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I'm Pregnant On The Anniversary Of My Miscarriage
'I'm Pregnant With A Rainbow Baby On The One-Year Anniversary Of My Miscarriage'
"In a perfect world, I would be able to have the twins and this baby."
By Korin Miller Published: Jan 29, 2019
I've led a pretty trauma-free life. My immediate family members are all alive and healthy and, while I've faced my share of struggles like anyone else, things have usually worked out well for me. That is, until last year.
In January 2018, I was pregnant with identical twin boys. I was already a mother of two, but, after campaigning my husband for close to a year to have a third child, he finally relented. The twins part was a natural (admittedly, comical) surprise.
Then, on January 30, 2018, I went in for a routine check up—and left with news no pregnant woman wants to hear.
Despite passing all previous tests with flying colors and growing on schedule, the twins' hearts had stopped at just 14 weeks—the start of their second trimester. There was no warning or signs that anything had gone wrong. They were just…gone.
The aftermath was devastating, both physically and emotionally. Because I was further along in my pregnancy and carrying multiples, I needed to have a procedure known as dilation and evacuation (D&E), which would dilate my cervix and essentially vacuum everything out while I was under general anesthesia.
The surgery was supposed to be fairly fast, but I was in the OR for an hour and lost a lot of blood. I was too weak to walk on my own afterward and kept passing out in the hours after the surgery. At one point, my husband Chris had to carry me back to the bed because I'd fainted in the bathroom. "I thought we were going to lose you, too," he later told me.
I eventually recovered physically but struggled emotionally for months. At first, I was crying several times a day. It eventually went down to once a day and then I was only breaking down here and there. But I still thought about what we had lost all the time.
I even went to therapy to see if that would help, only to be told that this was normal. I stopped seeing that therapist shortly after—not necessarily because of her advice (though I didn't appreciate being brushed off), but because I was looking for a quick fix to my emotions, which I now know doesn't exist.
Half a year later, my husband and I found out we were pregnant with a rainbow baby.
I got the news I was pregnant with a rainbow baby—a baby born or conceived after a miscarriage—in the middle of last summer. I was thrilled, but I worried every day that history would repeat itself.
"It's not a perfect world, and no one knows that better than a mother who has lost a baby."
I'm currently seven months pregnant and, while I'm feeling more optimistic that things will work out this time, I'm still nervous and carrying a lot of emotional scars from my last pregnancy. Now, I'm approaching the anniversary of my miscarriage and it's stirring up some weird, uncomfortable feelings for me.
In a perfect world, I would be able to have the twins and this baby. In reality, I never would have had this current pregnancy if the twins had survived. I'm still mourning the babies that I lost—and probably always will—but I'm incredibly thankful and excited about the baby I'm currently carrying.
I feel guilty—like I'm turning my back on the twins to welcome their sister.
Real talk: I've been incredibly open about my miscarriage—but I know many women feel like they need to suffer in silence. So I wanted to get to the bottom of these feelings for me—and for them.
I spoke to Tamar Gur, M.D., a women's health expert and reproductive psychiatrist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, who says my conflicted feelings are very common. "Many women having a rainbow baby feel this way," she says.
But Gur says it's important for me to remember that I was never given a choice or any power over the situation. It's just what happened. "It's not a perfect world, and no one knows that better than a mother who has lost a baby," she says.
"Being pregnant again does not conclude the mourning process."
Jessica Zucker, Ph.D., an LA-based psychologist specializing in women's reproductive and maternal mental health says it's even normal for me to continue mourning throughout my current pregnancy. "Being pregnant again does not conclude the mourning process, though it might ignite a renewed sense of hope," she says. "In fact, many women continue to process their grief for years to come."
What I've learned about rainbow babies: It's important to both mourn the past and celebrate the future.
Instead of feeling like I'm choosing one pregnancy over another, Gur tells me to respect the milestones of each independently. "It's okay to reflect on the past or to think that the babies would have been a certain age by now," she says. "Milestones bring emotional weight, and it's okay to feel it."
She recommends commemorating the anniversary of our loss in some way, like making a donation to March of Dimes (which I will be doing), reading a meaningful poem, or just reflecting on that pregnancy. "It can release you emotionally and give you space for feelings of joy for the next pregnancy," she says.
"It's okay to take it day by day. To have moments of excitement and moments of sadness."
It's also a good idea to allow myself to have the feelings that I'm having, and not to judge myself for them, Zucker says. "When we become conscious of our thought patterns connected to rainbow baby pregnancies, we have an opportunity to shift them and ultimately release them," she says.
Overall, Gur stresses that it's important to remove the pressure to have a "perfect" pregnancy after a loss. "It's okay to take it day by day, to have moments of excitement about the new pregnancy, and moments of sadness for what could have been," she says.
I'm pretty sure that I'm going to carry the baggage of my pregnancy loss with me on some level forever. But I also know that deep down, I'm not choosing one pregnancy over the other. I didn't have a choice in what happened—and I can't feel guilty about that.
Korin Miller is a freelance writer specializing in general wellness, sexual health and relationships, and lifestyle trends, with work appearing in Men's Health, Women's Health, Self, Glamour, and more. She has a master's degree from American University, lives by the beach, and hopes to own a teacup pig and taco truck one day.
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On June 6, 1990, Marlene McCarty, Donald Moffett, Robert Vazquez, three of the eleven members of Gran Fury, spoke at ICP. Essential listening.
Gran Fury was an artists' collective devoted to AIDS activism through agitprop art. Named after the Plymouth automobile favored by the [undercover] New York City police department, Gran Fury drew its membership from the ranks of ACT UP/NY (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, New York).
The artists' collective arose out of ACT UP/NY's involvement with the art installation "Let the Record Show . . ." at The New Museum of Contemporary Art in December 1987. Bill Olander, curator for The New Museum, offered the Broadway window of the museum to ACT UP, where a group of members "let the record show" that some artists and their art chose not to be silent regarding AIDS… After producing this installation, some members of ACT UP wanted to continue voicing their opinion and formed Gran Fury in January 1988.
The New York Public Library holds the Gran Fury Collection, which has a finding aid to research the materials (1987-1995).
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At last there came a time when I realized that there were depths I could never get to the bottom of, and heights I would never reach. Yet the inner pursuer continued to hunt everywhere for answers, and even began to attack me, resenting my inability to get what I wanted.
I'm unavailable. That's the word for it. The critical person in pursuit of answers can't understand. Perhaps my ability to comprehend has gone on vacation. Or maybe I need to learn a new language. What's hardest to fathom is that even in the best conditions, for example sometimes when I walk in the park thinking, "Here I am at last!" nothing changes. How I long to absorb the message of the trees, to expand with the open landscape and be refreshed. That's why I came here, in search of a quiet mind, but thoughts burble on.
Or when something bad happens to someone good and it's incomprehensible why. I look. I listen. But what I seek to understand is beyond my grasp. In such a moment I am face to face with how I want things to be, and what I lack. Finally, not without regret, I let go of the need to understand the mystery, and release my longing in the name of a modicum of inner peace. Suddenly, as I give up this frustrated longing to understand, peace descends like the gentle rain of heaven. I am here, now. Even as the mystery deepens, I ask for nothing.
Maybe It Didn't Begin With You!
Once again,you allow us to listen in on your inner self's ruminations. What a privilege. In a media world full of surface pablum, I find it so positive to start this day with your message of depth and to be thankful we are friends.
I enjoyed following your process here, one that I know quite well myself: wanting to grasp everything with my intellect, ambition a driving force. And, yet, the mystery does not open until we are able to surrender that part of ourselves that wants to be in charge and in control.
Thank you, Patti, for visiting and following.


Bud Selig likes to call himself a student of history.
If so, he's headed for an "F" on this assignment, and he's not alone. Rarely passing up a chance to laud baseball as a force for driving social change, the commissioner and players' union have been quiet far too long about the biggest opportunity looming on the horizon.
That would be MLB's plan to stage the All-Star game, two weeks from now, in Phoenix, where a tough local immigration law means that nearly a third of the players — like many Latinos who call Arizona home — worry that a routine traffic stop could escalate into a humiliating "papers, please" confrontation.
Selig's silence — he didn't return a call for comment Monday — could be the result of several things. To cite the most recent, he's probably spending more time closeted with lawyers these days because of the tug-of-war over the Los Angeles Dodgers and their wily, and increasingly desperate owner, Frank McCourt.
And like just about every politician and civic figure scorched by the white-hot debate over Arizo na's SB1070, Selig and the union simply may be laying low in hopes the courts will make it a moot issue before they have to take a stand. They may get their wish, but perhaps not soon enough.
The law requires immigrants to carry their registration documents and police who are enforcing other laws to question the immigration status of those they suspect are in the country illegally. A judge blocked enforcement of the law's most controversial requirements, but allowed other parts to take effect, such as a ban on obstructing traffic while seeking or offering day-labor services on streets.
A federal court already has blocked the most onerous portions of the law from being enforced — the so-called "papers, please" provision — while it considers the measure's constitutionality. Final say on the matter will almost certainly come down from the Supreme Court.
Already, a coalition of pro-immigration groups calling itself "Unite AZ" has announced plans to call attention to the year-old law, beginning with a news conference Tuesday outside Chase Park in Phoenix, and a call for baseball fans and players to wear white ribbons.
"We've asked MLB and the unions for cooperation, but we always knew we had an uphill battle," said Luis Avila, a spokesman for Unite AZ. "We have some players interested, but we can't give the names yet. Hopefully, we will be able to announce those within the next week."
MLBPA spokesman Greg Bouris said that the union had not seen a request from Unite AZ and had no plans to respond to such requests. "Our position on the law hasn't changed. We oppose it as written and that won't change until the courts decide what the law is," he said. "But we think the All-Star game is a chance to celebrate the contribution of all baseball players — including our international players."
When Arizona refused to honor Martin Luther King Day, the league voted move the 1993 Super Bowl to the Rose Bowl. When voters in the state began toting up the loss of millions of dollars, they reversed course and backed the holiday in plenty of time for the NFL to bring the 1996 Super Bowl to Tempe.
"Asking people to wear white ribbons is a small step," Avila said. "We know that. We thought holding the game here was a bad decision from the start. Now that it's here, we hope it will provide a platform to discuss the overheated rhetoric and the real harm it's causing, like the separation of families.
"It would be nice to get some help."


Tha e toirt làn-thoileachas dhuinn gun tèid Sgoil Phìobaireachd an Eilein Sgitheanaich a chur ri prògram nan Cùrsaichean Goirid aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig ann an 2017.
'S e cothrom gu tur ùr a tha ann an Sgoil Phìobaireachd an Eilein Sgitheanaich. Chuir am pìobaire is sgoilear cliùiteach an t-Ollamh Decker Forrest an cùrsa seo air bhonn. Tha e na amas don Sgoil Phìobaireachd gum faigh oileanaich teagasg air leth feumail ann an sgilean pìobaireachd bho phìobairean ainmeil an latha an-diugh ann an dachaigh eachdraidheil pìobaireachd an Eilein Sgitheanaich.
Sa chiad bhliadhna seo, 's e an cuspair Clann 'Ic Ruairidh: Clann MhicAoidh Ratharsair. Thèid sinn air chuairt gu eilean Ratharsair agus gheibh Oileanaich air a' chùrsa cothrom a thadhal air "Taigh a' Phìobaire", an dachaigh a bh' aig Iain MacAoidh a thug a chuid eòlais do dh'iomadh pìobaire ealanta, comasach thar nan linn. Tha pìos an seo a sgrìobh an t-Ollamh Decker Forrest is an t-Àrd-ollamh Ùisdean Cheape.
Thèid amasan nan clasaichean sin dhealbh a thaobh feumalachdan nan oileanach anns gach clas agus cuideachd bidh ùine aghaidh-ri-aghaidh ann airson dèiligeadh ri feumalachdan sònraichte aig gach oileanach. A bharrachd air an teagasg sa chlas, thèid rudan àraid a chur air dòigh, mar òraid, tadhal air taigh-seinnse far a bheil ceòl beò ga chluich, pìobaireachd ann an suidheachadh poblach le pìobaire ainmeil agus sgrìob le ceangal ri cuspair na bliadhna. Bheir sin cothrom do na h-oileanaich tuilleadh den Eilean fhaicinn agus àiteachean a tha cuideachd a' ceangal ceòl, eachdraidh pìobaireachd agus àiteachean le ceangal sònraichte ri pìobaireachd ri chèile.
Tha an Sgoil Phìobaireachd ag amas air pìobairean den a h-uile seòrsa comais ach a bhios comasach air sreath de Cheòl Beag a chluich agus aig a bheil co-dhiù tuigse bhunasach air Ceòl Mòr.


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Small individual loans and mental health: A randomized controlled trial among South African adults
Lia C.H. Fernald, Rita Hamad, Dean Karlan, Emily J. Ozer, Jonathan Zinman
Background. In the developing world, access to small, individual loans has been variously hailed as a poverty-alleviation tool - in the context of "microcredit" - but has also been criticized as "usury" and harmful to vulnerable borrowers. Prior studies have assessed effects of access to credit on traditional economic outcomes for poor borrowers, but effects on mental health have been largely ignored. Methods. Applicants who had previously been rejected (n = 257) for a loan (200% annual percentage rate - APR) from a lender in South Africa were randomly assigned to a "second-look" that encouraged loan officers to approve their applications. This randomized encouragement resulted in 53% of applicants receiving a loan they otherwise would not have received. All subjects were assessed 6-12 months later with questions about demographics, socio-economic status, and two indicators of mental health: the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression Scale (CES-D) and Cohen's Perceived Stress scale. Intent-to-treat analyses were calculated using multinomial probit regressions. Results. Randomization into receiving a "second look" for access to credit increased perceived stress in the combined sample of women and men; the findings were stronger among men. Credit access was associated with reduced depressive symptoms in men, but not women. Conclusion. Our findings suggest that a mechanism used to reduce the economic stress of extremely poor individuals can have mixed effects on their experiences of psychological stress and depressive symptomatology. Our data support the notion that mental health should be included as a measure of success (or failure) when examining potential tools for poverty alleviation. Further longitudinal research is needed in South Africa and other settings to understand how borrowing at high interest rates affects gender roles and daily life activities. CCT: ISRCTN 10734925.
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Fernald, L. C. H., Hamad, R., Karlan, D., Ozer, E. J., & Zinman, J. (2008). Small individual loans and mental health: A randomized controlled trial among South African adults. BMC public health, 8, [409]. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-8-409
Fernald, Lia C.H. ; Hamad, Rita ; Karlan, Dean et al. / Small individual loans and mental health : A randomized controlled trial among South African adults. In: BMC public health. 2008 ; Vol. 8.
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Next she speaks with Lucas, who's also apparently still on the program and previously divorced? I don't know what happened during this conversation, For being bored and of course is probably when I ate 7 Oreos.
Because associated with an curfew, all performances after 10 pm will be indoors. But the indoor activities will be in various hotel ballrooms, not the exhibit hall used last year, where the acoustics were less than ideal. The venue includes five outdoor and seven indoor stages – so you can listen in peace and comfort no matter the extreme temperatures.
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Q: How would you create a new local HTML file into a UIWebView on iOS? First I would like to point out I'm very new to web development and more comfortable with iOS development, so excuse me if there's something fundamental I'm not understanding.
I've seen how you can place an HTML file into your apps directory and load it into a web view (Example). This is great, but how can you create a new local HTML file within the app? Such that the user can create a new html file to type in, and then store it (basic document style app functionality). Perhaps with some sort of Javascript (I'm not too familiar with such Javascript)?

A: You can build the HTML in a NSString like so:
// get user input

NSString *userText = @"Hello, world!";

// build the HTML

NSString *html = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<html><body>%@</body><html>", userText];

// build the path where you're going to save the HTML

NSString *docsFolder = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES)[0];
NSString *filename = [docsFolder stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"sample.html"];

// save the NSString that contains the HTML to a file

NSError *error;
[html writeToFile:filename atomically:NO encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];

Clearly I'm just setting the userText to some literal, but you could obviously let the user type it into a UITextView and grab it from there.
You can then load the HTML into a web view with:
[self.webView loadHTMLString:html baseURL:nil];

or with:
NSURL *url = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filename];
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];
[self.webView loadRequest:request];

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"Kitchen is a place made for bringing the people together".
We spent most of our precious time in the kitchen itself. Does anybody prefer to work in the dull, boring kitchen? Our mood will remain fresh and healthy with the perfect color of the kitchen. There are many kinds of shades available in the market. Choosing a right paint for the kitchen is a very time consuming and a difficult process. But don't worry, there are certain colors specific for certain rooms. Also its important that you concentrate on different pieces of your kitchen. Like cabinets, counter tops and the appliances.
White: White is a wonderful color which can really energize a room. Nowadays, most people go for this color. You and your kids can play with color in the kitchen counter tops. Moreover, this is a good choice for people with extra-long kitchen with the dark granite top.
Apple green – Hottest paint colors for your Kitchen: Green is the basic color of the world. This adds light to our life. Apple green is a striking shade which will add energy to our kitchen.
Black:Would you like to do something different in the kitchen? Just paint your cabinet area black. The combination of white with black will look something more trendy and pretty.
Pumpkin orange is one of the hottest paint colors for your Kitchen: This warm shade of pumpkin will just add colors to your kitchen. The color looks good when used with dark wood cabinetry.
Chocolate Brown: Perfect color for light floors and cabinetry. You can add warmth to the kitchen with this rich cocoa brown color. Its best if you add this deep brown with some green or bright yellow color.
Gray: Many people are going for this color. Dark gray walls fits into the innovative decor, adding more reflective touch to your walls. Gray can be called as a versatile neutral color which looks amazing with mostly colors like (lavender, lemon chiffon, turquoise) etc.
Cream: Classic cream color works with any type of kitchen (from traditional to modern) kitchen. You can use this color, since it never goes out of style. Cream can work well with mostly colors like mint green, deep brown and cornflower blue.
Red: This is a perfect warm color for a large family eat in kitchen. The color stimulates the appetite. Red comes in multiple shades that can be applied both on the cabinets and the walls.
Yellow: Yellow is one amongst the warm colors. I am not suggesting you to paint every corners of this kitchen with this bold shade. Try to paint this color on one side of your wall. Moreover painting on the cabinets will add energy to the room.
Blue: You might be thinking whether blue will be good for my work area or not…. Usually people say blue suppresses our appetite. But this is something a false believe. When done in a right way blue will be an attractive addition to the kitchen.


In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock.
This past week, I sat in my Contemporary Pedagogy Class thinking about the things I'd read over the weekend, most of which were about attention and multitasking. The irony of a set of readings about attention and multitasking being imbibed by a stressed-out, overstimulated graduate student was not lost on me: if I'm being honest, I was making the slow uphill climb through my assignments in the midst of my grandfather's blaring audiobooks, my mother's favorite television shows streaming (not quietly) on the monitor in the other room, and the popping and fizzing sounds of things cooking in the kitchen. My life, and I'm certain, the lives of most students on this campus and many others, is characterized by constant interruptions and long stretches of uninterrupted work time are few and far between, so the idea of being holed up in a study surrounded by books and complete, blessed silence is a distant dream. The relevance of this slice of my life lies its relation to my future students, and the idea that their lives are likely as, er…energetic as mine.
Thinking about the lives of our students in comparison with our own reminds me just how often we forget about the most fundamental elements of being a good teacher (or even a good human): empathy, or at an even more basic level, object permanence. For those who are unaware, the simplest way to explain object permanence is with a childhood game called Peek-A-Boo. Before they learn object permamence, babies think that the adults playing Peek-A-Boo with them are actually gone when they cover their faces (or the babies' faces). The adult, of course, is aware that people don't completely disappear just becuase they are no longer visible, but the baby's cognitive development has yet to reach that stage. Aside from being a hilarious form of entertainment for adults like me, it's also an important reminder that the students who surround us are also still there even when they leave our classrooms: they have their own homes to go to–just like us, they have families–just like us, and they have worries and concerns and insecurities–just like us.
I found myself getting lost in that train of thought as I read Adam Gorlick's article about Media Multitaskers and how those who try to do it all are "suckers for irrelevancy". While trailing off between bouts of meditation on student attention spans and actually reading the article, I noticed the negative tone of the article, the fact that the word "failure" was peppered throughout, and the general feling of condescencion I felt when the daunting task of reading was finally, mercifully over. I couldn't help but think that the way I felt reading that article, with its prescriptive ideas about how students should and should not perform tasks, was exactly how I felt during my time in the public school system: like an errant child being harangued into compliance.
Perhaps I should discuss the cold, hard numbers, the statistics, the percentage points one's IQ decreases after long-term use of Google, the difference between grade point averages of students who multitask versus those who do not, but I could not shake the way I felt after reading that article. Perhaps my feelings are mirrored by many of today's students, most of whom were born into a world chock-full of distractions, from the screens of their electronic devices to the advertisements being injected into, well… everything to the twenty-four-hour news cycle. Given the state of their world, one that we have merely adopted and to which we as instructors (mostly born in the 1990's or before), are not native. What else can we expect from students who are so overstimulated, besides scattered attention and lack of focus? More importantly, is there a way to reverse this phenomenon, or at least make enough of an impact with our own pedagodical practice to teach them something that they will remember long after class is dismissed?


Kullu-Manali continues to be the most attractive spot of Himachal Pradesh since years and there is nothing as of till now that can spot the beauty of the place. Pampered by enormous mountains all around, the place is perfect for exploring nature's majestic purity. A pollution-free zone, the Kullu-Manali serves as an abode of peace and calm.
The scenario of the entire place includes beautiful valleys, greenery, trees laden with blossoms and a jaw-dropping view of snow-clad mountain ranges. The River Beas adds on to the aestheticism of the place.
Honeymoon couples even today choose Kullu-Manali as their honeymoon spot just because of the breath-taking beauty of the place and that is the reason why it is rightly said to enhance the grandeur of the Himalayan range altogether.
Shopping buffs can treat themselves in the shops of this area which offer a wide range of typical woollen clothes and caps exclusive to this region.


The film follows two women, both survivors of Rwanda's recent genocide, as they confront their families' murderers, released from prison through Rwanda's gacaca court system. (It is noted for its use of community members as both judge and jury, for the tightrope it walks between reconciliation and justice, and its choice to send the architects and leaders of the genocide to international tribunals, while focusing on the "little guys.") The question the film asks is whether reconciliation is truly possible in the context of horrific atrocities.
The answer, thank G-d, is a resounding yes.
The first time I saw the film (during a small screening in a coffeehouse in Washington, DC … well before Laura began winning awards and attracting international headlines) I was deeply moved. As a grandchild of Holocaust survivors, I have often struggled against the impulse to hate, to seethe, and to seek revenge against the enemies of the Jewish people (both past and present). I have no way of knowing whether my grandparents and great-grandparents – who were directly targeted for persecution, imprisonment, deportation, torture, and murder – struggled the same way. Ours is a German family, where facts are discussed more readily than feelings.
What I know intimately is just how potent genocide is … how in addition to destroying lives in the here and now, its effects trickle down into the succeeding generations of survivors. I know how we live simultaneously with paranoia, gratitude, guilt, and anger. I tend to take pride in the fact that my grandfather (who after escaping Germany served in U.S. army intelligence) helped liberate Dachau, and my uncle (who also served in the military after escaping the ghetto) hunted down Nazi war criminals to face prosecution at the Nuremberg tribunals and other courts. It is my family's participation in "justice" that I relish. And I don't think my pride is misplaced. It's just that after justice we need healing … and that's something that feels elusive to me.
The Rwandese, unlike my German grandparents, it turns out, are much less reticent to talk about the genocide and their reactions to/recovery from it. Sitting on the sofa drinking tea with the Bisengo's ongoing stream of visitors (mostly fellow survivors working for the Rwandan embassy in DC), I was struck by the resilience, empathy, and hopefulness of Agaba and her friends. Reconciliation had made them neither idealistic nor naive, and in no way did they stop mourning their relatives who had been murdered. "Is this what my grandparents talked about when their friends (fellow survivors living in Queens, NY) came over?" I often wondered. Did they cope in the same way? Did they maintain any sense of hope for the future? Did they even entertain the prospect of forgiveness … or was that unthinkable?
Agaba is now working on an MBA, working for one of my former employers, and recently married and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. Although most of the Rwandese I meet are thrilled to meet a Jewish person and bear reverence for our experience as survivors of ongoing persecution (I often hear, "Oh my goodness! I've always wanted to meet a Jew! This is amazing!"), I often feel that we have as much to learn from them as they from us.
Watching "As We Forgive Those," I could not help empathizing with these two women, forced to pick up their lives from the ashes and to live side by side with the men who they watched literally hack their families into pieces. And yet I also could not deny their obvious transformation upon choosing to forgive the unthinkable.
It is a powerful film, one that I hope to soon bring into our synagogue and into synagogues all over the world.
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Small-scale mining is still legal in Ghana – Prof Frimpong-Boateng
Dennis Dela Setsoafia
Small-scale mining is still legal in Ghana and it reserved only for Ghanaians, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, said on Thursday.
He said all illegal mining activities were being weeded out of the system, with many of the foreigners caught engaging in them arrested and being prosecuted, while those of West African origins had been deported.
There were more than 250 registered Ghanaians currently engaged in small-scale mining, he said, adding; "So if you go somewhere and somebody is mining don't assume it is galamsey."
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng was speaking to journalists at a media engagement in Accra to interact and foster stronger relationship between the media and the Ministry of Environment.
He said the fight against galamsey, which started in 2017, was to help the country to "define illegality in the sector", which was destroying water bodies, river beds and forest reserves.
He said illegal mining came with a huge cost to the nation.
The Minister explained that the former galamsey operators degraded the lands without reclaiming it while others used dangerous chemicals such as cyanide and mercury without authorisation.
Others also used bulldozers and excavators to destroy the communities.
He mentioned that through such illegal mining most of the water bodies like River Bia, Tano and Pra became highly polluted, but thanks to the fight against galamsey "all these impunities have stopped".
He said over 4,000 small scale miners had been trained in sustainable mining and assisted many young people in acquiring alternative livelihood programmes being run by the Ministry of Local Government.
Prof. Frimpong-Boateng said presently the most difficult aspect of the situation was the issue of local farmers and landowners who continued to hide and engage in illegal mining.
"It not easy to stop these activities because it is being done by the owners of the farms."
He said most of the rivers were regaining their former status and urged the public to support the government's efforts at restoring the water bodies to ensure quality water supply in the years ahead.
The country would need about 400 million dollars to restore the Ankobra River alone that had been so polluted by the galamsey operators, while 21 billion dollars would be required to restore the degraded mining lands, Prof. Frimpong Boateng said.
He said the various agencies under the Ministry, including the Council for Scientific and Industry Research (CSIR), Atomic Energy Commission, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), were all working hard to promote socio-economic development.
He said the CSIR, through its 13 institutes, were helping to ensure food security by coming out with many varieties of crops and animal breeds, as well as technology to support growth.
He said the Atomic Energy Commission was also helping with nuclear agriculture and radiation protection, among other things, while the EPA was working to keep a safe environment.
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Geo Politics
Afghanistan: US exit & its geostrategic implications
ByAlpha Defense
May 8, 2021 Abdullah Abdullah and Ajit Doval Meeting, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Dostum, Ghani, India and Afghanistan, Jaishankar, Jaishankar Dostum meet
-Ritesh Kumar
With the Biden administration having announced the exact date of exit of the US military from Afghanistan, it's imperative now to discuss and assess its implications in the region. For years, the US military presence has been one of the most if not the most important factor in strengthening the legitimate democratic governing system of Afghanistan, providing military assistance and stable environment in the nation against the Taliban insurgency. This has also shielded others from terror attacks by not letting Afghanistan again become a safe haven for terror groups, like it had become under the previous Taliban Regime in the past.
But how things will unfold after its exit? Will Afghanistan unite to fight the insurgency? Will Taliban usurp the governing body and engulf whole of Afghanistan? Or will it be the return of the '90s factional warfare? What role India will play in all of this and why Afghanistan matters so much to Pakistan?
There are many questions like this with pretty complex answers.
A resurgent Taliban
In the past few years Taliban has again started to gain footholds in the rural areas of South Afghanistan. Many areas which were once liberated by the ANA and ISAF have again fallen into the hands of Taliban. Many other areas in the region are also gripped in war between the two and are the heavily contested areas. Taliban's numerical strength which once was seen to be dwindling at mere around 2000 personnel has again swelled up to pre intervention periods. Internal Ethnic tensions, a degree of distrust on government due to local level corruption and over security concerns , and foreign assistance in the form of operational and military aid from Pakistan has exacerbated the menace.
At one glance it might appear that Taliban has become a popular movement inside Afghanistan with considerable support amongst the ethnic Pashtun population, but nothing can be farther from the truth. Majority Afghans irrespective of their clan and ethnicity believe in democracy as is evident in various successful elections conducted in the period.
Pakistan's Afghanistan Obsession
The Durand Line, NWFP & Pakistan's Pashtun Problem
It's more or less common knowledge now that Taliban was and still is being supported and aided by Pakistan as a destabilizing force in Afghanistan. But the big question is why does Pakistan wants Afghanistan to remain in a state of civil war and in a morass? Well the answer might lie in the Durand Line that separates Pakistan's Pashtun dominated North West Frontier Provinces(NWFP) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa .
Afghanistan lays claim over all of the area due to it being historical Afghan lands which were ceded to the British Raj during Anglo-Afghan wars. Many Pashtuns in the area have cross border family and clan connections and keep rebelling time to time. By keeping Afghanistan destabilized,Pakistan hopes that it can keep these areas secure.
But it has started to backfire as TTP (Tehrik-e-Taliban, Pakistan) ,itself a Pashtun dominated outfit born out of radical extremism promoted by Pakistan among Pashtuns during Soviet-Afghan wars have started to conduct terror strikes inside Pakistan itself.
Even stranger is the fact that the Taliban itself doesn't recognize the Durand Line.
For now, the Afghan Taliban keeps distance from TTP, to get the much needed supplies from Pakistan but soon it might declare its support to TTP, given its recent perceived "success" against US forces.
Return of the ethnic factions & a new civil war?
Afghanistan is made up of different ethnic groups residing in different parts of the country. They have their fair share of cultural diversity and have also fought each other in the past. There were bloody battles being fought between them during the early '90s, but all came together, putting aside their minor differences against Taliban under Ahmed Shah Massoud's leadership as the United Front better known as the Northern Alliance here.
Current Afghan political leadership comprises of leaders like Marshal Dostum, Dr.Abdullah, President Ghani and Ata Mohammad Noor who know exactly what devastation upon nation can factional differences bring and thus are unlikely to let things go awry. They have seen firsthand what destruction civil war brings upon the population .
On the other side of the spectrum are foreign funded Taliban and even ISIS now that has come into the fray. The most likely fight in Afghanistan if the talks fail will be between these two factions of the government and Taliban with ISIS like entities making things even messier and complex.
Central Asian concerns: Potential spilling of radical extremism and mass migrations.
As is seen during the Syrian civil war, warzones can create mass migration crises and a spill-over of radical extremism across the neighboring Central Asian countries like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan can't also be ruled out. Both of these nations have been already fighting minor extremist terrorist factions in their respective hinterlands already which can become a bigger threat if a new Civil war between Taliban and Unified Party government begins in Afghanistan. This might force the Central Asian countries to get involved militarily, making the situation even grimmer in the near future for the whole region. The presence of ISIS in Afghanistan makes the situation even more dangerous for Central Asia as the ideology has approached literally at its doorsteps now.
Global Terrorism: A Safe haven for global terrorist factions
As is already known there is a presence of ISIS(K) in the hinterlands of Afghanistan now. For now its fighting for dominance against Taliban in the southern regions of Afghanistan but it's only the matter of time when both of them will join hands like Al Qaeda had in the past. Although currently Taliban is saying it won't support global extremist movements and will never let Afghan territory be used for terror activities once it comes to power, we must remember the history when in the past they had openly supported Al Qaeda and their role in IC814 hijacking.
This will have dangerous consequences for not only the region but the whole world.
Russia had been engaged in a brutal warfare against its own Chechen radical separatists and has won a hard fought victory over them and brought stability to the Caucasus .This can again facilitate the nearly annihilated Chechen separatists to seek refuge and start terror camps in Afghanistan.
China through its own mishandling of Uyghur grievances in its Xinjiang province has made it a ripe target now for radicalization and terror activities. The fact that its near to Afghan border makes it even more concerning for China. It's still to be seen if China takes a stand against violence and destabilization in Afghanistan or strike a deal with Taliban with the help of Pakistan to make use of Taliban to quell unrest among its own Turkic Uyghur population.
India too might be affected when Taliban starts providing places for Pakistani terror outfits for training deep inside Afghanistan or becomes a transit point for the global terror organizations, ferrying terrorists from one region to the other ,or even join them to make attacks especially in Kashmir region. This will also affect Europe.
Pakistan too will feel the heat once TTP joins hands with Taliban and other terror outfits and starts carrying out big attacks on Pakistani soil itself.
India's Role in Afghanistan: Will being only a development partner be enough?
It is already evident now that without solving the internal security problem in Afghanistan, development work cannot continue. A secure, safe violence free environment is needed for overall development of a society and nation. India must now make it clear that it stands strong with Afghanistan and won't hesitate to take harsh measures to insure its integrity and stability. It should be made clear to Taliban and other destabilizing forces that talks and violence can't go hand in hand and if need be ,a military presence should also be contemplated to facilitate the stabilization and peace process.
Road ahead for Afghanistan
The road ahead for Afghanistan is seemingly a perilous one but history tells us that Afghan people never give up. They must come together and muster their inner strength to create a united front against all their adversities as the fate of Afghanistan rests upon the shoulder of Afghan people. Others might only help whether militarily or economically or both.
There are two key meetings that happened with regard to India-Afghanistan? Read here about The Dostum-Jaishankar meet and Abdullah's visit to India.
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The B-36 was designed for use on the 1937 light battleship Project 25 in three MK-2 triple turrets, but the design was cancelled before the work on the gun and mounts had progressed very far.
The B-50 gun was based upon the B-36 gun and was intended to have been used by the never-built Kronshtadt (Pr. 69) class battlecruisers. Very high muzzle velocity was to have given this gun an exceptionally long range, but probably at the cost of a very short liner life.
Design of this weapon started in 1938 at the Metal Factory, but was not finished before the start of World War II and no guns are known to have been started. This was mainly as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact which changed the planned Kronshtadt armament to German 38 cm (14.96") guns.
Proposed construction consisted of tube, liner, breech casing and breech ring. The breech was to have been a two stage, piston type. Actual bore diameter was 304.8 mm (12.0").
^I consider the above ROF figures to have been design goals and not necessarily the firing rates that would have been achieved in service.
^The Light HE round was intended for coastal bombardment missions.
^"Battleships: Allied Battleships in World War II" lists a muzzle velocity of "2,900 fps (915 mps)," which is a bad Metric/English measurement conversion. The figures used above are from "Encyclopedia of Russian Artillery."
^Given the extremely high muzzle velocity and the lack of life extending enhancements like chromium plating, I cannot help but think that the actual barrel life of this gun would not have exceeded double digits.
Data from "Main Caliber of the Battleships."


Having seen January Jones' character in the latest X-Men film, I have to say I found her character quite cool to say the least. From what I could gather, she's almost as powerful as Professor X.
Emma Frost ascended to the upper echelon of the business world based on her intelligence, drive, and personal charm. She possesses strong telepathic talents and a flexible organic diamond form which gives her superhuman strength, protects her from most forms of physical injury and able to withstand extreme temperatures.
I happened to come across the paladin-only Challenge Mode belt after I had pretty much designed an all-cloth costume but I thought it would make a nice touch since she eventually joins the X-Men. In the end, I used the top half of her costume from the Marvel: Avengers Alliance game on Facebook.
It's been a while since I've had this much fun adding all the elements especially her diamond skin which is similar to what you see in the movie.
For the in-game version, the Aqua Jewel comes pretty close.
I think January Jones was awesome as Emma Frost!


1. What is The Chaplain Connection®?
The Chaplain Connection® has been created for chaplains to access valuable spiritual care information and connect with other chaplains worldwide. It has one stop, online access to continuing education, networking opportunities, literature affecting the field and valuable programming ideas and resources. Membership (introductory rate) is only $9/ month.
2. Who is The Chaplain Connection® intended for?
The Chaplain Connection® is intended for anyone in the field of spiritual care who is looking to support, inform and enhance his or her chaplaincy practice.
3. Why is this valuable to my institution?
The Chaplain Connection® has resources that will help you individually, as well as information to strengthen your department. Rather than spending an enormous amount of time on developing materials for your institution, you can use the resources from The Chaplain Connection® and spend more time with patients and caregivers.
4. Can this be reimbursed or should it be included in my department budget?
Check with your administrator to see if your institution would pay for this valuable service.
5. What is the value proposition I can give to my administrator?
You can use the language below as a starting point with your administrator. The Chaplain Connection® is a comprehensive, online resource center dedicated to strengthening chaplaincy departments by improving the provision of spiritual care. It provides valuable resources, evidence-based research, self-care resources to prevent burnout and chaplaincy education to help improve the care we provide to our patients, families and staff and to amplify the reach of the Chaplaincy Department. The Chaplain Connection® is based on HealthCare Chaplaincy NetworkTM's extensive 50+ years of providing professional chaplaincy care to more than 5 million people. HCCN is a leader in helping people and families facing illness and suffering find spiritual comfort and meaning.
The information and services provided on the site are valued at over $1000; however, the introductory annual membership is only $108. I request that we purchase a membership for each staff chaplain to access this helpful information. Please note this is an introductory rate.
6. I have questions and comments about the site. Who should I contact?


What does it mean to invest offshore?
Investing offshore means that you invest some of your money in investment instruments (e.g. equities, bonds, cash etc.) managed outside the borders of South Africa. This means you use South African Rands to buy investments in foreign currencies such as the US$, £ Sterling, Japanese Yen, AUS$ etc.).
You invest in the same offshore instruments via structures called Feeder Funds.
Is the exchange rate favourable enough to be selling at this time.
Can I send any amount offshore?
South African permanent residents over the age of 18 investing offshore with South African Rands may invest up to R11 million offshore per calendar year.
R1 million Single Discretionary Allowance (SDA) where South African Reserve Bank (SARB) approval and a South African Revenue Service (SARS) tax clearance certificate is not required unless the investor is living abroad temporarily.
R10 million foreign investment allowance where a SARS tax clearance certificate and SARB approval is required. If the investor's money is already offshore, SARS and SARB approval is not required. However, it is the investor's responsibility to inform SARB of any offshore investments.
You can request that we sell your offshore investment at any time. Each offshore fund has different trading processes and timelines but typically you can access your money in less than 14 working days.
Can I send any amount?
What is the Single Discretionary Allowance (SDA)?
If the full SDA is used for investing offshore, no more money may be used for travel allowance, study leave, maintenance transfers etc. for the rest of that calendar year.
If you are investing more than R1 million offshore in any calendar year, you would need to obtain a SARS Tax Clearance Certificate and SARB approval.
What is a SARS Tax Clearance Certificate?
This certificate is issued to ensure that an investor's tax affairs are in order and is valid for 12 months. During this 12-month period, investors can transfer part of their allowance back into South Africa and then the same amount back offshore without an additional tax clearance application or SARB approval, provided that the amount does not exceed the tax clearance amount. Investors must keep a copy of the certificate, as the SARB keeps the original.
How can I get a Tax Clearance Certificate and SARB Approval?
Complete a 'FIA001' form (available from SARS) and submit directly to SARS.
If your tax affairs are in order, it takes up to 10 days for SARS to issue the certificate.
Go to an authorised dealer (for example: a bank) to obtain SARB approval.
The bank will assist with currency conversions and transferring the money to the applicable administrator's offshore bank account.


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Nintendo Live Stream: Watch The Nintendo Direct Live Stream Here
By Konrad Krawczyk @KKGam3r
Nintendo Direct http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/archive/08-07-2013/
Nintendo announced on its official Twitter account that it will host a Nintendo Direct event today starting at 10 a.m. EDT. Click here to watch the Nintendo Direct Live Stream.
The tweet indicated the event will provide updates on upcoming Wii U and 3DS games that have already been announced. Check out the photo below.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean Nintendo will only provide updates on Wii U and 3DS games that have already been announced. One announcement we would love to see is the acknowledgement of a new "Metroid" title, a series that goes back to 1986 with the original NES. The last "Metroid" release was "Metroid: Other M" in 2010.
Even if a "Metroid" announcement isn't made during the Nintendo Direct event later today, that doesn't mean the video game franchise is dead and gone. In fact, during E3 2013, Official Nintendo Magazine Editor-in-Chief Chandra Nair said that Michael Kelbaugh, CEO of Retro Studios, told him that Retro essentially had to decide whether it wanted to make a "Metroid" or a "Donkey Kong" game first. They opted for the latter, implying that Retro will turn its attention to "Metroid" once "Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze" is released later this year. In case you don't remember, Retro Studios developed the "Metroid Prime" series.
What's more, considering that Wii U sales have been weak since Nintendo released the Wii U last fall, it can't afford to neglect any of its flagship franchises. It needs to embrace all of them, including "Metroid," now more than ever. It's inexcusable that the Wii U still doesn't have a proper "Metroid" game. This needs to change as soon as possible.
Will Nintendo make a "Metroid" announcement during its Nintendo Direct event later today? We'll find out soon enough.
What do you think of today's Nintendo Direct event? Do you think Nintendo will make any surprise announcements? Why or why not? What updates do you expect Nintendo to give on upcoming Wii U and 3DS games? Sound off in the comments below.
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