Yesterday I became a citizen of the United States and, by coincidental timing, was accepted into a graduate program at my local university, to begin classes in the fall.
The citizenship thing comes with mixed emotions...it was the best, practical decision for our family and it is with genuine gratitude I become a member of this country. But it hurts to give up my Canadian citizenship; it feels like another door has closed on my past and I'm somehow further away from the life that came before this one. And then I feel ungracious for saying that, like a petulant guest who can only look backward and complain.
That's not how I feel and indeed, I tried to articulate some version of this thought in an unanticipated moment during the ceremony, when the officiators asked me to speak on behalf of the other naturalizing citizens (they asked EVERYONE to volunteer and I was shocked enough to consent). I tried to express how much gratitude we felt in the moment, yet an awareness of the sorrow and sacrifice that comes in leaving a homeland behind, and how much richer the United States has always been for the culture, languages, and traditions immigrants bring to its soil.
Being Canadian and having lived in this country for many years, I recognize my sacrifice is almost nonexistent compared to many others attending that ceremony. And yet I still carry a feeling that weighs heavy at times, a boundless love of Canada and the wild beauty that surrounded me growing up there. That beauty saved me, I think, and is such a part of my inner world I sometimes forget to distinguish it from reality.
But I love the United States, too. I'm deeply moved by the principles upon which it was founded, the invocation of divine guidance, the ongoing experiment of liberty and justice for all. It is my children's native land and I've always been grateful for that.
So I guess my state of mind is no more settled than I said in the beginning: a mixture of emotions, each one heartfelt as the next.
The opportunity to pursue more schooling is also something I've been considering for awhile...perhaps I'll leave off discussing this until classes begin and I see if my brain can actually handle the shock.
At any rate, I continue to marvel at life and its capacity for change (do I always say this?)--how happy, bittersweet, and sorrowful things can occur simultaneously, sometimes at a breathtaking pace. At the naturalization ceremony yesterday I wanted to gather everyone up and pave a safe, sheltered road into their new lives, and yet it's from those who've suffered the greatest I could probably learn the most. I try to fix this understanding in my own heart--that bittersweet and sorrowful moments refine me in ways the happy ones cannot.
Not to disparage happy moments, mind you. They're lovely and good for the soul.
I'll take it all and keep trying to do my best...I hope I'm getting closer, I hope you are, too.
"Look how beautiful and delicate and intricate she is. This incredible little creature has brought so much curiosity into my life. I'm so in love. One of my goals is to teach people to love every animal--even the ones they were taught to hate. Keeping strange(r) pets has taught me to search for the little personalities inside them. Even the bugs we keep have the most incredible and delicate ways. When some people hear about my pets, they tell me they squash beetles and chop up or shoot snakes. I cannot imagine deeper ignorance. Invalidating the soul of an animal has to be one of the worst things a human can do (note: if your life is being threatened by an animal, you have to do what you have to do). My greatest dream is for people to love all animals. My snake isn't going to bite you (she's terrified of you). She is beautiful and her tiny life matters so much. (Please try not to tell me if you hate her, it makes me so sad). All animals want to live and love. Please remember this the next time you find your foot over a bee. Be nice to animals and your heart will be transformed by the gratitude they show you."
Dear reader, did you know if you come across a bee lying bedraggled on the ground, chances are he may be worn out from his labors and merely needs a drop of sugar water and some rest in order to be on his way?
Just a touch, the smallest act of kindness...maybe it doesn't fix everything yet it still makes a difference, especially to the one who's revived.
It's been a long day and somehow, as I find myself taking this circuitous path to bed, this is the thought that stays with me, the one I can't seem to get out of my mind.
Dear reader, I can't recall wanting many things as a child, at least not things that actually existed, but I have a vivid memory of yearning for art supplies. I longed for a pair of good, sharp scissors, pristine stacks of paper, a spectrum of colored pencils, paints and brushes, ten different kinds of glue. I can still remember how this idea drew me in, how the vision of a creative space with all its accoutrements lingered in my mind as one of the happiest places to be.
Today I'm only the most unrefined of artists, but I still love my art supplies. It gives me a good feeling to see them when I pass by, even if it seems I hardly have a minute to stop and make anything.
In the week before Valentine's, however, we get them out and they stay out. After all, you never know when you'll have five minutes to pen a pretty sentiment and sprinkle it with glitter.
I've been thinking a lot about love lately...how it seems to be at the root of the solution to almost every one of my problems. When troubles build and I find myself feeling overwhelmed or anxious beyond degree, so often proceeding with greater love either solves the dilemma, diffuses it, or makes me feel much calmer about going through it.
It is, by the way, that last dynamic that has come to mean the most to me. I don't expect or even want my problems to be whisked away, but when I feel a deeper strength guiding me through them, I'm lifted by an undeniable awareness of heavenly help. Though it might not change any other detail of the situation, that awareness changes me. It strengthens and comforts me in such a way that, inexplicably, I've sometimes felt any trial would be worth enduring just to know, in a way only extreme humility seems to make possible, the nearness of that love.
I'm learning more deeply of the power that exists in my love as a mother. As Jeffrey Holland recently noted, it's not just in the bearing of children, but in the continued bearing with them, not just in the prenatal carrying but the lifelong carrying that makes mothering such a staggering feat and, as I'm finding, endows my love for my children with a strength that is deeper, greater, and more enduring than whatever problem might bear down upon us. It's not that my worries are dispelled or that I don't suffer bitterly to see my children struggle, it's not that I always recognize a solution or see some light at the end of the tunnel, but lately I've noticed how this love can be so whole and encompassing that, when I give myself to it, every other care may still exist but must do so outside its bounds.
I need to run make dinner, dear reader. I can't keep trying to write down thoughts which continually defy expression, but this is what's on my mind: amor vincit omnia, love conquers all. It is the power that can change and save us, clarifying and expanding our vision to see things more clearly and with greater perspective. It's the lens through which we should look out upon the world, especially to those with whom we are most deeply connected, and perhaps most especially toward ourselves.
I don't know if I will get back here before Valentine's Day, and this doesn't begin to express everything I wanted to say, but I find a certain peace in hoping you will feel it anyway.
Happy February, dear reader! The month of love! Try as I might to rise above petty dislikes, I continue to chafe at February's construction, with its confounded middle "r" and awkward pairing of vowel sounds mushing about my mouth as if I don't know what I'm trying to say. Oh, English...I think we could have done better.
I don't know if others share this particular quirk, but language has such a strange effect on me. It taps into some dream-like, peripheral world wherein words don't sit as black characters on a white page correlating to fixed meanings, but rather float through my head as colors, shapes, and sounds, even something nearly tangible, and sometimes as elusive phantoms of such chimerical beauty there actually ceases to be words to capture them. I don't know how to explain it, but sometimes I sit in muted frustration, knowing words exist that would express what I'm trying to say, yet realizing I don't know what they are. It's like wandering through a fog and being exquisitely aware of their presence, yet not being able to grasp or see them clearly.
Sometimes I do see them clearly. I do catch a glimpse of how to say something, but more often I feel limited...not just by my command of language but also perhaps by the extent of my thoughts. Who can say? I just know language is both sublime and, at times, the cause of my madness.
I came across an interesting passage from the Book of Mormon the other day, wherein a man named Moroni (who was writing the record) worried his words would seem weak to the people who would one day read them because, for whatever reason, he recognized God had not made him "mighty in writing like unto the brother of Jared, for thou madest him that the things which he wrote were mighty even as thou art, unto the overpowering of man to read them. Thou hast also made our words powerful and great, even that we cannot write them; wherefore, when we write we behold our weakness, and stumble because of the placing of our words..."
It's a beautiful passage of scripture that goes on to talk about the innate weaknesses we all have, which are sometimes given for the purpose of humbling us, with the added hope we will turn to God for help so He can strengthen those areas within us. I find hope in the thought of weak things being made strong.
But it also stirred me, in particular, to think of writing and the awareness a writer has of the power or frailty of his words. That is, at times, a painful awareness. I'm certain a greater, more sublime language exists, a way of expression that reaches beyond typical phrases to a more pure and discerning means of communion. I'm not sure it's made possible through a fancier bundle of words, per se, but perhaps through a deeper understanding of how to express oneself, a deeper understanding of how to...understand.
I don't know...and I'm a little off topic here with half-finished thoughts that usually only echo within the corridors of my mind.
What I really meant to say, until the spelling of February derailed me, is this is the month of love! And while I believe love should be the guiding force in everything we do, I find an added delight in the magic and possibility of a day devoted to celebrating its expression~to admiration, friendship, romance, ardor, kindness, warmth, tenderness, compassion, and the highest of all, charity.
Love, especially the giving of love: I have always trusted in it, and always will.
Hello, dear reader. How are you doing? I hope this finds you well, with some moment of your day allowing for a particular delight.
I recently attended the funeral of an elderly gentleman and the experience has been on my mind ever since. The speakers repeatedly mentioned this man's optimism and simple pleasure in life, which accompanied him through many experiences that could have easily merited a very different outlook. I left the ceremony feeling grateful to have attended, but also wondering about myself and how easily I allow my challenges to sober the living daylights out of me. It's not that I dwindle into despair--I've always seen life as a beautiful gift--but I sometimes suspect I allow myself to be too troubled and withdrawn when perhaps it's possible to be more buoyant and impervious to the problems which are beyond my control. It strikes me optimism is less a giddy, soaring high as it must be a manifestation of a more grounded outlook on life, something that is rooted in a deeper sense of meaning and belief, and is therefore not shaken when external events appear chaotic or grim. In its deepest expression, I'd imagine optimism looks pretty outgoing, connected, and fun.
~ Life isn't fair, but we as people can be fair.
~ Earning respect is better than demanding it.
~ Honesty, integrity, and personal accountability lead to happiness.
~ If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.
~ Life is tough, but we can be tougher.
~ A firm handshake and keeping your word will serve you better than any iron-clad contract.
It seems to be my nature, whether innately or through experience, to be quieter and more cautious than pretty much everyone else I know. I don't necessarily mind this, but I also see many people I admire who don't operate with such reserve. Their optimism allows them to live more outwardly, and it seems like a good thing. One thought I took from the funeral is to continue reaching for a better balance of this within myself, to let a greater sense things will ultimately be all right guide me through thick and thin, and to translate that into being, yes, a little more outgoing, connected, and fun.
I probably won't change a lot. I'll probably always be a quiet and serious-minded person, rarely the life of the party (as evidenced by the fact I'm writing about a funeral), but I think that experience inspired me for a reason. I think I do need to change, a little. It's good to be reminded of the admirable ways people face their challenges, how optimism sets a rich tone for our experience that has very little to do with external influences or how it may appear to anyone else.
Happy New Year, dear reader, we're already ten days in! Things are happening quickly, change seems increasingly impatient: it isn't content to just loom on the horizon but comes knocking on my door, lets itself in, and snuggles next to me in bed.
If you can believe it, these painted ladies were caterpillars no bigger than the crescent of my fingernail less than four weeks ago. Like I said...things are happening quickly.
I think about this often, how life keeps changing whether I feel ready for it or not. I'd like the wisdom to make greater peace with this dynamic, to know when my influence is needed and when it's time to embrace the flow. The trouble with that wisdom--it's much easier to see in hindsight than in the moment, making me deeply grateful for my husband, for more experienced friends, for the guidance I find through meditation and prayer. Still, it can be daunting.
I've had a few resolutions on my mind lately. One is to live with no regrets, a phrase I think is typically used to encourage whims and self-indulgence without caring about the consequence to others. My desire is to be more careful, to prevent rather than ignore regrets, to conduct myself in a way that minimizes the times I hurt someone's feelings or fail to step up when my help is needed.
More warmth, more kindness, less regrets.
Another resolution is to read the Book of Mormon. Let me know if you're interested in joining me--I renew my offer to send a free copy to anyone who'd like to read along.
I have other goals, other dreams. Caroline and I want to build a butterfly habitat. I hope to seek literary representation for my novel. Maybe a few other changes, too...time will tell.
I'm wishing us well, dear reader, wishing us greater wisdom and clarity, greater discernment in seeking inner peace. I'm wishing us resilience and healing for the problems that seem as if they'll never go away. I'm wishing us good health, wonderful moments that don't seem rushed, the joy of finding the best within ourselves, endless creativity and love.
It's a brand, new year, and it's on the move.
Warmest wishes for a very happy one to you.
Merry Christmas, dear reader. I know the actual occasion has passed, but the significance of this day is something I try to hold close to my heart.
As I grow older, as my kids grow older, there seems to be greater opportunity for reflection...just more to look back on, I suppose. I often wonder if I'm becoming the person I want to be, the greatest example of whom is Jesus Christ. Of the many qualities I admire in Him, one that draws me most is the profoundly direct yet truly humble nature of His character. I think it stays on my mind because it's something I constantly gauge in myself...whether I'm being genuine, to what degree my instincts are without guile, whether my motives are for the right reason. When I read His Sermon on the Mount, I'm struck by how much power a person can possess simply by being honest, sincere, and true. I feel it in the words He spoke, the unsurpassed goodness of His character and how that set Him apart, how it endowed Him with an authority that could come in no other way.
I would like to be that good, or some fraction of it. I would like to be someone who has rooted hypocrisy from her heart, whose concern for others motivates her to devote great energy to making this world a better place. I would like to be warm, kind, and filled with love for everyone. I would like to understand the worth of a soul.
I think I'm on a good path...but I'm also beset by troubles, distractions, by my own weaknesses and faults.
I suppose this is one of the steadiest truths I've come to recognize: a fervent struggle is inevitable in becoming a better person (how could it be otherwise?), but God has patience and confidence in us that surpasses understanding, and through Christ's atonement we can find greater power to change, overcome, and improve.
It makes me want to keep trying, even when I'm discouraged by the ugliness I see in myself, the competing interests, the same old struggles which have plagued me for years.
Somehow, this is the meaning of Christmas that stays with me. I wish you peace, love, and joy along with it.


Ripen eCommerce recently conducted a survey of consumers in the U.S. to determine the factors involved in the decision to purchase in-store vs online. One of the biggest factors continuing to drive offline sales, according to the study, is the ability for consumers to get a feel for the product and it's quality while shopping.
Other results found that almost one-third of participants want instant gratification. Same day delivery is not always a feasible option for business, but smaller scale versions may work.
Privacy concerns played into the decision to shop in-store for 16.9% of participants. Allowing consumers to opt-out of emails and providing guest checkout can reduce hesitation to shop online. It would also be beneficial to strengthen security and display policies on the website.
Shipping costs account for 14.4% of consumers' decision to chop in-store instead of online. Offering free shipping is an obvious remedy for this issue. Before doing this on a large scale, companies can run a trial, giving a select group of customers the offer so that behavior can be monitored.
Savvy online retailers know that understanding consumers' path to purchase is the first step to capturing an even greater portion of the $3.2 trillion U.S. retail industry.
Of consumers surveyed, 6.5% find returns to be easier and cheaper in-store. Online stores could find it advantageous to promote an easy, trustworthy return policy.
Customers will not make the switch from in-store to online shopping overnight, but responding to the deciding factors that make people shop is a great first step. Listening to customers and responding to their needs will, over time, result in higher online conversions.


Grandpa Smith celebrated his birthday in early January this year and his daughter-in-law, Angela, asked me to make a grandfather figurine cake for his special day. I had a photograph of this much loved grandpa and was told that one of his passions is golf so his cake was covered in a soft green sugar paste and I added a sugar paste golf green with its flag and a golf bag, golf club and balls to complete the theme for this cake. Grandpa Smith has a delightfully strong face and his big grey streaked eyebrows frame his friendly eyes and this is what I wanted to capture in this sugar paste figurine. His grey hair and glasses completed the look before I popped him onto his cake.
All the best Grandpa Smith for a wonderful year!


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Investors for Immigration Reform
Why should investors and corporations support immigration reform? In short, because immigration helps the economy, and companies rely on immigrant innovation, talent and complementary labor to thrive.
Daniel Altschuler, Contributor
Political Scientist and Journalist
Mar 4, 2011, 11:10 AM EST | Updated May 25, 2011
The last twelve months have been dispiriting for advocates of comprehensive immigration reform (CIR). First CIR didn't make it onto the 2010 legislative agenda. Then Arizona passed SB 1070, and other states expressed interest in following suit. Then the DREAM Act failed to pass the Senate and the new House of Representatives leadership changed direction in terms of that body's approach to immigration reform. And, through it all, the national conversation kept getting nastier, going as far as proposals to repeal the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision.
So, amidst all the gloom, are there any glimmers of hope for pro-immigrant advocates?
Well, the climate still looks very unfriendly, but a recent push from large investors could augur well for the years ahead.
Last week, a group of institutional investors--led by the Comptroller of the City of New York, John Liu, and senior management from Mercy Investment Services, Inc., Boston Common Asset Management, Walden Asset Management (disclosure: I've collaborated with Walden on other shareholder initiatives), and the Unitarian Universalist Association--sent letters to roughly 150 CEOs of large corporations asking them to publicly express their support for sensible immigration reform. The signatories of the letter are no fringe activists--they manage assets in excess of $145 billion, and they have a fiduciary responsibility to manage that money responsibly.
This may make you wonder: why should investors and corporations support immigration reform? The answer comes from the CEOs of American corporations who have signed onto Mayor Mike Bloomberg's Partnership for a New American Economy. The Partnership is an alliance of over 150 business CEOs--leading companies like Microsoft, News Corporation, Disney, JP Morgan, Xerox, and Pricewaterhouse Coopers--and mayors who advocate CIR for several reasons, including:
1. Immigrant innovation--from 1995-2005, over 25 percent of American engineering and technology companies had at least one immigrant founder.
2. Young immigrant talent--educating high-skilled immigrants without creating pathways for them to stay and work here is counter-productive. As the American population ages, we should be embracing talented young people, not showing them the door.
3. Complementary immigrant labor--immigrants mostly do labor that is complementary, rather than substitutive of, non-immigrant labor. Consider agriculture, where each on-farm job (such as picking fruit, mostly done by immigrants) supports over three off-farm jobs, such as processing, shipping, and sales.
In short, contrary to the scare stories coming out of the Republican House leadership, like Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Lamar Smith (R-TX), and Steve King (R-IA), immigration helps the economy, and companies rely on immigrant innovation, talent and complementary labor to thrive.
This is why Bloomberg's Partnership and other initiatives--including businesses affiliated with the Americas Society and Council of the Americas' Hispanic Integration Hub--eschew efforts to villify immigrants and instead embrace initiatives for immigrant integration. Our economy needs immigrants' labor and hard work, and efforts like expanding English-language education facilitate economic participation, both as employees and customers. In the words of Brent Warren, VP of Banner Bank of Oregon, "it just makes good business sense."
Moreover, business leaders in the Partnership recognize the financial impossibility of deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants and the massive economic benefit of instead offering them a pathway to citizenship. Already, undocumented people contribute to our economy with their labor, their consumption, and the taxes and Social Security they pay. Bringing workers out of the shadows would make things easier for employers and immigrant employees alike and expand immigrants' economic contributions.
With any luck, last week's letter from institutional investors will help convince more CEOs to publicly acknowledge these simple truths and add more weight to the pro-immigrant side of the debate.
The other interesting piece of this story is the role of religious institutions. Many may recall that religious institutions and investors have been critical in advocating progressive political change--such as getting large corporations to divest from Apartheid South Africa. On immigration, faith leaders can play a similarly positive role.
Last year, a group of Christian Conservatives garnered attention for joining the CIR effort under the mantle of Conservatives for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. And progressive church leaders have been working on immigration for decades--from providing services on the front lines to participating in direct action and advocacy efforts.
But the novelty of this recent effort by over 60 institutional investors, the bulk of which are faith-based, is that it could portend increased collaboration on immigration policy between business and religious groups across the political spectrum.
Of course, none of this will undo the restrictionist rhetoric coming forth from groups like the Federation for Immigration Reform (FAIR), NumbersUSA, and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS). FAIR and others on this side of the debate have earned the title "hate group" from the Southern Poverty Law Center due to links to a eugenics foundation and nativists warning of a Latino invasion. These radical voices are not going anywhere. Nor will such a business-religion alliance prompt an about-face from powerful restrictionists in Congress.
But the involvement of faith-based investors in immigration augurs well for pro-immigrant advocates who need to do better at convincing the American public of the economic and moral case for a better legal entry system for new immigrants and a path to citizenship for undocumented people who are already here.
This is not to say that business alone will rally America toward a more humane, economically beneficial immigration policy. Pro-immigrant advocates and grassroots organizations--with the capacity for direct action and Beltway advocacy--will remain the drivers of any national movement. But, to win, they need business firmly on their side. If investor efforts to get more corporations and CEOs on board with initiatives like Mayor Bloomberg's partnership bear fruit, it will certainly represent a step in the right direction.
(Cross-posted on www.americasquarterly.org.)
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But I would never want to miss this Winter wonderland!
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Джейсон Мисликки (, род. 14 декабря 1977 года, Тандер-Бей) — бывший канадский двоеборец, участник двух Олимпийских игр.

В Кубке мира Мисликки дебютировал в ноябре 2003 года, тогда же первый раз попал в тридцатку лучших на этапе Кубка мира. Всего имеет 6 попаданий в тридцатку лучших на этапах Кубка мира, все в личных соревнованиях. Лучшим достижением в итоговом зачёте Кубка мира для Мисликки является 58-е место в сезоне 2003-04.

На Олимпиаде-2006 в Турине стартовал в спринте и индивидуальной гонке и в обоих случаях стал 41-м.

На Олимпиаде-2010 в Ванкувере стартовал в двух дисциплинах: 45-е место в соревнованиях с нормального трамплина + 10 км и 44-е место в соревнованиях с большого трамплина + 10 км.

За свою карьеру участвовал в четырёх чемпионатах мира, лучший результат 33-е место в спринте на чемпионате мира - 2003.

Старты на Олимпиаде-2010 стали последними профессиональными соревнованиями в карьере Мисликки, после них он закончил свою карьеру.

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Businesses looking to invest in new plant or machinery need to consider bringing forward their capital expenditure in order to take advantage of a generous doubling of tax relief available on their purchases.
In his Budget speech, Chancellor George Osborne doubled the annual investment allowance (AIA) to £500,000 with immediate affect, as well as extending the scheme to the end of 2015.
The Chancellor said that 99.8 per cent of businesses were eligible for 100 per cent tax relief on £500,000 of investment in eligible equipment until the end of next year.
This unexpected increase will be welcome news for many small and medium-sized businesses as it will enable them to make the investment they need in order to grow their business.
The scheme has also been extended by a further year, so this means more time to plan ahead to ensure that any purchases of plant and machinery for your business are done as tax efficiently as possible, making full use of this increased allowance.
Of course, the scheme will only run until the end of 2015, so business owners wanting to make the most of this generous allowance should consider bringing forward any planned purchases while this higher level is in place.
If you are unsure whether you are eligible for this scheme or how to go about claiming then it is best to seek professional advice at the earliest opportunity to ensure you do not miss out.


Robert's title says a lot about the benefits he's reaped from gaining Associate membership through Experience Assessment. He's already been promoted.
I always felt uneasy about my lack of HR qualifications, so this was an opportunity to get those letters after my name...CIPD membership influenced my promotion in early 2018.
Robert Colby's title says a lot about the benefits he's reaped from gaining Associate membership through the Experience Assessment route to professional membership in September 2017. He's already been promoted.
He joined the RAF headquarters at High Wycombe as a civil servant in 2004, worked his way up and, four years ago, moved into HR when he got the job of HR Business Partner. He worked hard to augment his business knowledge with specialist HR knowledge. Then, three years ago, a number of things came together which prompted him to apply for Associate membership of the CIPD. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) committed to developing and accrediting its HR practitioners, and made funding available. Robert had the requisite three years' experience in HR to apply for the Experience Assessment route – which, as a busy professional and father of three young sons, seemed to be the ideal approach for him.
'It allowed me to use the experience I had already gained, rather than having to sit and study for and exam in the evenings and at weekends', he says.
'I always felt uneasy about my lack of HR qualifications, so this was an opportunity to get those letters after my name', he says. But as well as self-confidence and credibility, he also relished being able to connect with a wider HR network across government and the private sector, and to tap into the wealth of CIPD resources, from research and specialist knowledge on the website to People Management magazine and events.
Robert completed the eight-week Experience Assessment process and successfully gained Associate Membership.
It also influenced his promotion in early 2018. 'The whole experience had not only helped me to focus on what I'd done, and the business impact, but also to articulate it at a strategic level in a way that was clear and easy-to-understand even by people outside the MoD', he says. So it helped him at job interviews, but also opened up the job market to him. 'For many of the jobs I was looking at CIPD accreditation was either essential or desirable', he says.
Crucially, he is now better at his job, he says, and he's working to address areas for development that emerged from his feedback report.


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Q: Which python script is running I have several python Scripts running on a Raspi simultaneously. Depending on the Current time each might start running or stop running.
How can I find out which scripts are running using Python?

A: You can use command below in linux to get which script is runing.
ps -aef | grep python

And you will see which python scrip is running.

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The devastating conclusion to Swierczynski & Gane's monster epic is here! Godzilla is battered and beaten but not down for the count... yet his most fearsome foe ever still stands before him! With the end of the world near, Boxer has one final decision to make: to kill or not kill Godzilla!


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Shedding The Headband, Turkish Women Inform Of Pressures And New Solidarity
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Along with the relaxation of the world, the nation of Turkey is beset by efforts to push women into a particular prototype. This collection of essays seeks to combat such efforts by delving below the surface of frequent stereotypes surrounding Turkish women.
Each has defied social expectations in a democratic, secular nation where religious fundamentalism has re-emerged as a political drive and patriarchal values nonetheless prevail. Well-known textile artist Belkis Belpinar, whose work combines science and kilim rug traditions, resisted her father's wishes that she study engineering. Dancer and psychologist Banu Yucelar braved household opposition to modern dance, widely perceived as a form of prostitution. Women's rights activist Nur Bakata Mardin helps women in underserved communities, where old beliefs hold sway, type small enterprise cooperatives. As participating as its topics, VOICES UNVEILED punctuates its in-depth portraits with insights from different Turks and lively discussions that embrace intergenerational debates over veiling.
The group tracks the quantity murdered of ladies in Turkey primarily based on news reports and accounts from family members. Its mission is to stop "femicide and safety from violence. It fights in opposition to all types women's rights violations, starting with the violation right to life." I agree that I some remote areas of Turkey the mentality has to change in order that men understand women's contribution to all features of the society and never only as housewives breeding machines as you phrased it. But a lady that does not know to learn and write cannot do anything to assist herself irrespective of how much she wish to change and he or she cannot rely on her husband's understanding as a result of men of some age that have grown up this manner won't change. Thus, the nation has to drive all individuals of Turkey to get at least primary college schooling without any exceptions. A woman that at least can learn and write will have extra choices to change her life. On 9 October 2017, Habertürk reported that the number of electronic bracelets given for home violence incidents throughout Turkey is only 30, although some one hundred twenty,000 women are subjected to violence by men every year within the Turkey.
Search Outcomes For Turkish Women Inventory Photographs And Pictures
The Turkish authorities critically restricted entry to the annual International Women's Day evening assembly in central Istanbul on March 8, deploying hundreds of police, and placing that a part of the town under lockdown. Even though there was no official ban and 1000's of decided women discovered ways to hitch the march, the heavy safety demonstrated how the best to meeting is so typically unjustifiably curtailed in Turkey. The women are beneath investigation for "insulting" President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, a felony offense in Turkish law punishable with a one to four-year jail sentence that violates international requirements on freedom of expression. According to Al Jazeera, the number of murdered women in the nation has more than doubled since 2012. Last yr alone, 474 women have been killed, which The Guardian reports is "the best fee in a decade in which the numbers have increased 12 months on year." In 2020, that number is expected to be even larger. Whether the challenge has any tooth is up for debate , however the widespread violence against women in Turkey may be very a lot an actual issue. Women addContent a snap of themselves with a caption about feminine empowerment after which "problem" another person to do the same.
The pattern consisted of posts addressing six instances of violent crimes towards women which occurred between 2015 and 2019. They found evidence of the existence of affective publics — soft structures of feeling, expression and connection — via the tales told in the photographs, videos and quotes that had been shared on Twitter.
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Former mayor of Ankara, Melih Gökçek, stated that women who're victims of rape ought to die earlier than they've an abortion. The World Health Organization discovered that 38 p.c of the ladies in Turkey reported having been subjected to home abuse by their husband or associate. The verdict late Monday within the Mediterranean port city of Antalya delivered a uncommon victory for ladies's rights organisations in Turkey.
But what was totally different, however, was that it wasn't frequent to see folks drunk . It's true that the ingesting tradition is alive and properly in Turkey especially when it comes to having fun with the nationwide alcoholic drink, Raki on the meyhane whereas singing along to stay folk music (even when you don't drink, visiting a meyhane is kind of the experience!). But, like I've seen in another parts of the world, being out of control isn't a standard prevalence. Foreign media usually portray Turkish women to be repressed and chained to the kitchen sink but there isn't a typical stereotype of a Turkish woman.
Turkish Woman
Another initiative brought onto the agenda by the Ministry of Health after the Beijing Conference, is to make sure the participation of men in reproductive well being and household planning. This is a positive step taken by the state in the course of the improvement of well being services delicate to gender. Shortly after Erdoğan announced the choice to withdraw, the Istanbul Bar Association issued a press release to the effect that the Istanbul Convention was still in force. The release famous that the convention had been ratified by a unanimous vote of parliament and emphasised that article 90 of Turkey's Constitution put worldwide treaties on basic rights and freedoms above home legislation within the "hierarchy of norms". "Our institutions and our safety forces will continue to fight in opposition to home violence and violence in opposition to women," said Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu.
During a conservative backlash, women must create extra areas to study from one another's experiences, construct international solidarity networks and handle these problems collectively. Women are creating online areas by way of #MeToo and #TimesUp to address gender inequality and patriarchy in their native contexts.
The inequality of the genders within the instructional field directly affects the alternatives for the employment of ladies. Although a consensus of opinion has been reached from the aspect girls from turkey of the importance of ladies's participation in the labor pressure in Turkey, issues nonetheless proceed in apply.
This end result signifies the transition from traditional period to the internet period in information-gathering emphasizes the importance of conveying sexuality training to people via different entry channels. In other words, when sexuality training is made obtainable to people by way of completely different access channels just like the web, TV, newspapers, and organized schooling, it's going to even be attainable to coach the people who're the representatives of the transition era. The distribution of the individuals according to the relationship between pre-marital sexual experience pondering and protection in the first sexual experience is proven in Table 5. The knowledge indicates that the rate of those that are sexually active is 12.1% for the age range of years and 35.3% for the age vary of years. In consequence of the chi-square analysis made, there is a statistically significant relationship between age and sexual exercise (p≤0.05). Thus, the rate of those who are sexually active within the age vary of years is considerably larger than these within the age vary of years. The distribution of the members in accordance with the solutions given to the statements associated to professional status and first sexual experience is seen in Table 3.
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The global lockdown triggered an upsurge in home violence and exacerbated the existing socio-economic vulnerabilities of girls all all over the world. In Turkey, entry to protecting and preventive mechanisms is among the great challenges for victims of male violence. Supporting women victims of abuse has by no means been a precedence for the Turkish government. Despite the legal framework, the challenges going through women in Turkey at present stem from the implementation of the laws. Women can apply directly or by way of a prosecutor for an order from a family court to position them underneath surveillance towards perpetrators.


It's the urban life that has been taken as inspiration by Andreas Melbostad, brand's creative director, who was thinking about his city, New York, while designing the Spring Summer 2018 collection. The streets, the lights, everything with its soul was on the runway on the first day of Milan Men's Fashion Week.
The accessories have to be functioning: we saw big bags for the women and capacious backbacks for the boys. For the feetwear, suede and leather boots.


The term acculturation refers to the result of the processes of adopting the cultural traits or social patterns of another group. Although not all groups undergo acculturation in the same method, the underlying hypothesis is that there will be two main components to how acculturation takes places. It is projected that attitudes and behaviors are the two main components that determine the level of acculturation (Berry, 2005). Using this principle, there will be multiple trials of experimentation to prove or disapprove this hypothesis. Ultimately, this paper will focus on defining a measure of acculturation and reporting how our experimentation methods will affect international students with acculturation.


Oct 26 – Are Wheat Exports Worth Noting (or Not)?
Are Wheat Exports Worth Noting (or Not)?
Most of the pressure put on grain prices yesterday was due to weak grain exports numbers and a strong U.S. Dollar (one could easily argue that the two are tied closely together!). The subject of grain exports performance was something that we looked at more closely in Wednesday's FarmLead Breakfast Brief.
Yesterday, the USDA's export report showed that corn and soybean export sales came in at just 377,500 MT and 213,700 MT respectively; the market was expecting somewhere between 400,000 and 800,000 MT for corn and 300,000 to 700,000 MT for soybeans.
Historically-speaking, U.S. soybean sales, and shipments really start to pick up around now. Thus, through Week 7 of the 2018/19 U.S. soybean crop year, actual soybean exports came in at 1.11 MMT, but that's down 56% year-over-year.
Wheat Exports, Prices at Turning Point?
Chicago December SRW wheat prices hit their lowest in 9 months amidst some slow export activity. While last week's export sales came within expectations (unlike corn and soybeans), cumulative exports in the 2018/19 U.S. wheat crop year is still tracking 21% behind last year's pace. Nearly 7.9 MMT of all types of wheat have sailed out of American ports through the week ending October 18.
There's been some buzz that some Asian flour mills are trying to lock up supplies at these low prices through the middle of 2019.  This would challenge their historical practice of being more hand-to-mouth buyers.
Their rationale is that, with some depressed production and export activity out of Russia and Australia, buying wheat from Canada and the U.S. – the only two reliable sources remaining – would come at a cost. Very explicitly, one trader said there's an expectation of a supply squeeze after March.
We already know that Australia's wheat exports to Asian markets – the largest demand center for wheat in the world – are down significantly year-over-year through the first six months of the calendar year.
After six years of consecutive record crops, have we finally reached a turning point for wheat markets and production?
We know that Asian wheat buyers who have operations in Canada are concerned about Canada's wheat quality this year though, much like many other millers.  Given some of the challenges of Harvest 2018, we continue to advocate for getting your grain tested, especially cereals like wheat. Order your grain tests here from any of the independent labs across North America and be proactive in your grain marketing by knowing what's in your bin.


Sure enough, a great deal of these pizzerias have been around for decades. A few, like Lombardi's, have already passed the one hundred-year mark! Without social media and other platforms for marketing back then, you just couldn't imagine how these businesses were able to survive the test of time.
Let's say you're an Aussie (we have lots of Aussie tourists as readers!). Imagine setting up a pizzeria in Australia, the city of Melbourne to be specific. If you want your business to succeed, you will have to do a bit of research before you can venture into the pizza business. No doubt, countless of Melbourne's pizzerias delivering to your place will show up in ads around the city, and you will realize just how competitive everyone is.
Now, try to imagine being in New York City where the competition is ten times greater than in Melbourne. Your best bet for anyone to notice your business is to know what other pizzerias are selling and see if there are areas of opportunity for you.
You already know by now that for a brand to be successful, it has to be unique. With that being said, it's always important to follow your own style or gimmick. Big brands that consider themselves as institutions in the Big Apple are able to maintain a large following, mostly because they do things that make people want to remember them.
What about you? What do you think you should do to build your own legacy? It is hard to even begin thinking of a way to create mass appeal, but you will eventually get there once you apply the next element.
Famous pizzerias owe it all to their brand story. Whether it involves an ancient Roman recipe or a small Neapolitan cafe, a brand story is what attracts people to a new business. Coming up with one is no doubt one of the most challenging aspects of building a pizza empire in New York City.
There are ways to get around this problem. And by that, you will have to think outside the box and offer a story that will capture the minds of your customers. What's more, you need to make sure that the story is consistent with your brand's overall personality.
Finally, if you want people a reason to visit your pizzeria, you will have to build strong ties with the community. Established pizzerias are able to cultivate a robust fanbase because they are willing to know how their customers' day went or their thoughts about living in the city.
Sure, you may have social media to help you do all that, but nothing can possibly replace the value of face-to-face conversations.
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Torch and Fire
There are many contributors to this site, without whose help this archive would not exist. One thing that's true about everyone listed below is a love of music, and an especial fondness for Mandolins!
Dan Beimborn
I'm the designer and author of this site, and also the guy who does all of the data entry. This database was originally going to be just a guide to the old Gibson mandolins, but I'm happy to say it got nicely out of hand from there.
I have 2 CDs in release with a fair amount of old Gibsons on them that you can look at on my CDs page. I occasionally perform and teach Irish Mandolin & Bouzouki. I also host the very busy Mandolin Cafe site on this server.
You can read an interview with me on the Mandolin Cafe
Scott Tichenor has done many things for the mandolin world, including creating the wonderful Mandolin Cafe website. He is a very helpful and encouraging person who helped to put me in touch with the right people, gently nagged me to keep things moving, and generously donated funds to get this web site off the ground.
Darryl Wolfe, author of the F5 Journal, has probably done more research on vintage Gibson mandolins (especially the F5 mandolins signed & dated by Lloyd Loar) than any other person alive. He contributed lavish details on the F5 mandolins (and many others) to this database, and many remarkable pictures & historical anecdotes that pepper this collection. If you have an interest in F5 mandolins, Darryl's books & photographs have no equal in the mandolin world.
Tom Isenhour and Darryl Wolfe first crossed paths in 1981. In a similar fashion to Darryl, he did his own research to add information to the 1970 Benny Cain list of Loars that was published in Bluegrass Unlimited. Tom went door to door in many cases, meeting with owners or relations of original owners from catalog images etc, documenting many instruments with photographs and notes in his own journal. These days, Tom is a freelance musician, vintage instrument collector, and dealer
Stan Werbin, owner of Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan, gave the mandolin archive copies of Elderly's detailed records on Gibson Mandolins. The initial data comprised records on over 500 instruments, including many observations & crucial pieces of information that can be found nowhere else. Stan also very generously donated the use of Elderly's extensive photographic archives of musical instruments that have passed through their hands on the way from one musician to another.
Frank Ford is one of the founders of Gryphon Strings in Palo Alto, California. World-reknowned as a repair technician, Frank has also kept careful notes on over 2,000 Gibson instruments that appear in this archive. You are invited to join many another musician or instrument fananatic in viewing Frank's magnificent Frets.com web site.
Lowell Levinger, in addition to being a heck of a nice guy, presides over one of the finest inventories of prime Gibsons at his Players Vintage Instruments web site. Lowell has provided the archives with a number of photographs, descriptions, and opinions on features of vintage instruments.
Stan Jay, owner of Mandolin Bros. in Staten Island, New York is known to many as a poetic penner of magnificent musical instrument descriptions. Mandolin Brothers is known as a great place to look for vintage musical instruments. Their Mandolin Listings are capable of sucking you in for hours at a time.
Charles Johnson, has been playing, collecting and selling mandolins and other fine instruments for 20 years. His website Mandolin World Headquarters was a pioneer in internet marketing, having been online since 1995. There is always a fine selection of mandolins available, both Gibsons and small shop builders. Charles has provided the archives with a number of photographs and descriptions of vintage Gibsons.
George Gruhn is a new contributor to the Mandolin Archive, and one of the most knowledgable and experienced experts on vintage musical instruments in the world. Gruhn Guitars has been a fixture in Nashville for over 20 years, and continues to be one of the must-stop Mecca destinations for musicians around the world.
John West Collects all sorts of musical instruments, including an unparalled assortment of the earliest Gibson mandolins. Much of what we know about the Orville label Gibson instruments has been thanks to John's careful documentation and his remarkable collection of them. John also has several very nice Martin instruments and is involved with the organization of the Wintergrass Festival held every year in Tacoma, Washington.


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O eclipsă de Lună prin penumbră a avut loc la 11 februarie 2017. A fost prima eclipsă de Lună prin penumbră din anul 2017.

De la eclipsă au trecut .

Vizibilitate
În situația în care cerul a fost senin, eclipsa a putut fi observată din cele două Americi, din Europa, din Africa și din cea mai mare parte a Asiei. Este eclipsa cu numărul 59 din seria Saros 114, având magnitudinea penumbrală de 0,9884.

Dacă au fost condiții atmosferice favorabile, eclipsa a putut fi observată  și în România. A debutat la ora 0:34 (Timpul Legal Român), faza maximă a fost la 0:44 (Timpul Univeral Coordonat), adică la ora 2:44 TLR și s-a încheiat la ora 4:53 (TLR).

Note

Legături externe
 Observatorul Astronomic "Amiral Vasile Urseanu" din București: Eclipsă de Lună prin penumbră - 10/11 februarie 2017 (Accesat la 10 februarie 2017)

Vezi și
 Eclipsa de Lună din 23 martie 2016, prima eclipsă de lună din anul 2016 (prin penumbră)
 Eclipsa de Lună din 18 august 2016, a doua eclipsă de Lună din 2016 (prin penumbră), practic imperceptibilă vizual.
 Eclipsa de Lună din 16 septembrie 2016
 Eclipsă de Lună

Eclipse de Lună
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Whenever I'm stuck at something or feel confused about it, the one app that instantly comes to my rescue is— "Google Search." Apart from providing accurate and smart answers, it also allows you to keep sensitive stuff away; thanks to a neat feature called SafeSearch. For instance, you can filter explicit results in Google Search for iPhone to avoid seeing unwanted contents.
You might want to put offensive results aside especially when using your smartphone at home. If your kid is using Google Search, you'd like to ensure his web browsing is free from those indecent results. Whatever could be your personal reason, let's find out how to block sensitive results in Google Search for iOS!
Step #1. Launch Google Search app on your iOS device.
Step #2. Next, tap on your profile at the top left corner.
Step #3. Now, scroll down and tap on Search settings under Privacy.
Step #4. Next up, select Filter explicit results → Finally, make sure to tap on Save to confirm the change.
From now onwards, you won't see sensitive contents while using this app. If you ever want to remove this restriction, follow all the steps mentioned above, in the end, select Show most relevant results and then tap on Save.
I find this feature quite helpful as it offers you the desired freedom to keep overt contents at a fair distance. What's your take on it? Share your valuable feedback about it.


Facebook Brand Pages – we all have them, we all update them consistently, we all get it. Right? Wrong. Most companies have a Facebook Brand Page that does not clearly reflect their brand or marketing goals.
To help out, we decided to compile a list of companies with the best performing brand pages and break down their tactics.
See who's killin' the Facebook game.
Coca-Cola's brand focuses on inspiring creativity, passion, optimism, and fun. To create this same inspiration in their Facebook Brand Page, they have sourced most of their content from fans who create films, music videos, personal stories, and more – then share them socially. This audience driven content creates an authentic and genuine feel for viewers, making them more likely to read multiple stories, watch more videos, and engage at a significantly higher rate.
Red Bull has one of the most popular pages on Facebook – but you will rarely ever see their actual drink. Instead you are thrown into their empire loaded with professional videos and images of extreme sports, adrenaline-junky stunts, celebrity athletes, and high profile events. To partner with these extreme videos they also offer information around these events so the viewer never has to leave the site. They have created an extreme culture and used Facebook to help viewers be a part of it.
Converse Facebook Brand Page creates an authentic audience experience. In an interview with Mashable, Converse Chief Marketing Officer, Geoff Cottrill, explained that their Converse Facebook page is for fans so they can express their experiences with the product knowing that Converse is there to listen. Not only are their fans able to comment on the posts, they can do it with full freedom. Unlike other companies, Converse does not filter fan's posts, instead they leave it untouched for an uncensored and true experience creating a more inviting environment for viewers.
Starbucks has always focused on creating a "third place" for people to go to in between work and home. This new place is also found in their Facebook page. Here, Starbucks offers consumers a place to share their experiences, be inspired by various drinks, crave all their pastries, and most importantly find the next store for them to visit. Using location-based features on their Facebook desktop and mobile app, Starbucks is able to constantly direct followers to the closest store for the experience to continue.
Nutella was one of the first companies to use social media, and Facebook specifically, to launch their product into the global market. Nutella used their Facebook Brand Page to showcase a variety of consumers using their product in innovative ways. Jason Biddle, branding expert, commented that "social proof helps convince potential customers, so if Susie is using Nutella, then maybe I should try it too." This, in combination with their innovative Calls To Action, urging people to share all the crazy ways they use Nutella, have fostered an incredible amount of engagement. Their Facebook Brand Page has allowed current customers to feel involved as well as entice potential customers.
Victoria's Secret knows how to work with what they have – beautiful images. These images flood their Facebook Brand Page, but because images can only span so far, they have created a fluid connection between Facebook and the rest of their social media sites and company website. For them, Facebook is a launch pad for traffic elsewhere.
Don't Let Your Page Go to Waste!
More than 1.35 billion people visit Facebook every month, and 64% of them check their Facebook every day – so harness that potential. But remember, a page is just a page unless you have a clear strategy and put in the effort to support it. The brands above did not succeed by accident. They first decided what value their Facebook page could deliver to their brand, and then crafted a content strategy around that goal.


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Семибугры — село в Камызякском районе Астраханской области, центр Семибугоринского сельсовета. Население —  человек (), 83 % из них — казахи.

История
Название село получило из-за семи бугров, окружающих село. На некоторых из них в царские годы жили помещики. На одном из бугров поныне существует старое казахское кладбище.

С 1 августа 2020 года вблизи села Семибугры начались археологические раскопки. По монетному материалу памятник датируется VIII—X веками. Площадь поселения — около 150 га. Среди находок —  серебряный дирхем, отчеканенный в VIII веке в арабской провинции Тунис, и фрагмент металлической пластины с «тамгой», сходной по виду со знаками Рюриковичей. По версии сотрудников Астраханского музея-заповедника, здесь могла находиться столица Хазарии Итиль. Это первый опорный хазарский памятник в дельте Волги. Часть учёных ранее отождествляла Итиль с другим поселением в Камызякском районе — Самосдельским городищем, но салтово-маяцкая керамика на нём не найдена.

География
Семибугры расположены в пределах Прикаспийской низменности в южной части Астраханской области, в дельте реки Волги и находятся на правом берегу реки Болда на 4,2 км вдоль реки.

Абсолютная высота 26 метров ниже уровня моря.

Климат
Умеренный, резко континентальный, характеризуется высокими температурами летом и низкими — зимой, малым количеством осадков, а также большими годовыми и летними суточными амплитудами температуры воздуха.

Население

 Национальный и гендерный состав
По данным Всероссийской переписи в 2010 году, численность населения составляла 1778 человек (854 мужчины и 924 женщины, 48,0 и 52,0 %% соответственно).

Согласно результатам переписи 2002 года, в национальной структуре населения казахи составляли 83 % от общей численности населения в 1934 жителя.

Инфраструктура
Есть своя больница, школа, в советское время находилась нефтебаза.

Основной род занятий — сельское хозяйство. Совхоз «Семибугоринский» в 1960—1990 годах славился на всю область.

Ловится сом, щука, лещ, вобла и т. д.

Примечания

Ссылки
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The word cancer can strike fear in the hearts of many. It's a devastating disease that can take a toll on an individual and their loved ones. There is another set of diseases that can cause as much devastation, but typically don't receive the same amount of focus as cancer. This can result in a lack of preventative care, identifying symptoms and finding appropriate treatment. Autoimmune diseases are those where the body literally attacks itself because it sees itself as an intruder. Autoimmune diseases can be difficult to diagnose and go a long time without being detected. Multiple-Sclerosis, MS, is one such disease whose devastating effects can last for decades before one succumbs to MS-related complications.
Once again, a disease that is believed to primarily affect whites actually affects more African-Americans. According to a 2013 study conducted by Kaiser Permanente published in the journal Neurology, black women were more susceptible to MS than white men and women.
MS is a disease that attacks the central nervous system. Signals are carried from and to the brain through a complex system of nerves, which are protected by a fatty sheath called myelin. The disease somehow triggers the erosion of myelin. Once myelin is stripped away a scar forms, not unlike when you cut yourself. The scarring is referred to as sclerosis. Scarring prevents and disrupts signals to and from the brain resulting in a variety of symptoms. The reason MS is considered to be an autoimmune disease is because it is believed the body itself is attacking its own myelin.
Signs, Symptoms and Diagnosing Multiple-Sclerosis (MS)?
Unfortunately, MS can be hard to spot because the symptoms could be attributed to any number of things. MS is a differential diagnosis. This means that a doctor will rule out other possible diseases before arriving at a diagnosis of MS. Symptoms can include fatigue, walking difficulty, tingling/numbness, dizziness, sexual dysfunction, bladder control, depression, emotional changes, etc. MS can often be mistaken for Lyme Disease, brain tumor, Syphilis, and HIV among several other conditions. This is why it's critical to have a thorough exam to determine MS so the appropriate treatment is administered.
While scientists are not able to say there is a definitive cause of MS, there are several theories. Aside from familial predisposition, MS has been connected in research studies to the consumption of aluminum and artificial sweeteners. It has also been connected with leaky gut syndrome. The highly-simplified underlying assumption of these theories is that MS is a symptom of aluminum and/or artificial sweetener poisoning. It's thought that these substances attack the nervous system directly. Remove these substances and the progression of myelin erosion will slow. Unfortunately, once it has started, it doesn't stop. The theory behind leaky gut syndrome is that because foreign objects, i.e. food, are passing into the blood stream through holes in the gut, it causes the body to attack. Eventually, the body can't tell what is and isn't foreign and turns on itself. One school of thought says that we are all born with MS or other autoimmune diseases, it is what we do that triggers them to advance.
I lost my father to end-stage MS after 20 years with the disease. He was diagnosed in 1995 at age 41 when he was suddenly struck blind and paralyzed. He literally woke up one morning unable to see or move. Both his sight and mobility returned, but not without severe damage. His dream job of being a special events photographer was over. Slowly, over time, he was confined to a wheelchair, then to bed, and then the muscles in his throat atrophied. He was gone within weeks thereafter. I believe, had he made critical changes to his lifestyle, he would still be here today. He had a slow-progressing form of MS.
It can be difficult to know where to go for help. One of the biggest champions for living with MS is Montell Williams, who has lived with the condition for nearly two decades. People are living a long time after an MS diagnosis, especially with new medications and radical lifestyle changes. Again, while there's no definitive proof that aluminum, artificial sweeteners, or leaky gut syndrome lead to auto-immune diseases such as MS, there is no definitive proof it doesn't. There is no harm in cutting use of these things out of your life. Aluminum is consumed indirectly through antiperspirant and food/beverage containers such as foil or soda cans.
From experience my best advice to seek medical care from a physician who specializes in treating MS and surround yourself with a strong, loving community. Engage in radical lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise, and plenty of rest.
Don't wait for a diagnosis. Starting today use glass, steel or BPA-free containers to store food/beverages. Ditch the aluminum-containing antiperspirant, which has also been linked to breast cancer. Avoid artificial sweeteners altogether and heal your leaky gut. Even in 2017 there is little research into how many diseases, conditions, and medications impact African-Americans differently than our white counterparts. Much of this is due to a lack of focused study in the community. Clinical trials tend to focus on the white population. But also, given the medical atrocities committed against the black community, many of us opt out. But because of this, we often go un/under-diagnosed, un/under-treated and die in greater numbers with the same diseases that impact white people.
There is a current study being conducted by the Multiple Sclerosis Genetic Project to identify the markers of Multiple Sclerosis. Read more about it and decide if it is something you would like to participate in. Visit the National MS Society web page for more resources, including a symptom tracker and how to live with a diagnosis. If you found this information useful, please share with family and friends. Please take a moment to share this post, mention #BlackEVEolution, and follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+. We know you're looking for more great content like this. Connect with us now to receive original and informative content that will help you be healthy, wealthy, wise and woke.


I stumbled across an article by Annalee Newitz today. I am still surprised (rightly so?) when Mr. Me post-colonial, anti-colonial, person of color in a white town, writing a thesis about race premised on intellectual and political race-fantasies of my own, reads something that makes something snap inside me such that I go: "Holy crap! How come I've never thought about it this way before?!"
And when I stumble on something that gets me to think out-of-the-box, I love sharing it! This article (link here) discusses white guilt and white racial fantasies within popular cinematic sci-fi narratives. I personally think it is a very interesting take. If you have any (differing) thoughts, I would love to hear them.
Whether Avatar is racist is a matter for debate. Regardless of where you come down on that question, it's undeniable that the film - like alien apartheid flick District 9, released earlier this year - is emphatically a fantasy about race. Specifically, it's a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people. Avatar and scifi films like it give us the opportunity to answer the question: What do white people fantasize about when they fantasize about racial identity?"
I remember making an essay at the end of Junior high on sci-fi. You had to pretend you were a chief redactor in a magazine and, in your column, you had to give a "political" opinion on a cultural subject. I wrote something clumsy about sci-fi movies being racist, because it was always about bad weird-looking, aggressive invaders.
My opinion was that now it was frowned upon to make menacing arabic characters (yes, white guilt, in southern France, focuses on Maghreb more than sub-Saharan Africa), well we reported our natural hatred of the "unknown" on aliens.
The headmistress liked it but regretted that I had qualified these ideas as "far-right" >> meaning, in my mind, "racist", especially because the French nationalist party had just created a drama with their breakthrough at the 2002 presidential elections, throwing away the socialists for the first time in thirty years. And the Sacré-Cœur school did not worship socialism.
In this context, my family forbade these jokes and behaviors; parents taught us that racism was the worse thing ever, that we should love and respect everyone in the same way.
As I was the one in school who always got mocked and laughed at because I was weird (understand: gay, but not knowing about that yet), I was bullied by nearly everyone. I always shouted and hit back, which made me even more attractive as a victim because there always was some show.
There was this one boy I did not hit back, though. I nearly gave the other cheek as a present. He was Walid and lived behind the hill, where most arabic families had moved to after the barracks were dismantled. And I did not hit back because I thought: "He's arabic, so he must be poor and be a victim of racism from white people like me. I gotta show him I'm different". (I didn't know at the time, that Walid was rich as hell with a big villa and a pool).
I was nine, he was seven, I had never heard the word "colonial" in my life. And still, as Walid would kick me hard in the leg, slap me in the face and smile, I barely made a move.
So, getting rid of "white guilt" may take some time, especially in France where President Sarkozy would like to highlight the "positive effects" of colonialism in the French History schoolbooks.
I'm so glad you read this, and are sharing it! I found it via Racialicious, where they also seperately reposted one of the comments from the original article, which is a beautiful rant that the folks at Racialicious have declared "Moff's Law". In summary, this rule states that anyone whose response to any critical analysis is anything close to "Gee, why can't you just relax and enjoy something without thinking about it so hard?" should SHUT UP. I loveloveloveLOVE it!
I've only recently begun to see how sci-fi poses ethical and moreal questions. V interesting read, M. Amak!
thanks for sharing this! B put this up on his profile too and i read it there.


The campus novel emerged as higher education expanded and novelists increasingly took day jobs in universities. Inherently comic and satirical, it is focused on the lives of academic staff rather than their students, and explores the gap between the high ideals of the institution and the human weaknesses of its members. As the new academic year begins, here are five of the best.
Can claim to be the first campus novel. The plot, like that of many of its successors, turns on the question of whether the central character will keep his job. Henry Mulcahy, an idle, irresponsible, middle-aged Irish-American instructor at a small liberal arts college, is deservedly denied tenure but manages to exploit the weakness and vanity of his colleagues so that they defend his cause. McCarthy's mordant wit is a joy throughout.


My advocacy work has shown me that more than anything else, survivors are just happy to meet someone who has outlived cancer for so long.
More than being interested in what I have to say, cancer survivors I meet are just happy to see someone who has survived the disease for more than 70 years, and I'm grateful to be a beacon of light for them.
Even though I was just 3 years old when my symptoms first appeared, the memory is still fresh in my mind to this day, 71 years later. I had just come home from a friend's birthday party and was sitting on the front patio steps immobilized by severe stomach pain. My parents said I was feeling ill from eating too much cake, candy, and ice cream, never imagining the pain was actually caused by a pediatric cancer called Wilms tumor. This was in 1945, when the word "cancer" was never spoken out loud. In fact, I didn't even know I had had cancer until many years later.
Because World War II was still raging when I was diagnosed and gas was rationed, my mother and I had to walk to the train station to take a train and then a trolley to get to the hospital for treatment, which included surgery to remove my left kidney, followed by radiation therapy. I was such a physically active child, I can remember—to the horror of my parents and nurses—turning somersaults in my crib in the hospital, unfazed by the bandages and stitches holding my left side together.
Being physically active and constantly in motion was such an integral part of my early life—and remains so today. I found the piano lessons my parents insisted I take too confining and finally gave them up in favor of dance classes, which put me on a lifelong career path of developing dance and movement programs for people of all ages. I'm convinced that the dance programs helped me overcome 2 more bouts of cancer over the next 60 years and have kept me alive.
Thirty years after my Wilms tumor diagnosis, I was diagnosed with uterine carcinoma in situ and had a hysterectomy. I was fortunate that the radiation therapy I had had so long ago didn't prevent me from having children and that I was able to have my second child before uterine cancer and its treatment permanently took away my ability to have more children.
Despite this second turn with cancer, I refused to let it interfere with the trajectory of my life and career. While raising a family, I continued to design and teach movement classes in dance and other forms of artistic expression for all educational levels—from preschool to college. Later I even developed movement techniques for older adults, those with physical and mental challenges, and cancer survivors.
But it wasn't until I developed stage III estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer in my left breast 11 years ago and had to have a modified radical mastectomy, plus adjuvant chemotherapy and radiation therapy, that I began channeling my energy almost exclusively into patient and cancer survivorship advocacy. And the work is fulfilling and rewarding. I have served as a peer reviewer for the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program and as a patient advocate for the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and the Society for Integrative Oncology as well as have spoken at their and other cancer organizations' conferences about my experiences with cancer.
What I've realized is that more than being interested in what I have to say, cancer survivors I meet are just happy to see someone who has survived the disease for more than 70 years, and I'm grateful to be a beacon of light for them. A survivor of both childhood cancer and lymphedema from my mastectomy, I'm also dedicating my advocacy efforts to increasing federal spending in pediatric cancer research and to passing the Lymphedema Treatment Act now before Congress, which would provide Medicare coverage of doctor-prescribed compression supplies, which are so essential to the treatment of this condition.
Over my life, I've done a lot of soul searching to figure out both why I contracted three different cancers and why I'm still here when so many others have died of their disease, but I haven't come up with any satisfying answers. Raised on a farm, I have always lived a healthy lifestyle. I don't smoke and seldom drink, I eat well, I have a positive attitude and deep faith, and, of course, I've always been physically active.
Ms. McDonald lives in Sarasota, Florida. She is the author of an autobiographically based children's book, Dancing Cancer (AuthorHouse, 2010).


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Presence Health CEO Sandra Bruce on merger, Medicaid cuts
Modern Healthcare
Sandra Bruce has served as president and CEO of Presence Health since the 11-hospital system was formed in November 2011 by the merger of Resurrection Healthcare and Provena Health, with facilities in the Chicago area and central Illinois. Before that, she served as CEO of Resurrection and CEO of Trinity Health's St. Alphonsus Health System in Boise, Idaho. Bruce is a former board chair of the Catholic Health Association and continues as a CHA committee member. Modern Healthcare reporter Andis Robeznieks spoke with her recently about the challenge of merging cultures, increasing diversity in her system's executive ranks, continuous performance improvement and the economic impact of reducing inpatient hospital capacity on communities. This is an edited transcript.
Modern Healthcare: How are you doing in merging the cultures of Resurrection and Provena?
Sandra Bruce: It's a journey to get to a single culture and we are not there yet. I think it takes five to 10 years. We have been explicit about some aspects of the culture, one of which is to become an organization that focuses on performance improvement. We are making progress there. We all tend to think erroneously that if two Catholic organizations come together, the cultures must be the same. They're not. The two organizations were operated very differently. Resurrection was a highly centralized entity and Provena Health was decentralized. The board made a decision that a more centralized model would be the most effective way forward. That has caused some discomfort.
MH: Is Presence going to expand or merge?
Bruce: We are trying to expand our geographic footprint through our accountable care organization called Presence Health Partners. We have expanded it significantly through our Medicaid accountable care entity, including many other providers that are not Presence-owned and operated. We have over 4,000 physicians participating. A third of them are largely on staff at other hospitals. They set the clinical protocols and also are involved in the negotiation of contracts with the payer. That's been part of our success in attracting them.
MH: How is the state of Illinois treating you as far as Medicaid?
Bruce: If Gov. Bruce Rauner's proposal to cut $1.5 billion from Medicaid is approved, it will have a profound if not devastating effect on our ability to serve as a safety net for the poor and vulnerable.
MH: How do you seek to make Presence Health's leadership diverse?
Bruce: In terms of staff diversity, I have done a good job here at Presence and in my career of having a diverse senior team as far as gender. I have not done as good a job at having a diverse team from a racial and ethnic perspective. We are just now formulating initiatives to make sure that the management team is as diverse as the populations we serve. For a number of years, we have said there will be women candidates in these management pools. But we have not necessarily said, "We will have ethnically diverse candidates in that pool." So we are beginning that process.
Listen to the full interview with Sandra Bruce.
MH: How do you try to improve morale while at the same time maintain a culture of continuous improvement?
Bruce: The engagement level and morale of employees is higher when we bring them into the performance-improvement work, let them describe the problems, seek out the data and come up with solutions. Then they love to have me come in on Fridays when we have the Rapid Improvement Event report-outs to hear not only their great work, but to ask for my help in the solutions. If we could do more of it, employee morale would be higher.
MH: Any particular area where you have seen the most significant improvement?
Bruce: At Resurrection Medical Center, the staff worked out the issue of adding another MRI. We hadn't wanted to spend the capital, but they laid it out and it was something we couldn't argue with any more. It made me very proud. They did significant work around the flow-through in the operating rooms. At Covenant Medical Center in Champaign-Urbana, the staff did work around the pre-admission process—how they could do a better job of finding out patients' insurance and making sure patients had everything done, such as lab tests, before coming in for surgery. They took great pride in delivering a better service to the patient.
MH: How is Presence using telehealth?
Bruce: Presence deployed telehealth in neurosciences about a year ago. We now have every one of our hospitals connected via robots to evaluate a patient in any hospital for conditions of stroke, be able to start interventions immediately in that hospital, and then, if necessary, move the patients to other Presence centers. I can tell you numerous stories of patients being diagnosed, given a blood-thinning drug, moved to our primary stroke center in Joliet (Ill.), and walking out the door in a few days with no residual effects. This is an example of great healthcare in a small or rural community that can't afford a neurosurgeon and a neurologist standing by 24/7.
MH: How far along is Presence in building the health IT infrastructure for ACOs and value-based care?
Bruce: It's no small feat to put in claims-payment systems so you can process an insurance claim and put in health IT systems that say: "Red alert, Sandy Bruce is a high-risk patient, we need to get her an intensive outpatient case manager." It's a huge technology investment to manage people's health. In retrospect, it's relatively simple to take care of people if they come in with a heart attack. For 50 years, we've known how to fix you if you're sick. Now we are learning how to keep you from getting sick. It requires a different investment in people, in skill sets and in technology. And Presence is well on its way in that journey.
MH: Do you have concerns about reducing hospital inpatient capacity, which Presence did when it sold Our Lady of the Resurrection Medical Center?
Bruce: If I could do everything over again in that case, I would have talked to the community first and tried to give residents a better understanding of healthcare economics and to learn more about the economic impact we were going to have on the community. I fear that as we move from volume to value, with more ambulatory and digital care and less reliance on brick-and-mortar institutions, we will be negatively impacting economic health in those communities. The country and the state need to figure out how we replace some of that economic vitality. What can we do to make sure that jobs remain? Hospital employees go to restaurants, they buy gas, they stop and get milk and bread on the way home. We really do need to be very thoughtful about how to help communities maintain some of that economic foundation.


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Aeropanamericano Beechcraft 1900C plane crash
Miami, Florida, USA
Updated on 27th April 2015
The Beechcraft 1900C operated by Aeropanamericano took off from rom Miami Executive Airport, Florida, USA, for a ferry flight to Providenciales International Airport, Turks and Caicos Islands. Two crewmembers and two passengers were onboard. The plane was destroyed during collision with terrain, following a loss of engine thrust during initial climb. The two foreign certificated pilots and two passengers were fatally injured.
The airplane had undergone routine maintenance in Miami and was returning to Venezuela. The twenty-one-seat airplane was powered by two 1,100 horsepower turboprop engines, equipped with four-blade. Review of maintenance records revealed that the left engine propeller had been due for overhaul. It was removed and replaced with an overhauled propeller prior to the accident flight and the accident flight was the first flight after the overhauled propeller was installed on the left engine.
Review of radar and communication data from the Federal Aviation Administration revealed that the flight was cleared for takeoff at 1436:45. At 1438:15, one of the pilots reported an "engine failure" to air traffic control. The controller asked the pilot if he would like to return to the airport and the pilot replied affirmative. The controller then offered a 180-degree turn to runway 9R and the pilot requested a left traffic pattern to runway 27L, which the controller approved; however, the airplane subsequently impacted a utility pole and terrain about 2 miles west of the runway. A postcrash fire consumed a majority of the cockpit and cabin.
Witnesses observed the airplane flying low, with the left wing down and the left propeller turning slower than the right propeller, before the airplane impacted the utility pole.
The airplane came to rest upright in a field against several trees. The beginning of a debris path was observed near a severed utility pole where scrape marks across the adjacent road were consistent with left wingtip contact. Additionally, sections of left propeller blades were located near the utility pole and along the debris path, consistent with the left propeller impacting the utility pole as the left wingtip was scraping the ground. The debris path extended about 240 feet, on a magnetic heading of 240 degrees, to the main wreckage.
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Aircraft similar to the one which crashed (Beechcraft 1900C)
Miami, FL, USA (Red dot on map)
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Suing for Punitive Damages in Temple Terrace
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In Temple Terrace, Florida, the civil litigation system is mainly concerned with compensating the victims of wrongdoing, rather than punishing the wrongdoers, or casting moral blame upon them.
This basic principle is subject to an significant exception, however. There are cases where a judge in Temple Terrace, Florida will order a defendant to pay the plaintiff a sum of money which is not calculated based on actual harm the plaintiff has suffered. These are called "punitive damages" and serve the purpose of punishing and deterring wrongdoing.
Courts in Temple Terrace, Florida do not authorize punitive damages in most cases. The civil litigation system is geared against authorizing financial windfalls to civil plaintiffs. But, there are rare cases, where the defendant has done something to the plaintiff that is so morally reprehensible, that society's interest in punishing the defendant and deterring comparable misconduct outweighs the civil justice system's preference against punitive damages.
Conduct that can give rise to punitive damages in Temple Terrace, Florida
Typically personal injury cases in Temple Terrace, Florida do not involve punitive damages, because the defendant did not intend to cause harm, or act with some other form of malice. Alternatively, most of these cases involve situations where the defendant acted carelessly, but did not actually intend to cause harm. This is enough to award compensatory damages, but it is far from sufficient to award punitive damages in Temple Terrace, Florida.
In Temple Terrace, Florida, punitive damages are only awarded in extreme cases. Civil wrongs such as fraud, conversion (theft), battery, and other intentional, depraved acts are sufficient to award punitive damages. In deciding whether or not to award punitive damages, and how much money to award, courts in Temple Terrace, Florida will consider many different factors. Typically, they employ a sliding scale, weighing the nature of the conduct and the actual harm that the conduct caused. The more immoral the conduct, and/or the more harm caused, the more likely a court is to award punitive damages.
There are limits on punitive damages in Temple Terrace, Florida. The Supreme Court has held that punitive damage awards which are grossly disproportionate to the immorality of the conduct, and the harm that it caused, are an unconstitutional deprivation of property without due process of law.
A good rule of thumb for calculating the upper limit of punitive damages in Temple Terrace, Florida is that punitive damages can be no larger than compensatory damages times ten. This rule is not absolute, of course. Courts in Florida have a good deal of discretion in awarding punitive damages, and will decide them based on the facts of each case. Because of this, punitive damage awards larger than 10 times compensatory damages are occasionally upheld, while much smaller awards have been overturned, because they were deemed excessive in a certain case.
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If you live in Temple Terrace, Florida and are engaged in a case that you believe carries the possibility of a punitive damage award, you may be entitled to a large amount of funds from the person or company that hurt you. To know for sure, you should speak with a civil litigation attorney in Temple Terrace, Florida.
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