Looking for Drug Rehab and treatment centers in Castlewood, Virginia?
There are numerous alcohol and drug rehab facilities options available to people residing in the Castlewood region. It is very important recognize each one of the varieties of rehabilitation options that are available in Castlewood, AB., so that you can select the suitable treatment option for yourself or a family member. Selecting the proper drug rehabilitation center in Castlewood is the central element in the process of treating of drug abuse, drug addiction and alcoholism. This info will help ensure you understand your various treatment possibilities so that you have the maximum potential for an ideal end result.
Let's examine the different alcohol and drug treatment programs in Castlewood, Virginia choices that correlate with the circumstances of the individual searching for rehabilitation.
Inpatient alcohol and drug treatment in Castlewood, AB. is a rehabilitation choice best for many who need health-related intervention for the duration of treatment or clients with substantial drug abuse histories. Women and men will experience mental and physical dependence to drugs and alcohol even after a brief amount of time, so inpatient drug rehabilitation in Castlewood is regarded as the most effective rehab option in the majority of cases. As a result of dependence and addiction, women and men will usually be unable to recover using the minimal solutions available from outpatient rehabilitation facilities in Castlewood, Virginia where drugs and alcohol continue to be easily accessible when they depart the outpatient facility. In addition, individuals in rehabilitation who take part in outpatient treatment as opposed to inpatient drug and alcohol rehab in Castlewood remain prone to detrimental relationships and conditions that might compromise their recovery process. If an individual resides with an abusive partner or continues to maintain associations that entail substance abuse, any treatment activities in outpatient treatment will be in vain. That is why in-patient alcohol and drug treatment in Castlewood, AB. is going to generate more tangible outcomes that will prove long lasting contrary to an outpatient drug treatment program where advantages are often very limited and short-lived.
In Castlewood there is both short-term and long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehab. Short-term is often a 30-day program, while long-term inpatient drug and alcohol rehabilitation in Castlewood, Virginia is much more extensive and rehab can last 3 to 6 months generally speaking. It is deemed an ideal setting for clients as it is a safe and secure drug-free setting where they can recover both mentally and physically without distraction. Preferably, people proceed in a long-term in-patient drug and alcohol treatment facility in Castlewood for the optimum period of time permitted, so that they can deal with anything which might cut across their sobriety after they depart treatment. Because of the fact that detoxing and becoming physically stable can require a couple weeks by itself, the three to six months in long-term in-patient drug rehab in Castlewood will be time well spent and a lot more efficient than short-term centers.
The key factor of all if you or someone you love is struggling with a drug abuse or addiction problem is to get it resolved right away, call someone and seek advice from skilled addiction professionals and get an assessment and treatment possibilities to guarantee the best chance for a recovery.


This undated, never-used postcard features Miss Hilda Trevelyan and a cat in a basket. Presumably, it's her cat. There is also a very nice shelf of books behind them.
"Barrie's first choice for Wendy was expecting a baby, so they settled on another young actress, Hilda Trevelyan. Hilda's nervous excitement at being offered the part, of which she had been told nothing, heightened into sheer anxiety when she received her first rehearsal notice: 'Rehearsal — 10:30 for Flying.'"
Trevelyan also had a tiny, uncredited role in Hitchcock's The 39 Steps.
This postcard was part of the "YES OR NO" Series and has a stamp box that asks for writers to affix a halfpenny stamp.
*-The first "Saturday's postcard" on Papergreat appeared on February 5, 2011.
Seriously, though, who titles a blog post "Box of Dennison DeLuxe Gummed Reinforcements"? Who even reads that?
This is a slice of my life: I'm sitting at Mom's old desk, which is positioned inside my bedroom closet, which has been turned into a desk alcove to make the most efficient use of space, because I'm all about efficiency, which is important when you're trying to make everything fit. My laptop takes up half the desk. To my right is my off-from-work-day checklist. To my left is the Box of Dennison DeLuxe Gummed Reinforcements. A few inches further to the left is the dictionary stand from Oak Crest Lane, with the 1951 Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, sitting atop it, opened to Page 1332 (Jegaal ... Jeopardy Assessment) and Page 1333 (Jepard ... Jessamy Bride).1 The shelves underneath the dictionary are stacked with books to be blogged, books to read, books I couldn't yet part with, and an old family Bible, or two, with serious binding issues. At my feet is another book I want to blog soon, so that I can subsequently donate it and get it gone from the bedroom, and the Summer 1967 issue of Saucer News. Because of course.
The cats have been fed, so I have a semblance of peace for writing.
So ... "Box of Dennison DeLuxe Gummed Reinforcements." I was around a lot of old office and desk supplies during my teen years. When we moved from Florida to Oak Crest Lane in Wallingford in 1986, my sister and I were entering the house at its peak accumulation of Stuff. From the 1950s through 1980s, my grandmother and great-grandparents had been saving everything, forgetting about half of it, and buying more. There were never yard sales or spring-cleaning events. There were only drawers and closets and shelves and dressers and rooms filled with things. That included office supplies from the 1960s and 1970s, many never or rarely used.
Things got better between 2005 and 2015, when Mom and I — it took a decade of weekend visits — slowly sorted and removed Stuff, trashing things like petrified glue and donating the rest to charity. But it wasn't a clean sweep. Some of the Stuff survived all of the purges and made the westward trip from Wallingford to Aspers in 2015. And then, after Mom's death earlier this year, it made another trip from Aspers to Dover.
And, thus, the matchbox-sized "Box of Dennison DeLuxe Gummed Reinforcements" is sitting here beside me, being just interesting enough to receive some Papergreat love before heading to the landfill or recycling center.
So here's a little bit about Dennison: It was founded in 1844 in Brunswick, Maine, to make jewelry boxes. In 1898, the enterprise moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, where the Dennison Manufacturing Company became the towering center of the local economy, an era described in this 2014 article in the MetroWest Daily News. In 1990, Dennison merged with the Avery International Corporation to create Avery Dennison.
I believe that the woman shown on the back of the Gummed Reinforcements is supposed to be Spee-d-ADA. She appears on other Dennison products of this time period, as you can see on KookyKitsch.com, Wild Goose Chase, and K is for Calligraphy.
Some of those aforementioned websites want to sell you old office supplies.
1. Jegaal? Jeopardy Assessment? Jepard? Jessamy Bride? I can see why the editors dropped a quarter-million entries between the second and third editions of Webster's unabridged dictionary.
Full disclosure: Between the inventory from Mom's estate and my recent move (reminders that we rarely control the timing of Big Events in life), I have a moderately dire need right now to downsize quickly, before I become like the Collyer brothers. This post will allow me to move three books — a substantial space savings — on to their new Forever Homes. So you might be seeing a few more posts like this in the coming days, as The Lessening continues.
Excerpt: "You want to repeat in the furniture the colors of the rug," she said. "They give you a wide range of tones because these Oriental rugs may have as many as twenty-five shades of blue, so finely graduated that you can hardly tell them apart, except with a reading glass."
Notes: The dust jacket indicates this hardcover's price was 50 cents. ... The tennis game on the cover illustration is a bit misleading, with regard to the contents of the book, which seems mostly to be about interior decorating, travel, history lessons and finding a husband.
Excerpt: But Jones, whatever he might think, was not of the temperament to which the cultivation of maize and tobacco — which in America about that period must have comprehended "the rural life in all its joy and elegance" — could long remain the favorite scheme.
2. For Richard Frederick Birthday. 13 year old. From Aunt Gertrude F. 1938.
Excerpt: The "witches' deadly brew" proved to be very excellent chicken boullion [sic], which did not come amiss after Marjorie's ride in the cool autumn air. By the time she had finished it, her goblin conductor had scurried away to answer the ring of the door bell, leaving her to mingle with the other sinister shapes that wandered singly or in twos and threes about the room.
Notes: Following the Marjorie Dean High School Series, there was the four-book Marjorie Dean College Series and the six-book Marjorie Dean Post-Graduate Series. ... The name "Anna Kass" is written in cursive on the first page. ... There are 16 pages of advertisements at the back of the book for other juvenile series, including The Ranger Boys Series, The Radio Boys Series, Princess Polly Series, The Virginia Davis Series and The Merry Lynn Series.
This bookplate for Edward Stewart Gifford Jr. is either humorous or spine-tingling, depending on your point of view. (I choose humorous.) It features a skeleton grabbing the beard of a surprised scholar. Or maybe he's an alchemist whose experiments to revive the dead had an unexpected outcome. Details in the illustration include a microscope, a flask, the edge of a globe and a small shelf of books that includes Gray's Anatomy and Plays.
The is also a painter's palette and several brushes that have been attached to the wall in an odd manner.
Skeletons and skulls are not an uncommon element of bookplates. Scott D. Haddow wrote a short post about them on the blog A Bone to Pick in 2012. He states: "At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, the design of bookplates became more personalized, with heraldic elements slowly replaced by increasingly symbolic/allegorical representations. ... The focus on mortality reminds me of the medieval allegorical themes of the Danse Macabre, i.e. the universality and egalitarianism of death."
Some additional skeleton-themed bookplates can be see at the BibliOdyssey blog, the blog of Harvard's Houghton Library, and the website 50 Watts.
The Duke University Medical Center's digital repository has a copy of this same bookplate (within the History of Medicine Collection of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library). According to Duke, the illustrator is Virginia Mason Gifford (there is a tiny V in the lower-left corner and a tiny M in the lower-right corner). Edward and Virginia were married.
Virginia, who created her husband's bookplate, died in 2003. In 1988, she published a book titled Glimpses of My Family's Past.
This bookplate was inside a copy of the 1929 Peter Smith reprint edition2 of A Diary from Dixie, as written by Mary Boykin Chesnut, "wife of James Chesnut Jr., United States senator from South Carolina, 1859-1861, and afterward an aide to Jefferson Davis and a Brigadier-General in the Confederate Army." The book was part of Mom's estate. I cannot remember whether it was on her bookshelves because it interested her (she loved diaries by women) or my great-grandfather (who loved books about the Civil War).
1. An Amazon reviewer wrote this in 2015: "If you're looking for a how-to, this isn't the book. But if you're looking for a fun, exhaustive cultural history of The Evil Eye across history and many different cultures, you'll love this book. Written by an eminent eye-doctor who had a passion for collecting eye-related lore and artifacts, it's information-dense, wit written with a wry sense of humor that stops it from becoming dry and text-bookish. Amongst the topics he covers are the beliefs and traditions in casting an evil eye, the ways it's been combated and how magic and medicine have been used to heal and protect more mundane eye problems as well."
2. Peter Smith, who died in 1982 at age 85, was according to The New York Times, "the dean of the branch of publishing that reissues hard-to-find books for libraries, scholars and collectors. Nearly 1,000 titles were issued under his imprint."


Located in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, UMCOR West Office and Depot seeks to be a vital part of the work and vision of the United Methodist Committee on Relief.
Vickie Wilkinson of Bozeman United Methodist Church in Bozeman, Montana, plans to serve her ninth year with Siloe Church and School in San Salvador, El Salvador on a mission trip this July.
Since September, Global Missions has received 340 applications for their Fellows program. Only 17 of those are from the United States. Now, they need your help.
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site will commemorate the 154th anniversary of the Sand Creek Massacre with a pair of free public programs on Nov. 29.
Rocky Mountain College senior, Andrhea, shares how the United Methodist Scholarship helped her through college, beyond the financial benefit.
Advance hope, love and healing around the world on November 27!
It is with profound gratitude and sadness that we announce Sally McConnell's retirement at the end of September as the Vital Missions Coordinator of the Mountain Sky Conference.
After a swimming accident struck Rob Bruendl's Utah church in 2016, the pastor decided to take action teaching adult swim classes.
The past few months have been a busy time for the Friendly Stitchers of Estes Park United Methodist Church in Estes Park, Colorado. Over the course of the summer, the church craft group made 77 "taggies."
Members of Dillon Grace United Methodist Church (Dillon Grace UMC) in Dillon, Montana use their time at the Dillon Farmers Market to give back to local missions.
For 108 years, one of the communication channels that helped to sustain Methodist commitment to mission has been a series of magazines we know by its current title, New World Outlook.
The Rocky Mountain Diaper Depot's 100% volunteer team works hard to ensure that families with babies/toddlers living in poverty in the metro Denver area have enough diapers to stay clean, dry and healthy.
The Western Colorado/Utah District of the Mountain Sky Conference is organizing a trip to Puerto Rico to help with communities' reconstruction Nov. 3-8. All of the Mountain Sky Conference is invited to join.
As wildfires continue to burn throughout our Mountain Sky Conference, please pray for those impacted by these disasters. We have also provided resources you can use to help those affected.
This leaves The United Methodist Church with one of the largest opportunities for outreach in years.
Mission u 2018 online registration is now open. Attendees can attend either one- or two-day events in Colorado, Utah, or Wyoming.
Christ United Methodist Church of Salt Lake City, Utah did something a little different this year for Easter.
After discovering missing funds, the Firestone, CO Cub Scouts were devastated. But one local church came together to ensure a successful year for Pack 341.


As a follow-up to my post earlier this evening, I acquired a couple of other Citizen divers in the past few months. All of them are automatics.
I like that blue. very nice.
Might try it on mesh, too, just for fun.
The GF knows I like watches. So she bought me a watch.
And she did well. I've been tempted by that particular model on more than one occasion.
Timex doing what it does.
Particularly like how the Seamaster looks with this strap and outfit.
I know my username is dumb; blame 12 year old me.
Unexpectedly had to go in to the office so the orange got some office duty today.
Rodina on a Hirsch strap.


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Home Global Activities America Bringing Smiles Back: Flood Relief in Guatemala
Thursday, 05 September 2013 15:40	Tzu Chi Foundation
Recently, many places around the world have experienced heavy rainfall and floods, that have devastated both the homes and the hearts of residents. Unfortunately, Guatemala is no exception. The Livingston area in the Izabal province, Guatemala, was impacted by floods and torrential downpour at the beginning of August. After a disaster assessment, Tzu Chi volunteers decided to organize aid distribution efforts on August 18, 2013.
Despite the four hour drive to the disaster area, Tzu Chi volunteers were beaming bright smiles to everyone as they arrived. While some volunteers helped register families who were waiting to receive relief, other volunteers were busy with setting up the localities.
The event commenced with an opening ceremony where the volunteers introduced Tzu Chi and its activities to the villagers. Carolina, a flood victim, introduced Tzu Chi to Mayor Vicente Interiono Colindres and the affected families, explaining the organization's love and compassion for the community. Tzu Chi volunteer Tzu Fa then explained to everyone the concept behind the Bamboo Banks. Tzu Chi does not take a single penny from the donations it receives - all of the money is dedicated towards charity.
The mission of Tzu Chi volunteers is to go wherever there is a disaster in the world, paying their own travel and living expenses. Tzu Fa said, "Every penny that you donate counts; it can help disaster survivors around the world!" Her touching introduction was received with a loud applause and the Bamboo Banks that were circulated to the villagers were quickly being filled with coins. Afterwards, there was a minute of silence to pray for world peace and an end to all disasters.
After the opening ceremony, the distribution event began. The villagers were very polite and patient as they waited in line, quietly chatting with each other in their local dialect. Some villagers from remote areas had to travel a long distance to reach the distribution site. Flood survivors from the Chunacte and Sepac villages had walked for two hours and then taken a 45 minute bus ride to get there. Their smiles were radiant and filled with heartfelt happiness as they received the food relief.
On that day, 260 families from 7 different villages in Livingstone, Izabal, Guatemala received aid. Each family received 20 pounds of black beans, 5 pounds of sugar, 1 liter of cooking oil, 20 pounds of corn flour, 10 pounds of rice, 3 detergent balls and 4 rolls of toilet paper. The villagers, who were not expecting to receive so much, felt very touched. As there was a lot to carry, Tzu Chi volunteers helped survivors carry the large bags of food. Some volunteers would place biscuits in the shirt pockets of villagers who had no hands left to carry any more. Vice Mayor Elfido Romeo Olivia Alvarado not only organized local volunteers to assist Tzu Chi in the event, but also helped out with the distribution himself.
As a token of gratitude, the Mayor gave Tzu Chi a handmade wooden boat. To further thank the Tzu Chi volunteers, who had travelled a long way to help lift the villagers out of their suffering, the Mayor organized a delicious Guatemalan vegetarian lunch for the volunteers. The villagers, who are not only suffering from flooded homes but also from increasing prices of household goods, were very thankful to Tzu Chi for helping to bring back their smiles in the midst of their adversities.
Report by Tzu Chi Foundation, Guatemala office
Written by Loritta Chan
Edited by Johan Alwall
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Interview With a Person Who Paid Off $48,000 in Student Loans in Four Years
By The Billfold February 18, 2014
by Jacqui Shine
Marnie Gallowy! The Internets told me that last week — eight years after you graduated from our ol' alma mater — that you paid off the last of your $48,000 in student loan debt. IS THAT TRUE? Are you a wizard?
Hey JShine — you found me out, I'm a wizard! My student loan debt totaled $48,000 and change ($33-ish from undergrad, and $15K from a poorly advised year in grad school). The bulk of my undergrad debt was federal student loans, but bundled in there was a nasty $8K Sallie Mae with a 12 percent interest rate. My grad school debt was also a mix of federal and private, but the private loans I got at that time were comparatively reasonable.
You paid it off in eight years! How did you do this!?
Really we weren't in a position to start paying off anything but the minimum on our debt until after we got married in 2010, so jeez, all of this was paid off actually in about four years?
For my first year out of college, my mom helped pay for my student loans. She had just landed the first well-paying job of her career, so she wanted to help out, and I was grateful for the time to figure out what I was doing with my life. After that year when she was paying the minimum contribution and I picked the payment back up, my partner Tom (now husband) and I looked at the balance compared to what it was when I graduated and were shocked that it was higher than before. The minimum wasn't even paying off the interest.
In 2007 we moved to Chicago because Tom got into a great Ph.D. program, and I got another secretary job. We were living exclusively off my $25K/year income, pinching pennies and eating a lot of rice and beans. After a year of that, I decided that my way out of secretary life was to start an MFA program to be an artist, so there was a year when neither of us were making money other than my part-time job in the department and Tom's funding.
Okay, so four years ago you and Tom decided to go after your student loan debt. What did that look like?
After we both had more predictable income, we made a plan to prioritize paying off debt. That year when we weren't even paying the interest made me vengeful, and Tom has always felt insulted by debt — he'd rant to anyone listening that it's a tax on our future. We decided that we were able to live just fine at $25k/year, so that was what we lived on even though we were making more. Everything extra we made went straight into savings, and then every few months we'd throw a big chunk of that savings into the debt hole. (First to go: adios, Sallie!) We fought really hard against lifestyle inflation: kept cutting our own hair, buying things second hand, taking an eight-hour Megabus trip instead of flying, etc., even though we could afford not to. We don't have a car, but even public transit started feeling like too much: I realized I could save $100/month on train fare by biking to work instead of taking the el.
In the last two years we both lucked out and got pretty solid jobs: I got a full-time job in design, and he was King of the Adjuncts (teaching eight classes at a time) before he got a totally sweet research job last September. That really helped: we were still living off our mega-condensed budget, and suddenly had a lot more money to throw at debt. Last fall we were taking a train back from a wedding in St. Louis and realized kind of unexpectedly that we had enough money gathered among all our savings-buckets for a down payment for a house…or enough to obliterate my debt, which was about $18K at the time. It was scary to think about moving all that money, so we waited a little longer. This month, we upturned those buckets and finished the debt off once and for all.
I do want to say, the last thing I want is for this to sound like a bootstraps story: "We were able to pay off a boat load of debt, so anyone could!" Nope. We had a hell of a lot of luck and privilege. Neither of us got sick or have chronic illnesses; neither of us had huge family crises that required us to stop working. We've been together for years, so we've been able to share expenses and lean on each other when jobs disappear. We live in Chicago, which has super affordable neighborhoods and jobs that pay enough so that people can live in the nicer neighborhoods, you know? We both have pretty elite educations, so the jobs we were able to get when we finally found footing in the job market have been pretty well paid. Frankly, having the choice to live under our means is a luxury, and one that we realized might not always be around.
Did you have health insurance during this time, either/both of you?
Tom was without insurance for the year that he was without funding, but the rest of the time we both had some kind of coverage. I paid for an emergency-only policy out of pocket during the years when I was working multiple part-time jobs. I got my policy through Fractured Atlas, which is kind of a union for artists, so the insurance I got was pretty affordable — like $75/month? I never went to the doctor, though, which is partially habit from having grown up without health insurance. I got the coverage in case I got hit by a bus or doored when biking around town; it was more for peace of mind than actually getting health care. When I got my full-time design job it came with full benefits and because we were married I was able to get Tom on my policy, so we've both had pretty nice insurance for the last year and a half or so. It was so great to be able to get new glasses!
It sounds like you gave up a lot or delayed or deprived yourselves a fair amount. Is that true?
Good and tricky question! We try very openly and conscientiously to orient ourselves towards life/money in a positive way rather than negative. [Sometimes it was] really rough. There were periods when we were both really demoralized and depressed from working so many late hours and early mornings without feeling like we were getting anything out of it. [But] we made lifestyle choices to build towards what we want — to pay off debt and have the ability to be generous — rather than what we were willing to give up. I mean, would I love to spend a few weeks in Mexico? Totally. But looking at the past few years, I'm really happy and don't feel deprived. Materially we did go without a lot of conveniences, but again it doesn't feel like a loss, just a choice.
About that $33K logic/philosophy degree. If you could actually go back in time and tell Youthful Marnie what to do, would you advise her to make a different choice about college? If you talked to Youthful Marnie about student loans and how SRS BIZNESS they are, would YM have even understood/gotten/bought it?
Ugh, good question. I think about this a lot. I am really, really happy with where I am in my life and that is of course a result of having made the choices I did, so I don't think I'd advise my younger self to do anything differently. The logic/philosophy degree gave me a lot of confidence as a writer and as a debater, which is a broadly applicable skill set. I might not have a job that directly relates to that training, but I've gotten every arts grant and fellowship I've ever applied for and I don't think that's because I'm particularly talented — I just know how to craft a really strong argument for myself. One of those grants helped to boost my visibility in the arts field I am working in, which has opened a lot of doors for me. And the graduate program I went to for a year, which was very expensive and very disappointing, helped me realize that that I don't need an institution's permission to make the work that I want to make. That was extraordinarily liberating. I also met great friends and colleagues who inspire me to make better work, to keep challenging myself, which remains hugely valuable.
I do wish that someone — time-traveling adult Marnie, or better yet a financial counselor — had been available to help me really learn about money when I was younger, maybe even younger than college. We both grew up in homes with instability, barely making it paycheck-to-paycheck, and, boy, do I respect what a challenge that must have been for our parents. But that means that neither of us [had] an intuitive grasp on how to think about big-picture finances other than "be frugal and try not to panic." We've tried to teach ourselves, but I see the fluency in which some friends think about money and it's baffling. I don't think that my teenaged self would really understand what a burden $48K in debt would be; it seems like such an impossible number. All I knew was that I wanted to go to college, and I'd sign whatever paper they gave me that would let me keep studying.
I think that's the case for a lot of students. How did you finally start to acquire those financial management skills?
When I graduated from college in 2006, I had absolutely no understanding of how to deal with money. I had been mostly financially independent for the past four years, but with the mentality of, "If I don't look at my balance and don't spend money, I should be OK! La la la!!!" When I got my first job as an entry-level secretary at a university HR department I was given a form to fill out for my 401(k) and I had no idea what that was. That made me feel like an idiot, which I resented. I spent the next few months apprenticing myself to every personal finance blog I could find and obsessing over my Mint.com charts and graphs, which became a mindless hobby. Check email, check Facebook, check Mint. Lather, rinse, repeat.
So our alma mater's vaunted financial literacy program didn't make a dent while you were in school, huh?
Ha! No, it sure didn't. But now that you mention it, I do remember getting a lot of flyers in my mailbox and email blasts about those events. Maybe instead of Time-Traveling Future Self or Personal Financial Advisor I should have wished for someone to shake me by the shoulders and tell me that I should take advantage of free programs instead of feeling too intimidated/embarrassed to ask for help?
And how did the finance stuff work in your relationship? What was your household budgeting like in your years of deprivation & penny-pinching? How did you and Tom do that?
In those years of super tight finances, strategizing about money started feeling like a sport: We were battling a behemoth, and had to strategize our best move. It totally became a game. "If we do X a little cheaper, we could pay off that much more!"
Tom and I are both big advocates of putting money right in to savings; our strategies are a little different, but in ways that are complementary. Every paycheck he would put 10% into emergency savings, 10% into retirement, 10% for charity, 10% into a savings fund for family (in case of emergencies), stuff like that. My savings were more directed towards specific predicted expenses, like "Thanksgiving travel" or "book printing" or "my computer is crap and will die any minute." (That was actually the name of my savings account; the stupid computer was crap and did eventually die, and I had enough money to go buy a new computer. The system worked!) I think at one point I had 16 different savings accounts? A few times a year we touch base and spend an hour or two looking at Mint together (which has all of our accounts linked up) to be sure we are on the same page about things, and make adjustments then.
Auto-debit is absolutely my best friend. On the days my paycheck is set to deposit I have money scheduled to be transferred into my various goals: $15 here, $20 there, for every dollar beyond what my monthly expenses require. They are all slow to accumulate because I don't have a lot to put in, and that little bit is divided in a lot of directions, but it [has] helped me feel like I was building towards something. That strategy definitely helped me stay on budget: if I needed something beyond what we had allocated, I had to go out of my way to transfer money out of my savings. That was usually enough friction to keep me from impulse-buying a new dress or something.
Now that you've gotten rid of this burden, how will your financial lives change (or not change)?
You say burden metaphorically, but it has been two weeks since I closed out my student loan account and it honestly feels like a physical weight has been lifted. Before it felt like we were walking on leaves and branches draped over a pit trap, and any misstep would mean falling into disaster. Now we're on even ground. That difference, that stability, feels momentous. I don't think we'll change our spending or savings habits. They're pretty well ingrained now, but we'll be able to keep the savings we slowly accumulate instead of throwing it into the pit. GOOD RIDDANCE, PIT!
I think the biggest change is how I feel about risk. I have been as financially risk-avoidant as anyone in a creative career can be, which has worked out well in this arena but has put a bit of a damper on building momentum in my creative life. I've prioritized work with a predictable income over time to work on my art practice, which has meant a herky-jerky output. I think I'm going to switch that order around; it feels like a safe time to take a big risk. Now if I stumble, I'm still on solid ground, you know? (PIT METAPHOR!) I think 2014 is going to be a good year.
Marnie Galloway is a comic artist, illustrator, and printmaker in Chicago, Illinois. Her first book, In the Sounds and Seas: Volume I, won a 2012 Xeric Grant and was nominated for the 2013 LA Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel. She is a co-organizer of Chicago Alternative Comics Expo; her illustration and comics clients include Saveur Magazine and Chicago Zine Fest.
Jacqui Shine is a writer with love and attitude. She lives in Chicago, and she thinks you are perfect and beautiful.
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Flood aid
€35,000 handed over to Red Cross for Donegal flood relief
18 Sept 2017
The cheque being presented to Irish Red Cross President Pat Carey.
The first installment of money raised for the Irish Red Cross to assist the relief effort following the devastating floods in north Donegal in August was handed over to the charity group on Wednesday.
A cheque for €35,000, which was the majority of the proceeds of a charity concert held in Lettterkenny's Aura Centre recently, which saw stars such as Daniel O'Donnell and Nathan Carter perform, was handed over to the Chairman of the Irish Red Cross, Pat Carey at a function Bank of Ireland, Letterkenny.
The event was set up by Deirdre Grant and a committee of volunteers over the course of six days.
Mrs Grant said some reported the event as the"six day miracle" and added that there was still more money to be collected from their fundraising efforts and this will be passed on in due course.
Speaking at the function she said it was a real team effort to host the concert but it was the goodwill of so many people that made it happen,
She said the event was "wonderful" and "madness" but was a great success.
"It is just amazing what you can do when you get a group of people to do something for the right reason, from the right place in their hearts and I think that is what we all did. It was a group of people. It was all volunteers. It was the people who came on the day and bought tickets. It was the like of McElhinney's, John Foy and others who donated prizes for the raffle and the artist who performed. From the beginning it really took off when Daniel O'Donnell's manager called me and said Daniel would like to be a part of it," she explained.
She said the first installment was for €35,000 and there was more to come in from other collections and events being hosted around the country and further afield and this would be handed over later.
Pat Carey told those present that it was a great response from the people of Donegal and that the money raised would "make a hell of a difference" to the relief effort.
Daniel O'Donnell also joined the event via Skype and said he was delighted the event was so successful.
The star-studded bill at the Aura Leisure Centre included Daniel O'Donnell, Big Tom, Nathan Carter, Dominic and Barry Kirwan and Johnny Brady, among others.
The fundraising target for the event was €20,000 but the generosity of many saw that target exceeded.
Mrs Grant said there were even collections taking place in London to support those affected by the flooding.
The Donegal Association Dublin recently hosted a fundraising table quiz and social night in D2 on Harcourt Street for Inishowen Flood Relief. The event raised over €7,000.
Finín Mac a Bhaird was MC for the evening and spoke of how the Donegal Association were glad to be able to help and host an event for the victims of the recent floods in Donegal saying how this event brought the association back to its grassroots as it was originally founded as a result of a tragedy – The Aranmore Disaster in 1935
Donegal Person of the Year Stephen McCahill travelled from Ardara to be there on the night and spoke about the association and the importance of their work in Dublin.
Following on from the floods local farmers have called on the IFA to fight for as much financial aid as possible following the flooding which damaged land, crops, and roads, mostly in the Inishowen peninsula.
A special IFA meeting on Tuesday to deal with the flooding issue heard that the aid on offer - a package of €15,000 - would be inadequate for many farmers and some farmers would need substantial sums to deal with damage caused to their land by the flooding of August 22nd. Concern has also been raised by the IFA that damage to crops and uncut fodder and silage may not be covered.


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Apr 08, 2022 By: Yvonne Ho
The following are summaries from the Community Power Report, which regularly posts stories on community-based renewable energy projects taking place all around the world.
Boston housing provider help households save on energy bills
In the Boston area in England, up to 2000 homes will be getting solar PV panels installed on their rooftops, which will not only reduce carbon emissions and lower their electricity bills, but also generate income for their community fund, Empower Community Solar.
The project is a collaboration between local housing provider Boston Mayflower and energy efficiency specialists Corgi Energy and Think Sustainable Energy. Through the Feed in Tariff program by the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, this initiative is projected to generate up to $7 million in investments for the fund, which will be re-invested by local residents in causes that will benefit the surrounding area. Sounds like a win-win situation for Boston residents!
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City of Saskatoon plans biomass project to divert elm wood from landfill
The City of Saskatoon in Saskatchewan is planning to burn its diseased elm wood to heat a local community greenhouse instead of sending it to the landfill. Every year, 700-900 tonnes of wood waste is sent to the landfill, costing the city $75,000 in tipping fees. The new plan to burn the wood waste in a biomass boiler would be able to generate 32,000MW of energy, as well as reduce the need for natural gas use by 85%, accounting for another $75,000 in cost savings.
The city's partner in this project, the Saskatoon Food Bank and Learning Centre, has completed a feasibility study to build a food bank with a 6000 sq. ft. community greenhouse attached to it. The study estimated that the project will cost $3.4-$3.6 million, including the construction of a biomass boiler and a solar panel system. In addition to reducing fossil fuel consumption, this project will also reduce the total amount of waste sent to the landfill—a step forward for the city's waste diversion efforts and a positive sign for the environment!
U.S. national trade association for community solar officially launches
In the United States, a national trade association for community solar, called the Coalition for Community Solar Access (CCSA), has been established. The CCSA's initial goals are to open markets in key states, serve as the resource for policymakers, utilities and advocates who seek clear, practical options for establishing community solar* programs, and to be the messenger to highlight the growing success of the community solar market. The CCSA will be partnering with consumers, local stakeholders and utilities to implement effective and innovative policies and programs to make sure American communities who are interested in participating will be able to benefit from solar energy generation that is clean, affordable and reliable.
In addition to providing environmental benefits, community solar has the ability to spur job creation within local communities, contributing to the local economy. Currently, up to 200,000 Americans are employed in the community solar industry, which serves approximately 750,000 customers. A study conducted by the NREL also found that community solar has immense market potential, with the capacity to generate up to $16 billion in investments and up to 11 GW of installed electricity generation through 2020.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump has never shown any reluctance to sacrifice a surrogate to serve a short-term political need, so he apparently did not think twice this week about exposing a series of staff members to ridicule as he repeatedly shifted his explanation for firing James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director.
Mr. Trump, obsessed with the F.B.I.'s investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election and increasingly frustrated by the hyper-scrutiny of the Washington press corps, is more in need of effective spokesmen than ever, and aides say he is considering a broad shake-up of his team.
But his career-long habit of viewing his public protectors as somewhat disposable, on vivid display after Mr. Comey's sudden ouster, has not exactly been an incentive to step into the firing line on his behalf.
After the "Access Hollywood" scandal, Mr. Trump raged at Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, for going on TV to defend him, arguing that he wanted to attack Hillary Clinton, not play defense. Corey Lewandowski, Mr. Trump's 2016 campaign manager until he fired him, repeatedly groused to friends that he was forced to absorb all of the criticism for the campaign's practice of confining reporters at rallies in small pens. Mr. Trump, he told two people close to him, had ordered him to do it — but placed the blame on Mr. Lewandowski when reporters complained about it.
The firestorm touched off by the Comey firing has only reinforced the lesson Mr. Trump has usually taken away from past crises, that only one person was truly capable of defending him: the man in the mirror. It would be a "good idea" to end the daily news briefing, he told a Fox News host on Friday, suggesting that he was considering hosting his own news conferences every two weeks or so.
The view that the communications dysfunction begins at the top of the White House organizational chart is bipartisan.
"The most hazardous duty in Washington these days is that of Trump surrogate because the president constantly undercuts the statements of his own people," said David Axelrod, a communications and messaging adviser to President Barack Obama.
Over the past few days, Mr. Trump deployed his two top aides — his press secretary, Sean Spicer, and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a top deputy — to deliver dubious or false information about his decision-making process.
He asked Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein to draft a letter documenting Mr. Comey's shortcomings to leave the impression that it was Mr. Rosenstein's judgment and not his own that led to the dismissal — an idea that was reinforced by Vice President Mike Pence, who was part of the small group of advisers who planned Mr. Comey's ouster in near secrecy.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump himself vaporized every version of the Comey story his defenders, including Mr. Pence, had labored so earnestly to put forward. "I was going to fire Comey — my decision. There is no good time to do it, by the way," Trump told the "NBC Nightly News" anchor Lester Holt. "I was going to fire regardless of the recommendation" made by Mr. Rosenstein, he said.
Few of Mr. Trump's eruptions have had such a destructive effect on his administration or left such deep resentments among his scarred staff, according to Trump aides and surrogates. And the blowback from the Comey decision and the way it was handled have accelerated the discussions about possible changes in the White House.
The problem is, it is not clear what type of changes Mr. Trump is prepared to make or who he can draw as a replacement. In the short term, Mr. Trump and his team have focused their energies on a familiar fixation — rooting out leaks in the leaky West Wing.
Mr. Gingrich, a friend and frequent surrogate for the president, said the go-it-alone approach worked "brilliantly for him as an entrepreneur, and it worked pretty well" for him as a candidate.
For his part, the president's mood, according to people close to him, alternates between grim frustration with Washington and his news coverage, and a belief that his own political capital is regenerative. Mr. Trump saw that running against strong headwinds in the campaign worked for him, and he has frequently reverted to that playbook.
On Friday, Mr. Trump unleashed a barrage of bellicose Twitter posts on the Comey firing, but the first had a whisper of contrition, a backhanded admission that he had sent his team out to defend him with flawed, inaccurate and easily debunked information.
"As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!" he wrote early Friday.
In private, however, Mr. Trump was not in a mea culpa mood. He was still raging over what he viewed as Mr. Comey's "witch hunt" against him — and blaming the bipartisan condemnation of his action on the failures of his embattled and overworked communications team.
Mr. Trump is growing increasingly dissatisfied with the performance of his chief of staff, Reince Priebus; the communications director, Michael Dubke; and Mr. Spicer, a Priebus ally, according to a half-dozen West Wing officials who said the president was considering the most far-reaching shake-up of his already tumultuous term.
He has been especially critical of Mr. Spicer, they said, openly musing about replacing him and telling people in his circle that he kept his own press secretary out of the loop in dismissing Mr. Comey until the last possible moment because he feared that the communications staff would leak the news.
Mr. Spicer's blustery style mimics Mr. Trump's, but people close to both men said he has not developed an especially close relationship with the president and has failed to use the self-protective tools that savvier Trump aides have adopted.
That seems to be changing. On Friday, Mr. Spicer prefaced much of what he said at the daily briefing with, "The president's statement." And while Mr. Trump has raised the Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle to allies as a possible press secretary, he has spent several hours with Mr. Spicer this week, praising his television "ratings" during the briefings.
Those who have managed to stay in Mr. Trump's orbit over a period of time have developed unique adaptation skills.
Campaign aides learned not to lean too much on his accounts of events, steering away from unequivocal public pronouncements unless they could point to his words.
Mr. Trump's four-decade career in real estate, casinos and entertainment has given him a sense, associates say, that a tacit agreement exists between him and the people who work for him: In exchange for the wealth, fame and power he conveys to them, they agree to absorb incoming fire directed at him.
"With Mr. Trump, it's pretty simple: Once he makes up his mind on something, that's it," said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump political adviser who remains close to the president's team.
"You either work for him" or quit, Mr. Nunberg added.


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Q: How to use sexagesimal syntax in arguments of FFmpeg or if impossible how to convert it in Windows CMD shell Question updated 2020-12-06 to enlarge the scope without discarding the prior answer which applies to both prior and larger cases.
I had trouble to provide a sexagesimal time (HH:MM:SS.mm) to a filter option that was not an expression. For instance trim filter.
It happens there is an escaping rule i did not know yet when i first asked, and was addressed in the first comment by @Gyan.
The problem is universal, but the solution may depend on the shell if we go the scripting route... and i am currently stuck with Windows's CMD.exe.
For instance the following skips one minute and 4 tenths of seconds in all streams as accurately as it can seek each, then invokes the trim filter to keep the segment between one and two minutes of the remaining duration, and do so with two different syntaxes. This example happens to be compatible with both CMD and BASH shells so no escaping hell.
ffmpeg -ss "1:00.4" -i INPUT -vf "trim=start='1\:00':end='120'" OUTPUT

Then how do we achieve the same in the expressions within the filters ?
If we cannot avoid using the scripting of the shell, i am looking for a Windows CMD solution.
I had posted one answer with a piece of script to convert a textual sexagesimal time to a textual decimal fractional time in seconds, which was not useful for the original case, but may apply to more generic cases and in particular to the expressions.
Example of failed attempt with one expression in the select filter.
ffmpeg -ss "1:00.4" -i INPUT -vf "select='between(t,1\:00',120)'" OUTPUT

The sexagesimal notation seems to not be supported by ffmpeg filter expressions as i found no reference of it in the documentation nor in SO/web.
I browsed through the list of functions defined in ffmpeg expression library but did not find any way to parse the sexagesimal input there yet, nor any way to use text in its semantics.
However i found some unrelated example that hard-coded some arithmetical expression to provide the numerical decimal amount of seconds equivalent to what was intended, such as 2*60+2 to mean 2:02.
The polynome used above to compute seconds may use preprocessing of shell variable, whichever shell it is, but we need to parse the components of HH:MM:SS.mm to put them in those variable first. You know, using bash $var or cmd %var%/%~1 styles. Otherwise we may compute the polynome completely in the shell instead of the expression but it is so much trouble for little gain.
So while CMD still exists ~~like an undead and becomes really dead~~, and while i do not have the opportunity yet to replace it, i wish for an answer that either :

*

*does not need the shell/script at all, OR

*provide a solution in Windows CMD, although relying on it as little as possible.

Reminder and clarification, the use case assumes that we are given a textual sexagesimal time as input and intend to use it in an expression of ffmpeg filter with as little shell dependency as possible or otherwise satisfy Windows CMD.

A: This is a batch script (for CMD.exe) i wrote to convert the string input time from sexagesimal to decimal despite the very limited and outdated shell. I figured it might be useful to a windows user who like me does not have the skill or permission to use a different shell.
    REM May be inserted in another script to call :second or called as a file batch such as "hms-to-second.cmd".
    :second
    REM Convert sexagesimal time plus decimal period into decimal signed number as a string with possible period by parsing that string.
    REM param 1 is name of result destination
    REM param 2 is name of source env-var
    REM param 3 is prefix character of source
        setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
        set "inp=!%~2!"
        set "t=0"
        set "neg="
        if "!inp:~0,0!"=="-" (
            set "inp=!inp:~1!"
            set "neg=-"
        )
        for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=:" %%G in ( "!inp!" ) do (
            call :stepparse t "%%G"
            call :stepparse t "%%H"
            call :stepparse t "%%I"
        )
        (
            endlocal
            set "%~1=%neg%%t%"
        )
    exit/b

    :stepparse
    REM Call this repetitively from high weight to low weight, assuming the higher weight never are empty. Assume there is at most one dot for a decimal part which is appended (with the dot) because CMD SET/A cannot compute decimals.
    REM param 1 is name of accumulator
    REM param 2 is input
        setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
        set "x=!%~1!"
        for /f "tokens=1-2 delims=." %%E in ( "%~2" ) do (
            if not [%%E]==[] set /a "x=x*60+%%E"
            if not [%%F]==[] set "x=!x!.%%F"
        )
        (
            endlocal
            set "%~1=%x%"
        )
    exit/b

Use it like this.
set "begin=1:2"
set "end=2:3"
call hms-to-second.cmd begin %begin%
call hms-to-second.cmd end %end%
ffmpeg -i sample-counter.mp4 -vf "trim=start='%begin%':end='%end%'" sample-counter-trimmed.mp4

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Motorola Mobility files petition for review in legal battle with Apple
Motorola Mobility has filed a 33-page petition for review with the United States International Trade Commission (USITC, or just ITC) concerning a mid-December preliminary ruling by an Administrative Law Judge on the sole remaining patent in Motorola's complaint against Apple, reports "FOSS Patents" (http://tinyurl.com/acoshyn).
In December, Judge Thomas B. Pender, an administrative law judge at the U.S. International Trade Commission has ruled that Apple didn't violate a Motorola Mobility patent relating to a sensor controlled user interface for a portable communication device. This is part of an ongoing battle between the two companies.
Apple has alleged that Motorola infringes 24 of its patents (21 of them with Android-based phones, the remaining three with set-top boxes and DVRs), while Motorola previously asserted 18 patents against a variety of Apple products (mostly but not exclusively iPhone, iPad and iPod). Litigation between the two companies has taken place in several different federal courts.
Judge: Apple didn't violate Motorola patent
ITC judge says Apple violates a Motorola patent
ITC: Apple didn't infringe two Google patents


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• On This Day In Pro Wrestling History (November 27, 1986) – NWA Starrcade 1986: The Skywalkers
On this day in Pro Wrestling history on November 27, 1986, Jim Crockett Promotions aired 'NWA Starrcade 1986: The Skywalkers' LIVE on closed-circuit television from the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina, and The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia.
This was the 4th out of 18 annual 'Starrcade' events that aired between 1983 and 2000.
The first 5 Starrcades (1983-1987) were promoted by Jim Crockett Promotions, while Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (who bought JCP in 1988) promoted all the ones that followed (1988-2000).
According to several reports, Magnum T.A. was already booked to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Flair that night, but unfortunately had to end his career after a car accident a month before the show.
As a result he was replaced with Nikita Koloff in the main event.
Most Professional Wrestling historians agree that, had it not been for Magnum's accident, he could had quite possibly become the NWA version of Hulk Hogan. Just imagine, JCP not being forced to sell to Turner, … Oh well, a man can still dream about a "What If" scenario, right?
The results are here:
Tim Horner & Nelson Royal def. Rocky & Don Kernodle
Brad Armstrong vs Jimmy Garvin ended in a draw
Hector Guerrero & Baron von Raschke def. Shaska Whatley & The Barbarian
No DQ – NWA United States Tag Team Championship: Krusher Khruschev and Ivan Koloff (c) def. Bobby Jaggers and Dutch Mantell
Indian Strap: Wahoo McDaniel def. Rick Rude
NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship: Sam Houston (c) def. Bill Dundee by DQ
Hair versus Hair match: Jimmy Valiant def. Paul Jones
Street Fight: Big Bubba Rogers def. Ron Garvin
First Blood – NWA World Television Championship: Tully Blanchard def. Dusty Rhodes (c)
Skywalkers match: The Road Warriors def. The Midnight Express
Steel Cage – NWA World Tag Team Championship: The Rock 'n' Roll Express (c) def. The Anderson Brothers
NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair (c) vs Nikita Koloff ended in a double DQ
• Charly Caruso Reacts To Dave Meltzer Implying WWE Only Hired Her Because She's Young & Cute
During a recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer said that late, great "Mean" Gene Okerlund wouldn't be able to get a job in WWE today (if he was alive) because 'he's not young and he's not cute enough' like Charly Caruso.
A fan brought this to Charly's attention and below is what Charly posted:
"I feel very bad for Mary Anne."
I feel very bad for Mary Anne. https://t.co/AKZajNCbJv
— Charly Caruso // Arnolt (@CharlyOnTV) November 27, 2019
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Against the Universal Basic Income
Cash transfers for every American would bring an end to our already-endangered culture of work.
Peter Cove
Last month, Canada became the latest country to experiment with a "basic income," offering up to $13,000 to selected low- and middle-income citizens with no strings attached. These trials have spread as developed nations search for ways to cope with stagnant wages and joblessness—problems likely to worsen as globalization and automation increase over the coming decades.
While writing my most recent book, which examines poverty in the twenty-first century, I consulted the work of Charles Murray. For decades, Murray has blazed a trail for thoughtful commentary on poverty, beginning in 1984 with Losing Ground, an early critique of the welfare state. Given Murray's sterling record on the subject, I was surprised to find that his latest work, In Our Hands, recommends implementing a universal basic income—effectively extending welfare to every American.
Murray's version of the UBI would eliminate all government transfer programs, including those involving cash, food, and health care, and replace them with an annual $10,000 grant to everyone 21 or older—whether they're poor or not. Within the United States, the concept has found support from a varied bipartisan crew, including techno-progressives in Silicon Valley and conservative libertarians like Murray. Despite its rising profile among many sharp thinkers, however, this particular approach to welfare reform would create many more problems than it would solve.
The fatal flaw of the universal basic income is the same one that hampers most existing anti-poverty programs: a lack of emphasis on encouraging work. Instead, these programs have sought to provide directly whatever poor people happen to lack. The result has been more than 50 years of massive public outlays, with little benefit other than making recipients dependent on government. The ongoing rise in worker's disability claims follows a long string of recent expansions of welfare programs, such as food stamps, housing assistance, and even free phones to boost the standard of living among poor citizens.
In the long run, this transfer-focused approach to welfare does more than create a disincentive to work. In his book The Welfare Trait, British neurobiologist Adam Perkins argues that dependence on welfare creates work-resistant personalities, which are often passed on from one generation to the next. As one review of Perkins's work puts it, the welfare state "becomes a production line for damaged kids" and encourages parents in unemployed households to have more children than families led by breadwinners.
More and more men have become absorbed in an entrenched lifestyle of joblessness, with bleak consequences. Male joblessness exceeds 20 percent in six states—Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, and West Virginia—and the number of fatalities from drug overdoses is well above the national average in each. According to economist Allan Kreuger, 44 percent of men who have left the workforce use pain medication—the fastest-growing form of substance abuse in the nation today.
Even many federal lawmakers have begun to realize the costs of welfare and our joblessness epidemic. Welfare for single parents has undergone a series of reforms, and the addition of work requirements has returned many recipients to the job market, reducing welfare enrollment by more than 60 percent. These results demonstrate the value of making self-sufficiency the ultimate goal of government support, rather than expanding dependency with the "no-strings" approach of UBI.
For Murray, as for many in Silicon Valley, the need for a basic income lies in the crisis that they believe automation and globalization will soon bring to the job market, leaving millions of unskilled workers without employment prospects—at least, as is commonly believed. But plenty of evidence suggests that the projections of future mass unemployment may be greatly exaggerated. Eamonn Kelly, a futurist at Deloitte Consulting, points out that forecasts of tech-driven unemployment have been made for over a century but have never panned out because emerging technology has always eventually created more new jobs than it has destroyed. In every era, new types of machines and production methods converge to enable what Kelly calls "a new art of the people." With this new art comes new forms of work.
Our future depends on a robust future for work, because work does so much more than provide for our basic needs. Work draws us into the public square and instills in us a sense of personal responsibility. It allows people to feel the pride and self-respect that come with supporting their spouses and children. Any policy that trades work for public dependency—especially when justified only by shaky futuristic projections—should be rejected.
Peter Cove is the author of Poor No More and the Founder of America Works and The Work First Foundation.
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Home Car Cadillac XT3 2023.
Cadillac XT3 2023.
As an entry-level crossover in the Chinese market, the Cadillac XT4 has attracted labels like «super fuel efficient» and «honest» since its launch in 2018.
But unfortunately, in the face of price cuts in the BMW X1, Audi Q3, Mercedes-Benz GLA, etc., the XT4 doesn't have much in the way of competitive play.
Cadillac has continued to make some effort in the entry-level SUV market lately, with an XT3 2023-labeled crossover ready for production.
Judging by the spy photos on display, the new car should continue Cadillac's current family-friendly design style, using iconic designs including vertical daytime running lights and a shield-shaped grille like the XT4 and XT5.
The side showcases the standard SUV representative design: the front strut has a large angle, and the B, C and D are relatively vertical. As for dimensions, no information is available at this time.
The tail section of the test car in the pictures is covered with deaf camouflage, but you can see that the taillights will be decorated with long ᵴtriƥes, echoing the performance of the front headlights.
The dual-sided exhaust system, in terms of style, looks spectacular.
No information about the XT3's cabin has been released yet. Considering that the interiors of Cadillac models are similar, it is assumed that the new car will directly copy the layout of existing cars.
Data on the technical characteristics of the crossover are also out of the information field. In all likelihood, under the hood will be installed two power units to choose from, namely 1.5T and 2.0T.
Of course, judging by the information we have received so far, there is still a lot of uncertainty in the future of the new Cadillac parkette, but that does not prevent us to look forward to its release on the car market.
On the road tests spotted the new «mysterious» Cadillac XT3.
A few days ago a new crossover from Cadillac was spotted on public roads.
It is assumed that the camera lenses caught Cadillac XT3 2023.
However, this name has not yet received official confirmation.
The novelty will take place before the actual Cadillac XT4. In this connection there were assumptions regarding the index.
However, more detailed information about the crossover should appear in the network soon.
Now it is possible to get acquainted with the design of the model.
On road tests Cadillac XT3 left in a fairly dense camouflage.
And, protection applied double — in addition to the film used a thick black fabric.
Despite such precautions, some details can be seen.
At the front you can see a wide grille with a mesh filling. A similar design is applied to the air intake.
Also here you can see the lighting elements installed in special niches. The wheels are presented with an original complex pattern of spokes. From the side it looks very dynamic and sporty.
The profile of the crossover is tightly hidden under the camouflage fabric. Side mirrors are made standard, but the body is also hidden under the protective film.
Rather strange and unusual looks the back of the car. The thing is that the silhouette of the mysterious superstructure is visible under the cloth.
Most likely it is made to hide real proportions of the vehicle.
In the lower part the wide exhaust pipes are left open. The aft optics are still in a temporary version.
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List of liberal theorists (contributions to liberal theory)
Economic liberalism
Economic globalization
Harm principle
Laissez-faire
Market economy
Non-aggression principle
Open society
Permissive society
Popular sovereignty
Civil and political
Natural and legal
Veil of ignorance
Schools of thought
Radical centrism
Third Way
Badawi
Bentham
Guizot
Hobhouse
Jouvenel
Korais
Kymlicka
Martineau
Mises
Priestley
Staël
Deák
Deakin
Gokhale
Itagaki
Kołłątaj
Macaulay
Milyukov
Mommsen
Naoroji
Ohlin
Rathenau
Ståhlberg
Venizelos
Africa Liberal Network
Alliance of Liberals
and Democrats for Europe
and Democrats for Europe Party
Arab Liberal Federation
Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats
European Democratic Party
European Liberal Youth
European Party for Individual Liberty
Humanists International
International Alliance of Libertarian Parties
International Federation of Liberal Youth
Liberal International
Liberal Network for Latin America
Liberal parties
Liberal South East European Network
Regional variants
Venizelism
Cracovian
Cobdenism
Gladstonian
Whiggism
Arizona School
Jeffersonian
Anti-authoritarianism
Bias in academia
Bias in the media
Centrism
Liberalism portal
Politics portal
Secular liberalism is a form of liberalism in which secularist principles and values, and sometimes non-religious ethics, are especially emphasised. It supports the separation of religion and state. Moreover, secular liberals are usually advocates of liberal democracy and the open society as models for organising stable and peaceful societies.
Secular liberalism stands at the other end of the political spectrum from religious authoritarianism, as seen in theocratic states and illiberal democracies. It is often associated with stances in favour of social equality and political freedom.[1][2]
Being secularists by definition, secular liberals tends to favour secular states over theocracies or states with a state religion. Secular liberals advocate separation of church and state in the formal constitutional and legal sense.[3] Secular liberal views typically see religious ideas about society, and religious arguments from authority drawn from various sacred texts, as having no special status, authority, or purchase in social, political, or ethical debates.[1] It is common for secular liberals to advocate the teaching of religion as a historical and cultural phenomenon, and to oppose religious indoctrination or lessons which promote religion as fact in schools.[2][3] Among those who have been labelled as secular liberals are prominent atheists like Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and Sam Harris.[2]
The label of "secular liberal" can sometimes be confusing as to what it refers to. While the term secular can sometimes be used as an adjective for atheists and non-religious people, chiefly in American usage, in British English it is more likely to refer to people who are secularists, which is to say, people who believe in keeping religion and government apart. The atheist writer Richard Dawkins can be categorised under both definitions, while the British Muslim liberal commentator Maajid Nawaz and liberal Christians who advocate secularism, like Ed Davey and Barack Obama, only meet the latter.
In a modern democratic society, a plurality of conflicting doctrines share an uneasy co-existence within the framework of civilization.
Contemporary application
Secular liberalism is sometimes connected with the Arab Spring protests. One commentator labels it as a "secular liberal fantasy".[4] Others have labeled the motivations behind it, and the temporary governments created as a result as secular liberalism. [5][6][7]
Oftentimes, participation in the newly crowned democratic governments by the Muslim clerics are ignored in favor of the protesters' secular liberal ideas. Since 2011, more residents of the Middle East have been demanding a greater say in the running of their governments. They want democracy to appear in a uniquely Muslim fashion rather than through some artificial "secular" movement.[8]
The Vatican and the Moscow Patriarchate are waging a common fight against secular liberalism; claiming that this idea violates the traditional Christian concepts of family and human values by exposing people to medico-biological experiments that are incompatible with their ideas of human dignity.[9] The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church expressed concern over trends in some Protestant communities towards secularizing, liberalizing and modernizing theology and Christian morals; he claims them to be products of secular liberalism.[9]
The First Amendment of the United States Constitution, offering freedom of speech, has been criticized in a 2004 political manifesto by David Fergusson entitled Church, state and civil society.
Muscular liberalism
Postchristianity
Religious liberalism
Secular ethics
Secular state
Secularity
Secularization
^ a b Rod Dreher (6 April 2011). "Secular Liberalism as Consensus". Real Clear Politics. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ a b c "Secular liberalism misunderstood". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
^ a b Hobson, Theo (29 April 2010). "Clegg should assert secular liberalism". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2011-06-09.
^ Jonathan Jones (9 December 2011). "Tahrir Square aflame: the visual basis of an imaginary revolution". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
^ Bradley, John (2012). After the Arab Spring: How Islamists Hijacked the Middle East Revolts. ISBN 978-0-230-33819-7.
^ John M. Owen IV (6 January 2012). "Why Islamism is Winning". New York Times. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
^ Khan, Razib (2012). "Secular liberals the tip of the Islamist spear". Discover Magazine. Retrieved 14 January 2012.
^ Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett (11 February 2014). "America and the Middle East: It's Déjà Vu All Over Again". Retrieved 28 February 2014.
^ a b "Moscow Patriarchate, Vatican wage common fight against secular liberalism - Patriarch Kirill". Interfax-Religion. Retrieved 2011-06-09.


Syaza Shukri: My funny day!
Let me start my story around 7 am this morning. I woke up today, still in my lovely room to the realization that, I have to get to class precisely three hours from then! Thank God I'm SYAZA FARHANA, I can get out of bed at 7.15 and still get ready by 7.30 if that's my target.... fully bathed of course people! Anyway long story short, I got out of the house around 7.40 am. Ok, I thought no need to rush...until I came out to the mrr2 highway where there's a long jam. What do I expect right, coming out of the house at office hour? After the Sg. Besi told however it was clear... before that I got to admit that i was shocked that towards Cheras there was no jam! First time in my life! So at the KL-Seremban highway I sped as fast as I could, urm I mean, as fast as my KANCIL cud and arrived at my room, gasping for air, around 9 am. Ok right? But still, insaf... I'm only coming back to Inti on Sundays after this so that i cud get up late on Monday morning as my class starts at 10.
1. I LOVE to laugh, tremendously!
4. When the laughing bug bites me bad, it's BAD.
After that class we went for lunch and I think that's when it all started. Sofiya and I met with Noryan, a crazy little girl! Oh gosh I can't forget the things she said and the way she said it with those innocent looks! The best is when I asked her, "Eh, is there any handsome guys out of the JPA students?" And answered confidently: "Ade...!" Me: "Ramai ke ko nmpk?" N: "Xnmpk sorg pun lg." Aduh! U may not get it but I can't stop laughing!
Then, after class we went straight to the mamak outside for dinner (After Elly and Diana prayed of course). While we were eating suddenly Iman came up from behind us and joined our table. We haven't really had the chance to talk to him before. He...has this 'cool' vibe about him u know, even when he answered a stupid question it was so 'cool' we just had to laugh! Especially, ESPECIALLY when Sofiya asked him what's the naughtiest thing he ever did! Oh I can't say it here or he won't have a girlfriend! That was his statement!
P/S: I haven't written in here long cause I'm STILL reading HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS.


The game has 9 levels for you to explore. Use the armored vehicle to defeat the zombies on the road and complete each level in the game. Wish you have fun! Control Use arrow keys to move. Use mouse to shoot.
The game has 9 levels for you to explore. Use the armored vehicle to defeat the zombies on the road and complete each level in the game. Wish you have fun!