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Feature: Street children shape growing problem in war-torn Iraq
Every day, seven-year-old Maryam wanders in the streets of Baghdad begging for alms, just like thousands of Iraqi children who are living under catastrophic impact of the country's conflict.
"My father is dead, my mother is ill and I have three sisters, we have to do our best for living," she said, who usually spends more than half of the day in the streets.
Maryam, like many of her peers, has been deprived from education and proper healthcare and are exposed to abuse, child labor, child trafficking and recruitment by different militias.
"I don't go to school and I don't want to. What will school ever do for me? I'd much rather help my family than go to school," Maryam said, as she inserted a banknote of 250 Iraqi dinars in her purse, which just got from a passer-by a few minutes ago.
When Maryam was asked if she was being harassed in a way or another, she hesitated a little bit and denied, but later she said that sometimes she was treated harshly, and even sometimes strangers ask her to get into their cars.
"I used to ignore such bad treatment, but my mother is always concerned about me, and she frequently tells me to be cautious and warns me from getting into any stranger's car," Maryam said.
Iraqi children have been living under awful conditions for about 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that toppled the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and the subsequent chaos and sectarian strife that engulfed the country.
The post-invasion bloodshed resulted in massive destruction and ruptured the fabric of the Iraqi society, making the vulnerable children to pay the price of the conflict.
Nowadays, one of the most dangerous results of Iraqi conflict is the street children, who are either orphans or war victims.
So many factors contributed in making this dilemma even worse, part of which are poor governance of the post-invasion Iraqi governments, unemployment, poverty and lack of awareness on the importance of education.
However, what really deteriorated the situation were the political conflicts and the turmoil that followed the U.S.-led invasion, as well as the emergence of extremist groups spearheaded by the IS group, an al-Qaida offshoot, which conducted atrocities against Iraqi communities across the country.
The chaos and poverty created a flood of internally displaced people who moved to safer areas in different parts of Iraq, leaving behind their houses, jobs and everything they have once owned.
According to UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), up to four million children are in need for assistance out of 8.7 million people affected by the conflict in the country.
Such number is raising the alarm about the catastrophic impact of war on Iraqi children.
Many of those displaced families were forced to send their children to the streets to make their living from every possible mean, including selling simple things to people in markets.
"We came to Baghdad from Mosul," said Sirwan, a 10-year-old boy who's the only breadwinner in his family of seven.
"My father is disabled, and we don't have anyone here, our house was destroyed in Mosul, and our relatives are either dead or in refugee camps."
"A man helped us, when we came here in Baghdad; he offered us a shelter and cleaned the basement of his building for us," Sirwan told Xinhua.
"I really want to go to school, but I can't. My family needs me. I would never leave them to starve," he said.
A short walk in any street in Baghdad would give a clear image of the alarming number of street children. Those vulnerable children are exposed to all kinds of abuses.
Ali al-Haidari, an Iraqi sociologist, said he believes that cases of sexual assaults, kidnapping, trafficking and many other forms of abuse of children currently, are the highest in the modern history of Iraq.
"The negligence of government to orphanages and the absence of continuous observation to the existing ones, are the reason behind the aggravation of the situation," al-Haidari told Xinhua.
Abdul Amir al-Mayahi, a member of the Iraqi parliament, told Xinhua that the number of orphans in Iraq is estimated at five million in 2018.
Some non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have attempted to improve the situation by opening more orphanages, allocating a stable salary for some families, providing them with some basics and distributing meals. But these organizations have no capacity to help all children across Iraq.
Alaa Abdullah, an activist involved in street children issue, warned that "there's a real danger that threatens the future of Iraq. The government is paying no attention to look after this important part of the Iraqi society."
"These kids represent the future of this country. If the parliament and governmental bodies keep doing nothing, they will end up being a threat to this society," Abdullah told Xinhua.
Abdullah called on the Iraqi authorities to find comprehensive solutions through enacting laws that care for them and safeguard their rights.
"The street children phenomenon is against the constitution of Iraq which stated that all have the right for decent life. If the government wouldn't do anything to these children, they will be an easy target for gangs and terrorist groups who will use them to harm the society," Abdullah concluded.
In Iraq, there is a strong need for setting up a comprehensive program to combat poverty and establish rehabilitation centers to provide therapy for these children and reintegrate them in the society.
"Of course, aid alone is not enough to deal with the children crisis in Iraq, but a comprehensive program that ensures reliable flow of funds can help - as first step - training care workers, teachers who can provide psycho-social support and education through schools and home care system," Abdullah said.
"Maybe we can't totally remove the psychological scars of those children, which they will carry for their lifetime, but we have to understand that there is more to do for postwar recovery other than thinking of restoring buildings, bridges and roads," Abdullah concluded.


Elizabeth Warren says Republicans will use "blood money" from lost and broken American lives to pay for their overhaul of former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. It's possible that given the Republicans' small majority in the Senate that McConnell will have to entertain amendments.
While offering his disapproval now, Cruz is optimistic that the Senate can pass a health care bill that will satisfy both his conservative and his more moderate colleagues.
At one point, Schumer asked Cornyn if Republicans would agree to start over and craft a bipartisan bill. "It's been made clear to us that you don't want to participate in the process".
Congress is debating how to replace the Affordable Care Act. Senate leadership is aiming for a vote on the measure by the end of next week. On Monday, he emphasized his willingness to compromise on the issue in an interview with the Tribune.
Today Republican Senate leaders revealed their health care plan.
The Senate version of its replacement, which has yet to undergo scrutiny from the Congressional Budget Office, is steeped in reckless disrespect for the intelligence of the American people, and a callous and even unsafe attitude toward the poor and the middle class when it comes to ensuring their health care.
The bill's proponents say the changes would give states more flexibility, in part because a state could choose to require Medicaid beneficiaries to show they are working or trying to find a job. The bill "rolls back the ACA's Medicaid expansion - making for deep spending cuts to that program, compared with current law".
"I came away [from the health care meeting] more positive than I thought I would be", said South Carolina Sen.
"Over time, it will hopefully go up less rapidly than it was otherwise going to go up, but sort of permanently expanding federal contributions in the Medicaid category are simply not a catastrophic cut, as some would like to characterize it", Toomey said.
MEDICAID Obama law: States have the option to expand Medicaid to cover more low-income adults. More than 250,000 people Liked the post with another 78,000 people sharing it as of Thursday evening. Meanwhile, the state of Iowa is struggling to deal with an individual insurance market that is in dire shape. The Obama administration previously shot down these ideas, asserting that Medicaid is not supposed to be a work program.
"We have a responsibility to move forward, and we are", said McConnell, R-Ky. "Because Obamacare isn't working, by almost any measure it has failed, and no amount of 11th hour reality-denying or buck-passing by Democrats is going to change the fact that more Americans are going to get hurt unless we do something".
"Medicaid is already crowding out funding for all other priorities", Ingram said in an email.
"People with pre-existing conditions will keep their health care", Roberts said.
Susan Collins of ME said it was "too soon" to judge the bill and she has some concerns about cuts to Medicaid after 2025 and defunding of Planned Parenthood.
Jose Camacho, executive director for the Texas Association of Community Health Centers, said it will be days before advocates understand the full impact of the proposed law.
So-called stabilization funds would meanwhile bridge the gap for people to ease the insurance cost burden.
"We're always anxious about the clientele", Camacho said. "She has met with and heard the concerns of many Mainers about their health care challenges, and she will continue to do so as she studies the impact of this legislation on ME and the nation".
This isn't all that Bungie has planned for Destiny 1 veterans that purchase and play Destiny 2 though. And so, if you're playing the Raid on PC or you're playing it on PlayStation , it's the same Raid.
As the storm moves north, the Gulf Coast will experience potentially unsafe flooding, CNN meteorologist Michael Guy said . Those thunderstorms could cause isolated flash flooding, but forecasters say widespread flooding is unlikely.
The 22-year-old was to be laid to rest at Oak Hill Cemetery in Cincinnati , Ohio after he died in hospital on Tuesday. His family blamed the "awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the North Koreans".
The US House of Representatives approved its version of the bill, dubbed the American Health Care Act, on May 4. Obama law: Insurers can not charge their oldest customers more than 3 times what they charge young adults.
Burns' Norris victory may have caught some by surprise, however, and it was a close race between he and Erik Karlsson . Bergeron joined Hall of Famer Bob Gainey , who presented the award, as the only players to win the Selke four times.


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You will remember that Naomi bought me two Barbies in Singapore because she said it was a pity not to take any Barbie's home from our trip. She got me this one because she thought, and I agree, that she's one of the nicer of the current batch of Fashionistas.
I haven't felt like doing much doll stuff since I came home. I had a cold that was hard to shake off and was generally feeling a bit "blah". I also thought that I might have to start packing dolls away but due to a hiccup with the house sale they don't have to go just yet so I decided to de-box the two dolls after all. Here she is out of the box.
As you can see she has the Model Muse body which now seems the norm for all Fashionistas. She does feel quite solid and well made which I liked. Her hair has a couple of coloured streaks in it and she has two freckles under one eye and another on her chin, or maybe that one's a beauty spot. Who knows? I do like the colour of her eyes with that red hair. She has a thing on her hand, described as a ring but it goes across her whole hand so I don't see how you can call that a ring. Would anyone actually wear something like this on their hand? It looks very uncomfortable and inconvenient even if it does say "Love".
Glam Team 16 close up. She has nice colouring.
However, when I undressed her I made an annoying discovery. She has flat feet! Her legs are attached "Hobbit Style" so she can stand with them wide apart. The dress, by the way, has no fastenings, you just slip it off, not so easy with a bent arm doll. I doubt many three year olds will manage without tearing it.
As I wasn't overly keen on her original outfit I decided to see how she looked in a couple of Fashion Fever outfits. I chose blue because it would look nice with her hair. The outfits looked great but she couldn't wear any of the shoes. Not even the sneakers.
Fashion Fever dress from Hillary Duff blue winter closet.
She can wear the shoes but they don't fit properly.
On the whole I like this doll. I am disappointed that Fashionista's no longer have articulation and I think the clothing is ordinary but she has a nice face. I do miss dolls being issued with names to distinguish them as I'm rapidly going to get sick of saying "Glam Team 16 Barbie". I better get the Baby Names book out again and think of something.
She looks so much better redressed!
I really like it better when fashions and accessories are easily interchangeable. Shoes are the worst. Model Muse dolls can't wear Fashion Fever shoesor the earlier ones and these new flat footed Fashionistas can't wear them either. I think Sindy only ever had two different shoe sizes.
I really like the face of this doll and the hair and eye color. Many of the fashionista line are tempting, but I say what good is a doll that can't even bend at the knees to sit down? Shoe fitting is such a dilemma with the different types of Barbies. The new made to move Barbies have these teeny-tiny feet without arches so they can only wear flats if I can find them to fit. Don't they know that doll play involves changing, mixing and matching outfits and shoes?? Is my yoga Barbie only meant to do yoga?? I saw a lovely tennis player doll the other day, but she is completely without articulation. So, she can't actually pose like she is playing tennis. All of the career dolls are this way too. They just "look" like they can do the job. Ha ha!
I don't think they do know Melanie. They seem to have forgotten that was what Barbie was created for in the first place. Now she has cheap tacky clothes and in a lot of cases her clothing is molded on to her like an action figure. They got so hung up on body types that they have forgotten that fashion dolls should be able to be redressed.
Yeah and it almost seems they are working more for the collector than for one who would actually play with the dolls. So many of the new dolls just look like all they want to do is stand in the box and look pretty!!
There seems to be no middle ground any more. The playline dolls are often cheap looking but the collector ones are so elaborate that they are only for looking at and so expensive you fear to debox them. There is a whole big group of people like us who like to redress, photograph and create stories who are not being well catered for.
Good luck with the blog I will pop over and visit shortly. Naomi also makes the point that choosing outfits for dolls can be a way for children to learn about what clothes are appropriate for which occasion and what styles and colours suit certain skin and hair colours.
This doll is among the few fashionistas I acquired. I have a soft spot for gingers and love her sporty outfit. She looks great modeling fashion fever. I have a shoe pack and sneakers which should for her.
I have a soft spot for the gingers too and as I now have two of these flat footed girls I think I'll have to get a shoe pack or be doomed to see them wearing ugly shoes with pretty clothes.
She's pretty cute. I agree the original dress wasn't the best, and the flat feet are sooooo annoying. I have figured out how to make flat sandals out of card board (cut a piece of cardboard the size of the dolls foot, then put a ribbon over the top the the food and glue down. They slip off easily but if you are desperate for shoes it will work), but they aren't proper shoes. I've seen some flat shoes somewhere, but they were $10 a pair 😮 WHy would mattel make flat feet, but not easily accessible flat shoes????
I understand they do make a shoe pack but of course not all stores have them so you have to search. Of course as they market the play line to 3-7 year olds they probably don't care as they figure the shoes will be lost anyway.


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Specimen Days
1456—Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (Arcadia), is born.
1844—Gerard Manley Hopkins, England, poet (Windhover), is born.
1902—Kenneth F Fearing, US, poet (Dead Reckoning), is born.
1927—John Ashbery, American poet, is born.
1929—Remco [Wouter] Campert, Dutch literary/poet/son of Jan Campert, is born.
1950—Shahyar Ghanbari, Iranian poet, is born.
So I cradle this average violin that knows
Only forgotten showtunes, but argues
The possibility of free declamation anchored
To a dull refrain, the year turning over on itself
In November, with the spaces among the days
More literal, the meat more visible on the bone.
Our question of a place of origin hangs
Like smoke: how we picnicked in pine forests,
In coves with the water always seeping up, and left
Our trash, sperm and excrement everywhere, smeared
On the landscape, to make of us what we could.
—from "Street Musicians" by John Ashbery
World Poetry
Israeli Defense Chief Raps Radio Boss for Show on Palestinian Poet Mahmoud Darwish
IDF spokesman weighs in against Army Radio as defense minister mulls its future
Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has summoned Army Radio chief Yaron Dekel because of the broadcast Tuesday night about Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish – part of a series on formative Israeli texts in the station's "University on the Air" program.
"This is a serious issue in which someone who has written texts against Zionism – which are still used as fuel for terror attacks against Israel – is included with his works as part of Israeli society's formative texts," Lieberman said via his communications adviser.
Leader's Poems Grip Brazilians, but Not in a 'Fiery Flames' Way
Before becoming Brazil's interim president, Michel Temer had a bit more free time on his hands. As a lawmaker shuttling between Brasília and São Paulo a few years ago, he found himself jotting his musings on cocktail napkins in airport lounges. In 2013, his first book of poetry, "Anonymous Intimacy," was published, drawing mostly yawns from Brazilians. Mr. Temer, 75, a button-down career politician whose demeanor is so cryptically ceremonious that his rivals liken him to a butler in a horror movie, was apparently inspired by an array of themes.
Hagit Grossman's Trembling but Open Space
Trembling of the City by Hagit Grossman, beautifully translated by Benjamin Balint, gives us the city of the mind and the body, the city of bicycles, market squares, corner margins, villains, sidewalks, cooks from Florentine street, but most of all this is a city of love, a city that trembles with "the speed of everything," the city where Sylvia Plath and Snow White and Desdemona make up the hall of ghosts where "any open space receives a sign," where "anyone who stopped will say stop" and eyes "return lit up" in this city and if "blood waters the flowerpot on balcony" it is because you are "in love with love," it is because you "have encountered love / on a night meant only for a funeral," it is because the voice tells us "I haven't been loved for a year now. / These are my last words in a little while / I'll celebrate liberation from my body." And yet we realize that there are many departures.
Book Review: Only More So by Millicent Borges Accardi
by Sam Pereira
When one first picks up a copy of Only More So, the new collection of poetry by Millicent Borges Accardi from Salmon Poetry in Ireland, there is an overwhelming expectation that delicacy is about to mingle with honesty, resulting in some magnificent looking words as the children from that union. With that to hold on to, as well as the book's surprisingly magnetic artwork, the reader is immediately hit with an understanding that Ms. Borges Accardi is not new to the challenges that contemporary poetry serves up.
Centres of Cataclysm review – 50 years of Modern Poetry in Translation
Edited by Sasha Dugdale and David & Helen Constantine, this anthology illustrates that Ted Hughes's magazine is still invaluable
by Sean O'Brien
Selected by distinguished previous and current editors, this ample anthology celebrates 50 years of the excellent Modern Poetry in Translation. The magazine was originally conceived by Ted Hughes and Daniel Weissbort as a "rough" broadsheet, but its "roughness" was finely designed, like a branch of the alternative publishing of the 1960s that also gave us important small presses and underground publications. The core of the magazine's early interests lay in poetry written behind the iron curtain or under nazism, work that, it seemed to Hughes and others, possessed an urgency and universality missing from the west. Among those the magazine has brought to attention are Miroslav Holub, Vasko Popa, János Pilinszky, Paul Celan, Maria Tsvetaeva, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Tadeusz Różewicz and Zbigniew Herbert. That's quite a roll call.
I Had to Cut It Down: An Experiment in Destructive Criticism
by Ty Clever
The role of the critic is the topic de jour, in part because of the smart and accessible book Better Living Through Criticism, recently published by New York Times film critic A. O. Scott. Scott floats several thought-provoking observations, but I found this one particularly compelling:
The critic's task is to trace a twisted, looping, stutter-stepping, incomplete path toward the truth, and as such to fight an unending battle against premature and permanent certainty.
'The Lights of Brindisi'
A poem by Yves Bonnefoy, who died in July this year; introduced by Andrew McCulloch
Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016), who died at the beginning of this month, was widely considered to be the most important and influential French poet of the past sixty years. He believed that since language excludes us from any "authentic intimacy" with the world, we need poetry "to remember that we miss it" and to prove to ourselves the value of "those moments when we are able to encounter other people, or trees, or anything". This appeal to reality, traces of whose original perfection persist on earth and which it is the poet's task to collect and reassemble, haunts Bonnefoy's poetry and his attempt to recreate "le vrai lieu" – the real world – uncontaminated by any kind of intellectual interference. In order to achieve présence it was necessary to free language from the conceptual framework that weakens its original symbolic force: as he remarked, "to say is no longer to enter on the description of what is".
Eliot's Scientific 'Tendencies' in 1919
by Duncan MacKay
An interesting article in PN Review 228 (March–April 2016) by Robert Griffiths presents us with the 'curiously coincidental' emergence of modernist poetry alongside the revolution in physics represented by Einstein's 1905 and 1915 papers on Special and General Relativity. Griffiths suggests 'the fact [is] that all of this revolutionary poetry and physics (and psychology), as well as a great deal else, was going on in a mutually unrelated way'. Griffiths is right to distinguish 1915 from 1919 as far as Einstein's notoriety and its wider cultural significance was concerned; Einstein's work was previously little known outside even a small circle of physicists. However, while influences at any time can be subtle and complex, Griffiths's general assertion of 'a mutually unrelated way' after 1919 is surely not tenable.
The Very Quiet Foreign Girls Poetry Group
It all came from Priya's poem, and Priya's poem came from – well, I had no idea. It was an unlikely thing to turn up in a pile of marking. Yet there it was, tucked between two ordinary effusions, typed in a silly, curly, childish font, a sonorous description, framed with exquisite irony, of everything she couldn't remember about her "mother country".
Drafts & Framents
Kirsten Dunst to Direct The Bell Jar Starring Dakota Fanning
Kirsten Dunst is to make her debut as a director with an adaptation of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Dakota Fanning has been announced in the lead role of Esther Greenwood, a young woman who takes an internship at a magazine in New York before suffering a breakdown and returning home to Boston.
A Poetry Storm is Coming to Biloxi's Sidewalks
Unsuspecting pedestrians walking throughout downtown Biloxi soon will find some bright spots on rainy days with hidden poetry that reveals itself when wet. Haiku's, quotes and original poetry will appear one wet sidewalks and streets in downtown Biloxi for 3-4 weeks beginning Monday.
Poetry In The News
Muslim Teenagers Use Slam Poetry To Educate Others About Their Faith
"September 11, 2001, wake up America the enemy is here." This is how a group of four Muslim American teenagers, who hope to change the culture of discrimination toward Muslims through the art of slam poetry, start their poem, "Wake Up America."
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition
edited by Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman
[Paperback] Princeton University Press, 456 pp., $35.00
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and poetic elements, followed by invaluable, up-to-date bibliographies that guide users to further reading and research. Because the entries are carefully selected and adapted from the Princeton Encyclopedia, the Handbook has unrivalled breadth and depth for a book of its kind, in a convenient, portable size. Fully indexed for the first time and complete with an introduction by the editors, this is an essential volume for all literature students, teachers, and researchers, as well as other readers and writers.
Human Interest by Kim Bridgford
[Paperback] White Violet Press, 92 pp.,$17.00
Kim Bridgford's latest collection offers both her customary technical pleasures and a new, half-astonished rage. Filled with kidnapped girls and off-kilter animals ("it is all about what's rearranged"), bookended by revisions of Facebook and clichés, Human Interest demands that we re-think poetic forms as more than heritage, challenge, or trap: they are Bridgford's own strong bones stood up hard against a seriously skewed world.—Terri Witek
Oracle: Poems by Cate Marvin
[Paperback] W. W. Norton & Company, 96 pp., $16.95
The speakers of Oracle occupy the outer-borough cityscape of New York's Staten Island, where they move through worlds glittering with refuse and peopled by ghosts―of a dead lover, of a friend lost to suicide, of a dog with glistening eyes. Marvin's haunting, passionate poems explore themes of loss, of the vulnerability of womanhood in a world hostile to it, and of the fraught, strangely compelling landscape of adolescence.
Poets Take Cues From Journalism In Recent Collections
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor about three recent collections that take their cues from nonfiction, including Admit One by Martha Collins, Look by Solmaz Sharif and Olio by Tyehimba Jess.
"Reckoning with Our Hungers: An Interview with Shane McCrae"
by Cate Lycurgus
Shane McCrae is the author of four books of poetry: The Animal Too Big to Kill (Persea Books, 2015), winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor's Choice Award; Forgiveness Forgiveness (Factory Hollow Press, 2014); Blood (Noemi Press, 2013); and Mule (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2011). He is the recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He teaches at Oberlin College and lives in Oberlin, Ohio.
Matthea Harvey Talks with US about Craft, VIDA, and Killing the Cuteness
by Jane Huffman
Jane Huffman: We can start with something miniature. I've always wondered—do you keep the items from your art pieces after you photograph them? I'm specifically thinking about all of the dollhouse accoutrements and embroidery pieces in Tabloids; are your bookshelves covered in tiny chairs? (If so, can we see?)
Envoi: Editor's Notes
Below is a review of Larry Levis's last book, which includes many previously unpublished poems. Although the book has been available since the beginning of the year, the review is new, and I post it here in light of the recent rumors that the Democratic nominee for vice president, Tim Kaine, studied poetry with Levis.
Poet of The The: "The Darkening Trapeze" by Larry Levis
By Kathleen Graber
To hold a new collection of poems by Larry Levis is nearly miraculous. The Darkening Trapeze arrived as an immeasurable gift, not only as a final gift from the poet himself, but also, unquestionably, as a gift from his friends — David St. John, the book's editor, as well as Greg Donovan, Mary Flinn, Amy Tudor, and the late Philip Levine — who collectively carefully preserved and assembled these poems from Levis's disorderly papers, correspondence, and computer files.

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Physics ⋅
Electricity and Magnetism: What Are They & Why Are They Important?
Three Types of Conduction
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Thermal Physics: An Overview
By Michelle Furlong
Conduction is the process by which something, such as heat or an electric current, moves through one substance to another substance. One of the substances or objects remains stationary throughout this process, yet it is still affected by the difference in temperature, energy or heat of the other substance.
Electric Conduction
Electric conduction refers to the ability of a material to transfer an electric current. Conductivity is determined by how dense an object is compared to the strength of the electric field it can maintain. Metals are substances with a high level of conductivity (also known as a conductor) since they display minimal resistance to an electrical charge. Insulators, such as glass, are materials that are resistant to electrical charges. Televisions, radios and computers are examples of inventions that rely on the current provided by electric conduction.
Heat Conduction
Where electric conduction refers to a transfer or electric current, heat conduction refers to a transfer of energy, specifically thermal energy. Heat conduction is sometimes called thermal conduction. The energy is transferred within a stationary object as a result of a change in temperature in parts of a material adjacent to one another. The energy will move quickly or slowly depending on what the object is made of, how large it is and, most importantly, the temperature gradient. Temperature gradient refers to the rate and direction in which the temperature changes from a specific point to another point. Diamonds and copper are materials with high thermal conductivity.
Photoconductivity
Photoconductivity occurs when a material absorbs electromagnetic radiation, resulting in a change in the substance's electrical conductivity. The electromagnetic radiation can be caused by something as simple as a light shining on a semiconductor or something as complex as a material being exposed to gamma radiation. When the electromagnetic event occurs, the number of free electrons increases, as does the number of electron holes, thus increasing the object's electrical conductivity. Common applications of photoconductivity include copy machines, solar panels and infrared detection equipment.
Laws Related to Conduction
Mathematical laws address both electrical conduction (Ohm's Law) and heat conduction (Fourier's Law). Ohm's Law shows how voltage (V), current (I) and resistance (R) are related. Ohm's Law can be expressed in several different ways, including V = IR, which means that the voltage is equal to the current multiplied by the resistance. Fourier's Law shows that thermal energy moves from warmer materials to cooler materials. Fourier's Law can be written as q = k A dT / s. In this equation, q refers to the rate of heat conduction, A is the heat transfer area, k is the material's thermal conductivity, dT is the difference in temperature across the material and s refers to how thick the material is.
Three Types of Heat Transfers
What Are Insulators?
What Is the Difference Between Resistivity & Conductivity?
Why Do Magnets Work Better When They Are Cold?
The Properties of Insulators
How to Make a Simple Electric Conductivity Apparatus
Factors Affecting Thermal Conductivity
How to Convert Wattage to Degrees
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Mike Alexander's Mac and iOS setup
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I am Mike Alexander, and I'm a teacher of Modern Languages (German and Spanish) at James Gillespie's High School in Edinburgh, Scotland.
My Mac isn't actually that new. It's a 2011 MacBook Pro running High Sierra. A year or two ago I upgraded the HDD to an SSD, and since then it's been as fast as the day I got it. Since I bought my iPad Pro, I use the Macbook more as a media and file hub. It has an archive of all my files from high school, University, and all the materials I've created in 10 years of teaching, as well as my iTunes library and all of my photos (I'm a bit of an amateur photographer.)
It's a picture of my wife and daughter, so I'm the only one that has a copy of it!
I use Airmail as my main email client (Gmail and my school email, which runs on Office 365), as well as the Office 365 apps for work. I'd prefer to use Pages and Keynote, but we're tied in. Plus, the Office 365 suite is actually pretty slick and syncs nicely across devices.
I use Photos for organizing my photos, and I have Google Photos running in the background backing them up (it compresses them slightly, but it's free and has unlimited storage).
I use an app called Calibre for managing my Kindle library.
I have various apps that I use across all three devices: Pocket, LastPass, and Notes.
I also use Pages, Keynote, Office 365 and Smart Notebook (the software that accompanies Smart interactive whiteboards) to create materials to use in class.
I find myself using my iPad more and more, so I'm OK with what I've got. I would't turn down a brand new MacBook, wireless keyboard, and a nice big display, but it's not really necessary and I try to be as minimal as possible.
Last month, I bought a silver iPhone X with 64GB of space. I upgraded from a 7 Plus as part of the iPhone Upgrade Program. I wasn't sure if it was worth it, and it may be something of an extravagance, but it's absolutely brilliant. The screen is stunning, and the slightly smaller size feels just about perfect.
It's the stock iOS black wallpaper. I don't like to overcomplicate things.
Edison Email: I experimented between this, Mail.app, Airmail and Outlook, but Edison really is excellent. It is the fastest out of all the ones I tried, doesn't try to do too much, and helps me manage email from both accounts when I'm on the go.
Tweetbot: by far the nicest Twitter client I've used (though I would love a true black theme for the iPhone X display)
LastPass: after listening to an episode of Reply All last year about internet security, I immediately downloaded a password manager. I experimented with 1Password, but I preferred LastPass.
Pocket Casts: I've used this and Overcast, but in the end Pocket Casts won. I listen to a ton of podcasts when I'm commuting, and Pocket Casts is powerful and has a great interface.
Dark Sky: the best weather app I've come across. As I live in Scotland, knowing exactly when it's going to rain is very useful.
Pocket: easily saves articles from Twitter to read later. I have an enormous list of articles to get through, but it's great for if you've got a spare minute and want something short to read. I appreciate good design, and it's a very well-designed app.
Headspace: since discovering mindfulness and meditation a few years ago, Headspace is the best app I've found to help you learn more and explore more.
Wunderlist: I use Reminders.app for day-to-day things and recurring reminders, but I've started to use Wunderlist for work tasks. I find it's easier to design checklists and break projects down into individual steps, and it syncs across devices as well.
Music: I recently got a subscription to Apple Music, and it's excellent. I'd not used a streaming service before, and while Spotify is also great, Apple Music is seamless in the way it integrates with my existing iTunes library. It's helped me discover, and rediscover, a lot of music that I love.
Whatsapp: I prefer Messages, but for people who don't have iPhones and for group conversations (family, friends, work) Whatsapp can't be beaten.
EVA: short for Electric Vehicle Assistant. I have an electric car (a Nissan Leaf), and this app lets me start/stop charging remotely, as well as turn on the climate control to heat/cool the car before I get in. It's a very simple and elegant app, and much better than the slightly clunky official Nissan Connect app.
Class Notebook / Office Lens: part of Office 365, which lets me use my iPhone camera and upload instantly to my classes' workspaces.
Probably Messages and Whatsapp: I text way more than I phone people, and for sharing pictures (mostly of my daughter) with family, they're perfect. Also, LastPass because it's secure and stops me forgetting passwords.
I have an iPad Pro 9.7, 32GB, Space Gray, with an Apple Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil. I've got an FRTMA magnetic sleeve on the Pencil, which sticks really firmly to the iPad and saves me from losing it!
Again, it's the stock iOS black wallpaper.
How are you using your iPad on a daily basis?
I'm using my iPad more and more. I decided this year, as my school was aiming to use Office 365 more, to try to be as paper-free as possible. So I have students submitting work via OneNote or email, and I can correct and annotate it using the Pencil: if I do this via Class Notebook, it updates live and the students can see it instantly. I find this really powerful and effective.
I also have a lesson planning app (more about that in a minute), calendar, email, and all Office 365 apps.
iDoceo: I can't recommend this app enough. For teachers, it's the perfect companion. It's hugely customisable, and has a lesson planner, gradebooks (that can calculate percentages, averages, etc.), multiple seating plans, and integration with cloud storage services. It's outstanding.
Office 365: As I said before, ever student in my school has access to this, and for submitting and giving feedback on work, I find it very effective.
Notes: I used to use Evernote for note-taking, but I feel it's been overtaken by the stock Notes app. It's versatile and feature-rich, and half of the time I use the Pencil to take handwritten notes during meetings, as I enjoy using it (the text is also searchable).
Flipboard: one of the first apps I downloaded on the first iPad I had. It's not perfect, but it's beautifully designed and really enjoyable to use.
Notability: mostly for annotating PDF.
Day One: for journaling. I have several years' worth of handwritten journals, but once I saw what Day One was capable of doing (including printing out a year at a time and creating books) I was sold. It's awesome.
eXtra Voice Recorder: I teach languages, and this is an excellent tool for recording students speaking. With the iPad, I can use it in split screen to make notes for feedback simultaneously.
iDoceo: like I've said before, I use it to plan almost everything I do in my classroom.


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In early November, Moore Humane Society picked up two small kittens from a family unable to care for them. Boo Bear, the male sibling, was suffering with a bandaged left front leg.
After being examined by our vet, it was determined that the leg could not be saved.
acrobatics with the other kittens!
He's one of the December residents in PetSmart's Cat Room where he has perfected his signature stunt: leaping from the kitty litter bin into the waste paper basket! Boo Bear has also been found napping in Volunteer Denise's purse!
Photo above left: Boo Bear with bandaged leg. His owners had bandaged the leg in an attempt to provide some support.
Photo above right: Bandaged removed. Not having received medical care after the trauma, the damage to his leg is extensive. Moore Humane Society covered the costs for Boo Bear's amputation and follow-up care.
Photo left: Boo Bear seems to be unaware that he's a tripod! Here he discovers his reflection... "What the....???"
As a child growing up in Israel, Mory Patterson never had a pet. Little did she know that when she moved to the States in the summer of '08 to marry her husband, she would end up sharing their home with five felines! Of course, it didn't happen all at once; Danny (a tabby) and Mabel (half Siamese, half tabby) were already a part of the family when Mory arrived. Then along came Frankie, a Siamese/tabby who looked so much like Mabel they could have been litter mates... anyway, what's one more, right? Two years later, she and her husband adopted two kittens who showed up in her father-in-law's yard... Jack and Buzzy! So it's a full house and any further yearnings for kittens are satisfied by the time Mory spends as a Volunteer in our Cat and Kitten Rooms!
"When I first moved to the States, I didn't have a driver's license, an ID or a job... so the cats became company, and Frankie really became my buddy. I did online research and read a lot of books about cats, then started volunteering at Moore Humane Society in the spring of 2011. I've really become attached to many of them... especially Goldie, Cricket and Sahara... and I just loved Keanu! The first time I met Keanu, I was bending over to let a kitten out of a lower cage. He was in an upper level cage, and he bonked me on the head with his paw... it was if he wanted to remind me that he was waiting to be let out!"
"So many people are drawn to the cute little kittens, which is understandable. But I want to encourage volunteers to work with the adult cats as well. Be patient with them, work with them on their terms, and let them come to you. Adult cats are trainable; they might not understand the words you use, but they respond to your tone of voice so speak quietly. Just be patient, and they will warm up to you. And the more our cats are socialized, the better their chances for adoption."
Our cats and kittens are the featured felines in residence in the PetSmart Cat Room for the entire month of December! Volunteers are taking shifts, playing with the kitties and introducing them to potential adopters.
If you'd like to meet one of the cats or kittens there, just tap on the door or a window to get the attention of the Volunteer! Get ready to laugh...we've set up a make shift kitty condo (see the photos below) and have brought in various toys, cat nip mice, and a laser pointer... for their exercise and our entertainment! We all agree - it is so gratifying to see these young kittens resting, worn out from chasing the laser's little red dot around the room and up the walls!
Domino seems to be inviting Fiona over to check Jewel admires the view from her "condo."
When Dominic's Mom began planning his birthday party, the soon to be five year old asked if his guests could bring presents for dogs and cats, rather than gifts for him. Dominic loves animals! He has grown up with Obie, the family dog, lives next door to Barney Rubble, and thinks the best way to spend an afternoon is horseback riding! He has seen the care his parents give lost dogs that show up at their house, and the joy of reuniting a family and pet! When he and his Mom delivered the bags of dog and cat food to the Shelter, they stayed long enough to help take Tigger for a short walk and to play with puppies Tinkerbelle and Skipper!
We thank Dominic for caring about the welfare of animals, and we congratulate his Mom and Dad (Nicole and Rob) for raising a child who understands the joy of giving!
Holiday Greetings from Cheerio (left) and Porsche (right)! Both were adopted in 2011, and are so happy to be Home for the Holidays!
Many thanks to Susan Baer, a Moore Humane Society Volunteer and Art Teacher at Sandhills Classical Christian School, and her art students for decorating the Moore Humane Society donation bin at Lowe's Food Store in Olmsted Plaza on NC Highway 211. The bin will remain in place near the check out area for the entire month of December... please remember our hungry pooches and kitties when you shop, and tell your friends! Thank you, Lowe's! Year after year you encourage your generous customers to help us fill our bins with cat/dog food and treats during the holiday season! Together we are saving Moore animals!
A second donation bin was decorated by Kat Hirchinson-Smith, Art Teacher at the Sandhills Theatre Arts Renaissance School, and her students! This bin is holding donations of cat/dog food made by animal loving golfers visiting the Pro Shop at Country Club of Whispering Pines! Again, the bin will remain in the Pro Shop for the entire month of December! We thank Director of Golf Rodney Russell and Paula Brzostowski for allowing us to collect donations from their members and friends, enabling us to feed our hungry critters!
And speaking of donations... Moore Humane Society is a beneficiary of the 5 + 5 = 5,000 Cans Food Drive, sponsored by the folks at FCIG in Southern Pines. The drive ends on December 17th so there are only a few days left to watch your donation of canned cat and dog food double! Specify Moore Humane Society when you leave your cans at the following drop off locations: FCIG office at 190 A Turner Street in Southern Pines (you'll pass the building on your way to Martin Park), WIOZ 102.5 Radio in Southern Pines, and Seven Lakes Pizza on NC Hwy 211 in Seven Lakes! Thank you, FCIG, for an incredible food drive!
A special thank you to Bill "Santa Claus" Russell for participating in the Santa Photo Opportunity Day at PetSmart, an event which benefited Moore Humane Society! Not only did he call out greetings to every pet owner who walked by, but he knew many of the dogs by name, and they clearly recognized him!
And finally, to our staff and our Volunteers, to the families who have welcomed our animals into their homes, and to everyone who has contributed to our fundraisers, enabling us to keep our doors open, we thank each and every one of you. You know the difference you have made in the lives of our cats and dogs, puppies and kittens.
If you use Facebook, don't forget to LIKE the Moore Humane Society page! We have 823 folks who like us, and we'd love to make it to 1,000!
Donation bins for dog and cat food, toys and treats are in place for the month of December at Lowe's Food Store, NC Hwy 211 in Olmsted Plaza and in the Pro Shop at Country Club of Whispering Pines.
5 + 5 = 5,000 Cans Food Drive by the folks at First Casualty Insurance Group (FCIG)! Watch your donation of canned goods double right before your eyes! Moore Humane Society is a beneficiary! The Food Drive ends on December 17th!
Moore Humane Society Kittens and Cats in the Cat Room at PetSmart for the whole month of December!
Did you adopt your cat or kitten, puppy or dog from Moore Humane Society?
we'll include these updates in the January e-newsletter!


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Idka was founded upon the belief that the advertising-driven model cannot be fixed, contrary to what Facebook and others have said. Idka is the antithesis to the 'Stalker Economy', the foundation of today's social networking, were the users themselves are the product. The built-in drivers of the advertising model will inevitably lead to serious privacy violations, but more than that, it creates a problem for a free democratic way of life. The problem of tailored news (echo chambers), dark posts, political 'nudging' and covert political campaigning, profiling and surveillance is real and has already had discernable impact.
Idka has been created as a product in its own right, where users pay a small monthly subscription for a service with short, understandable, and fair user terms.
The service is free of advertising, news streams, and manipulation. Idka centers on privacy and security, so encryption and 2-factor authentication is central. All default actions are set up to protect the user's privacy. There is no pre-population or prompting to invite or collect friends and contacts. A post will not be shared when published without an intended and specific share action from the user. A private post cannot be changed and shared with new people. People who are added to a many-to-many chat will be able to see chat entries after they are added, etc. A picture in a post cannot be downloaded and it goes away if removed by the person who uploaded it. Delete is really delete, meaning that the information is removed from Idka servers.
The service covers a number of functions that are otherwise spread across several platforms, such as posting, chatting, end-to-end encrypted chatting (like Telegram and Signal), many-to-many chatting (like hang-out), integrated drag&drop cloud storage (like Box and DropBox) without file size limits, etc. When a group is created, it will immediately have its own cloud storage, its own chat and posting wall. Members can be read-only if necessary.
The service also caters to companies with 'organizational accounts' and provides more functionality than other Web-based services (such as Slack).
Idka requires no IT knowledge or support and no installation of any kind, except for apps on mobile platforms.
Idka is available as a HTML5 web-based service, or on iOS and Android.
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"There's no escape: the journey to a healthier society inevitably involves politics." This is how well-known futurist David Wood starts his most recent book Transcending Politics: A Technoprogressive Roadmap to a Comprehensively Better Future. And so I thought I'd bring him back on Singularity.FM to share with us how exactly is it he suggests that we transcend politics.


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The Argument for Argument
Mr. Gairdner, your book is entitled The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree. That "never ever" is very forceful!
By Naomi Biesheuvel April 10, 2015
It's difficult, these days, to separate anger from disagreement, but William D. Gairdner is convinced that it's not only possible, but critical. I chatted with him about his newest book at a recent Cardus event.
It's provocative. I don't think it's all that negative in the sense that liberal democracy has always managed to find compromises, but a lot of the shouting and the silence between citizens that I have heard in the last 20 years has bothered me a lot. It used to be that I'd attend some gathering like a cocktail party, and I'd walk up to some fellow and say something that I thought was a fact of life. And the fellow would typically look at me and say, "Well, that's true for you but it's not true for me."
This was my moment! So I would say, "It can't be true and false at the same time; one of us must be wrong." Meaning, "Why don't we talk about it and find out which of us it is?"
Inevitably the fellow would go drink with someone else, and I knew the game was over—that this society has been closing down. Instead of feeling an obligation to go to high-minded argument, the idea has been that we go to emotional outrage.
I think a lot of younger people fear high-minded debate precisely because it so often leads to this sort of uncontrollable emotion.
Total Victory?
Grade Eight Debate
Yes, well, when I give public speeches, more often than I'd like to think, someone will stand up and say, "Mr. Gairdner, I'm outraged by what you've been saying!"
And I look them right in the eye and say, "Well, you couldn't be more outraged than I am. Now what's your point?"
It's like watching air coming out of a balloon. They just fizzle down and they realize: OK, I have to say something the man can grapple with—an opinion, a fact, or a statement.
So I wrote this book to try to lay all the liberal versus conservative arguments out on the table. It's like a man standing on a road, and suddenly there's a huge crack that opens up, buildings are falling down, and he says, "It's an earthquake!" But of course, it's not an earthquake, it's the consequences of an earthquake. The earthquake is happening because there are geological forces beneath the ground that are causing all the rubble at the surface. But it's the same with political rubble—it's being caused by ideological forces below the ground that we don't see. So this book is an attempt to bring those forces to the surface so we can see them, recognize them, and then debate them instead of just shouting.
It seems a lot of Millenials like myself might dispute your subtitle—a lot of us are optimistic that there is some kind of middle road. Is it possible?
I differ with you on that, because, for example, take a topic like human nature. Human nature is either malleable and perfectible, as the liberal tends to think, or it's not, as the conservative tends to think. It can't be both. It's either one or the other. That's what we should be debating on that kind of topic. It's the same with topics like democracy, freedom—all the other topics in my book, fourteen in all—they come down to irresolvable differences in the belief systems or philosophical approaches to life.
So what value is there in continuing to talk about it?
It's more high-minded, elevated debate, instead of angry emotion and silence. We live in a frightened society as we become infantilized, because we're afraid to talk about things like our opinions of human nature, versus shouting about some policy you don't like. It's a very different argument.
To the table, you have to bring some modicum of education, reading, interest, argument, and so on, rather than just shouting. That's why I wrote the book—not because I believe we can ever cross the divide, totally—but at least if we agree to disagree, let it be about something substantive, and not just because we're angry. It's a different kind of society than the other tack, where we all just walk away fuming.
An excerpt of William D. Gairdner's new book is featured in the current issue of Convivium magazine.
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Fun and refreshing 3-in-a-row game. Mythology info, characters and wallpaper a nice touch. Easy to pick up. Mini-games break up the action.
Don't really need the gods' help. Only one game mode. Quite easy.
Heroes of Hellas is proof you don't need to reinvent the wheel in order to create a highly polished and fun casual game. Sure, it's one of those 3-in-a-row gem-swapping games – a la Bejeweled – but it's played in a different way and weaves in an enjoyable Greek Mythology angle.
Here's the scoop: Someone has stolen the scepter Zeus holds to control Heaven and Earth, so you must travel through ancient Greece and into Hades, summon help from celebrated heroes – such as Hercules, Icarus and Perseus – find the thief and return the scepter to the almighty ruler of Mount Olympus. On your adventure you'll learn about Greek mythology, play mini-games and help build a beautiful place (with the help of Hephaestus, the god of the fire of blacksmiths).
The core game-play works as follows. Players are presented with a unique-shaped grid that resembles a 2-D beehive as it's made up of hexagons (six-sided objects). Insides each of these connected hexagons are colored items such as gems, coins and arrows. Your goal is to click and hold the mouse over a specific object – like a purple arrow or green coin — and move the mouse so that it connects with at least three identical adjacent shapes. When you let go of the mouse, the connected items disappear, making room for new ones that cascade down the screen.
Behind some of these hexagons are gold plates, which are then removed once the object is removed on top of it. The player will finish the level when all gold plates are removed from the board. This must be completed within a predetermined time or else you must repeat the level.
Power-ups also appear on the board – such as a lightning bolt that removes nearby objects or a clock that adds some time to your game – so it's wise to take advantage of these by using them in your chain.
Just as there are power-ups there are obstacles, such as stones that cannot be moved, and locks and ropes that prevent a gem from being used until you make it part of your chain or remove the gems around it, respectively.
Also, red semiprecious stones will appear on the level. To collect these you must remove the items below it until the stone drops down to an open spot on the level (usually at the bottom) and then will be added to your collection.
Each main level helps you reveal the portrait of a different Greek hero, who can then help you finish the levels going forward. For example, you can unlock Odysseus, who will help you remove gold tiles or semiprecious stones if you collect enough red gems.
After a hero is unlocked you will also be able to play a fun sliding tile mini-game that has you compile a hand-drawn picture of them, which you can then use as Windows wallpaper if you like. This picture, and some info surrounding the hero, is a nice reward for progressing throughout the game.
Other rewards for playing include trophies you can win and view from the main menu (example: "completing seven levels in a row without the help of a hero") and the ability to slowly build a palace by choosing between two sections at a time, such as the kind of columns and pillars, or pathway that leads up to the palace. You can also view your palace in progress from the main menu.
The problem with Heroes of Hellas, though, is I never once needed a hero's help to remove colored objects, gold tiles or semiprecious stones from the board. While some may argue a game being too easy isn't a shortcoming – in fact, it's a good thing for newbie or younger players – it's pretty hard to lose at this game. In fact, if there are no more moves to make on the board the tiles are automatically reshuffled for you. I also never ran out of time.
Another beef is that there's only one game mode. Therefore, after you uncover all nine gods and plow through the story there isn't much incentive to play again – though you can try to beat your "best time" per level.
Overall, however, Heroes of Hellas is a fun and gratifying 3-in-a-row game that, while not a completely fresh experience, decorates it nicely with a Greek mythology theme and adds fun extras such as a mini-game, hero info and wallpaper, trophies and a customizable palace. Kudos to Jaibo Games for a job well done.


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Sugarmama posted about a new law attempting to regulate obesity in this post. I started to answer with a comment, but then it started getting really long-winded (you know how I can get!). So I'll just respond below.
What Sugarmama did was offer her version of the solution to the problem. Some of her ideas are actually good ones (now if she could just get the Gov-mint to listen to her!). But, since I've now been trained at fisking by the master himself, I'll attempt once more to do so now with her suggestions.
I believe the health insurance industry should think long and hard about paying for more preventive health care procedures for everyone. You know the old saying, an ounce of prevention…. They THINK they are saving money by denying coverage for some preventive procedures, but in the long run they — oops, I mean, WE — pay for it when diseases (which might otherwise have been prevented) strike. Insurance has always been a business; medicine has become one…. the patient (and his/her well-being) plays second fiddle to the bottom line.
On the other end of the scale, though, we have not only the greedy, self-serving insurance companies, but the "quick payoff at the courthouse" plaintiffs who sue at the drop of a hat (or scalpel). This has especially become a problem in the Rio Grande Valley where medical malpractice insurance premiums have skyrocketed to the point that a lot of doctors are refusing to operate except in the cases of emergencies.
As I've commented before, extremes of either kind, be it too fat or too thin, are not healthy. One's own overall health can only be determined on an individual basis. Attempts to regulate or manage it across the board, as has been attempted with drinking and to some extent smoking (I assume since these pose health and safety risks for those other than the individual himself) will fail.
My own attempts at diet and exercise throughout life have failed and I observe now that during the most miserable time in my life (right after my mother's death), I was a sveldt size 12. But I was utterly miserable. My weight has always hovered near the size 18-20 area and a bit beyond at times. I do not consider myself unattractive. But I do know that I'm fat (as Camryn said, "Wake up, I'm fat!"). And as much as I'd like to see health care benefits to HELP those struggling with weight problems, I do not think those that really need them will get them or will even want them if they did become available.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink the SlimFast.


NASHVILLE, TN — We all love reading about those great American Dream success stories. And the rags to riches story of how Nashville entrepreneur Gigi Butler founded her mega-successful Gigi's Cupcakes empire is definitely a dream come true.
Ms. Butler opened her first Gigi's Cupcakes location just off of Music Row in 2008. In less than 10 years, Gigi's is now the largest cupcake franchise in the world with 112 locations and counting. But when Gigi moved from California to Nashville in 1994, building a dessert empire was never part of her plan. Like so many aspiring singers and songwriters, Gigi originally moved here to pursue a career in music. But the fickleness of the entertainment business caused her to take a detour, and she eventually re-launched Gigi's Cleaning Company, a business she originally started as a teenager. She cleaned houses during the day and sang at local honky-tonks at night. After a decade of pursuing music, Gigi decided to step back and focus on her financial future.
Once again, she returned to her family roots, which are deep in the world of baking and entrepreneurship. Gigi learned the craft of baking cupcakes at an early age, being taught unique family recipes dating back to great, great aunts who were bakery owners in Oklahoma. After being turned down by various banks, she leveraged several personal credit cards to fund the business and gambled everything she had to open her first location on February 21, 2008, with only $33 left to her name. Fortunately, her sweet treats quickly became Nashville's delicacy dessert of choice. Soon after, Gigi's Franchising, Inc. was born and Gigi's Cupcakes locations began popping up throughout the south and now across the country.
The Tribune continued a chat with Gigi Butler, when she answered Five Questions about her successful Gigi's Cupcakes brand, along with some other fun chat.
TRIBUNE: What do you think makes your cupcakes stand out from the rest of the gang of cupcakes here? GIGI B: I cleaned homes for twenty years since I was age 15. One of the things I learned by being in famous people's homes, doctors' homes, business people's homes, is that you have to be branded well. So, when I opened my cupcake shop, I wanted to be branded well. It was very important. I wanted the cupcakes to have their own personalities. Our cupcakes such as Scarlett's Red Velvet, and Hunka-Chunka Banana Love, have their own unique style. I wanted the cupcakes to stand alone and be like, 'Yeah, I'm here, hello.' A lot of people eat with their eyes first. So, these cupcakes are beautiful plus, they're baked with love. I don't mean that in a trite way when I say it. But these cupcake recipes come from my great-great-grandmother, who started her first bakery at the turn of the century in Oklahoma. My mother, my grandmother, my great-aunt Ruby, all of these were hundred-year-old recipes in my lineage, and I just put it into a cake form. So really, when I say baked with love, they are, because they're from their love of baking from a generation of a hundred years. So, that's what makes these cupcakes special.
TRIBUNE: I understand that you have a new line of candles coming out. GIGI B: Yes, they came out November 1st. I teamed up with a candle company called Creative Energy Candles. They're really special because it's a candle that's all natural, with essential oils. But once it's used up, you can use it for beauty. The oils can be used for your elbows, your hands, your cuticles, your feet, and it smells delicious. The candle helps with dry skin or callouses – and it's an awesome product. The candles have such a great smell. I'm so excited to be a part of this venture!