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Wishlist Wednesday #14
*Wishlist Wednesday is where you show a book that has been on your wishlist/TBR list for a while, the meme is hosted by Pen to Paper*
The Eternity Key by Bree Despain
Publisher: Egmont USA
Fan-favorite author Bree Despain continues her modern-day romance trilogy inspired by the Greek myth of Persephone and Hades with this second book in her Into the Dark series.
Haden Lord, the disgraced Prince of the Underrealm, has chosen love over honor and will do everything in his power to protect Daphne Raines, the human girl he was supposed to bring to the Underrealm. Haden's choice is put to the test as the Skylords and a figure from his past arrive in Olympus Hills with a plan that could destroy all of the realms.
Embracing her destiny as the Cypher, Daphne begins to understand the immense power of her musical ability to control the elements, but she must come to terms with her feelings for Haden and what she must sacrifice in order to protect him and her friends.
Believing the Key of Hades is the only thing that can stop the Underrealm Court from releasing the monstrous Keres on the mortal world, Haden, Daphne, and their friends set out to find the Key before Persephone's Gate opens again on the spring equinox.
-via Amazon
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Review : If I Lie by Corrine Jackson
Publication date: August 6, 2013
Cheater. Traitor. Slut.
Quinn's done the unthinkable: she kissed a guy who is not Carey, her boyfriend. And she got caught. Shunned by everyone she knows, Quinn loses her friends, her reputation, and her identity. Because Carey's not just any guy—he's a Marine who's serving overseas, and beloved by everyone in their small, military town.
But Quinn didn't cheat. She could clear her name, but that would mean revealing secrets she's vowed to keep—secrets that aren't hers to share. So she stays silent, and she waits for Carey to come home.
Then Carey goes MIA, and Quinn must decide how far she'll go to protect her boyfriend…and her promise.
- Barnes and Noble
Oh, If I Lie. *le sigh* I really, truly wanted to love this book. I could not wait to get my hands on its. Alas, the ending murdered my soul. My biggest pet peeve when reading books: an unhappy ending. I am Team Happy Endings through and through. There is more than enough real-life grief to go around, I don't need it in my books. Had there been a happy ending, I would have given If I Lie a 4-star rating. If I Lie is a well written book that draws you into the story. Although I was frustrated with Quinn and Carey's situation, I think that was the point and adding to the plot. Still, aarrgghhhhh.
Quinn and Carey have been dating for years. They are the town perfect teen couple. Carey is the perfect boyfriend who is also honorable and joins the military to fight for our country. Then the unthinkable happens . . . Quinn is caught kissing another boy. Insert all the town shaming. I mean how could she do that to the perfect boyfriend who is overseas risking his life for America? Well . . .
every couples have their secrets.
To make matters worse, when Quinn tries to get in contact with Carey he is MIA. Is he okay? Is he alive? How will she tell him about the kiss? How will they move forward with their secrets ruining Quinn's life? Quinn must make a decision about her next move.
With that being said, if you're not shy of sucky endings, then If I Lie should make it to your TBR pile. This is the first book I read by Corrine Jackson and it was a good read. If you haven't read anything by her give If I Lie a chance.
*** Check out Corrine Jackson's website for more information about her and If I Lie: HERE
*My review on Goodreads | Amazon
Labels: Book, books, contemporary, corrine jackson, fiction, military, review, romance, simon pulse, YA, young adult
Melodious Monday #19
*Melodious Monday is a meme I came up with to share my weekly top picks in music that I like to listen to while reading and writing.
Top Five Picks
These are the songs I had on repeat while reading this past week:
1. I Mean It by G-Eazy
2. Don't Tell 'Em by Jeremih
3. Set Fire to the Rain by ADELE
4. All About It by Hoodie Allen
5. Studio by Schoolboy Q
Enjoy the reading tunes!
The Heir by Kiera Cass
Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series has enchanted readers from the very first page. In this fourth romantic novel, follow Illéa's royal family into a whole new Selection—and find out what happens after happily ever after.
Twenty years ago, America Singer entered the Selection and won Prince Maxon's heart. Now the time has come for Princess Eadlyn to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn doesn't expect her Selection to be anything like her parents' fairy-tale love story...but as the competition begins, she may discover that finding her own happily ever after isn't as impossible as she's always thought.
A new generation of swoonworthy characters and captivating romance awaits in the fourth book of the Selection series!
Review : Boundless by Cynthia Hand (Unearthly Series #3)
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
The past few years held more surprises than part-angel Clara Gardner ever could have anticipated. Now, with the fallen angel who attacked her watching her every move and the threat of Black Wings looming, Clara knows she must finally fulfill her destiny—a destiny that includes Christian Prescott by her side. But in order to complete her purpose, Clara must first find a way to give up the thing she wants most . . . a future with the boy she loves, Tucker Avery.
via Barnes & Noble
My Review: One word:
Talk about a finale! I was so sorry to see the Unearthly series end but boy was the final ride fun.
In my reviews of Unearthly and Hallowed the plot left something to be desired - it was a little lackluster for me. But in Boundless, my wish was granted - the plot had a bit more spunk to it. There was action, bad events took place, the character's abilities were put to the test, there was suspense and more. However, there was one tidbit that drove me nuts. Clara's main conflict in Unearthly and Hallowed was miraculously resolved. Perhaps it would not have peeved me so much if the resolution was more dramatic but that wasn't the case. Instead, it sort of melted, uneventfully, off into the Wyoming sunset. I needed more. Alas, the main conflict in Boundless was more fleshed out.
In this book, we see more of the love triangle. I am a Tucker Girl 100 percent but it was so much harder for me to ignore Christian. I had the feels for Christian. For all three of them. Clara had to literally fight destiny to choose who she wanted to love. Christian was in love with a girl whose heart was torn. And Tucker was not only human but was in love with a part-Angel girl and had to compete with another angelic being for her affection.
Even more, Cynthia Hand practically ripped my soul out in Boundless. Yet another person dies in the Unearthly series. The death in Hallowed was hard but the deaths in book 3 had me blubbering like a baby. The scene was so well-written - it was strong, emotional, realistic. I thought I was in Boundless and the experience was happening to me. I nearly died!
And get this, Bookies! There is an epilogue. An EPIC epilogue! The perfect bow to the present that is Boundless.
*Side-note: You guys have no idea how hard it was to write this review without spoilers.*
If you have not finished the Unearthly series, what in the heck are you waiting for? Get on it! You will not be sorry that you did. Bookiedeeds' Promise. Boundless was a captivating, emotional ride that had me all chips in from the starting gate.
Here is one of my favorite quotes from Boundless:
Angela: She shrugs."Men"
"Men."
"If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there?"
***Check out Cynthia Hand's website for more information about her and the Boundless: HERE
Labels: angels, boundless, cowboy, cynthia hand, fallen angels, fiction, HarperCollins, HarperTeen, paranormal romance, review, YA, young adult
1. Arch & Point by Miguel
2. Keep It Trill by Kirko Bangs
3. Tired of Dreaming by Wale
4. Watchtower by Devlin
5. Come a Little Closer by Cage the Elephant
The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition
I live in a world without magic or miracles. A place where there are no clairvoyants or shapeshifters, no angels or superhuman boys to save you. A place where people die and music disintegrates and things suck. I am pressed so hard against the earth by the weight of reality that some days I wonder how I am still able to lift my feet to walk.
Two and a half years after an unspeakable tragedy left her a shadow of the girl she once was, Nastya Kashnikov moves to a new town determined to keep her dark past hidden and hold everyone at a distance. But her plans only last so long before she finds herself inexplicably drawn to the one person as isolated as herself: Josh Bennett.
Josh's story is no secret. Every person he loves has been taken from his life until, at seventeen years old, there is no one left. When your name is synonymous with death, everyone tends to give you your space. Everyone except Nastya who won't go away until she's insinuated herself into every aspect of his life. But as the undeniable pull between them intensifies, he starts to wonder if he will ever learn the secrets she's been hiding—or if he even wants to.
The Sea of Tranquility is a rich, intense, and brilliantly imagined story about a lonely boy, an emotionally fragile girl, and the miracle of second chances.
Review : Hallowed by Cynthia Hand (Unearthly Series #2)
For months Clara Gardner trained to face the fire from her visions, but she wasn't prepared for the choice she had to make that day. And in the aftermath, she discovered that nothing about being part angel is as straightforward as she thought.
Now, torn between her love for Tucker and her complicated feelings about the roles she and Christian seem destined to play in a world that is both dangerous and beautiful, Clara struggles with a shocking revelation: Someone she loves will die in a matter of months. With her future uncertain, the only thing Clara knows for sure is that the fire was just the beginning.
In this compelling sequel to Unearthly, Cynthia Hand captures the joy of first love, the anguish of loss, and the confusion of becoming who you are.
My Review: One word: COMPELLING
Yup, Cynthia Hand did it again! Sequels have a notorious reputation for sucking but not in this trilogy. I was sold from the start.
As I mentioned in my review of Unearthly, the plot of Hallowed wasn't exactly the most original or unique but it was well laid out and flows. However, I wish there was more . . . BAM! to it. Clara was afraid of this fallen angel who threatened her and her friends and family's existence and yet . . . he didn't do much of anything. So, that was a little disappointing but not to the point Hallowed's rating suffered.
As for the Dream plot-line, it was good. I could figure out what was going to happen next. It kept me on my toes wondering, who was going to be next, what God had planned for Clara and more. The person who dies . . . I was like whaaaa? So sad. But so good. Made me choke up a bit.
Overall, Hallowed is a good read. Tucker is still my main man but Christian, boy is he growing on me. The story is compelling and makes readers a part of Clara's world. Round of applause to Cynthia Hand.
Here is one of my favorite quotes from Hallowed:
"Hi there," Tucker says brightly, like we're bumping into each other on the street.
"Uh, hi."
"Nice night for stalking," he observes.
"No, I was---"
"Get your butt in here, Carrots."
***Check out Cynthia Hand's website for more information about her and the Hallowed: HERE
Labels: angel lore, angels, books, cowboy, cynthia hand, destiny, fallen angels, fate, fiction, HarperCollins, HarperTeen, love triangle, paranormal romance, review, richboy, romance, wholesome, wyoming, young adult
*Side note: I was really into Flyleaf and Breaking Benjamin
1. I'm So Sick by Flyleaf
2. All Around Me by Flyleaf
3. Again by Flyleaf
4. The Diary of Jane by Breaking Benjamin
5. Dance With the Devil by Breaking Benjamin
Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Ficklin
Publisher: Clean Teen
Before she can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophia will have to survive her social-climbing mother's quest to put her on the throne of Russia - at any cost.
Imperial Court holds dangers like nothing Sophia has ever faced before. In the heart of St. Petersburg, surviving means navigating the political, romantic, and religious demands of the bitter Empress Elizabeth and her handsome, but sadistic nephew, Peter. Determined to save her impoverished family - and herself - Sophia vows to do whatever is necessary to thrive in her new surroundings. But an attempt on her life and an unexpected attraction threatens to derail her plans.
Alone in a new and dangerous world, learning who to trust and who to charm may mean the difference between becoming queen and being sent home in shame to marry her lecherous uncle. With traitors and murderers lurking around every corner, her very life hangs in the balance. Betrothed to one man but falling in love with another, Sophia will need to decide how much she's willing to sacrifice in order to become the empress she is destined to be.
In a battle for the soul of a nation, will love or destiny reign supreme?
Review : Unearthly by Cythnia Hand
In the beginning, there's a boy standing in the trees . . . .
Clara Gardner has recently learned that she's part angel. Having angel blood run through her veins not only makes her smarter, stronger, and faster than humans (a word, she realizes, that no longer applies to her), but it means she has a purpose, something she was put on this earth to do. Figuring out what that is, though, isn't easy.
Her visions of a raging forest fire and an alluring stranger lead her to a new school in a new town. When she meets Christian, who turns out to be the boy of her dreams (literally), everything seems to fall into place—and out of place at the same time. Because there's another guy, Tucker, who appeals to Clara's less angelic side.
As Clara tries to find her way in a world she no longer understands, she encounters unseen dangers and choices she never thought she'd have to make—between honesty and deceit, love and duty, good and evil. When the fire from her vision finally ignites, will Clara be ready to face her destiny?
Unearthly is a moving tale of love and fate, and the struggle between following the rules and following your heart.
My Review: One word: LUMINOUS
Yes! Simply, yes! I loved Unearthly so much that as soon as I finished reading it, I jumped on my computer and scoured the internet for Cynthia Hand's author event. In fact, that is how I learned about the existence of RT Booklovers Convention and ended up in Los Angeles (first time in California ever!) back in April 2011.
Character Breakdown:
Clara Gardner - Clara's character is nicely written. I may not be able to relate to her much (not being part-angel and all) but she is a likable and believable character. She is not annoying or docile. Clara is the right mixture of feminine, strong and teenage girl. I especially appreciate how adapt Cynthia Hand was at relaying Clara's emotional struggles to the readers. Clara's emotional scope is multifaceted and realistic.
Tucker Avery - *Swoon* Tucker is exactly my kind of guy. He is a cowboy, boy-next-door and fighter all wrapped in one. Tucker is wholesome, loving, funny and has just the right amount of attitude. I am Team Tucker all the way! Don't believe me? Look at the gadgets on The Tattered Page, I have a sticker that says so! :)
Christian Prescott - Christian . . . Oh, Christian. Hmm... Well, have to admit, at the beginning I was not a big fan of the love-triangle contender, Christian. But . . . he does grow on you. I mean, he is the man of Clara's dreams and all. Literally. So, that at least grants Christian a second look. He is handsome, popular, athletic, rich and has particular affinities *cough cough* of his own.
The plot . . . I think my love of the book is reliant on the characters more so than the plot. The plot isn't exactly the most original or unique but it is well laid out and flows. *I am not mentioning anymore details because I feel the blurb has given enough away* The angel lore and such aren't simply thrown into the mix but is stitched into the story seamlessly. I appreciate not having all the information dumped on me in one scene.
Overall, the writing of Unearthly is phenomenal. The storytelling sucks you into the world of angels and love triangles and divine plans. Unearthly deserves a 4-star rating without a doubt! If you haven't already picked up the Unearthly trilogy, I suggest you stop what you are doing and get on it!
Here is one of my favorite quotes from Unearthly:
Tucker: "I didn't ever think you were a freak. I think ... I thought you were magic or something. I thought that you were too perfect to be real." [Page 332]
Clara: "He loves me. Inside his head, his every thought and reaction was born of love, love inside and out, crazy, irrational (and sure, a bit lustful) love. He loves me, and that's also what terrified him when he saw me light up like a Christmas tree. He doesn't know what I am, but he loves me." [Page 340]
***Check out Cynthia Hand's website for more information about her and the Unearthly: HERE
Labels: angels, Book, books, boy next door, cowboy, cynthia hand, fall angels, fiction, HarperCollins, HarperTeen, love triangle, paranormal romance, review, romance, trilogy, wyoming, YA, young adult
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Tomorrow is a big day for Columbia and the University of Missouri. It is the 100th Annual Homecoming. Not being from round these parts, I'm not entirely sure what homecoming means or what its purpose is. There is a parade – I know this, because my children will be in it. And, naturally, there is a big football game involved. So, in honor of all that, I'm re-posting an old blog about the manifold mysteries of college sports.
A couple of years ago, for a funny five minutes – actually it was about a week – the Missouri Tigers, the University of Missouri football team, was ranked the number one college football team in the nation.
It had been nearly fifty years since it had last happened. People wandered about with slightly dazed, disbelieving expressions on their faces. Nobody could talk about much else. Everyone was cheerful. The whole atmosphere in Columbia changed. As a town we can occasionally be guilty of a little too much municipal pride, which sometimes morphs into self-congratulatory preening. But, my God. Number one in the nation. In football. We were floating on air.
College sports matter in this country. It took me a while to understand this. The only college event that anyone pays any attention to in England is the Oxford v Cambridge boat race, possibly one of the most tedious sporting spectacles in the world. I suppose tradition has something to do with it.
But back to Missouri. Even when the Tigers were a nothing team, regularly getting thrashed by all comers, 60,000 people would pull on black and gold and cram into Memorial Stadium to watch them lose again. Sixty thousand. That's more than double the number of people who went to watch Arsenal, the greatest soccer team ever, when they played at Highbury.
So, what's it all about? Well, I think the phenomenom can be explained on a number of levels.
Unabashed loyalty to one's alma mater has a lot to do with it. People over here identify themselves with their school more than people in England, and (for the record) I think this is a good thing. Alumni flock back to every home game to revisit the scenes of their student days. Colleges make fortunes flogging hats, sweatshirts, and other apparel with logos. When I was in college the only people who wore "Oxford University" sweatshirts were tourists, but when I walk through the MU campus 90% of students are festooned with black and gold clothing with "MIZZOU" written on it somewhere. Heavens, even my parents own some of that stuff.
Sports mania. Americans love their sports, really they do, and there just aren't enough pro games to keep everyone satisfied. The market abhors a vacuum, and all that, and so people follow college games as well.
Sporting Spectacle. If you've ever watched an NBA game (note to my English readers: this is basketball) it's one of the most boring things in the world. Why? Because the athletes are too good. They almost never miss a shot. With college sports, though, although the standard can be high, there's always a danger of somebody screwing up, big time. (See, for example, fourth quarter of Missouri vs Nebraska, 2009.) And while it might not be good for your nerves, it does make things more interesting for the neutral.
Social Spectacle. Tubas! Sousaphones! Brass bands marching in perfect formation! Cheerleaders. Elite cheerleaders (oh yes.) Drunken students with painted faces yelling incoherently at the roving ESPN cameraman. Canons. It's all very strange, but rather fun.
Now, certain people take huge exception to all this. Why, for example, do the football and basketball coaches get paid a gazillion times more than the most prestigious academic appointees? Isn't this all topsy-turvy? Well, yes, of course, it is. But come on. Does it really matter? Eat, drink, be merry, and if your team is getting its collective asses whipped, retreat to the parking lot and have another beer. There's always next year.
Happy Homecoming, MU. Here's to the next hundred.
You forgot to mention the completely bizarre activity of painting every square inch of downtown window space for the event!! One can barely see into or out of most businesses due to the paintings of Truman the Tiger, birthday cakes, and assorted other items in black and gold!!
And what are your kids doing in the parade? My son and husband are in the drumline with the Boone County Firefighters Pipe and Drum Corps–finest looking men in kilts anywhere!
And then there's the bizarre mess of drawings on every window of every downtown business! Can barely see into or out of anyplace because of the various pictures of The Columns, Truman the Tiger, birthday cakes, etc. Just so you know, in all the years I've lived here, it has NEVER been this over-the-top!
Are your kids riding a float in the parade? That ought to be fun for them….
Ahh, the smell of a crisp fall day ripe with the hopes of college football fans! I am a Husker and I know all about the craze of fans on football Saturdays. The traditions, the superstitions, and the pre-game warm-ups (one of my favorite parts!). What's not to love?
Hope you have a great time enjoying the atmosphere! Sounds like it's going to be a good time.


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Cage diving was invented by a diver who survived an attack by a shark. Wanting to return to the sea he was inspired by the lions cage in Melbourne zoo.
At first it was thought the sharks were attracted to the people in the cage, but later it was observed that sharks also investigated empty cages. It turns out that they are attracted to the steel. I wonder if this is electrical effect, or if they are usually attracted to the iron in blood? Dissolving iron from the cage may seem similar to haemoglobin.
Sharks can recognise steel cages, they will become associated with food due to feeding bait.


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This is a bittersweet time of year for me. I've just taken my son back to school. My house is quiet again. I already miss having his presence in the house. I'm also excited to have this time to myself again. Yes, it's bittersweet right now. I'm sad and happy at the same time. My empty nest is back again.
Since my son is in a boarding school and comes home at least once a month, this is a temporary status. He'll be in and out of the house for the next 9 months until he graduates and he moves home again next summer. I do see him in between as well, but those day to day interactions change once he's back at school. I'll be parenting from afar and that looks different than parenting him while he's in my house.
One of the biggest changes is that I find I have more time to focus on other things in my life. For the past few weeks, I've been focused on getting him ready to move back to school. There's lots of small parts that have to be done in this process and it takes a lot of time and energy to get him ready to move. I've tried to leave it all to him, but that didn't work out so well. He's 17 and couldn't seem to grasp that he couldn't do everything the last day before he moved.
So, a little bit of relief that the we actually got him moved back to school and now it's time for a little break before I move forward again. In the next week, I'm going to sleep a little extra and regroup before I begin to refocus on the other parts of my life. I'm going to pause and take that deep breath before I jump into my next project.
Moving back and forth between my son being home and the empty nest is a bit different from your child moving out for good. It has it's own challenges. In this instance, I know it's temporary. I know he'll be home again in a few weeks and this cycle will continue over and over until he comes home for the summer. Every time he leaves, I'll have more time to devote to other things. For me that means offering more sessions and developing new programs.
If you've been thinking about having a session or two with me, then now's a great time to do that . I'm opening up a few new spots as my schedule is shifting and I'm ready to work with more people. Sessions can be online or in person.
Since I started offering Life Mentoring at the beginning of summer, I've found joy in helping others attain meaningful life change. Change looks different for each of us, but it comes down to taking those small steps and moving forward a little at a time to achieve the change that you seek. My change has been huge this week. I'm back to empty nest status. Your change can be huge too. You just have to take that first step forward.
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Šentjur pri Celju (Duits: Sankt Georgen bei Cilli) is een gemeente in de Sloveense regio Savinjska en telt 18.470 inwoners (2002).
De gemeente telt de volgende deelraden: Blagovna, Dramlje, Kalobje, Loka pri Žusmu, Planina pri Sevnici, Ponikva, Prevorje, Slivnica pri Celju, Šentjur mesto (Šentjur stad) en Šentjur okolica (Šentjur omgeving).

In de gemeente ligt het partizanenhospitaal dat vanaf de zomer van 1944 begon te functioneren. De noodzaak van deze geheimeziekenboeg lag in de versterkte verzetsactiviteiten van twee brigades van het Sloveense Bevrijdingsfront in de regio. In februari 1945 werd het aan de Duitsers verraden, maar kon nog tijdig geruimd worden. Het hospitaal werd in 1958 opgeknapt en opengesteld voor publiek.

Plaatsen in de gemeente
Bezovje pri Šentjurju, Bobovo pri Ponikvi, Boletina, Botričnica, Brdo, Brezje ob Slomu, Bukovje pri Slivnici, Cerovec, Črnolica, Dobje pri Lesičnem, Dobovec pri Ponikvi, Dobrina, Dole, Dolga Gora, Doropolje, Dramlje, Drobinsko, Golobinjek pri Planini, Gorica pri Slivnici, Goričica, Grobelno, Grušce, Hotunje, Hrastje, Hruševec, Hrušovje, Jakob pri Šentjurju, Jarmovec, Javorje, Jazbin Vrh, Jazbine, Jelce, Kalobje, Kameno, Kostrivnica, Košnica, Krajnčica, Krivica, Laze pri Dramljah, Loka pri Žusmu, Lokarje, Loke pri Planini, Lopaca, Lutrje, Marija Dobje, Okrog, Osredek, Ostrožno pri Ponikvi, Paridol, Planina pri Sevnici, Planinca, Planinska vas, Planinski Vrh, Pletovarje, Podgaj, Podgrad, Podlešje, Podlog pod Bohorjem, Podpeč nad Marofom, Podpeč pri Šentvidu, Podvine, Ponikva, Ponkvica, Prapretno, Primož pri Šentjurju, Proseniško, Rakitovec, Razbor, Repno, Rifnik, Sele, Slatina pri Ponikvi, Slivnica pri Celju, Sotensko pod Kalobjem, Spodnje Slemene, Srževica, Stopče, Straška Gorca, Straža na Gori, Svetelka, Šedina, Šentjur, Šentvid pri Planini, Šibenik, Tajhte, Tratna ob Voglajni, Tratna pri Grobelnem, Trno, Trnovec pri Dramljah, Trška Gorca, Turno, Uniše, Vejice, Vezovje, Visoče, Vodice pri Kalobju, Vodice pri Slivnici, Vodruž, Voduce, Vodule, Voglajna, Vrbno, Zagaj pri Ponikvi, Zalog pod Uršulo, Zgornje Selce, Zgornje Slemene, Zlateče pri Šentjurju, Žegar

Geboren in
 Z. Anton Martin Slomšek (Uniše bij Ponikva, 1800-1862), bisschop en emancipator

Gemeente in Slovenië

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As microchipping had become more common place (and in the case of dogs a legal requirement), the New Zealand Companion Animal Council recognised there was a need for a suitable New Zealand based microchipped animal repatriation system. Previously New Zealand pets were registered onto Australian databases, with any profits helping fund Australian charities or private businesses.
With this in mind in 2007 the six key members of the NZCAC, themselves each leading companion animal organisations, funded the creation of a dedicated New Zealand database for New Zealand microchipped pets. These six organisations would also become the stakeholders of the New Zealand Companion Animal Register (NZCAR) to oversee its progress in the future, and to manage any funds raised. The six stakeholders are:
New Zealand Companion Animal Council Inc. (NZCAC)
New Zealand Veterinary Association Inc. (NZVA)
The Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc (SPCA)
NZVA Companion Animal Society (NZVA CAS)
New Zealand Kennel Club (NZKC)
New Zealand Cat Fancy Inc. (NZCF)
Once the NZCAR was up and running and generating revenue, the stakeholders also established the New Zealand Companion Animal Trust. This dedicated trust, with one representive from each stakeholder, meets regularly to consider funding requests and to oversee the management of the trust fund. This process ensures profits are used to benefit all New Zealand charities and projects. The trust fund is managed on a day to day basis by New Zealand Guardian Trust.
The NZCAR software, brand and marketing were created by Kiwiwebs Limited, a New Zealand based design, internet and software development company, and was launched on 01 September 2007. With the success of the launch and the software, Kiwiwebs were given the opportunity to manage the NZCAR, and to allow transparency a dedicated company called Animal Register Limited was created. Operating from the Kiwiwebs offices ARL now employs 6 people, whose role it is to promote, market, maintain and develop the Register on behalf of the NZCAC.
All payments from the NZCAR go to the NZCAC, a registered charity, in the first instance, and the NZCAC regularly transfer accumulated funds to the Trust.
For more information on the Companion Animal Council or to find out about making an application for funding from the NZ Companion Animal Trust, visit the NZCAC website.
For more information, visit www.nzcac.org.nz


Behavioral therapy is an effective form of intervention for many behavioral and emotional problems. It is done in the home, school, or community. The aim is to modify a person's behavior to change the frequency, severity and intensity of behaviors. Ideally these interventions are practiced and modeled for the family to provide tools necessary to continue the plan and modify behavior on an ongoing basis.
Behavioral therapy at CFCG will begin with observations in the home. Target behaviors will be identified, and factors that influence the behavior will be noted. These observations will then be taken to the treatment team who will design an individualized behavior intervention plan to modify the behavior. The behaviorist will assist parents or others in the home to implement the plan by modeling, reinforcing, and providing feedback.


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title:  "An Implementation of a Binary Tree in C#"
date:   2009-10-26 00:00:01
categories: Programming
tags: [c-sharp, tutorials, algorithms, programming]
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Binary trees are a very useful data structure, and are used in things like data storage, and parsing of mathematical expressions. Implementing a binary tree is C# is not hard at all.

The first thing we need to do is define a class for the node of the tree. **BinaryNode**. This contains four variables: **value** which is an object containing whatever data you have set the node to. **leftChildId** and **rightChildId** are the ids of the child nodes linked to this node. **parentId** is the id pf the parent node to this node, and is not strictly necessary, but it does make modifying the tree much simpler - and more efficient.

The rest of the class is purely functions to get and set these values.
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{% highlight csharp %}
namespace BinaryTree
{
    public class BinaryNode
    {
        private object value;
        private int leftChildId = -1;
        private int rightChildId = -1;
        private int parentId = -1;

        public void setLeftChildId(int nodeId)
        {
            this.leftChildId = nodeId;
        }

        public int getLeftChildId()
        {
            return this.leftChildId;
        }

        public void setRightChildId(int nodeId)
        {
            this.rightChildId = nodeId;
        }

        public int getRightChildId()
        {
            return this.rightChildId;
        }

        public void setParentId(int nodeId)
        {
            this.parentId = nodeId;
        }

        public int getParentId()
        {
            return this.parentId;
        }

        public void setValue(object val)
        {
            this.value = val;
        }

        public object getValue()
        {
            return this.value;
        }

    }
}
{% endhighlight %}

Next up we have the binary tree class, which has an arraylist, which gets populated with the nodes.

When a new tree is created, the first node - the root - is automatically created. This is done by creating a new instance of a **BinaryNode**, setting the value, and then adding it to the arraylist.

We then have functions to add nodes to the left or the right of the node - **addLeftNode** and **addRightNode**.

These functions create a new node, set the value and parent id, and then add the node to the arraylist, returning back the id of the new node. Then we assign the new id to either the left or right child value of the parent node.

The next functions get and set the value of a particular node.

The **removeNode** function removes a node from the tree, as well as all children nodes attached to it. It does this recursively, moving down the tree and deleting nodes as it goes upwards until it reaches the actual node we specified, which gets deleted last. The parent node's child id then gets set to -1, which indicated that there is not longer a child attached.

The following two functions, **setLeftChildNode** and **setRightChildNode** takes an existing child node, and moves it from its current position and reattaches it to the specified node on either the left or right side depending on the function called.

Now we should have a fully operational tree, which you can add and remove nodes to, as well as getting and setting the values of the nodes.

{% highlight csharp %}
using System;
using System.Collections;

namespace BinaryTree
{
    public class BinaryTree
    {
        private ArrayList nodes = new ArrayList();

        public BinaryTree()
        {
            BinaryNode newNode = new BinaryNode();
            nodes.Add(newNode);
        }

        public BinaryTree(object val)
        {
            BinaryNode newNode = new BinaryNode();
            newNode.setValue(val);
            nodes.Add(newNode);
        }

        public int addLeftNode(object val, int parentId)
        {
            BinaryNode newNode = new BinaryNode();
            newNode.setValue(val);
            newNode.setParentId = parentId;
            int nodeId = nodes.Add(newNode);

            ((BinaryNode)nodes[parentId]).setLeftChildId(nodeId);
            return nodeId;
        }

        public int addRightNode(object val, int parentId)
        {
            BinaryNode newNode = new BinaryNode();
            newNode.setValue(val);
            newNode.setParentId = parentId;
            int nodeId = nodes.Add(newNode);
            ((BinaryNode)nodes[parentId]).setRightChildId(nodeId);
            return nodeId;
        }

        public object getNodeValue(int nodeId)
        {
            return ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).getValue();
        }

        public void setNodeValue(int nodeId, object val)
        {
            ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).setValue(val);
        }

        public void removeNode(int nodeId)
        {
            //recurse to remove children
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).getLeftChildId() != -1)
            {
                removeNode(((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).getLeftChildId());
            }
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).getRightChildId() != -1)
            {
                removeNode(((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).getRightChildId());
            }

            //remove parent reference
            int oldParentId = ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).getParentId();
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).getLeftChildId() == nodeId)
            {
                ((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).setLeftChildId(-1);
            }
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).getRightChildId() == nodeId)
            {
                ((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).setRightChildId(-1);
            }
            nodes.RemoveAt(nodeId);
        }

        public void setLeftChildNode(int nodeId, int childId)
        {

            //Have to remove old references to the child nodeId
            int oldParentId = ((BinaryNode)nodes[childId]).getParentId();
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).getLeftChildId() == childId)
            {
                ((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).setLeftChildId(-1);
            }
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).getRightChildId() == childId)
            {
                ((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).setRightChildId(-1);
            }

            //Now assign the new node
            ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).setLeftChildId(childId);
            ((BinaryNode)nodes[childId]).setParentId(nodeId);
        }

        public void setRightChildNode(int nodeId, int childId)
        {
            //Have to remove old references to the child nodeId
            int oldParentId = ((BinaryNode)nodes[childId]).getParentId();
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).getLeftChildId() == childId)
            {
                ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).setLeftChildId(-1);
            }
            if (((BinaryNode)nodes[oldParentId]).getRightChildId() == childId)
            {
                ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).setRightChildId(-1);
            }

            //Now assign the new node
            ((BinaryNode)nodes[nodeId]).setRightChildId(childId);
            ((BinaryNode)nodes[childId]).setParentId(nodeId);
        }

    }
}
{% endhighlight %}

_Originally posted on my old blog, Smoky Cogs, on 26 Oct 2009_

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On August 15, 2014, our favoured city hosted an outstanding cultural event once again. Opening of Ray pools club entertainment complex was marked by the arrival of popular British singer and DJ Sonique.
The residents of Almaty and guests of our city now have all the reasons to feel happy, because from now on there is no need to leave the town to relax at the biggest pool in Almaty. Various cafés and bars can be found on 2 hectare territory, but the true gem is a unique 700 m² pool, unrivalled in Kazakhstan.
Of course, the opening of such wonder could not be unnoticed. That evening the guests Ray pools club witnessed a big party, featuring the legendary Sonia Clark, a famous figure of house and trance dance music.
The British celebrity is also known as the winner of many prestigious awards, such as British Anthems Summertime, Best British Female Solo Award, Hit 2000 Award-Ivor Novello-"It Feels So Good" and the Dance Star. She played her most famous hits and new live sets for the party guests.
Despite the fact that the artist celebrated her 46th birthday this year, her performance was full of wild and vivid energy, difficult to be imitated by many younger musicians. The physical shape of Sonique was quite enviable: unusual plasticity in her movements, perfect choreography and, of course, her cosmic, deep and very strong voice. All this together with the high-quality electronic music brought the party guests to euphoria.
By the way, the start turned to be very simple-minded and open, despite the fact, that her singles occupied the top of the world charts, and they were sold in 195 thousand copies per week. She talked and joked with the audience and accepted to be photographed with her fans. In general, such a big party will be definitely remembered for a long time by anyone who could attend it.
Young DJs from Georgia, Sikha&Lasha played for the delighted public their sets, accompanied by spectacular visual art from Jara.
The culmination of the evening was a huge cake and the generous event organizers shared it with all the party guests.
Well, Ray pools club made a good presentation, but we expect more nice surprises.


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Devon Allman Song list
Time Machine (2013)
Three Week HeroPJ Proby
The first time Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Bonham and John Paul Jones all recorded together in the studio was when they backed American singer PJ Proby on his Three Week Hero album.
When I Think of YouJanet Jackson
When "When I Think of You" hit #1, Janet and Michael Jackson became the first siblings with chart topping solo hits in the United States.
LovesongThe Cure
Cure lead singer Robert Smith originally wrote "Lovesong" as a wedding present for his fiancée, Mary, shortly before their marriage.
Piano ManBilly Joel
"Piano Man" was inspired by Billy Joel's time playing at a piano bar in Los Angeles. The "real estate novelist" was a guy who always talked about writing a book, but spent all his spare time in the bar.
UnbelievableEMF
The EMF song "Unbelievable" samples the raunchy comic Andrew Dice Clay saying, "What the f--k was that!"
Santa Claus Is Coming To TownEddie Cantor
"Santa Claus Is Coming To Town" is the most performed holiday song of all time, according to a Top 30 list released by the performance rights organization ASCAP in December 2014.
British InvasionFact or Fiction
Go beyond The Beatles to see what you know about the British Invasion.
Fire On The StageSong Writing
When you have a song called "Fire," it's tempting to set one - these guys did.
Sam PhillipsSongwriter Interviews
Collaborating with T Bone Burnett, Leslie Phillips changed her name and left her Christian label behind - Robert Plant, who recorded one of her songs on Raising Sand, is a fan.
Michael BoltonSongwriter Interviews
Into the vaults for this talk with Bolton from the '80s when he was a focused on writing songs for other artists.
Kevin GodleySongwriter Interviews
Kevin Godley talks about directing classic videos for The Police, U2 and Duran Duran, and discusses song and videos he made with 10cc and Godley & Creme.
When Rock Belonged To MichelobSong Writing
Michelob commercials generated hits for Eric Clapton, Genesis and Steve Winwood in the '80s, even as some of these rockers were fighting alcoholism.


In recent years, both business historians and entrepreneurship scholars have grown increasingly interested in the promise of using historical sources, methods and reasoning in entrepreneurship research. History, it has been argued, can be valuable in addressing a number of limitations in traditional approaches to studying entrepreneurship, including in accounting for contexts and institutions, in understanding the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic change, in providing multi-level perspectives on the entrepreneurial process and in situating entrepreneurial behavior and cognition within the flow of time.
The papers are targeted for a special issue of Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Here is the lineup, with many items likely to interest O&M readers.
Much as I hate to use this blog for self-promotion, … Hahahahaha. OK, seriously. As many of you know I joined Baylor University this fall and will be heavily involved with Baylor's new PhD program in Entrepreneurship. Prospective students interested in entrepreneurship, strategy, organizational economics, innovation, creativity, institutions, business history, governance, the theory of science, Austrian economics — i.e., the regular topics of this blog — should consider applying. Detailed information about the program, including application materials and instructions, are on the program website. The formal deadline for Fall 2016 admission is next Friday, January 15, so time is short! I'm happy to answer any questions.
The AOM's Entrepreneurship Division listserv has been featuring an interesting discussion on the incentives facing junior (and senior) scholars for doing "high-risk" research. To be sure, most early-career scholars focus on making incremental contributions to well-established research programs; after securing tenure, the argument goes, they can be bolder and more experimental. The problem is that, in many academic fields, junior scholars have the greatest capacity for novelty and creativity (in mathematics, for example, you may be past your prime at 35). I'm not sure this true in the social sciences, which may place too much emphasis on clever technique over mature reasoning. But certainly many academics worry that the need to publish or perish makes it difficult for junior scholars to take chances, to the detriment of scientific progress.
McMullen, J. S., & Shepherd, D. A. (2006). Encouraging Consensus‐Challenging Research in Universities. Journal of Management Studies, 43(8), 1643-1669.
I wanted to write that paper because I was starting off my career and wanted to do consensus-challenging research, but I also wanted to understand the consequences of employing such a career strategy. Much of what Dean and I discovered in that research has only intensified over the years as competitive pressures have made institutional incentives that much more uniform.
The challenge for me personally, however, is not the incentives and institutional pressures; instead, it is having the moral courage to conduct research that I believe is important and valuable even though I know the academy may not yet value it, at least not yet. Will I be able to meet the high productivity bar of my colleagues whose research or approach is more mainstream? Some of us are drawn to topics that are mainstream (count your blessings you lucky dogs), but some of us just have to let our freak flags fly. What is the cost of doing research we care about and do we have the courage to pay this price?
Like other innovations, consensus-challenging research is uncertain. Just like routine must be the norm for innovation to mean anything, incremental, consensus building research has to be the norm for any notion of uncertain, consensus-challenging research to make sense. Sometimes uncertainty bearing pays off economically, but more often it does not. Therefore, uncertain payoffs are likely to be motivated by incentives that are not economic — e.g., intrinsic motivation such as intellectual curiosity or feeling like we have said something original if that's even possible. Perhaps, this is how it should be.
So, the real question for me is and has been through much of my career: how much is it worth to me in terms of institutional status, job security, promotion, or raises to forgo incremental publications and the accolades that come with those to write papers I care about? What is the optimal blend that I might stay employed yet truly care deeply about what I write? Can I live with socio-emotional costs of not being as productive as my colleagues?
For the most part, I have been blessed to be surrounded by colleagues who have valued me and what I do, but I also sought to work for institutions and with colleagues who I believed valued what I valued or at least had that capacity.
Can the system be better? Absolutely, it could be more forgiving. We could lower the institutional costs of innovative research. But, the system only has as much power as you and I choose to give it over our hearts and minds. Great leaders throughout history ranging from Jesus to Gandhi to King to Mandela have confronted a similar choice between compliance and civil disobedience and have had the moral courage to choose civil disobedience despite consequences that dwarf what you and I face. Changing the system starts first with having the moral courage to make peace with the worst possible outcome and yet still having the conviction to advance what we believe in.
So, let us ask what we might change "out there" to make science more inclusive, but let us not forget to ask what we need to change in ourselves. Like the entrepreneurs we study, meaningful work has a price, and may only be meaningful because it does.
Entrepreneurial Opportunity: The Oxygen or Phlogiston of Entrepreneurship Research?
I just wanted to bring your attention to a PDW I am organizing for the upcoming AoM meeting, where we will engage in frank and in-depth discussions about the problems and merits of the popular notion of "entrepreneurial opportunity". We have been fortunate to gather a collection of very strong scholars and independent thinkers as presenters and discussants in this PDW: Richard J. Arend, Dimo Dimov, Denis Grégoire, Peter G. Klein, Moren Lévesque, Saras Sarasvathy, and Matthew Wood. . This illustrious group of colleagues will make sure the deliberations do not focus on a "beauty contest" between "discovery" and "creation" views but instead reach beyond limitations of both.
Further elaboration follows below. Heartily welcome!
We have been using the term "judgment-based view" to describe our approach to entrepreneurship. The term "judgment" of course comes from Knight, and was used also by Mises, Casson, and many others. Contemporary entrepreneurship research is still dominated by the opportunity-discovery view, but increasing criticism from the judgement-based view, the effectuation and bricolage approaches, the opportunity-creation view, and other perspectives is challenging the notion that profit opportunities exist, waiting to be discovered, and even that "opportunity" is a meaningful construct at all.
Nicolai and I organized a themed section in the Journal of Institutional Economics on the judgment-based view with papers from Niklas Halberg, Jeff McMullen, and Andrew Godley and Mark Casson. Our introduction reviews the increasing importance of entrepreneurship in economics and management research, explains the relationship between entrepreneurship and economic organization, discusses some microfoundations of judgment, and distinguishes judgment from luck and judgment per se from good or skilled judgments.
The papers are available electronically at the links above, and in hardcopy in the Fall 2015 issue of JOIE.
We've featured several posts on the relationship between artistic and entrepreneurial creativity, arguing that great art, like great entrepreneurship, is rarely the product of isolated individuals, toiling away privately and swimming against the tide, misunderstood or ignored by the establishment. Rather, both art and entrepreneurship are usually highly social and commercial activities, with subtle and nuanced relationships among creators, patrons, rivals, and customers.
Serious art in the Western tradition — that is, art that is not content to "imagine" what we think we already know about the world of appearances and experiences, but probes more deeply into the nature of such reality through aesthetic form — has always been inextricably bound up with business. It is inseparable from patrons and collectors, with markets and dealers, with personalities and egos. . . .
Great art emerges out of the warp and woof — some would say the muck and mire — of commerce, of production and distribution that is at the very heart of [the art world].
Seidell is trying to help us understand the modern and contemporary art that frustrates and confuses most of us — abstract expressionism, pop art, Damien Hirst's formaldehyde shark — by explaining that the value of these works comes not solely from the work itself, or even from the relationship between the work and the viewer, but from the way the work is perceived by critics, curators, collectors, and other artists. Much "high art" is actually produced for them, not for us. Of course, with entrepreneurship, the commercial value of any venture is ultimately determined by us, the consumers who willingly part with our hard-earned money for the services of the company or product. But, like art, entrepreneurship is a social activity, and great entrepreneurs know how to situate themselves within, or create from scratch, the ecosystem that makes their work great.


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Occupy the American Psychiatric Association In A Darker Dark Age
By Adriana Gamondes
I'm writing this post for two reasons. First it's to announce an event which autism families might take an interest in—a chance to protest the proposed changes to the "bible of psychiatry," the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5, which may go into effect in 2013. Secondly, I'm writing to bridge a gap between causes which otherwise share a lot of common ground.
On May 5th, a reform psychiatric organization called Mindfreedom has organized a rally in Philadelphia and a march to "occupy" the American Psychiatric Association, which is holding its ritzy, drug industry funded yearly convention at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. MindFreedom states that it represents those who say they have been harmed or even helped by organized psychiatry but find that recent proposed changes to the DSM will lead to increased practices of over or wrongful diagnoses and over-medicating with drugs that carry severe side effects. Among the scheduled speakers will be activist attorney Jim Gottstein, founder of Psychrights, who lobbies against forced institutionalization and drugging and exposed the dangers of atypical antipsychotics frequently prescribed for individuals with autism.
Autism parents have trouble enough attending their own dental appointments much less rallies but the way this event is organized, there is nothing to stop anyone from carrying a sign protesting the proposed changes the DSM's autism category. There is also an occupy rally in Boston on the same day in solidarity with the Philadelphia event.
As far as what the "occupy" umbrella means, no one has been able to figure that out yet, though the Occupy Wall Street organizers clearly stated several demands:
The No 1 agenda item: get the money out of politics. Most often cited was legislation to blunt the effect of the Citizens United ruling, which lets boundless sums enter the campaign process. No 2: reform the banking system to prevent fraud and manipulation, with the most frequent item being to restore the Glass-Steagall Act – the Depression-era law, done away with by President Clinton, that separates investment banks from commercial banks. This law would correct the conditions for the recent crisis, as investment banks could not take risks for profit that create [fake] derivatives out of thin air, and wipe out the commercial and savings banks.
No 3 was the most clarifying: draft laws against the little-known loophole that currently allows members of Congress to pass legislation affecting Delaware-based corporations in which they themselves are investors.
Occupy has been associated with a liberal bent, but according to Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, this is not strictly the case:
I can't speak for the people out there because I don't know who they are or exactly what they are demonstrating against…I can argue the case for their right to express their outright frustration with what is going on. Some are liberals and some are conservatives and some are libertarians and some are strict constitutionalists. And if you read carefully over what I've written over the past 10 or 15 years, I talk a lot about this, that eventually we will go bankrupt.
In other words, political constituency is no obstacle in participating— for the time being, "occupy" is what you make of it.
Most in the autism community have probably seen coverage of how the proposed changes to the DSM's autism diagnosis would impact individuals with autism and it's not a pretty picture. Many believe the proposed changes to the autism diagnosis were designed to reduce the appearance of a genuine rise in the disorder in order to squelch public alarm. The proposed changes to autism criteria would eliminate about three quarters of those currently diagnosed according to one study.
At first glance it would seem our concerns are precisely reverse from those of psychiatric reform groups—psychiatric reform groups are concerned with overdiagnosis of certain conditions and the autism community is concerned about a scheme to underdiagnose the condition in question. But the concerns of the autism community come full circle, since individuals who are "booted out" of the autism diagnosis would then be shoved into other diagnostic categories such as "social communication disorder." This vague and generalized "SCD" appears to have already been matched up with corresponding drugs in the pipeline promising to "improve socialization" in autism. Of particular concern is the new class of exceptionally dangerous glutamate antipsychotics, though old, off-patent drugs may gain a new profitable life as they're re-patented for autism.
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The Phoenicians: Autism Recovery Denial, Drug Profits and the Media's Flat Earth, 2012
Managing Editor's Note: Here's yet another updated version of this post by Adriana Gamondes. Last May we told you that there was a new hire by Autism Speaks of a Pfizer Executive. This week AS made an announcement from the UK: Unprecedented Academic-Industry Collaboration Seeks New Drugs and Novel Treatments for Autism. In January 2011 Vanity Fair ran an article that said "Prescription drugs kill some 200,000 Americans every year. Will that number go up, now that most clinical trials are conducted overseas—on sick Russians, homeless Poles, and slum-dwelling Chinese—in places where regulation is virtually nonexistent, the F.D.A. doesn't reach, and "mistakes" can end up in pauper's graves? The authors investigate the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, and the U.S. Government's failure to rein in a lethal profit machine." The Guardian UK ran America's fatal addiction to prescription drugs Misuse of legal medications kills more US citizens than die in car crashes. The cost in dollars, let alone lives, compels action last June.
What if the pharmaceutical industry had a formula for projected drug profits from a massive rise in autism? A formula such as: PY=P×Y
And what if the same industry simultaneously rewarded scientists, media companies and organizations which disseminate the concept that there is no autism epidemic, that the rise is "false", that the numbers have always been with us, but that there's just increased diagnosis due to increased clinical and public recognition of autism? And what if this industry went on a massive campaign to proselytize the dangers of any treatment method—or any scientific authority— which threatened PY=P×Y?
Profiting from something while claiming it doesn't exist is nothing new. According to some historians, the myth of the flat earth was perpetuated by the Phoenicians to prevent maritime trade rivals from voyaging to England to mine tin. Tin, which seems to have been scarce in ancient Canaan, was an essential ingredient to bronze; bronze was the essence of military power and trade at the time. Advantage in the tin trade gave the Phoenicians untold power. As long as the lie held, Phoenician fleets regularly made mining expeditions north, trading freely with the natives of the British Isles—while neighboring states feared plummeting off the edge of the world if they dared to sail through the Straits of Gibraltar.
For the analogy, imagine the existence of the epidemic as "England"; autism recovery treatments as the "Straits of Gibraltar"; and maybe psychopharmaceutical drug profits as "tin".
The epidemic-based profit formula actually exists. It was published in a 2003 study for Eli Lilly by researchers Robert and Julia Gerlai (HERE). From the study: Autism: a large unmet medical need and complex research problem
The question whether the epidemic status of ASD is due to true increase of incidence of the disease or simply its better detection and diagnosis is debated. Nevertheless, according to a most recent report to the legislature on the principal findings from the epidemiology of autism in California, the M.I.N.D. institute has confirmed that the increase of incidence is real and cannot be attributed to changes in diagnostic criteria or misclassification. Autism was estimated to have a frequency of more than 1 in 500 children, while more recent studies found its prevalence as high as 1 in 150 (for examples, see; also see CDC website HERE). Researchers, private (e.g., Alliance for Autism Research), and government (e.g., National Institutes of Health, USA) agencies have recognized the enormous need. As a result, funding for research has significantly increased. Surprisingly, however, autism is still not among the neurological or neuropsychiatric diseases onto which large pharmaceutical research companies traditionally focus. This is unfortunate as ASD represents a significant unmet medical need with an enormous market size. Consider the following: ASD may be diagnosed as early as 2–3 years of age. Some even argue that successful diagnosis may be made at 8-12 months HERE) Autistic persons can live a normal life span. The market size can thus be calculated as follows:
PY=P×Y
where PY is the number of "patient years," P is the number of patients and Y is the number of years for which patients live after diagnosis. Calculating with the conservative prevalence estimate of 1 in 500, there may be approximately 600,000 ASD patients in the USA alone. These persons may live for an average of 76 years. Using the conservative age of 3 years for the time of diagnosis, PY may be calculated as follows.
PY=600,000×73=43,800,000, i.e., almost 44 million patient years.
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Welcome Adriana Gamondes
We're pleased to announce that Adriana Gamondes is our newest Contributing Editor. Adriana runs our FaceBook page along with Cathy Jameson, who is also a Contributing Editor. Here is a sampling of her work. Please join us in welcoming her.
Restraint and Seclusion in Special Education
The Phoenicians: Autism Recovery Denial, Drug Profits and the Media's Flat Earth
The Bad Business of Autism
Posted by Age of Autism on February 29, 2012 at 05:46 AM in Adriana Gamondes | Permalink | Comments (19)
Vive la Difference: The LeRoy Outbreak, Toxic Gender Disparity and Conversion of the Media
By now the outbreak of tics and Tourette's like symptoms among primarily female high school students in LeRoy, New York, has hit the mainstream media—all except The New York Times, which so far has printed nothing on the tragedy. Why?
It's possible that Times management may have foreseen that, after more low-brow media had exhausted the standard diversionary red herring theory for mass outbreaks of movement disorders among females— that the girls suffered from the too-Freudian "conversion disorder" or "mass hysteria"— environmentalists would eventually descend on LeRoy to test the soil, air and water and study potential toxic sources.
The problem for the Times may be that there's no progressive-seeming way to spin the story—mod shade of lipstick or not, the hysteria theory is still a pig. Though it's a very useful pig with so many industry-exculpating applications which the Times is deeply invested in. For instance, what if environmental theory in the LeRoy outbreak implicates industries or institutions represented by the Times' shared board members?
Maybe in an oblique, all-purpose pitch to de-pig-ify the hysteria theory, Times editors could dredge up a representative from an astroturf breed of Prozac-friendly postfeminist like Elizabeth Wilson, author of Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body, in which she argues incomprehensibly that:
Listening to Prozac does not simplistically replace psychological or cultural determinism with biological determinism; more carefully, it opens up the very nature of determination (i.e., certainty, termination, resolution) to interrogation.
But there's another option beyond bad genes and bad childhoods: Biological indeterminism—as in consumers have little informed consent about the safety of the air we breathe, the food and water we consume and the drugs we take. We are not always in control of how toxins impact us in combination, how they got into us in the first place or our individual toxic susceptibility.
The environmentalists have in fact descended on Leroy::
The competing psychological-disorder diagnosis — Buffalo Drs. Laszlo Mechtler and Jennifer McVige have called it both conversion disorder and mass psychogenic illness — is what's known as a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning it is applied when other more tangible explanations have been ruled out.
Miller and representatives of the environmental and health groups say not enough work has been done to exclude these other possibilities.
"Right now you have a cluster of sick kids, and nobody's quite sure what's going on. It's kind of been a rush to judgment here," said Claire Barnett, executive director of the Healthy Schools Network, a nonprofit group with offices in Washington, D.C., and Albany.
Officials at the state Department of Health, which has looked into the cluster, avoid speculating about the cause. Spokesman Jeffrey Hammond notes there are "many causes of tics-like symptoms," and stress often makes them worse.
But Hammond did say most of the girls did not get the HPV vaccine Gardasil, so any side effects wouldn't have caused the symptoms. He said the physicians in Buffalo also ruled out infections in the patients they saw.
Hammond noted that indoor air testing done for the school district found no evidence of toxic-chemical contamination, a lack of fresh air, mold or other problems. And he argued the lack of symptoms reported by staff members and male students argued against a contaminant spread through the air.
In the end the claim that solely female students were stricken has been contradicted. Aside from vague reports that, among the 15 or so victims in LeRoy, one male student may have been affected, Age of Autism blog editors Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill were contacted by the family of Bryan Trembley, a thirty-five year old resident of Bath, New York, who developed very similar symptoms to the girls in LeRoy in September. Bath—aptly named considering that, like LeRoy, the area is low-lying and subject to flooding as the Age of Autism editors documented— is approximately 60 miles southeast of LeRoy, though the towns appear to be connected by an intricate network of waterways.
Bryan Trembley is obviously not an adolescent or female and so far, no one has suggested he suffers from conversion disorder. In a similar past outbreaks, such as at the William Byrd High School in Roanoke, Virginia in 2007, one adult teacher succumbed to tics along with students. Still, the gender disparity and adolescent bent of the syndrome is obvious, which is likely what brought on quaint speculations of victims' female-borne psychological instability. Who could be more "susceptible" to this kind of sloppy inference than teenage girls?
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Posted by Age of Autism on February 07, 2012 at 05:46 AM in Adriana Gamondes, Environment | Permalink | Comments (32)
La Junta Médica
Midnight, our sons and daughters
Were cut down and taken from us
Hear their heartbeats
We hear their heartbeats
Mothers of the Disappeared ( U2, on YouTube)
I recently experienced a brain freeze after reading the report of a lawsuit filed against government health authorities in Chile on behalf of a vaccine injured child:
Last week a mother filed a US$4 million lawsuit against the government for neurological damage allegedly suffered by her son as a result of state-approved flu vaccines with high mercury content.
Sandra Ormazabal says her son Sebastian Ruiz has a language disorder, food allergies and intestinal dysbiosis (mercury poisoning) as a result of vaccines administered by health authorities. She said the vaccines contain a dangerous neurotoxin - thimerosal (ethyl mercury) - in doses higher than permitted by international agencies.
Ormazabal's attorney Linda Troncoso said the lawsuit was filed against the Ministry of Health and the Institute of Public Health after tests of sample vaccines confirmed unsafe mercury levels.
"Sebastian is not an isolated case," said his mother, author of 'The Silence of My Son,' a book documenting her son's health problems. "There are other children who have disorders resulting from mercury poisoning."
The news struck me in a personal way. For anyone unfamiliar with South America's not-so-distant history, the full irony that citizens in Chile can file vaccine injury suits against their health authorities but that we in the US cannot may not be immediately apparent.
I'm not particularly equipped to give a crash course, but here's a quick overview: "Operation Condor" was a US Cold War era covert campaign to remove perceived leftist or pro-labor democratic governments in South and Central America and replace them with US-approved military dictatorships. On September 11th, 1973, democratically elected Chilean president Salvador Allende was deposed via a US-conceived and backed military coup headed by General Augusto Pinochet, thereby destroying the longest standing democracy in South or Central American history. With Allende dead, Pinochet ordered the murders and "disappearances" of roughly 30,000 "opponents" of the regime between 1973 and 1990, when Pinochet was himself removed from office by referendum.
And of course the New York Times and mainstream media in general reported with gross inaccuracy—if they reported at all— on this and other human rights catastrophes throughout South and Central America during those nations' similar reigns of terror. Stories of women flayed and hung from trees; of infants swung into rocks by their heels; of the assassinations of priests and nuns; killings covered up as suicides; massacres in public squares; people bound and thrown live from airplanes into the sea; torture, mass graves and the utter absence of justice for the murdered and missing. Because the dictatorships were "client states" erected to protect a breed of American and international business interest in these countries, anyone murdered by the state—even nuns, even children— were mischaracterized as undeserving of justice, as having been terrorists or "radicals", as having done or been something wrong according to the few, thin, emotionally devoid back page reports of abuses that emerged in the American press in that era. It's all nearly identical to the way that mainstream media now censors abuses, mischaracterizes victims and protects business interests on behalf of another, more modern version of the "client state"—the global pharmaceutical industry.
What's interesting about Allende's political career, in light of both the current epidemic as well as the Santiago Times' mention of mass Hepatitis A vaccinations in northern Chile (as a response to the region's sewage problem), is that Allende was a medical doctor and had written a book on fighting disease among the poor through changes in living conditions, not primarily through medical means. I have no idea whether his niece, novelist Isabel Allende ("House of the Spirits"), drew influence from her uncle when she wrote about the possibility of vaccine-induced seizures and mental disorders in "Of Love and Shadows", her 1986 novel on political violence and disappearances in an unnamed South American country.
It's this that Chile recovered from in order to reassert a constitution and personal liberties which give citizens the right to civil action for a child injured by vaccines. But where did this symptom of suppression go to if Chileans no longer suffer from it, at least in this instance? It seems to have come home. But home is anywhere individual rights and tort protections are composting, because the profit interests in question never had allegiance to any country, ideology or population. The "banana republic" is now anyone injured by a vaccine in the US. The third world is us.
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Posted by Age of Autism on May 11, 2010 at 05:42 AM in Adriana Gamondes, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (21)
Dear Jon: An Open Letter to America's Favorite Hypochondriac.
Dear Jon,
You don't know me, but we may be breaking up. I don't actually have time to watch your show, so you won't be losing a viewer—maybe just an occasional Youtube-clip-watcher, but an avid one. Like so many, I'd once held you up as a sort of icon of independent media in a sea of embedded shills— even if you were once led into "by puppets making prank phone calls" as you put it (oh such good times we had—sigh).
But recent events have left me wondering—are you…could you be… somebody's monkey after all? And do you dance? Or are you really truly squarely scout's honor a wincing, cringing, emotionally crippled hypochondriac? Please let it be the latter, Jon, for then there is hope.
After seeing your recent interview with Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano (HERE) which came off like a giggling plug for Sanofi Pasteur, my heart sank. I'm an autism parent and laughter is like a tourniquet to someone who just lost an arm in a wood chipper. In my case, both arms: my once healthy boy-girl twins began disappearing after flu shots at one year of age. It's laugh or die for parents like me, but I'm no longer sure if you're the kind of man I can click on in times of need.
I've had to think it through. On the one hand, if I myself were a clever pundit making umpty millions on cable and my parent network, which happened to have pharm-friendly ties, was hinting that I should make nice about flu shots in the midst of a marketing frenzy (and my extraordinary survival barometer was telling me that if I made the wrong noises in this instance, even if I didn't jump on a couch or subscribe to an alternative church and was careful to never repeat my "mochachino" quip in earshot of a women's basketball team*, something else I did or said could easily be turned into an excuse to make things far worse for me than all the other times I'd "bucked the pressure" combined), I might take a vague dislike of having people spray snot in my face and whip it into a full blown case of hypochondria in my own mind if it made me feel better about "assuming the position". On the other hand, I might be Monk.
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Posted by Age of Autism on October 20, 2009 at 05:41 AM in Adriana Gamondes, Current Affairs | Permalink | Comments (18)


Indian and Saudi Arabian authorities must work together to deliver justice and reparation for two Nepali women who were raped and assaulted repeatedly, allegedly by a Saudi Arabian diplomat and others, Amnesty International India said today.
The two women were found by the Haryana police during a raid on the Gurgaon apartment of the Saudi Arabian diplomat on 9 September. The women, who were employed as domestic workers, said they had been forcibly confined, starved and repeatedly raped and assaulted by the diplomat and others over months.
The Saudi Arabian Embassy in New Delhi denied the allegations, and complained that the police entry into the diplomat's home breached diplomatic conventions. On 16 September, the diplomat returned to Saudi Arabia. The Indian Ministry of External Affairs said that the diplomat was protected by the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations. The Haryana police have registered a criminal case against six unnamed people, but have not yet filed charges.
"Diplomatic immunity must not lead to impunity for human rights abuses," said Gopika Bashi, Women's Rights Campaigner at Amnesty International India.
Medical assessments leaked to the media confirmed that the women had been vaginally and anally raped and brutally beaten. A newspaper quoted a senior hospital official as saying that the medical examination showed that "the women have been so grievously tortured that it will take years to recover".
Both the survivors are currently staying in a shelter home in Kathmandu and receiving psychological counselling. One of them told Amnesty International Nepal, "For me, the sooner I get justice the better. Three countries are involved in this. We have faced so many problems and we struggled a lot, and we need justice…Arrest whoever is involved…It is like a nightmare for us. The only thing I want is justice and for them to be put in jail".
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, to which India and Saudi Arabia are state parties, grants diplomats immunity from criminal prosecution by a receiving state. Diplomatic immunity is meant to enable diplomats to carry out their work without fearing intimidation or harassment by the receiving state. However the treaty also states that diplomats enjoying immunities have a duty to respect the laws of the receiving state.


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Muruga Nayanar o Muruka Nayanar es el 15.º santo de Nayanar. Hagiografías tradicionales como Periya Puranam del  d.C. y Thiruthondar Thogai del  d.C. lo describen como un gran devoto del dios hindú Shiva. Se dice que vivió una vida ascética, llena de austeridad y devoción desinteresada a Shiva, dedicando su tiempo a recoger flores de los bosques y a decorar el  Shiva Lingam con guirnaldas y coronas.

Relato Hagiográfico
Muruga Nayanar nació en una familia brahmán en una aldea costera llamada Thirupugalur o Thirupukalur o Pumpukalur en [| [Dinastía Chola| Chola Nadu]], ahora ubicada en Thirumarugal Taluk, distrito de Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. Su rutina diaria era salir de casa por la mañana temprano y vagar por el bosque para recoger las coloridas y fragantes flores como  loto,  champaka, jazmín, konrai, etc. Mientras recogía flores solía cantar el mantra de Panchakshara. Regresaría a casa y ataría las flores en hermosas guirnaldas y coronas para adornar el Shiva Lingam, Agnishwara, y su consorte Parvati. Tenía la costumbre de visitar el templo al menos tres veces al día.

Muruga Nayanar es descrito como contemporáneo de otros Nayanars como Sambandar, Tirugnaana Sambandar, Thirunavukkarasar, Sundarar, Thiruneelakandar y Tirunilakanda Yaazpaanar Nayanar. Cuando Sambandar y Thirunavukkarasar, dos de los nayanars más prominentes, visitaron el templo de Thirupugalur, Muruga Nayanar les dio una cálida bienvenida y se los llevó a casa. Pasando tiempo con ellos y escuchando sus himnos, Muruga Nayanar estaba eufórico. Sambandar apreciaba la devoción de Muruga Nayanar por Shiva y desarrolló una gran amistad con él.

Sambandar invitó a Muruga Nayanar a su boda en Nallur Perumanam. Después de la boda, Sambandar, su novia y otros devotos de Shiva fueron de nuevo al templo de Nallur Perumanam de Shiva. Sambandar rezó a Shiva, buscando la salvación y cantó un himno llamado Panchakshara Pathikam. Shiva apareció ante él y le concedió su deseo. Entonces Sambandar, su novia y todos los invitados a la boda, incluyendo a Muruga Nayanar se fusionaron en la Luz de Siva.

El mes Tamil Vaikasi, la estrella Moolam o nakshatra se observa como el día del Gurú Pooja de Muruga Nayanar en todos los templos Shiva.

Referencias

Nayanares


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Q: Spring Stateful Bean equivalent - synchronization callback methods I want to migrate a Stateful Session Bean (EJB 2.1) to a Spring bean. Both the Stateful Bean and the Spring Bean shall run in Websphere Application Server using the Websphere Transaction Manager (the WebsphereUowTransactionManager interface allows Spring to access it).
The old Stateful Session Bean implements the SessionSynchronization interface to make use of the callback methods (specifically the afterCompletion callback).
I tried using prototype scope for my bean, because to my knowledge this emulates a Stateful bean, and implementing the TransansactionSynchronization interface offered by Spring.
As I later understood, these callbacks can't be called because "In contrast to the other scopes, Spring does not manage the complete lifecycle of a prototype bean: the container instantiates, configures, and otherwise assembles a prototype object, and hands it to the client, with no further record of that prototype instance"
http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/beans.html#beans-factory-scopes-prototype
Session scope could be a solution, but the Session bean is called from a Message Driven Pojo that consumes messages from a JMS Queue.
EDIT:
The old session bean is only a "wrapper" for a pure Java class that implements the various writing to queues etc. So it takes the existing class and makes a bean out of it, implementing the SessionSynchronization.
public class XXXMessageSenderBean extends MessageSenderBean implements javax.ejb.SessionBean, SessionSynchronization { }

My idea was to take the same Java class and create a Spring Bean (interface and implementation classes):
public interface XXXMessageSenderPojo extends TransactionSynchronization

public class XXXMessageSenderPojoImpl extends MessageSenderBean implements XXXMessageSenderPojo

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package openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.views;

import android.util.Log;

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatDelegate;
import androidx.multidex.MultiDexApplication;

import org.greenrobot.greendao.query.QueryBuilder;

import java.io.IOException;

import io.reactivex.exceptions.UndeliverableException;
import io.reactivex.plugins.RxJavaPlugins;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.BuildConfig;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.dagger.component.AppComponent;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.dagger.module.AppModule;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.models.DaoMaster;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.models.DaoSession;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.utils.AnalyticsService;
import openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.utils.OFFDatabaseHelper;

import static openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.AppFlavors.OBF;
import static openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.AppFlavors.OFF;
import static openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.AppFlavors.OPF;
import static openfoodfacts.github.scrachx.openfood.AppFlavors.OPFF;

public class OFFApplication extends MultiDexApplication {
    private static DaoSession daoSession;
    public static final String LOG_TAG = OFFApplication.class.getSimpleName();
    private final boolean DEBUG = false;

    public static synchronized void setApplication(OFFApplication application) {
        OFFApplication.application = application;
    }

    public static synchronized void setAppComponent(AppComponent appComponent) {
        OFFApplication.appComponent = appComponent;
    }

    private static OFFApplication application;
    private static AppComponent appComponent;

    public static AppComponent getAppComponent() {
        return appComponent;
    }

    public static OFFApplication getInstance() {
        return application;
    }

    public static DaoSession getDaoSession() {
        return daoSession;
    }

    private static synchronized void setDaoSession(DaoSession session) {
        daoSession = session;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTerminate() {
        super.onTerminate();
    }

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();
        setApplication(this);
        AppCompatDelegate.setCompatVectorFromResourcesEnabled(true);

        AnalyticsService.init();

        // Use only during development: DaoMaster.DevOpenHelper (Drops all table on Upgrade!)
        // Use only during production: OFFDatabaseHelper (see on Upgrade!)
        String dbName;
        switch (BuildConfig.FLAVOR) {
            case OPFF:
                dbName = "open_pet_food_facts";
                break;
            case OBF:
                dbName = "open_beauty_facts";
                break;
            case OPF:
                dbName = "open_products_facts";
                break;
            case OFF:
            default:
                dbName = "open_food_facts";
                break;
        }

        setDaoSession(new DaoMaster(new OFFDatabaseHelper(this, dbName).getWritableDb()).newSession());

        // DEBUG
        QueryBuilder.LOG_VALUES = DEBUG;
        QueryBuilder.LOG_SQL = DEBUG;

        setAppComponent(AppComponent.Initializer.init(new AppModule(this)));
        getAppComponent().inject(this);

        RxJavaPlugins.setErrorHandler(e -> {
            if (e instanceof UndeliverableException) {
                e = e.getCause();
            }
            if (e instanceof IOException) {

                // fine, irrelevant network problem or API that throws on cancellation
                Log.i(LOG_TAG, "network exception", e);
                return;
            }
            if (e instanceof InterruptedException) {
                // fine, some blocking code was interrupted by a dispose call
                return;
            }
            if ((e instanceof NullPointerException) || (e instanceof IllegalArgumentException)) {
                // that's likely a bug in the application
                Thread.currentThread().getUncaughtExceptionHandler()
                    .uncaughtException(Thread.currentThread(), e);
                return;
            }
            if (e instanceof IllegalStateException) {
                // that's a bug in RxJava or in a custom operator
                Thread.currentThread().getUncaughtExceptionHandler()
                    .uncaughtException(Thread.currentThread(), e);
                return;
            }
            Log.w(LOG_TAG, "Undeliverable exception received, not sure what to do", e);
        });
    }
}


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The unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
Baltimore :Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
New York :Oxford University Press, ©2011.
The history of offshore oil and gas in the United States.
Civil Rights History Project Act of 2009.
400 Years of African-American History Commission Act.
A brief history of the Social Security Administration.
A history of excellence : the Marine Security Guard Program.
The United States Army and World War II.
by Center of Military History.
A brief history of Social Security : Social Security 60th anniversary.
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) in U.S. history : used for the 2006 and 2010 NAEP U.S. history assessments.
A guide to resources on the history of the Food and Drug Administration.
Rockville, MD :FDA History Office, Food and Drug Administration, 2002.
The Office of the Federal Register: a brief history commemorating the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first issue of the Federal Register March 14, 1936.
The United States Constitution : the blueprint of democracy.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service history.
Solving the enigma : history of the cryptanalytic bombe.


A visual reminder to embrace living in a different climate – it´s a lot easier if you dress accordingly! "There´s no bad weather, only bad clothing" is one of the proverbs we grow up with in Sweden. I know expats who hate this saying, but truth is I guess we need it to survive! 🙂 Swedes are usually outdoorsy people; we need good and proper clothes for snowy, cold, rainy, windy, wet days. The first winter I spent back in Sweden after several years abroad I was constantly freezing. I had a winter jacket, right? The following winter I bought a new winter jacket – a Swedish one! Thick, fluffy and a fake fur lined hood. What a difference it made! I had failed to see the climate from the right cultural perspective.
One of the ladies in my expat network told me it is so easy to spot Swedish people in the alps – it´s the ones with the most appropriate winter wear! And not only in the slopes.
Moving is your big chance to declutter. Sure, you might be fortunate enough to enjoy a moving company packing service, but still there is often the need to go through things. Sometimes you already know where you will be living, and that space might be less. Climate can impact too; there was no reason to keep all our humidifiers when relocating to Sweden. However leaving our garden furniture behind was not a climate-related decision, even though one might think so – especially after this rainy summer.
I usually say that moving once in a while is good for closets and attics. And also for basements, not to mention garages! You can sell things, give them away to friends, or donate them to charities. Ask friends, at the club/work or the neighbors for ideas. In the village where I lived a few years ago, you simply put your no-longer-wanted items out in the street, at the garbage collection area. Whoever walked by finding an interest in the object could simply take it. If it was still there at garbage-day, it was removed. My pasta-maker, still in the box, found a new home that way.
Another system seemed to work well in the village nearby. A couple of days per year villagers could bring the bits and pieces they wanted to clear out to a selected open area. Items were then free to any other resident who wanted them. In the afternoon the remaining things were donated to charity or found their way to the dump. A friend of mine, a trailing spouse adapting well to the local life, left two chairs and came home with a table. I would like to see more of these environmentally friendly solutions!
In Sweden you can try www.bjussa.se . Here you can advertise items to give away.