This weekend was Big Girl's birthday. To celebrate, we went into New York City and visited American Girl Place. We had dinner in the cafe, and shopped afterward for Big Girl's very first real American Girl doll — number 35, a red-head with straight hair and green eyes.
While we were there we made a pit stop to the doll hospital. Sally-O, our well-loved, much played with Bitty Baby was in dire need of servicing. As I mentioned in a February post (complete with a photo), Bitty Baby's right eye often stayed closed. Her hair was a wreck. Her right cheek had a pen stain. She looked like a doll that had been hugged a lot.
The woman behind the counter was very nice. She did a checkup. Everything was fixable, she told us. She checked her price list and gave me the damage for the damage. It would cost x price for a new eye and a quick cleanup, which would do nothing for the ink stain or the cut hair. (Although the hair would be brushed and made pretty again.) For an extra $5 they would give Sally-O a brand new head. It would be like getting a new doll.
I went back and forth about it until I decided that yes, I'd go for it. I'd change out the head. Little Girl helped me take off all Sally-O's clothing and put her into a hospital gown. Then we handed her over to the "doctor" who told us Sally-O would come home in about two to four weeks via U.S. Postal Service complete with a new head, a hospital gown, and a cap. Little Girl was understandably upset when we told her the doll would be staying behind. At first she told us no, but we finally convinced her, although she did ask to give her sister's doll another hug. (We had to pry it out of her arms after the hug…) She stopped crying when the nice woman at the counter assured us that she would take good care of the doll.
The bargain hunter inside of me loved what we did. A brand new doll for half the price of a new one? Plus, we were recycling? How awesome is that? Except…the mom in me was dying inside. Sally-O has been such an integral part of our life. Big Girl has taken her everywhere since she we got her almost four years ago. Sally-O has been to playdates and parties and to Disney World. She's been to Woodloch Pines at New Year's. She's been on long car trips, and to both of her "great" grandmas' homes. She's sat with us at dinner, and slept with Big Girl at night. She's been a part of the family. And now she's gone forever. As much as it's true that the Sally-O that's coming back to us in the mail will look the same, she will be a new doll. All the reminders — yes, even the cut hair and the stain left by the drive-by magic marker attack — will be gone. I wonder if I did the right thing.
I have a Free Moving Barbie doll. She looks a lot like Sally-O did. Her hair is trashed — knotted and gross, to be honest. She's got some marker on her feet. One of her arms is a little loose. And yet I am so happy I have her, a reminder of the marathon Barbie sessions I had with my sister. We'd set up my brother's train table as our Barbie world. A shoebox was a TV stand. We had a plastic pool, the Barbie van, an outdoor camping set. We spent hours and hours in that basement, and looking at that Barbie brings it all back for me. Have I, by freshening up Sally-O, taken away a piece of Big Girl's childhood? Will she regret the loss of her constant companion? Was I simply too cheap to buy the little one her own Bitty Baby Doll? I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think I'm going to make a phone call this morning. Who needs a new head when a new eye that opens and closes might suffice?
What was your favorite childhood toy? Do you still have it? Would love to hear about it.


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09 Steps: Rear Passenger mount?
vfxraven19
Is it possible to just sell the rear-passenger mount? Mine broke when I took a sharp turn (yeah, I wasn't looking or thinking, haha). Or am I SOL and I have to buy a whole new set?
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vfxraven19 said:
The mounts were available as a set (front & rear) for each side, but not at the moment. I have tried buying a set and have been told by several sources including Honda that Honda had put a stop sale on them until a new redesign can be issued.
Apparently the rear bracket is prone to breaking at the spot yours did. My passenger side rear bracket broke at the same exact spot too while I was stepping on the steps.
The date given for the release of the new ones is late October, so they will probably not be available from dealers until early November. The brackets are way cheaper than buying a whole set of steps so I am willing to wait. I have mine held together by wire until then.
The funny thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything, it's too late to stop reading it.
Snuffleupagus said:
Thx Snuff, damn... I'll call around anyways, I cannot wait until October/November for their redesign.
Well, I called several places. A few told me that they won't have steps until OCTOBER. So it looks like they're really revising the steps.
What's the warranty on these? I know since we're installing these on E's not 09 or 10, Honda probably won't give us support, but do these at all fall in a warranty? I mean if the design was faulty to begin with, should owners get something out of it?
Additional Limited Warranty Information
Genuine Honda parts, when installed by a Honda dealer, are covered for 1 year or 12,000 miles. Parts purchased from, but not installed by a Honda dealer are covered for 1 year.
However, if you installed a part that isn't meant for that car (09 steps) on say an (07 element) , I don't think they'd do much of anything since technically it wasn't designed for that application....(which is why they have model numbers allocated to specific models)
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As Type X said, no warranty. Even though it is a perfect fit and actually goes on better than the earlier models, people will get stupid and tell you that it is not meant to be there and it doesn't fit even if you plaster their nose right against it. So you're stuck with waiting for the new parts or deal with another stupidity.
You can't buy the part because it is defective, but they will sell you an entire sidestep set which has that same defective part for almost $500 though. Go figure.
Did you guys break the same side?
Maybe you can try to get a group of the members that have broken steps "buddy up" and split new sets. VS having zero.
Type X said:
Yes, it appears we both broke the same piece.
I wonder what exact conditions would cause them to break. For mine, two large male adults were standing on it at the same time. The heavier one (me, @250lbs) was standing right on top of that spot.
Not sure what the weight rating is, but it could be something as basic as when they pressed the materials there was some type of defect there or something a little more complicated as the design and that point of "snapping" allocated more of the load.
Who knows nowadays, i'm sure companies want to keep costs down and its hard to keep quality up while doing that.
Mine broke because I took a sharp turn into a corner parking space, the step crunched into the island, snapping the rear mount only, like popped off.
Anyways, I'm going to remove all the mounts this weekend... I almost forgot what my E looks like w/o the steps... And maybe it's a good time to put my KSports in hehe.
That's wild.
What are the odds you'd hit the island on the steps in the SAME PLACE they have the recall lol
erickang411
So, I have the OEM 09 Sidesteps....is there a recall on them. I bought mine from H and A and I installed them myself. Please let me know b/c I haven't heard any news other than on this thread. Thanks
HandA
Honda hasn't told us anything about a recall. They stopped selling us the current ones but haven't said anything else at all about it.
#15 • Sep 1, 2010
I called up my local Honda dealer yesterday, and ask them how much the bracket was for a 09 Honda sidesteps and he quoted me $161 for a pair.
He said that the were not in stock and I asked him to check on a recall and
he told me there was not any recall. He did say that my sidesteps may be under warranty since I bought them less than a year ago.
I broke the driver side rear bracket on mine when I was taking a left and I hit the curb. Its probably not going to be under warranty...I'm guessing
#16 • Sep 1, 2010 (Edited)
To clarify, I was not told there was a recall. I never mentioned the word recall in my original post. What I was told is that no new brackets will be sold by Honda until a new redesign is issued. Many vendors that had them in stock were told to send them back. Other vendors that did not stock them were told they could not order them.
The autobody shop that fixed my car after my accident was going to replace the bracket for me as part of fixing up a bad repaint job. They had the brackets in the shop. The dealer that sold it to them took them back.
Discussion Starter • #17 • Sep 2, 2010
The dealers I called too said "redesign" as well. I miss my steps, and the E feels naked w/o them. I'm contemplating buying the round OEM steps and placing vinyl sheets to protect the side sills from the mounts. Bah! So lost... Wish the brackets would be re-released sooner than later.
I just read on the HandA thread that the redesign is now available. I am happy b/c this side step has been a pain in my side....hahaha
I was tempted to just take them off and sell em...
erickang411 said:
Awesome! I was hesitant to buy a whole new set too. The passenger step has scratches, but that can be easily covered w/ paint or something.
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use bed liner on them they will look kool
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Hi HandA, what's the load capacity on the Pet Ramp? Thanks!
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more from the dog friendly kit
we now have the mats, seat covers and fan and kennel online along with the emblems. http://www.HandA-Accessories.com/elementint.html Trevor
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Hello! I've purchased from H&A many times over the years and have always loved the prices and the service...and the fact that we can now pick up items locally instead of shipping is just icing on the cake! Does H&A also sell Honda PARTS online or direct through the dealership, or is it for...
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Trevor, and all the other GREAT people: Thank you for the order I just received for my new Honda Insight, still have both Elements too. The floor mats look great along with the rear cargo cover. Again, another fine product you provide. Bob
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Evening Standard/BMG Poll: Public are behind May on Grammar Schools, so long as they help Britain's poorest.
Posted 4/10/16 in Polling
The latest BMG poll for the Evening Standard reveals popular public support for Theresa May's grammar school proposals, especially if it is seen to benefit pupils from poorer backgrounds.
The poll asked a representative sample of Britons two alternative questions in a random order. One question simply asked whether those polled supported May's proposal for more grammar schools, and the other asked the same question but with a specific qualification that the introduction should ensure that "more people from poorer backgrounds can go to top-performing schools".
The results found that while two in four (39%) adults say they support May's proposals for new grammar schools, while one quarter (23%) disagree with the idea (38% said they neither support nor oppose it), support is much greater when the qualification is added.
When the question includes the proposition that the proposed change will ensure that more people from poorer backgrounds can go to top-performing schools, support rises to 48%, while opposition declines to 17% (36% said neither support nor oppose it).
Among younger adults in particular, those aged 18-24, support rises from 31% to 51% once the question has been adjusted to include "people from poorer backgrounds". Adults in England are most on favour of May's proposals, with 50% backing it once the additional part of the statement is included.
Across voters for the major political parties, support is strongest amongst Conservative voters at 69%, followed by Ukippers (61%), Liberal Democrats (46%) and then Labour (34%).
The poll also found that around four in ten adults believe Theresa may has had a "good" start in Downing Street whilst 14% think she has made a "bad" start (46% said an "average" start). Unsurprisingly, a majority of Conservative supporters (72%) believe she has made a good start, followed by just 43% of UKIP supporters, two fifths of Lib Dems (40%) and one quarter of Labour supporters (25%).
Dr Michael Turner, Research Director and Head of Polling at BMG Research, said "The results of the latest BMG/Evening Standard poll demonstrate the underlying motives behind public support for May's proposed expansion of grammar schools.
Although there is good support for the introduction of more grammar schools generally speaking, with 39% in support and just 23% opposed, assuring the public that Britain's poorest will benefit from their introduction almost doubles net support from +16% to +31% (48% support, 17% oppose).
Though this qualification is universally popular with Britons, with large gains in support for the proposal across a variety of groups, our polling shows that safeguarding increased opportunities for Britain's poorest children is a particularly important caveat for young people and students, who are split on the issue without the guarantee, but strongly in favour with it.
From a tactical perspective also, these results are quite interesting. It seems that May's proposal might ruffle a few feathers with the electoral competition, particularly UKIP and the Labour party. For instance, those who voted Labour in 2015, but say they wouldn't today, are much more supportive of this proposal if children from more deprived backgrounds are ensured better access to good schools, with net support almost tripling from +11% to +31% (53% support, 22% oppose). Among Ukippers too, the expansion of grammar schools is very popular (+49%, 59% support, 10% oppose)."
An article based on these polling results, released by the Evening Standard, can be found here.
Fieldwork dates and methodology can be found here.
A full breakdown of these results can be found here.
For a more detailed breakdown of results from this poll, or any other results from our polling series, please get in touch by email or phone.
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In addition to selling and restoring watches, he soon began working on his own creations in the workroom behind the shop. His first masterpiece was a gold pocket watch, with a hand-engraved dial in polished blue lapis lazuli. His mature manual dexterity and incredible attention to detail soon made the budding watchmaker aware of where to specialize in the art of skeletonizing. His idea of cutting away all the parts of the movement which have no active function for its operation characterizes the appearance of Armin Strom watches to this day. He then set about engraving and decorating the remaining parts with intricate detailing and fitting them into fine cases. Although initially available only from his shop, creations from Armin Strom were first presented at the Basel Watch and Jewellery Fair in 1984. The timepieces soon came to the attention of the media, and customers from all over the world began to show an interest in the hand-skeletonized pieces. The Armin Strom collection had grown to 20 models by the mid-1980s. Then Armin Strom also ventured into the production of his first wristwatch for women. His goal of designing this to be as small as possible gained him an entry in The Guinness Book of World Records as the smallest watch ever to be skeletonized by hand. His reputation and recognition at an international level brought Armin Strom contracts in the 1990s from some watch companies, for which he would skeletonize a number of series by hand. In the meantime, his own brand was expanding continuously as the result of increasing demand. The company was incorporated as Armin Strom AG in 2006, and in 2009 it moved into its new, large production facility in the watchmaking town of Biel. In 2009, the first in-house Manufacture-Calibre, the ARM09 was presented. The first in-house calibre ARM09 was followed by other manual winding calibres and the most recent, the Tourbillon calibre ATC11 was celebrated with a limited set of 4 timepieces – The "Coffret" Tourbillon.
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Jason Greenblatt, the U.S. Special Representative for International Negotiations, is putting the world on notice that Hamas is now begging Iran for help to destroy Israel.
The visit to Tehran comes as Hamas and Fatah, rival Palestinian factions, have recently reached a deal over political reconciliation. The two groups have split rule over the Palestinian territories of Gaza and the West Bank, respectively, for nearly a decade.
Fatah is committed to a peaceful, political path forward in its fight for Palestinian statehood. Founded by Yasser Arafat in 1959, Fatah is an acronym for "Palestinian National Liberation Movement." Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas currently leads Fatah.
In recent days, Hamas has renewed its commitment to destroy Israel through violent means.


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Course Correction
December 5, 2014 Ryan VoorisNews
I'm going to start this column with something mildly controversial, but I ask that you bear with me through the first couple paragraphs, because I swear, I'll explain myself:
I'm no longer interested in Mike Mussina's career.
Admittedly, this is a strange position to take, considering I co-founded a site dedicated to getting Mussina elected to the Hall of Fame. But it's true. Mike Mussina's career as a major league baseball player ended more than six years ago. At this point, if there is any other way for us to break down his career, I don't know it. We've discussed the stats, we've dispelled narratives, we've done comparisons. But by and large, we've covered all the ground there is to cover there. We encourage you to take a look at it if you're interested.
But what I'm interested in now is not discussing how Mike Mussina's career can get him into to the Hall of Fame. I'm interested in discussing how Mike Mussina's candidacy can do that.
Buster Olney of ESPN recently made headlines when he announced he wouldn't submit a ballot for the Hall of Fame, because he didn't have enough space to vote in all the players he wanted to, One of those players he didn't have room for was Mike Mussina.
Olney, regardless of how you feel about his decision, highlights exactly what I'm referring to. Here's a situation where someone believes Mussina's career is worthy of the Hall of Fame, but his candidacy comes up short, because Mussina's behind too many other worthy players.
I think it's pretty obvious that, despite our best work, Mike Mussina is not getting elected to the Hall of Fame this season. But his candidacy will be changing, even if his status doesn't.
What to expect, dear reader? Well, I can't speak for Ryan, but from me, you're going to see less straight information posted and more analysis of what it all means.
If four guys get knocked off the ballot this year, I'm not going to talk about how Mussina compares to them. I'm going to write about how that affects the next year's ballot. If John Smoltz is elected, I'm not going to debate if Mussina was better, I'm going to ask: "What does a Hall of Fame with John Smoltz mean for Mussina?" If some writer casts a ballot without Mussina on it because, like Olney, they didn't have room, I'm going to talk about what we can glean from that.
It's a departure from the norm, for sure. But it's one I think you'll find rewarding. I hope you keep reading, and keep fighting for Moose!
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Appeasement only emboldens the evil doers: Clinton's other Legacy
Jewish World Review ^ | Oct. 18, 2002 | Mona Charen
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http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | "North Korea Says It Has a Program on Nuclear Arms" -- New York Times, Oct. 17, 2002.
President Bill Clinton will be remembered by history for only one thing, which is a bit of a shame since his record is so thoroughly shabby and dishonorable that it deserves closer study.
Clinton's contribution to our vulnerability to terror has been well documented, and now comes news that another of his foreign policies has come to fruition. The North Koreans have admitted what close observers have suspected all along -- that they have a nuclear weapons program and may have already produced a number of bombs. (Oh, and by the way, worshippers of arms control treaties kindly note: North Korea is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.)
The only mystery is why Pyongyang has now chosen to admit it.
In the early 1990s, North Korea, even more than other communist states, was drowning in the consequences of its system. People were starving. A congressional study estimated that as many as 1 million died of starvation by 1998. But the regime was no less belligerent for that. Pyongyang continued to build up its military and was aggressively pursuing nuclear capability. Though its facilities were supposed to be inspected by the International Atomic Energy Agency, North Korea persistently delayed inspections. Meanwhile, its aggressive posture and rhetoric toward South Korea continued, as did its development of long-range missiles.
President Clinton, observing this situation, saw what needed to be done: Pyongyang would have to be appeased. As former defense secretary William Perry put it, the administration thought it "necessary to move forward in a more positive way with North Korea." In exchange for a temporary freeze on its nuclear program and a mere promise to refrain from developing such weapons in the future, the Clinton administration extended nearly $1 billion in foreign aid for food and fuel oil, as well as promising to build two light water reactors for the North Koreans.
Certainly the administration must have attached conditions? Surely it insisted that the regime provide proof that the aid was not being used for military purposes, and it must have insisted on some form of political and economic liberalization? The Clinton administration must have tied this aid package to guarantees that the North Koreans would cease exporting ballistic missiles to nations like Iran and Pakistan? Actually, no. As Perry explained, "The policy team believed that the North Korean regime would strongly resist such reform ..."
The North Koreans, rewarded for their belligerence, naturally continued down the same path. (And the lesson was probably not lost on other dangerous regimes that seeking nuclear weapons can bring goodies from Washington.) In 1998, they tested a new, three-stage ballistic missile. Did the Clinton administration at last learn the lesson that appeasement does not work? Not quite. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and William Perry held a press conference to announce that the United States was continuing to pursue good relations with North Korea: "We must deal with the North Korean government as it is, not as we wish it would be."
Accordingly, the Clinton administration proposed to lift economic sanctions on North Korea if it promised -- but this time really, sincerely promised -- to stop development of long-range missiles. The North Korean government didn't even deign to respond for a full week -- but the Clinton administration relaxed sanctions anyway.
The Clinton administration officials believed their policies toward North Korea were a success. By "engaging" Pyongyang, they believed, they had avoided war. Neville Chamberlain thought the same. Instead, the appeasement merely emboldened the North Koreans. A Republican study group concluded in 1999 that North Korea "is a greater threat to international stability" than it had been five years before, "primarily in Asia and secondarily in the Middle East." Is it conceivable that the Clinton foreign policy team really believed North Korea could be bribed into decency?
Edmund Burke warned, "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." That includes assuming that they will lie, cheat and betray. The liberal attachment to treaties is thus laid bare for the chimera it is. When strength and resolve were required, Bill Clinton supplied weakness and legerdemain. And in this, as in the war on terror, he has bequeathed a more dangerous world to his successor.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: clinton; terrorism
1 posted on 10/18/2002 7:47:30 AM PDT by 1bigdictator
To: 1bigdictator
2 posted on 10/18/2002 7:53:39 AM PDT by john in missouri
When the Rosenbergs gave nuclear secrets to the soviets, they were tried for treason and executed. When the Clintons gave nuclear weapons to the North Koreans ________(fill in the blank)__.
3 posted on 10/18/2002 7:58:03 AM PDT by stop_fascism
There is no value in any treaty where one of the parties is a congenital liar.
In this case both were.
4 posted on 10/18/2002 7:59:41 AM PDT by Yankee
To: stop_fascism
When the Rosenbergs gave nuclear secrets to the soviets, they were tried for treason and executed. When the Clintons gave nuclear weapons to the North Koreans they were lauded and feted by America's enemies.
To: Yankee
When the Clintons gave nuclear weapons to the North Koreans they were lauded and feted by America's enemies...
...both foreign and domestic, and the adoration continues to this very day.
6 posted on 10/18/2002 8:05:40 AM PDT by MarineDad
The revision has begun... two Clinton aids were given the first half hour on sixty minutes to bash Clinton's own appointees to the FBI for secretly stonewalling Clinton's efforts to combat Arab-backed terrorism.
Clinton, observing this situation, saw what needed to be done: Pyongyang would have to be appeased.
The liberal attachment to treaties is thus laid bare for the chimera it is. When strength and resolve were required, Bill Clinton supplied weakness and legerdemain. And in this, as in the war on terror, he has bequeathed a more dangerous world to his successor.
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." That includes assuming that they will lie, cheat and betray.
BILL CLINTON: AN EVIL MAN, AN EVIL DOER : YET ANOTHER LEGACY OF HIS PRESIDENCY.
8 posted on 10/18/2002 9:50:23 AM PDT by nicmarlo
Perry: "The policy team believed that the North Korean regime would strongly resist such reform ..."
This is incredibly telling. Clinton simply wanted to give the North Koreans aid, and wouldn't let their intrasigence to (some responsibly-minded on) our negotiating team's thoughts toward quid pro quo stand in the way.
This is very much in line with Madeleine Aldim's 1998 statement (August 17th, I believe it was) that the US shouldn't be the only superpower, and that we are sanguine with China's moves toward being a second superpower. This Korean aid and Albright's China statement were just a tip of the hand showing us how absolutely treasonous the Clinton Administration was, IMHO!
The whirlwind lies just before us. How many of our number will have to pay the ultimate sacrifice because of the Kurinton's? What are we going to do about it?
9 posted on 10/18/2002 12:48:04 PM PDT by holden
Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter - the Neville Chamberlains of our time...
10 posted on 10/18/2002 1:10:58 PM PDT by yendu bwam
The only people pathological liars trust are other pathological liars. Now there is a conundrum.
11 posted on 10/18/2002 1:32:12 PM PDT by Russell Scott
lauded and feted by America's enemies.
The clintoid were also lauded and feted by the American people, particularly Democrats and a few liberal Republicans.
12 posted on 10/18/2002 1:47:30 PM PDT by Theodore R.
To: yendu bwam
Didn't AR Bill "disinvite" Georgia Jimmy from his 1996 Democrat convention? AR Bill was afraid that anti-Carter people might also vote against him.
Clinton is a rapist/traitor and Carter is a coward.
Both American presidents... both dems.
Johnson gave us Viet Nam and destoyed the black family unit.
Today, the democrat party is socialist/marxist. They want to bleed us to death with taxes and get as many people as they can, working for the government or being fed off it.
It is the American version of the old USSR!
14 posted on 10/18/2002 2:14:38 PM PDT by johnny7
To: johnny7
Clinton is a rapist/traitor and Carter is a coward. Both American presidents... both dems. Johnson gave us Viet Nam and destoyed the black family unit. Today, the democrat party is socialist/marxist. They want to bleed us to death with taxes and get as many people as they can, working for the government or being fed off it. It is the American version of the old USSR!
To: Theodore R.
Bill Baloo Clinton didn't want people to remember what Democrats are really about... (like allowing the holding of scores of hostages in Iran, appeasing the Soviet Union when it built new nuclear missiles and marched into Afghanistan, etc. etc.)


A senior at the University of New Hampshire is changing how students get food on campus, one meal-card swipe at a time.
Alana Davidson, who is studying nutrition and dietetics, created the Swipe It Forward program, a virtual food bank which allows anyone — faculty, staff, parents and students — to donate swipes on the dining hall meal plan for students who may not have enough money to buy food.
The program takes advantage of an existing finger scanning and student ID card-swipe system that connects to a campus-wide platform developed by Blackboard.
David May, associate vice president of business affairs at UNH, told EdScoop that the school uses the content management system Blackboard for students to facilitate access to the dining halls on campus. Students use finger scanning technology to enter the halls and go through a turnstile.
Students and faculty staff who participate in the university's meal swipe plans can donate up to 15 meals per year, by filling out a form at UNH's ID Office, according to May. Those on unlimited meal plans aren't eligible to donate meal swipes, but anyone can make a cash donation using a UNH web site designed to accept donations, according to May.
The program was developed to work within Blackboard's software, according to May. "No features needed to be added or developed," he said.
The school adopted the finger scanning technology a few years ago, May said, in part to move the school's roughly 15,000 students more efficiently through its dining halls.
"One of the reasons we use that is we have an unlimited meal plan that we sell, and the only way to really control it is to have that kind of access," he said. "The meal system tracks balances in real time and does not allow students to use more meals than they have purchased," May said.
Swipe It Forward, which launched at the end of the fall semester, was the culmination of two years of work and research. When Davidson worked on a college health project in 2014, she found in her research that the U.S. Department of Agriculture collects household-level data on food insecurity, but does not have statistics specifically on college students.
"We don't know nationally how many students are facing these issues, so I came back to campus and did a survey and sent it out to a general nutrition class," Davidson, 21, said.
She found that 12 percent of students are "food insecure," whereas 10 percent of households in the state fall into that category.
She reached out to the dean of students and the provost, and she said they were both supportive of her studies and finding a solution. After presenting her findings to top school and state officials, a task force was created on campus. That included the dean of students, the vice president of business services, a nutrition faculty member, the director of a local food pantry, school dining services and Davidson.
Davidson took the Swipe It Forward idea to the task force, and months later it turned into a concrete solution.
Dining services "works with students to give them a certain number of free meals in the dining hall and put them directly on their student IDs so there's no stigma, and no one knows how students are obtaining those swipes," she said.
Now, the focus is on getting the word out to students. Davidson said they are bringing attention to the program through social media, and she hopes to create a comprehensive website about what the program entails and why food insecurity is a major issue on college campuses.
She said she is working with university health services, counseling services and academic advisors to screen for students who may benefit from the program.


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You are here: Home / Resources / Documents / WCC general secretary / Messages and letters / Message of the Ecumenical delegation led by the general secretary of the World Council of Churches to the Congolese people
Message of the Ecumenical delegation led by the general secretary of the World Council of Churches to the Congolese people
At the end of our ecumenical solidarity visit from 18-21 August 2018 Ecumenical delegation sends message of encouragement and hope to the Congolese people
1. At the end of our ecumenical solidarity visit from 18-21 August 2018, Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC); Rev. Dr Frank Chikane, moderator of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs; Dr Nigussu Legesse, WCC programme executive; together with Bishop Arnold Temple, president of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC); Archbishop Onesphore Rwaje, AACC special envoy to the African Union; Rev. Prof. Bosela Eale, AACC director for Peace, Diakonia and Development; and a delegation from the Vatican in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) composed of the Archbishop Protase Rugambwa, secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of the peoples in Vatican, Archbishop Marcel Utembi, president of the Episcopal Conference of the DRC, and Rev. Father Ildevert Mathurin Mouanga, rector of the Theological Seminary Emile Biayenda in Brazzaville, Congo, we address our greetings and send our message of encouragement and hope.
2. The delegation came to share the joys and sorrows of the Congolese people, to show them our closeness and solidarity at this crucial turning point in their history and to encourage them to stand firm in the way out of the current socio-political crisis. At the same time, it is also an opportunity for us to encourage the various religious faith communities to work together, to look in the same direction and to speak with one voice for the general interest of the Congolese people.
3. After meeting and exchanging with different people, we understood that for the solution for the crisis in the DRC, the success of the current electoral process is crucial, as provided in the Constitution and set out in the Global Political and Inclusive Agreement of 31 December 2016, which has been hailed by the Congolese people and by the international community.
4. In this regard, we are pleased to know that the significant steps are being taken in the right direction:
1 ° We welcome the effort to correct the electoral files;
2 ° the compliance until now to the major stages of the published calendar; especially the submission of candidatures for some in respect for constitutional democratic alternation;
3 ° the commitment of the Government to finance the elections.
We congratulate all stakeholders for these efforts and encourage them to move forward to ensure a successful election on 23 December 2018.
5. On the other hand, we are also preoccupied, like many of our interlocutors, by a few challenges that, if not taken into account, may render in vain the efforts made up until then, namely:
1° the issue of people enlisted without fingerprints;
2 ° the need of consensus and trust on the use of the voting machine;
3° the importance of fulfilling measures provided in the Saint Sylvestre Agreement, particularly the cases of prisoners and political exiles which are not yet resolved.
4° the need to guarantee the inclusiveness of elections
6. Therefore, we strongly urge the National Independent Electoral Commission and the Congolese government to seriously address these issues by seeking the necessary consensus and by taking courageous actions in order to guarantee credible, transparent, inclusive and peaceful elections. This is very significant for the peace and the well-being of this beautiful and blessed country.
7. We recommend and encourage the election observation for national and international organizations that have the competence and wish to participate in the electoral poll of 23 December 23 2018.
8. In this situation, we encourage the faith leaders to exercise their moral and pastoral responsibility vis a vis the Congolese people and their leaders.
9. We are stronger when we are together. That is why we encourage faith communities in DRC to continue to speak together with the same language and concentrate on the common good.
10. We will continue to pray for the peace of the people of Congo and support churches in their efforts.
May the Lord bless the DRC and its people.
Kinshasa, 21/08/2018
On behalf of the delegation:
General Secretary, WCC


With the aim of creating innovative technology products, based on Black Wattle vegetable extracts, Acquaquímica was established in 1999. With the initial focus on products for residue waters and effluent treatment, a new product concept surged like flocculants, bleachers, disinfectants and other organic specialties.
The products are directed to optimize production and are ecologically and environmentally friendly.


DATE/TIME: January 15, 2019 / 9:25 a.m.
Deputies in Highland were dipatched to a commercial business complex on Baseline Street regarding suspicious circumstances. A Highland City employee saw an unknown male driving a white pick up truck stop at the location and discard a metal gas cylinder in the parking lot.
Deputies arrived at the location and immediately closed off the area and evacuated the businesses in the strip mall. Investigators from the Sheriff's Arson/Bomb Detail were called to assist with the possible explosive device. After several hours, the cylinder was examined and determined to be safe. The San Bernardino County Fire HAZMAT Unit responded to the location to pick up and discard the cylinder.


The Cluas Programme has been developed over the past ten years by Pascal Maher, founder and Clinical Director of Cluas, and Ronan Maher, Programme Director of Cluas.
Cluas has been in operation since 2003 and 1000's of children, teenagers and adults have successfully completed Cluas programmes. We provide Cluas @ Home programmes from our centres and will also provide programmes from Cluas Regional Centres across the country shortly. See Our Centres for more information.
Information about the normal programme structure and length is available at Cluas @ Home programme. Also included here is information about how progress is monitored and reviewed with parents during and after the programme.
There is also more information at the Our Centre Based Approach programme.
Hearing and listening are not the same! We hear sounds around us all the time but we do not always listen.
Listening is the ability to tune into selected sounds, process the sound and understand what the sounds mean. Listening is an active process compared to hearing which is a passive.
Many young people, with a range of developmental difficulties ranging from reading and difficulties to Speech and language difficulties to problems making friends and learning well in the classroom are poor listeners. Their poor listening is due to Auditory Processing Difficulties.
Auditory Processing Difficulties describe a set of difficulties in the way that individuals process sound – that is "what they do with what they hear".
At Cluas we work with children's auditory processing difficulties in order to improve their Speech and Language, reading and comprehension abilities, attention and concentration, and social difficulties to name but a few.
What is The Cluas Programme?
At the core of the Cluas programme is a unique system of sound stimulation – our programme uses sound – music – in order to retrain and improve a young person's auditory processing skills. We use specialised sound equipment, to retrain the way the children gather and process information.
In brief our programme "tunes" (like tuning a radio) child's ears and develops their auditory processing, so that they receive, process and understand all types of information in a significantly more efficient way. This process of retraining the way in which children process information facilitates, encourages and accelerates children's development in a wide range of areas, including speech and language, the written word, social information and also the ability to filter out un-needed information (thus being able to pay good attention in class or at home).
At Cluas we provide an individualised sound stimulation programmes for each child using our specialised sound equipment and we use specially recorded and modified classical music.
Depending on each individual child's needs specific music will be played through our sound equipment, which processes and alters various acoustic parameters of the music. The music is delivered to each child using a unique pair of headphones. The specialised headphones deliver the music in two different ways: Air Conduction and by Bone Conduction.
We use specific music which is processed in order to stimulate the development of speech and language, communication, vestibular and cochlear systems and general neural development. The music is an essential part of the programme, but of greatest importance is how we process this music – through a complex system of "gates", "filters" and "channels" – to promote the child's development.
The Cluas programme is extensive, with each programme devised to suit the unique needs of each child; the programme is also regularly reviewed and re-attuned to the child's changing needs, as their program progresses.
More information about the programme structure and length is available at Cluas @ Home programme. This also includes information about how progress is monitored and reviewed with parents during and after the programme.
There is also more information available about the times of the day that the our centre based programme takes place at at Our Centre Based Approach.
Also, information on how parents can arrange an assessment for their child and how to arrange a Cluas programme is provided at How can we help?


St. Luke's Church community worships in an attractive, mid-Victorian building which is just north of the centre of Maidenhead. We are an inclusive and broad church which aims to be "In Faith Out There", with a spirit of adventure and risk, sometimes pushing the boundaries, and bringing issues of faith and belief to bear on our daily lives. We offer a warm welcome to all who wish to share this journey of faith with us.
Our annual bulletin, detailing parish life during 2018, is now available following the APCM on Sunday 3rd March 2019. In addition, the signed version of the 2018 PCC accounts is now also available. Click here to download them.
Each year we give away a significant amount to a range of local, national, and international charities. Click here to see some recent "thank you" letters and emails we have received.
Click here to see the dates for this year's Messy Church sessions especially for families with young children. Messy Church happens monthly at 3:30-5:30pm on a Friday afternoon and features craft, storytelling, and a two course dinner for the children!
Click here to see the Sunday evening services we will share with All Saints and the Church of the Good Shepherd, Cox Green, this spring.
Click here for information about our joint year of mission with fellow Christians at All Saint's and the Church of the Good Shepherd, Cox Green.
8.00am Holy Communion, quiet, held in the choir stalls. On the third Sunday in each month the Book of Common Prayer service in traditional language is used.
10.00am Parish Communion, for the whole family, with young people's activities during the service (Stars and Sparks for ages 3-15). The first Sunday of the month everyone stays in for an All Age service. Baptisms usually take place in the main service monthly.
Evening Prayer is said Thursday and Friday at 5.00pm in the chapel.
Compline (Night Prayer) is said at 9.00pm in the chapel, as advertised.
...each followed by prayer for the sick and anointing for healing and wholeness on the last week of each month.
...when the office is open (Mon, Tues, Weds, Fri, 9.30am - 11.00am), as well as at other times.


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crazy little thing called blog: quiz! award!
The person that will the most accurately estimate the maximum speed (in km/h) that the speedometer of my bike is showing at this moment will be awarded a dinner at Fresca (or some other nice place on old continent if one of my European friends will be the winner) in my company.
1. I installed the speedometer one month ago and during this time I only biked in the city.
keepon dancing with a robot?


Join us at our Jackson Park office for the Your Path to Wealth seminar series. Take control of your finances and learn the steps needed to reach your goals. Receive valuable information to help you get on the road to financial success. Offered in Spanish, this seminar will walk you through the basics of personal credit and what having good credit means for you. This seminar is offered in partnership with the Latino Entrepreneurial Network. RSVP today to Branch Manager Alfredo Martin at 414-327-2000 or amartin@northshorebank.com.


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Manşūr Kandī (persiska: منصور کندی) är en ort i Iran.   Den ligger i provinsen Västazarbaijan, i den nordvästra delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Teheran. Manşūr Kandī ligger  meter över havet och antalet invånare är .

Terrängen runt Manşūr Kandī är mycket platt. Den högsta punkten i närheten är Qezel Dāgh,  meter över havet,  km sydväst om Manşūr Kandī. Runt Manşūr Kandī är det ganska tätbefolkat, med  invånare per kvadratkilometer. Närmaste större samhälle är Mīāndoāb,  km öster om Manşūr Kandī. Trakten runt Manşūr Kandī består till största delen av jordbruksmark.

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The manner of conducting operations in the current society has been improved through many ways and people have initiated those developments with them. If there are precious assets in any business set up is the time and money and money cannot be found if the time is misused or not provided as it should. Every activity done depends on the reliability of the employees and the equipment used and if it is not stable, then the activities done cannot be durable too. Time is the beneficial factor that should be prioritized in every activity done in order to increase the efficiency of the whole program arranged for. Everything has to be replaced by the new reliable services including the record keeping devices in business firms where digital ways are incorporated and the old-fashioned ones are done away with.
Online devices have currently taken a rise in the provision of adequate services like the time clock wizard which is a software used in addressing the many time-related problems. There are many advantages associated with the usage of the time clock wizard that has overcome the old manual ways of having to record every detail in the papers. It is of great benefit that the time clock wizard is an app stored online and can be accessed by every individual thus making it reliable and references can be done at any one point. If there is an aspect looked for in any business organization is the reliability of the method used by everyone to get to know what is happening in time.
Power is one of the things that most of the human beings do depend for most of the activities that they do. The use of the electricity at home is critical, as there are a dozen of items that would be impossible to use without it.
The industries and all of the manufacturing process most of them do depend on the power too. You should know that with the power most of the energy needing activities is possible.
You should know that despite the good things that electricity has in our lives it also associated with some more deadly issues. You should know that the persons that do live closer to the power stations do have high chances of getting such negative effects.
It is excellent to know that electricity is capable of creating or releasing some harmful elements that might affect an ordinary human being. With the electricity use and the distributions there is something known as electromagnetic field.
You should know that these fields are the one that are known to bring harm to a human being. Knowing some health issues that might emanate from the magnetic fields will be critical for you as a human being.
You should read the following points to know some of the known hazards that you can get if you live near a power station. One of the issues that are known is to be a result of the harmful fields exposure is pregnant women miscarriage.
Through the various done surveys, it has shown that, most of the women do get such an issue due to the electricity issue. The chances of developing some cancer related diseases are highly attributed to the EMFs.
Imperative Tips That Should Guide You In Choosing Professional Lawn Mowing Agency.
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There are various procedures and steps that you need to follow when you are carrying out the lawn mowing operations but if you don't know such issues, entrust a good lawn mowing firms. Its noble to know the different existing lawn mowing service agencies so that you may know the relatively vital one that will have the reliable and magnificent services.
If you have time, you need to collect enough information about each of the existing lawn mowing firm where you will compare them more and then end with the most superlative. Be sure to check websites of the prominent lawn mowing service providers since this is where you will get more clues about their services.
The trick you need to know when hiring a lawn mowing firm is you may be directed to the most fabulous lawn mowing firm by your relative or concerned friend. One thing about the lawn mowing firms that needs to be offered a priority is they have the heavy expertise needed to accomplish and to deal with your lawn mowing operations.
As you progress to choose a lawn mowing firm based on their experience, you need to consider the years they have as well as the multiple lawn mowing operations they've accomplished. As you check out the most admirable lawn mowing firm, check their charges for this is what will direct you to choosing a certain lawn mowing firm.
Business reviews are essential to most businesses both small and large since without them, certain business operations could be moving in the wrong directions. It is vital for business to know how they are doing through the revises as this will enable them to achieve the future objectives. On the other hand, business reviews are essential since they can assist businesses in knowing the things that need to be improved for them to achieve their future objectives.
When you want to see the business reviews of various organizations , you need to check on different online sites. Business owners need to be aware of what their businesses are being discussed online. The following are the reasons as to why business reviews are important.
One of the reasons as to why business reviews are vital is that they create a platform for free advertising. When a customer post reviews of a company, they act as forms of advertising for the business. This is possible since both the name and the product that a business produce are exposed to the readers thereby increasing their awareness of the company and what it does.
The other importance of business reviews is that they improve search engine results. Most search engines do keep record of the number of times a business has been mentioned on the reviews. When a business is mentioned a lot of times , they stand a chance to appear higher in the search results for a particular type of business that those that aren't mentioned very often.
It is common for some people do not really like shaving their body on a regular basis. When checking out the market that you are able to see many different permanent solutions for this one. And one of the most effective hair removal solutions that you can find is the laser hair removal. It is this one that basically emits a pulse into the skin which eventually heats up the shaft and the root and destroys it. And once the hair follicles get damaged that hair growth will be no more. When checking out the market that you are also able to find laser systems that have the capability to target multiple hairs at the same time. When this is done that it is able to destroy multiple follicles at the same time. Whenever you will choose to do this one that a large area of your body can already be covered in just a little amount of time.


Considering the amount of virus, trojans, and malware that exist, its normal to think why Hardware wallet had such high success, since with CryptoCoins we are or own Bank, and there is no one we can claim in case someone steal our tokens.
Thats the reason in this article we are going to explain the easy steps to install the IOTA Trinity Wallet in a safe environment, in this case a Linux Distribution called Xubuntu.
You can select any other distribution you like, but Xubuntu requires low performance machine, so works very quick.
All you need is a USB pen drive and a few programs. Our computer operating system will never be modified, and linux will run in "live mode" over the USB.
but there are more tools like unetbootin.
So download the program, install it, open it, plug the PenDrive (all data will be removed so use pendrive you dont need). On Step1 of the program, you select the pendrive. on Step2 you select the ISO/IMG/ZIP and then find the xubuntu file we downloaded a few minutes ago. on the Step 4 just check the second one (format) and leave the rest unchecked.
You are almost done, just left to click the Thunder Icon on Step 5 and Wait!
and it should start to load the Linux Operating System.
In case it doesn't, means its not configured to boot from USB, so you must join the BIOS of your computer and change it. Each computer might have a different way to enter the BIOS, so you must google your computer model in case you dont know how to.
Once the Linux OS is booted, you can follow The steps of this video to install the Trinity Wallet.
So easy! remember to write, print and save your seed before move in any IOTA's!
Nothing is saved in the Linux OS, each time you boot it, it will be fresh again, so thats the reason its very important you save, print, and even write manually your seed.
Now you know how move in a safe environment to work with your favourite cryptocurrency token!


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ConEdison Solutions and SunPower Launch Residential Solar Power Leasing Program in New York State
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VALHALLA, N.Y. and SAN JOSE, Calif., July 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ConEdison Solutions, one of America's largest energy services companies and a prominent developer of renewable projects for businesses and government, and SunPower (Nasdaq: SPWR), a leading global provider of solar technology and services, have joined forces to offer New York State homeowners the opportunity to lease high efficiency SunPower® solar power systems. The companies have launched the program and expect to begin adding customers in August.
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Leonardo da Vinci is one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most talented person ever to have lived. His excellence in many different arts and sciences exemplified him as the definitive Renaissance Man. His most famous painting is La Gioconda, a portrait better known as the Mona Lisa.
Leonardo was born Italy in 1452 during an artistic and scientific revival called the Renaissance. Little is known about his childhood but he kept journals and he did write down some of his memories. When he was fourteen, Leonardo became an apprentice to one of the most famous artists of his day, Verrocchio. Leonardo received a wonderful education there. When he was twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the guild of artists and doctors of medicine. Leonardo became famous as a painter, a scientist, and an engineer.
In search of new challenges and big bucks, Leonardo entered the service of the Duke of Milan. The Duke kept Leonardo busy painting and sculpting and designing elaborate court festivals, but he also put Leonardo to work creating weapons, buildings and machinery. Alas, Leonardo's interests were so broad that he rarely finished what he started. He left dozens of paintings and projects unfinished.
Nonetheless, Leonardo's paintings became famous for the inventive techniques that he used to apply paint, his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in the way in which humans show emotion with their faces and their gestures, and the way that he arranged the people and objects in his art work. All these qualities come together in his most famous paintings.
Leonardo's studies in science are as impressive and innovative as his artistic work. Leonardo actually anticipated many discoveries of modern times. In anatomy, he studied the circulation of the blood and the action of the eye. He made discoveries in meteorology and geology, learned the effect of the moon on the tides, foreshadowed modern conceptions of continent formation, and guessed the nature of fossil shells. He was one of the originators of the science of hydraulics, the study of water in motion; his design for the canals are still used today. He invented a large number of ingenious machines, many potentially useful, among them an underwater diving suit. His flying devices, although not practical, embodied sound principles of aerodynamics.
His approach to science was observational: he tried to understand things by describing them in the utmost detail. Leonardo closely observed and recorded the effects of age and of human emotion on the human body. As a successful artist, he was given permission to dissect human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and later at hospitals in Milan and Rome. He drew many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, as well as muscles and sinews, the heart and vascular system, and other internal organs.
Leonardo also worked as an engineer. His journals include a vast number of inventions, both practical and impractical. They include musical instruments, hydraulic pumps, reversible crank mechanisms, finned mortar shells, a steam cannon, a submarine, and shoes for walking on water! He even devised working bridges and hang gliders.
After an invasion by the French, Leonardo traveled throughout Italy for a number of employers. He worked as a military engineer. He also designed a bridge to span the "golden horn" in Constantinople and he re- ceived a job painting the "Battle of Anghiari." He wound up working in Rome but, when his patron, Giuliano de' Medici, passed away; King Francis I of France invited Leonardo to become Premier Painter and Engineer and Architect of the King. Leonardo passed away in the king's arms in 1519.
The last time Leonardo was our master of the month, my students did a pretty amazing job drawing their own versions of the Mona Lisa. This year, I'm using the master to launch a year of design, invention, and innovation projects. What I like most about da Vinci though are his studies of water. I haven't seen a LOT of them, but I love the idea of one of the greatest artists of history watching the motion of water for that long.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci by yours truly, Rama Hughes.


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Faces of the Future: Falah Muhammad
At Paragon Leadership, one of our core values is developing "the future face of leadership." We believe that understanding and developing next generation leaders is a vital part of every organization. We want to highlight and reward next gen leaders that we think stand out as role models to other young leaders as well as to mature executives. Everyone in a community has some wisdom to share, we want to make sure that young leaders are heard as well.
In this feature, Faces Leading the Future, we have chosen four next gen leaders of all ages that we think exemplifies the characteristics of a strong leader. These young people have stood out in their communities and we want to present their ideas to a much larger audience.
Students in Detroit inner-city schools face challenges above the average high school drama. "In Detroit we have issues of unemployment and literacy rates," says Detroit International Academy principal Beverly Hibbler. "To stand out you really have to persevere, be strong. You have to not get caught up in what your peers do. You have to be able to set yourself apart from the others; to do the right thing regardless of what other people are doing. We try to convince young ladies to be just that." Principal Hibbler chose Falah Muhammad as a student that works every day to do just that.
Falah Muhammad is a junior at the Detroit International Academy. Her spirit is instantly recognizable and her dedication to being successful is inspiring. She sees beyond the pressures of high school, beyond the constant challenges of life in Detroit. "I don't just follow the crowd, I try to stand out! I try to do something different. I try to go the extra mile in all of my classes, make sure I have good grades. I want to leave a lot of accomplishments behind. And I have good relationships with good people." She is very ambitious, a strong trait that she learned from her role model, her mother. She has a plan for herself to achieve her goals in life. "I think about what I want, then how do I get there? I need good grades, I've got to go to college, start my career and make money."
She was recently voted the president of Trend Setters, a club for girls that want to do more with their life, that want to stay away from drugs, drinking, or dropping out of school. The founder of Trend Setters formed the club because "she didn't want to be a statistic." Falah is hoping that this year, in Trend Setters, she can organize a turkey drive for the poor, volunteer at a soup kitchen, host a Christmas party for autistic children, and clean up a park "when it's warmer out!"
Falah also understands the importance of gratitude and giving back to the community that has supported her in her pursuit of success. She wants to stay in Detroit after graduating from college, to help her community. "My mom tells me: 'Having a dream is nothing if you can't help out the people that helped you."
Falah has a caring heart and Principal Hibbler sees that as one of her strongest attributes. Falah and a friend of hers worked together to practice for a poetry reading contest with a $100 prize. They decided that it didn't matter who won, they would split the prize money. Falah won and did just that, sharing the prize money with her friend. "This is what we expect young women to do. They were supportive of each other," said Hibbler. Falah also had a friend that was denied acceptance into DIA because she did not have above a 2.0 GPA. Falah wrote a letter to Principal Hibbler and the DIA administration requesting them to consider accepting her friend. Falah made a commitment to do whatever she could to help her friend succeed at DIA and now stays after school to help tutor her friend, who was accepted into DIA because of Falah's dedication to helping her. "That is what makes a good leader; someone who is willing to pull someone up with them, to put someone else in front of themselves."


As he writes these words, Paul is suffering because he is doing what God called him to do.
For many people this wouldn't fit their picture of God. They think that life should be pleasant if I am living by faith. But to Paul, being blessed didn't mean that life was great, it meant being in a place where God was using him; it meant bringing glory to God.
"That day"meant when God wraps up human history and brings this world to an end and through judgment rights the wrongs of this life and brings justice. In "that day" Paul would receive his rewards and he knew they'd be far greater than his losses in this life, no matter what they were, so long as he honoured God through them all.
Journal your response to what God's saying to you today.


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In September, one month after Belarus's disputed presidential election, the Belarusian Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich commented:
First they seized our country, and now they are seizing the best of us. But hundreds of others will come and fill the places of those who have been taken from our ranks. It is the whole country which has risen up … Lukashenko has said he won't speak 'with the street' – but the streets are filled with hundreds of thousands of people … It isn't the street, it is the nation.
Belarus's president, Alexander Lukashenko, first came to power in 1994 in elections that were deemed free and fair. Since 1996, he has effectively ruled by decree, retaining much of the repressive instrumentation established during Belarus's Soviet past. He is often referred to as Europe's last dictator. In 2004, he altered the constitution to allow him to run for an indefinite number of terms. The people of Belarus have clearly had enough. In August 2020, Lukashenko was re-elected president in an election that was widely condemned inside the country and abroad as neither free nor fair. In the following months, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in largely peaceful protests to call for new, free and fair elections and an end to political repression.
On 6 November, PEN Belarus called for international support in the midst of a government onslaught against the pro-democracy movement. Writers, artists, performers, musicians and other cultural figures find themselves on the front line for daring to express critical views of Lukashenko and for highlighting the struggle for fundamental rights in Belarus. They have become one of the key forces in the peaceful opposition movement, using art and words as a form of protest and staging performances, concerts and readings in support of protesters.
After calling for fair elections, freedom of expression and an end to violence, many cultural figures have been arrested and beaten, some have lost their jobs and others have been forced to leave the country. Actors and staff at the well-known Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre, which celebrated its centenary this year, were fired after they spoke out against the use of torture by Belarusian police. Members of the Belarusian State Philharmonic were threatened with the termination of their contracts simply because they walked along the streets of Minsk singing in support of protesters. The art historian Nikita Monich was fired from the National Art Museum after he published a poem criticising Lukashenko.
PEN Belarus members have also been targeted. On 9 October, Olga Shparaga, a philosopher, was detained and sentenced to fifteen days of administrative arrest. After her release, she received notice that she was to be detained for a further twelve days, whereupon she decided to leave the country. On 21 October, the poet Dmitry Strotsev disappeared. The following day, he was discovered in Akrestsina detention centre, having been hooded, handcuffed and detained by the State Security Committee (KGB). He was sentenced to thirteen days imprisonment for participating in protests and is now once again free. In Hrodna, the historians Ales Smalianchuk and Ales Krautsevich were detained and fined.
Most cultural institutions in Belarus are under government control, which makes them particularly vulnerable. Professional unions can offer writers and artists little protection in the face of government intimidation, since most are dominated by pro-government representatives and independent unions are illegal.
On 22 October, the European Parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize, which honours those who defend human rights, to the democratic opposition movement in Belarus, led by the exiled Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. 'They have stood and still stay strong in the face of a much stronger adversary. But they have on their side something that brute force can never defeat – and this is the truth,' the Parliament's president, David Sassoli, said.
On 9 November, Amnesty International reported the arrest of more than a thousand people in a single day of peaceful protest in Minsk and other Belarusian cities. Amnesty claims that security forces have 'escalated reprisals against peaceful dissent' and brought 'the human rights crisis in Belarus to a new level'. The organisation also reports seeing 'gruesome footage of riot police beating unarmed demonstrators and officers shoving elderly people into police vans'. On the same day, at least nine journalists were detained, according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists. The previous week, the authorities began mass criminal proceedings against more than two hundred peaceful protesters, who face up to three years in prison if convicted.
PEN Belarus is calling for new, free elections, urging the Belarusian authorities to stop violence against peaceful protesters and cultural figures who use the arts to express opinions that challenge the official state position, and calling for the release of all those who have been detained for criticising the conduct of the recent presidential election, in accordance with international human rights standards.
Readers might like to send messages of solidarity to PEN Belarus via English PEN (englishpen.org/pen-writes/penwrites-pen-belarus), and follow PEN Belarus on Twitter (@pen_belarus).
Writers and artists are also encouraged to sign PEN America's open letter to the Belarusian government: pen.org/open-letter-in-solidarity-people-of-belarus.
Update: On 7 November 2020, the prominent Iranian writer, lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh (LR, April 2019) was unexpectedly released from prison. She returned home for medical treatment. She may, however, be required to return to prison at any time. PEN continues to call for the charges against her to be dropped and for her release to be made unconditional. Thank you to all readers who sent appeals.
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iPad App Review: Fix-It Felix, Jr.
"Fix-It Felix, Jr" is the 8-bit inspired game that plays into Walt Disney Pictures' fall 2012 release, "Wreck-It Ralph" (Ralph is shown here on the title screen).
(Available in the iTunes App Store for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.3 or later. Price: Free)
After seeing the latest preview for Wreck-It Ralph, many of us have felt that Walt Disney Pictures' upcoming fall release is to video game players, what Who Framed Roger Rabbit was to people who had grown up with animated characters.
Though the film is titled Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph himself is the bad guy of an 8-bit game called Fix-It Felix, Jr. In the game, Ralph scales the facade of Niceland Apartments, angrily pounding on the building with his massive fists. This causes brickwork to rain down, smashing the glass on several windows. It is then up to the game player (in the role of Fix-It Felix, Jr), to repair the damage Ralph has done.
Each time you finish a level, Ralph goes up 5 more floors, and Felix pursues him. However, along with dodging the bricks Ralph dislodges, you'll also need to deal with ducks flying by. The higher up you go, the faster Ralph moves about knocking out bricks, and more ducks fly by to hinder your progress. Each level also has a time-clock that you have to abide by. Word is there are a total of 10 levels, but as of this posting, I've only gotten as far as Level 9 (whether the game ends as it does in the trailers for Wreck-It Ralph, I do not know).
Felix gets to work, trying to steer clear of falling bricks, and flying ducks.
Felix starts out with 3 lives, but over the course of the game, the tenants of Niceland Apartments will show their appreciation for Felix's help, and assist him. This involves leaving a pie cooling on their windowsills. When Felix eats it, his hat will flash, and he'll gain an extra life, and invulnerability for 5-7 seconds.
The touch-screen controls.
The game is set up in a locked vertical position, with directional buttons and an 'action' button at the bottom to control Felix. The controls can get a little cumbersome as the amount of obstacles start piling up in the later levels. my hand/eye coordination kept slipping on the directional controls, but then again, that could just be me in my 'old age.'
The designers of Fix-It Felix, Jr have created a wonderful homage to the games of the 1980′s. The game app was developed by Frima Studios, and seems to combine traits of such arcade classics as Donkey Kong, and Rampage. Though it does not follow exactly what we've seen in the film's previews (or the playable game on the film's website), it put me in mind of some games that were ported over from arcade machines to home video game consoles (you seldom got everything exactly as you got in the arcade). Even so, I do wish I had one of those iCade cabinets in order to play the game properly with joystick and push-button controls.
The image above is a version of "Fix-It Felix, Jr," which is seen on the official "Wreck-It Ralph" website (http://disney.go.com/wreck-it-ralph).
Another version of Felix can be found on the official Wreck-It Ralph website. The game graphics and style look a little different than the iPad app variation. The controls are the same (directional controls and one 'action' button), but the game play is set for a horizontal screen, and Felix does not have to deal with ducks getting in the way of his repairs. This variation reminded me of the game graphics I used to see on my old Apple IIgs back in the day (anyone else's family have one of those besides mine?).
One little detail I love is that this game is called Fix-It Felix, Jr, which means it's a sequel. One has to wonder if this game series in this alternate world went the way of Donkey Kong (who found himself in several different iterations of games, including Donkey Kong Math). Of course, Mario started as an adversary to Donkey Kong before getting his own earth-shattering title. Could this be what was in store for the character of Wreck-It Ralph?
The film Wreck-It Ralph also intends to send us into the realm of many different games, from a Call of Duty/Halo space action quest and a candyland-inspired racing game. Imagery of these games in the film previews puts them moreso in the realm of PS3/XBOX graphics, so I doubt their well-rendered imagery will appear on the iPad. Even so, Fix-It Felix, Jr is an enjoyably retro way to spend a little time gaming away. Plus, it's not everyday that the game you're playing has such a distinct connection to the film its related to.
One of the most talked-about scenes from the upcoming film's previews, was this one, in which Ralph goes to a group therapy session for bad guys in the gaming world.
Tags: 8-bit game, Disney, Fix-It Felix, Frima Studios, I can fix it!, I'm gonna wreck it!, iPad, iPad app, ipad app review, Ipad Game, Jr, Wreck-It, Wreck-It Ralph
2 responses to "iPad App Review: Fix-It Felix, Jr."
Nick says : August 7, 2012 at 5:07 pm
Great review! Makes me miss the days of 8 bit games. I know you are a big Back to the Future fan. Have you played the BTTF game by TellTale Games that came out last year?
MWH1980 says : August 13, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Funny that you should mention Telltale's BTTF game. I've been debating about posting a review on the 5-part release for the iPad.