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On February 27, more than 1,000 students from six schools in Delta, BC (Chalmers Elementary, Annieville Elementary, Jarvis Traditional Elementary, McCloskey Elementary,Gibson Elementary, and Richardson Elementary) will participate in a Flash Mob style dance.The BC Lions will also be involved as their Running Back, Tyler Davis, and team mascot Leo the Lion will also be seen dancing. This will be taking place outside on the grass field at the North Delta Secondary School (11447 82 Ave, Delta, BC V4C 5J6) from 12:15 pm onwards.
NORTH DELTA – For the fourth year, get ready to celebrate our differences by witnessing a Bollywood/Western inspired flash mob dance to raise awareness for the Anti-Bullying initiative. Understanding the importance of standing up against bullying no matter what form it takes whether physical, verbal, cyber, or social bullying;Delta, BC community member Sean Bindra began the initiative in 2014 to create awareness in order to help put an end to bullying. "I was bullied growing up so it is my mission in life to spread love and happiness", says Bindra.
Additionally, a second Anti-Bullying Flash Mob will be held on March 6, 2018. This Flash Mob will be in partnership with the Surrey School District and will involve more than 200 school kids from Surrey, BC. The participating schools will be Tamanawis Secondary and Beaver Creek Elementary. This will be taking place outside on the grass field at Beaver Creek Elementary (6505 – 123A Street, Surrey, BC V3W 5Y5) at 12:15pm.
"Most of us have faced some sort of bullying and it leaves a scar for life. We're all unique and this is what we need to embrace. I'm proud to be associated with this initiative and I'm extremely happy with the participation increasing each year." comments Shiamak Davar, Artistic Director and Founder of The SHIAMAK Group.


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Windwaker Review
After i finfished zelda PH, i had the urge to play windwaker again.
then i started thinking what made the game so good? first of all i think that it has a great storyline, the feel of the game is unique with the cell shaded grapics, some people may call it childish but i think its quite rare. the freedom of the game is large.
when i played it my first time i was suprised that the game was big. the fighting style of link was well made, and i love the parry attack, i never can get enough of the parry attack. the game had everythink what a zelda game. magic meter, classic and new items. equipment.
and this time there was a little humor in it.
i may sound crazy but i think this game is a slight better then TP.
so i give a 10 out of 10 for this game.
my reason, because the game was well made and it felt complete. it had everthing what a zelda game needed.
so what is your opinion about it?
I never had a gamecube, so I never got to play Windwaker. Eventually I'll have to buy a GC controller and the game, but it'll be in tough to beat out Twilight Princess as my favorite game of all time.
Mases
West Dundee, IL
I've played much of the Wind Waker but I have never beaten it. Much like Twilight Princess, just was never able to fully get into it enough to beat it. There was a period of a few weeks where I played this every so often, much like TP, but never beat.
That being said, I really did like it. The huge hit it always takes is the graphics. Now that several years have passed, I think this is a rather flawed arguement. I can see why people thought Wind Waker would be something more after that Gamecube tech demo with Ganondorf and Link battling, but I think the Wind Waker is the most beautiful game out to date. Yes, that includes games like Twilight Princess, Gears of War, or anything else. Sure it's not realistic, but when there is no standard that you need to live up to, you set your own limits and I think Wind Waker really did do that. I feel that the environments that were created are unmatched even today.
From a gameplay aspect, from what I have played with the game, the story was interesting, and the game in general was just a bit easy. Dungeon design was pretty good, up to Zelda standard. Would love to have seen a better inventory but thats just a minor complaint.
Someday, maybe when I take the time to completely redo the Wind Waker section on the site, I will finally complete this game and give it the proper credit it deserves.
Taakeslottet
I definitly agree with you about Windwaker being of slightly higher caliber than Twilight Princess. When I think about WW I get this nice naustalgic feeling, with Twilight Princess I don't. The fighting style is so much smoother than in Twilight Princess and in any previous Zelda titles.
I would give it a 9/10.
HELLO_LINK
It's really a great game, with its unique graphics, its marvelous storyline, and Link's nice and flashy moves, along with a lot of freedom in this game with many other great pluses. But it isn't the best game, and that is why I am giving it a 9/10. The reason I'm giving it a 9 is because of the lack of dungeons, since there are like 5 main ones or so. Also, the game was a bit short compared to a few other greats in the series, but nonetheless it still is one of the top games, and one of the best on the Gamecube.
World's Dumbest Zombie.
I think Wind Waker was a fantabulous game. That's right, it was so good that I can't even describe it with real words. The bosses were always keeping me on my toes, and the enemies too. It was kinda cool. It had that difficulty of the original, just trying to kill eight darknuts while avoiding the others. ****e, that was painful.
Alder Dragon
Classic Gamer
Wind Waker was one of my favorite games. I remember being disappointed when I saw the screens for it in Nintendo Power, but the gameplay is incredible! It's such a huge game, and it's replay value was good too. Loved the music, graphics flowed nicely, and the overall storyline was incredible. The only thing I didn't like about it was the Forsaken Fortress...
I'd like to see a Zelda game that is more open. More choices the player gets to make, instead of given a task and told to do it. Then again, and again, and again. Regardless though the Wind Waker was more fun than any other Zelda game I've ever played. (keep in mind I don't have PH yet)
I agree 10/10 =)
The Geekette
All I can say is that I adore Wind Waker, by far my favourite Zelda game. Why? Because I don't have to follow the main story and I can venture wherever, and just explore the area. The story is good as well, man. This makes me want to play.
I suppose once I finish the second quest of The Legend of Zelda, then I'll play the others to be able to play Wind Waker again.
MiniMeMilo
There's not a whole lot else I can say that hasn't been said already. I was a little dissappointed whe my little brother beat it before I did, but I was rubbing it in his face when I had more heart containers than him and did it in almost half the time.
At first I was kind of skeptic to the game, since the graphics weren't very realistic and seemed very "kid-ish" to me. I have to admit, I was surprised. I still haven't beaten the second quest so I don't know if there's a special ending or extra items or anything.
MiniMeMilo said:
second quest isn 't that special
only thing is you got the pictobox deluxe at the start and link wears his blue clothes all the time. the other thing is that the "hylian text" is translated. anything else is the same.
linkman8
True and Noble
Yeah, but it's fun to see, nonetheless.
I liked Wind Waker. The reason I first got it was because of the preview for the game that was on the Collector's Edition for GCN, and I was really excited for it. I was only like 12 or something when I got it, but it was really fun. I feel the cel-shading showed facial expressions and the like more clearly, but wasn't incredibly graphically appealing, not that it matters.
Overall I can't say it was better than Twilight Princess, but it was loads of fun.
i liked wind waker a lot. The facial expressions are very good thanks to the celshaded graphics and they put some humor in the game. i liked to make pictures of enemies and characters to collect figurines in the 'second' quest. the only downside is the number of bosses (only 7 i thought).
zeypherlink
I liked TWW a lot...I don't have it anymore, but I still have my GCN memory card with my save data on it :p
I'm thinking about getting it again; it was a great game.
firebunnies123
I loved wind waker. I recently started playing it again. I give it a 9/10. This and phantom hourglass are series by themselves. I just thought the bossess were a little too easy. like the helmaroc king. just hit him on the head with the hammer when he pecks down at u.
I went to GameStop and bought a copy of TWW yesterday, and I checked my save files and the last time I played it was on June 15th 2005 :p
Anyway I was playing TWW earlier today, and I noticed how much of a pansy Prince Komali is, lol.

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Which of these fascinating characters is your protagonist? Readers must know!
Back on the blog train after a long hiatus during which I was so buried in work there was no time to blog. Today I want to talk about character.
In almost every edit letter I write, I coach the authors I work with on one or more characters. Without great characters, readers won't care about your book. Even with a great plot, a great setting, and gorgeous prose, people like to read about people. It's what drives us to tell and listen to stories in the first place.
I call these the six pillars of character, and I'm going to describe them one by one here on the blog over time.
In order to hook your readers, you must tell them who your story is going to be about.
There are many, many ways to do this, and when I edit, my goal is to lead the author toward the way that feels most natural to them. But in most cases, this means using the point of view in your first chapter to signal to your reader who the most important character is. Depending on the point of view you've chosen, this can be simple or tricky.
In first-person point of view, it's dead easy. Whoever is "I" is the protagonist, and that's immediately clear to the reader.
In third-person limited point of view, it's still fairly easy. Whoever's head we're in (whoever's subjective thoughts we're receiving along with objective description: "The sleet was colder [objective] than her mother's cursing [subjective].") is going to be our protagonist. So make sure you stick to one character's thoughts, and give us plenty of interesting ones. Use your language to establish a distinctive voice for them, and it'll be clear that they're our main character.
In third-person omniscient point of view, it's trickiest. Your best bet is to signal who the protagonist is by focusing the chapter on them. We may be introduced to many characters. We may get many characters' thoughts. But all of them should loop back around to the main character and affect their story in some way. Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings does a great job of this, if you're looking for an example to study.
If you're writing in second-person point of view, you overachiever you, the protagonist is "you," whoever that is. This is, I think, the hardest point of view to work in, and best left until after you've mastered all the others. But if you're trying it, you-the-author need to establish who you-the-reader is. Typically this is done by making sure your opening contains at least as much information about character as it does action. "You open the door" tells the reader nothing. "You scream at the kids, with their purple hair and saggy pants and wallet chains and ugly T-shirts, to stop cutting through your lawn" tells them more. "You hate everything you don't understand, and you understand very little" tells them a lot. Combine the three sentences into a paragraph, and you've established a character.
That's it for now! Like I said, this is the easy one. They'll get more complex as we work down the list. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments, and as a reminder, you can always contact me at jeff [at] jeffdoesbooks.com to book me to look at your novel or short story.
Each week for as long as it takes, I'm going to discuss an important craft element an author should consider on the first page of every story. As always, I hope the posts will help you take a look at your work and find ways to improve it. You can start the series here.
Like I said last week, the first page has a rotten job. Partly, it can get it done by shunting some of its work onto a character. It's hard to get a reader to love a page. It's a lot easier to get them to love a character. People are hard-wired to care about other people.
How do you take advantage of that? By focusing your first page on a character that a.) your readers will be likely to care about immediately and b.) your readers will continue to care about throughout your opening chapters.
– Your writing may not be good enough. In order to pull off the "mysterious thing" opening, you need to have a flawless command of pacing and a heck of a mystery or high concept to introduce. You need to know exactly how much information to give the reader to get them hooked and then get the hell out of the way so that you can introduce them to a character as quickly as possible. This is not an easy structure to make work, so if you don't know exactly what you're doing with it, you're probably better off going with a simpler opening.
– Your writing may be too good. If, in your "mysterious thing" opening, you introduce a character that the reader cares about too much, only to kill him or her immediately or never show him or her to the reader again, the reader may be very disappointed, possibly to the point of giving up on the book entirely. Even great books can run into this problem; I put off reading A Game of Thrones for years because of its prologue.
– You may create frustrated expectations. Really, this is another flavor of the "your writing may be too good" problem. Another fantasy mainstay, The Eye of the World, falls afoul of this. If you open with a scene that's so far removed from your main narrative that the reader won't understand its relevance until they're a hundred pages into the book, why are you starting your book there at all? Unless the scene's relevance is shown quickly, many readers will either forget about the scene or become frustrated by it, and either way you'll be counting on something else to carry them through the first hundred pages. In most cases, you ought to start with whatever that is.
This is why many agents and acquiring editors say they skip prologues when reading submissions. They know how rarely they work, they expect them to be cut during editing, and they want to see how the story stands up without them.
– Your reader can leave too easily. I apply this warning to any attempt to emulate TV or movies. Writers for broadcast television (less so today than they once could, but it still applies) and writers for movies can get away with things that writers of books can't. They have tricks that we don't (like actors and soundtracks—my god the things they get away with because of soundtracks) and their media are stickier. When was the last time you walked out of a movie theater partway through a film? When was the last time you flipped the channel away from a broadcast show without at least waiting for the first commercial break? TV and movie viewers have already bought the content when they start it. Readers haven't. When was the last time you put a book down before getting to the end of the first page? Probably the last time you went browsing for books—reading the first page is part of how readers determine what to buy.
So, deviation over, why should you start your story with a major sympathetic character? Because so many readers read stories for the characters. If you've written a great book, you have a great character somewhere inside it. Don't be coy with that character—give them to the reader immediately so that the reader can fall in love and decide to read your book.
You'll get readers who care most about your world and you'll get readers who care most about your plot, but a significant chunk of your readership is likely to come, and stay, for the characters you write. Give them what they want. The longer you wait to offer your reader a character they can care about for the long haul, the greater the risk you run of that reader bouncing off your story.
Each week for as long as it takes, I'm going to discuss a craft element every author should consider on the first page of every story. As always, I hope the posts will help you take a look at your work and find ways to improve it.
Pretty rough, right? It's the literary equivalent of getting into a sandwich suit and dancing at an intersection with a big sign.
Luckily, you can equip your first pages with tools that make their job a lot easier. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to go over a number of those tools, and I'm starting with the most important one today: on your first page, you must establish a voice for the novel.
Voice is one of the hardest aspects of craft to define, but I'll do my best for you here. When I say voice, I mean which words you use to tell the story and what promises those words make to the reader.
One of my favorite first pages is that of Joe Abercrombie's The Blade Itself. Really, you should read the whole first chapter (hell, the whole book) if you want to study voice, but I'll pluck out a line to pick apart for you. It's the third paragraph of the book, the eighth line (moving down vertically), the twelfth and thirteenth sentences. In short, it comes very early.
This will be a stylistically rendered novel (Look at the repetition—not strictly necessary but used to artistic effect).
This will be a humorous novel (Look at the way this information is delivered—cleverly and with a hint of sarcasm: "Yep, there's a spear coming…oh, and it has an effing monster attached to one end." Abercrombie could have written, "A Shanka threw a cruel-looking spear at him," but that would be a very different voice).
This will be a novel in which the characters tell the story in their own words (This is an assumption made by the reader at this point based upon the idiosyncrasy of the language; it won't be confirmed until we get another point of view and it uses a different voice).
This will be a novel in which the author knows what the heck he's doing (This is the cumulative effect of all of the above, plus the other things happening on the page).
All of those promises are important. They give the reader information necessary to decide whether to keep reading or not, and they offer a vision of the book to come that many readers find compelling.
If you struggle with getting your first page right, try the following revision strategy: as soon as you write an ending you're happy with, go back and revise the first page. Ideally, your first page tells the reader what they're going to get from the last page—it just does so in language they won't understand until they've read the last page. Revising with that relationship in the front of your mind can help you get your first page in shape.
Voice is the vehicle for many of the promises the first page delivers, and it delivers them at a level that's often beneath the reader's consciousness. Most readers don't pick the technical elements of a page apart. They may not be able to tell you why they kept reading one book and didn't keep reading another, but you may hear this a lot: "I just like the way he/she writes." or "I was three pages in before I realized it." Those are signs that the author's voice is working.
What promises am I making to the reader with my language, and do I keep them in the rest of the novel?
What stylistic elements (sentence fragments; witty dialogue; long descriptive passages; short, snappy sentences; humor; wordplay; onomatopoeia; cursing; sarcasm; direct address; internal monologue; poetic descriptions; journalistic descriptions; strange typography or formatting; etc., etc., etc.) appear frequently enough in the novel that I should show them to the reader right away so that they can decide whether or not they want more?
Does one character have a stronger voice than the others, and if so, am I leading with their point of view?
Does the narrator of my first page sound like she's a good storyteller? If not, why not, and how can I get her there?
If you can answer those questions in a way that satisfies you, chances are you're well on your way to having strong voice on your first page.


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Colts owner insists Luck's slow comeback part of design
by: Joe Carroll
Posted: Aug 14, 2017 / 12:44 PM EDT / Updated: Aug 14, 2017 / 12:44 PM EDT
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay speaks to the media following an NFL preseason football game against the Detroit Lions, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017, in Indianapolis. Detroit won 24-10. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis Colts intend to stick to the long-term plan.
Even if it means going into the regular season without Andrew Luck.
While they believe their biggest investment will be completely healthy eventually and that Luck provides their best chance to win now and into the future, they're not going to rush Luck back.
And they're not looking for a quick fix after a demoralizing 24-10 preseason loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday.
"I can't say unequivocally that he (Luck) will be ready for the Rams game," team owner Jim Irsay said. "But I can say I feel very confident that he will be ready to start the season."
Luck is on the Colts physically unable to perform list as he continues to recover from offseason surgery to repair a partially torn labrum in his throwing shoulder.
The Colts have repeatedly said they're optimistic Luck could open the regular season Sept. 10 at the Los Angeles Rams. That part hasn't changed.
But team officials have been mostly restrained about providing specific timetables or updates about exactly what Luck is doing in rehab.
On July 24, new general manager Chris Ballard said Luck started throwing the previous week. Six days later, Luck told reporters only that he had started the throwing process with a tennis ball.
That was the last big update until Sunday.
First, Ballard told the local TV broadcast that Luck's strength levels are measuring slightly better than "at any point last year" when Luck was playing through the injury.
Irsay offered another perspective.
"He isn't throwing a football as strong as he wants to because we won't let him," Irsay said. "But we are very disciplined. We know this is a 12-year process, a future that's 10, 12, hopefully 14 years. But we will not deviate from being disciplined in our process on how the doctors feel, on how Andrew feels."
Indy's abysmal preseason opener showed just how much it needs Luck on the field.
The three other quarterbacks — Scott Tolzien, Phillip Walker and Stephen Morris — were a combined 24 of 45 for 178 yards and were sacked five times. The Colts finished with 230 total yards, 90 of which came on the game's final series, and just 14 first downs.
It's enough to at least cause consternation among fans and stir the debate over whether Indy needs to find a solution.
"Obviously, it doesn't all fall on one guy," coach Chuck Pagano said. "But collectively, as a unit, we've got to be better and we've got a long way to go."
Apparently, the Colts already have discussed possible replacements.
Irsay acknowledged the team pursued and nearly agreed to terms with an unnamed veteran quarterback earlier this summer.
"We came semi-close to bringing in a quarterback in his mid-30s," Irsay said. "We had a number (of dollars) but he wanted more than we were willing to give. It wasn't (Colin) Kaepernick."
The sooner Luck returns, the sooner the speculation will end.
And it does appear he may be getting closer to practicing.
Luck was seen at three of Indy's past six practices and was on the field again Sunday, too.
But he still must show the team doctors he's healthy enough to participate before he can even contemplate playing in a game.
"He said, 'Jim, I know I'm going to be even a better quarterback than I've ever been before. I just don't know when,'" Irsay said. "That could be Sept. 10, that could be September 20. We'll see."
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by Colts Media Relations / Jan 20, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS - The NFL today announced that Colts tight end Jack Doyle has been named to the 2020 Pro Bowl. This marks his second career Pro Bowl selection (first in 2017). Doyle is replacing Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, who is participating in the Super Bowl.
Doyle started all 16 games for the Colts this season for the first time in his career and finished with 43 receptions for 448 yards and four touchdowns. He is currently tied for fourth in consecutive regular season games started (16) among active tight ends in the NFL. Doyle helped Indianapolis register a top-
Colts' Jack Doyle added to Pro Bowl
by Mike Chappell / Jan 20, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) — Jack Doyle is headed back to the Pro Bowl.
The Indianapolis Colts' veteran tight end, an alternate, was named to the all-star squad in place of Kansas City's Travis Kelce, who's headed to the Super Bowl with the Chiefs.
Like Tarik Glenn before him, Anthony Castonzo at a career crossroads
by By Mike Chappell / Jan 9, 2020
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – Status quo might rule.
Anthony Castonzo's bombshell – he's considering retirement, not re-upping for a 10th season – could wind up being one of those serious-but-temporary personal struggles a player entering this phase of his career deals with, discusses with friends and family, then returns to the grind.
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The blood donation nonprofit Vitalant came to Kent State's Student Center Tuesday to kick off a two-day blood drive.
Katy Neff, a donor recruiter for Vitalant, said the two-day drive is to help reach a goal of having 27 total donors for the month of January.
"For our September drives, we aim for 70 (donors). In the summer, we aim for 15," Neff said. "Our September drives are definitely the biggest."
One-in-seven people entering a hospital need blood, with Northeast Ohio patients requiring more than 40,000 units of blood per year, according to Vitalant's website.
A $500 student scholarship is created by Vitalant for every 50 units of blood collected during the academic year, offered to both donors and non-donors.
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"I know when I donated, it was for the gift card," Neff said. "But we do have a lot of regulars who look for us on campus. People will email me personally to schedule appointments."
Amanda Stith, a phlebotomist for Vitalant, explained the process of having students registering, followed by answering a series of questions that determine their eligibility to donate.
A phlebotomist is a medical professional that is trained to draw blood from patients for medical testing, transfusions, donations or research.
A student's vitals are recorded and their hemoglobin is checked to make sure their iron levels are high enough to donate. They are then moved to a phlebotomy bed to begin the procedure.
"You're in bed from seven to 10 minutes, typically," said Stith.
Despite the gift card incentive, students find greater value in helping others.
"It's a really good opportunity to help people," said Olivia Anderson, a freshman public health major.
Sarah Lane, a junior economics major that donates regularly, agreed with Anderson.
"I just think it's a good way to give back to the community, you're saving lives," Lane said. "If I ever needed a blood transfusion, I would hope someone else is going to give blood."
The blood drive will continue throughout the day Thursday.
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A fascinating, but seldom-told, chapter of WWII history is recounted in a one-hour documentary, narrated by Liev Schrieber, that airs on public television stations nationwide beginning in April (check local listings.) Produced by 3 Roads Communications, "Rescue in the Philippines: Refuge from the Holocaust," is distributed by American Public Television (APT). The program will also air on WORLD, public television's premier news and documentary channel, later in 2013.
The documentary chronicles an intricate international plan of rescue and resettlement that saved 1,300 Jews from certain death in Nazi concentration camps. In pre-war Manila, an unlikely mix of poker players gathered to save lives. Five Jewish-American cigar makers from Cincinnati. The president of the Philippines. A future president of the United States. A U.S.High Commissioner.
The high- profile group of poker buddies — Col. Dwight Eisenhower, First Philippine President Manuel Quezon, the U.S. High Commissioner Paul McNutt, and the Frieder brothers, Cincinnati businessmen who made two-for-a-nickel cigars in pre-World War II Manila – devised a plan.
Each brought a specific expertise to the mission. Its success depended upon Quezon's pivotal support, McNutt's diplomatic expertise and political savvy, Eisenhower's organizational skills and gift for strategy, and the Frieders' ability, with the help of the Jewish community in Manila, to create new lives for a steady stream of desperate refugees.
Meticulously researched, the documentary takes viewers on a fascinating journey of five American brothers from the Midwest who leveraged their political friendships in the Philippines to plot the rescue of as many Jewish refugees as possible.
Through interviews with historians, friends and relatives of participants, and first-person accounts from survivors who share their harrowing stories of escape to the Philippines, the documentary details how late-night poker games evolved into a call to action that saved hundreds of lives.
The producers from 3 Roads Communications have also brought the award-winning show "The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman", "Legends of Airpower", and "For the Love of their Brother" to public television stations. Their newest documentary will bring you around the globe, giving you first-hand accounts of this compelling story.


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Guests on Volume 53: Lawrence Adams, on the possibilities of religious pluralism in Islamic views of state and society; Dana Gioia, on the craft, popularity, and significance of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Elmer M. Colyer, on theologian Thomas F. Torrance's understanding of the Incarnation; R. A. Herrera, on how the Christian view of Creation and Incarnation shapes an understanding of history; Margaret Visser, on learning to recognize the deep meaning in the design of Christian churches; and Joseph Pearce, on Tolkien's other writings and on his view of myth and story.
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Lawrence Adams on the possibilities of religious pluralism in Islamic views of state and society
World Muslim Population figures by millions, by Mohshin Mahmud
"Reform tends to be something that brings Islam back to its roots, and creates a movement that's even more antithetical to Western society in its secular form, as we know it now. It's often been said--going back to the issue of tolerance--that Islam in its early centuries was very tolerant. You often hear it said it was more tolerant than the Christianity of the time was. But what it was tolerant of was a Medieval and Ancient form of Christianity."
—Lawrence Adams
Political philosopher Lawrence Adams discusses why some strains of Islam are threatened by the concept of a secular "New World Order." The Islamic worldview divides the world into places where Islam is practiced and places where it is not practiced. These are two distinct realms which ought not be conflated. Western states, however, seek homogenization, mixing religious and non-religious souls in pluralistic, secular communities. This is deeply offensive to many Islamists who do not share the West's understandings of tolerance and pluralism.
Dana Gioia on the craft, popularity, and significance of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
"Longfellow is not simply part of American literature, he's part of American history."
Poet and critic Dana Gioia explains why Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) is one of the three great American poets. He was one of the first to understand that accounts of American nationality had to recognize the country's "extraordinary diversity" in order to be truly representative of the nation. He practiced what he believed and wrote about French Canadian Catholics in the Midwest, early British Puritans in New England, and Native Americans before the "white man" settled in North America. He was a master at developing atmosphere in his works and was very popular even in his own lifetime; his poetry appealed to readers across every age, social class, and region in the United States. Gioia says, "He . . . Was an extraordinarily sophisticated intellectual poet, but his gift was to take all of that learning and wear it lightly . . . And it's that combination . . . Of profound intelligence and the common touch that was Longfellow's calling card."
Elmer M. Colyer on theologian Thomas F. Torrance's understanding of the Incarnation
How to Read T. F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian and Scientific Theology (InterVarsity Press, 2001)
"If [the] triune God is not a solitary God, but a being in communion . . . And if in the Incarnation Christ assumes our broken humanity and restores it to union and communion to God, than we have to think of our humanity as radically relational. We can't be fully human without being in relationships, with God and one another."
—Elmer Colyer
Professor Elmer Colyer discusses Thomas F. Torrance's doctrine of the Incarnation and how it could influence the disorder found in contemporary culture. Colyer is author of How to Read T. F. Torrance: Understanding His Trinitarian and Scientific Theology . Contemporary culture does not fully appreciate what it means to be human; Torrance understands the Incarnation as an indication of how greatly God appreciates humanity. When Christ became incarnate he assumed humanity in its brokenness and alienation from God, restoring humanity to full communion with God. Colyer explains the importance of this reality for contemporary culture, noting particularly that humanity is made for fellowship with God and one another.
R. A. Herrera on how the Christian view of Creation and Incarnation shapes an understanding of history
Reasons for Our Rhymes: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of History (Eerdmans, 2001)
"Once the world is created, then the philosophy of history becomes a possibility."
—R. A. Herrera
Philosopher R. A. Herrera explains why a linear view of history is such an important Judeo-Christian legacy for the West. Herrera is author of Reasons for Our Rhymes: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of History . While the Greeks had "wonderful philosophers and historians," history had no sense or meaning for them because they had nothing by which to order it; it was merely one cycle following another. The Judeo-Christian notion of Creation, of history as a story with a beginning and end, established an order for history while enabling an understanding of its meaning.
Margaret Visser on learning to recognize the deep meaning in the design of Christian churches
The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (North Point Press, 2001)
"We think of ourselves as so rich, but in many ways we're very, very, very poor. And I think we should reclaim the riches that are lying there waiting to be looked at in everyday life."
—Margaret Visser
In her book The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church , writer Margaret Visser asks questions of a small church in Rome in order to discover the story it tells. Visser explains that church buildings sustain memory and meaning and have stories to tell. The memories, meaning, and stories can be discerned by attending to how the buildings are put together. Her book is an example of what it means to attend to the "plot" of a church, discovering meaning in what appears to be "banal and trivial." Visser explains how her work considers and refutes modernity's insistence that there is no meaning in matter.
Joseph Pearce on Tolkien's other writings, and on Tolkien's view of myth and story
Tolkien: Man and Myth (Ignatius Press, 2001)
"It's paradoxical, but really myth--at least good myth, in the way that The Lord of the Rings is good myth-- can be more realistic than a factually based novel."
Biographer Joseph Pearce discusses the paradoxical nature of myth and what J. R. R. Tolkien believed about human creativity. Pearce, author of Tolkien: Man and Myth , explains that myth deals with realistic issues (theological, ethical, or philosophical, for example) in a setting that is not realistic. The advantage of mythology, he says, is that one can get to the core of truth without having the whole message become "foggy with fact." Pearce also names some of the works in which Tolkien articulated why humanity is compelled to create and to tell stories. As images of The Creator and Storyteller, people can do no less.
Bonus Track: Dana Gioia on the tragic life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On this CD bonous track, Dana Gioia talks about the sorrowful life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; the congenial literary circle that gathered around him; and the international recognition that he achieved for American letters.


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Welcome to the LUMS Urdu Language Program!
Located on the campus of the prestigious Lahore University of Management Sciences, the program features Urdu language instruction at all levels. Students will have the opportunity to study Urdu in an immersive environment, with four hours of daily instruction, and also to be introduced to Pakistani society and culture through living in and exploring a major South Asian metropolis. The program also includes field trips, guest speakers, and personal tutorials in addition to classroom instruction. This course emphasizes the four skills of reading, writing, listening, and speaking, with a pedagogy that takes an active learning, student-centered approach. Our faculty boast years of experience teaching Urdu as a second language both in the US and Pakistan.
Consistently ranked as one of the top universities in South Asia, LUMS boasts a secure campus where students will be housed in hostels, and have access to the library, gym, swimming pool, dining facilities, medical centre, and other university amenities and student services. The LUMS Urdu Language Program is housed in the Mushtaq Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and is a cooperative effort of the Centre for Continuing Education Studies, the Gurmani Centre for Languages and Literature, and the LUMS International Office.
In Lahore, students will have the opportunity to be immersed in a world of Urdu both inside and outside of the classroom. Not only they will be able to explore the city of Urdu literary giants such as Allama Iqbal and Saadat Hasan Manto, but also have the chance to be surrounded by Urdu in public spaces and media, and most importantly to experience daily interactions in the language.
For further details regarding curriculum, costing and application procedures, please review the following information sheet: ULP Prospective Student Info
For any further inquiries contact: urdu@lums.edu.pk
Dr. Faiza Saleem
Faiza Saleem is an Associate Instructor and Pedagogy Development Associate for Urdu at MGHSS, LUMS. She has an extensive and diverse experience of teaching Urdu as a foreign language at graduate and post graduate levels. Faiza has taught on the Berkeley Urdu Language Program in Pakistan since 2014-2019, at the University of Virginia, and also at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's South Asia Summer Language Institute. Faiza completed her PhD in Linguistics in 2019. Her research interests include; language pedagogy, language and gender socialization, and early childhood gender socialization in primary schools. She was awarded the Fulbright FLTA scholarship for the year 2013-14 as well as the Berkeley Urdu Teaching Training Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin in 2017. Faiza loves sharing not just the Urdu language but also South Asian culture with students, and above all works to make learning fun!
Umar Anjum
Umar Anjum has taught at Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has received specialized Urdu pedagogy training at UC Berkeley. He has also worked in Lahore School of Economics and at Forman Christian College University. He has been attached with UC Berkeley for their study abroad program in Pakistan. In addition, he is co-founding member of the Punjabi Boliyan Research Initiative (PBRI). He is a TED. Ed fellow and a TED translator.
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Emergency Medical Services/Firefighter professionals are first on scene for thousands of mental health and suicide attempt medical crisis every day. With input from members of the Colorado EMS Association, and with the help of the Redlands, California Fire Department and 1st responder organisations, this certificate course addresses the knowledge and skills first responders need to deal effectively with suicidal people, family members of the deceased by suicide, and to look after the health and safety of their colleagues and co-workers.
About The Training Program
This course is about our shared mission to help each other and the suicidal people we may meet on our journey through life. Some may be friends, some coworkers, and some may be the people we serve. As an EMS professional you may have already been on scene at a completed suicide or a non-fatal suicide attempt. If you have not, it is only a matter of time.
As background to building this course, the course authors worked with both the Injury Prevention Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health, and EMS/Firefighter professionals throughout the state. We built the training to "specifications" provided to our team by those "in the know."
Model intervention videos were graciously contributed by members of the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, the Ontario Police Department, the California Highway Patrol, the S.B.S.D. Valley Control, and the Redlands Fire Department.
Some additional key findings from expert consultation and research were these:
EMS/Firefighters have a high degree of line-of-duty exposure to suicidal behaviours, both in the pre-attempt phase (when suicidal persons are communicating intent and desire to attempt suicide via suicide warning signs), and after a suicide attempt or completion.
EMS/Firefighter professionals may also have a higher-than-expected suicide rate compared to other professions. Research is needed to confirm this observation, but one of requests for building this course was to address the need for colleague-to-colleague interventions to prevent suicide.
While perceived comfort and competence in conducting suicide interventions or dealing with suicide events varies considerably, many first responder professionals have not had specific suicide prevention training that would be beneficial to them while "on scene."
To earn the QPR for EMS/Firefighter Certificate in Suicide Prevention and receive a lapel pin and quality certificate to frame, the learner must complete 8 hours of online training in this same course. Some learners may take less time, some will take more. Practice sessions are recommended.
The final exam is a national 25-item test that few health care or mental health professionals can pass without completing this or a similar training program.
The QPR Institute trains and licenses Certified QPR Instructors for those interested in teaching QPR face-to-face.
Finally, the four primary goals of the QPR Institute are these:
Raise public awareness about suicide and its prevention.
Provide low-cost, high-tech, effective, basic Gatekeeper and intervention skills training to lay persons who may be able to prevent a suicide.
Provide suicide prevention and intervention training programs for a variety of professionals and for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students preparing for careers in the helping professions.
Reduce morbidity and mortality of suicidal persons served by health care, correctional, hospital and other institutions through a systems approach to suicide risk reduction that enhances first responder and clinical competencies to detect, assess, monitor, manage and treat persons known to be at elevated risk for suicidal behaviours.
As of this writing in the winter of 2014, the Institute has trained more than 15,000 Certified Gatekeeper Instructors who have, in turn, trained more than two million gatekeepers worldwide. In addition, thousands of clinical health care providers have been trained in how to detect, assess, and manage suicidal consumers.
If this sounds like an "army" of people helping to prevent suicide, it is. Now, with your help, we will create a new division in that army of educated, trained first responders and people of goodwill to help prevent suicide around the globe.
Program Background and Purpose
While expert opinion may differ as to what helper competencies are required to assist suicidal persons achieve the most beneficial outcomes, little controversy exists about the lack of qualified manpower to help the thousands of people who think about, attempt and sometimes die by suicide, including those you respond to in the line of duty.
Even among licensed professionals there is a serious lack of systematic training in how to a) detect suicide risk, b) assess immediate risk for suicidal behaviors and c) provide helpful crisis mitigation services to suicidal persons.
The history and source of the Institute's training programs is derived from earlier research and development work in partnership with Washington State University, The Washington Institute for Mental Health Research, the Washington State Youth Suicide Prevention Program, Spokane Mental Health, and Spokane County Regional Health District.
We believe that crisis volunteers, first responders, emergency services professionals, corrections professionals as well as many others in frequent contact with at risk populations, need to know as much about suicidal behaviors and how to intervene to reduce risk and enhance safety as do trained mental health professionals. To this end, the online program you are about to take is intended to train you in the knowledge and skills you will need to provide competent services in suicide risk detection, initial intervention, how to immediately mitigate the risk of a suicide attempt.
Suicide is one of the most critical health concerns, both in Australia and on a global scale. In 2015, over 3000 Australians died by suicide. For every suicide death, as many as 25 individuals will attempt suicide, and for some communities, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and LGBTI people, rates of suicide attempts and deaths are even higher.
Over the past decade in Australia, there has been a 20% increase in the number of suicides and suicide is the leading cause of death for Australians aged 15-44.
We also know that suicide rates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are at least twice that of non-Indigenous Australians, and that while women make more suicide attempts, 75% of suicides are by men.
Some people in the community are particularly vulnerable, for example men aged 18 to 24 who have previously served in the Australian Defence Forces are twice as likely to die by suicide as men of the same age in the general population. Other workforces with higher risk of suicide can include those working in agricultural, transport and construction and health sectors.
What this training program is not
This training is not a substitute for a university degree in counselling or other helping profession, nor can it provide the face-to-face supervised experience those in the helping professions are provided in the course of their professional career development. The program does not teach suicide risk assessment skills. Suicide risk assessment training is provided in other QPR Institute programs.
Participants must be at least 18 years of age
If employed by, or volunteering for, an organisation, participants agree to accept all expectations and employment rules of their parent organisation. The QPR Institute does not vet or otherwise qualify students for this course.
Modularized in a rich mix of text, video, voice-over PowerPoint™ lectures, interactive practice sessions, and other state-of-the-art interactive and e-learning technologies, the QPR for EMS/Firefighters online training program provides two certificates.
Basic, Level I QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention requires 2 hours of training, after which one certificate is issued when the quiz is passed. This course is embedded in the larger QPR for EMS/Firefighter Certificate in Suicide Prevention. The full course requires 8 hours of training and passing a final exam. If the learner passes this national exam he or she will have demonstrated more knowledge about suicide and its prevention than a large majority of mental health professionals.
From the 8-hour Level II certificate program, participants should be able to:
Understand the common myths and facts surrounding suicide
Recognise someone at risk of suicide
Demonstrate increased knowledge about suicide and its causes
Identify unique verbal, behavioural, and situational suicide warning signs
Know how to inquire about suicidal intent and desire
Know how to engage and assist a suicidal colleague or co-worker
Apply QPR with potentially suicidal people
Know what to say to people who have attempted suicide and to the loved ones left behind by a completed suicide
Demonstrate QPR intervention skills
Describe suicide as a major public health problem.
Describe and locate major suicide prevention web sites and online resources
Identify at least three suicide warning signs
Identify at least three risk factors for suicide
Name at least three protective factors against suicide
Describe means restriction and how to immediately reduce risk
Understand the nature of suicide and describe at least one theory of suicidal behaviour
Demonstrate basic helping skills following suicide attempts or completions
Describe the relationship of mental illness and substance abuse to suicide and understand the fundamentals of our current knowledge about suicide and its prevention
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Online Counselling and Suicide Intervention Specialist (OCSIS)
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Mesothelioma sufferers and their loved ones may be entitled to compensation from the companies who produced and sold asbestos products.
Contact us for a free legal consultation.
(Updated Feb. 19, 2018)
Mesothelioma sufferers and their survivors can file lawsuits against asbestos manufacturers, seeking compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering.
Asbestos litigation is the longest mass tort in American history, with no end in sight. Every year thousands of Americans are diagnosed with mesothelioma, a fatal form of cancer caused by inhaling asbestos fibers.
Despite knowing as early as the 1930s that asbestos caused cancer, companies continue to use it. The asbestos industry has paid millions to shape pro-asbestos research, helping to thwart multiple attempts to ban the carcinogen in the U.S.
Mesothelioma patients and their loved ones have filed lawsuits against asbestos manufacturers and retailers. To find out if you are eligible for a lawsuit, contact our legal team for a free consultation.
You may also want to download our FREE PDF GUIDE to mesothelioma, its effects, and how a lawsuit can help.
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Companies Endangered Workers for Decades
Though it's been known for years that asbestos causes cancer, the asbestos industry continued to promote its use. Asbestos was especially popular between the 1940s and 1970s as a cheap form of fire and chemical-resistant insulation. The mineral was also used in everything from naval ships and textiles to auto parts and talc-based products.
When asbestos fibers are inhaled, they stick to the protective mesothelium layer of organs for years, eventually creating cancerous cells. Often, mesothelioma symptoms won't present themselves for 15 to 20 years. When mesothelioma is diagnosed though, it is extremely aggressive; half of patients will succumb to the disease within 18 months.
Dr. Nicholas Ashford refers to asbestos as "the most criminal industry."
Companies that knew asbestos was killing its workers continued using the mineral hoping to get as much work as possible from their innocent employees. An internal memo from Bendix Corporation dating back to 1966, asked, "If you have enjoyed a good life while working with asbestos products, why not die from it?"
Because of this mass cover-up, Dr. Nicholas Ashford, former chair of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety & Health, refers to asbestos as "the most criminal industry."
Ford Spends $40 Million on Pro-Asbestos Research
Sadly, this deception isn't restricted to the history books. Frustrated with losing lawsuits to mesothelioma patients, in 2001, Ford spent $40 million on pro-asbestos research. Ford-funded researchers and expert testimonies argued that auto mechanics (who were exposed to asbestos-contaminated brake dust) were not at increased risk of developing mesothelioma.
Ford still maintains that mechanics were safe from asbestos exposure. In their 2014 annual report, they state that "the scientific evidence confirms our long-standing position that there is no increased risk of asbestos-related disease as a result of exposure to the type of asbestos formerly used in the brakes on our vehicles."
The industry also claims that some forms of asbestos, including chrysotile asbestos, are safe when used under controlled environments. The World Health Organization, however, says all forms of asbestos cause cancer.
The Longest Mass Tort in History
Mesothelioma patients started filing workers comp claims as early as the 1960's. A mass district litigation (MDL) in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, initially formed in 1991, has overseen the majority of recent mesothelioma lawsuits.
To date, it's estimated that more than 8,500 defendants and 700,000 claimants have been involved in asbestos-related lawsuits. Experts predict that asbestos litigation will reach $200 to $265 billion in compensation.
Trust Funds Award Billions in Compensation
The volume of high settlements and verdicts associated with mesothelioma lawsuits has bankrupted the majority of asbestos manufacturers. To date, 100 companies who formerly manufactured or used asbestos have declared bankruptcy.
However, even if the company responsible for a patient's mesothelioma is no longer in business, it doesn't mean that the patient can't receive compensation. Many of these companies created bankruptcy funds to settle asbestos-related lawsuits.
Asbestos trust funds have awarded nearly $20 billion to claimants.
The Manville Corporation, the leading asbestos manufacturer of its time, established the first of these trust funds in 1988. When the company declared bankruptcy in 1982, it was the largest and richest company at the time to ever do so. Their asbestos trust fund paid $4.3 billion to claimants as of 2013.
To date, 60 trusts exist, which together have awarded nearly $20 billion to claimants.
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Libby, Montana Declared Asbestos Public Emergency
The company that likely has the most blood on its hands is W.R. Grace and Company. The company owned a vermiculite ore mine in Libby, Montana from 1963 to 1990. The mine released asbestos dust, contaminating the town's air, soil, and water.
In 2011, a $43 million settlement was reached to compensate miners and their families.
The town has since been declared a public health emergency by the EPA, marking the first asbestos-related health emergency. An estimated 400 people have died from exposure, and 1,750 have suffered from an asbestos-related disease.
W.R. Grace and Company has since faced 270,000 asbestos-related lawsuits. They filed for bankruptcy in 2001, setting aside $4 billion in an asbestos trust.
Montana agencies were also held liable for failing to warn residents of the dangers posed by the mine. In 2011, a $43 million settlement was reached to compensate miners and their families.
Settlements Average $1 Million for Plaintiffs
The average mesothelioma settlement is between $1 million and $1.4 million, and the average verdict is about $2.4 million, according to Mealey's Litigation Report.
However, many lawsuits have resulted in much higher settlements and verdicts for mesothelioma sufferers. Some of the most notable cases include:
Halliburton: In 2000, the company paid $4 billion to settle 300,000 cases for exposing employees to asbestos on the job.
U.S. Steel: Roby Whittington was awarded $250 million in compensation for developing mesothelioma after working for the company.
Union Carbide, United States Gypsum, et. al.: In 2000, 18 asbestos manufacturers paid $160 million to settle 4,000 claims filed in Mississippi court.
Your questions about asbestos and mesothelioma are answered in this free guide.
Who Can Be Held Liable for Mesothelioma?
The following parties are typically among those held liable in mesothelioma lawsuits:
Asbestos manufacturers
Manufacturers of asbestos products
Retailers that sold asbestos-containing products
Who Is Eligible for a Lawsuit?
Anyone who has mesothelioma may be eligible for a lawsuit. Survivors of mesothelioma victims may also be eligible for compensation for pain and suffering and other expenses.
What Can I Recover from a Mesothelioma Lawsuit?
A lawsuit can provide compensation for:
Medical bills and related costs
Those suffering from mesothelioma have many legal options available to them, and navigating them shouldn't be a complicated or burdensome process. Our attorneys have recovered millions of dollars for hundreds of mesothelioma victims across the United States, making them uniquely qualified to handle mesothelioma litigation.
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Ontario May Sell a Portion Of Its Huge Electrical Utility
By Fred Langan Special to The Christian Science Monitor
Ask the average American to name the largest electric utility in North America and few would come up with the name Ontario Hydro. Yet it produces 34,000 megawatts of electricity, about one-third more than the Tennessee Valley Authority, the largest power company in the United States.
Now Ontario's Conservative government seems certain to break up Ontario Hydro, selling off huge parts of it. The reason: The monopoly created to produce low-cost electricity for industry and consumers has not been doing its job.
"When you have a big dominating monopoly as we have had here in Ontario, it's not going to be working hard to bring prices down. People who have to compete are going to bring them down," says Donald Macdonald, who wrote a government-sponsored report on the utility's future.
Although Canada has the second-lowest electricity rates in the world, after South Africa, Ontario's rates are the second-highest in Canada - and almost twice average rates in neighboring Manitoba.
Ontario Hydro generates power at 69 hydroelectric stations, five nuclear plants, and six fossil-fuel plants. The utility, wholly owned by the Ontario government, started in 1906, mainly to provide low-cost power to Toronto industries from a big hydroelectric plant on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. While Niagara produces as much electricity as a large nuclear power station, more than 60 percent of Ontario Hydro's electricity comes from nuclear power, using Canadian-designed nuclear reactors.
The cost of building these nuclear reactors has produced Ontario Hydro's other superlative: its debt. It owes $33 billion (Canadian; US$24 billion). The cost of servicing that debt has been rising electricity rates for industry and the 12 million people of Ontario, Canada's most populous province.
The government report suggests selling almost all the 69 hydroelectric sites and the fossil-fuel plants. It would not include Niagara Falls. The reason, Mr. Macdonald says, is "just plain politics." He didn't want to give privatization opponents a symbol for their cause. The nuclear plants would also stay in government hands. They might be a tough sell because of their high debt and safety concerns, Macdonald says.
The report is being taken seriously because Macdonald, a former federal energy minister once touted as a possible prime minister of Canada, has a solid track record. His revolutionary report on Canada's economy in the early 1980s led to the 1988 Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States.
Labor unions and Canadian economic nationalists didn't like the free-trade deal, and they don't like the privatization of Ontario Hydro either.
"It would be a financial disaster for the people of Ontario," says Myron Gordon, a finance expert at the University of Toronto's School of Management. "It would increase electricity rates by more than $1 billion a year." He says the only alternative is for taxpayers to pay off Ontario Hydro's debt through higher taxes.
The Power Workers Union says it believes in competition among large utilities, but that Ontario Hydro should not be split or privatized. Worker pay currently averages more than $63,000 (US$46,000) a year at Ontario Hydro. "Public utilities are no less efficiently run than those that are privately owned," says the union, citing comparative studies done in the US. "If anything, the evidence shows that public utilities are somewhat more efficient in the longer term."
Not so, says Energy Probe, an environmental group funded by nonindustry donations. "We think Ontario Hydro needs to be broken up and redesigned to foster competition," says Tom Adams, the group's director of utility research. "Giving customers choice will mean lower prices and environmental benefits."
Taking away Ontario Hydro's monopoly will allow more-flexible power generation, Mr. Adams says. As an example, he points to the Toronto District Heating system, which supplies heat - but not power - to office towers in Toronto's financial district.
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Other consequences of a nuclear-armed North Korea include the acquisition of nuclear weapons by Japan and South Korea (for defensive reasons), and Iran (for offensive reasons, using technology provided by North Korea).
Once Iran has nuclear weapons, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Turkey will follow. In short, a nuclear-armed North Korea leads quickly to nuclear weapons in six other countries, many mutually hostile to each other and the U.S.
That kind of proliferation exponentially increases the odds of a nuclear war between one or more of these countries sooner than later.
That's one more reason to draw a line in the sand and not allow North Korea to have nukes in the first place.
Is Kim Jong Un crazy?
The U.S intelligence community does not believe so. They estimate that Kim is a rational actor, albeit rational within his own limited field of vision.
Kim saw that Libyan leader Qaddafi gave up his nuclear weapons. Libya was then invaded by NATO, and Qaddafi was killed.
Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a nuclear weapons program in the 1980s, which he gave up after the first Gulf War. Years later a U.S. coalition invaded Iraq and Saddam was hanged.
Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons it acquired after the break-up of the former Soviet Union. Later Russia invaded Ukraine, annexed Crimea and occupied parts of Eastern Ukraine.
Iran has a nuclear weapons program that it has not given up. The mullahs who rule Iran are still standing.
The lesson for Kim is clear. If you give up nuclear weapons, the West will invade you and kill you. If you keep your nuclear weapons, the West will leave you alone.
Therefore, Kim feels safer with his nuclear weapons than without. That's not crazy; its prima facie rational based on the evidence. Kim will continue his weapons program.
Is Kim posturing just to get sanctions relief? No. Kim could have sanctions relief at any time with a phone call to Washington. He just has to discontinue his weapons programs.
Kim does not have to go to such great lengths including an H-bomb test, ICBM tests, and development of nuclear-armed submarines just to get sanctions relief. He's in 'breakout' mode and going for a robust nuclear weapons capability.
suffer if the U.S. attacks?
In the first place, Kim believes we're bluffing. He bases that partly on Obama's failed 'red line' on Syrian use of chemical and biological weapons.
Syria used the weapons anyway, and Obama did nothing. Kim took notes. He believes the U.S. is a paper tiger.
Will China help the U.S. assassinate Kim and force regime change in North Korea? The answer is no. China does not want to destabilize North Korea because they fear a flood of refugees into China.
They also fear a reunification of the Korean peninsula on terms favourable to the U.S. if the Kim regime is destabilized.
China also believes the U.S. is bluffing. I learned this recently during lunch at an exclusive club in Washington DC with one of the top geopolitical strategists in China and an advisor to the Chinese leadership.
The potential damage is real, but the U.S. sees that as a necessary cost of ending the North Korean threat once and for all.
No American flag officer will trade Seattle for Seoul. We live in a new hard-nosed 'America First' world.
The South Koreans and Japanese understand this. That's why they're cooperating with us in ending the threat from North Korea.
The situation will not improve for them if we do nothing. Once North Korea has a nuclear arsenal, blackmail of Japan, and an invasion of South Korea are just a matter of time.
The U.S. hopes to mitigate the collateral damage with a fearsome combination of cyber-warfare, psychological warfare, special operations, massive bombing, and limited air and amphibious invasion.
The U.S. also has secret weapons technology including the hypersonic Waverider drone (launched from B-52 mother ships) and a microwave drone than can 'fry North Korean missile launching systems. When the war starts, North Korea won't know what hit them.
70% chance of war before mid-March, 2018.
The market is not even close to pricing in these probabilities. The market will begin to do so as the D-Day draws near, and the signals become clear.
A war with North Korea does not necessarily imply a stock market crash.
In fact, wars have historically been good for stocks as defence contractors, manufacturers, miners, technology firms and other sectors ramp up to meet wartime demands.
War also typically results in inflation as the Fed stays on hold in terms of nominal interest rates and capacity constraints are hit.
The government can delay inflation with wage and price controls, but it always emerges sooner or later as it did in 1919 and 1946 after the First and Second World Wars respectively, and again in the late 1970s after the Vietnam War.
The biggest winner will be gold both because of its safe haven status, and because it offers a hedge against inflation.
Fundamentals already favour gold, but a war with North Korea is likely to result in a super-spike.
The mainstream media are not telling you this war is coming. The stock market is not telling you this war is coming.
I am telling you the war is coming, but I'm not alone. The President, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Director of the CIA, and the National Security Advisor are all saying the same thing. It's just that no one is listening.
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North Korean threat has moved to next level this year, with the regime successfully demonstrating its destructive capabilities in the form of powerfully 100 kilotons nuke as well long range missiles Hwasong 14 & Hwasong 15. Unlike the U.S administration's deliberations on the many issues like Syrian chemical weapons attack, President Trump has given his national security advisers far more time and a wider degree of flexibility when it comes to North Korea. Before the policy review began, the Wall Street Journal reported in March that Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland directed aides to include "ideas that one official described as well outside the mainstream." In this video, Defense Updates analysis WHY TAKING OUT KIM JONG UN IS NOT A GOOD OPTION? Lets get started. OPTIONS We now know just how unconventional some of these options are: they apparently include everything from reintroducing nuclear weapons to South Korea as a show of force and deterrence to assassinating Kim Jong-un and his top commanders. "We have 20 years of diplomacy and sanctions under our belt that has failed to stop the North Korean program," a senior intelligence official involved with the review told NBC News. Reading between the lines and it's obvious what the overall message from the Trump administration is: North Korea is a problem that has been on Washington's hot-plate for way too long, so it's time to shake up the establishment and look for new alternatives. ASSASSINATION There was a time when assassinating a foreign leader was an integral component of America's national-security toolkit. During the Cold War, leaders who were either insufficiently supportive of U.S. policy goals or in bed with the Soviets were targets for removal. Cuba's Fidel Castro, Congo's Patrice Lumumba, the Dominican Republic's Rafael Trujillo and Guatemala's Jacobo Árbenz were all on the CIA's hit-list at one point in time, and Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi was a frequent target due to his sponsorship of international terrorism. CHANGE IN STANCE Things changed after the end of Cold War. Killing foreign political officials, an option that was once always on the table, is now generally discouraged and frowned upon. In fact, It's been U.S. policy since the Gerald Ford presidency to stay far away from anything that would suggest that the United States is a participant, involved in some way or complicit in an assassination attempt. President Ford's executive order on this is quite clear: "No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination." President Reagan restated—and some would say expanded—that restriction in executive order 12333, which says that, "No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination." CURRENT SITUATION Pursuing a policy that would lead to the assassination of Kim Jong-un and the decapitating of the North Korean leadership would therefore be a big reversal from a U.S. policy that has persisted for forty-one years. ANALYSIS A question that is just as important is whether assassinating Kim or the generals in charge of North Korea's nuclear program, ballistic missile program, military or intelligence services would be a good idea. North Korea is an entirely different situation than Iraq was in 2003. Kim Jong-un is solidly in power, having killed or marginalized anyone including his uncle and half-brother perceived to be even a minimal threat to his control. Unlike Iraq, whose military was demoralized and degraded by the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and by a sanctions regime over the next decade, North Korea is a nuclear-weapons state with ballistic missiles that have the capability to level Seoul quickly and target U.S. bases in the region. Killing Kim and banking on the idea that the regime would change how it does business after seven decades would be a high price to pay if that untested theory proved to be wrong. Because North Korea is such a black-hole in terms of human intelligence, the U.S. intelligence community wouldn't be able to confidently assess that the man or woman (Kim's sister, for instance) who replaces Kim wouldn't be just as vicious or unpredictable. Assassinating a head-of-state is the definition of an act of war, and nobody can accurately guess whether cooler heads in Pyongyang would prevail over those who would be itching to demonstrate strength through retaliation. Putting Kim 6 feet underground is only one choice in a set of options, that the National Security Council has on table for President Trump's consideration. It may even be an option that is so far outside the mainstream that Trump's national-security aides would discourage him of even studying it further. It remains to be seen, how things pan out.
2018 is upon us and it is a very exciting time to be alive, to be human. I feel it in my heart. The change that us upon us. So I feel I need to start with semantics, the stuff that is relatable for the representation of physical signs we can all understand. And please note, with all my writings, I ask you, the wise one within, to discern whether this message is for you or not, for I share these words with love a truth from within, if they do or do not resonate with you, is the power you hold. so with that, 2018 in numerology, adds up to 11. This is a power number and represents illumination. The number stands tall, side by side and strong. It is very powerful, as 1 itself represents, power, self and strength. As there are two of them, in essence the power is doubled.


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Location within Wiltshire
1,570 (in 2011)[1]
SU097859
Ceremonial county
Dorset and Wiltshire
51°34′19″N 1°51′43″W / 51.572°N 1.862°W / 51.572; -1.862Coordinates: 51°34′19″N 1°51′43″W / 51.572°N 1.862°W / 51.572; -1.862
Lydiard Millicent is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 3 1⁄2 miles (6 km) west of the centre of Swindon. The parish contains the hamlets of Lydiard Green, Lydiard Plain, Greatfield and Green Hill; in the northeast the parish extends to Common Platt, which is now contiguous with the Peatmoor area of Swindon.
The Woodbridge Brook rises near the village.
2 Parish church
3 Amenities
The first part of the name of the village may be derived from the Old English for 'gate by the ford'. Millicent comes from Millicent de Clinton, who owned the manor in the 12th century and was the wife of William de Clinton;[2][3] the suffix distinguishes the manor from its neighbour to the south, Lydiard Tregoze.
Lydiard Manor is mentioned in the Domesday survey of 1086, owned by Geoffrey de Clinton, with 25 households.[4] There was an extensive Romano-British ceramic manufacturing industry on and around Shaw Ridge, on land formerly within the two Lydiard parishes, mainly in the 2nd century.[5] In the 13th century, most of the parish was within Braydon Forest; later, the forest was only in the west of the parish.[3]
Parkside Farmhouse is from the 16th century, altered in the 18th.[6] Manor Farm has an 18th-century dovecote;[7] the present Manor House was built in 1965-6 on the site of an earlier house which burned down in 1880.[5] Lydiard House, west of the village towards Lydiard Green, was built in 1830;[3] a stable block was added nearby in 1840.[8]
A Primitive Methodist chapel was built in 1863 at Lydiard Green, of red brick in plain classical style. The building was still in use in 2004 but by 2009 had become a private house.[9]
A National School was built at The Butts in 1864, and enlarged several times; in 1902 the attendance was 115. Children of all ages were educated until 1930, when those over 11 transferred to Purton. Enrollment fell, then increased in 1965 on the closure of the school at Lydiard Tregoze.[10] A new school was opened on the other side of the lane in 2011.[11]
In the 19th century the parish boundary in the northeast was the River Ray, beyond the Cheltenham railway.[5] In 1981, the eastern end of the parish – about a third of its area, including the hamlets of Nine Elms, Roughmoor and Shaw – was transferred to Thamesdown borough, together with parts of the parishes of Purton and Lydiard Tregoze.[12] This area was subsequently developed, largely for housing, as the Swindon suburbs of Shaw, Middleleaze, Nine Elms, Hillmead, Roughmoor, Peatmoor and Common Platt.
Parish church[edit]
All Saints' Church
There was probably a church at Lydiard Millicent in the late 11th century. The present parish church is a rebuilding from the 14th century; the nave is from that period and was re-roofed in the 15th or 16th. The chancel was largely rebuilt in 1871 and the west vestry (which now houses the organ) was created in 1924.[13][14]
The font, a limestone bowl decorated with intersecting arcades, is from the 12th century.[15] The tower has six bells, three of them cast by the elder Abraham Rudhall in 1712.[16] The east window, installed in 1963, is by M. E. Aldrich Rope.[17]
The building was designated as Grade II* listed in 1955.[13] The churchyard cross has a medieval limestone shaft; in the 19th century it was provided with a base and a new head.[18]
The benefice was united with Lydiard Tregoze in 1956; the incumbent lived at Lydiard Millicent.[19] The two parishes were united in 1981[20] and following the 1989 building of a church in the Swindon suburb of Shaw, the parish was renamed West Swindon and the Lydiards in 1996.[5] Further reorganisation in 2017 separated the Lydiards and created the benefice of North West Swindon and Lydiard Millicent[21] where All Saints' is the sole church.
The parish registers kept in the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre cover the years 1579–1968 (baptisms), 1580–1992 (marriages), and 1580–1988 (burials).[22]
A substantial rectory house was built southwest of the church in 1855–7, replacing an earlier house. Northern European in style, with rock-faced limestone walls dressed with Bath stone, English Heritage describe it as "a fine example of a mid C19 rectory of substance".[23] The house was sold after a smaller house was built nearby in 1951–2.[5]
Amenities[edit]
The village school continues as Lydiard Millicent C of E VC Primary School.[24] There is a parish hall (1965),[25] a recreation field with changing rooms (2002),[26] and a pub, the Sun Inn.
Samuel Wilson Warneford – held the advowson of the rectory, 1809–1855
^ "Wiltshire Community History - Census". Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
^ Richard Tomkins, Wiltshire place names (1983), p. 69
^ a b c "Lydiard Millicent". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
^ Lydiard Millicent in the Domesday Book. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
^ a b c d e Bainbridge, Virginia, ed. (2011). "Victoria County History: Wiltshire: Vol 18 pp186-209 - Historic Parishes - Lydiard Millicent". British History Online. University of London. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ Historic England. "Parkside Farmhouse (1023142)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ Historic England. "Dovecote at Manor Farm (1284014)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
^ Historic England. "Stables to Lydiard House and walls and gate piers enclosing yard (1023143)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Primitive Methodist Chapel, Lydiard Millicent". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
^ "Lydiard Millicent C. of E. Primary School". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
^ "Lydiard Millicent School, Wiltshire". AFLA Limited. 2012. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
^ "The North Wiltshire and Thamesdown (Areas) Order 1980". www.legislation.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 April 2018.
^ a b Historic England. "Church of All Saints (1356045)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "Church of All Saints, Lydiard Millicent". Wiltshire Community History. Wiltshire Council. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "All Saints, Lydiard Millicent". Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture. King's College London. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "Lydiard Millicent". Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "Church history". All Saints Church. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ Historic England. "Churchyard cross (1023144)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "No. 40824". The London Gazette. 6 July 1956. p. 3946.
^ "No. 48746". The London Gazette. 25 September 1981. p. 12173.
^ "Bishop's Council & Board of Directors report" (PDF). Diocese of Bristol. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "Lydiard Millicent". GENUKI. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
^ Historic England. "Honeywood House (1198049)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
^ "Lydiard Millicent Primary School, Swindon". lydiardmillicentcofe.wilts.sch.uk. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Lydiard Millicent Parish Hall". Wiltshire Village Halls' Association. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ "Jubilee Club House and Recreation Field". Lydiard Millicent Parish Council. March 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
Media related to Lydiard Millicent at Wikimedia Commons
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David Percy Harrison, The story of the church and parish of Lydiard Millicent (1936)
Manor of Lydiard Millicent: court rolls, 1430-1567 (MS), in archives of Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
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