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Question: How To Get Your Child Into St Jude?
1 Does St Jude really not charge patients?
2 How do you get referred to St Jude?
3 Do doctors at St Jude Get Paid?
4 What is the average donation to St Jude?
5 How much does it cost to run St. Jude's hospital for one day?
6 What is the survival rate at St Judes hospital?
7 How many cures has St Judes found?
Does St Jude really not charge patients?
Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded in 1962, is a pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children's catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. The hospital costs about US$2.8 million a day to run, but patients are not charged for their care.
How do you get referred to St Jude?
You can contact the Physician / Patient Referral Office or St. Contact St. Jude
Call: 1-888-226-4343 (toll-free) or 901-595-4055. After hours, please feel free to leave a voice mail and the call will be returned the next business day.
Emergencies: page us at 1-800-349-4334.
Do doctors at St Jude Get Paid?
Jude Children's Research Hospital Salary FAQs. The average salary for a Staff Physician is $211,042 per year in United States, which is 8% lower than the average St. Jude Children's Research Hospital salary of $229,500 per year for this job.
What is the average donation to St Jude?
The average gift to St. Jude is about $30. The hospital's biggest fundraising vehicle by far is a direct-mail pledge program called Partners in Hope. The next-largest fundraiser is the Danny Thomas Society, a planned giving program.
How much does it cost to run St. Jude's hospital for one day?
You might be interested: FAQ: How Much Money Does St. Jude Have?
How many cures has St Judes found?
Among the St. Jude collection are more than 1,300 existing medicines, including virtually every drug approved for clinical use in the U.S. for any disease. By testing these medicines, St. Jude scientists have discovered unexpected promise in several adult cancer drugs for treating children with aggressive brain tumors.


I have learned to live without many things in my life, but I am certain that Yin Yoga will NEVER be one of them.
With my demanding schedule of running between fitness classes and private exercise training sessions every day, I find the nurturing calm and self-care I need to recharge my body and mind.
Yin is an introspective practice that offers a chance to turn inward to the calm, quiet center inside all of us. It is a practice of stillness, patience and non-reactivity. To practice Yin is to relinquish control. On the surface, the yin practice might appear uneventful, but if you are able to tune in, you will encounter some fascinating events occurring in the layers beneath the skin.
Yin Yoga stretches and targets both the deep connective tissues between the muscles and the fascia throughout the body. The aim is to increase circulation in the joints and improve flexibility as the poses stretch the joint areas. It also helps us to regulate the body's flow of energy. Yin Yoga is unique in that you are asked to relax in the posture, soften the muscle and move closer to the bone. It is not uncommon to see postures held for three to five minutes.
The Yin practice can help the body restore range of motion.
For healthy range of motion, layers of connective tissue must allow muscles to glide over each other. Often injury, poor posture and aging, among other factors can bind these tissues together, restricting movement between the sliding surfaces of the muscles. Holding poses that gently lengthen the muscles and fascia helps increase their range of motion.
Yin Yoga revitalizes the tissues of the body.
As you hold a yin pose, you feel a release which is the tissues lengthening, hydrating and becoming more pliable. Sometimes a Yin practice can leave you feeling as though you have had a massage.
Yin offers a rare opportunity to feel gratitude for the body.
The simplicity of a yin practice allows us to return to our bodies and to see clearly just how remarkable we really are. There is the sense of heightened awareness moving us closer to contentment.
Holding the poses offer a chance to marinate in stillness. Time becomes open, leaving deadlines, to-do lists and other pressing matters to fade to the background, leaving space for rest and renewal.
The yin practice provides an opportunity to observe, nurture, soothe and calm ourselves.
The long hold times of the poses offer the chance to sit with our emotions.
Our bodies store emotions and it is not uncommon for sensitive thoughts, feelings and memories to surface while practicing any form of yoga. Yin teaches us to be gentle, patient and non-reactive. We feel safe.
Yin Yoga can help us become more resilient to stress.
Surrender is a common theme in yin yoga and giving up the need to control a situation carries with us into our day-to-day lives. The ability to adapt to the ups and downs of life and to manage the changes in our lives with calm can lessen our tendency to stress.
Your health and wellbeing are a balancing act. If you look at the yin/yang symbol, you will see that the white and black forms are in perfect balance. Living very active (yang) lifestyles leave little or no time for the quiet, introspective side. Over time this can be physically, mentally and emotionally draining. Through the yin practice we can restore equilibrium and feel whole.
Many yoga studios offer Yin Yoga, typically in the evenings. Even if you have never taken a yoga class, you will be welcomed and guided during the practice.


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Exploring Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
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Nurry delves into the Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 by Franz Liszt which he composed in 1847, covering this popular classic and what it really means.
Franz Liszt is considered to be the greatest pianist and composer. Nurrry covers the way in which Liszt understood and interpreted this popular Hungarian folk theme. She also explores the different arrangements and techniques that could develop into this mesmerising classic.
The entire rhapsody consists of two sections. The first section is played at a slower pace but once the second section arrives, it picks up speed and becomes a lot faster. All of this is contained in around 21 pages of piano score. There are three basic themes that the rhapsody is based on within the first part while the faster second part is made up of four themes.
We cover the basic folk themes that Lizst used for his composition and Nurry plays us through the appropriate excerpts.
This piece begins in a sombre tone that has a serious undertone. However, as it develops, it ends with amazing pianistic flamboyance, where Liszt showcases his skills, all of which gets us imagining this being performed in front of an engaged audience. He wanted to bring the audience to life by demonstrating how he can push the boundaries of a theme.
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Home Religion BHU row over Muslim Asst Prof: Can't separate Sanskrit Sahitya from religion
BHU row over Muslim Asst Prof: Can't separate Sanskrit Sahitya from religion
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"To students who are protesting with an argument that how can I teach Hinduism when I am a Muslim, I want to say that in Sahitya department, we have to study about the technicalities of Sanskrit literature and famous dramas like Abhigyan Shakuntalam, Uttar Ramcharitam or Mahakavya like Raghuvansh Mahakavya or Harshcharitam and all this has nothing to do with religion," said Dr. Firoze Khan in an interview to Indian Express (https://indianexpress.com/article/india/bhu-protest-sanskrit-professor-firoze-khan-6126419/)
Dr. Khan, a doctorate in Sanskrit, joined as Assistant Professor at Banaras Hindu University's Sanskrit Vidya Dharam Vigyan (SVDV) recently. Ever since, the students have been protesting against his appointment.
Hinduism has been described as the easiest religion to follow. There are apparently no compulsory rituals, no compulsory fasts, no compulsory Pujas to be done every day, and so on. You are either a Hindu or you are not, since it has been described by the courts as a 'way of life'. Basically, this means that it is not a structured religion following any one dogma or head, unlike the Abrahamic religions like Christianity or Islam. It sounds so simple when it is claimed that you are a Hindu whether you go to a temple or not, whether you pray or not, whether you are an atheist or not, whether you are a vegetarian or not, etc. etc. But guess what? If one were to believe the proselytising religions of the world, we are the most regressive and backward religion and we need to be tutored. Worse still, we Hindus love to prove our progressiveness by looking down upon our own rituals, our customs, our desires to keep some things sacred and exclusive for ourselves. That is why we have sects like Arya Samaj, Brahmo Samaj, Brahmakumaris, and more, all talking about either how our rituals and beliefs are out-dated or regressive and need to be amputated and cleaned for it to be acceptable in the modern world. I am not saying that there should be restrictions on changing beliefs – all I am saying is that the path of proving that a sect is good or better than core Hinduism, by quoting that something in core Hinduism is bad, is a dangerous and slippery path.
Similarly, in our haste to prove that we are the most acceptable and tolerant of all faiths, we are ever accepting of others to teach us our own religious scriptures, our own rituals and more. Countless videos of foreigners chanting the Rudra or any shloka, wearing beautiful Indian attires and chanting in a melodious voice, shows up on my phone every day. And these are shared endlessly with people appreciating how much effort has gone in to learning it. But try sharing a Hindu priest with a 'choti' chanting the Rudra the way it is to be chanted, with perfect pronunciation and tone – I guarantee you that very few will listen to the same after two minutes. Why? I believe that it is because we have fallen in love with the idea of a Hinduism which is Secular and Easy to follow as per our desires. We want the melodious chant, not the strict recitation, unless it is during a Yagya which is for granting us our desires or relief from our problems. At that time, no one wants to call a priest who will mispronounce or chant in a melodious voice.
Today we have less than 40,000 students out of a population of 1.32 billion people, who have dedicated their lives to learning Sanskrit and Dharma. These are the students who are in it because they have a desire to learn and follow the rituals, the customs, the wisdom of the ages and then earn from it. And instead of training such students in a way that they keep the fire alive, we want them to bow down to 'secularism' and 'reservations'. Is this not a shame? In such a huge country which is the only country which still has its ancient civilization and Dharma in a living form, we cannot find and train Acharyas who can teach in the traditional way? Should we not be ashamed to give tarpan to our ancestors when we shame the Brahmins who helped us keep our rituals and knowledge systems alive, but were subject to the vilest of accusations, especially since the time we gained independence from the British?
Various newspaper reports quote that Dr. Firoze Khan performed the best from a bunch of other Hindu applicants. And that this is the reason he was selected for this post over other Hindus who had applied. On paper, it is quite possible that Dr. Khan is good, but any person who says, "… famous dramas like Abhigyan Shakuntalam, Uttar Ramcharitam or Mahakavya like Raghuvansh Mahakavya or Harshcharitam and all this has nothing to do with religion" doesn't care about the core of these dramas. Didn't Kalidasa start his Raghuvamsham with a prayer to Shiva – Vagarthaviva Sampraktau …"? Is this not part of Hindu Religion? Can one talk about Harishchandra and the Maangalyam of Shaivya or about why daan to Vishwamitra without giving dakshina was incomplete, without talking about Hindu rituals? These are integral to Hindu religion and not to be taken just as Natya.
In fact, Natya Shastra is known as the Pancham Veda and it is through Natya Shastra that Hinduism was kept alive all through our invasions by followers of the Abrahamic cults. If one were to look at them as just drama or dance drama, we are taking out the soul from these texts and are just talking about the body. That in the modern world is called "Post Mortem" and much to the annoyance of many all over the world and especially in our country, we Hindus are alive and breathing still.
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Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya has drafted rules stating that only Hindus be employed as teachers, for a reason, right? Has that rule been changed before employing such so called secular Acharya's who wanted to uphold Hindu Dharma and it's teachings as a mere language…
I am sure such people would certainly have no qualms in accepting a traditional Hindu- urdu Islamic scholar with a Shikha and vibhuti as a professor of Sira ( teaching biography of Mohammed) not even Quran or or Hadith at any Deobandi or Barelvi Madrassa .
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Q: Sketch $\text{Arg}( 1 - z ) = \pi/2$ and find the Cartesian equation This is a question I was thinking about when doing Edexcel FP2, seen something like it before but not sure where. Tried to solve it but cannot.

A: Since $\arg(1-z)=\frac\pi2$, it follows that
$$
z=z-1+1=1-(1-z)=1-\alpha e^{i\frac\pi2}=1-i\alpha,
$$
with $\alpha>0$, i.e. $x=1$, with $y<0$.

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Texas A&M jumped all over Indiana baseball during the Austin Regional opener on Friday, by putting up seven runs in the fourth inning and sending the Hoosiers to the losers bracket.
Sunday, in an elimination game the Hoosiers and Aggies faced off again and Indiana made sure to return the favor. The Indiana offense sent 13 men to the plate in the first inning and scored nine runs on eight hits.
Those first inning runs was the only scoring Indiana did in the game, but it was enough to get past the Aggies, 9-7, and set up a date with Texas in the regional championship.
This Scotty Bradley 2-run shot knocks out the Texas A&M pitcher after just 1/3 of an inning.
The first five Hoosier hitters reached safely in the game as they jumped out to an early 3-0 lead. Indiana's first out of the game was a RBI sac fly from Ryan Fineman to push the fourth run across the plate for the Hoosiers.
Then the power kicked in for Indiana, Scotty Bradley's 2-run home run made it a 6-0 game and forced a Texas A&M pitching change after 1/3 of an inning.
Four batters later, Matt Lloyd picked up his second hit of the inning, a 3-run home run, to push the lead to 9-0.
Matt Lloyd blasts a 3-run home run and the Hoosiers keep rolling.
After the big first inning, Indiana had some flexibility with its starting pitching. Beauchamp took the mound with a nine-run cushion and was able to get through 4.2 innings, battling the Texas heat.
The Aggie offense continued to chip away after being down nine runs to open up the game and put up five runs on 10 hits against Beauchamp.
Texas A&M tallied 17 hits and nine doubles throughout the game as the Indiana offense went scoreless in the final eight frames. But the Hoosier pitching staff did a decent job of limiting the damage as the Aggies left nine runners on base.
Once Beauchamp's day was done, Lemonis turned the ball over to Tim Herrin who allowed just one run in three innings of work.
Lloyd came in with two outs in the eighth, the game-tying run at the plate, and locked down the Aggies. He did allow a run to score in the ninth, but picked up the game winning double play ball to give Indiana the win.
Matt Lloyd locks down the eighth.
The Indiana closer comes on with two outs in the eighth and gets the tying run to ground out to short.
The Hoosiers will have a quick turnaround as first pitch against the Longhorns is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET tonight.
Indiana will have to beat No. 1 Texas twice in order to advance to the super regional. The Longhorns beat Texas Southern 10-0 in the opening round of the tournament, Texas A&M 8-3 last night and are one win away from a regional championship.
Matt Lloyd induces the double play ball to close out the game. Hoosiers hang 9 runs in the first inning and thats enough to win.


BEIRUT -- Syrian security forces backed by tanks and snipers killed more than 70 people in a ferocious assault Sunday as the regime raced to crush dissent ahead of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that could become a turning point in the nearly five-month-old uprising.
President Barack Obama called the reports "horrifying" and said Assad is "completely incapable and unwilling" to respond to the legitimate grievances of the Syrian people.
The worst carnage was in Hama, the scene of a 1982 massacre by President Bashar Assad's late father and predecessor and a city with a history of defiance against 40 years of Assad family rule. On Sunday, corpses were scattered in the streets and hospitals were overwhelmed with bloodied casualties, suggesting the death toll could rise sharply, witnesses said.
Having sealed off the main roads into Hama almost a month ago, army troops in tanks pushed into the city from four sides before daybreak. Residents shouted "God is great!" and threw firebombs, stones and sticks at the tanks, residents said.
"It looks like Beirut," said Hama resident Saleh Abu Yaman, likening his hometown to the Lebanese capital that still bears the scars of nearly two decades of civil war.


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The Steam Summer Sale is upon us again and this time the folks over at valve treated us to the most unique steam sale mini game yet. The Summer Sale Grand Prix. It is a system of quests for games that you own in which you complete tasks in them like curing patients in theme hospital or achievements in skyrim. However this system can be exploited massively by having quests for games that can be modded by the community with the intent of breaking the sale system. This is where we discover that the steam summer sale is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits. What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience. So sit back relax and enjoy this Steam Sale Exploit! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Spiffing Twitter: @thespiffingbrit Discord: https://discord.gg/spiffing title: STEAM SUMMER SALE Is A perfectly balanced game with no exploits - Excluding Modded Quests Last Skyrim Video: SKYRIM A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - Can You Beat Skyrim The Worst Sword Challenge #funny #montage #SteamSale
The official Steam video. Directed by Stephen R. Johnson. The second single from Peter's sixth album, US, was released in 1993. The album US continued the now well-established Gabriel motif of mixing high technology with decidedly analogue contributions from musicians from West Africa, Egypt and Armenia. Reunited with Daniel Lanois as co-producer, Peter extends the hand of collaboration to Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones, Brian Eno, Peter Hammill and Sinead O'Connor. #MusicVideo
Steam is water in the gas phase, which is formed when water boils. Steam is invisible; however, "steam" often refers to wet steam, the visible mist or aerosol of water droplets formed as this water vapor condenses. At lower pressures, such as in the upper atmosphere or at the top of high mountains, water boils at a lower temperature than the nominal 100 °C (212 °F) at standard temperature and pressure. If heated further it becomes superheated steam.
The enthalpy of vaporization is the energy required to turn water into the gaseous form when it increases in volume by 1,700 times at standard temperature and pressure; this change in volume can be converted into mechanical work by steam engines such as reciprocating piston type engines and steam turbines, which are a sub-group of steam engines. Piston type steam engines played a central role to the Industrial Revolution and modern steam turbines are used to generate more than 80% of the world's electricity. If liquid water comes in contact with a very hot surface or depressurizes quickly below its vapor pressure, it can create a steam explosion. Steam explosions have been responsible for many foundry accidents, and may also have been responsible for much of the damage to the plant in the Chernobyl disaster.
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The Montreal hot dog is one of several variations of hot dogs served as a fast food staple at restaurants and diners in Montreal and other parts of Quebec.
In Montreal (and elsewhere in the province of Quebec), the hot dog buns generally used in restaurants are top loading (New England style) hot dog buns, rather than the side loading hot dog buns generally used in other parts of Canada. Montreal hot dogs are considered to be rather small and are generally sold for between $0.50 and $1.00 depending on the area of purchase and dressing. Popular brands include Lesters, Lafleur's, and Glatt's kosher.
The city of Montreal did not permit street food carts from 1947 until 2011, leading to a proliferation of small "greasy spoon" restaurants which are variations on the classic Québécois casse-croute (snack-type) restaurants. These restaurants serve hot dogs with fresh-cut fries (patates frites, often served "very brown and greasy"), poutine, hamburgers, pogos (corn dogs), hamburger steaks, in addition to Greek dishes (typically souvlaki and gyro), pizza, and smoked meat. Restaurant chains known for their hot dogs include La Belle Province, Valentine, and Lafleur Restaurants. One longstanding Montreal independent restaurant that offers hot dogs is the Montreal Pool Room.
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The following is a glossary of poker terms used in the card game of poker. It supplements the glossary of card game terms. Besides the terms listed here, there are thousands of common and uncommon poker slang terms. This is not intended to be a formal dictionary; precise usage details and multiple closely related senses are omitted here in favor of concise treatment of the basics.
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Activists, public advocate, announce new MTA measures to curb sexual harassment on mass transit
Wendy Joan Biddlecombe Posted on October 1, 2014
Debjani Roy (left) and Jae Cameron of Hollaback! Photo: Bess Adler
The MTA is taking new approaches to combating sexual harassment, including adding cameras in new trains and an improved reporting system for victims and witnesses.
Public Advocate Letitia James and community activist groups Hollaback!, the Straphangers Campaign and the New York City Anti-Violence Project, announced the new measure Wednesday morning outside the Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall Station.
The public advocate's office said recent data showed some 3,000 women reported sexual misconduct incidents in the subway between 2008 and 2013, and that the majority of the incidents occurred on the 4, 5 and 6 trains during the morning rush.
James previously called for improved measures, outlined in an Aug. 1 letter to MTA Chairman Thomas F. Prendergast. Prendergast responded to James' requests in a Sept. 25 letter.
Prendergast said the MTA has been running announcements on inappropriate touching since 2009, and will take further steps in hopes of improving rider safety and reporting. They are: links on the MTA homepage; reviewing with subway employees or how to handle improper conduct reports; a revised map that shows NYPD Transit Bureau locations and a new public service announcement that focuses on bystanders.
MTA spokesman Kevin Ortiz said 940 new trains set to replace old cars as part of the 2015-209 Capital Program will have cameras installed. Ortiz said the MTA is considering adding cameras in a new fleet of 300 trains. Currently, no MTA trains have cameras in the cars, Ortiz said.
Ortiz said the new PSA is still in development, and does not have a set launch date.
On Wednesday afternoon, links on the MTA's homepage pointed to more information on sexual misconduct, and an online form to report an incident, which will be forwarded to the police for investigation.
After the announcement, Debjani Roy, deputy director of Hollaback!, an anti-street harassment movement, said she believes sexual harassment in public spaces is "most commonly experienced form of gender-based violence."
Roy said groping, exposure and masturbation, especially in crowded trains, can sometimes be "hard to tell."
"There's a lot of questioning, there's a lot of gray areas. By having more public service announcements, by having an active campaign and more visibility of the issue, I think it will provide validation for a lot of people who are questioning whether or not it's really happening … and options for recourse."
Roy said her organization never advocates for a single response to street harassment, which includes unwelcome contact from cat calling all the way up to public masturbation.
"Every situation is different and often very unexpected and sudden, so we can't correct ourselves or police our own behaviors," Roy said. If a victim feels compelled to speak up, Roy recommended making eye contact, keep moving after the interaction, take up space and use confident body language and speak in "short, succinct messages."
Roy said bystanders can directly intervene in harassment situations if they feel safe doing do, by telling an MTA employee or distracting from the situation by engaging with the victim, pretending to be an old friend, or asking for directions.
"And that dissipates the whole situation," Roy said, adding that checking on victims after an incident has occurred can "reduce trauma."
Hollaback! has 79 locations in 26 countries, Roy said, and that street harassment is a global problem that targets high density areas. NYC neighborhoods such as Times Square, Soho and Wall Street have the highest number of incidents, Roy said.
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Sarainodu Songs Released Listen Audio Songs Juke Box Online : Stylish Star Allu Arjun's mass action entertainer Sarrainodu, fans have received a enormous unexpected blow. Today, the creators of Sarrainodu released a press note saying that Sarainodu's songs will be released straight into the market on April 1st. While the makers did not make known the cause behind the cancelling of the movie audio launch occasion. Until today, there were some talks about Sarainodu's audio launch. April 1st the creators was release all songs in to the market. The makers also said that a pre-release occasion will be held in Vizag in the second week of April and that the movie will hit the screens on the 22nd April, accurately a pair of weeks after Sardaar's release. There are enormous expectations from Thaman's audio for Sarainodu. Check here the track list of the Sarainodu movie full songs.
The thirty three second video teaser of "Blockbuster" was released by superstar Allu Arjun on his certified YouTube channel March 25. In this Actress Anjali is performance very well and Allu Arjun totally in the mass look. Lahari Music, which has buy the music rights of the film. The songs of "Sarainodu" have been touted by Thaman Shivakumar. The track "Blockbuster," penned by Ramajogayya Shastry, has been sung by Shreya Ghoshal, Nakash Aziz, Simha, Sri Krishna and Deepu. Check the track list of the Sarainodu movie.
Sarainodu" is Allu Arjun's 15th film as a hero. Written and directed by Boyapati Srinu, the action movie also characteristics Rakul Preet Singh and Catherine Tresa. Producer Allu Aravind, who had previous worked with his son in the 2011 film, "Badrinath," has teamed up with him once more for this film, which is planned to be released April 22. Stay with us to get the latest info about movies.


Labeling is only necessary in as much as the label itself provides a signpost for understanding our surroundings and the people within it. It is the value judgment of labels that can become a problem, not the label itself. Just as a tree is no better than a rock, a Type Two is no better than the Type Seven.
Eckhart Tolle, author of The Power of Now, states that the unquestioned identification with the labels of the world is what creates suffering, and because we cannot see beyond our labels, we therefore lose the ability fully experience the present moment without constant judgment. We become slaves to these labels and the judgments that they imply.
However, without the signposts of the world, the human brain (which needs some form of cognitive organization), would have a more difficult time finding solid footing and things would seem chaotic.
The nine personality styles have probably been in existence since the human developed the ego in order to cope with the craziness of human life.
It is as though there are nine invisible human tribes and most people are consciously unaware that they exist, but all people belong to one of these tribes, speaking the same language and expressing the same fundamental psychological and emotional experiences.
If we can find our tribe (or type) we can begin to feel a sense of familiarity in finding ourselves and settle into the understanding that others share some fundamental characteristics with us.
Nonetheless, the Enneagram does not seek to eliminate the inherent individuality of each person, but rather gives us a starting place to understand others.
Another human fact: human beings love anything that makes life easier. The Enneagram gives us a map, which makes psychological work easier. And nobody wants to be that douche that won't ask for directions.
The ego should be a bit like a well-insulated jacket that we can take off when we no longer need it, but one that can help to protect us when necessary.
Each type has a characteristic ego desire and soul desire depending upon their personality style. The soul desire is the integral part of oneself that wants to be in touch with their highest purpose. This is the desire which feeds your spiritual center and provides you with a contentedness, as well as a sense of fulfillment that is pervasive and permanent.
Each personality, at its integrated state, brings in a unique and valuable flavor to the overall human tapestry. Without the contributions of all the types human life would be incomplete.
If you think of the personality as an electric tool and the soul or spirit as the electricity which powers it, then it helps to give a more tangible symbolism for how these two things work in tandem.
Ego desire is the part of the self which wants to differentiate itself from others. The ego desire is the part of us that keeps striving for happiness, but never finding.
The soul desire of all human beings is to just be and to eliminate suffering. Our individuated soul desire is a unique way of performing our individuated essence and is linked in some ways to our ego or personality type. It's the gold at the end of the rainbow, so to speak.
We must first recognize our ego desire if we are to unlock and work with our soul's desire. Once we unlock that potential we can work from the higher part of our selves and stop getting in our own way.
Our Ego desire is categorized by our ego's marching orders. Below are the every-day ego messages we may tell ourselves that we must adhere to to "be okay". For those of you unfamiliar with the Enneagram the types are numbered 1-9.
You may identify with a few of them, but one will be dominant, and this is likely your personality style. Recognizing these messages takes some honest self appraisal. Remember virtually everyone has an ego, it's the part that makes us human. It's your survival mechanism to survive human life.
The Ethical Perfectionist-To be perfect right and without error.
The Effusive Helper-To be kind, giving and without need.
The Successful Achiever-To be attractive, successful and without failure.
The Creative Individualist-To be unique, intuitive and without the mundane.
The Remote Scholar-To be knowledgeable, competent and without ignorance.
The Loyal Skeptic-To be certain, safe and without doubt.
The Excited Adventurer-To be free, excited and without limitations.
The Powerful Leader-To be powerful, authoritative and without weakness.
The Peaceful Mediator-To be agreeable, open and without complication.
Soul Desire: The soul desire ushers in something for both the individual self and others. It is both self renewing and a universal gift. It is the unique way our spirit can behave in the world on a higher more integrated level.
To be serene and forgiving and bring virtue into the world.
To be unconditional and self-renewing and bring kindness into the world.
To be inspirational and self-aware and bring hope into the world.
To be creative and equinanimous and bring insight into the world.
To be objective and perceptive and bring loving detachment into the world.
To be courageous and secure and bring faith into the world.
To be abundant and joyful and bring vision into the world.
To be vulnerable and magnanimous and bring strength into the world.
To be awake and balanced and bring peace into the world.
You may be thinking "that sounds wonderful, how do I bring that into the world?" The first step in any journey is recognizing there's a journey. So beginning to identify the ego messages is a massive start, and as you may know, many people would prefer to blissfully walk around unaware of what their doing in the world.
Waking up is sometimes hard to do, but the rewards to consciousness outweigh the pain of unconsciousness.


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The Great Apple Experiment: Time to Weigh In!
The week of yelling at and coddling apple slices is over at last. Now it's time to open up the jars and have a look-see. Your job, should you choose to accept it: examine each of the apples in the photos that follow, and indicate via poll which you think looks best and which looks worse.
The order of the photos was decided by coin flips, and the photos are unaltered except to black out the writing on the slips of paper behind them, which indicate which is which. I'll post the original pics when voting is over tomorrow night.
Which apple looks the worst?
Which apple looks the best?
I'll close the polls at 23:59pm GMT tomorrow (30 March) and we'll see if the results are statistically significant. We have Matt "Actually A Professional Mathematician" Parker on hand to crunch the numbers and explain how stats like this work!
Then I'll make appropriate adjustments to the experiment, institute better controls, and give it another go. Some of the suggestions from you all and from Nikki Owens' fans have been great, including: sterilizing the knife and cutting board, replacing mustaches with "love" and "hate" labels, and using halves instead of quarters as Owens did originally. This last one is tricky as it makes it more difficult to have a control apple, but I think I've figured out a good way to do it: there will be two full apples sliced in half. One apple will be control with no "love" or "hate" directed at it, and the other will get half love and half hate. In the end, if Owens is correct, the love/hate apple should have drastically different halves and the control apple's halves should look identical. Thoughts on this?
I recommend that when you photograph the apples next time, use even lighting so that we can see each 'side' of the apple in the same light.
I'm only seeing 2 apples. Should there be 3?
Where's apple 3? Also, what Skept-artist said. :) Looking forward to the next one. Thanks Rebecca.
@alwright1: Yes, there are three photos there . . . try reloading the page, maybe? They're all showing on my screen . . .
@Kimbo Jones: Weird, you can't see it either?
@Rebecca Watson: I see a stack of 2, one picture on top of the other and then there's the polls right below. I'll email you a screenshot.
Okay, I've added direct links! No clue why one of the pics isn't showing….
@Rebecca Watson: Weird, thanks. Voted!
It might affect the results that some people are making a subjective comparison (because they can see all 3 at once) and some people are making an "objective" comparison (seeing one at a time).
I can see the apples just fine.
Also I would like to suggest that you make sure the apples are lit evenly so that the shadows don't exaggerate any dark spots on the apples. An over head light source, I think, would work the best.
@Constantine: That's what you get for being late to the game. And not reading all the posts first.
What exactly are you testing here?
And you could have added a "no observable difference" option, forcing a dichotomy is likely to lead to random guessing.
I think your hate apple needs more force next time. I suggest the most excellent responses from the insults post from January.
You can make that apple cry! I know you can. It will have botox-infested wrinkles and an addiction to anti-aging cream when you're done with it.
I don't know if this has any bearing, but I'd be skeptical of eating any of those slices of apple. Maybe you used most of your available love on something else, Rebecca, but none of them looked particularly loved to me.
@russellsugden: Actually, I'm pretty sure forcing a guess is ideal; it could uncover an attractiveness that people aren't consciously aware of. You'd then perform statistical analysis to see whether any difference in votes between the apples is significant.
But that would only tell you whether a given slice of apple is perceived as being more attractive than the others. To see if there's a statistically significant correlation between attractiveness and application of love/hate, you'd have to repeat the experiment with several apple slices.
You should add more photos of each apple so we can see different angles. Otherwise the photos might be biased towards the apples good or bad side (unless you consulted with the apples in which side they wanted shown in public).
I don't know how workable this is but maybe you could put th pictures beside one another, instead of stacking them up. That way you can see them all at once and they're on a level playing field so to speak.
Another suggestion (because I'm annoying that way): Is there a way so that people can't see the poll results until the experiment is over so that people don't know what others have already voted?
Has anyone mentioned the lighting yet?
The only valuable suggestion I have to add is that the apples' images should be randomized, in case there is some preference for people to pick first or last. This does somewhat complicate using multiple apples, but perhaps you could also randomize which apple someone is rating. So instead of having one apple rated 360 times, you could have 10 apples rated about 36 times , with each possible combination of images rated approx. 6 times. It would not need to be truly random, as long as different image orders (abc, acb, bac, bca, cab, cba) are equally assigned and the raters do not know which is which.
The Problem with seeing the 3rd pic seems to be if you're running AdBlock Plus in Firefox. It has a rule to block any image with the keywords "300×250" which the 3rd image seems to have in its name.
Fix is that you can either turn off Adblock Plus for the page , or Rebecca could rename the images.
@Skept-artist: I concur. The lightning can have a pretty dramatic effect on the appearance of the slice. Ideally, the apple slices would each be placed under the same lighting/camera rig in the same orientation, to eliminate that as a source of confounding ugliness.
@Joshua: You are now the Master Lighter. Get thee to Londontowne with thine soul-stealing daguerreotype contraption and oil lamps! Quickly now, the rot of Satan has set upon the Watson Orchard.
Honestly, I can't tell the difference. They all look equally unsavory.
@Joshua: Speaking of which, next time try not hitting any of the apple slices with lightning. I hear that can dramatically affect their appearance.
Is the lighting done with intent because it is the same piece of apple? To my eye there are some things about all three that are very similar. Although, after another look pic 2 has some attributes that make me doubt this.
Agreed that, at least on the next go-around, do not make the poll results visible until after it is closed. What if PZ Myers decides #3 is the worst of the bunch?
Judging by the comments, I'd also suggest an additional question: "Would you describe the difference between the apples as… Obvious, Significant, Not Significant, etc." Something along those lines, at least, just as a simple clue about the effect size.
mmmmm… peanut butter and apples…..
Instead of doing one half love/half hate, why not have an apple that you don't speak to at all? That way, you have a control for whether or not speaking in and of itself has an effect.
My hypothesis: that apple will feel neglected, become sullen, withdrawn, and socially maladjusted, then finally snap, killing all of the other apples in a fit of rage.
All are way to similar for voting objectively. I'll leave it for the next round.
If you place the parts on your windowsill (I just love that word) like this (|) and photograph each of them from above, facing the window, there would be no shadows to skew the results.
I'm looking forward to the improved study of this very important research project.
I love that you chose different lighting for the apples. It really accentuates their unique personalities. I feel like I know apple #2 better because of it.
And honestly, most mustachioed apples look the same to me. I'm not a fruitist, I'm just sayin'.
Call in the fruitbats. Maybe they can tell the difference in decomp, but I can't.
I voted for the same apple for both questions. I HAVE RUINED YOUR POLL.
Fine, I didn't, but I wanted to. Because I am a child. I can has apple?
If I cannot pick that one is better or worse than the others, any pick I make would invalidate the experiment.
Maybe a full video panorama of each apple slice would eliminate any angle/shadow bias.
Lighting issues noted, but I find it weird that people keep assuming I used different lighting for each. The apples were all photographed within moments of each other on the exact same spot. I think the reason why two have a bit of shadow is because they have more severe angles.
The real problem with the experimental design is the lack of technical replicates. If there is a physical reason that one of the slices undergoes oxidative browning faster (e.g. latent bruising, localized pathogen, etc), and it is in one of the treatments, then it could be misinterpreted. Such experiments need multiple replicates within treatment and control groups.
The other idea is to use an objective sensor rather than a human poll. If the three were homogenized you could compare the color to a pantone chart, or if you are really fancy use a spectrophotometer to measure the actual degree of browning. This would be a much better quantitative measure and would eliminate photographic bias or positional effects in the survey.
Other ideas: Hate vs. lemon juice!
I tried the same experiment on my neighbor's kids and it sort of worked. One of them runs away when I come outside.
Notice how the shadows of all three apples are going off in different directions? This can only mean the apple photos were shot on a soundstage with controlled lighting and not the MOON!!!!!!
Also, number three apple has a ziggy zag line which looks like the back of Homer Simpson's head.
UNLIKELY!!!! When one considers that there was an episode of The Simpsons where Homer went into outer space WITH?????? BUZZ Aldrin!!!!
Since The Simpsons is a farce AND Homer Simpson and Buzz Aldrin were on a show together AND the apples have a Homer Simpson zig zag, this can only mean THESE APPLES HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THE MOON!!!!1!1101011!!!!
Any one of those apple pieces would work great in a slingshot made from a cut bicycle inner tube.
Also, you will probably get better results from the polls if the results (and comments on voting) are not displayed until the voting is closed. We could be seeing popular votes becoming more popular on the basis of their existing popularity, instead of getting a good sample of opinions.


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Paul Collins has written many books, mostly for younger readers through to young adults. He is best known for his fantasy and science fiction titles: The Jelindel Chronicles (Dragonlinks, Dragonfang, Dragonsight and Wardragon), and The Quentaris Chronicles ─ co-edited with Michael Pryor ─ (Paul wrote: Swords of Quentaris, Slaves of Quentaris, Dragonlords of Quentaris, Princess of Shadows, The Forgotten Prince, Vampires of Quentaris and The Spell of Undoing). His trilogy published in America by TOR was The Earthborn Wars (The Earthborn, The Skyborn and The Hiveborn).
Paul has edited many anthologies which include Trust Me!, Metaworlds, Rich & Rare and Australia's first fantasy anthology, Dream Weavers. He also edited The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian SF&F.
Paul has been short-listed for many awards and has won the Inaugural Peter McNamara and the A Bertram Chandler awards, both of which were for lifetime achievement in science fiction, and the Aurealis and William Atheling awards.
His last fantasy series was The Warlock's Child (six titles) in collaboration with Sean McMullen. His latest anthology is Rich & Rare, comprising almost 50 contributors including Shaun Tan, James Roy, Leigh Hobbs, Gabrielle Wang, Justin D'Ath, Scot Gardner and many others.
His book, Slaves of Quentaris, features in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Die (UK, 2009).
Paul's adult books are the anthology The Government in Exile and Cyberskin. His adult horror novel, The Beckoning, Damnation Books (US) is available from Paul's online shop.
Other than his writing, Paul is the publisher at Ford Street Publishing, publishing everything from picture books through to young adult literature, and he manages Creative Net, a speakers' agency.
1980s — 2000s a handful of nominations for Best Editor and Best Short Fiction in the Australian SF Achievement Awards.
1999 — Winner William Atheling Award for editing The MUP Encyclopaedia of Australian Science Fiction and Fantasy and shortlisted for the Aurealis Convenors' Award.
2000 — The Dog King, Notable Book Children's Book Council; Shortlisted for the Clayton's Award.
2001— Winner of the Aurealis Convenors' Award (With Co-editor Meredith Costain) for Spinouts Bronze published by Pearson Education. Joint winner was Shaun Tan for The Lost Thing.
2002 — Winner of the inaugural Peter McNamara Award for lifetime achievement in SF.
2004 — Home Run (Illustrated by Connah Brecon), Notable Book, Children's Book Council.
2009 — Morgassa's Folly (in collaboration with Danny Willis), shortlisted for the Chronos Award.
2010 — The Slightly Skewed Life of Toby Chrysler, shortlisted for The Speech Pathology Award.
2010 — Slaves of Quentaris, shortlisted for the WAYRBA awards.
2011— The Glasshouse (illustrated by Jo Thompson) chosen by international IBBY as an Outstanding Book; shortlisted for the CBC's Crichton Award.
2011— Awarded the A Bertram Chandler Award for Lifetime Achievement in Australian Science Fiction.
2013 — The Only Game in the Galaxy, shortlisted in the Ditmar awards.
2013 — Lucy Lee in the Legends in their own Lunchbox series (six titles), shortlisted in the APA Educational Publishing Awards.
2015 — The Beckoning, shortlisted for both the Ditmar and Chronos awards.
Where do you get your ideas? Ideas are all around us. I read The Age newspaper every morning. There's an odd spot column that is a great resource for ideas. As an example, two German robbers took their dog on a job with them. When they left the petrol station they were robbing, the owner called "Stop!" While the robbers...
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Bangkok's best restaurants
Thailand's capital city may be a sweltering mass of bodies and bikes but Bangkok is the hottest gastronomic destination in the world right now
By William Drew
Published 14 Dec 2014, 10:00 GMT, Updated 1 Jul 2021, 15:09 BST
The city and its people are openly obsessed with food — it's a 24/7 occupation. What's changed though, is that alongside the established and still-vibrant street food and local restaurant scene, Bangkok boasts a raft of more sophisticated, original dining destinations. It's finally grown up to become more than a match for the big beasts of the Asian food world such as Hong Kong, Singapore and Tokyo.
Ma Hor, Nahm
Leading the charge has been chef David Thompson — Australian by birth but so deeply immersed in his adopted country's culinary culture as to be recognised as a Thai food scholar. At Nahm — which currently sits atop the S. Pellegrino Asia's 50 Best Restaurants awards list — he produces interpretations of traditional dishes that mesmerise diners, while frequently shocking unsuspecting Westerners with their heat in the process.
Elsewhere, at Gaggan Bangkok, chef Gaggan Anand reinvents the street food of his native India using clever contemporary techniques, with theatrical results. Meanwhile, chef Bo Songvisava continues the nation's tradition of strong female cooks at Bo.Lan, her contemporary Thai restaurant. Celebrity chef Ian Kittichai's flagship restaurant, Issaya Siamese Club, as well as his latest opening, Namsaah Bottling Trust, are simultaneously classy and great fun.
Eating out in Bangkok remains relatively affordable, hugely varied and deeply unpretentious. As Nahm's David Thompson recently said, "Bangkok has always been a great eating city, but it's only just becoming a great restaurant city." And that's a pretty compelling combination for food-loving travellers.
Sukhumvit Soi 38
One of Bangkok's street food hotspots: pull up a plastic pew here after 8pm and work your way through bamee with crab (noodle dish) and some of the city's best mango sticky rice.
Published in the Jan/Feb 2015 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK)
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Meet the Instagramer: @sliceofpai on food photography and culinary heroes
Try it now: hopper, Sri Lanka's beloved bowl-shaped pancake
The Finnish line: A Helsinki food tour


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This is another mission where you must reach the end point without triggering an alert. You need to do this in less than twenty five seconds.
So go to the corner. A guy is walking towards you, and a laser is moving towards you. When the guy is in front of you, jump over him and the laser. Ninja run up the block in front of you, and jump through the crevice afterwards.
To your left will be three invisible platforms. Jump diagonally to the second one while ninja running. Run off the platform you reach, and stay left. Jump over two of the lasers, and short hop over the last one. I finished at 18.33 seconds.


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9 dead, 28 missing after boat sinks in Colombia
Posted: 6:49 PM, Jun 25, 2017
BOGOTA, Colombia — A multi-story tourist boat packed with about 150 passengers for the holiday weekend capsized on a reservoir near Medellin on Sunday, and police in Colombia said nine people were dead and 28 missing.
A major rescue effort involving Colombia's air force and firefighters from nearby cities was looking for survivors at the Guatape reservoir where the accident took place. Medellin's mayor appealed to motorists to stay off roads to facilitate the arrival of rescuers, ambulances and first responders.
"The most important thing right now is to save lives," said Mayor Federico Gutierrez.
Dramatic videos circulating on social media show the ferry, called El Almirante, rocking back and forth as people crawled down from a third-floor roof as the ship began sinking. A flotilla of recreational boats rushed to the scene to pull people from the vessel, avoiding an even deadlier tragedy.
Eduardo Rivera, director of a hospital in Guatape, told Teleantioquia that three people had died in the accident. Gen. Jorge Nieto, the head of Colombia's police, said approximately 30 people were missing.
The head of the disaster response agency in Colombia's Antioquia state later said that nine people had died and around 28 were missing after the boat capsized.
Margarita Moncada said that 99 people were rescued immediately and another 40 managed to find shore on their own and were in good health.
It's unclear what caused the boat to sink but survivors told local media that it appeared to be overloaded and none of the passengers on board were wearing life vests.
The reservoir surrounding the soaring rocky outcrop of El Penol is a popular weekend destination a little more than an hour from Medellin. It was especially busy Sunday as Colombians celebrated a long holiday weekend.
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After the sadness of the bleeding baby blanket, I have the joy of the finished Baby Surprise Jacket. I used Rico Design Baby Classic DK, which was left over from the blanket that was ruined. I still love this yarn, I will just never order the red again.
Cute huh? I am really pleased with how it has turned out. I had forgotten quite how it was constructed so the striping was pure guesswork. I'm so pleased the stripes ended up looking deliberate!
I do love how this pattern is constructed, with the top of the sleeves being the only seams. It makes the knitting so much fun as the shape is created, and you wonder "how is this thing going to actually work".
I'm also really pleased with buttons, which I got from Mary Clare. They are a lovely delicate pink, which softens the punchy pink and deep purple knitting.
Aren't they sweet. I am really pleased that this baby jacket isn't a girly pink, as I think the parents will receive more than enough pastel pink stuff to last any baby. This jacket is definitely pink, so as to avoid gender confusion, but not sickly sweet. I am pleased with the outcome.
In fact, I liked this jacket so much, my WPC 2011 Challenge photo this week, was a shot of the buttons.
The subject this week was Repetition. I don't think there is anything more repetitive than knitting do you? The subject next week is Fear, what do you think, lace yarn and a complicated pattern as my photo?
For those people who adore this knitting pattern as much as I do, you can order it from Schoolhouse Press (you need to scroll down quite a long way). It costs $10 plus p&p, which will add up if you are not in the US. However the pattern is for baby, child and adults. The pattern is sadly not available digitally. I have to say though, you WILL knit this pattern again and again.
As it is a Friday I am hooking up to Tami's Amis for FO Friday, Fiber Arts Friday at Wisdom Begins in Wonder and Fibers on Friday at Visions of Sugar Plums. All three linky parties can be reached by clicking on the buttons below.


on a front page? Does Textbook automate the calendar on this front page, or do the events need to be assigned to the front page?
The blog I need help with is scvwa.wordpress.com.
I don't believe there is a current theme that has that same calendar format as the Textbook theme, but I will keep a look out for themes that may have a similar format. I'm sure that if you went the self-hosted route, you may have better luck finding a similar theme.
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Massachusetts Restaurant Owners Need Relief Now, and They're Asking for It
Margins are slim for restaurants in the best of times — and these are hardly the best of times
by Terrence Doyle Mar 18, 2020, 1:19pm EDT
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A scallop dish at Loyal Nine, whose owner, Daniel Myers, is hoping for legislation that would provide relief to restaurant owners statewide who are not able to serve dine-in customers for at least three weeks due to the novel coronavirus pandemic
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Part of COVID-19 and What It Means for Massachusetts Restaurants
In Massachusetts, all bars and restaurants have been shuttered for dine-in business until at least April 6. In an industry that operates on razor-thin margins in the best of times — that is, when asses are in seats night after night, and when reservations are difficult to come by — shutting down for even a couple of days can be catastrophic. Local owners are wondering how to weather the storm and are pushing for some form of relief at a legislative level, such as cancellation of the meals tax, and also appealing to landlords and lenders to help out.
"Sorry if there are typos, scrambling to close down my dream." Daniel Myers owns Loyal Nine, a restaurant in Cambridge cooking food sourced by local producers and inspired by colonial New England. He, like so many other restaurant owners across the country, has been blindsided by the outbreak of novel coronavirus and the havoc it has wreaked on his business. At least 19 states and 6 cities have imposed some form of mandatory restaurant shutdown or another, and more are likely to do so as novel coronavirus continues to spread across the country.
With so many restaurants in the country forced to shut down their dine-in services — rightly, it should be noted, and with overwhelming support of restaurant owners — for at least a couple of weeks (and in some cases for up to a month), the question isn't if novel coronavirus will hurt the restaurant industry, it's how badly. In Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker announced that bars and restaurants would still be allowed to offer takeout and delivery services, but it's hardly a salve (especially when third-party delivery services like Grubhub continue doing the bare minimum to cut restaurants a break on commission fees).
What Restaurants Need Right Now to Actually Survive
"Limiting restaurants to takeout is awful because it provides legal reasoning for your landlord and insurance company to say that you were allowed to operate," Myers told Eater via email. "We literally do less than one percent of sales in takeout, and the profit margin is comparable — three percent. We pay rent for seating space, not kitchen space for takeout only."
State and local governments could make a real impact on the economic fortunes of restaurants by canceling meals taxes — the state collects a 6.25% tax on restaurant sales, while most localities collect a .75% tax, payable by restaurants at the end of each month — until businesses are able to begin operating again. If restaurants fail to pay meals taxes at the end of each month, the state can legally seize a business and auction off its assets to cover any outstanding tax bill.
"For us, that's around $13,000 [a month]," said Myers about meals taxes. "We can give that to the state and the city, or we can keep it to pay our staff and — unfortunately — our rent. There will be another bill next month, too. Don't pay it, get shut down by the state. Don't pay rent, get shutdown by your landlord — and get personally fucked."
David Doyle, who owns a trio of restaurants in Jamaica Plain — Tres Gatos, Casa Verde, and Little Dipper — recently launched a Change.org petition urging state and local government to pass legislation offering immediate assistance to restaurants. The petition states:
If such support is not sufficient, or rapidly deployed, many of our restaurants may not be able to survive the gauntlet of a closure, especially if that extends beyond several weeks.
Like Myers, Doyle thinks canceling current meals tax payments is a good place for governments to start in terms of the relief they can offer restaurants.
"That would be a huge relief," said Doyle. "In my opinion, many restaurants will not have an easy time making the current payroll, given little or no revenue coming in this week. Given that, having sufficient resources to start up again will be a big challenge."
The state recently announced it had set up a $10 million small business loan fund to help mitigate the economic stressors of shut downs. Myers doesn't think the action comes close to solving the problem.
"Let's just say it was for only restaurants [as opposed to all small businesses] in Massachusetts," said Myers. "That would break down to $27 per restaurant employee in the state. As you know, that's nothing, and we'd need to return that debt later. An impossible task."
(According to the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, there are roughly 350,000 restaurant and food service jobs in Massachusetts as of 2019. If equally distributed to every restaurant worker in the state, $10 million would come to $28.50 per worker before taxes.)
The loans — which have been capitalized by and will be administered by the Massachusetts Growth Capital Fund — are contingent on businesses being profitable prior to March 10. Applicants with adverse credit reports (60 days past due) in the past six months will not be eligible.
Doyle told Eater that such contingencies will deny a lot of business owners relief they desperately need.
"One major hurdle that I've already noticed is the requirement of profitability. Many new restaurants are not profitable out of the gate, and if those do not qualify for this much-needed source of funds, then I'm afraid a big segment of the business community — the most vulnerable — may not get help."
So what do restaurant owners think could help buoy their industry and give it a fighting chance of survival in this fraught and unprecedented time?
"Mortgage and lease abatement also makes sense, though as our attorney pointed out, this gets into the thorny area of contractual agreements, and not all restaurant owners will get forgiveness from their landlords," said Doyle. "But it's certainly worth a try; even landlords agreeing to deferred rent payments for several months, with no penalties, would be very helpful. I think asking financial institutions to do the same with commercial loan payments would be similarly helpful. I know that many restaurateurs make a hefty loan payment on top of their rent every month. Seeking temporary relief from lenders would ease cash flow burdens considerably."
Myers is also convinced that lease and mortgage abatement could help stem the economic tailspin many restaurants already find themselves in, saying doing so "would be the true cure for now."
"It would allow small businesses to survive, to bounce back afterwards, and save massive dollars for our staffs who, obviously, all pay rent or an insanely high mortgage payment."
Of course, it would also help if business interruption insurance covered losses due to global pandemic. Of course, it does not.
"We pay taxes, and get nothing," said Myers. "We pay insurance, and get nothing."
Restaurants urgently need a bailout. Whether they get what they need or not remains to be seen.
Update, 5 p.m.: Gov. Charlie Baker announced emergency regulations today that will provide a three-month delay, not a cancelation, on meals tax payments for eligible restaurants. To be eligible, a restaurant must have paid under $150,000 in meals taxes in 2019.
Update, March 19: 76 local restaurant owners and employees have co-signed a letter to Baker asking for emergency relief in the form of grants or zero-interest funding, a suspension of payroll and/or meals taxes, rent abatement for establishments, and loan abatements for workers, as well as immediate and expedited legislation providing compensation to restaurant workers, regardless of citizenship status.
Read the full letter below:
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[VD11] Groundwater quality
Average levels of nitrate and orthophosphate in rivers are above the natural background values and do not show significant changes in the observed period. Average values of biochemical oxygen demand and ammonia concentration in rivers in the observed period have been decreasing. The decrease is in accordance with the increase in the percentage of the population connected to municipal and common wastewater treatment plants.
In Slovenia, groundwater is the most important source of drinking water, providing a water supply to more than 95% of the population. Approximately one third of groundwater that is extracted for the drinking water supply is of sufficient quality that it can be supplied to customers without being treated. Pollutant-free natural groundwater is the most suitable for human consumption. Therefore, the quality of groundwater is important to both the environment and the health of the population.
This indicator presents the assessment of the chemical state of groundwater in Slovenia. Based on the monitoring data, the chemical state of groundwater bodies is assessed every year, while assessments in six-year water management reporting periods are also conducted. Upward or downward trends in measured values of chemical parameters are monitored as well.
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock in which substantial quantities of groundwater are accumulated and transmitted. Two prevailing types of aquifers exist in Slovenia: aquifers with intergranular porosity in the flat, lower parts of river valleys and aquifers with karst and fracture porosity. Where the same groundwater body includes both types of aquifers, it is classified as an aquifer with combined-type porosity. A groundwater body is defined as groundwater in one or several adjacent aquifers. In Slovenia, 21 groundwater bodies have been determined by the Rules on determining water bodies of groundwater (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 63/2005).
The chemical state of a groundwater body is determined in accordance with two EC Directives (Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC and the Directive on the protection of groundwater against pollution and deterioration, 2006/118/EC) Slovenian regulations (Decree on groundwater status, Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, Nos. 25/2009, 68/2012) and the Methodology for assessing the state of groundwater bodies (www.mop.gov.si). All data obtained through national groundwater monitoring is processed using statistical methods. In addition, the impact of polluted groundwater on the state of surface water, co-depended terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and the level of drinking water treatment is assessed. Eventual intrusions of salt water or other polluted water are subject to assessment as well.
The chemical state of a groundwater body is assessed to be good when the average values of the parameters are below or equal to the standard or threshold values. Otherwise, the extent of groundwater pollution is determined. When one or more parameters are exceeded, chemical state is assessed to be good if the extent of pollution does not exceed 30% of a groundwater body and if the state of co-dependent surface waters or terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems does not deteriorate. Also, the pollution must not result in the necessity for an increased level of treatment of the drinking water. Otherwise, the chemical state of a groundwater body is assessed to be poor.
Reliability of the assessment is shown by the confidence level attributed to the assessment. A high confidence level means that the assessment is reliable. Medium and low confidence levels mean that additional measurements and the expansion of the measurement sites network will be required to properly confirm the assessment. For this purpose, the measurement network was expanded in 2014 and 2015 when new hydrological stations were build in the framework of the BOBER project. The stations were built on water bodies exposed to above-average levels of pollution.
Figure VD11-1: Chemical state of groundwater bodies in 2009-2013, with trends
Standardised Database for Water Quality Monitoring, Slovenian Environmental Agency, 2015
Figure VD11-2: Chemical state of groundwater bodies in RBDMP I and RBDMP II
Water Quality Monitoring Database, Slovenian Environment Agency, 2016
RBMP I (2006-08)
RBMP II (2009-13)
good number of water bodies 17 18
bad number of water bodies 4 3
Figure VD11-3: Chemical state of groundwater bodies, by year
good number of water bodies 10 17 17 10 8 11 18 11 11 11
bad number of water bodies 3 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 3
without assessment number of water bodies 8 0 0 7 10 7 0 7 7 7
To preserve a good chemical state of water in groundwater bodies;
to improve the state of water in groundwater bodies in which the chemical state was assessed to be poor;
to prevent upward trends in pollutant concentrations;
to reverse upward trends in pollutant concentrations;
to attain good chemical state of all groundwater bodies by 2015 (environmental goals of Water Framework Directive, Article 4).
Groundwater contamination is a result of pollution caused by human activities and natural properties of aquifers, often called vulnerability. The parameters that cause poor quality of groundwater in Slovenia are predominantly nitrates and pesticides and their decomposition products, as well as chlorinated organic solvents at certain measurement sites.
In flat floors of river valleys, aquifers with intergranular porosity, often called alluvial aquifers, prevail. These aquifers are under the greatest pressure due to intensive human activities, such as agriculture, industry, transport, high population density and waste disposal sites.
In Alpine and karst regions, aquifers with karst and fracture porosity prevail. Although these types of aquifers are extremely vulnerable, especially in karst areas, most of them are naturally protected in Slovenia. The majority of aquifers with karst and fracture porosity are located in mountainous, sparsely populated areas covered with forests.
Chemical state in the second water management reporting period is presented on the map of Slovenia (figure VD11-1). Aquifers with intergranular porosity that were assessed as being in poor chemical state are located in the Savinja, Drava and Mura basins. The confidence level of the assessment of the chemical state for these groundwater bodies is high. Poor chemical state in these groundwater bodies is caused by nitrate, which is combined with atrazine in the case of the Drava basin. In all three groundwater bodies, a statistically significant trend of decreasing nitrate concentration was recorded, which means that these groundwater bodies will likely return to a good chemical state sometime in the future.
Figure VD11-2 presents the chemical state of groundwater in reporting periods I and II. In both reporting periods, poor chemical state was determined in groundwater bodies in the Savinja, Drava and Mura basins. In the first reporting period, the Eastern Slovenske Gorice groundwater body was also assessed as being in a poor chemical state.
Figure VD11-3 presents the chemical state of groundwater bodies in the period 2006–2015. In 2007 and 2008, all groundwater bodies were included in monitoring. In 2012, all groundwater bodies were included in surveillance monitoring. In other years, the operational monitoring programme was carried out and included groundwater bodies in intergranular aquifers that are more exposed to pollution and karst/fracture water bodies in which large water wells are located and where pressure analysis shows that pollution of drinking water sources may occur. Non-polluted water bodies in which a good chemical state of water was established over several years are only monitored in the years of surveillance monitoring.
[KM01] Consumption of pesticides
[ZD05] Access to safe drinking water
[VD08] Drinking water quality
[VD05] Nitrates in groundwater
[VD06] Pesticides in groundwater
Author(s): Marjeta Krajnc, Agencija RS za okolje


The location of our holiday cottages on Low Steads Farm in Northumberland is ideal for your holiday as it is only a short walk of ten minutes down a tarmac lane to the beach. You walk past the traditional, well kept farm buildings and down a hedge lined lane. Alongside are fields of wheat, barley, cattle and sheep.
Apart from the wonderful beach on the doorstep there are lots of attractions locally. Within a ten minute drive you can visit Howick Hall & Gardens, Alnwick Castle and The Alnwick Garden, Barter Books and the picturesque coastal villages of Craster (home of the world famous Craster Kipper), Boulmer and Alnmouth.
The village of Longhoughton is a ten minute walk away. There you will find a shop, post office, church and access to the local bus service.
Bamburgh Castle, Dunstanburgh Castle, Warkworth Castle, Rothbury, Cragside and Northumberland National Park.
There are the market towns of Alnwick, Morpeth and Berwick-upon-Tweed. Visit fishing villages such as Seahouses (enjoy the fish & chips), Amble, Beadnell, Boulmer & Holy Island.
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There are events held throughout the Autumn and Winter months to access the beautiful night skies.
The amazing Aurora Borealis 'The Northern Lights' have been seen off our coastline.
This picture was taken by local astronomer, Ian Glendinning, who offers and provides equipment for Star Gazing Evenings.


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Celebrating two decades of childcare at Karalee
KARALEE Childcare Centre has celebrated reaching its milestone 20th birthday with a family morning tea.
Centre Director Kathy Broderick said the strong sense of community at the centre had remained unchanged over the past two decades.
"It's very community-minded, this is like a second home to most children," she said.
"Some of the parents also class us as a second family.
"Our biggest aim is to ensure the kids are happy and learning."
Mrs Broderick said that the staff and students had a large focus on the environment and tried to involve nature in their everyday activities.
"We had a lot of parents and grandparents come to the 20th birthday morning tea, which was held out in our natural play area," she said.
"The kids were happy to show them around.
"We have rocks, a garden, a picnic area and a worm farm that the kids are all involved with."
The centre hosts a range of community events including a Mother's Day morning tea, Carols by Torchlight and a Kindergarten graduation party.
Mrs Broderick said that Karalee Childcare Centre catered for children aged from zero to five.
She said the centre focused on early learning at all stages of young life.
"All our learning is done through play, here the children help make decisions as well as the educators," she said.
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On August 20, 2020, just after 11:30 pm, officers were dispatched to shots being fired on Benoit Street, according to Deputy Chief Eddie Thibodeaux, spokesperson for the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office. Shortly after, a caller notified the Sheriff's Office that her house in the 400 block of Corn Street was struck by bullets. The victim stated that she and her family were watching TV when she heard gunshots outside of her residence. During the shooting, the mother had to make her children lay on the floor until the police arrived.
Officers observed her Trailblazer's passenger side window had been shot and two bullet holes were located on the west side of her home. Officers also located a total of 13 9mm casings at the scene, Thibodeaux stated. One bullet was located in the living room where the family was watching TV.
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De slag bij Okolona vond plaats op 22 februari 1864 in Chickasaw County Mississippi tijdens de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog. De Zuidelijke generaal-majoor Nathan Bedford Forrest komt tegenover een 7.000 man sterke Noordelijke strijdmacht te staan onder leiding van brigadegeneraal William Sooy Smith. Bij Okolona worden de Noordelijken verslaan door de veel kleinere Zuidelijke legermacht.

Smiths legermacht had het bevel gekregen om vanuit Memphis, Tennessee op te rukken naar Meridian, Mississippi waar hij zich moest aansluiten bij Shermans 20.000 man sterke leger. Smith stelde zijn opmars echter tien dagen uit. Toen hij uiteindelijk toch vertrok botste hij op 21 februari op de Zuidelijke cavalerie onder leiding van generaal-majoor Nathan Bedford Forrest. Op 22 februari werd de slag uitgevochten over een afstand van 16 km. Toen Forrest versterking had ontvangen, versloeg en verjoeg hij de Noordelijken. Door een tekort aan munitie zette Forrest de achtervolging niet in.
Op 26 februari was Smith terug in Tennessee.

Achtergrond
Na de inname van Vicksburg kwam Meridian in het vizier van de Noordelijken. Meridian was een belangrijk spoorwegknooppunt en industrieel centrum. Op 3 februari naderde Sherman met 20.000 manschappen deze Zuidelijke stad. Op 1 februari kreeg brigadegeneraal William Sooy Smith het bevel om met zijn 7.000 cavaleristen op te rukken vanuit Memphis naar Meridian. Daar diende Smith tegen 10 februari aansluiting te vinden bij Sherman. Terwijl Sherman oprukte naar Meridian, stelde Smith zijn vertrek met tien dagen uit tot 11 februari. Zijn soldaten rukten zonder tegenstand op terwijl ze spoorwegen en akkers vernietigden en 1.000 slaven bevrijden. Op 16 februari trok Smith door New Albany, Mississippi. Zijn opmars werd verder vertraagd door de modderige wegen. Op 18 februari verjoeg hij een Zuidelijke strijdmacht uit West Point, Mississippi. Hij was toen nog 135 km verwijderd van Meridian. Op 20 februari vertrok Sherman uit Meridian richting Vicksburg. Sherman had geen enkele informative over Smith. Toen Smith dit nieuws ontving, maakte hij rechtsomkeer en rukte op naar Okolona.

Diezelfde dag botste hij op de Zuidelijke strijdmacht van Forrest. Het kwam tot een treffen bij Prairie Station en Aberdeen. Op 21 februari besliste Smith om zich terug te trekken naar West Point. Hij had geen duidelijke informative over de omvang van de vijandelijke strijdmacht en vreesde voor de veiligheid van de vrijgelaten slaven indien ze opnieuw in Zuidelijke handen zouden vallen. Smith werd door een Zuidelijke cavaleriebrigade onder leiding van kolonel Jeffrey Forrest in moerassige gebied gelokt. Opnieuw werd Smith tot de aftocht gedwongen. Hij detacheerde een achterhoede die de hoofdmacht op twee uur afstand volgde.

De slag
Net toen de Noordelijke achterhoede zich in beweging zette, viel Forrest aan. De eerste aanval werd in de vroege ochtend van 22 februari ingezet op de prairie ten zuiden van Okolona. De Noordelijke cavaleristen hadden barricades opgeworpen rond hun stellingen. Forrest voerde een frontale aanval uit terwijl de vijandelijke flanken getest werden met Zuidelijke versterkingen. De Noordelijke linie brak. Ze trokken zich terug en lieten vijf kanonnen achter.

De Noordelijke strijdmacht hergroepeerde op een heuvelrug. In de reeks van aanvallen en tegenaanvallen die volgden werd kolonel Forrest, de jongere broer van de generaal gedood door een schot in de nek. De Zuidelijken zetten een nieuwe aanval in die opnieuw de Noordelijke linies doorbrak.

De Noordelijken vochten de volgende 16 km terwijl ze zich terugtrokken. Onderweg wierpen ze defensieve stellingen op in plantages of op wegen. Deze posities werden niet lang in handen gehouden door de voortdurende Zuidelijke aanvallen. Tegen het einde van de dag formeerden de Noordelijken zich in drie slaglinies en voerden een aanval uit op hun achtervolgers. Deze aanval mislukte. Opnieuw trok Smith zich terug. Forrest gaf de achtervolging op door een gebrek aan munitie. Smith trok zich terug tot in Tennessee.

Op 26 februari trok Smith met het restant van zijn strijdmacht bij Collierville de staatsgrens met Tennessee over. Hij kreeg een blaam wegens ongehoorzaamheid.Wegens een slechte gezondheid trok Smith zich terug uit actieve dienst in september 1864.

Bronnen
 Wyeth, John Allan, That Devil Forrest: Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, Harper, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-1578-9.
 The American Battlefield Protection Program De slag bij Okolona
 Website over William Sooy Smith

Aanbevolen lectuur
 Browning, Robert M., Forrest: The Confederacy's Relentless Warrior, Brassey's, 2004, ISBN 1-57488-625-8.

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