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Ministers of Care bring the Word, prayer and Eucharist to fellow parishioners and those in seven local nursing homes, Good Shepherd Hospital, JourneyCare Hospice and the homebound.
The Archdiocese of Chicago requires that candidates for the Ministry attend a formal training program, which is offered each fall and spring. Upon completion of the program, new ministers of care are then trained individually by experienced ministers in the area of their interest.
The amount of time spent volunteering for the ministry varies and is dependent on the minister's availability and the area of ministry, i.e., a minister may visit his/her homebound person weekly, bi-weekly or once a month. Likewise, a hospital minister may minister only once a month, whereas a hospice minister may minister three to four times per month.
All ministers of care are encouraged to attend continuing education lectures and seminars. There will be occasional meetings scheduled at the parish with regard to specific areas of the Ministry.
For more information, please contact Mary Ellen Johnston at 847.382.2148 or mejohnston@stannebarrington.org
History of Ministry of Care:
The Ministry of Care is one of the oldest ministries in Christianity. In the early Church, members would often celebrate the Eucharist -the Breaking of Bread – in the homes of the early Christians. If someone was unable to attend the service because of illness, a family member or close friend attending the service would be given a piece of the consecrated bread to bring to him/her, thereby not only bringing the healing power of Jesus but also reaffirming the absent individual as a member of the community. The only requirement was that both the minister and the recipient by baptized Christians. Over the years, the ministry became limited to priests and religious working primarily in hospitals and with the sick and so it remained for several centuries.
The renewal of this ministry allowing baptized laity to serve came with the reforms and good works of Vatican II. Following Vatican II, training for the ministry required up to a year of study and preparation for an individual to be deemed qualified to be a minister of care. Gradually, the training schedule was shortened to its present form. Today, the Archdiocese of Chicago requires the candidate for the ministry to attend an approved formal training program as a prerequisite for mandating as a Minister of Care.


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Q: Error with loading rdoc with rvm I was trying to add docs through rvm, did not run into any errors, then when I went to look at File.open, received the following error. Any ideas?
Mikes-MacBook-Pro:programs mwsage$ rvm docs generate
Installing rdoc-data...................

Mikes-MacBook-Pro:programs mwsage$ ri File.open
/Users/mwsage/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p429@rails3tutorial2ndEd/gems/rdoc-4.0.1/lib/rdoc/store.rb:617:in `initialize': store at /Users/mwsage/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/share/ri/1.9.1/system missing file /Users/mwsage/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p429/share/ri/1.9.1/system/Kernel/open-c.ri for Kernel::open (RDoc::Store::MissingFileError)
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Posted inEditorial, Stories
Combating Islamophobia is Our Collective Responsibility
by Sandeep Prasanna December 14, 2015 April 7, 2022
I grew up in New Jersey, in a commuter town for New York City. The terrorist attacks of 9/11 hit us hard, ripping away many of our neighbors from our community. Many in our small town in liberal New Jersey turned to a reflexive Islamophobia in the months and years following September 2001. Brown, young, and insecure, I joined them. I feared being perceived as Muslim. I feared the consequences of the post-9/11 ignorance that lumped all the dark-skinned children of Asian immigrants together into one frightening Other, even in this cosmopolitan suburb of America's biggest city. My response to bullying was simple but incomplete-"I'm not Muslim"-without ever including a challenge to their hateful words themselves.
Today, I wish I could have rewritten that response. I didn't know better. I should have instead said, "I'm not Muslim-and even if I were, nobody should be hated for their religion." I wish I had had someone tell me at the time that it was counterproductive, short-sighted and cruel to try to assert my Americanness and Hindu cultural identity by deflecting prejudice onto another minority group-or even sometimes by joining in their bigotry. I don't blame teenaged me for failing to see the bigger picture: I was just trying to make it through high school. Now, however, as an adult-a dark-skinned, bearded man sometimes perceived as Muslim-I understand more fully my responsibility to combat not only the ignorance underlying the hatred but also the hatred itself.
I too often see my fellow non-Muslim Indian-Americans respond to bigotry the same way I used to: by rightfully distinguishing their Sikh, Hindu, or Jain faith from Islam, but without ever challenging the Islamophobia underlying the bully's rhetoric. But we can't give anti-Muslim bigotry a free pass in the name of defending ourselves from ignorant hatred. Islamophobic attacks against turbaned Sikh men, for example-far too common in this country-are not just wrong because Sikhs aren't Muslim, but also because no innocent person should be subjected to violence regardless of his religion. Anti-Muslim vandalism on Hindu temples is not just wrong because Hinduism isn't Islam, but also because it's cruel and hateful to vandalize a place of worship regardless of the religion. We shouldn't implicitly condone prejudice against our Muslim countrymen by failing to always follow our "I'm not Muslim" with an "even if I were, violence, bigotry and hatred are always wrong." As President Obama and President Bush have reminded us, Muslims are our neighbors, our doctors, our shopkeepers, our coworkers, our classmates and our friends-just as they were our parents' and grandparents' neighbors, doctors, shopkeepers, coworkers, classmates and friends in their homeland. And if we deflect bigots' hatred on to Muslims-or worse, join in-we risk further amplifying a blinding ignorance that endangers all American immigrant and minority communities, Muslim or not.
It's also important to stand up for what's right. We must embrace our shared humanity by challenging bigotry. The shrill anti-Muslim demagoguery of people like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz and their supporters should enrage us for inciting fear against immigrants and the children of immigrants who are just like us. Our parents and grandparents were drawn to America by the possibility of meritocratic advancement. All prejudice-including the bigotry du jour against Muslims and Hispanic immigrants-undermines their dream for us. It fractures our society. It makes it harder for our and other immigrant communities to succeed. More deeply, however, American Islamophobia against ordinary Muslim Americans should worry us for inciting violence and hatred toward our fellow human beings. Hindu, Sikh, and Jain scriptures call us to compassion and service toward others in combating injustice. Basic universal human values, too, call us to uphold social justice regardless of religion. Condoning prejudice against Muslims, whether implicitly or explicitly, is a betrayal of those values.
Indian-Americans bear a uniquely urgent responsibility to speak out against anti-Muslim bigotry not just because we are likely to be perceived as Muslim. Many of us come from the same cultures: we eat similar food, we wear similar clothes, and we put up with the same immigrant parents. But even though our parents' homeland is hyperdiverse in religion, but today's politically polarized India is no shining exemplar of tolerance. Some of the rhetoric peddled by influential right-wing Indian firebrands vilify and alienate their Muslim countrymen in ways that are far viler than anything from America's politicians. Indian-Americans, however, should roundly reject that genre of bigotry even if we hear it repeated at home from our elders, by recognizing that nearly all Muslims in this country are just like us: immigrants or the children of immigrants who are concerned foremost about our successes, our failures, giving back to our communities, and all of the other mundane details of ordinary American family life. We as Americans bear a responsibility to foster social justice and fairness in America, not to import the hang-ups of our parents' homeland.
I can't rewrite what I said when I was younger-but I can now challenge and encourage others to stand up against injustice and bigotry, including Islamophobia. It's in our interest for all of us to fight for an America that is increasingly tolerant and diverse-not just because it's good for our individual communities, but because it is right.
Author Bio: Sandeep Prasanna is currently a Legal Fellow at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in Washington, DC, where he works on applying international human rights law to domestic issues, like police brutality. He holds a JD from the UCLA School of Law, an MPP from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, and a BA from Duke University. He has worked in Johannesburg, South Africa; The Hague, Netherlands; Geneva, Switzerland; Bangalore, India; and South Kivu, DR Congo. He previously wrote weekly for The Economist on language politics and linguistics under the byline SAP.

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Four years ago we began collecting in-depth data on the market for used yachts. This includes every yacht for sale, all central agents, all price changes, number of days on the market, price per gross tonnage and much more. Today, this complete and up-to-date marketplace is exclusively available to subscribers of our intelligence system SuperYacht Times iQ. Photo: Julien Hubert / SuperYacht TimesBut we felt we could also do something to make the market for used yachts more transparent for all yacht buyers and professionals. Therefore we have recently listed all yachts for sale on SuperYacht Times and created the most complete and up-to-date public superyacht marketplace.
As of today, there are around 1,700 yachts over 24 metres listed for sale on the yachts for sale section on SuperYacht Times. These listings are monitored daily by our in-house intelligence team and include every yacht on the market, not just the listings we have been paid to promote. Photo: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesWhy us?
There are other websites that list yachts for sale, which usually rely on yacht brokers uploading their own yacht listings or placing paid yacht listings. The problem with these platforms is that they will never offer an in-depth overview of the complete marketplace and are mainly focussed on selling featured yachts to brokers. Photo: Bruno Buisson / SuperYacht TimesWhat can we do for brokers?
Photo: Charl van Rooy / SuperYacht TimesDoes it work?
Our approach is working, and this can already be seen in the rise in traffic on the SuperYacht Times website. The number of page views on the yachts for sale webpages continues to grow every month, for example in March the traffic was up 65% compared to January 2019.
We are already generating leads for our clients, which include Burgess, IYC, Camper & Nicholsons, SuperYachtsMonaco, Bluewater and Imperial.
Today, the largest sailing yacht for sale is Atlantic, the 69.24-metre schooner built by Van der Graaf B.V.
There are currently 63 Explorer yachts for sale worldwide.


This is a series of four challenge activities for a Fahrenheit 451 Book Club. These activities engage students in active discussion and debate within the group and with the entire class. I used these book club challenges with my freshmen classes and set up the book club groups as teams. Each group formed a team name, and we turned each challenge into a competition that I would score. The winning team or teams would earn points, and at the end of the novel study, the winning team received bonus points on the test.
This is a great way to get students involved with literature in a fun, competitive atmosphere. My students ask me all the time when "our next challenge is going to be."
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Review: Steppenwolf Theatre's 'The Herd'
Ashley Andrews|April 19, 2015
Life is all about luck and doggedness, according to Brian (John Mahoney), Andy's grandfather in Rory Kinnear's play, "The Herd." Kinnear was beautifully motivated by the luck and doggedness his own family had been dealt when writing the play, which had its American debut at the Steppenwolf Theatre April 12.
The play takes place in a suburban London home on Andy's 21st birthday, and his family is anxiously awaiting his arrival to the party they're throwing him. The audience soon learns Andy is severely disabled and requires a great deal of special attention and care. These disabilities have complicated and impacted everyone's lives, a fact that is evident by Andy's mother, Carol's (Molly Regan) interactions with his caregiver and the rest of the family's dynamic.
"The Herd" brings up hard-hitting questions of what it means to be a family, and more specifically, a parent. It digs deep into the complications of familial relationships that often stem from the need to be individual. How can you be your own person when a loved one needs so much attention?
Despite these motifs, Kinnear seamlessly works in a good amount of witty banter and jokes throughout the production. Each character has a very distinct, relatable personality. Watching them interact with each other on stage feels less like a show and more like a family reunion with an uptight sister, stressed out mother, jovial grandfather and his wife, who is too wise for her own good. A couple surprise guests bring out secrets and skeletons for the family, as well as showcase the emotions and facets of family members in their reactions to hiccups throughout the day.
As Kinnear's first play, "The Herd" was inspired by his elder quadriplegic sister with Down Syndrome, and his own family. In its short run time, the play offers a real feel for what it's like for an individual to be part of a fractured family; with every member trying their best to function as a family and an individual.
In Steppenwolf's production program, Director Frank Galati writes, "You know, the title of 'The Herd' may be a little bit vexing… What does that have to do with this middle class family in suburban London? The fact is that the word, in addition to a company of animals – which is I suppose the primary definition – also means 'troop.'"
People – animals – with their own lives, desires, and needs gather in "The Herd" to celebrate the 21 years of everything they've put into loving Andy, who was never supposed to see 19. They are reminded of all they've sacrificed together.
Touching, comical, and profound, "The Herd" has something to speak to all audiences. "The Herd" runs through June 7.
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Children's Entertainment News
About Robin And The Giant
Bringing joy to children and families through stories, art, and music.
Who are Robin And the Giant?
The simplest answer to the question "Who are Robin And The Giant?" is to say they are two characters created by Robin MacBlane and Larry Whitler.
The characters were created in 1988 for a series of children's audio cassettes that began with a cassette album titled "Time To Learn" which taught basic things to children like the alphabet.
In that early incarnation of the characters, Robin was a movie star and The Giant was a security guard at an airport. The two met one day when a crowd of fans anxious to meet Robin got out of control and The Giant was summoned to handle the situation.
Robin and The Giant had quite different life experiences but became best friends.
Robin lived a life of extravagance, always ate healthy foods, had a chauffeur named Kenneth, and preferred five-star hotels.
The Giant lived a simpler life. His diet was hot dogs, usually from Martin The Hot Dog Chef, took the subway to get around, and preferred camping outdoors.
Robin MacBlane and Larry Whitler developed the characters of Robin And The Giant into numerous albums and eventually a weekly radio program for children that featured original stories, songs, and dialogue.
In "The World Of Robin And The Giant," MacBlane and Whitler have reinvented their beloved characters as two children living in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.
Attending 3rd grade at PS 33, at eight years old, The Giant has the prestigious assignment of being a hall monitor. One day he finds himself handling a crowd of students anxious to meet their newest classmate, eight year old Robin.
Robin, who has moved to New York City from Los Angeles is already a celebrity having starred in a breakfast cereal commercial.
There is really much more to the story of Robin And The Giant. As new books and other material is produced and published we will continue to include it on this website!
Robin MacBlane and Larry Whitler as children


The IRS announced a new and regular backup withholding rate for the 2018 Form W-2G. Form W-2G is used to report gambling winnings and any federal income tax withheld on those winnings.
Effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, the withholding rate applicable to winnings of $5,000 or more from sweepstakes, wagering pools, certain pari-mutuel pools, jai alai, and lotteries has been reduced from 25% to 24%.
Additionally, effective for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2017, the backup withholding rate applicable to certain winnings where the winner doesn't furnish a correct taxpayer identification number has been reduced from 28% to 24%.


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Q: Iterators without STL containers At first sorry about my English.
Im preparing for my exam and I need to practice iterators, that dont work with containers.
I would like to input some symbols right to the symbol like '\n' and I have no clue how can I do that.
The problem is I am not able to stop entering symbols.
Hope you can help me.
Sincerely thank you!

#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
#include <fstream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    ofstream out("name.txt");
    istream_iterator<char> it(cin);
    istream_iterator<char> end_of_stream;
    ostream_iterator<char> fout(out, " ");
    copy (it, end_of_stream, fout);
}

A: There's no algorithm to copy until you get a particular value (I think) so instead you have to write your own loop.
Like this
while (it != end_of_stream && *it != '\n')
{
    fout << *it;
    ++it;
}


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EXCLUSIVE! 'Give In EP' by Pam Steebler
on 8 January 2015 at 6:38 pm
Pam Steebler's debut EP is out on 17 January – hear it FIRST below!
Songwriting's regular Thursday track exclusives are back, with a trip into pure pop territory in the company of Pam Steebler
oday sees the return of Songwriting's regular Thursday track exclusives… and to make up for the brief hiatus over the Christmas/New Year break, this week we've got a whole EP for you, coming from US pop artiste Pam Steebler.
Born in Canada, Pam grew up in Brazil and is a graduate of the world-renowned Berklee College of Music. Now based in New York, she says she's as influenced by rock greats such as The Beatles and Bob Dylan as she is by the likes of Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Mariah Carey. It's fair to say the influence of the latter artists' work is more immediately apparent in her debut EP, which is out on 13 January and which you can hear below… though Give In itself definitely does have a rock edge.
For more information, hit up Pam's Soundcloud and Facebook pages, find her on Twitter or visit her official website
Pam Steeblerpop
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The Westminster Standards provide the finest and fullest creedal expression of the Reformed faith. They were worked out through several years of intense work by the foremost Protestant theologians in the English-speaking world in the seventeenth century. They have since provided the doctrinal basis, after the Bible itself, of Presbyterian and other Reformed churches all over the world.
The Standards consist of 3 main documents: the Westminster Confession of Faith, the Shorter Catechism and the Larger Catechism. There are several minor documents that also make up the Westminster Standards, however we concentrate on these three.
River City's Elders sincerely receive and adopt these confessional documents as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy Scriptures.


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Discrete subaortic stenosis: Incidence, morphology and surgical impact of associated subaortic anomalies
Maurizio Marasini, Lucio Zannini, Gian Paolo Ussia, Robin Pinto, Rodolfo Moretti, Franco Lerzo, Giacomo Pongiglione
Background. The association between discrete subaortic stenosis and other subaortic anomalies is a well known but rarely reported occurrence. The aim of this study is to define the incidence, morphology, and surgical impact of associated anomalies of the left ventricular outflow tract in children operated on for discrete subaortic stenosis. Methods. Between 1994 and 2000, 45 consecutive children were operated on for discrete subaortic stenosis. Patients were divided in two groups according to the obstructive lesion detected by echocardiography. Results. A localized shelf was found as an isolated lesion in 31 patients (group A), whereas additional subaortic anomalies were found in 14 cases (31%) and were multiple in 5 cases (group B). The anomalies included anomalous septal insertion of mitral valve (7 cases); accessory mitral valve tissue (2 cases); anomalous papillary muscle (2 cases); anomalous muscular band (8 cases); and muscularization of the anterior mitral valve leaflet (1 case). Cardiopulmonary bypass and aortic crossclamping times were significantly shorter in group A. There were no operative deaths nor major complications or deaths during follow-up. A gradient of 15 mm Hg or more was found at follow-up in 5 cases whereas aortic regurgitation was estimated to be not clinically significant in all but 1 patient. Six cases of recurrent subaortic stenosis were found in our series, 3 of them with other subaortic anomalies. Conclusions. This study shows that discrete subaortic stenosis can often be associated with other subaortic abnormalities. Surgical treatment of these anomalies produces excellent early and mid-term relief of obstruction without any increase in mortality and morbidity.
Annals of Thoracic Surgery
Published - Jun 1 2003
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Marasini, M., Zannini, L., Ussia, G. P., Pinto, R., Moretti, R., Lerzo, F., & Pongiglione, G. (2003). Discrete subaortic stenosis: Incidence, morphology and surgical impact of associated subaortic anomalies. Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 75(6), 1763-1768. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-4975(02)05027-0
Discrete subaortic stenosis : Incidence, morphology and surgical impact of associated subaortic anomalies. / Marasini, Maurizio; Zannini, Lucio; Ussia, Gian Paolo et al.
In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 75, No. 6, 01.06.2003, p. 1763-1768.
Marasini, M, Zannini, L, Ussia, GP, Pinto, R, Moretti, R, Lerzo, F & Pongiglione, G 2003, 'Discrete subaortic stenosis: Incidence, morphology and surgical impact of associated subaortic anomalies', Annals of Thoracic Surgery, vol. 75, no. 6, pp. 1763-1768. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-4975(02)05027-0
Marasini M, Zannini L, Ussia GP, Pinto R, Moretti R, Lerzo F et al. Discrete subaortic stenosis: Incidence, morphology and surgical impact of associated subaortic anomalies. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2003 Jun 1;75(6):1763-1768. doi: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)05027-0
Marasini, Maurizio ; Zannini, Lucio ; Ussia, Gian Paolo et al. / Discrete subaortic stenosis : Incidence, morphology and surgical impact of associated subaortic anomalies. In: Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2003 ; Vol. 75, No. 6. pp. 1763-1768.
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AU - Pongiglione, Giacomo
N2 - Background. The association between discrete subaortic stenosis and other subaortic anomalies is a well known but rarely reported occurrence. The aim of this study is to define the incidence, morphology, and surgical impact of associated anomalies of the left ventricular outflow tract in children operated on for discrete subaortic stenosis. Methods. Between 1994 and 2000, 45 consecutive children were operated on for discrete subaortic stenosis. Patients were divided in two groups according to the obstructive lesion detected by echocardiography. Results. A localized shelf was found as an isolated lesion in 31 patients (group A), whereas additional subaortic anomalies were found in 14 cases (31%) and were multiple in 5 cases (group B). The anomalies included anomalous septal insertion of mitral valve (7 cases); accessory mitral valve tissue (2 cases); anomalous papillary muscle (2 cases); anomalous muscular band (8 cases); and muscularization of the anterior mitral valve leaflet (1 case). Cardiopulmonary bypass and aortic crossclamping times were significantly shorter in group A. There were no operative deaths nor major complications or deaths during follow-up. A gradient of 15 mm Hg or more was found at follow-up in 5 cases whereas aortic regurgitation was estimated to be not clinically significant in all but 1 patient. Six cases of recurrent subaortic stenosis were found in our series, 3 of them with other subaortic anomalies. Conclusions. This study shows that discrete subaortic stenosis can often be associated with other subaortic abnormalities. Surgical treatment of these anomalies produces excellent early and mid-term relief of obstruction without any increase in mortality and morbidity.
AB - Background. The association between discrete subaortic stenosis and other subaortic anomalies is a well known but rarely reported occurrence. The aim of this study is to define the incidence, morphology, and surgical impact of associated anomalies of the left ventricular outflow tract in children operated on for discrete subaortic stenosis. Methods. Between 1994 and 2000, 45 consecutive children were operated on for discrete subaortic stenosis. Patients were divided in two groups according to the obstructive lesion detected by echocardiography. Results. A localized shelf was found as an isolated lesion in 31 patients (group A), whereas additional subaortic anomalies were found in 14 cases (31%) and were multiple in 5 cases (group B). The anomalies included anomalous septal insertion of mitral valve (7 cases); accessory mitral valve tissue (2 cases); anomalous papillary muscle (2 cases); anomalous muscular band (8 cases); and muscularization of the anterior mitral valve leaflet (1 case). Cardiopulmonary bypass and aortic crossclamping times were significantly shorter in group A. There were no operative deaths nor major complications or deaths during follow-up. A gradient of 15 mm Hg or more was found at follow-up in 5 cases whereas aortic regurgitation was estimated to be not clinically significant in all but 1 patient. Six cases of recurrent subaortic stenosis were found in our series, 3 of them with other subaortic anomalies. Conclusions. This study shows that discrete subaortic stenosis can often be associated with other subaortic abnormalities. Surgical treatment of these anomalies produces excellent early and mid-term relief of obstruction without any increase in mortality and morbidity.
JO - Annals of Thoracic Surgery
JF - Annals of Thoracic Surgery


New Nano for a Watch vs New Apple TV?
Discussion in 'iPod' started by Masterfox72, Mar 26, 2012.
So I kind of need a new watch and was thinking of getting a nano for this purpose with a TikTok band, but was also considering an Apple TV. Budget says one, which should I get?
The ATV would be used for YouTube, AirPlay and maybe Netflix.
Well, you say you need a watch, but want an appleTV.
get a cheap casio http://www.casio.co.uk/products/timepieces/casio-collection/Product/F-91W-1XY/ for $10 as well as the apple TV.
The new nano is a much better for a watch than the Apple TV.
These people that have nano watches... Do they actually attach headphones and walk down the street with a wire dangling from their wrist?
The nano watch is very hit and miss with people. Some people love it and some hate it. I fall into the latter. I find it hard to use and rather gimmicky. Its more of a fashion statement than anything because the thing looks good on your wrist with the right wristband.
I would go with the Apple TV.


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Fierce Winds Quench Wildfire-like Starbirth in Far-flung Galaxy
Synopsis: Astronomers using ALMA, with the aid of a gravitational lens , have detected the most-distant galactic "wind" of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old. By tracing the outflow of hydroxyl (OH) molecules – which herald the presence of star-forming gas in galaxies – the researchers show how some galaxies in the early universe quenched an ongoing wildfire of starbirth.
Some galaxies, like the Milky Way and Andromeda, have relatively slow and measured rates of starbirth, with about one new star igniting each year. Other galaxies, known as starburst galaxies, forge 100s or even 1000s of stars each year. This furious pace, however, cannot be maintained indefinitely.
To avoid burning out in a short-lived blaze of glory, some galaxies throttle back their runaway starbirth by ejecting – at least temporarily – vast stores of gas into their expansive halos, where the gas either escapes entirely or slowly rains back in on the galaxy, triggering future bursts of star formation.
Up to now, however, astronomers have been unable to directly observe these powerful outflows in the very early universe, where such mechanisms are essential to prevent galaxies from growing too big, too fast.
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), show – for the first time — a powerful galactic "wind" of molecules in a galaxy seen when the universe was only one billion years old. This result provides insights into how certain galaxies in the early universe were able to self-regulate their growth so they could continue forming stars across cosmic time.
"Galaxies are complicated, messy beasts, and we think outflows and winds are critical pieces to how they form and evolve, regulating their ability to grow," said Justin Spilker, an astronomer at the University of Texas at Austin and lead author on a paper appearing in the journal Science.
Astronomers have observed winds with the same size, speed, and mass in nearby starbursting galaxies, but the new ALMA observation is the most distant unambiguous outflow ever seen in the early universe.
The galaxy, known as SPT2319-55, is more than 12 billion light-years away. It was discovered by the National Science Foundation's South Pole Telescope.
ALMA was able to observe this object at such tremendous distance with the aid of a gravitational lens provided by a different galaxy that sits almost exactly along the line of sight between Earth and SPT2319-55. Gravitational lensing – the bending of light due to gravity — magnifies the background galaxy to make it appear brighter, which allows the astronomers to observe it in more detail than they would otherwise be able to. Astronomers use specialized computer programs to "unscramble" the effects of gravitational lensing to reconstruct an accurate image of the more-distant object.
This lens-aided view revealed a powerful "wind" of star-forming gas exiting the galaxy at nearly 800 kilometers per second. Rather than a constant, gentle breeze, the wind is hurtling away in discrete clumps, removing the star-forming gas just as quickly as the galaxy can turn that gas into new stars.
The outflow was detected by the millimeter-wavelength signature of a molecule called hydroxyl (OH), which appeared as an absorption line: essentially, the shadow of an OH fingerprint in the galaxy's bright infrared light.
As new, dust-enshrouded stars form, that dust heats up and glows brightly in infrared light. But, the galaxy is also launching a wind, and some of it is blowing in our direction. As the infrared light passes through the wind on its journey toward Earth, the OH molecules in the wind absorb some of the infrared light at a very particular wavelength that ALMA can observe.
"That's the absorption signature that we detected, and from that we can also tell how fast the wind is moving, and get a rough idea of how much material is contained in the outflow," said Spilker. ALMA is able to detect this infrared light because it has been stretched to millimeter wavelengths on its journey to Earth by the ongoing expansion of the Universe.
Molecular winds are an efficient way for galaxies to self-regulate their growth, the researchers note. These winds are likely triggered by either the combined effect of all the supernova explosions that go along with rapid, massive star formation, or by a powerful release of energy as some of the gas in the galaxy falls down onto the supermassive black hole at its center.
"So far, we have only observed one galaxy at such a remarkable cosmic distance, but we'd like to know if winds like these are also present in other galaxies to see just how common they are," concluded Spilker. "If they occur in basically every galaxy, we know that molecular winds are both ubiquitous and also a really common way for galaxies to self-regulate their growth."
"This ALMA observation demonstrates how nature coupled with exquisite technology can give us insights into distant astronomical objects," said Joe Pesce, NSF Program Director for NRAO/ALMA, "and the frequency range accessible to ALMA meant it was able to the detect the redshifted spectral feature from this important molecule."
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The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international astronomy facility, is a partnership of the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (ESO), the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Natural Sciences (NINS) of Japan in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. ALMA is funded by ESO on behalf of its Member States, by NSF in cooperation with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) and the National Science Council of Taiwan (NSC) and by NINS in cooperation with the Academia Sinica (AS) in Taiwan and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (KASI).
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REUTERS: Moody's ratings revised India's sovereign rating outlook to "positive" from "stable" yesterday as it expects the actions by policymakers will enhance the country's economic strength in the medium term.
Moody's also said that it expected structural advantages, supported by relatively benign commodity prices and liquidity conditions globally, will keep India's growth above its peers over the rating horizon.
The outlook revision was announced before Indian markets opened yesterday. Analysts said they expected bank stocks to rise and the rupee to strengthen on the upgrade.
The investor-friendly Narendra Modi government, which came to power last May promising faster growth, more jobs and quick clearances, has taken measures to fast-track clearances for investment projects, boost infrastructure investment and remove policy uncertainty in mining and coal sectors.
The government has also relaxed foreign investments in sectors such as defense, insurance, e-commerce, railways and eased steps to allow businesses to acquire land and set up factories.
"India's policymakers are establishing a framework that will likely allow India's growth to continue to outperform that of its peers over medium term and improve India's macro-economic, infrastructure and institutional profile," Moody's said in its statement.
However, Moody's stopped short of raising the sovereign credit rating due to relative weakness in fiscal, inflation, infrastructure and poor asset quality among Indian banks.
"Recurrent inflationary pressures, occasional balance of payments pressures, and an uncertain regulatory environment have contributed to periods of volatility in growth, and have exposed India to external and financial shocks, constraining its credit profile," Moody's said.
Moody's has a Baa3 rating on India.
After a recent revision in the methodology of measuring gross domestic product, which raised a lot of scepticism from policymakers including government and central bank officials, Indiaregistered growth of 7.5 percent in the December quarter, higher than China's.
Under this new method, the Reserve Bank of India expects India to growth at 7.8 percent for 2015/16, lower than the government's estimate of 8.0-8.5 percent.
The government has been pitching to rating agencies to improve India's credit rating, citing reforms, and on Thursday officials were to quick to welcome Moody's improved outlook.
"Upgrade of outlook proves government is moving in the right direction ... it validates India's commitment on fiscal discipline," India's chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian said on news channel CNBC TV18.


This dress has been on rewind since I bought it. Target wins again. The fabric is perfect for this season and I've pretty much worn it everywhere. One of my favorite looks is with this full fur vest and OTK boots out for a night on the town. Warm and simple. P.S. This dress is now under $20.00; how can you pass that up?!
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Absolutely love this look! Your vest is fab! And aren't Target finds the best?!
Sorry, got carried away there. I love your whole look. I've ordered a fur vest and I'm dying for it to come in. I love the dress too; may have to scoop that up since it's so affordable!
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I enjoyed reading Sipping From the Nile by Jean Naggar even though I couldn't keep track of her various relatives, all very fascinating people with long histories and connections.
I kept thinking that the book really needed some family trees and charts; I only discovered that it does have them when I finished the book. They are at the end, instead of the beginning. I would have found the author's stories easier to follow if I had checked the family trees as I read.
Naggar really tells the story of her family, all of the various branches and their lives and histories in Egypt. In the mid-1950's when life for Jews, even the wealthiest and most connected in Egypt becomes impossibly difficult they are forced to find a way to leave and start anew.
Sipping From the Nile is the second such memoir I've read in recent months. When I was in the states, I was lent a copy of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit: A Jewish Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World by Lucette Lagnado, which although takes place at the same time and has some similarities is a very different story. I wonder if the two authors know each other.
Both Naggar and Lagnado grew up in large Cairo homes ruled by grandmothers and other elderly relatives. And both their mothers could only expect to run their homes when their own mother-in-law is unable. That is the custom in many parts of the world where multi-generational families/clans live together. From the perspective of their later lives in America, they feel sorry for their mothers whose roles are very different from those of a modern American wife and mother. But in the reality of that time in Egypt, in the upper class, the early married years were when the wives learned, were trained, in how to run their homes according to custom. Naggar's mother also had to contend with an older and powerful spinster sister-in-law.
Just like many times in Jewish History, wealthy comfortable and well-connected Jews have trouble predicting that it's time to leave their familiar home. This happened in Germany and the rest of Europe in the 1930's, Spain in the late 1400's etc. History mavens can add more examples in the comments.
Many of us are warning that even the United States, where both Naggar and Lagnado found refuge may not be the safest place for Jews in the future. In terms of finances, the USA is no longer a sure bet and the savvy are looking elsewhere for financial opportunities.
Another common thread in both books is how the families deal with the illegality of transferring money out of Egypt when they are planning their moves. Both have trunks full of new clothes sewn for them to take to where in their new lives and new homes. The biggest difference is that while Loulou Lagnado's family transport the trunks from home to ever-shrinking apartments, they never open the trunks nor wear their elegant Cairo clothes, Jean Naggar's family does.
By the time Lagnado's once powerful father makes it out of Egypt, he is already too old and sick to remake their lives in any semblance of their former one. In contrast, Naggar's clan reclaims their international upper-class standing in both Europe and America.
Sipping From the Nile by Jean Naggar is a story of survival. It's a very powerful book. No doubt that wherever they could have gone to, they would have succeeded. Some families are like that. Yes, I do recommend reading the book, actually reading both for the contrast and hope to read Lagnado's second book, The Arrogant Years: One Girl's Search for Her Lost Youth, from Cairo to Brooklyn which concentrates on her mother's story. And when you do read Sipping From the Nile be sure to remember that you can keep checking the family trees at the end of the book to keep track of all the family ties.
I review books for various magazines/papers. It's a tough call as slipshod work shows up in print. I'm sad that readers are less discriminating, let alone publishing house execs. I seek out authors who did their best (or not) and go from there. At times I'll include this line in my review "A judicious improvement of [name the type] can improve future editions of [book title]."
We have friends whose family left much property behind in Egypt. They don't lack for anything today and some of them are in Israel, but just knowing that they were never compensated is annoying.
Yocheved, are you referring to how they hid the charts in the back?
Hadassa, only very few emigrants have been able to take all possessions and money to wherever. That's the reality.
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Bellevue Police Chief Honored for Leadership
Bellevue Chief of Police Wayne Turner, a veteran law enforcement officer and military veteran who last year helped secure millions of dollars in training funds for his fellow officers across the state, has been honored for his leadership by the Northern Kentucky Police Chiefs Association.
Chief Turner was presented the Charles T. Donaldson Leadership Award during the Northern Kentucky Police Chiefs Association annual awards ceremony, which was held Jan. 21 at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills. The award annually recognizes a Northern Kentucky police officer who has demonstrated the characteristics of leadership and community service, shows outstanding accomplishments on the job and performs special acts of service in the public interest.
"I am both humbled and honored to be recognized by my fellow police chiefs for progressive and transparent work on advancing legislation," said Chief Turner, a Thomas More College graduate. "Chief Charles T. Donaldson was a lifelong and well-respected leader in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and especially in Northern Kentucky. Working to improve responsiveness and professionalism of law enforcement not only in Northern Kentucky but across the state is a high and distinct honor that is incredibly rewarding. "
As a member of the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police (KACP) Executive Board and chairman of the KACP Legislative Committee, Chief Turner represents police chiefs and the interests of law enforcement officers across the state. During the 2016 legislative session, Chief Turner worked with other organizations - including the Kentucky League of Cities, Kentucky Sheriff's Association and the Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police - on securing a $4,000 annual training stipend for law enforcement officers.
Chief Turner also worked with Sen. Danny Carroll (R-Paducah) to pass the "rehire bill", which allows city police departments to rehire retired law enforcement officers without making contributions to retirement or reimbursing or providing health insurance benefits to the officer. The bill saves city cities money while allowing experienced officers to be back on the street.
"A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way," said Alexandria Police Chief Mike Ward, who nominated Chief Turner for the award and who worked closely with him in Frankfort last year. "Chief Wayne Turner stepped up to the plate and on behalf of Kentucky law enforcement and became intimately familiar with the halls of our state capital.Chief Turner is a credit to himself, the Northern Kentucky Police Chiefs Association and to the law enforcement community of this great Commonwealth."
Chief Turner is the immediate past president of the Northern Kentucky Police Chiefs Association and has served as an executive board member since 2012. Prior to joining the Bellevue Police Department Chief Turner served with the Fort Thomas Police Department. He is once again advocating for law enforcement and the KACP during the current 2017 session of the Kentucky General Assembly.
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Volgoverkhovié (en  ou ) est un petit village du raïon d'Ostachkov dans l'oblast de Tver, situé à  de la ville d'Ostachkov. Le village est connu du fait que c'est sur son territoire que se trouve la source de la Volga, qui est un attrait intéressant pour le tourisme.

La source de la Volga
Cette source de la Volga se trouve à  du village, à une altitude de . Elle se situe au milieu d'un marais.

Dans le village se trouve le monastère Sainte-Olga pour femmes avec son église de la Transfiguration qui date de la fin du . Appartiennent également au monastère : la chapelle en bois Saint-Nicolas et la statue de ce saint, toutes deux près de la source. En 1999, le patriarche Alexis II de Moscou est venu bénir la source.

Premier barrage sur la Volga
Dans le village se trouve le premier petit barrage du cours de la Volga construit au début du .

Population
Le recensement de 2010 ne renseignent plus qu'un seul habitant dans le village. En 2002, on en renseignait encore 5.

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Boa Morte on the move
by Dan | Jan 8, 2009 | Uncategorized | 0 comments
Only the other day I was reading that Luis Boa Morte was going to fight for his place at West Ham and win over the boo boys. Now, it looks like he's going to be part of the Upton Park fire sale.
In an attempt to hold onto his stars, Gianfranco Zola has began to ship out some of his frindge players. Boa Morte, who joined West Ham two years ago after seven years at Fulham, is about to join Matthew Etherington, Lee Bowyer and Callum Davenport on his way out of the club. West Ham have agreed a £2m fee with Hull City for the Portuguese winger, who hasn't reproduced the sort of form we saw for much of his time at Fulham.
He has, however, been something of a regular for Zola this season. Boa Morte has made 17 appearances for the club this term and started last weekend's comfortable Cup win over Barnsley.


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Biography: A member of the Ojibwa Nation, Adam Beach was born a Saulteaux, on November 11, 1972, in Ashern, Manitoba, Canada, and spent his first 8 years on the Dog Creek Indian Reserve. His mother, who was 8 months pregnant at the time, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Two months later, his father drowned in a boating accident, forcing Adam and his two brothers to be relocated to Winnipeg where they were adopted by an aunt and uncle, before being passed to another aunt and uncle 6 years later.
This earth shattering series of events, along with the extra added burden of supporting his brothers, lead Beach into a time of anger and resentment. As an outlet for his anger, he became a teenage gang member. But another event would soon change his direction. Adam signed up for a high school drama and found out he was a natural. Instead of causing trouble, Beach could now express his extremes of emotion through acting. A help to him during this time was the inspiration he received fromA member of the Ojibwa Nation, Adam Beach was born a Saulteaux, on November 11, 1972, in Ashern, Manitoba, Canada, and spent his first 8 years on the Dog Creek Indian Reserve. His mother, who was 8 months pregnant at the time, was hit and killed by a drunk driver. Two months later, his father drowned in a boating accident, forcing Adam and his two brothers to be relocated to Winnipeg where they were adopted by an aunt and uncle, before being passed to another aunt and uncle 6 years later.
This earth shattering series of events, along with the extra added burden of supporting his brothers, lead Beach into a time of anger and resentment. As an outlet for his anger, he became a teenage gang member. But another event would soon change his direction. Adam signed up for a high school drama and found out he was a natural. Instead of causing trouble, Beach could now express his extremes of emotion through acting. A help to him during this time was the inspiration he received from Johnny Depp, who is part Cherokee. Adam points to Depp as helping him decide to go into acting full time.
Beach began taking parts in local theatre and left school for a lead role at the Manitoba Theatre For Young People. His first major break came when at 18, he landed a role in the mini-series Lost In The Barrens starring Graham Greene. Within a few years, he was seen on TV shows such as Touched By An Angel, Walker, Texas Ranger and Lonesome Dove. After landing the lead role in Squanto: A Warrior's Tale for Disney, he appeared in the film My Indian Summer, winning "Best Actor from the First Americans In The Arts". Other roles began to come in quickly. He did several series for Canadian TV, followed by feature films Coyote Summer and Song Of Hiawatha.
1996 also saw a very special event. Adam's first son Noah was born, and would be followed in 1998 with the birth of Luke. This same year, Adam starred in the first film completely written, produced, directed and acted by Native Americans, Smoke Signals. Directed by Chris Eyre, "Signals" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, winning the "Audience Award" and the "Filmmaker's Trophy", with a third nomination for the "Grand Jury Prize".
With the success of Smoke Signals, Beach was now very visible. And in demand. His next role was in the Disney film Mystery Alaska, a hockey film featuring Russell Crowe. Adam's favorite pastime is hockey so the movie was perfect for him. Next came The Last Stop, Joe Dirt and The Art Of Woo. But his most visible role was just around the corner.
John Woo's action war epic, Windtalkers, starring Nicolas Cage, focused on the little known fact that Native Americans were used during World War II as codetalkers. American forces came up with the idea of developing a secret code, using the extremely complex Navajo language as it's base, to send sensitive information back and forth by radio. This code turned out to be unbreakable by the Japanese and is credited today with helping to win the war in the Pacific theater. Beach's role was that of a Navajo who is taught the code and then assigned someone to protect him from being caught by the enemy at all costs. His protector is played by Cage, as the war weary Sgt. Joe Enders. Adam was co-lead in the film, which eventually grossed over 77.6 million dollars worldwide. He had to study the Navajo language six months for that film and the following series of PBS Mystery movies based on the best selling Tony Hillerman novels about Navajo Tribal Policeman Jim Chee.
Another movie, Dance Me Outside, and another award, "American Indian Film Festival Best Actor", soon followed. More Recent roles include Posers, Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story, The Big Empty, Sawtooth, Johnny Tootall and projects Flags Of Our Fathers, Bottom's Up, and as a regular on the hit TV series Law and Order: SVU.
The handsome actor has appeared in Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue and was on E! Entertainment's 2002 Sizzling Sixteen list.


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News Release - October 8, 2007
Use of Quidel QuickVue(R) Rapid Flu Test in Nursing Homes Allows for More Rapid Recognition of Outbreaks and Appropriate Therapies
Outbreak Duration and Incidence Rate Lowered in Study Facilities
SAN DIEGO--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Quidel Corporation (NASDAQ:QDEL ), a leading provider of rapid point-of-care (POC) diagnostic tests, announced today that a poster presentation at the Infectious Diseases Society of America 45th Annual Meeting (October 5, San Diego) indicated the on-site use of rapid influenza tests allows for the early detection of influenza, more timely treatment of residents (patients), and improved management of respiratory outbreaks in nursing home facilities. The study, entitled "Active surveillance and Point-of-Care testing (POCT) allows early intervention for influenza outbreaks in nursing homes," was presented by Dr. Dominic Dwyer, MD, FRCPA, of the Centre for Infectious Disease and Microbiology Laboratory Services, ICPMR, Westmead Hospital, Australia. Dr. Dwyer reported on the results from the first two years of an ongoing three-year study. During this period, there were six confirmed influenza outbreaks in the nursing homes. A comparison of outcomes at nursing homes receiving active surveillance with rapid tests and intervention with antivirals versus those with routine self-reporting of outbreaks (with no rapid tests) showed a significant difference in outcome. The attack rate of residents was reduced from 42% to 21%, the time between initial outbreak and intervention with antivirals was reduced by almost 50%, and the duration of the outbreak within the nursing homes was reduced from an average of 22 days to 11.5 days.(1) Dr. Dwyer concluded that "the QuickVue test for influenza performed by nursing home nurses on-site is sensitive and highly specific and allows for rapid recognition of outbreaks and (timely) intervention with antiviral therapy."
"I congratulate Dr. Dwyer on his work with the elderly nursing home population," said Caren Mason, president and CEO of Quidel. "The significant reductions in resident attack rate, and in the duration of the nursing home outbreaks, support the notion that active surveillance with rapid tests coupled with timely intervention with antiviral therapy can have a major impact on health outcomes for these elderly patients. This is particularly important when considering the fact that approximately 90% of the 36,000 persons who die from influenza each year in the United States are among the elderly."(2)
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), influenza is responsible for about 36,000 deaths and more than 200,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. each year. The National Foundation of Infectious Diseases, in a report released in September 2007, indicates that influenza can be especially severe for those with high-risk conditions (e.g., diabetes and heart disease), and recent studies have also found that the illness may trigger up to 92,000 cardiac deaths per year nationwide.(3)
About Quidel Corp.
Quidel Corporation serves to enhance the health and well being of people around the globe through the discovery, development, manufacturing and marketing of rapid diagnostic solutions at the point of care (POC) in infectious diseases and reproductive health. Marketed under the leading brand name of QuickVue®, Quidel's portfolio of products currently includes tests that aid in the diagnosis of several disease or condition states, including influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, Fecal Occult Blood, Strep A, pregnancy, bacterial vaginosis, H. pylori and Chlamydia. Quidel's products are sold to healthcare professionals with a focus on the physician office lab and acute care markets through leading medical distribution partners on a worldwide basis. Quidel's Specialty Products Group (SPG) develops research products in the fields of oncology and bone health with potential future point-of-care applications. By building value in rapid diagnostic tests, Quidel provides leadership to the industry and among healthcare professionals allowing for the movement of patient testing out of the central laboratory setting and into the physician office, urgent care and other outpatient settings where rapid testing and treatment has an impact on clinical outcomes and provides an economic benefit. For more information, visit www.quidel.com, www.flutest.com, or www.colorectal-test.com.
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(1) Poster presented October 5, 2007, IDSA, San Diego, CA on file at Quidel Corporation.
(2) CDC News Conference Transcript, October 24, 2003.
(3) National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, September 20, 2007.
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The nature of human cruelty is vastly complex, so I am focusing on some insights that have enlightened me.
For years, like many activists and decent people in the face of blatant injustice. I was utterly baffled by the question, How do the perpetrators sleep at night?
For activists, the truth is the ultimate weapon against the evil of injustice. We can't achieve justice with an illusory or ignorant mindset.
For me, the prime delusion that limited me had its source in my christian upbringing where I was brainwashed to believe all God's children are fundamentally good and yet naturally violent. Go figure! This perspective on the human condition has been a handicap.
No longer do I believe either premise. The proof for me that people are not naturally violent is the endemic PTSD in military veterans which seems not to stem from being close to one's own death, but from one's immoral participation in the hell of war.
And the proof that not all people are fundamentally good is all around us esp. in governments.
McLoughlin's article shows the HOW of cruelty and evil.
The second is minimising, hiding or ignoring consequences. Australia controls media access to cruel offshore detention camps and threatens whistleblowers with imprisonment. John Lyons book, Balcony over Jerusalem exposes the Israeli/ zionist control of international and local media and its targeting of an endangered species – journalists with integrity.
The third is dehumanising and blaming the victim. Asylum seekers are 'illegals' , Palestinians are 'terrorists' and BDS supporters are 'antisemites' out to destroy Israel.
Personally, I think the bystander effect in the general public is due to fear of authority and fear of speaking out that began in the education system from kindergarten onwards. It produces establishment clones rather than independent thinkers that dare to challenge injustices. It is safer to swallow the sugarcoating lies of the authorities than stand for the truth.
But, we know it isn't safer.
Now this led me to the WHO and the WHY of cruelty and evil.
I had misunderstood that Arendt's banality of evil referred to normal people finding themselves perpetrating evil, like 'poor' Eichmann following Nazi orders to exterminate Jews, Roma, Homosexuals, dissidents. However reading clinical psychologist , Andrew M. Lobaczewski'sPolitical Ponerology (A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes) was an eyeopener, a rational epiphany of fact,giving my new viewpoint a coherent edge.
PONEROLOGY, Lobaczweski elucidates comes from the Greek poneros = evil and he explains that his study of narcissism led to the study of psychopathy which he says afflicts 4% of the population and is 10 times more likely among males. For example, 4% of 24.6 million Australians is almost one million people.
"Imagine – if you can – not having a conscience, none at all, no feelings of guilt or remorse no matter what you do, no limiting sense of concern for the well-being of strangers, friends, or even family members. Imagine no struggles with shame, not a single one in your whole life, no matter what kind of selfish, lazy, harmful, or immoral action you had taken. And pretend, that the concept of responsibility is unknown to you, except as a burden others seem to accept without question, like gullible fools. Now add to this strange fantasy, the ability to conceal from other people that your psychological makeup is radically different from theirs.
Lobaczewski points out that "psychopaths seem to have in abundance of the very traits most desired by normal persons" – They can come across as possessing smooth self-assurance, they can be charismatic, "Likeable", "Charming","A great success with the ladies", "Intelligent", "Alert", "Impressive", "Confidence-inspiring," and and morally they can talk the talk but don't walk the talk. Remind you of anyone?
They can also be efficient machines, arrogant, manipulative, cynical, exhibitionistic, sensation-seeking, swearing an oath means nothing, Machiavellian, vindictive, enjoy making people suffer, and out for their own gain. 'They attribute love and status to themselves, seeing themselves as highly worthy and important'.
Lobaczerski wrote at the time of the Bush Reich' a warning that "it seems that the United States, in particular, and perhaps the entire world, will soon enter into "bad times" of such horror and despair that the Holocaust of World War II will seem like just a practice run." Twenty years later, his words are prophetic.
Of course there are people with consciences who enact cruelty driven by fear, or obedience, or ambition, greed, insecurities, childhood trauma, mental illness, etc. And they are easily manipulated by the tactics of moral disengagement.
"I think it's important to recognize that probably the three things that characterize Israel and the Israeli government are arrogance, brutality and stupidity. And those are the three elements that guides them in their actions.
Their arrogance is they think Palestinian's lives are not important. They think Palestinians are nothing which is what racist regimes think about the 'other'. Their brutality, like I said from day one, they've demonstrated horrific brutality and cruelty towards the Palestinians. And their stupidity is when you get to know them closely and you are behind the scenes, when you take a look at the details and you just take a look at the lack of their foresight, you can see just how stupid they are."Miko Peled, Israeli dissident and peace activist.
Labaczewski presents the biological i.e. nature origins of psychopathy, but aberrant behaviour can be instilled by nurture en masse in a nation.
In Israel, pathological cruelty and moral disengagement is the national culture. With regard to Israel's brutal occupation of Palestine, decent people scratch their heads and ask, "Why do the Israelis behave like Nazis?' or 'Why, having suffered the Holocaust, do Israelis make Palestinian's suffer?" They are important questions, and the answer is shocking.
I don't know of any civilised nation that inflicts a brutal regimen of mind-torture on its population.
The indoctrination of victimhood in Israeli children is torture pure and simple.It is child abuse.
Torture is generally held to be 'the intentional infliction of severe mental or physical pain or suffering by or with the consent of the state authorities for a specific purpose." The purpose in this instance is the preparation of Jewish kids for glorified conscription from 18-21 that bolsters total and unequivocal support for and the execution of the illegal occupation, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
It breeds and attracts cold-blooded killers who get promoted for killing Palestinians.
Kafr Qasim Massacre, Major Shmuel Malinkiwas promoted and put in charge of security for the top secret Negev Nuclear Research Center.
Iman Al Hams, 13, killer promoted to major.
Abdallah Jarousha, killed in operation approved by Brig. Gen Roni Numa promoted to Major General.
'UN Human Rights Council report on the 2014 Gaza conflict essentially labeled Col. Ofer Winter a war criminal'; he was promoted to brigadier-general.
In the lair of the beast where systematic impunity for atrocities obliterates rule of law, conscience is superfluous. From mass carnage to individual execution of Palestinians, with rare exceptions, Israelis have free rein to commit acts of, what is in effect, state sanctioned terrorism.
Domestic impunity is duplicated in the international impunity Israel enjoys granted by the UN and Western governments.
Conversely, Israel savagely punishes Palestinian resistance with house demolitions, torture and lengthy imprisonment without charge or trial or most commonly, extrajudicial executions.
Victimhood indoctrination combined with crazy-making racism, Biblical myths, Jewish supremacism and militarism, exploitation of the holocaust is integral to Israeli identity.
Israel has purposely elevated the holocaust into a religion and its greatest hypocrisy is the brutal concentration camp of Gaza now in its 10th year. Western governments bystanders actively protect the sanctity of the holocaust but are silent on the daily collective punishment and inhumane suffering of Gaza families.
Israel's soul perversion is clear when you try to consider what goes through young soldiers' minds when they prevent an ambulance from reaching someone they have wounded and then mercilessly watch the person bleed to death.
In a healthy society, people immediately follow their instinct to help someone who is hurt and call an ambulance. In Israel blocking ambulances is a systematic practice of one-by-one-genocide. Or view the public outcry against the arrest, trial and detention (18 mere months) of army paramedic, Elon Azaria who cold-bloodedly executed wounded Palestinian, Abdel Fattah al-Sharif lying unarmed on the ground. In a normal society such violent fanaticism would be condemned as animalistic and criminal, yet typically Azaria was convicted of 'manslaughter', hailed an Israeli hero and given a 4 day furlough for Jewish New Year.
"And maybe even more appalling than the sight of the police and the Border Police – and their arrogant, alienated and hostile sneers at the Palestinians – is Israelis' delight at their attractiveness, heroism and sweetness.
So what can be our response to cruelty?
Even here, there is hope- indoctrination can be reversed and we have to create avenues of reconciliation and solidaritybetween Palestinians and the 90% of Jews with a conscience so that a one state of civil and political equality can emerge.
I now understand that that psychopathy is natural, like some people are born with dyslexia or born with a low or high IQ and that there is individual variation in the range of psychopathic behaviour from mild to extreme.
Regarding activist strategies, Lobaczerski urges us to enter into moral reflection, sharpen our reasoning faculties, understand our adversaries, trust our instincts, and and we "must keep both abhorrence and fear under control".
With psychopaths I know now its a waste of time to appeal to conscience or morality, to a non-existent "better nature". Their Achilles heel is their ego, reputation and self-interest. One can pander to the ego or ridicule it. Notwithstanding, accountability is our principal target.
I conclude on a positive note- What we know and psychopaths don't get is, empathy+ action is power, as is compassion + action, as is truth + action.
David Gillespie; Taming Toxic People: The Science of Identifying and Dealing With Psychopaths At Work and At Home.
The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram.
One of the most famous studies of obedience in psychology was carried out by Milgram (1963). Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale University, conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience.
Stanley Milgram's Experiment on Obedience to Authority … series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist, Stanley Milgram.
It was conducted at Stanford University between August 14–20, 1971, by a research group led by psychology professor Philip Zimbardo using college students.
Thank you Sally, I'll certainly follow up the links and I appreciate your personal sharing.


A proposed $70 million development on Angliana Avenue that would include a 12-screen movie theater, bowling alley, restaurants, shops and apartments will become the city's third tax-increment financing project.
At its meeting Thursday night, the Urban County Council authorized the city to file a TIF application with the state Economic Development Cabinet on behalf of ShowProp.
ShowProp is requesting $36 million in TIF funds to pay for infrastructure improvements, said attorney Chris Westover, who represents the developer. Under the TIF arrangement, the money would be repaid with new tax money generated by the development.
"Without TIF, the project would not be economically feasible," Westover said.


Two days ago the Super Bowl aired. One of my favorite parts of Super Bowl Sunday, and arguably the best, is the flood of new commercials that ultimately set the tone for the year & often times integrate themselves into our everyday lives.
This Year a commercial released a few days before game day has stirred up quite a bit of Buzz.
Pantene's Dad-Do commercials were a hit among most and a silent jab to others. The display of Daddy-daughter bonding was definitely heart-warming. What hurt was the tag line at the end.
It automatically took me back to my birthday in December where I overheard a pre-teen girl tell someone her father is and has been incarcerated for most of her life, but she tries not to let it get to her, because she knows it will make her stronger in the end.
WHO IS CONDUCTING THIS RESEARCH?!
My focus for February has been Foundations of Love: Examining the Foundations of Love my "Daddies" have laid for me. But this commercial incited a need for me to conduct my own research.
I polled my Facebook friends both personal & strangers in various special interest groups I belong to.
The consensus seemed to be "Stronger is Circumstantial" Most of us agreed that stronger was both vague and an unnecessary comparison.
The strength of a woman is not solely based on the absence or presence of her father, but on how she chooses to let those circumstances shape her.
I heard from women who agreed with the ad, because they had very present Dads who died; and they had experienced life both with and without a father's influence. They actually felt lost, or foundationally shaken after the loss. Some said that relying on what little their Dads were able to instill in them is what they use now even in adulthood to guide them.
One commenter, a friend of mine, said her father's absence in early years taught her a lesson in forgiveness in her teens when he began to re-enter.
Very few women seemed to feel growing up without a Dad would make one a stronger woman. Those that did argue the point that girls who grow up with their Dads had to learn to be more self-reliant and some Daddy's girls are pretty much crippled by overprotective fathers that never allow them to navigate the world on their own and learn their own strength.
This blog was born from me writing as a method of "Dealing" with my Daddy Issues. Now, I'm just wondering how strong is my foundation?


Scottsdale, Ariz. — Vixxo, a facilities management leader focused on providing a seamless, intuitive experience for a vast portfolio of brands across the United States and Canada, will provide facilities management services for Dallas-based Razzoo's, Inc. restaurants.
Vixxo will be responsible for full-service facilities management at Razzoo's, including all skilled trades, repairs and scheduled maintenance. Through Vixxo's management of Razzoo's restaurants, the Razzoo team will have access to new data that will guide better decisions about store assets, while Vixxo's experienced associates and service technicians will drive repair quality and consistency across locations.
Since 1991, Razzoo's has served authentic southern Gulf Coast food prepared from scratch at its Razzoo's Cajun Cafés. More recently, the company has added a new concept, Tricky Fish, that also serves southern classics.
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Vixxo is a leading facility management company based in Scottsdale, Ariz. For more information, visit www.vixxo.com.


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2023 STATUS of KDHE UST Operating Permit Extension
04 Jan 2023 6:47 AM | Lori Desch-Ranallo (Administrator)
Notice to UST Owners and Operators
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) provided an extension of the current 2022-2023 annual operating permit through the end of December 2022 to eligible UST Owners and Operators. Due to staff shortages within the Storage Tank Section (processing) and UST Contractor availability (including supply chain issues), the permit renewal period has been extended through the end of March 2023. The operating permit can be given "Extended" status if all the following eligibility criteria are met:
1. The UST owner had an "In Effect" 2021-2022 permit through the end of July 2022;
2. The UST owner has submitted all the required permit renewal documents;
3. The renewal submission in KEIMS has an "In Process" status;
4. The UST owner has submitted the appropriate fees associated with their facility for the current permit cycle; and
5. The UST owner has provided proof of contact and scheduling with a Kansas-licensed UST Contractor to conduct required compliance testing.
The extension is planned to end on March 31st, 2023. If the compliance testing requirements and respective documents are not submitted to KDHE by this date, you must contact KDHE to receive a special variance based on the criteria stated above or the permit will convert to "Expired" status and UST system operations will need to cease. Account representatives and fuel supplier transporters can view the status of your permit by going to the following website: https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/990/Storage-Tanks and click on the "AST & UST Search" link in the left-hand column. This link can also be used to see what test dates KDHE currently has on record for specific equipment at your facilities.
These extensions are granted in part due to the new federal and state compliance testing requirements for UST systems that went into effect on October 13, 2021. Do not wait to have this work completed. If the new tests are not already finalized, contact your UST Contractor immediately to have this work scheduled and completed. The UST Owner or Operator must document their efforts by providing written proof to KDHE that a Kansas-licensed UST Contractor has been hired to complete the testing, provide the scheduled testing dates to KDHE and/or provide testing results with explanations of parts or equipment being on order. If you have any questions about this extension and the eligibility requirements, you can reach us at 785-296-8061 or email us at kdhe.tankinfo@ks.gov.
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