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Fictional epistemology
When an Apocalypse World character makes the read a sitch move, they ask the referee some questions (from a list; for example: where's my best escape route?) that grant some information about the immediate situation. The player rolls +sharp, which basically means makes an intelligence check, and gets to ask a number of questions proportional to degree of success, with misses triggering complications or hazards. Superficially, the implementation of this move seems in line with the fictional perspective of the character, especially taking into consideration the low bandwidth of information flow between referee and player. That is, it gives the player character the benefit of the doubt regarding an ability to—sometimes—accurately assess, for example, which enemy is the biggest threat. So far so good. However, read a sitch leans subtly away from the norm in traditional play, which involves the referee first sketching a situation and then the players focusing in on particular aspects and requesting elaboration.
Consider the following traditional play conversation. Referee: The room is drenched in preternatural gloom and formed like an inverted square pyramid, with four tiers descending to a central pillar which stretches to the ceiling and is hung with mouldering but detailed tapestries. Player: I look more closely at the tapestries; what do they depict? Referee: They depict symbols that look like funnels, and spidery—probably arcane—script that… (make an intelligence check since you know some magic—okay, success?) …binds a curse to the buried structure. What do you do?
Now consider the read a sitch approach to information exchange. Frame the scene as above, interpret preternatural gloom as a charged situation, and call for the move. The player succeeds to the degree affording a single question and asks who's in control here. The ref explains about the tapestry and the curse (the person in control is long dead, but the curse legacy remaining is close enough). I've truncated the description the second time around, but assume the Apocalypse World play interaction is similarly evocative—as it easily could be.
There are still some subtle differences between the two approaches. First, the menu of questions gently nudges players to think about a particular set of possibilities. This has some similarities to declaring skills on a character sheet such as hear noise or find traps, though with a finer grain and more social quality. Second, and more of a departure from the traditional query loop, answers to the Apocalypse World questions provide less ambiguity regarding the import of the details. Rather than describing a curse and letting the players decide what they want to make of it, the referee might say the curse represents the greatest immediate danger. Rather than describe a storm drain, the referee might tell players that the storm drain would be the best escape route. That is, the referee ends up presuming the meaning of details rather than describing concrete aspects of the fictional world.
The information is still from the perspective of the characters, and the move avoids providing the player with details that would be unavailable to the character in the game world's immediate fictional context, but the move pushes the referee and player to interact on a level of meaning separate from immediate concrete fictional details. One might be tempted to see this as advancing a particular plot. Instead, I suggest that the difference has to do with fictional epistemology, by which I mean the degree of certainty a player has regarding the shared conception of the fictional world. Like most dimensions of play, rather than a simple either/or dichotomy, this is more of a spectrum, with the norm in trad play biased toward concrete details and the move under discussion here injecting more unambiguous meaning.
Here's the text of the move, if you want to do your own close reading:
Read a sitch
When you read a charged situation, roll+sharp. On a hit, you can ask the MC questions. Whenever you act on one of the MC's answers, take +1. On a 10+, ask 3. On a 7–9, ask 1:
• Where's my best escape route / way in / way past?
• Which enemy is most vulnerable to me?
• Which enemy is the biggest threat?
• What should I be on the lookout for?
• What's my enemy's true position?
• Who's in control here?
On a miss, ask 1 anyway, but be prepared for the worst.
Reading a situation can mean carefully checking things out, studying and analyzing, thinking something through, or it can mean a quick look over the wall and going by gut. Depends on the character.
As MC, sometimes you'll already know the answers to these and sometimes you won't. Either way, you do have to commit to the answers when you give them. The +1 is there to make it concrete.
Spring sudden unhappy revelations on people every chance you get. That's the best.
A character can't read the same charged situation more than once.
(Apocalypse World 2E, p. 144)
This entry was posted in Speculations and tagged Apocalypse World on August 27, 2018 by Necropraxis.
Apocalypse World agendas
The core of The Master of Ceremonies chapter involves three agendas and 11 principles, where agendas are the abstract goals of play and principles are means, or methods, that further the agendas. The three agendas apply 100% to OSR play (text of agendas from 2E, p. 80):
Make Apocalypse World seem real
Make the players' characters' lives not boring
Play to find out what happens
If anything, the third agenda is the single most important aspect of open-ended, exploration focused play. Whether you are exploring a dungeon, crawling hexes, or even engaging in palace intrigue, the most rewarding OSR play for me starts with a setting backdrop, some situations in motion, some randomly determined events, and a sequence of player choices about what to investigate or ignore. Setting backdrop includes elements such as fictional locations and random encounter tables. Events include particular random encounters that happen, reaction rolls, and even the positive or negative outcomes of combats. Then, that mix determines fictional developments, alliances, and ultimately some form of emergent narrative. This requires some discipline, or at least trust that such juxtaposition will lead to engaging play. As Apocalypse World directs (2E, p. 80):
It's not, for instance, your agenda to make the players lose, or to deny them what they want, or to punish them, or to control them, or to get them through your pre-planned storyline (DO NOT pre-plan a storyline, and I'm not fucking around).
The other two agendas are also central to OSR play for me. Make the world seem real means that when adventurers retreat from a dungeon, monsters may learn. The same tactics should work less well the second time. Intelligent denizens will remember being wronged—or helped. Retainers will betray characters if poorly treated (with appropriate foreshadowing or communication between referee and players, of course). Developments occur offscreen, especially regarding threats telegraphed but ignored, such as unchecked goblin raiding leading to food shortages. And so forth. Making the world seem real drives adventures and makes player choices matter.
I can see the objection already: all this is just common sense, there is nothing specifically OSR about this approach to refereeing; there may not even be anything specific to Apocalypse World. But I disagree. These agendas do not apply to all games. If you are playing a Pathfinder Adventure Path, the game—the place where player choices matter—is not so much in playing to find out what happens. Instead, the game challenges player skill in crafting effective builds and in tactical battlefield teamwork. There exist other reasonable high level goals of play which diverge from these agendas as well. For example, there are some RPGs where maintaining the sense of a world in motion outside of the player characters is less important. In those games, the equivalent to make Apocalypse World seem real is less applicable.
The question then becomes, are there other abstract, high level goals of OSR play apart from these three agendas, or do these three agendas suffice? I think there are two potential candidates. The first involves exploration and the gradual discovery or revelation of wondrous landscapes. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. The inky expanse of an underground sea. The second involves navigating fictional challenges using creative problem solving and teamwork. The first potentially falls under playing to find out what happens and making the world seem real, though I can imagine a satisfying game of Apocalypse World never leaving, for example, a refugee camp. So even though some of the principles, which I will discuss in later posts, may naturally fit with exploratory play, the agendas do not in and of themselves demand exploration. The second also probably deserves a separate agenda statement, if one were to write the OSR referee equivalent of the MC chapter.
Panel from Berserk chapter 93
One final note. So far I have mostly been discussing the applicability of Apocalypse World methods structurally rather than in terms of content. Much of the fictional content presented by Apocalypse World may be absent from OSR settings, such as guns, vague memories of our present world, cigarettes, napalm, and so forth. That said, D&D is the apocalypse. A points of light setting, which describes many D&D settings, where danger and adventure surround small areas of safety, would be the natural outcome of life after an apocalypse. Examples of stories in other media that feel most D&D to me are often post-apocalyptic or post-apocalyptic adjacent, such as The Walking Dead, early episodes of Lost, the Blame! anime, Vance's Dying Earth stories, Berserk after the Advent, The Book of the New Sun, and all the Dark Souls video games. So while the cosmetic details might vary if your setting includes elves, knights, longbows, or riding velociraptors rather than bikers, automatic weapons, and Fury Road battle cars, there may be more similarities than differences once you get past the surface associations.
Reading Apocalypse World
Apocalypse World provides some of the best statements I know of regarding several aspects of play that I find particularly rewarding. However, Apocalypse World also has a reputation, especially around the dives I frequent, of prioritizing dramatic development and focusing on shared narrative authority rather than facilitating fictional challenges. While some of these assumptions have a grain of truth, the bulk of the text is, in my opinion, tremendously useful for OSR games, or at least the kinds of games I run, whatever you want to call them. So I plan to write a handful of posts highlighting some of the acumen I see in Apocalypse World.
Though Apocalypse World the text is for the referee (the subtitle is The Master of Ceremonies, which is the game's term for referee), the order of chapters seems focused on players, perhaps in an attempt to build interest by sketching an evocative setting, barfing forth apocalyptica in the game's own lingo. This ordering does the text no favors, because it buries the bulk of insight regarding running games under reams of character class descriptions and powers, the playbooks. So I will be reading the text here in my preferred order, beginning with the Master of Ceremonies chapter.
My interest in running a game where I do everything Apocalypse World directs and nothing else is relatively low. As with all game paraphernalia, I am looking for what I can use rather than a complete, perfect edifice. I treat all game products as tools rather than gospel.
Note on editions
Apocalypse World has two editions: 1st (2010) and 2nd (2016). For my purposes, the differences between the editions are minor, though the second edition's physical book is nicer. The most notable difference is that 2E replaces fronts with threat maps, which serve a similar purpose but take a slightly different approach. I will be reading the second edition.
If you are curious, I would also read Vincent's post about concentric game design, by which he means that Apocalypse World is designed to degrade gracefully as you progressively ignore the rules that are less fundamental. Finally, I want to provide a shoutout to Jason D'Angelo's long series of posts on Google Plus, The Daily Apocalypse, in which he undertakes a close read of Apocalypse World. This volume of commentary would probably be overwhelming for someone with only casual interest, but I find it useful so there you go.


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The trouble with biological indicators. Understanding the challenge. The solution to continuous monitoring of "fragile" hydrogen peroxide decontamination processes.
The trouble with biological indicators.
For nearly forty years the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors have used cold gaseous processes to deliver a decontamination of environments – be it cleanrooms, isolated processes or any of the many other environments and facilities around the globe, multi-millions have been spent on developing these decontamination technologies in order to reliably deliver cold decontaminations outside of an autoclave. Most notably and perhaps palatable for pharma and healthcare would be the hydrogen peroxide decontamination cycle, when delivered correctly hydrogen peroxide offers excellent biological inactivation and is by far the most environmentally friendly of all the gaseous decontamination process. Hydrogen peroxide can routinely deliver a very robust decontamination, more than the industry norm of an inactivation of a million geobacillus stearothermophilus bacteria.
This article isn't about the technology delivering the decontamination cycle. This article is going to focus on the trouble with the validation of the decontamination cycle.
First off, creating and delivering a million bacterial on to a carrier. Its technically possible but not practically. The fermentation process that creates the bacterial in the first place – growing bacteria, its biology not chemistry, every batch behaves differently, similar maybe but identical no. Then deposition onto the carrier, each deposit in every batch has a different amount of bacteria, that lands on the carrier in a unique way. So, every BI, yes every single BI is at best slightly different to the next and at worst totally different. Batches of biological indicators are so different, so routinely different that manufacturers indicate the population of bacteria typically found within that batch and the associated D value on each batch.
D value? What exactly is a D value? Well that would be the time it takes the million bacteria to reduce by one zero when exposed to a controlled dose of hydrogen peroxide in a repeatedly stable environmental condition (1,000,000 to 100,000 CFU's of bacteria all the way down to zero CFU's). This qualification process being set by the BI manufacturer typically, oh and the dose and environmental conditions are a secret that isn't delivered with the BI and can't be replicated outside of the manufacturers facilities! So, we really can only say the D value is a measure of resistance from one manufacturer's BI batch to another. i.e. This one is harder to kill than the other.
So, what does that look like simply?
In very basic terms, if the environmental conditions and dose is the same then then the time to kill all the bacteria for a low resistance (low D value) BI could be just less than 6 minutes through to a highly resistance BI that is something over 20 minutes.
Ladies and Gentlemen – This is supposed to be the same test! Yet as you can clearly see it isn't.
In addition to a validation tool that differs sometimes dramatically from one batch to another we have to contend with a host of manufacturing, storage and even use and incubation hurdles that can all create difficulties in the challenge.
Rogue BI syndrome. What is it? Basically, when dealing with viable bacteria it is impossible to predict how they will behave, sometimes they clump when being deposited. Sometimes they layer. Sometimes some small contamination entrains into the manufacturing process and the contamination effects how the bacteria behaves and causes unexpected issues. Storage of BI's is critically important, as is how you present the BI for exposure to the oxidisation process as well as recovery, the storage and use of growth media and even the incubator. The picture here is that using biological indicators is hard work at best and many factors can create a rogue result, one that instantly creates hours, days, weeks or even months and years of work.
Let's put all of that to one side and assume everything is good, lets go beyond good and say if the BI performs perfectly – what is the result? BI's take a long time to work with (up to seven days incubation), the result is binary and very expensive in terms of operational impact (many companies use three BI's in each position and on some isolated production lines hundreds and even thousands of positions are studied!).
Some production facilities I know have an annual usage of over one hundred thousand biological indicators and teams of people and facilities to administer the qualification process. It costs millions even when it goes perfectly and routinely fails.
But today after forty years of going in one direction people are conditioned and have belief that it is the only direction available. The guidance and publications on the subject are not specific and don't really give any prescribed and clear markers. Log 6 Bacillus BI's… It would be very helpful for all if some of these questions where answered clearly. What exactly is the expectation?
The acceptable resistance range of the biological indicator. Its critical to specify to the supplier the acceptable range of D value – if you don't you run the chance of receiving either low or high resistance BI's and that makes the challenge on the outlying area of the scale and one way or another you are headed into potential difficulties.
One way of limiting risk is to design a decontamination cycle that is very robust – many do. The cycle is designed to inactivate a high resistance BI and this is safe, however the drawback, it's also a very long cycle, lengthy injection phase, lengthy dwell phase and massive aeration cycles to remove the gas or vapour. Safe but long cycles reduce risk but also impact productivity – especially if the product you intend to work with is sensitive to the decontamination gas and you need to reduce the cycle to levels into the parts per billion range!
The manufacturer of the BI is also something that needs to be defined and not changed. BI manufacturers are not equal. They are totally different challenges. The BI from supplier A is usually totally different to supplier B! Select a BI supplier and stick to it. Move at your peril.
What type of BI do you use? In Tyvek? Naked Ribbons? Wrapping your bacteria in a blanket of Tyvek creates a different challenge, sometimes more robust, but not always. Dependent upon the type of decontamination technology used. Some people specify and use naked BI's others Tyvek. Some manufacturers use a different grade of Tyvek to others, the Tyvek itself is impregnated with a backing material that also differs from one supplier to another. All of these are the "SAME" Log 6 BI! But totally different in terms of the challenge.
By defining the challenge very accurately we can minimise the impact the validation process has on delivering an effective cycle.
Just to talk about that decontamination cycle for a second. Many factors impact the delivery of efficacy; Temperature, Humidity, Dewpoint and Saturation, Concentration, Delivery mechanism – Vaporised (evaporated), Nebulised (spray or ultrasonic), Ionised (with a plasma arc) to name just a few and combinations of all the above and more, Hot spots, Cold spots – the list goes on. Some say it's a black art. Well for many years that has been the perception.
Welcome to the 21st Century and a digital validation tool called an Enzymatic Biological Indicator. The EI is everything we need to deliver successful decontamination validation quickly, simply and in a way that is palatable.
The EI is a biological challenge. Its an enzyme from a very hardy thermophile. Many times, more resistant to inactivation that the current Geobacillus norm. The enzyme inactivates biologically. Just like a BI the EI delivers a measure of decontamination efficacy rather than an indication of "chemical in the vicinity of the test" such as a chemical indicator. Even the very best chemical indicators only deliver a measure of chemical in the area rather than a measure of biological inactivation such as a BI or EI can.
The enzyme on the EI is used to catalyse a bioluminescent assay. Put simply the enzyme before inactivation can deliver a known and measurable volume of luminescence. Exposure the oxidisation processes such as hydrogen peroxide and ethylene oxide degrade and inactivates the enzyme in a time and dose responsive way and as such less luminescence is produced.
The EI test strip, the Luminescent Assay, A reader called a Luminometer and a digitally delivered automatic reading process and results generation from a software platform called Athena.
The EI test process has been engineered to deliver a robust test. It is not binary, rather the EI test is quantitive. Each EI delivers a measure of efficacy that correlates simply to Log reduction that ranges from <2.5Log to >9 Log from a simple, singular test. The EI does not need to be wrapped in a protective Tyvek blanket to protect it. So positioning of the EI is easy, the test is more usable.
The reader fully automates the reading process. If you can press one button you can be a master of the EI process in less than an hour's training and the best part. The test takes only sixty seconds. Yes, in just 60 seconds EI's deliver accurate process efficacy results.
The time that EI's save is incredible. The value EI's deliver is clear and the technology is rapidly becoming the validation tool of choice for pharmaceutical manufacturers around the globe.
EI technology has been developed by the UK's Public Health England over the last fifteen years and Protak Scientific is the globally exclusive licensee of the technology. Protak have engineered the technology specifically for use in cold oxidisation process decontamination applications, with imminent certification to ISO 13485 and pending FDA registration the technology can be relied upon to deliver a qualification tool that meets all expectations of todays forward thinking industry.
It really is very simple, EI's measure decontamination efficacy simply and easily. EI's take away all the hard work, all the guesswork and deliver total cycle mapping and understanding on the very first cycle. EI's deliver qualification in a way that totally radicalises the industry and does so with a high degree of reliability. EI's are not inoculated like BI's they are manufactured with a very high degree of accuracy and batch variance is less than 5% VS the 350% for BI's.
Now is the time to say Bye bye to the BI and hello to the EI. Now is the time to move from a 19th century process to a 21st century technology that has been engineered for the process and task at hand.
Protak Scientific is working with the UK's MHRA to establish an industry focus group to meet with the MHRA at its new offices in Canary Wharf to discuss with the regulator directly how the new EI technology can be introduced and implemented within industry. If you would like to know more about EI technology or how you could go about joining the industry group, please contact Protak directly.


How many spaces should you allocate from your precious 140 characters on twitter for a Period. Usually we use 3 spaces, one for the character and 2 blank spaces. Apparently thats not the correct grammar. I know, I was blown away too. Apparently proper grammar is just 1 space after a period. As a proud 2 spacer, my world is about to change. Read this rant to get the full scoop.
Walls are built for protection. They are built to keep certain people in and to keep other people out.
Our construction project in Haiti was to rebuild the outer compound wall around the school. This would provide the children with a safe place to learn and play and would protect them from the neighboring slums and dangerous streets of Port Au Prince.
It's hard however, not to think about the people you will ultimately keep out. I know I am guilty of this in my own life; I build walls around me emotionally and physically to feel safe and secure. But how do you respond when the Lord asks you to go over the wall?
Sarah Jane and I heard of an elderly man living in the slum across the wall. We learned that he was injured during the earthquake and had no family to care for him. He was blind, weak, hungry, and all alone. His home was made of scrap metal and tattered sheets and was approximately 3ft by 6 ft. I watched as his frail body worked to stand up and walk to the edge of his shanty. His knees were buckling and after standing for only a short while, he slumped back down onto a nearby chair. He wore a look of despair and hopelessness.
I definitely consider myself to be a cautious person. I lived in Memphis for 7 years and during that time we were named the # 1 city for hate crimes against women. I learned where not to go alone and how to be very aware of my surroundings. But on this day, I felt the Lord calling me to step out of my comfort zone and go over the wall.
Pierre was our new Haitian friend and translator. He had such a huge heart for his community and for Haiti. He told us that providing a safe place for a school and church to meet would be such a blessing for Haiti and that it would be a beacon of hope for the people of Port Au Prince. When Sarah Jane and I told Pierre that we wanted to go over the wall to see the blind man, he paused to think hard about what we were asking and then he smiled and led the way.
As I stepped outside the compound, I felt a wave of anxiety. This was the first time I actually walked through the streets of Port Au Prince. We traveled through the city in a large open bed truck with a covered tarp and at each destination we immediately got inside the compound walls and locked the gate. There were many stares as Pierre led us into the slum, some friendly some untrusting. Children began to emerge from behind piles of rubble and scrap metal. I saw an emaciated dog crouched on top of debris as roosters walked through a pile of trash. We were cautiously led to the very back corner, where we met Antonio.
Pierre explained to Antonio that we were there to help him and that he was not alone. As we listened to his aches and pains, I looked up and saw holes in his shelter. I imagined how hard it must be for him to fall asleep with the rain invading his home. We gave Antonio a hygiene kit that included soap, a razor, lotion and clean towels. As he rubbed his knee and explained his pain, I assessed his injured leg; something had fallen on him during the earthquake. He had significant atrophy in his quadriceps muscle and his knee felt warm to the touch; a sign of arthritis and inflammation. As Sarah Jane educated him on how to take his vitamins and medicines, I took measurements of his knee so that I could bring him a brace. I watched through tears as Sarah Jane literally fed Antonio her lunch that she had brought that day. I'm not sure where his last meal had come from.
We made 3 other trips into the slum. I think it is funny that once you allow God to lead you over the wall your fears begin to fade and you start to believe the words in the songs you sing: "If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us". In three days, we were able to clear the rubble outside his tent and place a new tarp over his roof. We even extended a portion of the tarp so he could have a place to sit in the shade. We filled a jug of clean water for him and made a path for him to walk. We even placed blocks on each side of the path so he could feel his way with a walking stick.
As people saw us return each day, I think trust was established. One lady approached me and asked for help with her back. With Pierre's help, I was able to teach her stretches to relieve her back pain and give her a lumbar support brace. Children began to run to us and touch our arms. They loved having their pictures taken and I loved hearing their laughter as they saw themselves on the camera. Our last day on the other side of the wall, we handed out shoes to the women and children.
I am thankful that the Lord allowed me be a part of something so beautiful. Our last day at the school, Sarah Jane and I walked onto the roof and looked over the now completed wall. Through tears of joy, we looked at Antonio seated on his chair outside his tent, clean shaven, brace on his knee, and a smile on his face. His expression of hopelessness and despair was exchanged for a look of peace and dignity. I hate to think that my fear could have prevented me from blessing this sweet man. I definitely think that I am still a cautious person and I respect dangerous areas, but I hope I have learned that when the Lord calls me over the wall he is going to grow my faith and show me just how much He loves the "least of these".
It is tragic to see the young reap the evil of those that went before them. Maybe you can make a difference.
Ok so the storms have been insane the last two days. We had to cancel church because the cops shut down our cross streets because of flooding. About 1/2 of a block away, we had cars completely submerged. Brad, my copastor and I got soaked just trying to get inside the building at Cabana. We were hopeful we would have church today. We had already canceled our church picnic and baptisms but thought we could salvage church. Apparently the weather had other ideas. Here are some cool videos of the flooding. The first is on 21st and the other 2 are of the Harpeth River in Franklin.
So many of my friends have had flooding. We are just really grateful that our house has stayed dry so far. We are getting ready for round 3 this afternoon!!!
It is hard to believe how quickly this year is flying by. I can't believe it is Christmas already.
This fall has been really encouraging for me at Green Hills where I pastor. We have had a spike in attendance and have seen many new people join our faith community.
The most exciting thing however has been that our people have become excited to serve the underserved. Brad and I really feel that it is nothing that we have done to bring this about but it has been God who has been doing something special in our church's heart. To save some space I just want to give you a list of some of the things that we have been encouraged by our people's obedience.
1. Our college students put together 127 bags of basic toiletries and Bibles for homeless people. They have chosen to put these bags into their cars so they can hand them out when they see people in need.
3. Our small groups have adopted 2 families who were in great need. One of our groups is dedicating a Saturday to go repair and clean the trailer of their adopted family.
Our most exciting event this fall was this Sunday when we had Gwen and Suzanna from 147millionorphans.com come and share about how God has been moving them to champion the cause of adoption and care for orphans. There wasn't a dry eye in the place. They have partnered with Katie Davis and Amazima ministries in Uganda and have created a clothing line to raise funds to feed orphans and provide grants for families who want to adopt.
We really encourage you to check out the video and their story. We podcasted the service on itunes. (The first half of the podcast is my Sermon and the last half is Gwen's story of how God is using them.) http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=274809927.
lIf you want to find out more about 147 Million orphans visit their website: http://www.147millionorphans.com/ I also really want you to visit Katie Davis' blog: kissesfromkatie.blogspot.com/ It will melt your heart.
This is the real heart of Christmas! To be the body of Jesus to a lost an hurting world, showing them that the savior cares for them and inviting them into a relationship with Jesus.
Serving children who have needs is something that always grabs my heart. I started sponsoring a child several years ago and it is one of the best decisions I have ever made. To be honest it is a sacrifice. Even though it isn't a ton of money every month, its only $38 a month, it still is a sacrifice to care for someone else. To be a good compassion sponsor you need to open your heart to someone else. You need to pray for your child. You need to write them and let them know who you are. Sadly, I don't do a good job of keeping up with my compassion kid. But today I watched this video that challenged me. If you have 5 minutes today please watch it. It is so worth it.
I love to wander a strange city. There is something about being immersed in a vast urban jungle surrounded by throngs of strangers. The annonomity that crowded streets and unknown arenas are a perfect platform to find a respite from the rat race of everyday life.
So when my wife Tabitha had to do continuing ed for her degree in Chicago I got really excited. While she has been in class I have been on a spiritual retreat in an unlikely location, downtown Chicago.
It has been very fun so far. I spent my morning reading my Bible and journaling in a quiet part near Lake Michigan. This afternoon I going to just wander the Magnificent mile. It's been refreshing to refocus and reconnect with God.
We all go through periods of intense disappointment and struggle. Often it may feel like God has abandoned us. In times like that I often feel like God is angry with me. The story of Lazarus in John 11 deals with all these issues. I am always really surprised when I read John 11:6 and see that Jesus when he heard that Lazarus was really sick, waited 2 more days before he came to his rescue. It seems heartless that Jesus would allow someone that he was so close to and considered to be such a close friend, die so suddenly. In a similar way, often we feel like Jesus is delaying needlessly when we need him most. But God has not forgotten us. He has not forgotten who we are. Check out this week's sermon "LIFE and DEATH" at Green Hills Church to hear the rest of the story. Just click the link to listen: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=274809927.


MindShare is a fundraising event held every year by The Student Advancement Foundation (SAF), a non-profit organization in the Grand Rapids area. SAF works to provide Grand Rapids Public School students with the educational tools and enrichment experiences they need to learn.
The event, held at the DeVos Place in Grand Rapids, hosts over 700 guests and raises over $200,000 in one night to support the Grand Rapids Public School Students. MindShare is focused on celebrating the support from the community as well as highlighting the accomplishments of SAF. Working amongst a three person team, we created digital and print collateral for the event.
of the foundation's history and the current landscape of the Grand Rapids Public School District (GRPSD).
To design an event with strong ties between the foundation, the event, and Grand Rapids Public Schools. The solution is to make the foundation's name pronounced in ties with the event.
The connection of MindShare with the foundation's name is absent. Many attendees have no knowledge that the Student Advancement Foundation even hosts the event.
• GRPS is one of the most diverse school districts in Western Michigan, with students originating from over 70 different countries and speak over 50 different languages.
• 5% of students are homeless, and many others face uncertain housing situations.
• Over 86% of students qualify for free or reduced lunch.
Understanding who the past, present, and future attendees of MindShare was crucial to concept development for this year's event.
• Donating has been shown to improve employee morale, retention, and produce recruitment results.
• Goal: Wants to support local organizations while maintaining a positive reputation for their company.
• Build better public opinion and reputation.
• Goal: Wants to provide opportunities for students they personally didn't have when they were growing up.
• Goal: Wants to purchase affordable high quality products that have received great reviews.
After researching past MindShare events and the foundation, our team began ideating on broad themes for the event. We narrowed down the list to three themes that we could present to the client: Together Toward Tomorrow, Spark!, and Igniting Dreams.
Tying it all together. Working together is the basis to moving forward. SAF works to connect the community with students. By working together, SAF and the community can provide a better future for students.
Where hope is seen. Igniting Hope is about showing what lights the flicker of hope within students and the community. SAF's donations work directly towards funding hope for these students in the form of showing them new opportunities.
The "aha" moment. Spark my Interest shows the importance of providing new opportunities for each and every student. A moment of exposure to something new can spark a child's interest for life.
of SAF and the Grand Rapids community creating opportunities for students to explore their dreams and passions.
Environmental graphics, including door clings and elevator buttons, were implemented to greet guests as they arrived at MindShare.
were paired with a student story for guests to read during cocktail hour.
included a sponsor name, "fast fact" about SAF, donation card, and program.
Over 750 guests from local and corporate businesses attended MindShare 2014. By the end of the night, $260,000 was raised.


Nick Crossley has served in a variety of high-profile leadership roles during his 19 years as an emergency manager. He is immediate past president of the International Association of Emergency Managers, serves as a member of the FEMA Region 5 Advisory Committee and is on the Justice and Public Safety Steering Committee and the Emergency Management and Homeland Security Subcommittee of the National Association of Counties.
Through it all, he's been a tireless advocate for interoperability, which is why he's so proud of Alert HC, Hamilton County, Ohio's mass notification system he helped develop.
The system can reach all landlines in the county and any website it's connected to, access the county's social media feeds and the Emergency Management and Homeland Security app, and activate the Wireless Emergency Alert system and the Emergency Alert System from a central location that ensures a unified, consistent message, according to Crossley.
The system is also joined with Smart911, allowing for enhanced 911 capability. "People can register a unique need or gate code or give first responders information about pets or children, medical conditions, sight or hearing issues," Crossley said.


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Antonio Brown says Bucs pressured him to play with severe ankle injury, accuses them of 'ongoing cover-up'
Bruce Arians
American football player and coach
Antonio Brown released a statement on Wednesday blaming his "coach" for his midgame exit from the field on Sunday that preceded his still-pending release from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The statement released through his lawyer Sean Burstyn was the first time Brown has directly addressed the incident in public. He doesn't reference Bruce Arians by name, but makes multiple references to an interaction with his "coach," whom he says pressured him to play with an injured ankle during Sunday's win over the New York Jets.
He wrote that when he told "coach" that he couldn't play, the coach didn't call for medical attention but told him "you're done." He also said that he was injected with a painkiller on gameday. He didn't specify what painkiller was used.
He wrote that he has since had an MRI that shows broken bone fragments, a torn ligament and loss of cartilage. It will require surgery, according to Brown.
"Because of my commitment to the game, I relented to pressure directly from my coach to play injured," Brown's statement reads. "Despite the pain, I suited up, the staff injected me with what I now know was a powerful and sometimes dangerous painkiller that the NFLPA has warned against using, and I gave it all for the team.
"I played until it was clear that I could not use my ankle to safely perform my playing responsibilities. On top of that, the pain was extreme. I took a seat on the sideline and my coach came up to me, very upset, and shouted 'What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you?'
"I told him 'it's my ankle.' But he knew that. It was well-documented and we had discussed it. He then ordered me to get on the field. I said, 'Coach, I can't.' He didn't call for medical attention. Instead he shouted at me, 'YOU'RE DONE!' While he ran his finger across his throat. Coach was telling me that if I didn't play hurt, then I was done with the Bucs.
"I didn't quit. I was cut. I didn't walk away from my brothers. I was thrown out."
Antonio Brown says he needs surgery on his injured ankle. (Elsa/Getty Images)
Brown then described the extent of his ankle injury.
"What they did not know until now is that on Monday morning I had an urgent MRI on my ankle," Brown continued. "It shows broken bone fragments stuck in my ankle, the ligament torn from the bone and cartilage loss, which are beyond painful. You can see the bone bulging from the outside. But that must and can be repaired."
Brown also accused the Bucs of an "ongoing cover-up" and pressuring him to see one of their doctors after Arians announced that he was done with the team. The entire statement can be read here:
Antonio Brown has issued a statement on the events that transpired during the Jets game on Sunday and has announced he will undergo ankle surgery. pic.twitter.com/ozxoy9Ah82
— Yahoo Sports (@YahooSports) January 6, 2022
Burstyn released his own statement claiming that he's seen the MRI which showed "a piece of loose bone ... pressing into his ankle joint and a ligament snapped clean off the bone." He also called any discussion of Brown's exit from the field on Sunday being related to "mental health issues" a "false rumor."
On Thursday morning, Brown tweeted several screenshots of what appeared to be texts shared between him and Arians just a few days before Brown's on-field exit, in which they discussed Brown's ankle.
Health over Wealth # Barbarian pic.twitter.com/5pxjpZ6491
— AB (@AB84) January 6, 2022
The Bucs didn't immediately respond to the statements which were released late Wednesday evening.
Arians told reporters on Monday that Brown didn't tell him that he was injured on gameday and declined to go into detail about his conversation with Brown.
Arians asked if Antonio told him his ankle was injured, Arians said no. "We had a conversation and he left the field." #GoBucs
— Sara Walsh (@Sara_Walsh) January 3, 2022
Arians was asked if he could share anything about the conversation he had right before AB left the field:
"No. Not at all." Arians clarified if a player has an injury issue, they go to the trainer and the trainer would tell Bruce they're out. #GoBucs
Despite his actions on Sunday, the NFL has said that Brown won't be disciplined for his bizarre on-field departure. A spokesperson for the NFLPA said on Thursday that they intend to investigate Brown's claims of medical mismanagement, though Brown has not reached out to them with any details.
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A friend forwarded this link to me. The retreat sounds beautiful. I'm sending an email application tomorrow. I understand the deadline was extended to June 1.
Hi. The NC Arts Council has this listed as being open for applications through June 1 – is that accurate or has the application window closed?
Oh my gosh, I would so love to do this–I have taught so many workshops for women and for writing…will work on applying tomorrow! Sounds incredibly exciting!


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The beauty of the rice terrace in Tegalalang is the main tourist spot that you can enjoy in the Tegalalang tour program. In this place you can take a walk along the rice fields while looking more closely at the local farmers who are working in their fields. Besides that you can also do swinging activities and of course with a little extra cost. But before visiting Tegalalang you will be invited to watch a traditional dance performance called Barong dance. Followed by a visit to one of the traditional hand weaving factories to know more about the process of making Balinese hand weaving. Then you will be delivered to Tegenungan Waterfall, one of the waterfalls in Bali that has become a favorite destination for tourists. Here you can swim in the waterfall to feel how cool the water is, with a note that you have prepared your own towels and swimsuits. Last but not least, you will visit Goa Gajah or elephant cave temple, a cave for meditations from the 11th century. You can enjoy your lunch at one of the restaurants in the Goa Gajah area. During the Tegalalang tour you will be guided by a professional driver, driving a comfortable car which is fully filled with gasoline. And you have to remember that the cost of the entrance ticket, lunch and other personal expenses are your responsibility.
Barong dance is a very popular traditional dance from Bali. This dance is one of the tourist attractions that must be watched by tourists who are first coming to Bali. Barong dance is performed every morning in a village called Batubulan. The core story of the Barong dance is the eternal battle between goodness against badness which is symbolized by the mystical Barong figure as a symbol of truthness and Rangda as a symbol of wickedness. Barong dance itself tells a story fragment from an ancient Hindu holy book called Mahabrata, where a young man named Sahadewa who volunteered himself to be sacrificed to Goddess Durga as queen of darkness. Lord Shiva felt sorry and gave blessings to Sahadewa so that Goddess Durga could not hurt Sahadewa. Dewi Durga finally gave up and begged Sahadewa to purify his demonic form so that she could return to heaven, Sahadewa then realized the request of Dewi Durga. The loyal servant of Dewi Durga named Kalika did not accept the defeat of his master, then he attacked Sahadewa. Kalika transforms herself into Rangda and Sahadewa turns into a Barong. The battle between Barong and Rangda ends in a balance where there are no winners or losers. This is an illustration that both truth and false will always be in our lives, now depending on ourselves, we want to be Barong or Rangda?
Batik and hand weaving are authentic Indonesian clothing commodities that have been recognized worldwide because they have their own characteristics both in terms of motifs and the manufacturing process. Almost every region in Indonesia has Batik and hand weaving products, except that both the style and the material are different from one region to another. Bali also has a tradition of making traditional Batik and hand weaving. The patterns of Batik in Bali mostly depict images of flowers, leaves, birds and Balinese ornaments. The process of making Batik in Bali is almost the same as other regions in Indonesia, where cloth are painted with special tools using natural materials. Then the cloth is colored using natural colors, the cloth is dried, and finally ready to used for clothing. On the other hand, Balinese hand weaving has a higher price than Batik, because the manufacturing process is more complicated. The hand weaving process in Bali is called Tenun. This work requires special skills as well as extra patience. First, the yarn as the main material for making cloth is colored using colors made from natural materials. The yarns that have been colored with different colors are dried, then arranged according to the motif of the fabric to be made. By using traditional weaving machines made of wood, the yarns then knitted to become sheets of cloth. The manufacturing process takes a long time, but the cloth produced in this way will look neater and have higher quality. In Bali there are several different types of weaving according to their origin. One of the most popular is the Pegringsingan hand weaving made by local residents in the village of Tenganan, an ancient village located in the eastern part of the island of Bali.
Tegenungan is one of the most popular waterfalls in Bali visited by tourists. Besides having complete facilities and easy access to reach, this natural tourist spot is also located close to the famous tourist area of Ubud. Tegenungan waterfall is located in Kemenuh village, a village in the south of Ubud that is famous for its wood carvers. The name Tegenungan comes from the word "Tegeh" which means high and "Nungan" which means water falls. Just like other waterfalls in Bali, to be able to reach the waterfall you have to go down many stairs. However, the number of steps that must be passed in Tegenungan is the least, approximately 250 steps. You do not need to worry about being tired when passing all these steps because at certain points there are interesting spots that you can use to take photos while resting. Tegenungan Waterfall comes from a river called Tukad Petanu, with an height of about 15 meters and has an heavy flow of water. Many tourists swim here when the water flow is normal, but during the rainy season visitors are not allowed to swim because the water flow is very heavy. It already has complete facilities such as several cafes and restaurants, toilets and clothes storage, souvenir shops, and most importantly is life guard teams who are always ready to help you.
Goa Gajah means elephant cave, but this place is not a cave inhabited by elephant. This tourist spot is an ancient temple built in the 11th century which was used as a place of meditation for spiritual practitioners at that time. Located in the village of Bedulu, an area located south of Ubud which is said to be the center of the kingdom of Bali in the past. Built on the side of a river called Tukad Pangkung, this ancient temple is a picture of the harmony of the two main religions that existed at that time, Hinduism and Buddhism. It is proven by the existence of several Buddhist stupas complete with Buddha statues which are located side by side with Hindu temples in Goa Gajah. In the temple complex there are several important buildings including, a bathing place with several angel statues. This bathing place has a function as a place for purification before entering the cave. Then there were the ruins of the temple which had collapsed and were difficult to reconstruct. On the other side of the river there are Buddhist stupas and Buddhist statues with incomplete conditions. And of course there is a cave on the cliff wall with a giant head carved at the entrance of the cave which is the main building in Goa Gajah. The inside of the cave is T-shaped with two ends, the cave hall has a height of about 2 meters and a width of 2 meters. The cave hall is filled with niches that were used as hermitage. At the end of the right cave there is a Trilingga statue as a symbol of Lord Shiva, while at the end of the left cave there is a statue of Ganesha, the son of Lord Shiva.
Tegalalang Village, a small village where the majority of the population works as farmers, therefore there is a lot of agricultural land in this village. Unfortunately the shape of the land in this village is hilly, so the farmer's fields must also be cultivated in the hills. The form of rice fields is terraced to make it easier for farmers to irrigate their fields. But the shape of the rice terraces looks beautiful where farmers' fields are arranged like a pyramid. Irrigation channels are made simple but very organized. To irrigate the fields, the Tegalalang farmers use water sources that originate on the hill, then the water flows to each of the paddy fields below it. To regulate irrigation the farmers form a traditional organization called Subak. This traditional organization has existed since 1072 AD. Regarding to the rice harvest period, Tegalalang farmers have three harvest times a year. The time of harvesting is three months starting from land preparation, nursery, maintenance of rice until the harvest period, carried out 3 times continuously. After that the farmers in Tegalalang rested their land for 3 months or planted other types of plants such as corn, beans, sweet potatoes or soybeans. This is useful for maintaining soil fertility and also cuts the life cycle of pests.


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Silica-based cathodes could enable long-life lithium-sulfur batteries
Posted July 7, 2020 by Tom Lombardo & filed under Newswire, The Tech.
Scientists from the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) have developed a silica-based cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries, which they say could enable batteries that last for over 2,000 charge/discharge cycles.
Lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs)—composed of a sulfur-based cathode and lithium anode submerged in a liquid electrolyte—are promising candidates to replace lithium-ion batteries because of their low cost, non-toxicity and the abundance of sulfur. But using sulfur in batteries is tricky for two reasons. First, during the discharge cycle, soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPS) form at the cathode, diffuse into the electrolyte, and easily reach the anode, where they progressively degrade the capacity of the battery. Second, sulfur is non-conducting, so a conductive and porous host material is required to accommodate sulfur and simultaneously trap LiPS at the cathode. In the past, carbon-based host structures have been explored because of their conductivity. However, carbon-based hosts cannot trap LiPS.
First author of the study and Ph. D. candidate Byong-June Lee next to Prof Jong-Sung Yu.
In a recent study published in Advanced Energy Materials, DGIST scientists proposed a novel host structure called "platelet ordered mesoporous silica" (pOMS). What is unusual about their choice is that silica, a low-cost metal oxide, is actually non-conducting. However, silica is highly polar and attracts other polar molecules such as LiPS.
Upon application of a conductive carbon-based agent to the pOMS structure, the initial solid sulfur in the pores of the structure dissolves into the electrolyte, where it diffuses toward the conductive carbon-based agent to be reduced to generate LiPS. In this manner, the sulfur effectively participates in the necessary electrochemical reactions despite the silica's non-conductivity. Meanwhile, the polar nature of the pOMS ensures that the LiPS remains close to the cathode and away from the anode.
The scientists also constructed an analogous non-polar, highly conductive conventional porous-carbon host structure to run comparative experiments with the pOMS structure. Professor Jong-Sung Yu, who led the study, remarked, "The battery with the carbon host exhibits high initial capacity that soon drops due to the weak interaction between non-polar carbon and LiPS. The silica structure clearly retains much more sulfur during continuous cycles; this results in much greater capacity retention and stability over as many as 2,000 cycles."
According to the researchers, host structures for LSBs need not be as conductive as was previously thought. Yu commented, "Our results are surprising, as no one ever thought that non-conductive silica could be a highly efficient sulfur host and even outperform state-of-the-art carbon hosts." This study broadens the selection of host materials for LSBs and could lead to next-generation sulfur batteries.
Source: DGIST
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SYNOPSIS: Fakeh tells the story of the title character, a young girl in her late twenties, who is a victim of the unfair belief in her locality that education is a privilege not extended to the girl child. At the tender age of 12, Fakeh is given out into marriage by her father, in settlement of a debt he cannot pay. Young Fakeh finds herself the youngest of her husband's five wives. Her dreams of going to school and becoming the doctor she always wanted to be are shattered. Powerless, she settles into her role as wife, albeit unhappily. The docu-fiction FAKEH is an eye-opener, out to mirror this injustice, which unknown to many, is rife across the world. It brings to the limelight the plight of the girl child who is generally put on a lower rung of the ladder in comparison with her male counterpart. Fakeh is also a humanitarian cry on behalf of the girl child to stop infant marriages and put everyone on the same scale, giving them the opportunity to dream and an education to work towards achieving those dreams.
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If you assume that getting married in the Philippines is an easy process, you are mistaken. There are quite a few hoops to jump through to get married in the Philippines, especially if you are under age 25.
Don't let the marriage license laws of the Republic of the Philippines put a dent in your wedding plans, though. Here's what you need to know and what documents to bring with you before you apply for a Philippines marriage license. We recommend getting this legal aspect of your wedding out of the way about a month before your wedding date.
Requirements may vary as each county in the Republic of the Philippines could have their own requirements.
If this is your first marriage, the local civil registrar will ask to see your original birth certificates or your baptismal certificates. Certified copies may be accepted. You need to provide the full name, residence, and citizenship of your parents or guardians.
If either of you is not a citizen of the Philippines, you have to provide your passport and a certificate of legal capacity to contract marriage. An affidavit in lieu of the certificate may also be accepted. You need to check with a U.S. consular officer to make sure they are providing the affidavit.
If you are under the age of 18, you cannot get married in the Philippines even if your parents are OK with the marriage.
Individuals must be at least 21 years old to get married in the Philippines without written parental consent. If your parents cannot appear with you before the local civil registrar, a legal affidavit with the signatures of two witnesses may be accepted.
Individuals between the age of 21 and 25, must "... ask their parents or guardian for advice upon the intended marriage. If they do not obtain such advice, or if it is unfavorable, the marriage license shall not be issued until after three months following the completion of the publication of the application therefor. A sworn statement by the contracting parties to the effect that such advice has been sought, together with the written advice given, if any, shall be attached to the application for a marriage license. Should the parents or guardian refuse to give any advice, this fact shall be stated in the sworn statement."
There is a waiting period of 10 consecutive days while notice of the marriage application is posted on a bulletin board outside the local civil registrar's office.
Check with the local civil registrar for the fees charged for a marriage license. Fees for a marriage license may be waived if the couple applying has no visible means of income or has insufficient income.
If either of you is between the ages of 18 and 25, you will need to show proof to the local civil registrar that you have received marriage counseling. If you do not receive marriage counseling, your marriage license will not be issued for three months.
If you have been previously married, you will need to provide the death certificate of your deceased spouse or the judicial decree of your absolute divorce or the judicial decree of your annulment or declaration of nullity of your previous marriage.
Two witnesses are required. Witnesses must be of legal age.
Members of the local judiciary; priests, rabbis, imams, ministers of registered churches or religious sects; consul generals, consuls, vice-consuls. Military commanders in the absence of a chaplain and ship captains and airplane chiefs can solemnize a marriage in articulo mortis.
If you use a religious officiant, one of you must belong to the officiant's church or religious sect.
Marriages must be solemnized publicly in a church, chapel, temple, judicial chambers or offices of consuls. The only time a wedding can take place elsewhere is if the wedding is articulo mortis, in a remote location, or if the officiant receives a request for a different location.
The Republic of The Philippines does not allow marriage by proxy.
The Family Code of The Republic of The Philippines states: "No license shall be necessary for the marriage of a man and a woman who have lived together as husband and wife for at least five years and without any legal impediment to marry each other. The contracting parties shall state the foregoing facts in an affidavit before any person authorized by law to administer oaths. The solemnizing officer shall also state under oath that he ascertained the qualifications of the contracting parties are found no legal impediment to the marriage. (76a)"
Cousin marriages are not allowed. "Section 1, Article 38 of the Family Code prohibits marriage of relatives up to the fourth civil degree (first cousins)."
The marriage license in the Philippines is valid for 120 days from the date of issue.
Please note that we make every effort to offer you common-sense marriage advice and helpful information about marriage on this website, but we are not attorneys and the articles on the site are not to be construed as legal advice. The information in this article was accurate when it was published. It is important that you verify all information with your local marriage license office or county clerk before making any wedding or travel plans. This Marriage site has a world-wide audience and marriage laws and regulations vary from state to state and country to country. When in doubt, seek legal counsel. Please notify us of any oversights or errors.
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Do any whitening toothpastes actually work?? I think the gradual dulling must be due to age *groan*, as there isn't any staining as I don't drink tea, coffee or red wine!
I find the toothpastes do nothing but crest white strips are brilliant. I only use them once every six months and it really keeps the old pegs nice and white, and keeps me in coffee and red wine. Well, I'm pregnant right now so not so much of that now but the strips are ace.
Euthymol……just the best and apparently Claudia winkleman swears by it..
I'm with you on this, Jane! I've not yet found a so-called 'teeth-whitening' toothpaste that makes a jot of difference. Am now plucking up the courage to have mine professionally whitened at my dentist's practise (and saving up too – it's about £250!). My worry though is that the side effect is increased tooth sensitivity, which I feel could be too high a price to pay. Or is it??
Try looking for toothpastes that don't contain sodium lauryl sulfate (this might require squinting at the ingredients list). I'm super prone to getting mouth ulcers but switched to Sensodyne 2-3 years ago and I hardly get them at all now.
I've tried a few. I think the best is Janina Ultra White it's not an instant fix ( you won't get American teeth) but used nightly you will see a difference in a couple of weeks. It tastes ok and my dentist says it doesn't damage enamel. The method is important. Brush all over for a couple of minutes and DONT rinse. This allows the toothpaste to work its magic overnight. Amazon and Waitrose stock. Costs about a tenner.
No comments? Did you drive all of the science people away?
I had my dentist do it, and that worked really well. Watch out not to go too white, because it will look too… well, indeed, American. But she did it very subtly, yet effectively.
Floss your teeth then put a teaspoon of coconut oil in your mouth and swish around for a few minutes then spit out. It's called " oil pulling " and really works. No need to do it every day, but if you have a event coming up, try it for 4-5 days before and you will be amazed at the difference. I even have had people comment on how white my teeth are. And I'm a tea/coffee/and red wine drinker!
But I can't stand a waterpik OR an electric toothbrush so I also oil pull if I want to be 100% sure that I have no bad breath and it does work. You can also brush your teeth with a little bit of the oil instead of swishing it. Like whitening strips it'll only work if the issue is staining/not actually getting your teeth that clean when you brush. Just do try to spit into the trash can instead of down the sink as coconut oil especially can solidify in your pipes in cold weather.
The white strips are good, it's peroxide (I think) so basically bleaches. I KNOW it's expensive but I had veneers on the front 6 teeth as my 60th birthday present – used the pension lump sum. Not something everyone can do but if you could afford it, well worth the money in my view. Not only do you get very natural looking perfect teeth (you choose your own colour so doesn't have to be blue/white) but also it fills those gaps from receding gums. Again, in my opinion, this makes me look 'less old' but not in a Botoxy way, if you know what I mean.
I'm a dentist and I'm afraid whitening toothpastes will not work for you Jane, but having your teeth professionally whitened by your dentist probably would. I'm not just saying that because we want the money! Whitening toothpastes can be effective at removing staining but it is not possible for them to change the colour of your actual teeth. You need bleach for that and you don't want to mess around with it unless you know what you're doing….it is actually illegal for anyone to whiten your teeth unless they are a dental profession. The main side effect is sensitivity, but this is not permanent and there are ways to reduce it (whiten upper teeth then lowers/ whiten every other night/ use sensitive toothpaste to brush with and also rub it onto your teeth/ use a lower concentration product for longer). At the end of the day whether it's worth it or not comes down to how much the colour of your teeth bothers you.
Second vote for getting them done at the dentist. I'm not a dentist! But that's how I get mine done. To me it's a one-off, guaranteed to work and targeted just at the teeth versus using a whitening chemical on my teeth (and probably swallowing a bit too) twice a day, every day, for ever. Also I brush with Denttabs, which are brilliant, but I doubt they do much on the whitening front. Since no-one asked nor is likely to be interested but I can't help myself… Denttabs are small toothpaste "tabs" which you crush in your mouth then brush with. Better for the environment – no toothpaste container – and with fewer additives than normal toothpaste, but critically they contain the same amount of fluoride as regular toothpaste. Most hippy "plastic free" toothpaste alternatives don't have fluoride… (I also don't work for Denttabs. I just love them!).
Thanks for this, I've never heard of Denttabs but they sound great!
I had my teeth professionally whitened by dentist – can't recommend it enough.
No whitening toothpastes will make a difference, because they can only deal with surface staining, but it's discolouration of the dentine inside your teeth that makes them look yellow.
I looked into Crest white strips but I didn't think you could get them in this country? I didn't fancy importing them, but they do get great reviews.
It sounds as if saving up for the dentist option is the way forward, it was worth asking though! I have been putting it off for about 5 years as it feels quite vain and extravagant, but when I think of all the toothpastes I have tried over that time…….
I felt the same way but I took the plunge a couple of years ago and it has made a huge difference to my self confidence and I'm (almost) happy to have my photo taken these days. Maybe see if you can find a dentist who lets you pay in instalments maybe?
Another vote for professional whitening. I top mine up every year or so, for two or three nights and it brings them up a treat.
For wine and tea staining I use charcoal powder and it works really well. I live in the US and the brand I am trying is My Magic Mud mymagicmud.com. There are quite a few options over here. It is super messy so I use it in the shower. I was amazed at how well it whitened my teeth and was relieved it didn't show the filling I have on the corner of my front tooth that fills a chip. My dental hygienist gets my teeth nice and white twice a year but I'm trying the charcoal for in between.
Ooh I can answer this one! I bought Colgate Optic White in a hungover fug, which is just as well because the price and shiny foil box would normally put me off. Anyway – it totally works! Like, 'people have been commenting'-works!
I understand that it's not dental whitening and more a stain removal, but it's easier and cheaper to just brush my teeth as usual twice a day rather than roll into the dental chair for a serious blast.
I'll save those big guns for my latter years.
On the staining front, cranberry juice can also be a terrible stainer. My dentist suggested I switch to drinking it with a straw and my teeth now stay nice and white as long as I clean them thoroughly, and go to the hygienist once or twice a year.
If professional teeth whitening is too costly, or unsuitable (if you have a bridge, etc), I cannot recommend a Prophy-Jet polish highly enough. I have it done twice a year at my lovely local dentist, for about £60 a pop, and the results are astonishing (especially the first time) and really do last. Excellent before a big event and a great confidence booster. Like a car jet polish but for your teeth! Wave goodbye to pesky stains that just won't shift, and say hello to natural looking teeth that make you look like you but more sparkling, at pocket money prices.
I asked my dentist this the other day and he said the EU have recently changed the level of peroxide it's legal to use, so anything you buy in a shop in the UK now will barely work – even tooth whitening kits. Dentists are allowed to use a slightly higher level so def worth getting it done professionally.


Anonymous sperm donation is very popular today. It is used when patients face severe infertility or when a man is absent: for single women, lesbian couples.
It is possible to ask a known man to give his material but the latter can disagree or the spem can be unacceptable. Also for some people is difficult to define the relations with the donor.
So, it is widely spread to use the material got after anonymous sperm donation. It is comfortable and the qualtity is guaranteed. The patient can take the sperm from the bank of the clinic where treated or to order a sample from specialized bank.
When using a donor sperm it is not out of place to consult a lawyer to prevent the laws to become surprise. In some countries it is obligatory to uncover the identity of the donor when the child reaches full age. In Switzerland the IVF treatment using donor sperm can be made for officially heterosexual couples only.
Our European Center for Human Reproduction consults all the categories of intended patients including those who need sperm donation. We will tell you all about legislation, advise the couuntry and a clinic or agency and make the audit of your contract and case.
If you need to transport the sample from the sperm bank to your clinic we can arrange this. The banks send the material in a parcel via post what is dangerous for the sperm integrity. We will transport the sample in a special dry shipper with a courier ensuring the safety.
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Paul Greenberg is the managing member of the law firm of Briskman Briskman & Greenberg, where he represents injured individuals in personal injury and workers' compensation claims. Prior to joining Briskman Briskman & Greenberg, Paul was a member of the law firm of Aronberg Goldgehn Davis & Garmisa and the co-chair of its Appellate Advocacy Group, which focused on representing plaintiffs in personal injury appeals. In addition to being an experienced practitioner in the federal and state courts, Paul has been an adjunct professor of appellate advocacy at Loyola University School of Law and has authored several articles on a wide array of legal topics.
Bowman v. Chicago Park District, 2014 IL App (1st) 132122 (1st Dist. 2014). Artenia Bowman, on behalf of her 13-year old daughter, Cheneka Ross, filed a lawsuit against the Chicago Park District after Ross fractured her ankle on a defective slide . The Circuit Court of Cook County granted summary judgment in favor of the Chicago Park District finding that Ross was not an intended user of the park where she was injured. The First District of the Illinois Appellate Court reversed, holding that if the park district intends to restrict the intended use and users of park property and equipment, it must publish such restrictions or post signs in and around the park or equipment.
Chas Levy Circulating Co. v. Benevides, 393 Ill. App. 3d 1096 (1st Dist. 2009). The Court reversed the decision of the Circuit Court and held that Benevides' injury was compensable under the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act.
Mitchell v. Groot Industries, Inc., 361 Ill. App. 3d 1083 (1st Dist. 2005). In this case, the plaintiff, while working for a temporary employment agency, died after being run over by a wheel loader being operated by a representative of the "borrowing employer." As the parent corporation of the "borrowing employer," Groot Industries argued that it was a joint employer of the plaintiff and, as a result, was immune from suit under the Workers' Compensation Act. The circuit court agreed, granting summary judgment in favor of Groot Industries. The appellate court reversed, holding that the facts did not establish that Groot Industries was a joint employer of the plaintiff.
Trippe Mfg. Co. v. Niles Audio Corp., 401 F.3d 529 (3rd Cir. 2005). The Court reversed the District Court's decision compelling the Plaintiff to arbitrate the Defendant's multi-million dollar successor-liability claims. The Court held that the Plaintiff had not assumed responsibility for the Defendant's claims and thus was not bound to arbitrate them. The ruling effectively brought to an end several years of contentious litigation.
Methode Electronics, Inc. v. Adam Technologies, Inc., 71 F.3d 923 (7th Cir. 2004). The Court, based on a legal theory that was not raised by trial counsel, affirmed the District Court's imposition of sanctions against the Plaintiff.
Represented a family-owned business whose bookkeeper, over an 18-month period of time, stole nearly $1 million in checks made payable to the company and deposited them into the bookkeeper's accomplice's account. The depository bank accepted the deposits and made payment on the checks. The business sued the depository bank alleging that it converted the checks, within the meaning of Uniform Commercial Code. The court granted the business' motion for summary judgment, holding that the depository bank, by failing to ensure that the checks contained valid endorsements, was liable for the entire loss.
Superior Environmental Corp. v. Marlin Environmental Inc., 247 F. Supp. 2d 1001 (N.D. Ill. 2001). The District Court granted Defendant's Motion to Dismiss. However, on Plaintiff's Motion for Reconsideration, the Court vacated its dismissal order and sustained the Plaintiff's claims for, among other things, breach of fiduciary duty and imposition of a constructive trust.
In re O'Shaughnessy (Ovid, Inc. v. O.Shaughnessy), 252 B.R. 722 (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2001). Represented Plaintiff/franchisee in suit against the former officer of the franchisor-corporation seeking in excess of $1 million in damages. The Bankruptcy Court allowed the Plaintiff to file a complaint objecting to the dischargeability of its debt, holding that the Debtor intentionally omitted Plaintiff from the bankruptcy schedules.


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package main

import (
	"database/sql"
	"fmt"
	"io/ioutil"
	"os"
	"regexp"
	"runtime"
	"strings"
	"sync"

	_ "github.com/lib/pq"
)

var database *sql.DB

// git log --all --numstat --date=short --pretty=format:'%h--%ad--%aN' --no-renames --after=1990-01-01 > ~/code/experiments/code-mats/log.txt

// # Add\tremoved\tfile
// # Added\tremoved file
// --187aacb--2020-08-12--Jonas Lundberg
// 11	7	package.json

type insertData struct {
	sha         string
	date        string
	author      string
	addedRows   string
	removedRows string
	fileName    string
}

var workers sync.WaitGroup
var workQueue chan insertData

func isCommitRow(entry string) bool {
	res, _ := regexp.MatchString("^([0-9a-f]){7,40}--", entry)
	return res
}

func worker() {
	for data := range workQueue {

		insertIntoLogStmt := `INSERT INTO log (
			sha,
			date,
			author,
			added,
			removed,
			filename
		) VALUES (
			$1,$2, $3, $4, $5, $6
		);`

		if _, err := database.Exec(insertIntoLogStmt, data.sha, data.date, data.author, data.addedRows, data.removedRows, data.fileName); err != nil {
			panic(err)
		}
	}

	workers.Done()
}

func processCommitEntry(entry string) {
	allLines := strings.Split(entry, "\n")

	var shaDateAuthorStr string
	var commitRows []string

	lastCommitRowIndex := 0

	for ; isCommitRow(allLines[lastCommitRowIndex]); lastCommitRowIndex++ {
	}

	shaDateAuthorStr = allLines[lastCommitRowIndex-1]
	commitRows = allLines[lastCommitRowIndex:]

	shaDateAuthor := strings.Split(shaDateAuthorStr, "--")

	sha := shaDateAuthor[0]
	date := shaDateAuthor[1]
	author := shaDateAuthor[2]

	for _, commitRow := range commitRows {
		fileRowContents := strings.Split(commitRow, "\t")

		addedRows := fileRowContents[0]
		removedRows := fileRowContents[1]
		fileName := fileRowContents[2]

		// Binary files are stat:ed as - - (0 added 0 removed)
		if removedRows == "-" {
			removedRows = "0"
		}

		if addedRows == "-" {
			addedRows = "0"
		}

		if removedRows == "" || fileName == "" {
			panic(commitRow)
		}

		workQueue <- insertData{
			sha:         sha,
			date:        date,
			author:      author,
			addedRows:   addedRows,
			removedRows: removedRows,
			fileName:    fileName,
		}
	}
}

func main() {
	var err error
	database, err = sql.Open("postgres", "postgres://postgres@localhost/code-mats?sslmode=disable")
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	filename := os.Args[1]

	logContentsBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(filename)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	logContentsStr := string(logContentsBytes)
	commitEntries := strings.Split(logContentsStr, "\n\n")

	progressIndicator := false
	totalEntries := len(commitEntries)

	if totalEntries > 10000 {
		progressIndicator = true
	}

	entriesProcessed := 0

	numberOfWorkers := runtime.NumCPU()
	workQueue = make(chan insertData, numberOfWorkers)
	workers = sync.WaitGroup{}

	for i := 0; i < numberOfWorkers; i++ {
		go worker()
		workers.Add(1)
	}

	for _, commitEntry := range commitEntries {
		commitEntry = strings.TrimSpace(commitEntry)
		if commitEntry == "" {
			continue
		}

		processCommitEntry(commitEntry)

		if progressIndicator {
			entriesProcessed++

			if entriesProcessed%1000 == 0 {
				fmt.Printf("Proccessed: %d of %d entries\n", entriesProcessed, totalEntries)
			}
		}
	}

	close(workQueue)
	workers.Wait()
}

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Washington, DC - Michael Bennet, U.S. Senator for Colorado, made the following statement today to mark the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs September 15 to October 15. Bennet is an original co-sponsor of a resolution in the 111th Congress commemorating Hispanic Heritage Month and honoring the contributions of the Latino community. He is also an active member of the Senate Democratic Hispanic Task Force chaired by Senator Robert Menendez.
"Colorado's Latino community has been - and continues to be - a vibrant and essential part of the fabric of our state and country.
"Latinos have always worked hard to support their communities and to help move Colorado forward, driven by the values of hard work, faith and family - values all of us, as Americans, share. I know because I've seen it first hand working closely with Latino students, parents and community leaders during my time as superintendent of the Denver Public Schools.
"We can continue to build stronger communities and a brighter future, together, by supporting meaningful health care reform that lowers costs and improves outcomes, expanding access to educational opportunities, improving opportunities for Latino small business owners and working towards comprehensive and common-sense immigration reform.
"All Coloradans can take great pride in the state's Latino heritage and celebrate-not just this month, but every month-the contributions and accomplishments of the many Latinos who have helped make Colorado a better place to work, live and raise a family."


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Bhuvneshwar Kumar was not more than an average Indian boy who loved cricket, played it all the time on streets, cried on India's loss before he was taken by a professional cricket academy, the first step to his exposure to first-class cricket, thanks to his sister. He played for Utter Pradesh all that time before making his international debut against Pakistan. It was a make or break situation for Bhuvi holding his nerves, finally bowled brilliantly. He clean-bowled Muhammad Hafeez on his ODI debut, in a similar fashion when he shattered the stumps of Sachin in Ranji Trophy final. Kumar took 3-wicket haul against Pakistan in his first T20i match. Bhuvi is a first ball wicket guy for India. Read here about another Indian player Ajinkya Rahane net worth.
Bhuvneshwar's career flourished as he was capable of late swing with the old and new ball, he artistically made his opponents dance on the crease in his international career. Bhuvneshwar made his ODI debut playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008, later signed by Pune Warriors India, and Sun Risers Hyderabad. IPL 2016 could be phrased as his best IPL season. He won a purple cap, and his team won the title. The net worth and income, yearly and monthly are calculated by adding his BCCI Central contract, IPL auction wealth, domestic appearances and match fees.


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Q: How can you play friends in ranked matches on Soul Calibur IV? I finally figured out how to do it on non-ranked matches. However, when I make a ranked match and push triangle, nothing happens. So, how do I play my friends to also get ranking? Otherwise I feel like I'm just wasting time if I'm playing but have nothing to show for it.

A: You can't specify your opponent in a ranked game because that would allow people to 'cheat' the ranking system by simply having your friend allow you to win again and again.

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Delu Swaib, 53, from Yumbe district in Uganda, brought his son to the hospital as a beneficiary of the surgical recovery program implemented by AYINET. In 2005 when his son was travelling to Kampala to study, the bus he was in was ambushed by LRA rebels and Abdulrahid was injured as the bus suddenly came to a halt.
Abdulrahid survived being captured as only children and old women were left to go, others having been taken. He developed a swelling on his leg which increased along with the pain. Delu took his son for medication to several hospitals in vain. For the few occasions the hospital could treat the boy, he could not afford the costs. Pain killers did not help. Ayiko could not walk and neither could he go to school.
It was until November 2018 when an AYINET community mobilizer called Rogerson talked to him about the trauma and medical healing project that was being implemented by AYINET. He saw it as a good chance for his son to get help. Finally, in december 2018, Ayiko was taken to the medical camp in Kitgum where he underwent surgery removing the 'dead' bones and still undergoing recovery in hospital three months after.
From May 2018, AYINET launched and implemented the RECOVER program with support from the Democratic Governance Facility.
Swaib has had his own share of trauma from the conflict ridden past.
Swaib and his son Ayiko have been engaged in counselling sessions at the hospital to help both of them overcome the pain and the trauma. Swaib now hopes to take his son back to school upon total recovery.
In helping communities in the greater north region recover from the brutal war and attrocities during the LRA rebellion among other wars, AYINET continues to provide psychosocial and medical rehabilitation to war victims. Over 21,000 victims of torture and mutilation have recieved medical surgery with trauma support for over 100,000 victims.
In mobilizing and assessing the victims, AYINET continues to help war victims that have suffered from burns and swellings, mutilations and sexual violence as a result of the brutalities and deaths from the wars.
victim of sexual violence abducted and forced into marriage at 14 years.