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It's peak cold/flu season, folks. I've commenced the season with nasal congestion, a sore throat, and a persistent cough and I just want it to go away.
The cold weather doesn't directly affect whether or not you will get a cold or the flu – it's more of a cause/effect relationship. Bacteria/viruses are the culprits, so if you're spending more time indoors with poor ventilation, the likely outcome is that your health will be compromised. Also, the lowering of your body temperature can lower the response of your immune system, so if you're not bolstering that system with a healthy diet, it's only a matter of time before it's attacked.
If you're battling a cold or the flu, check out WebMD's list of 10 foods to expedite the healing process:
- Popsicles – make sure they are loaded with vitamins, not sugar. This icy treat will soothe your sore throat while keeping you hydrated — the key to kissing congestion goodbye.
- Turkey Sandwich- the lean protein that turkey provides will give your body the energy it needs to get you back on your feet.
- Vegetable Juice- go for the low-sodium version for the antioxidant rush your body is craving.
- Chicken Soup-it's not just an old wives' tale, chicken soup has stood the test of time for its nourishing and hydrating properties. Added benefits: mild anti-inflammatory effects and improving the function of cilia, the small, hair-like parts that line your nasal passage and filter out the bad stuff.
- Garlic – your breath won't be minty fresh, but your congestion may be alleviated and your immune system stimulated. And when your sinuses are clogged, any relief is well worth the halitosis.
- Ginger – if you're experiencing nausea or other nasty stomach-related symptoms, a bit of ginger works wonders.
- Hot Tea – in my opinion, healthy or sick, there is nothing like sitting down with a steaming cup of hot tea on a cold day. If your throat is sore, a touch of lemon and honey will maximize the soothing properties of my favorite caffeinated beverage.
- Bananas – when you're sick to your stomach, bananas go down easy, easing you back into a regular diet patterns.
- Toast – an old standby, toast fills the hunger void and is easy on the stomach too.
- Meal Replacement Drinks – look for high protein, low-sugar drinks to keep you on the mend.
If you haven't caught a cold or the flu yet and would like to keep it that way, check out WebMD's "15 Immune-Boosting Foods" and keep the cabinets stocked with these necessary items.
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Contest to determine Triple-A team name
El Paso, TX (KTSM) — El Pasoans can now participate in the Triple-A "Name the Team Contest" through May 24, MountainStar officials announced.
Fans can log-on to www.elpasotriplea.com/nametheteam to enter their ideas for the name of El Paso's new Triple-A team.
"We have heard from so many fans since the team was announced, and the top question on everyone's mind is 'What will our team be called'?" said Alan Ledford, President of MountainStar Sports Group. "We are excited to launch the contest and engage the community to help name El Paso's team. The team's name should reflect the fun and irreverence typical of Minor League Baseball, while being truly representative of El Paso – whether it be inspired by the community's history, unique culture, landscape, or aspirations for the future."
The entry period will conclude at midnight on May 24, and will be followed by voting in early June, where the top-ranked names will be voted on by the public. The winning name will be announced in mid-August.
The person who submits the winning name will win an exciting grand prize, to include the opportunity to throw a ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day in the new El Paso Ballpark, two field-level season tickets for the 2014 season, and a personalized jersey,
Some contest ground rules: you must be 18 to enter and you can only enter a name once. Kids are encouraged to participate, and can do so with the help of a parent or guardian. Those who do not wish to enter online can also submit their name ideas by sending a standard size postcard with name, address, city, state, and zip code, day and evening phone number, and email address to MountainStar Sports Group LLC, Name the Team Contest, 4401 N. Mesa Street, El Paso, Texas, 79902.
"The public's input in the naming of the team is very important. Again – this is El Paso's team, so it is critical that El Pasoans have a hand in helping us find the right name," Ledford said.
Fans are encouraged to visit the Minor League Baseball web site for more information: http://www.milb.com/milb/info/teams.jsp to see a full list of team names and learn more about the spirit and nature of Minor League team names from across the country.

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The Effects of Urbanization on Baird Creek, Green Bay, WIThe Baird Creek watershed is rapidly changing from agricultural to urban land use. To assess how urbanization is impacting the aquatic ecosystem of Baird Creek and to assist the City of Green Bay and the Baird Creek Preservation Foundation in making informed land management decisions within the watershed, this project established the following research questions:
Storm event and low-flow sampling was conducted from April to December 2004 at three locations on Baird Creek: an agricultural tributary, a tributary transitioning to urban land use, and the main channel downstream of the confluence. Water samples were analyzed for total suspended solids (TSS), total phosphorus, and total dissolved phosphorus. Changes in channel morphology were assessed at twelve sites previously measured in 2002. Finally, data from water quality sampling and projected future land use was used to evaluate the L-THIA watershed assessment model as a tool to predict changes in pollutant export due to development. Overall, the study found that urbanization is adversely impacting Baird Creek. Statistical analysis showed that event concentrations of sediment and total phosphorus were significantly higher on the urbanizing tributary than the agricultural branch. Also, although the urbanizing portion of the watershed comprised only 18.5% of the total land area, it contributed 60-70% of the total sediment load during a period of summer storm events. The channel morphology assessment showed that the cross-sectional area and bankfull width of sites located on urbanizing tributaries increased dramatically between the 2002 and 2004 surveys, but fewer impacts were seen at the sites downstream on the main channel. Finally, an evaluation of the L-THIA model as a potential development assessment tool indicated that care must be taken to fully understand the hydrological processes being modeled in order to avoid underestimating impacts of development. The following links are Adobe pdf files for the final thesis document and presentation. To download free Adobe Reader software necessary to view these files, click here.


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What have you learned from your project about the principles and practices of good teaching that you would like to share with your colleagues?
- The Importance of Learning Styles: My struggles to learn the basics of Dreamweaver (web page authoring software) brought home to me the importance of providing many different modes of learning a skill: written directions, videos, hands-on practice, questions/answers from expert, etc. In the past, if my written directions did not produce the desired student outcome, I tended to think it was because I hadn't worded the directions clearly enough. This experience has reminded me (painfully) that different people learn different skills in different ways, and providing just one instructional methodology--such as that set of written directions, no matter how extensive--is often not enough.
- Cutting to the Core: For each section of the web site, I decided to try to explain the general concept of that section (what is a run-on sentence, what is academic writing style, what makes a sound argument, etc.) in no more than one screen of information. Other information related to the same topic--examples, clarifications, and explanations-- would then be linked to that one front-page summary if students wanted to dig deeper. Writing these brief summaries was quite a challenge. I recommend it to other teachers as an interesting exercise in clarifying (for themselves and for their students) the essence of a topic. It reminded me to focus less on whether I am "covering" everything about a topic and more on whether students have grasped the main principles.
- Worth a Thousand Words: As a writing teacher, I tend to think that meaning only exists in the words themselves. Working on web-based documents reminded me that the visuals—color, font size, font style, white space, graphics—are important parts of meaning too
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- To supplement the more generic handbook examples, our non-traditional students now have a set of easily accessible explanations of common writing problems, with examples drawn from the kinds of topics they typically write about.
- The online tutoring option allows writing instruction to take place in an ideal learning environment: working with a motivated student around a focused task using his or her own writing as the instructional medium
In what way(s) has your grant-funded project changed the way that you teach?
A student survey conducted at the end of fall semester, asking students what they found most useful on the web site, made me realize that students both want and need models of finished products. The section of the web site that contained annotated sample papers and models of APA reference items was judged most valuable, with suggestions that it be expanded. As a result, I am using more models in my classes, paired with rubrics that break those models down into their individual components.
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BRUNSWICK, Maine - The NESCAC has announced post-season honors for several men's ice hockey players at Bowdoin College. Leading the honors was first-year Adam Dann (Burlington, Vt.) being named NESCAC Co-Rookie of the Year. The Polar Bears finished their season with a record of 13-6-5 overall, placing fourth in the NESCAC standings.
A native of Burlington, Vermont and a graduate of the St. Paul's (N.H.) school, Dann (left) made a splash in his first year in Brunswick, scoring 11 goals and dishing out 14 assists in 24 games this season. His 25 points rank him fifth all-time among rookies in Bowdoin men's ice hockey history.
Earning first-team All-NESCAC honors was senior defenseman Ryan Seymour (Fredericton, N.B.). Seymour (right), a four-year starter for the Polar Bears, finished the year with 3 goals and 13 assists while leading a Bowdoin defense which was ranked 10th in the nation in penalty kill percentage (.868).
Rounding out the selections was leading scorer senior Sean Starke (Montreal, Que.). Starke (left) earns second-team honors for the second straight year after scoring 15 goals and 15 assists this year, including nine powerplay goals. Starke closes out his four-year career as a member of Bowdoin's exclusive 100-point club, after scoring 45 goals and 56 assists as a Polar Bear.


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Wreaths for Warriors this weekend in the Valley
SUNBURY — Holiday wreaths will be placed on veteran's graves and at military memorials in the Central Susquehanna Valley this weekend by members of the Wreaths for Warriors committee. John Deppen is acting chairman of Wreaths for Warriors and says Snyder and Union County volunteers will be going to cemeteries to place wreaths on veteran's graves on Saturday. On Sunday, they will be visiting cemeteries in Sunbury and Northumberland.
Deppen said Wreaths Across America began in 2006 and a local resident advocated for a local effort. He said, "Local citizen Chris Kerwin said why can't we do something like this in the Susquehanna Valley. It began with a very small effort in 2006 with a few dozen wreaths in Northumberland County. We have since grown to more than 1,200 wreaths being placed on Veteran's graves in three different counties."
Kohl's Stony Hill Tree Farm near Washingtonville donates the wreaths to the Wreaths for Warriors and an American flag is also placed on the grave. Volunteers include members of the local American Legion Posts and the VFW and Boy Scout troops. A brief ceremony will be held in Northumberland's Riverview Cemetery on Sunday at 3 p.m.
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ELDERLY IN-HOME SERVICES - Abuse/self-neglect cases are referred to Elder Care Case Management located at Tri-Town Community Action Agency in Johnston.
FOSTER FOOD PANTRY – Located in the Foster DHS office, the food pantry provides for households in financial need. USDA commodities are distributed monthly if households meet the income criteria. The food pantry relies totally on donations.
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SALVATION ARMY – "Good Neighbor Energy Fund" provides assistance for clients who are over the federal guidelines, but are in need of oil/gas/wood to heat their homes, and for families in jeopardy of having their electrical service terminated. ~The SA Service Unit sponsors programs for children going back to School with new backpacks and shoe vouchers. (Private donations are collected for school supplies.) It also provides for unforeseen emergencies.
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A New Deal For Jake Gardiner In Toronto
by Paul on 07/29/14 at 05:04 PM ET
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Garrioch says Leafs, Pens are aggressively pursuing trades
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The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch delivers a significant amount of player personnel, front office and team intrigue in his weekly rumor roundup, but I believe that we call the following "going to one's wheelhouse":
Dave Nonis is described as patient.
His is being put to the test big-time by the Toronto Maple Leafs. After falling out of a playoff position, league sources say the club's GM has been working the phones hard trying to find some depth up front to help the struggling club.
To get assistance, Nonis will likely have to move a defenceman and since Dion Phaneuf just signed a seven-year, $49-million extension he isn't going anywhere. The names of Carl Gunnarsson and Jake Gardiner could be trade bait.
At the very least, it's all intruiging.
The second most-active GM to trying make a deal: Pittsburgh's Ray Shero and he has been dangling prospects because of all the injuries the club has had. He is looking to move a young defenceman for a forward.
Garrioch continues...
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Friedman's 30 thoughts: on 3 on 3 OT, Bobby Ryan, Bryzgalov, fighting and more
by George Malik on 10/07/13 at 09:50 PM ET
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The CBC's Elliotte Friedman's graced our Monday evening with a "30 Thoughts" column. He begins with the P's and Q's of a shootout spin-o-rama (see: Mason Raymond) vs. ettiquette (If you "snow" a goalie, should that be a penalty? And the Globe and Mail offers a superb visual explanation of what constitutes an "illegal" shootout move), and he continues from there.
Among his thoughts:
1. Looked a little bit into Ken Holland's overtime suggestion: four minutes of four-on-four, followed by four minutes of three-on-three if still tied. Then a shootout if necessary. I love the idea, which was tried at the Traverse City rookie tournament the Red Wings host. One of the reasons against it is the league doesn't want longer games.
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Report- Leafs Sign Jake Gardiner
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Lastly, according to multiple NHL sources, the Toronto Maple Leafs signed University of Wisconsin junior defenseman Jake Gardiner to an entry-level contract tonight. The former Minnetonka Skipper star had a fabulous final season with the Badgers with 10 goals and 41 points and was a mainstay on Wisconsin's second-ranked WCHA defense.
Gardiner can skate like the wind and will get a heck of a chance in Toronto. Brian Burke, who traded for him in the Francois Beauchemin deal, drafted Gardiner in Anaheim.
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LLL - Breaking Down the Beauchemin Trade
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This trade did not happen because of Lupul.
In a one for one trade, Beauchemin can fetch a better player than Lupul from another team.
Brian Burke knows this.
What Burke also knows though is that there aren't any teams out there that would give up a prospect like Jake Gardiner on top of a player like Lupul and a pick for a player like Beauchemin.
That is the trade in a nut shell.
So who is Jake Gardiner?
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Hits: The Bourne series, The Ocean's series, The Departed, Saving Private Ryan
Misses:Green Zone, Invictus, The Good Shepherd
Strength: There's a reason Damon has become America's James Bond. Even the Bond series has morphed into a more conflicted, Bourne-like spy. Do kudos get any higher than 007's?
Weakness: When Bourne went to war in Green Zone, moviegoers were the loudest protesters. And his flop as a rugby star in Invictus -- led by Clint Eastwood, no less -- dampens his standing.
There's plenty of star wattage in this group. Invictus star and best supporting actor nominee Damon, left, hangs with his wife Luciana Barroso and best actress nominee Blunt (The Young Victoria), who was joined by her fiance, The Office actor Krasinski.
Blunt, in Georges Chakra, said awards season is always fun, but this year people should focus more on helping Haiti than getting glammed up for the red carpet. "We are in an industry that seems to congratulate itself repeatedly. And it does seem rather silly, the importance of dressing up and getting your hair right at a time like this when so many people have lost their lives," she said. "As long as you can have a good time on a night like this and still throw yourself in there and do something, do something to help, otherwise it's pointless. It counts for nothing."
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh had mixed results last year when he brought his Che double bill to town. But with amiable A-lister Matt Damon lending a hand to spread the word on this reality-based goof on corporate whistle-blowers, he shouldn't have quite as hard of a sell job. And if Damon, the onetime sexiest man alive, has dropped the 30 pounds he gained to play an agri-business upstart, arousing interest should be a red-carpet breeze.
Matt Damon tells TV writers what drew him to the History Channel project The People Speak during a panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour Wednesday in Pasadena, Calif.
From left: Damon, producer Chris Moore and Marisa Tomei.
Matt Damon flashes a grin at Sister Tinotenda Tuesday at a South African camp for refugees fleeing Zimbabwe, which is facing dire economic and humanitarian conditions.
The nun, a native of Zimbabwe herself, shared her story with the actor, who visited on behalf of Not On Our Watch, the charity group he co-founded with George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
Matt Damon embraces members of the African Children's Choir at a ONEXONE Foundation fundraiser Thursday in San Francisco.
At far left is piano prodigy Ethan Bortnick.
Matt Damon speaks at a Friday session of the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York.
The forum was dedicated to improving access to water and sanitation worldwide.
Wyclef Jean, left, and Matt Damon distribute rice and beans to flood victims at a church in Cabaret, Haiti, on Saturday.
Jean, a Haitian native, returned to help Hurricane Ike survivors through his charity, Yele Haiti.
Seinfeld star Jason Alexander, left, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck manage to crack themselves up on the red carpet prior to Wednesday's Ante Up for Africa charity poker tournament in Las Vegas.


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The road sign as design classic
The Design Museum has added a motorway sign to its collection. So is British road signage a design classic?
There is very little to like about motorway journeys. Endless black tarmac, blurry white lines and fuzzy green trees.
Motorways are about getting from A to B in the quickest - legal - possible time. But have you ever spared a thought for the signs dotted along Britain's roads?
White lettering on blue signifies a motorway and white on green signals a primary route. Everyone knows that. And they'd recognise the lettering, regardless of where it was.
Then there are those familiar and friendly images for school children crossing the road and men at work.
Britain's roads look as they do because of Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert. The graphic designers standardised the road network, created many of its signs and produced two new typefaces, Transport and Motorway.
In the 1950s, road signs were a mess - a confusing and dangerous hotch potch of different symbols, colours and lettering. But more and more people were acquiring cars.
Potted history of road signs
- The Romans were probably the first to use traffic signs in Britain
- A 1648 law required each parish to place guide posts or fingerposts at crossroads
- During the second half of the 19th Century, caution signs were put up for cyclists ahead of steep hills and sharp bends
- 1896 heralded the era of the motor car and some motoring associations started putting up signs
- A committee chaired by Sir Henry Maybury brought in more signs in 1933, including "No entry" and "Keep left"
- The first major reform came with the new motorways. Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert, his pupil at the Chelsea School of Art, are asked to create signs by the Anderson Committee in 1957
- The new signage is tested on Britain's first motorway-standard road - the Preston bypass in Lancashire - in 1958
- In 1963, the Worboys Committee commissions the pair to overhaul all of Britain's road signs. The new system became law on 1 January 1965
- Changes since then include electronic signs, additional colour coding for routes, and tourist signs
Source: Department for Transport; Design Museum
As the government set about creating a brave new world of motorways, Kinneir and Calvert were given the job of making signs that could be clearly read in a split second.
Calvert, now 75, says they had to start from scratch.
"It required completely radical thinking. The information wasn't there in terms of reading distance, clarity and letter spaces. We had to make up the signs and then test them. It was instinctive."
They were tested in an underground car park and in London's Hyde Park, where they were propped up against trees to determine the most effective background colours and reading distances.
One of their biggest decisions, which caused upset among conservative commentators at the time, was to opt for a combination of upper and lower case letters.
"The actual word shape was the most distinctive thing because if you had Birmingham in capitals, from a distance, it's difficult to read but in caps and lower case you have word shape," says Calvert. "That was fundamental."
After the success of their big and bold motorway signs, the pair were commissioned in 1963 to overhaul the rest of Britain's roads. They created new signs and remodelled existing ones, based on the European protocol of triangular signs to warn, circles for commands and rectangles for information.
They favoured pictograms rather than words on the signs, and Calvert drew most of them in the curvaceous style of the Transport typeface. Many of her illustrations were drawn from her own life.
Very few people have heard of Calvert but her portrait is probably one of the most recognisable in the UK, after the Queen's on stamps.
The girl in the school children crossing sign is based on a picture of herself. She didn't like the grammar school overtones of the earlier sign, which featured a boy wearing a cap and carrying a satchel.
"There was a different attitude to schooling coming in and I thought, wouldn't it be nice to turn it around and have a girl leading a small boy."
The cow featured in the farm animals warning sign was based on Patience, a cow on her relatives' Warwickshire farm. And Calvert is also responsible for the much-parodied men at work sign.
It has long been remarked upon that the man digging actually seems to be struggling with an umbrella, and Calvert wishes she had made the shovel more shovel-like.
Kinneir and Calvert's designs changed the British landscape and they became a role model for modern road signage all over the world.
The signs promote an image of Britain, says traffic sign designer Bryn Buck.
"Traffic signs are a brand like Armani suits. A sign for the M4 is the first thing visitors see when they leave Heathrow."
Design commentator Michael Czerwinski hails them as a success story of the modernist movement.
"We do not question them like modernist buildings and they have not been dabbled with as much as other things have. The fact they are still in use today says a lot about the success of the designs."
The system has been added to and adjusted but the fundamentals haven't changed, adds Buck.
"By keeping it simple, it stands out and doesn't age. It is still informing people more than 50 years after it was created."
Transport and Motorway, which is used only for route numbers on motorways, are still the only two typefaces permitted on UK road signs. Transport is also used in several other countries, including Iceland, Ireland and Portugal, and in much of the Middle East.
Transport may not be pretty but it is one of the most effective and useful typefaces in the UK, says Simon Garfield who wrote Just My Type, a book dedicated to fonts.
"The last thing you want to do when you're driving along at 77mph is think 'look at that lovely L or T'. All you want to do is be told where you are and where you turn.
"The key is not noticing it. When you are designing a typeface for signage, you know you have done well when no-one comments on it."
Jock Kinneir, who died in 1994, was resigned to this fact. In 1965, he acknowledged that his and Calvert's designs fulfilled their function so efficiently that the public would take them for granted.
"Direction signs and street names are as vital as a drop of oil in an engine, without which the moving parts would seize up."


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Organized Binder is a proven system that creates an organized, highly predictable, and dependable classroom. It establishes very clear expectations and routines that help teachers minimize classroom management issues and students organize their learning.
Using this system teachers and students organize, access, and file classwork and homework to build a bank of student thoughts and information from which they can study and reference. Organized Binder makes teachers more effective and students more successful.
My failure rate dropped by half in just two weeks thanks to the Organized Binder! 7% of my students are rarely here which means I cannot help them pass if they are not here.


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KLA-Tencor has introduced a new software tool it has developed with Tokyo Electron. This tool enables metrology engineers in IC fabs to measure the dimensions of 3D logic and memory structures, as well as structures created by the advanced patterning technique called spacer pitch splitting.
The AcuShape 3D software modeling tool is able to meet optical CD metrology requirements for the 32nm and below, and will operate on KLA-Tencor's optical CD platform, SpectraCD, and Timbre Integrated Metrology (IM) CD systems.
The new software tool has already been shipped to several memory, logic and foundry fabs in the US, Europe, Japan, Korea and Taiwan, where it is being used to measure production wafers and provide early learning on advanced R&D structures.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- Greater China touch panel shipment forecast through 2015
This Special Report provides forecasts through 2015 for Greater China touch panel shipments with breakdowns based on technology (glass, film, resistive), application (smartphone, NB and tablet) and by firm.
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Apple unveils its new and improved fourth generation iPhone...
NBCNC -- Apple's latest iPhone has arrived.
Calling it "the biggest leap since the original iPhone", Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone 4 Monday at Apple's annual conference for software developers.
The device has a higher-resolution screen and a front-facing camera.
It also has a gyroscope which will allow for precise motion detection and HD video recording capability.
The iPhone 4 will be priced at $199 for a 16gb model and $299 for a 32gb model.
It will go on sale June 24.


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Sheikh Salman al-Oadah
The funeral prayer is a collective obligation upon the Muslims. As long as some of the Muslims offer it, the obligation is fulfilled for all of the Muslims. As long as that obligation is met by the community, participation in the funeral prayer is a Sunnah for the individuals who wish to participate in it.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Whoever prays the funeral prayer for someone will receive a mountain of reward. Whoever then follows the deceased until burial will receive double that reward." [Sahîh al-Bukhârî (1325) and Sahîh Muslim (945)]
The legitimate means taken to accomplish something have the same legal ruling as the ends for which they are undertaken. Actions are according to intentions. Therefore, whoever travels to carry out a legitimate act of worship that cannot be accomplished without traveling – like traveling to seek knowledge or to uphold kinship ties or to defend Islam or to visit a brother in faith – then he is doing something good and his journey is a journey of obedience.
On the other hand, if undertaking such a journey involves considerable difficulties or will cause the person to leave off something else that is of greater importance, then it would be better for that person not to undertake the journey.
This actually has nothing to do with the meaning of the hadîth: "Do not undertake a journey except to three mosques: al-Masjid al-Harâm, my mosque, and al-Aqsâ Mosque." [Sahîh al-Bukhârî (1864) and Sahîh Muslim (1397)]
What the hadîth is discussing – and Allah knows best – is someone undertaking a journey to the specific locality of a mosque or some other place in order to worship at that specific locality. As for someone undertaking a journey without the intention being the attainment of a specific locality or worship at that specific locality, then the prohibition in the hadîth will not be applicable to him.
The three mosques mentioned in the hadîth are permitted as specific places to which a person can intend a journey of worship, since the reward for worshipping at these three localities is multiplied. If a person travels to al-Masjîd al-Harâm with the added intention of performing `umrah, then that will be for him illumination upon illumination.
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Justice Committee on May 31st, 2012
Evidence of meeting #40 for Justice and Human Rights in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was amendment.
A recording is available from Parliament.
On the agenda
MPs speaking
Also speaking
- Nathalie Levman Counsel, Criminal Law Policy Section, Department of Justice
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The Chair Dave MacKenzie
I call to order meeting number 40 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. Pursuant to the order of reference of Wednesday, February 29, 2012, today we are considering Bill C-299, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (kidnapping of young person), clause by clause.
It is quite a large bill—there's one clause.
I think, Mr. Cotler, you have an amendment, LIB-1.
May 31st, 2012 / 11:10 a.m.
Irwin Cotler Mount Royal, QC
Yes, Mr. Chairman.
The amendment is that Bill C-299, in clause 1, be amended by replacing lines 10 to 12 on page 1 with the following:
imprisonment for life; and
Mr. Chairman, if I may, let me just provide an explanatory context for this. This amendment effectively removes a mandatory minimum penalty from the proposed legislation. I don't want to use the occasion to repeat all that I've said before and will say prospectively on other occasions about my critiques of mandatory minimums—they're well known. Much of what I've been saying was also echoed in witness testimony before this committee, including succinctly by our witness in the last meeting.
I just want to address two points in relation to this amendment. The first is the following—which I want to state for the record as a result of exchanges that sometimes take place in the House. Like all members here, we are all concerned about the kidnapping of young persons. Indeed, when I was Minister of Justice, the first piece of legislation I introduced on behalf of the government at the time was Bill C-2, An Act to amend the Criminal Code (protection of children and other vulnerable persons) and the Canada Evidence Act, which became law in July 2005, and which, among other things, enhanced the Criminal Code with respect to sexual offences against children, failure to provide the necessities of life, and abandonment of children. It also made child abuse in the commission of an offence an aggravating factor for sentencing purposes.
I make reference to this because I accept and promote the overarching objective with respect to this legislation, the protection of young children from criminal offences. My objection is only on the issue of the mandatory minimum. If I may state for the record why the issue of children is so important to me, as I've stated before, when my daughter was 15 years of age, she came to me one day and said, "Daddy, if you want to know what the real test of human rights is, then always ask yourself, at any time, in any situation, in any part of the world, is it good for children? Is what is happening good for children?"
So the question of protecting children was a priority for me as a minister, and that legislation to which I just referred became known among us in the government as "Gila's Law", because at the time it was very much inspired by my daughter Gila. This is an issue that I take very seriously, as do all members of this committee.
I want to draw the attention of colleagues to the language of my second amendment, LIB-2, because it should be read in concert with the first.
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The Chair Dave MacKenzie
Thank you.
Mr. Cotler, Bill C-299 amends the Criminal Code to impose a mandatory minimum sentence on anyone convicted of kidnapping a person under 16 years of age. This amendment proposes to delete the mandatory minimum sentence. As House of Commons Procedure and Practice, second edition, states on page 766: An amendment to a bill that was referred to a committee after second reading is out of order if it is beyond the scope and principle of the bill.
In the opinion of the chair, the deletion of the key element is contrary to the principle of Bill C-299 and is therefore inadmissible.
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The Chair Dave MacKenzie
Shall the ruling of the chair be sustained?
(Ruling of the chair sustained: yeas 6; nays 5)
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The Chair Dave MacKenzie
Therefore, the amendment will not be considered. Here I should say that I erred in allowing the debate to carry on about LIB-1.
Madam Findlay, are you introducing G-1?
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Kerry-Lynne Findlay Delta—Richmond East, BC
Yes, I am.
We move that Bill C-299, in clause 1, be amended by replacing line 10 on page 1 with the following:
imprisonment for life and, unless the person who commits the offence is a parent, guardian or person having the lawful care or charge of the person referred to in that paragraph, to a minimum
Can I speak to it?
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Kerry-Lynne Findlay Delta—Richmond East, BC
In our view, the bill rightly seeks to ensure that cases involving kidnapping of children by strangers are treated with the severity they deserve. This goal is laudable and merits support. We know that although stranger child abduction happens fairly rarely—thank goodness—the consequences are dire, as abducted children are often sexually assaulted or murdered.
Offenders must be punished severely for such crimes, in our view. However, there is a concern that the way it's presently worded the proposed mandatory minimum penalty could apply to a parent or someone in loco parentis. With respect to that person, there might be an issue of preventing that child from seeing the other parent in the context of a custody or access dispute. We know that parents involved in such disputes have been charged with kidnapping of their own child.
Of course, parental child abduction is a serious issue, as well, for all involved, but we don't believe this bill's intention is to impose severe penalties in these types of situations. The Criminal Code currently criminalizes kidnapping of children through a number of different offences: subsections 279(1), kidnapping, and 279(2), forcible confinement; and sections 280 to 283, which contain four child-specific abduction offences.
Maximum penalties for these offences range from five years to life imprisonment, but only the kidnapping offence, in subsection 279(1), imposes mandatory minimum penalties in certain circumstances, for example, where a firearm is used or where organized crime is involved. Although sections 282 and 283 deal exclusively with parental child abduction, sections 279 and 280 can apply to cases involving both stranger and parental child abductions.
Therefore, Bill C-299's proposed mandatory minimum penalty could, as presently written, apply to parents. To prevent this unintended result, the proposed friendly amendment—which Mr. Wilks has also stated he would accept—would exempt parents and persons standing in place of parents from the application of the proposed mandatory minimum penalty.
Whether or not this amendment is supported, I certainly hope the bill will receive the support it deserves and that we all move together to seek sanctions on those who would seek to harm our children.


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Mental Health in Latin America and the Caribbean
Since the 1960s and 1970s, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Member States have striven to improve their systems for delivering mental health services. Still, these initiatives, largely local and isolated, have often failed in attaining the level of reform agreed by regional consensus or addressing challenges in a structural, integrated manner.
A group of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean has nevertheless distinguished itself in recent years with valuable experiences. PAHO has served as a catalyst and played a guiding role by encouraging a fruitful discussion while offering technical assistance that will continue to expand.
Innovative techniques have enabled this PAHO technical-cooperation initiative to strengthen the countries' response capacity, promote mental health, and prevent and treat mental illness. With this support, many Member States are today buttressing the content of their health networks and systems as well as their capacity to address problems in the field of mental health.
Dr. Jorge Rodríguez, Chief of PAHO Regional Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Unit
Looking back on the steps taken in Latin America and the Caribbean over the past 50 years, the Chief of PAHO Regional Mental Health, Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Unit, Dr. Jorge Rodríguez, says that from that historical standpoint, the 1990 Caracas Declaration was a major turning point because it formally established the Initiative for the Restructuring of Psychiatric Care in the Region of the Americas.
"Caracas placed special emphasis on the need to integrate mental health services into the general operational framework of primary health care," said Dr. Rodríguez. In their final document, delegates and attendees said that psychiatric hospitals based on the model of the asylum for the insane constituted a clear obstacle to delivering a health service compatible with decentralized, participatory, comprehensive, continuing, and preventive community-based care. Dr. Rodríguez then underscored that Caracas also spelled out the obligation to safeguard the human and civil rights of people with mental illness.
Subsequent to Caracas, PAHO set up a rigorous program to monitor compliance with the guidelines contained in the Declaration. Two resolutions by PAHO Directing Council in 1997 and 2001, reiterated that commitment for compliance and technical cooperation in the ongoing reform of mental health services within PAHO Member States in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The second historic milestone that would catapult the modernization of mental health services and treatment in the Americas came in 2006 in Brasilia during a regional conference organized by PAHO and the Brazilian Ministry of Health.
Mental health organizations, associations, authorities, and professionals gathered in the Brazilian capital reported that countries such as El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua had already made progress in providing care to vulnerable groups; that Chile had promoted the integration of mental health networks into the general public health services systems; that Belize and Jamaica, in the Caribbean, had strengthened their programs for giving nurses specialized training in mental health; and that Brazil already stood out as an important model for cultural mobilization, in addition to having sharply reduced the number of psychiatric beds.
Similar statements were made about Panama, which attendees spotlighted for having created treatment instruments capable of adequately offsetting the effects of decentralization while decisively retreating from the outmoded model of the psychiatric hospital.
Other countries that were mentioned included Cuba, which was praised for its progress in integrating mental health into primary health care and for developing mental health care for children and adolescents.
The Brasilia meeting, however, went farther. "Not only did they talk about eliminating the asylums for the insane as a model of care or about decentralizing the services," noted Dr. Rodríguez. "They cited new challenges that were not brought up in Caracas." The most prominent of these were:
- Psychosocial vulnerability, including the problems of specific groups such as indigenous populations and those living in extreme poverty, and the adverse effects of the lack of urban planning in large metropolis;
- Increased morbidity and psychosocial problems among children and adolescents;
- Greater societal demand for services to facilitate the adoption of effective prevention measures and to address suicidal behavior and drug and alcohol abuse at an early stage, and
- Violence, whose steady increase calls for a response from the health services, especially the mental health services, in order to treat victims.
Words to Action
The theme of the World Health Organization's World Health Report 2001 was mental health. The report noted that, while mental health is as important as physical health for the general well being of individuals, societies, and countries, "only a small minority of the 450 million people suffering from a mental or behavioral disorder is receiving treatment."
PAHO has also stressed its concern about the enormous gaps in care for people with psychological disorders, which is described as "overwhelming". The result of a special study on mental health in Latin America and the Caribbean published at PAHO Pan American Journal of Public Health leaves no room for doubt. The study concludes that in the Americas, "over one-third of individuals with non-affective psychosis, over half of those with an anxiety disorder, and some three-fourths of those with alcohol use, abuse or dependence did not receive mental health care from either specialized or general health services."
In that Journal, PAHO Director Dr. Mirta Roses Periago writes that the number of people with mental disorders in the Region of the Americas is expected to rise from 114 million in 1990 to 176 million in 2010.
According to WHO, advances in neuroscience and behavioral sciences have demonstrated that, just as with many organic diseases, mental and behavioral disorders are the result of a complex interaction between biological, psychological, and social factors. "While there is still much to be learned, we already have the knowledge and the power to reduce the burden of mental and behavioral disorders worldwide."
Statistics and Realities
In Latin America and the Caribbean, this burden was identified by data contained in the Mental Health Atlas 2005, an unprecedented evaluation effort by WHO to which PAHO and its Member States contributed greatly.
According to the Atlas, 76.5% of the countries in 2005 had national mental health plans. This, Dr. Rodríguez said, is highly significant, given that only 15 years ago such plans were virtually nonexistent. "For both PAHO and the countries the real challenge is to implement these plans, since several assessments indicate that actually fewer than half of the countries of the Region have done so."
The Atlas also indicates that 75% of the Latin American and Caribbean countries have mental health legislation. However, Dr. Rodríguez again invites us to not take this at face value. "The question that we should ask is to what extent this legislation is part of a complete body of law and to what extent they have been brought into line with international standards, and if these laws are in fact being properly enforced in the different contexts."
There can be no programs or services without money. WHO recommends that to meet the challenge of modernizing and restructuring mental health as proposed in the Caracas and Brasilia guidelines, nations should allocate a minimum of 5% of their general health budgets to mental health. Once again, Dr. Rodríguez asks us to look beyond this statistic. "Within the framework of mental health reform as we are envisioning it in the Americas, we also need to see how much of all that money is earmarked or absorbed by centralized psychiatric hospitals, by the large institutions representing those same models that we are in fact trying to eradicate."
Dr. Rodríguez points out that according to studies in the Central American region, many of these countries are below 1% in the general allocation of health budgets to mental health. Between 80% and 90% of these sums is absorbed and spent on centralized hospitals. He acknowledges that this incongruity must be resolved.
Human Resources
Human resources data for mental health in the Region of the Americas in the 2005 Atlas point to an obvious conclusion: there is an enormous need for Latin American and Caribbean countries to invest heavily in training and to work on retaining health workers with specialized education or skills in mental health disciplines. Belize, for instance, is a country singled out for its major accomplishments in strengthening its service capacity with a successful Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners training and implementation program.
According to Dr. Rodríguez, human resources in mental health are a key factor for the reform currently under way. "Mental health plans generally don't require expensive advanced technology; what is needed is a special effort for training and sustained retraining of human resources, based on the principles that are guiding the direction of our structural actions. The idea is to devise service schemes that are not doctor-centered. We must go from 'doctor-centrism' to developing other human resources that can play an important role in promoting health and preventing and treating mental illness. Belize and Panama are two countries whose actions provide the best evidence of the importance given to the role of nurses, for example."
Dr. Rodríguez emphasized that the challenge of human resources in mental health must be faced openly and in the broadest sense. A great number of people with situational symptoms or mild depression can be treated by primary care personnel properly trained in psychosocial issues and thus prepared to handle the emotional issues of many patients.
He also explained the importance of developing specific programs for vulnerable or at-risk groups. PAHO has taken up the challenge of assisting and cooperating with Member States to ensure that they have programs and the ability to properly meet the needs of indigenous populations, communities stricken by disasters, groups living in extreme poverty, and the victims of violence, whether political, social, or gender-based. PAHO is also promoting programs for children and adolescents as well as older adults.
Information and Knowledge
"We still have a long way to go," said Dr. Rodríguez, adding, nonetheless, that he is optimistic about what he views as a regional reform that is gradually progressing and responding to the established guidelines. "A series of efforts must be made and challenges met for mental health, substance abuse, and rehabilitation to become priority areas in the health policies of the appropriate ministries."
Dr. Rodríguez, however, stresses the critical importance of the awakening of this political awareness for bridging the major gaps that still exist in reliable surveillance, recording, and information systems.
"We must give politicians and decision makers evidence justifying a sustained investment, and for this, they must have current and reliable information."
In fact, the search for such appropriate evaluations led the WHO to create an unprecedented tool of more than 150 indicators which provides a baseline for its work. This initiative is known as the Assessment Instrument for Mental Health Systems (AIMS).
"For us at PAHO, the current challenge is for all the countries to adhere to the use of AIMS so that this assessment will clearly identify strengths, as well as weaknesses, in the reform of mental health services, which each country is undertaking with the particular features characteristic of its context but in line with the basic principles agreed on in the Region of the Americas."
Part 2: Mapping Mental Health: Core Data
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The dollar climbed to an eight month high versus the EUR on Friday after the release of the U.S. jobs report. Credit concerns in Europe are weighing on the market as traders have moved out of riskier currencies and into the safety of the dollar and yen.
The greenback was significantly stronger across the board at the end of Friday's trading with the lone exception coming against the Japanese yen. Driving the dollar higher was a combination of a strong U.S. jobs report and European economic sovereign debt fears.
At the end of Friday's trading, the EUR/USD was trading at 1.3677 from an opening price of 1.3741. The pair shed 1.3% of its value from the previous week. The GBP/USD was also trading lower, trading at the price of 1.5639 after opening at 1.5733.
The release of the U.S. Non-Farm Jobs report by the department of labor helped to continue the bullishness of the dollar's most recent rally. Despite the loss of 20K jobs for the previous month after expectations of an increase of 10K, the unemployment rate dropped to 9.7%. This shows U.S. employment conditions are improving from their low point in the recession. An expectation for the next month may be positive job growth.
The jobs report capped off a strong week for the dollar. This trend may continue for the upcoming trading week as traders will be looking for further positive economic data to verify the trend of an improving U.S. economy. Traders should be eyeing both Wednesday's U.S. Trade Balance and Thursday's Core Retail Sales numbers for confirmation.


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TMI! The star is known for her oversharing antics, and it looks like she's back at it! She took a bathroom break in NYC and shared it with the world — do you think it's weird?
Jessica Simpson tweeted a picture of herself in the bathroom at Bergdorf Goodman's on Oct. 25 along with the caption, "short girl problems," and I don't even know where to begin. For starters, why share this moment with your twitter followers? Also, why is she bare-foot in a public restroom?
The star is in town with her sister and mother while they work on their tween clothing line, but it looks like the gals took a break to hit the swanky NYC store. However, rather than tweet a pic of a recent purchase or high-fashion item, instead we saw this interesting shot of Jess — and it isn't the first time she went so TMI!
What do you think? Has the star totally lost it or is she just being funny?
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welli don't understand the big deal.of course she's trying to be funny.this is aposed pic and where is her underware?i find it funny that so many people reacted this way.it seems like something i would do lol.i love jessica she has always said whats on her mind and never cares what people think.
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Love Jessica. she keeps it real.. common knowledge women have bladder issues when carrying.. Would you question if she had put it in a regular mag? probably not.. you never know what your getting with Jess but she is real & very relatable. NOt a phony bone in her body. I wish her &baby health& happiness. People & tabs need to do the same..
She will be a fantastic mom
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Acrodysostosis is usually accompanied by moderate mental retardation and learning difficulties. It may be inherited as an autosomal dominant trait in some cases, although no gene has yet been identified with this disorder. Acrodysostosis seems to be associated in some cases with advanced parental age.
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How do I contact a staff member? I work for Residential Computing Connect at Bowling Green Statue University. We are trying to find a game to host a Lan tournament with, and I'd love to work with someone to make LoL that game.
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We can create a game, password it, and join. Basically lanning. What I'm really interested in is input from someone from Riot Games so we can set this up great.
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We're open to working with people to set up LAN-like parties, but at this time there is no LAN feature in LoL. You will need to play on our public servers to play the game. If you would like more information, please email us at email@example.com.
Thanks! I sent an email. How would BETA NDA come into play if we did this? I'm sure we could just get beta keys on our own and have a tournament but I want to do this legit. Using public servers with a password will serve the same purpose as a Lan game.
Sorry for the bump, but I'm trying to get this tournament rolling and I haven't heard back from anyone yet.
Setting up a password protected server is going to be unlikely at this time. Playing password protected practice games on the main beta server is the only available setup for this that I know of. If you're still interested in getting this going email me again at email@example.com and address it to Jesse so I'm sure to get it.


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Ten-year-old Brito [BREE-toh] carefully folds his Pathfinder neckerchief into a triangle and rolls the folded edge just so. He slips the neckerchief around his neck and runs to meet the other Pathfinders. He doesn't want to be late, for today's activity is one of his favorites. The Pathfinders are going into the neighborhood to share God's love and give out literature.
"Once a month we visit a different apartment house and give people pamphlets and books, such as Steps to Christ, and tell them about Jesus," Brito says. "Some of the Pathfinders are shy about talking to people, but I like it! Some people don't want the book, but others are glad to have it and even offer to pay for it. We tell them that the book is our gift to them from our church.
"We go in groups so the people know that we are an organization," Brito explains. "And our leader stays nearby to answer any questions we can't. Sometimes we see people walking on the street, and we race to see who will be the first one to give them a book.
"We have fun sharing God's love with others," Brito adds. "Our church has lots of young people, and even those who aren't Pathfinders go with us. We sing as we walk through the neighborhood, and sometimes people stop to listen. That gives us another chance to give people a book. It's a great feeling to know we can make people happy while we share God's love."
Brito doesn't know of anyone who has come to church because the children gave them a book, but the children pray that the books will be like seeds that will sprout in the homes in which they have been planted.
Brito shares God's love in other ways, too. He invites school friends to his home after school or on weekends. His friends notice that his family is different. They don't watch TV on Sabbaths, and they pray before they eat. When his friends ask about these things, Brito tells them that he loves Jesus. He invites them to visit Sabbath School. Some of his friends have gone to church with him, and they like it. Others don't come. "Even if someone doesn't come to church, I keep inviting them back," Brito says. "I don't know which friend will become a friend of Jesus some day."
Brito is excited, for he's learned that this Thirteenth Sabbath the whole world will help his church build a new church and community center to which many people can come to be helped and to learn more about God. "Thank you," Brito says. "Thank you so much for helping us tell others about God's love!"


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... maybe its just something i can't admit,
but lately, i feel like i don't give a shit..
"I am a wannabe
You better be careful around me
I come from far away, where mustang dreams are made
And we are fashioned in the image of the Don's who have come before us
We all kiss the rings of sand like our fathers told us."
i hate quoting, yet i do it so much, it makes it seem as if my life is just one big chain of song lyrics and quirky sayings to the
dissappointing point where nothing is original/real.
my greatest fear for the future present and past-
i lack motivation.
i lack focus.
i lack...
i have no focus, no purpose, no inner heart-stuff, hell i dont even know
what its called.
i'm like a a gas molecule in a container-
virtually free/ independent, but all this is superficial because i
(like the molecule) am still confined within the walls of my container,
i want to break free but i don't know how.
"Oh Lady of Darkness, terrible one, so bold and entreating. Lead me down the path you make. To heaven or hell, I care not. Only that it be away."
ugh another cliche.
i need love.
i have love, well i girl who loves me, and a chain of
guys who adore me, no really they do ( trying to say it without sounding vain)
but i have no heart-stuff for them...
i cant, love/commit/be with anyone.
"Oh sweet Lady of Pain ever weeping over my sorrows. Hold me to your bosom and drip gentle penance on me for my sins."
i'm starting to realise that its not them- its me.
me with the issues.
me with the problem.
me with the hollow inside.
"My life is pain, a consumptive pain that saps my strength and will, wracking my chest and twisting my gut, driving me to madness and from that madness to the futile strength that comes from a body soaked in opiate dreams. The brilliance of my eyes in the mirror only echoes the brilliance of my mind as the three ghostly ladies of my dreams labor over me, dancing gaily, mocking me..."
thats it!
i am one big freaking cliche...
i quote everybody else but nobody will ever quote me.
kill me now.
Your second to last line about nobody ever quoting you made me go "wow". That's what I've been trying to say because I quote everybody as well. I wonder if the people we quote once thought they'd never be quote worthy.
I wish you luck in breaking free, in finding motivation and focus. Better days are ahead. Or so I hope.
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."


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The premier resource for tracing your British and Irish
About Poor Law Abstracts 1742-1868
Poor Law records are among the most valuable of all sources for genealogists, yet underused. They can contain a mass of biographical detail unavailable anywhere else. Of particular value are settlement examinations. To avoid parishes being liable to provide poor relief to people settling without good links to the parish, the Settlement Act of 1662 placed certain restrictions on who could claim relief. Incomers to a parish were officially examined and if they were not legally settled in that parish they and their dependents could be forcibly removed. If you are lucky enough to find a forebear who applied for poor law relief, the example abstracts below (for St Botolph Aldgate) show the kind of information you may find: Elizabeth Joseph (33) of 18 Petticoat Lane married her late husband Lewis Joseph 4 Jun 1850 at Great Synagogue and has 5 children Rachel Joseph (12), Emanuel Joseph (11), Sarah Joseph (9), Ann Joseph (7) and Joseph Joseph (2 ½); about 1852 husband took 35 Petticoat Lane at £8 15s per quarter and stayed 2-3 years and at same time 50 Petticoat Lane at £1 p.w. and husband occupied shop and bakehouse at 35 and let rest out; husband died Christmas 1860. 15 Jun 1863.Origins.net are initially making available a series of poor law records for the City of London. The first two sets of this series, transcribed by Cliff Webb cover the parishes of St Botolph Aldgate and St Sepulchre; the index to these records contains over 20,000 names.
City of London Settlement Examinations Settlement examinations provide much unique information about a class of people for whom virtually no other sources of biographical information are available. All the rich tapestry of London life can be seen here. However, the documents tend to be verbose and repetitive. Here they have been abstracted; the aim has been to include all the information (not just the genealogical) in the original so as to render consultation of the originals unnecessary (even where possible) to researchers. Thus not only all names, but all places and occupations have been included. While most of the abstracts are of settlement examinations, other types of poor law records are also included – apprentice indentures and bastardy examinations. The abstracts contain the Guilhall or LMA references, so that you can locate the original records. There are plenty of 'repeat customers'. These have been repeated here as often a bit of extra information is given in one entry which is omitted in another. Also included are entries which are struck through in the original. This does not mean that the information they contain is necessarily wrong; the subject may have died or for some other reason the examination may not have become necessary. Although we are referring to these records as being for the "City of London", the first two sets are for parishes (St Botolph Aldgate and St Sepulchre) which were each partly in the City and partly in Middlesex. Also bear in mind that many of the people mentioned had lived in other parts of England, and outside it, and that consequently there are many references to people from outside the London area. St Botolph Aldgate 1742-1868 St Botolph is the patron saint of gatekeepers (few classes of people do not have a patron saint!) and is the dedication of several parish churches on the edge of the City. St Botolph Aldgate is a large but poor parish with a highly transient population. There are only a few Huguenots in the records but quite a few Jewish people, Irish, Scots and other early immigrants. For civil purposes St Botolph was divided into two parts, each with separate civil jurisdiction: St Botolph Aldgate, Middlesex and St Botolph Aldgate, London, the latter being the portion of the parish within the old City walls. The settlement records abstracted here pertain to both parts of St Botolph Aldgate. The source records for St Botolph Aldgate All the poor law records of both parishes are held at the Guildhall Library. The table following lists the records abstracted. The volumes are in various formats; the last manuscript number (10034) consists of four boxes of loose documents. Some attempt has been made at some point to arrange these last into alphabetical order, but they have been considerably jumbled. Many of them appear in the volumes, but many do not and these have been appended (entry nos 4504-4662). The end of manuscripts 2665/1; 2665/2 is in an unusual format. The examinations have been written into a ready-printed book, but the volume expects to have a removal order for each examination, and has headings set out for this on every other folio. In fact only three removal orders (of which two are duplicates) have been copied into this volume, so there is only content on every other folio, and only the used folios have been numbered. Furthermore, only approximately one-third of the volume has been used.
St Sepulchre 1765-1844 St Sepulchre was a single ecclesiastical parish, but for civil purposes (which included matters pertaining to the poor law) was split into two, St Sepulchre, London and St Sepulchre, Middlesex, the former being the area within the old City walls. While most of the St Sepulchre abstracts are of settlement examinations, there are also apprenticeship indentures and bastardy examination records; in the abstracts these are identified by "Apprenticeship" or "Bastardy Examination" respectively in brackets at the end of the abstract; all other abstracts should be of settlement examinations. Examples: 12 Aug 1777 Elizabeth Cary sp. delivered of male child Thomas Tulley at house of (Mr) Bonney, 46 Featherstone Street, St Luke Old Street 5 Nov 1776 (Bastardy Examination) The source records for St Sepulchre There are twelve surviving registers of settlement examinations of St Sepulchre, Middlesex in the Guildhall Library, GL Mss 9095/1-12. In addition there is a book of bastardy examinations 1776-86 (GL Ms 7235) and of poor parish apprenticeships 1802-42 (GL Ms 9107) both of which are included here. Furthermore there are three more books of examinations (GL Ms 3224/1-3) of St Sepulchre, London though these books have been bound into one volume. Ms 3224/1 is a very flimsy book unlike the others and it was at first missed, it appearing to be part of the rough index at the front of Ms 3224/2. This has resulted in the entries for that volume being at the end of the abstracts rather than in the correct position. Finally, at London Metropolitan Archives there is a bundle of unbound original settlement examinations of St Sepulchre, London (LMA: P69/SEP/22/1-165). The table below lists the records abstracted.


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A bloody coup ousted Aristide shortly after his election in 1991. Restored to power by a U.S. intervention in 1994, Aristide and Lavalas failed to fulfill their campaign promise of social change, and rasin groups took the government to task in their music. LaGuerre recalls the day a corrupt official offered Boukan Ginen $30,000 to remove the word magouyé, which means a person who says one thing and does another, from the recording of one of their songs. "We can't do that," LaGuerre explained to the official. "We already play the song in concert. People already know what we say." When Boukan Ginen refused to cooperate, LaGuerre and his bandmates were taken to a police station and interrogated. He left the country soon after. "I came to Miami for the Rasin Festival in 1996," he said, "and I never went back."
Far from the turmoil of his homeland, LaGuerre sat with an acoustic guitar, playing a traditional warrior chant to a rhythm called nago. "Saint Jacques," he sang, appealing to the vodou god of war, "deliver me from my hypocritical friends."
The composer asked LaGuerre to demonstrate the rhythm on the drum, and the bass player rolled out a rough-hewn vodou instrument and slid it between his knees. Microphone in hand, Ligeti tried to persuade the roots musician to hit just one note at a time, but LaGuerre insisted on playing complicated patterns. "I just feel things," he protested. "Vodou is very big, I'm telling you."
Finally Ligeti set down the microphone and repeated the basic nago rhythm on his own drum set. "That's it!" LaGuerre exclaimed, jumping from his seat. Sitting back down he played the second of the three nago rhythm parts. "Now play this."
Ligeti raised his stick high and pounded the tom in imitation. Then he added the lead drum pattern, pumping the foot pedals and threading his drumsticks through the air to play each of the three nago parts at the same time.
"You're too much!" LaGuerre exclaimed, standing up and spreading his arms wide. "What you're doing, that's the right thing you do."
By the end of the first week, Ligeti had met and recorded each of the six musicians. Now it is late on a Friday night and the group is meeting at the Sound Arts Workshop to hear the "objects of sound" the composer has gathered. Tethered to the colored cables, they listen as Castro's poem is fed into the headphones. Ligeti asks the musicians to find what he calls "the inherent rhythms in the poet's speech." As they follow the cadence of the verse, the steel pan, bass, violin, and drums rise and fall together. The composer is pleased. "They play these speech rhythms surprisingly well," he reports. "No other group has ever done it as quickly."
Working with these Caribbean musicians, he adds, "makes it possible to combine a lot of background knowledge that musicians in [classical] ensembles don't have. I can learn a lot from them, and I can expect them to play back their interpretation of what I've learned with the authority of authenticity."
In the two weeks that follow, tradition often clashes with technology as the musicians struggle with Ligeti's unusual creative process. The composer, however, is accustomed to chaos in the click track's wake. "In the beginning nothing will work," he admits. "Sometimes two or three days before the performance people can't understand how something coherent will come out of all this. Then close to the end, it will fall together like a jigsaw puzzle. Or maybe it won't," he says. "That's why I'm an experimental musician, because I like to see what works and what doesn't." Flowing from the electronics in the black wooden box, across the long tentacles of Caribbean history, the music of Furacan Caribe will be as unpredictable as the social maelstrom of modern-day Miami.
Furacan Caribe will perform as part of the Subtropics New Music Festival at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, 2000 Convention Center Drive, Miami Beach, at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, April 15. Call 305-981-0600 for more information.


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Airline Safety Card – Alternative Meanings For Their Images
Airline Safety Card Fun!
Airline Safety Cards have been a way of life for most airlines for years. You usually can't escape the fact as soon as you sit down and look into the seat pocket to browse through the in flight magazine, or reach for the spew bag if you are feeling a bit seedy after spending the entire wealth of a third world country on trying to kill your liver and brain cells on a big weekend in Las Vegas!
I say 'most' airlines because I have personally flown some dodgy airlines where an Airline Safety Card could be an optional extra. But hey, a seatbelt or card would not have helped me anyway if this plane had crashed!
Anyway, someone emailed me some funny jokes recently, showing some possible alternative meanings to the instructions given on the Airline Safety Cards that we all take for granted whenever we take a flight anywhere.
These images look like the stock standard safety instructions that we take for granted, however they take on a different meaning when a silly caption is placed underneath them. When you piece the image and the caption together, it almost makes perfect sense!
They're almost as funny as the 'Snakes On A Plane Safety Instructions Booklet!'. Actually, Snakes on a Plane was one of those movies where the title was exactly the same as the entire movie plot at the same time!
Check it out these funny airline safety card pisstakes!
Airline Safety Card Pisstake Photos!
Yep, I had a good giggle at these!
More Airline Safety Card Stuff!
You can check out more of these funny pictures at the Airtoons website! Looks like someone was annoyed with the airlines, like this dude on his Airline Secrets.
So the next time you fly, please don't associate these images with your Airline Safety Card!
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This is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.
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OMG! My son and I just laughed so hard! Thanks and we want more!
hahahaha boy did that walkman bring back memories!