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Connect your Skype For Business Enterprise to the telecom network using IPCO Cloudfone S4B SIP Connect. We offer voice integration between Skype For Business and the PSTN service. Service options includes:
Port or get a new fixed network number
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We are exhorted in the scriptures to be "devoted to prayer." In addition to encouraging our congregation to private and family devotions, Lakeside members and friends gather together regularly to petition God as well as for special occasions.
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- The Men's Prayer Breakfast is the third Saturday of each month at 7:30. All men are welcome to join for food and prayer.
- Our Elders gather to pray the Sunday before each monthly meeting.
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Indonesia: Monitoring the volcano in Bali
Mercy Corps is monitoring the Agung volcano in Bali, Indonesia, which has experienced a recent increase in seismic activity that indicates a possible eruption.
Responding in Puerto Rico
Mercy Corps has a team on the ground in Puerto Rico working with local organizations to deliver humanitarian assistance and start rebuilding the communities ravaged by the hurricane.
Partnering with Cisco to tackle the world's toughest challenges
We are excited to announce that we are embarking on a new five-year initiative with leading global technology company Cisco. Together we hope to deliver aid and development assistance faster, better and to more people around the world.
Our thoughts are with Mexico: Monitoring the earthquake in Mexico City
After a 7.1 earthquake hit Mexico City, Mercy Corps is monitoring as the situation develops and stands ready to help should the Mexican government request our assistance.
Nepal: Mercy Corps responding to catastrophic flooding in Nepal
One month after widespread floods ravaged southern Nepal, Mercy Corps is responding with urgent support to help Nepalis meet their immediate needs, focusing on sanitation and infrastructure.
United States: Helping families heal after Hurricane Harvey
Mercy Corps is proudly supporting several organizations helping communities in Texas recover from Hurricane Harvey.
Jordan, Syria: For refugees with disabilities, a back to school to remember
Syria's most vulnerable refugee students face incredible barriers to receiving an education. That's why going back to school means so much more for them than the end of summer.
Mali: Why are Mali's youth taking up arms?
Our new report on Mali reveals that efforts to discourage youth from turning to violence must engage entire communities, and go beyond just focusing on young people themselves.
Monitoring the path of Hurricane Irma
Mercy Corps' thoughts are with those affected by Hurricane Irma. We are in Haiti assessing any potential damage to the country and are monitoring the paths of upcoming hurricanes.
Nepal, United States: From Texas to Nepal: How we're supporting relief efforts after flooding
Mercy Corps is supporting domestic and international relief efforts as catastrophic flooding impacts millions of families in Texas, Louisiana, and Nepal.


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Tony Thorne MBE an elderly young writer of Speculative Fiction.Flash! Two free eBooks now available from www.screwpulp.com..!Just enter "Thorne" in their Books Search Box. but do see my HOME. page too.
an elderly young writer of Speculative Fiction.
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A slightly eccentric author of quirky, speculative fiction ...
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Yes, this it it... the sum total of my experience over the years. All kinds of quirky items to inform and entertain. Not only you, but all your friends too...even your enemies!
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I've featured them at all kinds of events... conventions, executive meetings, home parties. There's even a domestic sketch for a devoted couple to perform.
In the middle, above, that's me at the Easter 2010 LONCON the one on the right that is..!
That's me on the right, doing my bit in the cabaret at the Copenhagen Eurocon back in 2007. I even had an encore..!
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Vishal is a Digital Solutions Consultant with 16 years of experience delivering IT services and solutions which span Digital Marketing, Content Management, Analytics/Big data, E-commerce, cloud infrastructure and back-office applications.
Currently leading Consulting and Solutions Practice team for HCL's Media and Entertainment vertical. His Charter is to ideate and deliver Digital technology and operations solutions for media domain ranging from publishing, online, education, broadcasting and telecom.


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Network Address Calculator
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Netmatics Subnet Address Calculator is a simple but versatile utility that applies a subnet mask to an IPv4 address to calculate following useful information about the subnet
– Network or the subnet address
– Number of hosts addresses in the subnet
– Address range, i.e. the IP address of the first and last hosts
– Broadcast address
– Wildcard Mask that would match all the hosts in the network and useful in network access control lists.
Here are couple of examples that show the basic use of the tool.
Example 1: Find the host network address for host/mask 188.8.131.52/255.255.255.192
Example 2: Are the following host addresses and masks on the same subnet
1. 172.16.48.3 / 255.255.240.0
2. 172.16.62.82 / 255.255.240.0
3. 172.16.66.23 / 255.255.240.0
Below are the 3 calculated outputs from the Analyzer that show the first 2 hosts are in the same subnet while the third is in different subnet.
Note the output table for 172.16.48.3/20 shows that the containing subnet 172.16.48.0/20 has host address range from 172.16.48.1/20 to 172.16.63.254/20. This range also shows that 172.16.62.xxx/20 will be in the subnet where as all addresses 172.16.66.xxx/20 are outside the range.


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text: "What is truth?" Pilate asks Jesus in the middle of our Lord's arrest, trial, and crucifixion on Good Friday. It's a question we all wrestle with, especially in our world today. Who speaks the truth? Who can I trust to tell me the truth? What is truth? Pastor Paige points to the cross to answer Pilate's question. The cross of Christ gives us hope that even as sinners who hide from the truth of our condition, Jesus still loves us. He gave up his life, so we could experience the truth of God's never-ending mercy for us.


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"A life is a life. If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me. In the scheme of life, we're equal."
Chris DeRose, President
Last Chance for Animals
Los Angeles Times
April 12, 1990
Former Senator/VP Gore says we shouldn't cut down a tree to save a life, and Mr. DeRose, in true anti-humanitarian spirit, says we shouldn't kill a rat in order to save humans. Enough said!
"We have to…recognize that the Judeo-Christian religious tradition is our foe…(it) is fundamentally hostile to the idea of animal liberation."
Peter Singer
Animals' Agenda
September 1987
One of the few admissions on the part of the environmental movement is that it is anti-Christian. Why do I call animal huggers part of the environmental movement. They're all left wing, liberal socialists at the top. The top being the leadership, not the grass root pet lover.
Keep looking and you'll probably find more.
"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses."
Ingrid Newkirk
Executive Director, PETA
in Washington Post article, 1983
Any human being whose unconscionable mind allows her to spew out this anti-Semitic venom should be banned from humanity, let alone influence others by being the executive director of anything.
By the way, she was an invited guest at the White House by President Clinton.
"Hunters are always there in support of trapping, because they figure if we get our foot in the door by banning trapping, hunting will be next. And they're right."
Cleveland Amory
founder of Fund for Animals
in Animals' Agenda
July/August 1985
No comment!
"Ten years from now, the animal rights movement could still be grappling with questions of dying human babies being saved…through animal experimentation. This argument must be rendered politically useless."
Kevin Beedy
in Animals' Agenda
March 1990
The idea of human beings being placed on a level equal to an animal, a rock or a tree is a concept I am not prepared to accept.
Are you?
"At Friends of Animals, the sabotage of hunting is a national policy."
Priscilla Feral
Friends of Animals Action Line
September 1988
Apparently taking the law into one's own hands is OK if it's for the right (perceived) reason. Others may call that person a terrorist. But in the eyes of these anti people, sabotage is O.K.
All people of the left believe the end justifies the means. That is why they are winning. They have the passion and are not swayed by facts, feelings are everything.
"We cannot end hunting, but we can put an end to some hunters…."
"Buy a rifle and hunting license and go into the woods during hunting season to bag a pot-bellied beer sucker."
From A Declaration of War: Killing People to Save
Animals and the Environment
by an anonymous author self-dubbed, "Screaming World"
One of the reasons they are winning, (the socialist liberal left), is because you laugh at things like the quote above.
It's time to stop laughing!
"Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth."
Ingrid Newkirk
Executive Director, PETA
Readers Digest, June 1990
It's either us or the animals in the mind of the insane.
"They are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves."
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles — from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it."
John Bryant
Fetterred Kingdoms
While the average animal rights activists have pets of their own, they would be shocked to discover that the true agenda of the animal rights movement is to eliminate domesticated animals.
During a TV interview, Hoyt held up a photograph of a dog and said, "In the future, this is the kind of pet people should have." He meant the photograph, not the dog.
From "Putting People First"
From the Trenches
April 23, 1993
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation."
Ingrid Newkirk
Founder of PETA
The average pet owner probably wouldn't believe this if old Ingrid stood in front of them and yelled it out. What she is saying is there should be no pets in the world only wild animals.
I'll say it one more time, NO PETS OF ANY KIND!!!
"we don't need animal research because "a lot of human subjects …who would be more than willing to become live experiments"
Alec Baldwin
Said to KCAL-TV
PETA Los Angeles Gala
December 14, 1996
The above was quoted in "Will Radicals Rule and Humans Suffer?
Cal Thomas, La Times June 24th, 1997. The following is more of that article by Cal Thomas
"Just how absurd are some animal-rights people about their cause? Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is leading a campaign against the March of Dimes because it works with animals in research. But McCartney's wife, Linda, is taking chemotherapy treatments for breast cancer that was developed through animal research, mostly on fruit flies, mice and rats.
Alex Pacheco, chairman of PETA, told The New York Times, 'We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.' Pacheco added: 'Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause.'
In testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee on March 12, FBI Director Louis Freeh noted the extent of special-interest terrorist activity. He cited as one example a Feb. 2, 1992, arson of the mink research facility at Michigan State University. Rodney Coronado, a member of the Animal Liberation Front, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 57 months in prison. PETA sent $ 45,200 to Coronado's 'support committee,' which was a sum 15 times greater than what PETA spent on animal shelters nationwide in all of that year.
The attack on the lab interfered with toxicology research designed, among other things, to help not only humans but to improve the quality of marine life in Lake Huron.
The Department of Justice says there have been more than 313 instances of animal-rights violence in the United States. This has led to a 10 percent to 20 percent increase in research costs, much of it funded by taxpayers.
While PETA and the other groups loudly condemn scientific research involving animals (90 percent of which are rodents, according to Americans for Medical Progress, a pro-research foundation), they spend a pittance on animal shelters. Eleven million animals are destroyed annually for lack of facilities. Yet PETA spent less than $ 3,955 of its $ 12 million in fiscal 1995 and $ 6,100 of its $ 10.9 million in fiscal 1996 for shelter programs, according to its nonprofit tax forms filed with the IRS. The Humane Society does not operate a single shelter, despite a $ 40 million budget.
Political scientist Kevin Beedy, writing in the March 1990 issue of Animals' Agenda, said: 'Terrorism carries no moral or ethical connotations. It is simply the definition of a particular type of coercion. … It is up to the animal-rights spokespersons either to dismiss the terrorist label as propaganda or make it a badge to be proud of wearing."


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Avid readers of your soaraway Shoot Up will know that I'm a fan of my puntastically named pump Englebert Pumperdinck. This is for many reasons which I've covered off in previous articles so I won't bore you with them again here.
However, one of the unexpectedly useful features of Englebert is the bolus wizard, which Alison has also raved about in an article last year which was peppered with confusing references to some apparently popular fictional child wizard.
In essence the bolus wizard is a calculator that you program with a variety of details pertaining to your diabetes (more about this later). Once programmed, you can then bung in the amount of carbs you're going to eat, your current blood glucose reading and it flings out an educated guestimate of how many units of insulin you should inject.
So for example, I've just said to my pump that I'm going to have 280g of carbs (the sort of carbs associated with an over-indulgent bacchanalian 19-course medieval feast) and it's told me to put in 36.8 units of insulin (which I declined to do, as I'm about to eat an apple, not gorge myself on 19 courses of sweet meats and mead). All this based on my current BG, my carb ratios for this time of day, the amount of insulin that's currently swimming through my veins and so on.
Needless to say, once I got the bolus wizard set up I become incredibly reliant on it and rarely use anything else to work out my insulin needs. It's made me very lazy – but that's mainly because it works extremely well.
Wonderful though it is, the bolus wizard is actually pretty simple. It's a basic formula on a basic calculator. So why, I wondered, had no-one made a version of just the bolus wizard calculator bit of the pump for people on injections?
Lo! and behold! Everyone's second favourite diabetes peripheral manufacturer – Roche – has done just that, with the new and wonderful Accu-Chek Aviva Expert.
The Aviva Expert is basically a blood glucose meter with a bolus wizard for MDI users built in and very, very good it is too!
As a meter the Expert is quite sexy; it's pretty small, black, has a nice colour screen and logical and easy-to-use menus, buttons and backlights. But that's not nearly the whole of it.
The first time you use the Expert you'll need to run through the set up wizard. This is somewhat more complicated than a normal meter and I (and the Roche rep. I spoke to – hello Andrew!) would strongly recommend you go through it with your DSN or other usefully competent diabetes specialist the first time you use it.
First of all you set the units you measure carbs in – like most people I went for grams – but you can do exotic things like "Bread Equivalent" and "Carbohydrate Choice", which I've never even heard of. You then set your upper and lower BG limits – say 12mmol/L for too high and 3.5 mmol/L for too low.
As well we all know, our insulin needs, insulin sensitivity, etc. change throughout the day and this is reflected in the next section of the set up process in which you define "time blocks". So, for example, the Expert comes with time blocks of 00.00 to 05.30, 05.30 to 11.00 and 11.00 to 17.00 and so on. In each time block you can set different BG target ranges. So you might want to give yourself a lower target range to wake up with or a higher target range for after lunch.
You can further customise the time blocks by tweaking your carb ratios throughout the day. So, between 05.30 and 11.00 you might have a carb ratio of 1u of insulin to 10g of carbs, while in the evening between 17.00 and 23.00 you might go for 1u to 15g of carbs.
Similarly you can also adjust your insulin sensitivity throughout the day. So you might program it to remember that between 05.30 and 11.00 1u of insulin might reduce your BG by 3 mmol/L, while between 17.00 and 23.00 1u of insulin will reduce your BG by 2 mmol/L.
Moving on, you can also configure various "health events". So if you're doing "Exercise 1" it will know to calculate that you need, say, 10% less insulin than normal and if you're indulging in "Exercise 2" then you need 15% less. If you note that you are suffering from "Stress" it will calculate that you will need, say, 20% more insulin than usual. Each event is individually programmable for your needs.
You can then adjust various settings including the typical size of "snacks" you consume and how long your insulin is active for – which is then used to calculate how much insulin you have "on board".
As well as the bolus wizard there are a lot of other settings that could be useful. For example, the meter can be configured to remind you to test, say, two hours after a high blood glucose reading or 15 minutes after a low reading.
If all this sounds complicated, then – well – it is. There are a gazillion settings which all need to be set and tweaked as you work out what's best for you. Hence Roche recommending you get your DSN to help you set it up. Something I would wholeheartedly endorse as I mentioned a minute ago.
So after investing all this time in setting it up, how does it work?
First of all you might do a blood test (the meter functions are pretty much like any other meter so I won't bore you with them here) and it'll spit out a reading. Leave it for a second and it'll move onto the next menu, from which you can select "Carbs". You then put in, say, 25g of carbs and hit "Bolus".
So when I tested a moment ago, I had a reading of 5.8 and my target was 6.0 for this part of the day; so it subtracted 0.2 units to bring me back up to 6.0 and added 2.8 units for my 25g of carbs. Giving a total of 3.0 units to inject.
You can override the advice if you want to (perhaps you've been out a walk and so you might knock off a unit or two). Once satisfied you finally hit "Confirm" and the device records that you've stuck in 3 units and will then tick this amount down over the next few hours to allow you to calculate your insulin on board.
So, once it's set up, you essentially have a meter with a built in bolus wizard for MDI users. Obviously the results it spits out are dependent on you programming and using it correctly (after all it can't be expect to calculate your insulin on board if you don't tell it when you inject) – so, as always, rubbish in rubbish out. But used properly, the Aviva Expert is undoubtedly a very, very good and useful bit of kit which I really do think could be a brilliant tool to help MDI users get better control more easily.
Unlike my other meter reviews, I'm not going to mark the Expert out of five in our usual categories. This is because comparing it with another meter is like comparing apples with cheese; much like that odd analogy, it just doesn't work. However, if I was to mark it just as a meter it would actually score pretty highly; it's small, sexy and has a lovely big colour screen.
But the Expert is far, far more than just a meter – it's genuinely a brilliant bit of kit. If you're on MDI and want to have a bit of help with deciding how much to inject then start badgering your DSN for a go on the Expert today. It really is worth it!


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Now, I don't want to make this blog just about books but I want to introduce a new feature of a 'wrap-up' of books I've read this month, and a quick list of books I plan to read in the up-coming month. (Also sorry but I read most of these on my kindle, so they aren't in the picture.) I figure it's a quick easy way of giving my views on each book without doing a separate post for each! Now this month I read a lot, I'm in a very good reading mode at the moment, I'm feeling motivated to read and am really enjoying the range of different books! So let's jump right in...
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
This book follow two sister's in France during World War II. One is caught up in the French Resistance but the other is just trying to survive in her small village. It is a wonderful story, it really opened my eyes to that point in history, I loved how even though it was a wartime story, it showed the effect war has on civilians. It had high and lows but, that's what make it a fully rounded story. I really enjoyed this historical fiction novel!
The Crown by Kiera Cass
This was the last in The Selection series - one of my favourite series over the past few years. I read it in about two days so honestly, I can't really remember it! It follows Eadlyn in the last few stages of her selection process - Eadlyn, the future queen of Illea, had to pick a husband out of a pool of 35 suitors, having narrowed it down to six suitors in The Crown, we see Eadlyn's struggle with making the biggest decision of her life. As well as seeing her parents, the King and Queen, struggle with health issues whilst ruling the kingdom. I loved this book because we saw the characters we know from the original Selection books, as well as the progression of Illea. It wasn't my favourite Selection book, I didn't particularly warm to any of the suitors of Eadlyn herself, but it was a nice final conclusion of one of my favourite easy read series.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
This is a Young Adult Dystopian novel which takes place in a divided world. Where the 'silvers' have silver blood and have different powers to do with the earth, who are thought to be above everyone, they run the government and do the top positions like Lawyers etc. Then the 'Reds' who are normal people who have red blood, they are poor and struggle with money etc. The protagonist, Mare, a red who suddenly find out she has silver powers is thrown into the royal household, betrothed to one prince but has a connection with the other. She has to find her way round the palace, whilst also part of the resistance against the monarchy. This book is amazing, I was hesitant going into it, and it took me a while to get into it, but wow. It is so so good, the characters, world building and plot are incredible and unpredictable. It has elements of The Hunger Games and The Selection but is in no way a similar story. I loved it.
My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
My Life Next Door is an easy summer read. It follows Samantha, a girl with a 'perfect' life who longs to know the manic family next door, the Garretts. Until one evening Jase Garrett climbs on her roof and begins to change her world. It is a very easy read has a lot of elements to do with family and questioning whether you love them just because their your family, even though they are in the wrong. This wasn't my favourite book ever but it was a fun easy read.
Beautiful Broken Things
I did a review of Beautiful Broke Things here, but it follows Caddy going into year 11 with her best friend Rosie by her side. I won't say much as you can read it here but I did really enjoy it!
I've read a lot of Young Adult books this May, which I have really enjoyed but I'm looking forward to reading some classics near the end of June.
My To Be Read list for June:
The Square Root of Summer by Harriet Reuter Haploid
One by Sarah Crossan
Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
1984 by George Orwell
The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson / or Persuasion by Jane Austen (whichever one I feel like to be honest!)
I don't know if this type of post is interesting to anyone, but it's handy for me to keep this record, I hope I've potentially given some recommendations for books or something. I'm enjoying my last week in London before I have to move back home for the summer, hope you have a good week! Christina x


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Finding car insurance companies with better prices may look to be a daunting task. But like most things in life, starting the process is the way to approach it rather than keep delaying until you run out of time. Most motorists find the cover they want at a reasonable price and from a company they are happy with at the end. Here are ten points to keep in mind while searching for the one company that will be perfect for you in many aspects including price, coverage and reliability.
- There Are Plenty Affordable Auto Insurance Carriers
One thing is certain that motorists have at least one hundred choices of car insurers in any state. Therefore, you should not be discouraged even if first few quotations are high. This only means that it will take a little longer to find an affordable policy. Perhaps you should enlist an independent broker to help you in your search and use comparison websites online to speed up the process. Here is a state by state list of the cheapest vehicle insurance companies to get you started with your quotations.
- Insurers Prefer Low Risks and Drivers Want the Lowest Prices
Automobile insurers are looking for lower risk motorists while you are looking for better rates. Success of an insurer depends on how well they can price the risk and therefore risk is the key factor in determining quotes. Every company has a set of measures in place and they are only happy to go out of their ways when those measures are met. Only then, they can offer you lower premiums or other attractive incentives.
Even you are not entirely happy with what you can find in the market today you may have to reduce damage to your wallet for now. This is often the case for the first year, just after claims and traffic convictions. It gets a lot better if you can keep out of trouble for the next year. Then, you can start looking for better deals as more and more insurers will be happy to offer you lower rates.
- Each Company Goes After the Risks They Are Comfortable with
It is difficult to say that one company is the most competitive because each company's competitiveness changes depending on the type of risks they are pricing. A classic example is that top vehicle insurers may offer the lowest vehicle insurance rates for good drivers but they can deliberately over-price bad drivers. The most well-known insurers get plenty applications to choose from and therefore they can be picky. Good drivers will always have more options open to them while bad drivers must try harder to find affordable rates. Here are the cheapest automobile insurance companies based on driver types. You will see that each category has different insurers that supports what is discussed above.
Sometimes you need to search for specialist risk insurers to figure out which companies have the cheapest auto insurance for you. They may have particular expertise in areas like classic or sports cars, high risk drivers or a particular region. Alternatively, they may have chosen a market segment strategically to avoid competing head on with the largest car insurance companies. Whatever the reason this concentration on certain types of risks allows them to be more competitive on their chosen segment. Try to find such companies that offer great plans due to their specialist knowledge but don't limit your quotes to those ones. Talk to other providers as well.
- Find a Vehicle Insurer Who Likes Your Kind of Policyholder
Searching for a reliable and attractively priced insurer is like looking for the most suitable job. You have your requirements and employers you apply have their own criteria to fulfill. The same applies to insurers who know what type of motorists deserve to be rewarded with better premiums. The good news is that each company has their own pick and some of them cannot pick and choose due to their disadvantaged position.
In other words, you would be looking for those companies that are less choosy when you have recent claims and traffic convictions. Most established carriers would tell you that they are not interested in insuring you by giving expensive quotes in such cases. But the position would be completely different if you have a great record.
- Big Insurers Are Highly Competitive to Keep Market Share
Most businesses study historical figures in their industry to determine their position in the market. One particular characteristic of US motorists is that they stay with their insurers for a long time. There are many policyholders who have never even thought about changing their providers or getting alternative car insurance quotes in their entire life. They stick with one company as if it is their religion. They get married, have children, get divorced but the only thing that doesn't change is their insurance company.
Every company loves to have cult like following. However, they need to persuade those motorists to buy policies from them in the first place. This is not easy as the competition is fierce. They need to offer good incentives and great prices to win over new customers. Therefore we often see companies who are eagerly priced as part of their push to increase market share.
Some firms may even be happy to offer good rates for teenage drivers in the hope that they will turn out to be low risk drivers and stay with the firm for years. In the same way, they may be happy to pick up the pieces in the market like drivers who have just had a claim and hence premium hike.
Generally companies who like to increase their market share have three weapons in their disposal depending on their budget, background and aggressiveness. They can come up with creative and comprehensive policy packages and hope that motorists will appreciate them. They can reduce their rates and attract new customers that way. Or they can just throw money on advertising and be seen wherever you look including whenever you turn your TV on.
You should always be on the lookout for competitively priced car insurance firms with great policy packages. And you shouldn't be overly influenced by self-promotions. These days, advertisements concentrate of how much money you can save. There is no harm in calling a company after seeing an advert but you should look at other alternatives as well.
- Certain Companies May Have a Unique Advantage
Quite a few insurers have long history and association with a particular group of motorists. Finding those companies that are likely to give you discounts as a result of this association can be rewarding. Generally, these unique relations afford you around 10 – 15% additional savings that you cannot get from other carriers. These savings may be related to your profession or association with a particular trade body or company (like AAA). You should ask around and explore these avenues to get easy discounts on automobile insurance.
- List of Cheap Car Insurance Companies Changes with Time or Risk
It may still be in your mind that your current insurer was very competitive when you bought the policy from them for the first time. A lot may have changed since within the company or the market. Remember, the only thing that doesn't change is the fact that change happens. That is why you should keep checking for alternative carriers every so often.
Also, changes in the type of risk can affect the cheapness of your existing policy. For example, your insurer may be happy to offer you lower rates when you have a typical family sedan or have no teenagers listed on the policy. Buying a sports car or adding a teenager onto a policy may upset this balance and your adjusted premium may lose its attractiveness. When you have a serious change in your particulars you should always get alternative quotes especially when you see visible increase in the premium.
- Rates Differ Quite Much Among Companies
Every company has their own identity and way of looking at premium calculations. The quotes between two similar companies can be as much as twice different. Any particular detail in your application can trigger a premium increase with one company while it doesn't affect rates with another. For example, you may be charged 25% more for having bad credit history by one company while the other insurer doesn't care about credit score as much.
It would be a big mistake to get only one quote and go with it without searching for cheap auto insurance companies.
- It Is No Use when An Insurer Is Over Your Budget
When you are looking for an affordable policy you don't have the luxury to pick the insurer you like most. You need to be flexible to go with the one that offers the best rates as long as there is nothing adverse about the firm. You really should be able to dump the expensive quotes regardless of who offers them and concentrate on the ones in the lower end of the price chart. Perhaps, you should dump the least expensive one as well especially when it is miles apart from the rest.
It is a good sign to see that several companies offer similar premium quotes. Hopefully, they are affordable and you can pick one of them. There is no use in looking at company details, reviews and recommendations until you get a quote from them and confirm that you can afford their prices.
10. Fastest Way to Find Economical Auto Insurance Carriers
You need to find an efficient way of picking the right company when you want inexpensive quotes. Assuming that price is an important factor in your decision you should first find out about how competitive the insurers you are considering are. As mentioned above you have plenty choices and you want to pick one out of better priced auto insurance providers. If you cannot find a company you can trust at lower end of the quotes you can always go up in the list up to a point where premium becomes too expensive. But you should exhaust your options with alternative car insurers first before accepting to pay more.
Furthermore, you should make a habit of getting alternative quotes at each renewal. It is free to get quotations. So, your only investment is time and it can potentially yield a good return if you can manage to cut your premium. Don't forget to go over your policy details at renewals to make sure it still meets your needs, too.


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Like many of you, we love our garden and we love our pets, two big mutts, Moso & Faro, and we know that it can be hard to find the right balance between freedom for the dogs and a tidy, happy garden. When designing spaces for other dog-lovers, we sometimes include a separate fenced area for the pooches. The separate area to romp and... take care of other business... keeps the dogs contained and the plants free from pee-burn, trampling and munching (even well-behaved dogs *love* ornamental grasses). There's no reason to give up on good design in a dog area, however. Our dog run doubles as an orchard, and we grow grapes on the bull wire fence that separates the space from the veggie garden. The pea gravel is easy to clean, and it doesn't track in on wet paws.
So far, we've only designed "dog gardens," but judging from this New York Times article and slide show, we may get a chance to design a "catio" one day. We find some of the enclosures in the photos a little aesthetically overwhelming, but we're sure that there are more subtle options. While the article focuses on the benefits for the cats, there are advantages for birds and other native wildlife, as well.
What do you think?


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The Tyrant Games
The Olympic Games have a long and ignominious history as a glossy brochure for evil regimes, from the Nazi Games in Berlin in 1936 to the Communist Games in Moscow in 1980. Now, we have the Putin Winter Games in Sochi, an enormously expensive show that's an ideal metaphor for the current Russian regime: corrupt, […]
More than money
The 2012 Olympic Games are upon us and there's no better way to wake up to the first day of competition in London than with an English song by and English singer: Seth Lakeman. More than Money is the opening track on his sixth solo album, Tales from the Barrel House. Despite many of the […]
e-book review: The Making of the Greek Crisis by James Pettifer
It is possible that James Pettifer was overcome by philhellene emotion when writing The Making of the Greek Crisis. Or he might have been the victim of over-hasty editing, or the short e-book format chosen by Penguin for this topic is unsuited to the complexity of the matter. In any event, the reader is often more perplexed than enlightened when swiping through the text.
"The European Union and International Monetary Fund negotiators who sit in authority in Athens in 2012 have many antecedents," begins Pettifer. It's an unconvincing start as Athens in 2012, so far, has produced more chaos than authority and those responsible for this are primarily Greek politicians. Pettifer continues: "Men and women completely ignorant of the Greek language have played their parts in the making of modern Greece, with varying degrees of success." To suggest that the EU/IMF negotiators, whatever their nationalities and native languages, do not have access to Greek-speaking support staff is incredible.
Pettifer can be sharp. He notes: "The Euro currency 'project' did not originate in Greece. As Victor Hugo observed in 1855, the notion of a single European currency, like all bad ideas, has been around for a very long time." And he crafts some colourful images: "Yes this crisis did not drop from the sky as an eagle in Epirus might drop a sick lamb." But he cancels this out with truly baffling sentences like this: "The wish to reject the American Exceptionalism of the Bush period has meant an often uncritical adherence to frequently superficially understood multilateralist ideas in international relations and abandonment of some aspects of US legitimate claims to world leadership."
He correctly identifies the decision by Greece to host the 2004 Olympic Games as pivotal in the country's loss of fiscal reason, but he undermines the argument with ideological point scoring such as, "…it appealed to the American corporations whose major players connected with big sport, like Nike and Coca Cola, had become sponsors and advertisers with all recent stagings of the Olympic Games. The Olympics embodied the culture of health, anti-smoking campaigning, intense and unbridled Darwinian competition and many other neo-conservative social objectives."
While politics are personal, facts are not and more careful editing would have prevented 17 becoming 27 here: "The euro project was doomed because it was impossible to chain together twenty-seven different economies into one currency and one central financial institution without any tax revenue raising capacity." One wonders, too, where the editor was when this drifted by:
"When I first went to little hilltop Exohorio in about 1983, very old ladies sung songs and wove on looms in their houses that had changed little since Homeric times. Now on nearby beaches you are as likely to hear the programmed chit-chat of Whitehall civil servants from London or Zehlendorf doctors from Berlin, and where the loom once stood is an ugly chrome exercise bike in a second home. Few of these north Europeans bother to learn any Greek at all, and some like the parsimonious Dutch are notorious locally for bringing their own food from the Netherlands in their neat motor caravans."
If only the Greeks had been as parsimonious as the Dutch, James Pettifer would not be writing about the tragic crisis that has engulfed the land he so clearly loves. But Athens is not Amsterdam, and neither is it Berlin or London or Washington, as he points out repeatedly.
The Making of the Greek Crisis is short, but it would have benefitted from cutting in places. Experienced editors of e-books are scarce and the knack of fitting chapters, paragraphs and sentences to tablet and smartphone screens is being learned on the job, so James Pettifer might have profited from a kind of guidance that's not widely available yet. Still, he has made an entertaining contribution to a debate that continues to dominate the headlines.Tweet


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Zeon:HamishMacEwan:Zeon: TBH I think its proven that the model doesn't work. It's not much different to the electricity market and unless you own generation capacity, you generally don't give everyone and his dog unlimited power unless they buy X% of that capacity.It's completely different to the electricity market.
For a power company, the product, power, is generated by the operator, is finite, and can be exhausted.
You consume electricity.
For an ISP, the product, content, is provided by the customer and is infinite.
You don't consume bandwidth, you occupy it.
The power for an ISP is bandwidth and it is most definitely finite.
I would have thought so too, because the wires can only carry so much data at a time. It is a bit like a highway, a highway can potentially cope with unlimited cars, but too many cars on that highway at anyone time will cause it to slow down.


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The Best Way To Parent Badly/
There's only one thing that God wants from us as parents. Read on to find the key to freedom and parenting with joy!Read More
There's only one thing that God wants from us as parents. Read on to find the key to freedom and parenting with joy!Read More
He simply would not listen.
His mom had been over and over and over the fact that dessert was not a given every night. That answer was not good enough for him. He pounded his fists on the table and burst into discontented tears. Mom hated the dinner-table battles and just wanted to have one meal in peace! Her strategies were simply not working.
In that moment, she had a choice: blow up in anger and give up or gently parent from a place of patience and kindness. That day, and the next, and the next.
By nature, I'm a "problem-solver." Are you too? Do you like to fix things? Make plans? Lists? Set goals?
It's good to be a problem-solver. A fixer. Most of the time……
It's great when you see a need for a Bible study or a book study and you help find a location and set up the meeting place so you can gather together.
It's awesome when your child's teacher needs supplies and you organize an email list to reach parents so you can all chip in and meet the need.
And it's wonderful when your budget is tight and you figure out ways to save money as a family so that you have more breathing room.
It's not so great to be a problem-solver when we are trying to change our children.
You see, that's not our job as parents. We can never change their hearts. That's the job of the Holy Spirit. Only God can fix them…and us:
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you." (John 14:26)
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law." (Galatians 5:22-23)
So often, we want to resolve our issues with our kids. We see that they talk back to us a lot, so we set out to silence them. They keep fighting with their brothers over electronics so we ban them from using their XBOX ever again. They refuse to obey us the first time we ask them to do something, so we resort to banishing them from our presence or worse—we yell and scream or scold and shame them.
God is clear about our role, and His, in the hearts and lives of our children:
"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)
"Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord." (Ephesians 6:4)
"Not domineering over those in your charge, but being examples to the flock." (1 Peter 5:3)
"Discipline your son, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your heart." (Proverbs 29:17)
"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. 8 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. 9 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." (Deuteronomy 6:4-9)
Overwhelmingly, the Bible instructs us to teach, train, and lovingly discipline (like a coach) our children. Never does the Bible say that we can fix their hearts. Some of us know that we can try every trick in the book, and still, our child will act out in behavior that we don't approve of.
Yes, there are lots of practical tips and tools to help us get the parenting results we seek, and that's all good if we are doing so with the right heart attitude, lovingly seeking to set our kids up for success and work through their sin issues or need for growth. But I think we need to shift our thinking and relieve ourselves from the stress of not being able to change our kids. That mindset will only frustrate us and lead to strife in our home.
We become our best selves as parents when we are faithful facilitators instead of fixers.
Here are 5 key thoughts that will help us when we feel frustrated with our kids:
1.) It takes a childhood to train a child. Elongate your timeline for expected changes and maturity. It takes a long time for US to learn new lessons too—how much more so for immature kids?
2.) There is nothing that anger can do that love can't do better. Let that sink in for a moment…..
3.) We don't offer grace often enough—be willing to set aside your fears that kids will "get away with something" if you lovingly grace them and give them what they don't deserve. "Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." (1 Peter 4:8)
4.) Consequences are often necessary, but the tone and spirit with which you discipline makes all the difference. Ask yourself, have I given myself enough time and space to discipline with love in my heart and peaceful body language? If not, get your heart right, first. We correct children because we DELIGHT in them and LOVE them, not because we are personally offended, are tired of their behavior's impact on us, or because we are angry: "For the LORD corrects those he loves, just as a father corrects a child in whom he delights." (Proverbs 3:12)
5.) Keep in mind that your role is not to shape or change your kids. It's your role to FACSILITATE the opportunity for heart change by leading your children to the Lord and modeling a Godly example. Their behavior is theirs to bear and take ownership over.
Be a faithful facilitator, not a "fixer." Keep running the race toward gentle and Biblical parenting, shirking off any unnecessary burdens that are not yours to bear, especially when it comes to your kids' behavior. Prayerfully ask the Lord to search your heart to see if there is any parental behavior that needs to change so that you can be a peace-maker and leader in your home.
We have plenty to worry about with our own hearts, don't we?
Give their hearts back to God, where they belong.
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BALTIMORE – The UMBC men's soccer team clinched a spot in the America East Tournament for the eighth consecutive year as the Retrievers blanked the visiting Binghamton Bearcats, 1-0, at Retriever Soccer Park.
Despite getting off 26 shots, UMBC's lone goal came on a successful penalty kick by senior midfielder Mamadou Kansaye (Baltimore, Md./McDonogh) in the 33rd minute.
UMBC improved to 4-0-1 in America East play and 8-5-3 overall. Binghamton dropped its fourth straight and fell to 2-3-0 in the conference and 4-12-0 overall.
With two games left for all eight league squads, UMBC can finish no lower than third place in the standings.
Both sides threatened early as UMBC senior midfielder Stephen Ho (North Potomac, Md./Wootton) missed just wide left after a great set-up by senior forward Kay Banjo (Upper Marlboro, Md./Largo) in the 18th minute. Binghamton countered as senior forward Steve Celeste had opportunities in the 20' and 26' minutes, but missed the target on the first attempt and had a header corralled by Retriever red-shirt-sophomore Billy Heavner (Landisville, Pa./Hempfield) on the second effort.
The Retrievers struck when red-shirt sophomore midfielder Michael Burgos (Huntington, Md./Calverton School) drove down the left side and into the box and his shot attempt struck the hand of a Bearcat defender. Kansaye stepped up and converted the penalty kick for his fourth score of the season.
The two teams combined for 24 second half shots and Binghamton sophomore goalkeeper Robert Moewes was outstanding, turning away a pair of shots in a flurry in the 65' and making a diving stop on a Banjo effort destined for the upper left corner in the 84'.
The Bearcats had two attempts in the final four minutes, but both attempts from distance were well off-target.
Heavner finished with three saves to post his second consecutive shutout and his third in seven starts. Moewes was credited with seven saves and the Bearcats had nine stops as a team.
UMBC completes the regular part of the home schedule when they host Vermont on Saturday, Nov. 2 at 7:00 p.m. A record ten Retriever seniors will be honored in pregame ceremonies.
Notes: UMBC is unbeaten in its last 17 America East regular season contests and is unbeaten versus league foes in 21 consecutive games… UMBC knotted the series with Binghamton at 6-6-3 and extended the unbeaten streak against the Bearcats to six (3-0-3)… Despite cranking off six shots and three on goal, Banjo was held off the scoreboard for the first time in five league games.


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French midfielder Bryan Dabo is expected to leave Montpellier in the summer, mainly because quite a few clubs are interested in signing him and the Ligue 1 club are not forcing him to stay.
Ligue 1 sides Rennes, Nice, Marseille and Saint-Etienne are said to be interested in the 24-year-old, but there is also interest from Everton and Swansea in the Premier League.
Earlier reports suggested both the English clubs had sent scouts to watch the French midfielder several times this season. Following up, Thursday's edition of French newspaper L'Equipe claims Everton and Swansea are still keen on the player, but Dabo is yet to make a decision on his future.
Apparently, he isn't sure if he should sign for a bigger club in France, or move to the Premier League. Not too bad a dilemma to have.
A move to the Premier League is tempting for most players these days, due to the money involved and the chance to prove themselves on a bigger stage, but it seems Dabo wants to evaluate his options.
Dabo is primarily a defensive midfielder, but can also play in an advanced midfield role, and the player could quickly adapt in England, as he spent six months on loan at Blackburn Rovers in 2014, but failed to make a single appearance for the senior team.
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Wyatt Paterson, Transition Program Class of 2016, was featured on NBC News; the piece looks at how farming has given him more abilities.
Dodge Doyle learned to ride a bicycle this summer at ICANShine Bike Camp. She is pictured at right, practicing on the track of her high school, Phoenixville High School. "We so love and appreciate The Camphill School and all that she learned that helped her to build confidence," her mother Catherine shared.
Amy Sequenzia, Class of 2005, had an essay published on shiftjournal.com.
2010 graduate Sofia Blackwood's mother Valerie Treseder shared news that her daughter, "is doing great and lives nearby with three other women. She attends the New Mexico Very Special Arts day program and loves it."
Kate Collier recently shared news and a photo of her son, Chris Heaphy. Chris recently received Diploma Level 2 in Animal Management which he passed after a year at mainstream agricultural college. Now he started with Orchard Leigh Camphill near Stroud as part resident and part volunteer with the idea of training himself up as a Camphill coworker so he might make Camphill his career path. He is signed up at college for more courses and has a placement in a horse therapy center. He also hopes to get a farming apprenticeship and work in an animal rescue center.
"My name is Rebecca Carnarius and I attended The Camphill School from September 1980-June 1986, and I had a wonderful teacher, Ingelore Maier, in my first two years there, 7th and 8th grades. She was fantastic, and among the things she did, she directed me in a play about Joan of Arc, which I'll never forget. I had other wonderful teachers, among them, Jette Carlson, Alice Schwabe, John Greene, and Coleman Lyles. I have come a long way since then, and now I work very hard with Goodwill Keystone Area. I'm also working hard toward getting my GED so I can be qualified to enter the next phase, possibly getting a job in the 'outside world,' wherever that may be. I'm thankful for my years there, and all of those wonderful teachers, and I hope to continue learning and growing. By the way, I also wrote a column called "Becky-isms" for the "Radius," as well as a book."
Charlie Tygiel and his mom, Luise Custer, tend Shilo and Dezy at stables near the Santa Cruz coast. It is his supported living staff who brought the horses into Charlie's life and reconnected him with warm memories of working with Ani and friends at Beaver Run.
Pamela Smith, who now lives at Camphill Soltane, was asked to participate in a press conference with Pennsylvania Senator Andrew Dinniman on July 12, 2010 regarding Pennsylvania Senate Bill 1443. This bill was introduced to strike the phrase "mental retardation" from state statutes and state use. View Pamela's speech.
Amy Sequenzia who graduated in 2005 writes:
Hi friends of Beaver Run and the Transition Program!
I am happy to tell you that I live in Florida now and that I am a self advocate. I am part of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and I traveled to Washington, DC to meet some Senators. I also met the Governor of Florida. I published two books of poems and got a nice letter from the Vice President Joe Biden after he read them.
Sarah Anderson, Julianna Baker-Cohen, CourtneyBecker, Taylor Bowersox, Michael Serocki, and Stephen Smith are living and learning at Camphill Soltane. We saw Sarah, Michael, and Stephen at the Camphill Benefit Concert in New York City on October 6, 2009 and Julianna, Courtney, Julianna, and Stephen (again) at the Camphill Challenge on October 18, 2009.
After attending a recent event Monty Caldwell emailed a photo of daughter Rachel Caldwell, Class of 1995: "It was such fun seeing the Camphillers! Thanks for taking the time for a great conversation. It was lovely getting brought up to date on a place that has meant so much in our lives."
Laura Shumaker, mother of former student Matthew Shumaker, has published a book called A Regular Guy: Growing Up with Autism. Click here to view a video on the book.
Jon and Kathi Nuffer write that their son, Jon Nuffer, Class of 2001: "is thriving in a group home, just got a promotion, and will be working at a local church as a maintenance worker. Thank you all again for your kindness and concern for Jon."
Harvey and Elaine Holtz wrote to The Camphill School with an update on their son, Matthew Holtz, Class of 1988:
"Matthew is doing well at Triform Camphill Community in Hudson, New York where he has resided for the last twenty years. He has gone through the Student, Apprentice, and Journeyman phases and graduated as a Journeyman. Matthew made various exchange visits to Camphill Village Copake in New York, Camphill Village Kimberton Hills in Pennsylvania, and the Camphill communities in Minnesota and Ontario, Canada. He is very friendly and remembers everyone from Beaver Run, especially when it comes to attending various Camphill conferences, concerts, and other functions. Very truly yours, Harvey and Elaine Holtz"
Shirley Juniewiz, mother of Alex Juniewicz ("AJ"), who graduated from Beaver Run on 2005 and Beaver Farm in 2008, sent us this update: "AJ currently is living independently at the LaKamp Ranch in Jamestown, California. He attends a day program in Sonora, CA that he enjoys very much. The day program is very social and AJ is developing relationships with staff and other consumers. Through the day program he volunteers at the SPCA (the cat room is his favorite) and the local Food Bank.
Two former The Camphill School employees provide the majority of his support, so that has provided a smooth transition and they both understand AJ. He is making excellent progress in his independence with the one on one support. Outside of the day program, he volunteers at his Therapeutic Riding facility two afternoons a week doing land work and earns extra riding time. He was quick to tell me on my last visit that he is now leading two horses at a time and helping with wound care on the animals. He also volunteers at a local coffee shop cleaning one afternoon a week. He goes to bed happy and tired each evening.
I am very grateful to the LaKamps for providing this opportunity for AJ. I am also extremely grateful to his one on one supports in his independent living. They both totally changed their lives to give Alex the opportunity to grow and flourish in an environment that is very different from anything he has known in the past and very far from home.
We miss having him close by, but all I have to do is look at this picture or talk to him on the phone and I know that this is the best place for AJ to be. The connections we made at Beaver Run have allowed Alex to have this opportunity. We are grateful to all.
Alex Rivin, Class of 2005
Alex visited many of his friends at The Camphill School during July 2008. After graduating in 2005, Alex participated in our Transition Program for a year before being accepted at Camphill Soltane. In August, Alex began attending Taft College in Taft, California, as a student in the college's Transition to Independent Living (TIL) program. While this will mean Alex is close to his family in the San Francisco area, we will miss his ever-smiling face, cheerful friendliness, and very caring nature. Good luck, Alex; we know you will continue to be successful at Taft!
Update from Chris Heaphy, former student
"It already has been almost a year and I really miss you lot at Beaver Run and can't wait to see you when I come over. I can't wait to see my class I would have graduated with this year. [Ruskin Mill] College is great and getting even better now that I am gaining independence quickly. I still follow the NBA and NFL closely as well as baseball, hockey, and, of course, football (soccer) and cricket. I couldn't imagine what my life would be like without being at Beaver Run. My College is so different that I took about three months to get used to it. I am eighteen tomorrow and excited and in disbelief."
Dave Lepkowski, former student
Dave traveled to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park and shared a photo of himself at Edward's Ferry.
Chris Heaphy, former student, and Kate Collier, mother of Chris and former coworker and teacher
Chris and Kate are slowly settling back to life in Britain. Chris is enjoying his time at Ruskin Mill in Gloucestershire. He does organic farming, horse-riding and stable work, pottery, art, ecology, coppicing, paper-making, textiles, computer studies, and works in the forest kitchen. On an evening he is often seen with a buddy watching football in the local pub! Kate is in her foundation year re-training as a psychosynthesis counselor in London. It's very experiential with a lot of studying and a very supportive group of fellow students. She loves it and her training therapist enjoys the challenge!
Julianna Baker-Cohen, Naomi Fuerman, Derek Frazier, Kyle McBrien, Kathleen Rahling, Alex Rivin, and Stephen Smith, Class of 2007
These seven graduates of The Camphill School have joined the Camphill Soltane community and were featured in the autumn 2007 issue of Soltane's newsletter. Coworker Gry Brudvik shares in her article that "the students are great young men and women who have a lot to say about life…we are looking forward to building their knowledge and helping them become responsible citizens of Camphill Soltane and the world."
Chris Cronin, Class of 2003
Chris' family recently opened a bed and breakfast, The Primrose Inn, in Cape May and he is involved in almost every aspect of running this charming Victorian inn. Chris helps to clean and prepare guest rooms, care for the grounds, and prepare and serve meals (his double chocolate chip muffins ruined my New Year's resolution!). (Shared by The Camphill School teacher Becky Rutherford; to learn more about Chris' inn visit www.theprimroseinn.com)
Mimi Rovner, Class of 2003
Mimi's family has developed a unique farming day program near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They say they owe their inspiration to Camphill, but I think they are making some very innovative developments, like a wheelchair-accessible chicken coop! Mimi enjoys her days on the farm and her companions who never have worked with animals or in a garden are thrilled as well. (Shared by The Camphill School teacher Becky Rutherford; to learn more about Mimi's farm visit www.hopespringsfarm.org)
Lucaneus Barnes
Lucaneus is working at a McDonald's in Dayton, Ohio and was named February 2006 Employee of the Month.
Ben Bruschke, Class of 2006
Ben visited us while on winter break from Camphill Triform
Charlie Tygiel and Bryan Zecca
Their photos recently appeared in Community Voices, the Camphill Communities California newsletter. Charlie lives with Rowan Bondi, our former coworker and pottery instructor, and Bryan is part of the community's landscaping team, with David Schwartz, another one of our former coworkers.


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1.1 What is Volt all about?
Volt is a pan-European, progressive movement aiming to revolutionize the way politics is done and to strive for a united, fair, and open European Union that provides opportunities for everyone.
1.2 How was Volt created and by whom?
Volt has been started by Andrea Venzon, the currently elected President. The inspiration to start this project came after Brexit and the gloomy trends of 2016. On March 29, 2017, when article 50 was triggered, Volt was just a Facebook page and 5 people willing to challenge the status quo. Without funds, big names, or political endorsements, Volt has now grown into a movement of thousands of supporters in every European country. This initiative was started because reactionary, populist tendencies are threatening the values our members believe in, and because traditional political factions failed to provide attractive and pragmatic answers to the challenges of our time.
1.3 What is Volt planning now?
Volt is a transnational European movement aiming at setting up political parties in different European countries to run for elections at European, national, and local level under the same values, political guidelines, and objectives. When the movement was founded, the first political target has been set for the European elections of 2019. Volt aims to run for elections in at least 7 European countries. Why 7? Because if the movement manages to elect 25 MEPs from 7 European countries, it will be able to create the first independent political group in the European Parliament - something that no one has ever achieved in the history of this continent! After the European elections, Volt will start campaigning also for national and local elections, all-over the continent and beyond!
1.4 Is Volt only present in EU member states?
No. As a pan-European movement, we want to have a presence and run for election in every European country.
1.5 What does the name "Volt" stand for?
Volt comes from the international unit of measure of electric potential. We chose this name because we aim to bring new energies to Europe, and because it fully represents our fast and efficient team. In addition, the use of an international word allows us to keep the same name across Europe.


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Happy Birthday to Casey Kasem! Kasem, who sadly passed away last summer, was born Kemal Amen Kasem in Detroit on April 27 in 1932. He was born to Lebanese Druze parents who had immigrated to Michigan. He grew up interested in radio shows, which is where he ended up making a very successful career. Although he hosted a variety of radio shows throughout his career, he is most famous for pioneering the "top 40" model. Kasem hosted a weekly top 40 countdown show ("America's Top 40" and "Casey's Top 40") from 1970 until he retired in 2004.
Kasem is featured in our museum in a few places. In our Making an Impact exhibition, a plaque commemorates his inclusion in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and he also narrates a video of other famous Arab Americans. We also have a large "America's Top 40" sign near our Lower Level Gallery.
Of course, radio isn't the only thing Kasem is famous for. As generations of American kids know, he also provided the voice of Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo franchise. The AANM recently received a great new item relating to this aspect of his career: a talking Shaggy doll! The doll says a variety of classic Shaggy phrases, voiced by Kasem, when you squeeze his hand. It is also signed by Kasem on his stomach. The doll isn't currently on display, but you can see a photograph of it, with the signature, here:
Zoinks! What a fun donation! What are some of your favorite memories of Casey Kasem?


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The Apple Seed
Next time you cut up an apple, cut it across the middle and count the number of seeds inside. Did you know that every apple you cut will have the same number of seeds? But here's something else to consider……We can count the apple seeds in an apple … but only God can count the apples in a seed!
So one apple has just five seeds and each seed can potentially create a tree.
Each mature tree can produce around six hundred apples each year! Imagine, just imagine, if you take the 600 apples from each of the five trees you grew, from just one apple, and removed and planted the five seeds of each apple harvested, and did that each year. Before you are finished you have the potential to turn the earth into one great orchard!
Get the picture?...When God created each one of us, he planned our future even before we were born. Each one of us has a designed purpose waiting to be discovered. Our past, our personal achievements or failures are nothing compared with realising our potential in God's call on our lives….. to make this world a better place.