1300s - Tutsis migrate into what is now Rwanda, which was already inhabited by the Twa and Hutu peoples.
1600s - Tutsi King Ruganzu Ndori subdues central Rwanda and outlying Hutu areas.
Late 1800s - Tutsi King Kigeri Rwabugiri establishes a unified state with a centralised military structure.
1858 - British explorer Hanning Speke is the first European to visit the area.
1890 - Rwanda becomes part of German East Africa.
1916 - Belgian forces occupy Rwanda.
1923 - Belgium granted League of Nations mandate to govern Ruanda-Urundi, which it ruled indirectly through Tutsi kings.
1946 - Ruanda-Urundi becomes UN trust territory governed by Belgium.
1957 - Hutus issue manifesto calling for a change in Rwanda's power structure to give them a voice commensurate with their numbers; Hutu political parties formed.
1959 - Tutsi King Kigeri V, together with tens of thousands of Tutsis, forced into exile in Uganda following inter-ethnic violence.
1961 - Rwanda proclaimed a republic.
1962 - Rwanda becomes independent with a Hutu, Gregoire Kayibanda, as president; many Tutsis leave the country.
1963 - About 20,000 Tutsis are killed following an incursion by Tutsi rebels based in Burundi.
1973 - President Gregoire Kayibanda ousted in military coup led by Juvenal Habyarimana.
1978 - New constitution ratified; Habyarimana elected president.
1988 - Some 50,000 Hutu refugees flee to Rwanda from Burundi following ethnic violence there.
1990 - Forces of the rebel, mainly Tutsi, Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) invade Rwanda from Uganda.
1991 - New multi-party constitution promulgated.
1993 - President Habyarimana signs a power-sharing agreement with the Tutsis in the Tanzanian town of Arusha, ostensibly signalling the end of civil war; UN mission sent to monitor the peace agreement.
1994 April - Habyarimana and the Burundian president are killed after their plane is shot down over Kigali; RPF launches a major offensive; extremist Hutu militia and elements of the Rwandan military begin the systematic massacre of Tutsis. Within 100 days around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus are killed; Hutu militias flee to Zaire, taking with them around 2 million Hutu refugees.
1994-96 - Refugee camps in Zaire fall under the control of the Hutu militias responsible for the genocide in Rwanda.
1995 - Extremist Hutu militias and Zairean government forces attack local Zairean Banyamulenge Tutsis; Zaire attempts to force refugees back into Rwanda.
1995 - UN-appointed international tribunal begins charging and sentencing a number of people responsible for the Hutu-Tutsi atrocities.
1996 - Rwandan troops invade and attack Hutu militia-dominated camps in Zaire in order to drive home the refugees.
1997 - Rwandan- and Ugandan-backed rebels depose President Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire; Laurent Kabila becomes president of Zaire, which is renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo.
1998 - Rwanda switches allegiance to support rebel forces trying to depose Kabila in the wake of the Congolese president's failure to expel extremist Hutu militias.
2000 March - Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, resigns over differences regarding the composition of a new cabinet and after accusing parliament of targeting Hutu politicians in anti-corruption investigations.
2000 April - Ministers and members of parliament elect Vice-President Paul Kagame as Rwanda's new president.
2001 October - Voting to elect members of traditional "gacaca" courts begins. The courts - in which ordinary Rwandans judge their peers - aim to clear the backlog of 1994 genocide cases.
2001 December - A new flag and national anthem are unveiled to try to promote national unity and reconciliation.
2002 April - Former president Pasteur Bizimungu is arrested and faces trial on charges of illegal political activity and threats to state security.
2002 July - Rwanda, DR Congo sign peace deal under which Rwanda will pull troops out of DR Congo and DR Congo will help disarm Rwandan Hutu gunmen blamed for killing Tutsi minority in 1994 genocide.
2002 October - Rwanda says it has pulled the last of its troops out of DR Congo, four years after they went in to support Congolese rebels against the Kabila government.
2003 May - Voters back a draft constitution which bans the incitement of ethnic hatred.
2003 August - Paul Kagame wins the first presidential elections since the 1994 genocide.
2003 October - First multi-party parliamentary elections; President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front wins absolute majority. EU observers say poll was marred by irregularities and fraud.
2003 December - Three former media directors found guilty of inciting Hutus to kill Tutsis during 1994 genocide and receive lengthy jail sentences.
2004 March - President Kagame rejects French report which says he ordered 1994 attack on president's plane, which sparked genocide.
2004 June - Former president, Pasteur Bizimungu, is sentenced to 15 years in jail for embezzlement, inciting violence and associating with criminals.
2005 March - The main Hutu rebel group, the FDLR, says it is ending its armed struggle. FDLR is one of several groups accused of creating instability in DR Congo; many of its members are accused of taking part in 1994 genocide.
2005 July - Government begins the mass release of 36,000 prisoners. Most of them have confessed to involvement in the 1994 genocide. It is the third phase of releases since 2003 - part of an attempt to ease overcrowding.
2006 January - Rwanda's 12 provinces are replaced by a smaller number of regions with the aim of creating ethnically-diverse administrative areas.
2006 November - Rwanda breaks off diplomatic ties with France after a French judge issues an international arrest warrant for President Kagame, alleging he was involved in bringing down Habyarimana's plane.
2006 December - Father Athanase Seromba becomes the first Roman Catholic priest to be convicted for involvement in the 1994 genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal sentences him to life in prison.
2007 February - Some 8,000 prisoners accused of genocide are released. Some 60,000 suspects have been freed since 2003 to ease prison overcrowding.
2007 April - Former President Pasteur Bizimungu is released from jail three years into his 15-year sentence after receiving a presidential pardon.
2007 October - Inquiry launched into 1994 presidential plane crash that sparked the genocide.
2007 November - Rwanda signs a peace agreement with Democratic Republic of Congo under which the latter will hand over those suspected of involvement in the 1994 genocide to Kigali and to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
2008 January - French police arrest former Rwandan army officer Marcel Bivugabagabo who is on list of war criminals wanted for trial by the Rwandan government.
2008 February - A Spanish judge issues arrest warrants for 40 Rwandan army officers, accusing them of genocide, terrorism and crimes against humanity.
2008 August - Rwanda accuses France of having played an active role in the genocide of 1994, and issues a report naming more than 30 senior French officials. France says the claims are unacceptable.
2008 September - President Paul Kagame's Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) wins large majority in parliamentary elections.
2008 October - Rwanda decides all education will be taught in English instead of French, officially as a result of joining the English-speaking East African Community.
2008 December - One of Rwanda's most famous singers, Simon Bikindi, is sentenced to 15 years in prison for inciting violence during the genocide.
2009 January - Former Justice Minister Agnes Ntamabyariro is jailed for life by a Kigali court for conspiracy to plan the genocide and speeches inciting people to take part.
2009 February - Rwandan troops leave the Democratic Republic of Congo five weeks after entering to attack Hutu rebels.
2009 March - Rwandan MP and governing party member Beatrice Nirere found guilty of genocide and sentenced to life imprisonment in a traditional gacaca community court.
2009 November - Rwanda is admitted to the Commonwealth, as only the second country after Mozambique to become a member without a British colonial past or constitutional ties to the UK.
2009 December - Rwanda is declared free of landmines - the first country to achieve this status.
2010 April - Opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who planned to run against President Kagame in the August elections, is arrested.
2010 June - Ex-army chief of staff Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, a former ally turned critic of President Kagame, is wounded in a shooting while in exile in South Africa.
2010 August - President Kagame wins new term in elections criticised at home and abroad for violence and the disqualification of candidates.
2011 June - Former family minister Pauline Nyiramasuhuko becomes first woman to be found guilty of genocide by an international court.
2011 December - Hutu rebel leader Callixte Mbarushimana becomes the first suspect brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to be freed after finds rules that there is insufficient evidence for charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
2012 June - Rwanda shuts down "gacaca" community courts that for 10 years tried those accused of involvement in the 1994 genocide.
2012 July - The US, Britain and the Netherlands halt aid to Rwanda over UN accusations that it is fuelling a rebellion in the Democratic Republic of Congo by training rebel troops. Rwanda denies the charge.
2012 October - A court sentences opposition leader Victoire Ingabire to eight years in jail on charges of threatening state security and "belittling" the 1994 genocide.
2012 December - The UN-backed International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) convicts former government minister and key organiser of the 1994 genocide Augustin Ngirabatware to 35 years in prison.
2013 February - The ICTR overturns the 2011 genocide convictions of former ministers Justin Mugenzi and Prosper Mugiraneza, to the dismay of Rwandan prosecutors.
2014 March - Former Rwandan intelligence officer Pascal Simbikangwa is becomes the first man to be convicted in France in connection with the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
2015 April - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda holds its last hearings, 10 years after opening, and having convicted 93 individuals in connection with the 1994 genocide.
2016 January - President Kagame announces that he will stand for the presidency again in 2017, after winning a December referendum on constitutional changes allowing him to serve a third term.
2017 August - President Kagame re-elected with 98.8% of the vote in polls denounced as unfair by independent observers.
2018 September - Rwanda pardons more than 2,000 prisoners, including opposition leader Victoire Ingabire, who was jailed in 2012 on charges of threatening state security and "belittling" the 1994 genocide that she says were politically motivated.


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Q: How to change language in the website using javascript I am beginner in JavaScript and bootstrap, i have added the navbar but i want to change the navbar titles language (Home,About us,Our Service,Contact us) by clicking the button at the top of navbar. Below is the bootstrap code.

<button type="button" class="btn btn-primary">Spanish</button>

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            aria-controls="navbarSupportedContent" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Toggle navigation">

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                    Home (current)

                    About Us

                    Our Services

                    Contact Us

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A: You can create locale for some language, like 'en' or 'uk' and add it to the url of the website and simply redirect to the correct localizated page by clicking on the button.
But it would reload the page. If you want not to do it, Siddharth S.`s answer is the best choice

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In a nutshell, she preached a sermon about how we believers represent the wheat and how we must continually be pruning and separating ourselves from the chaff; representing nonbelievers and even unproductive believers who don't appear to be progressing spiritually or aren't on the same spiritual page as us (as we think we are, is more like it). She went on and on about how far God had brought her once she took the initiative and more of a leadership position in her own wheat-chaff separations process. Don't get me wrong, I understood where she was trying to go with what she was saying. I'm sure her heart was in the right place but something about what she was saying did not ring true to me.
So as she was speaking, I started surfing her scripture reference for myself and as I did so, I was directed to Matthew 13:24-29. It reads: Here is another story Jesus told: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like a farmer who planted good seed in his field. But that night as the workers slept, his enemy came and planted weeds among the wheat, then slipped away. When the crop began to grow and produce grain, the weeds also grew. "The farmer's workers went to him and said, 'Sir, the field where you planted that good seed is full of weeds! Where did they come from?' "An enemy has done this!" the farmer exclaimed. "Should we pull out the weeds?" they asked. "No", he replied, "you'll uproot the wheat if you do." This passage blessed me so much y'all!
My understanding of this scripture regarding the topic at hand is that her assessment is off. When we take this full burden upon ourselves, we are essentially playing Jesus…judging based through tainted or biased eyes. Jesus knows this better than anyone!!! How often do we seek to esteem ourselves in a higher regard than we truly deserve and then attempt to play the compare and contrast game based on what we think others are lacking? This is why in verse 30 He directs to just let the wheat and weeds grow together, and HE will do the separating when He's ready!
Can we be real for a moment? Is it possible that in all our hyper-spiritual view of our discernment, that we actually sift out the wrong folks? Is it possible that we hold the on-the-ball, prosperous, #alwayswinning types more dear, while casting our slower growth, struggling, folks to the back-burner of our importance radar? Jesus doesn't judge by outward beauty, popularity, grind factor, or bank account. We know that He often uses/chooses the very same folks that wouldn't make it into our circle/clique. Jesus was known for keeping the broke, the rogue, the loose, and the sick, in his company.
This blog is simply a reminder to us all to stay in our lane and to be careful about how you view yourself. We must remember that as close to God as we may feel we are, it doesn't give us the authority to put ourselves on pedestals to make others feel less than…as we boast about ourselves in the faith. No one is fully aware of anyone's relationship with almighty God; only our own. We need to stay focused on our goal, Godly matters, and staying in His will. If you are wheat, there is no need to broadcast it because it will be clear. The chaff will be separated from you because your value is evident to the true living God…not because you have self-proclaimed it as such.
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THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH for reading Jasz!! Praise God it spoke to you. Love u girl.
Excellent post sis! So true, if we are wheat we won't have to shout it on the mountain tops. It will be evident and draw others near.
Thank you my lovely Bianca. I'm about to post my new blog within the hour. Loosely tied in with this one. Thanx for reading!
Today's devotion for my fast is Isa. 58:6-14 (MSG) … If this doesn't confirm your blog I don't know what does!!


Christmas toys for little boys are full of fun and high energy. We consider "little boys" to be boys 8 and under. Be sure to click on any product to read details and more specific age recommendations. Whether your little fellow likes sports, LEGOS, or trampolines, there is something on this page to make him smile. These gifts for little boys have been handpicked for this page.
This is the year of the robot toys — and your guys will have fun with these special robots made just for them.
Little boys are naturally curious about the world and educational toys help them learn as they play.
Of course, he probably already a tricycle, but what else can he ride outside? Is it time for a bicycle with wheels?
Football, basketball, baseball and golf are all popular with little boys. These guys are born loving to compete in athletic games of all kinds and will practice and play with their friends. It's fun to diagram a basketball court with chalk for more realistic basketball play.
If your little guy loves baseball, you will want to stay up to date on all of the SKLZ products for baseball practice at home. These practice toys are long-lasting and every kid in the neighborhood will want to enjoy with you.
Little boys love Star Wars and the Star Wars toys are truly amazing. Give a little boy a Star Wars costume and a light saber and he will be entertained for hours. (Note – boys also like to collect light sabers so that they can share with their friends in those important imaginary battles).
Without a doubt, one of the top toys for little boys is LEGOS. It is fascinating to watch a young fellow patiently follow directions and create a project of his own, one step at a time. You can almost see their minds at work, can't you? And really, little boys simply cannot seem to get enough LEGOs. Even when you think they have more than enough.


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Artesia man sentenced to 10 years
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ARTESIA – An Artesia man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of federal firearms and methamphetamine trafficking charges, a news release from the Department of Justice said.
Enrique Hernandez, 44, was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Las Cruces.
According to the news release, he was arrested in June 2014 on a criminal complaint charging him with violating federal firearms and narcotics laws in Eddy County.
"Hernandez distributed approximately 20.9 grams of methamphetamine to an individual who was working with law enforcement in Artesia," the news release said.
Court documents also showed the DEA and the Pecos Valley Drug Task Force found about 293 grams of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, firearms, ammunition and more than $1,900 in cash.
The items were found during the execution of a search warrant on Hernandez's business.
At the time of the search warrant, Hernandez was prohibited from possessing firearms and ammunition because of a previous conviction of possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
Hernandez pleaded guilty in October.
This case was investigated by the Las Cruces DEA and the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas Region VI Pecos Valley Task Force.


Did you ever feel like you missed the mark? That somehow the best laid plans never seemed to go as expected? I've always loved that Bugs Bunny cartoon when he pops up in the middle of some desert, looks around himself and then states that he must have taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque. I can understand the feeling. There are many times when the thing I thought I was supposed to be doing just wasn't happening. At least not in the way I had planned. In those times I felt very out of step with myself. What exactly went wrong?
There's an old adage, if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. There have been so many times in my life when I am certain I am reading the signs that tell me which direction I should be following only to run into a wall. And then need to change direction again. I sometimes feel like a mouse in a maze searching for the pot of gold.
disoriented despite the brilliantly sunny day and the little arrows marking the path. The corn stalks were very high and it was stuffy. We kept going into what felt like circles because we kept passing the same signposts. For my son this was exciting and he was up for the challenge of learning the secrets of the maze and defeating it by finding our way out. However after about 30 minutes in the maze my daughter started to get anxious and I started to get hot and claustrophobic. We ended up crawling under the hedge to get to the outside only to find that we were mere feet from the exit of the maze. My son was so angry that we didn't finish and let the maze beat us. But life is like that. Sometimes you are ready to tackle it head on and other times you just need to find a way out of the situation.
I am one that never likes to make a mistake although to do so is to be truly human. I just feel out of step when my arrow misses the mark. I've always loved archery, that precise deadly art. You could say I channel my inner Katniss Everdeen, the heroine of The Hunger Games, but I found archery long before she was ever written into this generation's lexicon. It was at summer camp when I was 12 years old that I discovered the magic of a bow and arrow. It was one of the camp sports and I loved it immediately. And I like to think I was pretty good at it. Just pulling back that bow, taut in the seconds before letting that arrow fly, was full of joy and anticipation. It became about the journey and not the destination. In the decades that followed my month at summer camp, I have pulled that bow taut over and over again, aiming at so many different targets. Which arrow would hit the mark? Which one would stick? Many times my arrow broke on impact. Those were the hardest times of all.
Missteps are a strange dance. They set me off balance and fill me with doubt. The fact is there is no straight line through the maze. Or a precise shot from an arrow unless you are Katniss Everdeen. We just have to figure our way through. There's a lot of uncertainty in the world these days. The sand feels like it is constantly shifting and it can be hard to get a hold of something solid and true. Life is a current and it's easy to feel buffeted from shore to shore at times. But as David Bowie always reminded us, time might change us but really we can't change time. We just have to follow the trajectory of the arrow we let fly no matter how off the mark it might land.
Despite all of that, what I have learned is that there is actually beauty in the uncertainty. There is promise in something unexpected. And sometimes the change of the trajectory is a good thing. A real thing. A blessing, in fact, that my arrow did not meet it's intended mark. And suddenly, it's not angst but gratitude. So for now, I will draw my bow back toward the next horizon I want to go towards. And let that arrow fly.


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Reading Passage 7 – A Magic Show ANSWERS
Posted on Feb 23, 2021 Feb 20, 2021 by mostlyenglish
(The Magic Misfits, Neil Patrick Harris.)
Soon enough, Carter was doing all of Uncle Sly's tricks – only better. Carter had a special talent. His fingers were long and his tendons were taut, which gave him fast hands and expert card-shuffling skills. He could make coins vanish and reappear across the room. He could materialize playing cards out of thin air. He even revised Uncle Sly's sneeze trick, using ice cubes instead of coins (which was rather impressive, given the size of the average human nostril).
Now, Uncle Sly wasn't the type of man to celebrate his young nephew's ability to change up his oldest and best illusion, but he was smart enough to notice an opportunity when it was sneezing ice cubes right in front of him. So on Carter's birthday, instead of throwing him a party, Uncle Sly decided to test him. He sent the boy up to a random couple on the street to perform his very first show.
As Carter approached, he nervously slicked his blond mop of hair to the side, pinched his pale cheeks, and opened his blue eyes wide.
~After doing card tricks for the couple…~
Carter beamed like the sun. He had brought joy to the young couple. In earning their smiles, he recalled his own parents and their laughter. He didn't care that there was no party. It was still a very good birthday…
At least until later, when Carter realized his uncle had stolen the man's wristwatch and the woman's wedding ring. Uncle Sly had used him. Carter knew too many stories in which villains stole from innocent people. These stories always made him feel as if someone had stolen his parents from him.
What was left of that earlier, good feeling squeezed out of him like a balloon with a leak in it.
Which of these skills is not mentioned in the passage?
a) Vanishing coins and cards
b) Shuffling cards
c) Sneezing coins and cards
d) Sneezing ice cubes
2. Why is Carter's ice-cube trick described as 'impressive'?
a) Coins are much larger than ice cubes
b) His uncle said it was better than his own coin-sneezing trick
c) It'd be difficult to sneeze ice due to how small human nostrils are
d) It'd be difficult to sneeze ice cubes due to how small human nostrils are
3. On Carter's birthday, Uncle Sly decides to:
a) Throw Carter a birthday party so he can perform magic tricks for the first time
b) Test Carter by seeing how well he can do magic tricks at his party
c) Teach Carter how to do magic tricks, like sneezing ice cubes
d) Tell Carter to perform magic tricks so that Uncle Sly can steal from the audience
4. How does Carter feel about his parents?
a) He dislikes them because Uncle Sly is a better guardian than they are
b) He misses them because they have vanished
c) He loves them because they taught him how to do magic tricks
d) He doesn't mention his parents at all in this passage
5. When Carter sees the couple's reaction to his tricks, he feels:
a) Happy, because he successfully distracted them while Uncle Sly stole from them
b) Happy, because doing these sorts of magic tricks is what his parents wanted for him
c) Neutral, because he doesn't really care about their feelings
d) Happy, because he has made them happy
6. Which of these is an example of a simile?
a) "His fingers were long and his tendons were taut."
b) "…he was smart enough to notice an opportunity when it was sneezing ice cubes right in front of him."
c) "What was left of that earlier, good feeling squeezed out of him like a balloon with a leak in it."
d) "…he nervously slicked his blond mop of hair to the side…"
7. "As Carter approached, he nervously slicked his blond mop of hair to the side, pinched his pale cheeks, and opened his blue eyes wide." Why does Carter do this?
a) He is a vain person who cares very much about his appearance
b) He wants to look as cute as possible so that the couple likes him
c) He is nervous and doing all of this helps him to calm down
d) He's trying to impress Uncle Sly with his appearance
8. This passage is broken up into different paragraphs. Would it be better if it was all put together into a single paragraph instead?
a) No, because the paragraph would be too crammed with information
b) No, because the general rule is to write a new paragraph when there's a new idea
c) No, because readers will find just one big paragraph more difficult to read
9. Why do you think the author might have named a character 'Uncle Sly'?
a) To hint to us that Uncle Sly is sneaky and untrustworthy
b) To show us that Uncle Sly is clever and trustworthy
c) There's no reason, he just thought it was a nice name
d) The author had a sneaky uncle and wanted to put him in the book
10. This passage comes from a book. Which genre do you think the book could be?
a) Mystery adventure
b) Fantasy
c) Comedy adventure
d) Horror
11. In the last question, you said what the book's genre could be. Why did you choose this answer? (Reasons can include the passage's tone, dialogue, plot, etc.)
Any answer involving witty narration (e.g. "which was rather impressive, given the size of the average human nostril"), the light-hearted writing style and/or the funny yet adventurous plot would be acceptable.
The original passage and questions are here!
Note: This passage is from The Magic Misfits by Neil Patrick Harris. To my knowledge, utilising this passage as a free educational exercise falls under fair use. If not, please let me know. I want to make sure that everything on this website is fair and right. The questions are of my own creation.
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Manic Depression Disability Canada 2019
August 18, 2019 by Wilma
Guide to Long Term Disability. the Supreme Court of Canada had this to say on what is. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and had to claim Long-Term.
Diagnosis of a mental illness can bring up a lot of difficult feelings. Learn more about coping well and moving towards recovery.
Bipolar disorder is a type of mood disorder. Bipolar disorder used to be called manic depression. It was called manic depression because people with bipolar disorder go through periods of intense depression and other periods where their mood is extremely high. These "high" periods are known as mania.
1 in 5 people will have a mental health problem this year; 1 in 8 people have a serious anxiety disorder; 1 in 22 people have depression or manic depression; 1 in 5 kids have a mental health. In Canada, "dual diagnosis" usually refers to an individual with a mental illness and a co-occurring developmental disability.
If you have symptoms of mania such as hyperactivity and distractability that affect your functional abilities, you may be able to get disability benefits.
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manic depression. The term manic depression is being increasingly superseded by the newer term bipolar disorder. People who have the condition can be described as having bipolar disorder, or simply as bipolar (rather than manic depressive).
Almost 3 million Canadians have serious depression. It accounts for 30% of all disability recorded at three of Canada's best known companies.
While bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is probably one of the most familiar names for a mental illness to the general public, it is probably one of.
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has manic episodes and almost always experiences depression at some stage. 2. In Bipolar II Disorder, the person has only hypomanic (the milder form of mania) and.
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In any given year, 1 in 5 people in Canada will personally experience a mental. (or "manic depression"). and $3.2 billion in disability and early.
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In the amount of $500, the Bipolar Lives Scholarship Fund will bestow one award each year to a student diagnosed with bipolar disorder or manic depression who. $1,000 to currently enrolled college students who have been diagnosed with a physical disability, chronic medical condition, mental illness, learning disability,
May 9, 2016. He had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his early 20s, but managed to maintain stability for years. In 2008, at 44 years old, he became manic. Then he crashed into a deep depression that never loosened its icy grip. That episode, which happened when I was 18, rendered my dad unable to work or.
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Andy is the author of Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania, a chronicle of his battle with manic depression (bipolar disorder). Andy also travels across the US and Canada speaking about mental health. Find more information on his Electroboy website.
Major depressive disorder (MDD), also known simply as depression, is a mental disorder characterized by at least two weeks of low mood that is present.
Sep 14, 2016. The U.S. and Canada have about 13 psychiatrists per 100,000 people, according to WHO. Here are the countries with the greatest burden of disease for mental and behavioral disorders, in terms of most years of life lost due to disability or death adjusted for population size, according to WHO.
Bipolar disorder is a mental illness illustrated by mood swings. The NBA details the disability benefits available to people with bipolar disorder.
Nov 7, 2017. Do you feel very happy and energized some days, and very sad and depressed on other days? Do these moods last for a week or more? Do your mood changes make it hard to sleep, stay focused, or go to work? Some people with these symptoms have bipolar disorder, a serious mental illness. Here are.
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Jan 25, 2014. If it makes you feel better, I've had severe chronic depression but also feel it's under control. There's quite a few articles on nursing with BPD around here, too. by VivaLasViejas. Jan 26, '14. I'm a longtime RN with bipolar 1 who's had some major struggles with nursing jobs over the course of my career, but.
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Highland Challenger League Kicks Off Season
After sitting out last season because of the pandemic, the Highland Challenger Baseball League is back on the diamond.
Posted: Apr 21, 2021 12:04 PM
Updated: Apr 23, 2021 9:19 PM
Posted By: Claire Dugan
The league had its season opener on Sunday, April 20th after sitting out a season due to the pandemic.
The league provides a safe and inclusive environment for athletes of all abilities.
League President Matt Pokorney says, "Challenger League Baseball is for children with disabilities, mental and physical. So, we created Challenger League Baseball in Evansville, Indiana just to get the community involved and get some kids involved."
A division of the Little League Challenger Program, the Highland Challenger League came to Evansville in 2014. Bringing in over 5,550 volunteers and serving more than 150 young athletes throughout the Tri-State.
The Highland Challenger League is the largest and fastest growing Challenger League Program in the world with 97 kids participating from Evansville and surrounding counties in Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky.
No player is denied and there is no cost to the families.
The League works with local high school and college athletic programs to provide the children with a buddy who helps them learn the game of baseball.
"So the impact on the kids that are playing is important, but it's equally as important for those that we bring in to be buddies. We put the kids with the players just to understand that their abilities are God-given," Pokorney told 44News.
In Saturday's match-ups, the athletes were paired with Reitz baseball players.
Pokorney says, "It just kind of puts it into focus that the kids that play baseball for Reitz, that they can give a little extra effort on the baseball field. When they think that they're tired, they can look at this day and say, 'hey these kids gave it everything they had, I can give more."
The Highland Program was honored as the National League of the Year in 2015 and invited to appear in the Little League World Series in 2018.
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Privatized St. Thomas health care professionals are 'overworked and underpaid'
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St Thomas— The President of the Ontario Public Services Employees Union (OPSEU) is calling on the CEO of a private medical provider in southwest Ontario to show basic fairness and decency to the people who provide important health care in St. Thomas.
"This is one of the most unfair situations I've ever heard of," said OPSEU President Warren (Smokey) Thomas. "And at the end of the day, it's the people of St. Thomas who are paying the price because the health care professionals they depend on are overworked and underpaid.
"It's time this community, and the health professionals who provide care in this community, were treated with fairness and respect."
OPSEU Local 152 represents 22 health care professionals working for Closing the Gap in St. Thomas. They include a dietician, a social worker, a speech and language pathologist, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists. Their contract expired on March 31, 2017, and conciliation is scheduled for May 2.
Even though they provide exactly the same services as the Closing the Gap health professionals in other locations around the province, the St. Thomas professionals receive up to 30 per cent less in salary and benefits, forcing many of them to work longer hours to earn the money they need to support themselves and their families.
"This is yet another example of how privatization puts profits before people and leaves accountability in the dust," said Thomas. "It's time for Closing the Gap to start treating all of its health professionals, and all of the people who depend on them, with transparency and decency."
For more information: Warren (Smokey) Thomas, 613-329-1931


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PM's address at the valedictory function of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Advocates' Association of Western India
Published by Hemant Sanganee on Feb 15, 2015
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Prime Minister was the Chief Guest at the valedictory function of the Sesquicentennial Celebration of the Advocates' Association of Western India in Mumbai onFebruary 14, 2015
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The Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, today said the Government had identified about 1700 obsolete laws, and is working towards their repeal. In his address at the concluding Sesquicentennial Function of the Advocates Association of Western India (AAWI) in Mumbai today, the Prime Minister said the world is looking towards India with great hope. He said one of the reasons for this is that the investor community across the world trusts the independence of India's judicial system. He said this is a great contribution of all those associated with the legal profession.
The Prime Minister appreciated the role played by the AAWI over 150 years – the bar to which both Mahatma Gandhi and Sardar Patel belonged. He said that the founders of this association would have created this bar, in order to pursue excellence in the profession. He said the country's freedom struggle was led by people from the fields of law and education.
The Prime Minister asked the AAWI to think about how the bar will go forward after 150 years. He said that along with quick justice, "quality justice" was also the need of the hour. And this depended a lot on advocates arguing the cases. He stressed the need for advocates to specialize, particularly in emerging areas of litigation such as international law and cyber crime. He said acquaintance with forensic science is now a must for those associated with the legal profession. He said the bar has the strength to raise the capabilities of the advocates to deal with these emerging areas. He said well-argued cases provide satisfaction to advocates, besides raising institutional credibility.
The Prime Minister said laws are sometimes not drafted well, and therefore lead to multiple interpretations. He said the bar associations can play a significant role in drafting good laws with minimum grey areas. He said training in drafting of laws is essential.
The Prime Minister also inaugurated the Bombay High Court Museum. He said visitors to the museum will learn a lot about India's judicial history. In his remarks in the visitors' book at the Museum, the Prime Minister said that "the High Court Museum is a commendable effort to preserve and perpetuate the rich heritage of this great institution." He suggested that a digital version of this museum be also prepared. He said in many parts of the world, museums are a part of everyday life. He gave the example of China, which is building many museums currently. He said India too has a glorious heritage to preserve and showcase.
The Governor of Maharashtra Shri Vidyasagar Rao, the Chief Minister of Maharashtra Shri Devendra Fadnavis, and Union Minister Shri D.V. Sadananda Gowda were present on the occasion.
About Advocates Association of Western India.
The Advocates Association of Western India is one of the oldest association of legal practitioners founded in 1864. Three of its members became Chief Justices of India. It has produced many legal luminaries, who enhanced the prestige of the profession through their logic and scholarship. The formation of the Advocates Association of Western India was significant milestone in India's history, as several of its members played a crucial role in India's struggle for independence. The Sesquicentennial celebration of the Association was inaugurated by President Pranab Mukherjee in February last year.
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If you are planning to work abroad this year, be wary of some countries which the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) enforced deployment ban. The prohibition was done to ensure the safety and security of Overseas Filipino Workers.
According to POEA memo Advisory 21 series of 2017, 24 countries/territories were placed under a pending deployment ban due to unsuitable security and economic conditions which could put OFWs' lives in danger.
"Except when specified, the coverage of this advisory shall apply to land-based deployment and will remain valid unless updated by subsequent issuance(s)," the POEA said.
On top of the list is Afghanistan which has been under war since 2011 until present. The deployment ban is also in effect in Somalia and Sudan(except Khartoum and Kenana Sugar Plantation in White Nile) , both countries experiencing unrest due to civil wars.
Filipinos are also advised against working in Great Lakes Region, particularly in Rwanda and Burundi.
Meanwhile, the POEA said that the deployment of OFWs to South Sudan has been suspended since 2016.
OFWs are also barred from working to Iraq after alert level 4 got declared in that country due to security threats.
Syria, Libya, Yemen and Chechnya were also included on the list of countries with a total deployment ban.
When a country has been declared under total deployment ban, no Filipino, no matter what skill category, can be employed there. It also covers both new hires and rehires.
South Sudan, Iraqui Kurdistan Region, Libya and Ukraine still have an existing partial deployment ban. It means even if new hires are banned from working there, rehires or returning OFWs are still allowed to work there if they comply with certain conditions set by the government.
Palau is under conditional deployment restriction by POEA. Overseas Filipino Household Workers are barred from working in the said country due to unsuitable working conditions.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) also did not certify Afghanistan, Chad, Cuba, Democratic People's Republic of Korea/North Korea, Haiti, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Palestine, Somalia, and Zimbabwe as compliant to Republic Act 10022 or the Amended Migrant Workers Act.
Under RA 10022, POEA cannot deploy OFWs in countries which DFA did not certify.


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The relationship of systemic right ventricular function to ECG parameters and NT-proBNP levels in adults with transposition of the great arteries late after Senning or Mustard surgery
Carla M Plymen1,
Marina L Hughes2,
Nathalie Picaut1,
Vasileios F Panoulas3,
Simon T MacDonald1,
Seamus Cullen1,
John E Deanfield1,
Fiona Walker1,
Andrew M Taylor2,4,
Pier D Lambiase5,
Aidan P Bolger6
1The Division of Adult Congenital Heart Disease, The Heart Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
2Cardiorespiratory Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK
3Cardiology Division, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK
4Cardiovascular Unit, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK
5The Division of Electrophysiology, The Heart Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
6East Midlands Congenital Heart Centre, Glenfield hospital, Leceister, UK
Correspondence to Dr Carla Plymen, The Heart Hospital, 16–18 Westmoreland Street, London W1G 8PH, UK; carla.plymen{at}uclh.nhs.uk
Aims Heart failure is common late after Senning or Mustard palliation of transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Although cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is the gold standard for evaluating systemic right ventricular performance, additional information regarding heart failure status might be gleaned from the surface ECG and circulating N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) levels. The interrelationships between these heart failure markers were examined in adults late after Mustard and Senning surgery.
Methods Thirty-five consecutive adults with Senning or Mustard repair of TGA attending a dedicated congenital heart failure clinic were studied. Assessment included symptom assessment, venous blood sampling for measurement of circulating NT-proBNP levels, surface 12-lead ECG and CMR for the assessment of right ventricular systolic function and determination of indexed right ventricular volumes.
Results Mean age was 29±6.5 years, 54% had undergone Mustard surgery. Compared with those with uncomplicated surgery, patients with complex surgical history had higher NT-proBNP levels (55±26 vs 20±35 pmol/l; p=0.002) and longer QRS duration (116±28 ms vs 89±11 ms; p=0.0004) while showing no difference in New York Heart Association class and right ventricular function. There was a significant relationship between diastolic and systolic right ventricular volumes and both NT-proBNP levels (r=0.43, p=0.01; r=0.53, p=0.001, respectively) and QRS duration (r=0.47, p=0.004; r=0.53, p=0.001, respectively).
Conclusions Circulating NT-proBNP levels and several surface ECG parameters constitute safe, cost-effective and widely available surrogate markers of systemic right ventricular function and provide additional information on heart failure status. Both measures hold promise as prognostic markers and their association with long-term outcome should be determined.
transposition of the great arteries
Funding CMP is funded by a fellowship grant from the British Heart Foundation. AMT and PDL receive funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This research was supported by the National Institute for Health Research.


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Updates & Activities
Centres of Research in UCD
UCD Covid-19 Response
The UCD Community is rising to the challenge posed by the global pandemic
UCD Institute of Food and Health 'National Covid-19 Food Study' observes eating habits in lockdown
Research Leads: Dr Eileen Gibney, Deputy Director of the UCD Institute of Food and Health and an Associate Professor in Nutrition, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science; Dr Sharleen O'Reilly, Assistant Professor in Food Science and Nutrition from UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science; Dr Aifric O'Sullivan, Assistant Professor in Human Nutrition, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science; Dr Claire Timon (DCU); Dr Celine Murrin, Assistant Professor in Public Health and Nutrition at UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science; Dr Emma Feeney, Assistant Professor at UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science.
The UCD Institute of Food and Health launched the National Covid-19 Food Study in April, in collaboration with Dublin City University. Using an online-only survey in accordance with social distancing, the study gathered information on changes in food and drink behaviours among adults in Ireland since the introduction of Covid-19 restrictions.
Assistant Professor in Public Health and Nutrition at UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, Dr Celine Murrin said: "Modern day Ireland has never experienced such a shock to how we live and how we manage our daily food intake. Capturing the changes that people have made to their food habits is important for researchers and policy makers to understand so that we can be more prepared for any future shocks to our society."
The study took the form of an anonymous online survey at covidfood.ie, open to anyone over the age of 18 living on the island of Ireland.
Assistant Professor in Food Science and Nutrition from UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, Dr Sharleen O'Reilly said: "The National Covid-19 Food Study gives a unique snapshot of what different people do with food during a pandemic and how we cope with those changes. We want to understand the food differences for someone living on a farm in Fermoy compared to someone living in a bedsit in Baldoyle."
Deputy Director of the UCD Institute of Food and Health and an Associate Professor in Nutrition Dr Eileen Gibney said: "Food is such a central part to our culture and family life, and is important for both physical and mental wellness. The information gathered in this survey is hugely important for future research and policy in the area of food and health."
The main findings of the study were:
Almost one-in-three reported weight gain
25-44 age group more susceptible to 'COVID kilos'
One-in-five worried about having enough food
Charities saw an increase in families in need of food
Children were acutely exposed to experiencing hunger in the absence of school meals.
Visit ucd.ie/foodandhealth/covid to see the summary findings and full report.
UCD Institute of Food and Health is also partnering with Deakin University in Australia to roll out the study there through its Institute of Physical Activity and Nutriton (IPAN), a world-leading research institute committed to improving health and quality of life. Dr Claire Margerison and Prof Tony Worsley will be leading the study there.
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What's Coming After The Autumn Update
September 13, 2017 Devin Connors Community News
Happy Update Reveal Day! (Yes, it's a real holiday.) We just announced that Rocket League's Autumn Update is coming to all platforms on September 28, and you can check out the reveal page for details on the new 'Farmstead' seasonal Arena, 'Accelerator' Crate, Player Banners, and more!
But what lies beyond the Autumn Update? What features are we working on? How many different dragon-themed Player Banners are we cooking up? Read on below.
Tournaments Beta
A Tournament system is something we've wanted for Rocket League since our launch in July 2015. In-game Tournaments would allow all of our players, from Rookie to Rocketeer, to take part in competitions without ever having to leave the game client.
Our goal is to launch a Tournaments Beta before the end of 2017. We can tell you for sure that the beta will run through Steam, but all other info, like timing and sign-up details will be revealed once we're closer to the beta's launch. For those wondering why the beta is "PC-only," it's because Steam allows us to make changes and collect performance feedback more rapidly than any other platform.
Once the beta is complete and we've had time to digest feedback and make appropriate changes, we will then aim to move Tournaments to a regular feature on all platforms in a future update for 2018.
Along with a Tournaments Beta before the year is done, we will also be testing a new Party System that we're building directly into Rocket League. When finished, this new system will allow you to party up directly via PsyNet instead of the party systems currently used through Steam, Xbox Live, or the PlayStation Network. Our first test(s), however, will be limited to Steam players.
Once your account is flagged for the new Party system, your game will automatically sync with your Steam Friends List information and allow you to create a party via PsyNet. You'll still use the 'Create Party' button as you normally would, but instead of seeing a Party invite in Steam, you'll see new in-game notifications alerting you to a Party invite.
While the PsyNet Party System is Steam-only, this is the first step in enabling the possibility of supporting cross-platform parties at a later date. We'll have more information about the new Party System once we're closer to launch.
As detailed on our Autumn Update page, we are also debuting a new 'Events' system, which introduces limited-time events that provide players with the opportunity to earn additional car customizations. Using a new item called the 'Decryptor,' (obtained as drops after online matches) players will be able to unlock any unopened Crate in their inventory without having to purchase a Key. Additional information will be provided closer to the launch of the events themselves later this year.
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Cubby was sharing with me about his day at preschool. They'd read Mr. Daydream, one of the Mr. Men books, and he was confused as to what a daydream was. I came up with some kind of explanation, painfully aware that I seemed only able to describe such an abstract concept in terms that were just as confusing.
By way of demonstrating that he got it, he let me know about a few things he daydreamed about…his birthday, going into space, being a fighter who fights for sport(!), and so on. Yep, he got it.
Then I turned to Pudding, and tried to engage her in the conversation. I wanted to know what she daydreams about. This has a 50/50 chance of success these days. The topic must be of interest to her, and she must be in the mood for talking. Her receptive language is undoubtedly better than her ability to express herself, but on abstract topics, there is less of a chance of her understanding.
I really, really did want to know what she daydreams about. So I waited. I gave her the room to decode my words, then decide if she wanted to respond, then figure out how she could respond. Barely a few seconds, but a length of time that still feels unnaturally long for someone without these challenges.
And then she gave her response, and as always- it was worth waiting for.
I daydream about bake sales.
Because she does. She was thinking about the boy scout doughnuts for sale at school that week. This girl loves her sweet treats, and they were on her mind. Even this most simple sentence is years in the making. It has taken effort on her part, patience on mine, many sessions of speech therapy, and even more time.
But it was worth it, because finally, if I want to know what is on my girl's mind, I only need to ask. And I've been daydreaming about that for years.


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A cloud of poverty: a case of Melilotus
by Vladimir Petroci
This 45 year old owner of a funeral parlour came because of allergy to pollen. From April to September, he has itchy eyes with lachrymation, an itchy nose with copious watery discharge, and contraction of his throat. He loses his voice. During the spring and summer, he cannot go without handkerchiefs. He is allergic to grass and milk products.
He lived in his funeral home when it started, five years ago, because he had no flat. There was a lot of dust. He got pneumonia and he could not rest during that time. With the pneumonia, he had constriction of the throat, choking, and bleeding from the nose. Then, allergic rhinitis and asthma came on. At present, when he comes into contact with dust, he starts coughing and becomes nauseous. He is breathless during exertion at his job. He is dependent on high doses of antihistamines, which help him a lot. If he stops taking it, it takes another three days of antihistamine treatment for his condition to stabilize again.
His mother was an alcoholic. She finally died of a brain haemorrhage after she fell while drunk. Because of her, he has an aversion to alcohol. He was walloped by his mother when she realized he let other boys beat him. Children used to beat him because he was very skinny and weak. When he was eleven years old, he only weighed fifteen kg, when he was eighteen, he weighed sixty kilos. At that age, he was attacked once again and defended himself so fiercely that he injured the other boy. He got a suspended sentence and had to pay money to the boy he had injured.
From childhood, he was an outcast and a scoundrel. Since he was fifteen, he rode fast on a motorcycle without having a license, while the police chased him around the city, but they could not catch him. He hid the motorbike in the apartment. After two years, his mother turned him in and the policemen beat him.
While attending high school for vocational training, he was getting 90 crowns of pocket money per month (about 13 Euros at that time). His father always came and took his money. His father was a no-good, who did not provide food for his family, so they were always hungry. They were terribly poor and never had enough money to buy meat or sausages, or even shoes; if he and his brothers did not steal shoes at the doorsteps of other flats, they would have had to walk barefoot.
Once, his father broke his nose because he thought that he had taken 2 crowns (value of about 30 eurocents at that time) from his wallet, but in fact it was his brother who had done it. The brother died of fat embolism after his legs were broken by the mafia to deter him from testifying in court. His second brother is sleeping with his own daughter. The third brother fell from the roof and his spine is wired; they have no contact now.
He worked as a labourer in a factory, where he contracted a severe fungal infection on his feet and toenails. The mycosis sometimes also appears on his body in the form of ring.
When he was eighteen, he was imprisoned for two years because he took a plumbing kit from the factory. They put him in jail immediately, since he already had a suspended sentence for bodily assault. Originally, he had to be in prison for three years but, for the first time in his life, his father did something for him. His father's brother was in a high position in military prosecution, so he intervened for him. When the police arrested him, they beat him terribly. They left him in a provisional detention cell so he could die there, in case of internal injury, because it would be quite inconvenient for them if he would die in prison. He lost his hair from stress. The guards wanted to blame him for the death of a gypsy who had committed suicide because he was told he would be sentenced for four years. "I reported to the authorities that he wanted to kill himself by eating soap, but they ignored it." He left prison weighing ninety kilos; he had trained a lot while inside and increased his weight by thirty kilos. He sent home all the money he received for work in prison.
During military service, his Achilles tendon was torn but the commander forced him to march till evening in the barracks courtyard. At the hospital, they sutured it but immediately after returning to the barracks, the officer came and ordered him to paint sidewalks. He threw a crutch at the officer and staggered to the toilet. There, he ripped off the handle of the door and broke a window by hand to escape. The glass cut his arm, stabbed him in the abdomen, and his bowels gushed out. On the way to the hospital, the ambulance crashed at a road intersection. The stretcher to which he was bound was projected out of the ambulance and a broken jaw was added to his injuries. He was taken to hospital by a civilian ambulance. He was unable to feed himself but the nurse claimed that he rejected the food voluntarily. Consequently, they sent him to a psychiatry department. There, he was given drugs which caused enuresis, for which he was seen as a malingerer. He talked sincerely to a senior consultant and told him that he was not feigning enuresis, but that he had an accident in the army and he wanted to return home.
When finally home from military service, he started working with a printer. When people started to be fired, they dismissed him first, because he was the youngest. When he was fired, he could not find a job. The unemployment office finally offered him a job as a grave digger. He succeeded in this work and quickly progressed. Eventually, he became the lover of the funeral home's owner. As she was not interested in his ideas on how to improve the functioning of the company, he left and started his own funeral parlour. Now, he is in competition with the original funeral home. He offers nicer and less expensive funerals. He sees his work as accompanying dead people to another world.
Since he began to be successful, it has become very tough. Once, when he was driving, another car started to chase him and men in it shot at him. Luckily, he was not hurt and his car only had broken windows and holes in the chassis. He did not let himself be intimidated and continued to expand his business. He got another warning: masked men came and beat him at his own company premises. Now, he is very cautious with whom he befriends and with whom he will cooperate.
He likes to eat everything. He likes fat meals, e.g. pork knee with cabbage, but after a meal, he feels that his digestion is very slow and his abdomen is distended. He feels heaviness, as though he has a stone in his stomach. He puts on weight easily. In his youth, he did not have enough food, so now, he wants to indulge. He is happy being fat since he gains more respect that way. Previously, he always felt humiliated.
He is allergic to milk, getting diarrhoea after drinking processed milk but he can drink raw milk without any problem. He likes rice, goulash, and sausages. Once, when he was a child, he did not want to eat tomato soup as it reminded him of blood. His mother got terribly angry, shouted, and threw a knife at his father, who she missed, hitting instead the patient in the forehead, where he still has a scar.
His biggest fear is not from accidents but from poverty. He drives and behaves very cautiously. He is cautious and careful due to the hardships he experienced in the past; he never uses violence anymore. When he was young, the anger accumulated in him and then, he exploded. He used to often be tortured and beaten. "Now, I would let myself be beaten just to not have to go to jail."
He wishes he could study more; he would like to be a lawyer. He has the book of criminal codes in his house and likes to read it. He feels that prison made a man of him.
He had suicidal tendencies when his first marriage fell apart. At that time, he also had troubles in the funeral business.
Later, he married a woman, fourteen years younger than him, who is very good to him. He is happy with her. He used to be very quick-tempered, but now, thanks to her, he is calm.
He has coxarthrosis of the 1st degree, with boring pain in his hip joints. The pain is worse during exercise. He catches colds very easily – it is enough to just take the trash out to become sick from the air. All his scars and old wounds respond intensely to weather changes. His perspiration is quite intense, mainly on his head, neck, and shoulders. Sometimes, a flush of heat passes though his body.
I had the impression that he could be dangerous if provoked and that I should be careful with him. He looked confident, jovial, and manly. He was communicative as well; very interesting, keeping the listener's attention. He aroused sympathy. He is of medium height, stout, with a mildly prominent belly. He has short black hair and a three-day stubble.
For me, it was very clear case of Melilotus. This remedy meets the specific context as well as the characteristic symptoms. I always try to achieve this dual aim and I have much success with it in my practice. If either the context or the symptoms do not fit, the remedy is usually not correct. By context, I mean themes and position of the group of remedies in the bigger frame (of mineral, plant or animal kingdom).
With the Leguminosae family, I repeatedly encountered the theme of the failing entrepreneur, who is poor despite his best efforts. This patient is already successful but a cloud of poverty still hovers over him. Leguminosae are confirmed by the slow digestion, heaviness and bloating after meals.
One of the remedies which came to mind during the consultation was Nitricum acidum. An impoverished Nitrogenium case is either Nitricum acidum or one of the Leguminosae family. The difference is in their response to poverty. Nitricum acidum is angry and cursing at those who took his property, while the Leguminosae are milder and still trying to overcome their adversities. Self-esteem, joviality, good communication, and social skills are also typical of nitrogen compounds. The Leguminosae family has the most prominent nitrogen themes.
The specific remedy came up when I started to repertorise:
Nose, epistaxis, typhoid fever, during (or Nose, epistaxis, fever, during, agg.)
Generals, weather, change of weather, agg.
Melilotus is in both rubrics. It is famous for bleeding tendencies caused by transformation of coumarin glycoside to dicoumarol by a number of species of fungi. Coumarin has a sweet odour, readily recognised as the scent of fresh mown hay. This glycoside probably has the function to discourage predation. It is easy to recognize these themes in his story. As I searched through the rubrics of Melilotus, I found a very interesting confirmation of his story:
Mind, rage
Mind, anger violent
Mind, delusions, arrested, is about to be
Mind, fear, arrested, of being
Mind, delusions, persecuted, he is persecuted
Mind, danger, of impending
Mind, fear, poverty, of
Mind, suspicious
The course of treatment
After reading these, I had no doubt about the prescription anymore and gave him Melilotus 30C - one granule, three times hourly. It was the April 17th, 2012.
He immediately stopped all allopathic medication. On the 4th and 5th day, during the weekend, he had very severe symptoms of hay fever. Came Monday, and his hay fever was already becoming milder and gradually subsided entirely.
About two weeks later, he had a relapse and repeating Melilotus 30C did not improve his state efficiently. I therefore went to the highest potency I had in my stock: Melilotus 1M.
Since that time, he has had hay fever only once, in July, when he was near hay. He did not use any allopathic medicines, without which previously he could not get by. Without them he had itchy and watering eyes and a runny nose. His allergist could not believe that he was free of symptoms, so he offered her to mow her lawn.
On September 17th 2012, he reported that this was the best summer he had had for the last 5 years. During the whole summer, he only had hay fever symptoms three times, at which times he took Melilotus 1M; within a few days, the symptoms subsided. He had no dyspnea during the whole season.
In May 2013, he needed another dose of Melilotus 1M as he felt some itching in his eyes. Till my last contact with, March 25th 2014, he has had no symptoms of hay fever or breathing difficulties.
Note: The situation of this patient was uncommon for Slovakia even during the era of socialism. His story is very outstanding. Don't be afraid to visit Slovakia!
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Categories: Cases
Keywords: pollen allergy, physical abuse, emotional abuse, imprisonment, mafia, fear of poverty, suicidal tendency
Remedies: Melilotus
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Wisconsin's own guide to great gardening and landscaping. A State-by-State Gardening Publication
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From Cheryl's Gardens
Good Clean Dirt
John Packard has spent most of his life working in and enjoying the outdoors. During high school and after college he labored and lived on a 200 acre produce farm in Pennsylvania. In 1993 he moved permanently to Wisconsin, where he has gardened and landscaped ever since. As a partner in Mother Nature and Sons (1995-2002) he helped introduce natural garden design and organic maintenance to south-eastern Wisconsin. Since 2003 he has owned and operated Botanica Fine Gardens and Landscapes in Lake Geneva. Botanica emphasizes gardening in harmony with nature, land stewardship and horticultural best practice. John's horticultural interests include: woodland and prairie restoration, vegetables, conifers, native plants, weed management, artisanal stonework, and enjoying the fruits of his labors with good friends, beer and music at the end of the day.
About this "Flow Hive" thing…
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by John Packard - posted 03/01/15
"I'm worried about the bees. I hear they're in trouble." These days bee-keepers hear this all the time from people who don't keep bees. We appreciate the non-beekeepers' concern. It's a legitimate concern which sparks conversations about our hives and bees, and how they are doing. The general public worrying about the health of bees is a unique and rare educational moment.
The author has kept bees for 3 years
Usually the American public is at war with insects; bees, wasps, hornets, mosquitos, ants, and bedbugs, to name a few, can each be a serious nuisance. Billions of dollars are spent every year waging war against these "pests" in our homes, yards, gardens and farm fields. Even the industrious honeybee, ever hard at work making our honey and pollinating our crops, is an unwelcome guest when it moves into the walls of a home, or swarms in a nearby tree. For the moment though, the honeybee has been granted the good graces of the American public which wonders aloud, "What can we do to help the honeybees?"
Along comes the Flow-Hive, a functioning honeybee hive with a spout that pours out honey, "fresh from the hive!" and "it doesn't disturb the bees!!" The buzz is substantial. As of March 2015 Flow Hive had raised $3.5 MILLION + on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo!!!
Here's an example of the hype accompanying the "Flow Hive" from the website Bored Panda: "With this brilliant invention by Stuart and Cedar Anderson, a father-and-son beekeeper team in Australia, honey bees around the world can breathe a collective sigh of relief. Their Flow Hive invention allows beekeepers to harvest honey from their hives without disturbing the bees inside. Honey bees around the world are in trouble from something called colony collapse disorder, and this is highly worrisome because of the honey they produce and the agricultural plants they pollinate. Hopefully, this hive will give weakened hives a much-needed break from intrusive visits from the bee keeper!" This bullshit was posted a week ago and already has 333,000 views. Flow Hive Euphoria
Americans are suckers for convenience. We went all in a decade ago for SRIs like Prozac that would cure depression with a pill. It turns out the pill was no more effective than herbal remedies and exercise, but the ineffectiveness of happy pills didn't prevent billions of dollars in profits from pouring into the pharmaceutical industry. Millions of Americans became human guinea pigs by pouring a relatively untested pill down their throats. Years later one side-effect of SRIs turned out to be suicide in pre-adult users.
Complicated problems rarely have simple solutions. We can't cure mass depression with a pill. We can't solve a hostage crisis by turning a country into a parking lot. And we can't halt the decimation of honey-bees and native pollinators with an ingenious device and good marketing. The Flow Hive solves nothing.
Among its advantages, "Supering" allows for harvest of distinct honeys.
Both jars came from the same hive, but the lighter honey had a spritely mint taste.
Honey is typically harvested from managed hives by placing "Super" units onto the 1 or 2 hive bodies where the bees live and reproduce. When the bees fill the supers with capped honey, they are removed from the hive, and the honey is harvested. Some worker bees will be found in the supers, and there are many different means to remove the bees gently, so that the honey can be harvested. THE HIVE BODIES WHERE THE BEES LIVE AND REPRODUCE ARE NOT DISTURBED DURING TRADITIONAL HONEY HARVESTING. The whole premise of the Flow Hive—that disturbing bees during honey harvest is a BIG problem—is false.
3 generations of beekeepers celebrate the harvest: the Old Master, the author & his daughter.
Freshly extracted honey flows through a sieve, and into a tapped 5 gallon bucket for storage.
Another selling point of the Flow Hive is that the honey pours fresh from the hive. Properly harvested and bottled honey will last decades. Capped honey comb was buried in Egyptian tombs and was still good when found 3000 years later. Milk spoils. Honey, not so much.
Some other very good points about the Flow Hive can be found here "The Flow Hive: Worth the Hype?" and here "Natural Beekeeping Trust: The Flow Hive".
The inventors and developers of the Flow Hive deserve great praise for their ingenuity and entrepreneurial spirit. Ingenuous devices and good marketing could have a great effect on the health of honeybees and native pollinators. Meanwhile, our pollinators face an immediate crisis that will require everyone to make tough choices if the foundation of our food production system is to be saved.
The author's daughter is also involved in the care of the bees.
The right side of the frame is capped honey, bees in the middle & brood at the lower left.
Good on you for wanting to help the bees. Here are some things you can do that will truly make a difference.
1) Plant diverse species in your yard and gardens that bees love. Less turf, more flowers.
"Swamp Milkweed" growing in a bog a 6' from a front walk is both beuatiful & beneficial.
2) Buy locally grown food and plants. Factory farms and big box stores regularly use systemic insecticides that devastate both pests and desirable insects. Talk to your local farmers and nursery growers and encourage them to stop using neonicotinoid insecticides, and back your encouragement with bucks.
Home grown & scavenged wild apples. Imperfect, they made the best Applesause ever.
3) Get involved in your local, county and state government. Advocate for preservation of wild lands, and acquisition of new lands for conservation. Encourage local and county Highway Departments to stop mowing mindlessly "roadside weeds" that are often important forage sources for pollinators. Insist they stop ineffective mosquito abatement efforts.
Town of Geneva, WI. Park Commission members looking good AND making a difference.
4) Reevaluate your relationship with insects. Insects are the staff of life; without them, there's no us. Does it really matter if your rose foliage has some Jap beetle holes, when the blooms are just as beautiful, and the plant more floriferous for the insect-induced stress?
Their numbers are battered, but there is still time for pollinator populations to recover.
Loss of habitat, mono-crop agriculture, and pesticide use are the proven causes of honeybee and native pollinator decline. We the American public can do something to reduce the impact of all three every time we vote, shop and garden.
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Testing Positive for E.A.B.
The test results are positive. The Ash trees at our home place in southeastern Wisconsin have Emerald Ash Borer.
Ever since Emerald Ash Borer (E.A.B.) became national news, I have eyed our hedgerow Ash trees and wondered "When?" The pest was first discovered in north-west Ohio and south-eastern Michigan a decade ago. Initial efforts at eradication of the pest proved futile and millions of Green, White and 'Autumn Puple' Ash succumbed. Urban plantings, homeowner landscapes, and native forests all suffered equally.
Quarantines failed to stop E.A.B. from slowly working its way west to Wisconsin. In fact, it is now believed that E.A.B. was predating upon Ash trees long before the pest was discovered and identified. Little wonder then that efforts at eradicating E.A.B. and stopping its spread have failed miserably.
Last night wielding a roofing hammer and a nail puller I began prying back the bark around a D-shaped exit hole on the trunk of a sickly White Ash. I was searching for galleries, the tell-tale tunnels left by wood-boring insects. Instead, after a few savage scrapes I spotted a flat white worm on the end of the nail puller.
There are many less lethal native wood-boring insects that attack Ash trees, especially trees under stress. Emerald Ash Borer by contrast is an exotic pest with no known predators to control it in North America. E.A.B. also attacks both healthy and sickly Ash trees indiscriminately. So even though I had found the larva of a wood-boring insect, the larva still required accurate identification to confirm it was E.A.B.
The larval stage of Emerald Ash Borer has an indistinct head, distinct prothorax, no legs or prolegs on thorax or abdomen, and urogomphi on tail. The larvae of flatheaded borers such as EAB are highly flattened and have a tapeworm-like profile. Link to EAB Look-Alikes
Under the microscope I was able to observe these characteristics, confirming that in fact the Ash trees at Applewood are infested with Emerald Ash Borer larva.
Now that I was confident the larva was E.A.B. I went savagely at the same tree with hammer and nail-puller. Wounding a stressed tree to confirm the presence of a pest should be performed only when quite certain that the pest is present and lethal. Peeling bark a section of bark, I discovered the frass-packed S-shaped galleries I was originally searching for, another tell tale sign of E.A.B. infestation.
The star of the party was Prunus persica, the belle of the ball, the "Yellow Rose of Texas."
Another beautiful day for our annual party.
Sure the hens played 4 tense rounds of Bingo, then returned to the roost with a flock of kids in hot hectic pursuit.
CSB V featured 4 tense rounds of bingo, and you best show up on time,
cause out here in the country the girls roost when the sun sets!
And the Cathouse Drifters swung the grounds like fruit heavy branches swaying in the summer breeze.
Hank Thomas of the Cathouse Drifters
The sun goes down and the dancers come out.
But it was that 'Reliance' Peach tree behind the stage that stole the show.
Behind the stage a 'Reliance' Peach tree stole the show.
Friends left setting up for the party—Chicken Sh*t Bingo V— chins drizzling juice, only to return later to fill their water bottles with beer and their kit pockets with a peach for their honey, and a half dozen more for the boys. Clients too, stuffed pockets and faces, cowboy shirts soaked with sweet syrup from a peach at its perfection, wondering when and where we could plant theirs? And kids just take that 2nd, 3rd and 4th fresh picked peach; they don't ask and they don't have to cause lovely freely given is many fold returned.
Even the band got some, after every burger, cob of corn and guest was gone.
Branches so heavy with fruit even the band got some.
So if there's room for only 1 tree in your southern Wisconsin orchard, 'Reliance' Peach is a fine choice... and maybe you best get over here, help me kill this keg, clean the yard, and dare to eat a fresh picked peach.
It's your lucky day, because someone killed the baby peaches.
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