Cindy was neither purchased nor found at our doorstep searching for a new home. She was adopted through a network of cat specialists who make it their business to rescue and relocate feral cats. Only those showing promising potential are adopted out, the others are treated and released. As a kitten, Cindy spent her time struggling to survive in Point Loma, California, moving from dumpster to trash pail searching for her next meal. It was in Point Loma where this small group of cat lovers rescued Cindy and the search for her new family began.
From a feral kitten's perspective, this probably seemed like the beginning of the end. What begins as another chapter of nightmares is a human style bath, complete physical, vaccinations, and the unavoidable spay. The tradeoff is a warm, safe place to play and sleep and a steady diet.
In my feverish attempt to locate a kitten for Liz, I was introduced to a member of this network, who shall remain anonymous, and arranged a meeting. This would be the first of several meetings to determine if Liz and I would be suitable candidates for adopting a member of their family. If first impressions count for anything, I knew this meeting would be off to a smashing success. I arrived at the door of a retired couple after driving forty miles in pouring rain on my motorcycle. Standing in the hallway of their apartment building, holding my helmet under one arm and soggy raingear over the other, I was sure to win their admiration and affection.
In spite of my physical appearance, I was ushered inside the small apartment and introduced to no less than a half dozen adult cats, none of which I could adopt because these were permanent residents. After all the introductions and paw shaking, I was taken into another room, handed a flashlight and directed to look under the bed. In the far corner, nearly out of arms reach, was a small black cat that was ready for adoption if the right family could be found. I put down the flashlight and reached under the bed expecting to pull back a bloody stump. Before I knew it, I was holding a small black cat too frightened to resist. She just lay in my arms, staring back with her beautiful emerald eyes. I placed her on the bed and quickly inspected her from head to tail and released her under the bed. I knew immediately this would be the cat for Liz.
After several subsequent meetings, the trial and adjustment period began. It was at this time when Cindy received her name, given to her by Liz, because it was a true Cinderella experience. Cindy was introduced to her new home shortly after Gus arrived. She had no problem accepting Gus, who at this time was only a tiny kitten. Our best estimate put Cindy's age around one year, perhaps more, so we were never really able to fully appreciate her as a kitten.
The first six months of the adoption process went slowly, and there were often times when I wondered if Cindy would ever escape the nightmare of her past and learn the accept and trust us. While we were away from the house, she would come out for her meals and take care of business. When we returned home she would escape to the safety of the cubicles that formed a pedestal for our bed. Eliminating her hiding spot became a routine known as "breaking down the bed", leaving her no choice but to spend time with us in an open room. Eventually, this routine paid off and Cindy began to accept and trust us and was slowly permitted access to other rooms in the house.
Before long she was granted full access to the house, which she shared with us, her sole feline companion Gus, and two cockatiels. There was no hiding the truth that Cindy's horrid past would always hinder her social development. When a visitor came to the house she would immediately revert back to her old ways, escaping to a safe haven and reappearing hours after the visitor has departed.
As a full grown healthy female cat, the only woe in Cindy's life turns out to be her sole feline housemate, Gus. Now more than twice her size and weight, Gus has been known to attack Cindy with little fear of retribution for his evil action. Sometimes it begins simply enough as mutual play that quickly gets out of hand. Other times he will quietly lay an ambush attack, waiting for her to innocently walk by. One such attack resulted in amputation of Cindy's long slender tail, leaving only a three inch stub.
Cindy has three primary hiding spots strategically situated around the house. Her favorite spot is on top of the television set in our bedroom, where she can camouflage herself in the dark space between the TV and armoire cabinet. In the world of felines, Cindy is the antithesis of Gus. She is agile, gentle and capable of leaping with pinpoint accuracy. Gus, on the other hand, is incapable of displaying those characteristics. He is not able to negotiate the landing zone for accessing this hideout, and to Cindy's good fortune this is the only spot in the house where she can escape completely protected from Gus' brutal behavior.
Her second favorite spot is behind the TV console in the family room. Here she is able to defend herself among the myriad of cable runs and narrow access ports, able to catch quick catnaps and come and go with ease. Gus has found the single major drawback to this location and exploits it at every opportunity. He simply approaches from the top of the television and drops down on her with no warning. I have witnessed this personally, and no one will ever convince me that cats do not have the gift of coherent thought process. Her third hideout is behind the kitchen counter on the window sill. With her head barely exposed at one end, she can rest in the sunbeam with little chance of an undetected attack.
We are very to fortunate for the way Cindy developed socially. While she may still run and hide when a visitor comes to the door, she now waits long enough to see if she can recognize the person before deciding which hideout will suit her needs best. She still prefers not to be held but enjoys a good brushing and the gentle stroke of a hand. During the cooler months she will be the first to hop onto my lap while I'm relaxing on the couch or recliner and enjoy a catnap. We have surely been blessed with this wonderful animal.
Cindy has reached the age of retirement and spends much of her time in the front bedroom since improvements have been made to the house interior. Rarely does she step past the doorway during the daytime but does venture out when the house is dark and silent in the early morning hours. Cindy slowly went deaf and has entered the early stages of renal failure, fortunately her vision is good and manages to get around the room in spite of advanced arthritis. She shares the front bedroom fulltime with Kiki and receives regular visits from Rusty, Misty and Booger.


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Where to Buy, Where to Rent
By Richard Florida
When should you rent versus buy? It's a question lots and lots of people are asking these days. Armed with intriguing new post-crash data on the relative costs of renting versus buying, The New York Times' David Leonhardt suggested that the significant decline in real estate prices was making buying a home a much better proposition in a growing number of communities across the country. (The Times offers a great interactive rent-or-buy tool, if you're currently thinking about this).
Leonhardt's analysis provoked an intriguing debate among many of the Web's most thoughtful economics commentators. Ryan Avent, writing at Free Exchange, urged caution. Felix Salmon thinks housing prices still have a ways to fall, especially as inflation eats away at them. Robert Shiller, the Yale economist who initially identified the housing bubble, and the tech bubble before that, also believes real estate prices may still have further to fall. Leonhardt replies thoughtfully here and here.
Given my ongoing interests in housing and The Great Reset, my team and I decided to take a closer look at what might be behind these patterns. The basic measure is called the housing price-to-rent ratio, or HPR ratio. As its name implies, it is a simple ratio of the costs of purchasing a house compared to the annual costs of renting. Specifically, we wanted to explore to what extent HPR ratios are associated with key economic and demographic characteristics of U.S. cities and regions.
We based our research on the Times' analysis but developed our own larger data-set. The Times' data, which covers 54 large metro areas, are hard to match up with the more conventional metro definitions used by the Census and other data-gathering organizations. So, my colleague Charlotta Mellander used the same basic methodology to calculate our own HPR ratios for a larger sample of metropolitan regions that we could match to a wide series of regional indicators. Our measure of house prices is essentially the same as the Times; it's the fourth-quarter 2009 house price series from the National Association of Realtors. Rent data is harder to come by, so we use data on 2008 median contract rent from the American Community Survey. We feel confident that this 2008 rental data does not skew our analysis too badly, since housing prices have fallen more dramatically than rents over that period. Our data series covers 133 metropolitan regions. The data sets line up fairly well. Our HPRs are, generally speaking, slightly higher than the Times' calculations. However, New York and Los Angeles have significantly higher HPR ratios on our measure. This is likely a result of the way these regions are defined in the two data-sets, since we use similar fourth-quarter data on housing prices. Still, the two measures are closely correlated, with a correlation of nearly .8 (.78). We also ran the same analysis on the Times' data and the magnitude and direction of the correlations are essentially the same.
The map above, prepared by the Martin Prosperity Institute's (MPI) Zara Matheson, shows the HPR ratios for U.S. metro regions.
With Mellander's help, we ran a series of scatter-graphs and performed a simple correlation analysis to probe the associations between key demographic and economic factors and the HPR ratio.
The relationship between relative costs of owning vs. renting and housing prices is, well, striking. The line in the scatter-graph slopes steeply upward and the fit is quite good. The correlation between the two is a whopping .83. In simple terms, it's much more costly to own than to rent in places where housing prices themselves are higher. In fact, the ratio, perhaps not surprisingly, appears to be driven by housing prices.
Source: Data on homeownership or owner-occupied housing units is from the American Community Survey.
So what about homeownership? The correlation between the HPR ratio and homeowership is negative (-.51). In other words, the costs of owning are relatively lower in places where more people already own their own homes. The reason is basic, actually: where housing is more expensive, fewer people can afford to buy. Looking at the scatter-graph above, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle are all far above the line. That is, they all have even higher HPR ratios than their relatively low levels of homeownership would predict.
How do the relative costs of renting versus buying a home relate to a region's economy? The short answer is that the relative cost of owning is significantly higher in more advanced and affluent regions. We looked at the relationship between the owning vs. renting and three common measures of regional development -- economic output (measured as gross metropolitan product per capita), average incomes, and average wages. The HPR ratio is significantly associated with all three. The correlation between the HPR and economic output is .45. The correlation between it and average incomes is .44. And the correlation between the HPR and average wages is .47. The HPR appears to reflect regional wealth.
Source: Data on wages is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics
The scatter-graph (above) compares the costs of owning versus renting to regional wages. The line runs steeply upward. Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and San Diego are all above the line. Their HPR ratios are even higher than their average wages would predict.
What about unemployment: how is it related to costs of owning versus renting? Unemployment is generally higher in communities with higher rates of homeownership, as I noted earlier this week. We find that places with higher HPR ratios have lower rates of unemployment. The HPR ratio is negatively associated with unemployment rate, with a correlation of -.34. In other words, unemployment is lower in places where owning costs more than renting.
Previously, we've seen how smart regions have higher levels of income, economic output, and overall well-being. It costs relatively more to own in smarter, more advanced regional economies. We measure smart regions in terms of the level of human capital; the percentage of the workforce in creative, knowledge-based, and professional occupations; and the level of technology-based industry. The HPR ratio is positively related to all three. The correlation between the HPR ratio and human capital (measured as the share of metro population with a bachelor's degree or higher) is .4. The correlation between it and the creative class is .41. Conversely, the HPR ratio is significantly lower in communities with a higher percentage of traditional blue-collar, working-class jobs, with a correlation of -.3. The HPR ratio is higher in regions with greater concentrations of high-tech industry. Our measure of high-tech industry is an updated version of the "tech-pole index" originally developed by the Milken Institute. The correlation between it and the HPR is .51. The HPR is not only tied to regional income and wealth, it is also tied to the underlying factors that generate regional prosperity.
Source: Our measure of the creative class follows Rise of the Creative Class and is based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The scatter-graph (above) plots the HPR ratio against the percentage of the workforce in creative class jobs. Again, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, and to a slightly lesser extent Seattle and San Diego, are well above the line with HPRs considerably greater than their creative class economies would suggest. The costs of owing versus renting are significantly higher in creative class economies.
That brings us to happiness and well-being. A much-cited study by University of Pennsylvania economist Grace Wong Bucchianeri found that homeowners are no happier than renters (PDF), and also face higher levels of stress. In my earlier post, I found homeownership to be negatively correlated with happiness and well-being. But how does the relative cost of owning versus renting relate to the happiness and well-being of communities? Happiness, we find, is greater in regions with higher HPR ratios. The correlation between the two is .47. That is, people are happier in places where it is more expensive to buy than to rent.
What to make of all of this: where exactly should you buy, and where should you rent? Leonhardt suggests that it's worth buying when the ratio is 20 or less. Dean Baker sets the threshold somewhat lower: He says it makes sense to consider buying when the ratio is 15 or less.
From where I sit, the picture looks a bit more complicated. It boils down into two distinct questions. The ratio of owning versus renting provides a good handle on the first of these. It enables you to objectively compare the ongoing costs of owning versus renting your home. But it is not as good on the second question. Avent zeros in on this when he says that housing is a "highly leveraged, undiversified, relatively illiquid bet, with a return that is highly correlated to local labor market conditions."
This second question is about economic context. Is the house located in a growing economy, one where its value is likely to go up, and where you can sell it if you need to? Looked at this way, it may be that places with higher relative costs of owning versus renting are the better bet. Consider that the places with the "best" relative cost of owning are older Rustbelt cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, and Sunbelt cities of sand like Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Tampa. But, the ones with the "worst" are high-tech centers like Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Boulder, places with lots of natural amenities, or on our measure the big super-star cities of New York and Los Angeles.
Here's what David Albouy, a University of Michigan economist who has done detailed studies (PDF) of the factors that determine regional housing prices, has to say:
If prices reflect the present discounted value of future rents, then a low price-to-rent ratio today suggests that future rents will be low, probably because local amenities or job opportunities will be less desirable. Financially, you're putting a bet on a place that now looks like a loser, but more importantly you're making it harder to move out of a place where the prospects don't look so good. The other thing is that homeownership may be over-rated socially. It eats up tremendous time and money. Talented people may benefit themselves and society more by providing or developing products for the larger public, rather than devoting their time to amateur home-improvement (although some fix up houses pretty nicely).
In the end, the costs of owning are relatively higher in communities with higher levels of economic output, higher incomes, and higher wages -- that is where there is higher effective demand. They are also places with among the lowest levels of homeownership and where there is likely a relatively large pool of people who would like to be able to buy a house there someday. Not to mention they are the places with stronger underlying economic prospects -- witnessed in their higher levels of human capital and more high-tech and creative economic structures. They are the places that, generally speaking, are attracting skilled people, generating new technologies and industries, which provide the greatest economic opportunity.
If I had to bet on real estate I'd bet on just these kinds of places. (It's what I did, actually: I bought in D.C. and Toronto, but chose to rent in Pittsburgh and Miami). And my hunch is the high cost of owning a home as opposed to renting in these places -- like their higher housing prices to begin with -- reflects just that.
Next up: I take a detailed look at the newly released Case-Shiller Home Price Index.

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Slavic District Impact
From humble beginnings growing up in Rivne, Ukraine, Viktor Prokhor now is superintendent of the Assemblies of God National Slavic District (NSD), one of the 66 districts/networks in the U.S. Fellowship.
AG American missionaries began arriving in the 1920s in Odessa and the western part of Ukraine to preach the gospel.
"Throughout the entire Soviet history, the Assemblies of God helped our people," says Prokhor, 62.
His father, Simon, had been pastoring for 15 years when police came to the Prokhor home at 4 one morning and arrested him. Victor, the eighth child of his parents and only 9 months old at the time, had to scramble to survive as authorities confiscated the property and humiliated the family. Simon spent two years in prison because of religious persecution.
In 1999 — soon after immigrating to the United States with his wife and six children — Victor Prokhor pioneered a church in Tacoma, Washington, with only seven families. Today, he pastors Life Christian Church with 1,100 regular attendees.
In 2008, Prokhor became superintendent of the AG National Slavic District. Viktor Limonchenko is assistant superintendent. At the time, NSD had only eight churches. Today, 74 congregations are a part of the district.
"Every church is a huge miracle and an answered prayer from the Lord," says Prokhor, whose father had been arrested by police and endured persecution in the Soviet Union. "We are immigrants and come from low-income families."
Financial limitations notwithstanding, Life Christian Center built a new $3.7 million church with a 900-seat sanctuary in 2016.
"I can't imagine ministry without the Holy Spirit," Prokhor says.
That message rings true among NSD youth. Around 350 gathered in June in Seattle to evangelize the lost, worship Jesus, and pray for revival in America at the March for Jesus hosted by United Revival.
Andrey Arkhipchuk leads 180 young people as Life Christian Church's youth leader.
"God has taught me over the years to be faithful to Him and He will guide my steps," says Andrey, 27.
Prokhor knows the importance of evangelizing and discipling youth.
"When I ask young people when they received Jesus into their heart, the majority of the time it's from teens camp," Prokhor says. "To know Jesus and to not lose Jesus is what's most valuable."
NSD has more than 15 youth conferences organized for this year. The district also conducts annual conferences for pastors, church leaders, and ministers under age 40.
AIDING UKRAINIAN REFUGEES
Millions of people in Ukraine have experienced unthinkable injustice and devastation this year because of the war with Russia.
"What's happening in our home countries has a very huge impact on the Slavic Community here in the U.S. because we are experiencing the same pain people are going through," Prokhor says. "The pain the Ukrainian people are going through is inconceivable."
More than $200,000 has been sent to Ukrainian refugees through Life Christian Church. Teams from NSD first arrived in Poland and Romania, providing medical assistance and counseling. Partnering with Ukrainian churches, they provided dozens of containers filled with food, medicine, and clothing.
The American Slavics are supporting pastors financially to help rebuild shattered windows, roofs, and buildings, destroyed by the bombings. They are working with AG world missionaries Gerald and Jane Dollar as well as surrounding Ukrainian churches.
"Members of our churches transported people from the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kherson, Donetsk, and Zaporizhzhia regions driving them to Western Ukraine to save them from the bombs," Prokhor says.
Ukrainian churches are packed with people running to God because they don't know if a rocket will fly over their homes and if they will wake up alive tomorrow, Prokhor says.
Many who are desperate to find hope have fled Ukraine. Life Christian Church's teams helped refugees in Tijuana and Mexico City, with documents and obtaining sponsors. They received food and shelter, as well as counseling. Dozens of people gave their life to Jesus because of the love and compassion they experienced, acccording to Prokhor.
Multiple AG Slavic churches have sponsored Ukrainian refugees, including Bread of Life Church in Kent, Washington (Roman Melnik, pastor) and Life of Victory Church in Tenton, Washington (Roman Gorbachevskiy, pastor).
Alla Prokhor, Viktor's daughter, helped organize English as second language classes for more than 200 Ukrainian refugees at Life Christian Church. The church is also providing food and all other essential needs.
Although many refugees who have fled to the U.S. are far away from the sounds of rockets, they still have to deal with trauma. Prokhor says NSD congregations are providing spiritual, emotional, and psychological support to help people heal.
"We want to help mobilize people here in the U.S. and those suffering in Ukraine," Prokhor says. "It's a very hard time in our homeland."


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SORT OF... SLAPP HAPPY
Slapp Happy
3.52 | 32 ratings
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Maybe due to the band's unwillingness to promote this album with live gigs and everything else one would assume goes hand in hand with a music career, - Slapp Happy remained somewhat obscure at the time of this release. It's kinda sad, especially when you start to listen to this riveting and unassuming debut album simply called Sort Of......Slapp Happy. The meaning behind the title escapes this listener, but what does shine through in the most charming way, is the feet thumping, psychedelic whiskey shooting straightforwardness of this thing. Sure, you probably saw the RIO avant sticker applied here on PA, and thought to yourself: "Ahhh it's one of those unlistenable albums with people playing drainpipes and castrated frogs.... Count me out!" - upon running screaming in the opposite direction. Such thinking is pure madness though, and if anybody out there is reading this review and maybe even feels on the fence about this sort of music - or just think they've pigeon-holed the entire genre by listening to a couple of albums from Zappa and Henry Cow, I urge you to take a chance with Sort Of. It could well be your introduction into a world of shiny things with teeth.
Having said that, you could be lead into thinking otherwise, as Sort Of sports a couple of big hitters inside the more experimental side of rock music. 3 members from Faust lend a helping hand in this recording - and you also meet a young Peter Blegvad who back then sounded far more occupied with dirty gritty hard rock, than what he later got associated with. Finally there's the tiny pixie named Dagmar Krause, who sings like a female version of David Surkamp. Allrighty then....
The thing is - this debut is far from being an avant garde release. It's only in the details you hear traces of what was to come. The Faust input feels strangely in line with the surrounding psychedelic blues rock n' folk style, and if I didn't know any better, I'd say it sounded like a quirkier Big Brother with Janis singing from the insides of a helium bubble.
The crunching spillonking guitar antics of Peter Blegvad are what's running things here. Often coming off as a distorted blues man, he propels this venture forward with a steadfast easy digestible Chuck Berry lick. Much of what you hear wouldn't feel out of place in a Woodstock setting, where the rhythm n' blues framework got stretched to fit whatever agenda put on the menu, whether that was the Latino spicings of Santana or the hippedi hop pop of Sha-na-na. On here, you are faced with the German lineage of the blues. What the Amon Duuls proposed to do with it - that underground gelatinous raw blues feel, even if you won't find much in the way of free-form composition or amazing LSD freak-outs on Sort Of. The sound is very much an echo of the psychedelic blues rock happening in the late 60s.
It's first when you dig a little deeper that you start to hear those quirky bits. The side of the record that screams for unorthodox measures and iron fisted koalas. Like I mentioned earlier, it is indeed a subtle shading to the proceedings, but it helps pull the album up from the everyday blubber of 1970s blues rock. It's in the spastic percussion touches that continue to embellish the music throughout the album. Something that Faust were masters at. Just hearing the drums on some of these tracks makes me think of the wilder side of Ginger Baker. Keeping a straight beat without implementing the high hat or snare drum like they were meant to is a very hard thing to do - especially when the track you're supposed to be backing is a rockabilly tune with a severe need of a 1 and 4. Yet on here it works, and does so beautifully and with refined subtlety. What? We're talking about Faust here - aren't we?!?!?!
This is what sets the album apart from other such psychedelic blues rock affairs of the time: unusual backing ornamentations like a twittering saxophone, bar-room piano, mumbling snuffling percussions, unorthodox drumming and the unique vocals of Madame Krause. For those of you who've heard horror stories about this woman's vocal chords, don't believe any of it! She's as charismatic and powerful as she is integral to this band's sound. The minuscule traces of German accent that lie at the tail-end of her phrasings are abnormally beautiful, and I honestly wouldn't have it any other way, and just so you know: I usually despise accented vocals. Furthermore, she doesn't even sing that much on this debut. Blegvad belts out his booming blues voice just as frequently, and the flip flopping effect of the Minnie Mouse tinged psychedelics of Krause and the big meaty elk booms from Blegvad match perfectly the music surrounding them.
Sort Of is far away from being representative of this band's future career, but it is a wonderful meeting between the States and Europe. This is where the blues fuelled psych rock dances with the quirkier side of the European avant garde eccentricities, yet without ever loosing it's natural heritage.
Guldbamsen | 4/5 | 2012-8-12
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By Christien Kafton
San Francisco provides alcohol, drugs for recovering homeless addicts in hotels
Department of Public Health officials in San Francisco assure the public that a program providing homeless, recovering drug addicts-- housed in hotels during the pandemic--with methadone, alcohol and marijuana, comes at no cost to taxpayers.
SAN FRANCISCO - In response to a Twitter debate stemming from a person upset that drugs and alcohol are given to the homeless staying in hotels, San Francisco's Department of Public Health on Wednesday confirmed it provides nicotine and other addictive substances to those trying to recover from addiction.
They say it's part of a plan to help the unhoused population quarantine rather than out on the streets.
The city confirmed on social media first and then in a news conference that providing alcohol and other addictive substances is a way to help protect those homeless now being housed in hotels and the general public.
"With regard to supporting people who are at risk, or who need to be in quarantine or isolation because they're COVID positive, our focus needs to be on supporting them," said Dr. Grant Colfax from San Francisco's Department of Public Health. "Meeting them where they are so that they can be cared for in the most appropriate way. In the way that's good for them and for our community."
The health department confirmed that about 10% of their quarantine guests have received tobacco products. 11 guests have received medically appropriate amounts of alcohol to prevent alcohol withdrawal.
The city confirmed on social media that they are providing those substance for free. Health officials said the practice isn't unique, and that it's not paid for with tax dollars. A person on Twitter started a firestorm when he said he was upset that drugs and alcohol are provided for free to homeless addicts.
The mayor has said housing those with mental illness and substance abuse issues complicates the effort to shelter the city's homeless in hotels.
The city's health department said harm reduction strategies are scientifically proven to be more effective than trying to force people to go cold turkey.
"Our philosophy in terms of treating those who suffer from addiction, substance use disorders is really again focused on science and the medical literature," said Dr. Colfax.
The department said staff has received deliveries for medical cannabis for those with prescriptions paid for by the guests or in whatever way they would ordinarily pay for that cannabis.


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A prospective analysis of the relationship between walking and mood in sedentary ethnic minority women
Rebecca Lee, Jennifer H. Goldberg, James F. Sallis, Sara A. Hickmann, Cynthia M. Castro, Audrey H. Chen
Walking for exercise is becoming widely recognized for bestowing health benefits. This study examined the association of walking for exercise and mood in sedentary, ethnic minority women over a five-month period. Ethnic minority women (N = 102) participated in a randomized, controlled trial of a 7-week behaviorally based telephone and mail intervention that promoted the adoption of walking for exercise compared to a non-behavioral minimal intervention. At 2-month post-test and 5-month follow-up, participants reported significant decreases in depressive mood and increases in vigor. Increase in walking over the course of the study was associated with change in vigor. Limited evidence was found to support a relationship between walking for exercise and mood improvement in ethnic-minority women.
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Lee, R., Goldberg, J. H., Sallis, J. F., Hickmann, S. A., Castro, C. M., & Chen, A. H. (2001). A prospective analysis of the relationship between walking and mood in sedentary ethnic minority women. Women and Health, 32(4), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1300/J013v32n04_01
A prospective analysis of the relationship between walking and mood in sedentary ethnic minority women. / Lee, Rebecca; Goldberg, Jennifer H.; Sallis, James F.; Hickmann, Sara A.; Castro, Cynthia M.; Chen, Audrey H.
In: Women and Health, Vol. 32, No. 4, 2001, p. 1-15.
Lee, R, Goldberg, JH, Sallis, JF, Hickmann, SA, Castro, CM & Chen, AH 2001, 'A prospective analysis of the relationship between walking and mood in sedentary ethnic minority women', Women and Health, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1300/J013v32n04_01
Lee R, Goldberg JH, Sallis JF, Hickmann SA, Castro CM, Chen AH. A prospective analysis of the relationship between walking and mood in sedentary ethnic minority women. Women and Health. 2001;32(4):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1300/J013v32n04_01
Lee, Rebecca ; Goldberg, Jennifer H. ; Sallis, James F. ; Hickmann, Sara A. ; Castro, Cynthia M. ; Chen, Audrey H. / A prospective analysis of the relationship between walking and mood in sedentary ethnic minority women. In: Women and Health. 2001 ; Vol. 32, No. 4. pp. 1-15.
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Public schooling has several positives and negatives, just as with home schooling your youngsters. Public school is meant to to help your child in grasping structure and promptness while giving them the opportunity to make friends and grow socially. The snag? Traditional have grown to be increasingly dangerous. As well as in the most effective traditional school, there is a chance your kids will probably be intimidated and even not get the correct quantity of attentiveness that they might need to grow academically.
Home-Schooling is excellent in the sense that it allows your child to get the proper amount of consideration that they need in order to prosper. Courses are created to either permit the parent to teach their child or let the children use a "satellite" teacher who gives tests, grades work and provides the feedback a public school teacher would. Either way, the child gets a one-on-one learning experience that might be unachievable in traditional schools. But, it may be a difficult situation for a child who prefers to interact with other pupils or needs help with structure. So, it is important to adhere to a custom and allow the child to create time for friends and activities so that she or he will not be losing out.
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My husband enjoys 'no frill' products and was all too pleased when I came across the Babyzen Yoyo+.
It was clearly love at first sight for my husband; from the folding mechanism and the engineering behind that to the sleek design of it all.
The Babyzen Yoyo+ makes use of one frame with two fabric options (each available in many colours) which are used successively. The first, the 0+, is used from birth and resembles a traditional pram (without all the bulk) in that it is completely lay-flat for newborns. Following this set up, at around 6 months, as baby begins to become inquisitive and wishes to look around, the 0+ fabric is removed and the 6+ is installed onto the same frame, thereby transforming the Yoyo into a forward facing stroller which can be used until baby weighs 18kgs.
Apart from weighing only 6-7kgs and folding / unfolding single-handedly, the Yoyo+ is absolutely charming on all fronts.
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The Rwenzori Mountains straddle the equator along the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, extending north–south for about 110 km and east–west for about 50 km. Rising gradually from the highland plains of Uganda, the mountains fall steeply on the west to the Semliki River, the outflow of Lake Edward and a major tributary of Lake Albert, one of the sources of the White Nile. Geologically the mountains are young, created in the late Pliocene by an upthrust of crystalline rocks (mainly gneiss, amphibolite, granite and quartzite) that rose from within the western rift to divide palaeolake Obweruka and create present-day Lakes Albert and Edward. Hence, the range itself is not of volcanic origin although numerous craters (crater-lakes) of more recent age are found in the surrounding area.
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A 13-year-old boy in the custody of the Baltimore City Department of Social Services was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital in September 2018. About two weeks later, an administrative law judge ruled that there was no medical reason for him to stay there. But Social Services didn't pick him up for nearly four more months.
A similar thing happened to a 14-year-old boy in the custody of the Prince George's County Department of Social Services in October 2018 and to a 14-year-old girl in the custody of the Baltimore County Department of Social Services in January 2019, according to data provided by the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, which represents children in this situation,
And there are dozens more children in Maryland's foster care system with similar stories. They spend weeks, sometimes months, in psychiatric hospitals after doctors and even judges say they no longer need to be there because local Department of Social Services, or DSS, workers say they have nowhere else for them to go.
"Local DSS departments, they're not removing children from hospitals even when judges are ordering it," said Del. Brooke Lierman, who represents South Baltimore in the House of Delegates.
She said the DSS agencies sometimes ask a circuit court to overrule the administrative law judge, "simply because DSS doesn't know where to take the child."
Lierman is sponsoring state legislation that would prevent DSS from sidestepping the administrative law judges' orders. The bill has a hearing Thursday before the House Appropriations Committee.
But the bill does not address the root cause of the problem — not having a place to put the kids.
"The degree of specialized service required to meet the particular needs of that youth exceed what is in most cases offered in state, and in many cases it's a struggle to find the appropriate services nationally," said Greg James, the deputy secretary for operations at Maryland's Department of Human Services, which oversees the state's child welfare system.
In an interview last month, James said the kids who end up in psychiatric hospitals generally have needs that can't be met in a foster home. He said the most appropriate placement for these kids is in a residential treatment center, a secure facility with around-the-clock care.
But there are only about 350 spots at these facilities in Maryland. Children vying for them end up on waitlists at facilities both in- and out-of-state.
"We've had situations where we have gone to multiple providers around the country and they have declined to take a youth before we could find the right placement," James said.
In some of those cases, the children wait at psychiatric hospitals.
Lierman said she plans to amend her bill to increase the capacity at residential treatment centers to try to eliminate the backlog.
But residential treatment center beds are just one part of a complex situation, said Heather Iliff, executive director of the Maryland Association of Resources for Families and Youth, a coalition of child welfare service providers.
"Over the past decade, Maryland has been working hard to reduce the number of children in care," Iliff said.
That's something states around the country have been striving for and a new federal law encourages. The idea is that the money states save by reducing the number of children in their foster care systems should be spent instead on programs that support struggling families to prevent children from needing to be removed from their families' care to begin with.
"But there have been some unintended consequences, which means that the children who remain in care are the children with the most severe needs, and the savings that would have been achieved by reducing the children in care was not reinvested into the system," Iliff said.
Without proper mental health treatment, children's needs grow more complex as they get older, Iliff said. But if Maryland were to invest more in mental health services for children who are still living with their families — or even when they first enter the foster care system — they might not end up in psychiatric hospitals to begin with.
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Knighthood of Abdul-Baha:
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Abdu'l-Baha receiving recognition as a Knight of the British Empire.
On that same April 27th of 1920, in the garden of the Military Governor of Haifa, 'Abdu'l-Bahá was invested with the insignia of the Knighthood of the British Empire. That knighthood was conferred on Him in recognition of His humanitarian work during the war for the relief of distress and famine. He accepted the honour as the gift of a 'just king' but never used the title.
~ Hasan Balyuzi, "Abdu'l-Baha - The Centre of the Covenant," p. 443
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Yes always humble.
I feel a little pride that it was the Australian Light horse that were part of the force that entered Haifa during the war, basically to see to the safety of Abdul-Baha.
I remember reading a report by a Baha'i at the time who went out to see what was happening and met an Australian soldier, eating as he said a tomato just like a piece of fruit. Apparently something that surprised him, he then returned to report to the Holy family.
The story behind this photograph was that Abdu'l-Baha refused to sit behind or near the union jack (british flag) was because he considered himself a world Citizen not a British subject. I think that anecdote is in the book Vignettes of Abdu'l-Baha, but I'm not sure.
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Anyways. here's what that reminded me of THE RULERS OF AMERICA 63
HEARKEN ye, O Rulers of America and the Presidents of the Republics therein, unto that which the Dove is warbling on the Branch of Eternity: There is none other God but Me, the Ever-Abiding, the Forgiving, the All-Bountiful. Adorn ye the temple of dominion with the ornament of justice and of the fear of God, and its head with the crown of the remembrance of your Lord, the Creator of the heavens. Thus counselleth you He Who is the Dayspring of Names, as bidden by Him Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. The Promised One hath appeared in this glorified Station, whereat all beings, both seen and unseen, have rejoiced. Take ye advantage of the Day of God. Verily, to meet Him is better for you than all that whereon the sun shineth, could ye but know it. O concourse of rulers! Give ear unto that which hath been raised from the Dayspring of Grandeur: Verily, there is none other God but Me, the Lord of Utterance, the All-Knowing. Bind ye the broken with the hands of justice, and crush the oppressor who flourisheth with the rod of the commandments of your Lord, the Ordainer, the All-Wise. 6
(Baha'u'llah, The Proclamation of Baha'u'llah, p. 60)
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Thank you for this. I was not aware of that.
One day, I must get a hold of that book and have a read. I have heard much good regarding it.
With my love and most warm greetings
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Romane, Please PM me your address, as I have a copy I can get to you. You will enjoy this book immensely.
Yes, THAT story is true, and I am proud of it. What Abdul Baha did was very wise. for example nowadays in Iran, many Muslims accuse Baha'is and Abdul Baha of being an Agent of British government because of having received the knightship. But what Abdul Baha did really shows His mindset; that , as you mentioned, He is a citizen of the world and a servant of God, not a servant of British empire and not in debt to them because of their gift.
Now, what Trump did, is completely a different matter (although I guess you already know). I am not going to judge him, but he did that because he thought America, and himself as the president, is greater than Britain and the queen. It was a sign of pride, not humbleness.
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Oh dear, I have seen numerous videos of Heads of State inspecting a Guard of Honour. It is a traditional part of a state visit. This one is unique: it is a display of unsurpassed rudeness. Even some of the most notorious statesmen of the 20th century knew the basics of a state visit.
As it is, I prefer to believe that this incident has not occurred. Please note that it is supposed to have taken place in England. But England was the home of the Monty Python comedy group. Therefore, I believe that this video was staged by the resurrected Monty Python group (on second thought, it might as well by a product of the Blackadder team).
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re: Knighthood Ceremony
The point of posting all that was to never compromise principle and one's own sense of sovereignty. Abdu'l-Baha recognized The "knighthood" was just a ceremony that he attended and accepted as a gesture of respect for his charitable work, but he drew a line to show he won't affiliate into some other country's agenda or nationalism.
The United States is a sovereign country with an elected President that made a gesture of respect to to serving his citizens interests by showing that he doesn't grovel to foreign dictators and doesn't owe them extra special ritual gestures.
We could discuss the integrity or lack of integrity of all of these politicians, but that wasn't where I really wanted to go.
....that wasn't where I really wanted to go.
We could start with that.
Since the youtube video link was banned.
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Anyways. here's https://www.bitchute.com/video/5vg0URPAW2c/ what that reminded me of THE RULERS OF AMERICA 63
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I visited and photographed the Polish part of the forest in 2018, in the aftermath of the highly controversial large-scale logging operations led by the Polish government in contravention of European law during the period of 2016-2018, the consequences of which will be visible for decades if not centuries according to environmentalists. Currently only a sixth of the Polish part of the forest is protected as a National Park, and the battle for the official protection of the entire forest continues. I met some of the people living, working and traveling there, in an attempt to find out what the forest means to them.


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For many, the Datsun brand is a vague memory from before their time in the automotive universe. For others, it's a fond memory of affordable Z cars that ran with much more expensive sports cars or small, efficient, and reliable commuters. For those in Indonesia, India, and Russian, Datsun is soon to be a new budget brand.
Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn announced the return of the Datsun nameplate this week, saying it would be used in emerging markets for green, affordable cars with high percentages of locally-sourced content, reports Reuters.
While the move isn't directly relevant to U.S. buyers, it does show Nissan is getting more serious about moving into new markets, where much of the coming growth in the industry over the next decade is expected to take place, particularly in India and Russia.
The return of the Datsun brand comes after more than 30 years of dormancy. The last Datsuns were discontinued in 1981 as the company switched to its Nissan brand. No plans to bring the Datsun brand back to the U.S. have yet been announced.
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NEW DELHI: People and the business community from the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh can now realise full potential in all economic sectors like in other parts of the country after the abrogation of Article 370, said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G. Kishan Reddy.
He said this in a written reply to a question regarding the economic situation in the Kashmir Valley in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday.
The Minister added that full potential of economy in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions could not be realised for the last 70 years as the people of Jammu and Kashmir have suffered from terrorist violence and separatism supported from across the border for the past many decades.
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Reddy further said that under the Rs 80,068 crores Prime Minister's package announced on November 7, 2015, 63 major development projects in various sectors like road, power, health, tourism, agriculture, horticulture and skill development were underway. He said that they are "under various stages of implementation".
Many flagship schemes of the Government including the individual beneficiary centric schemes are being "proactively implemented" by the Centre, added Reddy.
Hailing the abrogation of Article 35A, he said it came in the way of the people of this region in realising their full rights which is enshrined in the Constitution of India. India abrogated Article 370 and Article 35A on August 5 this year.
The Minister went on to add: "Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had extended the due date of filing of returns of income tax in respect of all categories of Income Tax assessee in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh till November 30, 2019". This was done in view of the restrictions that were imposed after August 5 following the abrogation of Article 370.
NEW DELHI: People and the business community from the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh can now realise full potential in all economic sectors like in other parts of the country after the abrogation of Article 370, said Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, G. Kishan Reddy. He said this in a written reply to a question regarding the economic situation in the Kashmir Valley in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. The Minister added that full potential of economy in Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh regions could not be realised for the last 70 years as the people of Jammu and Kashmir have suffered from terrorist violence and separatism supported from across the border for the past many decades. ALSO READ: SC, ST, educationally backward people in J&K, Ladakh will continue to get reservation in jobs - Government Reddy further said that under the Rs 80,068 crores Prime Minister's package announced on November 7, 2015, 63 major development projects in various sectors like road, power, health, tourism, agriculture, horticulture and skill development were underway. He said that they are "under various stages of implementation". Many flagship schemes of the Government including the individual beneficiary centric schemes are being "proactively implemented" by the Centre, added Reddy. Hailing the abrogation of Article 35A, he said it came in the way of the people of this region in realising their full rights which is enshrined in the Constitution of India. India abrogated Article 370 and Article 35A on August 5 this year. The Minister went on to add: "Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had extended the due date of filing of returns of income tax in respect of all categories of Income Tax assessee in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Union Territory of Ladakh till November 30, 2019". This was done in view of the restrictions that were imposed after August 5 following the abrogation of Article 370.
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Mini series I am collecting!
What if a threat was so great that someone had to gather the greatest heroes of all time and anywhere together to combat? One single great threat needs the single greatest team-up. Here is my team.
Usually considered street-level characters, but I think they're above that classification. Consider this my "People on Midnighter's Level/Could Beat Him in a Good Fight" list.
This list is dedicated to the Native American super hero whether they are indigenous to North, South, or Central America; the Caribbean; or are of Native American descent.
Characters in the land of Limbo. Save them from their fate, Powers-That-Be !
A list of Heroes with tragic past/ emotional problem, trying to find their place in the world.
These are the characters that I think are awesome, male or female, and I'll explain why they are on here. They can be heroes or villians.
These are villains that I've dubbed the greatest of all time.
Heroes who start their heroics by simply do it and not by the need to satisfy a death in a family or other tragedy.
Random list of artists whom I believe make the best eye candy!
Alright, as a comic fan, there is more than just the characters, there are the awesome stories that go along with it. This is a list of some my favorite comic book stories of all time.


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package jbay;

public class jBay {

	public static void main(String[] args){
		Auktionshaus jbay = new Auktionshaus();

		jbay.addAuktion(new Auktion(new Ware("Turnschuhe", "Tolle Turnschuhe, kaum getragen"), 2));
		jbay.addAuktion(new Auktion(new Ware("iPad", "Nagelneues iPad 3"), 4));
		jbay.addAuktion(new Auktion(new Ware("Currywurst", "Scharf, ohne Pommes"), 5));

		BieterTerminal b1 = new BieterTerminal(new Bieter("Micky", "Maus"), jbay);
		BieterTerminal b2 = new BieterTerminal(new Bieter("Donald", "Duck"), jbay);

		jbay.register(b1);
		jbay.register(b2);
	}

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub