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Hope behind prison bars
16/09/2022 | Albania
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written by Cristina Amato
Arbër is a 30-year-old man who came to faith while in prison, seven years ago. As soon as he was released, he joined a local church and, three years later, he started as a prison chaplain in a high security prison.
He visits the prison twice a week to meet inmates, do Bible studies and play games. Male crewmembers now had the opportunity to join Arbër visiting the prison and even played football matches with inmates. The crew also donated blankets and pillows as well as football shirts and balls.
Crewmember Luke Baard (South Africa) says, "At first we were nervous being in a high security prison, but the welcoming hearts of the inmates helped us connect with them. The hospitality and generosity these inmates showed the team was unforgettable."
The prison chaplain says, "Today was a special day as a team from Logos Hope came! We [talked] a lot with inmates I never met before as [normally] they don't join us. But today we had a wonderful time. We had a lot of good discussions and they had joy today, they smiled, they laughed with us and they also offered us drinks and chocolates. They also asked me to invite them to the next meeting when I come again!"
"In this prison only very few people come to visit… and there are no activities, and so I think that our visit made an impact today… Sometimes inmates ask me 'Why are you wasting time to visit us?' in the beginning they are suspicious, but in the end they eventually figure out that we don't want anything, we just want to bring hope.
Baxwell Bwembya (Zambia) also had a great time with the prisoners. He says, "They really cheered for us as we played soccer. Then I talked with one of the guys and at the end of the conversation he gave me a gift so I would not forget him. They showed us love and hospitality, seeking nothing in return."
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ToDo ToDay: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Priests, and Graffiato Industry Night
by Caroline Jones June 2nd, 2014 October 4th, 2020
Nine years. That's how much time has elapsed since the release of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's self-titled debut, a wonderful record of wistful, jangly indie pop that should have been the jumping off point for a long, brilliant career in music. But it didn't exactly go that way. After a poorly received sophomore LP (Some Loud Thunder), the band went on an extended hiatus, lost some members, changed up its sound, and has since struggled to make an album as good as its first one. Amid the turmoil, though, CYHSY remains a strong, entertaining live act, albeit one that still relies heavily on material from its younger days. Read more >>> Clap Your Hands Say Yeah performs with Stagnant Pools at 7 p.m. at U Street Music Hall, 1115 U St. NW. $16. (202) 588-1889.ustreetmusichall.com. (Dean Essner)
Industry Takeover Night is back at Graffiato. Since owner Mike Isabella is opening a second location of the Italian eatery in Richmond, he's invited Richmond chefs to serve complimentary late night snacks from his Chinatown kitchen, including Jason Alley (Comfort and Pasture), Jay Bayer (Saison), Dylan Fultineer (Rappahannock Oyster Co.), and Owen Lane (The Magpie). The event goes from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the first floor pizza bar. There will also be drink specials from guest mixologists. It's $10 at the door with half going to Richmond non-profit Feed More. Graffiato, 707 6th St. NW. (202) 289-3600. graffiatodc.com. (Jessica Sidman)
Local punk band and Washington City Paper cover subjects Priests celebrate the release of their debut EP, Bodies and Control and Money and Power, with a show at the Black Cat Backstage with the Shondes and Pink Wash. Read more in our Summer Entertainment Guide. 8 p.m. at 1811 14th St. NW. $10.
The EuroAsiaShorts film festival begins tonight; short films from Germany and China screen at the Goethe-Institut. 6:30 p.m. at 812 7th St. NW. Free.
Kick off your Capital Pride celebrations with Music in the Night, a cabaret at Town Danceboutique featuring contemporary and classic songs from the theater. 8 p.m. at 2009 8th St. NW. $20.
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Bodontchar (en  ou encore Bodončar, bodon signifie sanglier en mongol), né en 970, était un ancêtre de Gengis Khan.

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Medicine has always been quick to adopt and adapt new technologies and many advances in care have been due to utilising advances made in other branches of science.
As we enter the new information age, the phenomenon of social networking is changing the way doctors interact with their patients and wider society. Traditional boundaries between private and professional life are becoming blurred and the potential for members to inadvertently fall into medicolegal traps is increasing.
Professional bodies around the world have recognised both the potential for the good that social networking technologies offer and also the risks for the unwary.
Tweeting to one's friends after a bad day at work or posting details of what you got up to at a party at the weekend on Facebook can often be seen by patients, colleagues and managers. When comments are posted on the blogosphere all control is lost and they are less private than remarks made on the back of a postcard.
The laws of defamation apply to comments that may have been originally designed to amuse your friends or written in the heat of the moment, but which end up being widely circulated just as much as more traditional channels of communication.
In the UK, the General Medical Council has recently published guidance on social media, which states that where doctors identify themselves as doctors in publicly accessible social media, they should also identify themselves by name because any written material by authors who represent themselves as doctors is likely to be taken on trust. This places an onus on doctors to be thoughtful in what they write.
The full impact of new social media technologies will inevitably develop over the coming years. It is important that the way in which the public can become engaged and informed about health issues is not inhibited. However, the regulation of the profession's use of new media opportunities may struggle to keep up with the pace of technological change and diverging social expectations of the profession.
MPS has always believed that our approach to indemnity allows us to provide the most flexible and adaptive support to our members, especially during times of rapid change in the world of medicine.
MPS will no longer offer indemnity to GPs and other non-specialist healthcare professionals conducting ultrasound scans to check for fetal anomalies. This will affect members who renew their MPS membership from 1 October 2013.
MPS is concerned by the heightened risk faced by healthcare professionals who perform detailed fetal ultrasound scans, where failure to detect an abnormality can result in babies being born with significant disability. Such diagnostic failure can be due to deficiencies in equipment, training issues or lack of detail in the scan reports produced, and is expected to lead to a significant increase in the cost of claims.
When members renew from 1 October, only specialists in obstetrics, gynaecology and radiology will continue to be indemnified by MPS for performing detailed scans to detect fetal anomalies, with radiologists being charged a higher subscription rate.
GPs and radiographers will still be able to access indemnity for carrying out basic 'dating' scans, limited to the confirmation pregnancy, its location and gestational age by measurement of crown-rump length or biparietal diameter, but will now be charged the 'Procedural GP' subscription rate.
These changes have been carefully considered and are in line with MPS policies on ensuring its members are appropriately trained and experienced in the procedures they carry out. Specialists who can continue to perform detailed scans have a duty to ensure the equipment they use is fit for purpose. Members who will be affected by this change and have concerns about the impact on their practice can contact us for more information.
Ethics 4 All is back again for 2013 – and MPS is pleased to reveal details of this year's annual ethics events, where you can earn your entire CPD/ CME Medical Ethics, Medical Law and Human Rights points for the year. These events are completely FREE for MPS members.
Registration will open in September and more details will be available on the MPS website iin the coming months. Topics covered this year include: MPS claims experience and trends in data; the ethics of managed healthcare; professionalism and raising concerns; and shared decision-making.
Patient expectations and ownership of their treatment decisions are commonly at the heart of complaints and litigation. Patients who are well-informed and highly engaged when deciding between treatment options are placed in a stronger position to take ownership of the final treatment decision and outcomes.
The concept of 'shared decision-making' includes clearly communicating the pros and cons of treatment options and continuing to engage the patient, end-to-end, in the decision-making process. Shared decision-making is both good practice and good risk management.
Most patients highly value the decision-making process.
58% would prefer a greater level of involvement than they experienced (Stewart, Abbey et al, 2004).
Failing to meet patient expectations can cause patients and their families any number of emotions, ranging from mild disappointment to extreme distress and anger. This is the reason shared decision-making is a fundamental communication technique for proactively managing your risk and patient satisfaction.
Mastering Shared Decision Making is the latest addition to the MPS Mastering series of communication skills workshops. The workshop explores the specific skills that doctors require in adopting shared decision-making. Participants will learn techniques that can be used in practice to assist in reducing their exposure to complaints and litigation.
Take control of your professional development and attend this workshop free of charge – a benefit of your MPS membership.
The HPCSA is investigating reports that healthcare practitioners are defrauding medical aid schemes by as much as R22 billion a year.
A physiotherapist billed for 93 appointments in one day; she also billed another scheme for more than 100 appointments on one day.
A doctor billed a scheme for 107 two-hour appointments in a day, meaning he would have worked 214 hours in one day.
Doctors who claimed that they were treating patients in Durban, Bloemfontein and Pretoria on the same day.
MPS has contributed an article on medical aid scheme fraud in a recent issue of the Medical Chronicle – read Charlotte Hudson's article "The fight against fraud".
The cost of clinical negligence continues to rise in South Africa, with increases in both the number and value of claims.
In MPS's experience, these increases have left certain specialties questioning whether they should even continue to practise. MPS recognises that all doctors are practising in an ever more hostile environment and has met the Department of Health to discuss ways of controlling these rising costs.
Have your own professional indemnity in place.
Make sure that you have adequate arrangements to protect you from your vicarious liability for employed staff. It is important to understand and make appropriate arrangements for these liabilities.
Ensure that your partners, independent professional staff and locums have their own professional indemnity arrangements in place.
For owners of healthcare establishments such as private clinics or other premises, you should also ensure that you have indemnity in place to cover public liability for 'slips and falls' on your premises. This is not covered by MPS indemnity.
The HPCSA has issued an amendment to the Ethical Rules of Conduct for Practitioners Registered under the Health Professions Act 1974.
The amendment relates to the definition of "canvassing" and "touting" and the information that should be included in a practitioner's letterheads, account forms and electronic stationery. Visit www.gov.za.


Russell Blackford is an Australian writer, philosopher, and literary critic who says he loves to talk about ideas.
Yes, to the extent that participation in fandom has been a big part of my life. My experiences in fandom have fed into my work in exactly the same way as the rest of my life experience has fed into it. Some of the weirder sub-cultures that I've described have doubtless been influenced by first-hand acquaintance with aspects of the fan sub-culture.
Not really, if we're talking about direct influence on my writing. But through fandom - and through other connections with science fiction - I've made many amazing friends ... including some of the people I most love and some people whom I admire greatly (William Gibson comes to mind as an example). I've done a lot of professional networking, have had lots of great times. I cherish the memories and the ongoing friendships, and I'm glad about the opportunities that have come my way - e.g. the chance to write regularly for The New York Review of Science Fiction and submit to some strong anthologies, such as the Datlow/Windling Black Heart, Ivory Bones and Jack Dann's two Dreaming anthologies. But it's difficult to identify one specific stand-out experience that has actually affected my writing.
There are just so many of them. Robert A. Heinlein, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, and on and on. I don't agree with Delany on everything, but there's no one I respect more - as a writer, as a critic and student of the science fiction genre, as a teacher (his advice on style is brilliant). Movies? I guess the biggest influence is the bleak, gritty science fiction cinema of the late 1970s and the 1980s - the early Alien/Aliens movies, The Terminator, Blade Runner. Then, of course, there are all the philosophical writers who've influenced my view of the world - Epicurus, David Hume, Bertrand Russell, and on and on it goes. Oh, and poetry ... I always return to Yeats and Coleridge, for example.
Someone who is very kind and patient.
I'd need my loved ones. I'd need an endless supply of good wine and cheese. I imagine a lot of time would be spent in conversation with the loved ones while drinking the wine and eating the cheese, so I'd also need an endless supply of Zantac. I'd need books and more books - there'd have to be some kind of data base with huge amounts of reading material available. And, of course, I'd need to be able to write.
Bear in mind that my output of fiction is only one component of my work as a writer and editor. I'd actually like to have some influence on the world - spread my memes. There's so much intolerance and irrationalism in the world - I can get pretty worked up about it, and I'd like to have some effect in fighting it.
Ah, that's different. Delany talks somewhere about how the process of writing and revising is one of continually doubting and wrestling with the words. That's my experience, too. I write very quickly and fluently by most people's standards (though not by the standards of professional writers). But I'm never satisfied with my first pass at a story or an article, or whatever I'm writing. Probably not with the second pass, either - or the tenth. I eventually rework the language so much that I can't imagine how whatever it is I'm writing could possibly have been written by little me. And it couldn't have been, not in real time. The satisfaction is when I come back later and I find - amidst all the flaws that, alas, I still see - passages that seem as if they were written by somebody else who knew what he was doing! Passages where the detail is vivid and textured, and the prose rhythms are compelling. I'm always amazed to see that I was able to do that. It's as if I've somehow produced something that's better than I am. Which I probably have, at least in those passages. During those moments, I'm especially satisfied, but I also wonder whether I'll ever be able to do it again.


Jack Vance died on 26th May in California aged 96. Enough has been said on the blogosphere about this amazing genius of a writer who wrote over 60 genre fiction books, and I'm not going to repeat it, except to say that he influenced such writers as Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Ursula K. LeGuin and Michael Chabon. RIP Grand Master. Your words dance across the page, astonishing and marvellous as ever.
What I wanted to do today was talk about the Tales of the Dying Earth and the rascally Cugel, the character I most love to hate. Far in the future, the sun is red and feeble and the folk are few and strange. Not to mention dangerous, greedy and – some at least – utterly heartless. The genre, if one has to define it, is science fantasy. Tiny blue Twk-Men ride dragonflies, selling information for salt, and evil creatures abound. It makes for very entertaining reading.
Into this world we are introduced to Cugel, an utter rogue if ever there was one. Selfish, cowardly and a thief to boot, he tries to steal the treasures of the mansion of Iucounu the Laughing Magician. Caught by Iucounu, he agrees that in exchange for his freedom he will hunt for a small violet glass, an 'Eye of the Overworld', to match the one already in the wizard's possession. An alien creature of barbs and hooks is attached to his liver to encourage his 'unremitting loyalty, zeal and singleness of purpose,' and a spell is used to transport Cugel via flying demon to a remote land.
Thus begins the saga of Cugel the not-so-Clever and the not-at-all-nice. We are given ample opportunities to dislike him. Similarly Cugel is given ample opportunities to redeem himself – but he never does. He uses and tricks everyone he meets, and is injured when they trick him back. With women he is especially awful. He trades one to bandits for safe passage, and leaves another to drown. Knight in shining armour, he is NOT.
And yet, by the end of Cugel's Saga, if we're not exactly rooting for him, we are at least rooting against his enemies. What saves Cugel is his absurdity, his wit, his instinct for self-preservation which so often backfires – no, actually none of those. What saves Cugel are his repeated failures to accomplish his goals of accumulating wealth and power and defeating Iucounu the Laughing Magician. We can snort with laughter at his failures, pleased at his punishment, but we're always happy to see him back on his feet, determinedly trotting toward another dreadful adventure.
This brings me – by a rather long route I admit – to what makes characters empathic to a reader. If you're going to have an anti-hero, make sure he or she is relatable in some way. Jack Vance does it with style and humor and having his anti-hero's plans crumble at every turn. What's your take going to be? Perhaps your character is damaged in some way by the past. Perhaps he or she has one saving grace, a propensity to rescue drowning kittens, perhaps. Or he saves the world by mistake from an alien starship. You get my drift.
Unpretentious and unassuming, Jack Vance claimed in an interview with Locus online that he wrote to make money and because he had the knack for it. He wouldn't take any credit for his writing – it was like taking credit for being beautiful.
Well Mr Vance, you may be modest, but your legions of fans know better. Your vivid prose and colorful characters ensure that your stories will be read for a long, long time to come.
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I was really intrigued with Della's character. I had read Forever Too Far before this one and was interested in catching up with what was going on with Woods. I like Woods, I'm glad he ditched the uppity fake blond socialite for Della.
Woods' parents drove me nuts. I don't understand how two parents could do this to a child. Manipulate, lie, steal and cheat just to get what they want at the expense of their child. But Woods' parents were selfish that way. And I'm glad that Woods had Della in his life to realize that he would rather be happy than just merely exist.
Della's story was what really drew me. I hated Woods' parents to the point if it had been any other book I might have dnf'd this one. I like heroines with a damaged past. I love seeing them overcome the crap they have had to live through. Della always thought she was weak, but she really wasn't. I'm glad that Woods decided to fight for her.
The only thing that bothered me was the flow of the story. It felt too short. It stopped on a cliff hanger, but it really felt like the story was just lopped off. Not too important, since book two is already out and I can pick it right up.