I will be offering a monthly half-hour phone consultation with the intention of reviewing your progress and helping you to stay on track as the Clear To The Core® Clearings set in. After all, as you go back to your world, there are a lot of old energetic patterns and habits to navigate. The monthly half-hour consultation is $150. We can do one-hour consultations if you wish.
We will look at your Destiny Cards chart for this time period to see how that information can contribute to your journey forward.
Along with the above consultation, there is the option to do a Clearing at my usual price and a Storyline for an additional $100 if you wish. A Storyline can only be done after a clearing is complete (neutral) and of course, offers amazing insights. Storylines (from the energy's perspective) tell us where you are on your energetic path!
We will also be offering a unique method of homeopathic therapy to allow you to create a very personalized energetic remedy to assist you in activating and holding completed healings around your Clear To The Core® issue.
With Clear To The Core®, we have identified your core issue, i.e., abandonment, lack of self-worth, not being heard, victimization, poor boundaries, etc. We then drill deeply to the foundation of the energetic issue and "clear it to the core!" Homeopathy is then introduced as a support mechanism to help you hold the new energetic patterns as you go forward. After all, you are awash in other people's energetic patterns and habits and need support to maintain your own newfound center. Maintaining your clarity is our highest goal.
The basic understanding behind homeopathy is a remedy that says "like cures like." A remedy is a very small dose of the affliction that can effectively treat the actual affliction. Therefore an emotional "symptom" in a very small dose can effectively treat an emotional symptom. The homeopathic remedy is meant to trigger the body's natural defenses by introducing a "speck" of the physical or emotional symptomology similar to a catalyst. This system works exceptionally well on emotional energetics.
The essence of your personalized homeopathic remedy, around poor boundaries for example, heals boundary issues and allows you to hold your Clear To The Core® Clearings in the face of outside boundary challenges. Similarly said, the essence of the lack of self-worth, supports challenges around self-worth issues as you go out into the world. You might spray it each morning and each evening, or whenever you feel out of balance.
Jana Shiloh, M.A. has joined our team effort to deliver Clear To The Core® . Jana has been a homoeopathist for over 35 years and created a system that allows you to activate your own personalized essence to be used in support of your clearings for holding the level of healing you have achieved.
Jana has a practice in Sedona, Arizona and can work either in person, on the phone, or Skype. Her process will help you create your own unique remedy based on your own personal vibration in relationship to whatever the core issue is. You can use it daily to continue to heal your core vibration.
"I am doing a third set of Clear To The Core® Clearings for myself around "not being heard". "Not being heard" had to do with being molested when I was six years old by two young male babysitters. When I told my mother what happened afterward, she chose not to believe me, denying the experience her entire life. It is assumed she did this because she was unwilling to accept responsibility for hiring baby sitters she didn't know so she could go to a party.
As in all core issues, this failure of my mother to acknowledge what occurred created negative repercussions throughout my entire life.
When I did the Storyline for the first Clearing in the third set, the image was a squadron of airplanes, and people and towns being bombed etc. It felt like the energy of World War ll. These kinds of war images indicate the energy was a 13 or 14.
I sprayed myself with my personal homeopathic remedy and then I did the Storyline again to see if it would make a difference. I was absolutely astounded!!
Scene 1 "I saw some kind of old time ball or dance. It seemed to take place in a castle. It felt like England around the 1800s. I hear a baby cry and the mother left the ball to go upstairs to care for the baby.
Scene 2 The baby is black from plague. A sense of rats and bubonic plague filled the image. The mother picks up the baby and when she does the baby is healed! She is perfect again!
Scene 3 The Storyline took me back in time and saw the home I grew up in. My mother made a different choice. She did not leave me with two young male babysitters whom she had never before seen.
Instead, she did not go to the party and stayed home with me as a family. The molestation never happened!
I've never had a Storyline generate an alternate outcome, i.e., create a new timeline from the inception of the problem. Deep into the Clearing process, with the help of a remedy from my own subtle energy field of information, I was able to create a new possibility going forward. With the help of the homeopathic remedy, I recreated a timeline for which the outcome becomes quite different. This is a representation of a highly regarded and accepted theory in quantum physics."
It turned out this chromosome is said to be responsible for ALS and it appears this patient's ALS has abated. Massive transformation and new believers--one and all!


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Politics, Grass lawn and the Gulfport Library
My initial reaction yesterday upon hearing the news that the Gulfport City Council turned down funding to rebuild Grass lawn was anger and disgust. Deb, a member of my small business family and one of the founders of We the People, broke the news to me as she was in attendance at the meeting. The save the Library group lost a 4-3 vote to rescind the demolition order for the library. That vote was a disappointing outcome. The ladies worked very hard for that issue; one which they share a mutual passion.
Today we are greeted with both a news story on the Grasslawn vote and an editorial in the Sun Herald. I am most disturbed by the news story, which indicated the library group was used as pawns by a faction of the City Council opposed to all things Brent Warr to help scuttle rebuilding Grasslawn. Here are some excerpts from the story by Ryan LaFontaine:
A day after they surprisingly said "no thanks" to a $500,000 grant to rebuild a historic icon lost to Katrina, some City Council members were hinting at a do-over.
The Grass Lawn mansion, built in 1836, was so revered that the home had a place on the city's official seal.
The city already has insurance and FEMA money to help rebuild Grass Lawn and the council only months ago voted unanimously to apply for grant money and to award a design contract to architect Frank Genzer.
But Tuesday the council voted 3-2 to reject a $500,000 grant from the state Department of Archives & History, money the city would not be required to repay.
The story continues:
"My vote shouldn't have been a surprise," Carriere said Wednesday. But he said he would have voted differently had he known the plan to rebuild Grass Lawn was going to die.
"If I had known that it wouldn't have passed, I probably would have asked to delay this so we could talk more about it," he said. "When we first talked about it, a year or so ago, I was the only one who said anything against Grass Lawn."
In addition to his Grass Lawn opposition, Carriere was the only vote Tuesday against accepting additional grants to overhaul the façades of City Hall and the Hardy Building.
Sources close to Carriere say he is privately considering a run for mayor next year, but Carriere said his own political aspirations have nothing to do with his opposition to the Warr administration's proposals.
"I'm a long way from making that decision," he said of a run in 2009. "But I look at each particular project or issue on its own merit. If it's something I agree with and that I think is in the best interest of the city, then I support it. If I think it's frivolous, then I oppose it."
Council members Neil Resh and Ella Holmes-Hines joined Carriere in opposing the grant. Resh said the city has more pressing needs. Holmes-Hines did not return calls Wednesday.
Ironically, more than two dozen people clamoring to save the historic downtown library from the wrecking ball may have helped kill Grass Lawn. During heated debate at Tuesday's meeting, some library supporters browbeat Councilwoman Libby Milner Roland into not voting on the Grass Lawn grant, insinuating she had a conflict of interest.
Her grandfather purchased the historic home in 1905, and the Milners sold the property to the city in the 1970s.
After the public accusations, Milner Roland chose not to cast a vote on the Grass Lawn grant.
"I will not recuse myself again," she told the Sun Herald on Wednesday.
Councilwoman Barbara Nalley left Tuesday's meeting before the Grass Lawn vote.
When reached by phone Wednesday and asked why she had to leave the meeting and whether she would've voted for the grant had she been there, Nalley told the Sun Herald she was traveling and vowed to return the call. She has not.
My first thought upon reading the story is that a community can not be built or rebuilt by in fighting. Scuttling the Grasslawn rebuild will not bring back the library. In fact it will only serve to harden feelings as the difficult and community changing decisions become near impossible to make because of the personal ambitions of a few politicians.
We deserved and did not get proper public discussion of the library issue until after the fact. However, that discussion did happen and another vote was taken. Mayor Warr should have been more proactive in meeting with We the People and hearing their concerns but the system did work in the end though the result was not the one desired by the library group . Now we deserve public discussion of rebuilding Grasslawn and an explanation of why money to rebuild it was turned down.
I don't think the self inflicted harm to We the People that derives from allowing themselves to being used as political pawns can be overstated. I'm truly sorry ladies but I'm calling this one like I see it. We can never move ahead if we spend all of our time fighting each other.
Here is today's Sun Herald editorial:
Grass Lawn, the antebellum home on Beach Boulevard that was swept away by Hurricane Katrina, was such a symbol of Gulfport that its image was incorporated into the city's official logo.
Its loss was so great that federal officials agreed to change the rules that permitted historic structures to be repaired, but not rebuilt from scratch, with disaster relief funds.
The prospect of regaining the beachfront attraction was so universally celebrated that the City Council voted unanimously last year to hire architect Frank Genzer to bring the house back to life.
Just as welcome was the news that the estimated $1 million it would cost to reconstruct Grass Lawn would be covered by a combination of insurance proceeds, federal funding and a $500,000 grant from the Mississippi Department of Archives & History.
Yet on Tuesday, by a vote of 3-2, the Gulfport City Council rejected the idea of even applying for the grant money.
It was one of the most irresponsible actions taken by elected officials in South Mississippi since Katrina.
We cannot begin to explain the reasoning of Council members Brian Carriere, Ella Holmes-Hines and Neil Resh in opposing the grant application. But we urge their constituents to demand these three officials end their opposition and support the reconstruction of Grass Lawn.
We would also encourage the constituents of Barbara Nalley, who left the meeting before the vote was taken Tuesday, to similarly urge her to support the grant application.
As for Libby Milner Roland, who recused herself from the vote because Grass Lawn was donated to the city by the Milner family, she said on Wednesday, "I will not recuse myself again." If the matter comes before the council again, Roland will be voting to apply for the grant.
And the constituents of Councilmen Gary Hollimon and Jackie Smith, who voted for the grant application, need to thank those two men for their affirmative votes and encourage them to continue to support Grass Lawn.
The importance of retrieving this landmark from the wreckage of Katrina cannot be overstated.
Shortly after that terrible storm, Richard Moe, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, came to South Mississippi to assess the damage for himself. This is what he said:
"We all know Katrina is one of the greatest human tragedies in the nation's history – but it could also be the greatest cultural catastrophe America has ever experienced. Rebuilding is essential, but it must acknowledge the historic character of one of the nation's most distinctive regions… . A lot of this can and should be rebuilt. This is your heritage. It's also important economically for heritage tourism."
His sentiments were echoed by architect and urbanist Stefanos Polyzoides of Pasadena, Calif., who came to South Mississippi to help design our recovery. "Save every single scrap, even if it's one column standing" of historic homes, churches and businesses, he advised, and repair, rebuild and reconstruct the heritage they represent.
Gulfport has an opportunity to do just that with Grass Lawn being handed to it, and yet some elected officials are slapping that hand away. That is inexcusable, inexplicable and irresponsible.
As quickly as possible, this matter should be taken back up by the City Council and the grant application should be sent off to Jackson as soon as possible.
If you agree, please contact your representative on the council by phone or e-mail:
Ward 1:Gary Hollimon: 297-9566 or [email protected]
Ward 2:Libby Milner Roland: 209-7796 or [email protected]
Ward 3: Ella Holmes-Hines: 297-0562 or [email protected]
Ward 4: Jackie Smith: 669-6925 or [email protected]
Ward 5: Brian A. Carriere: 806-2184 or [email protected]
Ward 6: Neil Resh: 697-1663 or [email protected]
Ward 7: Barbara Nalley: 861-1294 or [email protected]
The restoration of Grass Lawn is a critical part of our cultural healing process, and we must not squander this opportunity to make it part of the legacy of our Katrina recovery.
Author Posted on April 24, 2008 Categories OT, SopTags Grasslawn, Gulfport Library, We the People
4 thoughts on "Politics, Grass lawn and the Gulfport Library"
Pomote the future, not the past says:
I think of a very wise saying: "There is no such thing as a free lunch."
Sure, Grass Lawn would cost the city of Gulfport nothing to rebuild, but what of the costs after it is built? Who will pay for the insurance for a million dollar mansion on the beach? What about the costs associated with having Grass Lawn regularly maintained? As a local resident I think there are more pressing issues–like rebuilding the downtown library and furthering our city's education plans. I find it sad that people have not moved on nearly three years after Katrina hit, and I was in it! Try to place yourself in the councilman's seat, sometimes you need to make tough decisions to benefit everyone further down the road.
Since it seems that a small group of people are actually fighting to have this rebuilt right now then why not raise the money yourselves, instead of relying on the taxpayers who may wish to see their hard-earned dollars spent more wisely?
Lunch may not be free – but Grass Lawn was priceless.
I'm sure the thought of rebuilding the City is overwhelming but why even bother if it's going to have none of the character it had before.
I apologize if that seems overly harsh but local residents are not the only ones with hard-earned tax dollars invested in rebuilding the Coast.
I'd rather see mine go to Ocean Springs or down to the Bay or the Pass than to a pinch-penny version of the Gulfport we had before.
The "tough decisions to benefit everyone further down the road" should be vision driven – so far it's hard to see anything but a nightmare.
I'd welcome any information you have to offer that might prove me wrong – and I welcome you to slabbed, although I don't agree on Grass Lawn.
Welcome to slabbed Pomote. There may not be such a thing as a free lunch but Grass Lawn also took in money pre Katrina when it was rented out for Wedding Receptions and the like. To act as though it is a big time drain on the City budget misstates this issue and does not do it justice.
The library and Grass lawn are separate issues. Though not mutually exclusive in that they both involve pieces of our history and culture you hit on the dynamic that made the save the library group political pawns to their detriment. You see there is already a plan to construct a new library in downtown Gulfport plus a new main branch in Orange Grove. The location of the downtown branch is the issue with We the People. But it is intellectually dishonest to make a linkage between the library and Grass Lawn in the context you implied just as it is dishonest to pretend there is not already a plan to rebuild a downtown library.
You mentioned putting ourselves into the minds of the minority of the City Council, one that relied on the anger of the library group; an opportunistic faction that waited until another council person had left the meeting to take up this issue.
"My vote shouldn
DLP says:
The group trying to save the library went to the city because the county sent them there. The city passed the resolution that instructed the county to demolish the library. The attack on a group that only wants to save a library on a valuable piece of public property is unfair and unwarranted. Since when are citizens attempting to save a 43 year old building the enemy. Look around at the small number of landmarks left on the coast and tell me that this is political. Grasslawn is an issue on its own and the only comparison is expense and insurance. There is plenty of blame to go around but blaming those that work hard to find answers that public officials won't give to issues isn't the answer.
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This is the mascot of the team that destroyed our pitching last night. Many think it's Joe Camel hiding in plain sight. Photo credit: Rich Anderson.
The Yankees got it handed to them last night 12-7, as Masahiro Tanaka had nothing, and New York bats were silenced by Mike Minor — the ace of the Texas staff, at least. Combined with Boston's victory in Baltimore, the Yankees are back to a improbably 9 games back in the division, while maintaining their 4.5 game over Oakland for the top wild Card slot.
Lance Lynn will be making his second start for New York, and the Yankees need some length out him once again after yesterday's cluster-you-know-what. On the hill for Texas is Drew Hutchison, whom they acquired from the Phillies on August 5th. Brett Gardner is 5-23 but with 3 home runs against him. The hot hitting Aaron Hicks is 3-5 with a double.
Las Vegas is expecting fireworks in this afternoon's matchup with an over/under of 10. The moneyline favors New York at -200 and the Yankees are solid favorites — but keep in mind Texas has won 8 of the last 12 matchups between these clubs in Yankee Stadium. As we pointed out previously, they have little pitching to speak of (don't tell that to Mike Minor), but send a parade of feared hitters to the plate, as Tanaka was reminded yesterday. Yankees starter Lance Lynn has faced only Shin-Soo Choo, who is 4-14 with a home run against the Yankee righty. Choo ($4,300) has been an on-base reaching machine this season, and worth a consideration in your lineup.


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Q: django template url from another app I have to be missing something silly. I have a {% url  %} in a template where the action is from another app.  It isn't working but I have no clue if there is something different about using view functions from other apps or if I am just doing something silly.
call/template/call/file.html
    <form action="{% url 'upload_image' %}"></form>

picture/urls.py
from .views import PictureList, PictureCreate, PictureDetail, PictureUpdate, PictureDelete, upload_image

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url(r'^upload_image/$', upload_image, name='upload_image'),
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picture/view.py
def upload_image( request ):
    print 'IN IMAGE UPLOAD'
    print request

All I ever get is:
NoReverseMatch at /call/4/

Reverse for 'upload_image' with arguments '()' and keyword arguments '{}' not found. 0 pattern(s) tried: []

A: When calling reverse() on an URL that comes from a different application, you should use its "namespaced" version, like so:
{% url 'app_name:app_url' %}

In your specific case, that translates to:
{% url 'picture:upload_image' %}

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Impaired Driver Arrested in Windsor Crash
Posted on behalf of Greg Monforton & Partners Injury Lawyers on June 23, 2014 in Auto Accident News
On June 22 at approximately 8:20 a.m., an officer of the Ontario Provincial Police was flagged down after an accident took place on Ojibway Parkway in the City of Windsor.
Upon responding to the crash, authorities determined one of the drivers, 54-year-old LaSalle resident Mitchell Clements, was impaired with a blood alcohol concentration exceeding 80 milligrams, or above the legal limit of intoxication.
Although the accident caused no injuries it serves a reminder that impaired driving can and does result in serious consequences regularly. Ontario is one of the foremost authorities in the battle against impaired driving, and it maintains some of the most rigorous laws against this behavior in North America.
Ontario's Ministry of Transportation classifies impaired driving as a criminal offense punishable by licence suspension, fines, and jail time, and Ontario maintains a zero-tolerance policy on impaired drivers under the age of 21.
MADD Canada has taken particular notice of drunk driving among teens, which the organization claims is the leading cause of death for this demographic.
Inexperience and immaturity are a deadly combination on our roads, as teenagers tend to overestimate their abilities and underestimate the effects alcohol will have on them.
Further statistics include:
Young people have the highest rates of traffic death and injury per capita among all age groups and the highest death rate per kilometer driven among all drivers under 75 years of age. More 19-year-old's die or are seriously injured than any other age group;
Male drivers account for 87% the young fatally injured drinking drivers, and 89% of the seriously injured drinking drivers;
16-25 year old's constituted 13.6% of the population in 2010, but made up almost 33.4% of the impairment-related traffic deaths;
Summertime is the most dangerous season for young drivers, as 32.4% of those fatally injured will die during this time of year, while 40.8% of total injuries take place in summer;
By the time a driver reaches a blood alcohol content of .10%, he or she is 51 times more likely than a non-drinking driver to be involved in a fatal crash.
Remember that if you are taking any prescription drugs the effects of alcohol will intensify. Drivers must keep in mind impaired driving is not only a dangerous behavior, but it is a criminal activity with serious legal repercussions.
If you or someone you love was hurt in a car accident by an impaired driver, you may be eligible for compensation.
To find out how Greg Monforton & Partners can fight for your rights, fill out our FREE case evaluation form or call a Windsor personal injury lawyer at (866) 320-4770.
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For the first installment of our Creators interview series, we talk to Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor, a 21-year-old artist, inventor, and East End native.
End: Your work defies traditional categorization. Its status is wavering — you work in realms of art, design, architecture, and ecology. How do you think of your work? How do you see yourself?
Mamoun: I guess don't really think about the boundaries. It's more like I have an idea of what it is that I want to create, and it usually spans different categorizations and conventions. So my balloon project has an aesthetic aspect, which is important, but it is superseded by its need to function. . . . My next project delves into plants, electrobiology, electrophysiology, and structural engineering. In the end I always hope it looks good, but that's more something at the end. As far as how I see myself, I don't know. I don't really think of myself as artist even though I guess I'm making art.
Do you see yourself more an inventor?
Yeah, I guess more of an inventor.
With one of his floating polyhedrons, influenced by the work of Buckminster Fuller. Photo by Tara Israel.
So the aesthetics follow the function?
It varies, but, lately, yes.
What came to mind when I looked at your work was the idea of art as both functional object as well as representation of functional object.
I would say that the only time I'm interested in representation is if what I've made is a model for something I'm going to make in the future. Otherwise, I always have something entirely functional in mind. Growing up, as a kid, I would go up to my parents with an idea--they're both artists, my dad is always building things--and I would be, like, "I want to make this! Let's make a submarine." And he would say, "alright!" So we made a wooden box with a plastic bubble on one side. Then I'd be like, "alright, let's test it out. Let's put it in the water. Let's go!" So I think I've ultimately always been interested in making something that works. But I would say that most of the stuff I actually make doesn't work and most of the work ends up being aesthetic objects, a reference for a future idea, but always with the goal of its future being a working thing, like a spaceship.
Your parents are both artists [Saskia Friedrich and Jeremy Grosvenor]. Do you feel as though there are any aesthetic or conceptual relationships between your work and your mother or father's work?
I would say, yeah, definitely with both of them. With my mom it's definitely with Color Field and stuff, and with my dad, it has to do with construction, building out of wood. He gave me the feeling that I could make something if I thought of it.
Where did your interest and work on the solar balloons begin?
I actually started working on solar balloon project in high school, at Ross School, when I learned about Dominque Michaelis, the man who pioneered solar balloons But he's also a pioneer in creating flying cities, similar to Buckminster Fuller's concept, and Michaelis did the first crossing of the English Channel in a solar aircraft. I made my first man-craft balloon in high school, when I was 18, and then that one broke, so I built another one in college which is about seventy feet long, probably about forty-five feet in diameter. The way it works is you have energy coming in via solar radiation that is being absorbed by the black material, and then the black material passes that as infrared and so it emits infrared into the interior (and exterior) of the balloon. It floats the way a boat does in water — a less dense thing in a more dense thing.
Friedrich-Grosvenor launches his solar-powered passive hot-air balloon in Montauk. Courtesy Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor.
Did you construct it by hand?
Well, it took about seventy hours, and I built it in the gym at my college, but I actually finished it out here at LTV Studios. I was taping each of the thirty-six panels, which are seventy feet in length, with Scotch office tape. It gave me a bit of a back problem, but it worked out. It took a few months. I'm currently trying to build the first-ever geodesic rigid hot-air balloon. I'm trying to make a rigid sphere made of fiberglass beams using the principles of transegrity, which Fuller, I think, coined and definitely talked about a lot. The craft is supposed to eventually be able to carry plants — the idea is floating gardens. So it will be a plant spaceship. I want to ideally pilot the craft using the electro-activity of the plants.
Well, what I'm working on now is to try to eventually build the things Fuller had talked about and conceptualized — tensegrity spheres and something similar to his floating cities called Cloud Nine. But what I'd like to create is a passive solar garden. So it would be like an autonomous floating garden unit. You can use steam, like water vapor balloons, to get lift. So if you have a tropical environment inside a large clear zeppelin, you can end up with a permanently floating structure. I mean, it would only float in the daytime — it's a very ephemeral kind of engineering issue.
In the studio: a suit and "mushroom hats" he made of mycelium fabric. Photo by Tara Israel.
Have you studied engineering? Are you a self-taught engineer?
I definitely haven't studied engineering. If you have an idea in mind and the internet, you can get by. I studied biology for two years.
I was born out here, lived in Hawaii briefly as a kid.
Do you feel as though there are any aspects of the East End that play into your work?
Well, I'd say I'm specific to this place because I'm kind of made of it. But I would say not beyond the fact that my atoms are generally from here.
Eliza Callahan is a surfer, artist, writer, and musician who splits her time between Sag Harbor and the West Village. She graduated from Columbia University in May, and sings and plays guitar in the New York–based band Purr.


Chisholm graduate Carly Watson is now the senior accountant at boutique Melbourne firm 13 Concepts, which specialises in customer-centric accounting, digital marketing and website development solutions.
It's a stunning job outcome for a someone who loves working with numbers and could see the career opportunities a formal qualification in accounting could give her.
Carly completed the Certificate IV in Accounting/Bookkeeping at Chisholm before going on to complete the Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Accounting and then taking the pathway into La Trobe University's Bachelor of Accounting, which she was able to complete through Chisholm as well, before becoming a chartered accountant.
"From my Chisholm course I can honestly say that a lot of the practical work I touch base on every single day. At Chisholm you learn how to operate and navigate the accounting systems and without that knowledge, it doesn't matter how much theory you learn, you wouldn't be able to apply it in the workplace.
"That's where Chisholm was fantastic because they gave me the skills and knowledge to incorporate the theory with the practical work because I could remember how to navigate the systems.
Carly assists clients with their tax obligations, financial reporting and bookkeeping. This involves spending time on-site with clients getting to know them and how their businesses operate.
13 concepts have recently taken out The 2017 Westpac 'Business of Tomorrow Award' for showing a commitment to innovation in developing their Dexterous software.
Carly cannot stress enough the importance of committing to ongoing learning as this is an essential part of being an accountant, keeping up-to-date with laws, regulations and technology.
There is a big push towards cloud-based accounting which will change the dynamic of the industry. This may offer more opportunity to work remotely, from home or to service clients from all over.
Carly advises anyone looking to get be an accountant to choose an area of specialization, whether it be taxation, financial, management accounting or auditing.
Carly's journey has been inspirational as she takes care of her three children, continues to develop professionally through ongoing study and working full time in her dream accounting role at 13 Concepts.


Currently, women are earning an average of $11,000 less than their male counterparts – with the gender wage gap only increasing as we age. If we want to eliminate that gap, then negotiation will be imperative.
However, studies have found that while 50 percent of men are more likely to negotiate their salaries, only 1 in 8 women do the same. Perhaps their apprehension derives from a lack of confidence or a lack of know how.
Here are some tips that may help women be more successful negotiators.
Have a clear idea of your goals and what you want to see accomplished through the discussion. Know who you're negotiating with and know what they want.
Research statistics that will help your case, such as how much your industry typically pays for a similar role.
Build your confidence by practicing. Start small, try negotiating for a better price at a garage sale.
View the situation from the other's perspective. Negotiate using their needs and state how they stand to benefit by proposing a win-win proposition.
Reach out to a mentor if you have one. They will be great source for advice as they would have likely experienced a similar situation in their own careers.
Use language that firmly gets your point across, such as "this will be one of the few times that you and I are at the opposite ends of the table." Don't be tempted to fill the periods of silence during a negotiation.
If you need to calm down, ask the other person to clarify what they're saying to give you some time to pull yourself together.
While the gap between men's and women's earnings has been steadily narrowing in the last decade, full wage equality has yet to be achieved. It's time for us to take some control over our financial future. With more understanding and self-awareness, we can work to close the gender wage gap.


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KREMMLING — Christine Mahorney has filled the Kremmling Chamber of Commerce's executive director vacancy, bringing an extensive marketing background to the job.
After starting on Dec. 17, she hit the ground running, preparing for major town events like the Wolford Reservoir Ice Fishing Contest, one of the chamber's most important fundraisers. She's also getting the ball rolling on the town's downtown assessment recommendations, as well as launching the chamber's new website.
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"It's not easy to do, focusing on the day-to-day, doing what you're best at, but also all the marketing and books," she said. "That's what I bring to the table, appreciating all the small businesses we have here, and trying to give them the assistance and tools they need."
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It would be tough to think of a classification of criminal acts that stir up as much emotion and strong feelings as those in the sex crimes category. Homicides are clearly horrible and tragic for the loss of life and the emptiness that a deceased person leaves behind in their survivors. So while sexual assault cases in themselves do not result in a loss of a physical life, it is commonly thought that sex crimes are homicides of the soul and spirit.
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Most people are aware that the Commonwealth of Virginia is recognized as the state for lovers. But few people know why. "Virginia is for Lovers" was launched in 1969 by Virginia's tourism industry, which considered younger generations as its target market. The baby boomers were known for their sense of adventure and "love" of life and peace, hence the reasoning behind the slogan.
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This astounding amount is even greater when the impact of the money was realized.
"This money goes to funding housing and education programs, as well as manny other financial programs to help support families," Tanton said.
The organization also employs all of their workers, whom they call 'artists', to try to provide a positive & uplifting work environment where people can earn a sustainable wage in countries with high unemployment, and frequent tough working conditions, and where pay is usually less than a dollar a day.
Their website also provides facts about how they use the money raised from sales to fund many programs that empower people through secondary education, university scholarships, housing programs, youth shelter support, workers' rights advocacy, funding for environmental initiatives, and more. The organization does not believe in just giving people things, they want to give people skills that will help further themselves in society.
The Pulsera Project website has lots of information about their initiative and how the bracelets impact the communities.
"This will show the people that they are valued" said Mrs. Tanton in hoping that this money will go even farther than the impact at our school.
All of the money gets back to the families in Nicaragua through The Pulsera Project Nonprofit Organization a station for them in Charleston.
Though Mrs. Tanton said that she really wants to do this fundraiser again next semester, The Pulsera Project only allows one fundraiser of their products per year.


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Childcare Law Update: The Children First Act 2015 – Implications for Your Organisation?
From 11 December 2017, the Children First Act 2015 introduces new statutory obligations for professionals and organisations who provide a service to children and families. We examine the scope of these obligations and the significant implications for affected organisations and professions who provide a service to children.
Changes to the reporting of child protection concerns
Certain professions and organisation are now obliged to report to TUSLA Child and Family Agency, where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that a child has been harmed, is being harmed or is at risk of being harmed.
New child safeguarding statements
There is also a new statutory requirement for all relevant services to produce a child safeguarding statement for staff members. This must be made available for inspection by TUSLA, service users and members of the public within three months of the commencement date i.e. by 11 March 2018.
Over the past number of years, there has been increased focus on the responsibility of the wider community to recognise, record and report concerns.
This focus has included recognition of the complexity of child protection and the need to provide a clearer framework for professionals and organisations.
The Children First Act 2015 is a key element of this new framework, which should be considered with reference to the new vetting legislation National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) Acts, 2012-2016 and the Child Care Act 1991.
When reviewing the relevant policies and procedures and drafting the necessary Child Safeguarding statement, you will need to consider:
Are you a mandated person?
You need to review the list of mandated persons, which are referred to in Part 3 of the Act and listed in Schedule 2 of the Act. The list includes a wide range of professional groups and workers, including GP, nurses, midwives, psychologists, medical staff, teachers, Gardaí and probation and welfare officers.
If you are a mandated person or your organisation employs mandated persons, you need to ensure that you understand the new obligations for reporting child protection concerns and provide appropriate training to mandated persons and other staff members.
Are you a relevant service?
If you provide a service to children and your service is included in the list in Schedule 1 of the Act, you need to prepare a child safeguarding statement within three months of the commencement of the legislation i.e. 11 March 2018. The statement must include:
An assessment of any potential for harm to a child while availing of the service.
Details of the nature of your service and the principles and procedures to be observed to ensure that a child is protected from harm while availing of the service. This includes vetting of staff, recruitment of staff, dealing with complaints against staff, training for staff, reporting of child protection concerns within your organisation.
How will compliance with the legislation be managed?
Mandatory reporting of Child Protection concerns
Under the Children First Act 2015, there are no criminal sanctions for the failure of a mandated person to report a child protection concern. However, obligations under the Children First Act must also be considered with reference to the Criminal Justice Act 2012 (Withholding of information on offences against children and vulnerable persons).
As the new legislation places a statutory obligation on mandated persons to report, organisations or professions should address the importance of compliance with the statutory obligations through appropriate training and provide clear evidence of this training.
It is envisaged that non-compliance with statutory obligations should be addressed by individual organisations or professions through fitness to practice / disciplinary procedures.
This statement must be provided to all staff and be available on request to TUSLA, parents or members of the public within a three month period.
Failure to produce the statement may lead to inclusion on the non-compliance register, which will be made available for inspection by service users and members of the public.
What do you need to do?
If you provide a service to children as a professional or organisation, you need to:
Recognise if you or members of your team are mandated persons under the Children First Act 2015
Provide suitable training to your mandated persons
Recognise key indicators of child abuse or neglect
Know how to accurately record child protection concerns
Know when and how to report concerns to TUSLA
Be prepared to assist TUSLA in further assessment of child protection concerns, as outlined in Section 16.1 of Part 3 of the Act
Prepare a detailed safeguarding statement, which must be made available to your employees and available for inspection on request by TUSLA or members of the public and service users
Guidance documents, including sample child safeguarding statements and relevant reporting forms are available for organisations on www.tusla.ie. Click here to download the legislation.
If you require specialist advice or legal training on the implications of the legislation for you or your organisation, contact Brian Horkan and Sonya Bruen.
Documents / Authorships
Children First Act 2015
Brian Horkan
Sonya Bruen


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Olfactory Disorder With No Menarche in a Teenager: Case report
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A 16-year-old female complained of an olfactory disorder since birth. She had a history of a laryngeal tracheoesophageal fissure, intestinal hernia, and hearing loss because of an ossicular malformation. From age 10 years, she was unable to catch up with conversation of curry smell. T&T olfactometry results showed severe hyposmia. On the card-type odor identification test, Open Essence, she only identified menthol correctly. Her Self-Administered Odor Questionnaire score was 100 for taste. MRI showed olfactory bulb (OB) atrophy.
The patient also confirmed that she had not started menstruating. An endocrine test results showed an atypical reaction to the insulin tolerance test. Her MRI results showed a vaginal defect and uterine rudiments.
A congenital disease because of ossicular malformation, an olfactory disorder caused by hypoplasia of the OB, and primary amenorrhea was suspected . These factors led to the MRKH diagnosis. Her history of a laryngeal tracheoesophageal fissure, Mullerian anomalies, and ear defects suggested the VACTERL (vertebral, anorectal, cardiovascular, tracheoesophageal, esophageal, renal/radial, and limb abnormalities).
Mayer-Rokitansky-Kuster-Hauser syndrome involves the congenital absence of the uterus and vagina and occurs in approximately 1 in 4500 females. Because secondary sex features, such as the vulva, ovarian function, and karyotypes (46, XX), are normal, diagnosis are often delayed after primary amenorrhea.
The patient's parent also had right-side deafness since birth. This suggested an association with MRKH9 in which the inheritance is autosomal dominant, sporadic, or multifactorial. The abnormalities may be caused by methylation or other epigenetic modification patterns, such as histone modification or noncording RNA.
Information on secondary sex features, the presence or absence of menstruation, and family history are important for diagnosing congenital olfactory disorders. Hormonal examination and evaluation of the OB by MRI are also important. Hormone therapy may not be an appropriate treatment because MRKH is often diagnosed after amenorrhea, unlike Kallmann syndrome. However, in congenital diseases, such malformations are suspected; hence, their correct diagnosis and systemically focused treatment are important.
Source: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/2773735
Olfactory Disorder With No Menarche in a Teenager
A 16-year-old female presents with a history of olfactory disorder, laryngeal tracheoesophageal fissure, intestinal hernia, and hearing loss because of an ossicular malformation. What is your diagnosi
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Congratulations to Holly Rennel who went solo yesterday on one of our best wave days which also allowed Dave Rance to fly high into Wales..
October the 20th will be the first in the series and will be a talk on Expeditions. Have you ever wondered what we do on club expeditions, how can I get on one, what would it be like? This will be the talk for you hosted by some of our expedition leaders. Beware, once you know you may well become hooked!
A great weekend was had by all, in celebration of Andy Holmes' 40th birthday. There was lots of great flying and two evenings of wonderful food (thank you to Fay and the team) and superb musical entertainment from the resident Mynd band and from The Rogues. Brilliant to see so many friends old and new, including a collection of the world's best winch drivers. A welcome return of a proper Mynd party!
The tail end of hurricane Ali has been visiting us this week, so it's been a week of mixed weather combined with battening down the hatches.
One of our major projects this Winter will be the refurbishing of the club trailers in our super heated MT workshop. If you can help then please do let Dave Crowson know and we will schedule some dates.
Saturday: Guy Hartland, Walter Baumann, Geoff Dailey.
Sunday: Paul Fowler, Charles Carter, Geoff Dailey.
It looks like we are short of a Launch Director on both days so if you're around and can help out for a bit, I'm sure the team would appreciate it.
A number of members have been asking lately about the packages for new members that were introduced in the new year. There has not yet been a suitable opportunity for Sarah to do a quick pre-dinner chat to explain them, however in the meantime I would encourage everybody to read the Your Gliding Journey leaflet which can be found in the club as all the information and detail is in there. Details are also on the website under Learn to Fly section.
If you have questions on this, please do contact Sarah.
As we go into the Autumn season the road may start to take a hammering, so please do remember to drive slowly over it so that we can preserve the surface in as good a condition as possible.
October the 13th has been trumped by an instructor meeting (it is a flying club after all). So we are trying to move it to the 20th. We will publish a fuller list shortly.
There is an expedition planned to Lleweni Parc, so far Phil Foster is going with his Duo. I suggest if you are interested you pay your deposit early (to Denbigh) as spaces are limited.
See their website (http://www.denbighgliding.co.uk) for more information on booking and charges.
As you know we are going to integrate G-KGAO into our fleet and I want to keep you updated with the progress and the plan. The reasons for us having a motor glider were set out in the e-mail I sent last week but if you need further clarification, please speak to the CFI or any other committee member, they will be happy to explain the driving force behind this move. We are confident that a motor glider will be a useful addition to our fleet; they are very flexible aircraft and can be used to provide effective training from first flights all the way through to cross country qualification. Motor gliders are operated successfully and are popular at a number of other clubs we have spoken to and there is every reason to believe that the same will apply at our club. While we are transferring the aircraft ownership the CFI has been and will continue to assemble the cohort of instructors and amend the booking system to take bookings. The various offerings to be delivered by the motor glider will then be available. To ensure it is a success we will need to make some changes to the way we approach pilot training and quite a bit of work will be required behind the scenes to put this in place. This is already under way and the benefits and offers will increase over time. We are anxious that it is inculcated into our training culture as soon as we can, this is a very flexible tool enabling training right from first flight through to cross country training and we want to give members the benefits of this as soon as we can.
This is now underway with a spare tank installed ready to take over while the main tank is replaced.
We are anxious to turn this into a working facility so before the winter starts we are installing the heater. We have the heater ready thanks to Dave Cole, we just need to put it into its final resting place. Please can I ask anyone who is capable to come along this Saturday morning and help give a lift to put the heater in place. As soon as we have the shed habitable we intend to kick off the refurbishment of the open trailer and then we will make the facility available to members to do their trailer maintenance in comfort.
Andy will be celebrating his 40th on the 15th of September and he has already issued an email to that effect. Just a reminder, we can only accommodate so many so if you would like to eat then please let Fay know in the kitchen as soon as you can the list is filling up fast.
Please put October the 13th into your diary, at the moment it looks as if it will be on "Expeditions", more information later.


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We have a low common denominator: 2
Abandon-In-Place Shuttle
Eject Tank Insulation at Shuttle Launch
Freefall...er
Joint NASA-ESA Shuttle Program
Manned L point Shuttle
Micro-Shuttle
Orbital manufacture of replacement tiles
Orbital Mill
Shuttle Capsule
Shuttle Patch Kit
Shuttle Springboard
Steam Shuttle
Technicolor Shuttle Reentry
Update the Buran
science:spacecraft: shuttle
We are low on space shuttles just now...
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As most of you know, the Russians once built and flew a space shuttle, apparently copied quite thoroughly from NASA's design. It is named Buran, and it flew just ONCE. It's been sitting on the ground ever since, but in theory it is an actual working space shuttle. Not like NASA's first machine, the test vehicle Enterprise.
Let's ignore politics for the moment, and ask some simple technical questions: Is there any reason Buran can't possibly be refurbished, updated, and put into service alongside NASA's other shuttles? (Sure, I know that mounting points and other fittings would probably have to be changed, but all that goes under the generic "refurbish/update" heading.) Wouldn't this cost less than building another replacement (as Endeavor replaced Challenger at more than $1billion), to solve an immediate problem, the shortage of space transports? Sure, we know we need all-new shuttles, but what do we do until then? They are quite a few years away, and it seems to me that this could work, for the time being.
Buran http://liftoff.msfc....gov/rsa/buran.html
This looks like the bad-boy. [Jinbish, Oct 17 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Related idea http://www.halfbake...20Shuttle_20Program
[RayfordSteele, Oct 17 2004]
Some related 'blog chatter http://www.k26.com/...m1/HTML/000051.html
Ha! Who are you going to convince to go into space in that tin can?
How many space transports do we need anyway? How many do we have?
— snarfyguy, Mar 17 2003
Rods Tiger, the answer to many questions similar to yours is "Money". I think the USSR went bankrupt not too long after Buran flew.
snarfyguy, lots of people would be willing to go, if they thought a refurbishing was done well enough. With respect to shuttles, currently there are only three, the Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavor. Originally NASA wanted to launch shuttles at a rate of every week or two, so you can see that they have no shortage of stuff that they want to launch. No way do they have enough transports for that, given the proven turn-around time of a month or two.
Wow, actually beat Madradish to a space post :p
Considering some of the stuff the Chinese are doing it doesn't suprise me that people would be willing to go up in an old de-comissioned Russian shuttle.
I'm sure there's at least one more crazy American billionaire willing to pay to go up, even in a de-comissioned Russian craft.
— Freelancer, Mar 17 2003
From [madradish]:
"I wondered about this myself. The first mission ended badly, it landed slightly wrong and bent the frame. That's why they didn't use it again afaik."
Cheers [Freelancer]. Yeah, it was a good craft. Had more cargo capacity than the American orbiters (since it didn't have it's own engines). It was also able to be flown automatically and sent up without crew.
It was sent up sans cosmonauts that one time and bent the airframe on landing. I don't know much more than that but I imagine more could be dug up if anyone had the inclination. It was out in Sydney not long ago. Unfortunately I didn't get around to visiting it (still kicking my elf for that one).
I heard a rumor that a prototype was converted to a hotdog stand in Gorky park!
— madradish, Mar 18 2003
// gazillionaire //
Send Oprah and Ted Turner. If it blows, who cares?
The prototype is indeed in Gorky. Saw it with my own eyes.
— RayfordSteele, Mar 18 2003
Wow! Did you take any photos Ray?
I might've, they're probably packed someplace.
Pretty please :)
Would that be the little Chelomei starfighter? Gorgeous little craft.
— Madcat, Apr 08 2003
Folks, thanks for the info about the bent frame of the Buran. I'm not quite sure that someone has stated that the vehical has since been destroyed, but if not, there STILL may be a solution. Some years ago I read in (I think) "Popular Science" about how modern cars are built using "unibody construction" and how doing this makes the cars lighter (no chassis; the body is the chassis) but harder to repair if a collision occurs. They have devised special jigs in which the whole body of the car is mounted, and forces are applied to straighten out the car as a whole. It seems to me that such a jig for the Buran would cost a lot less than a whole new vehicle.
I recently worked at the Baikonur cosmodrome. The roof of the building next door had collapsed, due to the guys fixing the roof putting all the materials in one place. 7 were killed. Inside was Buran. It's still there, wrecked. Out the back was the huge vehicles (2 off) used to move Buran/Energia to the launch pad. I think this is documented on www. russianspaceweb.com
— RusNash, Jun 23 2003
Apparently from what I've heard, it wasn't destroyed much at all in the roof collapse, just slightly damaged and in need of some minor fixes. Also, the one that was in Sydney was NOT th one that flew in space, it was one fitted with normal jet engines for structural testing. Initially, this sounds liks a good idea. But I wonder what the "true" cost would be... i.e., knowledge of systems, structure, how it flys, replacement parts, etc. There were between 6-12 "prototypes," of various scales, to test different systems. Only one fuly functioning one was built, plus half of a second, and some rumors say, the structure of a third. It only flew once since the Soviets ran out of money and their government collapsed. BTW, the one landing it has was flawless, went perfectly, landing only five feet from the center of the runway, in 34 mph winds. The airframe was not damaged by the landing. This was also the first computer controlled landing, ever.
— abcom, Dec 16 2003
The real problem with the Buran was that it was pointless. The Soviets wanted one because the US had one, but didn't have a mission for it other than propaganda. The funny thing is that the US didn't really have a mission for the Space Shuttle either. Thats why the ISS was built - to give the Space Shuttle something to do.
— toiyabe, Dec 16 2003
toiyabe, I can agree that the Soviets mostly wanted a shuttle for propaganda, but I think you are somewhat mistaken about NASA. They have wanted a space station for decades. The shuttle was supposed to be part of the infrastructure for building one. Budgetary and mission-objective compromises interfered with the original design of the shuttle, and other budget problems delayed the station for a long time.
— Vernon, Dec 16 2003
Vernon, I agree that the Space Shuttle was created to help build the ISS. It's just that the ISS was thought up to give purpose to the Space Shuttle. It all makes sense in a new age spiritualtiy sort of way.
toiyabe, sorry, but you are still mistaken. Note that the "I" in ISS stands for "International" -- and the fact is, that when NASA originally wanted a space station AND a "cheaper" way to space than throw-away rockets, they expected the U.S. to be able to foot the bill alone. The U.S. STILL COULD do that, but too much else has come along to make it politically feasible. And, of course, it is politically good stuff to share, so ISS is what NASA agreed to work toward. But again, that was long after the Shuttles were built. Do recall that NASA wanted to launch one shuttle every WEEK, simply because of all the stuff they wanted to put into orbit, BESIDES space station parts. Telescopes, comsats, manned Mars mission(s!), etcetera. NASA STILL wants to do all that and more, but the existing fleet is not able to carry the load.
My point is that NASA and friends need a purpose far more than they need more space shuttles (IMNSHO). The original shuttle justification was long on pipe-dreams and short on actual needs.
If NASA/politicians can sit down and figure out what the heck they want to and can reasonably expect to accomplish, then they can figure out what kind of launch system can best meet those goals. I am quite certain if they do that honestly, that system will look nothing like the space shuttle.
The Soviets/Russians figured that out a long time ago, which explains why Buran got cancelled. It would be pretty ironic if Buran got revived because NASA didn't figure it out.
Yes, I agree that the Shuttles should be replaced with something more efficient and cost-effective. But the point of this Idea is that we need more shuttles NOW, and that Buran apparently still exists in a possibly-workable way....