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Q: Xcode 7.3 ad hoc distribution launches on some iOS devices not others I have distributed a an ad hoc version of my iPad app to several users and have found that it will launch on some iPads but not others (it installs on all). So far, it has launched successfully on an iPad Mini (1st gen) and an iPad (4th gen). It will not launch on an iPad Air or an iPad Air 2.
I know that the UDIDs are correct and present in the provisioning profile. I believe all devices are running iOS 9.3. The deployment target is 8.0. There are no Capabilities included. There are two static libraries included via sub-projects (libpd and OpenFrameworks). I've just asked one user to send me a crash log, which I've not yet seen, but if the app won't launch, there might not be any info in the crash log anyway.
Can anyone offer me any hints?

A: Assuming the provisioning profile actually being used by Xcode is the current version with those devices in it, I would recommend running your app source code through Deploymate and see if it finds problems.


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Advanced diseases and chronic illnesses may leave a person in a state of imbalance or disharmony of mind, body and spirit. The affected person's adaptation to his/her illness may mean new resolutions, losses to be acknowledged, and redefinition of roles and expectations. This paper offers some understanding into the concept of spirituality, spiritual needs and spiritual care interventions in palliative care in terms of empirical evidence. Healthcare practitioners (HCPs) may adopt some of the strategies that the author has developed in light of empirical research into spirituality, culture and healthcare education. For the purpose of this paper, the term HCPs refers to medical practitioners, nurses, paramedical staff, medical and physician assistants and other health carers involved in palliative care.
Spirituality is often described in a language rich in metaphors and linguistic patterns characteristic of the influences of culture, philosophy, religion and history. Recently, health-related literature has begun to highlight spirituality and its importance in health and illness. In this article, spirituality is described as a dimension of being human, which gives individuals a sense of being, with qualities that include innateness,  a capacity for inner knowing and a source of strength,  subjective experience of the sacred,  self-transcendence toward a capacity for greater love and knowledge,  a unity or wholeness permeating all of one's life  and provision of meaning of one's existence that lies at the core of one's being.
Literature on health and nursing places an emphasis on spirituality. From a holistic perspective, such literature describes spirituality or spiritual life in the terms listed in [Table - 1]. Carson  offers a useful definition of spirituality: "... is my being, my inner person. It is who I am, Unique and Alive. It is expressed through my body, my thinking, my feelings, my judgements and my creativity. My spirituality motivates me to choose meaningful relationships and pursuits".
Twycross states,  "Palliative care integrates psychological, social and spiritual aspects of care so that patients may come to terms with their own death as fully and constructively as they can."
This paper is guided by the above definitions and descriptions in the subsequent discourses on palliative care and spirituality.
Researchers have found spirituality to be a powerful resource for coping with health-related problems, including chronic illnesses/advanced diseases. Yates et al.  found that religion acts as an important source of support for many patients. Baldree et al.  assessed the methods of coping adopted by 35 haemodialysis patients and found that hope, prayer and trust in God were prominent coping mechanisms. In another study, Miller  found that arthritis patients reported a significantly higher level of religious well-being, defined as a sense of well-being in relation to God. Likewise, Johnson and Spilka  found that prayer and faith were extremely important resources for the majority of cancer patients who participated in their study.
In a study of spirituality and illness, Fernsler et al.  found that people with colorectal cancer in the sample who reported higher levels of spiritual well-being indicated significantly lower demands of illness (DOI) related to physical symptoms, monitoring symptoms and treatment issues. In the light of their findings, these researchers suggest that a greater degree of spiritual well-being may help to mitigate the DOI as a consequence of colorectal cancer.
In a focused study of spirituality and bone marrow transplantation, Cohen et al.  found that, through personal stories, participants sought opportunities for reflections including adjustment to loss and resolutions. However, although the discourse on spirituality with regard to bone marrow transplantation is confined to one participant as a paradigm, it provides illuminative accounts. Spirituality and spiritual support from HCPs appear to have been instrumental to the adjustment and resolutions achieved by patients.
Much of the above research findings provide a North American or UK focus. Although these developments are encouraging, there is a problem in applying the above findings to South-east Asian healthcare practice as the context and nature of suffering in chronic illnesses may be different from that (as may the experience of lived spirituality). Furthermore, many of these studies involve quantitative methods investigating correlations between spiritual factors and outcomes leading to adjustment to illness. Such measures may fail to capture the lived experiences of patients suffering from chronic illnesses. However, this author's qualitative study  illuminates some of the coping mechanisms of patients with chronic illnesses in multi-ethnic setting in the UK. The findings suggest that patients may benefit from healthcare interventions that are sensitive, supportive and responsive to their spiritual needs. These needs include religious faith, prayer, search for meaning and purpose, respect for privacy with regard to spiritual practices and personal and social sources of support during chronic illnesses. This UK study offers a theoretical framework for further research into spirituality and palliative care in a multi-ethnic and faith setting. Clearly, further research is needed to establish the general pattern related to spiritual coping mechanisms in a wider context. In the subsequent sections of this paper, the author draws largely from his empirical work to suggest strategies for spiritual support for palliative care.
Terminal illnesses challenge all aspects of the person. Those requiring palliative care may have physical, psychosocial and spiritual needs [Table - 2]. Although the suggested strategies are derived from Judeo-Christian perspectives to some extent, much of the discourse in this paper could be adapted to secular and non-secular contexts in South East Asia since the lived experience of chronic and end-of-life illnesses impact upon the sufferers' body, mind and spirit. A holistic approach to palliative care may help the sufferer to experience a harmonious balance between the body, mind and spirit. The spiritual dimensions of humanity are explored in the following.
A diverse range of definitions of spiritual needs is found in literature due to the influence of the belief systems and values of the various authors. , The theoretical perspectives of the present paper are derived from contemporary sources such as Cohen et al.,  Sherwood,  Narayanasamy,  Bradshaw,  Reed  and others. Such literature espouses that spiritual needs are characterised by normal expressions of a person's inner being that motivates the search for meaning in all experiences and a dynamic relationship with others, self and whatever the person values. Spiritual needs may be attained through faith, hope, love, trust, meaning and purpose, relationships, forgiveness, creativity and experiences. These qualities are important for our holistic well-being in terms of meaningful existence. Some people achieve these via religious beliefs and practices.  These have implications for palliative care, and HCPs need to respond to palliative care patients with sensitivity to their spiritual needs.
Patients facing advanced illnesses and end of life may experience a state of imbalance or disharmony of mind, body and spirit. Feelings of anger, sadness, guilt and anxiety are often common following a period of disorganisation and disruption. Despair and hopelessness may loom for patients and their families. In their struggle with the impact of illness, patients may feel separated from their usual support system. The patients' search for meaning in the disease may become apparent.
The patients' adaptation to their illnesses may mean new resolution, losses to be acknowledged and redefinition of roles and expectations. The illness not only has an impact upon the patients, but their families have to share its effects with them. Although individuals' reactions to illnesses differ, many people struggle as a result of the disharmony of mind, body and spirit. For some, this means further spiritual growth or decline. The impact of an illness on individuals compels them to turn in upon themselves and reconsider their lives (Tournier, 1974).  The illness becomes a spiritual encounter as well as a physical and emotional experience. Research into coping strategies suggests that many subjects in the study facing advanced diseases and end of life indicated that they gained strength from their spiritual life.  For some, the source of strength included a renewed faith in God, prayer, a sense of peace resulting from prayer and feeling God's love. Other strategies highlighted were meditation, receiving love and support from others, participating in church activities and a life review.
The following strategies derived from the author's previous work may enhance spiritual support for patients. The HCP could derive a holistic understanding of palliative care to patients through history-taking. , Spiritual history as part of the assessment may provide insights into what is significant to the person's meaning of life and purpose. Puchalski  adds: "The key element of the spiritual history is listening to what is important to the patient and being truly present to the patient. This is at root of compassionate care giving."
Healthcare assessment of spiritual needs entails the gathering of detailed information concerning patient's thoughts and feelings about meaning and purpose of life, love and relationship, trust, hope and strength, forgiveness, expressions of beliefs and values. However, assumptions or conclusions about spiritual needs on the basis of patients' religious status should be suspended as it has shown that others who may not necessarily claim adherence to a faith may have spiritual needs. It is imperative that HCPs remain sensitive to verbal and non-verbal cues from patients when carrying out spiritual assessment. These cues might indicate a need to talk about spiritual problems.
Assessment of the patients' physical functioning may also provide valuable information for understanding their spiritual component. Obvious considerations about patients such as their ability to see, hear and move are important factors that may later determine the relevance of certain interventions. In addition, the assessment data may serve as a useful purpose in determining the patient's thought patterns, content of speech, affect (mood), cultural orientation and social relationships. They may all provide the basis for identifying a need or planning appropriate care in conjunction with spiritual intervention.
The presence of religious literature, such as the Bhagavad Gita, Bible or Quran, gives an indication of the patient's concerns about spiritual matters. Objects of religious requisites such as pictures, badges, pins or articles of clothing symbolise the patient's spiritual expressions. A patient may keep a religious idol or deity to carry out his/her religious rituals. Schedules, as given by Narayanasamy,  may be used to carry out spiritual assessment by observations.
An observation of the ways in which the patient relates with 'significant others' (people close to him/her, friends and others who matter to him/her) may provide clues to his or her spiritual needs. The quality of interpersonal relationships can be ascertained. Does the patient welcome his/her visitors? Does their presence calms down the patient or causes distress? Does he or she get visitors from a church or religious community?
Observations comprising the above can lead to conclusions about patients' social support system. The social system could act as valuable social capital in enabling the patients to give and receive love. A lack of such support may deprive them of this need and leave them distressed. Patients who have faith in God may feel estranged if they were cut off from their support network. Observations of patients' environment and significant objects/symbols related to their religious practice may give evidence of their spirituality.
How does the patient deal with other patients?
Does he or she ruminate over past behaviours or how has he or she been treated by others?
How does the patient respond to criticism?
If the patients respond with anger, hostility and blame others, these behaviours suggest that they are unable to forgive themselves and show their consequent inability to tolerate anything that resembles criticism. Spiritual assessment should review the patients' ability to feel loved, valued and respected by others.
The material for this section has almost been exclusively drawn from the author's previous works and are described as under. Spiritual support should be given according to the indications of the individual, which may be unique and specific. The presence of active spiritual beliefs (in God or a 'higher being') and spiritual practices is a source of hope. These can enable patients to participate in specific practices, which include praying, enlisting the prayers of others, listening to spiritual music and spiritual programmes on the radio or television, religious activities; maintaining specific religious customs; and visiting members and leaders of their spiritual community.
Both popular media and serious discourses on spirituality and health exalt the healing power of prayer. While no one can provide absolute proof that prayer is totally responsible for healing, some healthcare professionals cite incidences of recovery that cannot be accounted for by other reasons. Indeed, there is a claim that, in instances where medicine fails, prayer leads to God who then takes over and heals. In other words, when medicine fails God takes over.
Prayer is widely acknowledged in both ancient and recent times as interventions for alleviating illnesses and promoting good health.  All the major religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism, and other faiths use prayer as a means to communicate with God or deity. Every religion believes in prayer for healing and refers to it as 'prayer', while others call it 'cleansing the mind'. Prayer as an act or practice may vary, but in crisis every religion uses it as recourse to its source of authority. According to Koenig,  prayers in terms of personal worship and devotion allow the body to heal naturally. Prayer appears to trigger mechanisms for counteracting stress and promoting positive emotions by releasing body's natural capacity for healing. It seems to activate the immune, hormonal and cardiovascular systems to heal disease, illness or injury.
Scientific experiments are being conducted to gain insights into these mind-body mechanisms that are activated by prayer. There has been proliferation of research since the late 20 th century charting the negative effects of depression, psychological stress and social isolation on immune function, coronary artery disease, cancer survival and other disease outcomes.  Benson and Stark  claim that prayer evokes physiological responses, such as decreased heart rate, decreased blood pressure and decreased episodes of angina in cardiology patients. According to Meisenhelder and Chandler,  prayer may induce stress-reducing effects such as decreased blood pressure or increased immune function. Koenig and Larson  confirm that there is an association between religious involvement and fewer hospitalizations and shorter hospital stays. In light of the positive link between religious activities and health benefit, experts in spirituality and health assert that people of faith rely on prayer to make the supernatural possible. However, research evidence is inconclusive on the healing effects of prayer. The mysterious nature of prayer remains elusive to the bounds of scientific experiments. However, healing is more than cure in that sometimes healing of the mind and spirit could happen without physical healing.
The healthcare practitioner shall encourage the patient to talk about spiritual beliefs and concerns, especially about how these relate to his/her illness. The caring team may need to help patients in their struggle and search for meaning and purpose in life. On the other hand, if the patient is trying to find a source of hope and strength, then it can be used in planning care.
For some patients, a powerful source of spiritual care and comfort can be prayer, scripture or other religious reading.  All these may alleviate spiritual distress. As explored earlier, prayers are a source of help to a patient to develop a feeling of oneness with universe or a better relationship with God, comfort the patient and help relieve spiritual distress.  A particular prayer could be selected according to the patient's own style of comfort and needs. Although health professionals may not belong to the same faith as the patient, they could still support the patient in carrying out his/her spiritual beliefs.
Meditation, both religious and secular, can play an important role in the provision of psychological and spiritual support. , It enables the patient to relax, clear the mind, achieve a feeling of oneness with a deity or the universe. Meditation also promotes acceptance of painful memories or decisions and gathers energy and hope that may help the patient to face spiritual distress. Music gives an inspirational and calming effect. A wide variety of religious, inspirational and secular music may spiritually uplift a patient.
Do not impose personal beliefs (or lack of them) on patient or families.
Respond to patient's expression of need with a correct understanding of their background.
Be sensitive to patient's signal for spiritual and psychological support.
If a member of the caring team feels incapable to respond to a particular situation of spiritual need, he or she should enlist the services of an appropriate individual.
Healthcare interventions should be based on action that reflects caring for the individual. There is no cure without caring. Caring signifies to the person that he or she is significant and is worth someone taking the trouble and concern. Caring requires actions of support and assistance in growing. It means a non-judgemental approach and showing sensitivity to the person's cultural values, physical preference and social needs. It demands an attitude of helping, sharing, nurturing and loving.
Hope is something one cannot easily give to another, but every effort can be made to support and encourage the hoping abilities of a patient. Healthcare professionals often are in ideal positions to foster or hinder hope. A caring relationship can be offered that permits, rather than stifles, the efforts of the patient to develop hope. HCPs can support the person who is testing his own beliefs or struggling with questions of fear and faith. Further encouragement can be given to the patients to talk about their fears. Helping patients to relive their memory is another way of facilitating hope. Memories of events when life's needs were met, when despair was overcome and when failure was defeated can all be used to encourage the patient to take a fresh view and face the future with confidence as part of spiritual recovery.
Herth  identifies hope-fostering strategies that could be used as part of spiritual care. This author defines hope-fostering strategies as "those sources that function to instill, support or restore hope by facilitating the hoping process in some way". See Box 1 for further strategies on fostering.
Is the patient's belief system stronger?
Do the patient's professed beliefs support and direct actions and words?
Does the patient gain peace and strength from spiritual resources (such as prayer and minister's visits) to face the rigours of treatment, rehabilitation or peaceful death?
Does the patient seem more in control and have a clearer self-concept?
Is the patient at ease in being alone and in having life plans changed?
Is the patient's behaviour appropriate to the occasion?
Has reconciliation of any differences taken place between the patient and others?
Are mutual respect and love obvious in the patient's relationships with others?
Are there any signs of physical improvement?
Is there an improved rapport with other patients?
Spiritual integrity is a key indicator of psychological and spiritual support.  The person who has attained spiritual integrity, demonstrates this experience through a reality-based tranquility or peace or through the development of meaningful, purposeful behaviour and, displays a restored sense of integrity. O'Brien  comments that the measure of spiritual care should establish the degree to which 'spiritual pain' was relieved. Another view offered by Kim et al.  suggests spiritual care may be measured as the disruption in the 'life principle' was restored. The contents of patient's thoughts and feelings may also reflect spiritual growth through a greater understanding of life or an acceptance and creativity within a particular context.
In this paper, adequate exposition has been made with regard to the importance of spiritual support for patients receiving palliative care in both secular and non-secular settings. The evidence suggests that spiritual issues need to be considered and patients are supported to attain a better quality of life whilst facing chronic illness or end of life. It is hoped that readers of this article are guided toward maximising their role in spiritual support for their patients. Spiritual support for patients can be challenging, but at the same time it can be a rewarding experience for practitioners. Readers are welcome to contact the author to explore opportunities for international collaborations to furthering the discourse on palliative care and spirituality.
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"Trans-Onego Kite Enduro" (TOKE) – since 2012 is annual international ski-kite enduro on the frozen Lake Onego in the North-West Russia.
Competitions are held in the format of a three-day race for teams of two kiters self-sufficient for two overnight stays in field conditions on the ice of Lake Onego.
Circular route about 300 km long leads through famous for its history, the most interesting and picturesque places of Lake Onega: Cape " Devil's Nose " island " Vasilisin " island "Kizhi " Shardonskie island. TOKE starts and finishes at the central quay of the town Petrozavodsk.
Teams of two people in a fully autonomous mode transporting racing and hiking equipment . Competitions are held regardless of weather conditions, which allows participants to demonstrate their skills in a variety of wind and temperature conditions, overcoming the need snow drifts, ice ridging zone and outs of water through the ice cracks.
Year 2016 : -TOKE was confirmed by WISSA as the World Championship for the long distance kiting and the first stage of the WISSA World Cup. -Teams : 31 of 7 nations : Czhech Republic, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Russia (regions Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Murmansk, Cherepovets, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Archangelsk, Komi.
Year 2017 – TOKE remains the first stage of the WISSA World Cup followed by VAKE (Varanger Arctic Kite Enduro) in Norway and PAKE (Pallas Arctic Kite Enduro) in Finland.
Participants and spectators are welcome !


You'd say 'send us the link,' right? Yup, thought so. For real, we could talk about crystal blue, beachy honeymoon places until we were blue in the face, especially in the winter, when we DIE to get away to warmer, sunnier spots. But when it comes to winter honeymoons, in locales where the temps and types of fun are far from steamy and splashy, we kind of hit a wall. 🌞 over ❄ any day. Until now, that is. One of our own took a mid-winter vacay last week to Steamboat Springs, Colorado - and as much as she hates the cold, she couldn't stopppp gushing over this place. ((And that means a lot, because she's a Cali girl, perfectly content with sunshine and shorts on the reg)).
I was actually thrilled to hear that she was going to SS, because my husband and his family (all intense skiers) used to go there all the time for their winter vacations; he always had the most amazing things to say about the snowy scene. And she came back with all the same frosty, yet unforgettable feels // validating all my husband's memories from his childhood and teen years.
And yeah, winter wonderland seems a little cliche, right? Well, if there's anything we learned from Kim and Kanye's Whoville Winter Wonderland, how stunning and magical that all looked, it's that winter vibes are hot as hell. #totalhoneymoongoals.
We'd stop at the photos, really, but for any couples who need just a little more rationale to get away into the cold, post-nuptials, here are a few more reasons you'd love this place - mixed in with some first-hand feedback from couples who honeymooned there just a hot second ago!
First things, first, though. If you've thought about honeymooning in the winter, in wintry conditions, but gave up because you couldn't find much to grab your attention, take it from Brenna+Andrew.
Log cabin luxury is no joke.
Log cabin luxury literally sounds like the biggest oxymoron, but it's 100p true at Vista Verde. Yes, from the outside, the private accommodations have that cozy, in the mountains appeal, but with elegant master suites, Italian linens, spa robes, complimentary snacks and beverages … even your own hot tub, it's charming, but insanely classy. And let's be honest, if you and your S.O. watch The Bachelor together, you're probably still thinking about those camp cabins Colton and his ladies were lodging in in last week's episode. Vista Verde buriessss those bungalows.
Cowboy cuisine is the best blend of ranchy and fancy.
When you're on your honeymoon, it doesn't always have to be first-class cuisine all day long - room service makes sense for more than one reason 😉. But at Vista Verde, the chefs work collaboratively and creatively to offer guests a mix of relaxed, family style meals and private, more next-level and multi-course dining service. It's all DELICIOUS. Plus, those family-style servings are great for getting to know the other vacationers. It's always fun to make friends with other honeymooners, so here's where you can start.
Things to-do is a list that just snowballs and snowballs.
Fact or fiction: honeymooning couples just want to chill, excursions and activities are a little too much. Obvi that's fact for some, but we know a TON of just-married misters and misses who loveeee adventure on their first trip away as newlyweds. And Vista Verde has so much going on to keep them busy. From horseback riding to hiking, snowshoeing to snowmobiling (and everything in between), there's a myriad of activities on the docket at VV every day, and they can be attended to in the most to least high-touch ways possible. Programs are filled with talented guides, great equipment, and the experiences can be customized to each guest based on their skills, fitness level, and interest.
Guests come to Vista Verde for the promise of perks and fun, privacy and freedom, but they stay (and come back for) the people they meet while they're there. According to one couple who we caught up with, who were there on their honeymoon, it would be a total missed opportunity not to "take the time to make friends with the staff. They're amazing people, and they all have unique stories about how they ended up working at such a magical place, so be friendly to them because they are some of the greatest people we've ever met!" Greatest. People. Ever. Wow, if that's not making those wheels turn in your heads, then we don't know what will….
Of course, you'll want to be prepared with clothes you can bundle up in, it's freakin freezing!! But the beauty of Steamboat Springs and Vista Verde is that with so much to occupy your attention and keep you busy, you kind of forget about the blistering cold.


Florence Lake: It's all the lake you'll ever need!
this is one of the jewels of the Sierra. Isolated, quiet, peaceful, it offers relief from your soul-jarring urban existence.
Come join us here at the end of the road.
The ferry should be able to operate for most of the season in 2018! We are anticipating the last day for the ferry will be September 1st.
You'll not be stuck in the boonies when you come to Florence Lake. There are facilities and services available that include campgrounds, picnic area, store, boat rentals, horseback riding, and passenger ferry service to places around the lake, and the main connection to the mid-point of the John Muir Trail, the most popular hiking trail in the United States. Check us out; you'll be glad you did!
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When Jeneece Edroff was seven years old and raised $164 to support Variety – The Children's Charity through a penny drive at Northridge elementary, her mother thought the fundraising effort was cute.
Her daughter, diagnosed at the age of three with neurofibromatosis – a disease which causes tumours to grow on nerve roots of her spine – has gone from raising $27,000 in her second year with Variety to garnering millions for a range of causes, including the B.C. Neurofibromatosis Foundation and Easter Seals Camp Shawnigan. In 2009, Jeneece launched her dream project, Jeneece Place, a home-away-from-home for children (and their families) who require medical treatment in Victoria.
The campaign led to her receipt of a 2012 Changing Our World/Simms Award for Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, announced by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Nov. 15. Jeneece will be recognized this spring in Vancouver at the association's International Conference on Fundraising, the largest gathering of fundraisers in the world.
Now in Grade 12 at Claremont secondary school, Jeneece continues to travel to Vancouver for treatment. This year, she has endured two surgeries to remove tumours that were in the process of metastasizing from benign to malignant, as well as one knee surgery. She begins another round of chemotherapy this week.
"Her fundraising has given her a way to redirect some of that pain that she feels and some of her worries into something else which is much more positive," Angie said.
Ninety-five per cent of the $5.5 million needed to construct Jeneece Place was raised in just 14 months, with the 17-year-old clocking hundreds of hours toward the effort. The facility is slated to open adjacent to Victoria General Hospital on Jan. 20 – Jeneece's birthday.
Andrew Watt, president and CEO of the Association of Fundraising Professionals calls Jeneece a reminder that everyone, regardless of circumstance, can be a philanthropist and make an impact.
Jane Bowers, manager of special events for the Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children, nominated Jeneece for the award after meeting "the little dynamo" at the onset of the Jeneece Place project and collaborating ever since.
"We're grateful and inspired by everything that she does," Bowers said.
The Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children, leaders of the Jeneece Place campaign, have registered the house at The Bay stores on Vancouver Island. Customers may now purchase household items needed to furnish and run the space – from flatware to ironing boards – at all Island locations or online by searching for Jeneece Place under the Bay Gift Registry at Hbc.com.


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As a professional athlete, I was measured, celebrated, and praised for outcomes that I produced, rather than who I was. It is the nature of competing for a living; and living in the public eye. My coaches treated me better when I performed well, and my friends at home only praised me when the media covered me, which was only when I did well in my races.
It wasn't until I went to law school that I bumped up against a very uncomfortable truth: I began to realize that my self-worth as a person was totally tangled up in achievement. This painful realization finally became clear because, at the time, I wasn't exactly getting the best grades in my class, and I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. For literally the first time in my life, I wasn't achieving. And I felt bad about myself.
Intellectually, I understood the danger of having my self-esteem hinge on external outcomes. And as a yoga instructor, I was ashamed of my inability to grasp my inherent self-worth and to practice self-compassion. I began to recognize that I had an unhealthy attachment to achievement, but that didn't erase years of conditioning. Like many athletes, my brain was hardwired to believe that I didn't matter, unless I did great things.
I believe that I experienced a real-life demonstration of what is now a hot debate in psychology: what is the difference between self-esteem and confidence? After all, you may have noticed, often times the two terms get conflated or are used synonymously. People assume that one who is confident, necessarily has high self-esteem. I'd argue that assumption is mistaken.
At my lowest-low of law school, I was still a confident person. I confidently led yoga classes and believed in my ability to, say, write strong papers in school. But deep down, I felt bad about myself. My self-worth was low. Because I wasn't achieving at the same rate or at the same level that I had grown accustomed to, I started to feel like I wasn't worthy of being liked or appreciated as a human being.
Katty Kay, co-author of The Confidence Code, explains that self-esteem is the value you see yourself having in the world, while confidence is related to action and is a belief that you can succeed at something. There IS a difference. And, of course, both are important.
So, what does this mean for coaches? As a coach, your responsibility is to help athletes improve. This by definition has to do with action, or the realm of confidence-building: evaluating your athletes, critiquing them, celebrating their successes, and motivating them after disappointments. Carving out room for an athlete's "self-worth" or "value as a person" rarely makes it onto a coach's radar. For those coaches, however, who are interested in cultivating their athletes as people, just be aware that your athletes are people before they are athletes. Treat them with respect, demonstrate that you appreciate them as people independent of how they perform.
Finally, what does all of this mean for parents? It is simple: love and support your child(ren) unconditionally. Regardless of how she performs or the outcomes she achieves, make sure your athlete knows that you love and support her exactly the same. She will inevitably be treated conditionally based on her achievement by her coaches and friends, just like I was. The parent's role, more than anyone else, is simply to be the counterexample and to provide UNconditional love.
When I was growing up, never was there a day when I thought that my parents loved me more or less depending on how I performed. After competitions, they always greeted me with a smile and were genuinely proud of me. Not once did I hear my parents boasting about my achievements to their friends or colleagues. That love and support built a foundation of self-esteem that I eventually found my way back to after my law school low-point.
Confidence is important. Really important. As Katty Kay says, confidence is "life's enabler. It is the quality that turns thought into action." But that's not to say that self-esteem isn't important too. Amidst the conversation on building confidence in young people (especially girls), we should never neglect self-esteem; that thing that makes us feel whole. After all, we all deserve to feel worthy, independent of what we achieve.
Learn how ZGiRLS can provide your daughter the confidence and self-esteem to succeed in sports and life.
What a great article. Am I understanding it right that confidence is like, "I can do this" and self esteem is more "I am worthwhile"?
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Tuesday's letters: Withholding health care hurts everyone
Senate, House approve budgets | April 4
Withholding care hurts everyone
I'm a member of the Society of St. Vincent DePaul, whose mission since 1833 has been to serve the poor of the world. As a volunteer, I see a lot of folks in dire need. We do what we can to help the poor within the constraints of our limited resources.
Last week I helped a client who has been adversely affected by the inhumane actions of the Republican Florida House majority in rejecting Medicaid expansion and the totally uncaring, do-nothing attitude of the governor on this issue. This young man is 27 years old and suffers from hepatitis and Crohn's disease. He would have been covered by Medicaid expansion but now has no means to effectively treat his incapacitating and painful medical problems. He is just one example of the severe impacts the decision to withhold Medicaid coverage has had on the many poor people I see on a regular basis.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government would pay the entire cost for three years and no less than 90 percent thereafter. This would allow poor people to get appropriate medical care and also be a real boost to the Florida economy. These tax dollars that Floridians have paid to the federal government will now go elsewhere. Yet House Speaker Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, continues to refuse Medicaid coverage expansion. The decision of Weatherford and the Florida House Republican majority has no practical or logical justification. It's immoral and not in the best interests of the hardworking people of Florida.
Dieter Weber, St. Petersburg
House blocks vote on solar | April 2
Thwarting the will of voters
What happened to democracy? Florida Rep. Ritch Workman, R-Melbourne, demonstrates all that is wrong with politics in Tallahassee. He is blocking a hearing in the House on a bill that would place on the November ballot an amendment to give tax breaks to businesses that install solar panels. A similar amendment for tax exemptions for renewable energy improvements to residential properties was approved by Florida voters in 2008.
Workman claims he doesn't want to underwrite incentives for solar. He seems to ignore the fact that the coal, oil and gas industries in this country continue to receive billions of dollars in tax breaks. Why shouldn't clean energy be allowed a level playing field to compete?
This is not "government of the people, by the people, and for the people" when one man in a powerful position can block all of the voters in the state of Florida from having a say on providing incentives for clean energy like solar.
Roger Little, St. Petersburg
State Housing Initiatives Partnership
Restore funds for housing
With the Florida Legislature no longer burdened by a budget deficit, the Senate leadership voted to restore state and local affordable housing trust funds to normal operation. This would return to local governments their share of the funds through the State Housing Initiatives Partnership program, or SHIP.
SHIP uses a population-based formula to distribute revenue collected from Florida's documentary stamp tax. Its performance, transparency and accountability are tried and true. It is also highly flexible and can be used for strategies from housing homeless veterans to providing first-time homeownership for moderate-income families. Using the trust funds for housing in fiscal year 2014-15 will create over 22,000 jobs and over $2.3 billion in positive economic activity for Florida.
The Florida Senate's budget appropriates $226.13 million from the housing trust funds for the successful SHIP and State Apartment Incentive Loan programs, while the House proposes only $89.3 million.
The difference in funding has the most substantial effect on the local SHIP program. The Senate funding level provides $24 million for the Tampa Bay region; the House level provides $5.3 million for the same area.
The House and Senate will presently be in conference to pass a budget bill. The House leadership should join with the Senate in using all the housing trust fund monies for housing. It's the right thing to do for Florida.
Jaimie Ross, president, Florida Housing Coalition, Tallahassee
State park groups upset by proposals April 5
Money does the talking
This bill would complicate the "friends of state parks" groups' fundraising and hamper their activities. I wonder if some developer who contributes to one of the bill's sponsors has greedy eyes for some of the land the parks occupy. This could help grease the wheels for putting in RV parks or additional overpriced concession stands. Remember, this is the same party whose current governor tried to arrange a fire sale of state environmental lands and whose Department of Environmental Protection tried to allow a permanent RV park on Honeymoon Island.
You can't trust these people to look out for you unless you write giant checks to them.
Chris Woodard, Tampa
Designed as entry-level pay
I have trouble understanding the logic of people, including the president, who demand the minimum wage be raised. The argument that "a family cannot survive on minimum wage" is a moot point. They aren't supposed to. In order to have sufficient funds to take care of a family, the parents must complete their education and at least venture into vocational secondary education. Better yet, obtain a bachelor's degree. Higher education allows you to obtain a job with higher pay. Minimum wage was never intended to feed, clothe and house an entire family. It is an entry-level wage for young people starting out, or for part-time work during college, or maybe for a retiree seeking to supplement retirement income.
When I was a teenager, I was told by my parents that if I didn't graduate high school, it would be virtually impossible to get a job. And if I didn't complete some sort of secondary education, like college, I would never be able to earn enough money to support myself. My parents told me to not have babies at a young age because I would never be able to support them on minimum wage. At no point did they mention food stamps or any type of government assistance. They simply told me "you need to work hard and earn what you want."
Minimum wage was not and is not meant to support a family.
Susan Caron, Lithia
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I'm a lust addict - a sexaholic. One of my most frequent forms of acting out was masturbation. It was impossible for me to stop. I had lost the power of choice when it came to acting out in that way. But today, I haven't masturbated in more than five years and that is simply impossible! This is why I'm in Sexaholics Anonymous - a programme of recovery for those who need to experience the impossible.
If all I wanted was a "design it yourself programme", SA would be the last place I'd go. These people not only told me that masturbating was acting out, they even put "progressive victory over lust" into the sobriety definition and "a desire to stop lusting" into the requirements for membership. That's crazy! Who can give up lusting?
I really don't like it when people call Sexaholics Anonymous "a self-help programme." That's a ridiculous description. My "self-help" was more lusting, more masturbating and more of other forms of acting out. Left to take care of myself, to help myself, that's what I came up with as a solution to all my problems. And then I found that my "solution" was causing more problems than the problems I tried to use it to solve. And then I tried to stop. And then I couldn't stop. And eventually after years and years of proving to myself that there was no way to stop, I gave up trying to stop. And I also gave up on God, because He wasn't doing anything about it, if He was there at all.
Not masturbationg was impossible - no doubt about that. I would never argue with someone who told me it was impossible for them to stop masturbating. That was my experience as well, so I'm sure it's true for others, but my story doesn't end there.
By now it should be clear that I needed a Solution that came from outside of myself. I needed a Power greater than lust and greater than me. I needed God to do for me what I could not do for myself. But apparently God wasn't very interested in serving as my court jester while I sat on the throne of my life and told him how I wanted things to be run. Nope. When I finally admitted my complete defeat by lust, when I finally surrendered unconditionally to God, then, at that moment, and in all subsequent moments when that same thing happens yet again, the impossible does happen!
I can't explain exactly how it works. I suppose if I could completely explain it, then I'd be God. But since I'm not (and I've proved that over and over again), I just surrender yet again and trust Him to take care of lust and take care of me.
That's been my experience with the impossible. God just does it anyway.


An HR manager adds value to your organisation. There is more to recruitment than just selecting and screening candidates. William Almonte brought into light that, running an organization and business, requires active control and cultivation. Most of the recruiter's partner today with HR management team. There are reasons behind that. There are many things that you can be assured of when you are giving the responsibilities to the human resource managers among which some have been specifying.
In perception of William Almonte, separating and distributing the job responsibilities in an organisation is not less than an immense talent. It needs adequate experience and in-depth knowledge to understand the nature of employees, teams and how they will perform. The entire pipeline shall follow the initial step, and if the base is weak, the outcomes shall not be productive. Henceforth, each department is set up with the right kind of people.
The HRM is also responsible for facilitating your staff and employees with adequate comfort. The catch is that they know how the entire system works hence focus on cost-saving also. The company needs to make sure, that workers are provided with proper wok condition and environment. Employees have the certain expectation from the organisation. In fact, assuring the employees with safety and security at work has become part of the regulations and policies in the recent times.
Software has made its place as the strongest helping hands of recruiters in the industry. Recruiting has been definitely possible without the use of software throughout the years. But the point is, reaching the level of perfection and accuracy in terms of hiring. Getting into the work industry has become much more professional and precise. This is mainly where the use of software comes in. There are many more benefits which are discussed below.
It is difficult to remember and take notes on every action you have called on every resume. A recruiter you view hundreds of CV each day and you might be making notes in mind what to keep and what to cut-out. The online recruitment software almost acts as your personal assistants to sort out things for you.
As stated by William Almonte, the entire channel helps you to understand that which part you need to focus on and keep book marks on previous activities.
In the opinion of William Almonte Mahwah, the software will provide you with much more accurate results. These are one time investments and will not need specific training and attention. An employee can resign at any time and it can be an unfavorable situation. Incase of software you will not have to worry about retention or minor human-made mistakes. The entire operation is smoothed by freeing you from tax, training cost, salary cost and other budget outflows.
As said by William Almonte Mahwah, the hiring process includes large number of data, files, past records and information and it is not one or two resume in your mail box every hour but there are a hundred. You need to do the short listing, estimation and responses quickly and efficiently in a short amount of time.
Microsoft excel is one of the basic software that has eased the task for millions today. Using appropriate formulas is an instant solution for the everyday obstacles in the path.
In a nutshell, with the help of certain software, you can also have the information auto connected to your new created websites or pages. Also you get it done all at once. For example, if you have chosen a specific type of job profile for yourself, you can register to more than ten jobs at a time. It is definitely less confusingand you can go with the flow.
Proficient field is the method for increasing new thoughts and qualities. What really has been seen by us on the TV or in the silver screens isn't the way it works. In this field, the most vital thing that a man or a man needs to recollect is to get enlisted by the administration of the organization. In any case, the enlisting procedure is extremely long and takes a considerable measure of time. This if done in the correct way at that point may not one need to pause. To get procured by the best administration of the organization one must take after a few tenets.
In the event that any individual needs to get enrolled by the best most organization, at that point he/she should need to take after the procedure of enlistment of the endeavor. As per William Almonte in the event that one needs to get contracted by the administration of the organization then he/she needs to take after this. Assume one gets the notice of enlistment from the daily paper or from the web website. At that point as per the enlistment system, he/she needs to make the resume. The resume must be given to the administration either by the on the web or by giving it a hand to hand.
In any case, the primary concern that one needs to recollect is that he/she should step up. In the expert, the activity that has been depicted by William Almonte, CEO of titan staffing system is that one needs to stay in contact with the administration specialist by making calls or mail them to get the status of the resume.
In getting an awesome activity, the enlistment benefit assumes an incredible part. As per William Almonte, entrepreneur of titan staffing system these organizations have the immediate association with the best most administration experts. The multinational organizations used to employ these enlistment organizations when they have any opening. The enlistment organizations used to influence the commercial and after that they to send individuals by judging their quality and their scholarly capability. It is along these lines insightful to have their conference at whatever point one has need an occupation or needs to change a vocation.
Numerous individuals don't make the sound before relating families. This is the greatest back downside of the people who are looking for an occupation. In landing work in the expert field, one must be brilliant and must place the words before the relative who plays a part in the administration of numerous huge organizations.
As indicated by the better approach for enrollment, one must take after these guidelines to find a fantasy work in the MNC's. In any case, it will be difficult to choose which one to pick and which not. Life has both positive and negative focuses. On the off chance that any individual looks just the negative part or the positive part, at that point them two needs to hold up a long to get the activity that they have been yearning for. In this manner in landing the coveted position, one needs to take after the procedure that has been given above. These means are composed in the wake of looking over the market.
William Almonte – How Recruiters Guide The Job Seekers?
Facing job interviews can be a little cumbersome and tedious at times particularly when the job seeker is desperate to get a job at the earliest. However, this process can be made very smooth and efficient if a job seeker seeks the advice of a professional recruiter who will guide during the entire process of recruitment so that the candidate can ultimately land up with the proper and satisfying job in hand. According to William Almonte, entrepreneur of titan staffing system. Recruitment is truly a professional field, and as result job, seekers should take the advice of these recruiting agencies or rather recruiters who would do their professional job to perfection.
Starting from upgrading your resume to ultimately guiding you to the the employer's office for interviewing is the total responsibility the of the recruiter.
• The foremost important agenda which any recruiter would advice a job seeker is to update his resume. Updating of resume doesn't mean that only updating the number of years; a professional is spending his career in a particular organization. Resume stands out to be the face of a job seeker which should depict every aspect of a professional's career. The resume should highlight key areas such as achievement made by a professional in every phase of his career. It should clearly span out the qualifications that he has achieved in his entire career The remarkable practical experiences that he has achieved that would stand out with the employer also needs to be emphasized.
• According to Mr. William Almonte, recruiters are the pillars for any candidate's success. Once the recruiters or rather the recruiting agencies catch hold of your bio data, then they try to match your profile with that of the requirements of the employer. They would ask you what are your criteria for getting a job and what are your goals that you want to achieve in the near future. They want to know about your compensation requirements as well as your location preferences. Only if the essential requirements such as monetary compensation and job profile as well a location preference matches with that of the employer does the recruiter goes ahead with the recruitment process.
• Now once the bio data is being selected by he employer as per his credentials the recruiter or rather the recruiting agency informs the potential candidate and makes him aware of the fact that his bio data has been duly selected by the employer and that he would approach by the employer within a short span of time for telephonic interview.
• Not only does the recruiter informs the potential candidate about the telephonic interview but also guides him for preparing himself for the interview so that the process can be extended further. They give valuable tips regarding how to face the interview over the phone and how to react to different topics and groom them with the formal approach.
• If the candidate successfully lands up with the first or subsequent round of interviews, the recruiters even train them for appearing for the personal interviews round so that the potential job seekers can finally land up with the appointment letters.
William Almonte – How Recruitment Process Can Make Your Business More Profitable?
The market is being competitive every day, and if you want to earn more revenue from the market, then you need to get a strong manpower in your company. Recruiters can help you to get efficient and eligible workers who can make your firm more successful and beneficial. The recruitment process can bring more revenue to a company by using the modern recruitment system. There are several points that the business experts like Mr. William Almonte have shown described below. The high-quality employees in a firm can be beneficial in various ways.
How can the recruitment earn more benefits?
The recruiters have a vast contact, and they can give you an efficient worker who can lead your business in a beneficial direction. The recruiters know how people can make your organization more successful and they can provide the manpower accordingly.
The recruiters have some interesting ways that can help you to increase your profit scale, and one of these is supplying efficient and experienced manpower providing, and another is negotiating the salary scale. The recruiters can negotiate the salary with the candidate to hire them in a profitable margin. The recruiters usually have an excellent manipulating attitude, and they can make the candidate understand the job role in a perfect way and their pay scale according to their job role as well.
The recruiters are trained, and they know how to attract the candidates to fill up the vacant position of a company to earn revenue. The recruitment department of a company also uses to be engaged in other roles like keeping updates of the market and the job opportunities as well.
They know how the condition of the market is and from where their organizations can earn benefits. So the involvement of the recruiters with the companies and the candidates are so good that they can ask the highly qualified candidates for a better opportunity.
According to Mr. William Almonte, the recruiters of an organization play an important and a big role that leads a company to the success. We all know that the companies run by the employees and the employees are recruited by the recruiters so if the recruitment process is not satisfactory then your organization may fail to get the highly-qualified employees who can help their organization to get success in the competitive market. The market is full of job seekers, and every of them is finding a better opportunity, so the recruiters need to be very fast and satisfactory to offer an attractive package to the job seekers to attract them towards their organizations. In this competitive market, recruiters are always searching for the candidates and job seekers are finding a perfect job role. The recruiters are like the bridge between them, and they help the organizations to get the perfect employee and the candidates to get a perfect job as well. If this process runs satisfactorily, then the organizations can be run towards the more revenue and success in the modern competitive market.
William Almonte – What To Look For While Choosing Online Recruiting Agency?
Finding suitable talented candidates for the company is as difficult as finding a job for applicants. So if you think from the perspective of an employer, then it is indeed a difficult task, which would require you to browse through hundreds of resumes daily. You have to minutely check their qualification, experience, while short listing a few from the bulk. After that comes the stage of interviewing them, judge their qualities before hiring on the job.
But when your requirement of candidates is greater in quantity, then it would seem a nightmare to you to go through the entire procedure of screening and short listing. Hence in such situation, you would need an expert support to get your job done. On this note, Mr. William Almonte suggests seeking help from any online recruiting firm. Considering the difficulty involved in online recruitment, it's not going to be easy but definitely, cost effective for the employers. Therefore you need to consider some traits while looking for an online firm. Those are briefly discussed underneath.
According to Mr. William Almonte, opting for a service that offers a flat fee for recruitment would be the beneficial one. However, most of the recruiting agency's charge depends on the numbers of resumes. That means they will charge on per resume count, which certainly is not cost saving at all. Hence it is better to hire service that offers a flat amount for making your advertisements appear on top job portals.
The second most important trait is to look for in online agencies that whether or not they have a great volume of CVs. So while assessing, you must be careful about their charges in comparison with the database they have of resumes. You have to consider the ones who would provide you a large database at a low cost. However, it might be little difficult to come across cost-effective online recruiting firms, but you may find some if you look observantly.
Another important factor to be taken into account is the liberty between you and the candidates. You have to make sure this condition is being maintained by the hired online recruiting firm. They will not interfere at all between you and the applicants. Their job will be over once you make their payment and receive the database of resumes. On this note, it is important to include your company's contact information of both email and phone in the ads. It will help the job seekers to directly contact you, once they notice your advertisements on the job portals.
The last but not the least trait is to see whether the online recruiting firms are offering you any other benefits or not. Other than the prime services they must allow you to interview candidates online. The interview schedule will be arranged by the online firm, but you should be given your space to take interviews in your way.
The above traits are mandatory to be observed while searching for online recruiting firms to benefit the cost of recruitment.
Before knowing why the high street recruiters shouldn't do aviation recruitment you must know the differences between high street recruiters and recruitment consultants. Basically high street recruitment agencies and recruitment consultancies are the two common types of business in recruitment industries. Recruitment consultancy is more specialized than high street recruitment agency. Consultants understand the market and focus on the important things. They provide suitable service to candidates and clients. They are trained in their fields. So, they handle clients and candidates both professionally. William Almonte, the famous professional in recruitment industry, said that for a better result, an understanding relationship is necessary between recruiters and clients or candidates. On the other hand high street recruitment agencies have open door policy. These are what we could state as non-qualified, general and not so specialized.
The reasons, why a height street recruiter shouldn't do aviation recruitment, are described below with points.
How can be a general recruiter specialized in the field of aviation? The sector is completely different from other sectors. A general high street recruiter does not have enough knowledge of this field. If you think your high street recruiter has knowledge about aviation sector and they can guide you, you are wrong.
Aviation industry is very much specialized field. An average high street agency doesn't have aviation experts on their payroll. They do not have understanding of recruitments of currant professionals. Where there is no aviation professional, there should not be aviation recruitment.
Aviation is a worldwide sector. There are no borders. Candidates and clients come from every corner of world for aviation jobs. A good aviation recruiter has to understand how the candidates coming from different parts of the world respond and interact in different situations. High street recruiters cannot deal with these.
In the aviation industry there are several vast and frequently changing web of regulations which are related to this sector and those are complicated too. It is quiet impossible to know for a general high street recruiter. They may know a few but not all the rules. This is also a minus point for high street recruiters. They even probably don't know the industry qualifications such as qualification of pilot or cabin crew and so on. You can't depend on high street recruiters in aviation recruitment. A professional recruiter should recruit in aviation sector because they know what type of candidate is suitable or eligible for the job of aviation industry.
All important reasons are stated here. If one wants to be aviation recruiter, he or she can be trained by professionals. This is nothing bad in learning. After learning when one will be capable in this industry, he can work with experienced professionals in recruiting. According to the experienced recruiting expert William Almonte, if you are not enough experienced and expert in a sector, you should not do recruiting in that. Because, it is a responsible work where candidates and clients both have faith on you.
William Almonte – How To Choose The Best Recruitment Consultants For Your Needs?
Focus on specialization: normal recruiting agencies are always good for recruiting employs in different posts, but if your company needs candidates with specific specialization then it is better to choose agencies who expertise in that field. It will not only help you to find what you desire, but you will also have professionals who understand your company better.
Focus on hiring and recruiting strategies: A company must go through be hiring and recruiting strategies of a recruitment agency before taking a decision. Most of the good agencies use pre skinning methods verification steps to ensure that whether their candidates are as skilled as they demand. If you think that your agency is not up to mark then you must move on.
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On the 14th of January 2016, the New Zealand government rushed through legislation banning the sale of apricot kernels, under the pretence of them being toxic. The real reason they did so was to protect the cancer industry.
As long as you don't live in a country where apricot kernels are repressed, they are fairly easily obtained, as anywhere that grows apricots has kernels. Up until 2016 that included Australia and New Zealand, but our corrupt governments have now done everything they can to prevent this.
Our online business Nature Foods used to sell NZ grown kernels up until 2016. But now, apricot kernels are an underground black market item like cannabis oil, which is also a cancer cure, and is also "illegal" because it poses a threat to the cancer industry.
It is important to get the right dose. Like many things apricot kernels are dangerous in excess. The generally recommended dose is 1 kernel per 10lbs bodyweight, per day, in split doses, eaten whole.
"The dose makes the poison." There's hardly a more important toxic principle than that. You can get a lot of things to show positive for mutagenicity if you're willing to load up on them.
This quote originally came from another American university site – Cornell University New York. They started out discussing examples of cyanogenic glycosides actually killing people. Yet this is the worst example they had. Details were vague – just how much did they eat? Raw cassava root is a potent source. The webpage has since been taken down.
Although the media is frequently reporting that people are having severe toxic reactions to foods containing dietary cyanides, the reoccurring pattern is that they provide no evidence.
Doctors are constantly claiming that apricot kernels are a lethal toxin, yet a typical example of a toxic reaction is an unsubstantiated allegation of a malnourished African eating cassava roots. There are many thousands of people eating cassava roots, but there seems to be a real shortage of dead ones.
"Most events tend to occur at times of drought, hunger or simple inexperience.
In complete contrast to the idea that Africans were poisoned by eating cassava, there is a long and documented history of Africans living on cassava diet having no cancer.
How many people have died from eating apricot kernals?
In the past 10 years, in NZ and Australia combined, there have been 137 adult and 32 child enquiries to poison centres, giving a rough average of 14 adult and 3 child enquiries per year for the whole of Australasia.
Some of these were just general enquiries, and in many instances no symptoms were reported.
There were only two instances where medical intervention was required. Although these people were hospitalised, there was no report of death or long term problems.
The most recent Canadian poisoning incident occurred in May 2009, when a woman was hospitalised following the consumption of approximately 40 apricot kernels in a short period of time.
The FSANZ have only managed to dig up four deaths globally from consumption of apricot Kernels, and these appear to be the only confirmed deaths in the last 57 years. Sayre and Kaymakcalavu (1964) report that between 1957 and 1962, two children died of cyanide poisoning in a hospital in Central Turkey after eating apricot kernels. No information was provided on how many kernels were consumed.
Lasch and Shawa (1981) report two more deaths of children in Gaza. Once again, there was no information on how much was consumed. Compare these comparatively small numbers with the numbers of deaths and illnesses from other causes such as food poisoning from widely purchased foods.
Laetrile is an amygdalin, a simple chemical compound consisting of two molecules of sugar, one molecule of benzaldehyde,and one molecule of cyanide. Nitrilosides are known as "laetrile" when used in medical dosage form.
Laetrile is a natural substance made from apricot pits and is claimed by its developers to have a specific cancer preventive and controlling effect. Dr. Ernest Krebs, Sr., who was the first to use laetrile therapeutically in this country, considered laetrile to be an essential vitamin and named it B17.
Laetrile has been legalized in several states in the United States; however, many doctors in the medical community reject its use in human cancer patients on the grounds that it is ineffective and may be poisonous because of its cyanide content. This view is not held by Dr. Dean Burk, chief cytologist of the National Cancer Institute, who has conducted extensive tests including the use of laetrile and states that "Laetrile is remarkably non-toxic … compared with virtually all cancer chemotherapeutic agents currently studied." ("Laetrile – An Answer to Cancer?" Prevention, December 1971, p. 162.) Other scientists claim that cyanide occurring naturally in food is not dangerous.
Laetrile is manufactured and used legally in over 17 countries throughout the world, including Mexico, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and the Philippines.
Natural cyanide is locked in a sugar molecule. It is normally found in over 2,000 known unrefined foods and grasses. A concentration of about 2 or 3 percent laetrile is found in the whole kernels of most fruits, including apricots, apples, cherries, peaches, plums, and nectarines, and in some 70 plants commonly fed to animals for fodder. A sprouting seed produces from 10 to 30 times as much laetrile as does the mature plant. Few citrus fruits contain laetrile. Shelled and unshelled apricot kernels contain 2 to 3 percent amygdalin and are also excellent sources of protein, unsaturated fatty acids, and minerals.
According to its advocates, laetrile is a highly selective substance that attacks only the cancerous cells. When laetrile is eaten and absorbed by normal cells, an enzyme called rhodanese detoxifies the cyanide, which is then excreted through the urine. But because cancer cells are completely deficient in rhodanese and are instead surrounded by another enzyme, beta-glucosidase, which releases the bound cyanide from the laetrile at the site of malignancy, laetrile is believed to attack only the malignant areas.
Oral doses of laetrile are not affected by the action of the acid medium of the stomach but pass directly into the intestine, where the substance is acted upon by bacterial enzymes. The bacterial enzymes in the intestine decompose the amygdalin into four components, which are then absorbed into the lymph and portal systems and circulated throughout the body.
Although much research on laetrile is still needed, the usual dosage is 0.25 to 1.0 gram taken with meals. Cumulative amounts of more than 3.0 grams are sometimes taken, but more than 1.0 gram is never taken at any one time. Dosages as high as 20 grams daily of combined oral and intravenous administration have been used on patients whose detoxification and elimination levels of laetrile were adequate.
Five to thirty apricot kernels eaten through the day may be a sufficient preventive amount, but they should never be taken all at one time. It is not considered desirable to prepare a slurry of ground up kernels (as in a solution of water, milk, or orange juice) and then let it stand for long periods of time before consumption.
Toxicity levels have not been established, and one should exercise extreme caution in order to avoid ingesting excessive amounts all at one time.
Prolonged deficiency may lead to diminished resistance to malignancies.
Amygdalin may reduce the size of cancer tumors, ease accompanying pain, and inhibit the growth of cancer cells. In addition, it favorably regulates blood pressure and may have an anti-rheumatic and esthesizing effect.
In his UK Observer article entitled Quacks on the Rack, John Diamond (a strongly anti "alternative" treatment English journalist who died of cancer) summarily dismissed what is arguably the most famous of the natural and proven anti-cancer treatments known to man, the natural extract of the apricot kernel, otherwise known as Vitamin B17.
Interestingly, Dr. Dean Burk, the former head of the Cytochemistry Department of the National Cancer Institute, and one of the co-founders of this famous American medical institution, had worked on Vitamin B17 personally. He described this substance in very different terms: "When we add laetrile to a cancer culture under the microscope," said Burk, "providing the enzyme glucosidase also is present, we can see the cancer cells dying off like flies." (glucosidase being the enzyme heavily present in cancerous cells which triggers the unique cancer-destroying mechanism found in Vitamin B17.
An excellent clinical analysis of this mechanism is found in 'B17 Metabolic Therapy – In The Prevention And Control Of Cancer – a concise history of the research into this vitamin, including many clinical assessments. Dr Burk also stated that evidence for Laetrile's efficacy had been noted in at least five independent institutions in three widely separated countries of the world.
So who do we trust in this matter? Diamond or Burk? Now we can ask ourselves whether it was perhaps the fault of some kindly but misguided soul who posted John Diamond an essay on the benefits of Vitamin B17 mixed with walnut water that caused him to dismiss B17 so emphatically. Or it could be that John actually trusted the conventional research reports he had accrued on this vitamin. By examining the sources from where John Diamond might have got his B17 research 'information', the ugly features of conventional cancer research move more sharply into focus.
Unable to sit on this information, Moss later called a press conference of his own and, before a battery of reporters and cameramen, charged that Sloan-Kettering officials had engineered a massive cover-up. He provided all the supporting documents and named all the names necessary to validate his case. The following day he was fired for 'failing to carry out his most basic job responsibilities'.
Similarly, in his book 'World Without Cancer', cancer industry researcher Edward Griffin noted : "Every Laetrile study had been tarnished with the same kind of scientific ineptitude, bias and outright deception… Some of these studies openly admitted evidence of anti-cancer effect but hastened to attribute this effect to other causes. Some were toxicity studies only, which means that they weren't trying to see if Laetrile was effective, but merely to determine how much of it was required to kill the patient." The 'evidence' supporting John Diamond's claim that Vitamin B17 is useless and even dangerous is available in abundance in all of the major cancer institutions today. Well of course it is! We're in the merchant's house, don't forget.
The scare stories always focus on the minute amounts of naturally occurring cyanide found in VitaminB17. But no mention is made in any of these stories of the wondrous mechanism governing the release of this cyanide. No harm is done to the person eating this vitamin (if that were the case, we have consumed enough apricots, apples, peaches and cherries etc containing B17 to have finished us off long ago.) The cyanide is released only when cancerous cells are recognised by their high glucosidase content. B17 cyanide attacks cancer cells specifically. No large amounts of glucosidase detected means no cyanide release. Rest assured, there is no evidence that vitamin B17 can kill, unless of course, one is accidentally crushed under a pallet of the stuff!
A further embarrassment for the cancer orthodoxy must surely be the research being carried out at the Imperial College in London, where researchers are looking at ways of using naturally-occurring plant cyanide to specifically attack human bowel tumours. The idea came about after studying the pattern of specific cyanide release in the almond and cassava fruit which protects them from insect attack. Another one of those natural wonders just crying out to be heard is at last being listened to by the orthodoxy perhaps? Very sadly, in assessing the deservedness of the 'shady' reputation bestowed upon Vitamin B17 metabolic therapy, we realise it is entirely unwarranted and that instead, there has been a sustained attack by the conventional cancer industry on this treatment, an attack that has carried on in one form or another for the last forty years.
As mentioned earlier, with global spending on conventional cancer running into the hundreds of billions annually, a naturally-occurring cancer cure of any description is an unwanted intruder. Dr Moss again, on the money involved in conventional cancer: Moss: "About 630,000 people die every year of cancer in the US, and it really is an epidemic disease. We have got a tremendous industry. Every one of those people who is getting cancer and dying of it is going to be treated, and these treatments are extremely expensive. Chemo is tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars. A bone marrow transplant, which is basically another way of giving chemotherapy, or radiation, can run to about $150,000 per person, and is almost never effective. It kills about 25% of the patients." Lee: "Why carry on doing it?" Moss: "Because of the money, which is tremendous." When we understand the amounts of money involved, we can begin to understand the in-house desire to sustain a 'fact-creating' process in support of conventional treatment. Conventional cancer treatment and research is a licence to print money.
Most definitely, conventional interested parties and institutions have colluded in a shameful anti-Vitamin B17 'fact-creating' process, which in turn has surely led to the early and even unnecessary deaths of thousands upon thousands of people. As for John Diamond's dismissal of Vitamin B17, he didn't write his comments on B17 as an intentional slur. He wasn't the forked tongue in this chain of events. He desperately wanted to live. His single paragraph read by thousands was just another example of the damaging knock-on effect of merchant-speak. Merchant-speak on Vitamin B17 metabolic therapy has exacted a grave injustice upon this treatment and subsequently, upon all who have been persuaded to think likewise. It is interesting to note that there are cultures today who remain almost entirely cancer-free.
The Abkhasians, the Azerbaijanis, the Hunzas, the Eskimaux and the Karakorum all live on foodstuffs rich in nitriloside or vitamin B17. Their food consists variously of buckwheat, peas, broad beans, lucerne, turnips, lettuce, sprouting pulse or gram, apricots with their seeds and berries of various kinds. Their diet can provide them with as much as 250-3,000mg of nitriloside a day.
The founding father of Vitamin B17 research, Ernst T Krebs Jr., studied the dietary habits of these tribes. Krebs stated: "Upon investigating the diet of these people, we found that the seed of the apricot was prized as a delicacy and that every part of the apricot was utilized." The average western diet with its refined, fibreless foods offers less than 2mg of nitriloside a day. It has also been noted that natives from these tribes, who move into 'civilised' areas and change their diets accordingly, are prone to cancers at the regular western incidence. An important point to note with B17 content in the apricot fruit is that the more bitter the taste of the apricot kernal, the richer is the content of B17. If the kernel does not taste bitter, the B17 content will be quite low.
http://www.whale.to/m/binzel.html – ALIVE AND WELL – One Doctor's Experience with Nutrition in the Treatment of Cancer Patients – a book by Philip E. Binzel, Jr., M.D.


Liz Strauss just wrapped up an exciting writing project where she asked people to pass along words of wisdom in exactly 25 words. Try it. The exercise forces you to say what you mean, as opposed to just getting close. Here are the contributions. I think you'll enjoy them for their brevity, clarity, and of course, wisdom!
Pretty cool, eh? Thanks, Liz!


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