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Amergin mac Eccit is a poet and warrior in the court of Conchobar mac Nessa in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology. He was the son of Eccet Salach, a smith, and grew to the age of fourteen without speaking or washing himself. One day Athirne, the Ulaid's chief poet, sent his servant to Eccet to order an axe. The servant was shocked when Amergin uttered a precocious, cryptic poem, and ran home to tell his master what he had heard.

Athirne resolved to kill the boy, for fear that he might take his job, but Eccet had replaced him with a lifelike clay replica. Athirne showed up to take delivery of his new axe, brought it down on the replica's head, and fled, thinking he had killed Amergin. The Ulaid besieged Athirne in his house and forced him to pay compensation to Eccet. He took Amergin as his foster-son and taught him his poetic skills, and in time Amergin did indeed take over from Athirne as chief poet of Ulster.

Amergin married Findchoem, sister of Conchobar mac Nessa, king of the Ulaid. Their son was Conall Cernach, and their foster-son was Cú Chulainn. He had two other sons, Condra and Amergin. He killed the Ellén Trechend, the three-headed monster that made raids on Ireland from the cave of Cruachan.

During the Táin Bó Cúailnge ("cattle raid of Cooley"), Amergin held up the advance of the Connachta army by pelting them with enormous stones for three days and nights. The Munster hero Cú Roí, who was with the army, threw stones back at him, and the stones smashed together in mid-air, showering the area with bits of stone, until Medb begged them both to stop. They came to an agreement that both would stop, and Cú Roí would return to Munster, but once he had gone, Amergin resumed throwing stones, arguing his agreement was only with Cú Roí. Eventually he agreed to withdraw until the final battle (a variant version of this episode appears in the first recension of Táin Bó Cúailnge, where the combatants are Cú Roí and Munremar mac Gerrcind).

References

Ulster Cycle
Characters in Táin Bó Cúailnge

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This September 4, 2018 photo, released by an official website of the office of the Iranian presidency shows part of the Pardis petrochemical complex facilities in Assalouyeh on the northern coast of the Persian Gulf, Iran.
President of Iran, Hassan Rouhani.
At the height of his power in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi drew world leaders to a wind-swept luxury tent city, offering a lavish banquet of food flown in from Paris to celebrate 2,500 years of Persian monarchy in the ruins of Persepolis.
But Iran's strong trade ties with Germany, Reza Shah's push for neutrality in World War II and Western fears over its oil supplies falling to the Nazis ultimately led to a Russian-British invasion of the country in 1941. Reza Shah abdicated in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, at the insistence of the occupying British forces.
His full embrace of autocratic power came after the political chaos of 1953. Liberal Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh sought to nationalise Iran's oil industry. The British sought to keep their control of Iran's oilfields and its refinery at Abadan, then the world's biggest. Meanwhile, the US feared Soviet influence expanding in Iran.
Out of these fears came TPAJAX, a CIA-backed coup plot to overthrow Mossadegh. Declassified US documents show the CIA boasting that it had both leading security officials in its pocket, as well as hopes it could use the "powerfully influential clergy" within Shiite Iran to back the coup.
"His inability to take decisions coupled with his tendency to interfere in political life has on occasions been (a) disruptive influence," the US Embassy in Tehran warned in February 1953. Ultimately, his twin sister, Princess Ashraf, and a US general helped convince him to back the coup.
As Britain withdrew from the Middle East, the US increasingly looked at the shah as a stabilising force. He allowed US and British spies to monitor the Soviet Union from secret bases in Iran. He also recognised Israel as a state in 1959, long before any Arab nation struck a peace deal.
Meanwhile, the shah reaped the benefit of skyrocketing global oil prices, which he himself had a hand in raising on his own and through Iran's membership in OPEC. He sought to industrialise and educate Iranians through his 1960s "White Revolution," as well as abolish the feudal state of much of its countryside.
"He eliminated the center of Iranian politics, he certainly eliminated the left and he even eliminated much of the right and the only political force that was allowed to continue and expand was the Islamists," Milani said. "He never saw where the threat came from. He wasn't alone. The CIA didn't. MI6 didn't."


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Q: Run MPI program on desktop? I created a simple Hello World program to test MPI like described by Microsoft  Code is:
#include <mpi.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    printf("Hello");
    int node;
    // Initialize the MPI environment
    MPI_Init(&argc, &argv);

    // Get the rank of the process
    MPI_Comm_rank(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &node);

    // Print off a hello world message
    printf("Hello world from node %d\n",node);

    // Finalize the MPI environment.
    MPI_Finalize();
}

Programs compiles without error:

But in order to get the program running i need smpd manager and mpiexec which is not part of the ms-mpi installation. And as my computer is running with windows 10 i'm unable to install Microsoft HPC. Is there a way to get a mpi program running on a desktop with several threads?

A: It's not the Microsoft HPC Pack needed to run MPI programs on desktops but the Microsoft HPC Pack SDK . Slight but important difference.

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Obesity is a disease which does not turn out overnight, but it grows slowly from unhealthy lifestyle, poor diet and to some extent from genes. At present time obesity is considered as one of the complex diseases which occurs due to several reasons or we can say has no single cause and cure exists.
People start gaining weight when the intake of calories is more than burning them via exercises or any physical activities. Lack of sleep, pregnancy, medicinal problems, emotions, stress,unhealthy lifestyle and diet are some of the root cause of obesity or overweight. Energy balance is also a major factor of overweight and obesity. By energy balance we mean that the amount of energy to get IN is must be equals to energy OUT by any activity.
Unhealthy Lifestyle or Inactivity: Inactivity is one of the major causes of obesity. If you are not very active, then you are not able to burn many calories. Means amount of calories intake is higher than you burn them via exercises or daily physical activities.
Lack of Sleep: Doctors always suggest taking around 7 to 8 hours of sleep at night because if you are getting lesser than 7 hours of sleep at night it will cause changes in hormones and ultimately increase your appetite. This causes craving for more calories and carbohydrate rich food, which can contribute in weight gain.
Unhealthy Diet and Eating Habits: Unhealthy diet plan and eating habits contribute maximum in weight gain. Having diet's that are high in calories, junk food, consuming more calories at night, drinking high calorie beverages all time and skipping breakfast all such habits give full support to obesity.
Emotions: Emotions are also a big reason for obesity. Some individuals indulge themselves into overeating to overcome depression, hopelessness, boredom and anger and so they gain weight easily.
Pregnancy: During pregnancy, women's necessarily gain weight. Some women are able to shed those extra pounds they put in after baby birth but some women find it difficult to lose it. This weight gain then grows up in the form of obesity.
Medication and Medicinal Problems: Certain medications and medicinal conditions can promote obesity. Certain medications such steroids, antidepressants, birth control pills, diabetes medications can lead to weight gain. Depression, Cushing syndrome and hypothyroidism, polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) conditions can also contribute to some extent in weight gain.
Alcohol: Alcohol is very high in calories so alcoholics are more prone to obesity disease.
Age: Age is another factor of weight gain. As you get older, you get less active and thus tend to lose muscle which means your body slows down the rate at which it burns the calories and you gain weight.
Genes: Some individuals can easily gain weight if they are not careful about what they eat. This could be due to your genes. Genes affects several weight related processes in our body such as metabolic rate, metabolism, hormones, fat storage and blood glucose.
Smoking: Quitting smoking can also be a cause of weight gain. This is because food often tastes and smells better after stop smoking and leads to overeating. Also nicotine raises the rate of burning calories and if you stop smoking it rate falls down.


With the exception of Coco Chanel who declared blue jeans as "horrible", I think it's safe to say that most people – one in two of us, apparently – put on a pair of jeans in the morning. Who would have thought that denim, the humble cloth originating from De Nimes in France in the 1800s, would stand the test of time to become the world's most versatile fabric, used across the board to make everything from workwear to haute couture dresses?
Men's work pants, circa 1840, the oldest piece of denim in FIT's collection.
Levi Strauss & Co., jeans, hand-embroidered denim, circa 1969, USA.
Roberto Cavalli, embroidered denim, spring 2003, Italy.
Denim: Fashion's Frontier is open until 7 May 2016 – admission is free!
Find the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology at 227 West 27th Street.


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That looks really nice. I get what you mean about summer. The weather is horrible here, I wish nice weather would stay longer… I like that it's chunky, something to get one's teeth into.
Yes, it's definitely one of my favorites! I enjoyed some of your recipes, too!
We are still warm over here( that is accross the ocean, in a tiny place in europe). Thank you for the recipe! Will try it soon!
Seattle decided on having an Indian Summer, so we're just now starting to cool off. I'm looking forward to Autumn!


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Chapter 10: God in Organizations: God in Our Souls
Later that same year, 1961, Dayama returned to India with Mrinalini Mata and Ananda Mata, both of them members of the SRF board of directors. (Kriyananda had already returned a year earlier after an absence in America of seven months.) Dayama was very happy to see me, and I too was overjoyed. At the same time, I was anxious to discuss with her a certain problem we were encountering in our YSS work in India.
Many Indian saints through the centuries, including not a few of those mentioned in this book, have spoken a little disparagingly of spiritual organizations. Their disaffection is understandable. For one thing, as saints I have known have said repeatedly, meditation is the right and true way to know God. Meditation, however, is also a personal and private practice. It cannot be improved by institutional control.
Anandamoyee Ma, about whom I have written repeatedly in these pages, never associated herself mentally with the organization that her disciples had lovingly built in her name. Even when disciples came to consult her about some article that had appeared in their magazine, she replied, "It is your magazine!"
Yet much good also has been done by spiritual organizations. For example, they provide Satsanga (good company), which all the scriptures highly recommend. They can assist in spreading the spiritual teachings. And they offer to those who want to live spiritually dedicated lives a means also of serving God. The negative aspects of organizations lie not so much in their outer form as in the focus they provide for various human weaknesses — frailties that are already present in the human heart, but that sometimes gain strength in group settings.
Organizations, moreover, are not an abstraction: They consist of people. Although their purpose is to help those people, the people themselves often misuse them in order to increase, rather than eliminate, their own ego-bondage. Thus, difficulties arise, and, like ripples spreading outward on a lake when a stone has been flung into it, move outward and affect everyone concerned. Thus, organizations sometimes end up becoming mere free-for-alls of competing egos!
This situation is all the more insidious because the people concerned usually disclaim any semblance of desiring power, while making an outward show of humility.
Paramhansa Yogananda accomplished a wonderful thing in founding SRF/YSS. Without it, the message of Kriya would not have been heard in the West, except possibly as a whisper. He himself was sadly aware, however, of the dangers involved in organizational work and throughout his life spoke wistfully of the simple life in the ashrams of India. He was obedient to the will of God, however, and God and his own line of gurus had told him to create an institution in America. Perhaps his very disinclination for the role of organizer helped to insure that his organization would blend the best of Western and Indian values. His fears, however, as well as his hopes have been amply realized over the years. Fortunately, because his mission was divinely ordained, the fulfillment of his hopes has greatly outweighed what the years have brought in justification for his fears.
An important question remains: Are spiritual organizations, of the Western type at least, truly beneficial for India? Swami Vivekananda thought so, but that swami's emphasis was on India's social upliftment, which was greatly needed after centuries of foreign rule — and misrule! Vivekananda was seeking a corrective for India's present condition; it was not his purpose to replace our ancient spiritual traditions. For social upliftment, moreover, Western-style organization offers indeed an excellent model to follow.
Yet India's spiritual strength has always largely been due to the fact that its genius is for personal spiritual growth, not for the efficiency of a well-run institution. Indeed, when it comes to organizing, India may well be described as the land of dis unity. What has always been emphasized in this country is inner soul-development. This emphasis, Swami Kriyananda has interestingly remarked, is evident in the emphasis in Indian music on melody, rather than harmony, and the inability Indian musicians have displayed so far to match the subtleties of Western harmony.1
An appreciation for harmony, Kriyananda says, develops when people's thinking goes toward group activities. For group thinking to lead toward outward progress, harmony in musical expression can help to generate spiritual attitudes. On the other hand, where pleasing harmony is lacking in chord progressions, cacophony and discord result not only in the music, but in those people who expose themselves to the music. India, though it lacks the "genius" for cooperative effort (and therefore for musical harmony), has produced an extraordinary number of individual spiritual geniuses. Moreover, he says, it is individual aspiration that provides the soil in which true genius flowers.
The West has tried to ensure the purity of its spiritual teachings by organizing and controlling them. In India, however, the most refined essence of spiritual truth has been preserved. India, far more than Western civilization, has ever recognized that it is the life in a plant which produces the plant, not the plant which brings life into existence. These reflections of Kriyananda's may give a clue as to India's talent for spiritual genius, but lack of talent for spiritual organization.
It may be that our Master's work was not meant to develop in India, at least as a Western-style organization. His life mission lay in the West. Had it been in India, perhaps he would have approached it very differently — as, in fact, his paramguru Lahiri Mahasaya did, who asked that Kriya Yoga be spread with as little emphasis on organization as possible. On the other hand, it may be that another kind of spiritual organization altogether is destined for India's future, and that no institution would develop such as Westerners understand the word, with its corporation presidents, vice presidents, secretaries, boards of directors, and offices filled with efficient workers.
At any rate, Dayama once asked Master how his work should be developed in India. His reply to her was, "They will organize themselves."
YSS's history in India to date forces the question: "Has the Western model, even if workable in America, proved helpful in India?" The only possible answer is, "Not yet, at any rate."
Dayama found in Binay Dubey a "super-organization man" who fitted her own experience and understanding of organizations. It was natural that she should pin her hopes on him for the development of Master's work in India. Master had said to her, regarding the work in India, "They will organize themselves." Well, she must have thought, here was an Indian who could organize everything according to her own understanding of the way organizations needed to be run. This could not but strike her as an ideal way to follow her own guru's instructions. Now, the Indian work could be organized by an Indian, as Master had said, and at the same time follow the lines that she herself knew and could relate to.
Binayendra Nath Dubey was already the founder-director of Niramoy, a famous hospital in West Bengal. His organizational talents were considerable. Moreover, Dubey expressed the fullest confidence in those methods, and also in himself as a leader within that system. He was, at heart, a bureaucrat.
Swami Virajananda, a leading and life-long disciple of Anandamoyee Ma, once said to Swami Kriyananda, "At first, Dubey impressed me. Gradually, however, I've discovered that his motives are political, not spiritual. Since that time, I have kept away from him." Dubey, however, was able by his Westernized skills at organization to win Dayama's confidence.
It is unseemly to speak ill of the dead. Nevertheless, the fact must be stated that Dubey cannot have been destined for the responsibility Dayama placed on his shoulders, for he did not live to implement any of it. He visited America, where she made him a swami and gave him full authority to develop YSS according to the methods he championed. Very soon, however, after his return to India from the United States he developed cancer and not long afterward died. One naturally asks, Could his death possibly have been a divine sign that Dayama was mistaken in placing confidence in him? In fact, his death ended for the time being all of Dayama's hopes for Master's Indian work to be developed from America.
Paramhansa Yogananda knew that the true genius of India is different from America's. Each of these countries has something important to give to the other. The genius of India, particularly, lies in its dedication to inner spiritual development; of America, in outer cooperation. If a spiritual organization is ever to succeed in India, it cannot but be in an inward, not an outward, direction.
India will, I believe, concentrate on perfecting above all the inner relationship of devotee and guru. It will shrink back, as if from a cobra, at any suggestion of giving spiritual obedience to some mere official of an institution.
It is interesting, in this context, to note the very first words in Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi. "The characteristic features of Indian culture," he wrote, "have long been a search for ultimate verities and the concomitant disciple-guru relationship."
It has been stated truly by wise men and women of India that this country has fallen, of recent times, too much under the sway of "gurudom." This development is probably due to the shock of foreign, and particularly of modern, influences. At the present time, too many reputed "gurus," themselves insufficiently enlightened, have been swayed by the quest for social and political upliftment in the name of serving God, but not by the hope of inspiring people to commune more deeply with Him. This phenomenon cannot but be temporary, however. The very stones of India are permeated with a different vibration. Time surely will bring a change. The need of the devotee, however, for a true guru will never change.
I include these reflections here, not with the purpose of ending my book on a note of negative speculation, but only as a loving caution to those who, in future, recognize the advantages of spiritual organizations, but are anxious to avoid their disadvantages. From the standpoint of Master's work in India, Dayama's confidence in Dubey was — and this conclusion can hardly be avoided — unfortunate.
Dubey used his power to control people. Thus, he made many lives — my own included — miserable. I am sad for what has happened to a great and noble work, which might have brought — and which, with God's grace, could still bring — inspiration and guidance to millions, had its focus only been on love, rather than on power and on controlling others.
Anyone who wants to found an organization must keep firmly in mind that, far more important than any outward position, is the spirit of those who serve in that position. Efficiency is a minor matter compared to the spirit of love. Those doing spiritual service should love God first; then love Him in others. Nor can any organization replace the need for an enlightened guru, or at any rate a spiritually advanced teacher whose vision of truth inspires others deeply.
Dubey pretended faithfulness to the Guru. He was also, in his way, devoted to Dayama. Yet it was always devotion and loyalty according to his own understanding and definition, which he filtered through his own worldly institutionalism. He was one of those people who, by their very exuberance, get others to nod in tentative agreement with them, then draw from him professions of love and loyalty for their astuteness. Few people have the common sense to resist any snare set with such a bait, and Dubey often said of Americans that they are like "babes in the woods" — no match for the subtle cunning of the Indian mind. What this means of course is that people like Dubey themselves look on life as a contest.
Dubey had been born a zemindar (landowner). His attitudes strongly reflected his upbringing. It was basic to his personality to be forceful, authoritarian, and inconsiderate of others except where astute policy dictated kindness. He treated lightly such worldly usages as drinking spiritous liquors — a habit strictly forbidden to aspiring yogis. Lacking attunement with the Guru, which Yogananda is still to all who follow him, and feeling a surge of energy that came as a result of controlling others, he quickly lost the friendship and respect of all of us, an esteem which, at first, we naturally gave him.
Dayama listened to my criticisms of his actions on her return to India in 1961. It was soon evident, however, that her mind was made up. She placed Dubey on the Board of Directors of SRF/YSS, and immediately thereafter we Indians were told that we had to obey him in everything. It confused me, I confess, to see a man in charge of our organization who, not only in my opinion but in that of all those I knew, was so obviously worldly, not spiritual. Dubey's direction included managing the lives and the spiritual service of us renunciates. Our personal interest was the attainment of God-realization; we were not interested in self-aggrandizement. To him, however, we were no better than "employees" — pawns on a chessboard.
I have asked myself many times since then, Might it be that I was mistaken? Time, thus far, has not endorsed that doubt. In all fairness, however, I must also admit that forty years is a short time in the history of a work that is destined for the ages. Indeed, I should like to be wrong, for I believe in Master's mission, and in Dayama's faithfulness to Master as his disciple.
Needless to say, I have touched here only lightly on the events that actually occurred. Those events were painful to me. To you, the reader, they might appear merely interesting. Or — and this is my real concern — you might be discouraged by them, rather than take them as the cautionary lesson I have tried to convey.
There are many devotees, however, who have been deeply hurt. My hope is that, in writing about these things, I might turn that hurt to good effect by encouraging people's faith in spiritual, rather than in institutional, ways of seeking God. For in the case of YSS, the teachings themselves are wonderful. They need only to be offered in a way that is natural to India: whether within or outside of institutions, but always with love first for God, and for all of God's children.
For the Indian mind is subtle, yes, but in true devotees it is never so in the cunning way that Dubey described except, which is what happens, when cunning is directed toward self-aggrandizement. With the addition of ego-motivation, subtlety becomes its own undoing. In essence, however, the subtle perceptions for which the Indian mind is so notably gifted reveal the Divine Hand in everything, and open the heart in childlike wonder to the Divine Presence everywhere. Once this understanding flowers in the mind, the Kriya Yoga teachings will be able to bring hope and inspiration to millions, whether within or outside of any institution.
Chapter 11: A New Flowering? Chapter 9: Fright from a Cobra!
Kriyananda has, as part of his service to Master, composed some 400 pieces of music, and has achieved some renown in this field. Hence his interest in comparing Indian and Western music.
Foreword: by Durga Smallen
Chapter 1: I Find My Guru
Chapter 2: A Trek in the Himalayas
Chapter 3: A Visit from Mt. Washington
Chapter 4: An Official Visit from SRF
Chapter 5: Tulsi Bose, Yogananda's Boyhood Friend
Chapter 6: Ranchi — Then, a Trek to Badrinath!
Chapter 7: Pilgrimage to South India
Chapter 8: A Yogi Encounters Modern Science
Chapter 9: Fright from a Cobra!
Chapter 11: A New Flowering?
Chapter 12: No Tibet This Time
Chapter 13: The Travelers Return
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Steve Camberling Cowper, född 21 augusti 1938 i Petersburg, Virginia, är en amerikansk demokratisk politiker.

Han var den 7:e guvernören i delstaten Alaska 1 december 1986 - 2 december 1990. Han var ledamot av Alaska House of Representatives, underhuset i delstatens lagstiftande församling, innan han blev guvernör.

Guvernörer i Alaska
Födda 1938
Män
Personer från Petersburg, Virginia
Levande personer
Alumner från University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Last night I posted a Red Rose Story on my Facebook page. I have so enjoyed people's reception of it that it has given me just the nudge. push. shove needed to bring my absence of 5 l o n g months of N o t-W r i t i n g to you here on my Susies♥heartpathblog to AN END….
Time for a New Beginning. A New Story.
I serendipitously received an email in this morning's Inbox by astrologer ♡Marina Ormes who shared that the Sagittarius Full Moon is a time to connect with your New Story, and let go of the old one…..
And invited me to look closely…..
And shared how the Full Moon in Sagittarius helps to see things from a new perspective….
I liked that. It intrigued me. It encouraged me. Seduced me.
– What are we assuming?
– How does that limit our thinking about what is possible?
– What New Story could we tell?
– Who would we need to become to make that New Story be the one we consistently see in the world?
– What would your life look like living your New Story?
– How can you start by making small changes that are in alignment with your New Story?
♡….I walk in the Beauty of the splendidly magnificent. reddest. red. roses in the June 2nd equally awesome Full Moon-light in Sagittarius at Warm Fuzzy Hill..
Some of you will have noticed the ♡Choosing Beauty tab in the Menu at the top of my Blog. It has been there sitting empty for the longest time now. It is the time for me to really explore the meaning of ♡Choosing Beauty…..
I have been living existing with the pain and ache of my heart-breaking losses over these past 72 weeks Post Fire. Is it the time to tentatively emerge from the Grief Cocoon, I am asking myself? Will my new Choosing Beauty Story serve me as my re-entry into all parts of the world?…..
And I always do find 'wonderful' as there are always roses….and other flowers…. always Beauty…..
Yet the real question is – can my brain keep seeing more beauty than loss? Yet I am relentless….I will keep searching. Keep looking. Keep seeing with Beauty eyes.
Keep asking. the ever searching optimist.
A day where I am truly More Happy Than Not….
These are some of my ponderings.
I also offer you ♡Marina Ormes' invitation to see things from a new perspective….to connect with and truly embrace a New Story and let go of the old one…..to reflect on the questions she poses….
Please share what is touched in you….
And another New Story I am telling myself is that it is OK to expose that there is a small part of me that yearns for acknowledgement and validation and connection and that my human heart and soul sings and lifts and is touched when it is freely given….and equates that acknowledgement with being accepted…. and acceptable…. whatever way or however broken I am being in the moment…..I feel valued and that I belong…..
…..instead of the old story that it is being weak and needy to want that acknowledgment…or in fact to want anything from anyone….
So my brave heart will be most gladdened by you letting me know you have read this….. letting me know what it means to you, whether it has worth for you, letting me know anything you want to share…..
Wishing you a wonderful day! With fond thoughts of you and grateful to you for walking this path with me.
My wish with Susies♥HeartpathBlog is to connect and relate to you from my heart and soul and mind to your heart and soul and mind …..whilst sharing information and Resources about ♡LOVE-ing and Relationships and FULL exuberant ALIVENESS★…. My intention is to provide a space where you can engage with me and with the community of those who are 'walking' the ♥HEART PATH of conscious relationships….. people who daily make choices and actions about becoming and being more ♡LOVE-ing…….people who care that their partners and families and friends and the wider community feel ♡LOVE-d and ♡LOVE-able… people who are curious about and respect and validate the reality of 'the other' and who choose to create and live in a Zero Negativity Zone [ZNZ zone].... I am committed to teaching and sharing practical user-friendly communication ♡TOOLS and Skills and processes that lead to growth and deep healing, connection, ♡LOVE and intimacy. I am a passionate net-worker and committed to connecting people to the abundance of Resources that are available – I believe much of what we need is out there, yet people don't often know the Resources are there or if they do, where to find them. I love putting people in touch with opportunities and possibilities….
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Beautiful pictures Susie and a wonderful new story of walking in beauty. ❤ May you have many new wondrous experiences.
I am so glad to see these ideas. Let me know dear one if there is anything that I can do to bring more beauty into your life.


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use base qw(centreon::plugins::mode);

use strict;
use warnings;

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    'consistency-state' => [
        ['healthy', 'OK'],
        ['.*', 'CRITICAL'],
    ],
    'free-ud-ssd-space-level' => [
        ['healthy', 'OK'],
        ['.*', 'CRITICAL'],
    ],
    'shared-memory-efficiency-level' => [
        ['healthy', 'OK'],
        ['.*', 'CRITICAL'],
    ],
    'free-ud-ssd-space-level' => [
        ['healthy', 'OK'],
        ['.*', 'CRITICAL'],
    ],
    'vaai-tp-limit-crossing' => [
        ['healthy', 'OK'],
        ['.*', 'CRITICAL'],
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    'shared-memory-in-use-ratio-level' => [
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};

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    return $self;
}

sub check_options {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;
    $self->SUPER::init(%options);

    $self->{filter} = [];
    foreach my $val (@{$self->{option_results}->{filter}}) {
        next if (!defined($val) || $val eq '');
        my @values = split (/,/, $val);
        push @{$self->{filter}}, { filter => $values[0], instance => $values[1] };
    }

    $self->{overload_th} = {};
    foreach my $val (@{$self->{option_results}->{threshold_overload}}) {
        next if (!defined($val) || $val eq '');
        my @values = split (/,/, $val);
        if (scalar(@values) < 3) {
            $self->{output}->add_option_msg(short_msg => "Wrong threshold-overload option '" . $val . "'.");
            $self->{output}->option_exit();
        }
        my ($section, $instance, $status, $filter);
        if (scalar(@values) == 3) {
            ($section, $status, $filter) = @values;
            $instance = '.*';
        } else {
             ($section, $instance, $status, $filter) = @values;
        }
        if (!defined $thresholds->{$section}) {
            $self->{output}->add_option_msg(short_msg => "Wrong threshold-overload section '" . $val . "'.");
            $self->{output}->option_exit();
        }
        if ($self->{output}->is_litteral_status(status => $status) == 0) {
            $self->{output}->add_option_msg(short_msg => "Wrong threshold-overload status '" . $val . "'.");
            $self->{output}->option_exit();
        }
        $self->{overload_th}->{$section} = [] if (!defined($self->{overload_th}->{$section}));
        push @{$self->{overload_th}->{$section}}, {filter => $filter, status => $status, instance => $instance };
    }
}

sub run {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;
    my $xtremio = $options{custom};

    my $urlbase = '/api/json/types/';
    my @items = $xtremio->get_items(url => $urlbase,
                                    obj => 'clusters');

    my @sensors = ('consistency-state','shared-memory-efficiency-level','free-ud-ssd-space-level',
                   'vaai-tp-limit-crossing', 'shared-memory-in-use-ratio-level', 'sys-health-state');

    $self->{output}->output_add(severity => 'OK',
                                short_msg => 'Health is OK');

    foreach my $item (@items) {
        next if ($self->check_filter(section => 'cluster', instance => $item));
        my $details = $xtremio->get_details(url  => $urlbase,
                                            obj  => 'clusters',
                                            name => $item);

        foreach my $sensor (@sensors) {
            next if (!defined($details->{$sensor}) || $details->{$sensor} eq '');
            $self->{output}->output_add(long_msg => sprintf("Sensor '%s' state is '%s'",
                                                            $sensor, $details->{$sensor}));

            my $exit = $self->get_severity(section => $sensor, value => $details->{$sensor});
            if (!$self->{output}->is_status(value => $exit, compare => 'ok', litteral => 1)) {
                $self->{output}->output_add(severity => $exit,
                                            short_msg => sprintf("Sensor '%s' state is '%s'",
                                                                 $sensor, $details->{$sensor}));
            }

        }

    }

    $self->{output}->display();
    $self->{output}->exit();
}

sub check_filter {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;

    foreach (@{$self->{filter}}) {
        if ($options{section} =~ /$_->{filter}/) {
            if (!defined($options{instance}) && !defined($_->{instance})) {
                $self->{output}->output_add(long_msg => sprintf("Skipping $options{section} section."));
                return 1;
            } elsif (defined($options{instance}) && $options{instance} =~ /$_->{instance}/) {
                $self->{output}->output_add(long_msg => sprintf("Skipping $options{section} section $options{instance} instance."));
                return 1;
            }
        }
    }

    return 0;
}

sub get_severity {
    my ($self, %options) = @_;
    my $status = 'UNKNOWN'; # default

    if (defined($self->{overload_th}->{$options{section}})) {
        foreach (@{$self->{overload_th}->{$options{section}}}) {
           if ($options{value} =~ /$_->{filter}/i &&
                (!defined($options{instance}) || $options{instance} =~ /$_->{instance}/)) {
                $status = $_->{status};
                return $status;
            }
        }
    }
    my $label = defined($options{label}) ? $options{label} : $options{section};
    foreach (@{$thresholds->{$label}}) {
        if ($options{value} =~ /$$_[0]/i) {
            $status = $$_[1];
            return $status;
        }
    }

    return $status;
}

1;

__END__

=head1 MODE

Check cluster health indicators ('consistency-state','shared-memory-efficiency-level','free-ud-ssd-space-level', 'vaai-tp-limit-crossing', 'shared-memory-in-use-ratio-level', 'sys-health-state');

=over 8

=item B<--filter>

Filter some parts (comma seperated list)
Can also exclude specific instance: --filter=cluster,CLUSTER-NAME

=item B<--threshold-overload>

Overload a specific threshold, e.g --threshold-overload="consistency-state,Xtremio,CRITICAL,healthy"

=back

=cut

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


The Times' crusade culminated in the newspaper's publication on Wednesday of an oped written from Egyptian prison by Gehad el-Haddad, the official spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood. The oped was splashed on the cover of Thursday's international edition of the newspaper.
The New York Times this week continued its month-long campaign against designating the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization amid reports the Trump administration is debating the possibility of issuing an executive order making such a designation.
Declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization would add the U.S. to the growing list of nations to do so, including Muslim countries like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
"We remain committed to our ideals of community development, social justice and nonviolence," wrote Haddad.
While many Brotherhood wings indeed reject the use of violence as a strategic tactic, preferring instead a sophisticated gradualist strategy to achieve their aims, Haddad failed to mention that the Brotherhood has spawned terrorist organizations – most notably Hamas – that adhere to its philosophy of a world order based on Islam.
Haddad's claim that the Brotherhood espouses an understanding of Islam that pushes for "equality and the rule of law" is contradicted by the very nature of the Brotherhood itself, which is openly committed to the establishment of a worldwide Islamic caliphate based on Sharia law.
Sharia does not propagate "equality and the rule of law." Sharia is explicitly anti-democratic and advocates Islamic supremacy over non-Muslims. For example, under Sharia non-Muslims cannot rule over Muslims; a woman inherits half that of a man; non-Muslims cannot inherit from Muslims or marry Muslim women; and churches and synagogues cannot be built taller than mosques.
We are a morally conservative, socially aware grassroots movement that has dedicated its resources to public service for the past nine decades. Our idea is very simple: We believe that faith must translate into action. That the test of faith is the good you want to do in the lives of others, and that people working together is the only way to develop a nation, meet the aspirations of its youth and engage the world constructively. We believe that our faith is inherently pluralistic and comprehensive and that no one has a divine mandate or the right to impose a single vision on society. We remain committed to our ideals of community development, social justice and nonviolence.
Haddad's propaganda piece was preceded on Monday by a Times article reporting on the alleged dangers of the Trump administration labeling the Brotherhood a terrorist organization.
The International Crisis Group is funded by billionaire George Soros and his son, Alexander Soros. Both George and Alexander Soros sit on the group's board of trustees.
Toward the end of the piece, Times reporter Delcan Walsh briefly mentions the Brotherhood's ties to violence.
By nature secretive, the Brotherhood takes different forms around the world. In some places, its members have condoned or committed violent acts. Its Palestinian offshoot, Hamas, carries out suicide bombings; in Egypt, angry young supporters have been accused of attacking Mr. Sisi's security forces.
The Times' advocacy for the Brotherhood is particularly noteworthy since it separately posted a full Arabic document from 1991 in which an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood member set forth a strategy for "eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within," with emphasis on operations inside the U.S.
Addressing the Brotherhood's support for the electoral process and purportedly becoming a political organization, an extensive report on the Brotherhood by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies explained the group's use of some tools of democracy to advance the aim of achieving a world ruled by Sharia law, which is by definition anti-democratic.
Unlike the militant factions of other Islamist movements, which completely rule out democracy on the basis of it being a Western, pagan, and ignorant idea, the Muslim Brotherhood does use the term "democracy." In its view, however, it has two main connotations: a tactical, instrumental means of taking over countries through the use of the democratic process, and an "Islamic democracy" based on Sharia law (i.e., Islamic religious law) and a model of internal consultation within the leadership.
[Brotherhood Founder Sheikh Hassan] Al-Banna listed seven stages to achieve these objectives, each to be carried out in a gradual fashion. The stages are divided into social and political: the first three are based on educating the individual, the family, and the entire society of the Muslim world to implement Sharia laws in every aspect of daily life. The next four stages are political in nature, and include assuming power through elections, shaping a Sharia state, liberating Islamic countries from the burden of (physical and ideological) foreign occupation, uniting them into one Islamic entity ("new caliphate"), and spreading Islamic values throughout the world.
The defining works of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader, ideologue and theorist Sayyid Qutb, considered the Brotherhood's intellectual godfather, greatly influenced Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda doctrine.
An extensive March 23, 2003, article in the New York Times magazine by Paul Berman dissected Qutb's writings as they relate to terrorist ideology.


Captain Scott had always loved fishing but, because of his dairyfarming background, he did not get many chances to do it. Even so, he did fish every chance he got. His first step towards being on the water fishing as much as he could was trading his 750 cc Yamaha motorcycle for a 16' Glastron boat with trailer. Six boats later, the Milky Way is now a 26' Stamas hard top. In '89 he sold the farm he took over in '71 and pursued his dream of becoming a charter captain. He studied hard and became a Coast Guard Licensed Charter Captain.
After the farm sale, he was also able to purchase a former charter boat complete with fishing equipment. Thus, his farming background of milking cows basically led the "milky" way to his charter career; not a liking of the candy bar or a fascination with the galaxy also called Milky Way! Captain Scott has now achieved 29+ years of very reputable guiding as Captain of the Milky Way Fishing Charters and looks forward to leading you on your next charter fishing exploration out of Henderson Harbor in the Eastern Basin of Lake Ontario.


Yes - the meme above sums it all. You asked a lot about a cross-platform native SideDrawer component and I'm happy that we just delivered it with the massive 1,2 release several weeks ago.
So we decided to dogfood our own animations and to see how easy it will be implement this in NativeScript in a cross-platform way. It turned out to be quite easy - just a few lines of code.
NativeScript latest bits are now live and you can enjoy several bug fixes in the tooling and in the iOS and Android runtimes.
We were also able to put one new features - this is the support of iOS Sumulators as part of our LiveSync feature. With the 1.2 release you were only able to see immediate changes on a real iOS device, now you will be able to see your latest changes whe working with the simulators.
Webinar on NativeScript 1.2 is over. See the Q&A. Watch the recording.
It's been an exciting release cycle for the NativeScript team. We just published our first official release in May and since then there has been an insane amount of community activity. There are now more than 4k stars on Github, over 300 issues, 260+ forum threads, and more than 20 plugins have been created by the community. Did I mentioned the new G+ NativeScript group? We are already working with the first companies to prepare their apps on the app stores. If you are working on an app - please let us know - we are eager to see what you are building!
Sitefinity CMS is a powerful user-friendly .NET CMS product from Telerik. The great thing about Sitefinity is that it's meticulously designed to not feel like a .NET CMS (You know the feel I mean…). Moreover you get to choose to develop using Pure Clean MVC, old school ASP.Net WebForms, or a patented hybrid of the two methods.
The last NativeScript webinar had a record-setting number of attendees. As such, we also had a record-setting 1000+ questions asked during the webinar!! Now, as you can guess we could not answer 1000+ questions in a couple of minutes at the end of the webinar.
So, we read all 1000+ questions post-webinar and select a handful of them to be answer in this blog post. After reading the questions, I believe many of them will be beneficial to the entire NativeScript community and not just the individual that posted the question during the live webinar.
Saving user settings a device's local storage is a common requirement for mobile applications. Because of that, we made the creation of a settings page with NativeScript straightforward. In this blog post you'll learn how to build a settings page using the latest bits of NativeScript—XML declaration, data-binding, and CSS styling.
We know how important it is for a new framework to have samples, so you will be able to find several good examples of open source applications built with NativeScript in our Github organization. Open http://github.com/nativescript and search for repositories named after the following pattern "sample-SAMPLE_NAME". All the samples are licensed under the BSD license.
This is the first article from a series of articles we are planning to release as we progress with the application implementation. The full source code of the application is here: http://github.com/nativescript/sample-Tasks.
NativeScript First Public Beta Release is Now Available!


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# Fork-able normalize-scss<br> for Typey

## Using with node-sass

1. Copy these files to your Sass project.
2. This fork-able version requires the [typey](https://github.com/jptaranto/typey) Sass module. Add it to your package.json with:

 ```bash
npm install --save-dev typey
```

3. Add Typey's Sass directory to your nodeSass' [`includePaths` option](https://github.com/sass/node-sass#includepaths).

 ```js
var sass = require('node-sass'),
  path = require('path');

sass.render({
  file: scss_filename,
  includePaths: [
    path.dirname(require.resolve('typey'))
  ]
}, function(err, result) { /*...*/ });
```

## Using with libSass

If you are using libSass but not using node-sass, you probably already know how to include 3rd party libraries into your Sass project.

1. Copy these files to your Sass project.
2. This fork-able version requires the [typey](https://github.com/jptaranto/typey) Sass module. Add typey's `stylesheets` directory to your libSass include paths in the "usual way".

## Using with Ruby Sass

In addition to copying these files to your Sass project, you'll also need to:

1. Edit your `Gemfile` file to add:

 ```ruby
gem 'typey', '~> 1.0.0'
```

2. If you use Compass, edit your `config.rb` file to add:

 ```ruby
require 'typey'
```

3. Update your local Gems with:

 ```
bundle install
```


Do you know this Jindo?
Yes. I haven't seen him in person since last April though. I can connect you with Nichole, who fields questions about the foster dogs, or Linda, his foster mom, if you would like more info.
I was interested in hearing if he was full Jindo?
He's very handsome, and looks to have a great personality - I am interested in him, but I dunno how he would do in a multi-dog homes. What do you think?
Also, we get a lot of interest from people looking for rugged dogs to hike with, often asking for young adults - and we cannot provide much help - so I was thinking I might get a list of similar breeds/dogs together to recommend to people like that. So I was thinking Iri may be a good candidate.
Iri was pulled from the shelter as a 4 month old pup. The shelter is located in an area that has occasional Jindos coming in through their doors. At first, I was rather dubious about him because of his coloring, his ear set, and his hyper behavior (no "off" switch at all). His coloring did show up at one of the Jindo shows in Los Angeles though, in a female owned since puppyhood, so that color gene is in the southern CA population. Some people could say that coloring came from a shepherd influence way back when, but that's advanced Jindo politics and not usually something adopters are all that interested in. His ear set tends to be more erect rather than pitched forward which is proper. At adulthood, his body style is more of the stockier style rather than the lithe style. It's not from overfeeding. :-) At over two years of age, I've been told that he's finally mellowing out.
Iri was originally placed out-of-state as a pup in a multi-dog home (Shibas). It was felt that with their experience and his young age, it would be possible to work out the pack dynamics. He was returned by the adopters without a whole lot of information. We could only infer that he was just too much energy for them. He has lived in foster homes with multiple dogs, though not as many as your pack. Perhaps 4 max for free interactions. He is currently fostered with another male Jindo. They have been fine with each other. He used to be fostered together with a female who was rather pushy and demanding, and he did object to her.
Nichole usually likes to hitch up the foster dogs in a sled team for exercise, but she hasn't done it with Iri. Although he jumps, runs, and does everything just fine, structurally, he should have stronger hocks to pull a load. If you've ever seen Akitas that seem to push foward their weight and double-joint their rear hocks, that's what Iri does sometimes. It's called slipped hocks.
Iri is his foster person's favorite foster dog so she wants to have him placed local to ensure his placement is permanent. We can override her, but with his failed placement the first time around, it's not our first choice either to place him out of state.
Ok, thanx for the info. He sounds like a great dog, but it sounds like we are not a good fit since we are in NM.
I will pass anyone that comes along via Yamabushi to him, hopefully I can help you guys find him his forever home.


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If you require influential, effective mobile app development, outsourcing is your best option. Maintaining an in-house staff of mobile app developers is an expensive proposition for most businesses. It is always better to get your work done by a team of professionals who have rich industry experience and are acquainted with industry best practices. When you outsource mobile app development, you can reap the benefit of having seasoned, veteran developers working on your project. This proposition also helps in keeping your development efforts cost-effective and affordable.
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Our App development team have developed over 100 Mobile apps for iOS and Android with the expertise of 10+ full-time Mobile development team. We learn each day and that keeps us going and growing.
After preliminary discussions, we assign you a talented project manager who is adept at communication skills. With the help of your dedicated project manager, We can help you to get your ideas and concept across to our developers and design team.
You are free to choose and use your own design elements and UI, and employ us for just the development. However, we have an excellent UI and UX design team which can provide you with modern, effective design ideas tailor-made for your needs.
Once your project costs and timeline are agreed upon, we will commence with app development straight away.
During the development process, we continually keep in touch with you constantly, sending mockups and providing you with development updates.
We use relevant technology to maximize speed and efficiency of development. For example, if your app needs GPS support, we use emulators and VPNs to simulate locations for testing.
On completion of the project, we hand over control of all the code, databases and assets over to you. You own the ownership rights to the work you commission.
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The steps or journey your customer takes through your website is called sales funnel or conversion funnel. In this article we will explain what a landing page is, why you need it for your funnel and how to make conversions, or more simply, how to make customers buy your product or services.
Landing pages and sales funnels are one of the most talked about and used buzzwords in digital marketing. To help you in your online odyssey we have created this article to explain to you the benefit of using a landing page as a sales funnel and how to use it effectively.
The short definition would be a web page that serves as an entry point for your website or a particular section of the website. A marketer would describe a landing page as a standalone web page which is created specifically for the purposes of some advertising campaign. The design of landing pages is more simple and neat because their single objective is to grab the customer's attention and make them click, buy or subscribe. That's why most landing pages have a clear Call-To-Action (CTA).
Click-through landing pages. Also called prompting pages and are mostly used by e-commerce websites. This type is used when you want to redirect your customer to your shopping cart or offer a free trial or demo of your service or product.
Lead generation pages. The name says it all. The sole purpose of this kind of page is to collect leads for your business. However, in order to get your customers to click, subscribe or register you must offer them something tangible like a free e-book, coupon, voucher, 30 day free trial, etc.
2. What is a sales funnel?
Also known as a conversion or revenue funnel, sales funnel is the process from initial contact, from the moment your potential customer becomes aware of your business, website or product to the moment she or he buys something from you. With a sales funnel you map the complete customer journey from awareness to purchase and, if you're lucky and good, a re-purchase. If we need to present the sales funnel in visual terms, you can imagine it as a reversed cone, where your potential customers are at the top and at the bottom are customers that complete some kind of transaction with your business.
Awareness phase – when some prospect becomes aware about your product, service or some solution that you offer.
Interest phase – the prospect now shows some interest in your product, service or solution. In this phase the prospects can follow you on social media, subscribe to your newsletter or inquire about your services through live chat, telephone or email.
Decision phase – the prospect decides that your solution is the best, compared to the alternatives, and contacts or informs you that she or he is interested in buying.
Purchase phase – a phase in which the prospect becomes the customer, by purchasing your product, service or solution.
Re-purchase phase – if you master this phase of the sales funnel you will be a rich man. This phase, also called loyalty phase, starts when your customer repurchases you product, service or solution. Basically they like your company, they trust in your company and the services you offer and believe in the benefits of your products.
The million dollar question – how do you increase the conversion rate of the sales funnel? If there were a simple answer everybody would do it. Unfortunately there isn't. There are many factors in play: the type of industry in which you operate, the competition in your field, the attractiveness of your products or services, possibilities for scaling… we don't have all day!
Blogging – Try a weekly blog. The article should have relevant, up to date and original content which will add value for your readers. You need them to come back, don't you? If you are good at this you will create a name for your company and loyal readers and followers which in time can be converted to customers. You can also try guest blogging – it adds credibility.
Stay active on social media – develop an active presence on social media. By this we mean that you don't just post daily on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, but actively engage with your audience: ask them for their opinions, start a discussion, comment on relevant topics, try to create small quizzes or a prize-winning game.
Google AdWords / Pay-Per-Click campaigns – a combination of these two is the best option. For a good AdWords campaign you need expert knowledge (there are a lot of free resources on this subject) and the results can be overwhelming, especially if you are able to find relevant keywords which have a low bid rate. PPC campaigns can be used to drive traffic to your website, or in this case, your landing page. Here you have two options: 1) to pay when someone clicks on your ad; 2) to pay per impressions the ad generated. Our advice is to choose the first option.
As we said in the beginning, using a landing page as a sales funnel is a trendy model, but if utilised properly it's a very effective model that can bring you a lot of customers and money. However, this isn't a one size fits all model. You need to test various options and find the one that works best. When you find it, try to upgrade it continuously.
See you at the end of the funnel!


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What You Must Know When You Suffer a Lumbar Sprain in a Car Accident
| Shapiro, Appleton & Washburn
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Car crashes frequently inflict back and spine injuries that range from whiplash to herniated discs and paralysis. Lumbar strains, which occur when the muscles and tendons of the lower back twist suddenly and violently, are among the most commonly diagnosed conditions in victims of traffic accidents.
Preexisting Conditions Do Not Prevent Insurance Claims Following Car Crashes
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A lumbar strain can be mild or severe, causing symptoms that include stiffness, pain with movement, pain to the touch and swelling. While symptoms persist, the person suffering from the lumbar strain may find it difficult to stand, walk, sit for long periods and bend at the waist—all of which are required to perform everyday activities like cook, clean, bathe, dress and work. A lumbar strain can even make sleeping a struggle.
Most back muscle and tendon injuries do not require surgical repair, though persistent swelling may cause nerve impingement that will respond to a surgical intervention. The normal course of treatment for lumbar strains progresses from rest, light exercise and anti-inflammatory medications to physical therapy and prescription painkillers.
The time needed to recover full range of motion and previous muscle strength, as well as to live pain-free, varies depending on the severity of the strain and a host of other factors unique to the individual. Some people's lower backs never stop giving them trouble following a car crash.
My Virginia personal injury law firm colleagues and I know from speaking with our car accident clients that lumbar sprains can be as debilitating as any back and spine injury. Hearing those individuals describe their situations should convince anyone that their injuries make them eligible to receive compensation for medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering from the driver who caused the car crash.
Insurance claims adjusters, of course, disagree. People can damage the muscles and tendons of their lower backs in many ways, including lifting heavy objects, tripping, and falling. In truth, most people will suffer at least a mild lumbar strain at some point in their life, which leads insurance reps to argue that any lower back injury in a car crash is actually a preexisting condition that had nothing to do with the wreck.
Countering an effort to deny or minimize an insurance claim due a preexisting condition requires presenting evidence that the car accident inflicted a new injury or exacerbated a previously manageable health problem to the degree that it became debilitating and disabling. Such evidence comes from medical specialists and physical therapists, as well as from friends. family members and coworkers who can testify on the car crash victim's health before and after the wreck.
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Today I had occasion to use a stall in the bathroom - for the reason they're provided - not as a shield for my Shy Bladder.
It seemed strangely unfamiliar and I realized that I hadn't been in the stall for weeks. I felt that my relationship with the stall had returned to a pre-Shy Bladder footing at least.
I'm not sure it really means anything but I'm noting it anyway.


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· Develop a career plan with clear goals.
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Construction work has started on the renovation of the Great Waters course at the Reynolds Lake Oconee community in Georgia, USA.
The Jack Nicklaus Signature Course opened in 1992 and Nicklaus Design has returned to oversee the renovation project.
Chad Goetz, design associate at Nicklaus Design, said: "Jack visited the course in January of 2018 and was very clear that he was still very happy with the bones of his original design. We are not out to re-invent the course, rather we are looking to polish the design and address agronomic and technical issues that have accumulated over its 27-year life. The intent is for the course to take on its most elegant and simple form, and let the land and lake take the starring roles in the golf experience.
To encourage players to 'Tee It Forward', Nicklaus Design is creating a new set of tees that will play at an overall length of 4,500 yards. Length is also being added to modernise the course for better players. "Using a combination of tees, players will have ultimate flexibility in selecting the course that is just right for their ability," said Goetz.
The greens will be grassed with TifEagle bermudagrass, the fairways and tees with Zeon zoysia grass, and the rough with TifTuf bermudagrass.
Some trees that have encroached into the playing corridors will be removed and others will be pruned back "to restore the original turf and playing limits, reduce maintained landscape area, and improve conditions for growing quality and consistent turfgrass," explained Goetz.
The red clay soil provides a challenge to projects in the community, and extensive erosion control measures must be employed to protect Lake Oconee. Nicklaus Design were required by the local regulations to complete the renovation in phases to control the area of open soil. The issue relating to the soil will complicate the grassing window for the turfgrass, and Goetz expects to completely sod the early holes before moving on to new areas of the site later in the project.
Nicklaus Design is collaborating on the project with Reynolds Lake Oconee director of agronomy Lane Singleton and Great Waters course superintendent Brandon Hayes, and staff. Construction work is being done by Heritage Links and shaper Cliff Hamilton, who has worked on numerous Nicklaus Design courses around the world. Consultants on the project include irrigation designer Tony Altum and local engineer Rick McCallister.
Construction began in July 2018 and is expected to be complete by June 2019, with the course expected to reopen in autumn 2019.


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News | Fundraising
Government Urged to Make Philanthropy Investment Changes
Thursday, 28th January 2016 at 11:34 am
Xavier Smerdon
The Australian Government has been urged to introduce a new framework that would change the way philanthropic funds are able to give away their money. A report commissioned by the Department of Social Services and
The Australian Government has been urged to introduce a new framework that would change the way philanthropic funds are able to give away their money.
A report commissioned by the Department of Social Services and prepared by Philanthropy Australia recommended that the government follow the lead of the US and allow philanthropic funds to make investments that would count towards their required distributions.
The report was presented to the Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership, a group of leaders from the business and community sectors, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, to promote philanthropic giving and investment in Australia.
Currently in Australia Private Ancillary Funds (PAFs) and Public Ancillary Funds (PuAFs) are subject to a minimum distribution requirement of 5 and 4 per cent of their net assets per annum respectively.
The report has recommended that a Program Related Investments framework be introduced, which would allow PAFs and PuAFs to make below-market return investments, including loans, loan guarantees and equity purchases, in eligible entities.
It said that these investments should count towards the minimum distribution that the philanthropic fund is obliged to make that year.
CEO of Philanthropy Australia, Sarah Davies, said there was a strong appetite within the philanthropic sector for the new framework to be introduced.
"The project involved consulting a range of public and private ancillary funds and other stakeholders, and included two facilitated workshops designed to gauge interest in introducing a Program Related Investments framework in Australia," Davies said.
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"We were surprised with the high level of interest and the strong support for Program Related Investments which was very apparent in these consultations – there's a clear view that Program Related Investments can help better leverage philanthropic assets for increased impact.
"We think they're a policy change which could definitely promote more and better philanthropy, and so we're hopeful that the government will introduce them in Australia."
CEO of Social Enterprise Finance Australia and Prime Minister's Community Business Partnership member, Ben Gales, told Pro Bono Australia News that interest in the framework was warranted.
"There are lots of organisations and charities that are looking at generating new income streams and new ways of addressing disadvantage and [the framework] is playing to that. It's helping those organisations get some of those ventures off the ground," Gales said.
"There's no coincidence of the timing. There's a groundswell towards looking at new ways of addressing disadvantage and furthering those charitable objectives.
"People are looking at new types of business models, how to bring new resources to bear, and this plays to that. I think that's why this is finding its place today when in the past it may not have been such a priority."
Gales said current regulations around PAF and PuAF investments in Australia were often difficult to navigate.
"It's a complex system. One of the objectives of the Program Related Investment framework that's being recommended is to simplify the situation," he said.
"There's quite a bit of uncertainty around what is allowed and what isn't allowed. It's set out in the guidelines in terms of sub-market returns, but I think it's overly complex and I think that's why it's not taken up very much.
"Personally I find the structures complex. Certainly the guidelines on these program related investments are absolutely too complex in terms of how they're structured today. Anyway that we can simplify that is good news."
Gales cautioned that the framework would not work towards unlocking billions of dollars or replacing grant donations, but said it would be "another tool in the kit box that foundations and philanthropists can use".
The full report can be downloaded here.
Xavier Smerdon | Journalist | @XavierSmerdon
Xavier Smerdon is a journalist specialising in the Not for Profit sector. He writes breaking and investigative news articles.
Tags : PAFs, Philanthropy Australia, PuAFs,
Australian philanthropy needs more crowd power
Krystian Seibert
Tuesday, 26th November 2019 at 8:40 am
Philanthropy Australia CEO announces departure
Harnessing the wisdom of crowds
Thursday, 26th September 2019 at 8:39 am
Philanthropists changing the face of Australia recognised in top awards
Tuesday, 23rd July 2019 at 8:29 am


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Richeze goes close in Eneco Tour sprint
By Stephen Farrand 14 August 2013
Lampre-Merida sprinter regrets going early
Maximiliano Richeze (Lampre - Merida) (Image credit: Biondi/Bettiniphoto)
Maximiliano Richeze (Lampre - Merida) won the criterium before stage 1 of Tour of Japan 2013 (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)
Maximiliano Richeze went close to giving the Lampre-Merida a much needed WorldTour victory on stage three of the Eneco Tour, losing to Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) after starting his sprint early.
Saronni reveals long-term plans to rejuvenate Lampre
Gallery: Cunego, Pozzato and Petacchi headline Lampre-Merida camp
Ulissi wins opening stage at Tour of Poland
Renshaw powers to victory in Eneco Tour opener
Stybar wins stage 3 of the Eneco Tour
The Italian team has had a poor season and has won just a handful of minor races so far but Richeze has shown some form after taking eight top ten finishes at the Tour of Qinghai Lake in China in July. He was also fourth on the opening stage of the Eneco Tour.
Teammate Danilo Viganò' dragged Richeze up to the front in the high-speed finale. He then went in a late attack with Stybar, Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto Belisol) and Lars Boom (Belkin) with a kilometre to go but was beaten by Stybar with a perfect sprint.
"It was a very good day for me, my legs were super and my team was outstanding in supporting me. Unluckily, I couldn't finish things off," he said.
"(Danilo) Viganò did an incredible job leading up to the front of the bunch just before the bend where Stybar escaped from the group. I took advantage and got on his wheel."
Richeze regretting starting his sprint a little early.
"Boom started early in the sprint and got a gap and perhaps I made a mistake by reacting instinctively and chasing him down," he explained.
"I lost some power in the last hundred metres and so couldn't do anything to stop Stybar coming back at me. I've got to look on the bright side of things: I went to close to winning against some of the best sprinters in the world. That's a huge satisfaction."
Richeze won the Pan American road race Championships and five stages at the Vuelta a Venezuela while riding for the D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo team in 2012.
He will have one final chance of victory on Thursday 169km fourth stage from Essen in Belgium to Vlijmen in the Netherlands.


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Bishop of Coventry questions Government about support for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh
On the 26th October the House of Lords debated a motion from Baroness Helic, "To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they have taken to support the Rohingya refugees currently displaced in Bangladesh." The Bishop of Coventry, the Rt Revd Christopher Cocksworth took part in the debate highlighting the need for a greater action by the international community to support agents of compassion and to address the underlying causes of the crisis.
The Lord Bishop of Coventry: My Lords, I join others in thanking the noble Baroness, Lady Helic, for securing this debate and for her most profound speech. I acknowledge, too, the others in this House who have led on this deep human tragedy. I also acknowledge the humanitarian help provided by the UK thus far.
Over recent days, I have been in contact with Bishop Paul Sarker, who leads the small but vibrant Anglican Church of Bangladesh. He describes the situation as an extreme violation of humanity and talks of the extreme pressure that Bangladesh is experiencing at the moment, as well as its readiness to do all that it can. He pleads for greater action by the international community to support agents of compassion, such as his church, and to address the underlying causes of the crisis. In that spirit, I raise three practical issues and a longer-term one.
First, NGOs working on the front line need urgent help. At least one heroic NGO working on the ground has told me of the urgent need for international humanitarian agencies to be able to register their organisations in Bangladesh as quickly as possible and to have long-term permission to operate. Caritas and Christian Aid currently have, I believe, only two months in which to operate. Speedy and efficient registration processes are self-evidently vital. Without them, they cannot deliver food and medical supplies, let alone establish safe places to protect the children. I have heard terrible reports of children being trafficked and women being raped. Help is needed to stop starving Rohingyas being lured into drug trafficking as carriers. Therefore, I ask the Minister what Her Majesty's Government are doing to help expedite the necessary registration.
Secondly, as important and necessary as long-term return is for the Rohingya people, what can be done to ensure that reported plans for the repatriation of those forcibly driven out do not involve them in being forcibly driven back against their will and exposed to further danger?
Thirdly, following other points that have already been made, what are Her Majesty's Government doing to ensure that the witness testimonies of those who have been harmed are recorded so that those responsible for the atrocities can be held to account, as they must be?
Looking at long-term solutions, I am conscious of the analysis of the underlying issues in the Kofi Annan report, referred to by the noble Lord, Lord Alton. The report refers to the entrenched poverty of the Rakhine, as well as the Rohingya, and to the nutritional status of all the children in the state being,
"the worst in the country",
It calls for communal participation and representation, intercommunal cohesion on border issues, and for the bilateral relationship with Bangladesh to be addressed, along with the need to abolish the distinction between different kinds of citizens and clarify the rights of those who reside in Myanmar without citizenship.
Given that, the report tells us, the Myanmar Government expressed willingness to implement "the large majority" of the commission's recommendations, and in the light of a reply from the noble Lord, Lord Ahmed, that I had to a Question very recently stating that the Government,
"assess that the Commission's recommendations provide the most realistic solution to address the longstanding and underlying issues in Rakhine",
I ask the Minister what efforts the Government are making now to provide diplomatic, legal and other expertise to assist the State Counsellor and the Government of Myanmar to deliver on that promise.
I end with the call of Pope Francis, who, as we have been reminded, will be visiting the country soon, on men of good will to work for those who are persecuted so that the people of that country,
"may be given their full rights".
Those words echo Cardinal Bo of Yangon, who visited Parliament last year. He said in a recent interview that,
"the Church reaffirms the rights of every person in the country".
He said that,
"Peace is possible and peace is the only way",
and rightly so, but as he warned us in this place and the United Nations Commission for Human Rights, the "intolerable situation" in Rakhine state and the injustices suffered by the Rohingya, are,
"not a basis for a stable, peaceful future for my country".
The Minister of State, Department for International Development (Lord Bates) (Con) [responded for the Government]: …The survivors' accounts of the suffering have painted a harrowing picture. The noble Baroness, Lady Kinnock, and the right reverend Prelate the Bishop the Coventry referred to that and to other humanitarian abuses. Burmese security forces and ethnic Rakhine vigilante groups have displaced the Rohingya through a brutal campaign of violence that increasingly appears to be ethnic cleansing. Others have gone much further and we would not detract at all from what those organisations have said. The UK is one of the leading actors in the international community in responding to and seeking a solution to this crisis. I emphasise that word, solution, and I will come back to it. We are calling on the security forces and the Burmese Government to protect civilians, to facilitate full humanitarian access in Rakhine and to allow the safe and voluntary return of the Rohingya….
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