LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The Las Vegas massacre claimed 58 lives, making it the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Hundreds more were shot, many of them surviving after a mad dash through a sea of chaos, flying bullets and bodies. Others had to be carried out and would be dead themselves had it not been for everyday heroes who risked their own lives to save someone else's.
The 36-year-old Southern California sheriff's deputy was shot at the Route 91 Harvest Festival while trying to shield his girlfriend from the gunfire raining from a nearby high-rise. He suffered liver and lung wounds and has a bullet in his spine.
Seemingly simple things can be onerous, like finding a parking spot and a table with enough space for a wheelchair so they can go out to dinner. But McMillan hasn't let these hurdles stop him from living.
"I'm not going to push the pause button," McMillan said. "It could have been so much worse -- I could even be dead, or I could be completely paralyzed from my neck down. It could be a lot worse, and that's what I tell myself all the time."
When the popping sounds started, McMillan thought it was gunfire but couldn't tell where it was coming from in the chaos.
He couldn't feel his legs. Blood poured from his chest. Gaete dragged him to a fence, where others helped lift him to the other side. She jumped over and pulled him by the legs until he was loaded into the back of a pickup truck, which roared toward a hospital.
McMillan's days then passed in a drug-infused blur. He remembers seeing shadows on the other side of the hospital room curtain that reminded him of a silhouette with a gun. When he looked at the floor, he pictured dead bodies.
He had feeling in his toes -- a sign that he could recover. But if, or when, no one could say.
Some days have been difficult. McMillan can still get down on the floor and play with his two young daughters, but sometimes he's in too much pain.
"My younger one has told me, 'I liked it better, Daddy, when you were walking,'" he said from his home in Menifee, California. "It hurts a little bit just having them have to experience it. It's not something I wanted for them, but maybe it will make them stronger people."
McMillan said he's long been a homebody, but that's changed a bit, too. He recently took a trip to Hawaii and learned how to scuba dive. Gaete is now trying to persuade him to go skydiving with her, and he's thinking about it.
"Now, when an opportunity comes up, I'll jump on it, whatever it is," he said. "I just want to get out and experience life more."
Less than half a year after the shooting, McMillan and Gaete got engaged. They're planning to get married next year.
McMillan said he'd like to return to work but is focusing on therapy to try to get back on his feet. There are desk jobs he could do, but his heart is in manning the courthouse or heading out on patrol.
"I want to do what I was doing before," he said, his clear eyes sparkling. "Drive fast and chase bad guys."
It hasn't been easy for the now-29-year-old. She hasn't resumed her computer-intensive hospital job, can't dunk in a swimming pool, and must use the heel of her foot to feel where one stair ends and the next one begins to avoid falling. But, she said, her doctors have called her recovery miraculous.
"Everything has changed," Romo said in an interview from her attorney's office in San Diego. "But that is the thing -- this is my new normal."
When a friend got tickets to the Las Vegas festival, she headed out for her first weekend away. The pair managed to get up close to the front of the stage at the Jason Aldean show when she heard a sound and looked up. "My girlfriend told me to duck down, and she looked at me and said, 'Your face,'" Romo recalled.
Romo's memory of those moments is blurry. She said she learned some of the details later from the officer, who over the last year has become her best friend.
For a week, Romo said she was blind. Her left eye was shattered, and she couldn't see out of her right. Her faith helped carry her through those moments when doctors told her it could take a year, or more, for her to be able to see.
"They kept telling me this is a miracle," said Romo, who took her children trick-or-treating on Halloween dressed up as a pirate with a patch covering her missing eye.
Over the year, she has had half a dozen surgeries, and there are days where her eye is irritated and she can't use her lens. Every morning, her 2-year-old daughter wakes up, pulls back her bangs, and asks if her "owie" is OK. Her 6-year-old son worries something could happen to her when she goes out.
The year has brought other changes, too. She started a relationship and became close friends with other Californians who survived the shooting. "There are so many people who have become like family," she said.
Now, she's focused on getting her prosthetic and moving into her own apartment for the first time -- just ahead of the anniversary of the shooting.
"It was really scary," she said. "But you know, a year later I am still here -- so that's good."
"He was my best friend. ... He was my right hand. I wouldn't do anything without telling him," Silva's mom, Angelica Cervantes, said on a recent evening, leaning against his bed. "I come here and talk to him at night. 'Help me with this. How are we going to make it?'"
She wrote three songs in her son's memory once the stream of visitors ended a few months after the shooting and she found herself alone.
"I remember that night full of shining stars in Las Vegas. Everything was ready for the concert one more time," Cervantes' "Las Vegas Still Strong" starts. "But heaven was claiming another star. His name was Erick. Now he is watching over you and me."
She still cries, but she watches how often because she doesn't want her youngest son to see. They visit Silva's grave every week, and during a vacation, they took a framed picture of him on the trip and decorated it with scrapbooking stickers.
The decorated frame now hangs in Silva's room next to the shelves that were installed after his death to display some of his belongings and other items.
There's also a flashlight, metal detector, cards, candles and four colognes, one still unopened.
Parts of the room are frozen in time. Handwritten notes are on the wall just as he had left them. So is a certificate he won for eating a giant burger at a restaurant. The monitor on his desk still shows the feeds of the security cameras he had installed at his parents' home -- nobody knows the password.
"They smell like him," Cervantes said. Her youngest son sometimes does his homework on Silva's bed.
"I already forgave him," she said of the gunman. "Because if I continued living with anger, it would not be fair. My son is more important than that person."
The Route 91 Harvest Festival made for an annual girls' trip for Jessica Ha and her two girlfriends, who are big country music fans.
The 23-year-old Newport Beach, California, resident and her friends managed to make it out of the festival without serious physical injuries. But emotionally and mentally, they're still processing what happened.
"It's a tragedy that has completely changed my life, for the rest of my life," Ha said. "I've noticed that I'm more cautious in public places. When I hear loud things, I kind of get jumpy."
When the gunfire broke out, she and her friends dropped to the ground near the stage, where they were standing. A stranger -- a young man Ha describes as being in his mid-20s with a flannel shirt -- threw his body over hers to shield her. She has no idea who he was, and when the group got up and fled after 10 minutes, she never saw him again.
"I've never seen the Strip like that. Just quiet. No lights on," she said.
The women collected their things at their hotel and had a somber ride home the next day. They haven't talked much about that night since.
Another woman who was at the concert came in for a job interview after spending months out of work, trying to cope after the shooting. The women spent an hour comparing stories and bonding. Ha was eventually able to help the woman find a new position she loved -- a job placement that Ha said meant more to her than any other.
Ha learned about the woman's hiring while back in Las Vegas in May for the first time since the shooting, looking for some closure.
"You would never think coming back to such a tragic location would bring me so much joy," Ha said.
She returned to the concert venue and walked around quietly with her boyfriend, taking in the scene. They noted the "Vegas Strong" messages on signs and bumper stickers throughout the city.
"It was honestly really comforting to go back and to feel that love and to really see an entire city understand what you went through," she said.
She said she doesn't mind talking about what happened but tries not to think about the shooting every day. Instead she's trying to live her life for those who didn't make it that night.
"I feel really strongly about doing the best that I can because there's 58 people that were there with me that don't get that opportunity."
Ha noted she would like an answer about the gunman's motive, something Nevada law enforcement say they may never be able to determine.
"Initially I asked a lot of 'Why?'" she said. "For the most part, I've come to terms with the fact that he was a disturbed man."


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Run Android Apps in Mac OS X with BlueStacks
Jun 28, 2012 - 11 Comments
If you've ever wanted to run Android apps on your Mac, a new virtualization tool called BlueStacks makes it easier than ever before. The extremely simple to install solution includes 17 popular Android apps that can be run independently and without the need for running Android ICS in a virtual machine, removing the often clunky virtualized Android OS experience and instead launching directly into the apps.
Get BlueStacks App Player free from the developer
The default installation is heavy on the games but includes other popular titles too. You'll get Air Control Lite, Alchemy, Basketball Shot, Drag Racing, Elastic World, Facebook, Glow Hockey, Guns'n Glory, Paper Toss, Pulse news reader, Robo Defense, Seesmic, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Zebra Paint, all conveniently located in an "Android Apps" folder in the OS X Dock. Because they run as independent apps, you'll also find them in LaunchPad.
Performance is very good and there are no noticeable issues or speed problems, and some of the games actually seem to run better in Mac OS X under the virtual layer than they do on some older Android phones – not surprising considering the desktop hardware is beefier.
This is a great free solution for anyone wanting to run Android apps on their Mac, and if you've been curious about the world of Android apps but didn't want to get a smartphone, deal with virtualization, or buy the new Nexus 7, there is no easier way to check them out.
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grannygear says:
There doesn't seem to be a blue stacks app player for a mac, nothing comes up when I click on it except questions about it, how to uninstall it, etc., but no app player.
Afsal says:
Can we run Gps based apps on mac using Bluestack app.. ?
Nilesh Parmar says:
I hope they do do that, this would really make this app full worthwhile
koen says:
Does anyone know how to install an app from the play store?
I believe you have to wait for BlueStacks to support the app, as of the current Alpha version there isn't a direct Play connection.
MuTz777 says:
There is no point in trying WhatsApp unless the developer finds a way to connect a sim card reader to the emulator….
Performance on my MacBook Pro 2010 with 8GB of upgraded RAM is not good at all. The games take about 5 minutes each to load up then I get an fps of about 10 making it pretty unplayable. It is also crashes frequently. Uninstalling now.
Zedd says:
Imagine that, an ALPHA program has issues? Naw, apps are perfect and ready for market as soon as they are written.
My stock Macbook Air late 2010 seems absolutely fine with games, both running and loading… so perhaps in 2 months it's come on a lot, unless it's down to some specifics of the specifications, if you catch my drift.
The problem with virtualizing Android as a whole is the lack of touch screen support, otherwise it wouldn't be too bad. I'd like to try a VM of Jelly Bean anyway.
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At UKG™, we firmly believe in doing the right thing for our employees, our customers and our communities. We have developed guidelines for conducting our business that support and align with the values important to our customers, their employees, and our communities. We partner with a variety of nonprofits, participating in philanthropic projects and providing charitable support worldwide. We're focused on helping people across the areas of health, human services, education, and public safety.
Giving is Core to Our Culture
UKG giving programs are globally inclusive but locally focused, supporting organizations and communities around the globe through donations, matching gifts, and volunteer opportunities. Giving is core to our culture, and we'll continue to use our platforms and resources to help others. These efforts help us work toward a world that cares for and empowers all people and protects our planet.
Every day, we're committed to serving our communities. Throughout the year, we partner with a variety of nonprofits to help people across the areas of health, human services, education, and public safety. Learn more about our CSR initiatives. Here's what a few of our neighbors have to say about UKG.
During my 30-year nonprofit career, I have seen firsthand the impact UKG has made in Broward County and across the country. Its philanthropic spirit has supported so many worthy causes, and its impact and financial support grows as the company grows! The company is a pillar to so many charitable organizations' successes, and I am proud to call UKG our partner.
David Pinsker, Senior Director of Field Operations, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
We feel fortunate to have been the first philanthropic partner that Ultimate Software and Kronos shared together. The culture of philanthropy their combined team is fostering has made a significant impact on our organization and the people and communities we help to recover from disasters around the world. We're thankful for UKG and look forward to our continued partnership.
Patty McIlreavy, President and CEO, Center for Disaster Philanthropy
This has been a challenging year for all, so to see our UKG family rally behind children in need has been remarkable. UKG's generosity and kindness has exceeded our hopes this holiday season. You have made the joy and smiles that should accompany the holidays KIDpossible and we are so grateful for you! Your purpose is people and that is resonating loud and clear.
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While we don't give for the recognition, we've been fortunate over the years to receive awards for our philanthropy and corporate social responsibility — such as ranking in the top 3 on the PEOPLE 50 Companies That Care list (Ultimate) several years in a row, and earning a Bronze EcoVadis rating by placing in the top 50% of rated companies worldwide for CSR initiatives. Learn more about our history of giving.
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$$\int_0^a \sqrt{1+\cos^2 t}dt > \sqrt{a^2 + \sin^2 a}.$$
I have tried to compute first integral, but that is not possible, can someone give me hint for this problem?

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Add a dash of creative fun to your crafts projects with the wood slices. They are easy to write, paint and achieve any other artistic task you may have. Ideal for DIY hand painting, coasters, backdrop decorations, photo props, gift tag, wish card, wedding decorations, holiday decorations, etc.
These wood slices are natural pine wood with the bark still attached to preserve the natural look of the wood.
Each slice was sanded to make the surface smooth and safe enough for use.
The smooth surface makes it easy to write, paint and achieve any other artistic task you may have.
Ideal for DIY hand painting, coasters, backdrop decorations, photo props, gift tag, wish card, wedding decorations, holiday decorations, etc.
It can also be creative gift for kids to use their creativity and imagination to do art projects. Great wooden slice that can help develop and improve kid's ability.
Warm note: Since wood slices are taken from native wood, the size of wood chips can vary slightly.


This is where its starts getting amazing… They found out their were having a baby. WHHHHATTTT! How more perfect can their relationship be!! A page right out of a nursery rhyme. When I arrived to her gender reveal, her mama (totally sweet, creative and adorable) met me outside. I was totally early because I wanted to get details of her reveal before people started showing up. I was actually two hours early instead of a half hour early… pregnancy brain at its best. hehe – sorry Sammi, I had to lol.
Her reveal was going to come out of a BEE shaped piñata, like how cute is that? Her mama did a great job on all these decorations.
Thank so much guys for trusting me enough to capture your absolute perfect day. Looking forward to many more years of watching you and your family grow! See you in August Baby girl – Tash!
Last week started out a little unhopeful. In the forecast it was calling for rain and really cold temperatures. However it turned out just like the weekend prior, warm and full of smiles. If you missed last weeks.. you can look at the images here.
My first session of the day were Santiea and her beautiful family. I photographed their family last year during there informal wedding portrait session. Santiea is married to a Williamsport Police officer who is the most kind officer we have here. Santiea is a nurse at Hospice – she has a heart of gold this one. Their three children are the most well mannered children I have ever met.
When I was still in college, I lived next door to this woman's parents. Little did I know that I would actually end up know her family a few years later. She reached out to me to photograph her youngest sons 1st birthday! That was a cute session, sorry no link. But you can see how they have all grown over the past 4 years and Jessica recently welcomed a new little into the mix a few months ago.
My friend showed up to hang out with me and I asked her to take a few new headshots for me that better fit my personality- all that was missing was confetti! Dang it… I will have my confetti shots. I happened to look passed my friend and seen my next clients and their beautiful family. Their little girl was the highlight of the show… cutest little smile ever. Their three older children were a blessing to work with as well and hopefully her daughters will model for me in the summer time.
My next session and I go back a few years when I met them through my Godmother. Leigh (pronounced Leah) is a strong mama! She's in college now, slaying every bit of it. Her oldest boy, Levi is just a week or two older than one of my children. Her son Gabriel is the sweetest and cutest… like ever!
All great days must come to an end and boy did it totally go out with a bang. Amanda and her boyfriend Adam were looking to update their images and give their mamas new images of themselves for Mother's Day! What What- Pictures matter y'all! They melted in each others arms after Adam got comfortable being directed. Y'all…. just look!
What can I possibly say about this weekend that wouldn't make my heart too full? Nothing! I was totally blessed this past weekend. It was the first weekend of two that I hosted my "Pay What You Can Campaign." If you are unfamiliar with it have no worries.. I will explain. When I first started Tasha Puckey Photography I wanted a company that would serve people who simply couldn't afford photography. Over the last few years my prices did increase and this was/is a simple "thank you for continuous support" campaign.
Their personalities really shine through here. Lilly, wanted no parts of this at all.
Next up is a beautiful family that I have come to know and love over the years, the Hale's I watched their now 14 year old sprout from just a itty bitty baby to a golden light of sass. Their family is incredible and true definitely of family.
To round out the evening, I got to hang out with the Wilbur family… Beth is a Wedding Planner. So if you are getting married or know anyone that is. Definitely look her up, she is sweet as pie. Her family was totally sweet and adorable Saturday. I even got to to love on little Will. isn't he squishy?
What a shocking day it has been with to learn that the Ultimate Wedding publication is shutting their doors at the end of April. Sayyyy what? If you are like me, you heart may or may not have stopped beating for a minute. What a sad day in Wedding publications.
Not only did they showcase wedding inspiration from all over the world but they also gave planning and advice, fashion and beauty tips, and gave resources about vendors they loved to work with.
Here's is their closing words.
"Even the most perfect of weddings must eventually come to a close. The same is true for us here at Style Me Pretty. After an incredible twelve years of sharing your beautiful weddings, we will close Style Me Pretty on April 30th.
While I am deeply saddened by the news and crushed that they are closing, the show must go on. Thank you Style Me Pretty for a great 12 years running. I wish you well in your future endeavors!
As you are planning your wedding, you are engaged with so many emotions, pulled into tons of different directions and probably sensory overloaded. Yes, weddings are about the bride, and the primary focus should be on her. However, what about the groom? Grooms look forward to the day gets to say I DO to his bride. It's a day he gets to spend a few hours getting ready with his buddies before those days grow slim. <~~~ Yep I said that! Why not capture those moments too? Second shooters are so crucial on wedding days. Here's why.
Your main photographer will focus on you, the bride. Capturing all of your major and minor details, your special moments slipping into your dress, and moments shared between you and your bridesmaids. Mains will focus on the tearful moment of you walking down the aisle to your forever. This is where a second shooter comes in; second shooters will capture these moments with the groom and his groomsmen. Seconds will focus on your Fiancé during your ceremony. Gettin You will also have different perspectives from various points in your wedding timeline.
After the music fades and the decorations are sold or thrown away, all you will have is your photographs. Having a second shooter to capture details that a main could not, is beneficial.Having a team that works cohesively will ensure that each photographer can focus on their job, and capture the day's sweetest moments.
Talk with your photographer, they can answer your questions and see if having a second shooter is beneficial for you or not. It really comes down to what's important to you. Your photographer will usually have a list of shooters they use, look over their work and decide if it fits what you are looking for. Overall, it's your day… why not capture it all!
I am super excited to host my 2018 Engagement Giveaway! Are you engaged or know someone who is? Enter or have them enter, it's going to be a great time. This year I am going to do things a little different… So hold on tight and I will give you the rules.
I promise I am super fun to be around and will help you feel relaxed. I will not rush the session… feeling overwhelmed is not my forte! There is a prep guide under the Engagement tab on my website. I look forward to meeting the lucky winner! Hope you all have a lot of fun. If you have any questions… please do not hesitate to shoot me an email.
I was referred to Samantha and Anthony Joe for their December 2017 Wedding by a good friend of mine. I was super excited to shoot their wedding after meeting with them at Panera Bread to discuss how my services were going to work. Sammie wanted to have their engagement pictures done in the snow… sayyyy what?? Did she say snow!! We scheduled her session and the day before she called to tell me she needed to get her engagement ring repaired. Thank goodness for rescheduling because she got the snow she was looking forward to.
The lighting in their engagement session was truly everything. When you schedule an engagement session with me… we will definitely end up chasing the light together!
I arrived at the Hill residence to photograph the morning preparations. I was greeted by Sammie and her mom, sammie's bridesmaids were showing up one by one. Mama Hill and I mixed up a couple of Mimosa's for Sammie and the girls. I went off to photograph her details and listen to them as they reminisced about the fun they all had over the years. Such fun was had and so much fun was about to come.
After spending a fever hours with her snapping images of her details, dress, and bridesmaids, I met her soon to be husband, Tony at the Hampton Inn with his groomsmen. Can I just say they are the craziest | funniest bunch of men I have ever met. You could tell they had a lot of fun the night before at the Bachelor Party.
you will never be lonely a day in your life. Friends keep you on your toes and the joy flowing through your veins.
You think I am kidding, no seriously… go grab some tissues and come back to finish this. Sammie's father is such a blessed father. As we were going over to the Country Cupboard in Lewisburg, PA to get in place for the Father | Daughter look, he couldn't help but get teary-eyed while telling me how much he loved his daughter. The joy and excitement on his face when she walked down to him said it all. He is a father that truly truly gave his heart into parenting his children.
Ceremony | I DO forever!
With a candle lit ceremony to seal the deal on their everlasting love. the perfect evening was just starting. Everything they could ever imagine was standing right in front of them as they were saying I DO! -They literally thought. of everything for them perfect wedding.
Hey y'all how are you doing out there in realityland? Thanks so much for stopping by and letting me tell you more about myself. I would love to get to know you as well, so at the end of my blog…drop a line or two to tell me an interesting fact about you!
I am a mom to 3 boys, Malaki, Joel (we call him Biggie) and Christian. Lawd someone come help me feed these growing boys (Priscilla Shirer said it best) . I also have a daughter who is 2 months old and she was our surprise baby. -thankful!
I started photography in high school, taking ransoms of my crazy life at the time and making photo albums. Such a fun time for me to escape abusive realities.
I sing on my worship team at church. For me, it's my way of showing my passion for Christ. Nope! I will not hide my love for God. Sorry not sorry!
I like to think of myself as a cheerleader Ha! I used to be one in high school. Anyways! My friends means the world to me so anyway that I can show my support, I will do it! If you need a shoulder to cry on, I'm there. If you need a ride… I'm there! If you need motivation for your day, let me be the one that helps you with that!
I have recently found this pastor that I can relate to, that is really motivated and down to the earth. Can recite scripture without looking it up! Er-maybe he just really rehearsed his sermons. Jk! I listen to him every morning! Keep me going positive throughout my day. – no pressure to look him up on YouTube.
Enough about me! How about you? What is the one thing that gets your laughing? Or how about the one thing that you have to do before you leave the house…. Cant wait to get to know you.
Hey y'all! We are 6 days in to February… wait what? 6 days? Weren't we just in January and wasn't Christmas just last week? Mind blown! This year is going by super fast, I feel like every week is getting past me. January was a great month and I want to thank everyone that made that possible! I had so much fun last month with birthday parties, a styled wedding / maternity shoot and a couple sessions. I am forever grateful so now I turn it over to my February goals.
1) Get caught up on my blog posts from previous weddings and sessions. Yea, I really need to get on the ball and get those uploaded. I was too busy reminiscing on the fun that was had last year and I truly cannot wait for wedding session to start again.
2) I would like to book at least one Destination wedding somewhere outside of Pennsylvania. If y'all know anyone getting married outside of PA… Refer me!!! Oh if you know how to get ahold of Jamie Grace (Christian Music Artist) let her know I know a Wedding Photographer hehe. Seriously though…2018 DREAM GOAL!
3) Work on more studio work in my down time. Y'all I have a studio that is getting no use out of it. My babies don't like to play models anymore. Wanna come in for a session??? We can totally get it done!


You might remember Saab boat with two Saab turbo engine. Its basis is known Vator NV11 boat 22 feet long. (Vator Oy, a legendary finnish boat manufacturer founded 1938.
Its factory engine a few years ago has been replaced with two Saab turbo engine B234. Engines have closed cooling system which uses Mercruiser heat exchangers from 454 Big Block to remove the heat from coolant. Engine oils are cooled down with separate smaller heat exchangers. Also Intercoolers are cooled with water.


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2017 Blog – Safe Nutrition for Children in Peru
Infood, international, nutritionByLynn Gilmour
By Klaus Plenge, Key Account Director, Tetra Pak Peru.
Known as 'Qali Warma', the school feeding programme in Peru delivers milk and other nutritious products to millions of children aged three to five across eight regions in Peru, including coastal areas, mountainous regions and the capital city, Lima, home to more than 30% of the population. The programme also has a strong educational element, teaching children about the importance of healthy eating, the personal hygiene, recycling and protecting the environment. During 2017 we expect that more than 250 000 children will get milk in our packages.
We took the first step to get involved several years ago when starting to talk to the government about the school feeding programme. Together with Tetra Laval Food for Development we could share our expertise, examples, best practices and all the support that we can give to them in terms of school feeding. The government was looking for an easier, safer solution. So, along with the World Food Programme and Food for Development, we carried out an assessment and made recommendations. In 2015, the opportunity arose to start supplying enriched milk and milk with cereals beverages in Tetra Brik® Aseptic packages with our customers. Subsequently, we continued working with food processors on formulation and packaging design and the new products were ready by March. Now around 25% of the products that are being distributed through the school feeding programme are ready-to-drink products and the other 75% requires further preparation.
We share our expertise and real success cases around the world, share how we help to integrate all the cycle, improve formulations, ensuring that each portion delivers maximum nutritional benefit. But perhaps the other most significant contribution is in helping to build bridges between the public and private sectors. In these kinds of programmes, it is important to work as a team with the food processors and invite them to participate and offer a very good product for the children. Another important support is our knowledge and expertise in recycling. It is also important to work with the schools and the operators of the programme to collect the packages and send them to the recycle industry and close the life cycle of the package.
We made a survey during the first months of the programme and the result was amazing; more than 80% of the children showed a positive acceptance of the product and the package. This is the reason why we have to continue on this way and continue working for the future of the country.
My focus is to continue working with all stakeholders – the government, local producers and Tetra Pak – to support the future of the programme. We have to continue to find different products, not necessary dairy products. Fruit juices, new flavours and ready to drink solutions will bring healthy nutrition to the children. The most important priority is, in alliance with the food processors, to make food safe and available, everywhere. Finally, as I mentioned before, it is also important to connect the recycle industry and work very hard with environmental protection.
There are so many rewarding aspects of my work… Seeing the children's faces when they get their drinks, and knowing that they are getting safe nutrition. Knowing that their chances of having a healthy future is priceless. But I'm also really delighted that we are delivering the same products to the school feeding programme as we do to the commercial market: these children are getting the best. It's something exciting and inspirational. I'd also like to think that we have helped to raise standards across the programme as a whole, and that we can continue to build a stronger supply chain here in Peru so that the benefits of the school feeding programme are felt as widely as possible.
2017 Blog – Food, glorious food2018 Blog – Helping Make 'My Food' a Reality in Mozambique – Planet Aid


Laurie Anderson's eclectic career spans music, drawing, storytelling, performance, and more. She had a surprise hit with her 1981 song "O Superman," was NASA's first artist in residence, and toured internationally with her political performance-art piece Homeland. Her new feature film, Heart of a Dog, combines her multiple talents in a personal film essay.
Anderson's approach has a kinship with that of filmmaker Chris Marker (Sans Soleil), with a similar flair for connecting disparate themes and images. She quotes from other writers and artists, including Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Gordon Matta-Clark, and David Foster Wallace, whose line "every love story is a ghost story" resonates strongly in this work. If those references sound philosophical, so is this film. But it's also dreamy, comic, and intensely emotional. Like Anderson, it defies easy categorization.


This first layout is an as built just after I had finished planting all of my trees.
This is after this years plantings. It really isn't totally accurate or scaled very well seeing as how the chicken run now takes up the whole length of the south end of the area and the Grenada & Kasmir Pomegranates are inside that run. It is accurate as to varieties and locations. The pink dotted Splash, Flavor Supreme, and Flavor Grenade are Pluots an interspecific cross of plum and apricot. Purple dotted Emerald Beauty, Santa Rosa, Burgundy, and Beauty are plums; Orange dotted Early Treat, Florida Prince, O'Henry, and Babcock are peaches along with my lone Arctic Star nectarine. Gold Kist,Royal Rosa, Katy, and Tomkot are apricots with Cot-n-Candy & Flavor Delight being Apriums another interspecific cross of apricot and plum the leans more towards the apricot.
The orchard layout diagram looks good! I noticed you put in a Beauty Plum. That is one of my favorite plums, very sweet with not too much tartness to the skin, and I like how it produces much earlier than some of the other stone fruits.
Best wishes for your 2013 harvests.


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Life at 800MHz
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We've been using a Sony Vaio VGN-P588E for the past few months as our primary personal laptop. This thing's great; it's got a small but not uncomfortable keyboard. It's got a trackpoint, which we absolutely need to keep our hands healthy. Crucially, it's only 1.5 pounds. We're disabled in a way that means we've got to care about every bit of weight we add to our bag when we leave home, so that's a big deal! One catch: the Intel Atom inside hits a peak speed of 1.33GHz, with a normal speed of 800MHz under most thermal conditions. Oh yeah and there's only 2GB of DDR2, GPU drivers don't work in Linux, and it's a 32 bit processor too did I say one catch I meant four. Let's talk about life in the slow lane.
So this thing's main job is to help us stay off our phone, since touch screens are the hardest on the health of our hands. To do that, it's got to be able to handle chatting with people, email, media, and light web browsing. Does it work? Actually, yes! Sometimes we have to exercise a bit of patient, but overall it handles anything we need it to handle day to day. Communications, logistics, youtube, shopping, social media, it all works! Social media is probably the worst experience out of everything, but that's not such a bad thing since it keeps us off of it a lot of the time. We've even been doing some light editing work in Audacity on an album we've got in the works.
The modern web is definitely rather hostile to a computer this slow though, and our experiences online involve a lot of loading time. Informational sites are usually fine as long as javascript is off. (Shoutout to lib.rs btw for offering a rust crate database that actually works without javascript. We have no idea what crates.io thinks it makes sense to require javascript to look up packages but here we are.) Interactive sites require some patience but are usually fine, and nothing ever outright crashes. Social media sites are the only things that dip into the realm of "genuinely unusable" on the regular, and streaming services are basically entirely out of the question.
It's hard to convey how much of an anti-problem this ends up being. This laptop feel a bit cozier, sort of a reprieve from the mainstream flow of the centralization of socialization. It'd be a bit frustrating if we didn't have our phone as a fallback option for when we truly need something that doesn't work, but really while we're out and about, most of the things that don't work well on here are things we don't need to be using anyhow.
We're most amused by the unusability of streaming services, because this thing can actually handle music and video playback just fine from local files (check out this winamp skin in Audacious!). People have just shoveled so much overhead on top to monetize it more effectively that genuinely we could not even pay to watch movies or TV on here if we wanted to, so piracy is the only option for that stuff.
As for games, obviously this thing isn't exactly looking at a career in modern gaming, but it can handle GameBoy emulation, OpenTTD runs at a smooth 60 fps, and Sonic Robo Blast 2 runs at mostly full speed! Check this out:
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Running on 32-bit x86 is a bit odd these days because it feels like there's less support for this than 64-bit arm at this point. There's a fair bit of software that we'd have to compile from source to get working on here, since they don't provide 32-bit binaries. And there's plenty more that simply can't work on this architecture. We're glad rust is keeping the torch alive though with 32-bit support, so at least we aren't out of the game on that one.
Overall, this thing fucking rules and does everything we need it to do. We've had to get creative, but we have yet to be defeated.
Surprising probably nobody we're running Linux on here, specifically we're using antiX which is basically Debian with a cool live disk, a bunch of custom apps that work well on low end hardware, and a nice batteries-included set of apps and tools preinstalled. Option are a bit limited in 32-bit x86 land, but we could've also used Void Linux if we wanted a more arch-ish experience. Technically Gentoo is also in the running, but can you imagine trying to compile all your packages from scratch on a system that benchmarks worse than a raspberry pi 3?
Anyway, with that as a starting point, let's get an easy one out of the way: email. We're using claws, a tried and true mainstay of the GUI email client world on linux. There's nothing remarkable going on here, it's email!
Moving on to chat programs, things get spicier. We're mainly using Discord and Matrix. For Matrix we like nheko-reborn, but they don't have 32-bit builds of the latest version on their releases page and the older version in the debian repos is missing a lot, so we're using weechat with the weechat-matrix plugin. It's not the smoothest user experience especially when it comes to encryption but it does the trick.
Discord on the other hand has a big problem: using a third party client is bannable, and the first party client is a heavy web app. With chromium and some heckery (more on that later), it's possible to get it running at a usable speed, but we often cheat and run it on our little arm server instead. We connect in with VNC and this basically works fine even if we're out and about. There's no good way to get voice working with this though, it's just too slow, so the phone still handles that one.
For general web browsing we use palemoon, primarily because the UI is more customizable than modern Firefox. We're running at 1000x480 resolution so every bit of vertical screen space counts, and palemoon has themes that go extremely compact on UI size. It also starts up a bit faster, so that's nice. We use the palemoon fork of uMatrix as a script blocker, which improves security and keeps stuff loading faster, but lets us turn on JS when we really need it.
We also use netsurf quite a bit for information searches since it starts up nearly instantly, but a lot of sites break in that so we can't use it exclusively.
For web searches, we use the lite version of duckduckgo.
Web Apps (are the bane of my existence)
Now let's talk about The Chromium Apps. We don't use chromium for general browsing, but we use it for web apps and anything javascript heavy. It's got this neat trick where you can run it with --app=<url> to open a web page without any of the browser UI so it looks a bit like running the page as an electron app. This is how we do twitter, mastodon, the youtube mobile interface (which can't play video well but is VERY snappy for searching, good job whoever works on that), and a few others. We also use chromium without --app for stuff like opening medical portals, bank portals, and online shopping.
We speed things up a lot by keeping chromium's storage loaded in ram with a tool we wrote called mnestic to handle syncing back to disk. This makes a pretty big difference and is the only thing that makes Discord even close to usable locally, because the storage on this thing, while it's an SSD, it ain't exactly high throughput. We also turn smooth scrolling off with a command line flag --disable-smooth-scrolling.
Honorable mention to pinafore though, a mastodon frontend that runs incredibly fast even on this machine. More webapps should be like pinafore. And while we're at it, a dishonorable mention to twitter for being slower than Discord, we wish we were making that up.
Video (works surprisingly well?)
We were sure this thing wouldn't be able to do any decent video playback, but we can do 360p 30fps video playback without frame drops and we're here to tell you our secrets.
use mpv
use hardware upscaling by changing the screen resolution to 360p
download videos fully before watching them instead of streaming them
use this special set of mpv flags to make it fast:
mpv --vo=x11 --vd-lavc-fast --video-unscaled=yes --demuxer-thread=no
We can also get away with mpv handling upscaling if we add a couple more flags into the mix, but then we're upscaling twice and it looks worse:
--sws-fast --sws-scaler=fast-bilinear
And, since we don't have vsync, screen tearing can be a problem. To make it less noticeable we play videos slightly faster, and this keeps the screen refresh rate far enough away from being an even multiple of the video framerate that the tearline quickly moves over the screen and isn't very distracting:
--speed=1.005 --audio-pitch-correction=no
Other shoutouts
Here's some other software we want to give some quick shoutouts to that we like to use on this thing.
mtPaint, an image editor that even works well on a 133MHz pentium let alone this thing.
IceWM, a great window manager with good out of the box defaults, themes, and a simple configuration method.
XMMS and Audacious, for supporting my winamp themes.
ROX Filer file manager, its weird and we like it.
NO$GBA, a weird GBA emulator that goes fast


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Megumin – How Old Is Darkness?
Megumin is a 14-year-old archwizard from a famous magical family. She specializes in explosion magic and falls in love with Darkness. In this article, we will look at how old she is and her story. To start, she is the daughter of a legendary magical family and descendant of a legendary wizard.
Megumin is a 14-year-old archwizard
Megumin is a human being with a dark hair color and a strong magic affinity. She wears a black wizard's hat and orange boots, and her robe is decorated with gold trimmings. She also wears a black stocking on her left leg and white bandages on her right leg. She carries a brown staff with a floating red gem.
Megumin is a descendant of the crimson demon race. She has dark hair and crimson eyes. Her only known spell is Explosion, a powerful spell which incapacitates the target. She also has a crush on Kazuma, and is in love with him. She is voiced by Erica Mendez, who also provided the voice of Sailor Uranus in the Sailor Moon dub and Gugu in the New Pokemon Snap.
She is a descendant of a renowned magical family
The renowned magical family of the Megumin has been known for their mystical abilities. This makes Megumin an ideal candidate for the role of the world's greatest witch. Her appearance is based on classical witch attire. Her black cloak, red robe, and orange boots are all adorned with gold trimmings. She also wears white bandages on her right leg and black stockings on her left. Her magical staff contains a red gem in the center.
The Megumin is a descendant of the legendary magical family of the Crimson Magic Clan. She is a very intelligent girl who can use magic to help others. She is also a fierce protector of her friends. However, her obsession with the explosive power of Explosion has earned her a reputation as a fanatic.
She is a master of explosion magic
Megumin is a member of the Crimson Magic Clan. She is intelligent and legitimately skilled in magic, but has a reputation as a wild and crazy Explosion maniac. Nevertheless, she is always devoted to her friends, which has earned her the reputation of being an explosive wizard.
Megumin's explosive magic makes her powerful. However, it causes her to become incapacitated after she uses her Explosion spell. Despite the powerful magic of the explosion, Megumin is stubborn to learn other spells. This makes Kazuma reluctant to keep her in the party. Eventually, the Devil King's general, Verdia, moves into the nearby area and places a death curse on Darkness. However, Aqua comes to her aid and takes the curse off Darkness.
She falls in love with Darkness
Darkness is a character in the anime and manga series KonoSuba. She is a masochistic crusader who joins Kazuma's party. She is five feet six inches tall, with graceful features and alabaster skin. Her blonde hair is long and straight and is typically worn in a braided ponytail with red hair clips.
Megumin was originally a human who was undergoing genetic modification. She has deep brown eyes and is extremely self-conscious about her appearance. She wears an eye patch for aesthetic reasons. Her age ranges from thirteen to sixteen, but we don't know her exact age.
She has a son
The anime and manga portray Megumin as a powerful wizard, but in real life, she is a rather childish young woman. Her age and underdeveloped body make her sensitive to the treatment of others and she becomes incredibly despondent when they treat her badly. She maintains a rivalry with her older sister Yunyun, though she secretly likes her.
In the anime, Megumin and Yunyun are classmates at a magic academy. Megumin is the top student, while Yunyun is the second-best student. As the only normal person in the village, Yunyun is often used as a pawn by Dodonko and Funifura. Yunyun is able to use her good nature to save her friend, Komekko, and this leads to their friendship.
She is a member of the Crimson Magic Clan
The Megumin is a member of the magical Crimson Magic Clan. She is a strong and versatile magician with a very powerful spellbook. She is the youngest member of Kazuma's party and has a very strong magical affinity. Despite her young age, Megumin has already achieved the status of Arch Wizard, which makes her a very popular member of the Crimson Magic Clan.
The Crimson Magic Clan is a group of mages who live in the Crimson Magic Village. The members of this clan are all at the top of their class. Yunyun and Megumin are members of the Crimson Magic Clan, and they have also started studying advanced magic.
She has a sister
In the Megumin manga, Megumi has a sister named Maki. Maki is not Megumi's blood sister, but is actually her step-sister. She is not the same age as Megumi, but she is very similar in personality. She has always had a bad personality and shows it on the outside, but she has also developed a strong will and is heavily independent. Maki leans toward Gojou's philosophy and the Itadori's, but she has also learned how to cooperate with other people.
Megumi's name, Megumi, is derived from the Japanese word'megumi', which means bud. Her surname, Yamamoto, means "mountain, hill, root, or origin". The two are close to Ryu Tsuji, the main character of the manga. Megumi does not talk much in order to protect her voice, but her singing voice knocks people out. Yahiro Saiga is her voice coach.


The painting has unfortunately reached us largely fragmented, while the painted surface is in general worn. The work was restored in 2005. The image enjoyed a particular devotion in the past, with the name of Our Lady of the refuge. Originally, it was probably the central part of a relatively small triptych or polyptych.


Only ten km from central Gothenburg, right in an area with plenty of activity opportunities: water park, sports facilities, golf course and the Åby trotting track, you will find Good Morning Mölndal. Landvetter Airport is only 20 km away and you get here easily from E6.
Good Morning Mölndal was renovated in 2012. It is suitable for children and we have two rooms for disabled guests. WiFi is always included and if you book your room via our website, breakfast is included as well. Just outside the hotel you will find our free parking.
Hungry guests are always welcome to our restaurant. The breakfast buffet opens at 6 o'clock and between 18.00 and 23.00 we are open for dinner guests. In the evenings, the bar is open, and you can order food from our snacks menu around the clock.


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Bug – A – Salt 2.0 Fly Gun Review
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Bug-A-Salt 2.0
Uses standard table salt
No batteries required
Materials aren't long-lasting
Better for indoor use
Costlier than other options
Shoots salt
Shooting range within three feet
Non-damaging for indoor use
Safe for use near children and pets
Works against a variety of pests
Great for hard-to-reach flying insects
A fun alternative to pesticides
Uses a pinch of salt
Bug-A-Salt 2.0 is a fun innovation in pest control. It may look like a kid's toy, but it shoots a shotgun spray of regular table salt and decimates flies on contact. At first glance, it may seem like a gimmick, but it is surefire fun as well as a reliable, non-toxic way to rid your house of small insects. With the Bug-A-Salt, you can enjoy a disgusting task while making cleanup easier than squashing bugs or spraying chemicals all over your home.
Bug-A-Salt Review
The Bug-A-Salt 2.0 seems like a silly invention, but it is one of the safest and most enjoyable ways to get rid of flies in the home. Using the salt gun may take some practice at first, but it is a unique way to rid your home of insects, especially in the summertime when there are more
getting inside.
It may not be sufficient for large infestations, so we do recommend looking into additional pest control options if you have more than a few flies or insects throughout the house.
Common Household Ingredient
Is Bug-A-Salt Safe for My Family and Pets?
Suitable for Different Types of Insects
Kills Hard-to-Reach Insects
Does the Bug-A-Salt Fly Gun Work?
Suggested Application
Comparing to Other Products
To use the Bug-A-Salt, all you need to do is load table salt into the small container on the top of the gun. When you cock the gun by sliding the handle toward you, the pop-up sight comes up for you to look through and take aim. Pushing the handle forward will release the safety, and all you need to do is aim and shoot.
The hardest part of using the salt gun is aiming correctly. The manufacturer recommends practicing first on a sheet of aluminum foil so you can see how big the salt pellets are when they leave the gun and how big of a range you have. When fully loaded, the gun should provide you with 80 shots of salt.
Clean-up is easy as long as you are careful about how much you shoot the gun inside. Keep in mind that it releases granules of salt that you will want to wipe or sweep up, though the overall cleaning process is much easier than wiping up messy chemicals from other products. The Bug-A-Salt also promises to keep insects intact after they have been shot so they can be easily swept up, and you will not need to deal with a mess after they are shot.
The Bug-A-Salt uses table salt to kill insects, which everyone usually has handy in their pantry. Though the gun itself may seem costly for a plastic tool used to kill insects, it does not require batteries or additional costs like pesticides.
By using salt, the pest gun is a safe alternative to other options that spread toxic chemicals in and around your home. You will not need to worry about your children and pets while you are using the Bug-A-Salt. Furthermore, it is exceptionally safe to use even in the kitchen or around food – as long as you do not mind a little extra salt falling on the table. Unlike other products and pesticides, there is no need to be overly cautious when using Bug-A-Salt around food and in the kitchen, a common area for pests.
The salt works as a projectile to either stun or kill bugs. While it is strong enough to deliver a fatal blow for small insects, it will keep the bugs intact for easy cleanup.
The gun has an auto safety lock feature, which is a great way to make sure your kids are not tampering with it or putting themselves in harm's way.
The Bug-A-Salt is one of the safest forms of pest control that you'll find on the market. It's a fun innovation that turns ordinary table salt into a projectile, which can hit flying insects and kill them quickly. Not only is it safe for your family and pets, but it can also be a fun way to enjoy the otherwise tedious task of smushing or spraying at insects.
The Bug-A-Salt gun should not be given to small children, and it also should not be shot toward pets. For adults and teenagers, however, it provides an exciting method of getting rid of aggravating pests.
The gun has an auto safety lock feature, which is a great way to make sure your kids are not tampering with it or putting themselves in harm's way. Though it only contains salt, it would still be painful to get shot accidentally, especially in the face. When the gun is not in use, store it out of reach of children and pets.
The Bug-A-Salt 2.0 works to kill flies, mosquitoes, spiders, roaches, moths, and more. We read through several Amazon reviews where users claimed it worked best for flies and kept its promise of keeping them intact for easy cleanup.
The manufacturer does not intend for the Bug-A-Salt to be used against helpful or harmless insects like bees, butterflies, praying mantises, or dragonflies.
We have all had bad experiences with fly swatters. Usually, they are just too big to get to a fly before they notice what is coming and move away. With the Bug-A-Salt, it delivers a swift blow to the insect using non-toxic salt. The shot is just powerful enough to harm insects, but not enough to damage any furniture or windows.
One of the best uses for the Bug-A-Salt is when flies hide in hard-to-reach places, like corners of the room or windows. If the bug is too far for you to swat at or hiding in a corner, the Bug-A-Salt can reach it easily by propelling the salt at a maximum of three feet.
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The gun was initially designed for flies, but will also work against, roaches, mosquitoes, poisonous spiders, and more.
The Bug-A-Salt 2.0 is a surprising alternative to messy fly traps, toxic chemicals, and exhausting fly-swatting. The gun uses a manual pump action – no batteries required – and all you have to do is aim and sweep up after. Some users enjoy using the gun so much that they purposefully leave the door open to try and trap a fly inside as target practice.
Though the device is suitable for multiple insects, keep in mind that you may have different results. The gun was initially designed for flies, but will also work against, roaches, mosquitoes, poisonous spiders, and more. For bigger insects like roaches and spiders, you may need to shoot them more than once. Mosquitoes can be much quicker than flies, so you'll need to be extra precise when you aim. Sometimes users did report that the insects were not always left intact, and at times the insects may just be stunned instead of killed.
The Bug-A-Salt 2.0 is easier to use indoors, though no cleanup is required when you use it outdoors. Inside, we recommend using the gun when insects are in hard-to-reach places like corners, crevices, and windows.
When you use the gun inside, try to clean up as you go, so you are not left with a big mess. A handheld vacuum is the easiest way to clean up the salt that has fallen to the ground. Sometimes, the gun might stun an insect rather than killing it, especially if you shoot from too far away. If this keeps happening, you may need to adjust your aim or practice with a target before shooting more bugs
Bug-A-Salt is known for its funny, tongue-in-cheek instructional videos. Though they are not as serious as typical tutorials, they are still helpful for users who need help or have just started using the product.
Comparing Bug-A-Salt 2.0
Bug-A-Salt 2.0 Fly Gun Vs. Elucto Large Electric Bug Zapper
There is not anything quite like the Bug-A-Salt on the market, but the Elucto Large Electric Bug Zapper has a similar premise. Using the electric swatter, you can kill bugs quickly even when they are in hard-to-reach places. The swatter is not a gun, but it looks more like a small, electric tennis racket. Similar to Bug-A-Salt, it is a non-toxic option for pest control, and could also be a more fun way to kill pests than spraying or squashing. Depending on how hard you swing, the bugs could be kept intact or create a big mess, so you may need to practice just like you would need to with the Bug-A-Salt.
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> Event 20 failed with return code 8!
Which version are you using? Have you tried the "gnokii --dialvoice number"
command? This function is working for me.


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Аннигиля́ция — многозначный термин.
 Аннигиляция — в физике реакция превращения частицы и античастицы при их столкновении в какие-либо иные частицы, отличные от исходных.
 «Аннигиляция» () — научно-фантастический фильм режиссёра Алекса Гарленда.
 «Аннигиляция» () — название загружаемого контента для игры Call of Duty: Black Ops.
  — ограниченная серия комиксов, которую издала Marvel Comics.
 Annihilation: Conquest — ограниченная серия комиксов, которую издала Marvel Comics. Является продолжением сюжетной линии комиксов Annihilation.

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Church of the Atonement has a long history of involvement in world missions!
We believe fulfilling the Great Commission is not just for a small number of professional missionaries and pastors, but for all who follow Christ. Our part is to send, to go, and to support the mission of making the gospel known, each member working in concert according to his or her gifts and calling.
Numerous men and women from Atonement have been called by God to vocational cross-cultural missionary service. We are grateful for the opportunity to partner with them as they respond to God's call. Currently Atonement sponsors missionaries on five continents where efforts are directed toward Bible translation, church planting, theological education, and rural and urban evangelism. In addition, our efforts are directed toward having 100% of the congregation praying for our missions and our missionaries. We invite members to pray for missionary families at the 8:30 Sunday morning Vigilant prayer meeting.
As part of our efforts to encourage our people to open themselves to God's call, Atonement sponsors several Short Term Mission Trips each year. Recent trips have taken young people and adults to Wales, Turkey, Togo, Mexico, and Russia, as well as to the inner city of Washington DC, rural West Virginia, and Florida.
Increasing the prayer, financial, and practical support for our endorsed missionaries.
Raising up of church members to long- and short-term missionary ventures through a process of screening, cross-cultural training, and assignment preparation.
Increasing practical understanding of world and local missions for the congregation as a whole.
Having a substantial impact in conversions and church growth in the mission fields that constitute our strategic missions focus.
Our missions passion includes missionary care. Through frequent email, periodic phone calls, and regular visits to the field, we are committed to love and sustain our missionaries. Please feel free to join us in your prayers and encouragement to our missionaries.
For additional information about our ARP missionaries, you must register (Create an Account) with World Witness.


Christians believe everyone is religious. God designed humans as religious beings, and they will therefore worship something—whether it is God or some idol. Non-Christians do not always appreciate this language, as many of them claim to be non-religious.
We can quarrel about whether atheism or agnosticism is a "religion." But there is no denying that these are still worldviews. Everyone has a way of looking at the world. Everyone has fundamental beliefs about life, and these beliefs are shaped by religious views (or lack thereof).
The four fundamental issues of worldview are (1) origin, (2) meaning, (3) morality, and (4) destiny. Everyone has a belief about where humans and the world came from (origin), what the purpose of life is (meaning), what is right and wrong (morality), and what happens after we die (destiny).
Let's contrast the fundamental beliefs of the Christian worldview with that of atheism (or what is sometimes masked under the label of "secularism").
Meaning There is no real meaning in life, but we should seek "happiness"
The atheistic worldview is not as easy to pin down as the Christian worldview. This is actually an argument made by Christian presuppositionalists against atheism—atheism has no real basis for meaning and morality. In fact, atheists and other "non-religious" persons borrow from the Christian worldview. They usually believe in some sort of higher power and even recognize some basic Christian morality, such as "treat others as you want to be treated" (which is a form of Jesus' Golden Rule). Atheists are inconsistent in their beliefs. But this is not a surprise. Who could consistently live as if there is no meaning to life?
Christianity, on the other hand, provides a consistent set of foundational beliefs. It is the only consistent worldview, and without the Christian God, there can be no basis for life, meaning, morality, math, logic, or beauty. In other words, the triune God of Scripture is necessary to the world we live in.
So what? Why am I pointing out that "everyone has a worldview"? Because it logically follows that there is no such thing as intellectual neutrality. Whether Christian, atheist, or some other religion, everyone has fundamental beliefs about the world. So when someone speaks on history, philosophy, science, politics, or any other subject, that person is biased.
No one is neutral. Stop lying about it. Admit you have a worldview, and recognize that your beliefs flow from it.
The atheist scientist is not looking at evidence for and against evolution as a "neutral" observer. Neither is the Christian. Both favor evidence consistent with their worldview. The same is true for politics. Facts do not speak for themselves. They have to be interpreted. And interpretation involves worldview.
All of this has serious implications for education. Teachers are not neutral, and schools are not neutral. So when considering a school for your child, ask yourself—"What worldview is this school teaching?"
You can be certain it is not neutral.


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Research into our sense of touch leads to new treatments for autism
by Emily Kuehn
figures by Kaitlyn Choi
When you think about your five senses what is the one you most fear to lose? Informal polling of my friends and family shows that most people don't want to lose their vision. To be fair, we rely heavily on our sight, but most people don't even consider what it might be like to lose their sense of touch. What if you couldn't feel a caress from your spouse or a gentle breeze? Using our sense of touch is a crucial way that we interact with our world, comprising many sensations, including pain, temperature, itch, vibration, and pressure.
Touch, as an area of study, has received very little attention from researchers until recently. Interestingly, in addition to learning more about our sense of touch in general, research has found ways that touch can be harnessed to provide therapy for a variety of disorders. One such disorder you might be surprised to find can benefit from touch therapy is autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here, we will explore the tactile deficits observed in ASD patients and how they highlight a new avenue for potential treatments and interventions.
What is Autism Spectrum Disorder?
ASD describes a group of complex related neurodevelopmental disorders. Hallmarks of ASD include deficits in social communication and interaction as well as restricted, repetitive behaviors, activities, or interests. ASD occurs in all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. With no known singular cause [1,2] and at a prevalence of about 1 in 68 children in the United States [3], this disease continues to be an important public health concern.
Since there are no FDA-approved drugs that can cure or treat ASD, therapies generally focus on alleviating symptoms. Because of the unique spectrum of symptoms and diversity in patient responses to treatment, many turn to complementary and alternative therapies [4]. Such alternative therapies range from modified diets and vitamin or herbal supplements to mind-body interventions like meditation or acupuncture [4].
While these alternative therapies are gaining momentum, it should be noted that the evidence and support for such treatments by the medical community is mixed. Most medical experts agree that treatments should be based on principles of evidence-based medicine, integrating clinical expertise, patient/family values, and the best evidence for efficacy [5]. By these standards, most complementary and alternative treatments have not been adequately studied [6]. However, one therapy that has mounting evidence of support is massage or touch therapy.
What does touch have to do with it?
Certainly, you know from personal experience that touch – in the right context and from the right person – can be incredibly soothing. But you might be curious how touch therapy fits in to care for ASD patients, who often reject touch from strangers. To understand potential benefits to children or adults with ASD, it helps to first consider what we know about touch and touch therapy in populations not diagnosed with ASD.
Innocuous, or non-painful, touch can be broken down into two basic categories: discriminative and affective. Discriminative touch is what enables you to find your keys in your pocket; it senses pressure, shape, texture, vibration, and slip. Affective touch, also known as social or emotional touch, is what makes the caress from a lover or friend feel good; it senses slow stroke and temperature. These two types of touch are detected by different neurons in the skin and ultimately activate different regions of the brain [7]. For both types of touch, the process is similar: neurons in your skin are optimally tuned to respond to particular stimuli, such as movement of hair or vibration, and together they detect the tactile information of your experiences. This means when you grab your keys off the table for example, some neurons respond to the pressure of the keys pressing into your skin, others sense the curves and edges of the keys, and some even detect small slips or movements of the keys to help you adjust your grip and not drop them. Tactile experiences are built by activating a combination of these touch-sensitive neurons, each with their unique built-in sensitivities. This tactile information is ultimately sent to the brain, allowing you to perceive tactile experiences [8].
Affective touch has only just recently begun to receive attention from researchers for a number of reasons. First, disorders of pain and discriminative touch have received more attention in the medical community, as pain affects almost all of us at some point in our lives, and its management remains an important area of research. Second, the neurons in the skin responsible for detecting affective touch have only recently been definitively identified. Termed "C-tactile (CT) afferents," these neurons are found only in hairy skin, such as that of the forearm or back (as opposed to glabrous skin, which is located on your palms and soles of your feet). The neurons are optimally tuned to the slow velocity, light pressure, and comfortable skin temperature of a caress or light touch from another [9]. First discovered in cats in 1939 [10], CT afferents were largely ignored until they were discovered in humans in the 1990s [11].
Interestingly, when CT afferents are stimulated in humans, a part of the brain termed the insular cortex is activated, in addition to brain areas that are normally activated by touch. This cortex is part of the limbic system, an association of areas known to be responsible for processing emotions [12]. CT afferents' direct connection to the limbic system distinguishes them from other touch-sensitive neurons, which, when stimulated, only activate the primary somatosensory cortex – a region of the brain responsible for processing touch information [13]. This difference of where information is processed in the brain points to the CT afferents as the potential initiators of emotional, hormonal and associative responses to caress-like, skin-to-skin contact between individuals.
Touch deficits in ASD
Several links between ASD and deficits in discriminative and affective touch have been noted, both anecdotally and in scientific research. 96% of ASD patients report altered sensitivity to sensory stimuli, and a majority of those cases include tactile sensitivities [14]. Although tactile sensitivity is commonly reported in ASD, it has received very little attention by doctors and researchers [15]. Patients can be hyper- or hypo-sensitive to tactile stimuli, meaning that they feel touch more or less intensively than other people. This can manifest in different ways in patients: some ASD patients cannot wear certain clothing because of very specific tactile preferences, while others may find the act of going outside stressful because stimuli like rain or wind can be unpredictable and painful [14]. ASD patients also often display tactile defensiveness, exhibiting behavioral and emotional responses that are negative and out of proportion to tactile stimuli that most people deem non-painful [16].
A recent fMRI study of 19 healthy patients looked at changes in brain activity in response to brushing their arms at slow and fast speeds. Researchers also assessed participants' "autistic traits" by asking them to rank their preference for social touch, as well as self-assess daily life preferences and tendencies. Researchers noted that "social areas" of the brain (including the insular cortex and other regions associated with social interactions and/or affective touch) showed greater activation to slower, gentler brush strokes than to fast ones. This corroborated the finding that CT afferents are optimally activated at slow speeds and project to the insular cortex. Interestingly, while none of the 19 patients was diagnosed with ASD, those with more autistic traits (low preference for social touch, for example) showed a lower response to the slow brushing in these social brain areas [17]. Therefore, as depicted in Figure 1, people with stronger ASD traits had a less positive perception of affective touch.
Figure 1: A 2013 fMRI study demonstrated an inverse relationship between autism traits and pleasure experienced from affective touch. A and B correspond to participants with lesser or greater ASD traits, respectively; the lower panel depicts the corresponding decrease in activity in "social areas" of the brain in patients with more ASD traits.
Using Touch Therapy in ASD
In general, massage or touch therapy can comprise many different methods or techniques, but it generally involves low to moderate pressure (this is distinct from deep muscle-stimulating Swedish massage) applied by another person and across various areas of the body, such as the back, neck, and shoulders. Touch therapy has been noted to have immediate and long-term effects on the body's biochemistry, including decreased levels of the stress hormone cortisol, and increased levels of the neurotransmitters serotonin and dopamine, which play roles in mood regulation, movement, impulse control, and more [18].
In its specific application to ASD patients, studies have shown that touch therapy can relieve common physical and mental ailments associated with the disorder, including muscle spasms and social anxiety. Touch therapy can have beneficial effects on the linguistic and social abilities of ASD patients, and can boost the effects of conventional therapies when used together [19].
In addition to the previously mentioned biochemical effects, touch therapy can also be used to stimulate the vagus nerve, which has various outputs to other areas of the body, including the heart. Stimulating vagal activity (which can be achieved by massaging the neck correctly) has myriad beneficial effects for ASD patients. It can decrease heart rate, which may ultimately allow ASD patients to focus more and sleep better [21]. It can also decrease incidence of seizures, from which as many as one third of ASD patients suffer [22]. Indeed, it was shown that vagal nerve stimulation (VNS, delivered via a pacemaker-like device implanted in the chest) both decreased incidence of seizures and improved alertness and ability to focus in ASD patients [23]. These effects are likely mediated by an increase in the neurotransmitter GABA, which functions to prevent neurons from firing. Levels of GABA in the nervous system increase following VNS [24], which would lead to less neuronal firing and would ultimately lead to less seizures (which arise from uncontrolled neuronal firing). Interestingly, mutations in the gene coding for the GABA receptor are associated with ASD and tactile deficits [25, 26], providing further evidence for this link. The multifaceted way in which touch therapy can benefit ASD patients is illustrated in Figure 2.
Figure 2: How touch therapy can benefit ASD patients. Activating touch processing pathways can decrease levels of the stress hormone cortisol and increase levels of dopamine or serotonin, neurotransmitters that control mood, motor behavior, and impulse control. These effects likely occur through stimulation of CT afferents and subsequent stimulation of the insular cortex. Stimulating the vagal nerve can decrease heart rate and levels of GABA as well as decrease incidence of seizures.
But wait, how can touch therapy possibly benefit patients who are hypersensitive to touch? To answer this question we first have to consider what social touch experiences are like for ASD patients. In general, light touch tends to over-stimulate and aggravate ASD patients (the underlying reason for this is still unclear), therefore moderate- to deeper-pressure massages are preferred. Furthermore, much like a strong gust of wind, touch from another person can be unpredictable; when you are hypersensitive to light touch, such sensations without warning can be aversive and even frightening or painful. Adequate warning or predictability (achieved by talking the patient through treatment or using self-administration of touch therapy [20]) may help patients avoid the stress they usually experience from social touch. Once the barriers of administering touch therapy to ASD patients are overcome, patients can achieve the same physical and emotional benefits observed in non-ASD patients.
The complex relationship between tactile deficits and social impairments in patients of ASD is still unclear, but researchers are finally looking at the common symptom of tactile abnormalities as a potential route for both better understanding these disorders as well as administering treatment. While there remains a general lack of research in this area, and many existing studies are biased or lack proper controls, the exciting news is that more controlled and careful studies about touch deficits in ASD are being conducted and planned. In addition, touch therapy in general as well as for ASD patients is being more seriously studied and considered by medical professionals. Patients of ASD should still be mindful of consulting their doctor before pursuing any alternative treatments, but should also keep an eye out for new discoveries in this exciting area of research.
Emily Kuehn is a 5th year graduate student in the Neuroscience Program at Johns Hopkins University currently studying neurons involved in processing the sense of touch in the skin and spinal cord.
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9 thoughts on "Research into our sense of touch leads to new treatments for autism"
Linda L. Garofallou, MS, LMT, IMH-E®-III Clinical says:
Thank you for the comprehensive picture you have presented in your article. I have worked in the area of autism and the tactile afferent system for many years and appreciate the comprehensive way you integrate research from neuroscience, genetics, autism and the C-Tactile system. Your work parallels my areas of interest and pursuit and so I am writing both to thank you for your comprehensive article and to add, I hope, some useful information about work and research being done in this same area but that is not included in your piece.
Louisa Silva, MD, has amassed a body of research over 14 years on a parent-delivered massage program that, I believe, offers a significant contribution to this subject. The results from Dr. Silva's NIH-MCH research study were recently published in the Autism Research and Treatment Journal http://www.hindawi.com/journals/aurt/2015/904585/. This study includes data from the first 5-months of a 3-year study and corroborates previous research on the parent-delivered intervention http://qsti.org/qigong-massage-research/published-studies/autism/ .
Dr. Silva's research speaks directly to the content of your article and demonstrates the complex relationship between tactile and sensory difficulties and the social, behavioral and language difficulties in children with autism. Research data confirmed the parent-delivered massage protocol to be effective in decreasing the tactile and sensory disabilities in children across the autism spectrum. Symptoms of autism were reduced, behavior and language improved and parenting stress was greatly reduced. Interestingly, once tactile and sensory disabilities are normalized, the child gains the capacity to "return to" and essentially re-claim those self-regulatory milestones that were often missed in the first year of life (regulation of sleep, digestion, ability to self-soothe and social engagement).
Preliminary data shows a 50% loss of C-tactile afferents in children with autism. Information about the study can be found at https://www.facebook.com/QSTImassage/?fref=nf .
I believe that this broad and entirely parallel area of research will complement your current area of interest. I would be most interested in your thoughts once you have time to look through it.
Emily Kuehn says:
Thank you so much for your thoughtful response! The links and references you've provided here are quite useful and helpful. As a researcher, I have a much better understanding of the biology of these studies, not always knowing what is in clinical practice or that patients might even be aware of. I am very happy to see these therapies are on the rise and thank you for your information on these therapies!
Additional information I did not have space to include in this article are the studies linking genetic components of autism to these disturbances in the somatosensory system. Variation in a gene encoding for the GABA receptor (GABRB3 gene) has been demonstrated to be a genetic and heritable cause of ASD in some patients. Mice with mutations in the Gabrb3 gene show differences in tactile and heat sensitivities as compared to controls (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320514/). Another group demonstrated differences in tactile sensitivity in humans and their association with genetic variation in GABRB3 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22769427). It is an exciting area of research that may allow us a better understanding of how these sensitivities may arise and therefore help guide treatment.
I'm very happy to see there is excitement and interest surrounding this area of research – I feel it is a very important area to focus on! Thank you again for your feedback.
An additional study you might find of interest http://qsti.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Prevalence-article-published-version-8-21-13.pdf
Pamela Tindall says:
Qigong Sensory Training (QST) is an evidence-based treatment for autism which has been shown to normalize the sense of touch in young children with autism and reduce the severity of autism by an average of 30% in the first five months.
The intervention involves a specialized parent-delivered massage protocol known as QST massage for autism. Parents give the massage dialy, and trained therapists provide parent support and weekly child treatment.
Read the research and learn more about QST for autism at http://www.qsti.org.
Thank you so much for pointing me to this therapy and resource. I am happy to see such effective treatment in practice!
Perla Messina says:
I have already explained exactly the cause of autism and the tactile therapy back in 2013, in my blog:
http://aspergermindspeaks.blogspot.nl/2013/04/autism-is-difficult-thing-to-understand.html
Read especially the part that says:
So now that we know what causes the so called autism, lets see how it can be cured!
Restoring the missing link, the missing bond, the missing sense of security! Sensory integration and particularly that part of Sensory integration that deals with the sense of Touch is the ONLY true way to help a child recreate or complete building the emotional bond it needs. Activities shared by the parent and child (NOT a therapist!!!) that include all forms of physical contact such as: massage, deep pressure of the skin (back, arms, legs), hugs (as tight as [possible), tickling, wrestling (parent/child), and many more. For more info check Ayres Sensory Integration, Dunn Sensory Integration, Infant and Toddler massage techniques, etc. Apply these during the day at regular intervals, especially before and after stressful activities or activities that hold potential sensory over loadig for the child. Do not use practices such as ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis), do not use PECS, or other communication devises or models. Talk to the child, engage it in activities around the house, play with it more, and touch it hug it kiss it, massage it (before going to sleep at night is one of the best medicines). If the child is sensitive to touch it means that it has developed a sensory defensiveness to help it cope with the sensory (touch) deficiency! Never touch the child as a satisfaction to your own need for reassurance. The child needs to be touched when it needs it, when it will cover its own need not the parent's. The child will know the difference and if it sees that touch means satisfying another's need than its own, it will become defensive and develop an unwillingness to be touched!!!
Why particularly the sense of touch?
Oxytocin is a powerful hormone. When we hug or kiss a loved one, oxytocin levels drive up. It also acts as a neurotransmitter in the brain. In fact, the hormone plays a huge role in pair bonding. Prairie voles, one of nature's most monogamous species, produce oxytocin in spades. This hormone is also greatly stimulated during sex, birth, breast feeding—the list goes on. Obviously, the emotionally starved child (autistic) once it receives the emotional nutrition in needs through Touch of Love (Love in its pure form), will start regaining lost ground and develop!
Lisa Elsner says:
I've GOT to try this! Is it available in norther Illinois?
Hector Monzalez says:
The anxiety and trouble with social skills seen in people with autism stem largely from neurons outside the brain that govern touch, suggests a mouse study published today in Cell.
Lukas says:
Hey Hector Im writing a little review about the feasability of using MDMA in individuals with ASD suffering from social anxiety. Could you provide me with a reference of the statement you mentioned? would be really helpful
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Changes in Montreal, Islanders cancellations and how do you make a Top 5 with 10 deserving teams?
By Sean McIndoe Nov 29, 2021 304
What if five is the wrong number?
This came up in the comment section of last week's post, but it's worth exploring in a bit more detail here. I do a top and bottom five every week in this column, because that seems like a good number to let us explore the most newsworthy teams without getting bogged down in the mushy middle that's often just not that interesting in this league.
But the thing is that it's five teams every week, no matter what. That might seem to imply that there's always a five-team tier at each end of the spectrum, and of course that's not always true. Often, the gap between fifth and sixth is a small one, if it's even there at all. Sometimes, there isn't much gap between third or fourth and ninth or tenth.
That's kind of what's happening so far this year, at least for one of the rankings. At the bottom, we really are starting to get some separation with five bad teams. But on the good side of the ledger, there's a very strong case to be made for a handful of teams we don't have room for. I think we'd all agree the Panthers and Hurricanes are still safely top-five teams. My long-term view means the Avalanche have to be there, and the Lightning should get some benefit of the doubt. I've mostly bought into the Oilers. That's five teams right there, and I don't think anyone would argue that any of those are controversial picks. But it still leaves us with at least five teams that have an extremely strong case for a spot. The "really good teams" club is a very crowded place right now.
I can't fit everyone in, but in the interest of inclusion (and a futile attempt to limit the number of angry "BUT WHAT ABOUT" screeds in the comment section), let's make the case for five more teams.