eric was looking for finance for his new tech venture. Steve became one of the first investors and board members in that ultimately hugely successful venture – IMVU – and Eric and his co-founder Will Harvey sat in on Steve's Customer Development class at University of California, Berkeley. What they learned, integrated with agile engineering and the secrets of Japanese manufacture, the world now knows as Lean Startup.
This means a lot of things we traditionally do and measure in an established company aren't going to be relevant in a startup because, frankly, they don't really tell you what you need to know. What Lean – and SOM, and the Canvas – do is embrace that uncertainty and make it work for, rather than against the startup. Not ceasing to measure, but measuring different things; not fearing to fail, but embracing it as tests and learning, to the point that one's goal is accelerating the feedback loop of Build-Measure-Learn to turn ideas into products.
This experience – which I am calling a Demonstration Project – is going to apply the series of steps and activities set out in the Startup Owners Manual (the SOM Methodology) to the Conversational Commerce concept. Because the SOM Methodology incorporates both the Canvas and Lean Startup, I'll be referring to them throughout, not in contrast to the SOM but because there's is only so much SOM can include in each of its four phases and still be considered a portable book. Plus the SOM process, while technically written as a series of steps, is really more of a framework – I wouldn't call it "high-level" because there is plenty of detail, but each startup's experience will be customised to reflect their needs and circumstances beyond SOM's additional material for web-based start-ups.
Most startups have burn rate/ runway run out of cash. My deadline, for reasons I don't care to go into right now, is 20 December: it stops here.


Kansas ranks as one of the worst states for the overuse of anti-psychotic drugs to sedate nursing home residents.
But new regulations on the practice faced stiff opposition during a hearing Tuesday in Topeka from groups that represent the state's doctors, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities.
Kansas House Bill 2704 would require nursing facilities to get informed consent paperwork signed by residents or guardians before giving the medications, which are not indicated for treating dementia.
But Rachel Monger, a lobbyist for LeadingAge Kansas, told legislators that "it would be by far the broadest and most restrictive law on anti-psychotics in the country" and penalize nursing homes for funding and staffing shortages that are outside of their control.
Monger also said the federal government recently enacted similar informed consent rules that will be better suited to the goal of reducing improper anti-psychotic use.
But the federal government has said it will not impose penalties for the next 18 months.
Mitzi McFatrich, the executive director of Kansas Advocates for Better Care, said that's one reason her group has been pushing for state laws to protect nursing home residents.
"We have people who are currently in harm's way," said McFatrich, who believes the federal regulations are not adequate.
Monger said the industry has made progress in reducing anti-psychotic use, but it's been hampered by cuts to Medicaid and long-running problems with the state's Medicaid eligibility determination system.
Medicaid covers about half of Kansans in nursing homes.
Anti-psychotics are contraindicated for people with dementia and include a U.S. Food and Drug Administration warning that they increase the risk of falls, stroke and other potentially fatal side effects.
The federal government started tracking the off-label use of such medications in nursing homes in 2011. Since then, Kansas has always ranked at or near the top in percentage of medicated residents, suggesting there are thousands of residents in the state's certified nursing facilities who have been given drugs that aren't medically indicated for them and could actually harm them.
Kansas also leads the nation in percentage of skilled nursing facilities cited by the federal government for a broad slate of medication-related violations, some of which relate to anti-psychotic use. The state was highlighted in a Human Rights Watch report last month.
Still, the proposed changes to Kansas law face a difficult road to passage with the Kansas Hospital Association and the Kansas Medical Society, which represents doctors, also in opposition.
Rachelle Columbo, a lobbyist for the medical society, said doctors support informed consent as a general rule.
But she called the use of anti-psychotics in nursing homes a "complex problem" that would be better addressed through conversations that include nursing homes' physician medical directors rather than new regulations and penalties.
Chad Austin, a lobbyist for the hospital association, said it wasn't clear whether the bill would apply to hospitals that treat nursing home residents. If it does, he said, it should explicitly say that an exemption that allows for the use of anti-psychotics in emergency situations also applies to hospitals.
That exemption proved controversial for some who support the bill as well.
Rocky Nichols, the executive director of the Kansas Disability Rights Center, said it was too broad and he feared nursing homes would abuse it.
"We do think there needs to be some reasonable limit put on that so it's not just a crutch to get around these (informed consent) regulations," Nichols said.
Nichols' group also wanted the bill changed so it would apply to nine nursing facilities in Kansas that cater specifically to mental health patients.
Kansas Rep. Linda Gallagher, a Republican from Lenexa who introduced the bill, asked Nichols why, given that people who live in those facilities are more likely to have a diagnosis that would justify the use of anti-psychotics.
Nichols said some people in those facilities have both a mental health diagnosis and dementia and they shouldn't be "second-class citizens" when it comes to their rights to refuse medication.
Despite the opposition from the medical lobby and division within the ranks of the bill's supporters, McFatrich said she's not giving up on getting it passed this session.


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Agreement of Mutual Cooperation between UNM, big plantations and Earthworm Foundation
Major plantation organisations, a non-profit and academia have agreed to cooperate in building human-elephant coexistence. The agreement exchange took place at The Vida Bukit Ceylon, Kuala Lumpur on 22 June 2022.
UNM Honorary Professor of Sustainable Business Awarded with OBE
University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) Honorary Professor of Sustainable Business Timothy Edward Gocher has been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 Queen's Birthday Honours list for his services to British investment and economic development in Nepal.
Tributes paid following death of Nottingham's former Vice-Chancellor
Tributes have been paid following the death of Professor Sir Colin Campbell, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham.
Establishment Of The World's 1st Algal Biotechnology Consortium
The 6th International Conference and Postgraduate Colloquium for Environmental Research 2022 (POCER 2022) is organised biannually by the University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM) and will be held from 9 to 11 June 2022 at Langkawi. It is co-organised by Human Life Advancement Foundation (HLAF), Xiamen University Malaysia (XMUM), UCSI University, Malaysia (UCSI) and the International Bioprocessing Society (IBPROCS).
AACSB accreditation completes 'triple crown' for Nottingham University Business School
Nottingham University Business School joins the top one per cent of business schools in the world that hold 'triple crown' accreditation.The school has earned accreditation from AACSB International—The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for all three of its locations in the UK, China and Malaysia, making it the only business school in the UK to hold triple accreditation for its operations on every campus.
Obituary: YM Tengku Tan Sri Dato' Seri Ahmad Rithauddeen Bin Tengku Ismail, Inaugural Chairman of University of Nottingham Malaysia
Tributes have been paid to the former Chairman of the University of Nottingham Malaysia after the death of YM Tengku Tan Sri Dato' Seri Ahmad Rithauddeen Bin Tengku Ismail was announced.
BAE Systems and University of Nottingham Malaysia to tackle 'missed risk'
BAE Systems Digital Intelligence and the University of Nottingham Malaysia have agreed a partnership to examine how unsupervised machine learning can be used in the discovery of previously undefined risk, known as 'missed risk' in the context of financial crime.
Bridging the Digital Gap for National Development
The University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNM), through its Nottingham University Business School (NUBS), is strengthening its relationship with data analytics solutions provider, SAS Institute Malaysia, to bridge the digital gap created by an insufficient pool of data experts in Malaysia.
University Of Nottingham Malaysia Enters International Partnership to Promote Traditional Arts
UNM has inked a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with The Chinese Artists Association of Hong Kong (Barwo) and the Cantonese Opera Academy of Hong Kong Ltd (COA) to strengthen its performing arts education presence in the region.
Media Statement
The University of Nottingham Malaysia is shocked and disappointed to learn of an alleged breach of immigration regulations involving 33 staff employed by our cleaning and landscaping services contractor at our campus in Semenyih.


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They Want to Ban This Memory Cure and Make it a Drug
The All-Natural Memory Loss Cure They'd Rather Ban than Let You Know About
There truly is a safe, natural way to reverse memory loss and restore mental clarity, simply by using a supplement that triggers your brain cells to produce more ATP.
It's called Vinpocetine, and it's a derivative of the flowering Periwinkle Plant. What's more, it's been quietly sold since 1994 in the United States as a memory-boosting nutritional supplement. And tens of thousands of Americans use it regularly.
Unfortunately, The FDA now wants to ban its sale and allow the big pharmaceutical companies to turn it into a prescription drug. This is the story no one else is telling you…
Hi, Steve Barwick here, for Targeted Nutrients:
The medical Gestapo has long wanted to ban the sale of safe, natural Vinpocetine – the world's most powerful, natural memory booster. Why? So Big Pharma can turn it into an expensive prescription drug.
And now, powerful forces in Congress who are clearly in the pocket of Big Pharma are calling for its ban.
In fact, at the end of last year, Senator Claire McCaskill who sits on the U.S. Senate's Special Committee on Aging, began spear-heading a campaign to have the FDA ban the sale of Vincpocetine as a nutritional supplement.
This, under the spurious argument that since Vinpocetine is sold as a prescription drug throughout Europe, it shouldn't be allowed to be sold as a nutritional supplement in the United States.
In other words, she's attempting to harmonize U.S. dietary supplement laws with the far more restrictive laws of Europe that make prescription drugs out of safe, natural plant extracts.
Click here for your special deal on Vinpocetine…
Betraying the American Public
Of course, as many critics have correctly pointed out, this is nothing more than a sneaky attempt to set a precedent to have numerous other beneficial nutritional supplements banned in the United States, simply because Big Pharma has convinced other countries to allow them to be sold as "prescription only" drugs.
What's more, it's a blatant betrayal of this nation's middle-aged to elderly population, which Senator McCaskill is supposed to be representing the best interests of from her seat on the Senate Special Committee on Aging.
In working to ban safe, natural Vinpocetine, she's stabbing in the back those tens of thousands of people like you and me in the over-40 crowd who depend upon safe, natural Vinpocetine to keep our memories sharp and our mental processes operating at peak capacity.
Why Do They Want to Ban Vinpocetine?
The reason they want to ban Vinpocetine and turn it into a drug is quite simple: It's one of the few nutritional supplements that actually does what it's advertised to do – it dramatically improves memory and mental clarity by increasing blood flow to the brain and stimulating brain cells to produce more energy in the form of ATP.
Indeed, Dr. Ward Dean, M.D., co-author of the bestselling books Smart Drugs and Nutrients and Smart Drugs II, says Vinpocetine is like "Viagra for the brain."
And Bernd Wollschlaeger, M.D., a Florida-based board-certified family physician who is also the associate editor of the Journal of the American Nutraceutical Association (JANA), says Vinpocetine has become one of the mainstays of his practice when it comes to patients complaining of memory loss and mild cognitive impairment.
According to Dr. Wollschlaeger:
"All of the peer-reviewed studies I've seen found a significant improvement in cognitive function with Vinpocetine.
Until Vinpocetine, we physicians have had nothing to prevent cognitive decline. We only have drugs to treat after the fact. With safe, natural Vinpocetine, patients see comparatively rapid improvement in memory functions as well as enhancement of learning and recall and overall alertness.
Results are often seen in only seven to ten days. We don't have to wait four or six or eight weeks, like with Gingko Biloba, to see results.
What's more, there have been more than 100 clinical studies conducted on Vinpocetine, with over 30,000 patients, proving its safety and effectiveness."
What's more, Dr. Beth M. Ley, author of the book, Vinpocetine, Boost Your Brain Power With Periwinkle Extract, says the supplement not only stimulates memory, but also improves eyesight in 70% of people tested!
George Foss, a long-time consultant to the nutritional supplement industry, and former general manager of Kayser Nutrition, explains how Vinpocetine works, and why it has become the world's #1 best-selling all-natural brain-boosting supplement:
"Vinpocetine's astonishing beneficial effects on memory, recall and mental acuity occur principally because of its ability to bring age-related declines in the cellular energy functions of the brain back to more youthful levels.
It does so by literally nourishing the brain. First, it increases blood flow to the brain through mild dilation of the blood vessels, which in turn dramatically boosts glucose and oxygen uptake by the brain's 100 billion neurons.
The neurons thrive on this increased glucose and oxygen, which in turn is used to produce prodigious quantities of adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which is pure cellular energy.
This increased production of ATP within the brain quite rapidly boosts the metabolism, or energy activity of the entire brain back to the levels of a young adult.
Finally, this increased energy activity triggers two crucial functions in the brain: increased cell-to-cell communication for quicker thinking, and repair and/or replacement of damaged brain cells for optimal brain function."
Numerous other doctors, clinical researchers and medical experts attest to the astonishing ability of Vinpocetine to boost quality of thinking, long-term planning, cognition enhancement, and even to reduce some of the devastating symptoms of Alzheimer's disease.
For example, Dr. Ray Sahelian, M.D. notes:
"There have been quite a few studies demonstrating the positive effects of Vinpocetine on brain function.
Researchers at the University of Surrey in England administered Vinpocetine to patients suffering from mild to moderate dementia. In this placebo-controlled, randomized double-blind trial 203 patients received Vinpocetine every day for 16 weeks.
They were given either 10 mg doses of Vinpocetine three times a day, 20 mg doses of Vinpocetine three times a day, or placebo three times a day.
Significant cognitive improvements were found in the active treatment groups compared to the placebo groups. Interestingly, the patients on the 10 mg doses performed even better than those on the higher 20 mg. doses."
So now you can see why the FDA and politician who are in the pockets of Big Pharma want to ban Vinpocetine: It really works!
Is Big Pharma Campaign Cash
Behind the Coming Ban on Vinpocetine?
Senator Claire McCaskill, MO
As Mike Adams at Natural News has pointed out, Senator McCaskill is one of the U.S. Senate's largest recipients of campaign cash from Big Pharma.
For example, Adams reveals that in just one recent year McCaskill raked in over $146,000 in campaign contributions from Express Scripts, "one of the largest pharmaceutical retailers in North America."
What's more, much of that money was routed by the good Senator through a maze of lobbyist groups or PACs so it would not be noticed by her constituents and the general public (unless they know how to go check for such things on websites like opensecrets.org).
Senator McCaskill also takes huge amounts of money from greedy anti-consumer corporations like Monsanto.
She's also the Senator who attacked TV's Doctor Oz several years back in a Senate hearing, accusing him of peddling "quack remedies" on his TV show.
In reality, Dr. Oz sells no nutritional supplement products at all, and takes no money from the manufacturers of natural products he recommends on his show. And, as Mike Adams has rightly pointed out, Dr. Oz "goes out of his way to halt dietary supplement companies from using his name to promote such products."
So while Dr. Oz operates with relative integrity, it's Senator McCaskill who's been guilefully hiding her blatant financial conflicts of interest with her Big Pharma high-dollar donors.
Hypocrisy, lack of transparency and astonishing lack of integrity appear to be the hallmarks of those who oppose the people's right to enjoy the benefits of safe, natural nutritional supplements.
Indeed, shortly after Senator McCaskill called for the FDA to ban Vinpocetine, the FDA quickly moved to place a "tentative notification" in the Federal Register stating that "Vinpocetine is not a legal dietary ingredient."
This, of course, is just the first step in the campaign to have Vinpocetine completely banned as a nutritional supplement.
And it's being done in spite of the fact that the FDA had not once challenged Vinpocetine's sale as a dietary supplement for the past 23 years since the very first New Dietary Ingredient (NDI) filing on the nutrient was made with the agency.
Indeed, the FDA has allowed it to be sold all of this time without complaint, and there have been no serious adverse events reported even though millions of bottles have been sold to the American public over the course of the past two decades. (If you haven't tried it yet, you really need to do so while it's still legally available.)
Backlash Against the FDA
The Natural Products Association has taken issue with the new FDA notification, noting that since there have been no serious adverse events reports on Vinpocetine in over 20 years.
"It's becoming abundantly obvious that Big Pharma now wants Vinpocetine out of the way so they can dominate the 'memory enhancement' niche with one of their own prescription drugs, or turn Vinpocetine into a prescription memory drug like they've done throughout Europe."
— Wiki.Medi.Pedia.com
And since the FDA had "multiple chances" to stop Vinpocetine from being sold as a dietary supplement when its NDI submissions were being filed over 20 years ago, but never did, their current stance is legally unjustifiable.
Yet the FDA has yet to budge on its sudden stance against the nutrient.
Clearly, this demonstrates the dirty, under-handed and thoroughly corrupt behind-the-scenes dealings that take place whenever bought-and-sold Congressional representatives and the FDA get involved in the dietary supplement marketplace on behalf of Big Pharma.
As the highly respected Health Sciences Institutes pointed out:
"…the FDA has just set the stage for one of the most devious and underhanded moves ever. The agency has announced its plans to ban a remarkably safe supplement. One that's been helping people protect their brains – and keep their memories intact – for decades.
This is nothing but a high-five to Big Pharma. A scheme that would allow drug makers to take a compound – one that's synthesized from the seeds of the periwinkle plant – slap a fancy name on it, and call it a drug. Oh, and charge you hundreds of dollars a bottle."
Thankfully, Senator Orrin Hatch, who helped craft and negotiate the 1994 dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) which gave Americans greater freedom to obtain and use safe, natural nutritional supplements, has also stepped up to the plate to urge the FDA to withdraw their notice from the Federal Register, and has called on the FDA Commissioner to reverse his stand against Vinpocetine.
The Council for Responsible Nutrition has also stepped in and warned the FDA that their move to ban Vinpocetine is "legally deficient" and "undermines the dietary supplement industry's confidence in the new dietary ingredient notification (NDI) process."
After all, as Functional Health Practitioner Sally Oh has stated in her petition to the FDA to let Vinpocetine remain on the market as a dietary supplement:
"Removal of Vinpocetine from the natural health marketplace will endanger the health of Americans who take this supplement daily to protect against neuro-degeneration.
If Americans are denied access to Vinpocetine, healthcare costs will skyrocket as circulatory deficits to the brains of aging Americans will increase vascular and Alzheimer's dementia risk."
Of course, the FDA appears to care more about enhancing pharmaceutical company profits than allowing the American people to protect the health and well-being of their own brains through natural, nutritional methods.
Since this potentially dire situation is still playing out, even as you read this special report, it remains to be seen whether the FDA will listen to reason and withdraw their notice that Vinpocetine is no longer considered a dietary supplement, or will ultimately ban the supplement altogether.
I'll keep you informed as the situation continues to develop. Meanwhile…
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"People lived with tumult and trepidation, as if on the edge of a volcano waiting for the eruption," he says.
For the past two seasons, Shaham, 41, has devoted himself to the concertos of that decade — to thinking about how the music reflected its time and how it affects us today. He considers whether composers focused on the violin for its "weeping quality" or for the way the tender, single-lined instrument backed by an orchestra could represent a single voice set apart from society.
The world-class violinist has taken up works by composers as diverse as Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber and Alban Berg, whose 1935 violin concerto, "To the Memory of an Angel," he will perform with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra this weekend under music director Jacques Lacombe. The work was written as a tribute to Manon Gropius — daughter of Alma Mahler and architect Walter Gropius — who died when she was 18.
The American violinist Louis Krasner commissioned the piece, telling Berg that he would be the one to silence critics of the Second Viennese School of composition. Berg, he said, would prove that the 12-tone music of the day — which dispensed with traditional tonal harmony — could be "soul-stirring." Shaham describes the piece as a gripping journey.
Shaham will also be the soloist for a work of our time, the world premiere of Richard Danielpour's "Kaddish" for Violin and Orchestra. Shaham and Danielpour have known each other for more than 20 years. The piece is dedicated to the composer's late father.
The concert's somber mood prevails in Mozart's 1785 "Masonic Funeral Music," which opens the performance, and in Prokofiev's darkly energetic "Symphony No. 3," which premiered in 1929, on the cusp of the time that Shaham has been so dedicated to exploring.
"I almost think of walking into a room in a gallery and you look from one masterpiece to another," he says.


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Lakeside, Missouri facts for kids
Lakeside, Missouri
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Lakeside is a city in Miller County, Missouri, United States. The population was 37 at the 2000 census. As of the 2010 census, the population had fallen to 0, with one housing unit.
The Union Electric Administration Building-Lakeside was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, with a boundary increase in 2011.
Lakeside is located at 38°12′6″N 92°37′16″W / 38.20167°N 92.62111°W / 38.20167; -92.62111 (38.201533, -92.621012). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.7 square miles (1.8 km2), of which, 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) of it (46.97%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, there were 37 people, 14 households, and 13 families residing in the city. The population density was 106.0 people per square mile (40.8/km²). There were 15 housing units at an average density of 43.0 per square mile (16.5/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 100.00% White.
There were 14 households out of which 42.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 92.9% were married couples living together, and 7.1% were non-families. 7.1% of all households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 2.77.
In the city the population was spread out with 21.6% under the age of 18, 2.7% from 18 to 24, 40.5% from 25 to 44, and 35.1% from 45 to 64. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 146.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 107.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $69,375, and the median income for a family was $72,500. Males had a median income of $63,750 versus $20,625 for females. The per capita income for the city was $32,786. None of the population were below the poverty line.
Municipalities and communities of Miller County, Missouri, United States
County seat: Tuscumbia
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Independence Day special: This beatbox version of AR Rahman's Maa Tujhe Salaam pays tribute to the maestro
Released by MTV, the song features beatboxers Ajinkya, Raka Vee and Shivaraj
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The iconic song Maa Tujhe Salaam by legendary musician AR Rahman has been entertaining us for over two decades now. The song, part of his 1997 album Vande Mataram, has been instrumental in instilling a sense of patriotic pride and national unity amongst millions. The song even holds two Guinness World Records for being the song performed in the greatest number of languages. Singer Sai "Psychuck" Manapragada performed the track in 265 different languages (individually) and again in 277 languages (with chorus) to achieve this feat twice.
For this 74th Independence Day, MTV, in partnership with BBXINDIA, releases a beatbox version of the song. The song features three beatboxers form India. Raka Vee is a Chennai-based beatboxer and the founder of BBXINDIA, who with his decade-long expertise, has over 100 live shows worldwide to his credit. Ajinkya, is a self-trained mouth musician from Mumbai who recreates the wind flute using his vocal cords only and Shivaraj Natraj, a well-trained Carnatic vocalist and Mridangam artiste from Bengaluru, also known as the Konnakol beatboxer who combines the oldest vocal percussion (Konnakol) with modern age beatboxing and brings the true mix of Indian beatbox flavor.
This release will would be backed by a live session with Raka Vee, who will be interviewing talented artistes from the Beatbox community for four weeks from MTV Hustle's Instagram page.


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11 Facts About "The Originals" Season 5 That Only True Stans Will Appreciate
Wait, an unexpected death was just revealed?
By Willa Bennett
The Originals is totally thrilling to watch. If you haven't seen it, basically the series follows ancient vampires attempting to take back their city, and restore everything. You have to see it! But, as we wait patiently for season 5 to air, I compiled ~everything~ known about The Originals season 5 so far:
Alert: Spoilers ahead.
1. This totally prefaces, so much.
Blood, fire, and romance?! What?
2. Julie Plec is going to be joining the team as a producer! Do you remember her from The Vampire Diaries? This news is totally exciting.
3. One of the show's producers may have accidentally spoiled a major character's death by tweeting a pic from the writers room where a white board clearly says that Hayley dies. Oooooops. The producer quickly deleted the tweet, but stans ALWAYS REMEMBER.
4. According to Entertainment Weekly, Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) will have a new ~bae~.
5. The show is currently being filmed in Atlanta.
6. Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin) will feel the loss of Elijah (Daniel Gillies).
7. It's sadly the last season ever, which was just confirmed by IBT.
8. According to San Diego Comic Con, season 5 will jump ten years into the future.
9. It's not set in stone how many episodes the season will have, but most fans agree that it'll be 13-episodes-long since season 4 was 13-episodes-long.
10. The cast also revealed at San Diego Comic Con that at the beginning of the season Rebekah and Marcel will be in New York together, but ~something~ will bring everyone back to New Orleans.
WHAT IS IT? I'M DYING TO KNOW. I hope it's bloody.
11. The cast said in an interview at Comic Con that "all kinds of threats" will be revealed, but "the Mikaelsons will definitely be dealing with the consequences of their family, and the four pieces of the Hollow, being brought back together."
So what happens when the thing you love most is overtaken by darkness? There is only one way to find out, and that's by watching season 5.
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There are two Chicagos. Which one do you live and work in?
• The Business Week Chicago — as of last month — that is "fading as a business and financial capital" or . . .
• The Money magazine Chicago — in the current issue — that is identified as "the best place to live in the Midwest"?
The answer is obvious. Chicago is both of those things. And it's not really as paradoxical as it may sound.
The Money magazine take on this city is easier to explain (as I have done many times to skeptical associates on both coasts). This might not be the biggest or trendiest city in the country — especially in the post-Michael Jordan era — but it is still a physically attractive, relatively organized and ultimately livable metropolitan area when compared with New York and Los Angeles.
Our economy has remained consistently strong through good times and bad, with a low unemployment rate. We enjoy world-class music, great art, major league sports and a stunning lakefront comparable to those in other major cities, but with an ambiance and accessibility that are markedly superior to the Big Apple and the Big Avocado.
That's why the Money magazine assessment of Chicago is on target. As for Business Week, its Oct. 16 article titled "Chicago Blues" was also accurate, but only from the narrow viewpoint of a New York mentality.
In that article, by Bruce Nussbaum, the two major problems cited in Chicago were the declining influence of the futures exchanges and the acquisition of so many major Chicago corporations (Amoco, Ameritech, Marshall Field's, Santa Fe) by other national and international behemoths. But nearly 60% of that lengthy article was devoted to the decline in the futures exchanges, banking and securities industries. That's where Business Week was judging Chicago by New York standards.
If Mr. Nussbaum had written the same article 35 or 40 years ago, he might have predicted darkly that Chicago was in grave trouble because it was no longer the railroad center of the country; had lost its position as meat-packing capital; failed to maintain itself as the largest center of television set manufacturing, and was bleeding manufacturing jobs at an alarming pace.
If he had written 20 or 25 years ago, he would have bemoaned the fact that some of our largest corporations were deserting the city, not only for places like Arizona (Greyhound, Armour-Dial), but also for the suburbs (Motorola, Zenith, Walgreen, Kraft). Sears and Ward's were both losing their places in the retail arena, and our unit banking laws were killing us.
The funny thing about all of these losses is that the city has remained not only an outstanding place to live, but a pretty good place to do business, too. That's why a 1998 research report conducted by Decision Analyst Inc. ranked Chicago 11th among 313 metropolitan statistical areas in terms of economic vitality and productivity.
Chicago's very strength lies in the fact that it doesn't rely on the futures exchanges or banks, just as it wasn't dependent 40 years ago upon the slaughterhouses for its survival. More than half of our major corporations have deserted us . . . and we are still here. Why? Because this is primarily a city of small and medium-sized businesses, privately owned and family-owned enterprises.
The Business Week article conceded the strength of Chicago's insurance industry, but didn't get around to mentioning other areas of the service sector, such as public accounting, management consulting, law, association management, conventions, tourism and other less notable yet important elements of the economy.
Most of all, it is that diversity that has maintained Chicago. You don't have to be the biggest to be the best. Just because a Malaysian skyscraper is taller than the Sears Tower, it doesn't make Kuala Lumpur the architectural capital of the world.
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