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Cosmetic dentistry is any dental procedure that will improve the look of a tooth or teeth, by moving the teeth with orthodontics (braces or clear aligners), by changing the shape and color of teeth with veneers or composite bondings, by adding receding gums or removing excessive gums with plastic surgery, or any combination of the above.
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Veneers are not considered orthodontics because they do not actually move the root of the tooth (the invisible part of the tooth in the jaw bone). However, veneers can align slightly crooked teeth by reshaping the visible the part of the tooth.
Braces are cosmetic dentistry as they align the teeth into a beautiful smile and eliminate the unpleasant look of crooked, rotated and misaligned teeth. Additionally, braces also improve the health of the teeth by creating the appropriate spaces between the teeth for the gums and bone to be healthy and allow you to properly floss and brush all the sides of the teeth.
Cosmetic dentistry can fix an overbite by moving the teeth with orthodontics (braces or clear aligners) but not with composite bondings or veneers because overbite is primarily a tooth position problem of the upper teeth in relationship to the lower teeth.
Can Cosmetic Dentistry Fix Receding Gums?
Receding gums can be fixed with cosmetic dentistry by adding the missing gum to the tooth with plastic surgery also known as gum grafting.
Cosmetic dentistry can fix crooked teeth with veneers, composite bindings, or orthodontics (braces or clear aligners) depending on the severity of the crowding.


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Informed consent, duty of disclosure and chiropractic: where are we?
2 December 2020 ~ paigefitzsimmons
Keith Simpson, Stanley Innes
Chiropractic & Manual Therapies, 4 November 2020; 28(60)
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the emergence of unsubstantiated claims by vertebral subluxation-based chiropractors that spinal manipulative therapy has a role to play in prevention by enhancing the body's immune function. We contend that these claims are unprofessional and demonstrate a disturbing lack of insight into the doctrine of informed consent. As such it is timely to review how informed consent has evolved and continues to do so and also to discuss the attendant implications for contemporary health practitioner practice.
We review the origins of informed consent and trace the duty of disclosure and materiality through landmark medical consent cases in four common law (case law) jurisdictions. The duty of disclosure has evolved from a patriarchal exercise to one in which patient autonomy in clinical decision making is paramount. Passing time has seen the duty of disclosure evolve to include non-medical aspects that may influence the delivery of care. We argue that a patient cannot provide valid informed consent for the removal of vertebral subluxation. Further, vertebral subluxation care cannot meet code of conduct standards because it lacks an evidence base and is practitioner centered.
The uptake of the expanded duty of disclosure has been slow and incomplete by practitioners and regulators. The expanded duty of disclosure has implications, both educative and punitive for regulators, chiropractic educators and professional associations. We discuss how practitioners and regulators can be informed by other sources such as consumer law. For regulators, reviewing and updating informed consent requirements is required. For practitioners it may necessitate disclosure of health status, conflict of interest when recommending "inhouse" products, recency of training after attending continuing professional development, practice patterns, personal interests and disciplinary findings.
Ultimately such matters are informed by the deliberations of the courts. It is our opinion that the duty of a mature profession to critically self-evaluate and respond in the best interests of the patient before these matters arrive in court.
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Explained the admissions procedure and the courses offered at Florida Technical College] to over 25 potential students per week.
Led 15-25 campus tours per week.
Worked directly with all departments, clients, management to achieve assigned goals .
Served as company representative at promotional events to promote company objectives.
Maintained current knowledge of all available department models: Honda, KIA,Acura,GMC, Chevrolet and used inventory offerings in order to maximize sales opportunities.
Demonstrated product features, answered questions and persuasively overcame objections.
Listened to customer needs and proposed matching solutions from company maintenance, warranties, and customizing options.
Followed up with over 20 customers each week to verify that they were satisfied with purchases.
Where can I find a Florida Technical College - Lakeland Campus Admissions Representative resume example in Lake Alfred, Florida ?


Chop Chocolate and place into a heatproof bowl with half of the cream. Stir over simmering water until smooth and melted. Remove from Heat, add egg yolks and stir until combined. Beat remaining cream in a small bowl until soft peaks form.
Beat egg whites using an electric beater, until soft peaks form. Add sugar, 1 tbs at a time, beating well after each addition until thick and glossy. Add a spoonful of egg white to chocolate mixture and stir through. Gently fold in remain egg white and cream. Chill for 40 minutes until thickened.
Pipe or spoon mousse into shot glasses. Chill overnight.


R Markdown is a package to create print-quality documents that incorporate code to produce output, and can be shared on dashboards or delivered in a variety of formats for offline reading.
In this post, we'll create a simple R Markdown report in Dataiku DSS.
The Orders_by_customer dataset. This can be found in the project DSS Tutorials > Automation > Deployment or you can download the data and import it into a new project.
An R code environment with the ggplot2 and magrittr packages, in addition to the required dplyr and dataiku packages.
An installation of pandoc, in order to download reports as PDFs, with the adjustbox, collectbox, ucs, collection-fontsrecommended, and titling LaTeX packages.
You will be redirected to the R Markdown editor.
The R Markdown editor is divided into two panes.
The left pane allows you to see and edit the markdown (including code) underlying the report.
The right pane gives you several views on the report.
The Preview tab allows you to write and test your markdown in the left pane while having immediate visual feedback in the right pane. At any time you can save or reload your current markdown by clicking on the Save button.
Settings allows you to set the output format of the preview. You can also set the code environment for this web app, if you want it to be different from the project default.
Let's build the markdown and code behind the report.
In the left pane, insert the following code to define document properties, including the title, author name, date the report was generated, and how to handle certain types of output.
Now, in the left pane, insert the following code to import the R packages that will be used to generate report output.
The three backticks demarcate the beginning and end of a code block. This block is using R code, the echo parameter indicates that the code itself should not be included in the output, and the warning and message parameters indicate that these types of output should not be included in the report.
In the left pane, insert the following code.
This report is prepared for the executives of the Haiku T-Shirt company to apprise them of the current state of customer analytics.
In the left pane, insert the following markdown and code.
A quick look at the amount spent by customers shows that those targeted by the company's marketing campaign tend to spend much more than those who aren't.  There does not appear to be a significant difference between genders.
The R code in this section produces another bar chart, showing the total amount spent by customers, broken down by gender and whether they are part of the company's marketing campaign.
When you are done with editing, there are a number of options for distributing your report.
Publish on a dashboard from the Actions dropdown at the top-right corner of the screen.
Using Dataiku DSS, you have created an R Markdown report.
You can examine a completed version of this report on the Dataiku gallery.
For further inspiration on what is possible in R Markdown reports, see the R Markdown gallery (external).


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The original item was published from 12/21/2016 12:36:56 PM to 1/3/2017 9:05:00 PM.
[ARCHIVED] Upcoming Holiday Closings and Hours
Saturday Dec. 24, the Library will be closed, and the Transfer Station will be open until 2 p.m.
The Beecher Road School pool will be closed, and the Recreation Department's Fitness Center will be open during normal morning hours (8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.).
There will be no Recreation programs at the gym.
On Sunday Dec. 25, the Library, Transfer Station, Beecher Road School pool, Fitness Center and gym will be closed.
On Monday, Dec. 26, Town offices, the Library, Transfer Station, gym and the Beecher Road School pool will be closed.
The Recreation Department's Fitness Center will be open during normal morning hours (8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.) and afternoon hours (4-9 p.m.).
On Saturday Dec. 31, the Library will close at 2 p.m. as will the Transfer Station.
The Beecher Road School pool will be open form 10 a.m. to noon for general swim. There will be no swim lessons.
The Recreation Department's Fitness Center will be open during normal morning hours (8:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.).
On Sunday Jan. 1, the Library, Transfer Station, Beecher Road School pool, Fitness Center and gym will be closed.
On Monday Jan. 2, Town offices, the Library, Transfer Station, gym and the Beecher Road School pool will be closed.


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Sony Pushed Respawn for PlayStation Vita Version of Titanfall – Early Prototype Ran on Ratchet & Clank Engine
By Fahad Arif
Apr 17, 2014 20:49 EDT
Respawn Entertainment's most critically acclaimed first-person shooter, always online multiplayer next-gen video game known as Titanfall has proved to be worthy of all the anticipation that was built upon it. Already out on Microsoft's gaming platforms including Microsoft Windows, Xbox One and Xbox 360, Titanfall is growing to be one of the largest multiplayer Xbox One game.
Sony offered PlayStation Vita to Respawn Entertainment for Titanfall - The Game was Prototyped Using Ratchet and Clank Engine
Respawn Entertainment signed an exclusivity agreement with Microsoft to keep Titanfall limited to only Microsoft Windows and Xbox consoles. However, new details reveal that after examining Microsoft's Xbox One and becoming familiar with its hardware capabilities, the American video game development studio communicated with Sony to discuss specification of the manufacturer's next-gen video game console.
This happened before Respawn Entertainment decided to sign Titanfall's exclusivity agreement with Microsoft. According to the details, Sony refused to share talks regarding the specifications and hardware capabilities of its next-gen console and instead, pushed the developer for PlayStation Vita version of Titanfall but the results did not turn out well and Titanfall for PlayStation Vita never came into existence.
The new details were revealed in journalist Geoff Keighley's newly released feature known as The Final Hours of Titanfall. The feature has been released in form of an app for iPad, Windows Surface and PC/Mac (via Origin). The Final Hours of Titanfall explains what was Repawn Entertainment legal situation during the development of Titanfall in detail. Thanks to Gamespot for picking up the important points.
New details also revealed that Titanfall was originally prototyped running on the game engine that made possible the development of Ratchet & Clank video game. According to the details, Vince Zampella, Respawn Entertainment's co-founder, was contacted by Insomniac Games founder Ted Price. Ted offered "Luna" game development engine to Zampella free of cost to make the game that is now known as Titanfall. Respawn then used the engine to run early prototype of Titanfall.
The Final Hours of Titanfall covers the subjects like Call of Duty lawsuit with Respawn Entertainment which resulted in a gap between Vince Zampella and Respawn's founder Jason West (who left the company), Titanfall's initially planned single-player mode and the game's Microsoft Windows and Xbox exclusivity. Early prototype videos of Titanfall are also shown in the feature app. You can download the app from here.
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Microsoft's Support For Starlink In FCC Petition Fell On Deaf Ears
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As the world relies more and more on technology, and as new economies grow, Inside Industry reports on the latest technologies, acquisitions and mergers, and provides in depth profiles promoting companies and connecting them to new business opportunities.
Each issue is focused on a particular area of industry and includes profiles, press releases, exhibition previews, news, views and advertisements from leaders in that particular sector. The magazine is circulated to over 69,000 readers at director level, keeping companies up-to-date in their own markets and others, and is also promoted at leading trade shows and exhibitions. Inside Industry prides itself on its capacity to 'Connect Industries Worldwide'.


from ticket #70 -- "signal handler doesn't work in parallel DE solver. Regardless of whether signal handler is enabled or disabled, a Ctrl-C will kill the execution."
extending the Sow to log __call__(x, y, id=None) allows an automated way to 'id' each member of the map (for a particular iteration). Thus the call to StepMonitors? should take StepMonitor?(self.bestSolution[:], self.bestEnergy, self.id).
Solvers will have self.id = None by default... however for abstract_map_solvers (or abstract_nested_solvers ?), the self.id for a nested solver is set to the positional id within the map funciton. Hence, when an optimization is run on a particular node, the nested solver's self.id will log a unique id for all iterations of the nested solver (during the map).
This solution will impact the existing log readers as well (because "iteration" should be logged as the tuple of "iteration" and "id").
splitting "monitoring" off to ticket #125; this ticket will continue to focus on "control".


Opera is kind of like, I don't know, let's say foie gras, or olives, or port wine, or good whiskey… It's not something you enjoy every day (well, maybe that last one), so it can be very easy for someone to think "No, I'm not the kind of person who likes that sort of thing," but then you try it and you realize it's not weird and recondite and elitist, it's really good but just takes the right approach and a good presentation, and then it's amazing.
Except that opera isn't like food at all because it is all-encompassing and can change your person in just a matter of hours.
But no. It is amazing, perhaps indeed the greatest art form there is, and this past summer I was looking hesitantly forward to a semi-staged ("mostly staged") performance of Verdi's Otello, as Birnbaum says, "the perfect opera." I say hesitant because we weren't getting the full experience in the opera house, since it was being renovated, so I was worried I'd be the slightest bit disappointed that it wasn't the full monty.
Except I was wrong again, because it was. As usual, I wrote my article about the performance and it goes up here, and on Facebook and Twitter and floats through the Interwebs, where one Boris Statsenko, a terrifyingly amazing Iago, finds it and sends it to the stage director, who then emails me. Fast-forward a few months and I'm wondering why I didn't ask earlier about the production and her experience working here.
But I eventually did, and we had an amazing conversation. Mary is a passionate artist, a deep thinker, and takes her craft very seriously. She's a creator of scenes, nay worlds, experiences, ideas, feelings… unsurprisingly, it's an amazing task to distill a work of art down to its fundamental human emotions and convey them so that thousands of people will be moved. And I wanted to talk to her about how she does it.
Mary and I, believe it or not, have a sort-of-kind-of similar background, at least as relates to English and some foreign language (and having both worked in Asia). She expresses in our conversation the critical value of opera and what it communicates, what it was like to make Otello happen here in Taipei, how she thinks about and processes a work to present it, and perhaps most pertinently, how to approach the concert hall or opera house as a first timer, and why you absolutely should. And food is involved.
We had a wonderful discussion, and even after having done the editing and clipping and music-ing, I just now uploaded it and still listened to our conversation while I went out to run errands. She says wonderful things, and if I weren't like 8,000 miles away from her next production, I'd have my ticket already.
On her website, you can find some photos of the amazing Otello production we talked about, as well as her other projects.
I use a fantastic program called Zencastr to record the audio for conversations with my guests. The intro and outro music for every episode is Alban Berg's op. 5, performed by Carol McGonnell (clarinet) and Steven Beck (piano), and the featured piece for this episode is bits and snippets of Verdi's singular string quartet in E minor, both of which come from musopen.org. Share the podcast with your friends and family, and strangers if they look friendly. Ciao.


This international standard equips an organisation to manage and tackle emergencies.
Applus+ Certification to Jesús Manuel Alvarez Muñiz, Liberbank's Safety Director.
ISO 22320:2013 is a tool for the development of best practice in emergency response. From prevention and risk assessment through to emergency response and situation reversal, it supports an organisation in the creation of protocols and action plans with a view to minimising the potential consequences of such an emergency situation.
The project got underway with the certification of this Liberbank office in Asturias, but the plan is to implement the system, with subsequent certification, throughout Liberbank's network of 1,044 Spanish offices. As such, Liberbank is set to become the first banking group to certify all of its customer-service facilities to UNE-ISO 22320:2013 standard.
By adopting and certifying this management system, Liberbank is demonstrating its commitment to its customers and employees in its desire to provide a service underpinned by all the necessary health and safety guarantees. This certification scheme entails external monitoring and recertification to ensure ongoing compliance with the requirements of the management system.


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~A little note before the stories.
This is a place for me to write some parts of my life I would like to share so that maybe, in reading something here, one person may be touched and realize that he, or she "may not feel alone on this earth.
I would like to share some of my dreams, especially the ones that were "revelations" to me. I will add as much as I remember about the dreams which sometimes, the entry may be longer.
Why dreams? I came to realize that my dreams are related to my daily living but in much severe details. I have had some dreams that are so revealing about my personal life that, through them I was able to understand the very reason why I am not loved by a "prominent" relative. I truly believe that my dreams are healing "powers" for me. I will write a few I feel are very good to share because they were about things that were not "your every day happenings" but, were very painful moments in my life that turned out to be what I like to call, "those were fixed by the MAN in the movies". In French this saying as a more meaningful punch to it "c'est arranger avec le Gas des vues ca"! The MAN being GOD (PAPA DIEU - ABBA DADDY) for HE healed those terrifying moments using the dreams.
I will also write about other spiritual happenings that I think were truly revealing of HIS LOVE for me.
May you be Blessed for reading and believing~
This story occurred several years ago and its effects are still happening to this very day!
Bebianne G C ©
Hi Daughter,
I'm so blessed to have people in my life that came straight from the Hand of PAPA DIEU. One of them is you. You have no idea about the awesome E-mail Greeting you sent, meant to me. That greeting for me meant that I am in "still" in "connection" with PAPA DIEU. HE did not forget me that HE chose you to send it to me, as a reassurance that "HE is still with me." I feel now is the time for me to tell you about my DAISY story that is in my life and that you added to it also with your E-mail Greeting.
Here is when and how it started. In the winter of early 1996, I went to a week of "RETREAT IN SILENCE" that was given at Le Cénacle in Rivière-du-Loup. The retreat was starting at 7 PM on Sunday evening and was ending on Saturday afternoon. The Sunday of my arrival it was only 4 PM and I had already started to cry because the summer before I had registered for that retreat when it was to be given and I had asked then if I could have a single bed room, alone. I was told yes since I was one of the first to register. Then that Sunday's retreat I had to go in earlier because your dad was working nights, it was in the winter and he didn't want me to drive that far alone, to which I was thankful to God because I had prayed that your dad would drive me there. When I arrived and checked in I was given a room number and had gone up to that room to unpack. Entering the doorway I saw 2 beds in the room. I left my bags at the door and went downstairs to tell the Clerk (woman) that there must have been a mistake about the room she had given me, that when I had registered the summer before, that clerk had put my name for a single bed room.
Guess what the response was? "Madam, we have more than 60 individuals coming this week and that room you were given cannot be changed now. I'm not allowed to do that." So I persisted for her to look at the last years registration and she refused but went on telling me that what I was told then did not count. She continued saying "today is different because of the amount of people that registered". Again I persisted and said, "yes but the other 59 that are coming I'm sure did not register last summer like I had, and told they would definitively have a room like I was told I would have, for that is the only reason I had registered the summer before simply for having the choice of a room, like I had been told then. This is truly unfair." By then tears were coming out. I then decided I would leave and told her so. She replied "Leave or stay that doesn't change nothing, the room you have is the room you are to be in if you decide to stay." I then realized I could not leave because your dad was already gone, so I went back up and let the tears come out, crying mostly because I needed to be alone so much during that week so I could have a "good" retreat IN SILENCE which I had looked forward to for so long and I cried my heart out. The first session was starting at 7 PM and I wanted to be free of tears by then, and freshened up.
;I started to unpack crying all the time, when finished I sat on my bed and I was praying to PAPA DIEU, I needed HIS help so bad. While I'm praying this, I heard voices coming from the hallway, and who appears in the doorway, three elderly ladies who were looking for the room number on the door. I remember thinking and talking to God saying, "Oh please no Lord, please not an elderly lady, please." I remember feeling so ashamed for praying that way.
One lady was much older than the other two. The youngest one came in the room and saw that I was all unpacked, looking around the room she "tells" me; "we have our friend here with us because she really wanted to come, but, her health is frail and she needs to get up often during the night sometimes to go vomit, and she sometimes falls when she gets up from her bed. Can we count on you to keep an eye on her, besides; our room is right facing this one across the hallway. She is in her late 80's and she needs allot of attention. Can we count on you? You only have to yell out one of our names and we'll rush in here if she falls, or vomits on the floor, or if you don't feel comfortable to bring her to the bathroom."
She said all that in one breath, as to hurry to say what she needed to say before I give her my answer. When she was done she just stood there and waited for an answer. I didn't know what to say, I was in shock. I could not believe what I had just heard and what I was asked to do! I started to open my mouth to speak, but I was stuttering with "wh wh wh well yes, I guess so. Do you think I really can take care of her? She looks so frail and I don't want to hurt her."
Then the third lady spoke, and said to the one that had done all the talking and said; "Listen, we were designated to be together (pointing to the oldest lady) and I think it's not fair to ask this nice lady to care for our sick friend. You are supposed to be in this room with this lady and I'll take (naming the oldest lady) where we were told to go, just in case they need to call her and come in our room and she's not there, you know? Besides she won't be able to sleep with a stranger you know her! And I think we put this lady on the spot and she has no choice but to say yes to the demands that was asked of her."
Daughter, have you ever THANKED GOD WITH SWEAT ON YOUR BROW? I was dumbfounded and couldn't believe what had just occurred and the speed that was taken to leave an old woman at the mercy of a complete stranger. In my mind I started to PACK MY BAGS AND LEAVE, the plan had been set. But, the second lady won, but the youngest one was not too happy about it, but she didn't insult me or be mean to me. So she started to unpack her things, I left her and went to the ORATORY to go pray in SILENCE, and re-living what had gone on since the start of that day, what a mess it had been and even questioned if it was right for me to be in a retreat.
What had hurt me the most is that, I knew, somehow, what would happen to me, was that the retreat IN SILENCE with a roommate would NOT be OBSERVED, and it was NOT at all by her. I cried from Sunday afternoon until Wednesday afternoon almost non stop, not only because my roommate was conversing constantly, but also because of the room I was not assigned to, and the retreat's goings on that were touching me like a dart going right to the bull's eye, that went on until I went to a Reconciliation service that was on Wed. afternoon, and, "dished it all out to PAPA DIEU.
My "roommate's" name was Gisèle I had found that out Sunday afternoon. As you may know, my middle name is Gisèle, so, I thought, OK PAPA DIEU, YOU have something to tell me here and I don't understand what it is but, I'm stuck here until Saturday after lunch and YOU wanted me to be in this room, SPEAK, for Your servant is listening. Did I ever "listened". Gisèle never stopped talking, and we were told at every session, to respect the privacy of our roommate, and, to respect the rules of the week's, COMPLETE SILENCE even in the bathrooms, most especially in the bedrooms. Gisèle asked me everything a person wants to know about another. What was most disturbing to me was that she would tell me ahead of time what was coming next in the retreat because she had come to this retreat for the third time. Gisèle advised me what to wear one day because; we were going out for a Spiritual walk. But little did she know, was I ever a Happy Camper then for being able to pray in SILENCE!!!
Another thing that bothered me allot was, every time she would come in the room where I was there doing my daily prayers or reading what was given to us, she would open the door and say, "you're still praying? Don't you ever take free time for yourself? Why do you pray so much at your age, we see that in older women like (naming the oldest lady) you're too young to be cooped up in a room like this! Go take some fresh air, go walk; it will do you more good than being in this room all the time. On, and on she would go daily. She always had something to say about my praying or reading.
Then Thursday morning she dressed up and said, "dress UP today, its a very special day, full of surprise all day, I can't wait for tonight." She was ruining all the surprises for me because I was waiting for when something out of the ordinary would start. I cried and was very, very upset. I had been waiting for 15 years to be able to attend a retreat in complete SILENCE and I had not lived it yet.
By the way, the oldest lady? Poor her, she had vomited the first night, second night she got up too fast to rush to the bathroom fell and hurt herself enough that she was not allowed to go down the stairs. The third night she kept her friend up all night so the friend got sick. I knew allot being in my room constantly huh? Gisèle was the spokes person. I'm telling you she never respected my privacy at all. Not even when we were in bed and I was finally almost asleep, she'd come up with a subject to talk about. Like I said above, going to reconciliation helped because I needed to get that anger out of me so I could start to experience PAPA DIEU's healing(s) or whatever I was there for, that year, with that roommate to top it all.
Then to my surprise Thursday late morning we were told that after lunch we would be ALONE for a certain amount of time. All alone with GOD finally! Then tears came rushing out overwhelming me, I couldn't stop them from coming out. Yes I would be ALONE and that's when my week's retreat really started. At last my needs for "silence" would be respected.
We were assigned a place (area) to go to so we could be all alone, do whatever we felt like doing. We could sleep if the need aroused. Whatever we wanted to do was our free time, not to take our watches with us, " hide our alarm clocks" the nun added, we all laughed because we heard one lady said, "I'll bring my alarm clock in my pocket." The nun that presided had not heard her say that, but just as the lady was done saying that, the nun had added the watches. We told the nun why some of us were laughing and she said," Ahh, you can't hide nothing from the Spirit, can you?" She ended by saying that after a certain amount of time someone will come get us, not to listen to a bell. We were sent off.
I rushed to the bedroom to get a thick sweater, and I made a b-line out of the bedroom because Gisèle's designated room was our bedroom. And I didn't want her to start to talk to me, or tell me what was going to happen next. I put my alarm clock, and watch under my pillow so Gisèle wouldn't scold me for leaving the clock so she would know the time it was. I rushed to my designated place to be alone, at long last.
From here on, I will explain the reason for the "flowers in your E-mail Greeting" that touched me to the point of sharing this story with you.
The room I was assigned to was in the nun's -who presided- bedroom. That touched me because she had received a miraculous bodily healing and I thought that the room would bring me, maybe, much closer to PAPA DIEU Who had healed the person in that room, and, maybe could again but that time, me. I entered that room and I started to cry because I suddenly realized that I was finally alone, it felt so good, yet I felt sad, mad, guilty, upset, and abused for what I had gone through up to that Special time alone. I still couldn't believe what had happened, and yet I had lived through it. So I told PAPA DIEU, "please help me not to focus on what had happened but on why I am here at this retreat". That's how I had to start my being finally alone attitude because I would have dwell-ed on all the mess and loose my whole retreat's free time.
There was an open Bible on a dresser, and it came in mind that I could start to focus on my needs, I went to put my finger on the open Bible's page and read where my finger landed. What I read was; (it is right that you are scolding the one who makes life unbearable for you. It is right to slap him, so as to reprimand him...). I forgot the French Bible's book name that the reading was in simply because that reading touched me so much that I had started to cry as I was reading it, and the French Bible's names are much different than English, also I'm not familiar enough in the French Books of the Bible's names. I remember though that it was in the Old Testament. I never could find the book or the verse(s) in English. It was meant for me to read (because of what your dad make me go through, or, I should say "what I let him do to me"), I was certain of it, because I started to cry as I remembered the reason why I was at that retreat for.
It was to understand why I had such a firm conviction that I had to stay with him even after knowing and living such abuse in that house that I tried so hard to make a home out of, and of what had gone through up till then. And the tears started to pour out as I was reading that I was doing what was right, reading it, right there in front of me, in the Bible confirmation that I was in the right, not the wrong evil person I was told time and time again that I am, and how wrong the husband was.
After a while of disbelief of the words I had read set in I sat down in the rocking chair and, I started to rock MY SELF and I continued telling all the feelings I had to PAPA DIEU crying like I never had before. I don't know why I was crying at times and so much so, to the point that my hands and arms had become numb. I really don't know why but PAPA DIEU was HEALING something in me that was excruciatingly painful. I cried for what seemed like 3 hours non stop, from the moment I had read the verse until I realized I was getting numb. At a certain point, I remember I was crying and talking out loud, as if someone was in the room with me, and I was telling my life's story. After the worst part of the crying was over I imagined placing myself into "the favorite place I place myself when in pain and or sad" sitting on PAPA DIEU's lap, my head resting on HIS CHEST, HIS ARMS surrounding me, and HE hushing me to "be still, now!" To just listen to HIS voice, just like a mother does when her child runs to her and is in tears (I have always placed myself in that position since I had made an AGAPYTHERAPY, at that same retreat house a year, or so before. I sit on HIS LAP, and I'm wrapped by HIS ARMS).
Being in that peaceful resting place the crying had stopped, just tears rolling down my face. My eyes closed and all of a sudden, in my mind's eyes, (i.e. like when you went on a beautiful vacation and your back home and you close your eyes and suddenly you envision a scene that had touched you on that vacation), I saw a DAISY a huge and beautiful plump yellow center and long white petals DAISY. That surprised me and asked, in a questioning tone "What does a daisy has to do with all the pain I'm going through?", "I come here for help and I see a daisy?", I asked PAPA DIEU, still having the feeling of being hushed and still seeing this daisy in front of me. But, all of a sudden, I remembered when I was a little girl I was using the traditional pulling the petals on a daisy to "tell" me if a boy loved me or not. So, here I am sitting on PAPA DIEU's lap and I think of doing that to know if your dad, loved me or not that very day of the retreat! In my mind's eyes I saw myself pulling one petal, mentally hearing myself say, "he loves me", pulling another "he loves me not"... That went on for quite a while. I all of a sudden felt like it was as if I wanted PAPA DIEU to tell me if your father loved me, or not. I kept pulling petals for a while getting anxious to see what the last petal would say. I remember asking PAPA DIEU what the last petal would be. This went on much too long for me and, I remember hoping the last petal to come out as 'he loves me'
Then to my surprise, I heard myself say out loud as I saw myself pulling one petal, he loves me, then when pulling the next petal, I heard myself saying "I love him". That had surprised me so much that I repeated the words I had just said "he loves me, I love him." "Why am I saying "I love him" instead of "he loves me"? I asked PAPA DIEU "That isn't right at all". I heard no words, in, or out of me, but there was a force in me that needed to continue saying "I love him". After what seemed hours of this pulling and never seeing the last petal, I started crying painful tears when I had to say "I love him" because I felt your dad did not (and still feels the same today). It was getting more, and more painful that I had to say "I love him", so I cried even more. Time passed extremely slow and I was feeling really let down by PAPA DIEU, and I told HIM that it wasn't fair for me to go through this pain all over again of having to say "I love him".
But all of a sudden after I was done complaining and was continuing my "yes/no love search, I realized that I was saying "I love you" while pulling a petal, instead of saying "I love him". That puzzled me, so I pulled another petal, and as real as you see these words you are reading, I heard "I love you."! That shook me to pure reality, an out of mind's eyes conversation for a petals answer. I suddenly realized I was in the nun's bedroom, sitting in the rocking chair. I stopped and listened attentively to the noise coming out in the room. I heard nothing. I closed my mind to the "noise" outside, placed myself back on HIS CHEST" to be able to continue to see the DAISY in my mind's eyes, I know I had heard a voice, and it was so clear as if coming from inside that room. To pursue my last petal search, I kept my eyes closed, the DAISY returned and still full with petals. By then I was being very careful as to hear what I was saying and said it out loud that time while I pulled a petal and voiced out, "I love you". As I pulled the next petal I heard a voice like it was coming from outside of my body, and I heard "I LOVE YOU" said in a softest tone of voice I have ever heard. I could feel that those words were said with real LOVE. I could just feel that LOVE. Tears came rushing out because I wanted what I had just heard to be real, not a "figment" of my imagination. Right away I pulled another petal and said "with all my heart to PAPA DIEU, "I LOVE YOU", then pulling the next petal I heard the words again, but this time it was in my heart, "I LOVE YOU TOO". Oh My God I told myself realizing that what I heard was real. IT WAS AND FELT SO REAL!
Let me tell you, I never pulled so many petals in all my life on one Daisy, and I never ran out of petals, and did I ever cry. Tears like a river ran out of me, tears of knowing that I was truly LOVED like I had never felt before. I just lost the sense of time because when I opened my eyes I was lying on the bed all cuddled up with an afghan over me. The afghan that was neatly folded on the foot of the bed that I had noticed when I had entered the room, because I had told myself, "good, if I'm cold I'll wrapped myself in the afghan. Lying there feeling like a new person, with tears in my eyes, not crying tears but tears that felt PEACE FULLY ENVELOPING ME, and the tears were those of pure JOY.
When I finally got up I felt light as a feather. Tons of pain and sorrow had just evaporated out of me. I Praised PAPA DIEU for what he had just healed in me. I rocked myself again but this time there were songs in my heart, not pain. I had truly been healed because nothing else but to LOVE GOD mattered to me then, right at that very moment in time. The colors of the room seemed brighter for some reason. And it was PEACEFUL. After a few minutes of rocking myself, I heard someone knocking on the door. They had come to get all those in the area where I was in. When I left that room I left everything that I had entered with. All the past was gone that instant, and I Thank PAPA DIEU that HE made me feels completely emptied of pain that day. I left to go to the gathering room and I don't remember too much after that because PEACE was surrounding me.
While leaving I heard someone say, "remember you're going back to the real world now." The rest of the week was still the same, worse from Gisèle, she now wanted to know how my time ALONE had been. She wanted my address and phone number, but gave her my address only. She was the same talkative person but worse now. The week ended with the group sharing about something that touched them during the week. I shared my DAISY time alone experience. The priest -who is in charge of all the events that are scheduled there-, said I was given a GREAT GRACE. I laughed and said, "Believe me father I know". We all laughed and that ended the session and we went to have our lunch and then we all went back "in the real world".
~ This is the end of My DAISY story part 1 ~
~ This is the ending of my awesome DAISY Story! ~
Four years passed, and, like the leader had said, "I was back in the real world for sure, but mentally, I would go back to that alone span of time during that retreat, and I received renewed Peace every time.
One morning after Mass, in our Church, I was kneeling in prayer asking Jesus to please send someone to help me know what choices HE wanted me to make, for I was so lonely. I was in deep thoughts, as if waiting for a response to my desperate searching as what to do as the right thing in my life. Then, I literally felt a human hand touching my shoulder. I had jumped, and an instant thought came, "OK, hold on now, this can't be real! Can it be an Angel's touch? Am I praying too much?"
I had started to opened my eyes to see who or, what had touched me and then I heard a voice saying, "Oh, I'm sorry I scared you, there was Ina, bent, looking at me with a shocked look on her face. I started to laugh saying; "this is the second time a surprise like this happens to me. The other time was at St. Anne de Beaupré and like this, right after Communion kneeling down. Another friend had softly spoken my name. Imagine the surprise I experienced at that moment. Well, this one kind of feels like that time too. I was talking to Jesus then too". Ina had jumped too because I had been surprised and she added, "You jumped so high I thought I had made you have a heart attack. I'm so sorry I scared you like that". I told her how deep in thoughts I was about asking Jesus for help. I was not done talking as she tells me, "deep in thoughts? You didn't even hear me come close to you." Then she added "I just finished praying to Jesus asking Him to help you say yes to what I want to ask you. Isn't God good? We were both praying for the same thing, really".
She continued to talk saying; "Bret and I go to a group gathering in Edmunston every Wednesday nights and I think you would like that kind of group gathering, and that is why I had come to talk to you when I scared you instead". We walked out of the Church together as she was telling me what the group is about. Then she added that there was a gathering that same evening. I told that since we both were praying for the same thing that, it must be a sign that I should go. I did attend that evening's group gathering; they even came to get me home, then weekly as I continued to go with them.
About the third week after my attending, our group leader informed us that the Edmunston group was going to Montreal, to Danielle Bourgeois' Mother House, our group is one of its branch-. Bret and Ina told me that I have a free ride if I had money to pay for the room and board. It happened that I had enough money plus $10 extra. So this meant that I was going to Montreal to meet our leader in person. We met for two more weeks during which the arrangements were made, and then came the time for our mini retreat for Montreal in my friend's van. It was April 22, 1999. We all met in the parking lot where we gathered weekly and we were only 3 vehicles going, to conserve on the expenses. I knew I was going in Bret's van, but the others were not sure with whom they were going with. It was 6 AM our time, 7 AM New Brunswick's time. When all were present they were told with whom they would go.
We were 6 in Bret's van, and there were two women I didn't know. So off to Montreal we went. On the way about ten minutes we all wanted to say the Rosary and then we sang a few songs. Then all was quiet in the van. We were all so anxious to get there, even though we had just been told that the founder +Danielle- would not be there because she had made a mistake in her schedule and, she was giving a retreat at her original home, that was open for her to receive people and give weeks and mini retreats. She also offers, to those who want to stay as long as they want, a place, but they have to pay for staying there even though they are the ones who are taking care of the building as if they owned it, but at a much lesser cost than weekends and weeks retreats. We had just found out just as we were taking off about her not being in Montreal so we were all disappointed and yet anxious to just be in her second building. That second building had been given to her for $1.00 (one dollar!) to make the papers legal. It had been a convent and now a retreat house.
Coming back to being in the van, we were all quiet, then all of a sudden Ina, who was in front with Bret turns around and looks at us. I was in the last seat with a woman I had seen at the gatherings and the two other women I did not know were in the middle seats. No one had introduced us, and we had just prayed and sang together, nice! So, as Ina turned around she looked at me and she said;" Oh Bebianne, we have a Marguerite in the van!!!" - Marguerite is French for Daisy- and we were all French. I said, "Really! Where?
So I start to look around in the van for a daisy flower. Then Ina starts to laugh and says "non non Bebianne, I don't mean a flower "Marguerite. It's a real live, living in the flesh Marguerite -daisy- she's right in front of you!" I was sitting in the driver's side on back and there was a lady sitting in the seat in front of me. So I fronted up from my seat and I'm trying to look at the woman who was in front of me. Ina says again, " non non Bebianne not her, this one!", pointing to the woman I could see that was sitting in the passenger's side. Then Ina introduced us to each other. That did not end there. Marguerite wanted to know what I had to do with that name. Ina started to tell them and she was all mixed up, Bret was telling her something that she had forgotten. We were laughing at Ina because she kept on re-repeating words. After a few minutes Ina said; Bebianne, help me and tell us about your Daisy Marguerite story. I said "Okay, but first let me tell you something that confirms that I am supposed to go to Montreal and that Marguerite was not supposed to be in this van. Up till the last minute before we left the parking lot a while ago, Marguerite was told that she was supposed to be in one of the other vans. This move was done about 5 minutes before we left." Ina looked at me and Marguerite and asked is this was true? I continued, "out of two other vehicles she ends up in here with us. This is planned I said, and I told them about the retreat and the DAISY story. They were all impressed. Even Ina said, "I may have Alzheimer but I don't remember at all what you just told us now. This is weird Bebianne!" I answered, "no its not." PAPA DIEU has a plan and HIS plan is enfolding with all of you and me." Remember when you scared me in Church Ina and I told you I was waiting for HIS answer, well part of it is this trip with a LIVE WOMAN DAISY- MARGUERITE- and HE IS not done yet. But, I do agree with you, on the human point of view, that it is weird, not the weird that kids say but, unusual happening." Ina then added; "that's the word I wanted to use but it wasn't coming up. It is unusual that we are all together". And the silence returned while we were approaching lunch time.
Then we stopped in Levi, Québec to eat lunch at a Mall. We had one hour to eat and get back to the vehicle we were in. We all made it back on time and all the three vehicles were parked side by side. Then Bret was talking to the other drivers through opened windows about when and where was the next stop ...,etc. While Bret was talking to the drivers, Ina, who was sitting in her seat started to talk signed language with mouth movement and head signs words to a woman in the van next to us, all of a sudden I hear, "Oh Bebianne!" I looked up, and I see her rush out of the van, run to the other van, grab something handed to her, runs back to her seat and she repeats, "Oh Bebianne look here!" I was in absolute awed and dumbfounded, and so were the others in our van. She was holding a framed picture of a field of DAISIES. I said, "O my GOD!" Marguerite says the same, the other women looks at me, their mouths open in shock too. Ina voiced out; "I did not know who had bought that framed picture, but that lady just wanted to show me (Ina) how GODS Creation is awesome", I just added, "I have no idea what HE IS doing, but I now know "HE" does. This is to good to be true! Who am I to receive this?" They all said; don't say that, you're ..."
Ina went to bring back the framed picture to its owner and the people in that van were questioning her about what was all the fuss over a little framed picture and she told them just a little to satisfy their curiosity. When she was back in her seat and we were leaving she told me that the group told her that they have to know about that DAISY story, and that the lady who had purchase it had no idea why she was so appealed to that picture out of all those that were in the store. Then we prayed and sang some more. We made a fuel/restroom stop and then back on the road.
Then finally, we arrive in Montreal, at the retreat house where Danielle lived then. So we all got out of our vehicles, not rushing because we knew that the founder wouldn't be there so it wouldn't be the same. We were all together with our suitcases climbing the stairs. The first one opened the porch door and as he opens that door another one opened it from inside and we heard greetings with a great big laughs. When it was my turn to enter the porch there was a little woman, with a joyous smile, who showed me the way inside the building. I was a bit behind from the first ones and I could hear the laughter and the BONJOURS! in the building. Then it was my turn to enter the doorway. I saw two lines of beautiful women with beautiful smiles hugging each and every one of us. Then I was gently touched and hugged by the woman who had opened the door and then she showed me the way to get more hugs, she had said to all of us. Then I was inside and the next in line to receive hugs and there were other people in back of me. I was greeted by three women and was going to the next when I saw this lady standing after just hugging one.
I kind of froze, and then I heard myself say, "Oh my GOD you're here! Danielle, you're here I said again.; She gave me a great big hug and was happy. I was so happy to see her. Then she introduced me to the woman next to her. I was laughing, crying and enjoying such loving people. Our whole group members were in tears, so were all those from the retreat house, because of the love we were expressing to them. What a WELCOME. For certain, PAPA DIEU was involved in this.
We were then escorted to our rooms, since we all had our suitcases in our hands and moving them as we met another loving woman. Danielle told us to just put them in our room, and then go downstairs to the kitchen/dining room where all the other people who take care of the house would be. They are all women and men who are divorced or, separated. They are living their Sacramental vows they had made to their spouse on their wedding day. The paper they signed was a Sacrament for life and they will never be with another as long as their spouse lives. We all gathered in the dining area, and Danielle made us feel welcome, again, and "waited for." She was looking forward to meet our extension of her FAMILLE SOLITUDE MIRIAM (MYRIAM'S SOLITUDE FAMILY)
Danielle told us that we were to celebrate Holy Mass in a couple of minutes, and then we were to come back down for supper. After supper we could go unpack. And she led the way up to the Chapel. When we were going up a set of stairs, there was a wide window and wide window sill. On the window sill three were busts of women Saints statues. I saw the written name of two and their names were Marguerite of... I just touched them all but, not realizing the names I have read as we were going up. I was too moved by the WELCOME we had experienced and my mind was on the Mass. Another SURPRISE that PAPA DIEU had done for me. I was so moved when Danielle mentioned about going to Mass first, I sent out a big surprised gasped, and all the heads turned towards me. I was truly touched. GOD'S BLESSINGS OF JESUS' BODY AND BLOOD FOR OUR SOULS, before food blessings for our body, is what I told myself when I heard there would be a Mass. That's how I took having Mass before food. We all entered the Chapel and there was reverence in the air that I had rarely felt in going to Masses. I went and sat in the front row like I always do in our parish Church, the second row. I passed the front of the Tabernacle to choose a chair carefully, just in case a member of the Team had to sit in that row. I sat and said my THANK YOU(S) and prayed. Where my chair was, it was three chairs away from the front of the Tabernacle, and I was right in front of the little Altar. The Altar was at the left of the Tabernacle when facing it. When finished with my usual prayers I opened my eyes so I could look around. Then I saw a very unusual Crucifix hanging above the Tabernacle. It was not made like a "normal" Crucifix but, it was a shape of a Cross, but Jesus' Corps was a painting. Behind Jesus' head was a round golden halo that, for me it represented The HOST. Next to Jesus in the Cross' painting is a painting of Mother Mary, who is reverently holding a Chalice in her hands that is right under the pierced side of Jesus. Coming out from the wounded side of Jesus is HIS PRECIOUS BLOOD falls in the Chalice that Mother Mary is holding, while she looks intently with her motherly Love at Her SON's FACE, and, Jesus' Face is bent toward HIS Mother. We were told after the Mass that this Crucifix was a replica coming from France when Danielle had been asked to go give a retreat there, and she said that when she saw that Crucifix she felt that Jesus was telling her to bring it to Canada. So the priest gave her one for the Chapel. And she had some made that we can buy that are normal size and some that are about 4 inches high. I bought one of the smaller sizes and I put it under my pillow with my Rosary. Back in the Chapel, as I was looking at everything I could see, on the floor right in front of the Tabernacle was a beautiful basket flower arrangement. I continue to admire the Chapel and my eyes went to the arrangement again, and then I saw, out of all the flowers that were in the basket, there was only one DAISY that was to the side towards me. That DAISY was all propped up on its stem wide open and facing me. I just gasped again I couldn't believe it. I looked if there were others and there were none in front, just on the side towards me. After Mass, I checked and there was another one on the other side of the bouquet, and that one was more in back of the arrangement and it was wilted allot.
We went to the dinning room downstairs to eat, and when I had entered the dining area when we had arrived before Mass I had seen on the back wall a hand made, colored with crayons a blue birds, clouds, one DAISY, and some other flowers. Then I had told myself, "is this DAISY happening for real? This is too much, I don't deserve this". But I had not said anything to anyone in case someone would have noticed that one daisy on the wall because since almost everyone in our group knew about it by then, and, even some were calling me Marguerite after that. When we were all present, and ready to find a place to sit, we were told to sit at different tables at each meal, even breakfast, because that is how we get to know each other, Danielle had told us. So we all did just that. Then Danielle added that she lives in an old motor home that is parked next to the garage and she comes to eat with the people who go there. She eats with us and since everyone wants to go sit with her at her table, that way everyone has a chance to sit at her table. We ate and then were told that after every supper meals Danielle has a little talk with the groups, or anyone from outside who already did a retreat there can go after supper, she added; "that's just to help digest our food before we go to bed". After the jokes and hilarious laughter, we were sent off with many wishes of sweet dreams and a restful night.
Saturday morning, after a restless night, thinking about all those DAISIES I had seen, as I'm going down to eat breakfast, using the same stairs where the three bust statues of saints were, I took the time to look at one's title, and then it hit me that its name was Marguerite. I checked the others and they were all Marguerite. They were Marguerite of D' Ouville, Marguerite Labouré and Marguerite de Bourgeois (three (3) DAISY SAINTS)!!! My heart skipped a beat as I realized that they were three Marguerite. But I didn't say anything to anyone again as I went down to eat breakfast. After breakfast we had Mass, videos to watch about Danielle's teaching and Danielle was seeing anyone who wanted to talk to her one on one. I tried many times, but I couldn't see her, there were always somebody with her throughout the weekend.
At noon for lunch, I went to sit at the table where Danielle was the night before since she was not at that table when I arrived there, figuring that she would go at another table, because we were told that we had to change tables, thinking that she was doing it too since it was her who told us to do that. We were waiting until everyone had a place to sit, and then here comes Danielle who sits right next to me, at the same chair she was the night before. I couldn't believe it. I asked her why she was still sitting at the same table and she flatly answered, "Because I'm the Boss, and what the Boss say, goes" with a great big smile on her face. She then told us that she is the only one who stays at the same table. She then talked and joked allot while we were enjoying the meal. Then one lady in our group, who was sitting at my table but I had not recognized her voice because we were so noisy, and busy eating, had called me to her attention, and, instead of saying Bebianne she had said Marguerite. So Danielle had heard that, and of course she takes a double look at my name tag and says; "Hey, it says here that her name is Bebianne and not Marguerite. Aren't you in the same group? How come you don't know her name yet?" It was Ina who had called me and she started to tell Danielle about the events since my going to the retreat and the Marguerites DAISIES. Suddenly, Danielle stops eating, looks at me and says, "You don't know this, but, my middle name is Marguerite!" I dropped my fork in my plate, and just voiced out a big "NO Way!" in English. Danielle understood what I had said and she said; "It's true. My name is Mary Danielle Marguerite (her maiden name -which I forgot) Bourgeois". Still looking at me she added; "and, from now on, your name is "Bebianne Marguerite de Jésus". I just voiced out; "Now that is tooooo much." "Oohh no it's not", she added, and continued with "Jesus told you HE loves you, and all these DAISIES/Marguerites things that are happening since you left home this morning are no coincidences at all. HE wants you to be named Marguerite too and I added of Jesus to it. Doesn't that sound good?" she asked the whole crowd. One lady who had been calling me Marguerite because, a woman from our van was calling me that all the time so to tease me, gets up and said; "I've been calling her Marguerite since she arrived, and, someone was asking about who is she, and, I answered them, oh that's Marguerite from New Brunswick. I feel bad now" she added. I then stood up and told her as she was still standing; "Oohh it's much worse than you think calling me that name. You see, my real name is Bebianne, but I'm not even from NewBrunswick, I'm from Maine, in the United States. Were you ever wrong! And I thought I had a hard time remembering names. You beat me here!" A big explosion of laughter and clapping of hands erupted in the room. And so, I was branded Marguerite all weekend long. What another surprise HE sent my way! I now was a DAISY!
At the Retreat House every Saturday evening there are some people who lived the retreat that live close-by, go to Mass there, and, after Mass are invited to go in the dining room for family fun with those who are on retreat. "We have a last evening together and it's usually fun" Danielle said, and added, "And, I always ask those who attended a weekend or a week with us, if they want to say anything about what they received, especially now that you, this meant our group from Edmunston- are "our Family Group members" now that you lived a mini retreat with us. Is there anyone who was touched by something they lived or heard or even read? Please share with us, so we may be fed also". Many in our group shared beautiful moments, and, I felt I just had to share about my DAISY Story -MARGUERITE-, the happenings since Ina told me about the lady named Marguerite in the van, and, the daisies in all the new flower arrangements, the three bust statues of Saint Marguerite, the name that the lady in our group was calling me by, the name that Danielle gave me, Danielle's middle name, and on and on. Most of all, how I had never ran out of petals at the retreat at Le Cénacle in Rivière-du-Loup, and how it was confirmed here to the utmost capacity. That this, was overwhelming for me to receive, and here by complete strangers that became friends in a matter of minutes. And when I was done talking I turned around, walked real fast to the back wall, and pointed to the homemade orange and yellow DAISY that was pinned on the wall. I heard a great big OOHHHH!!! Everyone was in awe that I had noticed it, no one else had. Even the ladies who had made those by hand in decorating had not even paid attention of a daisy. One said; "we just made flowers, any flower." I concluded with telling them that I had seen that DAISY the instant I had enter the kitchen area when we had arrived on Friday. I then walked back to my seat, shaking like a leaf, and, all of a sudden I felt a strong hand stopping me, I turned to look who it was, and there, a man who lived there had gone to take the DAISY off the wall, and was giving it to me. "Oh my GOD", I exclaimed. I took the DAISY, clasp it to my heart and tears were running down, our eyes, and the whole crowd too. He gave me a great big hug telling me, and the crowd, how much that had touched him, and, that from then on, he would never doubt Le PÈRE (THE FATHER) ever again!
We gave each another huge hugs and everyone in the room clapped and stood up all at the same time in an uproar sound. I got a standing ovation Daughter! Just then Danielle said; "I re-named you Marguerite", and she told them about our lunch experience when I found out that her middle name is Marguerite, and how she had re-named me at noon. Then she added, "again I re-name you, Bebianne Marguerite de Jésus!" The whole crowd clapped even more and all were whipping their eyes and they all came together forming a circle and we sang songs of THANKS. One lady member came to give me two sheets of paper about DAISIES and told me I renewed her faith.
This started on April 22, 1999 since that day we left from Edmunston to Montreal, with the woman named Marguerite in the van I have seen a DAISY EVERY SINGLE DAY SINCE! EVERY SINGLE DAY I HAVE SEEN AT LEAST ONE DAISY, OR EVEN THE WORD DAISY. I EVEN GET SOME THROUGH E-MAILS!!!
That is why I started to cry when I saw your "Welcome to the E-mail" card you had sent me. THIS IS GOD/JESUS' WAY OF TELLING ME THAT HE LOVES ME, AND I LOVE HIM. I NEVER RAN OUT OF PETALS SINCE THAT DAY - APRIL 22, 1999. Isn't that just awesome? Isn't this too good to be true? I live that reassurance from HIM daily.
Bless you Daughter for sending them to me also.
With HIS LOVE,
Mum: Marguerite of Jésus!
~ This is the hand made DAISY that was on the kitchen's wall area at the Solitude Miriam's House in Montreal. I kept it, as you can see. I placed it on my bedroom's mirror frame dresser. I see that DAISY on a daily basis, and most of the time I don't even put "eyes/vision/heart/object's importance" in my mind. I see that DAISY, but my mental awareness of "what" it means to me does not even surface in my mind's heart. Then some days, when I see it my heart is aware of what I'm seeing, and, then with all the love I have in my heart I tell PAPA DIEU that I love HIM too, I often add; "I know YOU LOVE me more than I YOU".
Just pure fact!~
Painted Crucifix of
Solitude Miriam in Montreal
Close up of
Solitude Miriam's Crucifix
~This is the Crucifix I purchased at Miriam Solitude's House, and a replica of the one in their Chapel in Montreal.
I zoomed closer for a better view of the image's painting of the Blood falling in the Chalice.~
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Foios är en kommun i Spanien.   Den ligger i provinsen Província de València och regionen Valencia, i den östra delen av landet,  km öster om huvudstaden Madrid. Antalet invånare är . Arean är  kvadratkilometer. Foios gränsar till Valencia, Albalat dels Sorells, Alfara del Patriarca, Meliana, Moncada och Vinalesa.

Terrängen i Foios är mycket platt.

Ett kallt stäppklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är juli, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är februari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är november, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är juli, med  mm nederbörd.

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The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones
Michael J. Cortese, Maya M. Khanna, Katherine K. White, Ilija Veljkovic, Geoffery Drumm
Department of Psychological Science
Using the DRM paradigm, our experiments examined the activation and monitoring of memories in semantic and phonological networks. Participants viewed lists of words and/or pseudohomophones (e.g., dreem). In Experiment 1, participants verbally recalled lists of semantic associates or attempted to write them as they appeared during study. False recall was reduced in the written modality only for pseudohomophone lists. In Experiment 2, hybrid (i.e., semantic and phonological associate) lists were read, and participants attempted to spell the items as they appeared during study. False recall was negatively related to the number of pseudohomophone phonological associates contained in the list. We posit that this result is due to a reduction in orthographic overlap between pseudohomophone associates and the critical lure. In both Experiment 1 and 2, the critical lure was usually written as a pseudohomophone when participants viewed a pure pseudohomophone list. Experiment 3 demonstrated that false recall produced by lists of phonological associates is related to the degree of orthographic overlap between the list items and the critical lure. We conclude that list context can provide discriminating information that can be used to reduce false recall via source monitoring. Also, when reading lists, the critical lure can be activated in a semantic network via phonology, and its activation in a phonological network is enhanced via orthography.
Journal of Memory and Language
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.11.003
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Cortese, M. J., Khanna, M. M., White, K. K., Veljkovic, I., & Drumm, G. (2008). The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones. Journal of Memory and Language, 58(2), 393-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.11.003
The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones. / Cortese, Michael J.; Khanna, Maya M.; White, Katherine K.; Veljkovic, Ilija; Drumm, Geoffery.
In: Journal of Memory and Language, Vol. 58, No. 2, 02.2008, p. 393-414.
Cortese, MJ, Khanna, MM, White, KK, Veljkovic, I & Drumm, G 2008, 'The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones', Journal of Memory and Language, vol. 58, no. 2, pp. 393-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.11.003
Cortese MJ, Khanna MM, White KK, Veljkovic I, Drumm G. The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones. Journal of Memory and Language. 2008 Feb;58(2):393-414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.11.003
Cortese, Michael J. ; Khanna, Maya M. ; White, Katherine K. ; Veljkovic, Ilija ; Drumm, Geoffery. / The activation and monitoring of memories produced by words and pseudohomophones. In: Journal of Memory and Language. 2008 ; Vol. 58, No. 2. pp. 393-414.
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Animal Protection Norway and Network for Animal Freedom reveals the new horror pictures from Norwegian fur farms. Fur industry has received numerous attempts to "improve animal welfare." Nevertheless, we can for the fourth time since 2008 reveal extensive animal cruelty on Norwegian fur farms.
A Government Committee is now considering (2012-2013) the industry should be prohibited in Norway. Fur farming can never be consistent with good animal welfare. We therefore expect that the government will start arranging fur industry.
In summer and autumn, the two animal protection organization made unannounced inspections of 24 fur farms from Troms in the north to Agder in the south. Many thousands of pictures and several hours of video documentation from fur farms show that mink and fox suffering on Norwegian fur farms every day.
Over the last twenty-six years, Fur Free Friday has grown to become the largest animal rights demonstration of the year. Don't miss your opportunity on November 23, the day after Thanksgiving, to join with thousands of activists worldwide for this important international day of action! Please check out our 2012 list of events to find a demonstration in your area.
If you have any questions about Fur Free Friday, or IDA's fur campaign, please contact Christy Griffin at Christy@idausa.org.
You know all about the callous fur industry—that 50 million animals are killed every year in the name of fashion, that dogs and cats are skinned in China and then labeled as other animals for U.S. buyers, and that many animals are skinned alive.
The next thing to learn? How to spread the word.
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5 things you missed at the 2020 BET Awards, from Black Lives Matter tributes to Beyoncé reigning
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BET celebrated its 40 th year as a network, and its 20 th awards show, with the effective 2020 BET Awards on Sunday.
Hosted by "Insecure" star Amanda Seales, the program was presented virtually for the first time due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. But that did not moisten the voices in the very first major awards reveal because George Floyd passed away May 25 while in Minneapolis authorities custody, which has led to continued nationwide protests and sustained require social modification.
Here are the 5 most significant minutes from the awards program, which honored Floyd's memory, Black Lives Matter, Beyoncé's humanitarian work and Kobe Bryant's legendary basketball skills.
Michelle Obama: Pays tribute to Beyoncé, presenting BET Humanitarian Award to 'The Queen'
George Floyd, Black Lives Matter tributes reigned
The tributes to Black Lives Matter, Floyd and other victims of cops cruelty were frequent in the awards program, including a brand-new video from "The Voice" judge John Legend, "Never Ever Break," which features the chorus, "we will never ever break."
Rap artist DaBaby carried out " Rockstar" with an actor representing a police officer pressing his knee on his neck, reproducing the last couple of moments of Floyd's life. Roddy Ricch, whose "Please Excuse Me for Being Antisocial" won album of the year, wore a Black Lives Matter shirt while performing "High Fashion" and "Package."
Alicia Keyes sang an emotional "Perfect Method to Pass Away," with the lyrics, "Think of all you might have done, a minimum of you'll stay forever young," shot on a city street filled with the names of Black victims of brutality. This was followed by celebrities reading off the names of Black lives lost in what Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, called "the over 400- year-long pandemic called bigotry."
Floyd's was the last name, read by Jamie Foxx.
Beyoncé was blessed 'The Queen' by Michelle Obama
The previous very first woman began the homages to Beyoncé, who was bestowed the Humanitarian Award.
" I am here to speak about The Queen, you know the one," Obama stated in a video presentation, which started the honors to the singer/activist. " She's always showing up, watching out and making us all a little bit better, a little bit more intense. To my lady, I just want to say, you influence me. You motivate everyone."
Beyoncé dealt with the awards program, calling the honor " stunning" in a video. She devoted the award "to all of my bros out there, all of my sis out there inspiring me, marching and defending modification."
Beyoncé ended the speech urging citizen involvement. "I'm motivating you to continue to act, continue to work to alter a racist and unequal system. We have to continue to do this together."
Beyoncé ruled even when she lost the award for finest female R&B/ pop artist. Winner Lizzo provided a shout-out, "Beyoncé, thank you for whatever you have done for Black culture."
Lil Wayne kept in mind Kobe Bryant
The musician paid tribute to the Lakers basketball legend with a performance of his 2009 track "Kobe Bryant" on a phase that highlighted Bryant's number, 24, in lights.
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" My heart heads out to Vanessa and the entire Black Mamba household," Wayne sang, speaking of Bryant's spouse, Vanessa. He ended with, "Rest in power/ Let's wish for peace/ Black lives matter, realities."
Wayne Brady carried out a tribute to Little Richard
Brady carried out an uplifting, wildly energetic tribute to the music legend, who passed away in Might at87 Brady sang and danced to a collection of the rock 'n' roll leader's hits consisting of " Lucille" (while crawling over a grand piano), "Good Golly Miss Molly" (toasting Richard's picture with a martini) and "Tutti Frutti" (with back-up dancers use gold face masks).
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The €20 Million Question: Will you be ready for the General Data Protection Regulation?
Rebecca McCall, University Solicitor at the University of Huddersfield and Chair of the Association of University Legal Practitioners (AULP), looks at the new General Data Protection Regulation and gives advice on how universities should prepare for it.
The General Data Protection Regulation has finally been adopted by the European Parliament and came into force on 24th May 2016. The Regulation will apply with direct effect in all EU Member States, including the UK*, from 25th May 2018, replacing the current UK Data Protection Act 1998.
The EU has heralded the Regulation as being an essential step to strengthen citizens' fundamental rights in the digital age and to facilitate business by simplifying rules for companies in the Digital Single Market, suggesting that this will lead to savings for businesses of €2.3 billion a year.
However, there are important changes in the way the Regulation will operate compared with current legislation, which will place a more onerous burden on institutions and will require significant attention so that we are prepared for the implementation of the Regulation in two years' time.
Set out below are some key changes to draw to your attention at this early stage:
Fines: Data Controllers could be fined up to 4% of their global annual turnover or €20 million for certain breaches and up to 2%/€10 million for others. This is a significant increase from the current maximum amount of £500,000 that can be enforced in the UK.
Accountability: The Regulation requires data protection "by design and by default". Although it will no longer be necessary to maintain a notification at the ICO, there are more onerous obligations to:
maintain internal records of personal data being processed and retention schedules
prepare data protection impact assessments for riskier processing
have clear privacy notices in place to inform data subjects about how their data is processed.
Consent to processing must be "freely given, specific, informed and ambiguous" and must be "explicit" for sensitive data. You must be able to demonstrate that consent was given. Consent will not be considered to be "freely given" if there was no genuine or free choice. For example, if it is made a condition of entering into a contract that data will be processed in a certain way, even if this is not needed to perform the contract, then consent will not be freely given (a common example in the services sector is being required to consent to receiving marketing information in order to obtain an unrelated service, such as a wifi connection). This could have implications for the processes currently in place at institutions, for example obtaining student consent to processing, which may in future need to be broken down into different sections.
Subject Access: Organisations will no longer be able to charge for dealing with a SAR and the response will need to be provided within one month (currently 40 days).
Breaches will need to be notified to the ICO within 72 hours (subject to some exceptions) and to the data subject where the breach might result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms.
Data Protection Officer: HEIs will be required to designate a Data Protection Officer (DPO) whose details must be notified to the ICO. The DPO must have expert knowledge of data protection law; will have statutory obligations under the Regulation; and be required to report directly to the "highest management level" of the organisation.
Right to be forgotten: This principle has been retained in the final version of the Regulation allowing individuals to require erasure of their personal data in certain situations, although research is a stated exception.
Data processors now have some direct statutory obligations, which might impact the way in which data protection is approached in supply agreements and from an HE perspective, care will need to be taken where data is being processed by an institution on behalf of a third party, for example under a research contract or collaborative provision arrangement.
International Transfers: The requirements are essentially the same. With the Safe Harbour regime now invalid and the jury still out on the Privacy Shield that was intended to replace it, organisations will need to continue to ensure that appropriate security, contractual and privacy notice/consent arrangements are in place where personal data is being transferred outside the EU.
What should institutions be doing now?
It is essential to start planning your approach to compliance as soon as possible. The ICO has published its "12 Steps" to preparing for the Regulation, which sets out the key areas on which organisations should be focussing their attention now, including:
Raising awareness across the organisation
Reviewing what personal data is held, where it came from, what it is used for and who it is shared with
Reviewing the terms on which data is shared with third parties, including organisations processing data on your behalf (e.g. software or cloud providers)
Reviewing data protection policies and privacy notices (the ICO will be bringing out a revised Privacy Notice Code of Practice shortly)
Reviewing how consent is obtained and recorded for processing
Checking procedures to ensure they cover the enhanced rights of individuals, including how data can be deleted and updating subject access request processes
Ensuring procedures are in place and utilised to detect, report and investigate data breaches
Developing a culture of "privacy by design" e.g. by requiring Privacy Impact Assessments for new data processing activities
Designating a Data Protection Officer and assessing where this role will sit within your governance arrangements
*The Brexit Elephant in the Room
So what happens if the Leave campaign wins on 23rd June? The message coming from the ICO is that organisations should still continue to prepare for the Regulation. If the UK leaves the EU, it will still be bound by the Regulation to the extent that it processes personal data of EU data subjects.
There is no question that additional time and resource will need to be spent by institutions to enable compliance with the Regulation. You might want to sit down with your Data Protection Officer or equivalent sooner rather than later to work through an appropriate action plan.
View the full text of the Regulation
The ICO has established a separate website where they will post guidance, blogs and videos on the implementation of the Regulation. This already includes the "12 Steps" guidance referred to above and information about the timetable for introduction of further detailed guidance, which is expected to be introduced over the next six months.
Further guidance will be made available by the EU based on the work being carried out by the Article 29 Working Party – check the ICO site for updates.
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Just in time for the Fourth, the Queen of Wien tells us how to eat—and how not to eat—hot dogs.
• Sommelier Levi Dalton is now contributing advice to the Bon Appétit blog. First up: a timely post on what wine to bring to a barbecue. Ask a Sommelier: What Wine Do I Bring to a BBQ?
• And because it's summer and you don't want to make a "frank faux pas": Hot Dog Etiquette, courtesy of the Queen of Wien and the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council.


Last week as I was having my morning tea before going to work, I received an email on my smartphone from the "E-ZPass Customer Service Center" informing me that I have not paid an outstanding invoice. The email went on to say that I apparently drove on a toll road and did not pay the toll and they have sent this invoice repeatedly without a response.
I thought that was quite strange since, like everyone else who uses E-ZPass, the tag is fastened to the inside of my windshield so it automatically charges the toll as I pass through the toll booths. I also know that my E-ZPass is current and up-to-date. So, why was I getting this email? I decided to investigate.
I pulled the email up to my screen and noticed a number of warning signs. For the purposes of this post, I annotated it to show you what I looked for.
Most phishing attacks will use an attention-getting, emotional subject line designed to get you to immediately open the email and take action.
I then looked at the sender's email address. As you can see, the email address it came from had nothing to do with E-ZPass. I live in New York, so I would reasonably expect that any communication from this state supported program would either come from a domain containing the words E-ZPass or from a New York State Government source. Now, I need to point out that sender email addresses can also be spoofed so this is not a fail-safe method of identifying bogus emails. In this case, the sender didn't bother or didn't have the skill to use a spoofed email address.
I then read the body of the email which contained a veiled threat. It also struck me that an official email from an organization and especially from a State Government sponsored program would use that kind of language. It just seems out of line. Besides, if you're not answering your emails, a legitimate company and certainly a Government agency would send you an old fashioned letter via snail mail. In fact, the Government would almost certainly contact you through the mail first and not even bother with emails since they change often.
Look at the meat of the email — the link. Notice how the email gives the reader a chance to immediately view the document in question through a link. Sometimes, cyber-criminals will include an attachment (i.e. PDF, MS Word, Excel, etc.). Attached documents can also be infected. Never click on a link or open any document in a suspicious email. Now, we'll look at the link.
Many email programs, Outlook in particular, allow you to view the actual address if you hover your mouse over the link. Be careful not to click on the link! Look at the address and notice that instead of going to the E-ZPass website, the source is "iranfoodst.ir." This is the part of the website that cannot be spoofed (at least not yet). Also notice that the Country Code Top-level Domain (ccTLD) is for the country of Iran. Now, why would someone from E-ZPass send you an email from Iran? This is proof-positive that the email is bogus and a phishing attack.
I then checked out the official E-ZPass site and compared the logos. Please note that this is not a fail-safe method since cyber-criminals can easily get logos from legitimate sites and use them in emails. But, I was curious. In this case, the logos were close but not close enough. As a matter of fact, comparing the logos was an immediate sign that something wasn't right.
Even though it was easy to determine that this email was a phishing attack, it fooled a lot of people. It even made the evening news! Unfortunately, millions of bogus emails like this go out on a daily basis and infect multitudes of people because this type of attack plays on a basic human emotion. Most people want to do the right thing and take care of problems (especially with the Government!) right away. Criminals know this and use our emotions against us.
Remember, you can always call the company or Government agency on the phone to make sure everything is alright. I bet they would like to know if someone is impersonating them and perpetrating criminal acts.
In the case of E-ZPass, if they needed to contact you, they would probably put a message on your account, so you'd see it the next time you logged into the site, and follow it up with an official letter.
The point I'm trying to make is please don't just click on links in email messages without being absolutely sure of the source. In this case, clicking on the link took down those systems requiring extensive work to get them back up and running.
I hope this post gets you in the habit of looking at your emails with a critical eye. Remember, people are the first line of defense in the war on cyber-crime. Always be vigilant.


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