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Professor earns Runway of Dreams Foundation's Inspirational Achievement Award
Professor Dave Stevens has earned a prestigious award from the Runway of Dreams Foundation.
Stevens, a professional in residence in the School of Communications and director of the Ability Media program at Quinnipiac, was honored with the foundation's Inspirational Achievement Award on September 9 in New York City.
"It's been an unbelievable year so far with the launching of Ability Media with Dean Christopher Roush and the success we have had locally and nationally with that," Stevens said. "Now to be honored at fashion week, it blows my mind."
The Runway of Dreams Foundation is a non-profit organization that works toward a future of inclusion, acceptance and opportunity in the fashion industry for people with disabilities.
Leigh Steinberg, a noted sports agent, author and philanthropist, presented Stevens with the award at the foundation's gala at The Glasshouse event space.
"To have legendary sports agent and friend Leigh Steinberg present me is just the icing on the cake," Stevens added.
Born without hips and legs, Stevens has had a distinguished media career. He worked at ESPN for more than 20 years as the assignment desk manager and then as coverage editor. He covered 14 Super Bowls and three World Series, and he has won seven national sports Emmys. Prior to ESPN, he worked at KSTP-TV in Minneapolis.
In March, Stevens and Quinnipiac launched Ability Media, which educates the public with stories about the unique skills people with disabilities.
"Dave Stevens has made a difference in the lives of our students who have worked on Ability Media, and the high school students who attended the Ability Media camp this summer," Roush said. "It's great to see him honored in this way."
Stevens is the only legless player in sports history to have played NCAA football (Augsburg University in Minnesota) and minor league baseball (St. Paul Saints). He joined the Disability Dream & Do Foundation in 2016 and helps put on baseball camps for disabled children across the country. In addition, he is a highly sought-after motivational speaker and he has worked as the U.S. correspondent for The Disability Channel in Canada.
The Runway of Dreams Foundation's gala included a gourmet dinner, awards presentation and an adaptive fashion show featuring 40 models with different disabilities, ethnicities and backgrounds showcasing mainstream adaptive fashion by Kohl's, Tommy Hilfiger Adaptive, Stride Rite and Zappos Adaptive.


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Bettina Drepper
i.drepper@gmail.com
duration analysis
microeconometrics
treatment effects
Bettina Drepper is an assistant professor at the Department of Econometrics and Operations Research at Tilburg University. She received her PhD from the University of Mannheim in 2014, where she was a doctoral researcher in the research group of IZA Program Director Gerard van den Berg. She studied economics at Bonn University and econometrics and operations research at Maastricht University. During her studies and her PhD she has been a visiting researcher at the ESRI in Dublin and the IFS at the University College in London.
Bettina's research interests include health and population economics, social interactions, multivariate duration analysis and treatment evaluation methods.
She joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in September 2012.
A Unique Bond: Twin Bereavement and Lifespan Associations of Identical and Fraternal Twins
Gerard J. van den Berg, Bettina Drepper
Identification of the Timing-of-Events Model with Multiple Competing Exit Risks from Single-Spell Data
Bettina Drepper, Georgios Effraimidis
Inference for Shared-Frailty Survival Models with Left-Truncated Data
published in: Econometric Reviews, 35(6), 2016, 1075-1098

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Screen Skills Ireland, formally Screen Training Ireland Screen Skills Ireland is the national training and development resource specifically created for Ireland's film and television industry., today announced its new name at the inaugural Screen Industry Education Forum. The agency is also providing a new service which proactively maps career paths within the industry, with the launch of a brand new 'Careers in Screen' portal.
The establishment of an annual Screen Industry Education Forum was a key recommendation of the Crowe Horwath report on a Strategy for the Development of Skills for the Audiovisual Industry in Ireland 2017. Screen Skills Ireland are delighted to play a leadership role in convening the first forum and acting as a nexus between industry stakeholders and education/training providers. We hope today will see the start of positive conversations, leading to fruitful collaborations that start to address some of the skills needs of the screen industries in Ireland that will support the sector to continue to grow and thrive over the coming years.
The name-change to Screen Skills Ireland better reflects the remit and range of activity of Screen Skills Ireland while aligning the organisation more closely with education policy in Ireland, and with its sister agency, Screen Ireland Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland (FÉ/SI) is the national development agency for Irish filmmaking and the Irish film, television and animation industry..


Overweight, obesity, and tobacco use are major preventable causes of disability, disease, and death. In 2010, 25% of Philadelphia adults smoked, and 66% were overweight or obese. To address these health threats, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health launched Get Healthy Philly, an initiative to improve the city's nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco environments. The objective of this assessment was to identify residents' perspectives on threats to health and opportunities for change in the local food and tobacco environments.
Participants (N = 48) took photographs to document their concerns regarding Philadelphia's food and tobacco environments and participated in photo-elicitation interviews. We coded photographs and interview transcripts and identified key themes.
Participants proposed interventions for nutrition 4 times more often than for tobacco. Participants spontaneously articulated the need for multilevel change consistent with the ecological model of health behavior, including changes to policies (food assistance program provisions to encourage healthful purchases), local and school environments (more healthful corner store inventories and school meals), and individual knowledge and behavior (healthier food purchases). Participants often required interviewer prompting to discuss tobacco, and they suggested interventions including changes in advertising (a local environmental concern) and cigarette taxes (a policy concern).
Participants were well versed in the relevance to health of nutrition and physical activity and the need for multilevel interventions. Their responses suggested community readiness for change. In contrast, participants' more limited comments regarding tobacco suggested that prevention and control of tobacco use were perceived as less salient public health concerns.
BMC Womens Health. 2011; 11:41.
J Acad Nutr Diet. 2013; 113(5):638-642.


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Q: Find the nth occurrence of a pattern in SQL Server I need to extract the value in 2nd occurrence of <spot> and <Points> tags. I tried different approaches with sub string and pattern index functions with out success.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<FSSTradeDetails xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <Markup>
        <Price>
            <PriceType>A</PriceType>
            <Wholesale>1.2772663500412138</Wholesale>
            <WholesaleRateComposition>
                <Rate>
                    <Terms>A</Terms>
                    <CurPair>GBP-USD</CurPair>
                    <Spot>1.61125</Spot>
                    <Points>157.95740000000168</Points>
                    <Forward>1.6270457400000002</Forward>
                </Rate>
                <Rate>
                    <Terms>A</Terms>
                    <CurPair>GBP-EUR</CurPair>
                    <Spot>1.2648663500412138</Spot>
                    <Points>124</Points>
                    <Forward>1.2772663500412138</Forward>
                </Rate>
                <Rate>
                    <Terms>A</Terms>
                    <CurPair>EUR-USD</CurPair>
                    <Spot>1.27385</Spot>
                    <Points>0</Points>
                    <Forward>1.27385</Forward>
                </Rate>
                <RateStates>
                    <ContractCounter>DEf</ContractCounter>
                    <ContractVia>Dff</ContractVia>
                    <CounterVia>DDf</CounterVia>
                </RateStates>
            </WholesaleRateComposition>
            <Markup>12</Markup>
            <Quote>1.27846635004121</Quote>
        </Price>
        <Profit>
            <Amount>1.53</Amount>
            <SpotRate>1.27385</SpotRate>
            <Terms>A</Terms>
            <NativeAmount>1.2000000000000455</NativeAmount>
            <NativeCurrency>EUR</NativeCurrency>
        </Profit>
    </Markup>
    <WholesaleRiskTransfer>
        <Transfer>No</Transfer>
    </WholesaleRiskTransfer>
</FSSTradeDetails>

This is the query I've tried:
SELECT
   convert(DECIMAL(38, 8),
           substring(DETAILS, CASE
                                 WHEN PATINDEX('%<Spot>%', DETAILS) + 6 = 6
                                 THEN 0
                                 ELSE PATINDEX('%<Spot>%', DETAILS) + 6
                               END,
   (PATINDEX('%</Spot>%', DETAILS) - (CASE
                        WHEN PATINDEX('%<Spot>%', DETAILS) + 6 = 6
                            THEN 0
                        ELSE PATINDEX('%<Spot>%', DETAILS) + 6
                        END
                    )
                ))) AS [Spot Rate]

Any help is appreciated.

A: I suggest you use XML methods for this task:
DECLARE @xml xml = N'<FSSTradeDetails xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Markup><Price><PriceType>A</PriceType><Wholesale>1.2772663500412138</Wholesale><WholesaleRateComposition><Rate><Terms>A</Terms>
<CurPair>GBP-USD</CurPair><Spot>1.61125</Spot><Points>157.95740000000168</Points><Forward>1.6270457400000002</Forward></Rate><Rate><Terms>A</Terms>
<CurPair>GBP-EUR</CurPair><Spot>1.2648663500412138</Spot><Points>124</Points><Forward>1.2772663500412138</Forward></Rate><Rate><Terms>A</Terms>
<CurPair>EUR-USD</CurPair><Spot>1.27385</Spot><Points>0</Points><Forward>1.27385</Forward></Rate><RateStates><ContractCounter>DEf</ContractCounter>
<ContractVia>Dff</ContractVia><CounterVia>DDf</CounterVia></RateStates></WholesaleRateComposition><Markup>12</Markup><Quote>1.27846635004121</Quote>
</Price><Profit><Amount>1.53</Amount><SpotRate>1.27385</SpotRate><Terms>A</Terms><NativeAmount>1.2000000000000455</NativeAmount>
<NativeCurrency>EUR</NativeCurrency></Profit></Markup><WholesaleRiskTransfer><Transfer>No</Transfer></WholesaleRiskTransfer></FSSTradeDetails>'

SELECT
      WholesaleRateComposition.value('Rate[2]/Spot[1]', 'decimal(38, 20)') AS SecondSpot
    , WholesaleRateComposition.value('Rate[2]/Points[1]', 'decimal(38, 20)') AS SecondPoints
FROM @xml.nodes('/FSSTradeDetails/Markup/Price/WholesaleRateComposition') AS Price(WholesaleRateComposition);

To get the nth occurrence, you'll need to use dynamic SQL since the ordinals must be static:
DECLARE @Occurance nvarchar(5) = '3';
DECLARE @Sql nvarchar(MAX) =
'SELECT
      WholesaleRateComposition.value(''Rate[' + @Occurance + ']/Spot[1]'', ''decimal(38, 20)'') AS SecondSpot
    , WholesaleRateComposition.value(''Rate[' + @Occurance + ']/Points[1]'', ''decimal(38, 20)'') AS SecondPoints
FROM @xml.nodes(''/FSSTradeDetails/Markup/Price/WholesaleRateComposition'') AS Price(WholesaleRateComposition);'

EXEC sp_executesql @Sql, N'@xml xml', @xml = @xml;

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Katrina, take 4
The AP reports from the Bush's tour of New Orleans today that he sought to clarify his comment on the Thursday after the storm that no one thought the levees would be breeched. According to AP reporter Jennifer Loven, Bushy "said he was referring to that 'sense of relaxation in a critical moment' when many people initially thought the storm had not inflicted heavy damage on the city." Right. We'll just lay aside for now just what that "'sense of relaxation in a critical moment" means--if not something like "letting your guard down" or "walking off bcause everything is cool." The Washington Post, reported on Sunday, September 11, 2005, in its excellent post mortem, that the National Weather Service, which Pennsylvania's junior Republican Senator Ricky Santorum wants to block from issuing public forecasts, reported at 8:59 a.m. on August 29--the morning Katrina hit--that a levee on the Industrial Canal had been breeched and the 9th Ward was going to flood. Other reports followed and by Monday night--that night--it was clear the city was filling up. Bushy is right that a lot of naive people, including reporters, had initially cheered that New Orleans had once more "dodged" the big one, but anyone paying attention knew what the commander-in-chief should have known--New Orleans was going under. So Bushy's clarification is best seen as a confession of ignorance. It reminds me that this is a man who four years earlier had not taken seriously a CIA briefing about a certain terriorist group planning to use jet planes to attack the U.S. And that's not blame gaming.
At the same press conference, the Bush, like other white Republican politicians and Clintonistas, denied that race played a role in the horror of New Orleans. Of course, were the Bushies to admit that racism exists, they would have to change their tune on civil rights and affirmative action--either support them in the name of the equality they say already exists or become more openly honest about their racism. Bushy might ask New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin about this one. In an interview with Gordon Russell of the heroic Times-Picayune, Nagin confirms that black people were turned back from crossing a bridge out of the city into a largely white parrish and goods were stockpiled outside the city but never brought in. I'm sure there are other explanations, but I can't think of them.
That is not to say that poor whites are not also ignored; they are. The Bushies like poor white people only if they can be persuaded to enlist and to vote for Bushies out of fear of raging yellow, bown, and black people. Otherwise, they have no use for them. Poor blacks, though, suffer discrimination on account of caste--race--as well as class.
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Along the ways we have built and sustain business relations with a number of suppliers for archery equipment and its accessories within Malaysia and outside of Malaysia. Whilst upholding us to good archery standards and keeping up to date, we also attend numbers of archery training. This has helped us to stay relevant in our business line.
The knowledge and experience we gain through trainings and tournaments that we attended we will be our teaching point to our customers through archery lessons to individuals or groups of people. At this moment, our main customers came from school-going students. Many schools have included archery as one of their co-curriculum activities as to cultivate their students in archery sport.


So guys there is a very good news for the android and nexus lovers that today we will tell you the full and simple method that how to install latest version of android 6.0 marshmallow update on your nexus 9 smart tablet device, in this tutorial you will learn to do it manually. This is a very beautiful designed tab and its specs and features are also very good and it display is bigger than other companies' devices and tablets. It was released on October 2014 and people liked and bought this latest and fast tab device so much, so guys first read its specs and features below, then I will write down about the update process.
Its features and specifications are so good and personally I also liked its features so much therefore I have decided to tell you about it.
Display: It has a large screen size of 8.9 inches (approximately 9 inches) with 2048×1536 pixels resolution and its PPI (Pixel per Inch) rate is also good that is 288.
Camera: It has 8.0 mega pixels rear (back) camera that's has a great HD quality video and capturing result with a powerful LED flash light that can make a day in the darkness, but its front camera is just 1.6 mega-pixels that is not enough for good quality selfies.
Hardware: It comes with 2.3 GHZ dual core processor that's made by Nvidia Tegra K1 with 2 GB memory ram and the internal storage of this nexus 5 is 16 GB that is enough for your apps and galleries also.
Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Compass/ Magnetometer, Ambient light sensors are available in this tablet.
Operating System: This device comes with Android operating system by Google with the version of 5.0 and Google also released an update for this tab of android 6.0 Marshmallow officially.
Before starting this process first of all charge your tab's battery to 75% or more.
Take a full backup of your device on your windows computer, because your data could be loss, you can use a free app to backup or restore the data to your PC, you can find these kinds of applications on Google play store easily, just open the Google play store and type "Mob to PC Data". These kinds of applications or tools will easily manage your data on your computer.
Enable USB debugging in your android device, if you want to read that how you can enable this USB debugging please read the simple step / instruction below!
Menu > Settings > Developer Options > scroll and find the USB Debugging > tick it to enable this function on your tab.
Download minimal ADB and fast boot tools.
Install this fastboot tool on your windows computer.
Unlock the bootloader of your Nexus 9 Tablet.
If you don't know that how to unlock the bootloader please follow this link and read the full tutorial about this topic, click here.
Now read below some simple and easy steps to update the version of your tablet's operating system.
First of all turn off your device because we will boot it into fastboot mode.
Hold press volume up and down keys at the same time and press power button, in 3 to 5 seconds you will see fastboot activate mode on the screen, now release all buttons.
Extract the downloaded firmware file and copy all these extracted files to "Android SDK > Platform-Tools" folder.
Now it is time to connection between your device and your windows computer so connect your tan with your windows computer by using a USB cable.
by this step you will see an installation process on your screen and it will be finished in some minutes and keep in mind that do not remove your nexus 9 device's USB cable, (do not remove the connection between device and your windows computer during this installation).
After some minutes this process will be finished and your tablet will be rebooted automatically.
That's it! After the reboot you will see the latest android version android 6.0 marshmallow on your nexus 9 tablet device, and we have tested this method and it is fully working but if you have any issue regarding this issue please comment below we will reply you as soon as we can.


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Affirmation: Gay and Lesbian Mormons
Affirmation: Gay & Lesbian Mormons serves the needs of gay Mormon women and men, as well as bisexual and transgender LDS and their supportive family and friends, through social and educational activities.
Al-Fatiha San Francisco Bay Area
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/al-fatiha-sfbayarea
Al-Fatiha Foundation, Inc.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/al-fatiha-news/
Al-Fatiha-News is an announcement-only email list for Al-Fatiha, a US-based organization dedicated to Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, intersex, questioning (LGBTIQ) & their allies.
Canterbury at Cal - The Episcopal/Anglican Student Center
2334 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
Canterbury at Cal is the place for UC-Berkeley's Episcopal and Anglican students and their friends to gather. We seek to provide opportunities for learning, service, worship, and fellowship that are every bit as fulfilling as the educational experiences at Cal.
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) is a recently established center of Pacific School of Religion Berkeley, California.
The Center serves three distinct but overlapping constituencies: the world of academic religious scholarship; faith communities; and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and organizations.
CLGS is purposed toward developing programming in each of four major areas: Research, Resourcing, Education for Leadership, and Community-Building/Advocacy. All programming works to carry out the Center's fundamental mission:
To advance the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and to transform faith communities and the wider society by taking a leading role in shaping a new public discourse on religion and sexuality through education, research, community building and advocacy.
Coalition of Welcoming Congregations of the Bay Area
The CLGS Coalition of Welcoming Congregations (CWC) brings together religious leaders, LGBT people of faith and their allies from a wide range of religious traditions in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area to form a progressive, effective and media-savvy voice on matters relating to sexuality and religion, homophobia, and the enfranchisement of LGBT people within society as a whole.
http://cwcbay.org
Dignity San Francisco-Lesbian and Gay Catholics
www.dignitysanfrancisco.org
Gay Buddihist Fellowship
http://www.gaybuddhist.org/
Click here to join the GBF Yahoo group and receive notices about speakers at our Sunday sittings, social activities and other sangha news.
Gay, Lesbian, and Affirming Disciples Alliance, Inc.
Glad Alliance
The Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, Inc: Information and support for GLBTI Vaishnavas and Hindus
http://www.galva108.org/index.html
This website is provided by the Gay and Lesbian Vaishnava Association, an international organization dedicated to the teachings of Lord Caitanya, the importance of all-inclusiveness within His mission, and the Vedic concept of a natural third gender. Its purpose is to educate Vaishnavas, Hindus and the public in general about the "third sex" as described in Vedic literatures. This knowledge will help to correct many of the common misconceptions that people hold today concerning third-gender people (gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transgenders, the intersexed, etc.). In addition to this, GALVA wishes to provide a friendly and positive-oriented place where third-gender devotees and guests can associate together and utilize their time to learn more about Krsna consciousness and advance in spiritual life.
Glide Memorial Church
http://www.glide.org
Come to a place where unconditional love changes lives everyday, and hope triumphs over sorrow. Everyone is welcome. Everyone is Glide.
The Institute for Welcoming Resources
A Program of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
"Resources that support the unconditional welcome of people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and their families in the church home of their choice."
This is an extensive website that provides many ways to search for a church near you, get news, links, events and search for other information involving the LGBT community, religion, and spirituality.
(Please scroll down the page for a list of churches in Berkeley recommended by The Institute for Welcoming Resources)
Metropolitan Community Church of S.F.
www.mccsf.org
Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church
http://www.mhr.org/
Most Holy Redeemer Parish, located at 100 Diamond Street (at 18th Street) has existed as the Roman Catholic religious center of the Castro neighborhood in San Francisco since 1900. Located just 2 blocks from the heart of the historic Castro district, the parish reflects the diversity and excitement of the surrounding neighborhood.
MHR prides itself in being an inclusive Catholic community -- embracing all people of good faith -- Catholics as well as those people interested in learning about the Catholic experience -- regardless of their background, gender, race, social status or sexual orientation.
Muslim Gay Men
groups.yahoo.com/group/MuslimGayMen
Assalamu alaikum wr. wb.!
This is a discussion, information, and support resource for believing Muslim gay men who wish to maintain their faith and continue to serve Allah SWT while they are at various stages of dealing with and accepting their homosexuality.
The aim of this group is to promote knowledge, brotherhood, and a positive self-image among Muslim gay men throughout the world. It promotes seeking a healthy balance between our identities as Muslims and our identities as gay men.
The National Jewish Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity
http://www.jewishmosaic.org/
Jewish Mosaic partners with Jewish organizations, communities, and individuals of every denomination to create a world where all Jews are fully included in communal life, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. Founded in summer 2003 and based in Denver, Colorado, Jewish Mosaic is the first national organization dedicated to helping the Jewish world become more open, accessible, and welcoming to LGBT Jews and their families.
The National Union of Jewish LGBTIQQ Students (NUJLS)
www.nujlsonline.org
An empowerment organization run by Jewish students and young adults of diverse sexual and gender identities, NUJLS exists to provide a place for LGBTQQI Jews to celebrate, learn about, and connect all of their identities. We work with students to achieve this through skills trainings and a small number of grants to students organization. We also offer training and consulting to staff who work with Jewish LGBTQQI students.
Our annual conference, scheduled for February 8th to the 10th, 2008 seeks to create a relevant, vibrant, and contemporary place for participants to embrace and explore, personally and communally, the changes our world has presented us and the changes we choose to present to our world.
Newman Hall Holy Spirit Parish
www.calnewman.org
2700 Dwight Way at College Avenue
"Tradition, friends, health, culture, identity, stress, lesbian, life, sex, faith, God, hope, fear, careers, gay, school, dating, Sricpture, family, love...Newman's Student LGBT group meets each Wednesday at 7 pm to talk about all these things and more. We seek to offer frinedship, support, encouragement and faith sharing with students who share concern for LGBT issues. Students of all faith tradtions are welcome!"
Operation Rebirth
http://www.operationrebirth.com
Black gays and lesbians reclaiming their religion and spirituality.
Queer Jihad Club
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/queerjihad/
Queer Jihad is a forum for the respectful exchange of ideas toward the aim of achieving greater understanding and increasing love among Muslims. Through sincere dialogue, Queer Jihad seeks to overcome all kinds of oppression of LGBT Muslims based on hatred and ignorance. Willful ignorance, stubborn promotion of hatred, and callous disregard for the feelings of fellow human beings have no place here.
Queer Sexuality and Identity in the Qur'an and Hadith by Faris Malik
http://www.well.com/user/aquarius/Qurannotes.htm
Refuge Ministries City of Refuge
http://www.sfrefuge.org/
We welcome people who come from all aspects of society, especially those who have felt shut out, isolated and alone in their desire to be fully themselves and fully Christian. We have a saying here at City of Refuge and it is that we welcome you and all your baggage for we are here too with all our baggage - working toward a personal and intimate relationship with God. City of Refuge/UCC is an open and affirming congregation, open and affirming to all those who have lost, left, or never had a church home. We welcome you, your children, your spouses, your partners, your parents, and all your relations, and hope you can find a church family here.
Bishop Yvette Flunder
Sr. Pastor & Founder
Soulforce
http://soulforce.org
Freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance.
Transgender Christian resources on the web
http://www.angelfire.com/on/otherwise/transfaith.html
Transfaith Revival
http://www.transfaithonline.org/
University Christian Church of Berkeley
"We are an open and affirming congregation of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). We have history of advocating for LGBT persons within our denomination and the larger church...We believe we can best live out our discipleship in a community as radically inclusive as the realm of God. We are also associated with the Glad Alliance (Gay, Lesbian, and Affirming Disciples).
Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
www.uucb.org
The mission of our congregation is to create loving community, inspire spiritual growth, and encourage lives of integrity, joy, and service.
Whosoever
www.whosoever.org
An online magazine for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Christians
The Institute for Welcoming Resources has recommended the following churches in Berkeley:
All Souls Episcopal Church
Email: allsouls@allsoulsparish.org
Web site: http://www.allsoulsparish.org/
Berkeley & Richmond Intercity Ministry (BRIM) - Disciples of Christ
1063 Cragmont Avenue
Epworth United Methodist Church
1953 Hopkins Street
Email: Epworth@lmi.net
First Baptist Church - ABC/Alliance
2345 Channing Way
Email: FBCBerk@aol.com
Web site: http://www.fbc-berkeley.org
First Congregational Church - UCC
Web site: http://www.fccb.org
New Fellowship United Church of Christ - UCC
1712 Allston Way
Meets at: 1924 Cedar Street at Bonita
New Spirit Community Church - UCC/MCC/Disciples of Christ
2054 University Avenue, Suite 408
Pacific School of Religion Chapel at 1798 Scenic Ave.
Phone: 510-704-PRAY or 510-704 7729
Email: admin@newspiritchurch.org
Web site: http://www.newspiritchurch.org
New Spirit Community Church - UCC
1798 Scenic Avenue
Pacific School of Religion - UCC
Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church - ELCA
401 Grizzly Peak Boulevard
St John's Presbyterian Church
Email: office@stjohns.presbychurch.net
Web site: http://www.stjohns.presbychurch.net
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd
Web site: http://www.goodshepherdberkeley.org
2362 Bancroft Way
University Lutheran Chapel - ELCA
Email: ulc@univelutch.org
http://ulcberkeley.org/wp/
Berkely, CA 94704
Email: office@stmarksberkeley.org
http://stmarksberkeley.org/
On-Campus Organizations
Allyship
Bisexuality and Nonmonosexuality
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the LGBTQ Communities at Cal
Domestic Partnerships at Cal
LGBTQ Student Conferences
I'm a QT Pie
Queer Cal Pals
Queer People of Color
Undocuqueer
The Stonewall Fund


Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference, General Decree on the Leasing or Renting of Ecclesiastical Goods, January 1998.
Lands or building for which no immediate or long-term use for Church purposes is foreseen should not be retained indefinitely.
7. The leasing of ecclesiastical property, when the lease extends over a period of two years, constitutes an act of extraordinary administration, and is subject to the prescriptions of c. 1277 or, in the case of institutes of consecrated life, of c. 638, §1.
8. Any leasing or renting of ecclesiastical property for a period extending beyond thirty continuous days shall be recorded in writing, observing all applicable civil and particular laws.
9. Normally, Church property shall not be leased at less than the current comparable rates. If, however, in particular circumstances, the property is to be leased for less than these rates, the written permission of the Ordinary is to be obtained beforehand. In the case of institutes of consecrated life of pontifical right, the permission of the major superior shall be obtained.
10. Any leasing of ecclesiastical property without charge to charitable or other organisations, if the duration of the lease extends beyond three months, requires the written consent of the Ordinary or, in the case of institutes of consecrated life of pontifical right, the written consent of the major superior.
11. If the total amount of rent to be paid exceeds the maximum amount determined for the region for acts of alienation of ecclesiastical goods, and if the lease has a duration of more than nine years, the permission of the Apostolic See is also to be obtained beforehand.
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Tethered to your laptop, stuck to your smartphone, or feeling utterly drained after a Netflix binge. In the 21st century, modern technology makes us equal measures master and slave. Our homes burst at the seams with televisions, phones, WIFI boxes, boosters, and microwaves and the world outside our window is overrun with wires and cables, satellites and security cameras. These electronic devices can drain us mentally and physically which is why it helps to have EMF protection in place. The untapped treasure of EMF protection crystals goes a long way in keeping your natural spirit grounded and wild. Here's your ultimate guide to getting the best of EMF protection jewelry…
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What is EMF?
EMF stands for electromagnetic field, sometimes it is also known as electromagnetic radiation (EMR). All the electronic devices in our life send out streams of invisible energy waves that ripple through the body and can lead to low-level side effects. While it may sound like EMF is linked to new age thinking, it actually holds scientific weight and can be found commonly discussed even on your energy providers website. Make no mistake, EMF is a very real issue weaving through our modern world.
Why are EMF's Considered Harmful?
EMF smog is all around us; from signal towers to plug sockets, it's part of our modern makeup that there will be waves in our world. There are two types of EMF in this world - high level and low level. High level generally refers to the extreme waves that can come via the sun or complex medical equipment like X-ray machines. Low level comes from all our electrical household objects and power lines.
Research has shown that frequent exposure to low-level non-ionizing radiation such as is found in our household items may cause neurological and psychiatric problems in people and of course, cell phones have also been linked with growing numbers of Gliomas (tumors) in the brain.
Frequent exposure to EMF's can cause anything from fatigue to low libido, depression to anxiety, headaches, sleeping problems, irritability, a change in memory, a change in appetite, along with nausea and skin tingling. You could have a range of these problems or you could have only one. The point is, there seems to be some viable risk associated with EMF exposure which is why having even a small level of protection in place makes perfect sense.
How Can EMF Protection Crystals Help?
Crystals have long been used as a protective force; whether against sorcerers, bad vibes, or to protect you from the electromagnetic smog that is swallowing up our clean space. Not every gemstone can tap into the healing and protective properties necessary to keep you safe from EMF, but some, especially those with high iron content can effectively block and protect the body, mind, and soul from external EMF interference.
Along with their strong iron content, select crystals come with heightened purification properties, meaning that they will connect to and align the chakras, lend their radiant energies to improve the Feng Sui of your space, and absorb the toxic properties that are flying around from EMF, picking them up before they enter the body.
Which EMF Protection Crystals Should I Buy?
As mentioned, not all crystals have the power to effectively block EMF's. Different crystals cover different elements of your health and wellbeing which is why it's important to work with the right EMF protection crystals. The following crystals are perfect when shopping for EMF protection jewelry or seeking out crystals to use as an amulet or protective talisman in your home…
Check out our Hematite Energy Bracelet
This dreamy dark mineral crystal certainly packs a punch when it comes to protecting you from EMF smog and radiation. In the battlefields of Ancient Rome it was said that soldiers used to stud their armor with hematite as a form of protection. Hematite goes by another name - The Blood Stone. This is because it boasts bountiful blood cleansing properties, which can also help clear your body of toxins. Rich in iron, this is a great crystal for placing close to your workstation or wherever you tend to have an abundance of technology.
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One of the most protective crystals in the world, if you want to surround yourself in a force field of the finest protection, this midnight black stone is the ultimate talisman to keep you safe. Along with being a huge grounding force when it comes to personal energy, it is well versed in clearing away the EMF smog that wants to invade your space. As a highly intuitive and absorbing stone, Black Tourmaline will also block negative energies and spin them into positive vibes.
Ancient and amazing, Shungite is a force to be reckoned with. This 2-million-year-old stone is so potent it is said to be able to stop anything hazardous to human health right in its tracks and to fully absorb and dispel negative energy. How does Shungite hit such high notes when it comes to EMF protection? This stone is made up of a staggering 98 percent carbon meaning that it has a lot of weight to work with.
Check out our Pyrite Energy Bracelet
The metallic element, Greek name, and pure penchant for protection puts Pyrite on the map as a super saver when it comes to protecting you from environmental and even emotional waves of negativity. Along with cutting through the problems caused by EMF, Pyrite is great for giving you an energetic boost meaning that its an excellent stone to place in your home office or wherever you need to work quickly with technology.
Check out our Citrine Energy Bracelet
This bright and energetically bursting gemstone is closely linked to the root and solar plexus chakra. Citrine is super useful to have around as it helps the body to repair from EMF damage and can also work when it comes to mopping up the negativity. Brimming with iron hydrate, Citrine is at its most potent in soft, sunny and humid seasons.
Check out out Rose Quartz Energy Bracelet
Soft and graceful in appearance but strong and deeply cleansing at heart, Rose Quartz as a protective force is a must. Clearing a space of EMF energy can also suck out the good alongside the bad, Rose Quartz can lend a helping hand in filling the space with positive life once more. It's a beautiful crystal for keeping your blood circulation pumping which in turn helps the body to flush out all that is toxic and leave you fully recharged and ready for the world.
How Do I Use EMF Protection Crystals?
Whichever EMF protection crystals you choose, it helps to know how to effectively use them as a shield against the damage and side effects of EMF and radiation waves. One of the simplest ways to utilize the healing power of these crystals is to choose EMF protective jewelry. By wearing the right kind of crystals mentioned above daily, you will always be protected no matter where you turn. Wearing bracelets, necklaces, pendants, and anything close to the skin is going to be a game-changer when it comes to EMF.
You can also simply place your EMF protective crystal close to where you use the most technology. However, you do want to be careful with crystals that have powerful magnetic properties close to your laptops and external hard drives as they can have an effect on your data records. Quartzes should also be used with caution when very close to electronic devices as they can be semi-conductors of energy and even amp up the EMF's. We suggest turning to the likes of Rose Quartz in an effort to heal from EMF's rather than placing them close to your devices as a form of protection.
Final Thoughts on EMF Protection
While science is still lingering in the research stage as to how much of an impact EMF's can have on the body, there is evidence that electromagnetic field smog can have a knock-on effect when it comes to your overall health and wellbeing. Even at low-level use, it truly does grant a sweeter peace of mind to know that you have small protective measures in place. EMF protective crystals whether in the form of jewelry or just a loose stone in your pocket or set on your desk can make a huge difference. Crystals have the power to transmute energies, heal traumas, and protect you from harm across many angles.
What are your thoughts and feelings on EMF? Which crystals do you tend to turn to for protection? Share your thoughts in the comments.


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LUANDA, Angola — Angola's ruling party on Monday was declared the winner of the general election, but it was its weakest showing in the five elections that have taken place since the country gained independence.
The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, or MPLA, the liberation army turned political party that has governed Angola since the end of Portuguese colonial rule in 1975, won 51.17 percent of the vote, the country's electoral commission announced.
The opposition party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, or UNITA, received 43.95 percent of the vote, its most successful showing so far.
The two parties have faced off in four previous elections, and in the 2017 contest, the MPLA had 61 percent of the vote to UNITA's 26 percent.
UNITA said it planned to challenge the result, but the electoral commission dismissed calls for a recount.
Angola, on the southwestern coast of Africa and the continent's second-largest oil producer, has dipped in and out of recession over the past five years. The incumbent president, João Lourenço, campaigned on a promise to wipe out corruption and fix the economy, but it was a message that was similar to his campaign promises in 2017.
In a speech Mr. Lourenço, 68, described his party's victory as "a guarantee of stability." He dismissed allegations of fraud, citing the presence of international election observers.
Mr. Lourenço's running mate, Esperança Francisco da Costa — the current cabinet minister in charge of fisheries and oceans — will become Angola's first female vice president.
Voting in Luanda last week. More than half of Angola's registered voters stayed away from the polls. Credit…John Wessels/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
With half of Angola's registered voters under the age of 35, the result suggests that the MPLA's influence is waning among younger voters who were not alive during the battle for independence.
As with other liberation movements in southern Africa, election results show that young voters are losing faith in the parties that brought an end to colonialism or white-minority rule. Instead, issues like the economy and high youth unemployment are top of mind for many voters.
More than 30 percent of Angolans are unemployed, and the country's vast oil wealth has not trickled down to the majority of people, according to Angola's national statistics agency. Significantly, UNITA unseated the MPLA in the capital, Luanda — the MPLA's traditional stronghold.
If the results of last week's elections are upheld, this would be the first time that the MPLA will not hold a two-thirds majority in the national assembly. The ruling party maintains the majority with 124 seats, while UNITA will now have 90 seats and three smaller parties two seats each, which could result in more oversight of the MPLA, analysts said.
The new configuration in Parliament means the MPLA can no longer amend the Constitution, said Augusto Santana, a political analyst in Angola. Appointing seats on the constitutional court, the electoral commission and even the news media regulator "will need proper negotiations," he added.
"UNITA is now in better position to monitor government activities," he said.
More than half of Angola's registered voters stayed away from the polls. And many of those who did vote participated in an unusual civic movement, called "vote and stay," in which they remained at their voting stations after casting their ballots to make sure their votes were counted.
UNITA, which says the electoral commission is packed with pro-MPLA commissioners, conducted an independent count through a network of observers but has not yet released any results.
Angola's vast oil wealth has not trickled down to the majority of people.Credit…John Wessels/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Oleander - The Farmer as Artist
By Thomas Fox Averill • Oct 19, 2019
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Folks, when I was a boy, I spent hours every summer in the garden, picking a feed sack full of green beans one week, a bucket of cherries another, a basket of beets, or a bushel of tomatoes. I dug potatoes—russet and sweet—and pulled onions. I picked peppers, and pickled peppers, just like Peter Piper. My mother was the piper, and I paid her by bringing the harvest to her kitchen, where she pickled beets, canned tomatoes and green beans, sorted potatoes, braided onions, boiled cherries with sugar and pectin into preserves, and began to ferment cabbage into sauerkraut. All summer long we worked.
"You grow too much," I complained one hot September afternoon after spending two hours picking and pickling peppers.
"I grow what we eat, and what we will eat," she said. "It's good to have reserves."
Gallery Exhibit in Amarillo—"Postcards from the High Plains"
By Kay Kennedy • Jun 10, 2019
Calling all artists! High Plains Public Radio wants YOU and your talent to participate in an upcoming art show at an Amarillo gallery.
It's called "POSTCARDS FROM THE HIGH PLAINS," and it's a juried exhibition by The Cerulean Gallery and High Plains Public Radio (HPPR) open to artists from Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska.
WTAMU To Host French Film Festival
By Jonathan Baker • Apr 9, 2019
Francophiles and cinephiles on the High Plains will have reason to celebrate over the next few weeks, as West Texas A & M University will host a French film festival: The Tournées Film Festival. The series comes after WT received a grant from the French American Cultural Exchange. Films will be screened at Mary Moody Northen Hall on WT's campus, Room 189. Click for more information on our community calendar.
World-Record Mural Nears Completion In North Wichita
By Ascha Lee • Nov 29, 2018
Wichita will soon be home to the world's largest mural painted by a single artist.
The mural is on the east side of the Beachner grain elevator on 21st Street. It's visible west of I-135 as well as westbound K-96.
Lightnin' McDuff, Legendary Panhandle Sculptor, Dies
By Jonathan Baker • Sep 18, 2018
A legend in the Texas Panhandle art world died last week.
Lightnin' McDuff is perhaps most famous for his sculpture "Ozymandius," two massive stone legs on a pedestal that can be found in a cow pasture between Amarillo and Canyon. The statue, which is based on Percy Shelley's poem of the same name, has been featured in Slate and Atlas Obscura.
Fourth Fest: A Celebration of Panhandle Art + Music at Mariposa Eco-Village
By Jenny Inzerillo • Jul 3, 2018
Thanks to Kegan Hollis and Matthew Williams from Mariposa Eco-Village for stopping by High Plains Morning to talk about Fourth Fest. If you're looking for some art and music in the Panhandle, stop by the event from 6pm-2am at Mariposa Eco-Village (1501 N. Soncy).
Watch This Kansas Farmer Herd His Cows Into Fun Shapes
By Ben Kuebrich • Mar 15, 2018
Derek Klingenberg of Peabody, Kansas is kind of a farmer celebrity. His Youtube channel which has over 70,000 subscribers, features everything from ag-themed pop-music parodies to trombone covers, but what really caught our attention was his cow art.
Tuesday, Klingenberg took his cow art to the next level, when he posted a video where he herded his cows to spell out the word "Hi," and took a snapshot from outer space.
Stratton First Fridays (Interview with Bri Hill Kastner)
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The City of Stratton, Colorado is looking to engage the community through the arts on November 3rd with a new FIRST FRIDAY ART EXHIBITION!
Thanks to art teacher Bri Hill Kastner, City Council member Lynn Gottmann, and Town Clerk Cindy McCaffrey, this small town might get a big BOOST on the creativity front.
At This 'Farm' In Nebraska, Creativity Grows Amid The Cornfields
By editor • Aug 3, 2017
In the middle of a cornfield in south-central Nebraska, an oasis of art is growing.
Art Farm, situated off a long dirt road outside the small town of Marquette, started back in 1993 as an artist residency program. Since then, it's become a one-of-a-kind experience many artists can't resist.
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By Jenny Inzerillo • Apr 7, 2017
It's the last day of our pledge drive, and we're thrilled to be featuring the community of Hays, KS.
We''ve got a giveaway, thanks to the generosity of High Plains artists MICHAEL JILG and LEON STAAB.
Their show, Eufloria, is from 4/7 - 4/29 at Garden City Arts in Garden City, KS.
Texas lawmakers threaten to abolish Film Commission
By Jonathan Baker • Mar 15, 2017
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Texas Legislators held a hearing this week to debate abolishing the Texas Film Commission, which some lawmakers have referred to as a form of corporate welfare.
As The Austin American Statesman reports, Texas currently budgets about $32 million in tax incentives to attract the movie industry to Texas. That's down substantially from almost $100 million two years ago.
A West Texas Artist, Fondly Remembered
By Jonathan Baker • Oct 5, 2016
A beloved West Texas artist will be remembered this weekend by the West Texas A&M art program. Jim Harter was born in Lubbock in 1941, and later lived in Canyon and attended WT.
Amarillo Filmmakers Take Up Nationwide Challenge
By Jonathan Baker • Aug 24, 2016
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This past weekend, young filmmakers in Amarillo participated in a harrowing competition. The effort was part of a nationwide contest called the 48-Hour Film Project. Actors, producers, directors and photographers from Amarillo raced around town, bringing their stories to life.
West Texas Filmmaker Tells Little-Known Story of Panhandle History
By Jonathan Baker • Jul 21, 2016
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Texas Panhandle independent filmmaker Randall Derrick will be releasing a film this weekend in Amarillo. The movie examines a mysterious and little-known incident in Llano history.
Perjury of Time explores the true story of a double mass homicide that occurred along the Canadian River about 1450 AD. Archaeologists excavating in the Canadian River flood plain near Fritch discovered a Native American burial that contained the complete skeletons of twenty-one men, women and children. Eleven skulls without bodies were also uncovered.
On the Kansas Prairie, A New Use for an Old Building
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There's a strange sort of art gallery in the Kansas town of Volland. Inside, the gallery is pretty much like any other. Art and photography hangs from the walls, and visitors wander among the offerings munching cheese cubes. It's when you go outside that things get really interesting, reports KGOU. The gallery isn't on Main Street or tucked into the back of a coffee shop. This art gallery is surrounded by the vast spaces of the Kansas prairie.
Quilting Takes a Modern Turn
By Jonathan Baker • Jan 18, 2016
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A very old craft is taking on some contemporary qualities, reports Texas Standard. It's called modern quilting, and it's inspired by modern art. Traditional quilts have followed a column and row format. But new, modern quilters are changing that pattern up.
Kansas Artist Recreates a Masterpiece on a Grand Scale
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
If you're traveling to Minneapolis by plane any time soon, don't forget to look out the window. As reported by inhabitat.com, Kansas artist Stan Herd has recreated Vincent van Gogh's Olive Trees painting on a massive scale in a Minnesota farm field. The artist used native plants to create the image, and the result covers an area of 1.2 acres.
A Photographer From the East Documents a Changing West
Lucas Foglia / Courtesy of Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York
In 2009 the photographer Lucas Foglia got lost in the Western wilds of Wyoming. For Foglia, who was raised on Long Island, the West was bigger and harsher than any landscape he'd ever seen. In a piece in The New York Times, Foglia talked about a realization he had. Folks in the West, he noticed, take care of each other; the unforgiving landscape requires it.
Third Finalist for Observer's 2015 Short Story Contest Selected
This week, the third and final finalist for the 2015 Texas Observer Short Story Contest was posted on the Observer's website. The story, "Hands Moving Through Hair" by Rebecca Wurtz, joins the two previous selections, K.C.
Hutchinson Artist Retires After Decades of Painting in Kansas
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In regional news, a beloved Kansas painter is putting away his brushes, reports The Hutchinson News. Hutchinson resident Larry Lambert went deaf at age 3 following a bout with measles. But he eventually learned to express himself with paint, and art became a lifelong passion for him. 70 years later, after selling thousands of paintings, Lambert is retiring. His vision is failing, and he is going blind.
A Poet Explores Her Relationship to Horses
By Jonathan Baker • Jul 8, 2015
Laura Spencer / KCUR
Member station KCUR in Kansas City has reported the charming story of the poet Lisa Stewart, who has traveled thousands of miles on horseback over the past few decades. Her recent series of poems is called The Points of the Horse, in which she explores various parts of the horse, like the jaw or the flank, giving each its own poem. Stewart has ridden horses throughout the Rockies and the Midwest. In 2012 she rode 500 miles through Kansas and Missouri.
Amid the feedlots of Ulysses, the Main ARTery helps artists strike creative vein
By Cindee Talley • Apr 28, 2015
The landscape of southwestern Kansas is colored mostly shades of brown… dotted with circles of green…. with the distinct interruption of feedlots. But, in the small town of Ulysses, there's a place that nurtures creative souls. Some call it "brush storming." Local artists gathering around a table working on projects while they chat about life and ask each other for artistic advice. It's like an old-fashioned quilting bee. The Main Artery also showcases the work of artists, but it's more than a gallery says Tracy Teeter. She purchased the business in January. It's also a creative workspace.. a place to perfect your skills… and gather with friends. The gallery started with 11 members over a decade ago. Today there are 21 different artists from a 100 mile radius.
Real farm life, at the intersection of arts and agriculture
By Amy Mayer • Aug 18, 2014
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Listen to Amy's story.
In a living room converted to a theater for the evening, Ethan Peterson and Madeleine Russell portray the characters from Mary Swander's play, "VANG." In it, the actors share the emotional stories of four immigrant couples who farm in Iowa. Swander used transcriptions of conversations with Hmong, Mexican, Sudanese and Dutch farmers to create the play.
Let Mother Nature release your inner artist
By Karen Madorin • Mar 14, 2014
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Recently, a friend sent me a link to "Scott Wade's Dirty Pictures." It sounds like something that should make me blush; however, it is actually a site detailing a clever artist who turned his dirty car windows into canvases for spectacular drawings. With recent snow melt and the resulting swampy driveway, I wondered if I couldn't save some money on canvas and take up sketching on our pick-up and car windows.
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Learn about equitable water access and find helpful articles, book recommendations, reports and more
Some people in California and across the West struggle to access safe, reliable and affordable water to meet their everyday needs for drinking, cooking and sanitation. In some cases, people are left without water as wells run dry in the midst of drought, or have little to no access at all to running water. Communities of color are most often burdened by these challenges.
The Water Education Foundation has put together a list of resources and background information to keep you informed about issues of water equity in California and the West.
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What Is Equitable Water Access:
An estimated 1 million Californians, living in economically stressed pockets of the state, face daunting challenges in obtaining clean and affordable water to drink or addressing sanitation or stormwater needs. Many of these people live in rural, isolated communities with vulnerable wells and without connections to larger water providers. Others live in impoverished urban areas, in homeless encampments, or economically depressed areas. These communities must rely on bottled water or unreliable and unsafe water sources.
Read our Aquapedia page on disadvantaged communities
In California, state government has responded through actions such as the 2012 Human Right to Water law — which declared that every person has the right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water as a matter of state policy — and the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in 2020, which is intended to fund drinking water solutions for disadvantaged communities that do not have that access. But much work remains to be done.
Browse Our Water Equity Newsfeed:
Find the latest news on water equity from our Western Water articles and other organization's articles posted in our weekday Aquafornia news aggregate. You can also browse our newsfeed specifically on tribal water issues.
List of Resources:
Solving Water Challenges in Disadvantaged Communities (Water Education Foundation)
Reports and Statutes
Assembly Bill 685: California's Human Right to Water Bill (California State Legislature)
Closing the Water Access Gap in the United States (Dig Deep and US Water Alliance)
Water/Color: A Study of Race and the Water Affordability Crisis in American Cities (Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Thurgood Marshall Institute)
Water Education Foundation's Western Water Articles
Long Criticized for Inaction at Salton Sea, California Says It's All-In on Effort to Preserve State's Largest Lake: Read article.
Can Providing Bathrooms to Homeless Protect California's Water Quality? Read article.
California Officials Draft a $600m Plan to Help Low-Income Households Absorb Rising Water Bills: Read article.
As Shortages Loom in the Colorado River Basin, Indian Tribes Seek to Secure Their Water Rights: Read article.
Vexed by Salt and Nitrates in Central Valley Groundwater, Regulators Turn to Unusual Coalition for Solutions: Read article.
One Year In, A New State Policymaker Assesses the Salton Sea, Federal Relations and California's Thorny Water Issues: Read article.
Researchers Aim to Give Homeless a Voice in Southern California Watershed: Read article.
Millions of Dollars Needed to Help Low-Income Ratepayers with Water Bills, State Water Board Told: Read article.
Water Talk (University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources)
A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy by Juliet Christian-Smith, Peter H. Gleick, Heather Cooley, Lucy Allen, Amy Vanderwarker, Kate A. Berry (see chapter on Water and Environmental Justice)
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality by Professor Robert D. Bullard
What the Eyes Don't See by Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha
Community Water Center
DigDeep
Environmental Justice Coalition for Water
Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure access to water and sanitation for all (United Nations)
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Western Water news: Catch up on our in-depth coverage of water issues in California and the West.
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Tours/Events/Workshops
Profile February 28, 2020
Liz McAllister
Programs Coordinator
Liz helps the team to carry out in-person events such as tours, conferences, workshops and more! Behind the scenes, she lends her multimedia experience to all that the Foundation does.
Liz graduated from the University of California, Davis with a bachelor's degree in design, focusing both on designing strategy to improve interactions between social and ecological systems as well as the study of human rights.


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Twitter to livestream NBA games but focus on one player
Joe Svetlik - January 11th 2019 9:39
Twitter has signed a deal with the NBA (National Basketball Association) to livestream games, but only by focussing on one player.
It's a strange deal designed to not compromise the NBA's deal with Turner Broadcasting, which airs the games on US TV. And it means viewers on the microblogging social network will only see very limited parts of the game.
For a start, Twitter will only stream the second half of the game. Then there's the view that you get – the camera will track one single player for the entirety, in what's known as the "iso-cam" view. Users can vote which player this camera will follow by tweeting at the @NBAonTNT Twitter account.
If the iso-cam player is substituted or ejected because of too many fouls, the view will switch to a camera located behind one of the backboards instead of the standard halfway line view of a TV broadcast. It will show the match as normal, albeit from a very limited viewpoint.
Think of it as an experiment for now. But if it proves a success, other sports could follow suit. Harry Kane cam, anyone?
The deal starts next month with the NBA's annual All-Star game. In total, it will encompass 20 games this season, including at least one playoff game.
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Q: CSS content div with menu div ok I am having this small issue with CSS. I have a menu div that is height 100% and needed to use the following to get it to work
#menu {
  background:#222;
  width:120px !important;
  float:left;
  position: absolute;
  top: 30px;
  bottom: 0px;
}

on my content area I have this CSS
#content {
  float:left;
  display:block;
  height:300px !important;
  background:#333;
  width:100%;
}

demo here: jsFiddle - P3Adk
as you will see the content is under the menu which is what I dont want. I want it to be next to the menu flushed left.

A: Did you try something like the following one:
#content{
    display:block;
    height:300px !important;
    background:#333;
    width:100%;
    margin:30px 0 0 120px;
}
#menu{
    background:#222;
    width:120px !important;
    float:left;
    position: absolute;
    top: 30px;
    bottom: 0px;
}

A: Like this?
Just remove the position:absolute from the menu div, give the content div a percent width, the menu div a percent width (or fixed pixel widths), and a height.

A: Try this:
#content {
    height:300px;
    width:100%;
    background:#333;
}
.content-inner {
    position:relative;
    margin-left: 130px;
    border:1px solid #F00;
}
#menu {
    float: left;
    z-index: 1;
    position: absolute;
    left:0;
    top:30px;
    bottom:0;
    width:120px;
    background:#222;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/kpjqz/


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To promote good governance, one of the priorities for Save the Children is to ensure that the government listens to children's views and prioritises child rights in public decisions, including resource decisions. Towards this end we have advocated for the last several years, pushing the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Bangladesh to consult children before finalizing the national budget. Following our advocacy, first pre-budget consultation with children occurred in 2017. This year, on 23rd May, another consultation with children was organized to know about their priorities for the upcoming national budget (2018-19).
The National Children's Task Force (NCTF), a child-led organisation we support, took the lead and collected budget recommendations of 4800 children from all 64 districts of the country to ensure broader participation. These recommendations were further scrutinised by the children and a list of priority suggestions were presented before the Secretary, Ministry of Finance.
The children, among other things, demanded disable-friendly schools and hospitals, greater coverage of education stipend programs targeting the poor and the disadvantaged, child specialists in the community clinics, ICT project to ensure their online safety, safe space for girls to play among others.
"This is appreciable to see that children make recommendations on budget and place their demand. The government will try to accommodate their recommendations while formulating the national budget," said the Secretary, Mohammad Muslim Chowdhury in the event.
The children also shared the suggestions to the wider audience on 24th May by holding a press conference in Dhaka.


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Q: PostgreSQL recursividad o Array-Loop, como convertir hijos en padres y padres en hijos? Hola a todos espero y me puedan ayudar, estoy trabajando con postgresql 13 y tengo que hacer una function que al recibir la siguiente información:

se inserta en una tabla, una vez insertada cada uno de los valores de destino se transforma en origen y el origen toma el lugar del destino y se inserta en la tabla hasta que se recorren todos los valores del destino quedando de la siguiente forma:
Destino 2 se convierte en origen:

Destino 4 se convierte en origen:

Destino 6 se convierte en origen:

Ya estuve viendo opciones con arreglos en algún loop o recursividad y no encuentro la forma de resolver el problema, les agradecería muchísimo si alguien me pudiera orientar o dar algunos ejemplos.

A: Quizas está query te sirva o te de una idea de como lo puedes resolver.
Por lo que entiendo para cada destino en tu tabla tienes que generar n filas (una por cada fila existente), donde el nuevo origen es el destino anterior combinado con cada uno de los destinos existentes, pero si el origen coinicide con el destino (es él mismo) entonces lo reemplazas por el origen original.
En la siguiente query he realizado un CROSS JOIN con la misma tabla (todos las filas emparejadas con todas las filas):
SELECT
       t1.destino AS origen,
       CASE WHEN t1.destino = t2.destino THEN t1.origen ELSE t2.destino END AS destino,
       t2.sort
FROM t AS t1
CROSS JOIN t AS t2
ORDER BY origen, destino;

Salida:
Como puedes ver la columna sort no coincide con el resultado que esperas (en algunos casos), yo lo tomé del sort de la query pero se podrían ordenar las filas y luego recalcular el sort.

origen
destino
sort

2
1
1

2
4
2

2
6
3

4
1
2

4
2
1

4
6
3

6
1
3

6
2
1

6
4
2

De esta forma podes calcular la columna sort para cada origen y ordenando por el destino, pero no estoy seguro de que calcularlo así sea lo que deseas.
SELECT *,
      ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY origen ORDER BY destino) AS sort

FROM (
   SELECT
       t1.destino AS origen,
       CASE WHEN t1.destino = t2.destino THEN t1.origen ELSE t2.destino END AS destino

   FROM t AS t1
   CROSS JOIN t AS t2) AS aux
ORDER BY origen, destino;


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Divorce, Guest Posts, moving on
My Ex-Husband is Getting Remarried
By Robin Rapaport
Three weeks before Thanksgiving, my 28 year old daughter told me during dinner that her dad intended to propose to his girlfriend of two years, after the holiday. My daughter asked if I was okay with the news, and I said "Yes, I am fine. I let go a long time ago". I desperately tried to control the code red alarm sounding off inside me. I feigned joyous enthusiasm by displaying an inauthentic I'm- Happy For- Your- Father smile. My perceptive daughter didn't further question me. After dinner, I was left with a mess bigger than dirty dishes to clean up.
The news leaned in with force and threw me off balance, sending my head spinning. I even woke up the next morning with my frenemy, Vertigo, who commands thoughts, actions and life to slow down to a near halt, when I can't downshift on my own. By afternoon, reeling in a vertigo hangover, I tried to organize and clean up the reactive thoughts in my head – mental dirty dishes, piling up and ready for a good soaking and scrubbing. Please. Where can I get a brain washing?
Why did I care, 19 years later? I have little to do with him anymore. Except that he will forever be the father of my children, the grandfather of my grandchildren. That's about it. He is only the father of the most important people in my world, who I love with all my heart.
I am a single 62 year old divorcee of 19 years. I have been almost married 3 times since the breakup. Almost being the key word, which loosely translates as I was unable to love, unwilling to share, and unable to commit to men who saw me as their absolute life partner. I am more ready now to raise the almost bar, but that's a different story. Continue Reading…
Divorce, Guest Posts
The Perfect Blue: A Restless Bird, a Good Dog, and The End of a Marriage
By Wendy Cohan
I drive too fast from Missoula, west through Spokane and the scablands of Eastern Washington, through the industrial maze of the Tri-Cities, along the other-worldly beauty of the Columbia Gorge and on into Portland. I drive up to our family home—painted a color that we worked so hard to choose: the perfect blue. Now, my husband and I face the task of going through our remaining belongings, separating his life from mine, over the next five days.
I'm staying at my friend's empty house, just up the street, to limit any awkwardness and to give myself some private time and space. I play it cool: I'm helpful, generous, and not too inquisitive about his new life and new love. Although it's difficult, I avoid playing "Do you remember?" too much. Continue Reading…
Divorce, Guest Posts, No Bullshit Motherhood
Seven Cupcakes
By Sara Rayfield
Seven is an odd number. It's also prime.
"Hi, baby!" I greet my son warmly, as if doing custody exchanges at the police station is totally normal. Just like prime, odd numbers – this is our normal. It's where shit like this happens when you have a restraining order against your ex. When things are bad enough, he's not even allowed in the police station, so I get the pure sarcastic joy of my former in-laws every other weekend. That's also what happens.
"How was your birthday party?" I ask, while getting a weekend's worth of dirty clothes shoved into my arms. And cotton candy. And McDonald's bags. And the packages of cupcakes that I had packed with care on Friday afternoon. Seven cupcakes: one for my son. One for his grandmother, one for his grandfather. Two for his aunt and uncle. Two final ones: one for my son's dad, one for his stepmom. Continue Reading…
Where the Love Is
By Danielle Scruton
Her voice was muddled by dreamsleep, but I heard the words nonetheless: "This is where the love is…". She had that look of peace about her. The one that melts me every time. The one that helps me feel less like a mother who can never get it right and more like a hand of love: helping her, guiding her. Her face lit softly by the nightlight, she looked years younger than ten. She would lose this babyface soon and while- as a mother- I was far from ready, as a woman I smiled within at what the tween and teenage years would bring.
It's a bit unusual, her situation. Her father and I are divorcing and she has two other men in her life. It's not something I give much thought to, but it is different I suppose. She will never have a stepmother, though it is very likely she will have two stepfathers. My bond with my daughter is as unshakable as any other mother-daughter relationship, but it's possible she needs me even more because of where the chips have fallen. I could be wrong. In any case, I feel the importance of my influence in every exchange we have.
And her slumber-filled words meant more because the day had been hard. It was like that sometimes and more so with her than with my son. She had spent a weekend with her father. Her emotions loomed around her and came at me with defiant words. Tons of attitude. She was annoyed and yet wanted me close, only to push me away again moments later. Continue Reading…
Not My Happiest Place on Earth
By Heather Grossmann
Mickey Mouse ears and divorce. Probably not an association the relentlessly family-friendly Disney would appreciate, but — with apologies to Walt — one that was cemented for me during a summer years ago and resurfaced recently, when my dad unearthed some architectural drawings of the prenatal Epcot Center.
My complicated relationship with Epcot — well, to the extent that a geodesic sphere and a 5-year-old girl can engage in a "relationship" — began in the early '80s. Epcot was a pretty young thing on the eve of its international debut, a stunning 160-foot diameter dome hovering 14 feet in the air in Orlando, Florida. I was a cute pre-K kid on a post-divorce junket, a little thing awash in dreams of pirate boat rides and spinning teacups, 3,000 miles from my hometown of Oakland, California.
I had only just joined the ever-growing ranks of the "children of divorce." This was the trendiest club in town at a time when the U.S. divorce rate hit its all-time high. But in an age when many parents followed up their separation announcements with a balm of Cabbage Patch dolls and Barbie playhouses, I had something going for me the other members of my not-so-exclusive fellowship did not: My father was the project architect on Epcot.
When my parents sat me down at our kitchen table in the summer of 1982 to say that their marriage was over, there was major upside to the news — the next day, I was going to the Magic Kingdom. I knew something "bad" was happening, but a trip to Disney World? Come on! What could be better than that?
As it turns out, a lot. Continue Reading…
Divorce, Guest Posts, Marriage
By Pam Munter
Even now, all these years later, I have a recurring dream about driving alone around Madison, lost and trying to find my way home. I am driving around hills, the lake always on one side. It all looks so familiar but I am not sure I am heading in the right direction.
When he was nine, my son and I flew to Madison, the coincidental location for a family reunion with people I had not seen since I was his age. Aaron was eager to see where he had been born so I took a photo of him by the Madison General Hospital sign, his arms cradled as if holding a baby. For me, his sweet spontaneous pantomime brought the backstory roaring back as if it had happened yesterday.
By 1972, I had been married for two years, living in Madison, Wisconsin, where I was doing a post-doctoral year in clinical psychology at Mendota Mental Health Institute. The husband had found a job as a social worker in a government agency. We agreed we wanted to have a child, hoping to time it to coincide with the end of my internship. There's nothing like good planning and perseverance. By Christmas that year, I was pregnant. Continue Reading…
Divorce, Guest Posts, No Bullshit Motherhood, Relationships
Deconstructed: The Adventures of Co-Parenting And Running A Business With My Ex-Husband
By Ally Hamilton
You know the fairy-tale about the princess who marries the prince and has babies, and opens a yoga studio with him and gets divorced and has to figure out how to keep it all going? Yeah, me neither, although I'm living that story now.
When I tell people I'm in business with my ex and we have two young kids, they say something along the lines of, "Wow. How does THAT work?!" Most of the time it works really well. Of course I have my moments when I'm reminded of why we're divorced, and I might even curse him with every expletive I can think of, but those moments are few and far between. I'm sure he has his moments, too.
The thing is, my life looks nothing like any five-year plan I ever would have devised, and nothing like the picture I had in my head of "how things should be". Growing up, I went back and forth between my mom's and my dad's, three nights here, four nights there, switching that fourth night every other week. If you've never lived that way, it's crazy-making. I was forever forgetting my keys and finding myself locked out, or leaving something essential at one place or the other. The rules were different in each household, as was the energy. When I was at my dad's I missed my mom. When I was at my mom's, I worried about my dad. When my step-parents joined the circus, it got even crazier. My mom and stepmom did not like each other, and did not hide that fact from me. My dad said disparaging things about my step-dad. You know who never said a bad word about anyone to me, or within my earshot? My step-dad, and I remember that to this day.
How To Be Divorced: A Stepdaughter's Wish List
By Teri Carter
When asked, "How many brothers and sisters do you have?" I might give any of the following answers: only child, oldest of 3, or oldest of 5. All true. This is what it means to be a stepdaughter.
1,300 new stepfamilies are created every day. I am a statistic, a stepdaughter three times over, starting at ages 2, 9, and 15, with two half-brothers, a stepbrother and a stepsister. Everyone offers advice. Over the years I've heard dozens of opinions from the well-intentioned about how divorced parents and new stepparents should and should not behave. Most get it wrong.
If anyone, including my own parents, had asked, this is what I would have told them. Continue Reading…
depression, Divorce, Guest Posts, Marriage, Relationships
Construction Season
By Patti Carlyle
Summer seems an incongruent time to ponder life's harder questions. Long and brutal winters in the Rust Belt present a more fitting time to look inward, everything thickly coated in Suicide Gray. Thoughts deepen and even darken, and it makes sense. By contrast the warm, sparkling days of Cleveland's early summer are arguably the most beautiful, demanding a certain carefree hubris. But instead of fish tacos on patios, gin and tonics, afternoon sex or campfire lazing, I slid into a dizzying circular conversation with myself. Depression or divorce?
Orange barrels rush past the window, a translucent blur of stout, gaudy grandmas. Squinting into the distance looking for some broad blinking arrow, I try to predict lane changes. Sit up straight, hands at ten and two. The speedometer needle sinks left and I sharpen my focus. Rumble strips hyphenate the road mid-lane, a startling warning of a new traffic pattern. A driver for over 20 years, I still tense up in construction zones, still roll my eyes when the barrels begin gossiping in medians each spring.
And as the work begins each summer, I find myself muttering 'didn't we just do this?'
Depression or divorce? For two summers, this alliterative question worried a groove into my journals and tortured my therapist. Amused at my binary thinking and familiar with my white knuckle grip on a fanned deck of pessimistic options, he suggested that I refrain from applying intellect and instead feel my way through. Deep thought and analysis might not save my marriage, and I may still need clinical intervention. Worst case? Both. That's how I saw it: terrible options all.
Predictive pessimism doesn't protect me from much, though. I need to do before I know much of anything. Lowering myself into the tides of experience, sometimes the water is fine and frolicking like a four-year-old is the only appropriate response. But sometimes the relentless and punishing waves are frigid and teeming with jellyfish. Bystanders can hear me screaming from shore.
Ending my marriage to experience divorce is an obviously myopic move. Eyeballs deep in the struggle, I flailed and clawed for a cognitive buoy. The goal was simple: tease out which was cause and which effect. Is my marriage foundationally broken, resulting in situational depression? Or is my fundamental problem clinical, my relationship merely its casualty?
The gaudy grandmas have waddled off. Concrete lane dividers stand shoulder to shoulder in their place. The effect is menacingly close. My phone is face down on the console and I poke a finger at the dash, silencing the radio. Any distraction could have me trailing sparks along the barricade wall or sliding onto the gravelly shoulder. Adjust the mirrors and glance back.
I started circling the drain a few years ago. The well-received launch of my alternative health practice had me so certain. This was my calling. I might have been suspicious when the aspects of entrepreneurial adventure I enjoyed most turned out to be designing the website and writing the blog. After shuttering the business in 2012, I tumbled into a shame vortex. Struggling to make sense of how I had misread myself so terrifically, I cocooned. It took months of shame and denial before finally deciding to close, abandoning years of training, the encouragement of friends and family and a lot of invested capital. Continue Reading…


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Slowing container growth hits volume multiplier
Box volumes are continuing to grow, despite increased trade tensions. But the teu multiplier effect that has boosted box volumes for decades is set to disappear this year.
Growth outlook for container throughput revised down as geopolitics takes its toll on global trade.
BOX volumes are still set to grow this year, despite the escalating trade war between China and the US, according to forecasts from Alphaliner, which has revised its growth outlook from 3.5% down to 2.5%.
The downgrade follows the International Monetary Fund's July update of its World Economic Outlook, which downgraded global gross domestic product growth from 3.3% to 3.2%, with a related decline in trade volume growth from 3.4% to 2.5%.
But Alphaliner said container throughput remained resilient in the second quarter of 2019, with global ports recording a 2.8% increase in volumes in the period from April to June.
"The preliminary growth rate was slightly above the first quarter's rate of 2.7%, as the ongoing Sino-US trade war failed to bring down overall container volumes," Alphaliner said.
Nevertheless, volume growth at Chinese ports slowed to 3.5% in the second quarter, down from 4.2% in the first quarter, Alphaliner noted.
North American volumes growth also slowed to 2.9% in the second quarter, down from the 4.7% growth in the previous quarter.
Alphaliner also warned that the "teu multiplier", the factor by which container volumes increase more than GDP growth, was continuing to fall. Historically, carriers could rely on a teu multiplier of 3.4 during the 1990s and 2.6 in the early years of this century.
But since the financial crisis in 2008, that had fallen to 1.4, and could slip to parity this year.
"The escalating trade tensions will have a negative impact on container volumes, with the teu-to-GDP growth multiplier expected to fall to less than 1 in 2019," Alphaliner said.


Isn't it amazing that you can go to bed perfectly healthy one night and wake up the next morning with the worst congestion ever? My husband reminds me of this all the time! He's one of those medical mysteries that can be healthy one minute and on death's door the next.
While surprise illnesses are never fun, we've managed to find some fast-acting remedies that actually work. These shower steamers are perfect for when you're under the weather and need relief now. They come together in a few minutes and combine soothing aromatherapy with the healing power of steam. Simply pop one in the shower next time you're battling the sniffles and they'll send congestion packing.
There's seriously nothing more miserable than a stuffy nose. While I can overlook a little congestion during the day, the second my head hits the pillow I feel like I'm drowning and I'll do anything (anything) to find quick relief.
Thankfully, these babies are like medicinal bath bombs, but for the shower. Loaded with sinus-clearing ingredients like menthol and eucalyptus, they dissolve in running water and infuse the air with soothing aromatherapy. All you have to do is stand back and let the shower steam work its magic. In a pinch you can even fill up a bowl of hot water, pop in a steamer and loosely cover your head with a towel to get the same effect. The important thing is to just breathe and let them clear your sinus passages and loosen congestion.
But you don't have to wait until you have a cold to use them. Since aromatherapy has been proven to reduce stress and boost the immune system, you can use them to preempt a cold, combat seasonal allergies or simply calm the senses. Or put their cooling effervescence to good use and try one first thing in the morning to help you get moving and feel more awake.
Don't wait until cold and flu season hits to make these. I recommend making a batch in advance and storing them in the freezer until you need 'em. When cold season strikes, just place one in the bottom of your shower and let the cooling menthol steam open your sinuses and relieve congestion.
The mixture should hold together when squeezed without crumbling, like wet sand. If needed, spray or drop small amounts water into the mix until you reach the right consistency.
Push mixture into silicon molds, greased muffin tins, or small plastic containers.
When dry, remove and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for 2 weeks or the freezer for 2 months.
Place 1-2 melts on the floor of the shower and allow them to dissolve in the hot water. Inhale the menthol steam.
I really can't wait to try this out! How many shower steamers does this produce? It may be nice to adjust the recipe accordingly with an accurate yield.
Thank you! All of your recipes look absolutely wonderful!
I feel like mine aren't smelly enough. I even added some oil before I put them in my shower. Any thoughts/ideas?
These are AWESOME! I have to try these!