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The Zen Cart® templating system uses a CSS based layout.
In this article, CAPITALIZED words refer to a folder or language that you choose. We use CUSTOM for your template and ENGLISH for your language by default. Change these if needed.
First, open includes/templates/ and create a new folder. You can call it anything you like, though it is best not to make it too long and to use underscores instead of spaces. We will call it /CUSTOM here, so everywhere we write /CUSTOM from now on, you should replace it with your own preferred folder name.
Create an empty folder inside your new template directory and call it images so you should have includes/templates/CUSTOM/images/.
Next, copy the includes/templates/template_default/css directory and place the folder and its files in your new includes/templates/CUSTOM/ folder.
You can also create the following empty folders inside your new template directory:
Then you copy the file called includes/templates/template_default/template_info.php, and put it inside includes/templates/CUSTOM/. Next, open includes/templates/CUSTOM/template_info.php in your text editor. Change the information below between each set of single quotes to suit your new template. Remember to keep the single quotes. Your template name does not need to be identical to your folder name, and you can use spaces to make it read well, but it is best to make them similar. Leave the space between the quotes for the template screenshot field empty for now, since you don't have one yet.
$template_name = 'CUSTOM';
$template_version = 'Version 1.0';
$template_author = '<enter your name here>';
$template_description = 'This is my own template, created for my site at www.example.com';
$template_screenshot = '';
When you've finished, your new file structure should look as follows:
If you're basing your template on responsive_classic, it's recommended that you copy the complete jscript folder from responsive_classic into your custom template.
And if you need a base of CSS components, copy the contents of the css folder from the template you're basing from as well.
Upload your /CUSTOM folder (or whatever name you've actually called it) to your server.
Open your Admin panel and navigate to tools -> template selection. Click the Edit button, then choose CUSTOM from the dropdown menu and click the Update button. Now, navigate to tools -> layout boxes controller and at the bottom of the page click the Reset button.
Your new template is now enabled and ready for you to customize. See the related articles below for more tips on customizing. There are many more articles available via the search and via the FAQ Home Page link.
About Language Files
In the /includes/languages/ folder there is also support for customizations for your new template too.
It is advisable to clone the /includes/languages/english/html_includes/responsive_classic/ into a new folder named according to your custom template, such as /includes/languages/english/html_includes/CUSTOM/
What about english.php?
It's advisable to leave the main /includes/languages/english.php untouched, and to put your customizations into a new file: /includes/languages/CUSTOM/english.php (ie: if you want to customize the text for FOOTER_TEXT_BODY, put *just* the define for FOOTER_TEXT_BODY into your CUSTOM/english.php file (no need to copy the entire file; in fact, upgrades are easier if you only put the individual changes there).


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Flight landed yesterday around 3:30 pm. I didn't exactly sleep on Saturday night as people were leaving at all hours of the night and I was packing pretty much the entire time, so I was able to sleep a little throughout the 8 1/2 hour flight. After going through baggage claim and customs and meeting up with mom and dad around 5 pm, we visited with Aunt Jeanne, Uncle Mike, and Alison. I ate a nice big juicy cheeseburger and fries!
Then we went to Uncle Michael and Aunt Lisa's house and visited with Avery and baby Jack - he is sooo cute! Finally we went home and I slept from 11 pm until 12 in the afternoon today. It's was so good to wake up in my own bedroom :-)

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This year's world championship circuit in Florence is one of the most difficult in years. The course features two major obstacles, a long steady climb to Fiesole and a short steep wall on the Via Salviati. We rode the course with five cameras and three GPS devices to produce this preview.
Full Circuit (34 minutes)
Fiesole Climb (13 minutes)
Via Salviati (3 minutes)


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Lawrence, 23, told the tale on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" weeks ago, but the episode didn't air until Wednesday night.
J.Law told Seth that for her third go-round at the Oscars, she agreed to take her best friend instead of her family, and things got a little wild.
The girls got goofy, at one point they even called Brad Pitt over to them. Jennifer said he smelled like sandalwood!
Later that night they went to Madonna's A-list after-party. "I puked on the porch and I was in such bad condition, and I look behind me while I'm puking and Miley Cyrus is there, [looking at me] like, 'Get it together.'"
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Approval Requirements
Transportation Service Providers (TSPs) who apply to participate in GSA's Centralized Household Goods Traffic Management Program (CHAMP) are stringently evaluated and assessed.
TSPs must complete an approval application package and be approved to participate in the CHAMP program. TSPs qualify on financial stability, business experience, quality assurance, and knowledge of the Household Goods Tender of Service (HTOS).
Upon approval, a TSP can file rates in response to the Request for Offers (RFO) within their authorized scope during open window filing periods. TSPs can apply to transport either domestic or international shipments or both. GSA's domestic services under CHAMP cover the movement of household goods for relocating federal civilian agency employees within the contiguous United States, including Alaska and Canada. International services under CHAMP apply to door-to-door container movement of household goods in lift vans between the contiguous United States (including Alaska and Canada) and an international country, or between two international countries. A TSP must provide complete through service from origin residence to destination residence by surface ocean means.
To become an approved CHAMP carrier:
- Download the Household Goods Application Instructions (below);
- Download the Domestic Application (below), if applicable;
- Download the International Application (below), if applicable; and
- Submit the completed application and documentation as required in the instruction document.
GSA will notify TSPs of their approval status within 60 days of receipt by GSA of their completed package. Below you will find instructions and the application forms to become an approved TSP in the CHAMP program.
Household Goods Application Instructions [PDF - 69 KB]
HHG International Application [XLSX - 228 KB]
HHG Domestic Application [XLSX - 156 KB]


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On Friday morning, President Barack Obama bestowed the Presidential Citizens Medal, the nation's second-highest civilian honor, on the six adults killed in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting in December.
Rachel Davino, Dawn Hochsprung, Anne Marie Murphy, Lauren Rousseau, Mary Sherlach and Victoria Soto and 20 first graders were killed in the elementary school shooting. They were honored for their extraordinary commitment to the students of Sandy Hook Elementary School and for dedicating themselves to their students and the community of Newtown.
Obama presented the medal to their family members in a White House ceremony, read their names one by one and said they gave their lives to protect the children in their care.
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"And then when Dawn Hochsprung and Mary Sherlach, Vicki Soto, Lauren Rousseau, Rachel D'Avino, Anne Marie Murphy -- when they showed up for work at Sandy Hook Elementary on December 14th of last year, they expected a day like any other -- doing what was right for their kids; spent a chilly morning readying classrooms and welcoming young students -- they had no idea that evil was about to strike. And when it did, they could have taken shelter by themselves. They could have focused on their own safety, on their own well-being, but they didn't. They gave their lives to protect the precious children in their care. They gave all they had for the most innocent and helpless among us," Obama said. "And that's what we honor today: the courageous heart, the selfless spirit, the inspiring actions of extraordinary Americans, extraordinary citizens."
Accepting on behalf of Rachel D'Avino were her mother, Mary D'Avino and sister, Sarah D'Avino.
Accepting on behalf of Dawn Hochsprung were her daughter, Erica Lafferty, and mother, Cheryl Lafferty.
Accepting on behalf of Anne Marie Murphy were her husband, Michael Murphy, and daughters, Paige and Colleen Murphy.
Accepting on behalf of Lauren Rousseau were her parents, Terry and Gilles Rousseau.
Accepting on behalf of Mary Sherlach were her husband, Bill Sherlach, and daughters, Katy Sherlach and Maura Schwartz.
Accepting on behalf of Victoria Soto were her parents, Donna and Carlos Soto.
President Obama said around 6,000 were nominated for the medal.
"A special note just to the families who are here from Sandy Hook, we are so blessed to be with you," Obama said. "I have gotten to know many of you during the course of some very difficult weeks and your courage and love for each other and your communites shines through every single day, and we could not be more blessed and grateful for your loved ones who gave everything they had on behalf of our kids."
Soto's family also attended the March for Change at the state Capitol on Thursday.
"I would give it all back to have my sister here, but to know I can't have that, it is a great honor. I am so happy for her. I wish she was here to accept it, but we will be there to accept it and it's amazing that she was given this and all the other teachers and principal," Victoria's sister, Jillian, said during a rally on Thursday.
Victoria's mother, Donna Soto, said Victoria has always been a hero to the family.
"I was proud of her before this. I was always proud of this and everything she ever accomplished and I don't for one minute doubt that she tried to save those kids with everything she had. She's a hero. She was always a hero to us, and will continue to be," Donna Soto said.
Four Newtown teachers and school employees were in the audience at the White House event.
Tom Kuroski, a Newtown High School teacher and president of the Newtown Federation of Teachers, will attend.
Joanne Didonato, secretary to Sandy Hook's principal Dawn Hochsprung and president of the Newtown Federation of Education Personnel, will also attend.
The White House has also invited Kris Feda, a Sandy Hook teacher and math/science specialist who was in the main office in a parent meeting with principal Hochsprung, psychologist Mary Sherlach, and lead teacher Natalie Hammond, who was injured.
Feda is the teacher who others said took charge to move students and staff from the school to the firehouse.
Rick Thorne, a Sandy Hook custodian, went through the school during the shooting, locking any open doors and making sure hallways were clear and that staff and students were safely in their classrooms and will also attend.
Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, a renowned pediatrician who developed a leading behavioral test for newborns, was also honored, as was former Pennsylvania Sen. Harris Wofford and a handful of others who were recognized for contributions to public service.
Obama said citizenship binds the nation together and captures Americans' belief in something bigger than themselves.


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from the line-them-up dept.
snydeq writes"InfoWorld's Desmond Fuller provides an in-depth comparison of five entry-level NAS storage servers, including cabinets from Iomega, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, and Thecus. 'With so many use cases and potential buyers, the vendors too often try to be everything to everyone. The result is a class of products that suffers from an identity crisis — so-called business storage solutions that are overloaded with consumer features and missing the ease and simplicity that business users require,' Fuller writes. 'Filled with 10TB or 12TB of raw storage, my test systems ranged in price from $1,699 to $3,799. Despite that gap, they all had a great deal in common, from core storage services to performance. However, I found the richest sets of business features — straightforward setup, easy remote access, plentiful backup options — at the higher end of the scale.'"


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By Brendon Watt
The word relationship means the distance between two objects and when you look at most relationships, that is exactly what occurs.
Duration: 2.5 days
Facilitator: Brendon Watt
Format: MP3 & PDF Digital Download
Pre-Requisite: One of the following:
The projections, expectations, and judgments that relationships are often built on, create separation, rather than communion, and ultimately destroy the relationship.
Relationships Done Different is an invitation to something greater. It's an invitation to communion.
In this 2.5 day class, you will be given simple and pragmatic tools designed to empower you to create relationships that actually work, starting with a relationship with you.
What do you know about relationship that hasn't been accessed before?
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Would you be willing to Discover the adventure of how relationship can be totally different?
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Brendon now shares the tools of Access Consciousness® that changed his life, so he can empower others to know that anything is possible.
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@ShiptoShoreNB tweeted link to Declare a Global Warming and Climate Change Emergency . 2018-12-28 10:48:21 -0800Please sign the petition: Declare a Global State of Emergency! http://www.joboneforhumanity.org/declare_a_global_warming_state_of_emergency?recruiter_id=9713
Sign the Petition to Declare a Global Warming and Climate Change Emergency and Help Prevent a Human, Animal and Ecological Mass Extinction Process within Our Lifetimes
We, the citizens of our nation and of our Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act to preserve and protect the future of humanity as well as Earth's other animal and biological life.
Based on abundant scientific evidence, we recognize that our global climate is rapidly warming and becoming increasingly unstable due to human-caused atmospheric carbon pollution primarily at this time from the burning of fossil fuels.
We also recognize that in spite of 35 years of credible scientific warnings, global warming is still rising and is now at dangerous levels!
We have already seen global warming-aggravated weather, like record-breaking floods, hurricanes, and wildfires. We have witnessed the "worst in centuries" droughts and dust storms. We have experienced alternating unseasonably cold then warm winters, extreme storms, bomb cyclones, and rain bombs where weeks or months' worth of rain falls in a few hours or a few days.
With our own eyes, we see that something very abnormal is happening to the previous stability of our normal weather and seasonal patterns. We have also noticed that global warming connected consequences (like those just mentioned,) are becoming more frequent, more severe, and are affecting larger and larger areas!
We recognize that if we do not immediately and radically reduce our global fossil fuel burning behaviors before additional global warming tipping points are crossed, the destabilization of our global climate will continue at even faster rates causing among other things, unprecedented crop failures and unthinkable mass starvation.
Our brightest climate scientists have determined that if we do not meet or come very close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets (found here,) we will face a massive extinction event where most of humanity will die by mid-century. Unsurprisingly, escalating global warming will not only affect humanity's survival possibilities. It also presents an equally grave and ever-increasing extinction threat to animals and other biological species as well.
Rising global warming has already become the 21st century's single greatest disruptor of economic, political, social, and biological stability. It will also act to amplify our other largest global problems.
If we fail to make the life-critical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, escalating global warming will also become all but out of our control.
No one is ultimately safe from this global warming extinction emergency. Global warming consequences are already affecting millions in many areas of the world. Many individuals and businesses are already being forced to deal with escalating catastrophes, food and resource depletion, and the mass migration of desperate climagees (climate migrants.) In the not too distant future, global warming catastrophes will be affecting hundreds of millions then billions of individuals everywhere on Earth!
We now face a world in which rising global warming can cause mass human extinction and create increasing social, economic, and political chaos, not sometime near 2100, but as soon as the next 3-5 decades.
Worse yet, as our average global temperatures continue to rise, the world's other major and critical social, economic and political challenges (see * list below) will also worsen, amplify each other and cross-react with each other and the 11 critical global warming tipping points (found here.)
Our largest global challenges (other than the global warming consequences and immediate global nuclear war or nuclear or biological terrorism) that will both interact with each other and likely continue to worsen as global warming gets worse are:
1. global economic instabilities are leading to reoccurring national and global recessions or depressions. (These are fueled by existing economic weaknesses, lack of financial reserves and resilience, and unexpected major unexpected shocks or events (like COVID-19,) hitting the global markets and financial systems.
2. an ever-rising over-population (Earth has the carrying capacity for about 1 1/2 - 2 billion people. (Please click this carrying capacity link to understand why this overpopulation challenge is so big and bad.) Currently, we are near 8 billion people adding about 130 million additional people each year racing to 9.4 billion by or before 2050.
Over the next 30 years, our population is projected to rise as high as 10-13 billion. One could also ultimately say that overpopulation and its inherent over-consumption beyond our carrying capacity is the major cause behind today's global warming emergency and most of the world's other critical global challenges.
3. rising global resource depletion; caused by overpopulation, toxic pollution of water, lands, and air, crop failures, overfishing, topsoil loss, resource distribution injustice, and the massive overconsumption and waste of finite resources. Global resource depletion will significantly increase food shortages and soaring food prices leading to more starvation and mass migrations. If you do not believe that massive resource depletion and overshoot is a huge soon-arriving problem? Watch this fantastic overshoot video with great graphics and global resource depletion amounts and time frames in simple illustrations by Hugh Montgomery, a noted English professor. (We strongly recommend you watch this video for all of the food and non-food resources that are in accelerating depletion peril. [Forward the video to the 10 minutes and 30-second mark to begin watching Hugh Montgomery's compelling graphic presentation.])
4. escalating pollution of all kinds; ongoing and accelerating pollution kills crops, fish stocks, and poisons our air creating and accelerating all types of global health, social, and economic problems.
5. loss of biodiversity, (due to ongoing and accelerating loss of natural habitat due to overpopulation, global warming, pollution, etc.)
6. growing economic inequality, injustice, and poverty. (This also will significantly increase food shortages and soaring food prices leading to more starvation and migrations. Today less than 1% of the world's population owns more than 50% of all wealth. Over for the last several decades, this ownership percentage continues to grow continually in favor of the wealthy.)
7. escalating regional and international terrorism, conflicts, and war. These conflicts are caused by global warming, and most of the other global challenges listed here getting worse. While COVID-19 has temporarily slowed global conflicts, expect these conflicts to increase in intensity, frequency, and scale once COVID-19 is brought under control. The world then still faces all of the other nonglobal warming challenges on this page getting worse and being mostly unresolved.
8. Escalating mass migrations. Global warming, political and economic instability, increasing terrorism, conflicts, and war plus many of these other listed global challenges will both create and expand sudden, massive migrations of millions, then billions of people. Before 2030 the world will see hundreds of millions of climagees.
9. a rising new COVID-19 like pandemic probability reoccurring every decade along with other disease epidemics (due to the melting of the permafrost, loss of natural animal habitat, eating more wild animals, overcrowding, less resilient health systems, the other challenges and consequences listed on this page, like mass migrations,)
10. political instability and collapse, fueled by existing internal and external conflicts, deficits, and the failed global challenges listed on this page. Poorly managed nations with weak economies will fall first. In 2020 we already see many countries on the verge of economic or political collapse.
11. Failing to evolve effective global governance with the needed legislative, judicial, and enforceable executive powers to solve the global challenges that cross national borders. If you think about it carefully, you will discover that the critical evolutionary failure of having no truly effective global governance IS the single biggest reason and core structural cause for why most of our other global challenges have not been resolved or continue to exist. The evolutionary absence of valid global governance alone acts to facilitate, escalate, and enable almost all of the other global challenges that we currently face.
And finally, never forget that rising global warming can further increase the severity, frequency, and scale (size) of the above other global challenges we all now face, making them even harder to resolve!
Despite 35 years of scientific reports as well as 21 International conferences about the near-certain extinction effects of the carbon (and methane,) pollution of our atmosphere, global warming temperatures have both continued to rise and have accelerated to levels that have passed dangerous tipping points.
There is true urgency to this global warming extinction emergency!
Our average global temperature and atmospheric carbon levels are far too close to crossing the near-extinction tipping points.
If we fail to make or get very close to the 2025 fossil fuel reduction targets, this extinction emergency becomes a no-win game for everyone, no matter how much money or power they might have and, no matter where they might try to escape to!
Our current global warming extinction emergency can only be resolved by immediately reducing the human-caused production of carbon and other key greenhouse gases produced directly and indirectly from the global burning of fossil fuels.
At this "it is almost already too little too late" moment in history, the necessary fossil fuel use reductions needed to save us can only be achieved by successfully meeting our last chance 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets enforced by our governments!
Please also keep in mind that our government leaders have utterly failed to see the coming pain and suffering of the COVID-19 pandemic, nor did they adequately prepare for it.
Once again, our government leaders are also not seeing or adequately preparing for the global warming extinction emergency, which is already happening and, will be far, far worse than the COVID-19 global pandemic!
Therefore, as global citizens of every nation on Earth, we demand that our national political leaders act now before it is too late to prevent mass human, animal, and biological extinction within our lifetimes and untold suffering!
We demand that our government leaders:
1. Meet immediately to formally declare both a national and international Global Warming Extinction Emergency.
2. Pass enforceable and verifiable national and international laws that would successfully achieve the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets or, at least get us very close to them. (Even getting close to the 2025 targets allow us to slow down what is coming so we can be better prepared.) And,
3. Call for the immediate mass mobilization of ALL the necessary resources and personnel to execute ALL critical actions required to fully resolve our current global warming extinction emergency. (See Part 3 of the Job One for Humanity Plan for a complete list of all critical government-driven actions needed to save the future.)
By electronically signing this petition (in the box below,) I am personally and officially notifying my national politicians of this demand to immediately meet and take all required actions described in this emergency petition in order to protect, preserve, and advance the continuing evolution of humanity and life on Earth.
Furthermore, realizing that most of the worst global warming consequences will take centuries to thousands of years to repair, which will create an unthinkable nightmare for any surviving future generations, I further pledge to continue to act to help resolve this extinction threat and emergency until it is over.
If you have any hesitation about signing this petition, please see this page which discusses the four extinction-evoking global warming tipping points soon arriving!
See Key information about how this petition will be used.
Learn more about the story behind this nonprofit organization's mission and why this petition must go worldwide and be presented to politicians all over the world by clicking here.
When you sign the petition, you are also giving the Job One for Humanity Organization permission to send you critical global warming extinction emergency progress updates about once a month.
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David Lewis posted about Stop Saying "climate change" Pledge on Facebook 2016-07-20 17:15:51 -0700Sign the pledge to Stop Saying "climate change." Instead, say...
Stop Saying "Climate Change" for These Critical Reasons
Words have power. Words can be used to fairly or unfairly frame a discussion to limit and control how the members of that discussion can think about the issues being presented.
This can be done without the members ever knowing that their thinking or options to understand or resolve that issue have been invisibly limited or controlled by outside or invisible forces. Unfortunately, this is precisely what has happened in the framing of today's global warming emergency and discussions.
The fossil fuel industry and its lobbyists have successfully reframed our real global warming extinction emergency. This has dramatically hindered the public's ability to think accurately about this crisis.
They have invisibly reframed the global warming emergency by getting governments, worldwide media, and even many unwitting environmental groups to use or continue to use the innocuous, vague, and relatively calming words "climate change." This is happening in a real crisis when we should be vigorously discussing the real and highly dangerous global warming extinction emergency.
Propaganda in part often redefines or confuses the ordinary meaning of words and concepts to control the target of the propaganda's ability to think or hold specific "undesirable" concepts that the propaganda source does not want to be thought about.
Here is how the fossil fuel industry has successfully redefined the global warming extinction emergency. The fossil fuel industry has redirected the mass public's attention away from the actual real threat and problem, global warming, to something that is not the core threat or problem.
The fossil fuel industry vigorously promotes using the term climate change and not global warming. By doing so, it has turned a scary and real truth that needs to be dealt with on an urgent basis into the nebulous and benign concept that "the climate (weather) is always changing. Exactly the way it has customarily behaved during your whole life."
Because of this intentional misdirection, people feel falsely safe and nothing much is done to deal with the ever-changing processes of our natural climate. Unfortunately, nothing could be farther from the truth!
It's time to do something about this covert theft of our ability to think appropriately about the global warming emergency and its imminent threat to our existence.
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I hereby pledge to stop using the term "climate change" in my daily conversations. Instead, I will use, the global warming extinction emergency, the global warming emergency, escalating global warming, out of control global warming or catastrophic climate destabilization to describe the current escalating increase in the Earth's average global temperature and the ongoing and escalating destruction to our lives and the environment caused by global warming primarily due to our burning of fossil fuels. (It is ok to add the following AKA [also known as] terms [climate change, climate emergency, climate crisis, climate extinction crisis etc.,] after any of those more effective terms. This way your writing gets searched more widely on the Internet because unfortunately, those are the terms now more widely used.
I make this pledge because:
"Climate change" is a misleading term employed by the fossil fuel industry and its advocates to lull the media and the public into a false sense of security. This propaganda is intended to make the global warming extinction emergency seem more benign and non-threatening. It suggests the Earth's climate is always in a natural state of climatic change, rather than global warming's direct causation being from human-caused carbon and methane pollution now threatening the survival of humanity within our lifetimes.
Rising global temperatures are the most serious currently active challenge facing humanity, comparable in scope of impact to global nuclear war if such were to occur.
- The idea of "natural" climate change diminishes the real seriousness of our human-caused escalating global warming extinction emergency and it does not directly implicate our increasing use of fossil fuels, and the resultant carbon and methane pollution, as the primary cause.
I pledge that I will contest fossil fuels corporations and climate deniers misframing and falsely defining the real dangers of global warming by calling it climate change! We are facing an imminent global warming extinction threat and emergency that is already causing devastating losses due to drought, sea-level rise, air pollution, and increasingly severe weather.
I choose to stop using the term "climate change." By my action, I now bring more urgency and clarity to climate discussions by speaking the scientifically proven truth that our Earth is truly now experiencing a global warming extinction emergency caused by human actions.
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(Please note: Our organization does use the term climate change on our website, but only for the purpose to guide people to our website through the climate change search term. In our conversations, we only use global warming-related terms and when we mention climate change on our website we always first mention it with global warming as such, climate change and global warming.)183 signaturesAdd signature
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Probably the most intractable and urgent crisis to the advancement of consciousness is the escalating threat of global warming. We must first recognize, accept, and then act on this state of emergency threat to humanity. Please now join with me, Terry Patten, and Job One for Humanity to sign the Petition to Declare a Global Warming State of Emergency.
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We, the citizens of our nation and of our Earth, are endowed with certain rights, powers, and obligations, which demand we act both individually and collectively to protect and preserve the ongoing evolution of life on Earth, including our future generations.
Based upon a preponderance of scientific evidence we recognize our global climate is rapidly warming and becoming increasingly unstable due to human-caused carbon pollution from the burning of fossil fuels. If we do not change course before global warming tipping points are crossed, this destabilization of our climate will continue to cause ever-increasing suffering and potentially irreversible devastation for both current and future generations. If left unresolved, it could cause the extinction, or near extinction, of the human species.
We further recognize that rapidly escalating global warming and its consequent climate destabilization is the greatest currently active threat to the security of all nations, comparable in scope of impact to global nuclear war. Escalating average global temperature rises will lead to destabilization affecting first millions, then billions of people forced to deal with ongoing climate catastrophes, food and other resource depletion, and mass migrations.
Nearly all of the major problems our world faces today worsen and multiply due to escalating global warming. All of the ecological, economic and political problems listed below will cross-intensify and therefore worsen as average global temperatures rises.
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Despite 30 years of education, study, and discussion about the possible irreversible effects of human-caused carbon and methane pollution of our atmosphere, global warming temperatures have escalated to levels that may have already passed or be close to passing global warming tipping points with impacts that are irreversible. We must immediately reverse the continued rise of average global temperature by decreasing human-caused production of greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels.
Failure to resolve global warming for ourselves and future generations is simply not a survivable option.
As global citizens of every nation on Earth, we ask you, our national leaders, to initiate the necessary steps to formally declare a national and international global warming State of Emergency, calling for the immediate allocation of the needed research, resources, personnel, and interventions to quickly resolve this State of Emergency and sustainably protect, preserve, and advance the continued evolution of humanity and life on Earth.
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The attempt or act to artificially change the price of a security or a market movement with the intent to make a profit. One example is wash selling, in which an investor both sells then quickly re-buys the same security, hoping to create the impression of increased trading volume, and therefore raise the price. Another is churning, in which an investor makes both buy and sell orders through different brokers to create the impression of increased interest in the security and raise the price. Manipulation can be used to both increase and decrease prices, depending on the investor's perceived needs. Manipulation is illegal under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. See also: Antitrust, Fix.


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Business Letter Writing Tips for Engaging Proposal
Engaging letter writing is very beneficial for your business proposal. The word "engaging" here means the writing result you give to another company is potentially gain a positive feedback. It could be the contract deals and other positive impacts. The making of business letter is sometimes confusing if you don't know the proper diction and choosing the best engaging words to your letter. It even sounds silly when you are doing the writing in too formal language and sounds like a robot. In order to make your creation good enough to read and potentially gain a positive feedback, there are some tips to go with.
Starting the writing by introducing who you are and what your company is. Let them know what is your effort so far to develop your own business and company. Plus, it will be more attractive if you put some achievement you have gained previously to proof your commitment to work and show your company's good attitude. Tell them in details but not too long. Nobody in this world likes reading too long documents and company profile. Just give them the brief and engaging opening about who you are actually. Don't forget to put the complete address, phone number, and website if it is available for easy contact purpose.
After that, start to tell them in brief what situation you want to have with your target company. Let them know why you choose them. Explain the details about what benefit you may offer if you have been corporate with them and the benefit must be ultimately special. You have to explain what other companies can not do like yours if they approve your company purpose. Letter writing strategies to market your proposal in this part is crucial since it is the heart of your proposal. If needed, you can even explain why do you over a certain benefit to them. For example "The reason I split the profit into 50:50 is because…bla bla bla". By giving that statement, your targeted company may think deeper that you really have reason to corporate with their company.
The last and the most important, tell them the benefit you can offer in a long period contract. Further your contract logically gives you more benefit, and so does your targeted company must be. By telling them what is your future plan if you are about going to the long period contract the what the benefits follow will finally give them an overview about your readiness to have such program you offer in your letter writing.


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Finally, a pregnant woman who speaks the truth. No endless waxing on about pregnancy being the most magical, amazing experience of her life like some famous women (ahem, Alyssa Milano), but rather Carla Bruni, First Lady of France, says she wants her booze and cigarettes back.
As bluntly as possible, she recently told La Pariseian that being pregnant is driving her crazy:
Frankly, I cannot stand it. I have to stay sitting or lying most of the time, cannot smoke or drink wine. I cannot wait for it to end.
Swap the cigarettes for a cold, lunch meat sandwich, and I was right there with Bruni when I was pregnant. As excited as I was about the babies I was carrying and preparing for them, I also really missed my wine and sandwiches. Nine months is a long time, and besides an occasional sip, I wasn't one to indulge while I was pregnant, so I really missed it.
But when you mention missing vices, some women get all smug and judgey -- how dare you complain about something so trite when you're given the gift of pregnancy. This commenter at BabyCenter pretty much sums up the sort of ridiculous reaction some offer up:
Oh poor baby. To be so completely burdened by the miracle of pregnancy and childbirth. And on top of that, she actually has to make a sacrifice for her child by not drinking or smoking. Wowzers. Some people sure have a tough life…..* rolls eyes *
But pregnancy isn't all one big, warm, fuzzy journey (sorry, it's just not), and it's okay to want things you're not supposed to have. Some would argue it's okay to even have the things you're not "supposed" to have in moderation, but that's another argument for another time.
So I say good for Bruni and her bluntness. Whether they admit it or not, most women likely feel just like she does about something. Maybe it's not alcohol or cigarettes, but there are things we all give up to bear children that we wish we didn't have to, and admitting it doesn't make us bad mothers. It makes us the best kind of mothers -- human.
What did you miss most when you were pregnant?
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On last night's "Daily Show," host Jon Stewart called Rick Perry's now-infamous flub a "brain turd" and, a year before the 2012 presidential election, decided who the Republican presidential candidate would be by default.
"Republicans, you had your chance," Stewart said on the Nov. 10 broadcast. "You didn't want Romney? Too bad! He is the winner! It's over!"
He dubbed Romney's so-called win-by-default "Indecision 2012 Mercy Rule Edition."
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- Oral history with Arghwani Begum, 2015 August 31.
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- Begum, Arghwani, 1922- and Hassan, Fakhra
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- Arghwani Begum was born on 2nd January, 1922 at the Princely State of Sahaspur in Uttar Pradesh. Her mother, Ms Ghafoorunisa was a purdah-observing home-maker. Her father, Mr Samiullah Khan was a Governor of the Princely State of Sahaspur with 22 villages in the Bijnor district under his possession and supervision. Residents of the villages were mainly Muslim, Hindu and Christian families and most of them were farmers, she recalls. "Seasonal crops were grown in the villages with mainly rice, sugarcane, pulses and sesame from what I've seen. A portion of the harvest would come to my father. That was our family's main source of income," she says. The irrigation system for the lands at Sahaspur was well-based. Each village in Sahaspur had its own well.She grew up with three sisters at their haveli (mansion) in Sahaspur. Arghwami Begum is the youngest. Electricity came to Sahaspur in 1934, when Arghwani Begum was 10 years old. "Before electricity arrived in our area, we used to have oil-powered fans," she recalls.Their haveli was segregated into mardana (male) and zanana (female) sections including the living rooms, dining areas and the kitchens, she recalls. "Men and women living in the house were not allowed to trespass into each other's sections," she says. The same rules applied to the servants and the maids, she says. There was a separate building for guests within the haveli and stables for the elephants and the horses as well, and a garage for cars. Food used to be made by the cooks. "We used to have both male and female cooks assigned to the dining areas. The men used to eat outside mainly, while the women ate inside," she recalls. Copper pans and utensils were mainly used for cooking. "On the first or second of every month, they'd be electroplated," Arghwani Begum's clothes, shoes and other household amenities mainly came from Delhi and Muradabad. Jewellers from Delhi used to come to Sahaspur to sell gold and diamond necklaces and earrings as well, she says.Recalling her early childhood days, Arghwani Begum says she was overtly fond of climbing the trees. "I used to get together with my friends and climb the falsa and the morus trees and pluck the fruits." She recalls having many dolls and playing with her friends. "Sometimes we would marry the dolls and enact a proper Indian wedding in their honour. Our mothers used to stitch the wedding clothes for the dolls," she recalls. Most of Arghwani Begum's childhood friends were daughters of farmers from all ethnic and religious backgrounds who used to visit her haveli with their parents quite often, especially during harvest seasons and crops distribution days. "Before I entered my teens, I was officially a boy with no purdah restrictions," she says.She learnt to read and write in Urdu at home. "We used wooden boards to write in Urdu. We'd use two types of bamboo pens, the ones with flat nibs was used for writing alphabets and the ones with narrow nibs were used for punctuation marks and dots," she recounts. Arghwani Begum received her early and advanced religious schooling at home as well. She never went to an academic school of learning. "My father was against it. I grew up on Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi's compilation of Islamic teachings in Urdu called the Bahishti Zewar and the novels of Maulana Nazir Ahmad Dehlvi," she says.In 1935, Arghwani Begum and her family went on their first annual pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia on ship via Karachi. "I used to run around in the ship a lot. We were at sea for 10 days before reaching Mecca. We completed the pilgrimage at Mecca and Medina, and then went to Jeddah. We stayed there for about three months and returned to Karachi via Jeddah," she says.In 1943, she was married into a family from Delhi. "It was a three-month long wedding considering the time-consuming journeys on elephants. The barat stayed at our haveli for seven days," she recalls.By 1947, Arghwani Begum, mother of two children, a daughter and a son, was pregnant with her third child. Recalling events leading up to Partition, she said Hindu-Muslim communal tensions had begun to escalate after May 1940, when the Pakistan resolution was passed. "Before that, there was lot of unity and trust between the Hindus and Muslims. We began to see the effects of the resolution when fighting started to erupt in the villages of Sahaspur," she says.She was 25 years old and at Rang Mehal in Delhi when Partition was announced. She was in her eighth or ninth month of pregnancy. "I really didn't have any clear understanding of what is going on when our boxes were getting packed with valuables and necessities. My family told me that we are moving out of the haveli and nothing else," she recalls.They set out from Sahaspar in the family's motor vehicles with her children, mother-in-law, husband, sister-in-law, uncles and their families for the Purana Qila (Old Fort) of Delhi. "At the Fort, we didn't have a roof to sit under as there were so many families there and it was raining immensely. One of the families at the camp, in charge of pegging tents saw us and immediately pegged a tent around us. Arghwani Begum spent the night there and the next morning went into labour. She gave birth to her third child, a son, at the Old Fort migrant camp at Delhi, a day after Partition. Arghwani Begum's sister-in-law had started crying incessantly after holding her new-born nephew "but I didn't register why", she recalls. "There were no clothes for the baby. He was draped in one of my daughter's frocks," she says.They stayed at the Old Fort for two days and carried on to the Nizamuddin Railway Station in Delhi in the army jeeps that were expected to pick them up. "At the station, while everyone was worried about having something to eat before the train departed, I wanted to get on the train immediately. I hadn't eaten for nearly three days but had no hunger for food. I just wanted the journey to end," she says.During her journey to Lahore from Delhi that started on the 17th of August, her train made stops at various stations. Recalling a night's stay at the Amroha Railway Stop, she says lots of people got off the train in desperation to get water and eatables for the journey but never returned. "At some stations that were downhill, we saw people from the hilly areas rushing towards our train with food and drinks for the refugees for the rest of the journey. It was a relief to see that but I still didn't have the heart to eat or drink anything," she says. As her train continued to move, Arghwani Begum witnessed the massacre of Sikh passengers in a train passing by theirs in the opposite direction. "There were men climbing and entering that train with swords and knives. I saw the sudden commotion and heard their screams and cries of panic. I also witnessed men jumping off that train with their women and girls. It was horrifying." she recounts.Her train finally made it to the Wagah border on the 20th of August but it was not the end of the ordeal as our train had come under attack too. "It was so sudden. We immediately sealed shut the windows of our train with whatever we could get our hands on. My baby almost fainted due to lack of Oxygen in our berth. One of the male helpers in the train helped my baby get some air through the train's main entrance while the killing spree lasted for an uncertain period. There was a lot of people, especially children from many berths of that train had been killed. I saw their bloodied bodies when we finally got out of the train when the assailants had left," she says.From Wagah, Arghwani Begum and her family (mother-in-law, sister-in-law and children) moved to the refugee camp at Walton. They were picked up hours later and shifted to the Davis School which had been temporarily converted into a residence for migrants in poor physical shape. She was reunited with her husband and parents three days later. "They'd discovered our whereabouts through announcements on loud speakers at the railway station," she recalls. From Davis School, Arghwani Begum's family moved to her daughter's future husband's uncle's house in Model Town where they stayed for two-three days.From there, she moved to a small independent house in Model Town's C-Block, once occupied by the Hindu families. "There was a 10-kanal vacant plot next to that house which used to belong to an affluent Hindu landlord. My husband purchased the plot and we had a big house built on it for my children," she says.In the 1950s, her family was allotted some lands at Dera Ismail Khan against their property at Sahashpur by the Pakistani government. "We had no roots or business in Dera Ismail Khan and therefore used those lands for agricultural purposes only," she says. Her mother-in-law expired in 1971 followed by her husband who died of heart failure in 1975. The couple has two sons and four daughters. Two of her daughters are educated and settled in the US. "My husband had left my sons on a solid footing and taught them all there is to know about leading a responsible life. They practically took care of everything after his demise," she says.In 1980, she visited her birthplace in India with two of her daughters Nabahat and Sabahat on train. Her daughter says, "She had practically started shaking and crying as we approached her house. It was very intense for her,"Arghwani Begum currently lives at her husband's house with her maid, one of her sons, daughter-in-law, grand-children, and great-grand-children in Lahore nowadays.
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March 29th, 2011
Adimec also debuted what it calls the industry's first production-ready cameras using the new CoaXPress standard.
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Adimec chose Automate 2011 to showcase its latest cameras, including the Quartz Q-4A180 4-megapixel global-shutter CMOS-based camera. The company said it will also be launching new CMOS Quartz Q series models, which provide true scene capturing at high speeds and resolutions and target inline inspection and metrology applications, and Qs series models, which can serve in cost-sensitive Camera Link Base environments, in the second quarter.
The company also debuted what it calls the industry's first production-ready cameras using the new CoaXPress standard, the OPAL series, available in 1- to 8-megapixel versions.
Speaking at an Automate press conference, David Northup, Adimec's US-based business director, said the company's goal it to partner with customers to optimize for image quality in machine-vision, electronic-manufacturing, semiconductor-inspection, metrology, solar-inspection, and other applications. Marcel Dijkema, Adimec's strategic product manager based in the company's Eindhoven, The Netherlands, headquarters, said the company strives to employ CMOS technology to minimize total cost of ownership. He said that about two years ago, CCDs offered the best image quality while CMOS sensors offered the best speed. The quality gap is changing, though, he said, and CCD advantages with respect to parameters like dynamic range are disappearing.
Adimec has taken several steps to enhance CMOS image quality, Dijkema said, including incorporating flat-field correction to improve uniformity. In addition, the company lets users improve shot-noice performance by up to 12 dB through binning (which improves shot-noise performance while reducing resolution) and averaging (which improves shot-noise performance while reducing throughput).
Dijkema said the company will launch a CoaXPress Dual version of the Quartz Q family next quarter as well as new Camera Link Base Qs models in mono, color, and NIR formats next quarter.
The already available Quartz Q-4A180 cameras combine global shutter CMOS technology with the proprietary Adimec True Accurate Imaging approach to provide speed, accuracy, and consistency comparable to CCD-based cameras, according to Dijkema. The Quartz series combines high-frame-rate sensor technology with high-data-rate connectivity to deliver up to 180 FPS (frames per second) performance, 2048 x 2048 resolution, and, according to Dijkema, a large FOV (field of view) with excellent uniformity and low-noise performance.
The new NIR-capable Quartz camera uses leading-edge CMOS image sensor from CMOSIS. Compared to the standard Q-4A180, the NIR-enhanced version increases the sensitivity above 650-nm wavelengths. NIR, said Dijkema, is an important element in the move from 2-D to 3-D inspection technology and has applications in other visibility-constrained product areas such as outdoor imaging.
Adimec said its Opal series of cameras deliver unparalleled channel matching, linearity, and dynamic range at resolutions between 1 and 8 megapixels at more than 120 FPS. The company said Opal is the first production camera support the CoaXPress standard version 1.0, which allows it to deliver transmission performance up to 3x faster in a single coaxial cable that combines power, general-purpose I/O, commands, and image data and can extend up to 140 meters. The new CoaXPress support adds to existing support of Camera Link and GigE Vision interface options, the company said.
Adimec, http://www.adimec.com/.


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Dear Sam.
Received your letter and I glad to know you're feeling good. I just sent a card ahead of this letter. The United Drug Co. (Liggetts) is having a big time up to Braves field next Wednesday night for the Mass. Volunteer Aid Association. There will be a band concert, fireworks and an aeroplane flight. The 1st Corps Cadets are going to have a night battle and drill. The employees are going to get free tickets so of cause I'll have to be there. By the way the papers speak about it I guess it will be worth taking in. They are having their convention (that is the stockholders from all over the U.S. are coming to Boston) so they ought to make good. I guess Lena and Bert are going too.
Lill Studley is up in Maine on her vacation and I got a postcard from her today. The picture on the card is of the 5 & 10 cent store in Augusta. I've been in that store and I guess you have too. Isn't funny that she should send me a card of a place Ive been. She is stopping at Winsorville (where ever that is).
There was a big fire down on the corner of Park and Henley Sts last night in a barn. 15 horses were burned to death and four were brought out but were so badly burned that they had to be shot. I guess the owner lost all his horses.
I was up to the band concert last night. They had another ice cream sale up there. There was an awful crowd up there. I am staying in tonight and Lena has gone out. Pa gets home at 9 o'clock so I'm staying in to get his supper. It is almost time for him now.
Well I guess I will have to close as this is all I can think of. There is class to your letter paper alright. Hoping this letter finds you well and just waking up from a nice long sleep I will close.
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We all dread ending up like our parents. That fear is no doubt compounded when your 70-something father tells you that he's dying of cancer and gay--really, who wants to face death just as their facing themselves? That's reality for Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer in their new film, "Beginners," a film that may suffer from some narrative problems, but is worth tracking down for some great work from its leads.
McGregor's character, Oliver, tells the story of his father's rebirth and death in flashback, from the perspective of navigating his own budding romance with with Anna (Melanie Laurent), a beautiful French actress he meets one night at a party. Oliver's memories of his father—and to a lesser extent, his mother--give him insight into his relationship with Melanie, while at the same time, his relationship with Melanie sheds light on his father's final years.
Oliver and Hal came of age on opposite sides of a great generational divide. Hal grew up in a country where conservative social mores forced him into the shadows (and sham marriages and bathrooms) of 1950s America. For Hal, however, what stands between him and love are barriers entirely of his own creation; he so fears falling into the type of joyless marriage his parents endured that he sabotages each of his serious relationships.
The film often feels disjointed, with the constant flipping back and forth between the past and the present, photo montages meant to dramatize the similarities and differences between the two generations, and the talking dog--it's difficult for the narrative to achieve any measure of rhythm.
But the acting is so strong from the three principles, and so much of the writing, especially for Oliver's narration, is so good, that the film largely works. "Beginners" is based largely on the experiences of writer-director Mike Mills, whose parents were married for 45 years before his father came out to him, and Mills expertly makes this improbable scenario feel very real.
Mills' greatest error was in standing by while Goran Visnjic developed the character Andy, Hal's much younger boyfriend. Visnjic plays him like a mincing man-child, a near imbecile with whom it's hard to imagine any real spiritual connection, especially for a man like Hal.
For all of "Beginners"'s structural flaws, Mills and his cast still deliver a film filled with moving, thoughtful and funny moments that shed light on how difficult it can be to allow yourself to be happy.
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THEIR STORY: Lou, Donna and Donato Moneta had all become comfortable with being overweight.
"Coming from an Italian family, there was always lots to eat," says Lou Moneta, who was overweight almost his entire life due to lack of exercise and super-size meals. Skipping breakfast and lunch really helped pack the weight on.
"By dinner, I'd be ravenous and eat too much and then not feel like doing anything but sitting on the couch," Lou Moneta says of his average day. "My wife is also a really good cook. Nothing got thrown away because I'd always eat the leftovers."
If a recipe was designed to feed four, Donna Moneta would double it for her family of four.
While their oldest son, Luigi, 22, is slender and can eat whatever he wants, 14-year-old Donato was following in his father's footsteps. He had reached 200 pounds in 2012.
"I was at the doctor and he told me I was overweight," Donato remembers of that conversation in 2012. "I told him, 'What do you expect? My father is fat.' "
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This was one gift Lou Moneta would rather have not given his son.
"I was devastated," Lou Moneta says. "I knew we had to do something."
Losing weight became a family affair for the three. Lou and Donna Moneta decided to use the Medifast meal replacement program. Then last summer, after getting the OK from the pediatrician, they enrolled Donato in Jenny Craig.
"If I hadn't gone along for the [weight-loss] ride, Lou wouldn't have done it," says Donna.
Lou Moneta says he learned how to eat small meals on Medifast, which usually requires users to eat six small meals a day, then slowly works back onto regular foods.
Donato credits his summer of Jenny Craig with teaching him portion control.
"Before, as soon as I had one meal, I was thinking about the next meal I was going to have," says Donato. "I could tell you without looking at the clock when it was noon. Now, I eat when I'm hungry. If I'm not hungry, I don't just eat because it is mealtime. I don't focus on food anymore."
DIET: After years of eating whatever they wanted and a lot of it, the Monetas are conscious that what they put on their plates is healthy. Lou and Donna have transitioned to regular food. Donato eats what the rest of the family eats now. While they can't always sit down together, everyone eats breakfast. Donato starts with a low-calore breakfast sandwich. Lou has a Medifast shake every day, and Donna indulges in half a bagel with 2 percent cheese. Lou's lunch is yogurt and granola, and Donato makes healthy choices at school. Donna has a low-calorie frozen meal for lunch. Three days a week, dinner is a salad and lean protein such as chicken or salmon. They splurge on Saturdays with a takeout Greek meal but rarely go to restaurants. The rest of the week, they stick to lean proteins and vegetables. Donna tries to replace more calorie-laden beef with chicken or turkey when possible. They load up on vegetables and have cut out potatoes, rice and other high-carb foods.
EXERCISE: Lou now attends the Adelphi University Adult Fitness program three nights a week for cardio and resistance training. Donna goes early each morning for classes and then again in the evening with Lou.
ADVICE: "If you have someone to do it [diet and exercise] with, it will be a lot easier," Lou Moneta says. "It also is easier for the person doing the cooking to cook healthfully for the whole family. We all motivate and encourage each other. I don't know if I would have been able to do it on my own."
In addition to cooking healthy meals, Donna Moneta makes sure everyone weighs in every Sunday. "Lou and I also shop together, and we always cook together."
Donato says: "I don't think a kid can do this in a healthy way without his parents' support. I know I couldn't have done it without mine."
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Welcome to ORL Productions!
ORL Productions is a family video business started by ear, nose and throat physician Ben Lounsbury. Our videos promote hygienic behaviors that improve public health at low cost. They are effective because they are entertaining. The videos are ideal for classrooms, workplace health and wellness programs, hospitals, waiting rooms, public health conferences and community gatherings. In other words, any place people can spend five minutes watching a public service message.
All of the videos are dubbed in multiple languages, including Spanish, Canadian French, and American Sign Language (ASL), to reach a wide audience.
The videos are created by Dr. Lounsbury in consultation with his health profession colleagues.
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February is National Children's Dental Health Month January 24, 2012
Each year the American Dental Association sponsors National Children's Dental Health Month to raise awareness about the importance of oral health.
It is a good time to watch "Icky Tooth." You can view it on our site. Click "watch videos." Other activity ideas are available on the web site of the American Dental Association, www.ada.org.
How ORL Began March 1st, 2011
Halloween is the time for "Icky Tooth" . October 20, 2011
It is almost Halloween, the nightmare holiday for tooth decay. Show your children "Icky Tooth" and then watch them brush and floss the candy bits away.
Flu vaccination season is nearly upon us. Teach your employees good hygiene. August 27, 2011
Vaccination is one major leg of flu prevention. The other two are hygienic coughing and hand washing, both of which are taught in Duet for Clean Hands.
Show "Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves?" and "Soap in the City" to your employes to encourage them to get their flu shots and use good hygiene. That's what Exxon did in Papua, New Guinea.
Dispelling common health myths and misperceptions June 27, 2011
It is one thing to be vigilant and mindful of good health practices and another to be paranoid and unessarily fearful.
This new website beyondtalk.net attempts to bust common health myths with extensive content ranging from the threat of global pandemics to everday health issues such as treating alopecia with hair loss shampoo and safety advise for home use laser hair removal products.
CDC recommends our videos April 15, 2011
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended "Why Don't We Do It In Our Sleeves?" and "Soap in the City", saying: "The general public is encouraged to watch these videos to learn more about how they can keep themselves healthy by practicing improved hygiene. Public health professionals can use these videos to raise awareness and educate their community on healthy hygiene behaviors."
View our latest in-production photos! March 24th, 2011
We have posted some photos taken during production of our films to give you a glimpse into the workings of ORL Productions.
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ORL Productions began as the hobby of ear, nose and throat physician Ben Lounsbury who made funny movies for hospital Christmas parties.
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LAX is the international hub for stars in and out of Hollywood, and a few celebrities were among the travelers caught up in the chaos following the deadly shooting at the airport Friday morning.
With time on their hands, they took to Twitter to update fans.
— "At #lax Some (expletive) shot up the place." — James Franco, who included a self-portrait in an airplane window seat. His publicist confirmed the actor was a passenger on a flight that landed Friday morning after the shooting occurred.
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— "Currently waiting on the plane in a remote parking area. I am safe. Praying for the victims of this shooting." — Nick Jonas, who posted moments earlier that the flight he arrived on was set to deplane at the terminal where the shooting occurred.
— "Heard gun shots then everyone starting running for the door. Not sure if anyone was hurt. #LAX" — "Mythbusters" host Tory Belleci posted Friday morning, followed by a series of tweets and photos updating the situation at the airport throughout the afternoon.
— "Almost 4 hrs since the shooting. Still here. 2000+ people. They're handing out waters & snacks. #LAXShooting" — Belleci. Discovery confirmed in a statement that he and Grant Imahara were at terminal 3 on route to Delaware when the shooting occurred.
— "Otw to lax and I hear there was a shooting at the terminal I'm going to. No Dallas for me this weekend, hope everyone is ok. I hate u LAX" — "Glee" star Mark Salling.


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Ah, what a lovely example of theistic incomprehension. Did you know that the reason Christians go to church is out of a sense of civic duty, even when they think church is godawful tedium?
Responsible citizens attend science classes and learn. Have you been keeping up with your obligation to understand the complex world we live in?
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