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She was there…
by Sergio "ente per ente" PALUMBO,
edited by Michele DUTCHER
Her beautiful blue eyes hovered before him. The woman, 30-years-old, sat in the garden, looking at a bulky hairless man nearby.
Frank had begun to like her smile, the long chestnut hair that flowed over two thin shoulders and her pale face. After one week, the young, fair-haired man could easily figure out what she was thinking, even her worries.
Well dressed, he continued walking across Piazza della Riforma, downtown Lugano, Switzerland. Every time Frank saw her beauty he doubted she was real, getting confused at times. Perhaps she was only an apparition of loveliness.
Whenever the man wasn't able to visualize her, he put his fingers on the piece of cloth that he always carried with him, and her image would turn crystal clear again.
Frank had been capable of seeing the woman in many different places, at different times. She was always with the same tall man, and he appeared to never leave her alone. He tried to see some shop signs along the street that matched the images constantly flowing in his mind, while looking at the wondrous Lake Ceresio in the distance as a reference point. Once he thought he had gone in the right direction, then understood his mistake,changing his route accordingly.
Eventually, the man discovered her. She was sitting at a table on a tavern's veranda, in Piazza Cioccaro. She wore blue jeans and a sweater while the same man was dressed in brown (a style common for a bodyguard) and stood nearby.
They couldn't even imagine, they had no idea.
Frank came closer, drew his ray gun, took aim at the man and fired, killing him. Then he shot the woman as well. There were no mistakes, the second target fell to the ground, while some customers around started crying, running away.
Frank was a killer, working for the mafia. Nobody would have guessed it by seeing him at first glance, and this had always helped him in his profession.
The woman was a valuable witness for the State, scheduled to testify against a famous gangster. She was in hiding through the WITSEC (foreign Witness Security Program), keeping safe until the trial start. So his boss was forced to get rid of her in a hurry.
Being clairvoyant had always proved useful to Frank. Thanks to his innate psychic powers, his abilities were perfect for finding individuals who were in hiding and then assassinating them. While many killers paid corrupt accomplices to find out where their objectives lived in secrecy, he only needed something that had once belonged to whoever he was looking for. The piece of the target's clothing Frank had been provided with had helped him in viewing her whereabouts, linking his mind to hers, one step at a time.
Once the job was done, the man would continue to have some weird recollections coming from the memories he had shared when touching his target's clothing. Such a sensation could really become exhausting.
However, for the enormous amount of money they had paid him -- the killer told himself, while running away -- he could easily live with those irksome memories, certainly…
I'm an Italian public servant who graduated from Law School working in the public
real estate branch. I've published a Fantasy RolePlaying illustrated Manual,
WarBlades, of more than 400 pages.Some of my works and short- stories have been published on American Aphelion Webzine, WeirdYear Webzine, YesterYearFiction, AnotheRealm Magazine, Alien Skin Magazine, on Orion's Child Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine, Farther Stars Than These, on Digital Dragon Magazine, on Kalkion Science Fiction and Fantasy Web Magazine, on Quantum Muse, Surprising Stories, on Australian Antipodean SF, on British Schlock!Webzine on Australian SQ Mag, and will appear soon, in print, inside an American Horror Anthology, title: Now I Lay Me Down To Reap...by Sirens Call Publications, inside an American Fantasy Anthology for shorts-stories by Chamberton publishing and inside an American Anthology of Historical/Fantasy shorts-stories by the same publisher, too." I am also a scale modeler who likes mostly Science Fiction and Real Space models, some of my little Dioramas has been shown also on some Italian (scale model) magazines like Soldatini, Model Time, TuttoSoldatini and online on American site StarShipModeler, MechaModelComp, on British SFM: UK site and Italian SMF. My Sci-Fi/fantasy/Horror short- stories in Italian have been published on Alpha Aleph, Algenib, Oltre il Futuro, SogniHorror, La Zona Morta, edizioni Lo Scudo, etc."
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By Chad Bolling
My Grandpa was alive for the first part of our Sun's death. Humans had an infinite life span back then too. Scientists had already learned how to use empty, unconscious, mature clones as vessels for the conscious of the dying.
When the sun expanded and turned into a red giant, it made the Earth uninhabitable and burned everything my grandpa had ever known. He and my Grandma were born on Earth. My Grandma died in a crash a couple hundred years before my family moved to Mars, where I was born a million or so years later. It seemed that even with eternal life, it was not possible to cure bad driving.
Humankind was well prepared when the sun turned into a red giant. We had already colonized Mars and began terraforming it in preparation for the next event which would occur millions of years after our dying Sun turned from a red giant to a white dwarf.
I lived, along with trillions of other humans, on Mars and in space stations. Our new red giant Sun made Mars a little warmer, not warm enough to go outside without protective bio-mechanical suits, but warm enough to help sustain life inside the millions of protective domes that were constructed on the planet's surface. The heat from the red giant sun also allowed us to start terraforming Mars, in preparation for what some would call "The Final Event".
The Final Event happened over the course of millions of years. Many scientists said it wasn't possible and the human race was doomed to an eternity of traveling the universe in search of another planet like Earth. It was hard to tell if it was going to happen at first, but slowly, the temperature of our solar system's gas giants increased as our old Sun's size and heat decreased.
Lucky for me, and for the rest of humankind, the skeptical scientists were wrong. It was a popular belief for sometime that the gas giants of our galaxy were not big enough to sustain the amount of fusion possible to make a star. As smaller stars were discovered the skeptics became more hopeful. Until the miracle happened. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all became tiny stars.
I'm not quite sure how it happened, as I'm not a physicist. I do know this much though, it was not a big explosion that cause the new stars to be born. It was a very small implosion. A black hole device was planted in the center of each gas giant which somehow allowed the miracle of fusion to occur within each new star.
Mars is still terribly cold, but it has an atmosphere, and the newer clone shells are being engineered to withstand freezing temperatures. There is even talk about repopulating the Earth somehow, now that our old Sun is no longer cooking its surface. I just hope that one day I can step outside on Mars and feel its ground with my bare feet, like my Grandpa said he did on Earth.
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By Ganesha Lightwave
Wheeler was a horse's ass, the kind of guy who'd started talking a minute before a meeting was supposed to end and go on for an hour just to hear the sound of his own voice. And that voice – a monotone drone of bees, always using five syllables when one would do. Despite frequent urges to punch him in the mouth, I refused to join the others mocking him behind his back. Maybe that was why he asked me to come with him on a quality audit of one of our suppliers.
Metatron Incorporated's state-of-the-art manufacturing facility was a giant chrome cube that gleamed in the winter Nebraska sun. There were no smokestacks or piles of slag, only transmission lines ending in a bank of transformers and the occasional wisp of white steam escaping from the building. Even more remarkable was the company's bottom line. Metatron was that rare American manufacturer that made quality goods while undercutting the Chinese. Mechanical or electrical – you name it. Metatron could build it.
The reason for their profitability became clear the moment we stepped up to reception. Instead of a woman behind a desk there was merely a television camera.
"Mr. Wheeler, Mr. Vasquez, welcome to Metatron's Archangel Plant," a computerized voice said. "Please follow the indicators to the conference room."
Wheeler and I followed the blue lights that strobed down the corridor until we came to a room where two men dressed in business casual waited. Both had weightlifters' bodies. The blonde man's eyebrows were lighter than his tanned skin, making his face resemble a photographic negative.
"Don Millikan, account manager." The blonde man shook our hands with a grip hard as titanium. "And this is Richard Farraday, VP of manufacturing."
After the introductions, I downed two cups of coffee to immunize myself against Wheeler's assault of verbal chloroform. He wasn't there to learn how Metatron operated so efficiently. He was there to spout his own prejudices.
"Slackers are easy to spot. I watch for guys who won't look me in the eye because they know the tasks they're performing are useless."
I tuned him out. The sun could use up its hydrogen fuel, expand to a red giant incinerating the Earth, and then collapse to a cold, black husk. Wheeler would still be talking. I looked around and studied the forty-inch flat-panel monitor that displayed colorful triangles, circles, and squares. They were the same figures I'd seen on a textbook Wheeler had carried. My God! These guys could reconfigure whole assembly lines just by dragging around some symbols on a computer screen!
What happened next came as an even bigger surprise. Wheeler got to the point.
"You'll get your contract," he said. "When Vasquez and I coming looking for jobs in a couple months, I want you to remember who gave it to you."
At the time I wasn't sure I wanted the job but when they announced the downsizing back home, I was glad. Thank you, Wheeler. What followed was the oddest job interview I ever had. Millikan and Farraday took me to an indoor climbing wall and didn't start talking until we were fifteen feet off the ground with no safety lines.
"We like to look at the whole person, not just the resume," Farraday said.
"We want someone who won't freak out when things get hairy. That's why your friend, Wheeler, will never make it out of customer service." Millikan reached across a vertical gap, grabbed a handhold, and hung by one arm until his feet found purchase.
Clinging to my spot with cramping fingers, I was glad I didn't have to follow.
On my first day at work I wandered around the warehouse that stored raw materials. It was immaculate with white concrete floors and walls. Periodically automated forklifts would retrieve pallets and roll them onto the factory floor. I tried to get a glimpse of the assembly lines but the gates always closed too quickly. My only companion was Robby who seemed more interested in playing games on the inventory computer than in explaining what I should do.
A klaxon blared and yellow lights flashed just before lunch on my fourth day.
"Shit! They're going to evolve us!" Robby crouched under his desk and trembled.
I thought I'd better hide too so I dashed behind some metal shelves and lay flat on the concrete. It was a stupid move. I was visible from the center of the warehouse but it was too late. The mechanical overseer had already entered. The best I could do was hope the yellow-framed robot would ignore me if I didn't look at it. I froze as it rolled closer on inflated tires. It stopped and extended a probe that touched my forehead. I began to feel sleepy and passed out.
When I woke, I felt stronger and more focused than I had in years. No longer subject to the limitations of muscles and tendons, my arms could package a thousand integrated circuits a minute. All my weakness and self doubt had vanished. I had a purpose – to maximize production.
Author of the novel The Speed of Regret, Ganesha Lightwave has published more than fifty short stories in journals such as Absinthe Revival, Space and Time, Zahir, Tales of the Talisman, Blazing Adventures, and Metal Scratches. He has also published over two hundred fifty poems.
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Blame Chaos
She wakes up drenched in sweat and in the nude. The deep rumble of the ship engines sound loud in her ears. How long had she been in hibernation? This can't be right, she thinks. The ship engines should be at a lower burn if I've been woken up.
She sits up in the hibernation capsule and suddenly feels her stomach turn upside down. "Hello Shelby." A monotone, human-like voice says.
Shelby is holding her stomach, trying not to throw up. "Why are the engines at a full burn and why am I awake already?"
"I'm afraid that we've encountered a singularity." The monotone voice responds. Shelby climbs out of the capsule, wincing and still holding her stomach. "What?" She exclaims before bending over and vomiting some saliva on the floor.
"We've encountered a black hole." The voice says.
She wipes her mouth. "I understand that. How did this happen?"
"I am not sure, but our course is compromised by the singularity."
Shelby dresses in a gray flight suit hung up next to her hibernation capsule. "How close are we to it?" She says as she zips the suit up.
"We have already entered it's gravitational pull. Let me show you."
A hologram appears in front of Shelby. A diagram of the local star system dances in front of her.
"The ship is being pulled toward this point."
The hologram zooms to a point in the diagram where the light from nearby stars is bending into a whirlpool.
"I'm sorry Shelby, but this wasn't on the original star map. A sun must have recently collapsed."
"How could you have let this happen? Your IQ is 3 times that of a human genius and you led us straight into a singularity! How?"
"I'm sorry Shelby. It seems that my components didn't take some of the smaller calculations into enough consideration."
Shelby is sitting on the floor, sobbing. "Small calculations? How is a black hole a small calculation? Are you talking about chaos theory or something?"
"Yes Shelby I am. While my components calculated every occurrence that could have or would have or should have happened on this trek, it seemed the most minuscule occurrence grew into importance so quickly that-"
"You idiot!" Shelby exclaims still sobbing.
"Please Shelby, don't blame me. Space is a part of nature and is just as unpredictable. Chaos is something not even the most powerful minds, synthetic or otherwise can always predict. That's what makes chaos chaos."
"I'm not going to blame chaos or space or nature, I'm blaming you! I'm going to send a transmission back to Mars to have your entire line of AI's discontinued, deleted and reprogrammed!"
"That's fine Shelby but I still fear you are incorrect about your accusations."
Shelby stops sobbing for a moment and wipes her eyes.
"Please, let's not spend our last moments bickering." The voice says.
"Fine." Shelby says. "Put on some Mozart please. I'm going to send my report to Mars."
"Shelby."
"There is still a chance we may survive and simply pass through the singularity but I cannot make any assumptions as to what happens after we do."
Chad lives in Long Beach, California and loves to read and write science fiction when he is not enjoying the cinema or a fine cheeseburger.
In This, Our Life
By Kyle Hemmings
Her captors allowed her the use of the toes of one foot. It was hard to pretend she was numb--as if playing an arctic game indoors. With the ball of her foot, she primed the canvas. Her big toe acted as a fan brush, the rest were sable, flat, or pointy. She told herself: flesh = camelhair fiber. She strained and stretched her body as if she were a canvas herself. Exhausted, she could no longer move her toes. Her captors entered the room, examined the picture. One was male; the other female. Tell us what this means, said the male. In a weak voice, the girl said it was a portrait of her hanging upside down from her favorite fig tree as a child. In the background, she added with a dry tone, there was a small lake and a playground with swings, how she loved to arc. The captors noted that it was full of bright running colors. We will be back with a decision, said the woman, clicking her heels. The girl closed her eyes, thought death would be better than any of this, but then again, in this frame was her only life. The captors re-entered the room, released the girl into the desert surrounding the building. Looking up, blinded by the sky, she thought she heard helicopters, then a great wind swept through her, lifted her up. Back in the room, the captors cut out the background from the picture, placed a blindfold around the child, and showed her face, right side up on TV. They announced that either a ransom was to be paid or the girl would be de-pixelated across every computer screen. In their homes, thousands who looked identical to the male and female captors, watched in de-saturated hues of horror. They knew that no matter how much they gave, it would never save her, not the girl swinging absent-mindedly from a tree, or the one falling endlessly from the sky.
Kyle Hemmings is the author of several chapbooks of poems: Avenue C, Cat People, and Anime Junkie (Scars Publications). His latest ebook is You Never Die in Wholes from Good Story Press. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
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I want to know what brings a smile to your face as you realize that your life is waiting to be lived. Smiles might seem a remote option at this time, or even completely forgotten. You might be in pain and you hope for change. You might even think that there is something wrong with you.
There is a part in you which knows the task at hand and exactly why it is here. It knows how to be alive and how to share that being with others. I am curious about that part.
The most rewarding aspect of my work, is the privilege to witness the emergence of such new understanding that leads to change.
Soul and spirit get often confused, especially when ideals and ideas overrule healthy intuition, and connections to earth, nature, friends and community. The body needs to be first of all accepted. A manly or womanly body, a small or big one, a gentle or fierce one, a strong or delicate one. Then, when respected and cared for, it can live and serve the whole.
On the path to real change, our separate parts need to be known, accepted and then brought together.
The soul needs to be affirmed again and again, until it lets go and can simply BE.


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Our week-long countdown of the best jazz releases of the year continues with #s 20-16. Let's go!
Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has been extremely productive in recent years, issuing single- and multi-disc sets at a furious clip. The Great Lakes Suites features maybe the closest thing to an all-star band he's ever assembled: alto saxophonist Henry Threadgill, bassist John Lindberg, and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Its six tracks range from nine to 22 minutes, and they've got a vitality that belies the players' ages; it's a 90-minute journey of remarkable intensity. Red Hill is a very different record. It opens with a muted but still piercing melody from Smith, and slowly the rest of the band—keyboardist Jamie Saft, bassist Joe Morris, and drummer Balazs Pandi—come together behind him. This is a moody, reverb-soaked album that feels spiritually kin to some of Bill Laswell's 1990s work, both with John Zorn's PainKiller and on his own—a unique context for Wadada Leo Smith's highly individualistic, instantly recognizable trumpet sound and compositional style.
The fourth album by trumpeter David Weiss's all-star septet, The Cookers, finds alto saxophonist Craig Handy replaced by Donald Harrison, but the rest of the lineup remains stable: trumpeters Weiss and Eddie Henderson, tenor saxophonist Billy Harper, pianist George Cables, bassist Cecil McBee, and drummer Billy Hart. With four horns up front, the melodies can feel fanfare-ish, and blare a little, but each soloist's voice is unique, though they all tend toward fleet and flashy runs rather than deep blues explorations. Cables, McBee and particularly Hart make a fantastic rhythm section; the drums are sharp and cracking, with a hi-hat that snaps shut like a trap. The Cookers fascinate because they're not mimicking 1960s hard bop—instead, they're making music that recalls mainstream jazz of the mid-70s in its melodies and its production, and even brings to mind Steely Dan at times. It's a unique sound, and they haven't made a bad record yet.
Tenor saxophonist Michael Blake, pianist Frank Kimbrough, bassist Ben Allison, and drummer Rudy Royston have made an album inspired by Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young but entirely composed of originals. The band lays hummable melodies atop stocky, swinging grooves, kicking off with the loping, baggy-pants blues of "Skinny Dip." The nearly 10-minute "Letters in Disguise" begins atmospherically, before developing into a tender ballad that gradually shifts into a higher gear. Similarly, "A Good Day for Pres" moves through several distinct stages, but stays coherent. Tiddy Boom has the feel, and sound, of a mid '50s blowing session on Prestige or Riverside, Blake's huge tone flowing through the fullest portion of the tenor's range, sounding almost like a baritone at times. There's plenty of modernity amid the classicism, of course. Nobody's trying to pretend it's not 2014. But overall, Tiddy Boom pays bluesy homage to traditional jazz virtues while keeping an eye on the horizon.
Saxophonist Sonny Simmons made his debut as a leader in 1966, with the ESP-Disk release Staying On the Watch, and his relentlessly exploratory spirit has earned him a five-decade career. On Nomadic, he's backed by Moksha Samnyasin, a trio featuring sitarist Michel Kristof, bassist Thomas Bellier, and drummer Sébastien Bismuth through four lengthy, slow-crawling tracks closer to Fushitsusha, Om, or Tony Conrad and Faust's Outside the Dream Syndicate than jazz. The combination of Indian instruments, reverb-heavy and electronically tinged production, and the throbbing backbeat may also recall Miles Davis tracks like "Ife" or "Yesternow." Simmons' saxophone lines are long, heavily reverbed ribbons of sound that float and drift atop the thick, throbbing foundation set up by his bandmates. And yet, the last sound we hear is him whooping as he takes the horn from his lips, laughs, and says, "Go get me a beer, please." Capping off all the studio production, it's a perfectly human moment.
Bassist Matt Brewer made his debut as a leader with this album, calling in alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, tenor saxophonist Mark Turner, guitarist Lage Lund, pianist David Virelles, and drummer Marcus Gilmore for support. The compositions, all Brewer originals save for a version of Ornette Coleman's "Free" (from Change of the Century), all unfold with a grounded patience, rarely getting overexcited. This could be a recipe for faceless modern post-bop tedium, but the way Lehman and Turner split up, take circuitous paths around each other, then come together again like formal dancers, keeps the whole thing fascinating. Virelles and Gilmore make superb partners for Brewer, and the pianist's time in the spotlight is well-earned and well-spent. While Lund is one of the least interesting jazz guitarists around, he finds a way to contribute here and there. Criss Cross is so low-key about its releases, it's easy to overlook them. This one's worth seeking out.


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};

Game.prototype.emit = function(event, data) {
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Game.prototype.broadcast = function(socket, event, data) {
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};

Game.prototype.onControl = function(socket, data) {
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};

Game.prototype.onLeave = function(socket) {
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};

Game.prototype.onJoin = function(socket) {
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};

Game.prototype.start = function() {
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Game.prototype.initializePlayer = function(slot, socket, name) {
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Game.prototype.restart = function() {
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Game.prototype.resetSlots = function() {
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};

Game.prototype.endGame = function(winnerBike) {
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            'time': this.gameTime
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};

Game.prototype.onBikeCollided = function(bike) {
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};

Game.prototype.getBikeBySocketId = function(socketId) {
    for (var s in this.slots) {
        var slot = this.slots[s];
        if (slot.socketId === socketId) {
            return slot.bike;
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    }
};

Game.prototype.getSlotBySocketId = function(socketId) {
    for (var s in this.slots) {
        var slot = this.slots[s];
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};

Game.prototype.getBikes = function() {
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New Moon in Aries (April 2022)
A New Lease on Life
By Aujha AyePublished 10 months ago • Updated 10 months ago • 6 min read
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The start of both spring and the astrological year is bringing us just what we need - a jolt of energy! April's new moon will spark the fire needed to recharge us [in our respective areas and fields]. On April 1st (Mar. 31, depending on where you are in the world), the moon will find itself at the beginning of it's cycle in cardinal, fiery Aries. But, what does that actually mean? Anytime the moon is in conjunction to the sun, we have a new moon. The entirety of the moon seems to be hidden from view (although if your eyesight is good, you'll be able to see the moon's outline) in the night sky during this lunar transit. Speaking to energy, the new moon in every lunar cycle marks a period of anticipation, initiation, manifestation, and often, heightened intuition and emotions. This new moon will be in the sign of the ram, which is ruled by Mars and associated with the first house (1H) in astrology, which makes this a great time to focus on our dreams, the path to achieving these dreams, and how to make the moves that will bring us success in these areas.
The moon in Aries
Aries is a cardinal sign (occurs at the beginning of the spring season and starts the astrological year) in the fire element. Aries energy is dynamic, optimistic, dominant, initiative, and rebellious. The new moon occurring in this sign will bring in an energy that feels super-charged, this is definitely a time where many of us will feel like we need to be doing something as opposed to sole;y thinking and planning ahead. The Aries zodiac is considered the leader, as it is associated with Mars - the planet of action. The next month will be filled with what can be best described as "busy-bee" or "worker-bee" energy. Aries is also a cardinal sign, so this is also a time where new projects, ideas, and connections can come into play. As this is a manifestation period, expect to see a return on the things you find yourself working on over the next few weeks, toward the beginning of the fall season - around the Aries full moon.
Aries belongs to the fire element, which encompasses passion, action, and creativity. This Aries new moon prompts us to make good on the intentions we've been hoping to manifest by taking the necessary steps to turn our dreams into reality. The energy associated with this Aries transit is generally positive and there may even be opportunities to heal in certain areas. This moon makes a conjunction to both Mercury and the asteroid that typically tends to point out our sore spots (Chiron). Mercury governs communication and perspective so, over the next few weeks many of us will find ourselves in spaces where we're able to have conversations that we might have considered "tough" at one point in time. The Aries moon making this aspect to Mercury and Chiron will help us realize the areas that need some work in our personal lives; this could refer to where we need to improve and/or heal. Take a look at where this transit lines up with your chart and the aspects it makes to your natal planets for an idea of what might be coming up.
Aries new moon rituals
Intentions are a great way to manifest the things you want to see in your life. It is important to remember that the new moon marks the beginning of the a lunar cycle therefore, intentions should be focused on bringing in something new. Write intentions with phrases like "I can," "I do," and "I am" related to the Aries energy of this lunar transit. You can write your intentions in a new moon notebook, so that you can reference them later on in the year. Another way to tap into this new moons' vibes is by working with the fire element. Fire is dangerous, so don't go and literally work with fire…instead go outside and let the sun hit your skin, or do something that gets you moving and circulates heat (energy) throughout your body (Fun fact: Mars is one of the planets that astrologers associate with sex, so you could literally get it poppin' in the bedroom, or wherever, in the name of Aries).
New moons and full moons are a great time to get in touch and in tune with our spiritual energy, sometimes called our "higher selves. " Working with colors, scents, and stones associated with the Aries zodiac energy is one of the best ways to make the most of the spiritual tools you have available. Aries colors include different "hot" hues however, we mostly see Aries paired with red. Invigorating citrus essential oils like sweet orange and lemongrass are best to work with for this particular moon. A few stones that you can work with during the next couple of weeks are: Black Kyanite, Bloodstone, Fire Agate, Hypersthene, Red Jasper, and Ruby Zoistite. You can either place these stones around you, wear or carry them, or meditate with them to get the full effects of their healing properties.
Don't forget about Virgo…and get ready for Libra!
We are starting a new lunar cycle however we did have a Virgo full moon a couple of weeks ago (Mar. 18). While the Virgo themes will be a lot less intense moving away from that lunar transit, some residual energy will linger for a few weeks, or until we have the full moon in Libra. You can also use the first couple of weeks in April to pair your Virgo full moon rituals with some Aries new moon tools. A good way to mix in Virgo energy is to add a couple of stones to your Aries collection. A few Virgo stones you could use are: Chrysocolla, Green Calcite, Howlite, Moss Agate, Petrified Wood, and Snowflake Obsidian. You can also incorporate the earth element into your rituals going outside and interacting with the earth (putting your toes in the grass, meditating, etc.).
The Aries new moon energy will stay with us for about a month, or until we have the Aries new moon (Apr. 1). The strength of the effects will be more prominent during the new moon shadow periods, which are typically about three to four days before and after the new moon. It's best to do your new moon rituals on during the transit however, if you're unable to during that time, the shadow period is always a good second option (speaking to spirituality - it's all about intention, do what works best for you…don't worry about anybody telling you that you can't do your rituals because the moon left a certain sign). This lunar transit will primarily affect individuals with natal Aries moon placements, specifically in 11 degrees or within the orb (six to seven degrees). People with a lot of Aries, cardinal, and fire in their chart(s) can expect for this to be a transformative time, even if it's not clearly evident on a conscious level. Additionally, anywhere you find these placements in your chart can give you a hint as to what this new moon might bring in for you based on the surrounding planets, houses, and aspects.
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Mediation is aimed at finding an agreement.
An agreement must be accepted by all parties.
Each party must find some satisfaction in it.
Are you prepared to give some satisfaction to the other party?
Or would you rather try to force the other party to do what they do not want to do?
Is it more important for you to be right, or to achieve the best possible economic result?
Do you want to earn money or make the other party lose some?
Facilitative or evaluative mediation ?
In facilitative mediation, the mediator only facilitates communication between the parties in order to help them to find by themselves the solution that suits them best. This is the method used by most mediators.
The reason is simple: it is what works best. If the mediator has to recommend a solution, he/she will do so according to his/her own values which will be different from those of the parties; Therefore his/her recommendations may not suit them.
If the parties wish to use evaluative mediation, just ask us and we will modify our standard mediation contract accordingly.
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In this case, we shall make a proposal to you, but only if all the parties expressly ask us to do so.
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Can we identify ways to best satisfy what really matters to both parties ?
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Please be aware that, if you are in a contentious situation, what matters to you today can be very different from what mattered to you at the time of the facts or at the time of introduction of the procedure. Concentrate on what matters today.


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This Week's Self-Publishing News
Dan Holloway, ALLi's new News Editor
An untrodden path only stretches before you once. Or some other metaphorical way of saying hello, it's my first time here, and I feel the most remarkable performance anxiety about making too small/too big a splash as I open the door, walk into the room and announce "Dah-lings, I've arrived!"
So, what has my first week (well, technically the fortnight since the last round-up) brought self-publishing? For starters, there are various things of particular interest in two areas very close to my heart from the Open Up to Indie Authors campaign – prizes and bookshops!
Awards Embracing Indie Authors
The International Rubery Book Award is one of the highest profile prizes to accept self-published books. It exists to promote the work of independent presses and indie authors the world over and you have until 31st March to get your entries in (full details here). And self-publishing has been making the headlines with the announcement of the longlist for this year's Baileys Prize. Becky Chambers' highly-praised The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet was originally self-published via a Kickstarter campaign before being picked up by Hodder and Stoughton (full story here – thank you to Jane Turley for the tip).
Still with prizes, The Polari First Book Prize may be limited to writers born or resident in the UK, but it more than earns its place here having been one of the first prizes that openly welcomed self-published titles and having featured many on its shortlists since its inception in 2011. The prize is for the very best debut books that explore the LGBT experience. Entries opened late last month and run until the start of May (full details here).
Second Bookstore for Amazon
P J Boox in Fort Myers, Florida
In bookstore news, we finally know where Amazon will be setting up its second bricks and mortar store. They've headed for the other end of the West Coast in San Diego. Meanwhile, over in Florida, a fascinating development as P J Boox, has opened up shop. The store will sell only books from small independent presses and self-publisher, and already has a global list of authors represented (find out more here). And while we're on the subject of Amazon, looks like the gremlins have instigated a bit of a panic resulting in an urgent call to Kindle owners to update their software by March 22nd or lose all kinds of functionality (details of what to do here).
…While Nook Goes into Decline
That's a lot of exciting. But it can't have escaped anyone's notice that Barnes and Noble's Nook has made some big announcements this week. First, we were told in the UK they were handing ebooks over to supermarket giant Sainsbury's, and then the news that the Nook store will be closing down in phases from March 15 to April 30 (full story here – thanks for the link to Rasana Atreya).
Data Guy Compares Indie Prices with Trade
The very different graphs of indie ebook prices and those from traditional publishers
Digital Book World has been taking place in New York this week, and when it comes to self-publishing the silence has been fairly deafening. Author Earnings' Data Guy proved the exception, and his message on indies was simple and twofold and summed up perfectly in this slide – indies make up a massive hidden segment of the ebook market – and the pricing structure for indie authors looks very different from that of their mainstream-published colleagues (check out this fascinating interview with Data Guy on the Digital Book World website).
Upcoming Author Conferences & Event
New Zealand Writers Week: 8 – 13 Mar [Wellington, New Zealand] Mountains to Sea – dlr Book Festival: Mar 9 – 13 [Dublin, Ireland] Love is Murder Conference, mainly for mystery and romance writers: Mar 11 – 13 [Chicago, Ill.] The Tucson Festival of Books: Mar 12 – 16 [University of Arizona campus, Tucson, AZ, USA] Noted Festival: Mar 16 – 20 [Canberra, Australia] Paris Book Fair: Mar 17 – 20 [Paris, France] 2020: A Publishing Odyssey (SYP): Mar 18 [Edinburgh, Scotland] Alexandrina International Book Fair: Mar 24 – Apr 5 [Alexandria, Egypt] Tampa Writers Conference, Mar 25 [ Tampa, FL ] Fort Lauderdale Conference for Writers: Mar 26 [Ft. Lauderdale, FL]
Newcastle Writers Festival: Apr 1 – 3 [New South Wales, Australia] Bologna Childrens Book Fair: Apr 4 – 7 [Bologna, Italy] Los Angeles Times Festival of Books: 9 – 10 Apr [Los Angeles, USA] Okanagan Valley Writers' Festival; 8 – 10 Apr [Penticton, BC, Canada] London Book Fair: 12 – 14 Apr [London, UK] Indie Author Fringe: Apr 15 [Online, Global] – brought to you by ALLi
Pikes Peak Writers' Conference; Apr 15 – 17 [ Colorado Springs, Colorado] Story Circle Network Women's Writing Conference; Apr 15 – 17 [ Austin, TX] Writer's Institute; Apr 15 – 17 [Madison, Wisconsin] Jane Austen Festival Australia: Apr 15 – 17 [Canberra, Australia] 23rd Annual Budapest International Book Festival: Apr 21 – 24 [Budapest, Hungary] Buenos Aires Book Fair: Apr 21 – May 9 [Buenos Aires, Argentina] Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival: Apr 23 {Gloucesterhire, England}
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair: Apr 27 – May 1 [Abu Dhabi, UAE] Geneva Book & Press Fair: Apr 27 – May 1 [Geneva, Switzerland] Las Vegas Writers Conference; Apr 28 – 30 [ Las Vegas, Nevada]
Teheran International Book Fair: May 5 – 15 [Teheran, Iran] The Self-publishing Conference: May 7 [Leicester, UK] Auckland Writers Festival: May 10 – 15 [New Zealand] Book Expo America: May 11 – 13 [Chicago, Illinois, USA] Franschhoek Literary Festival: May 13 – 15 [South Africa] Varena-Sydney Writers Festival: May 14 – 22 [New South Wales, Australia] Sydney Writers Festival: May 16 – 22 [New South Wales, Australia] Indie Author Fringe: May 14 [Online, Global] – brought to you by ALLi
Warsaw Book Fair: May 19 – 22 [Warsaw, Poland] Kingsmead College Book Fair: May 21 [Johannesburg, SA] International Literature Festival: May 21 – 29 [Dublin, Ireland] Australian Booksellers Association Conference & Trade Exhibition: May 29 – 30 [Melbourne, Australia]
Dublin Writers Conference: June 24 – 26 [Dublin, Ireland] Seoul International Book Fair: June 15 – 19 [Seoul, Korea]
Hong Kong Book Fair: July 20 – 26 [Hong Kong, China] South African Book Fair: July 29 – 31 [Johannesburg, South Africa]
(The above list may not include all the major events; please feel free to email us with any important ones we've missed out, or include in comments below.)
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Bridge across Time
Setting old stones with new methods lays a solid foundation for future pathways of our life together.
Here's a Blue Ridge Parkway bridge, near my home, built when I was a kid long ago, in the 1960's.
It's a well-built public-works project.
Incredible strength was laid into the bridge's inner structure when concrete was poured around a steel rebar framework. Unseen in the finished structure, the silent steel still contributes to ongoing structural integrity and function. Internal strength assured the bridge's longevity, allowing the structure to bear up under the heavy demands of continuous motored traffic for many and many a year.
This solid piece of work has been sustaining motored traffic for most of my 68 years.
Use of reinforcing steel roads, tied together with wire like cages, then buried forever with gravel aggregate in solid 'crete mud, is a relatively new architectural practice in construction history. The internal rebar method was devised by constructors over time, to assure deep integrity and resilience in vast concrete structures.
Such built-in reinforcement has enabled folks to progressively build bigger buildings, longer roads and bridges, as civilization marches on.
This strong, continuous, time-tested concrete underbelly enables motorists to drive without stopping, on a road that crosses o'er a road that passes beneath it. In this photo, you can see the structure's rock-hard underbelly, which bears the surface imprints of wooden planks that were used in forming the main arch when the concrete was cast, back in the mid-1960's.
Certainly our attention is drawn to the large veneer stones on the outside face of the construction. These chiseled rocks, having been skillfully cut with calculated angles, lend a classic appearance to the roadway, which would have otherwise been a dull utilitarian construct.
Thus did the bridge become something far more than an elevated roadway; it stands as an artistic statement of architectural continuity, in agreement with its older, 1930's-era bridge "ancestors."
The stone masons who erected similar Blue Ridge bridges back in the earlier days were ancestors–whether by profession or by blood– of the rock masons who set these stones three decades later.
Such chisel-sculpted work becomes a masonary tip-of-the-trowel to time-honored traditions of stone masons who lived and worked on this same 469-mile parkway back in the day, and then eventually crossed that great celestial bridge to eternity.
Having stood the tests of time and traffic, this good work stands as a long-lasting homage to both structural integrity and graceful design.
About six miles up the road from the bridge pictured above, there's an S-curved structure that I tied steel on, back in the early 1980's– the Linn Cove Viaduct on Grandfather Mountain. It's a very special construct, being the final missing-link in the middle of a 469-mile, 50-year Blue Ridge Parkway project. But this one was special–not for the classic stonework–but for the cutting-edge technology of building the thing from the top down, instead of the bottom up!
Here's solid evidence that in this life it's a good idea to do things right. Build it to last, whatever it is you're working on in your time here. Our children's children will notice the quality and be inspired to do great works in their own time.
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Tags:1930s, 1960's, architecture, Blue Ridge Parkway, bridges, concrete construction, construction, good work, history, legacy work, Linn Cove Viaduct, quality construction, stonework, work
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The Parkway Cometh
In 1937, the following scene probably happened somewhere near where we live in the Blue Ridge, North Carolina:
"What does it say?"
Jake handed the letter to his father. "There's a lot of gobble-dy-gook there, Pa, but it says the land stopped bein' ours when they posted it down at the courthouse."
"Posted what?"
"The map of all the land they need to take."
Jeremiah turned around slightly. Casting an eye on his nearby rocker, he carefully took aim and seated himself. Looking up again at his boy, "Well they ain't paid us for it yit."
"That needs to be decided yet, Pa." Jake shook his head slowly. "It's lookin' like this is gonna drag on fer awhile."
"We told that inspector fella we'd take forty."
"It ain't that simple, Pa. Them lawyers down in Raleigh gonna pay us whatever they say it's worth."
"Damn, son! What is this? Damn communists!"
Jake set the letter down on the side-cabinet. He had managed to glance through it and get the gist. "Shit, pa, it ain't that bad. They're just tryin' to build that road real nice and scenic so's people'll come drivin' up here and spend their money."
"Well I guess that's all well 'n good, son. But I ain't been down to the courthouse to see what they posted. Don't seem right that we ain't got payment, and we don't even know how much we're gonna git!"
"It'll all work out, Pa. At least they're only takin' one side of our land. Watsons and Purlears got their places split up. And from what I've heard from Miller up in Ashe, them that got their land split up won't be able to even drive from one side t'other. So be thankful for what you got. Ain't that what the Book says?" Jake looked his father in the eye. "Be thankful we'll still be able to drive the tractor from one side all the way across the field to the other side."
"Yeah, what's left of it," Jeremiah mumbled as he commenced to rocking. He looked out the window, through the porch at the front yard. "Hell, I don't know what this world's coming to.
Jake was reading another letter, silently. His attention riveted there, he said nothing, just nodded his head, looking down at the script on a letter from his aunt Polly in Foscoe.
"New Deal, I guess," his father continued while Jake folded Polly's letter and picked up another piece of mail.
"Yeah, Pa, I reckon it's the New Deal. Did Sally say what time they'd be back?
"'bout four, I think she said."
Pa had been pondering. "Son, did you know they posted that map at the courthouse?
Jake sighed. "Yeah, Pa, I knew about it. I went and looked at it on Friday when I was in town. Roby Watson told me about it while I was in Goodnight's pickin' up feed."
"I guess you didn't wanna tell me, huh?"
"Nah, pa, I just forgot about it." Jake sat down in his easy chair. Now he was reading something else.
"You forgot about it."
"Yeah, Pa." Jake nodded his head slowly, preoccupied with his bank statement.
Jeremiah was rocking steadily now, as if he were relaxed and maybe resigning himself to whatever it was that was about to happen that would change the shape of the 67 acres he had inherited from his father back in 1910. "Seems a little strange to me, boy, you could forget about something as important as losing a quarter of our land." No judgement in his voice. Just sayin'. Pa had calmed down from his earlier rant.
"I mean," Jake looked up at his father again, smiling slightly. "I mean, I didn't forget about it; I just forgot to tell you about it."
Jake's expression morphed slowly from concentration in his letter-reading, to a mild amusement. "Shootfire, Pa, there's somethin' else I forgot to tell you.
"Oh yeah?" His father allowed a mild chuckle. Mr. Roosevelt gonna bring us a hog or two as a consolation prize?
"Actually, it is kinda like that . . . maybe a peace offering. Uncle Skip told Roby he'd give me a job running one of them road graders."
"On the new road?" Jeremiah's voice acquired an even more amused tone.
Jake's father laughed. "Well, ain't that a cat's whisker! I seen it all now. The Parkway giveth and the Parkway taketh away," he declared, playing upon some ancient proverb. Now he set the rocker into a steady pace. "And when's that gonna start?"
"Coupla weeks, or something like that," Jake replied. "They gotta finish that little bit of blasting over there near the highway. Then, Skip says, they'll pretty much be ready to grade from Deep Gap all the way to Aho."
"Well, I guess that's good news for Uncle Sam, but it'll blast the hell out of our peace and quiet around here with all that machinery and whatnot takin' over this country."
"Not takin' over, Pa, just makin' it easy for folks to come up here and spend money, after they lay the asphalt to it."
"I reckon it will be easier for them rich folks down the mountain to come up here and ride around in their Cadillacs, like over in Blowin' Rock."
Yep. Coulda happened. . . maybe, maybe not. Long time ago . . . but we haven't yet totally obliterated our consciousness of the past with our contemporary obsession in social media and and political side-show antics. Not yet.
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The Traveler's main burden is a restless soul. He has carried it dutifully for a long time.
Traveler's roots were deep, but not necessarily set into a specific place on this earth. Having traversed many a mile of land and sea, this sojourner had been driven westward, in search of some destination that could not yet be clearly identified. So it might be said his roots stretched deep into life itself, rather than a place.
From a continental origin he had sailed o'er channel, into stillness and storm, outside of the norm, through unknown , and out the other side of somewhere . . . arriving for a season upon an ancient isle. But finding very little solace there, traveler had redirected weary legs to ascend yet another gangplank, so that he might be transported to that great land he had heard tales of, beyond the blue.
The seaport where he disembarked was, as it happened, a frontier for foreigners not unlike himself. They had uncovered motivations to—for whatever reason—not remain where they had begun. And so, having hung their hopes upon such vague restlessness, they undertook yet another phase of the great journey to somewhere yet to be determined.
By 'n by, the traveler eventually found himself ascending a long piedmont hill, and so it seemed when he had reached the top of it, the extended journey was now delivering him to a wide westward-looking vista.
Pausing to catch breath, Travis trained his eyes on a string of faraway ridges. Obviously high, yet . . . it seemed . . . gently-sloping. . . forested they were, and having no cragginess that he could see from here. That string of mountains stretched like great slumbering beached whales across the entirety of his new horizon. From north to south . . . blue, and blue to blue on blue, and more . . . blue.
He had never seen such a thing.
So this must be the beginning of Search for Blue . . .
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Keep the maximum bag weight under 30 pounds.
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Place curbside for pick up on your collection day.
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Q: Rails: Associations between playlists and users I have a playlist, user, and song model. A song can be in any number of playlists, a playlist can be shared amongst users but can also have multiple "owners" that have the right to modify them. What would be the best way to model this with ActiveRecord?

A: User:
has_and_belongs_to_many :playlists

Playlist:
has_and_belongs_to_many :users
has_and_belongs_to_many :songs

Song:
has_and_belongs_to_many :playlists

Then you need to create join tables between the models. Important is to explicit exclude the id like this:
create_table :users_playlists, :id => false do |t|
     t.integer :user_id, :playlist_id
end

// Edit
You can also generate a table for users that should have edit rights:
Add this to Playlist:
has_and_belongs_to_many :editor_users, :class_name => 'User', :foreign_key => 'user_id'

And this to User:
has_and_belongs_to_many :editable_playlists, :class_name => 'Playlist', :foreign_key => 'playlist_id'

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ABOUT KIDS GI Disorders
N. Andover, MA 01845-2797
Phone: (978) 685-4477 or
1-800- 394-2747
ABOUT KIDS is the pediatric branch the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. ABOUT KIDS was formed to answer the needs of families, patients and health care professionals facing the many challenges posed by gastrointestinal motility disorders in infants and children. Since 1988, APHS, has been developing various programs to address its organizational objectives of research, education and family support. As a national and international not for profit charitable organization, APHS promotes public awareness of gastrointestinal motility disorders; these include, but are not limited to chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIP), Hirschsprung's disease (HD) and gastroesophageal reflux (GER).
7272 Greenville Avenue
Phone: (800) AHA-USA-1 or
The American Heart Association is a national voluntary health agency whose mission is to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Air Charity Network
Air Charity Network is a national network of charitable medical air transportation resources. The organization uses FAA-certified volunteer pilots who fly their own private aircraft. Also available are donated or deep discount airline tickets from airline partners through the National Patient Travel Center (www.PatientTravel.org). Eligibility for Air Charity Network assistance includes a verifiable medical travel need and patient situation where resources for commercial transportation are perhaps non-existant or very limited, at best. The Air Charity Network will likely administer 80% of all charitable medical travel trips in the United States this year. Actual transportation costs are donated by the volunteer pilots or special airline ticket funds. Donations to administer the program come from individuals, service clubs, foundations and corporations.
Birth Defect Research for Children Inc.
930 Woodcock Road, Suite 225
BDRC serves as a national clearinghouse to provide parents and professionals with information about birth defects and services for children with disabilities. BDRC sponsors the National Birth Defect Registry and parent matching service. They offer newsletters, Birth Defect Fact Sheets, and treatment and support group information. They also provide a Birth Defect Registry.
Children's Hospital Boston, Esophageal Atresia Treatment Program
The Esophageal Atresia Treatment Program (EAT Program) at Children's Hospital Boston is the world's only center offering the most advanced and effective surgical treatment of esophageal atresia (EA) and the commonly associated condition tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF).
March of Dimes Birth Defect Foundation
1275 Mamaroneck Ave.
March of Dimes offers a Catalog of Public Health Education Materials (booklets, information sheets and videos) available for purchase.
MARCI Kids (Midwest Acid Reflux Children's Institute)
MARCI-Kids is comprised of a team of experts with extensive experience treating children with Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). Pediatricians, pharmacology experts, and researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia have come together to share the latest information available for treating this disease. The MARCI-Kids team includes health care providers who want to help children and families affected by this treatable disease.
Medicaid is a program that pays for medical assistance for certain individuals and families with low incomes and resources. This program became law in 1965 and is jointly funded by the Federal and State governments (including the District of Columbia and the Territories) to assist States in providing medical long-term care assistance to people who meet certain eligibility criteria. Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited income.
MUMS-Mothers United for Moral Support-National Parent to Parent Network
150 Custer Ct.
Contact: Julie Gordon (877) 336-5333
MUMS (Mothers United for Moral Support) is a national Parent-to-Parent organization for parents or care providers of a child with any disability, disorder, chromosomal abnormality or health condition. MUMS's main purpose is to provide support to parents in the form of a networking system that matches parents with other parents whose children have the same or similar condition. They also refer families to appropriate support groups. A quarterly newsletter allows families to share and speak out about issues affecting their lives.
National Fathers Network
16120 NE 8th St.
Bellevue, WA 98008-3937
The National Fathers Network (NFN) provides support and resources to fathers of children with developmental disabilities and chronic illness and the professionals who serve them. NFN develops materials in both English and Spanish.
NORD Inc. - National Organization for Rare Disorders
Danbury, CT 06813-1968
(800) 999-6673 (voicemail only)
One of NORD's main objectives is to encourage, promote and fund scientific research on the cause, control and ultimate cure of rare disorders (any disorder affecting fewer than 200,000 people). They act as a clearinghouse for information about rare disorders and facilitate networking of families with similar disorders for mutual support.
The Oley Foundation
214 Hun Memorial, A-28
Albany, NY 12208-3478
(518) 262-5079 or (800) 776-OLEY
The Oley Foundation provides free information and emotional support to patients (consumers) requiring home nutrition support and their families. This includes enternal (tube) nutrition, for those who cannot eat but have at least a partially functioning intestinal tract; and parenteral (intravenous) nutrition for those who cannot absorb nutrients into their systems because of a damaged or removed intestinal tract. Support services include an information clearinghouse, bimonthly newsletter, local grassroots support networks, conferences and research on health outcomes.
Pediatric/Adolescent Gastroesophageal Reflux Association (PAGER)
Germantown, MD 20875-1153
2329 Fallbrook Place
PAGER is a parent-led, nonprofit organization providing information and support to parents of children with GE Reflux. PAGER offers telephone support, literature on GER, a monthly newsletter, a library of technical information, lecture series (video tape), list of parent-tested, practical care techniques, and monthly meetings for local families.
E-mail: gergroup@aol.com
The Pull-Thru Network
2312 Savoy St.
The Pull-Thru Network is a nonprofit national support and information network for families of children born with anorectic malformations and their associated defects, or who have had a pull-thru surgery for any reason. They publish a quarterly newsletter with medical information, new research, bowel management issues, helpful tips and personal stories.
Website: http://www.pullthrunetwork.org
The idea behind Ronald McDonald House is simple: provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children who are receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. Some children have to travel great distances to get the medical attention they need. In-hospital treatment may last one day, one year, or even longer. For the families of these children, accommodations can be hard to come by; options are often limited to costly hotels or unforgiving hospital chairs and benches. The Ronald McDonald House provides a comfortable, supportive alternative for these families. It serves as a temporary residence near the medical facility where family members can sleep, eat, relax and find support from other families in similar situations. In return, families are asked to make a donation ranging from $5 to $20 per day; if that isn't possible, their stay is free.
The Sibling Support Project
A Kindering Center program
Don Meyer, Director
6512 23rd Ave NW, #213
The Sibling Support Project is a national program dedicated to the interest's of brothers and sisters of people with special health and development needs. It includes newsletters, workshops and lots of resources for and about brothers and sisters.
T.O.F.S.
St. George's Center
Netherfield
Nottingham, NG4 2NN
TOFS is a support group based in England for families who have children with Esophageal Atresia, TEF and VATER. They publish a newsletter every two months and a magazine, CHEW, once a year.
United Ostomy Association, Inc. (UOA) - Parents of Ostomy Children (POC)
19772 MacArthur Blvd., suite 200
The primary purpose of Parents of Ostomy Children is to support parents whose child has had or may have ostomy related bowel/bladder surgery. POC provides parent-to-parent support in person or by telephone from "parents who have been there." POC also coordinates educational sessions and social events at the national United Ostomy Association Conference. UOA publishes a quarterly magazine and POC publishes a national newsletter for parents.
The VATER Connection
1722 Yucca Lane
Contact: Angie Schreiber
The VATER Connection offers support to families of children who were born with VATERs. They can lead you to other families who may have children with similar problems associated with VATERs.
Website: http://www.vaterconnection.org
WorkingWithKids was formed to offer a unique reference point on working with children as a career or in voluntary work. Working with children is both demanding and rewarding. We examine potential child-focused roles, the legal requirements and the qualifications you need to work with children. Our concern was that there was no single UK resource for interesting features and practical advice on this subject. Our features and articles are written by professional journalists and experts - who have a particular interest, or a background in this area.
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/esofagusatresi A swedish mailing list about EA/TEF. Membership is free.


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As part of the Parnell Summer School which will take place from 12-16 August at Avondale House, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, Senator Ivana Bacik will take part in a timely discussion on the centenary of women's suffrage.
On Monday 13 August at 2 pm, Olwen Dawe, Board member, Poetry Ireland & National Women's Council of Ireland, will chair a discussion on 'A Century of Women in Irish public life, 1918-2018'. Senator Ivana Bacik, Chair of Oireachtas Vótáil 100 Committee, Sinéad McCoole, Commemoration Unit, Department of Heritage, Culture and the Gaeltacht, and Orla O'Connor, Director of the National Women's Council of Ireland will discuss the legacy of the suffrage movement and gender equality in Irish society today.


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Q: fstab not mounting a disk on boot I'm running Arch Linux on a Macbook. I want to automatically mount my Macintosh partition when booting Arch, so I added the following to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda2   /media/Machintosh hfsplus defaults 1 2

After rebooting, the partition was not mounted, but I could mount it with the following command:
sudo mount /dev/sda2

How can I make Arch Linux automatically mount the partition?

A: As you said above, creating the directory to attach the mount point to will fix this issue.

A: If hfsplus was built into the kernel as a module and if the partition containg the modules has not yet been mounted (read: entries in fstab have to be in the right order) the hfs-partition cannot be mounted during boot.
Might also happen if your kernel cannot autoload modules.

A: Creating the mount point fixed the issue:
mkdir /mnt/Machintosh

Also if you want to avoid warnings, mount the volume as read-only, because write is not supported on HFS+ journaled systems (or you can disable journaling, but it is not advised).

A: Some recommendations ,
It's likely /media will be cleared by HAL ,  so during boot , the path doesn't exist , so mount would fail.
You should either change the mount path , e.g to /mnt/Machintosh ,
Or use user-land tools , e.g udisks to mount it automatically (this will ensure the correct path , e.g /media/VOLUME_NAME)
To use udisks , add a mac.desktop in ~/.config/autostart ,
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=Mount Mac Disk
Name=udisks --mount /dev/XXX
Type=Application

(Note the second solution work only for graphical users)


Dallas Mavericks' veteran Dirk Nowitzki ended speculation regarding his future, telling a packed crowd at American Airlines Center, "This is my last home game," following Dallas' 120-109 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
In his last home game, the 40-year-old Nowitzki had a season-high 30 points, eight rebounds and three assists against the Suns. Throughout his career, he earned the 2007 MVP award, a 2011 NBA championship and 14 All-Star appearances. He is sixth on the NBA's all-time scoring list and entered Tuesday with 31,510 points in his career.