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!This Saab 900 got away, but there are more like it here.
No Reserve: 1983 Saab 900 Turbo 5-Speed
Sold For $6,700 On 8/6/18$6,700 Sold
Seller: denD
Location: Brooklyn, New York 11204
Chassis: YS3AT44S4D1007203
84,041 Miles Shown
Turbocharged 2.0-Liter 8V Inline-Four
New Turbocharger
Rebuilt Alternator
New Brakes
Model Page: Saab 900
Category: Swedish
This 1983 Saab 900 Turbo was sold new in Buffalo, New York and shows 84k indicated miles. The car is equipped with a turbocharged 2.0-liter inline four paired with a 5-speed manual gearbox and is finished in silver over blue velour upholstery. It was acquired by the seller in 2017 and has since been driven roughly 7k miles as well as receiving service including a new turbocharger, rebuilt alternator, brake work, Bilstein shocks, and more. Following a recent move to New York, this 900 Turbo is offered with records, books and manuals, cassette tapes, a clean Carfax report, and a clear Illinois title in the seller's name.
The exterior is finished in silver, and the seller reports an additional clear coat was applied by the second owner. Imperfections are shown in detail in the gallery below. The stock sealed-beam headlights have been updated with Hella H4 units, and a pair of fog lights are mounted under the front bumper.
Factory wheels wear new Hankook tires displaying 2017 date codes. The suspension was recently fitted with new Bilstein B4 shocks, and the braking system features new lines along with fresh front pads and rotors.
Blue velour seating surfaces are captured in detail in the gallery below along with close-up shots of the interior plastics, carpets, and steel floors.
Interior modifications are said to be limited to a period Alpine cassette deck and the recent addition by the seller of Bluetooth capability, a Saab-Clarion amplifier, and remote keyless entry. The 6-digit odometer shows just under 84k miles.
The turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four sends power to the front wheels through a 5-speed manual gearbox. Approximately 7k miles have been driven over the course of the seller's ownership. Maintenance during that time is summarized in the gallery below, and included:
Engine flush & new transmission oil (83k miles)
New cam cover gaskets, remanufactured distributor, timing adjustment, new alternator/power steering/air conditioning belts, new Bosch fuel injectors, new oxygen sensor (81k miles)
New clutch master and slave cylinders, new Garrett AiResearch T3 turbocharger (78k miles)
Rebuilt alternator, new voltage regulator (77k miles)
Several undercarriage photos are included in the gallery below.
The Carfax report lists no history of accidents or prior damage, contains additional service entries, and shows ownership history in New York and Illinois.
A detailed overview of the car can be viewed in the video clip above.
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Revealed: The 'triple dipper' Conservative MP who is paid nearly £100,000 a year for three elected jobs
Victoria Borwick, the MP for Kensington, is paid an extra £30,000 a year as both a councillor at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and member of the London Assembly
By Christopher Hope and Christopherhope 20 June 2015 • 12:07pm
Victoria Borwick Credit: Photo: Paul Grover
A Conservative MP who represents one of Britain's richest constituencies has been branded a "triple dipper" for topping up her Parliamentary salary with tens of thousands of pounds in public money from two additional elected roles.
Victoria Borwick, the MP for Kensington, is claiming nearly £30,000 a year expenses as both a councillor at Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and member of the London Assembly.
The decision to carry on claiming contrasts sharply with some other Labour MPs who have continued as London councillors but have given up their allowances to avoid taking two salaries on the public purse.
New Labour MPs Neil Coyle and Helen Hayes both stopped claiming thousands of pounds worth of expenses as councillors in Southwark last month, despite carrying on as councillors.
• Meet the new Conservative women MPs
Mrs Borwick's claims from her two other elected roles mean that she is paid more than £96,000 a year in public money, as much as a minister in the Government.
One MP said: "She is a 'triple dipper' from the taxpayer and she is obviously not doing all three jobs at the same time. She must be a part time councillor, a part time assembly member and a part-time MP.
(Evening Standard / eyevine)
"You can't do three jobs at once - she should make her mind up and give one of them up immediately."
Mr Coyle said: "It's very important that those managing public finances are seen to act with integrity. People proposing the need to cut back public spending further should also ensure they are seen to minimise their personal take from the public purse."
Mrs Borwick, as a councillor in Kensington and Chelsea's Abingdon Ward, is entitled to top up her £67,060 a year MP's salary with a basic allowance £10,810 a year to allow her to fulfil her duties as a local councillor.
Victoria Borwick opened the Salvation Army Notting Hill Corps' 'Green Pastures' garden space, now ready for visitors. pic.twitter.com/e6q9h9Mxoy
— Victoria Borwick (@backborwick) June 6, 2015
She will continue to claim the money until she stands down as a councillor at the next local elections in Kensington in May 2018.
She is also taking home a reduced or "abated" salary of £18,387 a year as a member of the Greater London Assembly before she stands down as a GLA member next year.
Mrs Borwick, who quit as deputy mayor of London on May 13, will receive a deferred payoff of at least £27,500 when she quits the London Assembly next May.
Mrs Borwick, 59, whose application to replace Sir Malcolm Rifkind in the seat was personally backed by London Mayor Boris Johnson, defended her decision.
She can use the title "Lady" because she is married to Lord Borwick, a hereditary peer who has sat in the House of Lords since 2013. The couple live in a £6.6million home in Chelsea and have four children.
Victoria Borwick speaks as Teachers join health and education experts at City Hall to discuss health and well-being in schools (Demotix)
She told The Sunday Telegraph: "I am a backbench councillor and yes I claim my allowance.
"I currently have weekly meetings with the Leader or cabinet members to drive forward the local Kensington agenda in Parliament."
There were "a number of new initiatives" on childcare and HS2 that she was keen to pursue.
She said: "Like other constituencies we have joint meetings with Councillors and constituents, which is helpful, as often a constituent is not sure the 'right way into the system' and approaches the MP for help when actually their local councillor is their best point of contact (and vice versa)."
Mrs Borwick said she "was asked in my selection specifically not to cause a by-election which I have undertaken not to do".
Mrs Borwick confirmed that she is receiving an "abated salary" to continue as a member of the London Assembly until the elections next year.
Just met #Conservative candidate Victoria Borwick at Kensington polling station to talk about her campaign #SWLGE2015 pic.twitter.com/dbzUZbQErs
— Matilda Long (@tilda_long) May 7, 2015
She added: "I have given up my previous role as the Deputy Mayor of London as that involved a great deal of evening and weekend work and I wish to give that time to my constituency.
"I am fortunate as a London MP that I have been able to attend constituency events, meetings with residents and support local voluntary organisations during the week."
Mrs Borwick's predecessor as MP for Kensington Sir Malcolm Rifkind had complained that it was "unrealistic" to live on £60,000 shortly before quitting after being caught in a cash for access investigation by The Daily Telegraph in February.
A House of Commons spokesman said: "There is no rule prohibiting MPs from also being Councillors, and there is precedent for this combination.
"If an MP holds and draws salary for another elected office they must register this as a financial interest.
"Some MPs who have a dual mandate opt not to claim the salary for both offices; in these cases they may declare the position as 'unpaid'."


I set the scale to 8.5" yet when I reopen the document it is 8.0"
I've just tried this myself by making a new document that is 8.5" tall. I then exit the document, reopen it and go to Document > Resize. In that dialog the document is correctly reported as being 8.5" tall. Are you able to do a screen recording (either using iOS11 or QuickTime on Mac) showing the problem you are getting?


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1Password now officially available for Linux
I'm a bit of a mess at managing my passwords. Years ago, when I was using the Mac more, Apple released its iCloud Keychain, so I started using a manager for the first time in my life. Later, I started using more Firefox, I have been adding the necessary passwords by hand and I have the most common ones in Lockwise. But now I use Vivaldi, and what did I do? Well, import the information from Firefox. Therefore, I have them in 3 different places, something that would not be necessary if I used a real manager such as 1PasswordNot to mention, the danger of my passwords being leaked due to a security breach is multiplied by three.
When he spoke of a real manager he was not saying that Lockwise was not, but also; is that others such as Bitwarden, KeePassXC or the protagonist of this article are programs designed to manage passwords and can be used on any computer and any browser. And this is more true than ever since today, since, after a time in beta, 1Password for Linux has released its first official version and stable. And the best part is that the application integrates seamlessly with Linux.
1Password seamlessly integrates into Linux
The app has some open source components like Electron and Rust, but 1Password works better on Linux than other managers. We are talking about your application, that is what this article is about, that there is already a native application and then we will explain how to install it.
The easiest way to install 1Password on Ubuntu / Debian is by using its DEB package, available at this link. There is also a version like snap package, but right now it is still in beta. For other distributions, AgileBits has a complete guide at this link. At the time of writing, and it is not known if there are any plans for it, it is not available as a Flatpak package.
All the usual features, and more you have in Linux
Automatic dark mode selection based on our GTK theme.
Opening of network locations (FTP, SSH, SMB).
Integration with GNOME, KDE and other desktop window managers.
System tray icon.
Open and fill in the default username / password in the browser.
X11 clipboard integration and deletion.
Support for GNOME and KDE Wallet keychains.
Integration of the core keychain.
DBUS API support.
Command line API.
Integration with system lockout and idle services.
What surprises me is that AgileBits, developer of 1Password, has included functions in the Linux version that have not yet reached the rest of the operating systemsNot even Windows, which is always the one they pamper the most. Among the functions we have in the Linux version, we have secure file attachments, article archiving and deletion, password security monitor, details can be shared to see who has accessed what, and quick and smart search suggestion.
€ 4 / month that are worth it for demanding users
The bad from the point of view of a not demanding user like me is that not only is it not free, but it has a price a bit high. After the first month of trial, being able to use 1Password will have a price of € 3.99 / month. It is not cheap, but it is worth it for demanding users or those who also share passwords, since one of the novelties that the Linux version includes is that which shares details to know who has used each password.
Of course, those who are subscribed will continue to be able to use the rest of the options, such as extensions for browser or mobile applications, all without restrictions, although there is an option for businesses for € 7.99 and another with even more advantages for a price that depends on the preferences of the company, which is why it is not available on the website.
If you are demanding users, or simply need to be less of a mess than me, the official landing of 1Password on Linux is news that interests you.
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DONORS NEEDED NOW
Local blood banks send out 'urgent appeal' after fatal train derailment
By Kelly Moyer | December 21, 2017 5:30 am | comments
Phlebotomists Jake Cole (left) and Leah Hauge (right) with Bloodworks Northwest, handle donated blood on Monday, Dec. 18, at the Camas Public Library. The two Bloodworks Northwest employees said donors are needed this week and throughout the holidays to help replenish blood supplies after a fatal train crash north of Olympia killed three people and sent more than 70 passengers to regional hospitals.
(Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)
Bloodworks Northwest collected blood donations throughout the day on Monday, Dec. 18, at the Camas Public Library.
Bloodworks Northwest, which provides donated blood to hospitals throughout Washington, Oregon and Alaska, sent out an "urgent appeal" for blood donors Monday, after a fatal Amtrak train crash north of Olympia killed three and injured more than 70.
Local blood banks sent out an urgent appeal for donors this week, after an Amtrak passenger train derailed off an Interstate 5 overpass between Tacoma and Olympia Monday morning, killing three people and injuring more than 70 others.
The incident stressed regional blood banks, said James P. AuBuchon, MD, president and CEO of Bloodworks Northwest, a nonprofit that provides donated blood to more than 90 hospitals in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, including PeaceHealth hospitals in Southwest Washington.
"Bloodworks has issued more than 150 units of blood to respond to emergency orders from hospitals receiving people injured in the tragedy," AuBuchon said Monday. "Many of the casualties have been taken to South Sound hospitals — including St. Joseph's Medical Center, St. Peter's Hospital and Madigan Army Medical Center — who all depend on Bloodworks to meet their patient needs. … We need to replenish our supplies to meet the needs of injured people today, and in the days ahead, as well as to meet normal needs."
Bloodworks Northwest representatives said O-type blood, AB plasma and platelets are especially needed, but that people of all blood types are, of course, encouraged to donate blood.
"Having blood already on the shelves is essential when unforeseeable emergencies or tragedies happen," AuBuchon said. "To avoid a crisis for the local blood supply, we're urging donors who have not donated recently to schedule an appointment as soon as they can at a donor center or mobile drive."
On Monday, Bloodworks Northwest was set up at the Camas Public Library in downtown Camas, collecting blood from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The blood drive is part of the group's normal, every-two-months schedule at the Camas library, but phlebotomists Jake Cole and Leah Hauge said they tend to see an uptick in donors after major incidents like the trail derailment — even for emergencies that aren't necessarily connected to the Pacific Northwest.
"After the Orlando shooting, we were inundated with people," Cole said, referring to the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49 people and injured 58 others.
The new donations are critical in helping local and regional blood banks restore their supplies after major medical incidents like Monday's train derailment, Cole and Hauge said.
AuBuchon added that Bloodworks tends to see a drop in donors during the winter holidays.
"During the holidays the number of donors visiting our centers and drives goes down by 15 to 20 percent — with high schools and colleges on break, and people busy with social gatherings and vacations. Since blood can be broken down into components, every donation can potentially help three people," AuBuchon said. "Donors who can't come in today can still help our community respond to this tragedy by scheduling a donation for tomorrow, or during the rest of this week. This will help meet the needs of accident victims receiving ongoing care and help us replenish our supply. "
To find a donation center near you, visit bloodworksnw.org. Appointments are encouraged, but the centers will take walk-ins. To make an appointment to donate your blood, visit schedule.bloodworksnw.org or call 1-800-398-7888.
The Vancouver Bloodworks Northwest donation center is located at 9320 N.E. Vancouver Mall Blvd., Suite 100, Vancouver. The center will be closed on Christmas Day and New Year's Day, but is open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., on the two Saturdays preceding the holidays, Dec. 23 and Dec. 30. For more information and hours, visit http://www.bloodworksnw.org/donate/locations/vancouver.
Cole said donating blood takes less than an hour, from registration to donating to being ready to walk out the door.
"It's typically a 30- to 45-minute process," he said.
Cole added that donated blood usually makes its way to a person in need within two weeks. Even though blood donated today likely won't help victims of the Amtrak crash, it will help blood banks replenish their supplies.
If you can't donate over the holidays, the Camas Church of the Nazarene is hosting a blood drive through the American Red Cross from 1 to 6:30 p.m., Friday, Jan. 5, at the church, 2204 N.E. Birch St., Camas. For more information about this event, and to reserve a donation time, contact Gared Skorick at 360-607-2382 or at Skorick.G.L@gmail.com.


The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a delay in the effective date of the final rule on Examinations of Working Places in Metal and Nonmetal Mines from May 23, 2017, to July 24, 2017.
The Mine Safety and Health Administration is proposing to delay the effective date to assure that mine operators and miners affected by the final rule have the training and compliance assistance they need.
MSHA published the final rule on January 23, 2017. The agency is soliciting comments on the limited issue of whether to extend the effective date to July 24, 2017, and whether this extension offers an appropriate length of time for compliance.


When their children were still in early elementary school, the Maseks felt called to make a change. They were happy in their vocation to the married life, parenting, and serving in their parish, but they wanted to do something greater for Jesus.
"We were ready to sell everything we had and move to New Guinea or something," Bob said.
They prayed for direction and prudently consulted a priest. His advice was to stay in Valparaiso and look for God's will there.
"We kept telling God, 'Make sure there is a neon sign showing us the way,'" Susan joked.
Three years went by. In 1999, Bob was at the Lincoln airport for his job when he saw their "neon sign": three newly-arrived Carmelite Sisters.
The sisters were in the diocese to find property for a new monastery. After 11 years in Las Vegas, with no success in finding a permanent home, they had contacted Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz to see if he had a spot for their community.
It turned out the spot – which is now the Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph – was 4 miles south of the Maseks' Valparaiso home. The Carmelites rented a small farmhouse near the building site, with a trailer on one side to serve as a chapel. The Maseks volunteered to help the sisters move in and later served as errand runners and chauffeurs.
Almost immediately, the sisters made a big impact on the Masek family.
The Mass celebrated in the extraordinary form ("Latin") was an eye-opener for the Maseks, too. Sitting in the back row of the makeshift chapel, they were inspired by the holy reverence of traditional liturgy.
"The very first time, we thought, 'Where has this been all our lives?'" Susan recalled.
Some weeks later, the prioress, Mother Teresa of Jesus, asked the Maseks to become the caretakers of the Carmel. Bob and Susan were dumbfounded.
Respectfully, Bob started to explain to Mother they weren't qualified to oversee a 50,000-square-foot monastery and surrounding property.
During Thanksgiving week of 2001, enough of the monastery had been completed for the sisters to move in. Simultaneously, the Maseks moved into the new caretaker's home, which the sisters had designed to suit them exactly.
Their house is attached to the guest quarters for discerning women and the sisters' visiting families. The Maseks maintain the guesthouse, sometimes providing meals as requested by Mother.
When the guests are family members of women entering the cloister, the Maseks offer spiritual and emotional support. Susan said that they sometimes draw on their experience running a funeral home years ago.
In fact, some parents have confided in the Maseks that since their daughters have entered the cloister, their relationship is closer than ever.
While continuing to work their jobs in Lincoln, the Maseks shop for the sisters, pick up mail, transport potential postulants to and from the airport, and perform general grounds and building maintenance. For more advanced work, a pre-approved list of contractors have permission to enter the cloister, accompanied by sisters, to do repairs.
The sisters themselves do most of the work within the monastery. They milk the cows, garden, can vegetables, clean, cook, and so forth. They also produce prayer cards, embroider liturgical linens, and use their God-given talents in other ways to serve the Church.
"Whatever talent a sister has, those talents are magnified here," Bob said.
In these last 16 years, the Maseks have become like extended family members of the sisters. Immediately after their daughter's wedding, the newlyweds and their parents went to enjoy a couple hours with the sisters, who sang to them beautifully from the other side of the grille. When their son was paralyzed in a serious accident, the whole Masek family was sustained by the sisters' prayers.
Twice, the Carmel population has grown large enough to start new monasteries in other dioceses. One group left for Elysburg, Penn. in 2009, and the other moved to Kensington, Calif., in 2013. The sisters are currently praying for God's will regarding yet another new community.
Each time, the Maseks said goodbye to a group of sisters they truly love. They recognize that it's probably harder on them than it is on the Carmelites, though.
Bob and Susan both say they have grown exponentially in terms of faith and trust in the Lord. Their joy and contentment is palpable.
"We never worry any more," Susan smiled.
All are welcome to visit the Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph for Mass celebrated in the extraordinary form. Mantillas (head coverings), while more custom than obligation, are available in the chapel vestibule for women to borrow.
If visitors would like to support the sisters by donating supplies such as paper products, shelf-stable vegetarian food items or funding, there is a turn room that is open to the public. Items can be placed on circular shelf that rotates into the cloister.
Also, the sisters love to pray for the people of the diocese. Prayer requests can be mailed to Mother Teresa of Jesus, O.C.D., Prioress; Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph, 9300 Agnew Road, Valparaiso, NE 68065.


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My story, Somewhere On Sebastian Street, is a homage to my friend and fellow writer Gary McMahon, and was directly inspired by a story called The Row which appeared in his collection It Knows Where You Live. I've been a fan of Gary's writing for many years, and have seen him blossom into a major literary force. As well as being both generous and genuine, he's an incredibly lovely bloke. I'm deeply honoured to be appearing alongside him in this book, as well as with loads of other greats from the genre.


Yesterday, someone close to me shared the pain of his son's incarceration due to drug abuse and brushes with the law. Also this week, I received a letter from a prisoner sentenced to twenty years for meth. He was a graduate of St. Mary's High school where my kids go. After reading Amazing Grace for Survivors, the book I co-authored with Jeff Cavins and Matthew Pinto, he contacted me offering to share his own conversion story.
By all rights, he said he should be dead. Instead, by the grace of God, he has converted and wants to give the rest of his life to God and to help others. I encouraged him to write his story which I hope to post on this website in the future.
I think that having a child slip away into a life of crime and/or drugs has to be the deepest pain. Cancer, injury and other physical hardships, are excruciatingly hard to watch our children suffer through. However, nothing can compare to watching helplessly as a child turns from God, risking eternal pain.
I was reminded of the story of pain and triumph that was included in the Amazing Grace for Families book: the story of Sherry Grace I interviewed Sherry Grace and ghost wrote her story, so we spent some time together. She is the founder and Executive Director of Mothers of Incarcerated Sons, Inc., http://www.mothersofinmates.org/ and she has dedicated her life to turning the misfortune that plagued her household into a launching pad of success for countless families and men in prisons across the country. "Grace" is truly a fitting name for this lady. Her strength and trust in God was inspiring and her love for others contagious. I am sharing it here to support anyone dealing with a wayward child and to remind us all to pray for the conversion of sinners and their families who grieve for them.
Humming softly, I looked down at my young daughter and let out a deep sigh. Thankfully, Angelina had drifted off to sleep. I tucked her in bed and tiptoed out of her bedroom and into the horror from which I was trying to protect my little girl. The police had paid our family yet another visit. With a search warrant in hand, they had free reign of our house, searching for drugs and illegal weapons. Edmund, age eight, stood with my husband, Willie Lee. I did not want him to be a witness to the scene, but being two years older than his sister, Edmund was not so willing to let me whisk him away under my protective wing.
"It wasn't suppose to be this way," I thought angrily. I had gone from living the American dream to waking up in my worst nightmare. There was nothing my husband and I would not do for our four children, yet our two oldest sons, Andre and Avery, were teenage delinquents. They had become entangled with drugs and gangs.
I had wanted to do everything right for my children. I took a leave from my work as a model and interior designer in order to stay home to raise them. My husband provided for the family as a dentist. His love and willingness to care for us knew no bounds. We lived in a comfortable four-bedroom home in a suburb of Orlando, Florida. Playgrounds and story time filled my days while the boys were little. When they reached school age, we sent them to private Christian schools. I drove to every field trip and rarely missed a Home and School meeting. I never thought I'd have to fight with the streets, but the lure of the wild side enticed my boys. Venturing out of the sanctuary of our loving family, they were smitten with fast-talking, hard driving hoods. Andre was first arrested in 1992 for breaking into a car. Then months later Avery was arrested for breaking and entering. In time, the police were banging at our door on a weekly basis. Sometimes the boys ran into our house shaking with fear that some gang member was going to shoot them.
It was our oldest son that blazed the trail by joining a cousin into criminal activity. Avery, ever the gentle soul, had been a "square" and called a sissy until it broke him down and he turned to the dark side. As the boy's lives unraveled, a wedge was driven between my husband and me. The love that had been our glue was strained when he responded to them with love and indulgence. I felt he was sabotaging my efforts at discipline when he bailed them out of trouble. The clashes between us were many.
How did we get to this point? I kept asking myself. I prayed relentlessly. The boys were in and out of jail. Finally, I decided I could not let pride get in my way. Instead of trying to hide my pain, I began asking everyone I knew to pray for them.
It did not happen overnight, but gradually, they surrendered to God. While they were in their twenties, both began to turn to prayer and the Bible. For a time, Andre straddled a line between God and the streets. He was married with a two-year-old son and two weeks away from receiving a dental technician degree when he was arrested one last time. In the halls of the courtroom, his son ran up to "Daddy" but a guard stopped the two from having any contact. Seeing the pain and confusion in his little boy broke Andre's heart. While serving his six-month jail sentence, his wife gave birth to their little girl. He knew his own pain was nothing compared to the pain he had caused others. Andre knew he had to choose to serve God and God alone. He turned his back on the streets nine years ago and has never turned back.
Andre, age 32, is now a loving husband and father of three children. God has turned his life around so completely that he is a church and youth leader and works with senior citizens. Andrea has also been a keynote speaker for correction programs. As a motivational speaker, he has spoken before judges and police officers that once knew him as a criminal.
Avery currently suffers from a mental disability, and is in a state hospital. Thus far, medication has not been able to help him. But my heart is at peace. One of the nurses told me that when he is in reality, he reads his Bible and is often on his knees praying. During their days in trouble, I often prayed: "If my sons should die in the street and I am not there, let them call your name before they close their eyes." Avery knows God and loves Him so my prayer has been answered. I know that Avery's suffering is not wasted. I am as proud of him as my other children.
But my story is not just one of conversion for my sons. Their experience has converted me in way that never would have happened without the pain. When we turn to God, He does not just end the bad; He can use it for good.
During my years of anguish, I learned of so many other mothers whose hearts were being ripped apart by sons involved in crime. Typically, they were embarrassed and felt like failures. I came to believe that God was asking me to give these women the support of each other and of God. With my husband's emotional and financial support, I started Mothers of Incarcerated Sons on Mother's Day in 2001. On a shoestring budget and with volunteers, we are now in 120 prisons in 32 states. MIS does everything from starting support groups for mothers (and fathers are welcomed too) to help find jobs for paroled prisoners. Sons, who are released from prison, are encouraged to come to the support groups and pray with the other mothers who still have sons incarcerated. Prayer and a mother's love are powerful gateways to a new life.
I often visit prisons and tell the inmates, "You mean so much to God that He set you aside from the distractions of the world. You are in a university of learning now where you can listen to God and prepare yourself for His service." They can make their failure temporary and move from pain to providence to power, by the grace of God.
This grassroots effort just keeps growing. We have not received any major grants but we appeal to churches to make a monthly financial commitment to help us do God's work in the prisons. God is our CEO. It is He who can change hearts and set us free.
In 2002, Essence Magazine listed me among the "Fifty Most Inspiring African Americans" and then in 2004 selected me as one of the "Thirty Most Beautiful Women in the World". Like so much of my life, it's something I never dreamed of. I accept the title most humbly because it helps publicize our program and focuses on my own source of inspiration—God and love of family. With such inspiration, anything is possible.


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While admitting humans are experiencing the highest incidence of disease and that thousands of dangerous chemicals are used in products people consume, a World Health Organization report says there is only weak evidence that human health has been adversely affected by the abundance of those chemicals in food and other products.
There are two facts that are undeniable when it comes to human health. First, despite great advances in science and technology, humans are sicker beings today –both mentally and physically–, when compared to half a century ago, for example. Even worse, the incidence of previously unknown or inexistant diseases has grown exponentially due to 'inexplicable' reasons. Second, those who were charged with verifying the safety of the production processes and the goods that are mass-produced for human consumption, failed to point out the dangers, and the side effects of thousands of substances used in the manufacture of industrial products.
The reason for the failure to properly guard human health and the environment from toxic chemicals varies, and it needs to be investigated on a case to case basis, but generally it occurred either due to lack of knowledge or because those watching out for our safety overlooked clear evidence that certain chemicals posed a direct threat to humanity and the environment. Three cases in point: DDT, fluoride in the water, mercury in vaccines, pesticides and herbicides.
In 2013, 41 years after its creation, the World Health Organization finally decided to publish a document where it expresses its concern about the adverse effects that toxic chemicals may have in humans; specifically on the human endocrine system. The document issued by the WHO titled Global Assessment of the State‐of‐the‐Science of Endocrine Disruptors, addresses what millions of people around the world, and thousands of health care practitioners have warned about for many years: chemicals put in the foods we eat, the water we drink and others used in industrial processes harm human health and gravely contaminate the environment.
Unfortunately, the report starts by playing down the role of industrial chemicals in the exponential appearance of disease among humans. The WHO cites as its final conclusion that "although it is clear that certain environmental chemicals can interfere with normal hormonal processes, there is weak evidence that human health has been adversely affected by exposure to endocrine-active chemicals." As many other unaccountable global organizations, the WHO refused to look at independently gathered evidence that raised concerns about the poisoning of humans and the environment by the industrial process and how chemicals used in the production of food, for example, was the origin of previously unknown diseases.
It took 16 years for the WHO to accept and implement the advice provided by various health groups about the serious problem with the way food is produced as well as the way toxic chemicals are used in the production of the food we ingest. Back in 1997, the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety and the Environment Leaders of the Eight regarding the issue of EDCs, the International Programme on Chemical Safety (IPCS), a joint programme of WHO, UNEP and the International Labour Organization, began preparing the report issued in 2013.
Along with its general conclusion that its panel of scientists did not find enough evidence –despite all the evidence that exists– that human health is indeed adversely affected by exposure to endocrine disruptors found in toxic chemicals, the WHO report highlights just over a dozen other warning signs that humans, animals and the environment as a whole MAY be experiencing the consequences of systematic poisoning.
After explaining that life on Earth depends on its ability to reproduce and developed normally, the WHO report explains that there is a high incidence and a growing trend of endocrine-related disorders in humans; that there are observations of endocrine-related effects in wildlife populations; and that there is enough evidence that chemicals to which everyone is exposed to have endocrine disrupting properties linked to disease outcomes in laboratory studies. Amazingly, the WHO admits that there is more evidence to suggest that toxic chemicals DO cause endocrine disruptions on animals than on humans.
Figure 2. Overview of the endocrine system. Obtained from WHO report "State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals". 2013.
The report found that endocrine-related diseases and disorders are on the rise, especially on young men. It related that in some countries, up to 40% of young men show low semen quality, which translates in their inability to have children. In addition to infertility, the report calls attention to the incidence of genital malformations, adverse pregnancy outcomes, neurobehavioural disorders associated with thyroid disruption, an unexplained rise in endocrine-related cancers that include breast, endometrial, ovarian, prostate, testicular and thyroid, earlier development of the breasts in young girls and the prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes, which increased exponentially all over the world for the past 40 years.
The World Health Organization reports that some 800 chemicals are confirmed or suspected to interfere with hormone receptors, hormonal synthesis or conversion and that only a small amount of those chemicals have been properly studied to determine their negative effects on the organisms. That is to say, health watchdogs –both at the national and international levels– traditionally failed to test for the potential or demonstrated threats that toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of food products presented to humans and other forms of life. "The vast majority of chemicals in current commercial use have not been tested at all," the study admits.
As many independent observations have previously warned, humans and all life on this planet are continuously exposed to Endocrine Disruptive Chemicals (EDC), which traditionally occurs in low but permanent levels. The WHO report confirms this fact by saying that evidence shows that humans and wildlife are exposed to more EDCs than just those found in persistent organic pollutants. The report also confirms that food and drinking water are two major contributors of human and animal poisoning, but that the list of those elements that poison us all is long.
"Children can have higher exposures to chemicals compared with adults—for example, through their hand-to-mouth activity and higher metabolic rate. The speed with which the increases in disease incidence have occurred in recent decades rules out genetic factors as the sole plausible explanation."
Figure 3. Sensitive windows of development. Each tissue has a specific window during development when it is forming. Obtained from WHO report "State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals". 2013.
The statement above is damning evidence that most, if not all supposedly genetically transmitted diseases, are not really passed on to humans by their progenitors, but by their exposure to chemicals created or used during the production of food and other products. The report goes on detailing that chemicals such as DDT, PCB's, diethylstilbestrol (DES) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), often used in pesticides and herbicides, or for controlling insect reproduction, are to blame for breast cancer, prostate cancer, non-descended testes.
How can they then say that the evidence is weak when it comes to the relation between toxic chemicals and mass spread disease?
The assessment on endocrine disruptors clarified that much of the damage caused by toxic chemicals happens during pregnancy or early in human life. "Numerous laboratory studies support the idea that chemical exposures contribute to endocrine disorders in humans and wildlife."
Again, where is the weak link then?
"Developmental exposures can cause changes that, while not evident as birth defects, can induce permanent changes that lead to increased incidence of diseases throughout life.
These insights from endocrine disruptor research in animals have an impact on current practice in toxicological testing and screening. Instead of solely studying effects of exposures in adulthood, the effects of exposures during sensitive windows in fetal development, perinatal life, childhood and puberty require careful scrutiny."
The WHO report openly admits that organizations that are supposed to be vigilant about the adverse effects of poisons used in the industrial manufacture process have failed time after time to do that very task. "There has been a failure to adequately address the underlying environmental causes of trends in endocrine diseases and disorders."
Is there room here for liability?
According to the WHO, disease risk induced by endocrine disrupting chemicals may have been significantly underestimated. That is to say, doctors and other health care practitioners who up until today follow the teachings of modern medicine as their base to diagnose disease while ignoring –sometimes purposely– the evidence presented by many studies on the adverse effects of EDC's, are also to blame for current wave of 'unknown' or 'untreatable disorders.
"We know that humans and wildlife are simultaneously exposed to many EDCs; thus, the measurement of the linkage between exposure to mixtures of EDCs and disease or dysfunction is more physiologically relevant. In addition, it is likely that exposure to a single EDC may cause disease syndromes or multiple diseases, an area that has not been adequately studied." Why not? Certainly nor because of lack of funding. Perhaps disinterest from the part of large pharmaceutical conglomerates who conduct their own studies with the ONLY intention to show whether a product is effective, but not to determine its safety or the long-term adverse effects on humans. The same is true for companies like Monsanto, DuPont, Syngenta and others which brag about their technological discoveries even though many independent tests prove, beyond reasonable doubt that their GMO's, herbicides and pesticides are killing people all over the world.
Despite the mounting evidence presented in its own study, the skyrocketing incidence of disease in the last 50 years and the growing trends that show how EDC's are more and more involved in causing adverse effects on human populations, the WHO again limits the relation between EDC's and disease as a matter of association, instead of going beyond and calling it a matter of cause and effect. The report says that human studies can show associations only. But what happens when those associations continue to appear, study after study? Doesn't that build a clear relationship of cause and effect?
Since most main stream corporate or government financed studies do not properly test for the effects of EDC's on humans, because they are conducted with a very low number of subjects and for a very short time, the WHO has determined that this 'association' does not go beyond casual results that do not offer enough evidence to pose a cause and effect relationship. This is so, because although the mounting evidence, most tests are not designed to show that cause-effect relationship, which immediately invalidates them as reliable proof or evidence that toxic chemicals have –for a long time– caused disease in people and polluted the environment.
The report correctly points out that the shift already taking place from determining associations to testing for links –cause and effect– is the way to go to show what it deems as solid evidence that toxic chemicals indeed cause disease. But the WHO still fails to recognize what many studies have determined: that the adverse effects of early and continuous exposure to toxic chemicals are only detected late in life. Those effects, as explained before, are usually misdiagnosed by most doctors, who usually tell their patients that the origin of their illness is still unknown and that there is no way to treat the causes; only the symptoms. At this point, patients are condemned to taking pharmaceutical drugs for the rest of their lives, which eventually end up killing them due to their own adverse effects.
So, the state of human health today is equally bad from two different fronts. People are either killed by long-term exposure to toxic chemicals used in the production process of food or in the food itself, or they die while trying to 'cure' their diseases with industrialized pharmaceuticals whose own side effects are as deadly as those from the chemicals people are trying to get rid of. Either way, people die long, painful deaths.
So what is next? What needs to be done to end this vicious circle of disease? Can long-term studies be the solution? I think it is too little too late for that. Waiting another 10 or 20 years to see the result of long-term tests is not something a lot of people can afford now. That does not mean that those studies should not be done. It means that people need to find solutions by themselves. Now that the World Health Organization has finally confessed they have not done their job to protect people from dangerous substances –quite the opposite is true– people need to understand that their nutrition is their responsibility. It always has been so. From the part of the organizations that are supposed to keep us safe from the dangers of toxic chemicals, it is time to stop talking and start walking.
Luis R. Miranda is the Founder and Editor of The Real Agenda. His 16 years of experience in Journalism include television, radio, print and Internet news. Luis obtained his Journalism degree from Universidad Latina de Costa Rica, where he graduated in Mass Media Communication in 1998. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcasting from Montclair State University in New Jersey. Among his most distinguished interviews are: Costa Rican President Jose Maria Figueres and James Hansen from NASA Space Goddard Institute. Read more about Luis.
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The battery has an incredible amount of energy and touching your wrench directly to the surrounding sheetmetal causes a lot of sparks and turns your wrench into a red-hot skin-burning implement. Pay close attention to the fuse box because it safeguards the wiring. The clips fit into pre-punched holes along the core support and fenders. After many long hours, we have stealthily run each wire to each connector. This is intended for Second Gen Camaro info only. When installing this part, make sure it is not hung up on the firewall pad.
The stock points have a single wire sticking out of the bottom and the Pertronix ignition conversion kit has two wires, a positive and a ground wire. To install the dash harness, you can lie under the dash and reinstall each connection, or you can pre-wire the dash on the workbench and install the entire harness at once. It might seem like a complex and confusing mess, but if you approach this logically and use the sites wiring diagrams you'll be able to understand what's going on. Everyone needs to see this thread, this question gets asked at least once a week. Each plug has its own unique shape, and cannot be installed into the wrong switch. Combine that wire with a 12-volt power wire and two-ground wires shown here, and you are business. The rear wiring comes out of the fuse block and runs down the driver side rocker panel.


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Katrina Roen is a New Zealand psychology / sociology academic, and as of 2019 is a full professor at the University of Waikato. She was formerly a visiting researcher at the University of Oslo.

Academic career

After a 1998  PhD titled  'Constructing transsexuality: Discursive manoeuvres through psycho-medical, transgender, and queer texts'  at the University of Canterbury, Roen took up a series of academic posts in Wellington, Lancaster, and then Oslo where she became a visiting researcher.

Selected works
 Popay, Jennie, Helen Roberts, Amanda Sowden, Mark Petticrew, Lisa Arai, Mark Rodgers, Nicky Britten, Katrina Roen, and Steven Duffy. "Guidance on the conduct of narrative synthesis in systematic reviews." A product from the ESRC methods programme Version 1 (2006): b92.
 Roen, Katrina. "" Either/Or" and" Both/Neither": Discursive Tensions in Transgender Politics—TEST." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 27, no. 2 (2002): 501-522.
 McDermott, Elizabeth, Katrina Roen, and Jonathan Scourfield. "Avoiding shame: Young LGBT people, homophobia and self‐destructive behaviours." Culture, Health & Sexuality 10, no. 8 (2008): 815–829.
 Scourfield, Jonathan, Katrina Roen, and Liz McDermott. "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender young people's experiences of distress: resilience, ambivalence and self‐destructive behaviour." Health & social care in the community 16, no. 3 (2008): 329–336.
 Roen, Katrina. "Transgender theory and embodiment: The risk of racial marginalisation." Journal of Gender Studies 10, no. 3 (2001): 253–263.

References

External links

Living people
Academic staff of the University of Waikato
New Zealand women academics
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Canterbury alumni

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On the Morning Consult Poll, Margins of Error, and the Undecideds in the Democratic Primary
by Doug Johnson
Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair
Update/Correction: Morning Consult has responded to the article via email, apologizing that our initial query went to spam. The article has been updated to reflect their insistence that they do not simply "flush" undecided voters as the piece originally suggested it may. Rather, Morning Consult strongly asks people to say which way they would lean if they had to choose (no option for undecided/don't know on this follow up question).
Morning Consult regularly has Joe Biden a fair higher than every other polling firm at this point, and, as they have usually throughout the 2020 Democratic primary cycle to date, also have Bernie Sanders a bit higher than the average.
Morning Consult also has, by far and away, the largest sample size each week, with a reported margin of error (MOE) of 1%. So, is Morning Consult or its MOE wrong? Or are all the other polling firms missing something that Morning Consult is onto with its large sample size and, per my diving into their full tables as sent to me over the course of three weeks around Biden's entry into the race, fair weighting of a broad array of demographics?
Based on data in this chart and further explanation below, I think neither is quite wrong. It's just that Morning Consult is handling undecided voters in a unique way that understandably stretches Biden's share and, to a lesser extent, Sanders' share. (MC in the chart = Morning Consult; DK = Undecided or Don't Know respondents.)
I wrote about this problem (and proved absolutely correct) ahead of the UK General Election in 2017 here. And I spent a bit of time on it for this 2020 Democratic cycle in this article, but without the specific focus on Morning Consult.
When polling firms simply flush "undecided" or "don't know" voters from their sample and then report the findings without any other adjustments, they automatically boost the leader an extra amount, and where the lead is already big, the problem becomes even worse. I noted originally here that I was unsure whether or not Morning Consult was following this practice. Anthony Patterson, Morning Consult's Director of Communications, has written to clarify:
[T]hose respondents who select "don't know" or "no opinion" the first time around are then prompted with the lean question and provided candidate options along with an option for "someone else." If someone selects "someone else" they are asked to specify and write-in a name. With that said, respondents are not permitted to select undecided for this particular question.
But what would happen if they allowed people to remain undecided or did not ask the lean question at all? Patterson noted that their lead data scientist is currently out of the office, and that I could expect further response once they return.
Supposing their initial undecided numbers are similar to other polling firms, Column B in the above chart are Morning Consult's numbers as reported for June 10-16, while Column C is what you get if you put back in the current average of other polling firms' undecided/don't know respondents. Biden's share drops 6.4%; Sanders' drops 2.7%. And this brings them both into pretty close alignment with the strict average of all polls in the field at least one day in June (and RealClearPolitics' overall average right now as well).
In fact, Elizabeth Warren at a 3.1% difference is the only candidate's average that falls outside the 1% MOE as compared to the June strict average. Buttigieg is at 1.7%, but since I've found over several election cycles that a strict 10 day average is generally right within a 1% margin, on the gap between two leading candidates or parties on the final results, this hardly seems remarkable.
Now, my #10at10 average will keep Morning Consult's results in them as presented by Morning Consult. I'm even more against unskewing polling for presentation in averages than FiveThirtyEight (which uses a non-transparent House Adjustment on polls). The basic point of this exercise is to show 1) once again, that how a polling firm handles undecideds matters quite a bit and 2) that there really may not be as big of difference as there would initially seem between Morning Consult and the rest of the recent results we have seen. Elizabeth Warren's total is lower than the recent average, outside the MOE, on this account, but with results for Warren ranging from 5% to 19% nationally over the course of June so far, this one difference among twenty-one candidates as polled by Morning Consult is not really all that surprising.
This is a particular data choice by Morning Consult, certainly defensible, but also a data choice that goes a long way to explaining why their share for Sanders and especially for Biden is higher than average. As my previous two articles have noted, most Democrats are persuadable (considering more than one candidate, only having "soft support" for their first choice) and there is reason to believe that Biden's support is exaggerated based on very particular analysis of polling data (including undecideds).
If you assume that Morning Consult is getting about an average number of undecided/don't know respondents as other pollsters, but are pushing people hard to say which way they lean when they are genuinely undecided, their results are pretty consistent with the rest of the field right now: Biden in the low 30s, Sanders around 16 or 17%.
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