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Governor Northam Announces Plastic Manufacturer to Establish U.S. Corporate Headquarters in Harrisonburg
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Justia Forms Business Contracts PetIQ, Inc. Second Amendment to Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated May 14
Second Amendment to Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated May 14, 2020, by and among PetIQ, LLC, the Guarantors party thereto, Ares Capital Corporation and each other Lender party thereto and Ares Capital Corporation, as administrative agent
SECOND AMENDMENT TO TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
This SECOND AMENDMENT TO TERM LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT (this "Amendment") is dated as of May 14, 2020 and is entered into by and among PETIQ, LLC, an Idaho limited liability company (the "Borrower"), the Guarantors party hereto, ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION and each other Lender party hereto (consisting of the Required Lenders) and ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION, as the administrative agent (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"). Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the same meanings herein as set forth in the Existing Credit Agreement (as defined below) after giving effect to this Amendment.
WHEREAS, the Borrower, Ares Capital Corporation and the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent have entered into that certain Amended and Restated Term Loan Credit Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2019 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the "Existing Credit Agreement");
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders amend the Existing Credit Agreement on the terms set forth herein (such Existing Credit Agreement, as hereby amended on the Amended Effective Date (as defined below), the "Amended Credit Agreement"); and
WHEREAS, on the Amendment Effective Date, the Lenders party hereto (consisting of the Required Lenders) are willing to agree to the amendments requested by the Borrower, on the terms and conditions set forth in this Amendment.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements set forth herein, the Borrower, the Guarantors party hereto, the Lenders party hereto (consisting of the Required Lenders) and the Administrative Agent hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Amendments
Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 3 of this Amendment, on the Amendment Effective Date, the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(a) The following new definitions are hereby added to Section 1.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement in the appropriate alphabetical order:
"2020 Convertible Senior Notes" means the senior unsecured convertible notes issued on or around June 1, 2020 by PetIQ, Inc. due June 1, 2026 in an aggregate principal amount of up to $125,000,000, subject to increase on such issue date by an additional aggregate principal amount of up to $18,750,000.
"2020 Intercompany Note" means that certain Intercompany Note, issued substantially concurrently with the 2020 Convertible Senior Notes, by Parent to PetIQ, Inc.
"Second Amendment" means that certain Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of the Second Amendment Effective Date, by and among the Borrower, the Guarantors party thereto, the Lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent.
"Second Amendment Effective Date" means the date on which the Second Amendment became effective in accordance with its terms and conditions, such date being May 14, 2020.
(b) The following definitions in Section 1.01 of the Existing Credit Agreement are hereby amended and restated in their entirety as set forth below:
"Applicable Margin" means:
(a) with respect to Initial Term Loans that are Base Rate Loans, 4.00%,
(b) with respect to Initial Term Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans, 5.00% and
(c) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans or any Refinancing Term Loans, as set forth in the applicable Incremental Amendment or Refinancing Amendment.
"Available Amount" means, as of any date of determination, an amount, not less than zero in the aggregate, determined on a cumulative basis equal to, without duplication:
(a) an amount equal to $5,000,000; plus
(b) the Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount; plus
(c) the cumulative amount of Net Issuance Proceeds Not Otherwise Applied from issuances of Qualified Capital Stock received by the Borrower after the Closing Date and prior to such date (other than any Net Issuance Proceeds in respect of Qualified Capital Stock issued in respect of the 2020 Convertible Senior Notes or the 2020 Intercompany Note); plus
(d) (i) the aggregate amount of proceeds received by the Borrower in cash or Cash Equivalents after the Closing Date from the sale or other disposition of any Investment to the extent not required to be (A) used to prepay the Obligations or (B) reinvested, plus
(ii) returns, profits, distributions and similar amounts received in cash or Cash Equivalents after the Closing Date to the extent not included or includable in Consolidated EBITDA or the Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount,
in each instance in clauses (i) and (ii), on or in respect of Investments to the extent such Investment was originally funded with and in reliance on the Available Amount (but, in the aggregate for clauses (i) and (ii), not in excess of the original amount of the Available Amount used to fund such Investment); minus
(e) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Investments pursuant to Section 7.01(j) after the Closing Date and prior to such time; minus
(f) any amount of the Available Amount used to make Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 7.04(a)(viii) after the Closing Date and prior to such time; minus
(g) any amount of the Available Amount used to prepay Junior Indebtedness pursuant to Section 7.04(b)(v) after the Closing Date and prior to such time.
"Benchmark Replacement" means the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate (which may include Term SOFR) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest as a replacement to the Eurodollar Rate for U.S. dollar denominated syndicated credit facilities and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; provided that, if the Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than 1.00%, the Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be 1.00% for the purposes of this Agreement.
"Eurodollar Rate" means for any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the higher of (a) the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate for deposits in Dollars for a period approximately equal to such Interest Period and in an amount approximately equal to the principal amount of such Eurodollar Rate Loan which appears on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the second Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Period (adjusted for any and all assessments, surcharges and reserve requirements) and (b) 1.00%. If such interest rate shall cease to be available from the above-described Reuters report, the Eurodollar Rate shall be determined from such financial reporting service as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably determine and use with respect to its other loan facilities for which interest is determined based on the London interbank offered rate.
"Loan Documents" means this Agreement, the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, each Note, each Security Document, the Fee Letter, each Subordination Agreement, each Compliance Certificate, the ABL Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, any agreement creating or perfecting rights in cash collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.14 (but specifically excluding any Secured Cash Management Agreement and Secured Hedge Agreement), and each other agreement, document or instrument delivered by any Credit Party in connection with any Loan Document, whether or not specifically mentioned herein or therein.
(c) Section 7.02 of the Existing Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding clause (q) at the end thereof as set forth below:
(q) unsecured Indebtedness of Parent pursuant to the 2020 Intercompany Note (or any Permitted Refinancing thereof) not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of the 2020 Convertible Senior Notes; provided that the terms and conditions of such Indebtedness shall be substantially similar to such terms and conditions of the 2020 Convertible Senior Notes reviewed by the Administrative Agent on the Second Amendment Effective Date and shall not be amended in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders without the consent of the Administrative Agent.
(d) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby acknowledge and confirm that, except when an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, nothing contained in Section 7.04 of the Amended Credit Agreement, in any other provision of the Amended Credit Agreement, or in any provision of any other Loan Document shall prohibit, restrict or otherwise impair any Credit Party's payment of regularly scheduled interest payments when due in respect of the 2020 Intercompany Note, as of the date hereof, so long as the proceeds thereof will be used by PetIQ, Inc. to pay regularly scheduled interest payments when due in respect of the 2020 Convertible Senior Notes.
Section 2. Conditions to Effectiveness
This Amendment shall become effective as of the date hereof only upon the satisfaction or waiver of all of the conditions precedent (the date of satisfaction or waiver of such conditions being referred to herein as the "Amendment Effective Date") set forth below have been satisfied:
(a) Amendment. The Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment executed and delivered by each of the (i) Borrower and each other Guarantor party hereto and (ii) the Lenders party hereto (consisting of the Required Lenders);
(b) Amendment to ABL Credit Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received a copy of a fully executed amendment to the ABL Credit Agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders;
(c) Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of incurrence of this Amendment or the transactions contemplated hereby or could result therefrom;
(d) Closing Certificate. The Administrative Agent shall have received a customary certificate, dated as of the Amendment Effective Date, signed by a chief executive officer, chief financial officer or another senior officer of the Borrower, confirming compliance with the conditions precedent set forth in clauses (c) and (e) of this Section 3 has been satisfied;
(e) Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and warranties made by any Credit Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof as if made on and as of such date except, (i) to the extent that such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such date and (ii) that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to "materiality" or "Material Adverse Effect" shall be true and correct in all respects; and
(f) Fees and Expenses. The Borrower shall have paid all reasonable documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent (including the reasonable and documented fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) in connection with this Amendment, to the extent invoiced three (3) Business Days prior to the Amendment Effective Date (except as otherwise reasonably agreed by the Borrower).
Section 3. Reaffirmation, Acknowledgment and Consent
The Borrower hereby confirms its pledges, grants of security interests and other obligations, as applicable, under and subject to the terms of each of the Loan Documents to which it is party, and agrees that, notwithstanding the effectiveness of this Amendment or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, such pledges, grants of security interests and other obligations, and the terms of each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, as supplemented in connection with this Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby, are not impaired or affected in any manner whatsoever and shall continue to be in full force and effect and shall continue to secure all the Obligations.
Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges that it has reviewed the terms and provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement and this Amendment and consents to the amendments to the Existing Credit Agreement effected pursuant to this Amendment. Each Guarantor hereby confirms its guarantees, pledges, grants of security interests and other obligations under and subject to the terms of each of the Loan Documents to which it is party, and agrees that, notwithstanding the effectiveness of this Amendment or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, such guarantees, pledges, grants of security interests and other obligations, and the terms of each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, as modified or supplemented in connection with this Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby, are not impaired or affected in any manner whatsoever and shall continue to be in full force and effect and shall continue to secure all the Obligations.
Each Guarantor acknowledges and agrees that each Loan Document to which it is a party or otherwise bound shall continue in full force and effect and that all of its obligations thereunder shall be valid and enforceable and shall not be impaired or limited by the execution or effectiveness of this Amendment.
Section 4. Miscellaneous
(a) Reference to and Effect on the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(i) On and after the Amendment Effective Date, each reference in the Existing Credit Agreement to "this Agreement," "hereunder," "hereof," "herein" or words of like import referring to the Existing Credit Agreement, and each reference in the other Loan Documents to the "Credit Agreement," "thereunder," "thereof" or words of like import referring to the Existing Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Amended Credit Agreement.
(ii) Except as specifically amended by this Amendment, the Existing Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall remain in full force and effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed.
(b) Loan Document. This Amendment shall constitute a Loan Document under the terms of the Amended Credit Agreement.
(c) Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent. Each Lender acknowledges that it has independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Amendment. Each Lender also acknowledges that it will, without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Amendment, the Amended Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.
(d) No Novation. By its execution of this Amendment, each of the parties hereto acknowledges and agrees that the terms of this Amendment do not constitute a novation, but, rather, an amendment of the terms of a pre-existing Indebtedness and related agreement, as evidenced by the Amended Credit Agreement.
(e) Headings. Section and Subsection headings in this Amendment are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Amendment.
(f) Governing Law. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD OF CONFLICTS OF LAW RULES THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE APPLICATION OF A DIFFERENT GOVERNING LAW. The provisions of Sections 10.04 and 10.14(b), (c), (d) and (e) of the Amended Credit Agreement are incorporated by reference herein and made a part hereof.
(g) Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by telecopy or other electronic imaging means shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment. The words "execution," "signed," "signature," "delivery," and words of like import in or relating to this Amendment or any document to be signed in connection with this Amendment and the transactions contemplated hereby shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, deliveries or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable law, including the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act, and the parties hereto consent to conduct the transactions contemplated hereunder by electronic means.
(h) Severability. If any provision of this Amendment is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (i) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Amendment shall not be affected or impacted thereby and (ii) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provisions in any other jurisdiction.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed and delivered by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized as of the date first written above.
PETIQ, LLC, an Idaho limited liability company
By: /s/ McCord Christensen
Name: McCord Christensen
[Signature Page to Second Amendment]
Guarantors:
PETIQ HOLDINGS, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
TRUE SCIENCE HOLDINGS, LLC, a Florida limited
liability company
TRURX LLC, an Idaho limited liability company
TRU PRODIGY, LLC, a Texas limited liability
COMMUNITY VETERINARY CLINICS, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company
PET SERVICES OPERATING, LLC, a Delaware
VIP PETCARE, LLC, a California limited liability
PAWSPLUS MANAGEMENT, LLC, a Delaware
COMMUNITY CLINICS, INC., a California
HBH ENTERPRISES LLC,
a Utah limited liability company
SERGEANT'S PET CARE PRODUCTS, INC.,
a Michigan corporation
SPC TRADEMARKS, LLC,
a Texas limited liability company
VELCERA, INC.,
ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION, as Administrative
Agent and a Lender
By: /s/ Joshua Bloomstein
Name: Joshua Bloomstein
Lenders:
ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION
CADEX CREDT FINANCING, LLC
ARES JASPER FUND HOLDINGS, LLC
By: Ares Capital Management LLC, as servicer
ARES ND CSF HOLDINGS LLC
AREAS CREDIT STRATEGIES INSURANCE
DEDICATED FUND SERIES INTERESTS OF THE
SALI MULTI-SERIES FUND, L.P.
By: Ares Management LLC, its investment subadvisor
By: Ares Capital Management LLC, as subadvisor
ARES CSIDF HOLDINGS, LLC
AC AMERICAN FIXED INCOME IV, L.P.
By: Ares Capital Management LLC, its investment
FEDERAL INSURANCE COMPANY
NATIONWIDE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
NATIONWIDE MUTUAL INSURANCE
GREAT AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE
GREAT AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY
BOWHEAD IMC LP
AN CREDIT STRATEGIES FUND, L.P.
DIVERSIFIED LOAN FUND – PRIVATE DEBT A
S.A R.L,
By: Ares Management LLC, its portfolio manager
By: Ares Capital Management LLC, its subadvisor
SA REAL ASSETS 20 LIMITED
By: Ares Management LLC, its investment manager
By: Areas Capital Management LLC, its subadvisor
AO MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT L.P.
By: OCM Middle Market Credit G.P. Inc., its general
By: /s/ K. Patel
Name: K. Patel
By: /s/ Jeremy Ehrlich
Name: Jeremy Ehrlich
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND IV, LTD
By: Ivy Hill Asset Management, L.P., as Portfolio Manager, as a Lender
By: /s/ Sheryl Cleary
Name: Sheryl Cleary
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND V, LTD
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND VIII, LTD
By: Ivy Hill Asset Management, L.P., as Collateral Manager, as a Lender
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND XII, LTD
By: Ivy Hill Asset Management, L.P., as Asset Manager, as a Lender
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND XIV, LTD
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND XV, LTD
IVY HILL MIDDLE MARKET CREDIT FUND XVI, LTD
By: Ivy Hill Asset Management, L.P., as investment manager, as a Lender

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Johannesburg - The outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa has claimed 142 lives across Guinea and Liberia, according to the World Health Organization.
Guinea's health authorities reported a total of 208 clinical cases, including 136 deaths from the hemorrhagic fever, the Geneva-based WHO said in a statement posted on its website on Tuesday.
Liberia had 34 "clinically compatible" cases of the disease, including six fatalities, it said.
The outbreak, which began in March, is the worst in seven years and the first time the disease has caused deaths in West Africa.
Ebola results in high fever, diarrhea and vomiting, and can lead to internal bleeding. There is no specific treatment or vaccine for the virus, which kills 50 percent to 90 percent of those who contract it, according to the WHO.
Since the incubation period for Ebola can be as long as three weeks, "it is likely that the Guinean health authorities will report new cases in the coming weeks and additional suspected cases may also be identified in neighboring countries," WHO said.
Guinea's Ministry of Health on April 19 revised the death toll from the disease to 61 from 122, saying confusion caused cases in the West African nation to be duplicated.
WHO said it doesn't recommend that travel or trade restrictions be applied to Guinea or Liberia based on the latest available information available.


But there won't be any sign of them in the locker rooms at Amon G. Carter Stadium. They are not part of any huddle break. They are not written onto anybody's shoes.
Those numbers apparently are not part of the week for TCU, which meets Baylor again on Friday night for the first time since that Oct. 11, 2014 afternoon when 61 and 58 became the numbers that told the story of both teams and the Big 12.
Not anymore. Not now. There's nothing we can change.
"It's been a long time ago," TCU coach Gary Patterson said.
What the Horned Frogs can change is their record, from 9-2 to 10-2, and the course of Baylor's season, which still can end in a Big 12 championship with a win in Fort Worth and against Texas next week, and an Oklahoma loss Saturday.
That's what Patterson wants his team thinking about — going from 9-2 to 10-2.
The whole thing about 61-58, let's not talk about it. It's just about Friday.
It sounds as though Baylor agrees.
The Horned Frogs did have to crack open the 2014 Baylor film cannister this week, however. (Or rather, put the cursor on the play arrow and click).
They had to watch 61-58 again.
Last year's victory gave Baylor a 52-51-7 edge in the all-time series. The 110 games are the most TCU has played against any opponent.
"We went back and watched it because you've got to see how you were attacked and how you need to change to make sure that doesn't happen again," Patterson said.
So yeah, the numbers mean something. By Friday night, maybe they won't.
Baylor WR Corey Coleman discusses the Bears' motivation in Friday's much-anticipated matchup against TCU in Fort Worth. Video by Jimmy Burch.
Baylor coach Art Briles considers the Frogs a disciplined, well-coaches team that will be difficult to beat in the Bears' efforts to remain in Big 12 title chase. Video by Jimmy Burch.


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So what is Shipping Fever? It is usually thought of as a respiratory disease such as Pneumonia and is acquired by a goat during transportation. It can also be manifested as Pink eye, Scours and Mastitis. Stress causes the immune system to become suppressed and problems can occur.
You can even get it from moving your goats from one pasture to another. It doesn't have to be a long travel for the goats. Many breeders will have goats come down with it after they get home for a show. Basically it is any abrupt change that the goat encounters that can cause it.
To help avoid Shipping Fever make sure that your goat is not transported in a crowed area. They need room to stand up and turn around in. I would recommend only giving hay while the goat is being transported and no or very limited amounts of grain to be given. I would also suggest against hauling a heavily bred doe. No reason to take a chance that she will pre-maturely deliver and/or abort unless there is just no other option.
Many breeders will give a CD/T shot prior to shipping and some will give an antibiotic injection such as LA 200. I hate to give antibiotics unless it is really needed so another suggestion would be to give Goat Serum. It has been proven to help the immune system and is not an antibiotic! 10cc SC would be the correct dosage. Hoeggers Goat Supply has Goat Serum on hand while I am not sure about other suppliers. Since I started out my goat experience in the Dairy world, I learned to depend on Hoeggers for my supplies and advice from Miss Ann.
Once you get your goats to their new home I would suggest that you isolate them for 2-4 weeks. Start the new goats off on grain at a very slow rate. This is one reason to isolate them. You can control their feed. It will also give you a chance to get to know your new goat and for them to realize that you are the one that feeds them.


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LOVE, HATRED, AND INDIFFERENCE
Some people will tell you that hatred is not the opposite of love. They try to explain that indifference is the opposite of love.
They are wrong.
This discussion will endeavor to explain exactly why the opposite of love is indeed hatred. Indifference is more or less an acceptance of either.
In the greater spectrum of definitions, Buddha was the first to express the answer correctly. Courage, for example, is somewhere between the two extremes of the fool and the coward. Likewise, for every trait, there is a spectrum.
Love itself is a spectrum, where one extreme would be infatuation, an almost insane kind of love that costs you a great deal. The other extreme in this definition would be a very casual friendship, some sort of identification of a neighbor or some local authority. The perfect definition of love, like courage, is somewhere in the middle of those two extremes.
"Where then is hatred?" you ask.
Hatred, like love, is a spectrum in itself, where one extreme would be a complete and total irrational hatred, someone like a suicide bomber, who is much like a fool. The other extreme would be a casual disrespect for evil, like someone not wanting to associate with someone else. The healthy state of what could be called hatred would be a healthy disrespect for evil, somewhere in the middle of the two extremes.
Now, these two spectrums are opposites of each other, and we can build the letter "H" with them.
The left vertical upright would be the spectrum of love, with irrational love at the top. The true love would be slightly above the exact center of the upright, for true love is closer to the fool.
The right vertical upright would be the spectrum of hate, with the suicide bomber at the top. The healthy hatred would be slightly lower than the exact center of the upright, closer to the casual disrespect.
Therefore, the horizontal bar from true love to healthy hatred goes from left vertical upright (slightly above the exact middle) to the right vertical upright (slightly below the exact middle).
Love is the opposite of hatred, and each is a spectrum of its own definition.
In other words, to be healthy one should have some sort of disrespect for evil. In religious terms, it would be a disrespect for the devil. If you do not have a healthy disrespect for evil, then perhaps you have not understood the main point.
How do you feel about vandalism? Do you respect vandalism, or do you hate it?
We should all hate vandalism.
You do not need to be religious to understand this, and you do not have to believe in any deity. It is a simple fact that vandalism is not good, that it is an act with a degree of evil. All of these evil acts should be disrespected by all.
To Buddha, indifference was a form of acceptance.
Whether someone hates you or loves is out of your control. In those terms, since you have no control over whether or not someone wants to be a friend, the actions would weigh the same on a philosophical scale. You accept either when there is no control.
This does not mean you accept tyranny. No.
It means you accept the fact that a person is a tyrant.
This acceptance, or indifference, overflows into nature as well. You could, as a matter of fact, be the victim of nature, where nature itself has become something which holds you in bondage, like a freak snowstorm and freezing weather. Yet, you have no control over this weather, do you?
In overcoming the tyranny of nature, you accept what cannot be controlled, without bending to the tyranny itself. Likewise, in overcoming something like slavery, a bit of acceptance is necessary to your understanding of the evil.
Therefore, indifference itself is a spectrum, like the definitions of love and hatred.
"But," you ask, "What are the extremes not abided?"
To walk away from a helpless man dying is a the low point of indifference which no Buddhist would tolerate. The other extreme would be someone who is so charitable that he puts himself in debt for his services. The healthy indifference is somewhere between those two points of extreme nature.
You could also see it the way of a Christian, for Jesus chided the Pharisees for doing so many things in public, only to do it for show. You could go back to the Old Testament to read that Moses required a certain amount of fruit to be left on the trees and the vines for those who could not afford it themselves.
Buddha, of course, gives a lengthy discourse on how to see the middle road, for this was his first revelation to his family and friends. He was the first to really put it in perspective as a formal definition that the middle of two extremes is the place to be, that there should be to all things a moderation to a degree.
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State Calls Out Waco ISD for Disciplining Black Students Unfairly
By Patrick Michels
A few years ago, Waco ISD had a serious discipline problem. More specifically, it had a problem with dispensing discipline. School police were giving out far too many tickets—in 2006-07, the district of fewer than 17,000 students handed out 1,070 tickets—principals were booting too many kids into alternative classes or suspending them, and African-American students were more harshly punished.
In 2012, the district won a $600,000 grant from the governor's office to create a model program that could turn those trends around. Texas Watchdog's Curt Olson featured the "Suspending Kids to School" initiative in a story that year:
Under Suspend Kids to School, teachers receive training to better manage their classrooms, and leaders among students receive training in peer mediation and campus teen courts. The district also has a Saturday course to help parents address student behavior.
In the program's first year, the district sharply reduced its ticketing, and principals started sending far fewer students into the alternative classroom. The timing coincided with the Legislature's realization that school discipline was turning draconian all over Texas, funneling too many kids into a school-to-prison pipeline. Last year, the Legislature barred school police from ticketing students for minor misdemeanors. Waco ISD, as Texas Watchdog put it, became "ground zero for Texas student discipline reform."
In a reminder, maybe, of just how long that reform can take, Waco ISD's board heard recently that the district had been flagged by state regulators for some troubling discipline practices in the last school year. As the Waco Tribune-Herald reported:
[T]he district expelled 20 students for actions that are not considered expellable under the Texas Education Code, such as fighting and persistent misbehavior. Expellable offenses include possessing a weapon and selling drugs, among other misconduct.
The district also assigned a 5-year-old to the DAEP even though the minimum age is 6, the report said.
And the most systemic issue noted in the Texas Education Agency's review, according to the paper: "About 60 percent of discretionary DAEP placements were black students, even though they make up about 30 percent of the student body." Some things—like assault, drinking on campus or huffing glue—mean automatic removal to a disciplinary program. But in cases where administrators had some leeway in discipline, African-American students in Waco were pulled into disciplinary programs at more than three times the student average.
The report from TEA came from a routine check of school district data, designed to spot typos and faulty record-keeping. If Waco ISD confirms that its stats are correct, the state could ask to see new policies to fix the problems—but TEA spokeswoman DeEtta Culbertson said it's too soon to speculate as to what they might be.
"As far as we understand, those numbers are accurate," Waco ISD's director of student services, Rick Hartley, told the Observer—though some of the improper expulsions were due to an accounting issue. "Removing a child under 6, there's no excuse for that. And that principal's no longer with us."
Nationwide, it's well established that African-American students are more likely to face tough discipline at school, but Hartley says Waco ISD hands out discipline evenly, based on the offending behavior, not the student. "We apply the consequence to that behavior. When that happens we don't look at the ethnicity of the child," he says. "Our challenge is to prevent the behavior from happening in the first place."
That focus on early intervention—defusing tension between students and catching signs of bullying early—has become a hallmark of the district's two-year-old "Suspending Kids to School" program. And Charlene Hamilton, who came from the governor's office to run the initiative, says their approach is working.
Hamilton trains student "ambassadors" in each high school to watch out for potential problems, and peer mediation and student-run courts to settle scores without school administration getting involved. For students who still seem like they're headed to an alternative school assignment, Hamilton runs a two-day weekend intervention for students and their parents, which she calls a "very strong diversion tool."
Every year, more than 100 students have graduated from the Saturday program and avoided disciplinary removal. Around the district, she says, they're focused on keeping kids in their regular classrooms and reducing alternative school referrals, in-school suspension or expulsion. Which is great, but it doesn't address the over-representation of black students in those disciplinary decisions.
Though she'd heard about the report from TEA, Hamilton says her program doesn't see a disproportionate number of African-American students, which may mean principals are just sending more of them straight to alternative school. Though she's been at it for two years, Hamilton says some administrators need a little more coaxing to change their habits.
"We do really good education here, but we lived in a very punitive culture here in Waco ISD and we're trying to change that culture," she says. "We're constantly, from year to year, educating and re-educating them on what we're trying to achieve. We're making headway but it's baby steps."
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Die Mennonitenkirche Ibersheim wurde 1836 im klassizistischen Stil gebaut. Wie andere mennonitische Kirchen auch, wurde sie als Predigtkirche mit einer zentralen Kanzel konzipiert.

Gebäude

Sie ist heute die einzige mennonitische Kirche im süddeutschen Raum, die einen Kirchturm und Kirchenglocken besitzt. Die Kirchenglocken wurden jedoch erst im Jahr 1866 eingeweiht. Der Kirchturm besteht aus einem quadratischen Dachreiter. Das Kirchengebäude ist relativ schlicht gehalten. Die beiden Langseiten werden durch zwei große Rundbogenfenster bestimmt. Im Ostteil der Kirche befinden sich zwei übereinander liegende Räume, die heute als Jugend- und Gemeinderäume genutzt werden, früher jedoch auch dem Rathaus und einem Kindergarten Platz boten. Die Orgel stammt aus dem Jahr 1822 und somit noch aus der an gleicher Stelle gelegenen Vorgängerkirche. Das noch original erhaltene Kirchgestühl stammt aus dem Jahr 1836.

Das Gebäude steht unter Denkmalschutz.

Vor der Errichtung des Kirchengebäudes fanden die Gottesdienste der Mennonitengemeinde im Hof Schäfer statt. Dort im heutigen Wohnzimmer, früher Sälchen genannt, befindet sich in der Deckenmitte ein sechszackiger Stern mit gespaltenen Spitzen, den man als Mennoniten-Stern betrachtet. Die historische Stuckdecke müsste wie das gesamte Gebäude 1717 (im Barock) entstanden sein.

Gemeinde
Die ersten Mennoniten wurden bereits unmittelbar nach dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg in der Kurpfalz angesiedelt, um als Pächter das verwüstete Land wieder aufzubauen. Der erste Siedler im rheinhessischen Ibersheim (damals noch Ibersheimer Hof genannt) war Heinrich von Mauderich. Die erste Ibersheimer Mennonitengemeinde bestand aus Schweizer Täufern, die aus dem Raum Zürich und später aus dem Gebiet um Bern vertrieben wurden.

Die theologische und historische Entwicklung der Täufer/Mennoniten hat sich der Mennonitische Geschichtsverein mit der Sammlung von Dokumenten zur Aufgabe gemacht. Dazu sind zwei Stammfolgen einer Ibersheimer Familie bekannt: Weber - Ritscher und Hagmann/Hackmann - Ritscher. Auf einer Karte des Bistums Worms aus dem Jahr 1752 wurde der Ort als Wiedertäuferhof eingezeichnet.

Heute besteht die Gemeinde Worms-Ibersheim aus etwa 120 Mitgliedern, die zum Teil auch außerhalb der Stadt Worms leben. Die Gemeinde versteht sich als ökumenische Gemeinde und teilte sich vom 19. Jahrhundert bis 2009 eine Pfarrstelle mit den benachbarten Mennonitengemeinden in Ludwigshafen und Frankenthal-Eppstein. Sie gehört der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Südwestdeutscher Mennonitengemeinden innerhalb der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden in Deutschland an. Die im Ortskern Ibersheim gelegene Mennonitenkirche wird heute auch von der Gemeinde der evangelischen Landeskirche mitbenutzt.

Älteste, Prediger, Pfarrer, Pastoren
 Daniel Stauffer             1739–ca.1768
 Jacob Wels
 Jacob Hiestand
 Heinrich Seitz
 Heinrich Stauffer
 Jacob Müller
 Daniel Stauffer
 Daniel Hirschler
 Heinrich Christoph
 Johann Stauffer
 Daniel Stauffer
 Bernhard Thiessen           1843–1855
 Heinrich Neufeld            1856–1869
 Jakob Ellenberger II.       1869–1871
 Hinrich van der Smissen     1872–1882
 Thomas Löwenberg            1883–1917
 Emil Händiges               1917–1923
 Erich Göttner               1923–1927
 Abraham Braun               1928–1953
 Daniel Habegger             1953–1986
 Andreas Kohrn               2010–

Literatur
 Mennonitengemeinde Ibersheim (Hrsg.): 325 Jahre Mennonitengemeinde Ibersheim 1661–1986. 150 Jahre Mennonitenkirche Ibersheim 1836 - 1986. Die Geschichte der Mennonitengemeinde Ibersheim. 2., unveränd. Auflage. 2004. (1. Auflage. 1986, )
 Mennonitisches Lexikon. Band II, Weierhof 1937, S. 397–400.
 Alexander Prior: Täufer und Mennoniten im Raum Worms. In: Alexander Ludwig Maria Mushake (Red.): Landkreis Worms. Monographie einer Landschaft. Mushake, Trautheim über Darmstadt 1963, S. 44–47.
 Hans Ulrich Pfister: Die Auswanderung der Zürcher Täufer in der Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts. In: Die Zürcher Täufer 1525–1700, Zürich 2007, ISBN 978-3-290-17426-2, S. 247–276.

Siehe auch
 Liste der Kirchen in der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mennonitischer Gemeinden in Deutschland

Weblinks
 Webseite der Gemeinde
 , entspricht weitgehend dem Artikel aus dem Mennonitischen Lexikon (s. o.).

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Kirchengebäude in Worms
Ibersheim
Klassizistisches Bauwerk in Rheinland-Pfalz
Kulturdenkmal in Worms
Worms-Ibersheim
Worms

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Kicksta vs. Gramista | Which is better for organic followers?
Today we'll be comparing Kicksta to another Instagram automation tool, Gramista. What is Gramista? Well according to their website, Gramista is a service that will automate liking, following and unfollowing just like a human being would." Gramista is another option among others if you're looking for an Instagram automation service. To help you make a make a better choice of what service to use, let's take a side-by-side look at Gramista against our own Instagram growth tool, Kicksta.
In this section, we'll walk you through the steps of setting up an account with each service.
Start by going to https://gramista.com/then click on'Register'on the top right corner, and you'll meet this screen. After providing the requested information and hitting'SignUp', you will be asked to verify your email. You will then connect your Instagram account by entering your Instagram handle & password, before being sent to your Gramista Dashboard.
As soon as you get to the homepage, you just have to enter your email.
You'll be sent to the payment page where you choose which plan you'd prefer then hit'GetStarted' and then you're all set!
Congrats, you're a 'Kickstagrammer' now. Next, you'll be dropped into your Kicksta Dashboard where you can further tailor your target audience.
This is how Gramista works: You provide hashtags to target people who have certain interests or use locations to target people that are frequent to certain places. Then the Gramista bot will try to imitate human behavior to like, follow, and unfollow people without getting flagged for suspicious behavior by Instagram.
With Gramista, you can start automating your likes and follows without specifying your target audience by turning on your toggle on your Gramista Dashboard. If you do choose to specify your audience, you can add hashtags, locations, or other Instagram accounts to interact with. Gramista encourages users to pick popular hashtags and locations with a large number of posts associated with them as well as accounts with a high number of followers. You can ignore certain accounts or posts with certain hashtags by using their blacklist feature.
Gramista provides a support page on their site with an FAQ, longer articles explaining certain features in detail, a know issues section, and a 'how-to' section with step-by-step tutorials.
Kicksta offers you support around the clock, 24/7, via email support as well as live chat. With the Premium Plan, Kicksta also provides a dedicated Customer Success Manager to each client that can help them pick targets and optimize growth. There's also a very useful and comprehensive FAQ for quick answers.
With Gramista, you can track every individual action that is taken on your behalf.
With Kicksta, you can see both high-level stats and individual target performance. Under the followers gained section, you can see your total number of followers gained. Under the daily stats section, you can see your net number of followers gained. In addition, clients can analyze individual target performance to see which ones are giving them the best return. This feature allows Kicksta users to remove underperforming targets, spot trends, and add new similar targets to optimize growth. BONUS: Under the recent posts section, users can track the likes & comments your followers leave on your posts. You can also see your engagement percentage, which is simply: (likes + comments) / your total number of followers. Use this recent posts area to see which of your posts are most successful and post similar content in the future. All of these analytics combined make Kicksta your one-stop shop for not only growing your account, but also efficiently tracking growth, bot free.
How much does each cost? Let's compare the pricing model for both services.
Gramista has a multitude of payment plans to choose from: Each one more cost effective than the last. You start out with a 12-hour free trial, after which you choose one of these plans to continue.
Kicksta has all the automation that Gramista has, but is more focused on connecting you with your ideal audience that fits your demographic.
With Kicksta's advanced targeting system that filters out spammy accounts, and added filters to meet your specific audience needs, your account will grow followers organically, so you can focus on creating high-quality content.
Want to sign up for Kicksta? Click here to sign up.


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With the recent increase in the audit exemption limits, an increased number of Irish companies are in a position to file statutory accounts instead of audited accounts with the Companies Registration Office. The generation of statutory accounts has therefore become a key element of our service offering to our corporate clients.
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Q: Hyper-V 2016 VM won't start due to RemoteFX Manager error? I did a clean install of Server 2016 + Hyper-V role on a new server with a Xeon v4, 100GB+ RAM, and a RemoteFX capable NVidia Quadro card with 6GB GDDR. (If it works I'll use the bare Hyper-V server 2016, this is for testing so full server + role is OK).
The install was fine. I enabled roles and features, which was fine as well, then installed the Quadro drivers. Hyper-V Manager recognised and accepted the Quadro immediately and reports it can provide RemoteFX services to VMs with it. So I created a simple Gen2 VM to test it out. The VM installer ISO is Win 8.1 Enterprise, which is RemoteFX compatible.
The VM refuses to start if I include a RemoteFX 3D adapter in the hardware. It tries for maybe 1-3 minutes, then reports error 32788 in a GUI popup, that it couldn't start. If I remove the virtual RemoteFX adapter it starts fine.
The Hyper-V VMMS and Worker event logs show various errors:

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*Error 32613 "The VM Management Service could not start the RemoteFX Manager... Try restarting the VM Management Service. Error message: An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist. Status Code 20.".

*Error 4120 "Description cannot be found... Locale specific resource for the desired message not present... Underlying XML for the message is not well formed"

*Error 32607 "The required GPU resources could not be accessed. This server cannot run as a RemoteFX host without a GPU. Verify that the GPU is correctly installed"

*Error 15350 "The virtualisation infrastructure driver (VID) is not running"

*Error 12010 "Description cannot be found... Locale specific resource for the desired message not present."

*Error 12018 "Synthetic 3D Display Controller: Failed to power on ... because a worker session could not be created"
I've excluded the usual causes (disk space, incompatible CPU/card) and cannot find any resource to troubleshoot further. No device errors are showing in the VM or hypervisor settings pages. The server has all applicable roles for Hyper-V and desktop virtualisation enabled. All devices in "Device Manager" (including the MS Hyper-V VID driver under "System") report as working correctly, so it doesn't seem to be a driver startup error.  My entire activity has pretty much been: install Server 2016 + updates, enable Hyper-V/desktop virtualisation roles+features, install Quadro driver, set up Hyper-V, and create VM, so there isn't much scope for weird stuff to have gone on.
Some web pages refer to RemoteFX permission issues that can cause VMs not to start, but usually if so, this is stated explicitly (according to pages I've seen). In my case there's no explicit statement of a permissions issue, although the "token" and the statement that resources "could not be accessed" strongly suggests some kind of permissions token issue might be going on. But no hint what, if so.
I can't find more info, and there's no other references to this error online that seem relevant. I have no idea where to look to fix it, or trace what's causing the failure.

A: I got a tip that the graphics card driver needs to be installed before Hyper-V takes over the system (i.e., installs itself as a hypervisor, for example using Server 2016 with the Hyper-V role for testing).
I reinstalled Server 2016, but this time I installed the card drivers before adding the Hyper-V role, not afterwards. I'm sure the driver can be installed afterwards, but this solved the problem immediately.

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We are wired to believe that the start of the New Year is the chance for a new beginning. That this new four-digit number we must write on the top right-hand corner of our checks will finally help us transform into the person we've always dreamed of becoming. New Year, New Me.
For the whole of my adolescence and early twenties, the new beginning I so badly wanted was always the same thing. Every January 1, I told myself "This will be the year I lose the weight". There was never a specific number I had in mind, even though the number on the scale varied widely depending on what year it was. It was always just "the weight", and I believed I would never reach my full potential until it was gone.
At the time, it seemed like every women's magazine was trying to help me achieve this goal. There were pictures of women who were now half their size, their new bodies squeezed into one of the legs of an old pair of jeans. Articles were packed with advice on how to get rid of holiday weight, each one telling me to cut out something different (Carbs! Fat! Calories! Anything the cavemen couldn't eat!) Some women swore on swapping sugar for spin class, others claimed you could change your life just by walking around the block each night. Somehow everything and nothing seemed to work, all at the same time.
Don't worry, this is not one of those weight loss stories. I eventually found a healthy and safe way to get in shape after I focused on changing my lifestyle instead of quick fixes. But I assumed the world of diet fads and post-holiday cleanses was still spinning strong, and that most women's publications continued to revolve around them every January and February.
So I was struck one December day when I came across this post on Instagram from Gabrielle Korn, the editor-in-chief of NYLON.
It was a proclamation that felt almost revolutionary from the editor-in-chief of a women's publication, one I never would have imagined seeing during my adolescent days. While teen magazines like Seventeen were leaders when it came to carrying fashion spreads for different body types in the early 2000s, I didn't realize how normalized I had become to reading stories about diet and weight loss in women's magazines. Seeing Korn's post felt like a breath of fresh air.
I reached out to Korn to learn more about her own experience with women's magazines and heard a story I knew all too well: The young girl who both fell in love with the world of fashion, and at the same time felt she would never really be welcomed into it.
Fast-forward a decade and Korn is now not only in charge of a major lifestyle publication, she is also using it to create a space for women of any color, shape, or sexual orientation – a space that she didn't feel like she had while flipping through those glossy pages during her middle school days.
And that included making sure NYLON's fashion and beauty sections celebrated women's bodies, clothes, and products in a way that didn't feel exclusive or aspirational.
"I think that women's magazines used to approach beauty as a problem to be solved, and that reading the magazine and buying the product they were recommending was the solution," Korn said.
Another thing that Korn brought to NYLON was "Wellness", which is now listed right next to "Skincare", "Makeup", and "Hair" in the beauty section.
Take a look at NYLON's site (it became a digital-only publication in 2017), and you will see cover girls like Jameela Jamil, the Good Place star who has made it her mission to fight against celebrities promoting skinny teas and diet lollipops on their Instagram pages. There are articles on why self-care routines shouldn't be shamed, what it's like to start working out after battling an eating disorder, and why one writer won't go vegan for Beyoncé.
Inspired by Korn's Instagram post and NYLON's content, I went out and bought the January and February issues for Allure, Cosmopolitan, and Vogue. And I was shocked to find that there wasn't a single weight loss, anti-aging, or diet article in sight.
"Wellness" had actually made its way to print as well. Cosmopolitan has a "Wellness" section of its own now, while Allure has a health and wellness editor. And all three magazines had a number of articles that discussed mental health and natural beauty. There were interviews from women who had learned to love their acne scars, a beauty editor discussing why she regretted getting her pubic hair lasered off in her early twenties, and Allure editor-in-chief Michelle Lee opening up about her struggles with postpartum depression, among many other examples.
I was even more surprised to find that each of these issues also featured articles that tackled the newfound pressure that has come from this burgeoning Wellness culture. Vogue explored one woman's battle with Orthorexia, an obsession with healthy food that continues to rise as our Instagram pages become filled with more #cleaneating (43,373,123 posts at the time of this article, to be exact). Cosmopolitan explored whether the increase of "body positivity influencers" were actually changing women's opinions about their own bodies, and one feature in Allure found that the rise of "love yourself" messaging in our media hasn't made women any less likely to go under the knife.
Rome wasn't built in a day, and centuries of socially-constructed beauty norms won't be taken down in one either. But Korn believes that the digital sphere will help push positive change faster than ever before.
And Wellness has been a great start. "Depression" was a word I once only saw on Zoloft commercials, and now it's being candidly discussed between celebrity interviews and Gigi Hadid photoshoots. I never thought I would one day read about a girl who loves the acne scar on her nose so much that she dusts it with highlighter. And after many past Januarys spent logging my calories, swearing off bread, or giving up fruit (never again South Beach!), not seeing words like "Keto", "Paleo" or "Whole30" in the pages of my favorite magazines felt like a novelty.


Who knows , but i have smoked it a few times ! and because i had been in trouble with the law a lot in my past , when i smoke it , i get into very deep thinking and then the paranoid thoughts come ! so i could say it might help on the medical side of it , but its fucked for the brain thinking pattern !


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Health Minister expedites process of rare disease policy formation
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Rare diseases are severe and chronic illnesses and are often life-threatening. Patients suffering from rare diseases, especially Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs), often lead a very incapacitating life
With the new Government taking the chair, rare disease patients in India see a new ray of hope. Last week, Union Health Minister, Dr. Harshvardhan directed ministry officials to speed up the process of formulating the National Policy for Treatment of Rare Diseases (NPTRD), in consultation with all stakeholders. Patient associations has lauded this recent move and are looking forward to a policy which is patients friendly.
Rare diseases are severe and chronic illnesses and are often life-threatening. Patients suffering from rare diseases, especially Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs), often lead a very incapacitating life. There are about 50 LSDs out of which only 5 have approved treatment available in India. About 180 diagnosed patients across India have submitted their application to the Govt. for treatment support for such treatable LSDs.
Elaborating on the condition Dr. Ratna Puri, Senior Consultant and Chairperson, Institute of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi said, "Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs) are a group of around 50 inherited disorders which occur due to defects in the lysosomal function. Lysosomes are enzymes performing a critical function in the body. Even if one of these enzymes are dysfunctional, it will cause one of the LSDs. Till now treatment is available only for a few of the LSDs- Pompe, Fabry, Gaucher, MPS (Type I, II, IV A, VI) and has proven to be effective. If treatment isn't provided on time, these conditions can affect the quality of life of a patient dramatically and they are unable to do even simple daily tasks. Timely treatment is, thus, crucial for improving the quality of lives of patients."
Lauding Dr. Harshvardhan's efforts Manjit Singh, President, LSDSS, "It has been a long and painful journey for rare disease patients and caregivers to reach this stage. 50 patients have lost their lives in this arduous journey of over 3 years. These patients could have been saved had they been provided timely treatment. In India, there are only about 400 patients who are suffering from treatable LSDs. It's a commendable move by Dr. Harshvardhan to get NPTRD back on track. It has given a wave of optimism for rare disease patients. In the meanwhile, it would be great if the Government can provide interim treatment support to those rare disease patients who had applied to the Rare disease cell, till the time the policy gets finalized and implemented."
Prasanna Shirol, Co-Founder, Organization for Rare Diseases India (ORDI) said, "Dr. Harshvardhan's move has directed the Central Government to play its part in finalizing NPTRD. We are hopeful that this time Government and ministry will treat every life as equal and precious and provide treatment. At the same time, health being a state subject, it is equally important for states to understand the need of the hour and create rare disease patient-friendly environment. The State Government should create rare disease center of excellence in every state to address the needs of rare disease patients with timely and effective intervention and also their own state policy based on the state priorities."
The onus now lies with the Government to act on their words and provide relief of rare disease patients in the country.
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It's the end of the month! Time for another post on what I read and watched this month. I love this little series!
I was so excited to read a new book by one of my all time favorite authors. Unfortunately, this one didn't hold up to the level of love I hold for her other books. It's about a girl who accidentally gets trapped in the library for a long weekend and a boy who chose to hide out there on his own. I appreciate how they got to know each other over the days they were stuck, but I didn't feel super connected to the characters. I feel like once they were out of the library there was almost no interaction between the two which is always frustrating. But nonetheless, I still give it 4 stars!
I really enjoyed this book! It's about a young woman who finds herself at her ideal job, working in marketing at a fancy agency in London. She has the "perfect" boss and changes so much about herself to try and fit the image she wants to portray. But throughout the book she learns a lot of lessons about what's really most important in life and staying true to herself, her roots, her family. The book is full of humor, friendship, and a bit of romance. I loved everything about it!
The premise of this book sounded awesome, but it definitely wasn't one of my favorites. A high level pastry chef moves across the country to work in an ex-boyfriend's fancy new restaurant, and ends up being the star of a reality show she wants nothing to do with. I found the book a little stressful thinking about how every minute of her life was devoted to the job and how easily she looked over every other person around her. The reality show was much more of a sub-plot, almost a very annoying addition to the story. The book was just okay.
This was a sweet and unique book about the only two aromatuers left in the world. A teenage girl is trying to find her way in her first public school, while constantly dealing with the scents of people and emotions that are always swirling around her. The scent descriptions did get a bit old after awhile, but the story line was refreshing and fun. I loved the relationships Mimosa developed throughout the book.
The Selection Series by Kiera Cass is one of my favorite young adult book series. I absolutely loved the first few books, but I feel like they've gotten progressively worse. I found this final book to be rather dull and frustrating. I didn't like the main character that much and was disappointed with how little she interacted with the men who were in the castle trying to win her hand in marriage. This book was focused so much more on the political nature of their dystopian world. Something I was not interested in reading about.
I have very mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I really wanted to scream at the characters – a lot. They supposedly had such a deep and driven romance and then let something completely childish ruin the next seven years of their lives. I enjoyed reading about the way they found each other again, but the process was frustrating! Elliot's family situation was pretty horrific, nearing unbelievable. But I loved how she stayed strong and didn't let things get to her. She was a strong, yet fairly quiet character that I admired.
I think from the unfitting picture on the cover of this book and intriguing title, I expected this book to be about some sort of affair and hidden away mistress of some sort. It was NOTHING like that. It's the story of Tatiana Romanov and her secret relationship with Dmitri, a soldier in Russia during WWI. The story follows Dmitri's life, interspersed with chapters about his great-granddaughter Kitty who is trying to piece together his past. The story is deep and involved, and I loved everything about it. It's a true testament to love that can last and stand the test of time.
This was an interesting read about a couple of teenagers trying to catch a murderer using their own methods of crime solving. I liked the way they worked together and found justice in the end. The book kept my attention, though it wasn't incredibly memorable.
It's been a big month for movies! Usually I'm lucky to watch one or two movies and they're usually not that great. This month was a good one!
We saw this in the theater – the first ever movie we went to as a family. I liked it! It was pretty funny and I really liked how Robin fit into Batman's life, as his adopted son. I definitely recommend this to anyone who likes legos or Batman!
Another fairly ridiculous comedy, but it wasn't terrible. I enjoyed a couple of laughs. It did really make me miss the Owen Wilson of Wedding Crashers, though. Where did he go??
Okay, I thought this was pretty dull. But I'm always up for a Joseph Gordon Levitt movie. He did a great job, as always. It was interesting to watch, knowing it was a true story. But also seemed to drag on forever.
I'm so glad I was able to see this opening weekend! Beauty and the Beast was always one of my favorite Disney movies, so I was really excited to see the remake. This is the only one of the new live action remakes I've seen. And it was great! I did feel like they made Belle rather pretentious in the beginning – something I didn't feel in the animated version. But overall, it was an awesome remake. The singing and dancing and everything were fantastic!
So, in general, I don't like animated movies. I never really have. But we've been trying to find more things we can all watch together for movie nights on weekends. I've been avoiding Trolls since I assumed it would be pretty girly. But we finally watched it and we LOVED it. Seriously, one of my favorite animated movies ever. Everything about it was so great!! Shepard, who just plain hates movies, has watched it like four more times since then. On one of the days he was home sick he just watched it on a loop. The music is so great we've been listening to it every day. Great movie!!
I have to start adding pictures for the tv shows I'm enjoying the most. So once again – Superstore!!! I completely love this show. It's so funny!! I feel like it's been a long time since a really great comedy has been on the air. Greg and I binged the second season and are all caught up now. I hate waiting a week in between like normal people. Such a great show!!!
Homeland – Still a pretty serious watch. I usually don't even understand half of what's going on because I'm much more interested in the character development than the nitty gritty of the plot. I'm still highly intrigued by Quinn's character this season.
The Flash – Getting kind of sick of the must save Iris plotline. They had a musical episode last week with half of the Supergirl cast. It was kind of strange, but not bad.
Arrow – Eh, as usual. This show is so dark and serious these days.
Love – The second season of Love was released on netflix, so we just started watching that. I'm liking the second season so much more than the first. The characters are funny, but also incredibly annoying. It's amusing, though.
Okay, this has totally become my guilty pleasure. I binged all three seasons in a week and a half. I LOVED this show. So juicy and delicious! Jasper…yeah. Liam is pretty great too. Even Eleanor is an awesome character. The first and third season were amazing, second was a little slower and more focused on the older generation. But overall, I highly recommend this show if you just want something fun to watch!
New Girl – Sticking with it. I still love all the guys on the show and am super annoyed by Jess. It looks like they're gearing up for a great finale, though. About time!
Vampire Diaries – It's done and over. I think I binged this show last spring or summer. It definitely has its ups and downs. A lot of people dying that are never dead for long. But I enjoyed it and I'm sad it's over. I'm glad they were able to pull all the characters together for the last episode.
The Mindy Project – Just kind of sticking with this one too. It used to be one of my favorites, but I'm just not that into it anymore.
Bones – Another show that ended forever. I can't remember if I watched this when it first started however many years ago, but I've definitely been watching a very long time. It was a solid show with many likable characters and interesting plotlines. I'm sad to see it go.
Modern Family – Also, just okay. I pretty much only watch tv when I'm sewing, so most of my shows are just kind of fillers to entertain me while I'm doing mindless work.
Grimm – There's just one episode left and then this is done forever too. 🙁 I really liked Grimm! The friendship between the characters was so strong. I enjoyed watching how they worked together every week. What am I going to watch now that so many of my shows are over??
And that's it! What have you been reading and watching this month?!


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It's difficult to measure spirituality and wellness in a lab, but someone who's experienced it knows how it feels.
Health Care is More of What?
Don Ingwerson September 6, 2013 Comments Off on Health Care is More of What? 97 Views
Never before has society been so bombarded with the portrayal of health as a lucky break. Advertising is everywhere to convince us that it's not normal to feel well.
No wonder a recent Pew study showed that 80% of adults who use the internet look for health information online. Sure, some people are satisfied with the care they're receiving. But many are not. 100 million Americans say they live with a chronic health condition.
Naturally, health professionals are among those seeking various options to improve health and wellbeing. In 2007, researchers from UCLA and UC San Diego surveyed medical students across the nation, and found that 84% agreed conventional medicine would benefit by integrating more complementary and alternative medicine ideas and therapies. 99% agreed that a patient's mental state influences his or her physical health, and 98% agreed that a patient's treatment should take into consideration all aspects of his or her physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Some people feel that patients should consider only medicine proven to be effective in clinical trials. However, the 99% of medical students who agree that a patient's mental state influences his or her physical health are onto something big, something that addresses the root of health concerns.
Not only are medical students investigating other options, but the public is searching for and trying new things. According to the NIH, adults in the U.S. spent $34 billion out-of-pocket in 2007 on non-conventional treatments and products.
In my own life, I've seen that the quality of my thought affects the quality of my health. Turning to a spiritual source improves health and wellness. A number of years ago when I first started teaching, I had a wart start to grow on my middle finger. It was located where I held the chalk or pencil to write. The area became painful and inflamed because I was continually using that hand to write while teaching. I tried holding the pencil or chalk in a different manner, but that just didn't work for me. After awhile, the wart became larger and more ugly and my students began asking about it. I realized that I needed to do something about this condition. As was my usual practice, I prayed. After deep and sincere prayer for about a week, the wart fell off and I have never had a problem with warts since.
The Los Angeles Times published an article called "The X Factor of Healing," in which the author addresses whether there is a spiritual factor that's essential in healing. She cites studies that show no measurable link between a spiritual approach and better health, but she also points to some anecdotal evidence that some people found spiritual means to be a good option. It's difficult to measure spirituality and wellness in a lab, but someone who's experienced it knows how it feels.
People are searching for something more. Could it be that as both health professionals and the public continue to drill deeper into concepts of health and wellbeing as not split into various compartments of physical, mental, and spiritual elements, but as one whole, the "more" will crystallize?
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About Don Ingwerson
Previously in the education sector as Superintendent of Schools, Don Ingwerson now serves as the media and legislative liaison for Christian Science in Southern California and corrects misconceptions about Christian Science. Don is a frequent blogger about health and spirituality.
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Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Monday began a series of meetings with representatives of producer classes ahead of the customary "state-of-the-economy? speech inaugurating the annual Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) next month.
On Monday, the Greek premier met with the presidency of the Federation of Greek Industries (SEB).
Speaking to reporters afterwards, Economy and Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said the government was seriously examining the views of producer classes, adding that the meeting focused on the "positive progress recorded by the Greek economy".
Alogoskoufis stressed that the government has successfully dealt with any problems after the Olympic Games, while noting that economic growth is strong, unemployment is dropping and a reforms programme was underway. He also cited a tax reform implemented by the government and said that funds have been secured to better support low income and pension earners.
Commenting on a demand by GSEE - Greece's largest trade union umbrella group - for the government to offer a heating oil subsidy to low-income citizens, Alogoskoufis rejected the prospect, saying "the government has made clear its position on the issue".
Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas, who also attended the meeting, underling that the government focuses on a dialogue with all social partners and stressed that confidence was building over the implementation of a new development model for the country. Commenting on the high-profile policy of reforms in the wider public sector, Sioufas said "we are doing OK, and continue even better".
Dimitris Daskalopoulos, president of SEB, told reporters that his meeting with the premier covered the social security system, education, economic developments, as well as upcoming constitutional reform, while he stressed that a national reforms programme was a primary tool of economic policy.
Daskalopoulos said he hoped this year's TIF will not become a venue for campaign or pre-election confrontation.
"Citizens do not want fireworks; they want effective words and deeds".
Earlier, Karamanlis met with the leadership of GSEE, with Labour Minister Savvas Tsitouridis later saying the meeting was useful and constructive. He noted that the government�s top ministers briefed trade unionists on the results of its policy.
Conversely, GSEE president Yiannis Panagopoulos strongly criticised government policy, referring to what he called a "wave of price hikes, higher unemployment, and poor conditions in the social security system and education were the results of government policy.?
GSEE also demands a heating oil subsidy of 600 euros per households with an annual income of up to 11,000 euros and 300 euros for households with annual income of 11-15,000 euros.
Caption: PM Karamanlis, centre, meets with a delegation of GSEE trade union leaders on Monday, Aug. 28, 2006, at his Maximos Mansion office. Economy Minister Alogoskoufis is seated to the right of Karamanlis. ANA-MPA / O. Panagiotou.