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In Sicily, every story begins with a marriage or a death. In my case, it's both. And so it was that I found myself driving a rusted Fiat through a winding country road on the outskirts of Aliminusa, a small Sicilian village, with my husband's ashes in a small wooden box tucked between my legs. I was about to break into an olive grove in the rural foothills of the Madonie Mountains on the island's northern coast; it was Saro's family's sloping land, dotted with old-growth apricot and pear trees.
Along this road, he had once plucked ripe berries from the mulberry tree; he had twisted the stems of plump grape clusters from the vine; he had unearthed soil with his hands to show me exactly how the bulb beneath wild fennel grows. I had watched him pull back layers of the bulb's outer skin. Then he made me close my eyes. He brought its heart close to my nose, bidding me inhale the earthy licorice scent, awakening me to the mysteries of this place. He was intent on showing me the strength and delicacy of this natural world - his birthplace. Last summer, we stood surveying the hills where he had played as a child.
"Do what you will, but bring some of my ashes to Sicily," Saro said to me last summer, as we stood on this very spot. His cancer had recently returned, but his death still felt like an abstract thing. I thought we had a few more summers ahead, maybe five. Still he was preparing, and he was preparing me. This was the place he wanted part of himself to remain forever, so here I was, having flown nearly seven thousand miles from our house in Los Angeles in order to keep my promise that I would do so.
The sounds of late-summer crickets and cicadas and the scurrying of lizards taking refuge from the setting Sicilian sun surrounded me. The air was thick with the intoxicating scents of eucalyptus, burning wood, and ripening tomatoes. In the distance, the town church bells struck, calling people to afternoon Mass. For a moment, I imagined my seven-year-old daughter running barefoot on the cobblestoned street. She was the other reason I had cast myself on Sicilian shores, the only way I knew to keep her dad alive in her memory.
I pulled the car over at the top of a steep hill, put it into neutral, and double-checked the brake. Then I pried the box containing my husband's remains from between my thighs, sticky with sweat. The little wooden ring box where he had once kept his guitar picks now contained a portion of him I had saved for myself. It left a design of vertical lines on his favorite spot in my flesh. The time had come. Yet I couldn't bring myself to get out of the car.
Saro, a chef, had always said he married an American, an African American woman, who had the culinary soul of an Italian. In his mind, I was Italian the way all people should be Italian: at the table. Which to him meant appreciating fresh food, forging memories and traditions while passing the bread and imbibing local wine. It was a life I had stumbled into by chance when we literally collided underneath the awning of the best gelateria in all of Italy. Luck, fate. One look and I could see he had the kind of deep brown eyes that carried stories and that would entice me to tell mine. His profile could have been lifted from an ancient Roman coin, and his configuration of features - olive skin, firm jawline, and head of wavy, charcoal black hair - conjured a vision of me entangling myself with his body that came to me like a crack of lightning on a clear day. I said, "Mi scusi" in my best college Italian. He said, "Hello" back without a moment's hesitation. Right then, the fire met the pan.
I could see now that Saro had appeared in my life and almost instantly created form where there had only been space. He soothed the places I hadn't known needed soothing, seemed perfectly willing to embrace the parts of me that were wanton, unsettled, unfinished, and contradictory. Together we had engaged life as two forks eating off one plate. Ready to listen, to love, to look into the darkness and still see a thin filament of moon.
Finally I cracked the car door and cooler air flooded in, along with more memories. I thought about Saro and the last earthly pleasure we had shared together, a rocket-shaped ice pop. The specificity of the memory overwhelmed me. It took me right back to our last day. When the expanse of our life and everything in it had been reduced to the tiny intimate gestures death necessitates: feeding my dying husband an ice pop. How I had put it to his lips, having troubled the hospice nurse to take one out of the freezer at the top of every hour, just in case he awakened and was able to eat one. It was delicate, steady care I wanted to offer, my final acts as his caregiver and lover. I wanted the last sensations on his palate to be soothing, soft, and even pleasurable. He deserved that. During years of standing beside him in the kitchen, he had taught me that details are everything. The impact of the first taste happens only once. If ice pops were required, I decided, they would be the most inspired ice pops: freshly squeezed lemonade with a touch of agave.
In those final days, there were both compression and elongation of time. And although I did my best to prepare our daughter, Zoela, who had just turned seven, for a life without her dad, to keep her close, to include her in the event that would change her life forever, I worried that I had not done enough.
On the final day, I closed the pocket doors to our study and sat beside him on the hospital bed. I rubbed the melting treat against the flesh of his lips. A lifetime of kisses had been mine for the taking from those lips. Then I kissed his forehead, and when I pulled back I could see that a bit of the juice had met his tongue. He never took his eyes off me. I licked from the iced juice, too. He smiled. We had exchanged a moment of pleasure, just as we had in the beginning when he'd whispered in my ear after we made love, "I have an endless thirst of love, the love of your body and soul." And then he was gone.
His death put pan to flame once again. All the strength I had gathered as a woman, mother, and lover wilted, instantly and completely. It was like being flung onto jagged rocks at low tide, belly up at high noon on the longest, hottest day of the longest year of your life. There seemed no bottom to my grief, no way out, just through. Through darkness, isolation, and the deprivation of his touch. But it was my final promise to him that had brought me, months later, to this orchard in the heart of the Mediterranean, desperate for a sliver of light.
The last church bell rang, and I held the ring box of ashes in my hand. Amore, l'ho fatto - I did it. I have brought us this far. I got out of the car.
The setting sun reminded me of our first road trip together through Sicily, when we had driven the remote interior. There had been nothing to see but mountains, wheat fields, cows, men on donkeys, and untold olive groves. We couldn't get radio reception, so we ended up talking for hours along the winding roads, with interludes of silence and the endless downshifting and upshifting of the tiny Fiat. I remember that the afternoon light was another passenger in the car, witnessing two lives in motion. Now the sun was again my witness, as I finally stood free of the car and fully erect. The earth felt slightly loose beneath my feet.
Before me stood a large iron gate and colonnade of country stones, compacted earth and clay, stacked on top of one another to flank the gate. It created an impressive but simple rustic entrance. Along either side of the main entrance ran a barbed-wire fence atop a stone retaining wall. It separated the family land from the road. I looked at the fence and walked a tiny bit of the perimeter in the hopes of finding an easy opening. There was none.
Suddenly exhausted, I sat down on a haphazard pile of rocks that formed an impromptu retaining wall and stared at the town below. I could see the church cupola and beyond that fields that dropped precipitously into a valley that led to the sea. Then I heard a tractor approaching in the distance.
I didn't want to be seen in that moment, I didn't want to explain to a passing farmer moving along the road, returning home with the day's harvest, why I was standing outside the all but abandoned orchard. Worse yet, I didn't want word of it to get back to the small town that the black American wife had been spotted in a place no one else ever went. So I stood up and quickened my pace. I desperately searched for an area of loose stones, the result of shifting earth and rains, so I could force my way under and push my way in. I'd try to find the exact spot where we'd picked pears off the tree and Saro had held our daughter up to get the fruit closest to the sun the previous summer.
In Sicily, love, truth, and grief are neither simple nor straight-forward. Each runs as deep as the roots of the olive trees that have dotted the island for centuries. Secrets often run deeper. What I was about to do not only was secret, but technically it was probably illegal. In rural Sicily, cremation is rare to nonexistent. We had already had the official interment in the town cemetery weeks earlier. Putting ashes, even a portion of them, anywhere but in a cemetery probably violated religious and civic law. But my life was well outside convention as I scrambled along the earth looking for a way in.
Had I thought a bit in advance, had I planned this better, had I not had to lie about my whereabouts to everyone close to me back in town, I could simply have procured a key for the gate. I felt particularly unsettled about my mother-in-law not knowing. She was, after all, a woman with whom I had not always been on the best of terms. Saro's parents had declined an invitation to our wedding, less than thrilled that their beloved son was marrying an American, a black woman. Yet here now, my daughter and I were guests in her home, together, a bereaved family. Maybe I could have avoided the dirt and scrapes I was surely about to endure. I could have walked into this place in the open truth and then sat peacefully under the setting sun, falcons flying high above, the bray of a mule in the distance. But my grief and love didn't work that way - and I had made a promise to the love of my life. So I got onto my knees, let the dirt coat my skin, and rolled under a barbed-wire fence. I was determined to follow my chef 's last instructions from scratch, in the hope that they might somehow lead me to take my first steps in reimagining my life without him.
Photo Credit: Jenny Walters
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Tembi Locke is an actor, mom, author, advocate, chef's wife and now young widow. She is passionate about two things: the power of storytelling as a tool to inspire meaningful connection, and savoring the flavors, food and kitchen wisdom from her favorite place in the world, Sicily.
An accomplished actor with over sixty television and film performances to her credit, including The Magicians, NCIS: LA, Bones, Eureka, Dumb and Dumber To, Friends and Proven Innocent, Tembi is also the author of FROM SCRATCH: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home (Simon & Schuster). It's the story of losing her beloved chef husband to a rare cancer and the transformative path she embarked on to heal her heart and rebuild her life.
Away from the camera, Tembi's advocacy work stems from her personal experience as a long-term cancer caregiver and focuses on families facing illness, community building and sharing inspiration when it matters most. She's a nationally recognized speaker for her keynotes on resilience, loss and motherhood, and her TEDx talk has been viewed by individuals and nonprofits worldwide. Tembi is also the creator and founder of The Kitchen Widow, an online platform that encourages and supports connected living during grief and loss.
Born to civil rights activist parents in Houston, Texas, Tembi was named by legendary South African folksinger and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba. Her name, Tembekile, means "trustworthy."
An Italian dual citizen, she lived in Italy before graduating from Wesleyan University with a degree in art history. It was in Florence where she met and later married her Italian chef-husband, Saro.
When not acting, writing or involved in advocacy, Tembi can be found each summer on a beach in Sicily. Otherwise, she resides in Los Angeles with her daughter in a house blessed with two one hundred-year old fig trees.
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Q: Unable to use Zip File System (Java 7) in android-studio (5.0 Lollipop) I've been trying to replace a file in zip without extracting the zip. I tried using the most efficient answer here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17504151/3397618
I'll paste the code below for reference however.
Map<String, String> env = new HashMap<>();
env.put("create", "true");
Path path = Paths.get("test.zip");
URI uri = URI.create("jar:" + path.toUri());
try (FileSystem fs = FileSystems.newFileSystem(uri, env))
{
    Path nf = fs.getPath("new.txt");
    try (Writer writer = Files.newBufferedWriter(nf, StandardCharsets.UTF_8, StandardOpenOption.CREATE)) {
        writer.write("hello");
    }
}

Android Studio throws an error saying:
error: cannot find symbol variable Paths,
error: cannot find symbol method toUri(),
error: cannot find symbol class FileSystem,
error: cannot find symbol variable FileSystems.
Is it that android doesn't support Java 7 entirely?? Or do I need to do something to get it working?

A: Android has its own implementations of the Java library classes, and it doesn't have full support for everything that's in Oracle's libraries. The java.nio.file.Path class isn't in Android's implementation.
You can see documentation on what's available in Android's nio package at http://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/package-summary.html

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Title: Phytosociological evaluation and multivariate analysis of the habitat of Linum dolomiticum Borbás (Linaceae) II.
Abstract: Phytosociological study of Linum dolomiticum habitat has been carried out based on 135 relevés on the complete area of distribution. The habitat encompasses the following plant communities: Seseli leucospermi-Festucetum pallentis, Stipo eriocauli-Festucetum pallentis, Seseli leucospermi-Brome-tum pannonici, Festuco pallenti-Brometum pannonici and several transitions and degraded forms of these communities. These grasslands in part belong to the herb layer of the Pannonian karst white oak low woods. The vegetation was analysed statistically according to life form, phytogeographical area, phytosociological character, social behaviour type and ecological indicator values (preference categories) of the species. The habitat of Linum dolomiticum may be characterised by several types of coenotones and ecotones. With 17 tables and 2 figures.


I met this family at a squid fishing stall in Hakodate Market, Hokkaido. The boy paid for a rod and hook to catch squid from a big tank . The catch was then prepared on the spot, and he ate it fresh and squirming. The whole process was caught in my camera and I'm still wondering what is in his mind, especially when the chef was cutting up the squid.


Root canals are the commonly used term for the main canals within the dentin of the tooth. These are part of the natural cavity within a tooth that consists of the dental pulp chamber, the main canals, and sometimes more intricate anatomical branches that may connect the root canals to each other or to the root surface of the tooth. Root canals are filled with a highly vascularized, loose connective tissue, the dental pulp. This sometimes becomes infected and inflamed, generally due to caries or tooth fractures that allow microorganisms, mostly bacteria from the oral flora or their by-products, access to the pulp chamber or the root canals; the infected tissue is removed by a surgical intervention known as endodontic therapy and commonly called 'a root canal'.
At the center of a tooth is a hollow area that houses soft tissue, known as pulp. This hollow area contains a relatively wide space towards the chewing surface of the tooth called the pulp chamber. This pulp chamber is connected to the tip of the root of the tooth via thin hollow pipe-like canals—hence, the term "root canal". Human teeth normally have one to four canals, with teeth toward the back of the mouth having the most. These canals run through the centre of the roots like pencil lead runs through the length of a pencil. The tooth receives nutrition through the blood vessels and nerves traversing these canals.
Endodontic therapy is a sequence of treatment for the pulp of a tooth whose end result is the elimination of infection and protection of the decontaminated tooth from future microbial invasion. Although this set of procedures is commonly referred to as a root canal, this term is imprecise; root canals and their associated pulp chamber are the anatomical hollows within a tooth which are naturally inhabited by nerve tissue, blood vessels and a number of other cellular entities, whereas endodontic therapy includes the complete removal of these structures, the subsequent cleaning, shaping and decontamination of these hollows with the use of tiny files and irrigating solutions and the obturation, or filling, of the decontaminated root canals with an inert filling, such as gutta percha and a usually eugenol-based cement.
In the situation that a tooth is considered so threatened (because of decay, cracking, etc.) that future infection is considered likely or inevitable, a pulpectomy, removal of the pulp tissue, is advisable to prevent it. Usually, some inflammation and/or infection are already present within or below the tooth. To cure the infection and save the tooth, the dentist drills into the pulp chamber and removes the infected pulp by scraping it out of the root canals. Once this is done, the dentist fills the cavity with an inert material and seals up the opening. This procedure is known as root canal therapy. If enough of the tooth has been damaged, or removed as a result of the treatment, a crown may be required.
The standard filling material is gutta-percha, a natural thermoplastic polymer of isoprene, which is melted and injected to fill the root canal passages. Barium is added to the isoprene so the material will be opaque to X-rays, allowing verification afterwards that the passages have been properly completely filled in, without voids.
For patients, root canal therapy is one of the most feared procedures in all of dentistry; however, dental professionals assert that modern root canal treatment is relatively painless because the pain can be controlled. Lidocaine is a commonly used local anesthetic. Pain control medication may be used either before or after treatment. However, in some cases it may be very difficult to achieve pain control before performing a root canal. For example, if a patient has an abscessed tooth, with a swollen area or "fluid-filled gum blister" next to the tooth, the pus in the abscess may contain acids that inactivate any anesthetic injected around the tooth. In this case, it is best for the dentist to drain the abscess by cutting it to let the pus drain out. Releasing the pus releases pressure built up around the tooth; this pressure causes much pain. The dentist then prescribes a week of antibiotics such as penicillin, which will reduce the infection and pus, making it easier to anesthetize the tooth when the patient returns one week later. The dentist could also open up the tooth and let the pus drain through the tooth, and could leave the tooth open for a few days to help relieve pressure.
At this first visit, the dentist must ensure that the patient is not biting into the tooth, which could also trigger pain. Sometimes the dentist performs preliminary treatment of the tooth by removing all of the infected pulp of the tooth and applying a dressing and temporary filling to the tooth. This is called a "pulpectomy". The dentist may also remove just the coronal portion of the dental pulp, which contains 90% of the nerve tissue, and leave intact the pulp in the canals. This procedure, called a "pulpotomy", tends to essentially eliminate all the pain. A "pulpotomy" may be a relatively definitive treatment for infected primary teeth. The pulpectomy and pulpotomy procedures eliminate most all pain until the follow-up visit for finishing the root canal. But if the pain returns, it means any of three things: the patient is biting into the tooth, there is still a significant amount of sensitive nerve material left in the tooth, or there is still more pus building up inside and around the infected tooth; all of these cause pain.
After removing as much of the internal pulp as possible, the root canals can be temporarily filled with calcium hydroxide paste. This strong alkaline base is left in for a week or more to disinfect and reduce inflammation in surrounding tissue. Ibuprofen taken orally is commonly used before and/or after these procedures to reduce inflammation.
After receiving a root canal, the tooth should be protected with a crown that covers the cusps of the tooth. Otherwise, over the years the tooth will almost certainly fracture, since root canals remove tooth structure from the tooth and undermine the tooth's structural integrity. Also, root canal teeth tend to be more brittle than teeth not treated with a root canal. This is commonly due to the fact that the blood supply to the tooth, which nourishes and hydrates the tooth structure, is removed during the root canal procedure, leaving the tooth without a source of moisture replenishment. Placement of a crown or cusp-protecting cast gold covering is recommended also because these have the best ability to seal the root canaled tooth. If the tooth is not perfectly sealed, the root canal may leak, causing eventual failure of the root canal. Also, many people believe once a tooth has had a root canal it cannot get decay. This is not true. A tooth with a root canal still has the ability to decay, and without proper home care and an adequate fluoride source the tooth structure can become severely decayed – without the patient's knowledge since the nerve has been removed, leaving the tooth without any pain perception. Therefore it is very important to have regular X-rays taken of the root canal to ensure that the tooth is not having any problems that the patient would not be aware of.


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zend_class_entry *owl_router_http_staticroute_ce;
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zend_class_entry *owl_std_collection_arraycollection_ce;

ZEND_DECLARE_MODULE_GLOBALS(owl)

PHP_INI_BEGIN()

PHP_INI_END()

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	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Filter_FilterInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Log_WriterInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Log_LoggerInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_DBAL_Driver_DriverInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_DBAL_Platform_PlatformInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Http_ResponseInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Log_FormatterInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Mvc_ControllerInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_ApplicationInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Di_ContainerInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Di_ServiceDefinitionInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_DispatcherInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Http_RequestInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Mvc_ViewInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Router_RouterInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Console_CommandInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Session_ManagerInterface);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Cache_Driver_CacheDriver);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Filter_AbstractFilter);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Log_AbstractWriter);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_DBAL_Driver_AbstractPdo);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Exception);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Router_Route);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Http_Response);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Log_AbstractLogger);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Mvc_Controller);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Std_ArrayBag);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Std_Collection_AbstractCollection);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Annotations_Annotation);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Annotations_ClassAnnotationsResult);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Annotations_Exception);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Annotations_Reader);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Application);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Bridge_Lynx_Rest_EntityController);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Cache_Driver_Memcache);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Cache_Driver_Memcached);
	ZEPHIR_INIT(Owl_Cache_Driver_NativeArray);
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There was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it.
The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. "How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?" the reporter asked.


I'm really satisfied with SAP BPC. The solution is easy to learn and is MS Excel-based, which all accountants already know how to use. [...] The shared system has really simplified our monthly and yearly budgeting processes.
Amedia is Norway's largest publisher of local media titles and one of the country's leading media companies.
The Group publishes 65 newspapers, with a total of approximately 1.9 million readers.
Amedia is part of a competitive sector where demands on precision are high and new competitors such as Google and Facebook are making their mark, competing for advertising revenue all the time. This makes the need for relevant and accurate accounting processes that are readily available – across different business areas and subsidiaries – more critical than ever.
Amedia was the result of a merger between A-pressen and Edda Media in 2012. The new group decided to keep using Agresso as their accounting system, which was already being used by one of the parties. SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation), meanwhile, was chosen as the group's new solution for budgeting and consolidation. itelligence's consultants ensured good data integration between Agresso and SAP BPC, which meant there was no need to convert any data.
This new solution is securing Amedia's access to all financial budgets and forecasts compiled for their subsidiaries, and also ensures it meets all operational requirements prescribed by law. After the merger, it was important that there was one collective system so that managers could get the necessary overview of and proximity to the new joint accounting system used across the group. The roll-out of SAP BPC has made their monthly and annual budgeting processes much more straightforward.
One major advantage of the SAP BPC solution is that the demanding hierarchy of the company can be monitored and maintained. The solution has paved the way for various different consolidation hierarchies, which is important for maintaining the quality and keeping an overview of the accounting system.
SAP BPC is configured and maintained centrally and used by all accounting personnel across all the regions. With 65 newspapers in their portfolio, it goes without saying that collective templates and pooling of account numbers have been important to the group. All master data now work off the same basis, meaning for example that 'subscription' accounting processes now use the same account numbers. One solution for all, with everyone using the same standardized reports for their business.


Massage Therapy. Nicole specializes in chronic pain management and deep tissue therapy. She includes many modalities in each individual massage session to aid in the whole wellness of the client. Nicole is also certified to work with cancer patients, pregnant women, infants and senior citizens.
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10 Inspirational Examples Of Life Coaching
by Staff Writer · Published May 26, 2018 · Updated April 9, 2019
Feature image: pexels.com
Even the most famous people on earth can face the same kind of challenges as we face while going about our lives. They also feel a spur of emotions and might be overwhelmed by their situation rendering them unable to continue on the right track of life.
Here are some of the most famous and inspirational stories of celebrities going to life coaches for help and assistance.
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A lot of life coaches have graced Oprah's show and she has given a chance to many people to lead better lives. We all know how strong of a woman she herself is and how her life is a lesson for everyone to strive for the best things in life. She attributes a part of her success to her life coach, Martha Beck, and has been a serious advocate of life coaching for a long period of time.
Martha helps people in achieving their goals and we have seen Oprah reach greater heights after coming under her consultation. She sets a perfect example of achieving goals with the help of a life coach.
Takeaway – Accomplishing goals to achieve success.
Metallica the Band
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For the people growing up in the 90s, Metallica was a great fascination and attracted the respect of millions of fans. However, the band had occasional feuds and it was becoming hard for the members to continue as a single unit.
In the documentary "Some Kind of Monster", it is finally revealed that the members came to peace because of the efforts and sessions conducted by Phil Towel. He is a therapist and a performance enhancement coach who helped the band in staying together for more than a decade.
Takeaway – Eliminating differences and conflicts to reach peak performance.
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DiCaprio has been around for quite a while and had only a few big movies to his credit. Despite being a good actor, he wasn't able to give compelling performances and still lacked the spark to earn him good roles.
By coming under the supervision of Tony Robbins, he was able to polish his skills and work on his strengths. Since then, he has bagged some of the most memorable roles of his career and has given some stellar performances. He finally received his long-awaited Oscar for showcasing his amazing acting skills in "The Revenant". Thus, Robbins showed him the way to focus on his strengths and utilize them in the best way to achieve success.
Takeaway – Focusing on strengths and making them the reason for your success.
Just like the DiCaprio, Tony Robbins (affiliate) has also inspired the tennis sensation Serena Williams to enhance her performance on the court. Williams reveals that it was becoming difficult for her to up her game as she suffered different injuries.
Robbins helped her in developing persistence and trained her body to resist the pressure of the injury and ensure peak performance. He ignited the sportsperson in her and enabled her to shift her focus from her weakness/injuries to giving a strong performance despite adverse circumstances. She went on to win a Grand Slam and is undoubtedly, the leading female tennis player in the entire world.
Takeaway – Forgetting your weaknesses and not letting them become a hindrance to your success.
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Federer started out as an aggressive player who was famous for slamming rackets on the court. Though he had potential, it was overshadowed because of his anger which didn't let him perform to his true capabilities. It was his coach, Peter Carter, who realized that the best way to improve Federer's performance is to bring a change in his personality.
Apart from training him for the sport, he also started working on his personality and helped him in consuming his aggression. Unfortunately, he died in a car crash and couldn't live up to see the immense success which Roger enjoyed later. Still, Roger identifies him as the truest source of inspiration and the reason behind the change in his attitude and personality.
Takeaway – Changing yourself first to see the change around you.
Nia Long
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Long had been in the industry for more than 2 decades but wasn't able to find the kind of roles she was looking for. This led her to extreme depression but with help of her life coach, she finally learned how to be happy irrespective of her situation.
She was able to understand that there will be ups and downs in the entertainment business and despite not being able to get as many movies as she might want, she is still a content person. She attributes this attitude of hers to her life coach who has helped her in seeking happiness and enjoying it to the core.
Takeaway – Stay content with whatever life bestows upon you.
Danny Bonaduce
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Starting his career as a child actor, Bonaduce starred in the famous television series, The Partridge Family. It was a comedy series which was based on musicians and Bonaduce received a lot of recognition for his role.
As he grew up, he faced a few setbacks in his acting career and ventured into radio. In order to regain his confidence in himself, he resorted to the help of a life coach. His transformation was so astounding that he himself turned into a life coach and now works to improve the lifestyles of other people.
Takeaway – Do not let setbacks and failures stop you from trying hard.
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Spears says that it was her anonymous life coach who helped her in getting back on the right track in life. After going through multiple divorces and raising her children as a single mother, it became impossible for her to regain her self-esteem and confidence. It was with the help of a life coach that she developed faith in herself and strive towards a peaceful life. Now, she enjoys every moment of it.
Takeaway – Believing in yourself is more important than having others believe in you.
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When Richard Branson expressed his desire of running an airline, no one took him seriously. It was his coach and mentor, Sir Freddie Laker, who helped him in achieving the goal and then living it to the fullest.
Branson was even unable to comprehend the challenges which he faced in his business. It was his coach who made him realize the problems and helped him in resolving them. It is wondrous how Laker helped and motivated him to form one of the most successful airlines in the world, Virgin Atlantic.
Takeaway – It is important to comprehend the problems and resolve them before you can steadily enjoy the path to success.
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Liddell was undoubtedly a great fighter in the game and worked under the supervision of the best physical trainer. Despite being so tough physically, he knew that he needed someone who could help him work on his mental capabilities.
Tony Robbins was the one who helped this athlete as well to strategize his game and perform using both his mental and physical strengths to the best of his abilities.
Takeaway – Being physically strong is not enough to get going, you also need help in gaining mental strength to perform to the best of your abilities.
These life coaching examples help in realizing that sometimes people need external help in understanding and overcoming the adversities of life.
How to Motivate Yourself When You're Down In The Dumps with Depression
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Self Motivation: Your Journey from Good to Fantastic
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If you make any software changes like an internet explorer update or any kind of software related to web browsing maybe it blocked your internet access, try to do a system restore, what's your OS (XP,VISTA, 7), you need to go on start then all programs, then accessories, then system tools, then click on system restore, once the window pops up choose restore my system to an earlier point, you are going to see a calendar, well it depends on your OS version, choose one date that yo remember using the internet, then it'll do it by itself, a restart and it'll let you know if the restore was possible, sometimes a virus can block your internet access, as soon as you restore run a full antivirus analysis to make sure your computer is clean, then try to browse, another option is to delete your cookies.
I have a new acer that will not recognized the IP address for my internet connection. Internet provider has completed troubleshoot and says it's not their connection.
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Get a score of 0 by answering everything incorrectly.
Make sure a cross is show in navigation and on scorm entry page against the SCO.
Am not sure why this is happening, or if it actually is an issue, but is worth investigating.
MDL-39747 Reattempting a scorm from navigation can mark it as complete (when it is failed).


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Drive: Provincetown is a two-and-half-hour drive from either Boston, MA or Providence, RI. Taxis and alternatives like Uber or Lyft will service Provincetown and people rideshare and carpool to and from Provincetown.
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A 'sole' mate to prevent diabetic foot ulcers
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Credit: UT Southwestern Medical Center
A new cooling insole developed by UT Southwestern scientists reduced the foot temperature of patients with diabetic neuropathy by several degrees, diminishing a significant risk factor for diabetic foot ulcers. This new device, detailed in an article published online ahead of print May 6 in The Journal of Foot & Ankle Surgery, could eventually prevent thousands of amputations that take place worldwide each year because of this condition.
Just in the U.S., more than 100,000 lower extremity amputations take place every year, many of them prompted by diabetic foot ulcers. These ulcers are associated with numerous quality-of-life and health consequences, including a mortality rate of 50 percent within five years for patients who develop them. Although the exact cause of this common diabetes complication is unclear, high foot pressure has long been considered a prevailing cause. Consequently, the most prescribed preventive treatment for diabetic foot ulcers is pressure-relieving insoles.
However, says Metin Yavuz, D.Eng., an associate professor in the School of Health Professions' Division of Prosthetics and Orthotics at UT Southwestern Medical Center, this prophylactic intervention isn't accomplishing its goal, since diabetic amputation rates have been on the rise despite widely available pressure-reliving insoles. "Even when patients receive therapeutic shoes and insoles, education, and close monitoring," he says, "30 to 40 percent of patients who have had one diabetic foot ulcer will still develop another within a year."
Hoping to decrease these numbers, Yavuz and his colleagues focused on another risk factor for these ulcers: foot temperature. Animal studies have shown that skin maintained between 25 and 30 degrees C is less likely to break down under pressure than skin at higher temperatures. The feet of diabetic patients already tend to be warmer due to inflammation associated with the disease, Yavuz explains, compounded by friction from walking and the stiff therapeutic shoes that patients wear, which are usually made of synthetic materials that act as heat insulators.
"We thought, why don't we break that vicious cycle by cooling the foot?" he says.
To do that, Yavuz and his lab, aided by a pilot grant from UTSW's Center for Translational Medicine, developed a system that circulates cool water into pressure-relieving insoles. The device, which the researchers named Temperature and Pressure Monitoring and Regulating Insoles (TAPMARI), consists of a small box strapped to the wearer's calf that houses a cooling unit, a small water pump, a battery pack, and a thermostat. The cooling unit harnesses a type of thermoelectric cooling called the Peltier effect to chill water to a desired temperature that's then pumped into insoles placed in the wearer's shoes. Yavuz later teamed up with the engineering company Vivonics Inc. and obtained funding from the National Institutes of Health to improve the design.
The researchers tested the improved device in eight volunteers: one man and seven women of a median age of 45 years. Five of these volunteers were healthy and three had diabetic neuropathy.
Using an infrared thermal camera, the researchers took photos of the subjects' feet at baseline before wearing the insoles, then placed a cooling insole in only their right shoes. They took more thermal photos after the subjects walked five minutes on a treadmill and again after they wore the insoles an additional two hours and walked five minutes on the treadmill again.
Results showed that the mean baseline foot temperature in the group was 28.1 degrees C. Mean foot temperatures at the end of the study were 31.7 degrees C for the left foot and 25.9 degrees C for the right, which was cooled by TAPMARI. Although the diabetics' feet got warmer than those of the healthy volunteers during walking, they still maintained a mean temperature of 27.5 degrees C in the right foot, suggesting that the insoles could maintain temperature in a range that protects against skin breakdown.
Cool temperatures from the insoles didn't cause vasoconstriction (narrowing of blood vessels) in the foot, which could have damaged tissue, Yavuz says. However, sole temperatures reached as high as 30.8 degrees C in some regions of the cooled feet, particularly in the midfoot, suggesting that the design of the insole needs to be improved. Other design elements could also be tweaked, he says, such as reducing the size of the unit worn on the calf.
Eventually, Yavuz says, these devices could change the course for patients with diabetes, preventing this common and often serious complication.
"Diabetic foot ulcers can be a major burden on patients, their families, caregivers, and the health system," he says. "What we're doing now to prevent these ulcers or simply maintain the status quo isn't working. TAPMARI could be the start of a whole new approach."
Other researchers who contributed to this study include Ali Ersen and Lawrence A. Lavery of UTSW; Aakshita Monga and Yasser Salem of the University of North Texas Health Science Center; Alan Garrett of the John Peter Smith Hospital; and Gordon B. Hirschman and Ryan Myers of Vivonics Inc.
How to avoid foot amputation in diabetic patients
Metin Yavuz et al, Temperature- and Pressure-Regulating Insoles for Prevention of Diabetic Foot Ulcers, The Journal of Foot and Ankle Surgery (2020). DOI: 10.1053/j.jfas.2019.05.009
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Job DescriptionThe European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) is one of the highest ranked scientific research organisations in the world. The Headquarters Laboratory is located in Heidelberg (Germany), with additional sites in Grenoble (France), Hamburg (Germany), Hinxton near Cambridge (UK), Rome (Italy) and Barcelona (Spain). We are looking for a highly talented postdoctoral researcher to join the newly established group of Jan Kosinski at EMBL Hamburg and the Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB). The group investigates infection cycles and host-pathogen interactions using computational and experimental approaches. The successful candidate will work in the area of integrative structural modeling of molecular complexes and cellular landscapes based on data from electron microscopy, cryo-electron tomography, crosslinking and other experimental techniques. The projects will include development of new modeling methods and application to biological systems studied in-house and in collaboration.
Qualifications and ExperienceA Ph.D. in computational biology, bioinformatics, or related disciplines is required. Prior expertise in structure analysis and structural modeling and programming skills are expected. Experience in protein-protein docking, optimization methods, Bayesian inference, and modeling based on experimental restraints is considered an advantage. Experience in analyzing data from electron microscopy, in particular, cryo-electron tomography is welcome.
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These days, the words "Social Media" seems to be somewhat intimidating to most business owners. It is relatively new technology (comparatively speaking) wherein they do not have full control over what's happening and where everything leads, not to mention, it's very hard to determine which specific social media outlet is responsible for generating leads for the business.
Most business owners understand how a website works, and they appreciate they can have an online store that can take customer orders, sell their products, and allow their customers to get in touch with them or get to know their products or services better. With a website, communication is one way, everything is under their control.
The 2011 Social Media Marketing Industry Report has some good news for small business marketers. Small business owners are seeing the greatest results from social media marketing. Michael Stelzner authored the third-annual industry study in which he surveyed 3342 marketers, 47% of whom were either self-employed or small business owners. This group reports some amazing results from social media marketing.
Marketers place high value on social media: A significant 90% of marketers indicate that social media is important for their business.
Measurement and integration are top areas marketers want to master: One third of all social media marketers want to know how to monitor and measure the return on investment (ROI) of social media and integrate their social media activities.
Social media marketing takes a lot of time: The majority of marketers (58%) are using social media for 6 hours or more each week, and more than a third (34%) invest 11 or more hours weekly.
Video marketing on the rise: A significant 77% of marketers plan on increasing their use of YouTube and video marketing, making it the top area marketers will invest in for 2011.
Marketers seek to learn more about Facebook and blogging: 70% of marketers want to learn more about Facebook and 69% want to learn more about blogging.
The top benefits of social media marketing: The number-one advantage of social media marketing (by a long shot) is generating more business exposure, as indicated by 88% of marketers. Increased traffic (72%) and improved search rankings (62%) were also major advantages.
The top social media tools: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and blogs were the top four social media tools used by marketers, in that order. Facebook has eclipsed Twitter to take the top spot since their 2010 study.
Social media outsourcing underutilized: Only 28% of businesses are outsourcing some portion of their social media marketing.
I would encourage you to read this full report. You can download it here (no opt in or registration required).
All the hype around social media tends to discourage a lot of business owners. They set up a Facebook Fan Page, then wait for new customers to pour in, just as the hype promises. But when it does not happen right away, then they forget about their Facebook pages. Same goes for Twitter.
Here are the best practices we at Hudson Enterprises always implement in any social media effort.
1. Social Media Takes Time. Social media, like other marketing practices, needs to be done right. Planning, implementing, measuring, controlling and then revisiting every step of the process is essential in making it work. A Twitter account will not make your customers flock to your website or store a few hours after you start tweeting. You have to take time and get involved with your social media efforts before you will see the fruits of your labor. You have to become "The expert" in your niche first. But trust us when we say, it really is worth it!
2. Get the "FREE" Mindset Out of Your Mind. One of the draws of social media is that people think it's free. I hate to pop your bubble, but it isn't Free.
You may not have to spend any money to join Twitter or create a free-account blog, but you will have to somehow spend time and money making this endeavor fruitful. You, a member of your staff, or someone else would have to be responsible for the blog posts, or to keep an eye on your Twitter account. Remember that it's useless to have a blog that has outdated entries, or a social media profile where inquiries, conversations and complaints are left unanswered. I see it all the time. A website saying, "Visit my blog for the latest updates…" Then I go to the blog and the latest update occurred 4 months ago! Or I get someone who follows me on Twitter, and when I look to see who they are, they have 3 tweets, the last being 6 months ago. They just decided to activate some auto-follow software to help them build up their following (for free).
3. It's NOT All About Numbers. Many large corporate Facebook Pages have millions of followers. While it's great to get that many people to Like you, you should not measure your success by the numbers. As a small business, you will probably not get past a few hundred or a few dozen followers or Likers. Instead, measure your success by the quality of interaction you give your customers who took the time to look you up and follow you or Like you. From the Social Media Marketing Industry Report (mentioned above) finding showed that 72% of marketers who have been using social media for more than 3 years report it had helped them close business. More than half who spend 11 or more hours per week find the same results. The self-employed and small business owners with 2 or more employees most achieved this benefit (48%).
We have several clients we manage with less than 100 followers (or Likes) but yet, have several clients and sales out of those small numbers. Quality, not Quantity!
4. Take It From the Experts. Take a look at what big brands are doing and try to see which feature, interaction, and promotions are being done by these companies for their own social media efforts. Social media is a dynamic area where new things are always happening. Business owners should be on top of these changes so they can take advantage of them as soon as they become available or as soon as these changes start to take place.
5. Don't Hesitate to Ask For Help. Between running your business, meeting with clients, and getting new customers into your business, keep in mind there is only so much you can do. Most businesses pass up on the opportunities presented by social media because they feel they are just too busy to interact with customers or to go along with the newest trends, like Facebook and Twitter. Most businesses cannot effectively manage a real Social Media presence, and run their business effectively too. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do both, and to do them well.
Don't try to be a hero, get help when you need it. You can hire an employee to do your social media marketing, or get a consultant or a company to help you. We actually offer these services, so contact us at our website HudsonEnterprises.com if interested.
6. Catch Up With The Times. If you're still using a cell phone that is 2 to 3 years old… time to upgrade. If you're not using a Smart Phone (not just a phone with a web browser), time to upgrade. If you're not using Text Messaging and SMS, time to upgrade.
Listen, you may consider yourself "Old School", and think you can still run your business the way you did before anyone had cell phones. But if this is your way of thinking, you're sadly mistaken.
Most of your clients are already using their cell phones to do a lot of things. Not only do they expect you to be there too, many will choose not to work with you if you aren't. Many potential customers and clients will look for your mobile website. Don't have one? You better get one!
Mobile Marketing is the wave of the future (at least for the next year or two, until something else comes along to uproot it as the place to be), so you'd better be there. If you're not, get started!
I will be the among the first to admit, often times, I'm so busy helping all our clients run their social marketing, blogs, websites, and their businesses, that my own goes into major neglect mode. The same held true for me on deciding to finally upgrade to a smart phone. Once I did, I wonder why it took me so long, and how in the world I could manage my business effectively now without it.
The Final Word: You Have to Start Somewhere!
As a business owner, whether you're just getting into social media, or if you've been involved with it for a while, you might have a lot to learn and a lot of things to think about, but the most important thing is you have a plan. With that plan, you can start little by little. You do not have to join and try out every social media site there is. I HIGHLY recommend you focus first on the "Big 4," Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Know your customers and make an effort to interact with them. Build relationships and follow the 90/10 rule of 90% relationship building and 10% marketing.
If you have a comment or question about this article, or anything having to do with Social Media, use the comment link below to sound off about it. We truly do love comments and questions.


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Q: Webkit not respecting overflow:hidden with border radius I have a lovely Star Trek Red Alert animation using CSS3.  One of my parent elements has a border-radius along with overflow:hidden so that any content is cropped to the shape of the border radius.
This all works fine in Firefox but Webkit browsers leave some child elements hanging outside the cropped area.
Here is my code:
http://jsfiddle.net/doublewombat/EqK6R/embedded/result/
The div with the class name curvedEdges has the border-radius and overflow:hidden.  However the blocks left & right of the 'Alert' text hang outside of this radius, even though they are child elements of curvedEdges.  Or in plain English, the left and right edges of the animation should be slightly curved (as in Firefox), not dead straight.
So is this a bug in Webkit, or have I got something wrong?
Here it is on YouTube if you don't have a Webkit browser handy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vyVy21nWsE

A: It seems like its an issue with the GPU/hardware compositing. transform: translateZ(0); should fix the issue as well. For more information on this, read http://aerotwist.com/blog/on-translate3d-and-layer-creation-hacks/
-webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
transform: translateZ(0);

I have included vendor prefixes but you can remove them if you want.

A: Seems its a mixed working fix:
.wrap {
    -webkit-transform: translateZ(0);
    -webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(circle, white 100%, black 100%);
}

http://jsfiddle.net/qWdf6/82/

A: Firstly, what a cool demo!
I had a look around and it seems a problem not on you are having. The second answer to someone else's problem fixed it for me, although this doesn't work for safari. The fix is to use masking:
-webkit-mask-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAIAAACQd1PeAAAAGXRFWHRTb2Z0d2FyZQBBZG9iZSBJbWFnZVJlYWR5ccllPAAAAA5JREFUeNpiYGBgAAgwAAAEAAGbA+oJAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);

The accepted answer to that same question has another fix, which I think could really help you out, but I couldn't seem to get the right combination of elements and border-radius.

A: You could put an absolute positioned div over it with a border-radius and a thick black border, it will block the parts you want too be hidden.
I made a demo for another question about a similar problem in FF3.6: http://jsfiddle.net/vfp3v/15/
border-radius; overflow: hidden, and text is not clipped

A: I'd been trying to do the same, and was using border-radius to mask elements to a circle.
I was able to use masking and a radial gradient to achieve the desired affect in Safari 6.0.3 (with transitions in position and size).
Here's the single line of code I added to the container (masking) element:
-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(circle, white, black);

I thought I would have to use hard color stops, as follows, to get the hard edge:
-webkit-mask-image: -webkit-radial-gradient(circle, white 100%, black 100%);

However, it works the same without (perhaps someone can enlighten us on why).  The clipping is not as smooth as with border-radius, but it beats the heck out of the image unpredictably exceeding the bounds.
You may need to adjust this for use with older versions of Safari/Chrome etc., I haven't tested it on different versions (aka YMMV).

A: It appears to be a browser issue as reported on: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=157218
Basically, when you apply animation to an element, the browser will handle it in the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for performance reasons, while the rest is handled by the CPU. That ends up rendering the animation above the mask.
As a workaround you can try adding an imperceptible transform property, that will also trigger GPU handling for the mask element, promoting it to the same level of the animation:
#redAlert .curvedEdge {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0.000001deg);
}

I guess it may vary depending on browser version, but these other values have also been reported to trigger GPU handling: rotate(0), translateZ(0)

A: Just as a heads up, this fix only worked for me if I applied the mask on a container with border-radius, but no border.  Ultimately I ended up with something like this:

        Some stuff that overflows.

With a border on the inner div, the clipping wasn't perfect.
Totally weird.

A: I found another possible solution to this bug, using CSS3 clip-path, but it only works in recent versions of webkit (it seems to work in Chrome 24, but not Safari 6.0.2). The following will clip a circle around the element:
-webkit-clip-path: circle(50%, 50%, 100%);

Hopefully this will be implemented by more browsers soon! It seems like this feature could have a lot of cool applications. Here's a relevant blog post: http://blog.romanliutikov.com/coding/css-clip-path-landed-in-webkit/.


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Nova Institution for Women
Media release: Former correctional officer at the Nova Institution for Women arrested on charges of sexual assault against prisoners
May 11, 2020 1 Comment
News release: Today, The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) – along with the Atlantic Elizabeth Fry Societies – have learned that a former Correctional Officer at the Nova Institution for Women was arrested and charged with 6 counts of sexual assault, 6 counts of breach of trust, and 1 count of trying to procure sexual service – all related to his work at the Institution.
The lack of health care for women in Nova Scotia prisons
Rebecca Hussman went to a talk by registered nurse and activist Martha Paynter about the shocking lack of health care for women in Nova Scotia prisons. Paynter dedicated her talk to two women who died while in Truro's Nova Institution for Women in 2015: Veronica Park and Camille Strickland-Murphy. "… this is what happens when we inadequately care for people inside," Paynter said.
Inside Canada's East Coast prisons (photos)
A few heartwrenching and rare photos taken during a recent fact-finding visit to East Coast prisons by members of the Senate Committee on Human Rights. Many more on the Senate of Canada website.
Let's Talk – Bell Canada makes calling from prisons needlessly difficult for incarcerated women
It's needlessly difficult to make a call from the Nova Institution for Women in Truro, says Martha Paynter of Women's Wellness Within. Phone charges should be dropped, and internet access should be provided. Current restrictions just add to the prisoners' sense of isolation and emotional duress. Turns out the phone provider is Bell Canada, of #BellLetsTalk fame.
Staff person's harmful comments about trans inmate remain unaddressed
A problematic story in the Chronicle Herald about a staffer's transphobic comments causes reporter Rebecca Rose to take an in depth look at the harm they cause and and how to counteract them. She also looks at the significant policy changes that triggered the comments, and how these changes came about. But no matter how good the policy changes and staff training, decarceration and community inclusion remain the best solution, advocates say.
Pregnancies don't wait. Doula support withheld from pregnant inmates at Nova Institution
Women incarcerated in the Nova Institution for Women in Truro have not had access to volunteer doula services since June of this year. As a result women may well be at risk of losing their babies, says the coordinator of the partnership that used to provide the doula services.


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Clinics, Centers & Institutes
Bradley N. Deacon
Law College Building
648 N. Shaw Lane Rm 368
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
deaconbr@msu.edu
Brad Deacon is the Director of the Office of Legal Affairs for the Michigan Department of Agriculture & Rural Development. Brad has undergraduate and law degrees from Michigan State University, and spent the 1993/4 academic year studying international investment in Germany on a Fulbright grant. Upon returning from Germany, Brad worked on the family farm until May of 1995, when he started working in the Office of the Governor. From 1999 to 2005, Brad served as the Legislative Liaison for the Department of Agriculture, working on passage of legislation including the Food Law and revisions to laws on animal health, pesticides, and consumer protection.
In his current position since 2005, he oversees coordination of litigation and legal issues with the Office of the Attorney General, as well as public hearings, Freedom of Information Act compliance, and development of regulations for the Department. He is also the Department's emergency management coordinator, overseeing preparedness and response activities related to the food and agriculture sector. Brad is the Co-Chair of the Michigan Food & Agriculture Protection and Defense Working Group, and represents the Department on multiple homeland security and preparedness boards, including the Michigan Homeland Security Preparedness Committee, the State Animal Response Team Board, and the Multi-State Partnership for Security in Agriculture. He has been the Principal Investigator on the Food & Drug Administration's Rapid Response Team grant to Michigan since 2008. He also served two years as the State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Co-Chair on the national Food & Agriculture Sector Government Coordinating Council. Brad is an adjunct professor at MSU College of Law teaching Agriculture Law and Hospitality Law.
J.D. 2004, magna cum laude, Michigan State University College of Law; B.A. 1993, with honors, Michigan State University
Hospitality Law
Students learn to identify and manage the legal issues raised by clients providing lodging, food, and alcohol to the public, with a focus on entrepreneurship and small business models, and particular attention to the intersection of local, state, and federal regulation. Topics would include choice of business form, duties to guests and others, food and alcohol regulation, lodging and land use regulation. The course will include several case studies requiring students to consider clients' business plans and provide appropriate legal analysis and advice.
Bar Admission(s)
Adjunct Resources
Faculty Programming
Dean's Speaker Series


Facebook is reportedly working on vastly improving what has long been poor search functionality on their ubiquitous social network. Even given the $15 billion dollars at stake in search advertising, Facebook doesn't seem interested in diving headfirst into battling Google by indexing the web.
News of an improved Facebook search engine led the tech industry to wonder aloud if Facebook – despite employing few traditional search engineers – could spell a genuine threat to Google's global search dominance with vastly improved search functionality. One survey also revealed that users are cool to the idea of a Facebook search engine to rival Google's.
Either Facebook (social) triumphs as the medium consumers turn to for online information retrieval or Google (search) does.
This assumption characterizes user information retrieval behaviors as black and white when in reality they are many shades of gray. Users' information retrieval habits are contextual – they vary based on the context of what the user is searching for and, in turn, the platforms they use. With these assumptions in hand, we'd like to challenge the convention and postulate that Facebook won't be replacing Google any time soon.
To test this assumption and gauge user behaviors, we surveyed a group of web users to determine how often they turn to social and search platforms for their online information needs. While our sample size of 100 won't win any academic research awards, it should give us a sense of a user's online information retrieval behaviors.
Note that to measure their online information habits on search and social, users were queried about the frequency they turn to each independent of each other. For example, for content discovery, they could indicate they use search "often" and social "often" as well.
Looking at the responses, what immediately jumps out is that while search is the medium users turn to in nearly all information retrieval scenarios, with over 85 percent frequency in 6 out of 7 situations, there are specific contexts in which users will turn to social as well.
Given that the core purpose of social networks is to communicate with others, it isn't surprising that Discussion is the scenario in which users turn to social more often than search, but Content Discovery and Local Entertainment are also areas in which social media is strongly leveraged, with 51 percent and 42 percent frequency, respectively.
Interestingly, while we have long been told social will be huge for shopping (presumably because your friends' purchase recommendations are more valuable than impersonal search listings), shopping is actually the scenario in which users use social networks the least, at 15 percent.
Likewise, we might expect to see a large percentage of users heavily leveraging their social networks in a job search but only 18 percent of respondents to social "always" or "often" turn.
Time will tell if social is in fact the better option in many of these information retrieval scenarios, and the reason users have not yet turned to social is because behaviors have not yet changed.
However, I think the way to interpret the data and part of the reason why users have not overwhelmingly turned to social in many of the scenarios we have been told they will do so in droves, is because social as a dominant information retrieval medium is a situation where theory actually differs significantly from practice.
According to Facebook, the average user has 190 friends. From the outset the addressable audience is limited, and becomes even more so when we consider the percentage of friends who may be able to address a specific shopping recommendation request or help with a specific job search.
There is no question social is a significant part of a user's online discussion activities and their sharing and discovery of content online. But our data suggests that those who posit social will take over across all information retrieval scenarios are painting a broad picture with a narrow brush by extending social beyond its core uses – discussion, content discovery and local entertainment discovery – and misapplying it to nearly everything we do online.
Time will tell, but for now, users utilize search universally while turning to social in certain specific contextual situations.


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How to Talk to Kids About Immigration & Family Separation
June 21, 2018, Brittany Murlas
As the news coverage of our government's immigration policies mushroomed this week, we decided we better get to work. Yes, we must sign petitions, make calls, and donate…AND we must hold our children close and read them stories. Why? Because stories teach empathy, and by teaching our kids empathy towards immigrants we can raise a generation of humans that ensures this treatment of immigrants and refugees never. happens. again.
Toward this goal we have provided the following discussion guide, complete with five of our favorite and most relevant stories about immigrant families. Because our mission is to encourage empathy in little readers, from now through June 30th, 100% of proceeds from our book club sales will go to organizations directly serving immigrants. If you would like to know more about the groups we are donating to, we have provided a list at the end of this article, and we encourage you to donate directly if you are able.
Discussion Guide: How to Talk About the Current Status of Immigrants and Refugees with Your Kids
There is a lot happening right now; it's okay to be confused and upset when you think about sharing the news with your children. Sometimes parents don't have all the answers or even the right questions, and that's okay too. Here are some tips for talking to kids about current issues that might help.
Tips for Talking to Kids:
Use straightforward, clear language. Kids can grasp much more than most adults give them credit for, if it is explained in the right way.
Limit your child's media exposure, especially before the basics have been covered. It's much better that they get the whole story—with the developmentally appropriate context. You can use stories like the ones listed below as a more natural entry point into the conversation.
Be available as your child's source, but limit how much you share at one time. Discuss the news in small, digestible chunks, and leave a lot of room for your child's questions. When you get to a part of this information that feels too scary, too sad, or too confusing to tell them about, pause. Reframe the narrative in a way that your little one can understand.
Let them guide the follow up. It may take your children time to process this upsetting news. Pay attention to any direct or indirect reactions they seem to have over time.
Bring in empathy. For example, you could say: "I am imagining what it would be like to be one of those parents, and have you taken away from me. This makes me feel scared and sad." You could also ask your child to imagine being separated from you, if you feel this is developmentally and emotionally appropriate for your child.
Relate your love and care for your kids. Hopefully right now this isn't a direct threat to your family, but it might still feel like that to a child hearing about it for the first time. You can tell them "This isn't going to happen to us, but if it did, I would do everything I could to be back with you. And I would want other people to help us."
"Focus on the helpers," as Mister Rogers famously said. Demonstrate that there are good people working to right these wrongs.
Explain your own beliefs. Tell them why you think that what is happening is wrong, and what you plan to do about it.
Finally, give your little feminist the opportunity to join efforts that are appropriate, so that they feel like they can make a difference too. Remember, the scariest thing is feeling like you're powerless—and we aren't. Your child isn't. Give them the ability to support with you.
Stories to Teach Empathy Towards Immigrants
From North to South
Written by René Laínez
Illustrations by Joe Cepeda
For readers ages 5-8
Can't the car go any faster? José and his Papá are on their way from San Diego to Tijuana where José's Mamá was sent because she didn't have the right papers. They finally get there, but they will have to leave soon. When will Mamá come home?
What we love: The bittersweet reunion between José and his Mamá show the difficulty of living apart, but his mother finds a compromise that until they can be together again, they will live in each others hearts.
Things to know: There is no closure in terms of learning if or when his Mamá will return. This is realistic, but also incredibly heartbreaking.
Mama's Nightingale: A Story of Immigration and Separation
Written by Edwidge Danticat
Illustrations by Leslie Staub
When her mother is sent to an immigration detention center, Saya starts sneaking out of bed to listen to her mother's voice on their answering machine. But when she accidentally erases the voice message, Saya can no longer hear her mother's warm voice. Soon, recordings start arriving in the mail—Saya's mother is sending her bedtime stories! After weeks of waiting for her mother to be released, Saya decides to join her father in writing to newspaper reporters to tell their story.
What we love: Saya's father writes to judges, their mayor, and congresswoman, newspaper and television reporters, advocating for Saya's mothers release.
Things to know: Because of the publicity around her case, Saya's mom is released from the center within a week of the story breaking. In the story, the judge says that she can go home with her family, and will receive her papers, but often this is not the case.
Friends From the Other Side/Amigos del Otro Lado
Written by Gloria E. Anzaldúa
Illustrations by Consuelo Méndez Castillo
When Prietita befriends Joaquín, she notices his Spanish is a little different from hers. "Did you come from the other side?" she asks. "From Mexico?" Soon, Prietita will have to decide how to act when kids from her neighborhood start calling Joaquín slurs. And when the Border Patrol comes, what should she do then?
What we love: While written in 1993, this book addresses issues that are still very relevant today. When Prietita, a Mexican-American girl living in Southern Texas, decides to help Joaquín, she learns of the prejudice within her own community, but pushes against that. We also love that this book is bilingual, and that both Anzaldúa and Castillo grew up in Southern Texas. Anzaldúa is also a well-known scholar of cultural, feminist, and queer theories.
Things to know: There are some places where kids call Joaquín slurs that could be triggering or something that you might like to avoid.
Calling the Doves
Written by Juan Felipe Herrera
Illustrations by Elly Simmons
For readers ages 6-10
A vivid recounting of his childhood, poet Juan Felipe Herrera shares the stories of being on the road and the joy and love from his parents accompanied with vibrant illustrations.
What we love: The author dedicated this book to his parents, "who loved the open sky and the earth when it is tender. They taught me that inside every word there can be kindness" Herrera wrote.
Things to know: This is the only book on the list that is about a migrant farm worker family. We find refugees and migrants can often be grouped together, but their experiences are quite different!
Somos como las nubes / We Are Like the Clouds
Written by Jorge Argueta
Illustrations by Alfonso Ruano
Published October 2016
For readers age 8-11
Over 100,000 children have left Central America to seek a new home in the U.S. This book of poetry helps us to understand why they and their families are making that choice, and what it might be like to walk in their footsteps.
What we love: Written by a refugee of the 12-year war following the US-sponsored military coup in El Salvador, this book represents the struggles of Central Americans—a group often forgotten in conversations regarding immigration or detention.
Things to know: This book is for more advanced readers than the others on this list. Some of the representations of encounters with border patrol have also been watered-down for the sake of the children's narrative, but some reviews consider that a disservice to those who have faced harsher realities.
For Further Reading:
Even more of these books can be found on our expanded list of the Books to Educate Your Child About Immigration and our list of the Best Books About Refugees.
Where We're Donating
These are the two organizations to which we have decided to contribute our proceeds for all subscription boxes purchased from now through June 30th. We highly encourage you to donate if you are able to do so.
As stated on their website, "the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services (RAICES) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes justice by providing free and low-cost legal services to underserved immigrant children, families and refugees in Central and South Texas. RAICES is the largest immigration non-profit in Texas with offices in Austin, Corpus, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio."
Their #FreeOurFamilies campaign is currently raising money to pay "immigration bonds" imposed on asylum seekers at our southern border, so that parents can leave detention centers and be reunited with their children.
They are also sponsoring the Legal Representation, Education, and Advocacy: LEAF Project for Universal Representation for Unaccompanied Children.
This organization "works directly within the judicial system, representing those persons and groups that have been historically targeted in Texas, and are still today—including immigrants, people of color, the poor, persons with disabilities, persons accused of crimes, and others", according to their website. They "use the law as a sword and shield against abuse, discrimination, disenfranchisement and other injustices, demanding accountability from those in power" and are "not tethered to any national bureaucracy and entirely focused on advancing equality and justice in our own backyards."
Last year, there were over 13,000 kids who were not represented in immigration courts in Texas.
Other places to lend support
These organizations are on-the-ground groups that have increased their efforts in the wake of this pressing need, and often take a more hands-on approach. They are usually run by individual organizers from within immigrant communities, and they therefore can have less oversight, but they also have less overhead cost, so more of the money you contribute goes directly to the cause.
Pueblo Sin Fronteras
"For more than fifteen years, members of Pueblo Sin Fronteras have been reaching out to the most vulnerable immigrants in the United States and to migrants and refugees on the move" as they "accompany migrants and refugees in their journey of hope, and together demand our human rights", according to their website.
Donate here: paypal.me/refugeecaravan
This is a bi-national, direct legal services organization serving indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Tijuana, Mexico; among their programs is an assistance project for children who have been deported after living most of their life in the United States which assists them with adjusting to life in Mexico.
Donate here: alotrolado.org/take-action/donate/
Featured photo courtesy of David Burge.
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Meet The French Feminists Behind A Viral Meme About A Male Ejaculation Ban
"It's a joke, to ridicule something that boggles the mind: For centuries, it's been men who dictate women's bodies."
By Marie Kirschen
Marie Kirschen Journaliste chez BuzzFeed News, France
This week President Trump reinstated the "Global Gag Rule," which prohibits international groups that accept US health funding from using any of their other money to provide — or even talk to women about — abortion.
Pool / Getty Images
This photo of a bunch of men watching Trump sign a rule about women's bodies has spawned plenty of responses in the press and on social media around the world.
Martin Belam @MartinBelam
As long as you live you'll never see a photograph of 7 women signing legislation about what men can do with their r… https://t.co/p7i51PqjoU
A French feminist group called 52 — named because women make up 52% of France's population — created this image of a parody news article with a ~slightly~ different version of the photo. It imagines Hillary Clinton surrounded by women, signing a ban on ejaculation for non-procreative purposes.
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"BREAKING NEWS: In the US ejaculation for non-procreative purposes is now forbidden."
"It's a joke," a 52 member named Sophie told BuzzFeed News, "to ridicule something that boggles the mind: For centuries, it's been men who dictate women's bodies."
"Women are told what they should wear, what salary they're entitled to... Trump has only just become president, and the first thing he does is take a step backward by signing this piece of legislation."
"This picture of the president shows very well how men get to dictate the rights women have," she said. "It really wound us up."
"On social media, some people pointed out the fact that one would ever see a photograph depicting a group composed exclusively of women signing legislature over what men are allowed to do with their genitalia. That was our starting point. We thought, Hey, why don't we make such a picture?"
The activists used a picture from 2009 that depicts Barack Obama surrounded by the "WASPs", a group of women fighter pilots from World War II, to whom he was awarding the Congressional Gold Medal.
Pete Souza / The White House
The picture has already been shared on Facebook over 17,000 times, and has gathered more than 6,800 reactions.
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The group 52 was created last September and held its first action in January to coincide with the annual winter sales held in France.
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"We took the idea of a support and empowerment network as our starting point," Sophie said.
"The media often speak — with good reason — of rapes, of inequality, of extra work hours that women do... We, on the other hand, felt we wanted more empowerment. We want to take actions which help women become aware of their strength, and of the power it gives them. And also of the fact that we are a majority, since women represent 52% of the French population."
This post was translated from French.
Marie Kirschen est journaliste chez BuzzFeed News, France, et travaille depuis Paris.
Contact Marie Kirschen at marie.kirschen@buzzfeed.com.