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CONYERS -- Hundreds of Rockdale County students are getting healthy snacks at school this year and trying new fresh fruits and vegetables, like kumquats and more colorful versions of carrots and cauliflower.
Three Rockdale County public schools -- C.J. Hicks, J.H. House and Pine Street elementary schools -- are among 146 schools across the state that were awarded a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program for the 2011-12 school year.
C.J. Hicks received an allocation of more than $43,000, J.H. House more than $30,000 and Pine Street more than $28,000 to fund fresh fruits and vegetables for students every day.
"This is a great opportunity to expose children to healthy snack options on a daily basis," said Peggy Lawrence, director of School Food Services for Rockdale County Public Schools. "The students might not like everything they try, but it does introduce them to many different kinds of fruits and vegetables, which support a foundation for a lifetime of healthy eating habits."
So far this school year, students have tried a variety of fresh and unusual fruits and vegetables, including asparagus, blackberries and kumquat, as well as carnival cauliflower and rainbow carrots, which are colorful versions of the normally white and orange foods. They also get more common foods like strawberries, bananas and squash.
"We work with our produce vendor to select the fruits and veggies for the following week," Lawrence said. "They give us a list of available items that are a bit off the beaten path in terms of what we normally order, items that are just for this program. We look over the list, confirm availability and then order from there."
Jennifer Ford, an RCPS dietitian, develops a PowerPoint presentation each week that has some information about each product, including nutrients contained in it, its country of origin, how to eat it and so on, to supply to each school for use in announcements and for teachers to pull up on their smart boards in class.
"We have gotten some menu ideas from this as well," Lawrence said.
The program is authorized and funded under Section 19 of the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act and has expanded in recent years as a result of the 2008 Farm Bill.
It is available in selected low-income elementary schools. Schools must have at least 50 percent of students receiving free and reduced lunches in order to apply for the grant through their state Department of Education.
The three schools in RCPS were selected based on the percentage of free and reduced lunches and a grant application, Lawrence said.
"My only wish is that I could have it in each elementary school. It is a wonderful program, giving children exposure to the wonderful, colorful world of fresh fruits and vegetables," Lawrence said. "We plan to continue applying for this grant funding and hope to be able to expand the program to other schools which meet the grant criteria."
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Tom Selleck is worse than Ted Nugent
Tom Selleck, rightly or wrongly, lends the NRA a veneer of credibility that they would never get with nutjobs like Ted Nugent.
It's somewhat analogous to this Rick Snyder - Scott Walker comparison.
Posted by MinM | Thu Oct 16, 2014, 08:52 AM (0 replies)
In an interview with 60 Minutes that Ended Up Online?
It's interesting that 60 Minutes has been airing these puff pieces about the FBI and CIA on air but relegate this story to the internet.
Posted by MinM | Wed Oct 15, 2014, 02:13 PM (1 replies)
Freeway Ricky Ross
Jesse Katz admits that attacking journalist Gary Webb's CIA-cocaine expose ruined Webb's life
By Nick Schou Thursday, May 30 2013
Nine years after investigative reporter Gary Webb committed suicide, Jesse Katz, a former Los Angeles Times reporter who played a leading role in ruining the controversial journalist's career, has publicly apologized just weeks before shooting begins in Atlanta on Kill the Messenger, a film expected to reinstate Webb's reputation as an award-winning journalist dragged through the mud by disdainful, competing media outlets.
Webb made history, then quickly fell from grace, with his 20,000-word 1996 investigation, "Dark Alliance," in which the San Jose Mercury News reported that crack cocaine was being peddled in L.A.'s black ghettos to fund a CIA-backed proxy war carried out by contra rebels in Nicaragua...
No journalist played a more central role in the effort to obscure the facts Webb reported than former L.A. Times reporter Katz. But on May 22, Katz, who has penned a Los Angeles magazine story hitting newsstands now that resurfaces the Gary Webb episode, essentially apologized, on KPCC-FM 89.3's AirTalk With Larry Mantle.
Katz was discussing "Freeway Rick Is Dreaming" in the July 2013 issue of Los Angeles magazine, in which he profiles Ricky Ross, the notorious crack-cocaine dealer with whom Katz has a long, tortured relationship. In 1994, shortly after Ross got out of prison for coke trafficking, Katz wrote that Ross was the mastermind of America's crack-cocaine epidemic, at his peak pushing half a million rocks a day.
"If there was one outlaw capitalist most responsible for flooding Los Angeles' streets with mass-marketed cocaine, his name was 'Freeway' Rick," Katz's 1994 L.A. Times article claimed. "Ross did more than anyone else to democratize it, boosting volume, slashing prices and spreading disease on a scale never before conceived."
But Webb's 1996 Mercury News series exposed a startling fact: Ross' mentor and chief supplier, who helped him climb to the top of the crack trade, was Nicaraguan exile Oscar Danilo Blandón Reyes. Blandón belonged to one of Nicaragua's most prominent political families and was a major backer of the "contras" a rebel movement secretly created by the CIA to overthrow the leftist Sandinista rebels...
Posted by MinM | Thu Oct 9, 2014, 08:23 AM (2 replies)
Honduras: Under New Management
@SanhoTree · Under New Management. Honduras to experiment w/private cities. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/09/01/under_new_management_amapala_honduras_charter_cities Cuz sovereignty is for those who can afford it.
In 2009, far from Honduras, respected economist Paul Romer, then of Stanford University, appeared at a TED conference in the United Kingdom to unveil a big idea. Against the backdrop of a satellite image of the Korean Peninsula at night, Romer compared the North's blackness with the South, which glowed with electricity and economic activity. Causing the stark contrast, Romer argued, were the Hermit Kingdom's bad or impractical regulations. Similar problems existed throughout the developing world. Romer's plan? Sign over a large tract of "uninhabited" land in a struggling country to a developed guarantor nation, which would create and oversee an investment zone free from the host country's fickle politics and troublesome rules. Enter the charter city.
Romer's idea captured headlines in the Atlantic and the New York Times. Many international development advocates criticized it for its blatantly neocolonialist features, but it found supporters too. Proponents invariably pointed to Hong Kong, China's "special administrative region" that operates under different rules than the mainland, as a shining example of the results that autonomy can yield. And charter cities almost got off the ground in Madagascar, where Romer found a receptive partner in President Marc Ravalomanana. Malagasy charter cities went down the drain, however, when Ravalomanana was forced to resign, partly because of fierce opposition to his willingness to hand over land to foreigners. (He had negotiated a plan to lease more than 1.2 million hectares to South Korea's Daewoo, to grow corn and palm-oil exports.)
Around the same time, in Honduras, President Manuel Zelaya was ousted in a coup and replaced by the more conservative Porfirio Lobo Sosa. The new president faced a dire national situation: 60 percent of Honduras's citizens lived in poverty, its murder rate was climbing (from 50 homicides per 100,000 people in 2007, to 70.7 in 2009), and immigration to the United States was rising so fast that a domestic manufacturing association launched a campaign beseeching workers, "Stay With Us." While looking for ways to kick-start investment in the country, a Lobo aide named Octavio Sánchez discovered Romer's TED talk. It echoed similar ideas being proposed by Mark Klugmann, an American political consultant and former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan who had worked on Lobo's campaign. Romer and Sánchez set up a meeting and began working on a plan to build charter cities in Honduras. "My sense was that it was worth putting some of my time and effort into doing something that might help," says Romer, now a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
In early 2011, the Honduran National Congress passed a constitutional amendment allowing for special development regions (REDs), which were like charter cities but without Romer's guarantor nation. They would have investors and be overseen by a government-appointed Transparency Commission -- Romer says he was to be a part of it -- which would select a Honduran governor for each RED. The regions would set their own regulations and jurisdictions; only when it had been determined that they had developed the necessary institutions and populations to hold their own elections would regions transition to democratic control...
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Edwin Meese
The 5 creepiest things about how the Koch brothers engineered the shutdown
This weekend, The New York Times revealed how the Koch Brothers and Reagan Attorney General Ed Meese engineered this here shutdown were dealing with right now, and how theyd been planning it ever since Obama was reelected. I wasnt especially shocked by it, myself. Hell, half of the Tea Party people in the House actually campaigned on it. Which is why I have been annoyed as hell with the whole Oh, well, its really both parties at fault here! line of reasoning that some people have been trying to take...
This current mess is just one reason it Still Matters .. because the powers that were directly implicated in or at the least 'benefited' from the removal of JFK were fascists like the Koch Bros.
Also in the case of Ed Meese we have somebody directly involved in the JFK coverup who is Still wreaking havoc with our Country...
...When he introduces Garrison's investigation it is essentially more of the same. For instance, about the arrest of Clay Shaw, Talbot writes, "But to Garrison, he was a CIA-linked international businessman. . .."
Today, there can be no "buts" about it. Shaw was not just "linked" to the CIA, he worked for them. We have this not just from the declassified files, but from FBI agent Regis Kennedy, who said, in referring to Shaw's association with Permindex, that Shaw was a CIA agent who had worked for the Agency in Italy. (Let Justice Be Done, by William Davy, p. 100)
To further downplay the importance of what Garrison uncovered, Talbot quotes former RFK aide, Ed Guthman. Guthman was working as an editor for the Los Angeles Times in early 1967. He tells Talbot that he sent his ace reporters to New Orleans and they discovered that Garrison had no evidence for his charges. Guthman calls them "great reporters". If Talbot would have dug a little deeper he would have found out a couple of interesting things these "great reporters" had done.
One of the "great" reporters was Jack Nelson. Nelson's source for Garrison not having any evidence was former FBI agent and Hoover informer Aaron Kohn. Kohn was, among other things, an unofficial assistant to Shaw's defense team. Another of Guthman's "great" reporters was Jerry Cohen. Cohen cooperated with FBI informant Larry Schiller in keeping Garrison from extraditing Loran Hall. This cooperation extended up to flying with Hall to Sacramento to speak to Edwin Meese. Further, Cohen kept up a correspondence with Shaw's lawyers and even Shaw himself. This is great reporting? ...
Of course Edwin Meese, with the blessing of his boss (Gov Ronald Reagan), would go on to deny Garrison's extradition request. This is just one small example of how Jim Garrison's case was undermined but it demonstrates how far back deep-state players like Ed Meese go.
Keep up the great work Octafish. You're doing the memories of Gaeton Fonzi and Roger Feinman proud.
Edwin Meese is still in place too...]
Posted by MinM | Tue Aug 26, 2014, 10:03 AM (1 replies)
RFK visited Detroit in 1968
@MichiganHist: Senator Robert Kennedy touring 12th st area affected by riot - 5/1968 Detroit News pic (WSU Lib) #DetroitHistory
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Posted by MinM | Thu Aug 14, 2014, 10:43 AM (0 replies)
George Will is a political apparatchik
He's been a bad actor in the media and behind the scenes for years ..
...McCloy asked President Carter to allow the Shah to live in the United States. Carter refused because he had told by his diplomats in Iran that such a decision might encourage the embassy being stormed by mobs. As a result McCloy made preparations for the Shah to stay in the Bahamas. David Rockefeller arranged for his personal assistant at Chase Manhattan, Joseph V. Reed, to manage the Shah's finances.
Rockefeller also established the highly secret, Project Alpha. The main objective was to persuade Carter to provide a safe haven for Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (code-named "Eagle"). McCloy, Rockefeller and Kissinger were referred to as the "Triumvirate". Rockefeller used money from Chase Manhattan Bank to pay employees of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy who worked on the project. Some of this money was used to persuade academics to write articles defending the record of Pahlavi. For example, George Lenczowski, professor emeritus at the University of California, was paid $40,000 to write a book with the "intention to answer the shah's critics".
Kissinger telephoned Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor to Carter, on 7th April, 1979, and berated the president for his emphasis on human rights, which he considered to be "amateurish" and "naive". Brzezinski suggested he talked directly to Jimmy Carter. Kissinger called Carter and arranged for him to meet David Rockefeller, two days later. Gerald Ford also contacted Carter and urged him to "stand by our friends".
McCloy, Rockefeller and Kissinger arranged for conservative journalists to mount an attack on Carter over this issue. On 19th April, George F. Will wrote about Carter and the Shah and said; "It is sad that an Administration that knows so much about morality has so little dignity."
On 19th April, Rosalynn Carter wrote in her diary: "We can't get away from Iran. Many people - Kissinger, David Rockefeller, Howard Baker, John McCloy, Gerald Ford - all are after Jimmy to bring the shah to the United States, but Jimmy says it's been too long, and anti-American and anti-shah sentiments have escalated so that he doesn't want to. Jimmy said he explained to all of them that the Iranians might kidnap our Americans who are still there." ...
Of course we now know that not only did these right-wingers instigate the hostage taking in Iran but they prolonged it until Carter was voted out and Reagan was sworn in.
Posted by MinM | Thu Aug 14, 2014, 09:29 AM (0 replies)
Apropos of nothing I just happened to be watching season 3 of Leverage on dvd. In the commentary on the season finale the producer mentions that the documentary Our Brand Is Crisis served as inspiration for that episode.
Posted by MinM | Wed Aug 13, 2014, 12:13 AM (1 replies)
PBS' History Detectives
strongly hinted at complicity of the CIA and possibly Nixon in the killing of Jimmy Hoffa ..
(as previously mentioned below .. some of it based on the Nixon tapes):
Jimmy Hoffa and the Church Committee
A little off topic here but it was interesting last night that PBS' History Detectives investigation concluded that Hoffa was killed to prevent him from testifying to the Church Committee.
Ostensibly to keep him from spilling the beans any further about Russell Bufalino's (Philly/NY mob boss) ties to the CIA. Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli were silenced in the Summer of 75 too (apparently for the same reason).
Posted by MinM | Fri Aug 8, 2014, 08:55 AM (0 replies)
Operation Sandwedge
Operation Sandwedge and more on the Bear Trap
Possible parallels between the plot to kill Jack Anderson and Chappaquiddick ..
Fresh Air (4 years ago) about journalist Jack Anderson:
Dave Davies: The scandal that brought Nixon down, the Watergate scandal, kind of left Anderson behind in some ways. I mean other reporters really took the lead on that as well as, of course, congressional investigators and federal prosecutors. But it was fascinating to read in your book that Anderson himself was almost way ahead of this story.
Mark Feldstein: Yes. Jack Anderson was ahead of the Watergate story in two respects. First, he exposed what was really the precursor to Watergate, which is known as the ITT scandal. This was a scandal where he got a smoking gun document from Dita Beard, the Washington lobbyist for ITT, one of the largest corporations, International Telephone and Telegraph, of its time, and he and his young leg man at the time, Brit Hume, who, of course, later became famous as an anchor man for Fox News, they broke this story in essence of how the Nixon administration took a bribe - or how the Republican Convention took a bribe, $400,000 was pledged by ITT, and in exchange they dropped antitrust action, watered down antitrust action, against ITT. And Anderson and Hume obtained the smoking gun document that proved it, which the lobbyist herself admitted it.
This threatened Nixon more than any of Anderson's national security secrets because it got to the heart of the corruption at the center of the Nixon re-election campaign. And Nixon's men went into overdrive trying to contain this scandal. They decided to plant false documents with Anderson, they plotted about breaking into his office, typing up documents on White House stationery on his typewriter, leaking it to him so that when he published it they could trace it to his typewriter and accuse him of forging documents. They, according to testimony I have in my book, concocted false photographs to put Anderson in photos to implicate him in wrongdoing. They engaged in all kinds of dirty tricks to try to stop Anderson from this - punish Anderson for this expose. And this was really the precursor to Watergate. And this was when they, you know, came up with a plot to actually assassinate Jack Anderson.
Dave Davies: Well, I wanted to talk about that, because after Nixon's re-election in 1972, they decided they really had to deal with Anderson. And the notion that there had been talk of assassinating Anderson, that was revealed a couple of decades ago. What did you learn about how serious an effort this was to kill him?
Mark Feldstein: The plot to assassinate Anderson turned out to have been much more serious than anyone realized. There are documents in the National Archives that have never been released before in which prosecutors discuss this, investigated this. And I got what amounted to a confession from one of the conspirators, Howard Hunt, the Watergate burglar, before his death in 2003, where he admitted for the first time what his co-conspirator, Gordon Liddy, had already admitted - that the two of them plotted to assassinate Anderson.
In fact, they went beyond merely plotting. They actually conducted surveillance of Anderson. They tailed him from his work spot, garage, to his house. They staked out his house. They looked at it for vulnerabilities, how they could break in, how they could plant poison in his aspirin bottle - that was one of the methods they discussed using. They talked about how they could spike his drink and they talked about smearing LSD on his steering wheel so that he would absorb it through his skin and die in a hallucination-crazed auto crash. They met with an agent from CIA who was a specialist in poisons.
They met just a block from the White House at the Hay-Adams Hotel on March 24th 1972, and they pumped this CIA operative - former CIA operative - for information about what kind of toxins, what kind of poisons would be best to use so it would not be discovered in an autopsy. So the plot to assassinate Jack Anderson that emanated from the Nixon White House was very real.
And it was ultimately called off because they decided instead that they needed Hunt and Liddy to break into the Watergate apartment complex and office building and that, of course, led to their arrest and the downfall of the regime...
BTW you should read / listen to the rest of that piece on Fresh Air. Reminds me of another great interview that Dave Davies conducted about the lack of accountability for the Wall Street Bankers.
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MOUNT SELMAN, TEXAS. Mount Selman, also known as Selman, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm Road 177, twenty miles north of Rusk in northern Cherokee County. The community was established after the Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad was built through the area in the early 1880s. In 1884 a new town was founded on the railroad by several leading citizens of nearby Larissa (which had been bypassed by the railroad), among them Dr. R. D. Bone, J. W. Wade, J. N. McKee, and W. T. McKee. They named the community Selman in honor of Dr. James Selman, who donated land for the townsite. When the post office opened there in 1884, the town was renamed Mount Selman to avoid confusion with another town called Selman. By 1892 Mount Selman had a population of 125, served by a flour mill and gin, a Presbyterian church, and a general store, drugstore, dry-goods store, and grocery store. The town became a leading shipping center for peaches, plums, and tomatoes, and by 1914 it had reached its peak population of 500. In the early 1950s Mount Selman had a population of 220 and five businesses. Subsequently most of the remaining stores closed. The post office closed in 1973, and local mail was sent through Bullard. In 1990 the town had several churches, a community center, a few scattered houses, and an estimated population of 200. The population remained the same in 2000.
Cherokee County History (Jacksonville, Texas: Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986). Fred Hugo Ford and J. L. Browne, Larissa (1930?; rev. ed., Jacksonville, Texas: McFarland, 1951). Hattie Joplin Roach, A History of Cherokee County (Dallas: Southwest, 1934).
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Jan KORTHOUT [29 KB] (on behalf of Minister Geert BOURGEOIS)
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Karl WOEBER [518 KB] ,
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By Eunice Nyiraneza, Ultimate Media
Like so many other Fridays when most people are bidding farewell to the busier part of the week and ushering in the weekend in different ways, there is a crowd of people waiting outside Cooper Theater this evening.
This crowd is not waiting neither for the usual dramas or even the Kina Uganda film that pulled many Ugandans to the theatre. They are waiting to go in for "Omusomo Gwabakulu" as advertised by the poster at the theatre.
Omusomo gwabakulu loosely translated to mean a lesion for adults is a Senga session aimed at advising adults on how to make their sex life more fulfilling.
In many Ugandan cultures, a Senga (paternal aunt) is supposed to train and guide their teen nieces in sexual and marriage affairs, but this is dying out as modernization has its toll. Also, the fast disappearance of the homogenous family where all relatives lived in almost the same environment has made the cherished Senga institution to disappear.
That there is more instability in Uganda families leading to broken homes was what prompted Kato Lubwama and company to start up this traditional sex education session. This group, as they said in their preamble believes that the main cause of these family breakups is dissatisfaction between lovers in families.
"This lesson therefore addresses issues that result into catastrophes which in the long run result into family breakups. We get into the lovers bedrooms and discuss issues that they would not otherwise have addressed even if they had wanted to," explained Omulangira Ndawula, one of the teachers in the group.
The session, which kicked off at 7:04pm though the poster indicated 6pm as starting time, involved lectures in Luganda and English from Ssenga Namatovu Hamida, Omulangira Ndawula, Nassali Salima, Ssenga Nassanga and Kato Lubwama acting as the master of ceremony.
It addressed issues connected to sex performance in any way like dress code and its effect on sexual performance in both adults and babies, breastfeeding and how it influences a child's future sex life.
"Today women opt for bottle feeding of their babies. When the children grow up and start behaving like cattle having sex with everything, the mothers don't know it is their fault for feeding them on cow milk," said Ndawula in his introductory speech on the aims of the study.
Omulangira Ndawula made it clear that he believes that instilling the eroded cultural and tradition values again would greatly reduce family instability. The people giving the lecture are people with traditional experience in love and sex matters and have not let these values be influenced by the western world values, Ndawula said.
Ssenga Namatovu also hosted on a show every Monday at 9am on CBS to address family issues like cleanliness, sex and the like. "Dressing your baby boy in a nappy all the time will make him a poor sex performer in future,"she cautioned the audience.
Handling Sex matters in the bedroom
Kiganda sex traditions like what Ndawula referred to as the nkumbi were revived. "This is a piece of cloth you lay on the bed before you have sex so that you do not soil the beddings. It is equated to a hoe to emphasize its importance since you cannot go to the garden without a hoe," he explained. "You don't want people or children to come to your bedroom in the morning and they leave knowing what you did in the night,"added Ssenga Hamida.
Ndawula said this piece of cloth could help you ward off all possibilities of being haunted by your loved one. "When you bury this cloth immediately after the burial of your loved one, they never come back to haunt you,"he explained.
"It does not matter that we are Baganda and base our teachings on Kiganda tradition really, we believe sex has a universal language the whole world over," argued Kato Lubwama.
Though they required everybody to pay five thousand shillings to enter, the group said money is not their driving force. "This is not financial project really. We noticed an increasing problem amongst our families that we thought we could help reduce and here we decided to give it a shot, "explained Kato Lubwama adding, "From the 5000 shillings each person paid today for instance, we can cover the cost for hiring the theatre and facilitate our transportation."
The organizers are also convinced that the success of their first session only goes to affirm their belief that people need sex education.
"I rarely see this hall this packed when there are dramas showing. We could increase the fee and still people would come," exclaimed Kato Lubwama expressing his surprise at the huge turn up of people who exceeded two hundred.
More need for sex education
Some of the people who attended expressed support and need for such an education.
"Of course it is relevant," agreed Diana, a student from Makerere University who declined to offer her full names. "You don't get this much information elsewhere in a language you understand with chance to ask as many questions as you want at just shs5000," she said after the session.
A male friend who came along with Diana, also a university student, said the internet was limited to western information and not even friends would give him as much information as he was able to gather from this "Senga sessions".
Cissy, a working lady agrees that this kind of traditional sex education is relevant but wishes the timing could be changed.
"It's on a working day and ends really late yet some of us can not afford to keep around even if we wanted to," she said. By 9:30pm the show was still going on with Ssenga Hamida discussing scenes in a blue movie they had played for the audience to watch.
Kato Lubwama explained that the training was placed at a time and place where it raises less suspicion. He says they cannot publicize the show because most people do not even want their spouses to know that they attend such classes.
Ssenga Hamida also said they plan to organize different sessions for women and men separately. "There are some things for instance that I would like to discuss with women without the men's presence,"she told Ultimate Media after the session.
So what do you expect if you decide to attend? If the coming sessions are going to be like this first one, then you can expect lectures on anything in connection with sex like how to seduce the opposite sex, cleanliness, how to get and give your partner orgasms, sex traditions, sex language, and the like.
Step by step sex tips for the learners
"How can you keep shouting "onzitta" or 'you are killing me' when having sex? What will you shout when you are being killed?" asked Ndawula.
At the end, they played another blue movie, which one of the sengas discussed step by step. She advised the audience on what to take on and what not to from this western sex movie and answered all questions raised by members of the audience. Ultimate Media was requested not to publicize individuals' sex concerns and questions.
So as most paternal aunts fail to provide sex education to their nieces, commercially available sex education lesions are surfacing to give you information about what most people agree is not easy to come across.
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Net Income Totaled $849,000 on Revenues of $66.4 Million DALLAS, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SWS Group, Inc. (NYSE: SWS) today reported net income of $849,000, or diluted earnings per share (EPS) of 5 cents, on revenues of $66.4 million for the company's second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2002, compared with net income of $822,000, or diluted EPS of 5 cents, on revenues of $91 million in the prior year's second quarter. Prior year figures include a loss of $2.6 million for Westwood Holdings Group, a subsidiary that was spun-off to shareholders, and a non-cash gain of $3 million, net of tax, on the sale of common stock held in Knight Trading Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NITE). Prior year results were also restated as a result of converting the firm's investment in a software company to the equity method of accounting. For the first half of fiscal 2003, SWS recorded revenues of $132.1 million, net income of $539,000 and diluted EPS of 3 cents, compared with revenues of $178.4 million, net income of $2.8 million and diluted EPS of 16 cents in the same period of the prior fiscal year. "We continue to face a soft economy, volatile markets and lackluster trading volumes," said Chief Executive Officer Donald W. Hultgren. "However, by the actions we have taken to streamline the company and make it more efficient, we believe we have positioned SWS for success when conditions improve." Mr. Hultgren said results for SWS' fixed income and equity capital markets operations improved over those of the prior year, as the company was successful in recruiting new professionals. "The clearing business remained soft as volumes and margin balances continued to decline," he said. "Below the revenue line, we were able to produce ongoing reductions of almost $9 million by controlling operating expenses." SWS' banking segment produced favorable year-over-year results. Mr. Hultgren said that after a thorough review, the company has concluded that the $3.4 million pre-tax reserve announced in the September quarter will be sufficient to cover the suspect loans that its banking subsidiary had purchased from a New York mortgage bank and that no additional suspect loans were found. "As previously announced, we have implemented additional safeguards to protect against future mortgage purchase losses," he added. Fiscal-year-to-date transactions processed by SWS Securities, Inc. totaled 14.1 million compared with 27.1 million in the prior year period. During the quarter, the company repurchased 94,100 shares of its common stock at an average price of $12.72 per share. The company has 336,200 shares of authorization remaining under the stock buy-back program. Book value per share was $14.71 compared with $16.93 a year ago. Last year's book value figure includes Westwood. SWS Group, Inc. is a Dallas-based holding company that offers a broad range of investment and financial services through its subsidiaries. The company's common stock is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol SWS. SWS Group, Inc. subsidiaries include SWS Securities, Inc., First Savings Bank, SWS Financial Services, Inc., SWS Capital Corporation, and Mydiscountbroker. This release contains forward-looking statements regarding the company's future overall performance. Readers are cautioned that any forward-looking statements, including those predicting or forecasting future events or results, which depend on future events for their accuracy, embody projections or assumptions, or express the intent, belief or current expectations of the company or management, are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially as a result of various factors, some of which are out of our control, including, but not limited to those factors discussed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and in our other reports filed with and available from the Securities and Exchange Commission. SWS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Financial Condition December 31, 2002 and June 28, 2002 (In thousands, except par values and share amounts) December June (Unaudited) Assets Cash $39,039 $24,777 Assets segregated for regulatory purposes 490,488 442,707 Marketable equity securities available for sale 3,728 3,932 Receivable from brokers, dealers and clearing organizations 1,932,180 1,770,055 Receivable from clients, net 316,370 467,131 Loans held for sale, net 200,709 103,124 Loans, net 356,019 345,538 Securities owned, at market value 81,275 103,888 Other assets 106,860 102,501 Total assets $3,526,668 $3,363,653 Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity Short-term borrowings $--- $37,600 Payable to brokers, dealers and clearing organizations 1,917,981 1,764,741 Payable to clients 669,816 747,534 Deposits 425,615 265,370 Securities sold, not yet purchased, at market value 32,049 19,657 Drafts payable 30,069 34,531 Advances from Federal Home Loan Bank 123,400 160,468 Other liabilities 71,231 69,920 Exchangeable subordinated notes 6,624 6,785 Total liabilities 3,276,785 3,106,606 Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries 1,806 1,762 Stockholders' equity: Preferred stock of $1.00 par value. Authorized 100,000 shares; none issued --- --- Common stock of $.10 par value. Authorized 60,000,000 shares, issued 17,612,326 and outstanding 16,868,246 shares at December 31, 2002; issued 17,601,705 and outstanding 17,240,570 shares at June 28, 2002 1,761 1,760 Additional paid-in capital 245,017 247,199 Accumulated deficit (533) --- Accumulated other comprehensive income - unrealized holding gain (loss), net of tax 11,403 11,472 Deferred compensation, net 1,449 1,502 Treasury stock (744,080 shares at December 31, 2002 and 361,135 shares at June 28, 2002, at cost) (11,020) (6,648) Total stockholders' equity 248,077 255,285 Commitments and contingencies Total liabilities and stockholders' equity $3,526,668 $3,363,653 SWS GROUP, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Consolidated Statements of Income and Comprehensive Income (Loss) For the three and six months ended December 31, 2002 and 2001 (In thousands, except per share and share amounts) (Unaudited) For the three months ended For the six months ended 2001 2001 2002 Restated 2002 Restated Net revenues from clearing operations $4,864 $9,443 $10,174 $16,684 Commissions 22,519 20,035 40,669 36,120 Interest 24,194 31,904 49,011 71,534 Investment banking, advisory and administrative fees 7,025 10,843 13,995 20,299 Net gains on principal transactions 2,804 13,864 9,566 25,079 Other 4,950 4,897 8,730 8,639 Total revenue 66,356 90,986 132,145 178,355 Commissions and other employee compensation 33,184 38,621 64,175 70,919 Interest 10,348 17,207 21,128 41,751 Occupancy, equipment and computer service costs 7,915 13,317 16,744 23,203 Communications 3,869 4,886 7,852 9,256 Floor brokerage and clearing organization charges 1,755 2,338 3,537 3,934 Advertising and promotional 961 2,654 1,708 5,684 Other 7,034 9,278 15,943 17,584 Total expense 65,066 88,301 131,087 172,331 Income before income tax expense and minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries 1,290 2,685 1,058 6,024 Income tax expense 325 2,202 74 3,348 Income before minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries 965 483 984 2,676 Minority interest in consolidated subsidiaries (116) 339 (445) 76 Net income 849 822 539 2,752 Net income (loss) recognized in other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax 310 (2,136) (70) (9,629) Comprehensive income (loss) $1,159 $(1,314) $469 $(6,877) Earnings per share - basic Net income $0.05 $0.05 $0.03 $0.16 Weighted average shares outstanding - basic 16,915,491 17,162,610 17,018,241 17,200,591 Earnings per share - diluted Net income $0.05 $0.05 $0.03 $0.16 Weighted average shares outstanding - diluted 16,922,640 17,237,934 17,030,219 17,259,193 SOURCE SWS Group, Inc. -0- 01/23/2003 /NOTE TO EDITORS: A Company background is available upon request. 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French Muslims have become more observant in recent years, according to a new survey.
Has Sarko gone too far praising God, faith and the Saudis?
Nicolas Sarkozy's serial taboo-breaking is getting him into hot water. Anybody following the news these days knows about his roller-coaster love life, which has hurt his popularity ratings in a country where Monsieur le Président is supposed to be more discreet. Now his challenge to France's laïcité — a word signifying both the separation of church and state and the taboo against bringing religion into public affairs — is provoking a backlash. What especially seems to have got his critics going is the fact that he not only praised religion in a speech in Riyahd on Monday but also counted his Saudi hosts among those Muslims "who struggle against fanaticism and terrorism, those who appeal to the basic values of Islam to combat the fundamentalism that negates them." The fact he was also trying to sell nuclear power plants and other big-ticket French export items to Muslim countries during the same trip did not go unnoticed in his detractors' comments.
Bible as cheap as a cup of coffee is hot seller in France
"The treasure of humanity … for the price of a coffee."
With an ad slogan like that and a price of only €1.50 ($2.20), the Bible has become a hot seller in France. In the last four months of 2007, French shoppers snapped up 200,000 copies of a new low-cost edition — as many as are usually sold in a year — in hypermarkets, a leading book chain and in religious bookshops. Another 300,000 have been bought in French-speaking Africa, Belgium, Canada and Switzerland.
Faith, hope and love, Sarko style
Nicolas Sarkozy is the president of faith, hope and love. The French elected him in May in the hope of change, which he doesn't just call le changement ("change") but la rupture (a "break" with the past). Love? Just take a look at the latest Parisian soap opera starring "President Bling-Bling," pouting ex-wife Cécilia and new flame Carla Bruni. As for faith, we've been reporting and blogging about his plans to remodel laïcité, France's trademark separation of church and state, and expect more to come this year.
Back to the blog — first impressions after a break
Returning to news reporting after two weeks off feels like you've been away for two weeks. Returning to blogging after a holiday break feels like you've been away for an eternity. So much going on! My colleague Ed Stoddard in Dallas was minding the shop, but he was unexpectedly sent off to report the news from the campaign trail. That gave FaithWorld a very American accent, which was a timely twist given the role of religion in the Iowa vote. It's back to the view from Paris now — here are some inital comments on recent events concerning religion around the world:
When being called "Bagdad" is a handicap
There's a story unfolding in France that isn't about religion, but says a lot about the hurdles that residents with a Muslim background here can face. When youths in the poor suburbs complain about discrimination (discussed here in a post about the riots last month), they mention stories like this one to highlight their point.
Poll shows how the French see their problems
Since the purported role of Islam in the recent French riots seems particularly important to some readers outside of France, the results of a new poll just published in the French Catholic weekly La Vie are quite interesting for this blog. The survey is about whether France is losing its national identity. This is a persistent question in a country worried that its international influence and the prestige of its culture and language are fading while globalisation, immigration and Islam are playing a larger role in French life. The survey was conducted on November 28-29, only days after the rioting in a Paris suburb that some readers say should be called "Muslim riots."
Why we don't call them "Muslim riots" in Paris suburbs
As soon as a riot starts in one of the poor suburbs around Paris, we get emails from readers and see comments on blogs accusing the media of hiding the supposedly key fact about the unrest. That fact, they tell us without providing any proof, is Islam. Why don't we call this violence "Muslim riots?" they ask. What are we trying to hide by not identifying the rioters as Muslims? Do the MSM have a hidden agenda? Don't we have the courage to "tell the truth?"
Bioethical dilemmas know no boundaries
Bioethical dilemmas know no boundaries. France found that out this weekend when the daily Libération revealed that a French couple that had used a surrogate mother in the United States had won a long legal battle to be recognised as the parents of the twin girls who resulted from the arrangement. Surrogacy is illegal in France. French officials refused to register the twins as the couple's daughters, leaving them in a legal limbo for seven years. But an appeals court finally granted their wish, arguing it was in the children's best interests to recognise the U.S. birth certificates that listed Dominique and Sylvie (their surname was not published) as the parents.
Smoke without fire – there was no "Paris intifada" in 2005
One of the most persistent canards about Islam in France is that Muslim groups played a key role in stoking the three weeks of rioting in the suburbs of Paris and other French cities in late 2005. Stories still regularly pop up on the Internet talking about "Muslim riots" or mentioning that cries of Allah-o-akbar were heard amid all the burning and trashing that went on. These cries, reported in the French press at the time, were taken as a sign the Islamists were behind the unrest. Bloggers coined the term "Paris intifada." Some talked about "Baghdad-on-the-Seine." Others were frustrated because the media did not make clear what role religion played in the unrest.


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Taiwan will allow its chip makers to invest in their counterparts in China in response to growing calls from the island's business community for closer high-tech ties, local media said Monday.
Taiwan will allow its chip makers to invest in their counterparts in China in response to growing calls from the island's business community for closer high-tech ties, local media said Monday.
The Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against Intel Wednesday -- the most far-reaching in a string of recent regulatory actions -- poses a huge threat to the Santa Clara, Calif., chip giant and could reshape the semiconductor ...
(AP) -- Shares of Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. jumped Monday after rival Intel Corp. scrapped plans to make a new graphics chip that would have challenged both companies.
(AP) -- European Union antitrust regulators on Tuesday dropped a monopoly abuse probe into wireless chip maker Qualcomm Inc. after mobile phone companies withdrew complaints about high royalty fees.
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Prompted partly by the iPhone's phenomenal popularity, consumers are demanding and likely to get a wider range of touch screens on many more electronic devices.
(AP) -- The worldwide personal-computer market is pulling out of its slump quickly and could defy predictions by growing this year, Intel Corp. CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday.
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Toledo Bend Reservoir produced a little something extra — lagniappe in Louisiana French-speak — for Dean Rojas on Saturday. That something extra was a 7-pound, 2-ounce largemouth bass.
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There's a scene in the 2005 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie where a lightsaber-like bread knife is not only able to slice a loaf, it toasts it at the same time. That was done with special effects, but mad Brit inventor Colin Furze has gone and built a similar contraption in real-life, and his creation works. Read More >


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Shamanism and Psychotherapy: Reclaiming Self After TraumaWhen I read this I felt confident that you'd find it interesting too, for shamanism is the essence of our earliest ancestors' explorations of Infinity and how
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Re: Salvation From SinDear Charlis: Again I say, Wow! That is a very inspiring story of faith and devotion to teaching the word of God. I, myself, just completed spiritual teacher
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Re: Salvation From Sini m pastor chsrlis from pakistan .and i m 22 year old boy .here in my little villiage town arifwala ,here is no pastor or church to preach bible and gospel
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Re: Salvation From Sini m pastor charlis from pakistan .and i m 22 year old boy .here in my little villiage town arifwala ,here is no pastor or church to preach bible and gospel
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Re: Salvation From SinWow! Can you or someone write a shorter, easier to foolow summary of this? Peter ... Wow! Can you or someone write a shorter, easier to foolow summary of
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Batting Powerplay and When Teams Need to Take It
What is Batting Powerplay in the game of cricket? When must teams take the batting powerplay to benefit the most?
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Batting powerplay was recently introduced since October 2008 in the game of cricket. It started from the series between Bangladesh and New Zealand. It allows the team batting to decide the continuous range of 5 overs when the field restrictions apply. The captain informs the umpire at the beginning of the over when they wish to take the powerplay. The field restriction limits only 3 fielders to field outside the 30 yard circle during the batting powerplay.
Teams have been unable to decide when to take the batting powerplay to maximize from it. Some teams postpone taking the batting powerplay towards the end of the innings. Thus they take it from the 46th to 50th over. However at times it is not a very good decision as there are chances that very few wickets are left at the end and the tailenders are unable to take advantage of the field restriction. It can also happen that the players batting are not very aggressive and thus are unable to take advantage of the batting powerplay.
In order to score the maximum runs during a batting powerplay teams need to take it as far as possible either when the most aggressive batsmen are batting or when 2 well set players are at the crease.
For instance if Virender Sehwag or Yuvraj Singh is batting for India or if Shahid Afridi is batting for Pakistan or if Mahela Jaywardene is batting for Sri Lanka or if Ricky Ponting is batting for Australia, that is the best time for the team to take the batting powerplay as these players are attacking batsmen and can take advantage of the field restriction.
Otherwise if a partnership has build up between two batsmen and the team bowling is under pressure then the batting powerplay can be exercised to put further pressure on the bowling team. The two set players can then take calculated risk to score at a faster rate.
Other strategy which a team can apply when they have taken the batting powerplay is to send a pinch hitter who can try and take some risks. Thus if India has lost a wicket during the batting powerplay for instance, they could send in Harbajan Singh instead of following their normal batting order.
Teams sometimes try to take the batting powerplay when the 5th bowler is bowling. Teams need to consider the bowlers whom they would like to target and this also could be one of the strategies while deciding when they want to take the batting powerplay.
Teams need to target a scoring rate of say 7 to 8 runs an over during the batting powerplay. Thus it is important for the batsmen to take calculated risk and not to pressurize themselves to score boundaries of each delivery.
ICC wanted to make the middle overs interesting when they introduced the batting powerplay in the game of one day international cricket. However since most teams take the batting powerplay only towards the end of the innings that has not happened. It is also seen in many instances that the team bowling ends up taking advantage of the batting powerplay as they are able to take a couple of wickets during this block of five overs.
Teams need to consider various factors while taking the batting powerplay. Overall a team must have more than one strategy when they would like to take the batting powerplay and take it based on the match circumstances rather than waiting towards the end to take it.


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To emphasize the safety features of its 2014 Outlander model, Mitsubishi created a series of videos showing newborn babies taking their #FirstRide home from the hospital.
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MT. SUMMIT - Danny L. Young, 82, of Mt. Summit, Indiana, passed away peacefully Friday, April 27, 2012 at Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, Indianapolis, surrounded by his loved ones.
Danny was born to Forest L. and Helen S. (Simmons) Young of Sidney, Ohio, on July 13, 1929. He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Robert (Betty) and Timothy (Carol), and his sister, Doreen Fronsoe (Milton).
Danny is survived by his wife, Karen Sue Young; children, Christine Young (Don) Fitzpatrick of Zionsville, IN, Karen Young (Simon) Boehnlein of Bloomington, IN, Cynthia Ocker of Muncie, IN and Brad Ocker of Lafayette, IN; also surviving are grandchildren, Sarah Fitzpatrick (David) Anderson, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Stephanie Fitzpatrick, Ariel Boehnlein, Michael Boehnlein, Logan Boehnlein, Megan Ocker, and Derek Ocker; two great-grandchildren; brother-in-law, Milton Fronsoe; sister-in-law, Carol Young; and a number of cousins, nieces, and nephews.
Following his graduation from Sidney High School (Ohio) in 1947, Danny enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served aboard the U.S.S. Hamner (1947-1950) through various Chinese and Japanese ports as Engineman 3rd Class and Captain's Gig Engineer. He completed training in Ohio as a design engineer and was successful for many years as a tool and die designer with Warner Gear and Quality Gage in Muncie, IN. In 1972, Danny launched Taurus Tool and Engineering, Inc., in Muncie, IN, with business partner and friend Bill Buntin. Danny retired in 1994 to enjoy many years of boating, fishing, woodworking, family gatherings, travel, and other pastimes in Cadiz, Kentucky, with his wife, Karen.
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"It's highly unusual. Everyone that knows Jeffery knows that he stops by, comes by, you know calls," Tamara Howard said.
Tamara Howard says she last saw her brother on October 17th and she believes something is wrong.
"With each passing day, just keeps getting more and more worried," Howard said.
She says Jeffery lives on Beech Branch back in the woods and you can't get a car to his cabin.
She says he always rode a pony down to the street and then rode a bicycle to wherever he needed to go.
She says Jeffery had a broken arm and told family was going to the doctor before he was last seen.
"We can't find any location where he's made an attempt to go to the doctor," Sheriff John K. Blackburn said.
Deputies say they've searched his path and can't find any signs of where he might be.
"His pony was still there when we were there looking around for him. The pony was approximately a half mile from where his cabin was," Sheriff Blackburn said.
They've officially declared him missing but say they don't suspect foul play at this time.
Tamara Howard says she just wants her brother to come back, "If he's got a problem, whatever it is, we'll work it out and we'd be happy to have him home."
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Typically ignorant nonsense.
The kettle calling the pot black?
Fossil fuels are mostly made up of prehistoric fossilised plants, fossilised sea plankton and some fossilised animal remains too.
In your Progressive Communist Democratic dreams. Instead of ragging on anyone who says anything contrary to the lies you were indoctrinated with, why don't you go back to school, or better yet, read the latest scientific findings, online? The PTB can no longer control info and science like they can academia, and you would be smart to learn what they are hiding from you.
Please, learn something about the topic before you add to the discussion.edit on 19-11-2010 by Project-Sign because: (no reason given)
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I'm not necessarily saying we SHOULD use oil forever, however I don't agree in "peak" oil as a "limited" resource. There is plenty of evidence suggesting that it is a natural resource that is produced far below the earth's crust that renews itself over time. Kind of like a lubrication for the movement of the crust so to speak.
How fast is the renewal? If it renews as fast as we use it the it is a renewable resource that is sustainable. If it is slower than we use then the current use is not sustainable.
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This guy has been making gas out of anything with carbon in it for years. I wish I could buy stock in his company. I think he started with turkey guts


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You currently believe that you have a sexually transmitted disease? Some of them will have obvious signs and symptoms. If you have genital warts, these warts will appear, causing quite a bit of alarm, prompting you to find a local STD testing Center to help you out. Like when I was in Vegas and I had to find out that STD Testing Las Vegas is used a lot. There are many other diseases that you may have, some of which will not show any signs or symptoms, but it is still good to be tested if you are sexually active.
When you do a little bit of research, you may realize that it is very easy to contract sexually transmitted diseases when you are not using protection when you are having sex with partners that you really don't know. It's possible that you could have syphilis, PID, HPV, gonorrhea, chlamydia or one of the many others. With the exception of HIV-AIDS, most of them have a cure. If they don't, you can keep the symptoms that may using certain medications.
If you do have a sexually transmitted disease, one of the local STD testing centers will be able to tell you conclusively. They will transfer this information to your doctor so that you can find out what to do next. They will either have a solution for you, or a way to manage it in most cases, and even if you don't have one, it's always good to know. Some of them can be cured with antibiotics, or certain creams that you will apply. If it is treatable, within a few days or weeks you should be able to take care of the sexually transmitted disease completely.
You can find one of these centers by searching in the local phonebook, talking to your doctor, or using the Internet. It's easiest to use the web, either from your laptop computer, or your smart phone, giving you the latest information. Some of them are listed in the local listings so that you can see which ones have the best ratings, and also look at the map that is provided to show you exactly where they are. All of this information will lead you to a competent STD testing center where you can get tested, and subsequently treated, if you happen to have one where there is a cure.
Once you have gone through the process of finding and STD center, gone through the testing, and this information is passed on to your doctor, you will have the ability to once again take control of your life by taking care of any of the sexually transmitted diseases that you may have that actually can be treated. At the very least, you will have the knowledge that your unprotected sexual activities have either caused you to become infected, or that everything is okay. This knowledge will allow you to do what is necessary to regain your health, or at least your peace of mind, knowing whether or not you have one of these diseases.
There are many different sexually-transmitted diseases that people can get which may include gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. There are certain ones that people may have, sometimes for several years, but may not even realize that they have one. There are several reasons for this, mostly having to do with how each disease develops over time. It can take several years for a diagnosis to actually show that you have the actual STD, and therefore it is not really the fault of the person that is unaware of symptoms that have not yet manifest. Here are the top reasons why people do not know that they actually have a sexually transmitted disease, and which ones are more likely to be hidden for quite some time.
One of the most common diseases to not be known by the person that has is chlamydia. It is primarily because it often has no symptoms at all. It can be cured very easily once it is detected, but until that point in time, someone could have it for quite some time. Common symptoms if you do have them include a low grade fever, abnormal vaginal discharge, and bleeding in between menstrual periods. If you notice any of these symptoms, you should go to your doctor to have this checked out anyway, and if they do find that you do have chlamydia, they will prescribe antibiotics that can get rid of this condition.
The easiest way to avoid sexually transmitted diseases is to abstain from sex, or to use some type of protection. This will protect you from getting not only the STDs that have obvious symptoms, but those that do not. You could have gonorrhea which will not only have an absence of symptoms, but can be spread very easily, and you may not know that the other person has this disease and nor will they. That is why it is so important to use some type of physical protection when having intercourse with people that you do not know to eliminate the possibility, or at least diminish it greatly, contracting sexually-transmitted diseases that could be detrimental to your health. A member of an std testing Tampa clinic told me that most people don't think it can happen to them, but it definitely is more likely than you think!
Whether you develop genital warts, hepatitis B, scabies, pubic lice, or Human Papillomavirus, all of these have some type of treatment that you can get from your doctor. Although some of these will show obvious symptoms such as warts on the genitals, you need to be checked as often as possible if you are having regular sexual intercourse with virtual strangers, reducing the possibility of allowing these diseases to get out of control, some of which can lead to cancer and even death.
Now that you have a general idea of what to do to protect yourself from STDs, especially those that will not be obvious, you can feel much better when having intercourse with people that you really don't know. Just make sure that you have testing done on a regular basis to ensure your safety, and to properly treat sexually-transmitted diseases with obvious symptoms, and those that sometimes have none.


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Research at Emmanuel means taking "challenging" and "inspiring" to a whole new level. Our faculty explore diverse fields of interest-from the induction of T-cell tolerance in bone marrow transplants to the study of Hindu culture on the island of Trinidad-throughout Boston, across the country and around the globe.
At Emmanuel, groundbreaking laboratory research is conducted right on our campus. The Maureen Murphy Wilkens Science Center features state-of-the-art research labs on par with the neighboring world-class research facilities in the Longwood Medical and Academic Area. Our faculty utilize connections in the area and throughout the world to help bring Emmanuel to the forefront of today's research world.
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Our students dive into advanced research to explore the depths of their disciplines of choice, working side-by-side with faculty members as early as their freshman year. During the summer, many of these students receive grants and remain on campus to conduct ongoing research full time with their faculty counterparts. Such hands-on experiences offer powerful advantages; they build upon knowledge attained in the classroom, shape students' intellectual potential and better prepare them for professional opportunities and graduate-level studies.
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