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Convoy Brings Relief to Displaced Syrians in Need
November 29, 2019 • Iraq-Syria
Samaritan's Purse is delivering relief to those who've been displaced by terrible violence.
Provide Relief as the Syria Crisis Continues
Update (Nov. 29):
On Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28), Samaritan's Purse worked with local partners to send a relief convoy of 30 trucks from Iraq into Syria with urgently needed supplies for families displaced by recent violence. The vehicles carried 12,000 blankets; 6,000 sleeping mats; 1,000 Sawyer water filters; 1,500 cooking kits; and 800 tents. In addition, the convoy transported coats, gloves, thermal underwear, and socks for more than 350 children.*
Additional partners are distributing these items at a growing camp for displaced persons located in northeast Syria. The area is home to Kurds, Christians, and Arabs.
Thousands of Syrians fled for their lives as bombs rained down on their homes in mid-October during a Turkish cross-border incursion. More than 65 schools shut down as a result, and the emptied structures became temporary residences for desperate men, women, and children. Now roughly a month later, Syria is seeking to reopen these schools, so families who have been living in them are being relocated to a desert camp—which was the destination of our convoy.
New arrivals will join more than 300 families who are already in the Syrian camp, enduring harsh conditions. Tents are set up in the dirt and mud, and with winter temperatures arriving, living in them is not only messy, but also bone-chilling cold. There is minimal international assistance at this facility, so few services are available.
This recent delivery adds to the 500 tarps, 500 tents, 8,600 blankets, 4,000 sleeping mats, 3,600 hygiene kits, and 1,500 cooking kits that Samaritan's Purse has already delivered to displaced families through our local partners in Syria.
Many of these items were airlifted to the region aboard the Samaritan's Purse DC-8 aircraft. The plane made two flights to Erbil, Iraq, over the past few weeks.
*The numbers for children's clothing and water filters were updated on Dec. 3 to reflect new reporting from the field.
Samaritan's Purse is providing emergency relief to Syrian families displaced by Turkey's recent incursion along the border. The violence has created a humanitarian crisis, displacing more than 100,000 people. Some have crossed the border into northern Iraq while others remain displaced within northeastern Syria.
Samaritan's Purse is meeting the desperate physical needs of displaced families in both areas—directly aiding refugees in Iraq and offering relief through local partners in northeastern Syria.
Among other places, Samaritan's Purse disaster response specialists are hard at work in Bardarash, the largest refugee camp for recent Syrian arrivals in northern Iraq. The camp is made up of more than 10,000* people—a mix of men, women, and children, primarily Syrian Kurds—who are living in tents and struggling to care for themselves.
A Pregnant Mother Forced to Flee
Five months pregnant, Seyda fled Syria for safety along with her young daughter.
Seyda, five months pregnant and also holding her 2 ½-year-old daughter, said she never wanted to leave her home in Syria. But, when the fighting was just yards away, she had no choice. It was her family's only hope to survive.
"We were forced to leave," she said. "Everyone left. It was us, our children, the elderly—everybody left. Everybody had to run away. I felt like I was going to die. I still don't know how I got here, but I felt like death was near."
Just months away from delivering her second child, Seyda was exhausted from the journey.
"By the time we got here, we were very tired. It was like torture. We were lost. We were thirsty. We were hungry, and we were exhausted. We lost our dignity."
The Samaritan's Purse team distributed fire extinguishers in Bardarash camp to aid refugee families who cook and heat with kerosene.
The Samaritan's Purse team met Seyda during a fire extinguisher distribution. As families cook and heat their tents with kerosene, fires have become a common hazard. Several tents have already caught on fire and burned down. After leaving their home country and taking refuge in a tent, this loss is especially devastating—turning what little they had into ashes. Because the tents are highly flammable, there is great concern that one fire could quickly spread and destroy the entire camp. To combat this, Samaritan's Purse has distributed more than 700 fire extinguishers.
Seyda was extremely grateful for this protection. She gestured toward the tents surrounding her own, and said they are all one—a family united by trauma and hardships. She promised to look out for her neighbors because she knows they will do the same for her.
Seyda still fears for her family's future, wondering how she will give birth in the camp and raise a newborn in such harsh conditions. Through tears she asked, "How will I keep going like this? My children need me—I just have to find a way to care for them."
Clean Water and Winter Clothing
Across the camp, Samaritan's Purse has rehabilitated 567 latrines and provided 500-liter water tanks, benefiting 1,000 families. These water, sanitation and hygiene interventions help prevent the spread of disease while restoring dignity.
A young refugee receives a haircut in Bardarash camp.
Yekta, a mother of nine children, is one beneficiary who was overwhelmed with gratitude after receiving a water storage tank from Samaritan's Purse. Each section of the camp only receives access to running water for one to two hours each day, and the timing is unreliable. Prior to the tanks, they had no way to store water, which made it difficult to wash clothes, take baths, and clean dishes.
"The situation is very dire here, but now we have water," Yekta said.
Her husband remains in Syria because they could not afford to pay to have their entire family smuggled across the border. He sent them to northern Iraq because it was too dangerous for them to stay. Their future is unknown, but Yekta hopes each day that her husband will find a way to come to Iraq and reunite their family.
Samaritan's Purse will soon distribute warm winter clothes to refugees living in Bardarash. The clothing—jackets, boots, gloves, socks, and thermal underwear—as well as blankets were recently airlifted from the U.S. to Erbil, Iraq. [Update: A second, similar airlift with winter clothing also left the U.S. on Nov. 22.]
Yekta now has reliable access to water since Samaritan's Purse provided 500-liter tanks to store the precious resource.
Conditions are getting harsher, rains are coming, and temperatures are expected to drop below freezing in the weeks ahead. Already families like Yekta and Seyda are getting cold at night, and they are worried about their children getting sick.
In addition to working in Bardarash, Samaritan's Purse is also working at the Sehela Transit Center. This transient camp at the border is the first location many refugees reach. Samaritan's Purse has provided nearly 4,000 hygiene kits, 1,500 blankets, and 366 pairs of winter boots to vulnerable families there.
Samaritan's Purse is also supporting partners in northeastern Syria. We are providing 3,000 families with tents, tarps, blankets, and sleeping mats, which are being trucked across the border to meet the immediate needs of internally displaced people.
Syrians refugees are tired and overwhelmed from years of fighting and unrest. Please pray for peace to come into their hearts and lives, and for our team as they share God's love.
*The number of people in Bardarash camp in Iraq has been fluctuating and remains above 10,000.
Note: This article originally published on Nov. 15, but was updated at the top on Nov. 27 and tenses were updated on Nov. 29. This will be the final update to this story.
Samaritan's Purse disaster response specialists are caring for refugees in Bardarash camp.
Provide Relief as the Syria Crisis Continues Samaritan's Purse is providing critically needed relief in northeast Syria as thousands have been displaced and had their lives disrupted by the ongoing crisis there. Working in Jesus' Name, we're helping to provide critically needed medical care and food, among other forms of assistance. Please pray for the many Kurds, Christians, and others who are caught in the middle of this conflict.
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Lakeside Union School District students and a teacher check out new equipment made possible by a $100,000 grant from San Diego Grantmakers' San Diego Food Funders Collaborative. Photo courtesy of San Diego Grantmakers
San Diego — The San Diego Food Funders, a funding collaborative of San Diego Grantmakers, provided grants of $356,000 to in-school and out-of-school youth meals programs in San Diego County to improve access to nutritious food for youth of all ages in low- to middle-income communities. Regional philanthropic organizations have stepped up with significant funds to help provide healthier meals to local youth before, during, and after school.
In the city of San Diego alone, more than 100,000 children live in economic hardship (below 200 percent of the federal poverty line); throughout the county 16-38 percent of children are in this situation according to Data: Center on Policy Initiatives San Diego.
Vice President of Collaboration and Special Initiatives Megan Thomas said: "Many of these children are eligible to receive free and reduced-price meals, but they don't all participate in nutrition programs — particularly evening and summer programs. Improving access to, and nutrition of,, meals consumed by youth not only combats hunger and improves nourishment, but can improve young people's social-emotional and educational development."
Father Joe's Villages, Feeding San Diego, Kitchens for Good, the Lakeside Unified School District, San Diego Hunger Coalition and Somali Bantu Association of America will each receive a one year grant to fund infrastructure, staff capacity and youth advocacy projects such as upgrading a school kitchen built in the 1960s, adding new sites so more kids can eat, and supporting student advocacy for culturally appropriate meals in their schools. Visit sdgrantmakers.org.
The SDMAC Foundation, a nonprofit organization that is part of the San Diego Military Advisory Council, which supports the active-duty and retired military communities through program initiatives funded by tax-deductible donations, announced that a continued collaboration with San Diego State University to provide discount ticket vouchers for active-duty and retired military personnel to attend 2018 Aztec football home games. Vouchers can be purchased at San Diego area military ticket offices for $8 each and redeemed at the San Diego County Credit Union stadium ticket window for seating in select sections.
Pete Hedley, president of SDMAC Foundation said: "To date, 39,239 active-duty and retired military personnel have enjoyed the vouchers. This program is another way in which SDMAC Foundation is working to positively impact the military and veterans in our community." Visit sdmac.org/foundation.
The Living Coast Discovery Center, a nonprofit zoo and aquarium on San Diego Bay in Chula Vista, raised $110,000 in net proceeds at its ninth annual "Farm to Bay" event making it the Living Coast's most successful fundraiser. The funds, which were generated through a combination of sponsorships, ticket sales, live and silent auctions, and donations, will support coastal wildlife conservation, education and sustainability programs at the Living Coast throughout the year. Approximately 400 guests attended the event
Organizations Pool Their Resources to Guide Veterans In Need to Services
Grants Allow Kids to Learn Valuable Lessons from Nature
SDMAC Creates Foundation to Further Its Outreach, Initiatives
Executive Profile: Nancy Jamison
JFS Gets More Resources For Its Food, Outreach Programs
Bank Gives Veterans, Military Groups Well-Deserved Support
Chefs Challenge-Buccaneer Ball Raises $175K for Meals on Wheels
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This Autumn, Hamburg film festival heaped praise on the film 'Children-404', which tells a story of LGBT teenagers in Russia. It shares the name with an online support group, which was founded to help the teenagers affected by the ban on 'gay propaganda among the minors'. Pandeia has talked to Lena Klimove, the founder of the group, and to Pavel Loparev and Askold Kurov, the directors of the documentary.
The ban on 'gay propaganda', while not directly segregating LGBT people, has, practically, legalised homophobic actions. And while many adult LGBT people can still carry on with the lives they had before the law, minors have to keep their sexuality secret, or face problems such as forced "therapy sessions", or discrimination at school. Coming out, which has never been easy, has been made even harder, pushing many of LGBT teenagers on the verge of suicide. Lena Klimova, a young journalist from Nizhniy Tagil, who has suffered from homophobic attitude of her colleagues, created 'Children- 404', to let LGBT teenagers come out anonymously and support each other. The way this group has to operate shows just how far everyday homophobia has gone in Russia. What Lena is fighting for now is simple recognition.
Last year, Lena and her group were taken to court for violating the new law ‒ but were acquitted. Now, a new round of persecution is about to start ‒ this time, basing on a bogus 'psychology expert evaluation' of the group (a curious document heavily referring to Orthodox Christianity). The expertise, it seems, is aimed mainly not at the group itself, but at the psychologists who are offering their help to LGBT teenagers.
The film 'Children- 404' is mostly shot against a gloomy background of small and dull provincial towns. The colours are bland or dark, the voices are quiet ‒ it is a very accurate portrayal of the everyday life of many Russians. Everybody has to blend in, and those who don't are regarded as something indecent, and are forced to disappear ‒ leave the country, or stay at home and live in the internet. The antagonism shown in the documentary is more passive than aggressive ‒ like a school teacher that tries to close the door on the cameraman. The directors have deliberately focused on the everyday life and struggle of their characters, and left out loud protest, to show that it is this quiet, grey everyday life that is doing most harm.
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Q: How do I pass multiple parameters into a function in PowerShell? If I have a function which accepts more than one string parameter, the first parameter seems to get all the data assigned to it, and remaining parameters are passed in as empty.
A quick test script:
Function Test([string]$arg1, [string]$arg2)
{
    Write-Host "`$arg1 value: $arg1"
    Write-Host "`$arg2 value: $arg2"
}

Test("ABC", "DEF")

The output generated is
$arg1 value: ABC DEF
$arg2 value:

The correct output should be:
$arg1 value: ABC
$arg2 value: DEF

This seems to be consistent between v1 and v2 on multiple machines, so obviously, I'm doing something wrong. Can anyone point out exactly what?

A: There are some good answers here, but I wanted to point out a couple of other things. Function parameters are actually a place where PowerShell shines. For example, you can have either named or positional parameters in advanced functions like so:
function Get-Something
{
    Param
    (
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
         [string] $Name,
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=1)]
         [int] $Id
    )
}

Then you could either call it by specifying the parameter name, or you could just use positional parameters, since you explicitly defined them. So either of these would work:
Get-Something -Id 34 -Name "Blah"
Get-Something "Blah" 34

The first example works even though Name is provided second, because we explicitly used the parameter name. The second example works based on position though, so Name would need to be first. When possible, I always try to define positions so both options are available.
PowerShell also has the ability to define parameter sets. It uses this in place of method overloading, and again is quite useful:
function Get-Something
{
    [CmdletBinding(DefaultParameterSetName='Name')]
    Param
    (
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0, ParameterSetName='Name')]
         [string] $Name,
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0, ParameterSetName='Id')]
         [int] $Id
    )
}

Now the function will either take a name, or an id, but not both.  You can use them positionally, or by name. Since they are a different type, PowerShell will figure it out. So all of these would work:
Get-Something "some name"
Get-Something 23
Get-Something -Name "some name"
Get-Something -Id 23

You can also assign additional parameters to the various parameter sets. (That was a pretty basic example obviously.) Inside of the function, you can determine which parameter set was used with the $PsCmdlet.ParameterSetName property. For example:
if($PsCmdlet.ParameterSetName -eq "Name")
{
    Write-Host "Doing something with name here"
}

Then, on a related side note, there is also parameter validation in PowerShell. This is one of my favorite PowerShell features, and it makes the code inside your functions very clean. There are numerous validations you can use. A couple of examples are:
function Get-Something
{
    Param
    (
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
         [ValidatePattern('^Some.*')]
         [string] $Name,
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=1)]
         [ValidateRange(10,100)]
         [int] $Id
    )
}

In the first example, ValidatePattern accepts a regular expression that assures the supplied parameter matches what you're expecting.  If it doesn't, an intuitive exception is thrown, telling you exactly what is wrong. So in that example, 'Something' would work fine, but 'Summer' wouldn't pass validation.
ValidateRange ensures that the parameter value is in between the range you expect for an integer. So 10 or 99 would work, but 101 would throw an exception.
Another useful one is ValidateSet, which allows you to explicitly define an array of acceptable values. If something else is entered, an exception will be thrown. There are others as well, but probably the most useful one is ValidateScript. This takes a script block that must evaluate to $true, so the sky is the limit. For example:
function Get-Something
{
    Param
    (
         [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
         [ValidateScript({ Test-Path $_ -PathType 'Leaf' })]
         [ValidateScript({ (Get-Item $_ | select -Expand Extension) -eq ".csv" })]
         [string] $Path
    )
}

In this example, we are assured not only that $Path exists, but that it is a file, (as opposed to a directory) and has a .csv extension. ($_ refers to the parameter, when inside your scriptblock.) You can also pass in much larger, multi-line script blocks if that level is required, or use multiple scriptblocks like I did here. It's extremely useful and makes for nice clean functions and intuitive exceptions.

A: If you try:
PS > Test("ABC", "GHI") ("DEF")

you get:
$arg1 value: ABC GHI
$arg2 value: DEF

So you see that the parentheses separates the parameters

If you try:
PS > $var = "C"
PS > Test ("AB" + $var) "DEF"

you get:
$arg1 value: ABC
$arg2 value: DEF

Now you could find some immediate usefulness of the parentheses - a space will not become a separator for the next parameter - instead you have an eval function.

A: Parameters in calls to functions in PowerShell (all versions) are space-separated, not comma separated. Also, the parentheses are entirely unneccessary and will cause a parse error in PowerShell 2.0 (or later) if Set-StrictMode -Version 2 or higher is active. Parenthesised arguments are used in .NET methods only.
function foo($a, $b, $c) {
   "a: $a; b: $b; c: $c"
}

ps> foo 1 2 3
a: 1; b: 2; c: 3

A: I don't see it mentioned here, but splatting your arguments is a useful alternative and becomes especially useful if you are building out the arguments to a command dynamically (as opposed to using Invoke-Expression). You can splat with arrays for positional arguments and hashtables for named arguments. Here are some examples:

Note: You can use positional splats with external commands arguments with relative ease, but named splats are less useful with external commands. They work, but the program must accept arguments in the -Key:Value format as each parameter relates to the hashtable key/value pairs. One example of such software is the choco command from the Chocolatey package manager for Windows.

Splat With Arrays (Positional Arguments)
Test-Connection with Positional Arguments
Test-Connection www.google.com localhost

With Array Splatting
$argumentArray = 'www.google.com', 'localhost'
Test-Connection @argumentArray

Note that when splatting, we reference the splatted variable with an @ instead of a $. It is the same when using a Hashtable to splat as well.

Splat With Hashtable (Named Arguments)
Test-Connection with Named Arguments
Test-Connection -ComputerName www.google.com -Source localhost

With Hashtable Splatting
$argumentHash = @{
  ComputerName = 'www.google.com'
  Source = 'localhost'
}
Test-Connection @argumentHash

Splat Positional and Named Arguments Simultaneously
Test-Connection With Both Positional and Named Arguments
Test-Connection www.google.com localhost -Count 1

Splatting Array and Hashtables Together
$argumentHash = @{
  Count = 1
}
$argumentArray = 'www.google.com', 'localhost'
Test-Connection @argumentHash @argumentArray

A: You call PowerShell functions without the parentheses and without using the comma as a separator. Try using:
test "ABC" "DEF"

In PowerShell the comma (,) is an array operator, e.g.
$a = "one", "two", "three"

It sets $a to an array with three values.

A: I don't know what you're doing with the function, but have a look at using the 'param' keyword. It's quite a bit more powerful for passing parameters into a function, and makes it more user friendly. Below is a link to an overly complex article from Microsoft about it. It isn't as complicated as the article makes it sound.
Param Usage
Also, here is an example from a question on this site:
Check it out.

A: Function Test([string]$arg1, [string]$arg2)
{
    Write-Host "`$arg1 value: $arg1"
    Write-Host "`$arg2 value: $arg2"
}

Test("ABC") ("DEF")

A: The correct answer has already been provided, but this issue seems prevalent enough to warrant some additional details for those wanting to understand the subtleties.
I would have added this just as a comment, but I wanted to include an illustration--I tore this off my quick reference chart on PowerShell functions. This assumes function f's signature is f($a, $b, $c):

Thus, one can call a function with space-separated positional parameters or order-independent named parameters. The other pitfalls reveal that you need to be cognizant of commas, parentheses, and white space.
For further reading, see my article Down the Rabbit Hole: A Study in PowerShell Pipelines, Functions, and Parameters. The article contains a link to the quick reference/wall chart as well.

A: I stated the following earlier:
The common problem is using the singular form $arg, which is incorrect. It should always be plural as $args.
The problem is not that.  In fact, $arg can be anything else. The problem was the use of the comma and the parentheses.
I run the following code that worked and the output follows:
Code:
Function Test([string]$var1, [string]$var2)
{
    Write-Host "`$var1 value: $var1"
    Write-Host "`$var2 value: $var2"
}

Test "ABC" "DEF"
Output:
$var1 value: ABC
$var2 value: DEF

A: Function Test([string]$arg1, [string]$arg2)
{
    Write-Host "`$arg1 value: $arg1"
    Write-Host "`$arg2 value: $arg2"
}

Test "ABC" "DEF"

A: Function Test {
    Param([string]$arg1, [string]$arg2)

    Write-Host $arg1
    Write-Host $arg2
}

This is a proper params declaration.
See about_Functions_Advanced_Parameters.
And it indeed works.

A: If you're a C# / Java / C++ / Ruby / Python / Pick-A-Language-From-This-Century developer and you want to call your function with commas, because that's what you've always done, then you need something like this:
$myModule = New-Module -ascustomobject {
    function test($arg1, $arg2) {
        echo "arg1 = $arg1, and arg2 = $arg2"
    }
}

Now call:
$myModule.test("ABC", "DEF")

and you'll see
arg1 = ABC, and arg2 = DEF

A: Because this is a frequent viewed question, I want to mention that a PowerShell function should use approved verbs (Verb-Noun as the function name).
The verb part of the name identifies the action that the cmdlet performs. The noun part of the name identifies the entity on which the action is performed. This rule simplifies the usage of your cmdlets for advanced PowerShell users.
Also, you can specify things like whether the parameter is mandatory and the position of the parameter:
function Test-Script
{
    [CmdletBinding()]
    Param
    (
        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=0)]
        [string]$arg1,

        [Parameter(Mandatory=$true, Position=1)]
        [string]$arg2
    )

    Write-Host "`$arg1 value: $arg1"
    Write-Host "`$arg2 value: $arg2"
}

To pass the parameter to the function you can either use the position:
Test-Script "Hello" "World"

Or you specify the parameter name:
Test-Script -arg1 "Hello" -arg2 "World"

You don't use parentheses like you do when you call a function within C#.

I would recommend to always pass the parameter names when using more than one parameter, since this is more readable.

A: If you don't know (or care) how many arguments you will be passing to the function, you could also use a very simple approach like;
Code:
function FunctionName()
{
    Write-Host $args
}

That would print out all arguments. For example:
FunctionName a b c 1 2 3

Output
a b c 1 2 3

I find this particularly useful when creating functions that use external commands that could have many different (and optional) parameters, but relies on said command to provide feedback on syntax errors, etc.
Here is a another real-world example (creating a function to the tracert command, which I hate having to remember the truncated name);
Code:
Function traceroute
{
    Start-Process -FilePath "$env:systemroot\system32\tracert.exe" -ArgumentList $args -NoNewWindow
}

A: You can pass parameters in a function like this also:
function FunctionName()
{
    Param ([string]$ParamName);
    # Operations
}

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Macaulay was born in New York, in a large family of Patricia Brentrup and Kit Culkin. Unlike in the movie Home Alone, in his real family Macaulay was not the youngest kid. He is a third child in a family and has four younger siblings. The latest one, Rory, is nine years younger than Macaulay. Young Culkin inherited his talent for acting from his father's family. His father, Kit Culkin, was a Broadway actor and his aunt Bonnie Bedelia appeared in the movies. When Macaulay was a kid his large family was extremely poor and had to squeeze in a small apartment.
It all changed when he became one of the most popular child actors and Macaulay Culkin net worth started to grow.
Culkin's career began when he was still at the age of four.
He first climbed on the stage at the New York Philharmonic. During 80s he has made numerous appearances in movies, theatre and TV series, but his roles did not attract much attention. Culkin earned worldwide fame in 1990, when the movie Home alone appeared on the screens. However, it was not this movie that boosted Macaulay Culkin net work to millions of dollars. According to IMDB, for staring in this film he received $100 thousand. It is amazing salary for the kid, but looks like nothing compared to the next check Macaulay received.
For his next movie My Girl Macaulay earned 10 times more- $1 million. In 1992, when Macaulay was at the age of 12, he got $4.5 million for staring in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. That was still not the peak of his fame and income. In 1994 Macaulay earned a total of $16 million for staring in two movies: Richie Rich and Getting Even with Dad. After those movies, Macaulay retreated from acting for quite a long time.
He returned to the film industry in 2000 with a role in spectacle at the London's West End theatre. Three years later he took a role in a movie Party Monster. This role became a real challenge to Macaulay, as it was very different from the ones he used to take as a child. This time Macaulay had to enact a drug dealer and a criminal. His performance in the movie was positively evaluated by both critics and the audience. After that Macaulay Culkin acted in more movies and became recognized as an adult actor, although his salary never reached the former heights. Despite the decrease in his income, Macaulay Culkin net worth remains at amazing $15 million.
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The Treaty of Amiens provided for the termination of the temporary British occupation of the Cape of Good Hope. The Cape of Good Hope was restored to the Batavian Government on 20th February 1803. Jacob de Mist was appointed as commissioner-generaland Jan Wilem Janssens as governor and 'general-en-chef'. This effecively made Janssens the head of…
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10-Mile Creek Kayak's brand new Ford Transit Connect.
2009 Ford Transit Connect is rated at 22/25 city/highway on the 08 EPA.
What we did not expect however was to have a front row seat to a somewhat emotional and by far the best presentation at the Chicago Auto Show.
Jim Farley, Ford's group VP of Marketing and Communications introduced 5 small-business owners as winners of customized, work ready Transit Connects setup for their specific businesses. Immediately afterwards, the 5 brand new Transit Connects with sharp exterior graphics were presented. After the vehicles were driven on stage, the new owners gave an emotional testimonial about how the utility of their new vehicles will help their businesses prosper.
[xfloat=left]http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/507/Boo_Boo_Busters_2.jpg[/xfloat]Boo Boo Busters -- Ladera Ranch, CA.
Kimberlee Mitchell wants to make the world safer for babies, and she's succeeding – one house at a time. The owner of Boo Boo Busters, a full-service babyproofing company, will help her company not only better manage inventory, but also get the job done quickly and efficiently.
In the case of Boo Boo Busters, motherhood was the impetus behind the birth of the business, Mitchell said. After her first child was born, she realized her house seemed almost booby-trapped with items dangerous to children. Since she couldn't find the help she needed, she used her journalism background, did her research, and started a company of her own. Her services, she soon found, were in great demand.
Her dream? To end the unintentional injuries that occur in homes that are not properly babyproofed. The Transit Connect, she said, will help bring her that much closer.
Kimberlee's Transit Connect was outfitted with custom shelving of every size to hold tools, hardware and of course Babyproofing supplies.
[xfloat=left]http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/507/Circle_Tree_2.jpg [/xfloat]Circle Tail, INC. -- Pleasant Plain, OH.
Jen Kiblinger's life has gone to the dogs – and she couldn't be happier.
As vice president of Circle Tail, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides high-quality assistance dogs to people with mobility, hearing, neurological and psychiatric disabilities, Kiblinger spends much of her time transporting cargos of active canines. Owning a Ford Transit Connect, she said, will ease many of the complexities the group faces on a daily basis.
Circle Tail, Inc., founded in 1997 by Marlys Staley, also provides dog adoptions, obedience training and boarding. It's one of those rare entities that benefits both people and animals, said Kiblinger.
But all those trips back and forth in the group's old minivan have taken their toll. The Transit Connect, said Kiblinger, is a perfect solution – from its size to its maneuverability.
Jen's Transit Connect was outfitted with a large number of dog crates and shelving to store dog supplies including collars, leashes, toys and dog food of all types.
[xfloat=left]http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/507/Dummies_on_the_Run_2.jpg[/xfloat]Dummies on the Run -- Ann Arbor, MI.
Jerry Buffman, owner of Dummies on the Run, is one smart cookie. She knew that Ford's Transit Connect was the perfect vehicle for her mobile cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first-aid Instruction Company the moment she saw it. Now, she couldn't be more excited to own one.
Buffman performs all of her classes on site – whether the venue is a child care center or assisted living facility. In doing so, she needs to pack everything necessary for a class – like breathing shields, books, and bandages -- along with bulky duffel bags filled with CPR dummies.
She's adamant that her students have the opportunity and the resources to learn – no matter what type of personal challenges that represents. "One unique aspect of my business is I don't like putting anyone on the spot," she said. "So I use one dummy per person so they can concentrate on learning the skills and not worry about someone watching them. Most of my classes are about 20 students, so I'm packing 20 dummies right there. And if I'm teaching infant CPR, that's two dummies – an infant and adult – per person.
Jerry's Transit Connect was customized with more open storage space for the quick ingress and egress to remove the dummies and her gear bags.
[xfloat=left]http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/507/Transit_Connect_-_Matt_Wade_-_10-mile_Creek_2.jpg[/xfloat]Ten Mile Creek Kayak -- Frisco, CO.
For Matthew Wade, starting a kayak business was a dream come true. Now Wade, owner of Ten Mile Creek Kayak, says that winning a Transit Connect is just the icing on the cake.
The business that he started in May is thriving, he said, and having a customized vehicle will help him expand – allowing him to travel further while promoting his business at the same time.
Matt's Transit Connect was outfitted with Kayak clothing storage in mind and done so everything he needs can be carried in one trip vs. two previously.
[xfloat=left]http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/507/Maid_Pros_2.jpg[/xfloat]The Maid Pros -- Woodbury, NY.
Omar Herrera, owner of The Maid Pros residential cleaning service is thrilled about winning a new Ford Transit Connect. Growing a start-up business can be tough. You need to get the word out to the people who need your services, and that's not always easy.
Herrera has big plans – expanding his business, adding more staff. The Transit Connect, he said, will help pave the way.
Omar's Transit Connect was equipped with shelving to hold cleaning supplies of all sizes and types plus home cleaning tools of the trade including vacuum cleaners, mops and buckets.
Ford's Transit Connect -- It drives like a car, works like a van and is as tough as a truck.
The compact Transit Connect includes over 143 cubic feet of cargo space and nearly limitless opportunities for customization.
More than 600,000 Ford Transit Connects have been sold to customers in 58 countries and on four continents since 2003. To fulfill the needs of small business owners in the United States, Ford's Global Product Development team quickly adapted the Transit Connect for the American market.
Transit Connects capability begins with its capacity.
Split rear cargo doors open at a standard 180 degrees, or an optionally available 255 degrees. When open, these doors provide access to 52.1 inches of available load height.
Lift-over height is less than two feet, when the Transit Connect is unloaded.
Once inside, the cargo area opens up to 59.1 inches of floor to ceiling load height.
The load width is 47.8 inches, between the wheel arches.
Load length is a generous 72.6 inches or more than six feet of cargo floor space. Dual sliding rear side doors provide wide access to the generous cargo space as well.
Commercial users are provided a cargo payload of 1,600 pounds.
The Ford Work Solutions is an in-dash computer that allows small business owners to run their enterprises from inside the Transit Connect. Applications include downloading customer or product information, remotely accessing an office work station computer, sending and receiving text messages, navigating job or delivery locations with the Garmin navigation function and connecting with customers via hands-free cel phone functionality.
With a bright touch screen, for easy use and visibility, the in-dash computer runs the Windows CE 6.0 operating system. Word processing, spreadsheet, calculator and calendar applications are all included. With applicable subscriptions, the system can provide users with Internet access, remote document access and Garmin Online services such as traffic, weather and fuel prices.
The in-dash computer enables the availability of Tool Link, by DeWalt™. Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags that adhere to the tools or objects themselves, Tool Link allows the Transit Connect Cargo to be scanned for the appropriate tools and inventory items, prior to leaving for the jobsite or route. In addition, Tool Link can verify that these tools or items are secure at the end of the day and available for tomorrow's next job.
Crew Chief™ is a tool for fleet managers to track vehicles, staff and Transit Connect diagnostics.
This system, not available in conjunction with the in-dash computer, provides a fleet manager with the ability to track a given vehicles location, speed, idle time, fuel usage and more than 30 diagnostic measures.
Functions and reporting can be tailored to meet the specific needs of fleets large or small. Crew Chief has "geo-fencing" capability, allowing a fleet manager to set geographic or time of use boundaries.
The US version of the Transit Connect will be produced in the European Ford Otosan assembly plant in Kocaeli/Turkey. This plant has already been producing the European Ford Transit/Tourneo Connect product family since its launch in late 2002.
Starting at $21,475 including destination, the new to the US Transit Connect may be the next vehicle of choice to a wide range of American small business owners.
My 1998 Honda Odyssey gets 28 to 30 mpg consistently. I use it in my vending business and haul lots of stuff on my trips. I don't think that this little van would haul as much and it does not get that great of mileage. The larger (1999 and up) Odyssey will haul even more and still beat the mileage of this litttle Ford. Surely they can do better.
I can't speak to comparisons of this type, but I am surely looking forward to the electrified version of the Transit Connect!
___Ford left a lot of FE on the table with the simple 4-speed AT and an ancient Focus motor . What Ford did not leave on the table wrt the Ody is room, FE and especially cost.
Ford Transit Connect 135.3 20/24 $21,475 including Dest.
Honda Odyssey 147.4 16/23 or 17/25 w/ VCM $27,025 including Dest.
Smart advertising dollars spent by Ford. Sure beats Escalade fiascos and Hybrid Sierra ads. Well done to Ford, and OK, so I'll take a look at a Ford, next time. But no promises.
The Vehicle I thought of when I saw this was the HHR panel van which is rated at 21/30 with the 2.2 and a stick. HHR has a much smaller cargo capacity and much lower price though ~17K.
Is this intended to replace the Econoline van? In that case we should compare it to the Dodge/Mercedes Sprinter which is much larger and and more expensive ~35k.
___This is a vehicle that gives the small business owner large storage cap for a minimal price. The HHR is a much smaller vehicle. The Sprinter is almost double the price so that it not workable solution for many small business' either.
___I wish Ford would have used a modern 5 or 6-speed and the latest engine tech as they gave up 5 + mpg but again, these things were equipped nicely after up fitting and for a price nothing in the marketplace can touch that I know of. Let alone the totally unacceptable FE of the full sized vans that the Transit Connect can compete against with its tall platform.
I guess I did not think too much about price. I bought my 1998 Odyssey last May when the fuel prices were going up and up. I only paid $3900 for it and it was in like new condition even though it had about 120,000 on the odometer. It now has 164,000 on it with no repair expense.
At the time I bought it I looked at a 2006 Scion XB that had 62,000 miles on it but it was in such rough shape I would not consider it. Most of the bolts under the hood were so corroded that it would have been hard to work on. I had wondered if the battery had exploded in it.
Sounds like a flood vehicle.
On any given day, Jen Kiblinger has up to 60 dogs in her life, with many being shuttled between training classes, foster homes and rescue shelters.
And that's where her new 2010 Ford Transit Connect will serve her well. As president of Circle Tail Inc., a nonprofit organization in Pleasant Plain, Ohio, Kiblinger trains assistance dogs for people with mobility, hearing, neurological and psychiatric disabilities.
"My dogs can be on the road for up to two hours, and I need them to be safe, secure and comfortable," Kiblinger said. "My new Transit Connect will be great for transporting them in style."
On Friday, Sept. 18, Kiblinger will receive the keys to the fuel-efficient Ford Transit Connect panel van at the Second Annual Golf Classic in Pleasant Plain, a fund-raising event to support Circle Tail's new 7,200-square-foot dog training facility and renovate its kennels.
Ford's Transit Connect went on sale in the United States in July and is enjoying brisk demand. The first full month of sales topped 2,000 units and vehicles are selling in fewer than 10 days of arrival on dealer lots, significantly quicker than industry norms.
"The Transit Connect is ideal for small business owners who – until now – have not had a vehicle designed just for them," said Damoni Hurt, marketing manager, Ford Transit Connect. "Now, entrepreneurs like Jen Kiblinger have a vehicle that will help them be more efficient in their day-to-day operations."
Kiblinger also is excited about the visibility Transit Connect will bring to Circle Tail. Her organization's logo and contact information is stamped on the exterior of the van.
"The vehicle is very eye-catching," said Kiblinger. "It will help us get our name out in the community. And that's a huge thing."
With a cargo capacity of 135 cubic feet, compact maneuverability, and fuel efficiency of 22 mpg city and 25 highway, Transit Connect is the perfect vehicle for a small business on the go.
"We have up to 60 dogs in training at any one time and it seems like we're always unloading and loading the dogs, along with all the supplies that go with them – collars, leashes, toys, dog food and all that," said Kiblinger.
Circle Tail Inc., founded in 1997 by Marlys Staley, also handles dog adoptions and provides obedience training and boarding. It's one of those rare entities that benefits both people and animals, said Kiblinger.
"There's never been a time when I didn't love animals," she said. "And Circle Tail offers the best of both worlds – helping animals while helping people, too. We provide assistance dogs at no cost to the individual, and we offer services to strengthen the human/canine bond, so dogs are more likely to stay with families instead of being given up."
The organization works with area prisons on dog training. Inmates, schooled by Circle Tail in dog training, learn accountability and responsibility, and the dogs thrive on the extra attention. "Some of the stories you hear from the prisons are amazing," said Kiblinger. "This really helps normalize the inmates' lives. And they're great with the dogs."
All those trips back and forth in the group's old minivan took their toll. The Ford Transit Connect, said Kiblinger, is the perfect solution – from its size to its maneuverability.
"This is wonderful," she said. "We couldn't believe that we'd actually won!"
Circle Tail's Kiblinger is one of five small business owners from around the United States to win a customized Transit Connect in Ford's "Connect with Connect" contest.
I'm getting one in a couple of days. When my previous minivan's transmission died (after 15 years of reliable service) I went looking and came up with the TC as the most efficient & cost-effective replacement. The overall design is an absolute winner for tradespeople and commercial applications that would otherwise use a conventional minivan or a larger van. There are a lot of little details that show that Ford put a lot of thinking into this one.
I'll be posting fuel efficiency performance as soon as I have some numbers to report.


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S. 898 (115th): Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act
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A bill to provide incentives to physicians to practice in rural and medically underserved communities, and for other purposes.
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» NEWS » Margaret Kiley Appointed as SGS Visiting Professor
Margaret Kiley Appointed as SGS Visiting Professor
UPM's School of Graduate Studies (SGS) demonstrates its seriousness in supporting the University's efforts at internationalisation by appointing a Visiting Professor for the School, Professor Dr. Margaret Kiley, from Australia.
According to the Dean of SGS, Professor Dr. Bujang Kim Huat, this appointment is in line with the SGS roadmap which aims to improve the overall quality of postgraduate education at UPM, and to be a leading graduate school both locally and internationally.
"Professor Margaret Kiley is the first Visiting Professor that the School has appointed, and we have high hopes that she will help create a vibrant culture for training and research at UPM. She is highly experienced in the area of research education," he elaborated.
Professor Kiley has over 20 years of experience in research education, spanning areas such as the examination of doctoral theses, experiences of international students undertaking research degrees, candidates' and supervisors' conceptions of research, and the increased structuring of the doctoral curriculum. She is currently also a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, and holds a conjoint position at Newcastle University, Australia.
As Visiting Professor, Professor Kiley will be playing the role of an 'in-house' consultant. "I am very excited about this appointment," she said. "I hope to contribute to UPM by sharing my experience and ideas with other academics at UPM, and at the same time also learn from their experiences", she added.
Officially appointed in February of this year, Professor Kiley has since been involved in the establishment of a researcher network related to graduate studies, focus groups and discussion related to evaluation, supervisor development and support programmes, as well as connecting with UPM's international supervisors to help identify issues related to international staff and candidates.
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Stumped
I don't mean to co-opt his story.
Then again, no story — even if its cast is a single character — can be told without rubbing up against someone else's story.
Indeed, even when there is only one character in a narrative, the way that person behaves, the choices he or she makes — those things reveal a great deal about everyone else whose lives have ever converged with that solitary protagonist.
The nature of stories is that they're intersectional, always a swirl of cause and effect, always a matter of "this thing happened to this one guy, but then ripples from that guy's thing rolled outwards and bounced other people around, too."
So I don't mean to co-opt his story.
But even I, someone who hasn't seen Dave Mackey in a few years, someone who married into friendship with him, am feeling ripples.
Before I read his announcement on Facebook the other day, I was at a point of disgust with social media — exhausted by both liberals and conservatives, depleted by everyone's revelations of their truest selves. When it comes to politics, people not only discuss ideologies, they also discover that although they love many of their friends and family, they don't actually like them. In fact, many are agonizing through internal debates within themselves, asking questions like: "If my uncle can look at footage of Donald Trump mocking a person with disabilities, if he can hear the audio of Trump boasting about predatory behavior towards women, if he can see all the reports of women coming forward and recounting how Trump pushed them against walls and jammed his tongue down their throats while grabbing their 'pussies,' if he can hear the racism in the rhetoric, yet he, my uncle, can still decide to vote for Trump, is that not an indication of my uncle's character that I cannot ignore?" On the other side, there are people who despair, "If my son can support that woman who is essentially a corporate creation, a candidate with decades-long history of scandals, a person whose campaign is riddled with cynicism, corruption, and cover-ups — if my son still supports Clinton, does that not indicate something to me about my son that I cannot ignore?"
It's all making me sick inside. In recent days, a fog of sadness clouds my head and my heart. My brain keeps returning to a few articles that have stuck with me — reading that I hoped would offer some clarity, some support, some shared sense that others are heartsore, too. Months ago, I read an article, "I Lost My Dad to Fox News," and still, every day, I think about it (and the extended comment section after it, in which person after person relates similar sorrow). Then my brain wanders back to the writer's points in "Dear Dad, Please Don't Vote for Donald Trump," an essay in which the tone is almost woebegone as a son contemplates the disconnect between the father who raised him and his father as a person who could vote for Donald Trump: "The choice is simple because it's hard for me to think of a single person who violates more of what you taught me as a child . . . It was from you that I learned to respect just how hard Latino, Asian, and Middle Eastern immigrants worked to make a life for themselves here. You told me what it was like picking fruit in the California heat, and explained how they took jobs that other people weren't willing to do — because they wanted to support their families just like everyone else." And I keep thinking of the betrayal a Latina daughter feels from her Trump-supporting father: "Donald Trump, you may argue to me, is making women strong again by forcing them to suffer insult after insult and grin and bear it. You may think, Dad, that the reason both of your daughters spent time in the hospital with eating disorders 15 years apart has nothing at all to do with insecurity or issues with lack of control in our lives because of our gender and the amount of pressure placed on a young woman from birth until the very end."
My head hurts too much. My heart hurts too much.
Too often, when social media gives me insights into the values of friends and family, I flinch. I flounder. I wonder if I should stuff my disappointment into a shoebox and shove it to the back of the closet, pretending that careful containment of dismay will allow me to forget we are fundamentally divided. I wonder if those shoeboxes will fill my closet to bursting, if I'll trip over them as I cling to flimsy shams of relationships.
I'm trying to breathe, yet I can't fill my lungs.
But then the other day, just when I sat staring at Facebook and thinking, "I reallllly have to shut this tab and focus on creating a quiz for my class because I officially hate everybody," a particularly shocking post showed up in my feed.
For at least five minutes, I sat in front of the monitor, reading, rereading, gasping, putting my hand over my heart, gasping more, feeling sick, wanting to drop my head to the desk and leave it there as I dabbed away tears.
I was looking at a post from Dave Mackey, and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Dave is a long-time friend of Byron's. They were interns together in the early '90s at an environmental learning center in Northern Minnesota. Living in an isolated place, driven by a common passion, linked through communal living, the interns became each other's People for Life.
After his time as an intern, Dave moved to Colorado and started to unpack the potential of his genetic and hard-earned talents. Specifically, Dave can run long, he can run hard, and he can run fast. Wikipedia sums up his largest career accomplishments thusly:
In 2011, Mackey won the Montrail Cup, which he also won in 2004. He won the Ultrarunning Magazine North American Ultrarunner of the Year in 2011, and was runner-up in 2004. He won the USA Track and Field Ultrarunner of the Year in 2004 and in 2005, and also has won several USATF national trail running titles at three different distances: 50K, 50 mile, and 100 kilometers. In running from one side of the Grand Canyon and back, also known as the rim-to-rim-to-rim (R2R2R), Mackey holds the former record of 6:59:57, which has since been lowered by Rob Krar.
Mackey also holds speed climbing records in the Boulder, CO, area, including the fastest round-trip time climbing and descending the Third Flatiron from Chautauqua Park in Boulder.
In 2012, Dave set the master's course record for the Western States 100 trail race, covering the 100 miles in 15:53:36, finishing fourth overall. The first time Dave ran the Western States, in 2004, he and Scott Jurek pushed each other beautifully — with Jurek setting a new course record, thanks to the threat of Dave, who finished second. As that race unfolded, Byron and I, far away in Northern Minnesota, frantically refreshed our browser every few minutes as we tracked Dave's progress through live streaming. Running on a mountain trail for 100 miles? Now that's a sport we in our house can geek out on.
When Byron and I got married, Dave was there. When Dave and his phenomenal wife, Ellen, got married, we drove out to Colorado to celebrate with them. Whenever we've been in Colorado and able to make it happen, we've had a few hours together, falling easily into shared company. Life carries on, and he's become a dad and a physician's assistant. Always, with every step he's ever taken, Dave has been gracious, sweet, even, goofy, and full of thousand-watt smiles.
Then, last year, Dave had an accident — one of those quick nanosecond blips that change everything.
After the initial shock and worry, we fell back into normal life patterns, shrugged, and figured Dave would mend and be back to fighting form in no time.
However, those of us who figured Dave was invincible were too cavalier.
This is what thousands of fans and friends discovered a few days ago as we sat in front of Facebook, gasping:
It's been a long 16 months since I fell off Bear Peak above my house, sustaining an open tibial/fibula fracture to my left leg. The long rescue followed, 13 surgeries, including skin, muscle and bone grafting, washouts of the open-fracture contaminated surgical sites, being in an external-fixator (think "iron lung", only on the outside of the leg) for three months, and bone infection (which still resides). I have achieved a degree of success in mobility and some improvement. I went from not walking at all, to walking with a cane until this past July, to walking cane-free now. Running has not been an option in the least just yet. Riding a mountain bike most every day now is almost real freedom. But there is still pain whenever I walk and throbbing at night, and now intramedullary nail (a rod) is wobbling and the bone grafting at the middle if the fracture sight is not dense.
So I am at a cross roads. Do I continue with more surgeries with very high likelihood of failure? More time in a hellish external fixator? And even then there would always be pain.
But there is another solution, the definite, non-reversible one, to be 100% to where I was before the accident and almost completely pain-free. There is a way to get here and I've decided to go this route. This would mean the freedom, if I choose it, to walk the kids to school without a thought, ski, run in 6-8 weeks, compete in races again, even take down Mike Wardian's treadmill world record (okay, this will NOT happen). So the big news is that next week I will have my left leg amputated below the left knee here in Boulder.
I've spoken extensively with orthopedic surgeons and other healthcare professionals and co-workers about my options. And there are other surgical options than amputation, but the chances of success are slim, and it feels time to move on. Being below the knee, this is "good" amputation to have. The technology of prosthetics is incredible these days, and improving, so I will be out in the mountains as before with my family and friends, to completing or competing in events again, having the ability to run any distance.
Dave posted this announcement a week ago, and the response was immediate and unified: if this is what Dave needed to do, then all love on him, and may his decision result in greater quality of life and a return to him feeling like his full self again.
There were no trolls. There were no naysayers. There was no outrage. There was no disappointment.
In a rare and beautiful moment, thousands of people poured out unadulterated support. If a man who can run a hundred miles without complaining announces "I can't live like this any more," then that's all anyone needs to know.
After a party on Halloween night — a gathering of loved ones and running luminaries — Dave had the amputation surgery the next day. Yesterday, he posted:
Finally an update here on the big surgery yesterday. First of all thank you for all your voices of support, thoughts, prayers, and good energy. Once again, as it was last summer when the accident occurred, I am so blessed to have such good friends. The party two nights ago at Flatirons Running company was a complete blast. It was worth busting up my leg just to see some of the folks who came out I hadn't seen in years. Thank you to Real Athlete Diets, Avery Brewing, and Southern Sun for the delicious food and beer, and to Hoka and Suffer Better. Generous funds were collected for the Challenged Athletes Foundation.
So medically speaking yesterday was a huge day, as well as today. The procedure was scheduled for 2 1/2 hours and took five hours. It's a pretty involved process as amputation, many nerves, blood vessels, muscle, skin and bone need to be excised and moved around. Much of the surgical procedure is creating an effective interface to work well with a prosthetic in a few weeks, and I am fortunate to work with one of the best lower limb surgeons, Dr. Rob Leland.
I am in a full leg/stump cast now, which I will have for up to two weeks, then be fitted for a prosthetic. Another ortho pod buddy of mine, Mike Hewitt, says I will be running in six weeks and running Leadville or Leadman next summer. For my part I plan on taking it literally one step at a time and not screw up all the work that's been done on my leg!
Billy Yang has been around and documenting much of the process over the last few days and will probably be putting out a cool documentary. I hope he edits out some of the graphic stuff though!
Sorry I have not replied to many posts. I did read them though and appreciate the good feelings. Thank you so much. Now that I'll be out and about more I look forward to connecting.
I don't mean to co-opt Dave's story. He is living it. It is his journey.
I find that this week, this year, last year, next year, I need Dave's story. I can't stop thinking about him. He is all the things my hurting heart has been wishing for during this election season: a dignified, genuine person who is humble, intelligent, heroic.
In these days of being overwhelmed, disappointed, disillusioned, of feeling like the shoeboxes of dismay are threatening to spill out of my overstuffed closet, I find something sustaining in Dave's thoughtful approach to his days.
In the midst of all the clamor and mud-slinging, Dave's courage has reminded me that every important choice can be distilled into two questions.
"How do I want to live?" and "How can I make that happen?"
Trump and Clinton be damned.
I vote for Dave.
amputation, clarity, pain, running
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When you come right down to what is important in life, it ain't politics. Even when politicians affect our lives, our lives aren't about them. You've nailed what's truly important so well with Dave's story. I hope he heals quickly and completely and gets back to the things he loves to do with the ones he loves.
Amazing story, and the two questions you have distilled from it are also inspiring. I vote for Dave, too.
Wow. That's an inspiring man and tale.
And I think you buried a metaphor in here about cutting out that which will always cripple us somehow. And then making peace with it. Did you do that on purpose? Probably.
Social media is two-edged sword as we all know, but so often it is the loud, clamouring voices that are heard whereas it is the dignified, thoughtful ones that are of value. It would be wonderful if these latter voices were also valued by the press, radio and tv too but not going to happen. So searching out the voices that should be heard and sharing them is a very precious task for all of us who are drowning and do not feel properly represented. Thank you so much for sharing this one.


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Miss Earth 2016 Katherine Espin says that she suffered from facial paralysis when she was a teen.
Opening up about being a school geek, Miss Earth 2016 Katherine Espin, who is a lawyer from Ecuador, said she never expected to be a beauty queen, all the more when she suffered from facial paralysis in her teens.
She narrated, "Before, I was always the geek of the class, never thought about being a beauty queen. And, later after, when I was around 15 years old, I faced facial paralysis and I thought I might never be able to be a model.
"And I have to go to treatments (to) be able to get my face back again because you know how bad that is," Katherine added.
Having lived in New York for six years where she studied elementary and high school, she then returned to her home country where she took up law. That was when people encouraged her to join beauty pageants. It was an idea which she liked since her father is into social work.
According to Katherine, becoming a beauty queen allowed her to help more people and earn their trust, which in turn helped with her advocacies.
Caring for the environment with a focus on eco-tourism is her current campaign.


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"I will build My church; and the gates of Hades will not overpower it" Matthew 16:18
When people talk about the "church" what do they mean? Perhaps it is one or other of two things, "church" can mean some vaguely defined organisation that is "out there" somewhere, or it can mean something very local and precise, a particular building in a particular place that is attended by particular people. Two very different understandings, both of which lead people to beliefs about the church that are very far from the church in the Bible or the church of the early centuries of the Christian faith. Seeing the church as some faceless, vague organisation leads people to see it in negative terms, to blame it for wrongs, to feel it is something in which they have no part; while seeing the church as something very local leads to people who attend their own building and none other, whose faith sometimes extends no further than the church walls.
If those understandings do not really reflect what we believe about the church, if they do not reflect the teaching of Jesus, if they do not reflect the teaching of Scripture, if they do not reflect the experience of the early Christians, then what is it that we should really believe about the church?
In the 1970s, Avery Dulles, an American Jesuit priest, wrote a book called "Models of the Church", a book which has helped two generations of theological students. In the first edition of the book,Avery Dulles suggested there were five models, five ways of thinking about the church. He talked about the church as institution, as communion, as sacrament, as herald, and as servant. Each of those ways of looking at the church can help us in working out what we believe.
For country Protestants, the church as an institution is not always going to be our favourite. The idea of the church as an institution is a recognition of the fact that churches have structures,: they are governed in particular ways, they have rules, they have agreed beliefs, they have particular patterns of worship. Every church which has moved beyond being a single meeting in a single house has an institutional dimension to it, even the Dippers, who try to replicate the New Testament pattern of meeting in houses, have an organisational dimension to provide for their conventions and to provide for their teaching and discipline; they are not a movement where one is free to believe or do as one wishes anymore than are the traditional churches. We need an institutional side to our church in order to be organised for the mission Jesus has given us.
The model of the church as a "Communion" can be encouraging when we become disillusioned with the church as an organisation and when we, sometimes, become disillusioned with what we might see as the lukewarmness of other church members. Communion is concerned with relationships created by the Holy Spirit, people brought together as the body of Christ. It helps us to feel that we are not alone, but are part of something infinitely greater than ourselves, but it can also create a sense of spiritual pride, a feeling that we are the "true church". The model of the church as a Communion is at its best when we can come to worship with a great sense of standing together with Christians all around the world, when we can feel that we are part of a great invisible fellowship.
In the catechism we were taught that a sacrament was "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace". If we think of the church as a sacrament, we might see it as a sign of God's grace in our world, or we might not. Too often the church has been anything but a sign of grace. We look at church history and we see the church as often being corrupt, oppressive, exploitative and abusive. There's not much sign of grace in the affairs of the medieval church. Centuries later, the church is still too flawed in too many places for us to be able to say it is the outward and visible sign of inward and spiritual grace. Rather than being something which is actual, the idea of the church as a sacrament is something to which we should aspire, something which make us constantly examine where we are and where we should be.
The model of the church as a herald is one with which Protestants, particularly those with a more evangelical background, would identify. The church exists to proclaim the faith. In both Roman Catholic and reformed traditions, there has been no shortage of preaching, no lack of belief on the part of the church that its work is to proclaim the good news. Given the amount of proclamation that has happened in Ireland over the centuries, one would expect us to be the most Christian people on Earth, but it has not happened. Perhaps the problem has been the church has talked good news, but not been good news. Avery Dulles wrote, "the gospel is not a system of abstract propositional truths, nor a written document, but rather the event of proclamation itself." It's not about us saying something is so because we say it is so, it is not about words on paper, it is about people hearing and seeing the gospel in the church that preaches it. The model of the church as a herald seems as difficult as the model of the church as a sacrament, it does not happen in they way it should, but remains something towards which we should strive.
The fifth model of the church in Avery Dulles' book is that of the church as a servant. It was a model that reflected the experience of the Roman Catholic Church in South America, where the treatment of ordinary people by violent dictatorships prompted theologians to call for the church to have a preferential option for the oppressed and the outcast. It is a model that Protestant churches in Ireland have never accepted, and some have actively rejected. We have dodged any theological thinking that might be thought "political", preferring our faith to be about private and personal matters and not to be concerned with anything that might be controversial. Of course, there comes a time when being a Christian means you have to speak, as people like Dietrich Bonhoeffer found in Nazi Germany. Being faithful, means there are times when we must obey God rather than men. The idea of the church as a servant is one that is about the ministry of Jesus, who comes not to be served but to serve; it should challenge us on what we really do believe about the church.
Of course, every church is an amalgamation of various of the models. No matter how much we might stress that we are one sort of church or another, other elements creep in, as do all the faults and flaws that come from a church being composed of sinful human beings. We have to accept that there will be a big gap between what we believe a church should be and what it actually is.
There were two further editions of Avery Dulles' book, one in the late 1980s and one in 2002 and he developed an idea, a model of the church, which he believed incorporated the best of the other five models, he came to see the church as a "community of disciples
When we think of the church as a community of disciples we escape from the idea of the church as a vaguely defined organisation, it is nothing of the sort, it is a community of which we are part, to which we contribute and for which we have responsibilities; and we escape from the idea of the church as a particular building in a particular place that is attended by particular people, for being a disciple can be confined to no building, nor place, nor people.
The church as a community of disciples is something that asks for our commitment as Christians together as a community and it asks for our commitment individually as disciples.
What do we really believe about the church? Perhaps we can each say that I and we believe ourselves to be disciples of Christ in a community formed by the Holy Spirit.
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Young adults in Canada face high risk of COVID-19
By IANS| Published: 27th July 2020 1:30 pm IST
Ottawa: Young adults in Canada account for the highest number of COVID-19 cases across the country, a senior health official said.
For the week ending July 22, "young adults aged 20-39 years of age account for the highest incidence rates across all ages in Canada", Xinhua news agency quoted Theresa Tam, chief public health officer of Canada, as saying in a statement on Sunday.
Of the confirmed cases in this past week, 63 per cent were young people under the age of 39.
Incidence rates were highest for males and females in the 20-29 year age group, at 14.4 and 13.8 cases per 100,000 population, respectively, followed by the 30-39 year age group.
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An average of over 485 cases were confirmed infected with the virus daily from across the country in the period of time, Tam said, which raised the country's caseload to 113,556, with 8,885 deaths, as of Sunday.
"Moreover, people in any age groups, not just elderly adults, can face serious health consequences due to the complications of COVID-19. Younger Canadians are not invincible to severe illness," Tam warned, saying 31 per cent of the young adults infected with the coronavirus were hospitalized for their illness.
She urged all Canadians to continue to take steps to reduce their risk of exposure to the virus and spread of the infection to others, including social distancing and wearing a mask.
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Q: Closed form for $\int \frac{1}{a^x + x^a} dx$ Is there a closed form for the following integral? I can't seem to find it online, nor do I have any idea how to approach this problem..... $$\int\frac{1}{a^x + x^a}dx$$ where $a \ne 0 ; a\in R $

A: Assuming $a>1$, the primitive can be written in terms of a series whose terms depend on the values of an incomplete $\Gamma$ function. For instance:
$$\int_{0}^{+\infty}\frac{dx}{e^x+x^e}=\int_{0}^{+\infty}\sum_{n\geq 0}(-1)^nx^{ne}e^{-(n+1)x}\,dx=\sum_{n\geq 0}\frac{(-1)^n\,\Gamma(en+1)}{(n+1)^{en+1}}$$
and:
$$\frac{\Gamma(en+1)}{(n+1)^{en+1}}\approx \sqrt{2\pi e/n}\left(\frac{n}{n+1}\right)^{en+1} \approx e^{-e}\sqrt{\frac{2\pi e}{n}}.$$

A: Case $1$: $a\in\mathbb{R}^+$ , $a\neq1$ and $x^aa^{-x}\leq1$
Then $\int\dfrac{1}{a^x+x^a}dx$
$=\int\dfrac{a^{-x}}{1+x^aa^{-x}}dx$
$=\int\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty(-1)^nx^{an}a^{-(n+1)x}~dx$
$=\int\sum\limits_{n=0}^\infty(-1)^n(n+1)^{-an-1}(\ln a)^{-an-1}\gamma(an+1,(n+1)x\ln a)+C$


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