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package org.lucidj.search;

import org.lucidj.api.core.ManagedObjectFactory;
import org.lucidj.api.core.ManagedObjectInstance;
import org.lucidj.api.core.MenuInstance;
import org.lucidj.api.core.MenuProvider;
import org.lucidj.api.vui.IconHelper;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.vaadin.navigator.View;
import com.vaadin.navigator.ViewProvider;
//import com.vaadin.server.ClassResource;
import com.vaadin.server.Resource;

import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.felix.ipojo.annotations.Component;
import org.apache.felix.ipojo.annotations.Instantiate;
import org.apache.felix.ipojo.annotations.Provides;
import org.apache.felix.ipojo.annotations.Requires;

@Component
@Instantiate
@Provides
public class Search implements MenuProvider, ViewProvider
{
    private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger (Search.class);
    private final static String V_SEARCH = "search";

    @Requires
    private ManagedObjectFactory object_factory;

    @Requires
    private IconHelper iconHelper;

    @Override // MenuProvider
    public Map<String, Object> getProperties ()
    {
        return (null);
    }

    @Override // MenuProvider
    public void buildMenuEntries (MenuInstance menu, Map<String, Object> properties)
    {
        // The explicit class is used to bind the resource with its source bundle
        //Resource icon = new ClassResource (this.getClass (), "Resources/icons/zoom-seach-icon-16x16.png");
        Resource icon = iconHelper.getIcon ("apps/plasma-search", 16);
        menu.addMenuEntry (menu.newMenuEntry ("Search", icon, 250, V_SEARCH));
    }

    @Override // ViewProvider
    public String getViewName (String s)
    {
        if (V_SEARCH.equals (s))
        {
            return (V_SEARCH);
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override // ViewProvider
    public View getView (String s)
    {
        if (V_SEARCH.equals (s))
        {
            ManagedObjectInstance view_instance = object_factory.wrapObject (new SearchView ());
            return (view_instance.adapt (View.class));
        }
        return null;
    }
}

// EOF


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When I wrote my latest book, You Are the Placebo, I set out to explore the idea that it's possible for people to heal themselves of all sorts of conditions (even those considered incurable) without drugs or surgery — through thought alone.
After all, the power of belief is so strong that drug companies routinely use double- and triple-blind, placebo-controlled studies to test new drugs because people taking placebos (inert substances like sugar pills), thinking they may be taking an active drug, often improve.
A handful of veterans severely hobbled by osteoarthritis who regained pain-free mobility after a surgeon performed sham surgery — making small incisions in their knees and then sewing them back up without doing anything else.
Given these cases and many, many more like them, I wanted to see if I could teach people to believe in themselves instead of in something outside of themselves and get the same kind of dramatic results. If I could demystify the placebo effect by explaining how and why it works, I wondered, could people learn to consciously do it on purpose?
The answer, I found, is a resounding yes. Participants in my workshops who learn a model of self-transformation that combines the latest findings from both neuroscience and quantum physics have been able to heal themselves of a wide variety of disorders.
I've seen conditions like fibroids, thyroid disease, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, rare degenerative bone disease, Parkinson's disease, and even brain tumors disappear. I know that sounds too amazing to be true, but I assure you, it's real.
In my advanced workshops, I bring in scientists who take very sophisticated measurements of brainwaves, heart rhythms, and even urine and saliva levels of certain hormones to document these changes in real time.
But we now know that thanks to neuroplasticity, we aren't hardwired to think the same thoughts in the same way for the rest of our lives. We can learn to create new neural pathways and make new neural connections so that we can break the habit of being our old selves.
These changes in our brains can then lead to changes in our bodies, thanks to the relatively new science of epigenetics, which torches the old-school idea that our genes are our destiny.
While you may indeed have a genetic tendency toward developing certain diseases and conditions, the latest research shows that by learning to change your neural wiring, it's possible to turn off those undesirable genes and to signal new, healthier genes to turn on.
The key is a technique called mental rehearsal, where you imagine a desired outcome in such a way that you make your inner thoughts more real than your outer environment. If you combine a clear intention of the new future you want with an elevated emotion (such as joy and gratitude), you can give your body a taste of this future experience in the present moment.
If you make it feel real enough, your brain won't know the difference and will fire new neurons and make new connections until it starts to look as if the event has actually taken place. In my book, I dip into a bit of quantum physics to further explain how this works.
In a nutshell, all possibilities exist in this present moment, so if you choose a new future for yourself from this field of infinite possibilities, and you successfully use mental rehearsal to make it feel real enough times, it's possible to actually observe that future into reality through making epigenetic changes in your DNA.
You literally become someone new because both your brain and your body will no longer identify with your old self. And then you've become your own placebo. More good news: This amazing technique can work for anyone. You don't have to be a neuroscientist or even a spiritual master to make the seemingly impossible possible. Try it yourself and see!
To learn more, check out Dr. Joe Dispenza's new book, You Are The Placebo.
This was written by Dr. Joe Dispenza for MindBodyGreen.
Joe Dispenza, D.C., the best-selling author of Breaking the Habit of Being Yourselfand Evolve Your Brain, studied biochemistry at Rutgers University. He also holds a Bachelor of Science degree with an emphasis in neuroscience, and earned his Doctor of Chiropractic from Life University in Atlanta, Georgia.
He has received postgraduate training and continuing education in neurology, neuroscience, brain function and chemistry, cellular biology, memory formation, and aging and longevity. One of the scientists, researchers, and teachers featured in the award-winning film What the BLEEP Do We Know!?, Dr. Joe has lectured on six continents and 27 countries, educating people about the functions of the human brain.


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Ocho hombres
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Ocho hombres was released in the year 1988。Ocho hombres is also called as Eight Men Out, Acht Mann und ein Skandal, Escândalo de Black Sox, Fora da Jogada, Coulisses de l'exploit, Otto uomini fuori, Spisekosmiu, Lahjotut。
The great Chicago White Sox team of 1919 is the saddest team to ever win a pennent. The team is bitter at their penny pincher owner, Charles Comiskey, and at their own teammates. Gamblers take advantage of this opportunity to offer some players $ to throw the series (Most of the players didn't get as much as promised.) But Buck Weaver and the great Shoeless Joe Jackson turn back at the last minute to try and play their best. The Sox actually almost come back from a 3-1 deficit. 2 years later, the truth breaks out and the Sox are sued on multiple accounts. They are found innocent by the jury but baseball commissioner Landis has other plans. The eight players are suspended for life, and Buck Weaver, for the rest of his life, tries to clear his name.
Ocho hombres Actors and Actresses
Ocho hombres actors and actresses include David Strathairn, D.B. Sweeney, John Cusack, John Sayles, Michael Mantell, Michael Rooker, Nancy Travis, Richard Edson。
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General Court dismisses appeals by investor against power cable cartel fine
General Court dismisses appeals by investor against power cable carte
On 12 July 2018, the General Court dismissed the appeals against the fines imposed by the European Commission in the power cable cartel. The Court also confirmed the EUR 37.3 million fine levied on Goldman Sachs on the basis of its exercise of decisive influence over cable maker Prysmian through one of its funds.
Goldman Sachs nor its fund were held liable by the Commission for their direct participation in the cartel or for having knowledge of any wrongdoings of Goldman Sachs' portfolio company Prsymian. It is a well-established principle of EU competition law that parent companies can be held liable for the conduct of their subsidiaries. Moreover, where the parent company has a 100% shareholding there is a rebuttable presumption that the parent company exercises decisive influence over the conduct over the subsidiary.
In its appeal, Goldman Sachs disputed having exercised decisive influence, stating, among other things, that Prysmian was a pure financial investment and that for most of the relevant period its shareholding was less than 100%. The Court confirmed that the Commission was correct in applying the presumption of decisive influence to Goldman Sachs. The Court held that Goldman Sachs was in a similar situation to that of a sole owner of a subsidiary as it held all the voting rights in combination with a very high majority stake, even though it did not hold all the share capital.
The Court also held that the Commission had correctly taken account of other objective factors which supported the finding that Goldman Sachs exercised decisive influence over Prysmian, including its power to appoint members of the board of directors of Prysmian, the ability to call shareholder meetings and the role played by the directors of Goldman Sachs within the strategic committee of Prysmian.
The ruling of the Court shows how the concept of parental liability continues to expand. This case further highlights the importance for investors to ensure that their portfolio companies are compliant with competition law, even when they are considered as a pure financial investment. This becomes especially relevant where investors have large shareholdings and have rights that allow them to exercise decisive influence over the portfolio companies.
This article was published in the Competition Law Newsletter of August 2018. Other articles in this newsletter:
European Court of Justice dismissed Orange Polska's appeal in abuse of dominance case
General Court underlines importance of Commission's duty to state reasons
Google receives a second record fine of EUR 4.34 billion for imposing restrictions on Android device makers
European Commission issues a new Best Practices Code for State aid control
District Court in the Netherlands rules on limitation periods in CRT case
Court of Appeal in the Netherlands decides to appoint independent economic experts in TenneT v ABB
Belgian Court of Cassation annuls decision prohibiting pharmacists from using Google Adwords
Competition Disputes
Follow-On Civil Litigation
Merger Control and Joint Ventures
Regulatory Investigations and Compliance
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EU Single-Use Plastics Directive is now in force: brief recap
Articles - Plastic is a significant and growing global concern. A recent study commissioned by WWF and carried out by the University of Newcastle, Australia, suggests that people are consuming around 2,000 tiny pieces of plastic every week (which is approximately 5 grams of plastic, the weight of a credit card). In this context, the EU adopted a new directive aiming at tackling marine litter generated from 10 single-use plastic products and from abandoned fishing gear and oxo-degradable plastics. This is called the Single-Use Plastics Directive and has entered into force this month, on 2 July 2019.
Team: Jan Bouckaert, Bastiaan Schelstraete, Raphaëlle Godts
Prove it or lose it: court sets aside ACM fines in two separate cases
Short Reads - The Rotterdam District Court recently confirmed the high bar which has been set for the ACM when proving its case: the court annulled the fines imposed by the ACM in two different cases and, significantly, each for the same reason.
Team: Floris ten Have, Simone Evans
15.07.2019 EU law
ICO to impose record-breaking fines for inadequate security measures and data breaches
Short Reads - Though the European data protection authorities have taken their time in enforcing the GDPR, two announcements by the ICO in the UK regarding proposed fines for British Airways and Marriott demonstrate that large fines are about to start landing regularly. Both of the substantial fines are to be handed out as a result of shortcomings in handling data breaches caused by cyber-attacks.
Team: Judica Krikke, Joe Jay de Haas
Higher fines ahead under Belgium's new competition act
Short Reads - Companies beware: on 3 June 2019, a new competition act entered into force in Belgium. The new act introduces a number of modifications to procedure and sanctions, aimed at improving enforcement of competition laws as well as the functioning of competition authorities.
Peter Wytinck Partner Brussels
No parking! Canon fined EUR 28 million for warehousing transaction structure
Short Reads - The European Commission has landed a third strike against gun-jumping, the prohibition to implement a transaction before notification to and clearance by the Commission.
Team: Floris ten Have, Elina Demertzi, Simone Evans
Abuse of economic dependence and unfair contract terms in B2B relations: ready for 2020?
Short Reads - Belgium recently adopted a new act prohibiting (1) the abuse of economic dependence, (2) the use of unfair contract terms and (3) unfair market practices in B2B relationships.


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Posts Tagged 'Ozzie Smith'
The Derek Jeter Aura
So I see that Derek Jeter is hanging it up at the end of this season. That's both good and bad. It's, frankly, time for him to go, but it will cost MLB its face (which isn't really David Wright, despite the recent poll) and the most recognizable player of his generation. He'll get to make a grand tour, get lots of gifts (but try to top Rivera's broken bat rocking chair), a ton of applause and adulation. Then he'll ride off toward Cooperstown, making it in five years. It's really a fitting way for him to leave us.
Ever notice how some players just have an aura about them? Ruth had one, so did Mantle. Koufax has it to a lesser degree. Well, Jeter has one too. He is "The Captain" the rock around which the Yankees built their latest dynasty. He's the man with "The Flip" (which is still probably the best fielding play I ever saw). He is "one of the five greatest Yankees ever." You hear all that don't you?
Well, hang on a minute. Without trying to diminish Jeter's legacy, which is formidable, let's not get too carried away here. It's not like he's the first captain the team ever had. Gehrig was team captain too and Gehrig was a better player. If Jeter was the rock on which the latest Yankees dynasty was built, then he had a lot of other rocks around to hold up part of that foundation. There was Pettitte, Rivera, Posada (the so-called "Core Four"), and there was Clemens, and O'Neill, and Knoblauch, and Martinez too.
Jeter reminds me of Joe DiMaggio. He has the same aura about him. Both are great players, but both seem to be remembered as being somehow greater than they were in actuality. It took twenty-five years for fans to realize that Mantle was a greater player than DiMaggio and Jeter has that kind of aura too. I don't mean to imply that somehow the Yanks have a greater shortstop in their history, only to point out that Jeter is revered in much the same way as DiMaggio. There's a reverence about them that is different from the awe that surrounds either Mantle or Gehrig, or for that matter, Ruth. For the latter three it seems that "awe" is more appropriate and with Jeter and DiMaggio the word is "reverence."
As for being "one of the five greatest Yankees ever" I suppose you could make that case for Jeter, although I'd rank him in the six through eight range, behind Ruth, Gehrig, Mantle, DiMaggio, and Berra and in line with Ford and Rivera. That's not a bad place to be, all things considered. He's probably a top five to ten shortstop (certainly behind Wagner and Ripken) depending on how you categorize Banks and Yount. He was never Ozzie Smith in the field, but then neither was much of anyone else.
Then it's good-bye to Derek Jeter. The Yankees will miss him. I think a greater tribute is that baseball will miss him.
Tags:Babe Ruth, Cal Ripken, Derek Jeter, Ernie Banks, Honus Wagner, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Mariano Rivera, Mickey Mantle, Ozzie Smith, Robin Yount, Sandy Koufax, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra
A Hitter's Hall
Hank Aaron, a hitter in the Hall
Recently Bill Miller at "The On Deck Circle" completed an eighth part series on the Hall of Fame. If you haven't read it, go to the blog roll at the right of this page, click on the site, and go read the articles. During that time, I did a post on Gary Carter and catchers. Baseballidiot commented that the Hall of Fame was pretty much "a Hall of Hitters". Those two things got me to thinking about Cooperstown and how right Baseballidiot is in most situations. If you hit really well, there's a good chance of enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. If you field well and don't hit a lick, forget it. So as a rule he's right (obviously excluding pitchers), but there are exceptions and I'd like to point out a couple as examples of just how good you have to be to get into Cooperstown based primarily on your fielding.
I'm going to give you some stats on three players, one of which is in the Hall. The stats are batting average/on base percentage/slugging percentage/on base plus slugging/home runs/ RBIs. The player's careers overlap.
player 1 267/322/401/723/268/1357
Stop for a second now and ask yourself if all you know about a player is what's listed above, is he a Hall of Famer? Whatever your answer to that question, player 1 is in the Hall of Fame. He's Brooks Robinson and he's, by general agreement, the greatest fielding third baseman who ever played the Hot Corner. The other two are Gil Hodges and Ted Kluszewski (in that order), both first basemen from the 1950s (when Robinson started his career). The three of them are pretty much the same player, aren't they? Klu has a higher average, Hodges more home runs, Robinson more RBIs. and the OPS is pretty much a wash (especially between Hodges and Kluszewski). But look at those numbers carefully and ask yourself the following: "If Robinson was a first baseman rather than a third baseman, would he be in the Hall of Fame?" Bet your answer is either "No" or "I've been saying for years that Hodges and Klu were Hall of Famers." Here's a case where the position and the ability to field it with superior skill overrides a good, but not great, batting line.
Heres' another example using slightly different stats: average/OPB/SLG/OPS/stolen bases. These five don't exactly overlap (the bottom guy is earlier) although the first four are teammates.
player 1: 262/337/328/666/580
player 5: 260/299/367/667/27
Except for the wide swing in stolen bases they're all pretty close, right? Again, ask yourself whether you put any of these people in the Hall based on their hitting stats. The players are, in order, Ozzie Smith, Vince Coleman, Willie McGee, Lonnie Smith, and Bill Mazeroski. One and five are in Cooperstown and two through four aren't. Again the difference (besides the era for Maz) is that both Smith and Mazeroski are considered very superior fielders and by general concensus are among the top two or three best fielders at their position in the history of the game. Again, take a look at Smith and Mazeroski's stats and move them to the outfield where the other three played and tell me that the Wizard and Maz would be in Cooperstown.
You can do this same thing with catchers, although it's a little trickier because you're dealing with a Veteran's Committee vote on such players as Roger Bresnahan, Ray Schalk, and Rick Ferrell. And I've always seen the Vet's Committee as more easily swayed than the writers because of the small size of the Vet's Committee, so that can make a great deal of difference in selection.
Anyway my point is that Baseballidiot is pretty much dead on about the Hall as a haven for hitters. There are exceptions. But those exceptions have to be for truly superior fielders like Ozzie Smith, Bill Mazeroski, and Brooks Robinson.
Tags:Bill Mazeroski, Brooks Robinson, Gil Hodges, Hall of Fame, Lonnie Smith, Ozzie Smith, Ted Kluszewski, Vince Coleman, Willie McGee
Tall at Short
In my last post I answered Bill Miller's question concerning my evaluation of Derek Jeter as an all-time Yank. Bill actually asked two questions. The second asked my opinion as to Jeter's position in the shortstop pantheon. So, as I said earlier, I'm not immune from putting my foot solidly in my mouth, so here's a reply to that query.
First the evaluations of shortstops are more difficult than a lot of positions. By general consensus Ted Williams, Stan Musial, Rickey Henderson, and Barry Bonds (done in the order they arrived in the big leagues) are the top four left fielders. There record as left "fielders", as opposed to hitters is a mixed bag. Let me ask this, do you seriously care? Probably not. All are in the lineup to hit and it they can catch and throw then you have gravy. But it doesn't work that way with a shortstop. You can't just concentrate on his hitting. Fielding matters and fielding stats are most nebulous and imprecise of baseball stats. So you can't just look at Jeter and say, "Well, sure, he's better than Ozzie Smith because Smith didn't hit nearly as well" (Using Smith purely as an example). That may be true, but Smith was twice the fielder that Jeter is (and that's true of Smith versus almost anyone at short) and so that must be taken into serious consideration. If you decide that Williams and Bonds are a dead tie as hitters, you can use fielding as a way of picking one over the other, but with shortstops you have to consider this stat from the start. So looking at shortstops requires going into the fielding stats minefield.
Secondly, an inordinate number of truly fine shortstops have spent a lot (and I mean a LOT) of time at other positions. Honus Wagner was up for several years before settling at short, Robin Yount and Ernie Banks were both hurt and transfered to other positions (Yount to the outfield and Banks to first base) for significant parts of their career. In fact Banks ended up with more games at first than short, and Yount ended up with more total games in the outfield (but not at any single position in the outfield) than at short. And to give you a contemporary player, Alex Rodriguez has now spent more time at thrid than at short. All this makes it difficult to view a player as a shortstop rather than as an overall players (although doing so year by year instead of via career numbers makes it easier). Besides what do you call Yount, a shortstop of an outfielder? To solve that I went to the Hall of Fame site and looked how they defined a player. They say Yount and Banks are both shortstops (and Willie Stargell a left fielder as opposed to a first baseman–just to give you some idea of what they do). So I decided to add both to my list. I left ARod off (which I know isn't great for consistency) because he's still playing and it is possible he will shift back to short and solve the question or will end up spending twice as many games at third and solve the problem that way. As I don't know what will happen there ("It is always easier to prophesy after the event."–Winston Churchill) I left him off.
So here's my thought on the matter. I'll list my one and two players, then the next three in alphabetical order. I'm certain who I think is first and who is second. Three through five tend to shift around depending on the day, the stats I'm looking at, the latest book I've read (the phases of the moon), but I'm reasonably confident which three go there.
1. Honus Wagner. There are a lot of really good shortstops, but Wagner is still head and shoulders above the rest. Personally, I think the drop from number one to number two is greater at shortstop than at any other position (no offense to number two, below).
2. Cal Ripken. He set the standard for a new kind of shortstop. He was mobile and he had power. He didn't have the flash of Smith, but he was very adept at playing the hitter in such a way that he very seldom had to make a spectacular play.
3-5. Ernie Banks, Arky Vaughan, Robin Yount. Banks was the prototype for Ripken. It just didn't take. All three of these are much alike. They are good enough shortstops (I'd rate Yount as the best) with a glove, but all hit very well; Banks for good power, Yount for occasional power. Both Yount and Banks win double MVPs and Vaughan could well have won one.
So where is Jeter? He's in the next bunch. There are an entire pack of really good quality shortstops that can be rated 6-10. There's Ozzie Smith, the underrated Alan Trammel, Barry Larkin, Joe Cronin, both Lu Ap's (Luis Aparicio, Luke Appling), Reese, Rizzuto, Omar Vizquel, and old-timer George Davis who could take the next five slots (and I'm sure I left off at least one deserving candidate). Jeter is one of those that fit right in with this group. Right now I'd certainly put him in the mix, probably very high in that mix. I'm reasonably sure he's going to move up my food chain. I expect him to end up a top five, possibly as high as third or fourth. But I'm going to wait until the career ends to drop him into a definite hole.
Having said that, he ought to get at least an extra point or two for standing along the first base line, grabbing a badly thrown ball, and flipping to Posada to nail Jeremy Giambi at the plate during the playoffs. Arguably the greatest play I ever saw. For all the overhyping of Derek Jeter (and I've been critical of it) he is the closest we've had to a baseball icon since the steroid scandal broke. Baseball could surely use one and Jeter has done a good job of filling that role.
Tags:Alan Trammel, Arky Vaughan, Barry Larkin, Cal Ripken, Derek Jeter, Ernie Banks, George Davis, Honus Wagner, Joe Croinin, Luis Aparicio, Luke Appling, Omar Vizquel, Ozzie Smith, Pee Wee Reese, Phil Rizzuto, Robin Yount


The seasons are quickly changing, and the short, cool days of fall are almost here - making it the perfect time to switch up your facial routine to extend your summer glow! We've always been big believers in facial massage, but it might not quite as obvious as what adding in an icy at-home facial can do.
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Whether morning or night, this ritual can result in a firm, tightened complexion, reduced pore size and balanced oil production.
Morning ritual: Replace the lukewarm water you usually wake up to with an invigorating morning ritual that reduces puffiness and refreshes tired skin after a sleepless night. Apply ice cubes in circular motions to the skin and under eye area for as long as you can manage - work up from 30 seconds to 15 or 20 minutes. If you're prone to flushing or have sensitive skin, wrap ice cubes in a paper towel or muslin cloth. Finish with an application of our Nourishing Facial Toner and Moisturizer and a spritz of our Flora Everyday Face + Body Mist - you're ready to tackle the day.
Nighttime ritual: Massage our Nourishing Cleansing Balm into skin and remove in circular motions with lukewarm water. Post-cleanse, splash face with cold water or repeat the ice cube ritual from above and gently pat dry. Warm 2-4 drops of our Nourishing Facial Oil between palms and press fingertips into face from the jawline, moving upwards. Don't forget your neck, massaging upwards in vertical strokes.
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As more people confirm their availability for Preston Tweetup I am putting an idea out there. I'd like to run a competition to design a logo for Preston Tweetup.
I will then display the entries on the blog and we'll have a good old fashioned vote for which one the Preston Blog community would like to be used.
If you're a budding designer then drop an email to prestonblogs@googlemail.com and I'll send you some more information if you need it.
The deadline for entries is Friday 6th March 2009 at 5 PM. The entries should be emailed in JPEG format with a 150 word description of the logo and how you came up with it to prestonblogs@googlemail.com.


Some lucky Eastpoint products are going to new homes in the east of Europe and Africa. Our very own Core Support Team member Tara has been building shoe boxes to send off as part of Link to Hope and Samaritan's Purse's Shoebox appeals for Christmas 2018.
Some of our products that are going in the boxes include out Swash KOMFIGRIP Colouring and Graphite Pencils, Classmaster Erasers and Gluesticks, and even a selection of our Re:Create Recycled Pencils amongst other everyday learning and creative essentials.
Link to Hope is a charity working to rebuild lives and communities in Eastern Europe. Countries include Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria and Romania. They were established in 1991 and offer help to people of all backgrounds, regardless of race, colour or creed.
Its annual Shoebox Appeal asks people to fill a shoebox not just for a child, but for a full family. Since 1992, they have sent over 800,000 shoeboxes to hundreds of locations.
You can send your own Shoeboxes with Link to Hope every year by visiting their website.
Samaritan's Purse is an international relief and development organisation that works in communities in Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia to provide both spiritual and physical aid. There are offices in USA, Canada, Germany and Australia as well as in the UK.
Throughout the year, Samaritan's Purse responds to water and sanitation issues, sustainable livelihoods, and disasters and emergencies. At Christmas, however, they're well known for their Operation Christmas Child initiative, sending Shoeboxes to children at Christmas time. It's not too late to join in with Samaritan's Purse's initiative – boxes can be dropped off from the 1st of November.
How do you pack your own Shoe Box?
Step 1: Find a Shoebox!
A medium sized box will do and should be wrapped in colourful wrapping paper. Your box should be labelled for a boy or a girl, and for an age category such as 2-4, 5-9 or 10-14.
Step 2: Fill your box!
Your box should be filled with all kinds of things suitable for the recipient – toys, hygiene items and school supplies are great ideas, but one or two special items will make a big difference, too.
Step 3: Make a donation, too.
With Samaritan's Purse, it's suggested you add a £5 donation with your box to cover project costs and shipping. You can ever follow your box once it's been sent by tracking the barcode.
Step 4: Personalise your box!
You can even pop a handwritten note and photograph in the box for the child that receives the box.
Step 5: Drop off your box.
Your box can be dropped off between November 1st and 18th, and there are drop off locations all over.
Get involved this Christmas and make a difference to a young person less fortunate than ourselves.
You can read about other Eastpoint charitable activities here.


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You would think that with so many individuals in search of homeschooling info in Derby Acres, California more details will be available. Many Derby Acres are now aware that the state of California is trying to keep parents from homeschooling their kids. As California's AB 2756 proposition clearly shows. Although homeschooling is not new it came to the forefront of American culture in the early 90s as a way for Catholic families to integrate their religion into their kids education. What we have learned over the last 20 years no one was expecting. That is, kids who are homeschool are more successful in life, make better choices, and poses superior sense of values and respect for others. Regardless of false propaganda homeschooled young adults enjoy online learning, friendships, and additional activities as the normal public school student however without the negatives, like standardized lesson plans and bullying. In recent times parents and teachers alike have raised the question I'm wondering if homeschooling is the answer to the failed education system where our kids are participate. At Great Homeschool Conventions we simply want to make you aware that you are not alone on this journey. For more info about what Great Homeschool Conventions has to offer please check out our blog.
In this final installment in the Helping Struggling Writers series, I'll offer more tips to accommodate writing problems.
Spelling dictionaries are easier to use than conventional dictionaries because they only list words—no definitions.They are available from many publishers, including Educators Publishing Service, which carries My Word Book and several levels of Words I Use When I Write.
Franklin makes many kinds of handheld electronic dictionaries, which are the size of calculators. Type in the first few letters of a word, and the dictionary will make suggestions. It interprets more "creative" spelling than word prediction software can. The speaking dictionaries are great for the voracious reader who wants to know how to pronounce the words and for the dyslexic who wants to hear the word to help choose correctly. There are Spanish-English electronic dictionaries available as well.
For my first big research papers in middle school, I remember writing facts on dozens and dozens index cards and sorting them out across the floor. I enjoyed amassing so much information, but with my slow handwriting, this took too much time and I got bogged down in details.
Using dictation software to dictate ideas and facts. Put each idea on a new paragraph. Print the content, cut apart ideas, spread the strips out, and organize them, all without having to push a pencil.
Later I learned how sketch out the connection of ideas and supporting details using a graphic organizer or a web. Personally I prefer a web—I don't always have the same number of ideas as the graphic organizer wants me to have and my words don't always fit in the spaces!
To create a web, you briefly write each topic and circle it. (Ideas fit in circles if you draw the circles after you write!) Then surrounding each idea, you write related facts, each with a small circle around it. Then you use lines to show connections.
Write the web on a huge piece of paper, or better yet, on a whiteboard, which makes erasing easy. Then take a photo. If the whiteboard gets smudged, don't fret. I find rewriting the web is a great way to think it through a project and improve it. For a chapter or section that's hard to organize, I may redraw the web several times to get the organization I like best.
Encourage your student to think of this as a craft. Many great writers have learning disabilities, but have a talent for storytelling, for organizing thoughts, for compelling phrasing. These tools can help them reach their goal.
I know of five programs to let you draw webs on your computer or iPad. These could be paired with dictation software to help those with dysgraphia or physical disabilities.
Kidspiration and Inspiration software runs on both Windows and Mac (they also have iPhone and iPad versions). You type the phrases, it draws the circles, and you point, drag, and click to draw lines. Once your web is complete, these programs will convert them into outlines. Both offer 30-day free trials.
Creately does similar work online, and it's free.
eDraw is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux users, and it also is free.
Your child can be gifted but have trouble with writing. In his book Learning Outside the Lines, David Cole describes his passion for sculpting (he made his first metal sculpture at age 4.) The assignment for his senior English project was "explicate your writing process." He responded in metal. Later, he submitted the sculpture to Brown University to answer the application question, "What in your life has prepared you for the college experience?" and was admitted.
In homeschool, we can let our children creatively communicate their knowledge, rather than forcing them into an established system. How have you let your child express what he has learned? Please answer in the comment section below.


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High levels of paracetamol in urine may impair male fertility
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health say the study's results need to be confirmed in larger, more robust studies.
By Stephen Feller
In a small review of previous study data, researchers at the National Institutes of Health say high levels of paracetamol in men's urine -- either from acetaminophen use or environmental factors -- reduces the chance for a couple to conceive. Photo by Grekov's/Shutterstock
BETHESDA, Md., July 14 (UPI) -- The presence of a chemical in men's urine may impair fertility for couples, the National Institutes of Health cautiously reported today.
Paracetamol, from either acetaminophen use or as a byproduct of the body breaking down other chemicals, in men's urine was seen as making it less likely for couple to conceive, based on a study of previous medical data conducted by the agency.
Acetaminophen is a common, non-prescription drug used for pain and reducing fever, though paracetamol is also produced by the body after breaking down aniline, a chemical in rubber, pesticides and coloring agents in food, cosmetics and clothes.
The study's authors cautiously added the findings need to be confirmed by larger studies, which should also determine the source of paracetamol in the men's urine, how and when they were exposed to it and how much they were exposed to.
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For the study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, researchers examined urine samples from men and women in the Longitudinal Investigation of Fertility and the Environment collected from 501 couples in Michigan and Texas between 2005 and 2009.
Though women had higher average levels of paracetamol in their urine, there was no association between paracetamol levels and infertility among women.
However, men with high levels of the chemical, above 73.5 nanograms per milliliter of urine, were 35 percent less likely to conceive than were men with low levels of the chemical, less than 5.4 nanograms per milliliter.
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While the association was seen in data, the researchers said the single sample in such a small study group -- and the lack of information on acetaminophen use or potential environmental exposure to chemicals causing their bodies to produce it -- requires more robust studies to confirm the recent study's results.
"At this point, our findings need to be corroborated by future research, and there is no cause for alarm," Dr. Melissa Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow in the Division of Intramural Population Health Research at NIH, said in a press release.
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White House praises record enrollment in Affordable Care Act Marketplace health plans
Jan. 25 (UPI) -- The Biden administration has announced that more than 16.3 million people have chosen an Affordable Care Act Marketplace health plan during the enrollment period between Nov. 1 Jan. 15.


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Featuring "Climbing The Mountain" by Yours Truly, P Bear.
Sound of Picture Vol 1 now available in the HUSHshop for free/donation! Just click over to HUSH Records for the first edition of Sound of Picture in convenient zip album form. Then reveal your album art window in iTunes to see each of 20 photos corresponding to the instrumental tracks.
The Ballad Of Zack McCune – An RIAA lawsuit tale.
Something nice in the inbox today: A video series making good use of my music and the Non Commercial Creative Commons license I offer to all, on a topic I find very engaging.
In April of last year, Zack McCune was sued by the RIAA. He ended up $3,000 lighter (he settled), but with a much richer understanding of the contemporary debate surrounding music, copyright law, and file sharing. Part I gives an intro to his story, while Part II explores the disconnect between young downloaders and the recording industry. Part III, presented here, concludes Zack's misadventure and examines where it led him: to the Free Culture Movement, which advocates more flexible intellectual property law.
Those of you who caught my post about the season finale to This American Life may recall I said it was one of the best 60 minutes of television I've ever seen. The episode conveys a rich sense of, um, lifespan by weaving together footage from a half-dozen or so people of varying age named John Smith, the most popular name in America. I can't recommend it highly enough.
The following video does something similar, culling entirely from YouTube, and without the arbitrary fix on the name John Smith. It's a vivid collage of tender, funny, and character driven snippets that's so much more than the sum of it's parts. I'm happy to have two songs sandwiched in this soundtrack.
This is the kind of stuff I love being associated with. Big ups to editor Denrae.


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