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"They call me 'Mama Poo'" Anne told me matter-of-factly as we strolled through a dusty pathway in Silanga, a small neighborhood in the expansive Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya. "And I like that," she added.
Anne Nudge is a Sales Representative for Peepoople AB, a Swedish social enterprise that, last October, launched a pilot project in Silanga, marketing and selling "The Peepoo"– a single-use, personal toilet that sanitizes human waste quickly, preventing it from contaminating the surrounding environment. After just a few weeks, the bag transforms the waste into a nutrient-rich fertilizer.
The Peepoo bags, which sell at a subsidized (by PeePoople) cost of three Kenyan Shillings each (four cents), are used at home, then returned to one of two "drop off" points where customers get a one Ksh refund/incentive for returning the bags.
While treated bags may seem a rudimentary, even crude form of sanitation, looking at the alternatives make the solution seem a little less far fetched. The first option for many slum dwellers are the overcrowded, unsanitary, and often unsafe public toilets- simple elevated wooden or tin shacks with holes in the floor- which breed disease and sometimes serve up to 300, even 500 households.
The second, and less attractive option, are "flying toilets," tiny grocery bags that, after usage, are carelessly thrown into the street or alley, where it seeps back into the ground.
The Peepoo solution is quite simple, and for PeePoople's Co-Founder Camilla Wirseen, the choice is clear. You can keep it at home, use it anywhere with relative ease, and it actually strictly adheres to the World Health Organization's definition of sanitation- isolating waste from humans, isolating it from flies and animals, and inoculating the pathogens before it returns to environment.
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It was Admiral John Fisher, the First Sea Lord, was the driving-force behind the development of the Dreadnought that was built at Portsmouth Dockyard between October 1905 and December 1906. The Dreadnought was the most heavily-armed ship in history. She had ten 12-inch guns (305 mm), whereas the previous record was four 12-inch guns. The gun turrets were situated higher than user and so facilitated more accurate long-distance fire. In addition to her 12-inch guns, the Dreadnought also had twenty-four 3-inch guns (76 mm) and five torpedo tubes below water. In the waterline section of her hull, the Dreadnought was armoured by plates 28 cm thick.
The Dreadnought was the first major warship driven solely by steam turbines. The four sets of Parsons steam turbines with a total output of 24,700 h.p. were used. The Dreadnought was also faster than any other warship and could reach speeds of 21 knots. A total of 526 feet long (160.1 metres) the Dreadnought had a crew of over 800 men.
The design of the Dreadnought was so revolutionary that all similar warships were also called Dreadnoughts. The introduction of this new warship resulted in an arms race between Britain and Germany. By 1914 the British Navy had nineteen Dreadnoughts (thirteen under construction), compared with Germany's thirteen (seven under construction). Other fleets with Dreadnoughts at sea by 1914 were: United States (8), France (8), Japan (4), Austria-Hungary (2) and Italy (1).
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International news for oil and gas professionals
On May 24, President Barack Obama visited wind turbine blade manufacturer TPI Composites in Newton, Iowa. While there, he announced that his "to do list" for Congress included extending wind energy's production tax credit.
An editor frets about matters that might escape the notice of someone not professionally engaged with words.
The US oil and gas industry has good reasons to question heavy subsidization by the federal government of vehicles powered partly or wholly by electricity.
The economies of two countries crucial to oil-demand growth are cooling and, in one case, might be worse than indicated by official data.
Oil prices fluctuated widely in mid-September as analysts and traders tried daily to interpret market indicators from a flood of economic data. The result was an energy market responding to hopes and fears more than supply-demand fundamentals.
OGJ's annual list of major upstream megaprojects contains ventures in four more countries than it did in 2011.
Natural gas and oil from unconventional resource plays, rightly characterized as "revolutionary," will supplement but not necessarily dominate a market for transportation fuel that is likely to remain subject to long-term diversification.
Chesapeake Energy Corp. and most other companies having stakes in Ohio's Utica shale say they remain optimistic about the emerging play's potential, but one company, EnerVest Ltd., has said it wants to sell some of its Utica holdings.
ExxonMobil Corp. agreed to buy Bakken formation assets in North Dakota and Montana covering 196,000 net acres from Denbury Resources Inc. for $1.6 billion.
US Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND) said he will introduce a bill, the Empower States Act, to ensure that states remain primary regulators of hydraulic fracturing and similar oil and gas activities.
Former Wyoming Gov. Dave Freduenthal (D) urged the two major parties' presidential nominees to more specifically outline their energy policy plans if they win the 2012 election.
At the heart of the Marcellus shale natural gas development debate in Pennsylvania lies a basic question that John H. Quigley feels hasn't been satisfactorily answered: Does gas drilling make people sick?
US Sens. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) introduced a bill on Sept. 20 designed to expand the use of carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery. S. 3581 would modify a federal carbon capture and storage tax incentive that provides a $10/ton credit for CO2 used in EOR and $20/ton for CO2 placed directly into secure geological storage.
Four US House Energy and Commerce Committee members—Republicans Pete Olson (Tex.) and Marsha Blackburn (Tenn.) and Democrats Gene Green (Tex.) and Jim Matheson (Utah)—introduced a bill designed to eliminate fraud in the federal Renewable Fuel Standard's biodiesel program.
Western-led sanctions against Iran's oil exports aiming to push Tehran to return to negotiations on uranium enrichment have displaced from the market more than 1 million b/d of crude oil, distorting market fundamentals and affecting prices, according to the Centre for Global Economic Studies (CGES), London.
US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, decreased by 4.3% in August from a year earlier to 18.6 million b/d, according to the latest monthly statistics from American Petroleum Institute.
Global LPG trade, generally supply-driven in the past and likely to continue to be, is nonetheless seeing sharp changes in its dynamics, according to a report recently compiled by FACTS Global Energy, Honolulu.
This is the third of three parts on the potential of domestic unconventional shale oil and gas production to displace oil imports to the US.
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US refining industry's compliance with the current Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) appears impossible in the near future and could result in massive fines by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
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Joanne Salcedo, 23, has been chosen to represent her native Flushing in the 2012 Miss New York USA pageant. She's now seeking sponsors to help her cover the entry fee.
A full-time grad student also employed full-time, this 5 feet 5 inch bombshell hopes to balance modeling ambitions with a career in school counseling.
Salcedo was born in Flushing and raised Catholic by a tight-knit Dominican family. Her parents, Jose and Anna, emigrated to New York from the city of Moca, Dominican Republic. She lives with her parents and two younger brothers. She also has an older sister, Diane, 27, who she calls her "other half."
"I'm very attached to my roots and where I'm from," Salcedo said of her Dominican traditions and native Flushing.
She used to summer in the DR before enrolling at Queens College, where she earned a bachelor's degree in psychology in 2010. Now she's working towards a master's in school counseling at St. John's University. Salcedo and her siblings are the first generation in her family to be college-educated.
"I've always been interested in helping people. And psychology, the mind and how it works — why we behave certain ways. I was just drawn to it from the beginning," she said.
She saw counseling as "a middle ground" between her desire to teach children and her deep interest in psychology.
Salcedo was also drawn to fashion growing up, especially the world of Victoria Secret Angels like Tyra Banks and Adrian Lima. She'd like to model on the runway or in commercials, but she's not too picky.
Salcedo didn't go searching for her first modeling shoot, the gig found her. Her colleagues at Scent-sation, a home furnishings warehouse in Woodside where she's worked as an administrator for two years, urged her to model for the packaging of one of there products, the Sleep Pocket.
Her sister Diana, who acts as her talent manager, has encouraged her since she was small to be a beauty queen. With a BA in the bag, Salcedo was finally ready this year to turn a dream into reality.
"I like the whole idea of the pageant because it links not only into my modeling ambitions, but also into my field, which is helping. They really encourage fundraising and charities and all that stuff. I kinda gravitated towards that instead of just modeling."
In addition to modeling and counseling, Salcedo is involved in philanthropy. She and her sister helped raise $28,000 selling raffle tickets at a charitable golf outing. The money went towards education scholarships and breast cancer treatment. She also worked for Americorps while at Queens College, painting schools, tutoring children and distributing donated Christmas gifts at Brooklyn schools.
Now that she's a candidate for Miss New York, Salcedo and her family are busy getting the word out and finding sponsors to donate towards her $2,000 entry fee. Fliers, business cards, even glow-in-the-dark rubber support bracelets ordered in bulk by her boyfriend (sorry fellas, she's taken).
"My entire family is super supportive of me," she said. "They're so enthusiastic and they help promote me all the time. They're really into it."
She appeared on Dominicanyorktv.com, and her uncle even got her on television and radio in the DR, where she has a fan base.
"I have like a group of cheerleaders, it's crazy. I'm really fortunate," Salcedo said.
Salcedo recently won a style contest held by fashion firm Notre Mode, which offered her a private photo shoot. Her other pageant sponsors include Babylon Honda, Soka Trading and Papazzio Restaurant in Bayside.
Over 100 gorgeous young candidates will compete for the Miss New York USA title, judged in three categories: evening gown, swimwear and an interview.
Salcedo's gowns — designed by her cousin Lidiana Moronta — await cutting and sewing. Salcedo says they match her style: "simple but fashionable, sexy but elegant … with neutral colors."
Some candidates are representing landmarks like the Statute of Liberty and Fashion Avenue instead of neighborhoods or towns. Vanessa Bontea, 24, of Rego Park, is representing Queens College.
After obtaining her master's, Salcedo plans to help children overcome educational, social and emotional barriers as a school counselor. She'll also pursue a modeling career.
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Tallie Crossman always wanted a princess room, and the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona granted her wish with a $7,000 donation from Betty Crocker.
Tallie Crossman was speechless when she opened the door Tuesday to get a first look at her new princess bedroom makeover.
The Chandler 5-year-old was mesmerized with the pint-sized pink vanity table with strands of jewelry in the drawers. She picked up the princess picture frame and hugged it.
SLIDESHOW: Tallie sees her new room
Tallie looked wide-eyed at the gold crown jutting out from the wall, in the middle of a castle and Disney character mural, with pink tulle that flowed down to her pink, princess bed. She cuddled the gold, crown pillow while laying down on her new luxurious pink and tulle comforter with bows on the side.
"This is where I'm sleeping?" Tallie asked her mom excitedly. "I got a new night light?"
The glittery pink sign above her closet, "A dream is a wish your heart makes," summed up Tallie's experience.
Tallie always wanted a princess room, and the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Arizona granted her wish with a $7,000 donation from Betty Crocker.
The Betty Crocker Stirring Up Wishes program and the Make-A-Wish Foundation help grant the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to bring hope, strength, and joy to their lives, according to a statement.
It was a nice surprise for a little girl who has already dealt with so much in her short life.
When Tallie was 3 years old, she started vomiting, losing her balance and wasn't able to hold anything in her hands.
Doctors discovered a baseball-sized cancerous tumor near her brain stem, and she underwent four surgeries and months of chemotherapy to fight the cancer, said Tallie's mom, Geneva Bowen.
Tallie is doing really well now, and only has to deal with a small limp on her left side, which happened after suffering a seizure following a surgery, Bowen said.
"She's just a typical kindergartner," Bowen said, adding Tallie goes to D.W. Higgins Institute charter school in Tempe. "Her (five) brothers didn't treat her any different. She is ecstatic since her chemo stopped because she doesn't want to get poked."
Volunteers worked on her room since last Thursday, and Tallie and her family got to see her new room for the first time Tuesday. They also held a surprise party for her with all the volunteers.
"Oh, I love it," Bowen said. "It's amazing. A lot more than what we could have done."
Disney store volunteers painted the room and assembled the furniture in the 11-by-11 foot bedroom.
Volunteer wish granter Adrienne Shumway of Scottsdale designed the room in eight weeks, and she and wish granter Jeffrey Stelter of Mesa worked 12-hour days to get the room ready. The room would have cost about $10,000 without the donations, Shumway said.
"The room is spectacular," said Shumway, whose mom, Greta Shumway, is also a Make-a-Wish volunteer. "It's the ultimate princess room. Everyone wants to be 5 again when they see the room."
Contractors donated time and services, and local companies donated the wood laminate floors, custom bed, window treatments, blinds and paint.
"If anyone deserves it, that little girl does," said Tallie's grandmother, Shauna Wickes of Maricopa.
Tallie especially liked the dimmer switch, which she played with while admiring her new chandelier against the purple walls. She asked if all the fancy costumes, shoes, dolls and snow globes in the closet and shelves were hers, too.
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty
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Full Video of The Independent Institutes 2011 25th Anniversary Gala for Liberty held November 15, 2011.
Part 1: Introductory Remarks and Tribute to Robert Higgs
Part 2: Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa
Part 3: History of The Independent Institute and Fund for the Future
Part 4: Tribute to Lech Walesa
Part 5: Special Tributes, Sponsors, and Credits
Experts: Leszek Balcerowicz, Price V. Fishback, Robert Higgs, Ron Paul, Jorge Quiroga, David J. Theroux, Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, Mario Vargas Llosa, Lech Wałęsa, Yuri Yarim-AgaevType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Government Power, History (International), History (U.S), Latin America, Nationalism, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Politics, Privatization, Property Rights, Terrorism and National Crises
A Gala for Liberty: The Independent Institutes Gala Reception and Dinner
Recorded: Tuesday, September 16, 2008
On September 16, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, actor and director Andy Garcia, and entrepreneur William K. Bowes, Jr. were honored at the Independent Institutes A Gala for Liberty. Each honoree received the Alexis de Tocqueville Award in recognition of their contributions to advancing the ideas and ideals of liberty, entrepreneurship, innovation, and peace.
Experts: William K. Bowes, Jr., Andy Garcia, Archbishop Desmond M. TutuType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Culture/ Society, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Economic History and Development (International), Free Market Economics, Government Power, History (International), Latin America, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Race Issues, Religion
The Secret to Making Poor Nations Rich
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For decades, efforts to end world poverty have focused on redistributing wealth, rather than creating it. This approach, however, has done little to foster long-term economic progress in Africa.
Experts: George B. N. Ayittey, Benjamin W. Powell, Alvaro Vargas LlosaType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Economic History and Development (International), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics, History (International), Latin America, Nationalism, Property Rights, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes, Trade
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For millennia, farmers all over the world have bred crops for their resistance to disease, productivity, and nutritional value. Today, few topics have the power to inspire as much international furor and misinformation as the development and distribution of genetically altered foods.
Experts: Bruce N. Ames, Henry I. MillerType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Agriculture, Business, Environment, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Science


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His doctrine in the Emerald Tablet says that all things are an adaptation or an extension of the "One Thing" which is God. He deals with the hidden that is behind energy, soul, spirit and the mysteries of matter. This concept can be seen at the foundations of many religions and philosophies from antiquity. As we learn of each new form of expression for Hermes, our personal awareness, vision and understanding expands.
It would seem from the many varied accounts in history that Hermes has expressed himself through whatever form necessary to expand our understanding of the universe. The expansion always involves our own personal relationship with God and sheds Light on a vast universe that is far beyond human comprehension. It involves initiation and movement to higher levels of understanding and consciousness.
In three specific instances, he was considered to be an aspect of God who took on "light" body and physical embodiment; each time reconnecting with his life's work from before, and furthering his contributions into our discovery of the nature of man and the structure of the universe.
The first was Thoth. The Egyptians believed he was the son of Agathodaimon and God of all learning and hidden knowledge. He was said to be responsible for teaching men how to interpret things, arrange logical patterns of speech and write down their thoughts. He was inventor of Egyptian hieroglyphics and record keeping. He founded the sciences of mathematics, astronomy and medicine. He represented the archetype of the "Word of God" or "Source of The Word".
He is without any predecessor or parents. The power of His will emanates through His words and then comes to pass. What he says, He literally speaks it into existence.
There has been reference to Him in the Ebers Papyrus, a 68 ft long scroll on alchemy, and which has been called the oldest book in the world. Thoth is the "Revealer of the Hidden" and the "Lord of Rebirth". He is higher mind and inner knowledge. He provides guidance into alternate states of consciousness and enlightenment for mankind. He provides a roadmap for us to become integrated with God. As our guide to alternate levels of consciousness, He embodies the rational powers of the Sun (masculine nature) as well as the intuitive, irrational powers of the Moon (feminine nature). Thoth is the "recorder and balancer" and oversees the "weighing of the heart" ceremony to determine who will enter heaven. He also wrote in a scroll called the "The Book of Breathings" how humans become Gods through alchemy of the spirit.
As the archetype of Hermes above, Thoth had allegedly hidden the sum of all knowledge and the Emerald Tablet inside two pillars for safety before the Great Flood. One was at Heliopolis and the other at Thebes. The pillars were said to be protected by a heavenly vault that could only be accessed by the worthy who would be sure to oversee and protect this great knowledge for humanity. According to Dr. Livingston a well known scholar, the great flood most likely took place somewhere around the year 3000 B.C. There are accounts from many sources including Eastern Scripture and the Bible. This lifetime has been documented as far back as records can go and stem from antiquity.
Incidentally, Jewish mystics identify Thoth with Seth the second son of Adam from the Bible. They credit Seth as writing the Emerald Tablet and hiding it in a cave near Hebron, to be later discovered by Sarah the wife of Abraham. The Torah mentions seven universal laws to be given to mankind very much like the Emerald Tablet and other writings by Hermes.
Some evidence from Arabia indicates Thoth as associated with Idris of the Koran whom God took bodily into heaven. Idris was also associated with the one who the Hebrews called Enoch in the Jewish Old Testament. Enoch (the initiated) is portrayed in Genesis as an angelic being who could travel through the many dimensional realms much like our accounts of Thoth and Hermes. Legend has many other accounts of possible embodiment of the Thrice Great Trismegistus and archetype around this time. Enoch is identified also with Archangel Metatron who deals with the structure of the universe and revealer of the Holy Cabala. The "Sepher Yezirah" of the Holy Cabala tells us that all of creation emanates from the thoughts of the One Mind, just like the Emerald Tablet and the symbology is used in initiations by the Order of the Golden Dawn, a system known as Enochian Magic.
The second main life was that of an Egyptian pharaoh born as Amenhotep IV meaning "Amen is Satisfied". This was after the Great Flood and about 1351-1334 B.C. lasting about 17 years. The God "Amen" was celebrated as it is in Amen Ra' (God) and also at the end of modern prayers today," Amen". There are many interesting facts about this life. After he came to power, he changed the religious structure from worshiping many Gods to worshiping the "One Thing" he called the Sun God (the disk). "The One Thing" was formless and subtle accept when we put thought to the rays, and then it takes shape. Because of this, he was called "The Heretic Pharaoh", making a complete break with tradition.
He changed his name to Akhenaton now celebrating the God "Aten". He was androgynous in appearance. Statues show him with an elongated head and fine facial features, a thin neck and drooping shoulders, a pear shaped body with thin weak legs and no male genitals with breasts like a woman. Perhaps he was a homosexual or a woman pretending to be a man. He has been called "The Extraterrestrial King" for his appearance. He had two co-rulers, both called "Beauty of all Beauties" Nefertiti and Smenkhkare. It is thought that Akhenaton rediscovered information from Hermes Tristmegistus and The Emerald Tablet to enable him to complete the pyramid of Cheops.
He introduced the radical concept of "living in truth" and acting in accordance with principals of "The One". Both He and Nefertiti suddenly were mysteriously gone at the end of his reign. There is speculation that they were murdered. Akhenaton was replaced by the ten year old boy named Tutankaten. The name was changed to Tutankhamen (servant of Amen). This was the start of the reign of the boy king, "King Tut". The old religions were reinstated and all signs of monotheism were removed. Old legend says that the Thrice Great Hermes gave the Emerald Tablet to Miriam, the sister of Moses to be placed in the Ark of the Covenant for safety.
After conquering Egypt in 332 B.C., history next records Alexander the Great crossing the Libyan Desert to an ancient temple in Siwa to find the tomb of Hermes nearby. He felt he was destined to reveal the ancient secrets and took the contents to Heliopolis, placing the Emerald Tablet on public display. Copies of the Emerald Tablet then traveled through Arabia and on to Spain and Europe to spite the destruction when the libraries at Alexandria were burned. This brings us to the third great life of Hermes Thrice Great.
A young man named Balinas had meditated with the tomb of Hermes Thrice Great since the age of fourteen. The tomb was located just outside the town of Tyana in Cappadocia now known as Turkey. At sixteen he read the inscriptions once again and took the messages literally. One message said "Behold! I am Hermes Trismegistus, he who is threefold in wisdom…" The other said, "Let him who would learn and know the secrets of creation and nature, inquire beneath my feet". At once, Balinas dug down and found a cavern with the mummified remains of Hermes, with four books, and with original writings from Hermes; plus in his hand was the Emerald Tablet. From this time, Balinas traveled and taught the meditation process and initiations of Hermes Thrice Great. He traveled through North America, Spain and Europe and beyond to India sharing his teachings and healing. His closest friends knew that he would bi-locate himself from time to time and he spent the rest of his life in enlightenment and at one with the "One Thing" in meditation.
The differing accounts would suggest that there were more than one Hermes, the earlier being the same as the Roman God Mercury. The Gnostics have taught that we can develop direct knowledge of inner truth and "All is One" is their realization. Enoch from the Bible has the same qualities as Hermes Thrice Great moving from one dimension to another. Many Hindus believe Hermes was Buddha. Concepts are similar to Taoism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, also, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Hermes Thrice Great may very well have threads of existence in many more places than we have realized in the past.
The ancient Rosetta Stone was text written on a rock slab (a granodiorite stele) dating back to 196 BC. It was a decree issued on behalf of King Ptolemy V in Memphis, Egypt. In addition, fragments have been found that were dated back to 238 BC that were part of the same decree, the Decree of Canopus. The Rosetta Stone contains three scripts of the same document, the Emerald Tablet. This adds further credence to the legends of Thrice Great Hermes of antiquity. Also, it was able to give scholars a chance to compare ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, Egyptian Demotic script which was expanded with Greek, and ancient Greek. The earlier language of hieroglyphics had ceased to be used. This enabled historians to begin to understand hieroglyphics and make future translations possible.
Hermes Trismegistus stated on his tomb, "Behold! I am Hermes Trismegistus, he who is threefold in wisdom." He represents to us the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. The first is SPIRIT, the Sun (our rational, masculine nature). The Second is "CONSCIOUSNESS," which is Soul (our unseen connection to God). The third is "FORM", the Moon (our irrational, intuitive and feminine nature).
The main realization presented is that the creative energies of the "One Thing", the one God, are subtle and permeate all dense matter. By sympathy and feeling physical matter, we can raise it to very high and rarified levels of "The One" by using our imagination. We can then feel the high creative energies that everything has come from, and imagine bringing those back down with it. The creative energies have no form until our mind becomes one with the "One Thing" on a spiritual axis. Then suddenly, we are one with the "One Thing" on the highest levels for healing and transformation. This is the basis for personal alchemy in our lives.
In speaking with mind, Hermes Trismegistus tells us of the levels of creation:
We call ourselves into alignment with the Hermes descending levels of creation; God is everywhere and is our Highest Source. Highest Source contains the level of Aeon within, Aeon contains Mind, Mind contains the level of Cosmos, Cosmos contains Universe, and Universe contains our Planetary System with all the energies for life within. We feel and sense our connection with the Highest and move back down, returning to earth level. We give thanks for our alignment and the blessings on all levels!
Much of this information comes from a book The Emerald Tablet by Dennis William Hauck. I strongly recommend more in-depth study since the subject is so complex. The author also has an article on the internet entitled, "A Hyper-History of the Emerald Tablet.
Another great source is, Thrice Greatest Hermes a trilogy written by G.R.S. Mead discussing the levels and structure of all creation.


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Why Europe Still Matters
"The nations and people of Europe are closest to the United States in their values...and their willingness to work with us on behalf of our substantial common strategic interests," writes Alberto Coll.
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Over the past decade it has become fashionable to write off Europe and downgrade its importance to American interests. The arguments are familiar. Supposedly, Europe is an economically declining and politically dysfunctional entity of increasing strategic irrelevance in a world where the likes of China, India, and Brazil should be accorded a much higher priority. The implication is that the United States should pay less attention to Europe and reduce the diplomatic and political resources it allocates to our transatlantic relationships, including NATO, even as we look for closer alliances with the new rising states. Europe's current economic woes have only reinforced this view. The post-1945 vision in which Europe was America's vital ally—and in which the United States actively encouraged closer European integration—has given way to a mixture of indifference, skepticism, and outright bipartisan condescension toward Europe and its apparent inability to get its act together.
While Europe's relative global standing is gradually shrinking as the new emerging economies of Asia and Latin America grow, it would be a mistake for the United States to neglect a group of closely connected countries—members of the European Union—whose combined GDP equals that of the United States and whose population numbers close to half a billion people. Geopolitically, Europe also happens to sit right next to three important countries and regions that are capable of generating serious security and economic complications for the United States: Russia, the Middle East, and North Africa. When the Obama administration launched its "reset" of relations with Russia, it found European policy toward Russia highly supportive because of Europe's own interest in a stable, peaceful Russia that is drawn closer, however slowly, to the West. Throughout the Arab Spring, and especially with regard to Libya and Syria, the United States has found Europe tremendously useful and its policy in full agreement with our own. As President Obama has grappled with the question of how to deal with an Iran bent on acquiring nuclear weapons, no bloc of nations has been more supportive of American strategy than the European Union. Whether in tightening oil sanctions against Iran, cutting off Iranian financial institutions from the vital Europe-based SWIFT financial network, or increasing the pressure on Iran at the UN Security Council, Europe has been more valuable to the United States than anyone else. Indeed, on issues of grand strategy and global governance, Europe is closer to the United States in its outlook and long-term interests than anyone else in the world.
President Obama has had to learn this the hard way. Early in his tenure he tried to bridge the substantial gap between China and the United States by proposing what his predecessor also attempted: a "strategic partnership." The Chinese rebuffed Obama, as they rebuffed President Bush. While China wants stable relations with the United States, the two great powers do not see eye to eye on most major issues of international relations, including the United States' policy of balancing Chinese power in the Asia Pacific, threats posed by North Korea and Iran, the rules of global trade, human rights, climate change—you name it. India, Brazil, and South Africa, all of them robust democracies, are not much closer to us than China on most of these vital issues.
It is true that the world is changing as new power centers emerge, and that Europe will be relatively less powerful in 2030 than it is today. But that will be true of the United States, too. (China's GDP is expected to surpass that of the United States sometime between 2018 and 2025.) How should a relatively less dominant United States seek to shape and influence the international order of the 21st century? One path, attempted by the Bush administration a decade ago, is for the United States to strike it on its own. It did not work in 2003, no more than it worked at the height of America's power during the Cold War when the United States understood it needed allies. Unilateralism will work even less today, when the United States is unable by itself to alter any significant strategic outcomes. Another option, dear to the Europe bashers, is to find a new strategic partner to replace the Europeans, but neither the Chinese, nor the Indians or Brazilians are the least interested. That leaves us with Europe. In a world of seven billion people and vastly different cultures and civilizations, the nations and people of Europe are closest to us in their values, their preferred rules for global governance, and their willingness to work with us on behalf of our substantial common strategic interests.
In spite of its limitations, Europe remains our single most useful and most important ally. To ignore this is the grandest form of strategic self-delusion.


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1506 Mount Vernon Street #2F, Philadelphia PA - Trulia
The above studio apartment on Mt. Vernon St. also has a utility loft that's being used as a sleeping area.
The labor market works out when neither the management nor the labor has a significant power advantage over the other side. Then you get good balanced wages and profitability. The problem is that the power balance in Philadelphia is out of whack, and it's in the favor of the labor. That means businesses can't justify the costs of the labor here, and we end up with the stagnant economy we have.
Today on my way to lunch I encountered a union goon on the corner of 20th & Chestnut handing out flyers related to the "Post Brothers." I threw the flyer away, but there were some pretty ridiculous claims about the Post Brothers storing and smuggling heroine and cocaine. Incredible (or is it, knowing them) they would resort to these tactics- perhaps a defamation lawsuit against the union is in order? The individual was even wearing union clothing to indicate that he was representing the union.
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If any of you see trades guys giving out handbills over the Pestronk flap, please don't toss them... SCAN them and email them over to email@example.com
Claims of the Pestronk Bros being heroine and cocaine smuggers definitely sets a new low they haven't bested since they photoshopped Carrie Pestronk sucking a cock.
They want work at a good wage, are the best trained, and they walk the talk.
They've passed out some nasty accusations at 12th and Wood too, hel1 they've even posted some on their banners. If you could even pinpoint which union they belong to (Local XYZ), none of their fliers are printed on union letterhead.
They're thugs. The clear, plain and simple definition of a common thug.
It's funny, the second a friend of a friend of someone a Pestronk brother went to prom with were to reveal she smoked pot in 11th grade, Philly.com would post it on their front page and the Union's buddies in City Council would launch a full scale investigation.
They live in a fantasy world, one I'm not sure exists in their head or New Jersey. And City Council and the media seem to live somewhere in the vicinity of that rabbit hole. It's certainly nowhere near Vine Street.
Where's the media when these slanderous fliers are being passed around? Where's City Council when these illegal signs are haphazardly thrown up in Center ****ing City? Oh right, they're telling citizens they'll be arrested for vandalism if they attempt to remove the illegal signs.
Do the unions really provide the city so much revenue that City Hall needs to keep kissing their a$ses? Do they really account for enough votes to stay relevant?
If message boards and comments are any indication, no, not at all. As far as the city seems concerned, unions are just the bully you learn to live with.
While reasonable individuals occasionally defend the existence of unions, I have yet to meet one who defends these slanderous tactics.
I can't wait for this ****ing building to be finished and prove once and for all that a building - at least one building - can be built without a bunch of overpriced flab from the suburbs crying about "community standards."
Not one person in this community has complained about the Post Brothers. If anyone's keeping Callowhill a catbox it's the guys watching over their dearly beloved bandit signs atop the Expressway, their buddies in City Council who support them for seemingly no reason, and the media who's discovered that any article with the word "union" in it is a gold mine in ad sales.
The Post Brothers really have everyone fooled.
It's a shame that reasonable people let their emotions cloud their judgement.
You people have so much hate for the unions (admittedly they did not help their cause) that you cannot open your eyes up to the reality of Post.
If I told you people that despite what the Post Brothers say, they in fact DO NOT employee a majority Philadelphia work force.
If I told you people that despite what they say, that in fact their employee's DO NOT all have OSHA training.
If I told you all that the majority of their workforce works "off the books", pay ZERO TAXES and contribute NOTHING to Philadelphia..........
Would anyone here believe me????
What if I told you all that the majority of their workforce are all "questionable" in their citizenship status?
How about the relationship they have with L&I ???? How about that those steps are a clear violation of the uniform construction code? The very same code that the city has adopted and claims to enforce.
How about the fact that they are clearly advertising the "lofts" as living spaces, yet the approved prints (that are available to the public) make absolutely no mention of any loft living space? In fact, when this very point was brought to L&I's attention, they claimed that the "lofts" are "utility spaces" and that the steps were only access for workers....
The inspector that made this call is a known gambler with a paper trail of financial problems years long. I'll spare his name on this forum........
If I told all you people that I CAN PROVE all of this would any of you believe me????
Can I make blanket statements and pass them off as facts with out any proof just like the Post Brothers?
Who are you all gonna blame when the Pestronks get hauled off to prison for fraud and tax evasion?
I'm 1000% for immigration reform. The fact is, the Post Brothers are exploiting illegal immigrants. I've witnessed it first hand. Why use citizens who are protected by law when you can hire people who are not here legally? I'll tell you why....So you can pay them in cash, avoid overtime, city wage, state, and federal taxes. Workers Compensation and Unemployment benefits. This is what the Post Brothers do. They are pimps.
Some days there were over a hundred people working in that building. There are only TWO legit companies on site. The rest are all paying people either cash in an envelope, OR are writing personal checks via a 1099 scam. Do you realize how much money in missing taxes that is each week?


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Without new leaders ready to take over for those who resign, retire or are let go, business performance can suffer.
High-profile leadership departures from some of the world's largest and best known organizations seem to be in the headlines almost daily lately. Consider the much-publicized senior leadership departures such as Ron Johnson from Apple and Ann Livermore from Hewlett Packard in June and Jonathan Rosenberg from Google in April, to name a few. It appears that boards, investors, analysts, media and even general management are dissatisfied with the quality and scope of succession planning. And as research conducted by the American Management Association (AMA) Enterprise highlights, this dissatisfaction comes with good reason.
As many as one in five organizations are unprepared to deal with the sudden loss of key leaders, according to an online survey of 1,098 senior managers and executives conducted in December by AMA Enterprise. Only 14 percent said they were well prepared, while 61 percent are somewhat prepared (Figure 1).
The findings point to a looming management succession crisis among Canadian and American companies. Only a small minority of organizations seem ready to manage a top-level succession in an emergency, which means most companies are taking huge risks by failing to address their bench strength issues.
Without new leaders identified to fill the gaps of those who resign, retire or are let go, business performance likely will suffer. Objectives get put on hold, development dollars can be misdirected and customer satisfaction may wane, or worse, customers may start to wander to competitors.
The survey data provide an unvarnished perspective of current management succession preparedness. Respondents didn't hesitant to share their thoughts on the issue. Only 3 percent claimed to not have an opinion.
Similarly, survey respondents were critical of their organization's leadership pipeline. Less than half believe their company's bench strength is even adequate, and only 10 percent think it is robust (Figure 2).
Planning for a smooth management succession is more critical than in previous years, according to the findings. A significant majority of respondents — 71 percent — said these transitions are more important now than in the past, 27 percent said smooth succession is about the same in importance, and less than 1 percent said they think it's less important. Yet, despite that 71 percent, many organizations neglect to sufficiently plan for sudden leadership departures.
The survey findings are not surprising. Getting top leadership to focus on management succession is a perennial challenge. Even great leaders may not want to consider a worst-case scenario. Further, finding, growing and retaining leadership in waiting is not easy. It requires continual effort, dedicated resources and efficient execution on a programmatic and strategic level.
Thanks to the recession, senior management has been focused on cost cutting and survival for the past several years. But now it's time for leaders to invest in employees who will create organizational sustainability and competitive advantage, which must be based on talent. Having the best people in pivotal leadership roles, prepared to step in at any time, is essential for future success and to avoid the performance issues that follow sudden key leadership departures.
Yet, according to the AMA Enterprise study data, many North American companies seem to be at odds about whether or not they should embark on succession management strategies. As many as one in three organizations is considered genuinely committed to succession planning, the survey found, while for another 43 percent, the commitment is merely intermittent. Further, 14 percent of companies think senior management is just paying lip service to this type of succession planning (Figure 3).
Talent managers may want to bring these findings to senior management's attention. Not only is there little consensus on what succession planning actually is, or even what it ought to be, this uncertainty also comes at a time when the overwhelming majority of companies are grappling with the competitive nature of a global economy and fast-changing business conditions. Smooth management succession is more important than ever before.
The ambivalence to succession planning is reflected in the data by the degree to which companies promote from within. While 43 percent report they seldom recruit from outside the organization, one-third often does (Figure 4).
The data seems to indicate leadership commitment to succession planning as a business imperative is lackluster at best. Fourteen percent of respondents said their senior leadership is not committed at all to promoting from within. Some 51 percent say leaders are somewhat committed, and 32 percent of firms surveyed said their senior management was very committed. Further, 23 percent of respondents believe succession planning to be the sole responsibility of HR, which may mean respondents think someone else should have ownership of succession practices. Whoever manages succession, this talent-driven process should align with strategic objectives. But according to survey data only 8 percent of respondents' organizations actually do so (Figure 5).
The most robust succession management programs develop leaders throughout the organization and focus beyond the top level of executives. People often stay with an employer and are more engaged and committed to function at optimum performance levels when they are developed. Employees need to see the role they can play in the organization's future and know how they can best contribute. Further, they need to know their contributions are valued, and that they have a place within the organization's strategic growth plans.
When the leadership pipeline is strong, deep, wide, well-defined and well-communicated, it is considerably easier to promote from within and enhance overall employee engagement, reduce turnover and the inevitable costs due to lost productivity associated with acculturating new hires.
Organizations have been preoccupied with survival strategies and cost cutting. It's now time for them to play catch up in talent retention and development efforts, and an effective management succession plan is integral to achieving this. Top people will stay if they are valued, have meaningful development opportunities and see potential for advancement. On the other hand, ignoring the need to build a leadership pipeline sends a loud message that current employee talent is taken for granted. That's why the strongest employees may look elsewhere for their next career step.
Talent managers need to elevate this issue to senior management and get their buy-in and participation. Succession plans often fail without support and commitment from the senior leadership team.
Sandi Edwards is a senior vice president at AMA Enterprise. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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Hotels.com recently got in on the augmented reality craze by creating a touristy app that let's see hold different cities across the U.S. It's truly a gimmick, but in these early days of AR it seems that is enough to get some attention.
Even though this app won't ever affect my using Hotels.com, it may actually be enough to keep some people interested a few minutes longer.
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Man flashes gun in apple farm parking fight
Updated On: Sep 16 2013 06:06:20 AM EDT
Londonderry police responded to Mack's Apples Saturday afternoon after receiving a report of a man with a gun.
Police said two men were looking for a parking spot when one cut off the other, triggering an argument. Authorities said the man who lost the spot got out of his car and started banging on the vehicle, which prompted the driver to show a gun.
Authorities said the man then started yelling he was being threatened with a gun and employees gathered people in the store and locked its doors.
Police have not made any arrests in the incident, and would not confirm if the gun was registered.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Teachers and students work together to investigate conservation issues, propose solutions, and take meaningful action.
Students should prepare for their research. The big idea, essential question, the challenge and guiding questions are the pre-visit materials that need to be considered and discussed before visiting Melbourne Zoo.
Big idea: Sustainability: wildlife conservation
Essential question: Do zoos help animals in the wild?
The challenge: Develop your own idea to help wildlife in your home, school or community.
Guiding questions:
Create your own community conservation campaign to help save wildlife. Visit Actwild.org.au for ideas and inspiration, then share what you have done with us at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll put it up on Wild Activists.
The endangered challenge learning program addresses AusVELS levels 5-10 standards. It supports the cross-curriculum priorities of Sustainability and Asia and Australia's engagement with Asia and addresses achievements in the domains of Science, Interpersonal Development, Personal Learning, Civics and Citizenship, English, Humanities, Communication and Thinking Processes.


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- 0Jan 12, '10 by Grace OzGlad you're receiving some rain there too. We did today and the temps have cooled .... which makes this ..... http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/mp/6670...-near-barossa/ ......... all the more tragic. I can't understand why they were evacuating given temps had dropped and we had rain. This is not far from home here. We travel to the valley on that road all the time. Heartbreaking. We did have code red for the past several days, but I didn't think we had it today.
- 0Jan 12, '10 by sydneymum14Still bloody hot today here in Sydney. Going to work tonight...I'll have the air con on indeed.
- 0Jan 17, '10 by sydneymum14Nice and cool today. Only 4 weeks till I start uni..excitemnet plus....so excited I cn't spell... Will give up my "day job" and only work the evenings but I prefer them anyway...had to say goodbye to one of my regulars as I won't see her again...sad but it is the nature of the job.
- 0Jan 18, '10 by talaxandraAaaaaaaaaaand snow in Victoria!
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- 0Mar 9, '10 by Melinda_ashQuote from suzanne4HIWhen I was still in Thailand, I was a close neighbor...........do I get points for that??????
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- 0Mar 10, '10 by talaxandraWelcome, Melinda
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After winning the title of Dance India Dance Season 1 and doing some spectacular stunt performances in the film ABCD, choreographer-turned actor Salman Yusuf Khan will be seen as the main lead in his upcoming movie 'Freedom'.
Directed by Vivek Agnihotri, the movie Freedom which is supposed to release in mid-September is said to revolve around drugs, women and romance. Our source informs us, "For the same movie, Salman was recently found trying his hands at some dangerous stunts."
"Salman, who is known for his outstanding dancing skills was very confident about the deadly task he had to perform and at the same time he was way too excited to give in his best shot."
When asked Salman, he says, "Personally, I'm a stunt maniac and I believe in perfection. I was good at my first shot but I insisted the director to give me a second chance so that I could give my best shot, and I did it."
Furthermore, our source also says, "Salman did the shot beautifully where he had to jump from 200 ft above the ground from one building to the other building and was able to live up to his expectations while everyone was skeptical about it."
A source from the unit says, "If Salman wouldn't have been able to pull it off he would have dropped down 200 ft from the building."
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U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-3rd) talks to parishoners after the July 13 dedication of the Jonathan Collins Activity Center at St. Gerald Parish in Oak Lawn. The building is named after the grandson of longtime parishioner Alice Collins, a Marine who was killed in 2004 at age 19 while serving in Iraq. | Supplied photo
Updated: August 13, 2013 2:57PM
Here is a look at what's going on in Oak Lawn.
Backpack giveaway slated
The Cellular Connection store at 9621 S. Cicero Ave., will give away about 100 backpacks filled with school supplies through Verizon's School Rocks Backpack Giveaway initiative between noon and 2 p.m. Aug. 3.
Backpacks will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis.
Since May, TCC customers have been given the option to round their purchases up to the nearest dollar with the difference going directly to the School Rocks Backpack Giveaway.
Advocate Christ earns recognition
Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn has been recognized by BlueCross BlueShield as a Blue Distinction Center in three specialty areas: cardiac care, knee and hip replacement and spine surgery.
A hospital is recognized as a Blue Distinction Center in a specific specialty based on the expertise of its physicians and clinicians, the number of times the hospital has performed a procedure and its overall performance in achieving results, according to a news release.
Child ID program offered
The Oak Lawn Public Library, 9427 S. Raymond Ave., will hold a child identification program 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Aug. 10.
Parents will receive a printout containing their child's pertinent information, a front and side color photograph and fingerprints for record-keeping. No advanced registration is required.
Check out a new career
Representatives from Moraine Valley Community College will present "Career Paths and Coffee: First Step to a New Future" at 7 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Oak Lawn Public Library, 9427 S. Raymond Ave. The representatives will talk about exploring new careers and earning a college degree.
Advance registration is not required. Information is at (708) 422-4990 or www.oaklawnlibrary.org.
Chamber to host luncheon with Alsip chamber
The Oak Lawn Chamber of Commerce will host a luncheon with the Alsip Chamber of Commerce on Aug. 13.
Registration and networking begin at 11:30 a.m. followed by noon lunch.
For reservations call (708) 424-8300 or email email@example.com.
Firm updates technology
MJ & S Transportation of Oak Lawn, a non-emergency medical transportation company focused on taking people to local medical appointments, recently took advantage of AT&T technology to improve its efficiency, according to a news release.
The technology — Enhanced Push to Talk and Xora StreetSmart Workforce — allows MJ&S to see the exact location of vehicles and with real time traffic information help dispatchers reroute drivers as needed. Passengers also can be updated as to departure and arrival times, according to an AT&T spokesman. The dispatches can be delivered in short, audible messages to drivers at times when a phone call or text is not advisable.
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Top Ten Must Know Facts About Mardi Gras
If you are a newbie to any Mardi Gras celebration, here are the top ten facts you must know about Mardi Gras!
10. Mardi is the French word for Tuesday. Gras means fat. Mardi Gras = Fat Tuesday.
9. Mardi Gras is actually a day of preparing for the Lenten season which starts on Ash Wednesday. It really is to reflect on the past year before observing 40 days of Lent. In the Middle Ages, the Catholic church indicated that the days during Lent no meat was to be consumed. Only fish was allowed. So, "Fat Tuesday" was name this basically because people would eat the last of their meat because if it wasn't eaten, it would have to be discarded.
8. The official colors of Mardi Gras are:
Purple which signifies justice.
Green which represents faith.
Gold which stands for power.
7. Mardi Gras is full of events that are organized by krewes (private clubs). The oldest krewe is the Krewe of Comus. This group was formed in 1857 by men who were afraid that all the antics of Mardi Gras may force the celebration to be outlawed. (Remember, this was in 1857!)
6. One of the most popular Mardi Gras traditions is the King Cake. A plastic baby is baked inside the coffee cake. The person who finds the baby will supposedly have good luck for the next year, and in turn will supply the King Cake for the next year.
5. Any beads that are shorter then two feet are unacceptable, UNLESS they are made of glass.
4. The Captain of the Krewe is more important than the King.
3. Carnival is not Mardi Gras. It is the season. Mardi Gras is only one day.
2. Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in Louisiana.
1. Many items may be thrown during a parade, however A Zulu coconut is probably the highest prized throw in Mardi Gras. They are hand painted coconuts and if you're lucky enough to get one you get bragging rights.
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Schools conference kicks off in Saskatoon
An inspirational message for the people who head up Saskatchewan's schools.
C.J. Huff delivered the keynote address at a first-ever joint conference between the Saskatchewan School Boards Association (SSBA), the League of Educational Administrators, Directors and Supeerintendaents of Sasktchewan (LEADS) and the Saskatchewan Asssociation of School Business Officials (SASBO) held at Saskatoon's TCU Place.
Huff is the superintendent of schools in Joplin, Missouri. On May 22, 2011 he attended a graduation ceremony for high school students in his division.
Culvert repair to reopen Highway 22 near Kilally
A massive culvert is being installed on Highway 22 at a section that was washed out by flood waters this past summer.
The Ministry of Highways is working at putting the five-metre wide, 67-metre long culvert near the junction of Highway 47 at Pearl Creek. It will once again allow vehicles onto the road that washed out in early July.
"This summer's flooding caused major disruptions to the provincial highway system," Highways and Infrastructure Minister Nancy Heppner said in a news release.. "We've been working to repair culverts, bridges and roads ever since."
Red Cross to provide grants to flood-impacted communities
The Canadian Red Cross is coming to the aid of flood victims in southern Saskatchewan by setting up the Community Projects Grant Program.
The program is aimed at repairing local services such as sport, recreational, and cultural facilities.
"They may have had, lets say, a park that was impacted by flooding or a skating rink that was damaged severely," explained Dave Kyba with the Red Cross. That is not all the program covers. People can get relief for damaged dance costumes, sports equipment along with destroyed power generators and sump pumps.
Moosomin applies for 3rd PDAP status
The town of Moosomin is again declaring a local state of emergency after another huge rainfall hit the southeast Saskatchewan community.
Around 100 millimeters of rain fell on the town Wednesday night through Thursday morning. It's the third time the town has seen significant rain this summer.
"We have applied to PDAP (Provincial Disaster Assistance Program) three times," said Larry Tomlinson, mayor of the 2,000-resident town. "We did a motion to apply again. People are getting fed up. There's people who have fixed their basements - this will be three times."
White City and Balgonie residents pull together after storm
Residents in communities east of Regina are continuing to clean up after a powerful storm system moved through Friday night.
On Monday morning in Balgonie, trees that had littered the streets over the weekend were mostly gone. They are now in neat little piles on many front lawns. Those branches and leaves are waiting to be collected by Al's Tree Service.
"It's pretty devastating for trees that's for sure," said Bruce Cameron with the company.
Clean up continues after weekend storm
The sky Monday morning showed no signs of the violent storm that blew through Regina and area Friday night, but damaged homes and trees sure did as the cleanup continued.
Sheldon Olech lives in White City and says he got hit pretty hard.
"It's like a big ball of wind just came through and just knocked everything, and it was laid down like matchsticks. They were all just in a nice and perfect line, where it came through it just sheared everything off."
Olech said almost all of his spruce, pine, and poplar trees are done.
UPDATE: Some still waiting for power after weekend storm
A severe thunderstorm with plow winds left thousands of homes without power in Rouleau, Regina, White City, Balgonie and Fort Qu'Appelle on Friday night.
Tyler Hopson with SaskPower says the crown called in all available crews to work throughout the weekend along with some contract crews to clear trees and restore power.
"It was a little bit more widespread than what we would normally see, so it resulted in fixing lots of small pockets of outages," Hopson said.
Water Security Agency says research on wetland drainage not cut and dry
The Water Security Agency says the recent report linking higher water flows to the drainage of wetlands is not cut and dry, because many other scientific studies show little to no impact.
Patrick Boyle with the WSA clarifies that the flooding this year was entirely caused by the unprecedented rainfall on an already wet landscape in southern Saskatchewan. He also noted that this has happened before.
PHOTOS/VIDEO: Progress continues in Sask. flood recovery
Nearly two and a half weeks after heavy rainfall led to devastating flooding in Saskatchewan's south east, progress is being made in the recovery.
On Wednesday morning, the province released an update in collaboration with several agencies and ministries.
Popular Kenosee waterslide out of commission after landslide
One of the most-popular attractions at Kenosee Superslides Waterpark is unavailable for visitors.
A landslide around the Free Fall slide has damaged part of it putting the popular slide out of commission for the foreseeable future.
"The hill had to be cut out to put that slide in in the first place, that had a little bit to do with it," General Manager Harvey Armstrong said."But the wet weather this year was atrocious."


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Did lookout miss start of Moonlight Fire?
Were the rumors true?
Did Forest Service employee Caleb Lief get caught peeing on his feet and smoking pot while on duty at the Red Rock Lookout the day the Moonlight Fire started, Labor Day 2007?
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Christian Slater Did Not Use a Butt Double in Nymphomaniac
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"Yeah, that was my hiney."
Steve Zahn and Christian Slater star as brothers.
Let's talk about sex, nymphy.
And a nation of Christian Slater fans just perked up.
Five episodes into the unlikely resurrection, the show's being bumped again.
Slater's show lands on Fox's mid-season schedule, where it will probably replace 'Wilde.'
Plus: Fox is officially stalling 'Running Wilde.'
Christian Slater might be coming back to television.
Plus: Pink and Kevin Bacon both executive producing the same project.
Plus: Christian Slater is looking for 'Payback.'
Plus: Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum take a 'Vow.'
Plus: Chace Crawford to play a 'war-protesting butcher.'
Plus: Christian Slater lines up new pilot.
See Nick Kroll die and come back to life, nine times.
Hollywood fathers, lock up your daughters.
Plus: Edward Norton must get stoned.
Plus: 'T.J. Hooker: The Movie'!
Another Ben Silverman show flops.
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Anti-Wall Street protests have escalated with more arrests over the weekend. Protesters are opposed to what they say is a government controlled by corporate money and the growing income gap between the very wealthy and the rest of America.
Celebrities including Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon and documentary filmmaker Michael Moore have voiced support for the protests. The police department faces protester accusations that it had acted improperly during the gatherings.
NYC Financial District
The seven largest firms of Wall Street, the financial district of New York City, in the first decade of the 21st century were Bear Stearns, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup Incorporated, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers. Chicago Tribune
During the mortgage mess from 2007-2010, Corporate America or Wall Street financing was blamed as one of the causes, although most commentators blame an interplay of factors. The U.S. government with the Troubled Asset Relief Program bailed out the banks and financial backers with billions of dollars, but the bailout was often criticized as politically motivated, and was criticized by journalists as well as the public. Huffington Post
As of 2007, the top 1% of households (the upper class) owned 34.6% of all privately held wealth. The next 19% (the managerial, professional, and small business stratum) had 50.5%, which means that just 20% of the people owned a remarkable 85%. Only 15% of the wealth goes for the bottom 80% (wage and salary workers). Who rules America?
The top one percent of households has 38.3% of all privately held stock, 60.6% of financial securities, and 62.4% of business equity. Who rules America?
'Occupy Wall Street'
The Occupy Wall Street demonstration started out on September 17 with around a dozen college students spending days and nights in Zuccotti Park, a private plaza off Broadway. It has grown sizably; however, both in New York City and elsewhere as people across the country, from Boston to Los Angeles, display their solidarity in similar protests. Huffington Post
On the past two Saturdays, the protests led to tense standoffs with police. On Sept. 24, about 100 people were arrested in New York and the group put out a video which showed some women being hit with pepper spray by a police official. On Oct. 1, more than 700 people were arrested in the city as the group attempted to cross the Brooklyn Bridge. Huffington Post
The demonstrators protest against an unequal distribution of wealth wherein one percent of the American population benefits from the capitalism system, while the other ninety-nine percent is exploited. The protesters say they are that ninety-nine percent. Dowser
"We are the 99 percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1 percent." That is the motto of Occupy Wall Street, a "leaderless resistance movement" aiming to take back democracy in a time of corporate control and increasing powerlessness of individual people to affect change in government. Neon Tommy
The official Occupy Wall Street manifesto that was released a few days ago outlines the main grievances held by the protesters: collusion between government and corporation, lack of protection of individuals' rights, and much (much!) more. Dowser
Obama and Wall Street
One year and a half ago, President Obama labeled many financial industry executives as "fat cats" and criticized their bonuses. Time
According to the Federal Reserve, U.S. corporations held a record $1.93 trillion in cash on their balance sheets in 2010. But they are not investing to expand their companies, grow the real economy or create good middle-class jobs. Corporate CEOs are literally hoarding their company's cash-except when it comes to their own paychecks. AFL-CIO
In 2010, Standard & Poor's 500 Index company CEOs received, on average, $11.4 million in total compensation- a 23 percent increase in one year. Based on 299 companies' most recent pay data for 2010, their combined total CEO pay of $3.4 billion could support 102,325 median workers' jobs. AFL-CIO
Attorney and political strategist Jack Burkman says "Without Wall Street's initial support he [President Obama] doesn't have credibility ... No doubt about it. Without Wall Street, Obama would not be in power today." Huffington Post
A July 2011 study by the Center for Responsive Politics shows that President Obama is relying more on Wall Street to fund his re-election this year than he did in 2008. The report says that one-third of the money Obama's elite fund-raising corps has raised on behalf of his re-election has come from the financial sector. CNBC