Light touch and holding strategies promote body awareness and social-emotional skills in children and adolescents with behavioral challenges. Deep pressure touch is a more common therapeutic intervention. However, light touch and holding are valuable therapeutic options for promoting attention, body awareness and social-emotional skills.
Body awareness, stress and somatic pain challenges negatively impact behavior in many children and adolescents with developmental, sensory processing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, internalizing behavioral concerns and other psychiatric disorders. Attention, body awareness, stress and somatic pain problems can be addressed through the use of light touch and holding strategies. Light touch and holding strategies are particularly useful for improving and directing functional attention, and provide a valuable option for reducing stress, somatic pain, and social-emotional problems when deep pressure massage is contraindicated. Particularly for young people experiencing acute pain, edema, taking analgesic medications (e.g., which can decrease pain perception) or taking antidepressant medications (e.g., which can cause light headedness and dizziness) light touch and holding are preferred.
Recent research indicates that positively perceived slow, light touch specifically activates CT afferent fibers connecting to the Insular Cortex that convey social-emotional interactions and our internal sense of self. FAB Strategies utilizing light touch and holding include: Vibration to the Back, Arms, & Body as well as the Rolling the arm, Back X, Spine crawl, Head crown, and Foot input. These light touch and holding techniques which are components of FAB Strategies will be described below.
It can be clinically useful to provide extremely irritable children and adolescents who have significant body awareness challenges repeated sensory experiences of the front, back, top and bottom of their bodies. FAB Strategies light touch and holding techniques were developed to provide sensory experiences of the front, back, top and bottom of the body as a foundation for improved body awareness and social-emotional skills. In addition to the light touch and holding strategies the awareness of the front, back, top and bottom of the body is practiced through several FAB Strategies deep pressure touch and mindful movement activities.
Vibration to the Back, Arms, & Body provide light touch input. Vibration can also be applied to various body parts with eyes open and closed, to increase body awareness by having clients identify each body part as it is touched (e.g., arm, left ankle). Light touch can also be provided through the Rolling the arm strategy. The therapist rolls the arm in a palm open, thumb lateral direction providing relaxation.
The Head Crown involves 10 second holding on the head, first on both sides then on the front and back of the head.
Foot input involves massage and holding of the feet to provide improved sensory awareness of the feet as the foundation and bottom of the body. Foot input can be followed by stretching exercises to help decrease the likelihood of habitual toe walking. Light touch and holding strategies are a valuable intervention to improve attention, body orientation and social-emotional skills through interpersonal touch. Light touch and holding can also decrease stress, pain, and provide comfort when more intense massage is contraindicated.
Beider, S., Mahrer, N. E., Gold, J. I. (2007). Pediatric massage therapy: An overview for clinicians. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 54(6), 1025-1041.
Bjornsdotter, M., Loken, L., Olausson, H.., Valbo, A., & Wessberg, J. (2009). Somatotopic organization of gentle touch processing in the posterior insular cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, 29(29) 9314-9320.
McGlone, F., Wessberg, J., & Olausson, H. (2014). Discriminative and affective touch: Sensing and feeling. Neuron, 82(4), 737-755.
Perini, I., & Olausson, H. (2015). Seeking pleasant touch: Neural correlates of behavioral preferences for skin stroking. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 9.
I was recently honored to present Grand Rounds at Solnit Children's Center, the adolescent psychiatric hospital where I work. GrandRoundsOT Outline Our dynamic transdisciplinary team over the past 5 years was able to significantly reduce the use of restraint and seclusion.OT role in Restraint Reduction Solnit which was celebrated by making a bench for the hospital grounds from restraint beds (which are no longer used).
Occupational therapy offers unique contributions to adolescent mental health intervention due to its foundations in neurology, physiology, psychology, development, human occupations, and sensory processing. At Solnit Children's Center the primary frames of reference used include: mindfulness, sensory processing, sensory massage, trauma informed care, Pivotal Response Training (a research proven form of Applied Behavioral Analysis), exercise, and developmental intervention. Occupational therapy is a vital component of transdisciplinary team intervention for adolescents with mental health challenges.
Occupational therapy for improving the behavior of students with developmental trauma can include energy level modulate, sensory processing, deep pressure touch, and mindfulness strategies. The energy level modulate strategy involves increasing students' awareness of their arousal level and teaching them to modulate dysfunctional high or low energy levels to better participate in school learning tasks. It can be introduced by explaining that "some students who have had difficult experiences early in their life can get into trouble by overreacting when they have really big feelings". The energy level modulate strategy teaches students to identify whether their current energy level feels "High" (hyper, off the wall, with stiff muscles like raw spaghetti), "Medium" (just right and ready to learn) or "Low" (tired, numb, with loose muscles like over cooked spaghetti).
The energy level modulate strategy is extremely useful in school settings for students with sensory modulation difficulties who become aggressive following activities that raise their energy levels extremely high. While many students can use the energy level modulate strategy with teacher encouragement, some students with sensory modulation difficulties and developmental trauma need assistance. For example, a student receiving occupational therapy attended a wild physical education class where the students ran, screamed and threw balls at each other. His classmates behaved appropriately upon returning to class. However, this student who had significant sensory sensitivity and developmental trauma challenges was unable to sit down upon returning to class and threw a chair.
Following this experience the occupational therapist taught the school physical education teachers and mental health therapists the energy level modulate strategy so students could rate their energy levels before returning to class. The teacher or therapist would bring students who rated their energy level as uncomfortably high to a designated staff member (e.g., occupational therapist, speech therapist, principle, resource room teacher) who would help the student do pushups or other individualized sensory coping strategies to lower their energy level before returning to class.
The most effective strategies for normalizing energy levels involve deep pressure through the joints with slow linear movements. Activities such as regular or wall pushups, moving furniture, moving mats, delivering messages or boxes of books throughout the school, or wheelbarrow walking on your hands over a therapy ball can help achieve this.
Individual OT sessions using sensory processing, deep pressure touch, and sensory mindfulness strategies help students with self-regulation and developmental trauma challenges improve their attention, seated attention, and behavior for participation in school learning tasks.
Engel-Yeger, B., Palgy-Levin, D., & Lev-Wiesel, R. (2013). The Sensory Profile of People With Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms. Occupational Therapy in Mental Health, 29(3), 266-278.
Hanson, J. L., Chung, M. K., Avants, B. B., Shirtcliff, E. A., Gee, J. C., Davidson, R. J., & Pollak, S. D. (2010). Early stress is associated with alterations in the orbitofrontal cortex: a tensor-based morphometry investigation of brain structure and behavioral risk. The Journal of neuroscience, 30(22), 7466-7472.
Hughes, D. A. (2011). Attachment-focused family therapy workbook. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Co.
Warner, E., Koomar, J., Lary, B., & Cook, A. (2013). Can the body change the score? Application of sensory modulation principles in the treatment of traumatized adolescents in residential settings. Journal of Family Violence, 28(7), 729-738.


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Alan Dershowitz, who aided O.J. Simpson's 1995 legal team, said that particular case will be fresh in the minds of those at his upcoming parole hearing.
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Simpson was convicted of robbery and kidnapping, stemming from an incident in which he tried to steal sports memorabilia he believed to be rightfully his.
"Most [people] think he committed a double murder," Dershowitz said of Simpson, who is serving nine to 33 years in prison.
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Crinkley Bottom, also popularly referred to as Blobbyland, was the operating title for a series of British theme parks operating in the 1990s. They were created by Noel Edmonds based on the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom where the Noel's House Party television programme was based. The parks operated based on the popularity of Mr Blobby. Three parks were operated under the Crinkley Bottom name in England by Edmonds' company, Unique. However, all of the parks eventually failed and were either closed or rebranded.

Background
Noel's House Party was a popular family entertainment programme on the BBC during the 1990s. The programme was hosted by Edmonds in the fictional village of Crinkley Bottom and also included Mr Blobby as a comic relief character that gained fame during the decade. Hoping to capitalise on the popularity of both, Edmonds and his production company Unique looked into ways to open a theme park based around Noel's House Party. The first theme park opened in Cricket St Thomas, Somerset in 1994. It was promoted as "Britain's first TV leisure park".

Cricket St Thomas

The first park, located in Cricket St Thomas in Somerset, was based around an existing wildlife park and the Cricket House country estate. The Crinkley Bottom park was based around Mr Blobby with a Blobby-themed house called "Dunblobbin'" being the main attraction, along with several other themed areas based on British children's television including Noddy and The Animals of Farthing Wood. The park opened in 1994 and was popular.in 1995, a water river ride based on children's television was opened with plans being made to open a replica of "The Great House" set from the television programme in Cricket House. However in 1996 Edmonds pulled out of backing the park, though due to contractual rights the majority of the attractions remained but were removed in 1997, References to Mr Blobby were removed, with Noddy being used as the main character for the rebranded Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park until the whole area was closed in 1997. During the rebrand, the Dunblobbin' area was closed during this time and sealed off.

In the 2000s, urban explorers rediscovered the abandoned Dunblobbin' house which led to more people returning to Cricket St Thomas to see it. The owners of the land initially blocked off the site and then demolished Dunblobbin' in 2014 to stop people going to the house because of vandalism and as it was being used as a site for illegal raves. The polystyrene toilet from the house was taken from there in 2013 and placed in an art gallery.

Morecambe
In 1994, Lancaster City Council agreed a deal with Edmonds to open a Crinkley Bottom on the grounds of Happy Mount Park in Morecambe, Lancashire. Councillors voted 59–1 in favour of a £300,000 investment. The park received outside sponsorship from Fuji and Mars, Incorporated with British Rail giving the park free advertising by promoting the nearby Bare Lane railway station as "Bare Crinkley Bottom". It opened in July 1994 as "Noel Edmonds' World of Crinkley Bottom" however a number of problems started to emerge shortly after opening. A month later, a liquor licence was granted to the park over complaints from Bare residents that it would lead to "hooligan" behaviour in the surrounding areas. Visitors started writing to the local paper complaining about a lack of facilities with a 6,000 strong protest group being formed opposing it. In November, the Labour led council voted to withdraw its support on the grounds that the park was not meeting the promised visitor or income targets, thus closing the park after only thirteen weeks open to the public.

The council sued Edmonds and Unique for failing to reach the predicted targets on the grounds of misrepresentation and negligence. The court found that the council had acted unlawfully during its handling of Crinkley Bottom and dismissed their claims whilst Edmonds was awarded £950,000 in damages. The fiasco gained the name of "Blobbygate" with Edmonds stating after a negative report into the council's handling of the situation which had cost the local taxpayers £2.6 million, that: "We wanted people investigated because they cheated the people of Morecambe out of something very significant. I thought Morecambe was famous for shrimps, now it's notorious for fudge." In 2016, the Countdown host Nick Hewer visited Morecambe to film a segment for BBC One's The One Show detailing the park and resulting scandal.

Lowestoft
In 1996 in Lowestoft, Suffolk, Unique licensed a Crinkley Bottom attraction at  Pleasurewood Hills.  During their Crinkley Bottom licence, the park transformed its theatre into a castle. This arrangement only lasted for a year due to a change of ownership.

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External links

https://www.dunblobbin.com/ – the Unofficial Crinkley Bottom Museum

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I did celebrate my divorce. Looking back on it now, twenty years later, I regret my actions and immaturity.
On the day I received my papers back from the judge and everything was official, I went straight away with changing my last name back to my maiden name. ON EVERYTHING.
Then, I went to work, did a little woohoo with my few friends and when the store closed for the night, we (a very large group of us) all went to the local bar we frequented and had ourselves a party. Tequila shots (my favorite) bad dancing and even worse Karaoke.
I kept up the party girl single mom out whenever I could routing for a few months before it got old. I tried dating. NOPE. So, I started doing other things. I put my time into my relationship with my daughter, worked on my cake decorating skills, focused on art and writing more and spent a lot of time at my parents.
Now-days, things are very different. That man I had divorced has grown up, become responsible, and we depend on each other for various things. I know I can depend on him, our daughter can depend on him.
I DO regret my past actions. But, I was young and stupid. I've matured and can look back at the many errors in my ways back then.
So, today, even though the prompt was kind of a downer, for me, things turned out wonderful in the end with years to form a fantastic relationship with the father of my daughter. He's a good man. He wears his heart on his sleeve a lot, and gets hurt a lot, but I'm always there for me, no matter what.
I think that qualifies as a happy ending of sorts.
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FOMS Inc gears up for ZBLAN fiber manufacturing on ISS
FOMS, Inc, a small business based in San Diego, California, has developed an automated fiber manufacturing process for producing a suite of next generation optical fiber in microgravity. FOMS, which is implementing its technology through NASA's SBIR program, will see its first operational payload installed on the ISS in 2019. [caption id="attachment_2074" align="alignleft" width="356"] Dr. Dmitry Starodubov, chief scientist at FOMS Inc. Source: FOMS Inc[/caption] In-space manufacturing for Earth-based markets
Fifteen months after President Trump reinstated the National Space Council, the White House's new vision for American leadership in commercial space is slowly beginning to come together. The White House is hoping to lean on commercial space partners for future development of low Earth orbit, while NASA shifts its focus to deep space exploration. The refocus was codified in a policy directive from the White House that aims to establish
Success of commercial platforms unlikely without government help
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After the Trump administration called for end to NASA's funding of ISS by 2025 earlier this year, NASA officials are considering what to do next. The president's budget allocates $900 million over the next five years to help transition the ISS to the private sector, with $150 million being allocated to NASA in 2019, "to enable the development and maturation of commercial entities and capabilities which will ensure that commercial
'Radical new vision' for NASA would see it become an enabler of the future space economy
The US will be able to maintain its lead in the latest space race, but only if NASA re-focuses on supporting the private sector, according to a new report, entitled "American Space Enterprise and Security," released from the Potomac Institute of Policy Studies (PIPS). Potomac Institute joins a growing number of research and financial firms that have begun incorporating space industries into their offerings. The report is the first to
With smallsat boom, NASA launches pilot Earth science data program
NASA will begin a pilot program this spring to determine whether the agency wants to purchase Earth observation data from the leagues of private small satellites that are orbiting the planet. Twin trends of decreased costs to access space and advancements made in satellite technology has spurred considerable growth in the private smallsat sector. Meanwhile, funding for NASA's own Earth observation operations is increasingly under threat by the Trump administration,
Trump nominee Bridenstine could advance public-private partnerships at NASA
Oklahoma Republican representative Jim Bridenstine has been nominated to lead NASA, and the commercial space sector is lining up in support, as more information becomes available about what Bridenstine's leadership of the agency might look like. Bridenstine has been a vocal advocate for expanding private enterprise's role in NASA's space activities, and the pick seems to line up with the Trump administration's interest in helping advance a commercial space sector.
'Lunar. Sooner': ULA & Bigelow propose 2022 launch for lunar depot
Bigelow Aerospace and ULA have announced plans to put Bigelow's B330 expandable habitat module into low lunar orbit by the end of 2022. Bigelow said the habitat will serve as a lunar depot and support infrastructure for other deep space missions. The commercial habitat will launch on ULA's latest Vulcan rocket. The announcement expands an earlier partnership to launch one of Bigelow's B330 habitats into low Earth orbit aboard ULA's
With Moon in mind, ESA looks to private sector for developing ISRU
The European Space Agency is calling for proposals for sending humans to the Moon, as well as for technology that will sustain crews while there. The agency is looking for proposals to leverage in-situ resources utilization technologies to help create a sustainable off-Earth colony, like the "Moon Village" concept ESA's director general Johann-Dietrich Woerner has proposed. "We are looking to invest in the development and pay for the use of

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Q: What's responsible for the different hardnesses between Steel and Aluminum? Why is the aluminum in a tin can harder than aluminum can?  What characterizes their different properties?
Aluminum vs. Tin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. It is a silvery-white, soft, non-magnetic and ductile metal in the boron group. By mass, aluminium makes up about 8% of the Earth's crust; it is the third most abundant element after oxygen and silicon and the most abundant metal in the crust, though it is less common in the mantle below.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn (from Latin: stannum) and atomic number 50. Tin is a silvery metal that characteristicly has a faint yellow hue. Tin, like indium, is soft enough to be cut without much force.[8] When a bar of tin is bent the so-called "tin cry" can be heard as a result of sliding tin crystals reforming; this trait is shared by indium, cadmium and frozen mercury. Pure tin after solidifying keeps a mirror-like appearance similar to most metals. However, in most tin alloys (such as pewter) the metal solidifies with a dull gray color. Tin is a post-transition metal in group 14 of the periodic table of elements. It is obtained chiefly from the mineral cassiterite, which contains stannic oxide, SnO2.

With that out of the way.  It seems that Tin cans are made of Steel while Aluminum cans are made of Aluminum.
Tin Can vs Aluminum Can
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel_and_tin_cans

A tin can, tin (especially in British English, Australian English and Canadian English), steel can, steel packaging or a can, is a container for the distribution or storage of goods, composed of thin metal. Many cans require opening by cutting the "end" open; others have removable covers. Cans hold diverse contents: foods, beverages, oil, chemicals, etc. Steel cans are made of tinplate (tin-coated steel) or of tin-free steel. In some dialects, even aluminium cans are called "tin cans".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum_can

Aluminum beverage can with stay-tab easy-opening. Note the can is narrowed at the top to allow for a smaller "end"
  An aluminum can (British English: aluminium can), sometimes erroneously referred to as a "tin can", is a container for packaging made primarily of aluminum. It is commonly used for foods and beverages such as milk and soup but also for products such as oil, chemicals, and other liquids. Global production is 180 billion annually and constitutes the largest single use of aluminum globally.

Wikipedia has an extensive discussion of containers and packaging.
Hardness
The Moh's scale seems to place Aluminum at a 3 and Steel at a 4.  This might be a chemistry question rather than a physics question.

A separate check suggests that tin is quite soft.

A: To summarize: tin cans are not made of tin, they are made of steel. At one time they were tin-plated so that the lead-tin solder that was used to seal them up would stick readily to the steel. Today they have electrically welded seams (and mechanically crimped tops and bottoms) so as to eliminate health hazards from the solder and hence no longer require tin plating; to prevent them from corroding when filled with acidic foodstuff, they are lacquered on the inside.
Aluminum and steel have different crystal structures, grain structures, and (some) ductility mechanisms at room temperature and therefore have different yield strengths, but it should be pointed out that there are hundreds of different steel and aluminum alloys with wildly differing mechanical properties- so without specifying exactly what type of steel and aluminum you are talking about, comparisons between them are almost meaningless.
The differences in properties between aluminum and steel and their various common alloys occupy entire chapters of materials science textbooks, making this forum not the best place to learn this subject. See the classic texts by Van Vlack or Shakelford.

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Q: php transaction error, i always get a rollback error im trying to update 2 tables at once. from my research i have to use a transaction for this:
protected function myUpdateFunction(){
        try{
            $this->connect()->beginTransaction();

        $itemID = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemID');
        $itemName = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemName');
        $itemDescription = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemDescription');
        $itemPrice = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemPrice');
        $itemStock = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemStock');
        $updateItemBtn = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemBtn');

        $sql = "UPDATE oopphp_items SET itemName = ?, itemDescription = ?, itemPrice = ?, itemStock = ? WHERE itemID = ?";
        $stmt = $this->connect()->prepare($sql);
        $stmt->bindParam(1, $itemName, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->bindParam(2, $itemDescription, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->bindParam(3, $itemPrice, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->bindParam(4, $itemStock, PDO::PARAM_INT);
        $stmt->bindParam(5, $itemID, PDO::PARAM_INT);
        $stmt->execute();

        //wishlist
        $itemID_fk = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemID');
        $itemName_fk = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemName');
        $itemDescription_fk = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemDescription');
        $itemPrice_fk = filter_input(INPUT_POST, 'updateItemPrice');

        $sql = "UPDATE oopphp_wishlist SET itemName_fk = ?, itemDescription_fk = ?, itemPrice_fk = ? WHERE itemID_fk = ?";
        $stmt = $this->connect()->prepare($sql);
        $stmt->bindParam(1, $itemName_fk, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->bindParam(2, $itemDescription_fk, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->bindParam(3, $itemPrice_fk, PDO::PARAM_STR);
        $stmt->bindParam(4, $itemID_fk, PDO::PARAM_INT);
        $stmt->execute();

        $this->connect()->commit();
        }
        catch(Exception $e){
                echo $e->getMessage();
                $this->connect()->rollBack();

        }
    }

i get the following error:
Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: There is no active transaction
when i tried looking for answers they all said to put it inside a try-catch, which i already did. all examples i could find do it like this. as seen here: PHP PDO - There is no active transaction
i also found some people suggest adding these to the database file:
$pdo->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
$pdo->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
$pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, FALSE);

which also hasent done anything.
now if i just remove the code inside the catch() then the error goes away and i both my update queries work.
the only difference i could spot is that all examples dont have their database connection as a function.
so where i do:
$this->connect()->beginTransaction();

they do:
$pdo->beginTransaction();

and obviously same for commit() and rollBack(). though i cant imagine this being the problem. especially when it works perfectly if i remove the catch() content.
this is where i got the code from: https://thisinterestsme.com/php-pdo-transaction-example/
i seem to have the same code apart from the connect() vs $pdo.
my connect function:
protected function connect(){
        try{
            $dsn = 'mysql:host=' . $this->DB_HOST . ';dbname=' . $this->DB_NAME;
            $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $this->DB_USER, $this->DB_PASS);

            //setting default fetch mode
            $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE, PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);

            //setting errors for exceptions for try/catch
            $pdo->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);

            $pdo->setAttribute( PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, false);
            $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, false);
            return $pdo;
        }
        catch(PDOException $error){
            echo 'Connection error: ' . $error->getMessage();
        }
        finally{
            //$pdo = null;
        }
    }

i fixed it with the help of the comment, and a final note at the end if someone sees this later:
this line i mentioned: $pdo->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_AUTOCOMMIT, FALSE);
made it so my CRUD didnt work anymore. the other 2 setAttribute() didnt cause errors with anything at this moment.

A: When you call connect(), you get a different PDO object each time. Thus,
$this->connect()->beginTransaction(); // pdo object 1

$this->connect()->commit();   // pdo object 4

PDO object 4 has no transaction in progress! the Exception is normal.
Quick fix :
in you try block
 $pdo = $this->connect();
 $pdo->beginTransaction();
  ....  // replace all $this->connect() by $pdo
 $pdo->commit();


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Speaker in the conference cycle Facultad Estudios Internacionales "Huge mistakes commited by department of international business".
Lecturer of International Business for small companies (CFP Valencia).
Speaker at the I Conference International Cicle "The Chinese Market, a threat or an opportunity".
Reporting Speaker "Low Cost Export" Sessions and Speaker at "TLC Colombia-Europa" Sessions.
Lecturer of the following courses "Introduction to International Companies" and "Investigation markets and International Marketing".
Reporting Speaker at the Congress of "Exportation a challenge".
Reporting Speaker Sessions "Business in Brasil".
Reporting Speaker "Chinese shoes in Spain and the plan of defense" at the II International Workshop of such an Association.
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No, that's not the jackpot in this week's lottery. That's the number of Jews who lived in Poland in 1939, the year of Germany's Polish invasion.
Welcome to Poland's current Jewish population.
Israel has criticized the legislation, arguing along with Holocaust organizations that the law could have a chilling effect when it comes to the debate of history. Most importantly, they argue, this legislation glosses over the fact that many Polish citizens were complicit in carrying out the Nazi's final solution. In the post-World War II era, Polish Jews displaced by the Holocaust were detested and in some cases harmed or even murdered when they returned home.
Let the numbers speak for themselves. Some 350,000 Polish Jews, barely a 10th of one of the world's greatest Jewish communities, survived the Holocaust. A small percentage of that post-1945 number chooses to live there now.
When Israel's government criticized the recent Polish lower house bill, anti-Semitic statements easily found their way onto Polish TV, radio and social media.
One media personality went so far as to call the death camps "Jewish death camps" because it was used at times by incarcerated Jews who were forced to dispose of the remains of fellow Jews in these camps. Indeed, the very voices who want to disassociate from Nazism are forceful and free to tell Polish citizens critical of the lower house bill to consider relinquishing their citizenship.
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki have pledged together to form a group of history experts to find an amicable agreement point on Poland's Holocaust participation.
Certainly we don't suggest that Poland, whose government was in exile during the Holocaust, devised or developed Hitler's death camps. Many innocent Polish non-Jewish citizens were victims of the Nazis as well.
But Poland still has a mirror to face. Its citizenry has to come to grips with a past that witnessed Jews annihilated in their very midst. It can create a law that would change the language of "Polish death camp" to "Nazi death camp." But it also needs to find a way to make sure that its history is explained with truth and contrition.
Over three million Jews disappeared from Poland. The Nazis were the invading, occupying force behind the Jewish community's destruction.
But let it not be forgotten that they had help. And plenty of it.


My Space | The Red Brunette.
Hey guys! So firstly, no I'm not talking about that old social media that everyone used back in the day I'm chatting all things homeware and decor because today's post is all about my room. I never thought I'd do a homeware type of blogpost but my friends Lauren and Clóda kept commenting on the bits of my room they saw in the background of my Snapchats and suggested I do one so if you ever have any blogpost suggestions be sure to let me know! Today I'm going to show you and talk through some of my favourite parts of my space.
I am definitely one to keep my room somewhat clean on an everyday basis as I find it so much easier to be productive in a clean environment, but I would obviously have random things thrown around the place, but have cleaned everything away so my messy room isn't on the internet, so basically it's not always this neat and looking this perfect.
My room is a shoebox, it fits a bed and a desk that's pretty much it so I always try my best to make it look as big as possible with lots of mirrors and light colours. So this is what you see when you walk into my room; my bed is on the right, my desk is after that, big window straight ahead with some shelves and a mirror on the left hand side and my wardrobe is also beyond those shelves (it's a built in wardrobe so it doesn't take up much space which is great in such a small room).
So we'll start on the right with m beloved bed. I of course have some fairy lights over it from Penneys and my bed cover is also from Penneys. You will probably figure out quickly that I have a bit of a white and gold theme going on in my room. It's not a specific theme that I am strict with sticking to, just a little idea to tie everything together.
I guess I've always had a thing for homeware and picking bits and pieces up for my room over the years and have always switched and changed things every now and again. The annual trip to Ikea usually prompts this change and when I see cool little bits in Penneys homeware section.
Onto the wall above my bed. This was always a big huge blank wall so I decided to change that a year or two ago and made this gallery wall. I did it over time and am always adding bits to it. I rotate the pictures in these frames regularly so this wall is constantly changing. Most of the frames are from Ikea and the majority of the little quotes and words are from Penneys, I told ye they were my favourite places to pick up bits from! Everything is so affordable in both of those places because we all know as a student you'd prefer to spend your money on other things than frames.
At the foot of my bed I have my desk which my Dad actually made for me years ago and I pained white recently enough (you can read about the transformation here). I used to do work here but it slowly became my makeup station and a large amount of my cosmetics live in the drawers underneath. Because I do my makeup sitting at my desk I have my brushes on top in little glass jars as well as my lipstick in a container from Penneys. On top of that I have a few nick nacks again from Penneys and this really handy mirror that is great for magnifying from Ikea. On the far left I have a desk lamp and a fake flower in a vase, both from Ikea. In front of that I have my perfumes that live in this little tray that is again, from Penneys.
As you can see in the overview shot above I have a white chair under my desk (guess where that is from! Ikea!) and a big mirror above it that was done with a bit of DIY. I love having loads of mirrors to create the illusion of a bigger room.
Opposite to my table is my wardrobe and next to that is this shelving unit from Ikea. This is actually the newest addition to my room. I needed something to store all of my college stuff and I just had loads of things lying around so I decided to get this to sort everything out. The top shelf is where my laptop sits when I'm not on it (which is very rare) along with some of my jewellery.
Both the lantern and candle (which is a makeup scented candle?!) are from Ikea and the stand that my necklaces are on is from Penneys. I then store my rings in this little Alex & Ani box.
Second shelf is full of my beauty and fashion books with a Jo Malone perfume box on top. I have another framed photo next to them as well as a flower that is in what used to be a mug once upon a time. On a little plate in front of that I keep my watches and brackets. I keep them here all together because I wear them on an everyday basis so they're easy to get to.
The next shelf is the home to another few books, these are more lifestyle types of books as well as baking books. They are sitting between this glass jar from Dunnes and a woven gold pineapple basket from Penneys. In here I keep any blogging props as well as press releases and any products I need to photograph and all the jazz.
I'm not even going to show ye the last shelf, its basically all of my college stuff so lots of copies, lab books and folders, so nothing special at all. Next to the shelves is the mirror you would be quite familiar with it you see my outfits of the day posts I do every morning. The mirror was actually downstairs in our house but I took it fro my room. I also have some fairy lights hanging across it and above the shelves that are from Penneys.
I LOVE THIS POST! Your room is so pretty and I love your shelves, they are so pretty. I used to have that swivel chair but I upgraded to a comfier one.
Thank you Róisín! Yah it's definitely not the comfiest but I don't spend too much time on it which isn't too bad.
Thank you gal, definitely such a mess now but anyway!


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Q: custom TableViewCell out of order? ive been having a lot of issues with my tableview getting out of order or losing a custom image in the tableview cell. I have been doing a lot of research and found a few helpful things on it but none seem to resolve my issue. It seems to be an issue with the reuse cell. I also have an if statement to change an images background on the custom cell depending on what button you press. Any help would be awesome thanks.
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    let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "cell", for: indexPath) as! expenseTableViewCell

    let expense = expenses[indexPath.row]
    cell.expenseName.text = expenses[indexPath.row].ename
    cell.expenseCost.text = "$" + expenses[indexPath.row].ecost!
    cell.expenseDue.text = expenses[indexPath.row].edue

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        cell.picture.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 255/255, green: 116/255, blue: 115/255, alpha:1)
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        cell.picture.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 30/255, green: 192/255, blue: 255/255, alpha:1)
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A: Try this instead:
if expense.picture == "1"{

    cell.picture.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 255/255, green: 116/255, blue: 115/255, alpha:1)
} else if expense.picture == "2"{

    cell.picture.backgroundColor = UIColor(red: 30/255, green: 192/255, blue: 255/255, alpha:1)
}

Because you are reusing cells, you can't have if statements the way you are writing them. You have to use else if otherwise the cells that stay in memory mess things up.


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Indianapolis Colts Through The Scout's Eyes Articles | Indianapolis Colts – www.colts.com
Through The Scout's Eye
Chris McGaha, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the West Coast, as well as Matt Terpening, the Colts' assistant director of college scouting, and general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in quarterback Jacob Eason, the Colts' fourth-round (122nd-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Bobby Okereke
Chris McGaha, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the West Coast, as well as general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in linebacker Bobby Okereke, the Colts' third-round (89th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Parris Campbell
Chad Henry, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the Midwest region, discusses what he saw in wide receiver Parris Campbell, the Colts' second-round (59th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Ben Banogu
Byron Lusby, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the Southwest region, and general manager Chris Ballard discuss what they saw in linebacker Ben Banogu, the Colts' second-round (49th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.
Through The Scout's Eye: Rock Ya-Sin
Mike Derice, an area scout for the Indianapolis Colts who focuses on the Northeast region, discusses what he saw in cornerback Rock Ya-Sin, the Colts' second-round (34th-overall) pick in this year's NFL Draft.


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Current selected tag: 'information overload'. Clear.
"Block babies, Upworthy, twerking, annoying friends, awful coworkers, and anything else you hate with things you'd rather see, like cats."
Rather is a browser extension which allows you to easily filter out (mute) or replace any keyword appearing in your information streams.
Filter out cats, funny pics, Christmas and other popular events as well as any content coming from Instagram, Vine, Buzzfeed and other platforms.
Rather works across Facebook, Twitter and with any RSS feed you submit to it.
You can also see what other 200,000+ users are blocking in real-time.
In an age of information overbaundance this is a sweet handy tool to easily filter out info you don't want to see from your main incoming news streams.
More on filtering out the noise.
I can't wait to try this out! It would be great to be able to filter what I want to see, rather than rely on FB doing it for me & often getting it wrong!
I have rehearsed this scenario before, but try to imagine we live in a world where printed media had not been invented, and our only source of information and entertainment was the Internet.
"Give me the cheeses that matter, offer me a wine list that's manageable. And put all the information that's raining down on us from cyberspace in a convenient, easy-to-handle form."
That's the essence and the relevance of content curation in today's world.
He shares this wonderful short story: "Opposite my office is one of Britain's most celebrated cheese shops. Once through its doors, you are greeted by the cheeses of the world.
The varieties of sheep's cheese are in double figures, and there's Cheddars of all sizes and provenance.
It is completely over-facing, to the extent that a colleague of mine has been to the shop three or four times and has walked out without buying anything, so baffled was he by the complexity and range of the offering."
He concludes his article by writing: "I'd like the sense that someone of taste and discretion and experience has already whittled down the choices.
(From the article): I'd like the sense that someone of taste and discretion and experience has already whittled down the choices. (That's the problem with search engines, by the way - no taste!) The world needs editing - and yes, I use that word advisedly. Give me the cheeses that matter, offer me a wine list that's manageable. And put all the information that's raining down on us from cyberspace in a convenient, easy-to-handle form. Sorry, I never intended to be a defence of newspapers!


Executive summary: A midsized company tries to spike revenue and engage their 24 member sales team. The team struggling to generate leads. The operations team do not have projects, auditors' state that the company is liable to bankruptcy.
Problem statement: No leads, no sales, no business. The investors are worried, stock prices are depreciating every No statistics to review/ report failure or opportunities, Unable to define the business type of enterprises profit customer, unable to profile customers due to huge discounts, resulted in loss of job and losing talented employees.
They were too conventional, no modern method of marketing were used. Each search for prospects by themselves consumed a lot of time. They were unable to reach them on time and not more than 100 prospects were contacted in a day on an average. Being unable to talk to the right decision makers doomed their fate of success.
We identified the market and prepared a database, outlining the potential opportunities and business in and outside their reach.
Prepared data based on: Company Name, Company Website, Industry, Contact name (full name), Address, Title, Telephone number, verified emails address, Revenue size and Employee Size.
Stated email campaign with variety of offers using various templates. The lead and enquiries were followed up using tele calling.
This method gave a significant push in the leads pipeline and sales conversions. We partnered with this company for 4 years and saw huge growth revenue.
The issue was studied and the findings were the obtaining the right data and right campaign tool.
The marketing strategies were studied and drafted to suit the need of the product and its end customer. Email campaign using the quality data at the right time.
Results: This has resulted in increase in productivity and 80% reduction in rework.
Due to increase in patients and change in treatment it was too challenging to manage the resources and there was shortage of resources or sometime excess. We studied the patients in and out flow. The data captured was utilized and necessary changes were made to accommodate all the patients at any time of the day. This also eased the staff's work and smooth functioning of the organization. The target markets were also identified and the methods of marketing has increased in bookings and references.


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Hulu Interested In Live Sports, As Subscriptions Rise
by Francis | Jan 2, 2019 | Industry news
"We are a subscription business, and we know through history that sports has a tendency to drive subscriptions, as does any exclusive and unique content," Freer said. "We will be evaluating sports as an opportunity. Hopefully, we will be at the table when the time...
Katzenberg's Quibi to Enlist Third-Party Distributors to Find Mobile Video Subscribers
by Francis | Dec 17, 2018 | Industry news
"Quibi's bundling strategy means scale, with all of the players in the Quibi ecosystem incentivized to succeed for that brand," said Peter Csathy, founder of media advisory firm Creatv Media. "Distributors like Verizon — and all of the global distributors out there,...
Netflix Will Keep 'Friends' Through Next Year in a $100 Million Agreement
"To attract new streaming customers, AT&T will likely have to keep some of its shows and films off other services like Netflix and have them available only on AT&T's offering. Disney, which plans to debut its own streaming service by the end of next...
When "Video Isn't Just Video"
With cable viewership down and streaming services rising, agencies and brands are challenged with the world of OTT. "Everybody comes in and says, 'We're the ones with the best source of inventory,' and we're like, 'Okay?' It's challenging for us to — as compared to...
Comcast To Connect Linear And Non-Linear Video Distribution
by Francis | Dec 7, 2018 | Industry news
"Let's say you've got an agency who's just created a 30-second ad for a brand. We will execute and send that in real time to all the numerous broadcasters on that media plan. That can now be done though the linear TV side as well as the nonlinear TV...
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Michael Müller (born 29 August 1976) is an Austrian bobsledder. He competed at the 1998 Winter Olympics and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

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I always knew that the trigger for Britain's declaration of war was the Nazi invasion of Poland on September 1 1939. So it was revealing to read Antony Beevor's assertion in The Second World War that hostilities began a week earlier, with the Red Army defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army in the puppet state of Manchukuo (Manchuria) in the Battle of Khalkhin Gol.
19th century rivalry between the Russian and Japanese empires culminated in Russia's humiliating 1905 defeat in the often forgotten Russo-Japanese War of 1903-5. Beevor tells us that the 1936 Anti-Comintern Pact between Germany and Japan alarmed Stalin, who feared that continued tensions on the Mongolian frontier could create a two-front scenario in a future war. The Kwantung Army was eager for a full-scale conflict with the Soviet Union, but the political and military leadership in Tokyo was not eager for war. The Kwantung Army took matters into their own hands by escalating an incident in May 1939 into a much bigger battle. In the Battle of Khalkhin Gol, the Red Army killed 61,000 Japanese troops for the loss of 8,000 Soviet troops. Stalin prudently agreed to Japanese requests for a ceasefire on August 31, by which time he had signed the Non-Aggression Treaty with Germany.
The significance of the Japanese defeat was that Japan's "strike north" faction lost ground to the "strike south" faction. The focus of Japan's imperial ambitions now turned to south-east Asia, the colonies of the western powers, and eventually the USA. Just weeks before Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa in 1941 against Stalin, the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression pact with Japan, even though it was helping the Chinese in their fight against the Japanese. By effectively neutralising the Japanese threat on his far eastern border, Stalin could move his experienced Siberian divisions from the Mongolian border when he needed their help in his battle against Germany.
The strength of Beevor's book lies in its truly global reach. By focusing on the conflict in the Far East that predated WW2, Beevor presents a counter-balance to more Euro-centric and USA-centric accounts of other historians. He covers the familiar major battles like the Battle of Britain, France, El Alamein, Stalingrad, Pearl Harbour, Normandy, Italy, Midway and the U-Boat conflict, but also spotlights lesser war zones like Egypt, Greece, Burma and Finland.
Beevor takes no prisoners in his assessment of some of the iconic military and political leaders. He describes the cruelty of General George Patton and the stupidity of General Maurice Gamelin. He describes Monty (General Montgomery) as "a vertiginously over-promoted destroyer captain," totally unsuited to the job of Supreme Commander in Southeast Asia in 1943. Commenting on General Mark Clark's determination to take Rome in 1944, Beevor writes: "Clark's obsession was so intense that one can assume that he had become slightly deranged."
Beevor describes how most world leaders failed to believe Hitler's stated plans to achieve European domination, to eradicate the Jews, and to create a slave empire in the east. Neville Chamberlain's view of the world was largely shaped by his experience as a successful mayor of Birmingham. As Churchill's ally Duff Cooper commented, Chamberlain "had never met anyone in Birmingham who in the least resembled Adolf Hitler . . . Nobody in Birmingham had ever broken his promises to the mayor."
Chamberlain was not alone. Stalin too refused to believe that Hitler could betray him. In the face of incontrovertible evidence that the Germans were planning to invade, Stalin increased the deliveries to Germany of fuel, grain and metals. Both Chamberlain and Stalin failed to recognise that Nazi ideology had genocide at its core.


Lori and her office staff just invited me to do a book signing reception at their office. See why I love that woman? She is a wonderful hostess! We hope you can come Friday, the 17th, from 4-6 pm. Stop by on your way home from work or swing through on your way out to the evening's Christmas parties. You will find us at Physicians Aesthetics Institute, 12324 St. Andrews Drive. That is just off of Hefner Parkway at the 122nd Street exit, behind First Enterprise Bank. Call 405.753.9600 if you need more information. If you can't make it on Friday, I will be at Mardel Saturday. See the post below for details.
Lori is great to have at the signings!
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This evening, I went to a gathering for my friend Andrey's birthday at Mikimoto restaurant. Earlier this evening I rode downtown with them to a florist shop on Julia street. Uncle Larry and Aunt Dionne are somehow connected with the owner of the florist who has some valuable parking space adjacent to the far end of the uptown parade route. There was food and an RV there along with lots of people. I waited around with them for a while before catching a cab not long after seven. I called the cab far in advance expecting it to take a while with everything going on in town. However, it showed up rather quickly so I got to the restaurants on Carrollton quite early at about 7:20.I wanted at the bar with my DS for a while until Andrey and the rest of his friends showed up. A few friends, Andrey's girlfriend, her mother and Andrey's mother were in attendance. Mikimoto is a sushi bar so that was largely what we ate. This was my first time trying sushi and I was pleasantly surprised, as it's not bad at all. Even so, eating raw fish is still mildly unsettling so I don't intend to go far out of my way to eat it in the future. Overall the evening was evenly split between sushi, pleasant conversation and a couple bottles of Stolichnaya. I left around ten when Dad arrived to pick me up.Later that evening I watched Rome and Battlestar Galactica before bed.


Agh, poor Forkboy! Are you serious? Why can't you just grab the fork and pull out yourself… Oh, never mind. Your arm is too short to reach to your head… If you like to see Fork boy's past struggles, check here!
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Mahindra Xylo clocks more than a million fans on Facebook
Mohammed Asrar November 27, 2012 Mahindra & Mahindra, News No Comments
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. (M&M Ltd.), India's leading SUV manufacturer, has announced that the Xylo, one of India's most popular MPVs (multipurpose vehicles), has crossed the significant milestone of one million fans on Facebook. This makes the Xylo, the 2nd brand in the Mahindra automotive stable, apart from Scorpio, to cross this 1 million fan base mark on Facebook.
Speaking on this milestone, Vivek Nayer, Chief Marketing Officer, Automotive Division, Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. said, "With 1 million people endorsing the Xylo on Facebook, this is indeed a recognition that we are proud of. Today, the Xylo is one of the most admired brands in the Indian automobile industry, as is clear from the recognition provided by fans and critics alike as well as the 1 lakh plus vehicles on Indian roads. This fan following further validates our continued focus to innovate in order to drive customer engagement and buzz around our brands".
The Xylo page on Facebook is a forum for Xylo owners and enthusiasts to communicate with each other to discuss and share their moments and experiences with the vehicle. It allows them an opportunity to post photographs and videos of their Xylo in action, get product updates, offerings and previews on the latest happenings on the brand and enables them to participate in several exciting contests regularly. While these ensure engagement with consumers, it also lives up to the brand's philosophy of enabling people to have the 'Time of their Life'.
The Xylo is also strongly represented by its customers in the virtual world: from thriving Xylo communities on the web, to Xylo owners exchanging notes and sharing online travelogues on blogs and various other fora. Having set new benchmarks in luxurious space and with a host of features for passenger comfort, the Xylo has been an unmitigated success since its launch. Today, the brand's popularity is also evident on the Xylo Youtube channel which has garnered over 1.69 million views and the website which has received over 5 lakh visitors in just the last 8 months.
Also see – Video – New 2012 Mahindra Xylo TV Commercial
Video – New 2012 Mahindra Xylo explained in detail
Hero Passion Pro updated for 2015 with revised body panels & powerful engine
Scientists create biofuel from old newspapers
2017 Bajaj Pulsar 135LS BS IV-compliant launched – Rs. 60,178


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Chris Rosebrough calls out Amanda Wells cover up by major NAR leaders (Part 1)
By churchwatcher on December 29, 2016
Recently, Chris Rosebrough called out the New Apostolic Reformation for covering up the fraudulent ministry of Amanda Wells. Specific names he mentioned were the following for covering up the sins of Amanda Wells.
Yes – these New Apostolic Reformation Apostles are responsible for allowing the notorious liar, Amanda Wells, to get away with plagiarizing people's works and lying about her life to line her pockets with people's money.
Apostle Che Ahn: the Apostolic Covering for Katherine Ruonala
Apostle Cindy Jacobs: the Apostolic covering for Steve Shultz
Apostle Steve Shultz: the Apostolic covering for Katherine Ruonala
Apostle Katherine Ruonala: "Protected" by her Apostolic Coverings, duped by Amanda Wells.
Click the link below to hear the address or read the transcript at the bottom of this article. We will look at the importance of Chris Rosebrough reviewing Che Ahn's sermon at Glory City Church in our next post.
From PirateChristian.com:
Benny Hinn Partners with Chuck Pierce?
PROGRAM SEGMENTS:
00:07:16 Ryan LeStrange Authentic Kingdom Relationships
00:20:25 Is There An Amanda Wells Cover Up?
00:41:34 Benny Hinn Partners With Chuck Pierce?
00:53:13 Todd White Narcigetes the Cross
01:08:08 Sermon Review: Apostolic Strategizing With Che Ahn
Source: Chris Rosebrough, Benny Hinn Partners with Chuck Pierce?, PirateChristian.com, http://www.piratechristian.com/fightingforthefaith/2016/12/benny-hinn-partners-with-chuck-pierce, Published 06/12/2016. (Accessed 15/12/2016.)
Chris Rosebrough stated the following on his program:
"I want to bring you up to speed regarding Amanda Wells. Now Amanda is somebody who we've featured many times at Fighting for the Faith. And in the segments that we've featured Amanda Wells, she has proven herself to be, well, a spinner of yarns. Of tall tales and legendary stories that stretch the bonds of crdulity. Now, Amanda Wells has claimed to be a prophet. She's literally, no joke, in the past, been promoted by the Elijah List as well as Katherine Ruonala as a 'well-known prophetic voice'.
Now here's where we kinda gotta pay attention to something here. Is that in the NAR, (and this is one of the reasons why we are doing our Che Ahn sermon review today), in the New Apostolic Reformation, churches align themselves under the covering of different "apostles". Hmm-mm. And so here's the idea- is that something like Che Ahn would be the "Apostle" of Katherine Ruonala, Cindy Jacobs would be the Apostle for Steve Shultz of the Elijah List and things like this. And all these people are claiming or receiving direct revelation from God.
So I want you to think about it this way. We are talking about not only Amanda Wells, we're also talking about those who have in the past provided her with "Apostolic Covering". If you've never heard these terms, my apologies. You know, just kind of think of it is, if you would, like- have you ever seen a corporate org chart? Right. You kinda have to think of that. There's- you know you've got the boss at the top of the pyramid, and then- you know- you've got the VP's and then you've got the different people and the downline. The New Apostolic Reformation is a lot like that. So near the top of the pyramid you're gonna have people like Che Ahn and Cindy Jacobs and stuff like that, and then below them would be those people that they are 'Apostolically' in charge of and things like this.
And of course, my question is, knowing what I know now about Amanda Wells, why wasn't God the Holy Spirit prophetically speaking to any of these people to warn them about Amanda? You're thinking, well what happened? Well, let me bring you up to speed by giving you a summary of well the story as it has been recently unfolding.
Amanda Wells, if you remember a year ago, about the time in the Fall when the Australian Prophetic Summit got together, the folks over at Church Watch put together a little game called, 'The Culprit in the Pulpit'. And you had to figure out which of the different Elijah List prophets was the 'Culprit in the Pulpit', and the 'Culprit in the Pulpit was none other than Amanda Wells. And the folks over at Church Watch actually reached out to many of the people on the Australian Prophetic Summit and warned them, that Amanda Wells was demonstrably a plagiarist.
I mean she was taking whole things written by other people, and passing it off as her own. And a year ago, they didn't seem too keen to act on this information, like far from it. Well, as the Australian Prophetic Summit got whirling up again this past Fall, Spring there in Australia, as things were whirling up, they redoubled their efforts to get these people to pay attention to the fact that Amanda Wells is plagiarising, has been plagiarising other people's work and passing if off as their own.
And apparently, from what I can gather, it looks as if some of the folks have taken these claims seriously. And I've heard through one of the researchers from Church Watch, that one or more of the authors who have been plagiarized by Amanda, have taken note and may potentially even take legal action to stop this from happening in the future. I'm just saying, that's what I've heard.
You're saying, what does this have to do with anything? Well, hang in there, hand in there, I'm trying to explain. So awhile back, I mean fairly recently, buried, I mean this should have been on the 'home page' of Amanda Well's web site, but it was put at the very bottom of the 'about page', was this blurb. And let me read it from the screen shot I made at the time, here's what it says:
"Recently my church leadership have approached me in a loving and caring way concerning some accusations that have been made against me. In discussion with them, I can see where I have presented material from other people without giving credit. It thus could be seen as presenting it as my own. For this I am truly sorry. I will be contacting those whose material I have used, acknowledging my error and asking for forgiveness. I have also submitted myself to my leadership and will be taking a period of time off to receive ministry and obtain healing from my local church family. For the wider body of Christ, please accept my apology and please pray for me as I journey through to health and restoration. In love – Amanda"
Ok, so here we've got something of a sketch as to what's going on. This wasn't on the 'home' page, this was buried at the bottom of her 'about' page, and now this blurb has totally disappeared, okay. But kind of concurrent with this then, is all of Amanda Well's prophecies, whoosh, disappeared off the Elijah List without any explanation at all. And now when I look at the web site for Glory City Church, it appears Amanda has disappeared off the web site for Glory City Church. And now this blurb of her apologising, that's disappeared off her 'about' page. It's like, what is going on?
And so I'm basically going to ask the question, is this a cover up? See, here's the thing, is that awhile back, Steve Shultz of the Elijah List gave his unflagging, complete support to the prophetic ministry of Amanda Wells. Here's the quote:
"In the last six months, God has been specifically highlighting a number of Australian prophets with awesome revelation for the church. I hope you'll grab hold of this revelation, I bare witness with the words from Amanda Wells."
So Steve Shultz claims that his spirit was baring witness with the words coming, apparently through God, to Amanda Wells, right? But Amanda Wells, for a long time has been absolutely, factually shown, for a long time she has been a plagiarist. And there's more to it than that. Let me read to you what Katherine Ruonala said about Amanda Wells:
"Amanda Wells is a well-known prophetic voice in our nation and nations around the world where she ministers. After 25 years in itinerate ministry, Amanda has a proven track record of accurate prophetic words…"
No! Amanda Wells has a track record of saying nonsense, totally ridiculous statements that have nothing to do with God, rightly handling God's Word, we've chronicled it here at Fighting for the Faith:
"…and is an active member and valued part of the Australian Prophetic Council."
So we've got a problem here, alright? And that is, is that Amanda Wells has been demonstrated as a plagiarist, she has apologised, kinda for it, and then the apology disappeared. And along with that, she's disappeared off the Glory City Church web site, she has also disappeared off the Elijah List.
But there is no warning from Steve Shultz, Katherine Ruonala, or anybody regarding Amanda Wells. And while all this is going down, there's a web site that has come up and come to my attention, the name of which is 'Weeding out Wells', and they've been committed in demonstrating that Amanda Wells is a plagiarist, a habitual liar, and now Amanda Wells' sister 'Kerry' has well, come out of the wood work and has literally put forward a public statement saying, 'Amanda Wells has got major problems' and the things that Amanda has said about her family, her family members and specifically her sister, and other things, these are factually false statements on her part.
And so what I'll do today is, with today's episode, I'm going to put a link to the preamble written by 'Kerry', regarding her sister, and note the fact that now Amanda's own family members are coming forward to tell their story, and to warn the church about Amanda. But there is no equal warning coming from Glory City Church, there's so equal warning coming from the Elijah List, she's just whoosh, disappeared. Which basically, you have to ask the question, what is the reason why she is whoosh, disappeared? Well, I think a good way of understanding the reason why she whoosh, disappeared without a sound, without a peep, no explanation, is because it's obviously demonstrable, she is a pathological liar.
And being a pathological liar that means 'they', who gave their stamp of approval to her, who were in the apostolic upline, if you would. You know, providing apostolic covering for her, that they weren't really hearing from God. And so, they can't say, 'listen, we've got a bunch of true prophets here at the Elijah List, but it just so happens we inadvertently let a false prophetess through, and the words that she was saying weren't really from God, she was just making stuff up'. They can't do that! And the reason they can't do that, is because now well Steve Shultz, Katherine Ruonala, Che Ahn Cindy Jacobs, all the people in the apostolic upline that are providing 'covering' for them, all their reputations are literally on the line, because if they didn't have the, well I hate to use the word, clairvoyants, ah ha, they weren't hearing words of knowledge from the Lord saying, 'remove the false prophetess from your list, she's a plagiariser, God didn't tell them any of that stuff, no, they had to learn it through the internet.
So this is one of those things where I'm noticing how this is going down, and this is starting to look like a cover up. And the reality is this, and I know this from personal experience, just listen to yesterday's episode if you don't know what I'm talking about right? There will always be leaders in the church who lie. There will be those who will say what they need to say in order to get the platform that they want for their own selfish reasons. Whether that reason is well, to be a celebrity, whether it's money, or power, or sex, yes that often times comes along with it too. There will be people who manipulate others in order to get what they want. And the church must, when situations like that happen, warn people that this and let them know that this person is not on the level, and not who they made themselves out to be and they have to do this, not only because scripture tells us to, but because also the world is watching.
And so the thing is, is that I'm looking at this and Amanda Wells, I mean, I have always thought from the first time I saw her, that she was a taco short of a combo plate. Nothing she said represented any kind of biblical truth and that she was clearly always preaching about herself and telling all kinds of absurd stories. And now it turns out that she's made claims about her own personal life and her credentials, she at one time, several times actually claimed to be a nurse, but never had a nursing licence, how is that possible? Apparently, she has not told the truth about her own education and she's told flat out lies on social media regarding her family members and things like this.
And again, this all calls into question the prophetic claims, the claims to the prophetic of those who are in her apostolic upline, those providing covering for her, claiming to be hearing form the Lord. You get what I'm saying here. So this is an interesting story and a developing one at that. And all I can note is that, well, rather than warn the church about a wolf in our mist, somebody who is a liar, whose got some serious problems as a plagiarist and a thief, the folks in the NAR, at least down in Australia and Steve Shultz as well, they have decided that the way they are going to go about this, is to sweep it under the rug. And that is not how you deal with somebody who is a false teacher in the church."
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