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And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brothers.
And he shall be as a wild ass among men; his hand'shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell over against all his brethren.
And he will be like a mountain ass among men; his hand will be against every man and every man's hand against him, and he will keep his place against all his brothers.
And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
He will be like a wild donkey among men. His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him. He will live opposite all of his brothers."
And he shall be as a wild-ass among men; his hand shall be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.
Clarke's Genesis 16:12 Bible Commentary
He will be a wild man - פרא אדם pere adam. As the root of this word does not appear in the Hebrew Bible, it is probably found in the Arabic farra, to run away, to run wild; and hence the wild ass, from its fleetness and its untamable nature. What is said of the wild ass, Job 39:5-8, affords the very best description that can be given of the Ishmaelites, (the Bedouins and wandering Arabs), the descendants of Ishmael: "Who hath sent out the wild ass (פרא pere) free? or who hath loosed the bands (ערוד arod) of the brayer? Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings. He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver. The range of the mountains is his pasture, and he searcheth after every green thing." Nothing can be more descriptive of the wandering, lawless, freebooting life of the Arabs than this.
God himself has sent them out free - he has loosed them from all political restraint. The wilderness is their habitation; and in the parched land, where no other human beings could live, they have their dwellings. They scorn the city, and therefore have no fixed habitations; for their multitude, they are not afraid; for when they make depredations on cities and towns, they retire into the desert with so much precipitancy that all pursuit is eluded. In this respect the crying of the driver is disregarded. They may be said to have no lands, and yet the range of the mountains is their pasture - they pitch their tents and feed their flocks, wherever they please; and they search after every green thing - are continually looking after prey, and seize on every kind of property that comes in their way.
It is farther said, His hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him - Many potentates among the Abyssinians, Persians, Egyptians, and Turks, have endeavored to subjugate the wandering or wild Arabs; but, though they have had temporary triumphs, they have been ultimately unsuccessful. Sesostris, Cyrus, Pompey, and Trajan, all endeavored to conquer Arabia, but in vain. From the beginning to the present day they have maintained their independence, and God preserves them as a lasting monument of his providential care, and an incontestable argument of the truth of Divine Revelation. Had the Pentateuch no other argument to evince its Divine origin, the account of Ishmael and the prophecy concerning his descendants, collated with their history and manner of life during a period of nearly four thousand years, would be sufficient. Indeed the argument is so absolutely demonstrative, that the man who would attempt its refutation, in the sight of reason and common sense would stand convicted of the most ridiculous presumption and folly.
The country which these free descendants of Ishmael may be properly said to possess, stretches from Aleppo to the Arabian Sea, and from Egypt to the Persian Gulf; a tract of land not less than 1800 miles in length, by 900 in breadth; see Genesis 17:20.
Wesley's Genesis 16:12 Bible Commentary
16:12 He will be a wild man — A wild ass of a man, so the word is: rude, and bold and fearing no man; untamed, untractable, living at large, and impatient of service and restraint.
His hand will be against every man — That is his sin, and every man's hand against him - That is his punishment. Note, Those that have turbulent spirits have commonly troublesome lives: they that are provoking, and injurious to others, must expect to be repaid in their own coin. And yet, he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren - Though threatened and insulted by all his neighbours, yet he shall keep his ground, and, for Abram's sake more than his own, shall be able to make his part good with them. Accordingly we read, Genesis 25:18, that he died, as he lived, in the presence of all his brethren.


Loyola University Maryland has been awarded a $280,120 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build its first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster, which will be used for faculty and student research across disciplines.
The grant proposal, "Acquisition of a Computing Cluster to Enable Transformative Research across Disciplines," identified 11 research projects — in fields such as software development, medicine and social policy — that will be the first to run on the HPC cluster.
Improving techniques for nondestructive evaluation of electromagnetic materials, which is of critical importance in agriculture, bio-electromagnetics, aerospace, and the design of integrated circuits.
The HPC cluster will subsequently be made available to other researchers and undergraduate students at the university. Loyola is primarily an undergraduate institution, and until now those students have not had access to HPC clusters for research, unlike their peers at large research institutions. With this new HPC cluster, Loyola undergraduates will have the opportunity to receive training and mentorship using high-performance computing for computationally intensive tasks and multi-disciplinary research, helping prepare them for graduate studies and computational work in their careers, according to the award abstract.
"Our students will now have access to HPC cluster resources similar to what they would find at a large research university," said Megan Olsen, assistant professor of computer science and principal investigator on the grant, in a news release. "This is really the future in a lot of different fields."
Olsen's three co-investigators on the grant project are Biggi Albrecht, associate professor of chemistry; David Binkley, professor of computer science; and Jeremy Schwartz, associate professor of economics, all from Loyola.


This past Saturday I had the privilege to photograph my friend and co-worker Liz with her first Grandson, Giovanni Anthony, and her daughter Kayla. We had so much fun and he was such a gorgeous little subject. He was 9 days old and we were laughing at how strong he is already and how his umbilical cord was barely hanging on! He was a little ham and I can't wait to watch him grow. I hope I have the opportunity to photograph him again in the future!!!
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Massachusetts Retail and Inside Salespersons Are Now Entitled to Overtime and Sunday Premium Pay
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From Lexology, Cullan E. Jones and Christopher M. Pardo discuss a recent decision by the Supreme Judicial Court that said employees who are paid by commission are entitled to overtime pay. Cullan and Christopher write:
Massachusetts' highest court, The Supreme Judicial Court ("SJC"), recently issued its long awaited decision in Sullivan v. Sleepy's LLC, SJC-12542, in which the SJC responded to certified questions of first impression from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. The case is particularly important for businesses which pay employees through commissions or draws (i.e., advances on commissions), particularly in the retail context where the ruling departs considerably from federal law.
Concluding that inside sales employees paid on a 100% commission-only basis are, in fact, entitled to overtime and Sunday premium pay, the SJC first turned to the language of the applicable statute and regulations. Like under federal law, Massachusetts law requires employers to pay non-exempt employees who work more than 40 hours per week at a rate of at least 1.5 times the employee's "regular rate," while a related regulation defines regular rate as "the employee's total weekly earnings by the total hours worked during the week." The overtime statute further provides that retail employees who work on a Sunday or certain holidays are entitled to pay for all such hours at 1.5 times their regular rate.
However, under the Massachusetts statute and regulation, the regular rate explicitly excludes commissions, draws on commissions and Sunday premium pay. Based upon this language, Sleepy's had concluded that commission-only employees were not entitled to overtime or premium pay compensation. Sleepy's belief was encouraged by two opinion letters issued by the Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards, which stood for the premise that employers had no overtime pay obligations under Massachusetts law to commission-only salespersons, so long as such individuals received at least the state minimum wage and time and one-half minimum wage for all hours worked over forty.
The SJC acknowledged that the language in the opinion letters "may have misled the employers," but nevertheless noted that state law clearly prohibits employers from "retroactively reallocat[ing] and credit[ing] payments made to fulfill one set of wage obligations against separate and independent obligations." The Court further concluded "that the overtime statute requires separate and additional overtime compensation to be provided to a one hundred percent commission employee regardless of whether that employee receives a recoverable draw or commissions that equal or exceed one and one-half times the minimum wage for any hours worked beyond forty."
In considering the premium rate that must be paid to these employees, the SJC held that, because the regular rate excludes commissions, draws and Sunday premium pay, the overtime and/or Sunday rate must be at least 1.5 times the Massachusetts' minimum wage, which "for one hundred percent commission employees" means that "[t]he overtime rate is thus one and one-half times the minimum wage."
Despite recognizing that employers may have relied on the Massachusetts Department of Labor Standards opinion letters in formulating their compensation policies, the Court did not address whether its decision would apply retroactively or only prospectively.
All employers who operate in Massachusetts who pay employees on commission should review their pay practices to make sure they are in compliance with these new requirements. Those who should pay particular attention are car dealerships and those apply the federal retail sales exemption to retail sales employees.
Source: Massachusetts Retail and Inside Salespersons Are Now Entitled to Overtime and Sunday Premium Pay – Lexology
Massachusetts Paid Family Leave Law: What Employers Need to Know Now
Retailers must pay OT to commission-only salespeople – Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

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Purpose-built handling equipment meets specific needs of the recycling industry
1 December 2000, source LAWR
German manufacturer, Fuchs, which is part of the Schaeff Group, is in the forefront of developing purpose-built handling equipment applied on many recycling and rehandling sites in the UK, including the scrap metals and general rehandling industries. LAWE takes a look at the company's approach to manufacturing equipment engineered to the meet the specifications of this demanding market
The key features of Fuchs purpose-designed handlers are the "straight-boom and stick" configuration, to give optimum reach, height and lift capacity, the long and wide outrigger spread to give a firm and stable base for the machine, and the integral structural strength in the chassis and slew-ring to be able to cope with the continuously high load factors.
A typical 30 tonne machine has a maximum outreach of up to 15 metres and a maximum lift capacity of 15 tonnes, and there are bigger machines, up to 60 tonnes or more, providing 18 metres reach and over 20 tonnes capacity.
In addition, they have standard features, such as elevating cabs to give the driver a clearer view and create an overall safer working environment around the loading area, as well as built-in generator drives and hydraulic circuits for magnets and grab attachments.
Fuchs employs a policy of listening to customers, and being prepared to adapt machines and attachments to suit a variety of needs.
"There has been a steady increase in demand for Fuchs machines, both in small recycling yards and in major industrial operations, as operators look more carefully at ways to improve or upgrade the efficiency of their rehandling operations, and many of them working 24 hours a day", says Brian Albiston, UK Sales Manager for Fuchs.
For that reason, Schaeff provides a comprehensive range of back-up services, including options such as contract service agreements, and a central parts and service operation.
Flagship loader for recycling
The first of Schaeff's new top-of-the-range wheel-loaders, the 11-tonne SKL873, has gone to work in the recycling yard and transfer station of Henshaws Environmental Ltd. in Macclesfield, Cheshire.
Fitted with a special 4.5m3 high-tip bucket, and with a maximum dump height in excess of 4 metres, it is used mainly for sorting and stacking incoming waste materials and then loading them into high-sided vehicles for transfer to re-processors or to the dump. Most of the materials are domestic and industrial waste from the skip-collection service provided by Henshaws in the immediate Macclesfield area.
"The volume of our recycling business has been growing rapidly," says Joe Henshaw, "so we have upgraded the efficiency and capacity of the yard with new equipment, including crushing and screening plant as well as new vehicles.
"To complement that, we need a reliable loader, which is compact yet tough - because of the restricted nature of the yard and sorting shed, and the continuous seven-days-a-week operation. But it must also have a high lift capability because of the need to load the high-sided wagons and hoppers. We chose the Schaeff because of its performance and good reputation in the recycling industry, in Germany and in the UK."
Having previously operated older equipment, the operators appreciate the modern cab and controls - particularly the single-lever loader-control, which includes a push-button forward-reverse shift as well as the normal loader controls. Another feature is the hydrostatic transmission which enables fast shuttle-loading without having to shift gears, and also obviating the need for braking - saving both time, and wear and tear on the brakes and drive-line.
The SKL873 is also used, with the same high-tip bucket, for coal handling - charging the high-level hoppers to feed the coal-bagging facility. But with its quick-change facility, the machine can also be quickly switched over to a fork attachment, which can be used for handling palletised materials or large, bulky items such as old engine blocks and scrap cars.
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The point I was making on the show, however, was that 65 years after the Holocaust the Nazis are not the issue any longer – much to the bewilderment of some Jewish organisations. Islamic fundamentalism and the extreme left present far more of a danger and Jewish people should not approach their current challenges through the prism of history. This, it seems, is too complex an issue for some people.


On August 16, 1922, in the midst of writing Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf penned a passage in her diary panning James Joyce's Ulysses. "An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me ... the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, & ultimately nauseating. When one can have cooked flesh, why have the raw?" But New Republic editor Edmund Wilson would have disagreed with her—he, instead, praised it as a "work of high genius." In memoriam of Woolf's legendary take-down, a reprint of Wilson's original review.
On the 16th of June, 1904, Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom were both living in Dublin. Both differed from the people about them and walked in isolation among them because each was, according to his capacity, an intellectual adventurer—Dedalus, the poet and philosopher, with a mind full of beautiful images and abstruse speculations and Bloom, the advertisement canvasser, in a more rudimentary fashion. In the evening, Mr. Bloom and Dedalus became involved in the same drunken party and Dedalus was knocked unconscious in a quarrel with a British soldier. Then their kinship was made plain. Bloom felt wistfully that Stephen was all he would have had his own son be and Stephen, who despised his own father—an amiable wastrel—found a sort of spiritual father in this sympathetic Jew, who, mediocre as he was, had at least the dignity of intelligence. Were they not both outlaws to their environment by reason of the fact that they thought and imagined?
Stated in the baldest possible terms, this is the story of Ulysses—an ironic and amusing anecdote without philosophic moral. In describing the novel thus, I have the authority of the author himself, who said to Miss Djuna Barnes, in an interview published in Vanity Fair: "The pity is the public will demand and find a moral in my book—or worse they may take it in some more serious way, and on the honor of a gentleman, there is not one single serious line in it." The thing that makes Ulysses imposing is, in fact, not the theme but the scale upon which it is developed. It has taken Mr. Joyce seven years to write Ulysses and he has done it in seven hundred and thirty pages, which are probably the most completely "written" pages to be seen in any novel since Flaubert. Not only is the anecdote expanded to its fullest possible bulk—there is an elaborate account of nearly everything done or thought by Mr. Bloom from morning to night of the day in question—but you have both the "psychological" method and the Flaubertian method of making the style suit the thing described carried several steps further than they have ever been before, so that, whereas in Flaubert you have merely the words and cadences carefully adapted to convey the specific mood or character without any attempt to identify the narrative with the stream of consciousness of the person described, and in Henry James merely the exploration of the stream of consciousness with only one vocabulary and cadence for the whole cast of moods and characters, in Joyce you have not only life from the outside described with Flaubertian virtuosity but also the consciousness of each of the characters and of each of the character's moods made to speak in the idiom proper to it, the language it uses to itself. If Flaubert taught de Maupassant to find the adjective which would distinguish a given hackney-cab from every other hackney-cab in the world, James Joyce has prescribed that one must find the dialect which would distinguish the thoughts of a given Dubliner from those of every other Dubliner. So we have the thoughts of Mr. Bloom presented in a rapid staccato notation continually jetting out in all directions in little ideas within ideas with the flexibility and complexity of an alert and nimble mind; Mrs. Bloom's in a long rhythmic brogue like the swell of some profound sea; Father Conmee's in precise prose, perfectly colorless and orderly; Stephen Dedalus's in a kaleidoscope of bright images and fragments of things remembered from books; and Gerty-Nausicaa's half in school girl colloquialisms and half in the language of the cheap romances which have given their color to her mind. And these voices are used to record all the eddies and stagnancies of thought; though exercising a severe selection which makes the book a technical triumph, Mr. Joyce manages to give the effect of unedited human minds, drifting aimlessly along from one triviality to another, confused and diverted by memory, by sensation and by inhibition. It is, in short, perhaps the most faithful X-ray ever taken of the ordinary human consciousness.
And as a result of this enormous scale and this microscopic fidelity the chief characters in Ulysses take on heroic proportions. Each one is a room, a house, a city in which the reader can move around. The inside of each one of them is a novel in itself. You stand within a world infinitely populated with the swarming life of experience. Stephen Dedalus, in his scornful pride, rears his brow as a sort of Lucifer; poor Bloom, with his generous impulses and his attempts to understand and master life, is the epic symbol of reasoning man, humiliated and ridiculous, yet extricating himself by cunning from the spirits which seek to destroy him; and Mrs. Bloom, with her terrific force of mingled amorous and maternal affection, with her roots in the dirt of the earth and her joyous flowering in beauty, is the gigantic image of the earth itself from which both Dedalus and Bloom have sprung and which sounds a deep foundation to the whole drama like the ground-tone at the beginning of The Rhine-Gold. I cannot agree with Mr. Arnold Bennett that James Joyce "has a colossal 'down' on humanity." I feel that Mr. Bennett has really been shocked because Mr. Joyce has told the whole truth. Fundamentally Ulysses is not at all like Bouvard et Pecuchet (as some people have tried to pretend). Flaubert says in effect that he will prove to you that humanity is mean by enumerating all the ignobilities of which it has ever been capable. But Joyce, including all the ignobilities, makes his bourgeois figures command our sympathy and respect by letting us see in them the throes of the human mind straining always to perpetuate and perfect itself and of the body always laboring and throbbing to throw up some beauty from its darkness.
naturally to give birth to higher forms of life, the supreme vindication of Bloom and Dedalus against the brutality and ignorance which surround them, but after the sterilities and practical jokes of the chapters immediately preceding and the general diversion of interest which the Odyssean structure has involved the episode lacks the definitive force which a closer integration would have provided for.
repeats his triumphs—which almost nobody has done. Who else has had the supreme devotion and accomplished the definitive beauty? If he has really laid down his pen never to take it up again he must know that the hand which laid it down upon the great affirmative of Mrs. Bloom, though it never write another word, is already the hand of a master.


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Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras no 5 for Voice and 8 Cellos N/A
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Artists: Hyunah Yu (Soprano); Hamilton Cheifetz (Cello); Matt Haimovitz (Cello); Nancy Ives (Cello); Dorothy Lewis (Cello); Michael Nicolas (Cello); Fred Sherry (Cello); Ronald Thomas (Cello); Peter Wiley (Cello)
Recording Date: Fri 4 Jul 2008
I - Aria (Cantilena) (6:54) N/A
II - Danza (Martelo) (5:04) N/A
Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 20 N/A
Composer: Felix Mendelssohn
Artists: Miriam Fried (Violin); Tessa Lark (Violin); David McCarroll (Violin); Robin Scott (Violin); Yoonji Kang (Viola); Yura Lee (Viola); Blaise Dejardin (Cello); Michael Nicolas (Cello)
Venue: Ravinia Festival Grounds (Highland Park)
Recording Date: Sat 28 Jul 2007
I - Allegro moderato ma con fuoco (13:15) N/A
II - Andante (6:26) N/A
III - Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo (4:19) N/A
IV - Presto (6:12) N/A
Dvorak: Quintet for Strings in E flat major, Op. 97/B 180 N/A
Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Artists: Paul Biss (Violin); Robin Scott (Violin); Yoonji Kang (Viola); Yura Lee (Viola); Michael Nicolas (Cello)
I - Allegro non tanto (9:03) N/A
II - Allegro vivo (5:32) N/A
III - Larghetto (10:12) N/A
IV - Finale: Allegro giusto (8:18) N/A
Beethoven: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello no 4 in C minor, Op. 9 no 3 N/A
Artists: Tessa Lark (Violin); Yura Lee (Viola); Michael Nicolas (Cello)
Recording Date: Wed 11 Jul 2007
I - Allegro con spirito (7:27) N/A
II - Adagio con espressione (7:04) N/A
III - Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace (3:19) N/A
IV - Finale: Presto (6:17) N/A
Wuorinen: Variations II for Cello
Composer: Charles Wuorinen
Artist: Michael Nicolas (Cello)
Recording Date: Sat 7 Jul 2007
Variations II for Cello (8:06) N/A
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Known as the only Christian country in Asia, the Republic of the Philippines is still recovering from economic and political setbacks as it seeks to establish itself in today's world.
The term Filipino, originally denoting a person of Spanish descent born in the Philippines, has been applied since the 19th century to the "Christianized" Malay-Indonesian peoples (95 percent of the population).
Population distribution is uneven; large areas are virtually uninhabited, while others have a relatively high population density. More than 16 million people live in the capital city of Manila's metro area.
Roman Catholic 76.9%
Evangelical Christian 10%
Iglesia ni Kristo sect 2.5%
Philippine Independent Church 1.7%
Other Christian 4.5%
Muslim 5.7%
None 1.1%
Language, Geography and Climate
In the Philippines there are eight major languages and about 170 smaller language groups. The official language is Filipino, which is based on Tagalog, a Malayo-Polynesian language influenced by Spanish, Chinese and Arabic. English is used for government, business and tertiary education.
There are more than 7,000 islands, with Luzon (north) the largest and Mindanao (south) the next. The islands are of volcanic origin and are mountainous. Earthquakes are fairly common and there are about 20 active volcanoes.
The Philippines has an average annual temperature of about81°F (27°C), but inland areas are hotter. The rainy season occurs from May to November; the dry season occurs from December to April. From June to October the islands are struck by an average of 20 typhoons.
The Filipinos are of mixed descent, but predominantly Malay. They also have Indian, Chinese, Middle Eastern, European and American heritage. Islam spread to the southern islands from the 13th century when 13 ethno-linguistic groups embraced Islam. They still have a strong Muslim identity.
In 1521 the islands were seen by a European explorer and in 1542 the Spanish claimed the archipelago and named it in honor of their King, Philip II. Missionaries arrived soon after.
Conversions were rapid. Some were forced, but many were from seeing the ceremonial splendor of the Roman Catholic rites that aroused fear and admiration. The work of the missionaries established Spanish rule and united most of the Filipinos through a common religion.
Conflict with Muslims in the south began in the early days of Spanish influence and continues today. Some ethno-linguistic groups in mountainous areas did not embrace Islam or Christianity and remained animistic.
The islands were relatively quiet until the late 19th century when several groups united to rebel against the Spanish and claim independence. The Filipinos were gaining ground in their battle for freedom, and just when independence seemed within reach, the islands were ceded by Spain to the USA. Filipinos found themselves facing a new colonial government. The U.S. established military rule and tensions resurfaced.
American policies changed direction several times, but by 1936 agreement was reached to grant independence. World War II intervened, and Japanese occupation caused widespread destruction. However, the Republic of the Philippines was formally proclaimed on July 4, 1946.
Rebuilding the country economically, socially and politically took decades. The corner seemed to have been turned when Ferdinand Marcos was elected president in 1965. But unrest followed and in 1972 Marcos declared martial law, by which he ruled until 1986. He then fled the country after rigged elections brought the population to the streets. He took undetermined amounts of illegally-gained wealth with him.
Corazon Aquino, wife of murdered opposition leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr., became president. Her government survived seven coups but had limited success in addressing the economic situation, taming the excesses of the military or lessening the impact of the communist and Muslim secessionist guerrilla wars.
Fidel Ramos was elected president on a minority vote in 1992; the first democratic change of government for 26 years. (Aquino's government was democratically elected but only recognized after the People Power Revolution that drove out Marcos.)
Under Ramos the country saw a measure of economic growth and stability. In June 1998 Joseph Estrada was elected president for six years. However he was ousted after corruption scandals in early 2001 and replaced by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whose administration also battled charges of corruption. The current President of the Philippines is Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino III.
Most Filipinos mixed the Catholicism of their Spanish conquerors with their own animistic (spirit worship) beliefs. Even today Filipino Catholicism, or more accurately "Folk Catholicism," is mixed with animism.
With American rule in the early 1900s came religious liberty. Evangelicals came to the Philippines and began to plant churches. By the end of World War II, these had become liberal.
Together with a number of other mission societies, OMF International began work in the Philippines in 1951. Workers were initially assigned to assist Chinese churches in Manila and Davao and to share the gospel with the Mangyan tribes of Mindoro. Many churches have since been planted which support their own pastors.
OMF International is involved in essential services to the church in the Philippines: theological training (training Filipinos as they launch out in cross-cultural missions, both within the country and abroad), literature production, Bible translation, work with the urban and rural poor, work with tribal groups, primary health care, literacy and other support functions. There are many fast-growing cults. The church needs to present a clear message of biblical Christianity.
Rural church planting.
Christian education and leadership training.
Ethnic Muslim minorities.
Missions training.
Evangelism and church planting.
Theological teaching.
Development work.
Teaching missionaries' children.
Short-term placements.
The turmoil, suffering and rapid changes in the nation have prepared millions to seek a personal faith in Christ. Praise God that growth has been marked in all evangelical groups.
The government needs prayer. Courageous and unpopular decisions on moral, social and economic issues need to be taken. Pray for Christians in positions of power.
Pray for a humble sensitivity on the part of Western missionaries as Filipino Christians are seeking an identity of their own.
Pray also for safety. Missionaries have been threatened, kidnapped and even killed by guerrillas and criminal gangs.
In Manila 3 million people live in squalid shanty-town slums, some living on and from the city rubbish dumps. There are 900 depressed areas in the city, 400 of which have no church. Most of the churches are in the more affluent areas.
Of the Chinese population, 3 percent are evangelical Christians.
Student ministry has developed despite obstacles to open evangelism. Pray for the development of strong witnessing groups in schools and universities.
There are more than 100 Christian bookstores in the country. Few countries are better served by Christian television and radio.
People who have not heard the gospel:
Muslims: Five million in 13 ethnic groups, mainly in Mindanao.
Mindanao: Many of the 24 Manobo tribal people groups are isolated, and outreach to them is limited by warfare and intimidation.
Settled central mountain peoples of Luzon.
The church faces critical challenges:
How to give a biblical response to the gross inequalities and corruption in society.
Rapid growth with inadequate discipling. The proliferation of new groups, often led by those with minimal training and almost no accountability, has given rise to doctrinal distortions, fanciful interpretations and problems such as corruption.
Praise God for outstanding Filipino leaders, but their numbers are too few. Pray for the theological and Bible colleges (there are more than 100).
The lack of spiritual unity across denominational lines.
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Awarded Martindale-Hubbell "AV Preeminent" designation – the highest possible Legal Ability Rating (includes "Very High General Ethical Standards") based upon attorney/judge peer review of performance in areas including legal knowledge, analytical capabilities, judgment, communication ability, and legal experience.
Represented construction manager/general contractor in lawsuit against developer. Client had contracts to build multiple retail projects for national drug store chain and was improperly terminated in connection with false allegations of construction defects involving concrete work, site work and other miscellaneous building issues, as well as claims that schedule had slipped. Three week trial resulted in jury verdict in favor of general contractor for lost profits, defamation, reimbursement of home office overhead, construction expenses and other losses.
Represented general trades contractor in action against school board for new construction of public high school located in large metropolitan school district. The construction project involved 16 prime contractors in accordance with Ohio public project construction law. Client's work scope as set forth in AIA contract included interior finishes, roofing, fireproofing and other miscellaneous activities. Litigation arose involving school district, multiple subcontractors and bonding company covering numerous complex issues such as delay claims for extended general conditions, "Eichleay" extended home office overhead, improper work performed by unrelated contractors, design and/or specification errors, directives to perform additional work beyond client's scope of work, winter conditions, and a number of "pass through" claims with respect to subcontractors for change orders and delays/inefficiencies. Case settled prior to trial after multi-day mediation.
Defended general contractor in multi-million dollar construction defect claim involving nine subcontractors that was ultimately decided after a three-week AAA arbitration hearing before a three-member panel. Issues included masonry defects, building envelope design and installation, caulking, HVAC installation, roofing, through wall flashing, roof flashing and historic restoration with respect to design and construction of seven-story hotel. Third-party claims against potentially culpable subcontractors were resolved through mediation prior to the arbitration hearing. The arbitration hearing included the presentation of multiple witnesses, including five experts, and several hundred exhibits.
Represented general contractor with regard to major expansion project involving four-story hotel. Construction defects included claims that drywall contractor failed to install adequate vapor barrier in guest room exterior walls resulting in condensation that caused water damage and mold formation behind drywall, thereby necessitating repair and remedial work throughout hotel. Case settled by multiple insurance carriers prior to litigation.
Represented developer and general contractor for project involving renovation of existing structure for use as medical building. Sued building owner for nonpayment and defended counterclaim for alleged miscellaneous construction defects. Lawsuit was ultimately settled.
Defended general contractor with regard to damage claims arising from alleged defects in connection with construction of five-story medical/surgical facility. Insurer for surgical tenant claimed property damage resulting from malfunction of the forced air HVAC system and, specifically, the hot water boiler system controlled by the building automation system. The lawsuit included the system designer and controls contractor, as well as five subcontractors and/or suppliers. All claims were settled at mediation after discovery was substantially completed.
Represented general contractor with respect to claims for multiple construction defects and alleged late completion of large expansion of municipal-owned recreation center. Defect claims included allegations of issues involving windows, swimming pool and fire suppression system. Claims were ultimately resolved by bonding company.
Represented general contractor against negligent construction claims brought by the owner of multi-level apartment building. Upon investigation of the claims, it was determined that the windows installed in the building had been defectively manufactured. A pre-suit mediated settlement was reached wherein the window manufacturer agreed to supply and install in excess of 700 new windows for the building at no cost to the building owner or general contractor.
Defended architect with respect to water intrusion claims arising from the interface of chimneys at sloped roof lines in a 245 unit residential condominium. General contractor and subcontractors were alleged to be responsible for construction defects and architect was accused of failing to adequately communicate design intent. Mediation resolved case against architect for less than anticipated defense costs.
Represented developer and general contractor regarding a 108 unit residential condominium with respect to construction defect claims including issues related to moisture barriers, exterior stone work, roof and window flashing, ice-guard at roof edges, caulking and installation of underground water lines. Claims were successfully resolved at mediation.
Defended general contractor in lawsuit filed by State of Ohio with respect to highway bridge located on state highway. State claimed that bridge needed to be replaced for costs in excess of $4 million within one year of opening due to design and construction defects. Case settled after mediation without contribution by general contractor.
Defended developer and general contractor with respect to 100 unit residential condominium as to a lawsuit filed by the Ohio Civil Rights Commission alleging various ADA violations such as noncompliant thresholds, thermostat heights, bathroom accessibility, gang mailboxes heights and driveway slopes. Lawsuit was settled after extensive negotiation involving subcontractors, architect and site engineer.
Represented international retail product sourcing company in federal litigation and multiple disputes involving allegations related to royalty fees, exclusive product rights, personal injury allegations, non-competition provisions and various contract claims.
Represented employees with respect to non-competition provisions and trade secret claims in sales employment agreement subsequent to termination of relationship.
Represented employees with regard to claims of sexual discrimination and/or harassment.
Represented both insurers and insureds with respect to insurance coverage disputes.
Defended property owners with respect to serious bodily injury claims allegedly resulting from concealed conditions and/or dangers sustained by business invitees while on premises.
Represented manufacturer of stator coil and rotors installed in 7,000 horsepower motor used in steel rolling application in large steel mill which jury determined failed due to defective installation of copper wires windings onto rotors by third-party international electrical service company. Trial lasted three weeks and included testimony of five electrical engineers.
Defended international manufacturer of trucking products with respect to multiple litigations involving bodily injury and/or commercial property damage claims arising out of over-the-road trucking spring brake actuators, air suspension systems and air ride seats.
Defended national manufacturer of wall mount air conditioners with respect to multiple product defect claims alleged to have contributed to damage in commercial modular and classroom markets. These cases typically involved fires in unoccupied structures and the use of fire and electrical experts.
Represented manufacturer of industrial gas oven with regard to catastrophic burn injuries sustained by factory worker during explosion of oven. Jury case was settled after several days of trial.
Defended regional semi truck dealer in litigation arising out of the manufacture of a truck frame and tank assembly for a spray vehicle that was alleged to have failed due to design defects. Case settled prior to trial.
Represented manufacturers of machine press and industrial stationary band saws which partially severed hands of operators due to alleged guarding/instruction issues.
Defended automobile dealership in action by State of Ohio which claimed multiple vehicle fires caused by defective installation of heating equipment in fleet of new highway patrol vehicles. Case was dismissed at conclusion of State's case for lack of evidence that would justify verdict for plaintiff.
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multiple vessels involved in a collision on the water.
cause, or legal cause of the injury (or damages).
defective design, or a failure to warn.
from the Southern District of Georgia.
awarded monetary damages for pain and suffering.
manufacturer filed an appeal, the plaintiff cross-appealed.
unless a medical breakthrough emerges in the future.
the accident victim in this case.
the Eleventh Circuit in this case.


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Not finding out the gender is one of the most rewarding things in life-this is the second time I have done it, and there just aren't words. That's not to say that there isn't some extreme curiosity, because I certainly can't wait to figure out who is in there.
Until then, I decided to test out some of these silly old wives tales just to make me a little more crazy.
The way I carry low and out front supposedly means baby is a boy.
Heart rate above 140 says girl.
Non-hairy legs (ha ha!) says girl.
Having a pillow on the south side of me in bed says girl.
My feet are always cold says it's a boy.
Morning sickness says it's a girl.
The sum of my age at conception and the month at conception being an even number says boy.
And all I can do is sit here and laugh. Because these are all so ridiculous. We'll see which ones become coincidentally correct with me.
The Chinese gender predictor said that Gunnar was going to be a girl.
I'm thinking boy since you had the strong feelings about "him" several times. Generally, it's mother intuition...or was in my case both times! I also think it looks like you are carrying low and "out front" like I did with my boy--my girl sat up in my lungs!
Oh my word! Non-hairy legs is an old wives tale predictor??? I seriously could not figure out why my leg hair didn't grow! Is it seriously a pregnancy thing cause that is so crazy! Either way, I think you are having a boy! :D I can't wait to find out though so I'm sure you are going crazy!


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Volume s1-31, Issue 4, 1951
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - Volume s1-31, Issue 4, 1951
Methods in Medicine
C. C. Bass
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1951.s1-31.4.TMs1-310040532a
This book is brought out by the author as a festschrift to honor one of the master clinicians and leading promoters of good medicine, Dr. George Dock, on his 90th birthday. The dedication of this thorough, useful and practical book to his early teacher and advisor gives evidence of the deep appreciation so many of us feel who had the good fortune to come under his influence and guidance.
This is a kind of manual planned as a practical ward or bedside guide for the thorough clinical investigation of the common and some of the more rare conditions. It is packed with useful and practical information, not only relative to clinical and bedside diagnosis, but also to therapeutic and dietetic methods applicable to almost all conditions and situations with which the internist is concerned. Almost 200 pages are devoted to an orderly and most practical presentation of methods for dealing with these problems of the internist.
Malaria and Its Control in Bombay State
Robert B. Watson
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1951.s1-31.532
This monograph gives a comprehensive report of malaria studies and control work in Bombay State from the time of the creation of a malaria control organization for the State in 1942 to April 1950. The printing is rather poor and the text would have benefited from careful editing. But the material presented should be read by everyone associated with malaria control work in India, and by anyone interested in malaria control in the tropics. The author is one of India's most competent malariologists and has been associated with malaria work for a quarter century; his principal assistant in the work described, Mr. T. Ramachandra Rao, is an eminent malaria entomologist.
Section I deals with the organization of the malaria control work in Bombay State, while Section II covers the "Pre-DDT Period" of the work. It discusses the epidemiology of malaria in Kanara District, the most malarious district of the State, where the work was initiated, and covers three years of hard work; the author takes the view that the information obtained was of great value in the development of a control program based upon DDT spraying of homes.
The Conquest of Malaria
Paul F. Russell
Never has the history of cinchona been more attractively or carefully described than in this slender volume by a distinguished Colombian physician and medical historian. The book is well printed and bound, and it carries historical plates of special interest. It is in three parts: The Mosquito-Malaria Theory, 26 pages; A Critical Review of the Basic Facts in the History of Cinchona, 55 pages; Progress Achieved in the Prevention and Treatment of Malaria, 26 pages. There is a short appendix of original texts and a good index. It is documented by numerous references in footnotes, rather than a bibliography.
A well-balanced presentation of the development of the mosquito-malaria theory is given, and the section on cinchona is superb. The author uncovers numerous inaccuracies in the conventional story of how the bark got to Europe. Incidentally, he adds the considerable weight of his opinion to the thesis that malaria was a disease known to American Indians from earliest times.
Medical Mycology, a monograph published as Vol. 50, Art. 10 of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
John F. Kessel
A knowledge of the diagnosis and treatment of fungus diseases of man is highly important to workers in the Tropics, and the New York Academy of Sciences is again to be commended for presenting a Symposium on this timely subject.
The introduction together with the first four papers present the fundamental historical, medical, public health, systematic and investigative aspects of mycology. Dr. Reiss recounts the main reasons for its presentation and Dr. Dodge in his characteristically thorough style reviews its history. They both suggest problems which need early solutions. Dr. Salvin illustrates well the public health and epidemiologic aspects of mycology by brief discussions of actinomycosis, sporotrichosis, coccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis and tinea capitis. Dr. Moore discusses the basic techniques and states why the terminology attained its recent chaotic state. He emphasizes the importance of adhering to the International Rules of Botanical Nomenclature but also concludes that some provision should be made for a clinical classification.
A Syllabus of Laboratory Examinations in Clinical Diagnosis
Aaron Kellner
This excellent volume by Thomas Hale Ham and his associates, which grew out of the course in clinical pathology for the medical students at Harvard, presents a fresh and stimulating approach to the teaching of clinical pathology and a much-needed reorientation concerning the role of laboratory examinations in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. The teaching of clinical pathology has in the past suffered to a considerable extent from overemphasis of methodology. The students' time and efforts were directed toward attaining skill in the performance of technical procedures rather than toward an understanding of the physiological changes which the procedures were designed to measure. In this book the laboratory aspects of medicine are regarded not merely as ancillary services in the solution of a clinical jig-saw puzzle, but as essential parts of the reasoned and integrated study of a disease problem.
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June is Ohio Wine Month, and The Mahoning County Convention & Visitors Bureau is announcing the June 1st launch of the new Wines of the Valley Wine Trail that includes six Mahoning County wineries. The Trail encourages wine lovers to visit our local wineries and enjoy the unique ambiance of each location.
Beginning this Friday, passports for the trail will be available at each of the six participating wineries: Mastropietro Winery and Myrddin Winery in Berlin Center, The Vineyards at Pine Lake in Columbiana, Diletto Winery in Canfield, and Halliday's Winery and Lil Paws Winery in Lake Milton. With passport in hand, participants purchase a glass of wine, get their passport stamped and receive a custom wine charm exclusive to each winery. When five or more stamps are collected, visitors can redeem their passports for a keepsake charm box plus a bonus charm. Passport redemption locations are Mastropietro Winery, 14558 Ellsworth Rd., Berlin Center; and The Vineyards at Pine Lake, 14101 Market Street, Columbiana. You can also download a passport at www.winesofthevalley.com.
The Wine Trail is not something that has to be completed in one weekend. The wineries will have the wine charms available through the end of the year, so there is plenty of time to travel the Wine Trail at your leisure and truly enjoy your experience at each of the six wineries.
"We want to promote the fact, both locally and regionally, that the Youngstown area has become a true d estination for the wine enthusiast," said Linda Macala, executive director of the CVB. "Our local residents may not realize just how many excellent wineries exist in their own backyard. Regionally, we want to build awareness and get people to consider our area when planning a weekend getaway or wine tasting adventure. We hope our Wines of the Valley Wine Trail will do just that." she added. Local hotels are offering special rates for out-of-town guests traveling the trail.
For more information on the Wines of the Valley Wine Trail, visit www.winesofthevalley.com or call 800-447-8201.


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Driver in fatal bus crash waives hearing
Jinli Zhao has been charged with two counts of operation of a motor vehicle causing death.
Driver in fatal bus crash waives hearing Jinli Zhao has been charged with two counts of operation of a motor vehicle causing death. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: http://delonline.us/1u0kWGZ
Sean O'Sullivan, The News Journal Published 11:00 a.m. ET Nov. 5, 2014 | Updated 5:25 p.m. ET Nov. 5, 2014
Bus driver Jinli Zhao, of Flushing, New York, as he left the New Castle County Courthouse Wednesday after waiving a preliminary hearing related to a fatal September bus crash. (Photo: SEAN O'SULLIVAN/THE NEWS JOURNAL )Buy Photo
WILMINGTON – The driver behind the wheel of a tour bus that crashed in Delaware on Sept. 21, killing three, waived a preliminary hearing Wednesday in the New Castle Court of Common Pleas.
Jinli Zhao, 56, of Flushing, New York, has been charged with two counts of operation of a motor vehicle causing death. Each count carries a potential sentence of up to 30 months in prison.
The accident happened Sept. 21 on the southbound Del. 1 exit ramp, where the bus, a 1996 Setra Touring Coach, was carrying 49 passengers from Washington D.C. to New York. Police said Zhao was driving at an unsafe speed and lost control, causing the accident. More than a dozen were injured and three died.
The case has now been transferred to Superior Court and will be reviewed by a grand jury, which could add or subtract charges.
Deputy Attorney General Sean Lugg declined comment Wednesday as did Zhao's attorney.
Contact Sean O'Sullivan at (302) 324-2777 or sosullivan@delawareonline.com or on Twitter @SeanGOSullivan.
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Rob is the Senior Editor of News for WBEZ, heading up the daily news operation.
Much of his work in the last couple of years as a reporter has focused on prisons, expensive institutions that are subject to little public oversight. Rob spent much of 2012 seeking access to the prisons in Illinois, waging a very public battle with Gov. Pat Quinn. The governor had refused to let reporters into the facilities, citing safety and security. However, when WBEZ threatened to sue the governor and the Department of Corrections the state relented and hosted tours that attracted dozens of reporters from across the state. Rob's efforts were featured in several publications, including a cover story on prison reporting and access in the Columbia Journalism Review.
In 2012 Rob also reported on the high cost of phone calls for inmates in the Cook County Jail. The series won many awards, including a Scripps Howard award and a PRNDI for best investigative reporting. It was also honored as an IRE finalist and got an honorable mention in the Casey Medals competition.
Rob's reporting has been recognized with dozens of other awards, including several Edward R. Murrow awards, PRNDIs, Lisagors, and he's received numerous awards from the Associated Press in both Illinois and Indiana. Those recognized him as best news writer and best reporter. His contributions have also been recognized by the Chicago Bar Association, First Defense Legal Aid, and the prison watchdog John Howard Association. Rob has also been fortunate to win a number of fellowships. He studied at Loyola University law school in Los Angeles as part of its journalism law school program. He's also been a Guggenheim Fellow for criminal justice reporting at John Jay College at the City University of New York. He spent the 2014/15 academic year as the Knight Wallace Law fellow at the University of Michigan.
Rob joined Chicago Public Media in September 2004 as an intern for Eight Forty-Eight, later becoming a freelance contributor for the news department before taking over his current beat. Rob's work is featured on WBEZ's local programs as well as NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered. He's also contributed to Tell me More, Here and Now, This American Life, the CBC, various BBC programs and Voice of America.
Rob has taught journalism in the graduate journalism program at Columbia College Chicago and at North Park University. He also frequently lectures locally and nationally at colleges, law schools, and once, somewhat strangely, at a medical school. Rob has an M.A. in Journalism from Columbia College and a B.A. in Philosophy from Calvin College.
Originally from Toronto, Ontario, Rob resides in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood of Chicago with his wife, Christine.
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'Winning Has Come Through Revolts': A Black Lives Matter Activist On Why She Supports Looting
WBEZ talked with Black Lives Matter organizer Ariel Atkins about the idea of looting as a form of protest.
The Year in Criminal Justice Stories From WBEZ
The sentencing of Jason Van Dyke in the Laquan McDonald murder trial kicked off 2019.
Jason Van Dyke Sentenced To 81 Months In Prison
The former Chicago Police officer was sentenced to nearly seven years Friday for the 2014 shooting death of a black teenager.
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Tonight I'll expand upon the theme of gratitude as we continue with excerpts from James Baraz's Awakening Joy course.
You will never feel fulfilled.
Gratitude practice is profound because when we are grateful, we feel nourished. Then from a sense of abundance, we can share our happiness with the world around us.
David Niven wrote a book called A Hundred Simple Secrets of Happy People. He says that people who have the most are not happier than those who have the least. Happiness depends on being satisfied with whatever you have.
Usually we don't appreciate how the body knows how to heal itself. The immune system is continually working to protect us from harmful germs, and it's usually successful. If you aren't sick now, you can give thanks for all that your body is doing to maintain your health.
Researchers are discovering that a grateful heart not only nourishes the spirit but also benefits the body. In one study, subjects who concentrated on feelings of appreciation for just 5 minutes showed significant positive changes in heart rate, blood pressure, brain waves, hormones, and mood.
Besides appreciating how our body works, we can give thanks for what we're doing in the world.
Typically we have a mental list of all that we should be accomplishing each day, and at the day's end, we grade ourselves according to what we've left UNDONE.
This habit leaves us feeling inadequate and as if we're falling behind.
It would be better at the end of the day to review what we HAVE done and to allow ourselves to feel satisfied.
In this way life doesn't seem like a chore that always demands more from us, but it becomes a series of events that we can enjoy without so much pressure.
There are many ways that we'd like to change the world, but to transform it, we must love it enough to feel motivated in our efforts.
A Mexican friend named Mirna Molina is a psychologist and author of a book titled Sí a la Vida Tal Como Es (Yes to Life Just as it Is). She created a video about the essential loving nature of all human beings, regardless of their neurosis or their life trajectory. The silent film portrays people of different ages, cultures and walks of life: happy young lovers, hardened prostitutes, innocent children, ravaged drug addicts, impoverished elders, wealthy jetsetters, serene monks, and irate politicians. Floating over each person's heart is an image of a glowing, golden light to indicate both the capacity to love and the longing to be loved that is innately human. Watching the video, I felt grateful for being part of humanity's diverse community.
If we start to look for blessings in life, we'll find them all around us.
While I was walking with our dog Marisol last week, I looked up at the night sky and stopped to appreciate the silent grandeur of a huge, luminous full moon.
By the time an impatient tug on the leash reminded me of terrestrial tasks, I felt enriched by consciously seeing this lunar display—far more satisfying than learning that I had witnessed what astronomers call a Super Moon, when its orbit comes closest to the earth.
Blessings come in many colors, flavors and sounds.
How would life be without music, without books, without pure water?
How can we not feel grateful for the pure, pearly whiteness of a freshly blooming magnolia blossom with its subtle lemony scent?
A grateful attitude is an essential part of a spiritual path.
At the heart of every religion there is praise and wonder and gratitude for the miracle of life.
Worry, judgment, criticism, desire, aversion, and obsessive thinking can block this basic appreciation for the abundance of creation.
Through regular practice, we can move beyond these mental habits and wake up to appreciate the wonder of existence.
His answer shows how highly he valued being alert and aware of the mysterious workings of human consciousness and the universe.
Patricia Ellsberg has created a guided meditation to awaken feelings of gratitude for being alive as a human being.
Let's do the meditation together now.
If difficult emotions arise during the process, try to accept them with compassion, acknowledging these feelings as a kind of purification.
Sense your breath slowing down and deepening. Relax your facial muscles, your eyes, and your tongue, sensing the relaxation spreading down throughout your whole body. With each breath be aware of more relaxation.
Imagine your breath moving in and out of your heart.
Sense gratitude for the breath that gives you life and sustains you for so many years, whether or not you pay attention.
Reflect on any one thing that inspires gratitude—something as large as the gift of life or as small as a hot cup of coffee in the morning.
Let grateful feelings fill your heart, your whole body and all of your awareness.
Notice if you sense warmth or other sensations in your heart and body.
Is there a color, shape or texture associated with your sensations?
For a moment stay with sensations connected with gratitude….
Now visualize other aspects of your life that you appreciate.
In a cascade of images, visualize the faces of beloved people, favorite places, rewarding experiences, and significant gifts….
Take a moment to connect with gratitude for your senses—for seeing or imagining colors, the marvels of nature, and works of art; for hearing the sounds of music, different languages, and voices of loved ones; for touching warm sand, cool ocean water, a puppy's soft fur, and a dear person's face; for tasting a ripe peach and bittersweet chocolate; for smelling a fragrant rose and freshly baked bread….
Now tune into gratitude for your body, for the skin that protects you and enables you to sense the world around you, for your arms and legs that allow you to reach out, to receive and to move, for the hundreds of millions of cells that are coordinating to sustain you, for the vast consciousness that your mind can access….
Open your heart to the miracle of being alive and awake in the middle of this wonderful mystery.
Imagine a symbol that might represent this feeling of awe and gratitude.
It could be an image, a sound, a word or a gesture that helps you anchor this grateful feeling in your consciousness so that you can return to this experience whenever you wish…..
As the meditation ends, sense the rhythm of your breathing, slowly move your toes and feet, stretch your legs, wiggle your fingers, stretch your arms, and gradually open your eyes.
Take a moment to notice any reflections or insights about the meditation…..
As important as it is to connect inside with feelings of gratitude, when we express gratitude to someone, there is an even more profound effect because we're transforming a positive thought into words and actions.
At the same time that the other person is receiving the benefit of our appreciation, we are strengthening the "gratitude channel" in the brain.
1. Close your eyes and reflect on what in your life inspires gratitude.
2. Visualize someone who has been kind to you. As you feel gratitude for this person's presence, sense if your body's energy shifts.
4. End with an intention to express your gratitude directly if possible.
Now I'd like to express gratitude for your kind attention.


I began growing curious about my family's history and our roots in early 2010. The genealogy for my father's side of the family had pretty well been done some years earlier, but my mother's family was still a mystery. I knew my grandfather came from Missouri to Oregon with his family when he was a child, and I knew my grandmother's mother had been adopted. But beyond that... I knew little.
So, I decided to create an ancestry.com account and check out the 2 week free trial. I was floored with the amount of information that was at the tips of my fingers! I was hooked and spent those two weeks in a flurry of charts, census records, you name it. Well... I slowed down, mainly for my sanity, and I have since spent a lot of time searching for my family's various roots.
So why am I writing a blog about this now? 2 years into my research? Because I wanted to share stories I have learned and the paths of research with my family, and anyone else who might be remotely interested in this journey.


The website RentApplication.com used 2013 data from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to compile a list of the top 10 most sexually diseased cities in the United States. Of the top ten cities listed, three sit right outside Military bases. Norfolk, Virginia ranks 5th on their list and is home to the Norfolk Naval Base. In 9th place is Killeen, Texas, home to Fort Hood. Fort Bragg's Fayetteville, North Carolina, is in 10th place.
If you are wondering about the data for your city, check out the map below provided by RentApplication.com and filled with data from the CDC for 2013. The data reflect reports of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia. (Herpes data is not collected). To normalize the data, they measured rates per 100,000 people. They chose only to show cities with a significant amount of population, so rural counties are not shown on this map.
This map about STD statistics was created and produced by RentApplication.com .
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Al Zorah Golf Club A world-class course embracing the natural layout
Al Zorah Golf Club
A world-class course set amidst a beautiful naturally-preserved environment of striking mangroves and sheer tranquillity thats the special proposition thats been magically created by the famed Nicklaus Design group and which awaits golfers making the short trip from Dubai and other U.A.E. regions to play Ajmans first ever golf course.
The spectacular par-72 Al Zorah Golf Club offers a truly sensational design with pristinely manicured fairways and greens, however, it is the way the Nicklaus Design team has protected the natural environment whilst creating the layout that really catches the eye.
In total, one million square metres of mangroves characterize the Al Zorah Golf Club and underline that notion of embracing rather than intruding the natural layout of the land. A plethora of native sandy areas, an abundance of wildlife and 12 km of waterfront add to that sense of rich beauty and biodiversity. Vast coastal areas with a constantly-changing tidal system also present a unique challenge for players, altering the look and feel of the course on an hourly basis.
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Public Screening #06: Skip Norman: selection of films, March 22, 2018, Arsenal
Skip Norman, Helke Sander and Harun Farocki in BRECHT DIE MACHT DER MANIPULATEURE (1967/68) from Helke Sander
Arsenal, Cinema 2
Skip Norman, who was born in Baltimore in 1933 and died in Washington DC in 2015, was a student at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB) in 1966, the first year of its existence. He went on to become a director and worked on 27 dffb productions. The titles of his films all hint at the struggle to assert an Afro-American identity in a world shaped by whites. CULTURAL NATIONALISM (1969), BLACK MAN'S VOLUNTEER ARMY OF LIBERATION(1970) or STRANGE FRUIT(1970) named after the song by Billie Holiday. BLUES PEOPLE (1968) adapted parts of the play "Dutchman" by his peer LeRoi Jones (who later became Amiri Baraka). "They say, 'I love Bessie Smith' and don't even understand that Bessie Smith is saying, 'Kiss my ass, kiss my black unruly ass.'" We will be screening five of his short films from the archives of the Arsenal Cinema and the Deutsche Kinemathek.
Blues People FRG 1968
16 mm English OV 18 min
Cultural Nationalism FRG 1969
Black Man's Volunteer Army of Liberation USA 1970
Strange Fruit USA 1970
Washington D.C. November 1970 USA 1970
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May 27th, 2019, Elsa
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Estimates of the insured loss from Sunday mornings M6.0 earthquake which struck the South Napa, California area are rising, with the highest estimate now calling for an economic loss of $4 billion or more and an insurance industry loss of $2.1 billion.
That's much higher than the $1 billion plus economic loss estimate from the USGS and the $500m to $1 billion insured loss estimate from risk modeller EQECAT, demonstrating the uncertainty inherent in a catastrophe event like this.
The estimate for a $2.1 billion impact to the insurance and reinsurance industry comes from Kinetic Analysis Corporation, a provider of models, impact forecasting and risk assessment for catastrophe events. Kinetic said that it expects the economic loss to be about double the insured loss, with levels of insurance penetration low among homeowners in California.
The insurance industry loss estimate is not a precise science, hence some of the risk modelling firms have stepped back from providing these services early after events, preferring to wait to assess the damage before suggesting any economic or insurance impacts.
However, the early estimates are useful in providing a guide as to the extent of the damage, the expected level of claims to come to insurers and what, if any, the impact could be to the reinsurance industry, catastrophe bonds and collateralized reinsurance.
So the insured loss estimates currently range from $500m, at the lower end of EQECAT's estimate, to $2.1 billion as Kinetic Analysis predicts. We will keep you updated should more estimates emerge over the coming days.
It is the commercial loss and any resulting business interruption claims which are expected to be the unknown factor in calculating an insurance industry loss from this event. Many of Napa's wineries are shut after the quake and the extent of claims and lost business makes estimating the leakage from BI very difficult for the modellers.
The catastrophe bond market is expected to be safe from any impact from Sunday's Napa earthquake. Even at the upper level of insurance industry loss estimates, of $2.1 billion, cat bond triggers should not be breached as they typically provide protection for earthquakes much more severe than a magnitude 6 event, as this was.
The cat bonds covering California earthquake would typically require something greater than an M7.0, with an epicenter nearer to a major city such as San Francisco to be troubled. However, that's not to say that with the rise of the indemnity trigger we couldn't one day see a weaker quake threaten a cat bond if unexpected, perhaps unmodelled, losses arose.
Even at $2 billion of insured losses an impact to catastrophe bonds would not be expected from this earthquake. However, should the insured loss creep that high then the reinsurance industry will bear more of the claims burden, which in turn would likely mean some exposure for certain ILS or reinsurance linked funds, perhaps retrocession backed by third-party capital too.
But even if the eventual insurance industry loss is around $2 billion it would not be expected to make a serious dent in any ILS or collateralized reinsurance fund which had exposure, as the fund manager or underwriter would be expected to have maintained sufficient diversification to ensure a relatively minor (in terms of what California could expect to see) earthquake such as this does not severely impact an ILS managers performance.
Read our article from yesterday on this earthquake and the early loss estimates that emerged.


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Home > Press Releases > Additional food assistance for 350,000 Michigan families extended through December- December 17, 2020
Additional food assistance for 350,000 Michigan families extended through December- December 17, 2020
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LANSING, Mich. – Approximately 350,000 Michigan families will continue to have access to additional food assistance benefits during December as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) announced today.
Michigan previously approved the additional food assistance beginning in March – and now that is being extended for the month of December with approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition Service.
"No Michigander should have to worry about how they'll put food on the table for themselves and their families, especially during a pandemic," Gov. Whitmer said. "That's why my administration is working hard to provide some support to families who need it most. I will continue working with MDHHS to help every Michigander get through this crisis."
Eligible clients will see additional food assistance benefits on their Bridge Card by Dec. 30, with payments beginning for some households on Dec. 21. Additional benefits will be loaded onto Bridge Cards as a separate payment from the assistance that is provided earlier in the month.
More than 1.2 million people in Michigan receive federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits through the state's Food Assistance Program
Households eligible for Food Assistance Program benefits will receive additional benefits in December to bring all current SNAP cases to the maximum monthly allowance for that group size.
This change only applies to customers not currently receiving the maximum benefit amount. The 350,000 households that receive increased benefits represent more than 50 percent of the more than 680,000 Michigan households that received food assistance in September. The remaining households already receive the maximum benefit.
"During the holiday season in particular we want to help families who struggle to put food on the table as a result of the pandemic," said MDHHS Director Robert Gordon. "This additional food assistance is critically important to make sure Michigan residents have nutritious food to eat."
Below is the maximum allowable benefit for SNAP customers based on their respective household size:
Two Persons Three Persons Four Persons Five Persons Six Persons Seven Persons
Eight Persons
$204 $374 $535 $680 $807 $969 $1,071 $1,224
The federal government is providing additional funding to states for food assistance under House Resolution 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Relief Act.
Eligible families do not need to re-apply to receive the additional benefits. People who receive food assistance can check their benefits balance on their Michigan Bridge Card by going online to www.michigan.gov/MIBridges or calling a consumer service representative toll-free at 888-678-8914. They can ask questions about the additional benefits by calling or emailing their caseworker.
Customer service is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Spanish and Arabic service is available. If you are deaf, deafblind, or hard of hearing or speech-impaired, call the Michigan Relay Center at 7-1-1.
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Q: C++ function to check overflow during multiplication does not work when optmizations other than O0 are used I wrote some code to find whether the multiplication of two integers will result in overflow or not. And can the result be stored as an integer or not?

I am using the GNU GCC compiler and when I compile and run the following code it works but when I use any optimization like O1, O3, etc it does not work.
 #include <iostream>

 bool mul_overflows(int a,int b)
 {
    cout<<"checking overflow for"<<a<<" "<<b<<endl;
    if(a==0 || b==0)
    {
      return false;
    }
    int result = a*b;
    cout<<"result = "<<result<<endl;
    cout<<"result/b = "<<(result/b)<<endl;
    if(a==result/b)
      return false;
    return true;
 }
 int main()
 {
    if(mul_overflows(253955520,12)
      cout<<"caught overflow!"<<endl;
 }

Following is the output of code with default optimization -O0
checking overflow for 253955520 12
result = -1247501056
result/b = -103958421
caught overflow!

And when I use any other optimization it gives this output
checking overflow for253955520 12
result = -1247501056
result/b = 253955520

The overflow is not caught and we can clearly see that the result is negative and has overflowed, but still dividing the result by b gives a?
What is causing this? Are there any compiler options that I am missing?

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UK OBOD Members at Paganicon 2019 | Druidry U.S.
Kristoffer Hughes is a native Welsh speaker, born to a Welsh family in the mountains of Snowdonia, he is the Head of the Anglesey Druid Order and the award winning author of several books on Celtic mythology and Druidry.
Kristoffer is a Druid of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and is it's 13th Mount Haemus Scholar.
OBOD UK member(s) Dave Smith (Damh the Bard) will play the opening concert, and his partner Cerrie Lee is a featured guest.


How many times have you heard that advice given?
Recently on television I watched a famous dance instructor, with glowing confidence, and the smile of someone who had made it in life, saying to all her viewers, "Follow your dreams". There was also a hint of, don't give up, press on through early difficulties.
I believe it wasn't actual dreams she was talking about, but the urgent sense of doing something with their life, and following a great interest and inner urging that was being recommended.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what people who seek out children to sexually molest them feel – an urgent and pressing inner urging. Also, those who are urgently following their inner sense of their destiny to bomb or shoot the public because of their religious beliefs. Or even those who are capable of doing outrageous thing with a gun, because of a long planned attack, following their dream.
Like those who dream of grabbing as much of the world's riches without any care for others, and with no desire to give any of it back. We see this at work so often as happened during the last great financial crash, and when bosses of companies run it into ground and knock the pension funds to bits because they pocketed all the money. That is at work in our society and individuals in incredible numbers. Amazing dreamers.
Years ago, I worked as a therapist with a young Jewish doctor. All his life he had dreamt of being a doctor, and had worked hard to achieve it. But as we dug deeper into him he uncovered with shock his motivation. His mother and father were the only survivors of both families of Hitler's massive destruction, and the doctor realised that the motive behind his work and dream to become a doctor was that because he was a doctor, he would be the last one thrown of the boat.
He felt so shocked he wanted to give up his work as a doctor, but when he realised that he had the skill of a good doctor, he carried on.
Most of us who give a great deal of effort to reach a goal have such strange motives. As I was undergoing personal therapy I saw, also with shock, that the reason I wanted to become an acknowledged therapist was because I suffered low self-esteem, and felt I would be seen as someone of importance. I too felt I wanted to stop the work I was doing, but also realised I had developed useful skills.
So, take thought when someone tells you enthusiastically to follow your dreams.
But dreams, from my experience, are grea truth tellers. Not dreams such as those mentioned above that arise out of personal desire, traumas and misshandled parenting, but dreams we have during the night. If you want to find what is your real destined or chosen path, start a dream journal an take the time and spent your energy exploring your many dream.
Example: a few years ago and kept a journal religiously, but lost interest and stopped noting my dreams. During a major cleanup this weekend found my dream diary and was stunned to see many dreams were signs of what followed in my life years after. Most of them at that time didn't make any sense but now I'm quite curious.


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Q: How do I bias two OTAs without dividing the current? I'm trying to achieve automatic gain control in an audio circuit, which requires me to use both diode pins of each amplifier available on the LM13700 chip. The diode pins accept a current (Idiode), which is produced from the rectified and buffered output of the first (top) OTA in the circuit below. I'm concerned that feeding this output to both pins will cause a discrepancy in the current received by both OTAs, simply due to the nature of Kirchhoff's current law and uneven resistances in the connections.
I initially thought that a current buffer/follower would suffice (as seen in the circuit) but now I'm thinking that a current divider (with equal resistances: 1/2x) combined with a current amplifier (2x) is a more reliable solution, but this seems redundant. How would you achieve the simultaneous biasing?

A: I would try to use a current mirror with two outputs:

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I'm assuming that the Lowpass filter outputs a voltage. That voltage needs to be converted into a current, this is done by R2. Note that you might need a voltage buffer at the output of your lowpass filter.
The current through R2 is pulled from the input of the current mirror. As long as you make R3a, R3b and R3c the same value and the 3 PNP transistors are also the same type, then the currents sourced by Q2 and Q3 will be the same as the current through R2.
The value of R3a, R3b and R3c should be such that you get at least 200 mV across them, then the matching of the currents should be good enough.
I give you kudos for using the (ancient) LM13700 as a volume control. That was about the only way to do it when I was a learning about electronics. These days we have digitally controlled volume adjustment ICs and that would be much easier to use. Personally I would be lazy and use such an IC instead of an analog LM13700 based solution. I would not worry about the stepped gain control of such a "digital potmeter" as the steps can be as small as 1 dB which is too small to notice I think.