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New York state is rolling out first-of-its-kind sensitivity training statewide to help some police officers better identify and interact with people with developmental disabilities.
The First Responders Disability Awareness Training, offered this week in Dutchess County, provides training exercises and protocols on how to assist individuals across the disability spectrum. The Train the Trainer session is open to all in law enforcement, with one stipulation: They must share the course with their police agency.
The training, through Niagara University, is not mandated by the state. However, a council under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office made the course a funding priority and stressed its importance.
"The time has come" for this type of training, said Sheila Carey, executive director of the state Developmental Disabilities Planning Council, which funded the program and extended the initial $650,000 three-year grant through 2015.
New York state has no overarching protocols for arresting and criminally charging suspects with developmental disabilities, said state Division of Criminal Justice Services spokeswoman Janine Kava, adding "agencies have their own guidelines." And state police training on mental illness and developmental disabilities —a physical or mental impairment —is one and the same, state police said.
There are more questions than answers following the death of a 26-year-old with Down syndrome at the hands of law enforcement who were called in when the man refused to leave a movie theater.
Authorities say that Robert Ethan Saylor went to see "Zero Dark Thirty" at a Frederick, Md. movie theater last month, but when the film ended he wanted to see it again and refused to leave. At that point, three off-duty sheriff's deputies, who were providing security at the venue, were called in.
It's unclear exactly what happened next, but ultimately Saylor was restrained by the deputies and began showing signs of a medical problem. He was pronounced dead not long after.
Now a medical examiner has ruled the death a homicide and his family is looking for answers. They say that Saylor idolized law enforcement and the family indicated that an aide was with the young man at the movies, saying that they could have been called to assist.
The case of a young man with Down syndrome who was asphyxiated while in police custody last week has spiraled into a shocking national news story--yet another police scandal coming just on the heels of suspicions that LAPD plotted to burn Dorner alive. The tragedy began when 26-year-old Minnesota resident Robert Saylor was reluctant to leave a movie theater, prompting employees to call the police. Without stopping to learn from Saylor's aide that he had Down syndrome, the police handcuffed him and restrained him on the ground until he died of asphyxiation .
Being arrested or detained by the police is a frightening experience. Here are a few things you should know.
An arrest occurs when a law enforcement officer takes you into custody and you are not free to go. If you are suspected of being involved in a crime, you can also be legally detained for a short period of time for questioning without being arrested.
To arrest you, the officer needs probable cause and an arrest warrant. The most notable exception to this rule is when the officer sees you commit a crime.


Timeline: Today after the song and hand motions I'll try to allow for kids to lead the song while pointing to the cards.
History: We'll do the good ol' song. Then on the dry erase board we'll erase a word or two each time we go through the song.
Math: We did this for the 7's, but it's worth doing again. We just have thirteens this week. We'll do the cakewalk approach. Our class has eight kids so I'll lay out 7 foam sheets. One student will start in the middle, the others around on the foam sheets in a circle. We'll sing the 13's song and I'll randomly stop them and whoever is on the foam sheet marked with a star (appropriate for today) will move to the spot in the middle.
English: stickin' with the Chicken (song)!
Introduce the endings and how the pictures tie in. Sing the CC song.
Review Game: This will be our first time playing our Simple Sponge Stack game.
SO happy to have ran across your blog (thank you pinterest!)!
Would you be willing to share the link to the chicken dance for english? I can't find it anywhere and don't see any other ideas!
If you can't post here, maybe you'd be willing to email it to me?
Tammy, I will try to find that link and get it to you. As you can tell, I'm not the greatest linker. I'm pretty inept at it. I'm going to have my bro-in-law kinda help me out on Monday. I'll try to get that link before then, though.
Glad you can use my plans. That is what they are for.
Okay, Tammy, I am so confused. I searched for more than 30 minutes trying to find that song. I know while at practicum with my kids sleeping in the bed next to me, I sat searching on my iPad and found a chicken dance melody pronoun song. I can't find it. It is lost in cyberspace. I cannot think of another way to search for the song. I looked on CC connected as well as just google. I will try to record a video of it for you. Right now I have company so I'll have to get to it next week. I will practice and make my own video. I'm crazy, I know. Just for you girl!
Lol! Thank you so much - how would we do this crazy stuff without one another's help?!?


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June 14, 2013 June 19, 2013 / You Hear That?!?
I knew soul was messy, but I hadn't seen firsthand how beautiful and messy it could be until last week's Friday Cheers.
Rain fell all day long, leaving the ground on Brown's Island a soupy wreck, and when Mrs. YHT and I finally walked across the pedestrian bridge onto Brown's Island — we'd spent the preceding half hour in the car, delaying our inevitable drenching — I did not expect that the show would actually happen. The original start time had lapsed and the entrance fee had been waived, yet I didn't see a single spectating soul until the front edge of the stage was in view. There, a dozen or so umbrellas were huddled, the people under them watching Charles Bradley's backing band — in this context you'd call them Bradley's "Extraordinaires," but without Bradley they're known as Menahan Street Band — tune up. (I imagined that the band was having their own version of the "Is this thing actually going to happen?" conversation.)
Some friends had taken refuge under an unused radio station canopy across from the beer truck, and we joined them and learned that (good news) people were being allowed backstage, but (bad news) Bradley was rumored to be held up in traffic. We didn't go backstage, but amazingly, just a short time later, we heard Bradley's Extraordinaires playing what sounded like organized notes, and a few instrumental numbers later ("Summer In The City" being one) there he was. The Victim of Love. The Original Black Swan. The One and Only Screaming Eagle of Soul. (His extended intro, voiced by the band's keys player, was a show unto itself. It felt more like a wrestling introduction, like how Paul Bettany introduced Heath Ledger in A Knight's Tale.)
The rest of the evening was pure magic. The band sounded great, Bradley's voice was every bit the wonder I'd hoped it would be, and the small group of us that crowded the gravely area near the stage made enough noise for an audience 10 times our size. And while the music was outstanding (the rendition of "Confusion" embedded above was a personal favorite), what Bradley did between songs was most memorable.
I'd read before the show that his road to success in the music business was… bumpy, to put it mildly. I also saw in Sounds of RVA's wonderful profile of Bradley that he has a deeply humble and refreshingly circumspect outlook on that success. But reading about these things is different from experiencing them for yourself, and if there was ever a test of a performer's humility, this show, with its minuscule crowd and dismal weather conditions, was it. But Bradley's warmth overpowered the circumstances, his between-song banter showering us with thanks, love, and assurances that "If there's one person out here, I'm gonna give you a show." It all fit perfectly with the idea of him I'd formed in my head, and as the show neared its end, that cognitive agreement began to transform into a happy lump in the back of my throat.
Watching happiness in motion is powerful. There's always a chance that smiles mask something darker, but it's hard to avoid getting sucked in to a story like Bradley's, especially when he hops down off the stage and gives giant, soaking-wet, 10-second hugs to the entire front row. That really happened. (Quick point of clarification — the wetness was an equal exchange. We were wet from the rain, he was just as wet from sweating his way through a truly impassioned performance.) I was right there, watching the look on his face and the looks on the hug recipients' faces. It was love. There's no other word for it. Call me sentimental or naive, but I have a hard time believing that someone could spread genuine love that freely without having found a powerful, hard-earned happiness within him/herself.
That's what I took away from Friday's beautiful mess of a show. Charles Bradley has the answer, and I intend to keep listening to his songs so that next time it rains — literally or figuratively — I can be the one giving out 10-second hugs to strangers. Check out "Confusion" above, "Strictly Reserved For You" below, and click here to buy his outstanding recent album, Victim of Love, from iTunes.
See you at tonight's Kishi Bashi show!
Charles Bradley — "Strictly Reserved For You" [Spotify/iTunes]
Charles Bradley, Friday Cheers, Kishi Bashi
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The 2019 State Officers Compensation Commission is considering raises for governor, legislators and Michigan Supreme Court Justices.
Lansing — Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Bridget McCormack is urging a state panel to help address what she called a "crisis in judicial pay" by raising salaries to help attract and retain talented judges.
The 2019 State Officers Compensation Commission met Tuesday morning for the first time to review economic data, budget proposals and pay rates for governor, lieutenant governor, Supreme Court justices, lawmakers, the attorney general and secretary of state.
The panel recommended raises for state officials in 2017, including a 10 percent raise for Supreme Court justices. But the Republican-led state Legislature did not act on their suggestions, rendering the deliberations moot. It's a pattern that has been repeated every two years.
Asking state legislators to vote on their own pay "becomes a political exercise," Chairman Joseph Smalley said Tuesday as the commission decided to seek guidance from Attorney General Dana Nessel on its constitutional ability to draft multiple resolutions so the Legislature could consider Supreme Court pay independently of other offices.
McCormack, in an April 8 letter, again urged the commission to address what will be a 19-year salary freeze for Michigan Supreme Court justices, who earn $164,610 a year but have not received a raise since 2002.
Over the same period, pay for state employees grew 40 percent and nationwide average salaries for state justices rose 46 percent, she said. Meanwhile, inflation has increased roughly 33 percent in Michigan.
Michigan will "soon be the only state where its intermediate appellate court judges are paid more than its Supreme Court justices," McCormack wrote, echoing concerns raised two years ago by then-Chief Justice Stephen Markman.
The Legislature approved a law allowing trial court and intermediate appellate court judges to receive annual cost-of-living adjustments, "but the crisis in judicial pay has only worsened on our court," McCormack said.
In her letter, the chief justice acknowledged past raise recommendations have not received a vote in the Legislature.
No other state officials or residents spoke in support or opposition to potential pay increases during the public meeting Tuesday morning in Lansing.
Michigan legislators cut their own pay and that of most other state officials in 2011, but the compensation commission last year recommended reversing many of the cuts and raising Supreme Court justice pay 10 percent.
Doing so would have increased the salary for the governor from $159,300 to $177,000, for lieutenant governor from $111,510 to $123,900, for Supreme Court justices from $164,610 to $181,071, for the attorney general from $112,410 to $124,900 and for secretary of state from $112,410 to $124,900.
But past recommendations have "fallen on deaf ears," said compensation commission member James Hallan of East Lansing, who first raised the possibility of drafting multiple resolutions.
The State Officers Compensation Commission is constitutionally required to make its final recommendations by June 15.


InventHelp, founded in 1984 in Pittsburgh, is attempting to submit this idea, the Keytini, to applicable companies for their consideration.
"As a California native, I often found myself in situations where I wished I had a bikini, so I thought that there should be a way to always have one," said an inventor from Los Angeles, Calif. "I came up with this idea as the perfect solution."
She developed the KEYTINI to offer a convenient way to keep a bikini on hand. The unit ensures that the individual has a bathing suit readily available for wear whenever one is needed. It eliminates the need to go back home in order to retrieve a bathing suit. It also dries the bikini without mildew. The accessory keeps the user from missing out on swimming opportunities. This enables the individual to be more spontaneous. Additionally, the device is designed to be compact and easily portable.


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ALIGN is a longstanding alliance of labor and community organizations united for a just and sustainable New York. ALIGN works at the intersection of economy, environment, and equity to make change and build movement. Our model addresses the root causes of economic injustice by forging strategic alliances among community and labor, shaping the public debate through strategic communications, and developing policy solutions that make impact. Over the last two decades, we have been at the forefront of championing fair economic development policies, winning quality jobs with career ladders for low-income public housing residents, and creating green jobs through municipal building retrofits. For more information about our work, visit www.alignny.org.
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Deputy Director has the responsibility for implementing organizational policy and promoting the overall success and effectiveness of the organization in advancing its mission. An ideal candidate should be able to both think broadly and strategically about ALIGN's work, be detail oriented and organized about the implementation and structures necessary to move our vision into reality. The Deputy Director will be charged with the day-to-day internal management of facilities, grant and contract administration, human resources, information technology and special events functions and support the Executive Director in fundraising and communications.
Leadership: Coordinates weekly staff meetings and ensures ALIGN biweekly planning squares with annual goals of organization; works with the Executive Director to plan and implement planning and staff development retreats; has big picture view and demonstrates fluency with all aspects of the organization development, communications strategy, and new areas of work.
Organizational Leadership & Development: Managing organizing staff, engaging actively in the leadership team by contributing to organizational vision, strategic planning, fundraising, and staff development as well as being a leader for the organization in the NY movement, within our state alliance and amongst national networks.
Organizational Relationships: Serves as alternate ambassador to Executive Director with other institutions and the general public; proactively positions ALIGN and advances its reputation in the fields in which it works; ensures coordination and cultivation of key institutional and political relationships across ALIGN team; models the ability to deal with conflicts calmly, constructively, effectively, and in a timely manner.
Administration: Manages the infrastructure team to ensure the organizational, operational, legal and financial health and effectiveness of the organization; ability to manage individual budget and support management of budget for the entire organization monitors fundraising and grants calendar across all implicated staff.
Fundraising: Develops funder relationships alongside Executive Director; monitors fundraising and grants calendar across all implicated staff; effectively collaborates with partner organizations in joint fundraising.
Staff Development: Collaborates with Executive Director and lead team to maintain and advance an organizational culture that supports work/life balance and foster positive staff relations; ensures that staff members receive the evaluation, training, support, supervision and leadership development that they need to succeed; point person to implement collective bargaining agreement and participate in regular labor/management meetings.
The Deputy Director is accountable and accessible, a proven leader on campaigns, a good listener, politically savvy, and personally well organized.
Understands ALIGN's mission and model for building power with community and labor. Has effectively worked in community and labor spaces.
At least five years in senior management roles including staff supervision, human resources, fundraising, finance, and/or operations in a social justice nonprofit context.
Leadership skills to keep ALIGN's various programs coordinated under a unified vision.
Demonstrated commitment to economic, racial and social justice.
Significant knowledge of and experience with base building including labor unions, membership-based community organizations, and environmental justice organizations.
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Detail-oriented and able to maintain strong administration and fiscal systems.
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
Excellent personal organization and time management skills; capacity to manage multiple priorities; and accountability to goals.
Terms of Employment: The Deputy Director is a full-time position with health, retirement, vacation and other benefits, with a salary range of $75,000- 85,000 depending on experience.
Application Process: E-mail cover letter and resume to jobs@alignny.org. Application's deadline is March 7, 2022. Please put "Deputy Director" in the subject line of the email. No phone calls please. Applicants who do not meet the minimum requirements will not receive a response.
ALIGN is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Women, LGBTQ and people of color are strongly encouraged to apply.
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__About Tutorial Challenges__

Many of the challenges on HackerRank are difficult and assume that you already know the relevant algorithms very well. These tutorial challenges are different. They break down algorithmic concepts into smaller challenges, so that you can learn the algorithm by solving the challenges.

These challenges are intended for those who know some programming and now want to learn some algorithms. You could be a student majoring in Computers, a self-taught programmer, or an experienced developer who wants an active algorithms review!

The first series of challenges covers sorting. The challenges are listed below:

__Tutorial Challenges - Sorting__

Insertion Sort challenges
* [Insertion Sort 1 - Inserting](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/insertionsort1)
* [Insertion Sort 2 - Sorting](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/insertionsort2)
* [Correctness and loop invariant](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/correctness-invariant)
* [Running Time of Algorithms](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/runningtime)

Quicksort challenges
* [Quicksort 1 - Partition](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/quicksort1)
* [Quicksort 2 - Sorting](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/quicksort2)
* [Quicksort In-place (advanced)](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/quicksort3)
* [Running time of Quicksort](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/quicksort4)

Counting sort challenges
* [Counting Sort 1 - Counting](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/countingsort1)
* [Counting Sort 2 - Simple sort](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/countingsort2)
* [Counting Sort 3 - Preparing](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/countingsort3)
* [Full Counting Sort (advanced)](https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/countingsort4)

There will also be some challenges where you'll get to apply what you've learnt.

__About the Challenges__

The challenges will describe some topic and then ask you to code a solution. As you progress through the challenges, you will learn some important concepts in algorithms. In each challenge, you will receive input on [STDIN](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_streams#Standard_input_.28stdin.29) and you will need to print the correct output to STDOUT.

For many challenges, helper methods (like an array) will be provided for you to process the input into a useful format. You can use these methods to get started with your program, or you can write your own input methods if you want. Your code just needs to print the right output to each test case.

__Sample Challenge__

This is a simple challenge to get things started. Given a sorted array (![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;ar)) and a number (![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;V)), can you print the index location of ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;V) in the array?

The next section describes the input format. You can often skip it, if you are using included methods.

__Input Format__

There will be three lines of input:
* ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;V) - the value that has to be searched.
* ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;n) - the size of the array.
* ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;ar) - ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;n) numbers that make up the array.

__Output Format__

Output the index of ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;V) in the array.

The next section describes the constraints and ranges of the input. You should check this section to know the range of the input.

__Constraints__
* ![equation](https://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;1&space;\leq&space;n&space;\leq&space;1000)
* ![equation](https://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;-1000&space;\leq&space;V&space;\leq&space;1000,&space;V&space;\in&space;ar)
* It is guaranteed that ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;V) will occur in ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;ar) exactly once.

This "sample" shows the first input test case. It is often useful to go through the sample to understand a challenge.

__Sample Input__
```commandline
4
6
1 4 5 7 9 12
```
__Sample Output__
```commandline
1
```
__Explanation__

![equation](https://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;V&space;=&space;4). The value ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;4) is the ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;2^{nd}) element in the array, but its index is ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;1) since array indices start from ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;0), so the answer is ![equation](http://latex.codecogs.com/svg.latex?\inline&space;1).

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The infected person spent several hours at Melbourne airport.
Measles case on Jetstar, Virgin flights
ANOTHER case of measles has been diagnosed in Victoria, this time for a person who spent several hours at Melbourne Airport.
Health authorities say the illness was acquired overseas and the affected person was in transit through Melbourne Airport for several hours on Tuesday, March 19.
Victoria's chief health officer, Dr Brett Sutton, said the case was unrelated to any of the eight previous measles cases notified to the health department this year.
In the most recent case, the affected person travelled on Jetstar flight JQ517 from Sydney to Melbourne and was at Melbourne Airport terminals two and four from 3.30pm until 7pm.
The person also boarded Virgin Australia flight VA99 from Melbourne to Christchurch between 6.35pm and 11.35pm.
Dr Sutton said anyone who was unvaccinated was at the highest risk of contracting measles.
"People need to have received two doses of measles-containing vaccine to be fully protected. Many adults have only received one vaccine against measles, and therefore most cases are in this age group," he said.
Most people born before 1966 will have been exposed to measles in childhood and will therefore be protected.
The infected person was on a Jetstar flight from Sydney to Melbourne on Tuesday, March 19.
However, adults born in or after 1966 may be susceptible, especially if overseas travel is planned, and should go to their doctor for a free vaccination.
"There is a lot of measles circulating in our region currently, including much of southeast and southern Asia. All travellers need to be aware of this risk," Dr Sutton said.
Just two weeks ago, a Sydney resident developed measles a few days after returning home from the Philippines.
The man in his 30s required hospitalisation for his symptoms but is no longer infectious and recovering at home.
Earlier this month, NSW Health issued an urgent warning about measles over fears a young woman and baby were spreading the disease.
The woman, who arrived in Sydney from Bali on Qantas flight QF44 about 6.30am on February 21, visited the international airport and Opera House as well as the Langham Hotel on Kent St in Sydney.
The baby, who was too young to be vaccinated, developed the disease after arriving home from the Philippines.
After a layover in Melbourne, the person then flew on a Virgin flight to Christchurch.
Measles symptoms include fever, sore eyes and a cough followed by a red, blotchy rash on the head and neck that spreads to the rest of the body.
"If you develop symptoms, please call ahead to your GP so you do not wait in the waiting room with other patients," NSW Health director Vicky Sheppeard said.
Measles is highly contagious and is spread in the air through coughing or sneezing by someone who is unwell with the disease.
Cases of measles had soared worldwide because of complacency by parents who were not vaccinating their children, UNICEF said.
Australia is at high risk of importing measles due to outbreaks of the disease in southeast Asia.
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At Predator we are big fans of the ingredient Arachidonic Acid, the sole active ingredient in Serious Nutrition Solutions X-Gels. We covered some of the research in our article on Arachidonic Acid's muscle building benefits and while that research was conducted on Molecular Nutrition's X-Factor, X-Gels is identical in dose and composition so everything would apply just the same.
Arachidonic Acid is an essential omega-6 fatty acid which is found in small concentrations in red meat. The levels found in meat though are not sufficient to deliver Arachidonic Acid's ergogenic benefits.
Arachidonic Acid's muscle building effects have been highlighted in numerous studies. It delivers these benefits through a pathway which is unique among supplements by increasing levels of prostaglandins such as PGF2. Increasing prostaglandin levels in the body causes an increase in inflammation of muscle cells so that in effect, muscles become more sensitive to the effects of weight training.
The easiest way to describe what this does is to return the state of your muscle cells to the condition they were in when you first started training and you experienced a lot of muscle soreness alongside fast gains in muscle. Taking X-Gels essentially takes the muscles of experienced trainers to that same kind of state and can therefore induce the same type of post workout muscle soreness and rapid gains in strength and muscle that were previously the preserve of only newcomers to weight training.
PGF2 itself has won favour among some pro bodybuilders but as an injectable drug that is extremely expensive there has been no supplement able to effect the type of muscle gains that it can deliver but X-Gels, along with X-Factor offers natural trainers the same benefits.
Can X-Gels be Stacked with Other Natural Anabolics?
In a word, YES. In fact, by stacking X-Gels with testosterone boosters, natural anabolics such as Laxogenin and Epicatechin (as found in Hydrapharm Adamantine among others) natural trainers are able to now get a stack of muscle building supplements which work in a complementary fashion to deliver similar levels of gains in strength and muscle as seen with prohormones.


Order of the Easter Star chapters across the province collect stamps as a fundraiser.
Mar. 14, 2014 2:00 p.m.
OES stamp collection fundraiser depends on public donations of stamps and other items.
Stamps are used less and less in business and personal communication but they still play a vital role in fundraising for the Order of the Eastern Star.
Since 1954, members from all chapters across B.C. have collected stamps, postcards, pre-stamped post office envelopes and dogsled mail run envelopes, which are then delivered to the stamp committee in Vancouver for further sorting and evaluation.
"Money raised from this fundraiser purchases materials for the making of cancer dressings," OES's Lynn Schwehr said.
Any extra money is sent directly to cancer research, she added.
From 1954 – 2013, stamp collection has raised $435,013.14.
Although Schwehr doesn't know exactly how much Cariboo Champter 71 has raised, she said on average they collect between 11 – 12 pounds of stamps per year.
The amount of money raised provincially dropped from $12,736.28 in 2001 to $8,439.26 in 2013 and Schwehr said this was in large part to the decrease in the use of stamps and postal delivery in general.
"Christmas is still a boom in stamp donations thanks in part to the continued practice of sending Christmas cards," she said.
Schwehr is asking local residents to consider collecting used stamps and dropping them off at any of the three locations around town.
The locations include Quesnel Cariboo Observer, the new Canadian Cancer Society office in the new Fireside Heating Building at the top of Dragon Lake Hill or at K-MAX on Reid Street.
"We depend on the public saving and donating stamps, so we are able to supply cancer dressings for patients," Schwehr said.
OES also collects UPC codes from Campbell's Soup labels which can also be dropped off at any of the three local boxes.


My name is Karel, I'm a mix of a woodworker, photographer and programmer. You can see the furniture I build at Karel Woodcraft, a little selection of my pictures at 500px and some technical article in the dedicated section. Finally, the Journal is where I share some thoughts and experiences.


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•Donna M. Wynne, 31, of 21 Irving St., Apt: 5, Bristol, was arrested Sept. 5 and charged with sixth degree larceny.
•Leean M. Frohn, 25, of 433 King St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 5 and charged with sixth degree larceny.
•Alexander Derisi, 21, of 711 West Main St., Apt: 29, Meriden, was arrested Sept. 5 and charged with operation while under the influence, interfering with an officer, and illegal possession of marijuana less than 4 ounces.
•Raymond Brzozowski, 64, of 895 Matthews St., Apt: 30, Bristol, was arrested Sept. 5 and charged with operation while under the influence.
•Scott J. Dade, 26, of 800 Terryville Ave., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with third degree criminal mischief and second degree breach of peace.
•Melissa Subocz, 37, of 209 Queen St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with second degree falsely reporting an incident.
•Lisa Poland, 47, of 104 Magnolia Ave., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with interfering with an officer.
•William Fanelli, 36, of 10 Deering Lane, Bristol, was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with second degree breach of peace, third degree assault, third degree criminal mischief, and criminal violation of protective order.
•Sean Toussaint, 28, of 97 Jewel St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 6 and charged with second degree breach of peace.
•Brandon L. Broadie, 26, of 96 Judd St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 7 and charged with interfering with an officer.
•Marion G. Bennett, 37, of 175 Berlin Ave., Apt: 67, Southington, was arrested Sept. 7 and charged with interfering with an officer.
•Jennifer Shaw, 28, of 140 Sheffield Lane, Bristol, was arrested Sept. 7 and charged with assault on a peace officer.
•Cheyenne C. Clement, 38, of 50 Jeanette St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 7 and charged with third degree criminal mischief, failure to comply with fingertip requests, assault on a peace officer, and second degree breach of peace.
•Esteban Perez, 26, of 4 Main St., Plainville, was arrested Sept. 8 and charged with operation while under the influence, driving in right hand lane, unsafe backing, and first offense operating motor vehicle other than motorcycle without a license.
•Dagoberto Germosen, 20, of 12 Park St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 8 and charged with fourth degree sexual assault and disorderly conduct.
•Jeremy O. Torruellas, 22, of 210 East 102nd St., Apt:12C, Manhattan, N.Y., was arrested Sept. 8 and charged with second degree breach of peace, third degree assault, and interfering with a 911 call.
•Amanda Ditomasso, 27, of 525 Tolland St., East Hartford, was arrested Sept. 8 and charged with second degree false statement.
•Vicki D. Parker, 56, of 13 Chestnut St., Apt: 1R, Bristol, was arrested Sept. 9 and charged with second degree threatening and second degree breach of peace.
•Ricardo Edward, 28, of 85 York St., Waterbury, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with third degree assault, interfering with a 911 call, and second degree breach of peace.
•Kristy J. Hapeman, 20, of 279 Scott Rd., Terryville, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with first degree criminal trespass and criminal violation protection order threatening.
•Amy Butler, 41, of 155 Pickney Ave., Plainville, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with issuing a bad check and sixth degree larceny.
•Victor L. Magro, 50, of 106 Charter Ave., Waterbury, was arrested Sept. 10 and charged with driving in right hand lane and operation while under the influence.
•Miguel Rodriguez, 33, of 39 South Whiting St., New Britain, was arrested Sept. 11 and charged with interfering with an officer, improper parking, illegal possession of narcotics, operating while registered license suspended/ revoked, drinking while operating a motor vehicle, and illegal manufacturing, distribution, or sale of prescriptions.
•Katrina L. Crandall, 36, of 51 Chapel St., Bristol, was arrested Sept. 11 and charged with sixth degree larceny.
•Justin Rockhill, 25, of 26 South St., New Britain, was arrested Sept. 11 and charged with fourth degree larceny.
•Michael Singarella, 35, of 3 Lathrop Lane, Apt. D, Rocky Hill, was arrested Sept. 11 and charged with third degree robbery, second degree larceny, and second degree breach of peace.


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Double Dividend : Power and Agriculture Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa
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Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh
Malik, Kabir
Tipping, Andrew
Besnard, Juliette
Nash, John
Increasing access to modern electricity services in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the main development challenges facing the world over the next two decades. The rural economies are overwhelmingly dependent on agriculture; in fact, agriculture and agribusiness comprise nearly half of Africa's gross domestic product (GDP). These enterprises require electricity to grow to their potential, while the expansion of rural energy services needs consumers with consistent power needs to serve as a reliable revenue source. Can agriculture and energy come together in Sub-Saharan Africa to offer a double dividend with benefits to enterprises, households, utilities, and private-sector service providers? This is the central question of this study. Combining agricultural load with other household and commercial power demand can increase the feasibility of extending the grid or creating opportunities for independent power producers and mini-grid operators. Drawing on a suite of case studies, this study offers insights on what it will take to operationalize the opportunities and address the challenges for power-agriculture integration in Africa.
"Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh; Malik, Kabir; Tipping, Andrew; Besnard, Juliette; Nash, John. 2017. Double Dividend : Power and Agriculture Nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Bank, Washington, DC. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/26383 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO."
World Development Report 2013 : Jobs
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and social backgrounds and provide alternatives to conflict. Jobs are thus more than a byproduct of economic growth. They are transformational—they are what we earn, what we do, and even who we are. High unemployment and unmet job expectations among youth are the most immediate concerns. But in many developing countries, where farming and self-employment are prevalent and safety nets are modest at best, unemployment rates can be low. In these countries, growth is seldom jobless. Most of the poor work long hours but simply cannot make ends meet. And the violation of basic rights is not uncommon. Therefore, the number of jobs is not all that ...
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and social backgrounds and provide alternatives to conflict. Jobs are thus more than a byproduct of economic ...
Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs bring together ...
Quality Unknown : The Invisible Water Crisis
Damania, Richard; Desbureaux, Sébastien; Rodella, Aude-Sophie; Russ, Jason; Zaveri, Esha (2019-08-20)
Water quantity—too much in the case of floods, or too little in the case of droughts—grabs public attention and the media spotlight. Water quality—being predominantly invisible and hard to detect—goes largely unnoticed. Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and new data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath water's surface. It shows how poor water quality stalls economic progress, stymies human potential, and reduces food production. Quality Unknown examines the effects of water quality on economic growth and finds upstream pollution lowers growth in downstream regions. It reveals that some of the most ubiquitous contaminants in water, such as nitrates and salt, have impacts that are larger, deeper, and wider than has been acknowledged. And it traces the damage to crop yields and the stark implications for food security in affected regions. An important step toward tackling the world's water quality challenge is recognizing its scale. The world needs reliable, accurate, and comprehensive information so that policy makers can ...
Water quantity—too much in the case of floods, or too little in the case of droughts—grabs public attention and the media spotlight. Water quality—being predominantly invisible and hard to detect—goes largely unnoticed. Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and new data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath water's surface. It shows how poor water quality stalls economic progress, stymies human potential, and reduces food production. Quality Unknown examines the effects of water quality on ...
Water quantity—too much in the case of floods, or too little in the case of droughts—grabs public attention and the media spotlight. Water quality—being predominantly invisible and hard to detect—goes largely unnoticed. Quality Unknown: The Invisible Water Crisis presents new evidence and new data that call urgent attention to the hidden dangers lying beneath water's surface. It shows how poor water quality ...
Women, Business and the Law 2022
World Bank (2022-03-01)
Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with the law as they move through their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. Amid a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, 'Women, Business and the Law 2022' identifies barriers to women's economic participation and encourages reform of discriminatory laws. This year, the study also includes pilot research related to childcare and implementation of the law. By examining the economic decisions women make throughout their working lives, as well as the pace of reform over the past 50 years, Women, Business and the Law makes an important contribution to research and policy discussions about the state of women's economic empowerment. The indicators build evidence of the critical relationship between legal gender equality and women's employment and entrepreneurship. ...
Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with the law as they move through their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. Amid a global pandemic that threatens progress toward gender equality, 'Women, Business and the Law 2022' identifies barriers to women's economic participation and ...
Women, Business and the Law 2022 is the eighth in a series of annual studies measuring the laws and regulations that affect women's economic opportunity in 190 economies. The project presents eight indicators structured around women's interactions with the law as they move through their careers: Mobility, Workplace, Pay, Marriage, Parenthood, Entrepreneurship, Assets, and Pension. Amid a global pandemic that ...
Scaling Up Access to Electricity : The Case of Rwanda
Baringanire, Paul; Malik, Kabir; Ghosh Banerjee, Sudeshna (2014-06-13)
This knowledge note is the third of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Rwanda s rapid achievements in expanding access to electricity after 2009 were made possible by one of the first applications of a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the electricity sector. The World Bank played a pivotal role in the operationalization of the SWAp, first by assisting in the formulation of an investment prospectus that laid the groundwork for technical, financial, and implementation planning. The Rwandan experience is instructive for countries considering the adoption of a similar approach, particularly those starting from a low base. Rwanda's experience with electrification is an interesting case of how access to electricity can be quickly scaled up despite deficits in infrastructure and institutional capacity. In all, the SWAp in ...
This knowledge note is the third of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Rwanda s rapid achievements in expanding access to electricity after 2009 were made possible by one of the first applications of a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the electricity sector. The World Bank played a pivotal role in the operationalization of the SWAp, first by assisting in the formulation of an ...
This knowledge note is the third of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Rwanda s rapid achievements in expanding access to electricity after 2009 were made possible by one of the first applications of a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the electricity sector. The World ...
Beyond Crisis : The Financial Performance of India's Power Sector
Khurana, Mani; Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh (2015)
At the end of 2011, the Indian power sector found itself in financial crisis, just a decade after the 2001 bailout of state electricity boards (SEBs) by the central government. Bankrupt state power distribution utilities in several states were unable to pay their bills or repay their debts. Despite the passage of the landmark 2003 Electricity Act and implementation of a broad set of reforms over the past decade, the sector today is looking at another rescue from the center, four times larger than before. This financial rescue scheme amounts to about Rs 1.9 trillion ($42 billion) and was instigated by the nonperforming assets of the banks and other financial institutions. The Electricity Act was envisaged to create independent companies functioning on commercial principles, but they are still far away from that goal. This report presents a diagnostic of the financial and operational ...
At the end of 2011, the Indian power sector found itself in financial crisis, just a decade after the 2001 bailout of state electricity boards (SEBs) by the central government. Bankrupt state power distribution utilities in several states were unable to pay their bills or repay their debts. Despite the passage of the landmark 2003 Electricity Act and implementation of a broad set of reforms over the past decade, the sector today is looking at ...
At the end of 2011, the Indian power sector found itself in financial crisis, just a decade after the 2001 bailout of state electricity boards (SEBs) by the central government. Bankrupt state power distribution utilities in several states were unable to pay their bills or repay their debts. Despite the passage of the landmark 2003 ...
Unleashing the Potential of Renewable Energy in India
Sargsyan, Gevorg; Bhatia, Mikul; Banerjee, Sudeshna Ghosh; Raghunathan, Krishnan; Soni, Ruchi (2011)
India has 150 GW of renewable energy potential, about half in the form of small hydropower, biomass, and wind and half in solar, cogeneration, and waste-to-energy. Developing renewable energy can help India increase its energy security, reduce the adverse impacts on the local environment, lower its carbon intensity, contribute to more balanced regional development, and realize its aspirations for leadership in high-technology industries. This diagnostic note draws on a detailed analysis conducted by a PricewaterhouseCoopers India consulting team in 2008-09 for the World Bank. The data are based on information on about 180 wind, biomass, and small hydropower projects in 20 states, as well as information from and norms of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). The study is intended to provoke discussions of the ...
India has 150 GW of renewable energy potential, about half in the form of small hydropower, biomass, and wind and half in solar, cogeneration, and waste-to-energy. Developing renewable energy can help India increase its energy security, reduce the adverse impacts on the local environment, lower its carbon intensity, contribute to more balanced regional development, and realize its aspirations for leadership in high-technology industries. This ...
India has 150 GW of renewable energy potential, about half in the form of small hydropower, biomass, and wind and half in solar, cogeneration, and waste-to-energy. Developing renewable energy can help India increase its energy security, reduce the adverse impacts on the local environment, lower its carbon intensity, contribute to ...


August's book review is on Héctor Tobar's true story, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free.
As you know, a mine in Chile collapsed on August 5, 2010, and trapped 33 miners in a tunnel more than 2000 feet underground with only three days' supply of food. On the news here in the States, the story touched me so much that I felt compelled to pray for them and to record updates on their status.
Knowing the outcome didn't spoil the suspense of the book for me because the author told the inside story, starting with how the miners happened to have jobs in that mine and what they did earlier that day.
I listened to the book (11 CDs) while driving to and from Idaho in July. The reader, Henry Leyva, who switched naturally between English and Spanish (for names mostly), was so clear and dramatic that I'll keep an eye open for his name the next time I buy an audio book.
The thing that struck me first in the story was that all rescue attempts in the five previous collapses of the San José mine were unsuccessful. No miners had ever come out alive. None.
Another thing that struck me was the darkness. The title, Deep Down Dark, took me far into the earth, and the ensuing story made me frantic to get out. I got disoriented, felt claustrophobic, missed my family, and got thirsty and hungry and hot in the inescapable heat.
The author let us follow what happened above ground, too. The miners' families, who camped outside the fence at the mine, refused to leave. I empathized during their long days of not knowing what was going on, seeing officials come and go, watching trucks arrive with another drill, hearing the drill fall silent, and waiting for days and then weeks for news the men were alive.
The author showed us the spiritual battle for survival, including how they banded together, how they gathered at noon every day to pray, how they clung to their faith and found new faith in God, and how they committed themselves to becoming better husbands, better fathers, and better workers.
I'd recommend the story to people who are fascinated by the will of the human spirit to survive. I was surprised at how gripping the mechanics of drills and rescue operations were, and I was impressed by the author's skill.
To read the NT Times review, click here.
The story was made into a movie in 2015, The 33, staring Antonio Banderas. I liked it very much because it showed the desolate terrain of the mine and the rock-walled "rooms", which were much bigger than I'd imagined. In addition, the acting was superb, and the director let us experience long moments of darkness. It's a wonder someone didn't have a panic attack. But the book was better.
I hope to meet the miners in heaven someday. In the meantime, may God bless them and their families.
How inspirational! I'm going to try to find the book,hopefully on kindle. Thanks for posting.
I hope you like it, Anita. Thanks for your comment.
Thank you for the review. I want to see the movie for sure, and it sounds like the details in the book would be worth the read.
Hope you enjoy the movie, Carolyn. I appreciate your reading my blog.
I tried to post yesterday, Norma, but for some reason I couldn't get it to go through. Just wanted to say the book and movie both sound inspirational. Motivated me to put a hold on the movie through our library system.
Glad you didn't give up on posting a comment, Judy. We got the movie from our library, too. Thanks!
Thanks for bringing this book to our attention. I was aware of the movie (been on the library waiting list for a few weeks!) but not aware of the book. Sounds like a good read!
Thanks for reading and commenting on my book review, Diane. This was one of those true-life stories I didn't know I'd like until I read it. I hope you like the movie.


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Turismo ecológico en el mar o ecoturismo marino, es según la Sociedad Internacional de Ecoturismo (TIES) como "el viaje responsable a áreas marinas naturales que conserva el medio ambiente y mantiene el bienestar de la población local". Se ha vuelto popular en los últimos años gracias a la biodiversidad de los ecosistemas del mar, que además de destacarse por sus colores y paisajes, se destacan por estar en grave amenaza frente a graves problemas como la sobrepesca e inclusive el mismo turismo indiscriminado que afecta a tan delicados ambientes.

Generalidades
Así como la Sociedad Internacional de Ecoturismo enuncia distintas bases para el desarrollo general del ecoturismo hace un énfasis en el ecoturismo marino y plantea unas sencillas pero necesarias normas que se deben cumplir de manera que este tipo de turismo se desarrolle de manera responsable. Estos son:
 Nunca te entrometas entre un animal marino y su posibilidad de huir, te podría matar.
 No nadar entre madres y crías.
 No persigas a los animales, es su hábitat, tienen derecho a huir.
 No toques a los animales marinos.
 No hagas ruidos excesivos que puedan molestarles.
 Nunca agobies a los animales con la excusa de obtener una foto más próxima.
 Si observas un animal marino herido o enfermo no lo toques, avisa a las autoridades que determinaran que se debe hacer con él.
 No tires basura, si ves algún residuo mientras observas los animales marinos recógelo, pues podría causarles algún daño.
 No recolectes ningún tipo de "souvenir".
 No permanezcas de pie sobre los arrecifes coralinos.
 No acoses a los animales marinos.

De hecho estas normas son básicas para el ecoturismo marino pues las actividades como buceo, exploración y observación, navegación, avistamientos, entre otras, que los turistas pueden realizar podrían llegar a poner en riesgo a los distintos ambientes marinos, su riqueza y su biodiversidad.

Actividades
Debido a la gran biodiversidad del mar se han propuesto distintas actividades para disfrutar de esta tanto dentro como fuera del agua, pero sin perderse de grandes espectáculos que el mar brinda. Algunos de ellos son:

Buceo

Es una de las actividades más practicadas en el mar y según lo que se quiera realizar tiene distintas modalidades. Puede ser de modo recreacional, profesional, de investigación e inclusive de construcción. En cuanto al turismo, se promociona esta actividad como la posibilidad de los turistas de ver la riqueza de biodiversidad en el mar donde se pueden ver corales, distintas especies de animales, entre otros. Esta actividad es practicada en numerosos lugares alrededor del mundo como México, Colombia y Maldivas.

Avistamientos

Cuando se habla de avistamientos muchas veces se relaciona con sucesos 'extraños'. No obstante, en el mar muestra otro tipo de avistamientos, el cual reúne cantidades enormes de turistas alrededor del mundo con motivos recreacionales o científicos. Los avistamientos de cetáceos tienen como fin la observación de las ballenas en su hábitat natural y se realizan desde los años 50 cuando por primera vez en San Diego (Estados Unidos) reunieron cerca de 10.000 visitantes. Para el 2000 se estima que 11,3 millones de personas participaron de esta actividad en todo el mundo.

Sostenibilidad
Así como los ecosistemas marinos son frágiles, el turismo es un sector fragmentado y complejo. Es por este motivo que el ecoturismo marino debe estar estrechamente relacionado con el concepto de sostenibilidad y se deben plantear ciertas acciones con el fin de garantizar esto.
 Determinar las condiciones favorables al desarrollo sustentable que protejan el medio ambiente y la población en su conjunto.
 Favorecer escenarios comunales donde se propenda por la cooperación y vinculación de las poblaciones locales con la causa ambiental.
 Garantizar un seguimiento eficaz de las políticas públicas ambientales así como la participación ciudadana en la proposición de ideas nuevas.
 Favorecer un desarrollo empresarial basado en el respeto a la cultura local junto con un actuar ligado a la responsabilidad social y ambiental.

Conflictos
Por la intención que tiene el ecoturismo de involucrar no solamente a un grupo de empresarios para convocar turistas a cierto lugar, sino también incluir el concepto de sostenibilidad en su accionar, es decir, hacer que la comunidad adyacente a donde se practique este tipo de turismo se vea involucrado en el proyecto, se da muchas veces ciertos problemas para llevarlo a cabo. Algunos de los problemas que se presentan es conflictos con la población de la región cuando tienen la visión de que solo se está explotando el recurso natural y sin embargo la retribución para su comunidad y su región es muy poca o nula. También se pueden presentar conflictos con otros grupos de interés como se da en el caso de avistamiento de cetáceos, pues la gente a favor de la protección del ecosistema y de las mismas ballenas se encuentra en un fuerte conflicto a la hora de enfrentarse con los balleneros cuya actividad económica es la base de su capacidad de ingresos, sin embargo representan un grave daño al medio ambiente.

Véase también
 Turismo ecológico

Referencias

Ecoturismo
ecoturismo marítimo


Waving another late-night traveler across the border, Officer Peters glanced at the large office clock. It was late enough that the only people traveling were either too tired or hyped up on caffeine to lie about their reasons for entering the country, making his investigation simple. Smugglers and the like usually tried to sneak through during rush times; dark, empty roads meant bored officers may take an extra look into the few passing cards.
He didn't quite know what to make of the others traveling through those late hours, but he was paid not to think about them. Occasionally his pager would buzz with a license plate number – who uses a pager in 2005 anyway – and his job was to make sure they didn't encounter any difficulty with his fellow officers. He had been assured that any cars so designated wouldn't be bringing guns or drugs across the border, and every Saturday morning he returned home to find a very generous envelope of large bills under his doormat. Besides, the demeanor of the man who originally made the offer suggested that turning him down would have serious – and possibly fatal – consequences.
Making sure to direct the special cars – rarely more than one or two a week – into his inspection lane, he gave them the briefest of cursory looks in order to satisfy the supervisors watching by closed-circuit camera before waving them through. The drivers and passengers never spoke, and their eyes sent shivers up and down Peters' spine – cold, dead eyes. Shark eyes that saw him as a slab of meat. Every encounter left him unsettled.
In three years of service he had never seen a car of Strangers, as he called them, cross without a page. As a set of headlights appeared on the horizon, he genuinely hoped he never would – whatever those alien monsters were up to lived far, far above his inflated pay-grade.
I have been watching a large amount of international travel shows of late – a guilty pleasure of mine – and I'm always fascinated by the encounters the border patrol agents have with travelers. What would that look like in a world where terrible creatures actually existed?


Packed with antioxidants and phytoflavinoids, these berries are also high in potassium and vitamin C, making them the top choice of doctors and nutritionists. Not only can they lower your risk of heart disease and cancer, they are also anti-inflammatory.
"Inflammation is a key driver of all chronic diseases, so blueberries have a host of benefits," says Ann Kulze, MD, of Charleston, S.C., author of Dr. Ann's 10-Step Diet, A Simple Plan for Permanent Weight Loss & Lifelong Vitality. When selecting berries, note that the darker they are, the more anti-oxidants they have. "I tell everyone to have a serving (about 1/2 cup) every day," Dr. Kulze says. "Frozen are just as good as fresh." Be sure to include lots of other fruits and vegetables in your diet as well. Remember too that, in general, the more color they have, the more antioxidants.
"We know that the omega 3s you get in fish lower heart disease risk, help arthritis, and may possibly help with memory loss and Alzheimer's," Somer says. "There is some evidence to show that it reduces depression as well."
Omega-3s are most prevalent in fatty, cold-water fish: Look for wild (not farmed) salmon, herring, sardines, and mackerel. Aim for two-to-three servings a week. Other forms of omega 3s are available in fortified eggs, flax seed, and walnuts. These superfoods have the added benefit of being high in monounsaturated fats, which can lower cholesterol.
A study reported in The Journal of the American Medical Association (2003) showed that a diet of soy fiber, protein from oats and barley, almonds, and margarine from plant sterols lowered cholesterol as much as statins, the most widely prescribed cholesterol medicine. "Look for tofu, soy milk, or edamame -- not soy powder," says Somer. In other words, soy sauce won't do the trick. One caveat: If you have a family history of breast cancer it is not recommended that you eat extra soy.
A diet high in fiber will help you maintain healthy cholesterol and blood sugar levels. As a bonus, because fiber helps you feel full longer, it's a great tool in weight management. Whole grains, beans, fruit, and vegetables are all good sources. Try throwing some beans in your salad, recommends Kulze. "Fresh, frozen, or dried are the best. You can use canned, but they tend to be higher in sodium," Kulze warns.
"The overall antioxidant power of black tea is the same as green tea," says Kulze, "but green tea does have ECGC, a powerful antioxidant that we really do think is quite special." A recent Japanese study on green tea found that men who drank green tea regularly had lower cholesterol than those who didn't. Researchers in Spain and the United Kingdom have also shown that ECGC can inhibit the growth of cancer cells. For a double health whammy, replace sugary sodas with tea.
New research has shown that dark chocolate is packed with antioxidants and can lower blood pressure. Kulze recommends that you look for chocolate with 60% or higher cocoa content; the darker, the better. In addition, the darker it is, the lower the fat and sugar content. Now that's our kind of health food!
You can increase your brain power by listening to classical music! The advanced operations required to listen to all of the instruments playing at once stimulates the brain on many levels and has been proven to increase functioning in people with developing brains (babies and children) as well as those who have suffered a brain injury!
Just sprinkle a little baking soda on the area you want to clean and spritz some vinegar it bubbles up and starts to work instantly. Add some water Cleans up much faster your house will be fresh and clean.
Add a scoop of baking soda and half cup of vinegar. Add more or less depending on size of load. That's it!
Clothes come up clean and fresh there are no chemicals, it doesn't ruin the fibre. It is very inexpensive too.
I buy the baking soda in the bulk section of the grocery store.


Scenes from 75 horror and thriller movies, organized in 11 chapters (such as "tricks", "madmen", "animism"): the insert has a cross-reference, showing all frame numbers related to each movie.
The Japanese subtitles are displayed vertically on the right side of the screen.
The aspect ratio looks a little thinner than 2.35:1, maybe somewhere around 2.00:1.
Japan only LaserDisc release. This title was only released in the U.S. on the CED format as .


Tigo Ghana has won four highly prized awards at the 6th Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards.
The ceremony which was held on May 21 saw the country's leading digital lifestyle brand walks home with 'Brand of the Year'', 'Innovative Product of the Year' for Big 6, 'Social Impact Award' for its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility project Shelter 4 Education and the CEO, Roshi Motman, was acknowledged as 'Outstanding Woman in Technology'.
It was a historic moment for the company.
Touching on her 'Outstanding Woman in Technology' award, Motman was appreciative for the recognition.
"It's a real honor to be recognized this way. It is my hope that in the very near future a lot more women will venture into this industry to make a real positive and meaningful difference in the sector. Women have a lot to offer in the telecoms and technology space, and I'm very privileged to have done that," she said.
Tigo has for some time now undertaken numerous investments aimed improving its network quality and customer experience.
The company's marketing campaigns such as 'Drop that Yam', and 'Yensor nkoaa' have been a phenomenal success.
The overall brand experience has caused customers to react positively to the new, vibrant Tigo brand.
Big 6, the winning Innovative Product of the Year, gave unrivaled value to prepaid customers through various data, streaming music, talk time and bonus packages.
Again, Shelter 4 Education was recognized for the tremendous impact it has had in communities across the country where schools were built, renovated and equipped with learning material.
The far-reaching efforts of the project have garnered enormous support from government stakeholders, opinion leaders, and other corporate bodies.
The Ghana Information Technology and Telecom Awards, which took place at the Kempinski Hotel in Accra on Saturday 21st May is Ghana's premier platform for celebrating top performers within the industry.
The awards seek to recognize excellence in the ICT industry by rewarding distinction in product development, service delivery, and innovation.


We are still on the road to Jerusalem. The master is still under surveillance. Our Gospel journey (notice our many sporting clubs are on a 'journey', particularly at this moment ) has just related three confrontations with opponents to Jesus and now he addresses his chosen few. We are not sure what prompted this incident. Did someone report the latest juicy story about a manager who was not ready to give an account of his actions and had found a clever way to make sure he had friends in the future? There were no social services in 30AD.
So much of the teaching is about how you manage possessions, with the implication that in time there will be a "Visitation of the Lord". Possessions as such are not the basic problem!
Part of the answer is found in Amos. We now market our wheat on the Sabbath….Is it time we began to recapture the reality as well as the spirit of the Sabbath?
Part of the answer is alluded to in Paul's instructions to Timothy…a deep appreciation of the need for and place of prayer in our lives, particularly for men.
It is a timeless lesson this week. We all feel the tug between what we have, what we want, what we need and sometimes we remember "the time of our visitation".


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The energy of Thomas Playford
Australia, and with it South Australia, stands at an historical crossroads of socioeconomic development. With climate change a pressing peril, the need to rely on emerging renewable energy technologies, whose costs are dropping relative to fossil fuels, to promote employment in sunrise industries, is imperative.
Only innovative thinking superseding outdated dogma and vested interests will suffice. When all is said and done, the weakness of the defunct National Energy Guarantee was the unnecessary reliance it placed on vested interests seeking to perpetuate investment in old coal technology which fuels global warming. Fortunately, a tendency to innovative thinking, while not unalloyed, has been one of the strengths of South Australian society since colonisation by imperial utopians in 1836.
Progressive people on this question are above partisan considerations. They don't care who does the right thing by the public interest so long as it is done and done pronto. It is possible that South Australia's Liberal Environment Minister, Dan van Holst Pellekaan, being a conservative conviction politician with a scientific, engineering background, understands all this.
The first party to implement an energy policy which is not in denial about global warming will lay the foundation for an electoral ascendancy for a couple of terms at least. So long, of course, as retail electricity prices can be brought down from the obscene levels that neo-liberal privatisation, pursued over recent generations by both major parties, has occasioned.
Certainly, the SA Environment Minister has indicated recently, in response to the parliamentary implosion of Liberal-conservatism at the Federal level over just this question, that a national energy policy may have to be cobbled together by the states if the state Coalition parties are to save Liberal-conservatism's scorched bacon. The hot breath of the ALP will be upon conservatives in this policy arena. The ALP vaunts clued-up exponents like South Australian Mark Butler as an articulate spokesperson regarding energy and climate change, so temporising is not an option for Liberal conservatives.
Sir Thomas Playford
Where energy questions are concerned, the figure of Sir Thomas Playford (1896‒1981) is inspirational. As longstanding SA Premier from 1938-65 [!] he broke the mould of centuries-long Liberal small-state ideology to intervene in the energy sector immediately after the Second World War.
He was able to do so in part because of the bi-partisan progressive Liberal consensus which was a feature of the responses of Liberals and Social Democrats to the Depressions of the 1890s and 1930s. He thus set a peripheral economy on a balanced course of state-fostered industrialisation and diversification.
The legend that Playford single-handedly diversified the state economy and guaranteed generations of prosperity independently of international and national conditions is exaggerated. But he achieved a great deal through state economic leadership and nationalisation of the conservative and unenterprising Board of the Adelaide Electricity Supply Co. (AESC). This was done in the teeth of resistance from his party and its old money, patrician constituents, but with the support of the Labor Opposition.
The tale of how he accomplished this in the public interest is instructive. It identifies factors to which recourse must likewise be had in the future. It is a story of more than regional significance at the current juncture, given that South Australia will in time benefit from playing a leading national role in promoting the transformation of energy infrastructure on a low-cost renewable basis.
The crisis which faced Playford came when the AESC refused point blank to replace imported NSW coking coal. The supply of this had been interrupted during the War in part due to industrial strife. Playford was sufficiently conservative, prejudiced and unfamiliar with the labour movement that he thought the strife, which did threaten South Australia's interests however it was caused, was due to Communist union officials duping the miners. Indeed, his biographer, Stewart Cockburn, commits the historical howler of supposing that the Communist Party fomented unrest to sabotage the war effort in the name of the Nazi-Soviet Pact!
Labour historian Tom Sheridan, in analysing later Cold War industrial relations, has found that such myths had long flown in the face of the fact that, if anything, the men 'exploited' Communists by voting to back them in to union office because of their superior work ethic as proletarian representatives. This was acknowledged at the time by Anti-communists like Santamaria and senior ALP exponents.
Such observations need to be backdated, given that Cold War prejudice grew out of interwar Anti-socialism. At any rate, Playford appears to have misattributed to politics industrial strife which was in fact structurally incident on appalling working conditions in the NSW coalfields. Cockburn's error is important because it detracts from emphasis on the structural issue of the importance of energy autonomy for SA if it were to develop, provide employment and attract socioeconomic consensus. Nevertheless, Playford was not so blinkered as to substantially overlook the realities involved.
Be that as it may, Playford's response did harness Anti-communism to practice class collaboration with South Australia's constitutionally more moderate labour movement to mollify it, contributing to ongoing reduced wages and wage costs compared with interstate. These were made palatable to labour given a lower cost of living and higher employment.
Playford wanted a de-radicalised labour movement with which he could negotiate reliance on South Australia's competitive advantages of lower wages and reduced industrial disputation. This was the basis of a reasonably beautiful understanding which long endured between a labourist labour movement and a progressive conservative benevolent despot, as his biographer has hailed him. Of course, as MHA Frances Bedford has commented, he benefitted in this from the Playmander, South Australia's rurally-weighted gerrymander, which secured his rear politically. As an agrarian conservative he inherited the necessary mechanisms and sense of entitlement from the colonial era.
Playford recognised that natural monopolies, of which energy inputs were production costs, were best organised as public utilities. Needing to prime recovery from the Great Depression if he was to relieve unemployment and stay in office, he was persuaded by the economic analysis of his Auditor General, John William 'Bill' Wainwright. Wainwright argued for economic diversification through state fostered and led industrialisation to alleviate South Australia's excessive reliance on agrarian exports.
Wainwright argued that the industrialised eastern states benefitted from national protectionism at the expense of South Australia, which paid for the associated costs in terms of the higher prices of consumer products and manufacturing items and inputs. He had an arguable point. With his political future on the line, the practical and pragmatic Playford fully endorsed the reasoning of this fearless Keynesian public service advice, backing Wainwright to the hilt.
This was in part because Playford understood the social and political importance of promoting the public interest. Wainwright, who had a moderately unconventional economic education, was the theoretical father of postwar prosperity in South Australia, with Playford the entrepreneurial leader who signed off on and implemented his vision.
Vision thing
What is needed now in South Australia is more of the same leadership, animated by what conservative United States President George Bush senior called 'that vision thing.'
Playford wished to fuel his policies by exploiting the undeveloped resource of Leigh Creek reserves of low grade hard brown coal with little bitumen in its ore. The softer black coking coal imported from NSW burned at a higher temperature. The AESC had long declined to take an interest in developing a commodity which did not suit its antiquated boilers, which developed steam to turn turbines. They refused to reinvest in specialised, new-fangled boilers capable of exploiting Leigh Creek coal, frustrating Playford.
Then the AESC thumbed its nose at his interventionism, buying new old-fashioned boilers to replace those which were incapable of further operation. At this offense against the public interest, Playford pounced, carrying enough of his own party's Members with him to drive nationalisation legislation through both Houses of the South Australian Parliament with delighted ALP support. The game was up for conservative resistance to the Playford and Wainwright dispensation.
One test of historical significance of past experience is its contemporary legacy. Both major political parties can lay some claim to different aspects of the Playford legacy of state intervention in the name of progressive conservative development. Playford was a ruthless operator when necessary. In the good sense of the term he was a principled Machiavellian, a Liberal Premier capable of enforcing what were effectively Social Democratic socioeconomic policies in the public interest with Labor parliamentary votes, over the opposition of the majority of his conservative colleagues.
The modern lesson to be learned, in South Australia and elsewhere in the Commonwealth, is the political potential, available to all who have the vision and courage to seize it, of entrepreneurial, progressive energy policy, developing new energy sources for pioneering development on an ecologically safer and socioeconomically more savvy and less costly basis. Even if government were not to renationalise the utility companies, much could be accomplished by political and cultural leadership. Healthy political competition to win just climate laurels is wide open.
Published in Chain Reaction #134, December 2018. National magazine of Friends of the Earth Australia. www.foe.org.au/chain_reaction
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An app to help people cope with depression and anxiety.
This NZ-developed app offers self-help based on cognitive behavioural therapy techniques. Users choose a theme they want to explore such as 'perfectionism' and 'comparing myself to others' and scroll through a list of associated symptoms and unhelpful beliefs. They can read or listen to short insights that challenge those beliefs. The app allows users to share an insight with others, set up reminders to read or listen to it at a certain time of the day, and set up trigger alerts where the insight pops up on screen when the user goes to certain locations. For a more detailed description of the app, see App website or iTunes and for a detailed review, see Reviews.
Comments: A very easy app to use and understand. Users just click on a statement that has relevance to them and it provides a better way of thinking about a negative perception. The app is effective, challenging, informative, well-structured and it encourages change thinking. It would also give insight to friends and family of people who suffer from depression and anxiety.


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