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Peace Poets Publish The Year of The Poet
We are an international group of poets from countries like the United States, Canada, Polands, Turkey, China, Jordan, India, Lebanon and more. We are starting on our sixth year as a collective publishing a book of poetry every month for the last 60 months. We are also diverse in our religious affiliations and practices. Each year there is a cover theme. There have been flowers, trees, gems and birds. Last year, we focus each monthly volume on a society and culture including Maori (December), Highlands Scots, Nez Perce, Oceania, Northern Africa and more.
We feel that our poetry creates understanding, improved relationships and international cooperation.
We would like to focus our poetry this year on indigenous languages, growing awareness of the value of linguistic and cultural diversity, learning from those who are different and appreciating our similarities.
The Inner Child Poetry Posse writes a volume of The Year of The Poet each month with different themes and would like to designate the indigenous languages as the theme for 2019 William S. Peters, Sr. is the founder and leader of the collective and many of us are award winning poets who have presented at International poetry events.
Here is a list of the Inner Child Press Poetry Posse Poets who have been involved over the years (the asterisk indicates how many years the person has been involved):
Jamie Bond **
Gail Weston Shazor ******
Albert 'Infinite' Carrasco ****
Siddartha Beth Pierce **
Janet P. Caldwell ***
June 'Bugg' Barefield *
Debbie M. Allen *
Tony Henninger **
Joe DaVerbal Minddancer *****
Robert Gibbons *
Neetu Wali *
Caroline 'Ceri Naz' Nazareno ****
Elizabeth Castillo ****
Jen Walls **
Alfreda Ghee **
Anna Jakubczak vel Ratty Adalan **
Bismay Mohanty *
Tezmin Ition Tsai **
Ashok K. Bhargava **
Shareef Abdur – Rasheed ******
Kimberly Burnham ******
Ann White **
Jackie Allen ******
Teresa E. Gallion ******
Katherine Wyatt *
Hulya N. Yilmaz ******
Keith Alan Hamilton **
Alan W. Jankowski **
Demetrios Trifiatis *
Nizar Sartawi ***
Alicia C. Cooper *
Hrisikesh Padhye *
Fahredin Shehu *
Faleeha Hassan **
Alicja Maria Kuberska **
Swapna Behera **
Eliza Segiet *
William S. Peters, Sr. ******
Each book features three guest poets from the International community and collective members are asked to write one poem directly related to the theme and two more on subjects of their choosing. The theme for 2019 has been designated to focus on indigenous languages in each of the following regions.
1. North American and Native Americans [Buy the Print Book or Download Free eBook]
2. South American Indigenous peoples and Mesoamerica
3. Caribbean Caribbean
4. Africa Central and West Africa
5. Asia Southeast Asia and Maritime Asia
6. Arctic Circumpolar
7. Africa Horn of Africa
8. Asia Southwest Asia and the Middle East
9. Caucasus Caucasus
10. Africa Nile Valley and North Africa
11. Asia Northern Asia, China, Japan, etc.
12. Australia Oceana
Cognitive Fluency, Recurring patterns and Beauty - The Brain on Poetry
This study indicates how poetry can persuade, move and please people. Think about how you feel when you read poetry.
"Rhetorical theory suggests that rhythmic and metrical features of language substantially contribute to persuading, moving, and pleasing an audience. A potential explanation of these effects is offered by "cognitive fluency theory," which stipulates that recurring patterns (e.g., meter) enhance perceptual fluency and can lead to greater aesthetic appreciation. In this article, we explore these two assertions by investigating the effects of meter and rhyme in the reception of poetry by means of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Participants listened to four versions of lyrical stanzas that varied in terms of meter and rhyme, and rated the stanzas for rhythmicity and aesthetic liking. The behavioral and ERP results were in accord with enhanced liking and rhythmicity ratings for metered and rhyming stanzas. The metered and rhyming stanzas elicited smaller N400/P600 ERP responses than their nonmetered, nonrhyming, or nonmetered and nonrhyming counterparts. In addition, the N400 and P600 effects for the lyrical stanzas correlated with aesthetic liking effects (metered-nonmetered), implying that modulation of the N400 and P600 has a direct bearing on the aesthetic appreciation of lyrical stanzas. We suggest that these effects are indicative of perceptual-fluency-enhanced aesthetic liking, as postulated by cognitive fluency theory."
- Obermeier, C., S. A. Kotz, et al. (2016). "Aesthetic appreciation of poetry correlates with ease of processing in event-related potentials." Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci 16(2): 362-373.
In other words we like things or people better when we receive information fluently and rhythmically.
The Poetry Posse 2018
The Year of the Poet project was the brain-child of Jamie Bond and William S. Peters, Sr. The original vision was to commit themselves to writing and publishing a book a month for the year of 2014. In further discussion the vision expanded to include the other Gifted & Talented Writers you see below. The objective is to bring the Poetry Community together with the various cross demographic representations found in Gender, Religion, Geography, Culture and Ethnicity. We hope you enjoy the myriad of perspectives represented here. Thank You, Inner Child Press International.
Gail Weston Shazor. This is a creative promise ~ my pen will speak to and for the world. Enamored with letters and respectful of their power, I have been writing for most of my life. A mother, daughter, sister and grandmother I give what I have been given, greatfilledly. Author of "An Overstanding of an Imperfect Love" & Notes from the Blue Roof Lies My Grandfathers Told Me available at Inner Child Press.
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Caroline 'Ceri Naz' Nazareno-Gabis born in Anda, Pangasinan known as a 'poet of peace and friendship', is a multi-awarded poet, journalist, editor, publicist, linguist, educator, and women's advocate. Graduated cum laude with the degree of Bachelor of Elementary Education, specialized in General Science at Pangasinan State University. Ceri have been a voracious researcher in various arts, science and literature. She volunteered in Richmond Multicultural Concerns Society, TELUS World Science, Vancouver Art Gallery, and Vancouver Aquarium. She was privileged to be chosen as one of the Directors of Writers Capital International Foundation ( WCIF ), Member of the Poetry Posse, one of the Board of Directors of Galaktika ATUNIS Magazine based in Albania; the World Poetry Canada and International Director to Philippines; Global Citizen's Initiatives Member, Association for Women's rights in Development ( AWID ) and Anacbanua. She has been a 4th Placer in World Union of Poets Poetry Prize 2016, Writers International NetworkCanada ''Amazing Poet 2015'', The Frang Bardhi Literary Prize 2014 (Albania), the sair-gazeteci or Poet-Journalist Award 2014 (Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey) and World Poetry Empowered Poet 2013 (Vancouver, Canada).
Elizabeth Esguerra Castillo is a multi-awarded and an Internationally-Published Contemporary Author/Poet and a Professional Writer / Creative Writer / Feature Writer / Journalist / Travel Writer from the Philippines. She has 2 published books, "Seasons of Emotions" (UK) and "Inner Reflections of the Muse", (USA). Elizabeth is also a coauthor to more than 60 international anthologies in the USA, Canada, UK, Romania, India. She is a Contributing Editor of Inner Child Magazine, USA and an Advisory Board Member of Reflection Magazine, an international literary magazine. She is a member of the American Authors Association (AAA) and PEN International. Web links: Facebook Fan Page https://free.facebook.com/ElizabethEsguerraCastillo Google Plus https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ElizabethCastillo
Tzemin Ition Tsai (蔡澤民博士) was born in Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1957. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and two Masters of Science in Applied Mathematics and Chemical Engineering. He is an associate professor at the Asia University (Taiwan), editor of "Reading, Writing and Teaching" academic text. He also writes the long-term columns for Chinese Language Monthly in Taiwan. He is a scholar with a wide range of expertise, while maintaining a common and positive interest in science, engineering and literature member. He has won many national literary awards. His literary works have been anthologized and published in books, journals, and newspapers in more than 40 countries and have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
Shareef Abdur-Rasheed, AKA Zakir Flo was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. His education includes Brooklyn College, Suffolk County Community College and Makkah, Saudi Arabia. He is a Veteran of the Viet Nam era, where in 1969 he reverted to his now reverently embraced Islamic Faith. He is very active in the Islamic community and beyond with his teachings, activism and his humanity. Shareef's spiritual expression comes through the persona of "Zakir Flo." Zakir is Arabic for "To remind". Never silent, Shareef Abdur-Rasheed is always dropping science, love, consciousness and signs of the time in rhyme. Shareef is the Patriarch of the Abdur-Rasheed Family with 9 Children (6 Sons and 3 Daughters) and 41 Grandchildren (24 Boys and 17 Girls). For more information about Shareef, visit his personal FaceBook Page at https://www.facebook.com/shareef.abdurrasheed1 https://zakirflo.wordpress.com
Kimberly Burnham, Phd (Integrative Medicine) Nerve Whisperer. Find yourself in the pattern. As a 28-year-old photographer, Kimberly Burnham appreciated beauty. Then an ophthalmologist diagnosed her with a genetic eye condition saying, "Consider life, if you become blind." She discovered a healing path with insight, magnificence, and vision. Today, 33 years later, a poet and neurosciences expert with a PhD in Integrative Medicine, Kimberly's life mission is to change the global face of brain health. Using health coaching, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and energy medicine, she supports people in their healing from brain, nervous system, and chronic pain issues. As managing editor of Inner Child Magazine, Kimberly's 2019 project is peace, language, and visionary poetry with her recently published book, Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health Program
http://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyburnham
Jackie Davis Allen, otherwise known as Jacqueline D. Allen or Jackie Allen, grew up in the Cumberland Mountains of Appalachia. As the next eldest daughter of a coal miner father and a stay at home mother, she was the first in her family to attend and graduate from college. Her siblings, in their own right, are accomplished, though she is the only one, to date, that has discovered the gift of writing. Graduating from Radford University, with a Bachelors of Science degree in Early Education, she taught in both public and private schools. For over a decade she taught private art classes to children both in her home and at a local Art and Framing Shop where she also sold her original soft sculptured Victorian dolls and original christening gowns. She resides in northern Virginia with her husband, taking much needed get-aways to their mountain home near the Blue Ridge Mountains, a place that evokes memories of days spent growing up in the Appalachian Mountains. A lover of hats, she has worn many. Following marriage to her college sweetheart, and as wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, tutor, artist, writer, poet and crafter, she is a lover of art and antiques, surrounding herself, always, with books, seeking to learn more. In 2015 she authored Looking for Rainbows, Poetry, Prose and Art and in 2017, Dark Side of the Moon. Both books of mostly narrative poetry were published by Inner Child Press and were edited by hulya n. yilmaz.
Teresa E. Gallion was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and moved to Illinois at the age of 15. She completed her undergraduate training at the University of Illinois Chicago and received her master's degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. She retired from New Mexico state government in 2012. She moved to New Mexico in 1987. While writing sporadically for many years, in 1998 she started reading her work in the local Albuquerque poetry community. She has been a featured reader at local coffee houses, bookstores, art galleries, museums, libraries, Outpost Performance Space, the Route 66 Festival in 2001 and the State of Oklahoma's Poetry Festival in Cheyenne, Oklahoma in 2004. She occasionally hosts an open mic. Teresa's work is published in numerous Journals and anthologies. She has two CDs: On the Wings of the Wind and Poems from Chasing Light. She has published three books: Walking Sacred Ground, Contemplation in the High Desert and Chasing Light. Chasing Light was a finalist in the 2013 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards. The surreal high desert landscape and her personal spiritual journey influence the writing of this Albuquerque poet. When she is not writing, she is committed to hiking the enchanted landscapes of New Mexico. You may preview her work at http://bit.ly/1aIVPNq or http://bit.ly/13IMLGh
Hulya N. Yilmaz, a retired Liberal Arts professor, hülya n. yılmaz [sic] is Co-Chair and Director of Editing Services at Inner Child Press International, and a literary translator. Her poetry has been published in an excess of sixty anthologies of global endeavors. Two of her poems are permanently installed in TelePoem Booth, a nation-wide public art exhibition in the U.S. She has shared her work in Kosovo, Canada, Jordan and Tunisia. hülya has been honored with a 2018 WIN Award of British Colombia, Canada. She is presently working on three poetry books and a short-story collection. hülya finds it vital for everyone to understand a deeper sense of self and writes creatively to attain a comprehensive awareness for and development of our humanity. hülya n. yılmaz, Ph.D. Writing Web Site hulyanyilmaz.com Editing Web Site hulyasfreelancing.com
Nizar Sartawi is a poet, translator, essayist, and columnist. He was born in Sarta, Palestine, in 1951. He is a member of literary and cultural organizations, including the Jordanian Writers Association (Jordan), General Union of Arab Writers (Cairo), Poetry Posse (U.S.), Inner Child Press International (U.S.), Bodgani (Belgium), and Axlepin Publishing (the Philippines). He has participated in poetry readings and international forums and festivals in numerous countries, including Jordan, Lebanon, Kosovo, Palestine, Morocco, Egypt, and India. Sartawi's poems have been translated into several languages. His poetry has been anthologized and published in many anthologies, journals, and newspapers in Arab countries, the U.S., Australia, Indonesia, Bosnia, Italy, India, the Philippines, and Taiwan. Sartawi has published more than 20 books of poetry and poetry translation. His last poetry collection, My Shadow, was published in June, 2017 by Inner Child Press in the U.S. For the last seven years, Sartawi has been working on poetry translation from English to Arabic and Arabic to English. This includes his Arabic poetry translation project, "Arab Contemporary Poets Series" in which 13 bilingual books have been published so far. He also has translated poems for a number of contemporary international poets such as, Veronica Golos, Elaine Equi; William S. Peters; Kalpna Singh-Chitnis; Nathalie Handal, Naomi Shihab Nye; Candice James; Ashok Bhargava; Santiago Villafania, Virginia Jasmin Pasalo; Rosa Jamali; Taro Aizu; Fahredin Shehu, and many others.
Alicja Maria Kuberska an Awarded Polish poetess, novelist, journalist, editor. She was born in 1960, in Świebodzin, Poland. She now lives in Inowrocław, Poland. In 2011 she published her first volume of poems entitled: "The Glass Reality". Her second volume "Analysis of Feelings", was published in 2012. The third collection "Moments" was published in English in 2014, both in Poland and in the USA. In 2014, she also published the novel - "Virtual roses" and volume of poems "On the border of dream". Next year her volume entitled "Girl in the Mirror" was published in the UK and "Love me," "(Not )my poem" in the USA. In 2015 she also edited anthology entitled "The Other Side of the Screen". In 2016 she edited two volumes: "Taste of Love" (USA), "Thief of Dreams" ( Poland) and international anthology entitled " Love is like Air" (USA). In 2017 she published volume entitled "View from the window" (Poland). She also edits series of anthologies entitled "Metaphor of Contemporary" (Poland) Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies and magazines in Poland, the USA, the UK, Albania, Belgium, Chile, Spain, Israel, Canada, India, Italy, Uzbekistan, Czech Republic, South Korea and Australia. She was a featured poet of New Mirage Journal (USA) in the summer of 2011. Alicja Kuberska is a member of the Polish Writers Associations in Warsaw, Poland and IWA Bogdani, Albania. She is also a member of directors' board of Soflay Literature Foundation.
Swapna Behera is a bilingual contemporary poet, author, translator and editor from Odisha, India .She was a teacher from 1984 to 2015 . Her stories, poems and articles are widely published in National and International journals, and ezines, and are translated into different national and International languages. She has penned four books. She was conferred upon the Prestigious International Poesis Award of Honor at the 2nd Bharat Award for Literature as Jury in 2015, The Enchanting Muse Award in India World Poetree Festival 2017, World Icon of Peace Award in 2017, and the Pentasi B World Fellow Poet in 2017.. She is the recipient of Gold Cross Of Wisdom Award ,the medal for The Best Teachers of the World from World Union of Poets in 2018, and The LIfe time Achievement Award ,The Best Planner Award, The Sahitya Shiromani Award, ATAL BiHARI BAJPAYEE AWARD 2018, Ambassador De Literature Award 2018 .She is the Ambassador of Humanity by Hafrikan Prince Art World Africa 2018 and an official member of World Nation's Writers Union ,Kazakhstan2018. At present she is the manager at Large, Planner and Columnist of The Literati, the administrator of several poetic groups ,the member of the Special Council of Five of World Union of Poets and the Cultural Ambassador of Inner Child Press U.S.
William S. Peters, Sr. Bill's writing career spans a period of over 50 years. Being first Published in 1972, Bill has since went on to Author in excess of 40 additional Volumes of Poetry, Short Stories, etc., expressing his thoughts on matters of the Heart, Spirit, Consciousness and Humanity. His primary focus is that of Love, Peace and Understanding! Bill says . . . I have always likened Life to that of a Garden. So, for me, Life is simply about the Seeds we Sow and Nourish. All things we "Think and Do", will "Be" Cause and eventually manifest itself to being an "Effect" within our own personal "Existences" and "Experiences" . . . whether it be Fruit, Flowers, Weeds or Barren Landscapes! Bill highly regards the Fruits of his Labor and wishes that everyone would thus go on to plant "Lovely" Seeds on "Good Ground" in their own Gardens of Life! to connect with Bill, he is all things Inner Child www.iaminnerchild.com Personal Web Site www.iamjustbill.com
While Similar Music and Poetry Show Subtle Differences in the Brain
"It is a common experience-and well established experimentally-that music can engage us emotionally in a compelling manner. The mechanisms underlying these experiences are receiving increasing scrutiny. However, the extent to which other domains of aesthetic experience can similarly elicit strong emotions is unknown. Using psychophysiology, neuroimaging and behavioral responses, we show that recited poetry can act as a powerful stimulus for eliciting peak emotional responses, including chills and objectively measurable goosebumps that engage the primary reward circuitry. Importantly, while these responses to poetry are largely analogous to those found for music, their neural underpinnings show important differences, specifically with regard to the crucial role of the nucleus accumbens. We also go beyond replicating previous music-related studies by showing that peak aesthetic pleasure can co-occur with physiological markers of negative affect. Finally, the distribution of chills across the trajectory of poems provides insight into compositional principles of poetry."
- Wassiliwizky, E., S. Koelsch, et al. (2017). "The emotional power of poetry: neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles." Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci)12(8): 1229-1240.
Kimberly Burnham, PhD. (Integrative Medicine), Nerve Whisperer. Find yourself in the pattern. As a 28-year-old photographer, Kimberly Burnham appreciated beauty. Then an ophthalmologist diagnosed her with a genetic eye condition saying, "Consider life, if you become blind." She discovered a healing path with insight, magnificence, and vision. Today, 33 years later, a poet and neurosciences expert with a PhD in Integrative Medicine, Kimberly's life mission is to change the global face of brain health. Using health coaching, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and energy medicine, she supports people in their healing from brain, nervous system, and chronic pain issues. As managing editor of Inner Child Magazine, Kimberly's 2019 project is peace, language, and visionary poetry with her recently published book, Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health Program.
http://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyburnham
How Do Poets Convey Joy or Sadness Emotions
This study notes that there is a relationship between the sounds of language, pitch and speed of speech and perceived emotions.
"Conveying emotions in spoken poetry may be based on a poem's semantic content and/or on emotional prosody, i.e., on acoustic features above single speech sounds. However, hypotheses of more direct sound-emotion relations in poetry, such as those based on the frequency of occurrence of certain phonemes, have not withstood empirical (re)testing. Therefore, we investigated sound-emotion associations based on prosodic features as a potential alternative route for the, at least partially, non-semantic expression and perception of emotions in poetry. We first conducted a pre-study designed to validate relevant parameters of joy- and sadness-supporting prosody in the recitation, i.e. acoustic production, of poetry. The parameters obtained thereof guided the experimental modification of recordings of German joyful and sad poems such that for each poem, three prosodic variants were constructed: one with a joy-supporting prosody, one with a sadness-supporting prosody, and a neutral variant. In the subsequent experiment, native German speakers and participants with no command of German rated the joyfulness and sadness of these three variants. This design allowed us to investigate the role of emotional prosody, operationalized in terms of sound-emotion parameters, both in combination with and dissociated from semantic access to the emotional content of the poems. The findings from our pre-study showed that the emotional content of poems (based on pre-classifications into joyful and sad) indeed predicted the prosodic features pitch and articulation rate. The subsequent perception experiment revealed that cues provided by joyful and sad prosody specifically affect non-German-speaking listeners' emotion ratings of the poems. Thus, the present investigation lends support to the hypothesis of prosody-based iconic relations between perceived emotion and sound qualia. At the same time, our findings also highlight that semantic access substantially decreases the role of cross-language sound-emotion associations and indicate that non-German-speaking participants may also use phonetic and prosodic cues other than the ones that were targeted and manipulated here."
- Kraxenberger, M., W. Menninghaus, et al. (2018). "Prosody-Based Sound-Emotion Associations in Poetry." Front Psychol 9: 1284.
The Poetry Posse 2018
Kimberly Burnham, PhD (Integrative Medicine), Nerve Whisperer. Find yourself in the pattern. As a 28-year-old photographer, Kimberly Burnham appreciated beauty. Then an ophthalmologist diagnosed her with a genetic eye condition saying, "Consider life, if you become blind." She discovered a healing path with insight, magnificence, and vision. Today, 33 years later, a poet and neurosciences expert with a PhD in Integrative Medicine, Kimberly's life mission is to change the global face of brain health. Using health coaching, Reiki, Matrix Energetics, craniosacral therapy, acupressure, and energy medicine, she supports people in their healing from brain, nervous system, and chronic pain issues. As managing editor of Inner Child Magazine, Kimberly's 2019 project is peace, language, and visionary poetry with her recently published book, Awakenings: Peace Dictionary, Language and the Mind, a Daily Brain Health Program. http://www.NerveWhisperer.Solutions https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberlyburnham
Language Dominance in the Right, Left and Middle Brain
Are you right or left or bilaterally dominant when it comes to language? We can now tell with a verb generation task and an MRI.
A recent study looked at a reliable assessment of language lateralization in people with epilepsy prior to neurosurgery. "In 76 patients with epilepsy, a language lateralization index was calculated using the verb-generation fMRI task over a wide range of activation thresholds (from a permissive threshold, analyzing all brain regions, to a harsh threshold, analyzing only the strongest activations). The data were classified using a probabilistic logistic regression method. Concordant results between fMRI and Wada lateralization were observed in 89% of patients. Bilateral and right-dominant groups showed similar fMRI lateralization patterns differentiating them from the left-dominant group but still allowing classification in 82% of patients. These findings present the utility of a semi-supervised probabilistic learning approach for presurgical language-dominance mapping, which may be extended to other cognitive domains such as memory and attention."
A crucial aspect of neurosurgery within or close to eloquent cortex is the preoperative identification of brain regions involved in a number of cognitive, sensory, or motor tasks. In the presurgical assessment of language, both the localization38 and lateralization28,32 of functional areas are essential for the prevention of postoperative deficits such as aphasia and dysarthria. More specifically, assessing language lateralization in patients with epilepsy is challenging and complex because of their atypical language network. Language structure among this group tends to be more variable,40 less lateralized,11 and more subject to plasticity effects21 as compared with a healthy population.
Participants were asked to produce a verb that related to the nouns being presented. "Functional MRI examinations included 2 verb-generation tasks (auditory and visual), during which patients were asked to covertly generate a verb in response to various nouns being presented. The verb-generation task has been found to be reliable in prompting repeated activation of language areas in many fMRI studies10,15,45 and has been widely studied as part of a presurgical mapping protocol.35,36 Additionally, in comparison with alternative fMRI paradigms, the verb-generation task has been shown to be the task most highly correlated with Wada laterality results.36 Twenty-one common Hebrew nouns were presented in blocks of 7 nouns, with each block requiring 20–22 seconds. Each of the 7 nouns in a block was presented for 500 msec, with an interstimulus interval of 2–3 seconds. Rest periods of 20–30 seconds were provided between the blocks, and the entire test lasted 204 seconds. For the auditory task patients listened to a recording of nouns using a headset. For the visual task a set of pictures depicting objects were shown to the patient on a computer screen (with a white background).
- Gazit, T., F. Andelman, et al. (2016). "Probabilistic machine learning for the evaluation of presurgical language dominance." J Neurosurg 125(2): 481-493.
Calming and Hearing Children with Poetry
"Poetry makes children feel important, that they're heard"
Kate Clanchy is an award-winning poet, novelist, non-fiction writer and teacher. She is writer-in-residence at Oxford Spires Academy, a small comprehensive where the children speak 30 languages. Her recent anthology, England: Poems from a School, showcased the work of her students to great acclaim. Her new book, Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me (Picador) looks back over her 30-year career in teaching.
"It's part of being a multicultural community. There are a lot of pupils who come from places where poetry is really valued. For most Arab kids, most Syrian kids, poetry is really important. It is huge in their culture and it is really big on the internet for the diaspora. That's also true for a lot of Farsi speakers and Dari speakers from Afghanistan. And it's not just the EAL [English as an additional language] kids. I have inclusion groups for low-achieving white kids and it can be just as powerful and important for them. Poetry is having a good moment. Things like Button Poetry [an American promoter of Slam poetry] and poetry on the web – they genuinely like that, and if they can see themselves reflected in the poems they read, they love it." [Read more] https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/31/kate-clanchy-poet-benefits-of-teaching-poetry-in-schools
February 2018 The Year of the Poet Featuring 3 Poems by Kimberly Burnham
Using Light To Paint Poems Into Being
Light is a word and a symbol, a way of seeing and describing the world. Poems can incorporate the words for light and colors as if the pen is a paint brush creating an image that the readers modify for themselves, upon reading the words: light, dark, red, blue, shadow and sunlight. Light poems can describe what happens in the light and the darkness and the shadows, as well as illuminating a particular scene important to the poet. Light poems can be about physics and energy, the way the universe works and the sun shines and what the poet sees. Visual poetry can be a marriage of words and art each brightening the other. Visual poetry may also create visualizations, influencing the brain and what we think about as we read. Light is a word, a metaphor, and a way of seeing the community and opportunities around us.
Except from The Year of The Poet February 2018
Kinzeraba, The Holy Treasure
Observe a kernel of light
in darkness learn
goodness discovered within evil
live until death
fully ever
a role for human beings
in cosmic explosions
Growth in the world
two branches of olive
meeting across
four sides of the universe
draped in pure shimmering silk
first to last pages flutter full
Great blessings rise up
all colors streaming
from light and water
comes expansive
Switching on at work
darkest day just beginning
power gratitude
Paws & Hooves
Together paws and hooves
the frozen landscape
wearing a path
where they sprint
like a pack of wild ones
Two sleep inside
slumbering on the carpet
near the bed
Two rest outside
laying snuggly together
in a small barn
Meeting in the daylight to dash
and dart paws and hooves
thundering
Year of the Poet Jan 2018 Book - 3 Peace Poems by Kimberly Burnham
"Salaøm" is the word for peace in Ge'ez, the ancient written language of the Aksum people who are the focus of this New Year's volume of The Year of The Poet. The Aksum may be unfamiliar to many readers and poets, yet they are one of the great civilizations begun so brightly, a counterpoint to the Greek and Roman worlds of the 1st century C.E. The Aksum forged a trading link between the Mediterranean and the Asiatic spheres. Aksum's rise to power began with international relationships and shifts in trade.
They are a now a "lost" civilization whose descendents are African Christians, Jews, and Muslims. It is an age old story of a people who couldn't get along with their neighbors, were overrun, and pushed out into isolation. This shift set in motion the decline of their civilization.
Before the common era the Aksum Queen of Sheba is said to have birthed a Solomonic dynasty that ruled Ethiopia into the modern era. In the 4th Century C.E., King Ezana declared Aksum an Orthodox Christian state and tried to find peace with the neighboring Arabs and the Jews from Aksum's Beta Israel who read scriptures and prayers in Ge'ez. And for a time, salaøm walked beside shalom. These ancient Semitic people are the ancestors of some modern Ethiopians who moved to Israel in the 1970's.
Evidence of Aksum's greatness stands even today in the heart of ancient Ethiopia: monolithic obelisks, giant stelae, royal tombs, and ancient castles—proof of a powerful African state wedged between the Eastern Roman Empire and Persia. They commanded the ivory trade with Sudan and their fleets controlled much of the Red Sea trade. They probably thought they would always be great.
But the people couldn't find peace--salaøm, salaam, shalom—in the neighborhood, couldn't find a way to co-exist and so around the 10th Century C.E. they ceased to exist—forgotten. A thousand years have passed and what have we learned of peace, international exchange and fair trade?
The poets of Inner Child Press and the Poetry Posse seek to share in poetic words our lives, our glories, and challenges, always looking for a way to learn and contribute to a peacefully coexistence with our neighbors so that we can continue to thrive alongside all who walk this earth today.
Searching for Peace in Aksum
The first seven centuries
a common era
travelers and homebodies
greeted each other
winding through Aksum
where now walk the people of
Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea,
Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen
Salaøm
peace in Ge'ez
the liturgical language of Aksum
now gone replaced
Amharic, Tigrigna, Orominga,
roll off the tongues
of modern peoples
Nabáda, salaam, peace
powerful words bring us inside
the circle in
Somali, Arabic, English
Hetep in Egyptian
Salaamata carries peace in Afar
the language of present people
Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Djibouti
Salām in the Tigrigna of Eritrea
while the Sudanese speak peace in English,
salaam in Juba and Sudanese Arabic
and paix in French
words to thrive by
Nabáda in the Somali
flows into salaam in Yemen
all the places where once Aksumites
prospered
Ge'ez or Classical Ethiopic—"Salām" / ሰላም (peace, salutation, safety), "Salaøm" (peace)—Ethiopia, Eritrea (liturgical).
Somali (som)—"Nabáda" (peace), "Nabad" (peace), "Ma nahad baa" (is there peace), "Nabadda maanka" (peace of mind), "Sulux" (peace), "Dajiyaan" (calm), "Xasilooni" (tranquility)—Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia.
Egyptian—"Hetep" (peace), "Em hotep nefer weret" (very great peace, hello)—Egypt.
Tigrinya (tir), Tigrigna, Tigriña—"Salām" / ሰላም (peace from Proto-Semitic šalām), "Selam" (peace, hello)—Eritrea.
Juba Arabic (pga), Sudanese Creole Arabic—"Salaam" (peace), "Salaam taki" (hello, literally, your peace), "Kalaas, shukran. Maa salaam taki" (that's all, thank you, goodbye (with your peace)—Southern Sudan.
Arabic Words For Peace
Together we search for peace
engage in peace
grow peace
it is a creative process of words
shared, believed, spoken
suhl, salaam, hudna
the peace of submission
followers in belief
the absence of disobedience
but one will triumph
Hudna
a cease-fire
temporary truce
a break in violence
the absence of the negative
a peace of reconciliation
establishes relationships a new
harmony and suhl
binds individuals into a greater community
that lives inside and out
Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
أمّا ثمَرُ الرّوحِ فهوَ المَحبّةُ والفَرَحُ والسّلامُ والصّبرُ واللُطفُ والصّلاحُ والأمانَةُ 23والوَداعَةُ والعَفافُ. وما مِنْ شَريعَةٍ تنهى عَنْ هذِهِ الأشياءِ.
Arabic (arb)—"Salām" (peace), "Salaam" / سلام from the S-L-M Semitic root, "Hudna" (peace, cease-fire) or "Suhl" (peace, reconciliation)—Middle East with 280 million native speakers in North Africa, the Mideast, Central Asia, and used in liturgical services around the world.
Longing for Home
Deeply embedded in the human psyche
a longing for home
an innate hunger
buried deep in memories
a yearning for the best of what has been
the anticipation of what can
be desire for home
craving the landscape of dreams
More than a yearning for place
a pleasant memory or a dreamed of future
home is a state of being
of belonging
becoming strong
the deep need to be anchored
secure a restored past
drawn towards
a transformed, fulfilled future
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When Facebook first became accessible to me, it was my favorite thing in the world. I could talk to my friends, play fun-stupid games, and posts pictures of myself looking cool. It was a little shrine dedicated to the center of my universe – Myself.
Unfortunately, like all places of worship, as Facebook grew in popularity so did its message become diluted. The joys of connecting through mutual self-worship were lost under a wash of political capitalization. People stopped posting about their lives and thoughts and started posting links to banal sponsorships and teutonic memeary. I received friend requests from people in countries I'd never even heard of, who immediately invited me to an event I'd never be able to attend. If they were really my friends, they would know I don't have the time or means to attend their one-man charity show to stop Kony2012.
The beauty of simple narcissism had been taken over by a desire to acquire political currency.
The fastest way to disengage me from your religious views is to mix them in with politics, an occurrence all too common on my quickly disintegrating Facebook.
When I looked at my Facebook this is now what I saw: a place less about self-expression and more about self-aggrandizement. The Gods of Us had become tools to push product. We'd sold ourselves into a plantation where we were both slave and slavedriver. So, like every other god I'd once loved, I decided to abandon Myself.


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This weeks workout is thanks to Jo Sharp at the awesomely named SharpMoves Fitness Training.
Hi, Jo Sharp here from SharpMoves Fitness. I am based in the Southern Shire of Sydney as well as in Bali where I run fitness retreats. Have strong interests in bootcamps and pilates so my clients get to experience both mind & body workouts.
Kyle's note: I really like this workout because it's so different to my style. Here is proof that you can do a lot with your clients in a single workout and still create a challenging workout by sticking to simplicity.
Sounds like a great workou. Just wondering what a squat run is though? Is it a low run?
Sorry should read: is it a low run?


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NASA: space blobs are pubescent galaxies
WASHINGTON — Mysterious space blobs aren't infant galaxies as astronomers once thought. Scientists say they mostly consist of galaxies going through puberty, all hot and bothered.
A new study using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other space and ground telescopes comes up with an explanation for these high-energy glowing blobs that have been observed for about a decade. Astronomers looked at 29 of these gaseous blobs in one distant area of the universe, dating back to more than 11 billion years ago.
One theory was that they were young galaxies cooling off. But the new research says they are hot and chaotic with gas halos, growing supermassive black holes and about to stabilize. The blobs are the adolescent galaxies and the hydrogen gas, leftover from their creation.
Study lead author James Geach of Durham University in England said in an e-mail that the reason chaos is occurring in the blobs "is due to the violent processes occurring in the galaxies, black hole growth, starbursts, mergers. They're having a final 'tantrum' before they're done growing and then 'passively' evolve to the present day.
"These could be the signal of galaxies coming of age," Geach said later in a telephone news conference.
The research published this month in the Astrophysical Journal "is very exciting" and emphasizes the importance of black holes in the evolutions of galaxies, said Baron Martin Rees, England's royal astronomer who was not involved in the research.
The growth of the interior black holes are related to the growth of the galaxies.
But these "blobs" are special cases. It is unlikely that our Milky Way galaxy went through this process billions of years ago, Rees said. The Milky Way is too small. The black holes in the middle of the galaxies that are part of these blobs are at least 300 times more massive than the black hole inside our galaxy, he said.

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Yet another communal voice has added her views on the ABC-TV/The Australian report on the justice meted out to Palestinian children on the West Bank…this time Nina Bassat, president of The Jewish Community Council of Victoria.
The "Four Corners" program on 10 February 2014 dealt with grave issues. Mistreatment of children is of the utmost concern and is deplorable. What the program did not demonstrate, is that the Israeli government understands the gravity of the issues and is committed to improve the manner in which it deals with very young Palestinian minors who pose a security risk.
The ECAJ statement made by its President Robert Goot sets out clearly the security and international law issues and I do not propose to replicate them.
What is disturbing, over and above those issues, is the clear lack of balance.
Whilst the program referred to an earlier UNICEF report, it tellingly did not refer to the fact that Israel's co-operation with UNICEF and the significant improvements which have already taken place form part of UNICEF's latest report.
The program interviewed one Israeli lawyer who represents Palestinian minors, but failed to make any mention of the fact that there are many Israelis who offer similar assistance.
Further, there was no acknowledgment or recognition of the fact that Palestinian minors have committed murder and acts of terror.
There was a similar lack of balance in the footage. There was repeated and protracted footage of a weeping child. Disturbing as that is, death and injury is more so, but there was only extremely scant footage of the horrific terrorist attack which killed and maimed many Israelis.
The ABC "Four Corners" website states that "The ABC is Australia's most trusted, independent source of news." The program of 10 February 2014 makes a mockery of this.


This month I am stepping out with my dark chocolate mousse madness! I have tried nearly every basic chocolate mousse recipe (I still have one more up my sleeve) and now I'm going to use what I've learned to incorporate dark chocolate mousse into some more desserts —- All Vegan and No Sugar.
To start off, I'm going to take July's avocado-based mousse and change it up a bit. That mousse was very good but not very sweet and though I did put it into a pie crust, it really begged for a sweeter, more complex crust so here it is!
This crust could be done with just ground nuts and dried fruit plus the cinnamon and seasonings. A mixture like that can be put into a food processor and then pressed into the pie plate to make a no-bake pie crust.
Pulse the nuts in your food processor until they are finely ground up but not so much that they turn into a nut butter. Add the dried raisins next. Any dried fruit could be used here. Pulse the raisins or bits of other dried fruit with the stevia, salt and cinnamon and when it glops up, stop. Pour this glop into a bowl and add the almond flour. Blend the almond milk and the shredded coconut together and mix that in also. Once the mixture is pressed into place in the pie plate, bake it at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes to get excess moisture out of the crust. When done, the hot crust will not be totally hard or crispy.
This method yields a different texture of crust that is slightly chewy. Cool the crust completely on a rack if you have one. You want to cool the crust without putting it into the refrigerator.
Put everything into a food processor or blender and puree it until it is thick and smooth. What you may run into with this is that the cacao powder makes the mixture very thick and possibly too dense to blend it well. That is why you'll want some coconut milk or other non-dairy liquid to loosen the mousse up enough to blend it. I probably added about 1/4 cup—a little at a time—but I don't measure. I also used a spatula to help keep the mixture moving in the processor.
Pour the mousse into the pie crust and spread it evenly. Lick the spatula and sprinkle some extra coconut flakes on top of the pie.
This version of the avocado-based mousse was a little sweeter than the last because of the banana and the combination of the crust with the mousse was much more satisfying than the one I made in July!
This entry was posted in Chocolate, Mousse, Recipes, Vegan and tagged Cacao, Chocolate Mousse, coconut flakes, Mayan super food, sugar-free dessert, vegan dessert by mycookinglifebypatty. Bookmark the permalink.
Mmmmm, a dream recipe! I love that you're vegan and I love that you write this blog. Truly.
Kathy you are a true friend, thank you. The pie was good but oh so rich!
Thanks! Avocado makes an incredibly rich and creamy mousse.
I can imagine it would be very creamy.
That might be pretty hard to do! I should come there and make it for you! Or, if you twp come here I'll definitely cook up a storm for you.


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Orkney Archaeology Tours
Hackness Martello Tower Longhope
The Martello Tower at Hackness in Longhope, South Walls is one of Orkney's hiddens gems, if you can count something as hidden if it's 33 foot high with a huge gun on the top of it that is!
Hackness Martello Tower, Longhope, Orkney
It's hidden in the sense that not a lot of people visit the site, in fact our tours make up around 10% of the site's total visitor numbers in a year - quite impressive when we only go once a week with eight people. Part of the problem is that you have to take a ferry to get there, but a then a lot of folk don't think they'll like it so don't bother. Our most common comment from guests is along the lines of they wouldn't have visited if on their own, but are really glad they went.
Most Martello Towers were built on the south coast of England to repel prospective Napoleonic invasion, Hackness (along with a gun battery and barracks, which we also visit) and its paired tower at Crockness were built to protect against American privateers during the war of 1812, when convoys for the war effort gathered in Longhope Bay. The war only lasted to 815 and neither the towers or the battery ever fired a shot in anger.
The gun on the top today isn't the original, which was a 68 pounder added when the defences were upgraded in in 1866, but it is a genuine 64 pound Armstrong semi recoilless gun, found in the Caledonian canal, where it was being used as a mooring point.
The Armstrong gun at Hackness, Longhope, Orkney
Martello towers aren't a British invention, they're based on a 16th century Genoese tower at Mortella in Corsica, part of a series of coastal defences built to defend Genoa's trade against Barbary pirates. The original Torra di Mortella was occupied by the French and used to defend the bay against the British, and successfully withstood attack by HMS Juno and Fortitude in 1794, eventually being taken by land assault. The army officers were impressed and made detailed plans of the tower and its armaments, which are pretty good works of art in their own right:
1794 drawing of the Mortella tower
Others must've thought so too, as prints of the original were made and sold at the time, and it must have been a well-known action that got a lot of publicity. You can see a lot of the features that were later incorporated in the later British design, but the big flaw in the original Martella tower was that its main armament, the two 24 pound guns, could only fire forward out to sea, and its rear was protected by just one 6 pounder, hence vulnerable to attack from the landward side:
Plan of the gun platform on the original Mortella tower
This was remedied in the subsequent design, with a 360 degree arc of fire for the one gun on the top, but in true British fashion we got the name wrong and it became Martello instead of Mortella. We also blew the original up when we left - tactical necessity at the time but a great shame now:
The remains of the Torra di Mortella in Corsica
The attacks are all documented in the London Gazette for 1794, and contain a description of the original attack and the damage inflicted:
'In Obedience to your Orders, I went Yesterday in His Majesty's Ship Fortitude, which I command, against the Tower of Mortella, where I remained Two Hours and a Half; when finding that neither the Fire of the Fortitude nor that of the Juno (who was extremely well placed to batter the Tower) had made any material Impression; and the Main-Mast of the Ship being much wounded, many of the Shrowds cut away, Three of the Lower Deck Guns dismounted, several hot Shot in the Hull, and a great many Men blown up by the Explosion of Powder from a Powder-Box that was struck by a hot Shot; and being so near the Tower and the Rocks, that if the Wind should die away it would be difficult, and if it should change so as to blow on Shore it might be impossible, to get away, I thought it prudent to haul off. Soon after I had done so, the Ship was perceived to be on Fire from the Main Deck to the upper Part of the Quick Work on the Quarter Deck, occasioned by a hot Shot that had lodged in the Side; but after cutting out the Shot, and opening the Side in different Places, the Fire was extinguished without having done any material Damage'.
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Messaging and Collaboration / Google+ to Target Business Customers
Google+ to Target Business Customers
By Channel Insider Staff | Print
A Google executive says that the company's new social networking element, Google+, will allow businesses to join. The move pits Google's new service up against Facebook and LinkedIn
Google may have found a way to challenge not only Facebook, but also LinkedIn: Its new Google+ social network will apparently evolve in a way that allows businesses to build profiles and interact with the public.
We have a great team of engineers actively building an amazing Google+ experience for businesses, and we will have something to show the world later this year, Christian Oestlien, a group product manager at Google, wrote in a July 6 posting on his Google+ profile page. The business experience we are creating should far exceed the consumer profile in terms of its usefulness to businesses.
In the meantime, Google is apparently discouraging businesses from using regular Google+ profiles to interact with potential customers. Our policy team will actively work with profile owners to shut down non-user profiles, Oestlien wrote. Over the next few months we are going to be running a small experiment with a few marketing partners to see the effect of including brands in the Google+ experience.
That experiment will apparently begin with a small group of partners, and Oestlien made no mention of how it will expand beyond that point. If Google+ as a business tool takes hold, though, it could open another front in Google s battle with Facebook over the social-networking space, and the online ad revenues that come with it.
Businesses have long had a presence on Facebook, and the company recently introduced a few tools that make group collaboration and communication a little easier. During a July 6 presentation at Facebook headquarters, CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a Skype-branded video-chat service, along with a retooled people sidebar (supposedly to make initiating chats easier) and group instant messaging.
We are now making it possible to video chat with your friends right from within Facebook, read a note on Skype s corporate blog. The partnership with Facebook makes fantastic business sense for Skype and gives us an unprecedented opportunity to offer Skype s voice and video calling products to more than 750 million active users on Facebook.
To read the original eWeek article, click here: Google+ Will Target Businesses, Facebook Audience


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3 Things to Learn from #MeToo Movement for a Better Life
November 2, 2018 October 17, 2018 by Keshav Sharma
For the past couple of weeks, you might be listening to various stories of females from Bollywood, media and other areas on #MeToo movement. Some of the stories are as old as 15-20 years and some are as recent as a couple of months.
In India, this #MeToo movement was triggered after Tanushree Dutta, a Bollywood actress, accused Nana Patekar of sexual harassment during the shooting of a movie, Horn Ok Please in 2008. However, Nana Patekar has denied these allegations.
Although this #MeToo movement was started globally more than a decade ago, in India it has sparked recently. So far, many celebrities like Actor Nana Patekar, Director Producer Vikas Bahl, Singer Kailash Kher, Actor Alok Nath, Union Minister MJ Akbar, Author Chetan Bhagat, Actor Filmmaker Rajat Kapoor, Director Sajid Khan, Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya, and many others have been accused by the victims.
I'm not here to give my opinion or personal judgment on who is the culprit. I'm only interested in understanding what we can learn from this #MeToo movement in order to improve our lives.
Before we move forward, let's understand some facts about #MeToo movement.
What is #MeToo movement all about?
Who started #MeToo movement?
When was #MeToo movement started?
How was #MeToo movement started?
#MeToo Movement was started by Tarana Burke, an African-American civil rights activist from The Bronx, New York in 2006. Burke, was named among a group of prominent activists "the silence breakers", as the Time Person of the Year for 2017. She attends various public speaking events and is currently the Senior Director at Girls for Gender Equity (US).
She founded an organization named as MeToo Movement (www.metoomvmt.org) to help survivors of sexual violence, especially Black women and girls, and other young women of color from low wealth communities, find pathways to healing.
She got this inspiration at a youth camp, after listening to the heart-wrenching stories of several young women about neglectful parents, domestic and sexual abuse.
In 2006, she started using #MeToo to raise awareness of the pervasiveness of sexual abuse and assault in society.
Within a span of 6 months, #MeToo became viral on social media including Facebook and Twitter. Various organizations joined in and started their own versions of #MeToo Campaign. It turned into a broader movement.
Women from around the globe started coming forward and shared their part of painful stories as part of #MeToo movement.
Victims of such harassments who suffered years ago, couldn't speak up earlier due to various reasons.
Because of that nobody came to know about it, nobody helped or stood for them. But now when they have shown courage and decided to speak up, a movement is started. People are coming to their support.
Similarly, we go through several challenges in life and often feel clueless and hopeless, ready to give up as a victim. But that's not the correct approach to live a fulfilled life.
You won't be able to look at yourself in the mirror with respect and dignity. You have to show courage to speak up, to act and take massive actions in order to punch adversities and challenges in their faces.
Let's look at three things that you can learn from #MeToo Movement to become a better version of yourself:
Before You Expect Others to Help You, Help Yourself
This is the most crucial thing to understand. Until you are willing to help yourself nobody is going to give out a hand to you.
First, you have to convince yourself that you are going to help your own self, only then someone else can help you. (Find out how equipped you are to help yourself by checking your Selfhelpiness Quotient)
But the question is how you can help yourself?
Courage is the answer.
Courage Makes Your Problems Smaller
When you show courage in the moment of adversities, you open doors for new possibilities. Courage doesn't mean to be fearless, it means to face your fear and deal with it. But courage is not something which will come on its own. It's a virtue that you need to develop over a period of time.
Courage develops when you have the longing to live with respect and dignity for yourself.
When you convince yourself that you too have the right to live a life as per your values.
When you believe in expression rather than suppression.
When you understand that strength comes from inside, not outside.
When you show courage, you become bigger than your problems, ready to face them, deal with them and emerge as a winner.
You can cultivate this virtue of Courage through small steps, like speaking up.
If You Feel It's Wrong, Say it, Speak up!
Don't suppress your ideas, your views, your thoughts by thinking how others will take it. If you feel something is wrong and you have a different view, just say it.
Start small. Start from your daily conversations with people around you. If you don't agree with something, say it, express it. Let them know that you differ, present your argument based on facts and your experience.
When you start doing that on daily basis, you will develop courage. And in case you face bigger issues, you will not hesitate to fight it back.
You can take away these three learning with you from the #MeToo movement. If you decide to implement them, you can have a better and a happier life.
Develop a habit of helping yourself before you expect someone else to help you. Cultivate courage to deal with your fears and speak up your mind whenever required, so that you can live a fulfilled life with respect and dignity.
Let me know your thoughts about it in the comment section. Feel free to start a discussion and share your views on #MeToo movement.
In case you have suffered or know someone who has suffered in some way or the other in past, no matter how old or recent is that story. If you feel it was wrong, gather courage and speak up. Let the world know about it.
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I wish I could remember who sent me the link to this so I could give them a hat-tip. Below are 5 parts of a documentary on a very unique fourth grade Japanese class. It's very touching stuff, I warn you. And the teacher...seems like the kind of guy there should be a movie about.
Yes, but it helps just to know that other people care.
I cried. I can't imagine losing a parent of grandp[arent (I still have all my family with me), but listening to these children is very emotional.
dude, that is an awesome documentary. Legendary teacher.


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Reduce and Reuse: Meeting Spaces Go Green
By Eming Piansay December 21, 2022
As the world turns to a new year, many are coming to realize that our resources are finite and becoming sustainable is crucial to the future of our planet.
Even in our everyday activities, green thinking and sustainability are critical. Event spaces are also having to assess the imprint they are leaving. Smart Meetings spoke to event spaces within the United States that were ranked by WiseVoter as top recyclers in the country.
Maine: Composting by the Sea
According to WiseVoter, Maine leads the charge with the most recycled plastics when compared to other states.
Inn by the Sea offers event planners 1,300 sq. ft. of meeting space and also has a 19-year-old food compost program. At the time of its inception, the area lacked a local composting business. The Inn then partnered with a local farmer for their composting needs. Eventually, when the local farmer retired, Inn by the Sea started working with Garbage to Garden, a community driven organization founded in 2012. Because of this work, the Inn manages to keep 1,000 lbs. of organic material out of the landfill every month.
Inn by the Sea, which holds a LEED Silver certification, uses recycled glass water bottles that save approximately 1,600 plastic bottles a month.
Anaheim Convention Center: Happily Green Since 2004
It may be the home of the happiest place on Earth, but Anaheim is also home to one of the convention centers in the country working to become a leader among green and sustainable meeting spaces. Anaheim Convention Center (ACC) offers up 1.8 million sq. ft. for meetings and has been actively working on its green initiatives since 2004. In 2011, the program expanded to include a sustainable beverage program, recycling center, food donations and a green roof. As a LEED-certified facility, ACC collects as much recycled material as possible before sending it off to be recycled.
Read More: Lessons from a Harmonious Return to Meeting in Anaheim
Prior to a recent fire at the off-site Republic Services facility, roughly 40-50% of waste was being recycled. Currently, ACC is preparing to create an on-site facility and sorting program in the hopes of further reducing the impact on the local landfill and environment.
Anaheim Convention Center has active partnerships with Certified Recycling organizations, Habitat for Humanity and Second Harvest Food Banks and through these connections, excess material is diverted away from the landfill and redirected towards communities in need.
Oregon: Sustainability Is the Name of the Game
In 2004, the Oregon Convention Center (OCC) became the first convention center to be LEED-certified. With over 475,000 sq. ft. of convention space, Oregon Convention Center actively encourages meeting planners to think green in their event planning process. Whether it is helping meeting planners find the right type of signage or suggesting falcon board over foam core, OCC offers planners their own knowledge of environmentally friendly options for producing a standout event.
Read More: Portland's Most Livable City Designation Reflects Steps to Ensure Public Safety
OCC's recycling initiative for waste diversion has prevented between 63-64% of unnecessary waste from heading to the landfill on a yearly basis. Aside from making sure food that's scraped is processed for composting, unused food from events is donated back to the community and local shelters.
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Sony announces super-light Vaio Pro and a Vaio Duo hybrid refresh
By Farrha Khan 2013-06-05T07:59:00.155Z Tablets
Vaio Pro to be the world's lightest ultrabook
Surf Sony's Slider... say that 13 times straight.
Sony today announced a number of new Vaio products, with Intel's new Haswell chips, a touchscreen and NFC across the range.
The Duo 11 hybrid gets a refresh in the form of the Duo 13, and as the name suggests, Sony has upped the screen size to 13.3 inches, though Sony has managed to keep it nearly the same size as the old Duo 11.
The Duo 13 includes Sony's N-trig DuoSensePen for on-screen writing, with tweaks to the "Surf Slider" mechanism for easier transition between tablet and keyboard mode. The keyboard is full QWERTY with a touch pad, and Sony claims it will have 11 hours battery life.
The Duo 13 will be available in early July and retail for AU$1699 (US$1400, roughly £1069).
The new Pro in town
Using carbon fibre casing, Sony is touting it's new Vaio Pro series as the world's lightest touchscreen ultrabook, weighing in at 870 grams and 1.06kg for the Pro 11 and Pro 13, respectively.
"Carbon fibre has an unparalleled strength-to-weight ratio when it comes to laptops. This is what makes the VAIO Pro not only the world's lightest, but also extremely robust," said Jun Yoon, marketing manager for network entertainment at Sony Australia.
While details of the internal configurations have not been released yet, Sony will be using the same Triluminos Display technology used in its Bravia TV range across the range.
Sony has also indicated that it will be using the Windows 8 platform for its new releases.
Available from early June, the Pro 11 will retail for AU$1299 (US$1150, roughly £817), and the Pro 13 will retail for AU$1399 (US$1250, roughly £880).


Beechlea is a superbly located, traditionally built property set in the attractive village of New Deer located on the A948 midway between the Towns of Mintlaw and Turriff and very commutable to the city of Aberdeen. This well-proportioned property occupies a very large corner plot for which the current owners have planning permission in place to build a further detached property. This spacious four-bedroom property with living accommodation over three floors has been meticulously maintained. The property further benefits from full double-glazing and gas fuelled central heating. The bright and airy accommodation comprises of front entry porch that leads to the welcoming traditional reception hall. There are two principal rooms on the ground floor, the lounge and sitting room, providing flexible accommodation. To the rear of the property, a second entry and utility porch leads to the dining kitchen that includes floor and wall mounted units with contrasting worktops and a spacious pantry. A carpeted staircase with wooden balustrade ascends to the half landing then onto the first floor and attic rooms. The three-piece family bathroom is located on the half landing with two large double bedrooms on the first floor. The master bedroom is bright and spacious with a large changing area with his and her wardrobes. The second bedroom has dual aspect windows and is flooded with natural light. An office completes this floor. Two additional double bedrooms are located on the second floor. The home also benefits from ample storage cupboards throughout. Gardens/outside: A gated, tarmacked driveway leads to the rear of the property where parking is available for multiple vehicles. The two-story, stone built, double garage has a workshop/loft above it with a separate entrance. The majority of the extensive gardens is landscaped with an abundance of grass, mature trees, shrubs and plants. The elevated rear garden and large vegetable plot has planning permission in place for a second detached property and will be sold with the main house.


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"Each author captures Christie—and Marple—perfectly, while also displaying just a bit of her own unique touch. . . . This new and entertaining collection by some of our favorite writers will hook a new group of readers to the formidable Miss Marple." — Rhys Bowen, Washington Post
"Marple is the best loved [detective]. Also the most influential. . . . It is Miss Marple who introduced the revolutionary notion that people are essentially the same wherever one goes." — Los Angeles Times
Agatha Christie's legendary sleuth, Jane Marple, returns to solve twelve baffling cases in this brand-new collection, penned by a host of acclaimed authors skilled in the fine art of mystery and murder
One doesn't stop at one murder...
Jane Marple is an elderly lady from St Mary Mead who possesses an uncanny knack for solving even the most perplexing puzzles. Now, for the first time in 45 years, Agatha Christie's beloved character returns to the page for a globe-trotting tour of crime and detection.
Join Marple as she travels through her sleepy English village and around the world. In St Mary Mead, a Christmas dinner is interrupted by unexpected guests; the Broadway stage in New York City is set for a dangerous improvisation; bad omens surround an untimely death aboard a cruise ship to Hong Kong; and a bestselling writer on holiday in Italy is caught in a nefarious plot. These and other crimes committed in the name of love, jealousy, blackmail, and revenge are ones that only the indomitable Jane Marple can solve.
Bringing a fresh twist to the hallmarks of a classic Agatha Christie mystery, these twelve esteemed writers have captured the sharp wit, unique voice, and droll ingenuity of the deceptively demure detective. A triumphant celebration of Christie's legacy and essential reading for crime lovers, Marple is a timely reminder why Jane Marple remains one of the most famous detectives of all time.


• Maintaining and increasing sales of company's products.
• Reaching the targets and goals set for the area assigned.
• Establishing, maintaining and expanding customer base.
• Allocating areas to sales representatives.
• Developing sales strategies and setting targets.
• Monitoring your team's performance and motivating them to reach targets.
• Compiling and analyzing sales figures.
• Dealing with major customer accounts.
• Keeping up to date with products and competitors.
• Conduct regular market visits to check route coverage, competitor activity and continuously search for new opportunities in order to increase sales within the Area assigned.
• Holding Bachelor degree in business or related majors.
• 5 years and more experience in FMCG.
• Holding UAE valid driving license.
• Should have knowledge in UAE market and AD in specific.
Innovation. Passion. Success. These are three attributes that are key to both our business and our staff. As part of our ongoing innovation as an organisation, a key role has been created in our Human Resources team for a Human Resources Manager to support the Sales Function.
With approximately 500 heads based over Australia, New Zealand the Pacific Islands and the UAE the staff in our Sales team are critical to the ongoing success of our company. And your role as the HR Manager is critical to ensuring that the very best staff are recruited, engaged and rewarded.
• Support the Operations Manager in leading and assisting management of the organisation in achieving the best fit between its organisational structure and its business model.
• Contribute in the formulation of the overall strategy of HR department, to achieve set objectives and future growth visions.
• Maintain awareness and knowledge of latest HR development methods and provide suitable interpretation to directors, managers and employees within the organisation.
• Develop, maintain and guide the execution of the Operations (Employee Relations, Payroll and Administration and Training and Development) processes and procedures.
• Contribute in the annual HR Policy and Procedures review.
• Determine and recommend employee relations practices necessary to establish a positive employer-employee relationship and promote a high level of employee morale and motivation.
• Assist the Operations Manager in the development and continuous improvement of performance management tools and systems aligned with the organisational vision and strategies.
A private training and consultancy institute in Dubai is seeking to hire certified and qualified Personality Development & Soft Skills instructors. Those who wish to apply should have good communication skills and highly proficient in English. Previous similar job role/experience of training children, teens and adults would be an advantage. We are offering long term contracts on a part-time/hourly employment basis.
The recruitment manager is responsible for the recruitment process. The process has to be properly designed and implemented. The manager sets recruitment measurement and distributes the job vacancies across HR Recruiters. The manager builds a healthy relationship with internal customers and external recruitment vendors.
• Arabic language fluency is a must.
The selected candidates shall join VAM Systems – Qatar and shall be deputed to one of the leading Organizations in Qatar.
• 3+ years of similar experience in UAE.
• Prior experience in Staffing Service / Professional Service industry will be an advantage.
• Should be responsible for attending employees' queries related to HR policies, procedures & Administration.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the management.
We are looking for qualified and experienced professional trainers for our courses in various areas: marketing & sales, soft and general skills, management and leadership, customer experience, entrepreneurship, etc. The trainers will be responsible for delivering training courses to our courses participants in Dubai. Full details on the scope of our courses can be found on our web site.
Candidates must possess the respective degree in the area of their expertise and be able to provide the supportable track record of minimum 5 years of past professional experience in the area of specialization.


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Q: How to configure Array on DL360 GEN 8 Server Running Ubuntu Hi all I have an DL360 GEN 8 Machine. And I need to install ubuntu server on it. However. Accourding to HP, THE Dyanamic Smart Array System is not support. Since I would love to make use of array.. Given that I have 4 Terra bytes of disk .. Which I need to configure Raid 1.

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Is there any possible way to achive this Raid without HP Dynamic Array system. ???

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Below is the message from HP. Which says that I need to disable Smart array before I can be able to run Ubuntu

HP Dynamic Smart Array System is certified with Dynamic Smart Array disabled. To disable Dynamic Smart Array:

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*Press F9 to boot into RBSU

*Navigate to System Options > HP Dynamic Smart Array B320i and select disable

*Go to System options > SATA Controller options and select Legacy SATA or AHCI

*Reboot the machine and now you will be able to install the OS

A: Don't use Ubuntu!!
Use a Linux distribution that's actually supported for this hardware!

The HP Dynamic Smart Array B110i/B120i/B320i controller driver for
  Ubuntu 12.04 is not available. The Ubuntu 12.04 certification was
  completed in SATA mode.

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Aramco On Lockdown After Houthi Missile Attack
Saudi Arabia had intercepted a…
Iran Claims Nuclear Deal Draft Is Incompatible With New Iranian Law
The draft agreement between Iran…
The U.S. Is Using Saudi Arabia To Expand Its Influence In Iraq
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Saudi Forces Thwart Houthi Attack On Oil City
By Irina Slav - Sep 17, 2021, 9:00 AM CDT
Saudi Arabia has prevented yet another attack by the Yemeni Houthis, this time in the city of Jazan, which is home to extensive Aramco oil infrastructure.
Reuters reported the Saudi-led coalition that is fighting the Houthis in Yemen had destroyed four Houthi drones laden with explosives and also a ballistic rocket fired at Jazan, where Aramco operates a 400,000-bpd refinery that is often targeted by Houthi attacks.
In April this year, the Saudis stopped another attack on Jazan from happening, intercepting five ballistic missiles and four drones launched at the oil city, which is about 60 km from the border with Yemen, which makes it a logical target.
Recently, these attacks appear to have become more frequent. Just last week, another Houthi attack put Aramco on lockdown in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Region.
Aramco oil facilities are understandably a preferred target for the Houthis, which Saudi Arabia is trying to oust from Yemen after they removed the Saudi-affiliated government of the country in 2014 and has since then assumed power in most of Yemen. The Yemeni war, which has resulted in the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times, is widely seen as a proxy war between regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran.
While the Saudi forces intercept most of the drones and missiles the Houthis launch at targets in the Kingdom, some do get through. The most notable one so far was an attack that took place two years ago and took off 5 percent of global daily oil supply offline as the missiles hit an oil field and a processing plant. While the Houthi rebels took responsibility for the attack, the Saudis and their U.S. partners blamed Iran, which backs the Houthis.
With Aramco oil infrastructure a primary target for the rebel group, these attacks have the potential capacity to disrupt oil markets again at a time when prices are already sensitive enough due to other factors such as the pandemic.
Is Oil Really Doomed?
Why Bank Of America Thinks Oil Prices Are Heading To $100
China's Futile Attempt To Send Oil Prices Lower
Mamdouh Salameh on September 17 2021 said:
Saudi oil infrastructure will remain vulnerable to attacks by Iran's allies in Yemen, the Houthis, until Saudi Arabia ends the War on Yemen and reaches some sort of rapprochement with Iran.
And with the United States withdrawing its anti-missile defence systems from Saudi Arabia, the Saudis shouldn't expect the United States to come to their defence.
The United States withdrawal debacle from Afghanistan has alarmed Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States and marked a major turning point for global geopolitics. It was a great blow to the prestige of the United States. The strategic winners were China and Russia.
In view of the above, the House of Saud should reconsider seriously its historic relations with the United States, a link that has overwhelmingly benefited the United States financially and geopolitically since 1945. Saudi Arabia should therefore rearrange its priorities including pivoting towards the rising powers in the world, namely China and Russia.
One has only to look at Iraq, Iran, Venezuela and the Arab Gulf to see that the China-Russia-Iran strategic alliance is gaining momentum and influence by the day at the expense of the floundering US-UAE-Israel-India axis.
Dr Mamdouh G Salameh
International Oil Economist
Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at ESCP Europe Business School, London


Return on Investment is a trending topic right now in the nonprofit sector. Organizations have been using ROI to measure the cost benefit of a purchase, a grant request, or a piece of technology. We started using ROI to measure the cost benefit of nonprofits investing in their talent and have helped organizations to save thousands of dollars.
What does investing in your talent look like? It involves assessing and maintaining your learning culture, developing and maintaining accurate job descriptions, providing living wages, creating professional development opportunities that are tied to strategic goals and the job learning, mentoring and training, and evaluating your talent development efforts. Yes, each of these talent investment activities take a significant investment, but the old adage, you reap what you sow, will come true. You will see many monetary and non-monetary rewards of your talent investment efforts. We've worked with organizations that have saved thousands of dollars by investing in their staff and volunteers.
For example, we worked with a small grassroots organization that had a wonderful mission of helping refugees within a specific community. They had five staff members who were extremely busy with their day-to-day responsibilities. Even though employees were deeply committed to the mission, the organization struggled to pay their employees a living wage, and as a result, the organization suffered from high turnover. When the ED took some time to assess the learning culture of her organization, as well as assess the professional development needs of her staff, she saw improved staff morale and reduced employee turnover.
In this article we'll walk you through how to calculate the Return on Investment for investing in your talent in those ways.
The first step in calculating ROI is determining the benefits of investing in your staff and volunteers. There are two types of benefits: intangible and tangible benefits.
Intangible benefits are hard to measure but important to the organization.
Tangible benefits are monetary benefits to your organization. Often organizations focus on the tangible benefits of an item without considering the intangible benefits but intangible benefits make a huge impact on the organizational culture and ultimately lead to tangible benefits for the organization. Intangible benefits for investing in your talent include: increased staff and volunteer satisfaction, new skills learned on the job, and a stronger learning culture. Staff will be happier, want to do their jobs, and be in a more positive and supportive work environment. Tangible benefits include reduction in employee turnover, reduction in hiring costs, reduction in consulting costs, increased productivity, and increased programmatic outcomes. When employees and volunteers feel they are supported, they are more likely to stay. They are more productive, they are more likely to produce more units of service for the organization and they are less likely to leave the organization.
In the case of our small grassroots organization, by investing in their talent they reaped intangible benefits of improved staff morale and a more cohesive team. They also determined tangible benefits of reduction in employee turnover (between $9,750 to $19,500), increased volunteer recruitment (six volunteer tutors $27,000 for one year), increased financial acumen and reduced CPA costs $3,000.
The next step is calculating costs. Even though there are many monetary and non-monetary benefits to consider when calculating ROI for talent investment, there are several different costs to consider when investing in talent. The first cost to consider is the monetary cost of salary increases. You can't think of your staff salaries as a stand-alone item within your budget, you need to consider the repercussions of low salaries. Although there is an actual monetary cost to increase staff salaries, there is also a monetary benefit that we discuss above – the reduction of employee turnover.
There are also monetary costs of investing in strategic professional development. In our book, The Talent Development Platform we outline how to go through a systematic process of reviewing and revising job descriptions, mapping competencies (knowledge, skills abilities and other characteristics) to those competencies, assessing staff and volunteers professional development needs, and implementing professional development that is tied to the strategic goals of the organizations. As a result, professional development isn't an additional effort; it is integrated within your daily work. There is a cost associated with planning for the talent development platform and implementing talent development. The planning process includes, staff time to plan and take the talent development assessment, time to review and develop professional development goals and objectives. And, the implementation costs includes the cost of the actual on-the-job learning activities and staff time for the on-the-job experience, mentoring, and training experiences. In order to make these staff time calculations you need to know the hourly rate of each employee and estimate the time they are investing in planning and implementing the professional development.
In our small grassroots nonprofit example, they determined the costs of planning for and implementing the Talent Development Platform. The planning costs included staff time to take the various assessments. Some of the implementation costs were also included. They also determined the costs of increasing staff salaries, so their staff members would have living wages.
This is the easiest step, determining your net benefits. Benefits minus costs equals net benefits.
As you can see the small grassroots refugee organization saw a net benefit between $1,902 to $11,652. So, take the time, calculate your ROI for investing in your talent. You'll end up saving your organization thousands of dollars.
Heather L. Carpenter, Ph.D., is assistant professor of Nonprofit Management at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in Nonprofit Management, Human Resources, Financial Management, Fundraising, Technology, and Volunteerism.
Tera Wozniak Qualls, M.P.A., is founder of Momentum, a nonprofit consulting firm focused on community engagement and talent development for nonprofits. Tera also serves as an adjunct professor of Nonprofit Management at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she teaches Introduction to Nonprofits and Volunteerism and Human Resources.
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Eduardo Eugénio [de Campos e] de Castro de Azevedo Soares (Porto, Massarelos, 23 de janeiro de 1941 - Lisboa, 29 de dezembro de 2010) foi um oficial da Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa, da Classe de Marinha e com especialização como Fuzileiro Naval, e um político Português.

Biografia
Filho de Alfredo Sieuve de Séguier de Campos e Castro de Azevedo Soares (filho de Eduardo de Campos e Castro de Azevedo Soares e de sua mulher Lídia Sieuve de Séguier Borges do Amaral e Campos e neto paterno do 1.º Visconde de Carcavelos e 1.º Conde de Carcavelos) e de sua mulher Maria Luísa de Araújo Leite de Castro.

Era irmão de Alfredo Albano de Castro Azevedo Soares, advogado, ex-secretário de Estado da Justiça entre 1981 e 1983 e ainda deputado do CDS na I, II e III Legislatura da Terceira República Portuguesa.

Oficial da Marinha, com a patente de Capitão de Fragata.

Carreira política

Exerceu cargos político-administrativos, sempre pelo PSD, nomeadamente o de Deputado à Assembleia da República na VII e VIII Legislaturas, respetivamente pelos círculos de Vila Real e do Porto.

No governo ocupou os cargos de Secretário de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros no X Governo Constitucional, sendo um dos responsáveis pelas negociações da transição de Macau para a China, e Ministro do Mar no XII Governo Constitucional de Portugal, onde trabalhou na recuperação da orla costeira portuguesa, tendo negociado junto da União Europeia melhores condições para a pesca, conseguindo manter a Zona Económica Exclusiva inalterada face a ameaças da Espanha.

Foi candidato a Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Cascais pelo PSD no ano de 1997, tendo perdido as eleições por curta margem para o candidato adversário; manteve o seu mandato de vereador pelos quatro anos correspondentes.

Foi ainda secretário geral do PSD, com Fernando Nogueira, e primeiro vice-presidente, com Marques Mendes.

Foi um dos impulsionadores e apoiante da candidatura de Cavaco Silva à Presidência da República, tendo sido membro da sua comissão política.

Condecorações
  Grã-Cruz da Ordem Real da Estrela Polar da Suécia (29 de Janeiro de 1987)
  Grã-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Cruzeiro do Sul do Brasil (27 de Abril de 1987)
  Primeira Classe da Ordem de Francisco de Miranda da Venezuela (18 de Novembro de 1987)
  Grã-Cruz da Ordem de Honra da Grécia (15 de Novembro de 1990)
  Grã-Cruz da Ordem do Falcão da Islândia (25 de Fevereiro de 1994)

Funções governamentais exercidas
 X Governo Constitucional
 Secretário de Estado dos Negócios Estrangeiros
 XII Governo Constitucional
 Ministro do Mar

Naturais do Porto
Personalidades do Grande Porto
Oficiais superiores de Portugal
Deputados da Assembleia da República Portuguesa
Ministros de Portugal
Vereadores de câmaras municipais de Portugal
Mortes por cancro em Portugal

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AWANA meets from 6:45 to 8:30 pm every Wednesday from September to April. See the calendar for important dates.
Awana kicked off Wednesday, September 12th but feel free to join us anytime! Just fill out the online registration form and join us any Wednesday!
AWANA is a nondenominational ministry that assists churches in reaching children with the gospel of Jesus Christ and training them to serve Him.


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Motif Programming Manual, Vol 6A (Definitive Guides to the X Window System)
O'Reilly, 1993
The Motif Programming Manual is a source for complete, accurate, and insightful guidance on Motif application programming. There is no other book that covers the ground as thoroughly or as well as this one. The book has been updated to Motif 1.2, but is still usable with Motif 1.1.
The Motif Programming Manual describes how to...
Professional Android Sensor Programming
ANDROIDS ARE ALIVE. THEY CAN LOCATE THEMSELVES, see, listen, and understand speech. They can sense radio signals and detect orientation, movement, and environmental properties. Can your computer do all of that?
The availability of sensors is one feature Android devices have that makes them different from other computers. Without...
Histology Image Review CD-ROM
Histology is an image intensive subject. However, this should not necessitate students' memorization of illustrated material and associated questions. Histology requires an organized approach to the recognition of the microscopic anatomy of tissues and a strong knowledge base concerning the structure and function of those...
Thin Film Solar Cells From Earth Abundant Materials
Elsevier Limited, 2013
The fundamental concept of the book is to explain how to make thin film solar cells from the abundant solar energy materials by low cost. The proper and optimized growth conditions are very essential while sandwiching thin films to make solar cell otherwise secondary phases play a role to undermine the working function of solar cells. The...
Plasma Engineering: Applications from Aerospace to Bio and Nanotechnology
Academic Press, 2013
Plasma engineering applies the unique properties of plasmas (ionized gases) to improve processes and performance over many fields, such as materials processing, spacecraft propulsion, and nanofabrication. Plasma Engineering considers this rapidly expanding discipline from a unified standpoint, addressing fundamentals of physics and...
Raspberry Pi Home Automation with Arduino - Second Edition
Unleash the power of the most popular microboards to build convenient, useful, and fun home automation projects
Revolutionize the way you automate your home by combining the power of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino
Build simple yet awesome home automated projects using an...
Microsoft .NET Kick Start
Sams Publishing, 2003
What is Microsoft .NET? Because this book is all about Microsoft .NET, it is important to first understand what.NET is. .NET is a technology platform for development and deployment of business applications using a set of technologies—.NET Framework, multiple programming languages, tools (particularly Visual Studio .NET),...
Crack Analysis in Structural Concrete: Theory and Applications
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2009
This new book on the fracture mechanics of concrete focuses on the latest developments in computational theories, and how to apply those theories to solve real engineering problems. Zihai Shi uses his extensive research experience to present detailed examination of multiple-crack analysis and mixed-mode fracture.
Compared with other...
Myelopathy, Radiculopathy, and Peripheral Entrapment Syndromes
Richly illustrated and easy to use, Myelopathy, Radiculopathy, and Peripheral Entrapment Syndromes presents extensive and up-to-date information about the etiopathic and clinical presentation of neurovascular compression insult to the spinal cord, spinal nerve roots, and peripheral nerves. Written with both the student and practitioner in...
Mechanics of Cellular Bone Remodeling: Coupled Thermal, Electrical, and Mechanical Field Effects
Research on bone remodeling has resulted in much new information and has led to improvements in design and biomedical practices. Mechanics of Cellular Bone Remodeling: Coupled Thermal, Electrical, and Mechanical Field Effects presents a unified exploration of recent advances, giving readers a sound understanding of...
Supercritical Water Processing Technologies for Environment, Energy and Nanomaterial Applications
Springer, 2019
This book systematically presents the technical aspects of supercritical water oxidation and supercritical water gasification for energy and environmental applications, which include reactor design, construction materials, corrosion, salt precipitation, etc. The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the properties of...
Cisco Express Forwarding (Networking Technology)
Cisco Press, 2007
How does a router switch a packet? What is the difference between routing a packet, switching a frame, and packet switching? What is the Cisco® Express Forwarding (CEF) feature referred to in Cisco documentation and commonly found in Cisco IOS® commands? CEF is a general term that describes the mechanism by which Cisco routers and...
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NiSource profit up, warns on 2006 outlook
Published: Aug. 2, 2006 at 4:20 p.m. ET
Jim Jelter
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Energy provider NiSource Inc. reported Wednesday a 60% increase in second-quarter operating income, citing strong demand for its short-term natural-gas transport and storage services and improved performance by its power business.
But the company also said that it is highly unlikely to hit its earlier earnings forecast of $1.45 to $1.55 a share, due to a steep drop in natural-gas demand.
NiSource NI, President and Chief Executive Robert C. Skaggs said in a statement accompanying the report that the drop in gas sales is expected to trim 2006 net revenue by about $40 million, or 10 cents per share, from earlier estimates.
At the same time, the company declined to provide a revised earnings estimate, citing the "increased unpredictability of customer usage and customer attrition in the current environment." The company said that sales to residential users were hit especially hard, as homeowners conserve gas or switch to other, less expensive means of staying warm.
The warning trigged a sell-off of the stock by disappointed investors. NiSource shares fell 71 cents, or 3.1%, to close at $22.26.
NiSource, whose utility subsidiaries provide gas and power to some 3.8 million customers in a patchwork of service territories stretching from the Gulf Coast and the Midwest to New England, said that its second-quarter operating income rose to $39.1 million, or 14 cents a share, from $24.4 million or 9 cents a share a year earlier.
The results matched the 14 cents a share expected by analysts polled by Thomson First Call.
Income from continuing operations rose to $21.5 million, or 8 cents a share, from $8.3 million or 3 cents a share a year ago, while revenue rose to $660.2 million from $633.3 million.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- After the August jitters in the stock market, readers of my book "The Millionaire Zone" knew there was money to be made.
Jim Jelter was an editor for MarketWatch in San Francisco.