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August Stefan Kronstein (* 21. Dezember 1850 in Pest; † 15. Dezember 1921 in Wien) war ein österreichischer Maler und Grafiker.

Kronstein war in Pest Schüler des Malers Zsigmond Löschinger und der Grafiker A. Rohn und W. Grund. Ab 1869 studierte er an der Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien bei Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger. Danach wurde er Mitarbeiter von Ladislaus Eugen Petrovits und Vinzenz Katzler. Im Jahre 1873 wurde Kronstein zum Leiter der lithografischen Anstalt des Waldheim-Verlags ernannt.

Kronstein lieferte auch Illustrationen an viele Zeitschriften, u. a. an Über Land und Meer, Deutsche Illustrirte Zeitung, Das Buch für alle, Gartenlaube und Illustrirte Zeitung. Er schuf viele Federzeichnungen, Holzschnitte und Aquarellen mit den Wiener Stadtansichten.

Literatur
 Ludwig Eisenberg: Das geistige Wien. Künstler- und Schriftsteller-Lexikon. Mittheilungen über Wiener Architekten, Bildhauer, Bühnenkünstler, Graphiker, Journalisten, Maler, Musiker und Schriftsteller. Band 1. Daberkow. Wien 1889.

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The Malayan Union was a union of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca. It was the successor to British Malaya and was conceived to unify the Malay Peninsula under a single government to simplify administration. Following opposition by the ethnic Malays, the union was reorganised as the Federation of Malaya in 1948.

Formation of the Malayan Union
Prior to World War II, British Malaya consisted of three groups of polities: the protectorate of the Federated Malay States, five protected Unfederated Malay States and the crown colony of the Straits Settlements.

On 1 April 1946, the Malayan Union officially came into existence with Sir Edward Gent as its governor, combining the Federated Malay States, Unfederated Malay States and the Straits Settlements of Penang and Malacca under one administration. The capital of the Union was Kuala Lumpur. The former Straits Settlement of Singapore was administered as a separate crown colony.

The idea of the Union was first expressed by the British in October 1945 (plans had been presented to the War Cabinet as early as May 1944) in the aftermath of the Second World War by the British Military Administration. Sir Harold MacMichael was assigned the task of gathering the Malay state rulers' approval for the Malayan Union in the same month. In a short period of time, he managed to obtain all the Malay rulers' approval. The reasons for their agreement, despite the loss of political power that it entailed for the Malay rulers, has been much debated; the consensus appears to be that the main reasons were that as the Malay rulers were of course resident during the Japanese occupation, they were open to the accusation of collaboration, and that they were threatened with dethronement. Hence the approval was given, though it was with utmost reluctance.

When it was unveiled, the Malayan Union gave equal rights to people who wished to apply for citizenship. It was automatically granted to people who were born in any state in British Malaya or Singapore and were living there before 15 February 1942, born outside British Malaya or the Straits Settlements only if their fathers were citizens of the Malayan Union and those who reached 18 years old and who had lived in British Malaya or Singapore "10 out of 15 years before 15 February 1942". The group of people eligible for application of citizenship had to live in Singapore or British Malaya "for 5 out of 8 years preceding the application", had to be of good character, understand and speak the English or Malay language and "had to take an oath of allegiance to the Malayan Union". However, the citizenship proposal was never actually implemented. Due to opposition to the citizenship proposal, it was postponed then modified, which made it harder for many Chinese and Indian residents to obtain Malayan citizenship.

The Sultans, the traditional rulers of the Malay states, conceded all their powers to the British Crown except in religious matters. The Malayan Union was placed under the jurisdiction of a British Governor, signalling the formal inauguration of British colonial rule in the Malay peninsula. Moreover, while the State Councils were still kept functioning in the former Federated Malay States, they lost the limited autonomy that they enjoyed, left to administer only some less important local aspects of government, and became an extended hand of the Federal government in Kuala Lumpur. Also, British Residents replacing the Sultans as the head of the State Councils meant that the political status of the Sultans was greatly reduced.

A Supreme Court was established in 1946 of which Harold Curwen Willan was the only Chief Justice.

Opposition, dissolution of the Malayan Union and the creation of the Federation of Malaya

The Malays generally opposed the creation of the Union. The opposition was due to the methods Sir Harold MacMichael used to acquire the Sultans' approval, the reduction of the Sultans' powers, and easy granting of citizenship to immigrants. The United Malays National Organisation or UMNO, a Malay political association formed by Dato' Onn bin Ja'afar on 10 May 1946, led the opposition against the Malayan Union. Malays also wore white bands around their heads, signifying their mourning for the loss of the Sultans' political rights.

After the inauguration of the Malayan Union, the Malays, under UMNO continued opposing the Malayan Union. They utilised civil disobedience as a means of protest by refusing to attend the installation ceremonies of the British governors. They had also refused to participate in the meetings of the Advisory Councils, hence Malay participation in the government bureaucracy and the political process had totally stopped. The British had recognised this problem and took measures to consider the opinions of the major races in Malaya before making amendments to the constitution. The Malayan Union was dissolved and replaced by the Federation of Malaya on 1 February 1948.

Evolution towards Malaysia

See also
Bumiputera (Malaysia)

References

Zakaria Haji Ahmad. Government and Politics (1940–2006). p.p 30–21. .
Marissa Champion. Odyssey: Perspectives on Southeast Asia – Malaysia and Singapore 1870–1971.
Sejarah Malaysia

British Malaya
Former British colonies and protectorates in Asia
Former countries in Malaysian history
1940s in British Malaya
States and territories established in 1946
States and territories disestablished in 1948
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Barger Springs, located in Summers County, on the Big Bend of the Greenbrier River, was the site of a mineral spring resort from 1903 to 1929. The spring property was first developed commercially prior to the Civil War. Owner Isaac Carden established a lodging place for hunters and trappers, and constructed a row of log cabins for their use. Carden also had one of the first stores in the region at his spring.
Between the end of the Civil War and 1903, the property was farmed by William Barger, who had married into the Carden family. A springhouse was erected in 1868, but Barger did little to develop the site commercially. In 1903, the property was purchased by a company of 30 investors from nearby Hinton who divided the land into 30 lots for the building of vacation cottages, erected a new pavilion over the spring, and renamed their development Greenbrier Springs. In 1905, the company constructed a three-story wooden hotel near the spring for the accommodation of visitors. This hotel opened to the public in 1906. The resort at Barger Springs was popular with the local population as a place for swimming, fishing, and other outdoor activities. The hotel was closed in 1929, and the building was razed. Many private cottages are located on the former resort grounds, and in 1976 the spring pavilion was renovated.
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How to help someone who's been stabbed, according to London paramedics
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson detailed how to treat a stab wound until paramedics arrive
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Paramedics at the scene of a stabbing in Haringey (Image: @999London)
It's a nightmare most people will hopefully never have to experience.
With a number of attacks taking place on London's streets or even inside shops and other public places, unrelated members of the public are often first on the scene after a person is stabbed.
For them, it can be hard at first to understand what is happening and, once the panic sets in, even harder to know what to do to help.
A jogger who was among the first to come across Tesfa Campbell after he was stabbed in Battersea this July described thinking he was "having a fit" at first until he collapsed to the ground.
While he was level-headed enough to offer some assistance, many without First Aid training might wonder how best to help someone until paramedics arrive.
What to do before anything else
Police tape near St Mary's Avenue South, in Southall, where a man was stabbed (Image: Lewis Pennock/PA Wire)
The first response should always be to call 999 or to check it has already been done, rather than assuming someone else will.
Only last month, the London Fire Brigade released a campaign instructing people to call the emergency services rather than simply filming an emergency on their phones.
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Paramedics say it's best to stem the bleeding (Image: Lewis Pennock/PA Wire)
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Economic development incentives, at the margin
Bob Weeks July 14, 2014 July 14, 2014 0 Comments3 Mins Read
The evaluation of economic development incentives requires thinking at the margin, not the entirety.
When considering the effect of economic development incentives, cities like Wichita use a cost-benefit analysis to determine whether the incentive is in the best interests of the city. The analysis usually also considers the county, state, and school districts, although these jurisdictions have no say over whether the incentive is granted, with a few exceptions. The basic idea is that by paying money now or forgiving future taxes, the city gains even more in increased tax collections. This is then pitched as a good deal for taxpayers: The city gets more jobs (usually) and a profit, too.
Economic activity generates tax revenue flowing to governmental agencies. When people work, they pay income taxes. When they buy stuff, they pay sales taxes. When they create new property or upgrade existing property, it is taxed.
In the calculation of cost-benefit ratios, when a company receives economic development incentives, government takes credit for the increase in tax revenue. Government often says that without the incentive, the company would not have located in Wichita. Or, it might not have expanded in Wichita. Or these days, it is claimed that incentives are necessary to persuade companies to consider remaining in Wichita rather than moving somewhere else.
But there are a few problems with the arguments that cities and their economic development agencies promote. One is that the increase in tax revenue happens regardless of whether the company has received incentives. What about all the companies that locate to or expand in Wichita without receiving incentives?
Related is that jurisdictions may grant relatively small incentives and then take credit for the entire deal. I've been told that when economic development agencies learn of a company moving to an area or expanding, they swoop in with small incentives and take credit for the entire deal. The agency is then able to point to a small incentive that enabled a huge deal. As you can imagine, it's difficult to get the involved parties to speak on the record about this.
The importance of marginal thinking
Here's an example of the importance of looking at marginal gains rather than the whole enchilada. In 2012, the City of Wichita developed a program called New HOME (New Home Ownership Made Easy). The crux of the program is to rebate Wichita city property taxes for five years to those who buy newly-built homes in certain neighborhoods under certain conditions.
The important question is how much new activity this program will induce. Often government takes credit for all economic activity that takes place. This ignores the economic activity that was going to take place naturally — in this case, new homes that are going to be built even without this subsidy program. According to data compiled by Wichita Area Builders Association and the WSU Center for Economic Development and Business Research — this is the data that was current at the time the Wichita city council made its decision to authorize the program — in 2011 462 new homes were started in the City of Wichita. The HOME program contemplated subsidizing 1,000 homes in a period of 22 months. That's a rate of 545 homes per year — not much more than the present rate of 462 per year. But, the city has to give up collecting property tax on all these homes — even the ones that would be built anyway.
What we're talking about is possibly inducing a small amount of additional activity over what would happen naturally and organically. But we have to subsidize a very large number of houses in order to achieve that. The lesson is that we need to evaluate the costs of this program based on the marginal activity it may induce, not all activity. For more, see Wichita new home tax rebate program: The analysis.
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I attended one of the most famous schools for children with dyslexia from 1975 to 1977, The Kildonan School. It was located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania at the time (now in Amenia, New York).
Diana Hanbury King and Kurt Goldman founded the school in 1969 on a beautiful rented campus near the Delaware River in Solebury. I recall strolling through the woods on campus and going for long horseback rides, which were part of the school's program. I enjoyed exploring the river and skating on the canal that ran parallel to it in the winter.
I was diagnosed with severe developmental dyslexia in 1972 by Dr. Carl L. Kline and his wife, Carolyn (recipients of the Samuel T. Orton Award in 1991). At the age of eight I was given the identification of being dyslexic. At age 11, I was sent to the Kildonan School, one of the only boarding schools for children (boys only at the time) with dyslexia. Fortunately, my parents were able to get financial support from my grandparents and by mortgaging their home.
I can't remember ever seeing the strengths or gifts of having dyslexia as a young boy. I struggled with written expression due to severe dysgraphia, which was not formally diagnosed at the time as a learning disorder. Reading and spelling were extremely frustrating. Making sound-symbol associations was problematic, and recalling the pronunciation of sight words was nearly impossible. My auditory memory for information was extremely weak as well, so listening to classroom lectures or conversations was difficult. As a result, I appeared quite inattentive at times.
By the time I got to the Kildonan School in September 1975, I had received two years of private Orton-Gillingham Tutoring and was still below grade level in reading, writing and spelling due to the severity of my dyslexia. If I had a gift it was in athletics. I loved sports and excelled in most. Did I see myself as having the visual-spatial gifts so many professionals said people with dyslexia had? No. The idea of the gift of dyslexia was not well discussed at the time.
I spent two years away from my family, who lived in Vancouver. Over that period of time, my parents divorced and my dad moved to Edmonton. My reading, writing and spelling had improved over the two years, but I still had to re-read material and look up words in order to understand what I was reading. My step-mother (my Dad remarried) also had to edit my writing samples.
It was a painful process in so many ways. My neurological weaknesses with visual-motor integration (for printing), auditory memory for information (for listening), and cognitive systems related to conceptual learning (how ideas relate to each other) were still weaknesses. This would result in years of ongoing frustration with learning, and academic failure at the postsecondary level of my studies. Throughout this period of my life, from 1975 to 1989, my dyslexia was not a gift. It was hell!
How on earth I finally got my undergraduate degree in Psychology one can only surmise. There were so many factors contributing to my ability to get through my undergraduate days at the University of British Columbia (UBC), including self-determination and self-advocacy, a wonderful girlfriend (and now wife), supportive family, professors, and luck.
I failed and dropped out of university three times. Again, the idea that dyslexia was a gift was laughable to me. Dyslexia resulted in nothing but severe academic hardship. Reading was slow and laborious. Written expression tasks were maddening. Spelling was entertaining to others. My first English paper the professor gave me an F+ and F-. The F+ was for content and the F- was for grammar. Listening and note taking during lectures was exasperating.
Through blood, sweat and tears (well not so much blood) I graduated from UBC. I was then accepted at Boston University to do a graduate degree in Special Education. There is a lot more to this story, but I'm leaving it out in order to get to the main point of the article.
I became aware of the notion of dyslexia as a gift at Boston University. Dr. Paul J. Gerber, of the Medical College of Virginia, was studying adults with learning disabilities to understand how some found vocational success. I was intrigued by his work due to my own learning disabilities (or dyslexia).
He found that adults with learning disabilities who found vocational success had gained control in their lives through internal decisions and external manifestations. One key internal decision they made was to reframe their learning disabilities in a positive light and to see that they had strengths as well as weaknesses. It was a statement based on reality and not heavily weighted towards negative self-perception.
This got me thinking about myself as an adult with a learning disability. At the time, I was working for Dr. Loring Brinckerhoff at the Boston University Learning Support Program. This program was created to help university students with special needs, like learning disabilities, get through their postsecondary experiences. Dr. Brinckerhoff eventually became one of the most well respected academics and professionals in the field of postsecondary education and disabilities. My time with Dr. Brinckerhoff allowed me to work directly with other adults with learning disabilities, and I was able to bring this concept of reframing to their lives.
Dr. Gerber's research shaped much of my career as a teacher, tutor and assessor of learning disabilities from 1990 to 2004. And for the next 14 years, I focused on helping children and adults with learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, reframe their mindsets. The notion of dyslexia as a gift was appealing as a result. As well, dyslexia was hard-wired, a life-long disability so there was no option out of this diagnosis. Since dyslexia had a permanent underlying neurological cause, reframing was an excellent concept in helping children and adults with learning disabilities find vocational success.
For 14 years I advocated that dyslexia was a gift – that there were many successful people with dyslexia and one could use them as role models for children. I recall the statement coming out in the press that more than 50% of NASA employees had dyslexia. I was so excited to hear this fact, that I used it in many of my presentations. I also helped organize conferences for the International Dyslexia Association of British Columbia.
I recall how excited I was to get Thomas West as a keynote speaker, the author of In The Mind`s Eye. The book highlighted the remarkable neurological talents of many dyslexics in the area of visual-spatial thinking and creativity. West's keynote was uplifting and motivating. I had a keen interest in photography and had always been told I was strong visually, so his words resonated with me. I faced children every day who were struggling in school because of their neurological weaknesses and was determined to bring new awareness into education that these children were also gifted and talented. I didn't want them to be forgotten; I wanted them to be respected.
I was asked by a former client, and now advocate for individuals with learning disabilities, to be in a calendar. The calendar promoted the gifted dyslexia campaign. This was in 2010. I accepted, but with some regret. Let me explain why.
By this time, I had spent five years working with children and young adults going through the Arrowsmith Program. I was introduced to the Arrowsmith Program in 2002 through a colleague of mine. At this time, we were conducting psycho-educational assessments and writing self-advocacy curriculums for students with learning disabilities. I was intrigued, but skeptical about the idea that the brain could change and had never heard of the term "neuroplasticity". I believed the brain was fixed – hardwired like a computer.
Barbara Arrowsmith Young, Founder of the Arrowsmith Program, did not agree. She had developed her program in the late 70's and early 80's in Toronto. It did not take her too long to receive harsh criticism from established academics and various educational professionals. The notion that children with learning disabilities could improve cognitive functioning was considered outlandish, and still is in some circles of the learning disability community.
But parents came forward and asked me to meet with Barbara in Vancouver. I did so, and was further intrigued, but did not fully appreciate the nature of her work. Barbara's concepts of treatment for learning disabilities were nowhere in the ballpark of what I considered valid intervention approaches. The divide between our ways of thinking was huge. I also aligned myself with the reasoning that there was nothing wrong with having a learning disability. I even thought it came with talents.
Fortunately, parents who are desperate to find help for their children can bridge paradigms and differences in opinion. They search for additional answers when one approach doesn't work. Some decided to move to Toronto, so their children could attend Barbara's school, the Arrowsmith School. I asked these parents to keep me updated because I was intrigued.
My team performed their children's updated psycho-educational assessments and noticed cognitive (neurological) changes that we had never observed before after a treatment approach for learning disabilities.
Improved cognitive capacities were not a regular finding in updated psycho-educational assessments. My intrigue moved to fascination, and later to my adoption of the Arrowsmith Program at my school, the Eaton Arrowsmith School located on the University of British Columbia (UBC) campus.
For years prior to adopting the Arrowsmith Program I told clients it was good to have dyslexia or a learning disability. I would say, "Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses." I told them about famous business people, movie stars, politicians and even writers who had learning disabilities like dyslexia. This mindset was built on the fact that there was no way to improve the neurological weaknesses underlying dyslexia. I told clients that their neurological weaknesses gave them certain strengths that, without dyslexia, they would not have.
To be honest, however, I recall many assessments where I would look at the data and find no cognitive strengths. There were no visual-spatial strengths in many of my clients with dyslexia. Like most individuals, some were good at art, sports or had well-developed social skills. Others showed remarkable visual-spatial abilities, some in the gifted range, but that was not common. Giftedness is a rare diagnosis in the learning disability or dyslexia population just as it is in the general population. Still, I would tell the child that they had talents, and would search and search to find one with them. I knew about the research on adults with learning disabilities who had vocational success, and I was determined to help children reframe their mindsets.
Being in my former client's calendar as a successful dyslexic, being aware that most dyslexics are not gifted, knowing that many dyslexics are struggling to be employed or attain a high school education due to untreated severe cognitive weaknesses, and realizing that just accepting your dyslexia is not the only way of understanding intervention possibilities, gave me regret.
Mary-Margaret Scholtens, Director of the Alternative Programs Providing Learning Experiences (APPLE) Group, was the originator of this erroneous fact. The APPLE Group, Inc. equips parents, teachers and the community to effectively serve children who learn differently through a proven suite of multi-sensory strategies. It focuses on working with children with dyslexia through the Orton-Gillingham Program – the same program that helped me improve my reading, writing and spelling skills in the mid 70's.
I am not saying there are no gifted dyslexics. My argument is that there is no research to prove all people with dyslexia are gifted. There are dyslexics in fields or careers that require strengths in visual-spatial ability, but this is not the norm for the population of dyslexics. Yes, there are successful entrepreneurs who are dyslexic, but is this common or just due to the fact that we want to find them and celebrate their achievements?
It is clear that one dyslexic is very different from another. Yes, there is the underlying reading disorder, usually impacting spelling and written expression (expressive and receptive language). When I say there is a lot of variation in dyslexia, what I mean is in relation to a broad range of cognitive functions that support reasoning, executive functioning, social awareness, memory, and more.
The general population and the field of learning disabilities has little to say in terms of understanding intervention methods that do not involve compensation or bypass strategies. For example, how can we help a child who struggles to understand concepts, or who finds listening and recalling classroom discussions and lectures difficult?
Programs like Orton-Gillingham can help with reading, spelling and writing development, but how about the non-responders or those who have multiple cognitive weaknesses? What do we do for those who do not improve significantly using Orton-Gillingham? Cognitive intervention programs likes the Arrowsmith Program can be supportive of these non-responders and even help them respond more quickly.
Is there another way to look at dyslexia that takes into account that some individuals have gifts, but many don't and are suffering due to their neurological weaknesses? It is critical to not outright accept the gifted dyslexia paradigm without deep review and contemplation. If we do this, we see that the paradigm is not entirely true and should be challenged. This then opens the mind to determining ways we can address the underlying cognitive weaknesses that result in significant learning and social challenges documented in many decades of research.
Prior to awareness about neuroplasticity and cognitive intervention, dyslexia was considered a life-long disability. Children and adults with dyslexia therefore needed to reframe their self-perception of disability, focus on their strengths, accept their neurological weaknesses, and be realistic about academic attainment and vocational choices (can I do a degree in Mathematics and become a high school math teacher due to my Dyscalculia?).
Neuroplasticity and cognitive intervention, such as the Arrowsmith Program, has dramatically reconfigured this previous paradigm. Now the paradigm should be, if the child or adult improves the underlying neurological weaknesses of his or her dyslexia or learning disabilities, what academic journey and vocational options are possible that were not before? Do I need to be dyslexic for the rest of my life?
This is what I am seeing as I work with families and their children at Eaton Arrowsmith schools in Vancouver, BC, and Redmond, Washington. Children and adults improve neurological capacities that, in turn, provide new opportunities for learning that were never before imagined.
It is extremely challenging to change a paradigm. I know because I was once in the previous paradigm of life-long dyslexia. I lived it. I breathed it. I was it. Now I watch my professional colleagues, whether at the academic university level, or running schools for dyslexia, or testing for learning disabilities, consider cognitive intervention and the impact it can have on the lives of those with learning challenges whether academic or social.
Some can't change, and write articles on famous dyslexics, or write-up assessments on how one can use learning strategies and compensations to bypass neurological deficits. It is frustrating to observe, as I know what is possible with brain change. Neurological weaknesses are not always for life. Once we embrace that paradigm in education, the lives of individuals with dyslexia and other learning disabilities will benefit greatly.


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The Royal Academy of Arts is a venerated art institution based in the fine old Burlington House in Piccadilly, London. Its role is to encourage British art, and it does this by showing exhibitions, running an art school and by holding all sorts of events and lectures for its members – though these people do tend towards the conservative end of the art spectrum.
The Royal Academy was formed in 1768, under the patronage of George III. Its first president was Sir Joshua Reynolds, a dull academic painter but a critic of note, most famous for his championing of the then cheeky upstart JMW Turner – who blossomed under the Academy's tutelage, as did William Blake.
Despite its name, the Royal Academy is not a state funded organistation. Still, its temporary exhibitions are as good as anything in the larger London Museums, drawing very big names. There's a small permanent collection too.
But the Royal Academy really comes into its own with the famous Summer Exhibition, held from May to August, the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world. Anyone can enter, and the diverse work on display is by a mix of established and unknown living artists; exhibits go from laughably terrible to brilliant, with much debate about which category any one work would fit in. In the past this juried exhibition has acted as a launching pad for numerous prominent artists. It's one of the few times when the general public shows much interest in contemporary art.
The Summer exhibition is not as fashionable as was the case in earlier centuries, and has been largely ignored by the trendy YBAs (Young Brit Artists); however Tracey Emin exhibited in the 2005 show and accepted an invitation to become a Academician. She defended her decision by saying: "It doesn't mean that I have become more conformist; it means that the Royal Academy of Arts has become more open, which is healthy and brilliant."
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One Good Thing: Woman's mission is to honor COVID-19 victims
by: JIM SALTER, Associated Press
Jessica Murray works in her dining room on a website she started to honor lives lost to COVID-19, with her cockatoo Misha on her lap, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020, in St. Louis. Murray, who works in marketing and sales support for a construction firm and never worked as a writer, has provided mostly short life stories of those who've died in vignettes that are elegant and moving in their simplicity. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
ST. LOUIS (AP) — It broke Jessica Murray's heart that so many people in the St. Louis area were dying from the coronavirus and that they were being remembered less for who they were than as statistics of the pandemic, so she decided to do something about it.
In June, Murray began the website stlouiscovidmemorial.com to honor lives lost to COVID-19. She mostly relies on information she can glean online, including from obituaries and other news stories about the dead. Her site and Facebook page serve as memorials to the area's pandemic victims, providing glimpses into their lives and deaths.
Murray, 40, typically works a couple hours a night on her laptop at the dining room of her duplex in St. Louis' Dutchtown neighborhood, often with her cockatoos Boo, Arthur and Misha providing comfort nearby when the stories overwhelm her.
"Just thinking about what the families are going through, it's heartbreaking," Murray said. "No person with Alzheimer's or dementia or in a nursing home should have to die alone. Nobody should go into a hospital and never see their kids again."
The St. Louis region was an early hot spot. About half of Missouri's more than 3,000 deaths have been in St. Louis or its surrounding counties. And hundreds of others have died just across the Mississippi River in Illinois.
Murray was scrolling through her phone while waiting for her dinner to arrive in June when she saw a New York City website that was tracking lives lost to the virus. By the time her food arrived, she had purchased her domain name.
"I just thought that behind each of these numbers was somebody's grandma or somebody's sister or somebody's mom," Murray said.
Since then, Murray has posted mostly short life stories about more than 125 people. Murray, who works in marketing and sales support for a construction company, said she's never worked as a writer, but her stories are elegant and moving in their simplicity.
MaryCatherine Keene, a 94-year-old nursing home resident who died in May, worked as an airplane riveter during World War II and was "proud of being a woman that worked in her time allowing women to wear long pants."
Rheumatologist Edward Rose, 74, who died in September, "loved a noisy home with children running around playing," Murray wrote. "He loved hosting raucous dinner parties with plenty of wine and comfort food, passionate disagreements, laughter, and story-telling. Ed taught his kids to play chess, water ski, follow through on commitments and the values of philanthropy, travel, and enjoying simple pleasures."
There are stories about married couples who died of COVID-19 in quick succession, such as Grace and Richard Maskell, who were married for 72 years and died nine days apart in May. Bill and Pat Olwig died in May just 40 minutes apart and only days before their 61st wedding anniversary.
Other stories offer haunting imagery of the sad and lonely end that is so common for COVID-19 victims.
Matthew Joseph Leake, who played Santa every year for 30 years, was just 60 years old when he died in August. "He was trying to beat cancer, but caught coronavirus and died alone in the hospital," Murray wrote.
Relatives of the dead often tell Murray how much her memorials mean to them.
"It really moves me," Murray said of the feedback. "It motivates me to keep on doing this whenever I feel like I'm just posting into the void."
Joyce "Lady J" Huston runs a Facebook page called Black Corona Lives Matter that commemorates Black victims of the pandemic in the St. Louis area and seeks to raise awareness about the racial disparities in COVID-19 deaths. Her cousin by marriage, Edward Hellm Jr., was initially misdiagnosed as having some other malady and sent home. The 69-year-old veteran was eventually diagnosed with COVID-19. He died in April after fighting the disease for about a month.
Huston said she felt called to help Murray get the word out about how the disease is prematurely taking away good people like Hellm. Like Murray, she wants victims to be remembered for the people they were instead of just as part of the grim statistics that tell the pandemic's bigger story.
"It's tremendously important because you can't just have numbers. You need to see the faces. You need to hear that these were living people who have lost their lives to a pandemic," Huston said.
Murray said that moving forward, she'd like to work with other memorial sites around the country to perhaps start a national day of remembrance.
She funds her effort with her own money and has no plans to solicit donations.
"I don't know what I would do with it because there's nothing that I need now except more time to tell better stories or put more faces behind these numbers," she said.
"One Good Thing" is a series that highlights individuals whose actions provide glimmers of joy in hard times — stories of people who find a way to make a difference, no matter how small. Read the collection of stories at https://apnews.com/hub/one-good-thing
Associated Press photojournalist Jeff Roberson in St. Louis contributed to this report.
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by Marcia Dunn/AP Aerospace Writer, Nexstar Media Wire / Jan 15, 2021
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red planet to take its temperature.
Scientists in Germany spent two years trying to get their heat probe, dubbed the mole, to drill into the Martian crust. But the 16-inch-long device that is part of NASA's InSight lander couldn't gain enough friction in the red dirt. It was supposed to bury 16 feet into Mars, but only drilled down a couple of feet.
AMSTERDAM (AP) — The European Union's drug regulator said Friday that COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from its servers in a cyberattack have been not only leaked to the web, but "manipulated" by hackers.
The European Medicines Agency said that an ongoing investigation into the cyberattack showed that hackers obtained emails and documents from November related to the evaluation of experimental coronavirus vaccines. The agency, which regulates drugs and medicines across the 27-member EU, had troves of confidential COVID-19 data as part of its vaccine approval process.


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New council to modernise IESSA
July 15th, 2016, Published in Articles: Vector
by Natasha Nel-Sakharova
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Amidst waves crashing against the rocks, on a hill overlooking the sea, stands a lighthouse, its light guiding every passing ship.
At a resort right next to it, lighting professionals from all over the country came together recently to share their knowledge on the latest developments in the field of illumination. It was the annual congress and general meeting of the Illumination Engineering Society of South Africa (IESSA), held from 15 to 18 May 2016 at Cape St. Francis Resort.
Finding ourselves in a relatively remote location, with no or limited cell phone reception, networking was at its best!
The newly-elected council's vision started to take shape through conversations during this congress. Most of our nine-member team are relatively new to council, yet all levels of experience are represented: from young professionals to established lighting specialists and retired fellows (click here to meet the team).
The strength of this council lies in its diversity of views and competencies, which are brought together by common values of performance, dedication and a passion for our society. We are strongly committed to define new ways of deriving membership value in consultation with IESSA members, and to deliver these. In order to do so effectively and efficiently, it is necessary to modernise the manner in which IESSA operates.
Therefore, our first priorities include implementation of additional IT systems for a more interactive website; to provide online member access to documents and to close the gap between members in different geographical locations; enhanced communication with members through the various media; ECSA registration; strengthened liaison with similar associations; improved access to and guidance in applying local and international lighting standards; increased and more varied membership, and further entrenchment of corporate governance principles.
I am honoured to serve IESSA as president for the next two years. I am supported in this function by the vice-president, Alex Cremer, an excellent strategist with exceptional interpersonal skills, and past president Rob Henderson, with his wealth of technical knowledge and experience in illumination engineering.
My sincere intention is to lead a professionally-run organisation characterised by integrity and guided by three main principles: transparency, accountability and solidarity.
Transparency facilitates inclusivity and collaboration. It will be achieved by real-time sharing of all information relevant to our members and by regularly asking for members' feedback.
Council members are elected by and are therefore accountable to the members as specified in the IESSA constitution. Success will be measured against objective and measurable performance targets, and reported on regularly.
As the mouthpiece for the lighting industry of South Africa, solidarity among our members is important. This will be enhanced by encouraging member participation in all activities and decision making processes, increased membership value, and ultimately by having a rewarding and enjoyable experience.
The IESSA council is committed to working with you to achieve our goals and we welcome you to the journey.
As Becky Jennings writes in her poem, "The Lighthouse":
May we be diligent and true,
Dedicated to the right
And like the stalwart lighthouse stand
A beacon in the darkest night.
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There are many things that are different here in Argentina. One of the most notable is the seasons. While our friends in Minnesota and throughout the US were marking the Fall equinox last week, we were celebrating the arrival of Spring. Here, the trees and flowers are budding and blooming, and the temperature is rising. Days are getting longer and birds are singing everywhere. This makes for a strange experience of the Jewish holidays.
Wednesday evening was Rosh Hashanah-the beginning of the 10 days of observing the Jewish New Year. For all of my life, this holiday has fallen during the cool days of Minnesota Fall. We typically spend part of the day outside, bundled in fall jackets and scarves and enjoying the crisp air and the glory of the fall colors. These physical signs have always gone hand in hand with the holiday for me. It makes sense that the year is coming to a close as the growing season also comes to a close. It is the end of the cycle-a time to wrap things up, reflect upon how it all went, ask for forgiveness (whether symbolically or in person) and prepare to start anew. This, shared with family is the essence of this holiday for me.
So, it is not surprising that it was a bit strange to try to get into the new year spirit as the life cycle is just beginning. As with all Jewish holidays, much revolves around the meal. Therefore, I decided to prepare some of the familiar, and traditional foods and to create Rosh Hashanah in our new home. There are a few must haves. While on most other holidays, the Challah (Jewish egg bread) is braided, on Rosh Hashanah it is prepared in a circle to symbolize the complete cycle of the year. Another important symbol is sweet foods, to encourage a sweet new year. In particular, apples are dipped in honey, and often we finish the meal with honey or apple cake.
The meal itself has many variations, but in my family brisket is traditional. While I am not a big meat eater, I felt that it was only right to prepare this old world delight for my family. Root vegetables are another popular item, with dishes like tsimmes or potato kugel. I got a little creative here and decided to make a lentil dish (round food) with squash and tomatoes. We also had gingered green beans (from my cookbook), and a lovely salad. And I prepared a yummy apple-honey cake with cream cheese icing and walnuts for dessert.
We invited our neighbor Marta (the grandmotherly Catholic woman who was honored to share the holiday with us) and a new acquaintance who is a Jewish woman from Minnesota (what are the odds?). It was a lovely, low key holiday that reminded me that the essence of Rosh Hashannah is to be together with those we love, to observe the rituals and traditions and to always reflect on how to improve our relationships and ultimately our lives and the lives of others.
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The meat should be very tender, and begin to pull apart when ready. It is delicious when prepared one day ahead of time and then re heated.
Happy New Year to you and your family! You are missed! Hope everything down south is going great!
Jenny, thank you for sharing, continuing and nurturing your traditions.


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We try to walk places whenever we can around here. After all, it saves gas, reduces wear and tear on the car, and --at least in the long run--it means you spend less on doctors' bills.
We have also found that it is easier to get places on time when we walk. This seems counter-intuitive, but I think it is because walking forces you to plan. When I drive places, I often forget to think about how long it really takes to pack everyone in and out, not to mention driving through traffic. What I think is a five minute trip, might actually take 15. There is another advantage to walking as well. If you're five minutes late walking somewhere, you can always make up time by doubling your speed. Try this in a car, and you're likely to cause an accident, or get a ticket.
But, sometimes I hate it. Here is why: my four year-old is slow. He is a dawdler and a foot dragger. He likes to use up all of his energy weaving across the sidewalk and then wander into someone's yard to step on their decorative rocks or pick their dandelions. When we're running late getting his brother to school, this is a little frustrating.
Racing Cheetahs: My friend invented this, and my son won't actually play it unless she is running the game. In this one, the kids are cheetahs, chasing after deer, giraffes, and other wildlife. The wildlife is played by obliging street lamps, signs, poles, and hydrants. The grown-up tells the kids about wildlife up ahead and sends them chasing after it.
Ping Pong Ball: I am the paddle, the kids are the ping pong balls. I give them a gentle whack on the back and send them flying, when they reach a busy driveway or intersection we "roll" across together.
Bow & Arrow: I am the bow. The kids are the arrows. I pull them back and send them flying at a pole, tree, or sign up ahead.
Whack It With a Stick: This one is my favorite. I have him find a stick (not too heavy) and whack things as I call them out. We stick stuff I'm sure he won't damage, like sturdy trees, poles, and garbage bins.


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Thank you so much for all the kind messages you sent me for my new haircut, I really appreciate your support, believe me, it means a lot!
Today I wore new pieces I received from Zaful couple days ago! Only jeans are not in this outfit (haha). I made a black and sparkly combination, with mix of elegant and "badass" style. I totally fell for this sparkly blouse (or how my mum says: "piece of material", hahaha ) It looks adorable and it is so, so shiny and it looks really good with this big diamond chocker! The jacket has a shape that expected. Really biker-like and it is pretty light, so it is good for summer nights when you just need something to cover your shoulders and arms.
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The US Dollar had a strong day today, continuing the good run it has been on for the past month. This was led by gains against Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe, hitting multi-month highs against all these currencies. Yesterday was a particularly good day for the US as consumer confidence came out much higher than the original forecast. Expected at 85, it registered at 90.9. This boosted the US dollar, which strengthened against sterling all day.
But will the good news for the dollar be short lived as we have a number of key releases today, tomorrow and Friday? Today we have the US Federal Reserve meeting statement where expectations are for no change in policy. Anything different will be a major shock. We also have data on growth and jobs released today so we can expect some movement for the US dollar during the course of today both in the run up to the data releases as market try to second guess and post when the markets digest the information.


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Vancouver, WA, February 19, 2019 --(PR.com)-- Healers PetCare, Inc. is proud to announce a strategic alliance with Biolley Farms, an organic farm located in the Costa Rican rainforest. The partnership links two woman-owned companies with equal passions for producing high-quality products.
Healers founder, Terri Entler created her company in 2009 after becoming frustrated with inferior pet product lines. The business has since grown to offer a variety of pet first aid and safety items, and recently introduced a line in conjunction with Oregon-based, women-run health product firm Healing Tree Naturals. The line includes hot spot treatments, CBD oil products, a conditioning shampoo, and cut and wound treatments.
"I couldn't be luckier to find such talented women in my own backyard that are committed to developing high quality pet products," Entler said.
Biolley Farms provides educational and employment opportunities in one of the poorest regions of Costa Rica, teaching its workers and other nearby farmers to learn and implement organic cultivation. The new pairing will help further Healers' mission to provide top-of-the-line solutions to keep pets healthy.
The two firms' collaborative Golden Paste for Dogs, a blend of high-grade, organic Costa Rican turmeric and black pepper, will debut at the March 2019 Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Florida. The product has been third-party tested and validated at 4.8 percent curcumin levels — about 95 percent higher than competitive turmeric — which Entler and Long attribute to Biolley Farms' rich soil and cultivation methods.
In addition to an organic, high-quality, anti-inflammatory, and cancer-reducing product, purchasing Golden Paste provides employment and education for Costa Rican farmers. Supporting the partnership helps to improve their welfare and that of their families.
Healers PetCare was recently certified with the Washington State Office of Minority and Women's Business Enterprises. Each of its new products was created with the highest-quality ingredients to improve dogs' overall health and well-being.
Pacific Northwest-based Healers PetCare, Inc. has been providing high-quality dog health and safety products since 2009. Featuring first aid wraps, medical and everyday paw booties, gauze, and hot and cold packs, as well as LED offerings for safe walking in the dark, Healers was founded on a promise to help dog owners keep their favorite four-legged family members safe. It has been featured on KATU, KGW and The Meredith Vieira Show. For more information, visit www.healerspetcare.com.
Biolley Farms, SRL, provides employment opportunities in one of the poorest regions of Costa Rica and teaches local farmers to cultivate organically. Its main objectives are to turn local farms into organic food forests, provide job security, and maintain small-scale boutique crops — including Persian limes, rambutan, cavendish bananas, turmeric, arabica coffee, graviola leaf tea, hibiscus flower, scotch bonnet chili, black pepper, and papaya leaf tea — for select distributors abroad. It strives to form a rainforest alliance, encouraging organic farms to help preserve the nearby protected rainforest park. Visit www.biolleyfarms.com for more information.
Click here to view the list of recent Press Releases from Healers PetCare, Inc.


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MADRID, March 12 - One year after the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history, the Spanish police continue to uncover and thwart new plots involving Islamic militants, according to senior Spanish intelligence and law enforcement officials.
Despite sweeping measures to improve their ability to investigate potential terrorist threats since the March 11, 2004, bomb attacks that left 191 people dead, the officials estimate that there are hundreds of people scattered in cells around the country committed to attacking centers of power in Spain.
The police have found indications of a cell of Pakistanis that they suspect was planning an attack on a high-profile target in Barcelona. They also found evidence of a cell of North Africans in Madrid that apparently wanted to attack the High Court in the capital, the officials said.
"We have been lucky that our investigations have managed to abort other plots before acts of terrorism took place," Juan Fernando López Aguilar, the justice minister, said in an interview. "That means the threats have not disappeared."
After the Sept. 11 terrorism attacks on the United States and the train bombing in Madrid, European governments have devoted new resources to rooting out a terrorist threat that is not yet fully understood. France, Belgium, Germany and Italy have made dozens of terrorism-related arrests in the past year, and Britain enacted a tough new package of laws on Friday.
Spain has been particularly aggressive about making arrests. Mr. López Aguilar said the government had detained about 1,000 people in terrorism-related cases in the past year, although most have been released.
In the Madrid bombing, Spain is still hunting down at least half a dozen suspects, who are probably outside the country.
"The great majority of the perpetrators are identified, dead or in prison," said a senior intelligence official at the Guardia Civil, or Civil Guard, a police force with military and civilian functions. "But we cannot say that we have all of them. There are questions that remain unclear. The most important is: Who masterminded March 11?"
Of 79 suspects believed to be involved in the Madrid bombings, 24 are in jail and awaiting trial. Seven suspects blew themselves up in a Madrid apartment three weeks after the bombing to avoid capture.
The evidence of a Pakistani cell has emerged since the bombings. Last September, the police arrested 10 Pakistanis suspected of belonging to a support network for Islamic militants. The raid turned up a video showing details of a number of buildings in Barcelona, including the 40-story Mapfre Tower and the 44-story Hotel Arts, the two buildings known as Spain's "twin towers," a senior Spanish intelligence official said.
The police also seized documents and videos calling for an Islamic holy war, several pounds of cocaine and more than $20,000 in cash. The group apparently raised money through drug trafficking, falsifying documents and extortion, the intelligence officials said. They said they had evidence that the cell sent the money to cells in Pakistan that were loyal to Al Qaeda. But no link to the March 11 attacks was found.
The senior intelligence official at the Civil Guard said the group was sending money to the same Islamic militants who killed the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002 in Pakistan.
Fernando Reinares, a special adviser to the Interior Ministry and a terrorism specialist with the Elcano Institute, said, "Apparently they were taking the first steps of what could be plans for committing terrorist actions." Another cell was uncovered last fall, when the police carried out an operation against a group of Algerian and Moroccan radicals who were believed to be planning an attack on Madrid's High Court and perhaps other targets.
Using informers, investigators learned that the plotters had started to try to procure explosives for the operation. Concerned that an attack was imminent, the government decided to close down the cell.
Investigators brought the information to Judge Baltasar Garzón, Spain's highest antiterrorism magistrate, who ordered the arrests of more than 30 people, mostly North Africans, suspected in the plot.
"This particular plot was pretty close," Mr. López Aguilar said. "But it didn't happen."
Investigators are trying to piece together whether there are connections between operatives of Al Qaeda in Spain and the Madrid bombings.
Some of those arrested had been in contact with Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, a Syrian believed to be the leader of a Qaeda cell in Spain and who is in Spanish custody in connection with the Sept. 11 terror attacks, a senior intelligence official said.
There were also contacts with Allekem Laamari, an Algerian killed in the suicide bombing after the Madrid attacks, the official added.
Evidence about the cells indicates that Spain is still a target for terrorists despite the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq. The Madrid bombers left behind a video declaring that the attacks were an answer to the Bush administration's "crimes," particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Although Spain has troops in Afghanistan, Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, elected three days after the attacks, pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq.
In the past year, Spain has taken extraordinary measures to improve its ability to investigate potential Islamic terrorist plots. Until March 11, 2004, most of Spain's counterterrorism efforts were focused on ETA, the Basque separatist movement.
The Civil Guard, the police force and the National Intelligence Center, Spain's external intelligence agency, have been reorganized under a unified command and meet once a week. The agencies have also created a joint database of suspects' fingerprints, DNA, voices, documents, car rentals and travel, as well as details about arms and explosives transfers.
There are also plans to recruit 1,000 more officers and 130 Arab translators and interpreters.
There is no concrete evidence from any foreign intelligence agency of a phone call or message that suggests that the Madrid plot was organized from outside Spain.
Jorge Dezcallar, the former head of the National Intelligence Center, the equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency, was quoted in El País on Thursday as saying that after the attacks he asked the National Security Agency in Washington to look for evidence of links with groups outside Spain, but none were found.
Spanish intelligence officials said they were not convinced by the claims of Sayed Ahmed Rabei Osman, who was arrested in Milan in June and extradited to Spain in December. Although Mr. Rabei Osman boasted in conversations recorded by the Italian police that he organized the Madrid bombings, there is no corroborating evidence of his involvement, Spanish officials said.
Renwick McLean contributed reporting for this article.


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Exploring Yucatan: A Traveler's Anthology, selected and edited by Richard D. Perry
Exploring Yucatan: A Traveler's Anthology, selected and edited by Richard D. Perry (Espadaña Press, 2001).
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For centuries, explorers, adventurers, artists, naturalists and archeologists have recorded their experiences of work and travel in Yucatan. Their vivid memoirs give us historic insights into the attitudes of the past, document how conditions have changed over time, and help to illuminate the present in this exotic tropical region of Mayan Mexico.
Now, a broad and varied selection of these classic writings have been excerpted and collected in one volume to entertain and enlighten today's traveler to Yucatan.
The selections include all the major Mayan sites and regions of the Yucatan peninsula, from Campeche on the Gulf coast to Tulum on the Caribbean coast. The narratives are accompanied by numerous historical and new illustrations, maps, a glossary and full index. Essential reading for anyone traveling the Ruta Maya.
Past Times in Chapala, by J. Jesús González G. (1994) Laguna de Sayula; humedad del sur de Jalisco, México (Unión Editorialista. 2005)


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Members of an Elite Squad
Over at the Hairpin, writer Hannah Giorgis has penned a moving essay on sexual assault and police response:
But if this predictable, formulaic depiction of justice is Law & Order: SVU's greatest comfort, it is also its greatest deception. The show has managed to convince a generation of viewers that cops are largely benevolent workaholics who will always do their best to seek justice for victims, that their occasional forays into unconstitutional behavior are always justified. But law enforcement officers routinely ignore sex crimes altogether, commit inconceivable sexual violence themselves, and face little (if any) retribution.
I've never reported any of my assaults. By the time I was old enough to have the option, I knew better than to think I had a chance at obtaining justice through the courts. But I kept watching SVU, content to see narrow visions of justice played out each episode with microwaveable resolutions all but guaranteed. It still felt good to see non-convictions as an anomaly, to be shocked the few times the bad guy got away. In a far away TV world where "sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous," I delighted in figuring out each episode's puzzle and maintaining some level of passive control.
But sexual assault isn't simple. It does not tie up neatly at the end of an episode with a guilty verdict or the efforts of magically warm-hearted cops sympathetic to the victims they encounter. Sometimes your perpetrator emails you and asks you to lunch after the "incident." Sometimes you tell yourself it wasn't "that bad." Trauma doesn't have a predictable storyline. Law & Order: SVU gave me comfort by telling me stories of "dedicated detectives" who fought hard fights for easy solutions. But in a world where I can never take my bodily autonomy for granted, I need more than quick fixes to heal. And there's no script for that.
Read more at the Hairpin.
Photo: Hannah Giorgis/Facebook
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Colorado Springs-based sports physiologist and nutritionist Krista Austin has a fascinating practice that runs the gamut from working with USA Triathlon to top podium-finishing marathoner Meb Keflezighi as well as the American national Taekwondo and Wrestling teams.Throw in collaborations with the International Center for East African Running Studies, the Nike Oregon Project and time spent with the English Institute of Sport and the England Cricket Team and you've got someone with one of the widest perspectives on high performance sport in the world.
Krista is co-author of the book Performance Nutrition: Applying the Science of Nutrient Timing.
In the interview Krista addresses on a wide range of nutrition, physiology and strength and conditioning topics and how she takes a comprehensive approach to solving tricky performance problems.


Which way should you go with Medicare?
"Medicare" is Health Insurance that is available for people 65 and older. Also, it is available for people younger than 65 who have been on "Social Security Disability" for 24 months. However, it doesn't cover everything. One is well advised to choose something in addition to "original " Medicare to allow for additional coverage.
In order to decide which plan is the "best" one for you it's a good idea to get better informed as to how Medicare works, what it does do, what it doesn't do, what the rules are and what your options are. Everyone has different needs, lifestyles and budgets. And everyone's health is unfortunately not the same.
So "education" is key. Once you get informed as to the rules and how the different plans interact with original Medicare (along with the associated costs) you are better prepared to make an "Informed Choice".It's confusing (even for the well-educated) so it makes sense to seek the council of a good "Medicare Advisor" whose job it is to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of the "Medicare world".
There are basically two paths one can go. You can choose a Medigap plan or you can choose a Medicare Advantage plan and they work very differently. Some plans are more or less "guaranteed" and some require Medical Underwriting depending on when you are ready to make the decision. In addition, there's the matter of your prescription medications. "Bundled Plans" come with a drug component and others require you to purchase a "stand-alone" drug plan.
Once again, those who get advice from a good adviser are better prepared to make the right decision for themselves.
Call 267-471-7373 to schedule your free consultation today with Sherman Insurance Consulting, LLC. The office is located at 220 Canterbury Court, Blue Bell, PA 19422.


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