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Transgender sex worker's body found mutilated and burned in street in latest shocking attack on LGBT community in Turkey
Hande Kader, 22, was last seen getting into a client's car last week before her burnt body was found in a posh neighbourhood
THE body of a transgender prostitute was found mutilated and badly-burned on a road side in Istanbul.
The murder of sex worker and political activist Hande Kader is the latest in a string of violent hate attacks carried out against the Turkish LGBT community.
Kader, 22, was last seen getting into a client's car before her body was found in the posh neighbourhood of Zekeriyakoy.
A missing person's report was filed last week after the victim's partner alerted authorities that she had not returned home.
Her burnt corpse was later positively identified at the city morgue.
Kader had previously been pictured at LGBT rallies and was filmed being arrested by police at a demonstration in Istanbul.
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This latest murder comes less than two weeks after the beheading of a gay Syrian refugee whose body was found a few miles from where Kader was discovered.
Muhammed Wisam Sankari, who had fled war torn Syria, was found decapitated after being raped and assaulted.
He could only be identified by the clothes he was wearing.
In another hate crime, a transwoman in the city southern city of Mersin was knifed by a gang of warped thugs but survived the attack last week.
While homosexuality is legal in Turkey, a recent poll by PEW Research Centre showed that nearly 80% of Turkish people think being gay is 'morally unacceptable'.
This year's gay pride march in Istanbul was marred by violent clashes between revellers and police with authorities firing rubber bullets and tear gas.
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After a failed bond measure in 2006, Federal Way High School was in a troubling situation.
The school was the face of the district — and its face was outwardly renovated. The school had gotten a mini-facelift just three years before, with a remodel to the front of school, expanding the cafeteria and giving the roadside view a makeover. Some district officials believe this gave voters the illusion of a newly remodeled school despite the aging facility behind the facade.
The academic section of the school is well aged. There are winding hallways that lead past classrooms to about 70 different exits from the school. Those hallways are dark, crowded and carry the scent of a school over 70 years old.
Ceiling tiles are old and stained. The school's performing arts center has seats that are frayed and ripped, and electrical outlets are hit or miss.
The building was given the lowest grade out of any of the district's schools for its condition by engineering professionals. However, the school was taken off the bond issue, deemed too expensive, just a few short years after a brand new school, Todd Beamer High School, had opened in the district.
Why did the district build Todd Beamer, and why was Federal Way High School taken off the bond despite a need for remodeling?
FWHS and the bond
In 2004, Federal Way High School was given a 4 out of 10 by an engineering evaluation for its structural and functional condition. Only Star Lake and Valhalla elementary schools scored that low for schools in the district.
Other schools that received remodel funds in the last bond include Lakota Middle School and Panther Lake Elementary, which ranked at 5 out of 10, and Sunnycrest and Lakeland elementary schools, which ranked at 6.
However, just being one of the schools in dire need of remodeling doesn't guarantee remodeling.
After the bond failed, the district put out a survey to better understand where the community felt the district had gone wrong. The majority of those surveyed felt that either most schools in the district were too old and needed improvement, or were unfamilar with the schools and their condition. Only 23 percent of those surveyed said the schools were fine and didn't need significant improvement. However, of those same surveyed folks, 60 percent didn't know why they should support the proposal. Most residents opposed to the bond said in the survey that they voted against it because it would raise taxes. Residents also said the bond was too expensive and trying to do too much; 43 percent of survey respondents said they weren't sure.
Support for the projects varied. Rebuilding four elementary schools was favored by 58 percent of those surveyed; 51 percent favored building an $8 million environmental center; 50 percent favored rebuilding FWHS; 50 percent favored building a performing arts center (PAC); and 43 percent favored rebuilding Memorial Stadium.
By removing FWHS along with the PAC, Memorial Field and the environmental center, the new revised bond measure didn't raise the current tax rates — and passed at the polls the next year.
Why build Beamer?
In the year before Todd Beamer High School (TBHS) opened, districtwide there were 4,582 high school students, which at the time comprised grades 10-12.
TBHS was another result of the move to bring ninth-graders into the high schools. When the school district made the move in part to help students become better adjusted and transitioned before taking the WASL. It meant bringing in 1,500 students to schools that were already at the district's level of capacity. This isn't to say necessarily that the schools were at either the state's level of capacity, or what a fire marshal would call capacity. The district determines its own capacity based on how many students it wants in a classroom, and that number can be widely different depending on which capacity you look at. Take, for example, a kindergarten class. If it is a half-day kindergarten class, then the state would count it as two "25 students," therefore a 50-student capacity. However, it it was a full-day kindergarten class, then according to the state, it is at a 25-student capacity. If it's the school district looking at capacity, and sets the limit at 20 students in a kindergarten class, then the number is lower. However, if a fire marshal looked at the room, capacity might be as high at 30-40 students.
This past fall, the district had 6,704 students in grades 9-12. Of that number, 1,778 are freshmen. That puts the 10-12 grades in Federal Way at less than 400 more students than before Todd Beamer was built, and before the freshmen were added to high schools.
At the time when TBHS was built, the district said it had no way to predict that the enrollment trend would stop climbing. At that time, the south end was where the district was seeing the most growth.
"The elementaries were huge," construction information coordinator and former school board member Audrey Germanis said. "That (area) is where the growth was."
TBHS was built for $46.7 million in 2003. The next year. the district began making plans to rebuild FWHS, at the time estimated at $81 million. The reason for the nearly double cost is in inflation. In the original unapproved bond issue, FWHS was planned on being rebuilt sometime between 2011 and 2013; inflation of construction costs ranged from 4-9 percent a year.
High schools cost so much more than the other schools undergoing a remodel these days, simply because they are so much larger — roughly four times the size of an elementary school. High schools require so much more, including fields, science labs, gyms, locker rooms, music facilities and various other rooms not normally built at elementary schools.
FWHS future
Even if the high school makes it on the bond in 2017, roughly 10 years after the last one passed, there is no guarantee that voters will approve it.
In fact, Chief Financial Officer Sally McLean said the district is prepared for the bond to fail the first time around. That's because of Federal Way's history of several failed bonds in the 1970s, and six years of double levy failures, not to mention the last bond measure having to go several rounds before passing. Construction on the project would likely begin at least a year or two later, leaving the building hanging until about 2020.
Schools being talked about for the district's next round of bond proposals are Decatur High School, Totem Middle School and Mirror Lake, Woodmont, Olympic View, Star Lake, Brigadoon and Lake Grove elementary schools.
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Implicit Attitudes Test
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For "Race Test 2," black faces and negative words (such as "lose") belong to Category 1; white faces and positive words (such as "good") belong to Category 2.
3. When running "Generic Laboratory," specify "Race Test 1" or "Race Test 2" as your file of trials. Set the font size to 24 and the font to Helvetica. Then give yourself about 20 practice trials by selecting "run" and then clicking in the "abort experiment" box after 20 trials have passed. When running the actual experiment, set "repetitions of trials" under the "Set up Experiment" tab to 3 so that you'll see each of the 20 words and 20 faces 3 times each (yielding 120 trials). Respond slowly enough so that you make only few errors. When you're done, record your response times and accuracy for the different types of items.
4. Run yourself in the other condition, giving yourself 20 practice trials first.
5. Anonymously enter your response time data on correct trials into a single row of a data table for the entire class with the following 8 columns (pos = positive words, neg = negative words):
Test1 Test1 Test1 Test1 Test2 Test2 Test2 Test2
Black pos white neg black post white neg
Also record your accuracies on another 8 columns, in the same order of conditions.
The class will eventually find average response times and accuracies for the four "Race Test 1" trials, and an average for the four "Race Test 2" trials, and run a paired T-test to see whether these two respone time (or accuracy) averages are different. You may also be curious about whether the difference between Test 1 and Test 2 are found for the individual columns. For example, other researchers have found a "other race advantage": even though white people are better able to learn names for white faces than black faces (e.g. learn that "This face is Joe"), they are better to categorize a black face as "black" faster than they can categorize a white face as "white." Do you find the same effect?
1. Some white person might argue, "I responded more slowly in Race Test 1 than Race Test 2, but that doesn't mean I'm racist. It's just that the popular media and the mainstream culture have trained me to automatically associate black people with certain negative words, including those used in the experiment. I don't have a negative unconscious attitude toward black people. It's just that I associate certain words with blackness due to their pairing in my environment." Describe an experiment that would distinguish between (1) relatively slow responses on Race Test 1 because black faces are automatically associated with particular negative words, and (2) relatively slow responses on Race Test 1 because people have (unconscious) negative attitudes toward black people in general (and don't just have particular word-to-blackness associations). In describing your experiment, be very clear about what pattern of results would indicate (1) and what pattern would indicate (2).
2. Some white person might argue, "I responded more slowly in Race Test 1 than Race Test 2, but that doesn't mean I'm racist. My automatic response might link blackness with negative things, but I don't act on the basis of this automatic response." Describe an experiment that would reveal whether performance on the implicit attitude test (IAT) is related to actual acts that can be construed as racist. For this purpose, interpret "racist" to mean "discrimination against a person on the basis of their race in situations where race is not relevant." Be clear about how you operationalize racism in your experiment, and about how you would statistically evaluate the claim for a relation between the IAT and racist acts.
3. [This is a challenging question, but can be answered in many ways]. Describe an experiment that would test whether white people have unconscious negative attitudes toward black faces using the process dissociation framework described in class and in Jacoby & Kelley (1992). By this framework, you will need to create an "exclusion" task ("Don't make response X if you consciously know that Y") and an "inclusion" task ("Make response X if you consciously know that Y"). The hallmark of this approach should be that white subjects make some kind of negative response when a black face is present if they are unconscious of the black face, but make a positive response if they are conscious of it. Describe the stimuli and tasks that you would use. What pattern of results in your experiment would indicate that white subjects have unconscious negative attitudes toward black faces (giving sample response percentages for exclusion and inclusion tasks will help you to be precise)?
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The pageant began as a competition by a swimwear company in California, US in 1952 and has since evolved into a much-loved tradition, celebrating the beauty and style of sassy women.
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Daily Star Online looks at a selection of this year's sexiest models.
Austria — Dajana Dzinic
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With another public holiday long weekend just around the corner, it's time to get ready for a sweltering summer backyard bash. If you're in charge of bringing the music, here's our tips for creating the perfect party playlist.
Before you can start choosing songs, you have to decide what sort of atmosphere you're trying to create. What type of party are you hosting? Is it a relax by the pool daytime party? Or will you be dancing all night? As the playlist creator you have complete control of the vibe, tempo and theme.
You also need to think about the age group of the audience. The goal of the playlist should be to play music that everyone will love. If it's multigenerational party, make sure to mix it up so there's something for everyone. You can even try including remixes of older songs to bridge the musical gap. That way you're keeping the spirit of the original track, while adding a modern element for the younger people.
You should also be aiming for your playlist to be at least three hours long – there's nothing worse than hearing the same song two or three times.
A good variety of slow and fast songs, and a mix of genres keeps people interested. Just because it's a party doesn't mean every song needs to be upbeat. Mixing up the music style and chucking in a few throw backs between today's top hits is a great way to keep your guests entertained.
You should also be curating the playlist so that it builds up into the big, upbeat tunes. When guests first arrive they're not going to be hitting the d-floor immediately. Let them settle in and save the dance tunes for later in the night.
And don't be afraid to include some of your own favourites, without forcing your unique tastes on your guests. You might be the world's biggest Brittney fan (looking at you @Ray_YC), but you can't just play her greatest hits all night. And as much as I'd love to hear a few throw backs from my punk high school days, it's much safer to stick with songs everyone knows and loves. But if you must include them, try sandwiching lesser known songs between the hits.
You should try to listen to your playlist at least once through to make sure the songs work together. If you've got a long commute into work, you can listen to it then.
But if the idea of creating a playlist completely from scratch is too daunting, there's heaps of pre-made playlists on apps like Spotify. The 'Big Summer Hits' or 'Australia Top 50' will work just fine! Spotify can also do some of the hard work for you – once you've added a few songs to your playlist, similar songs will appear as recommendations.
And if you're looking for a few party starters to include, I asked the Yes Crowd team what songs they'd include in their party playlist. Here's what they said:
@Ray_YC - Scream & Shout by Britney Spears ft. will.i.am
@AlistarS – The Horses by Daryl Braithwaite
@ScottMullins – Give Me A Try by The Wombats
@Kara_YC – Fergalicious by Fergie
I can't believe u would consider Horses to be a good party song.
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Well sadly I could not be in NYC for the show but just got some great pics to share with you all! Thanks to Maria at Vogue Conde Nast for everything!!!
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Zublin and Darwish to build Abu Dhabi-Saadiyat Bridge
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A joint venture between Germany's ED Zublin AG and UAE contractor Saif Bin Darwish has picked up the US $184 million (AED671 million) contract to build the 10-lane Saadiyat Bridge highway in Abu Dhabi.
The joint venture fended off competition from a Korean/UAE joint venture of Samsung and Al Jaber and the Japanese/Turkish partnership between Taisei and Nurol.
Construction of the bridge, which will link Abu Dhabi with Saadiyat Island – the 27 million m2 island lying 500m off the UAE capital – is due to begin by the end of the month.
"The Zublin/Bin Darwish bid was selected for its competitiveness in both commercial and technical terms," said Mubarak Al Muhairi, managing director, Tourism Development and Investment Company (TDIC), the project's client.
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Chiropractic Reduces Falling Risk in the Elderly
Did You Know Your Tension-Type Headache Might Originate in Your Back?
Too Much Food Variety in Your Diet Can Lead to Unhealthy Eating
By: Mark Studin DC, FASBE(C), DAAPM, DAAMLP
William J. Owens DC, DAAMLP
As our population ages, our most senior are being told that their heart diseases or cancers won't be as likely to cause death as sequella from a fall. Therefore, doctors are urging that sect of population to rely more and more on canes, walkers and other devices to help offer greater support when balance issues become even slightly problematic. According to Holt et. Al (2016) "Falls account for more than 80% of injury related hospital admissions in people older than 65 years and they are the leading cause of injury related death in older adults. Approximately 30%-40% of community-dwelling older adults suffer from at least 1 fall per year." (pg. 267)
Holt et. al. listed the following risks associated with falls
The National Institute of Health (NIH) expanded the list of risk factors in older adults to include:
Comparatively speaking, both the Holt et. Al. and the NIH are in agreement that falling can be a multifactorial issue with often no single cause or solution. However, if an older person, who has one or more of the above risk factors can minimize those risks, the likelihood of falling can be decreased and potentially extend their life. Holt et. al. continued "There is however, a growing body of basic science evidence that suggests that chiropractic care may influence sensory and motor systems that potentially have an impact on some of the neuromuscular risk factors associated with falling." (pg. 268) In short, the evidence has suggested that chiropractic can reduce the risk of falling in older adults.
Holt et. al. found that the mechanisms where chiropractic may influence sensorimotor functions are:
Looking at those neuroplastic processes or effects of chiropractic on the central nervous system, Gay et al. (2014) reported, "…pain-free volunteers processed thermal stimuli applied to the hand before and after thoracic spinal manipulation (a form of MT). What they found was that after thoracic manipulation, several brain regions demonstrated a reduction in peak BOLD [blood-oxygen-level–dependent] activity. Those regions included the cingulate, insular, motor, amygdala and somatosensory cortices, and the PAG [periaqueductal gray regions]" (p. 615). In other words, thoracic adjustments produced direct and measureable effects on the central nervous system across multiple regions, which in the case of the responsible for the processing of emotion (cingulate cortex, aka limbic cortex) are regarding the insular cortex which also responsible for regulating emotion as well has homeostasis. The motor cortex is involved in the planning and execution of voluntary movements, the amygdala's primary function is memory and decision making (also part of the limbic system), the somatosensory cortex is involved in processing the sense of touch (remember the homunculus) and, finally, the periaqueductal gray is responsible for descending pain modulation (the brain regulating the processing of painful stimuli).
This is a major step in showing the global effects of the chiropractic adjustment, particularly those that have been observed clinically, but not reproduced in large studies. "The purpose of this study was to investigate the changes in FC [functional changes] between brain regions that process and modulate the pain experience after MT [manual therapy]. The primary outcome was to measure the immediate change in FC across brain regions involved in processing and modulating the pain experience and identify if there were reductions in experimentally induced myalgia and changes in local and remote pressure pain sensitivity" (Gay et al., 2014, p. 615).
Coronado et al. (2012) reported that, "Reductions in pain sensitivity, or hypoalgesia, following SMT [spinal manipulative therapy or the chiropractic adjustment] may be indicative of a mechanism related to the modulation of afferent input or central nervous system processing of pain" (p. 752). "The authors theorized the observed effect related to modulation of pain primarily at the level of the spinal cord since (1) these changes were seen within lumbar innervated areas and not cervical innervated areas and (2) the findings were specific to a measure of pain sensitivity (temporal summation of pain), and no other measures of pain sensitivity, suggesting an effect related to attenuation of dorsal horn excitability and not a generalized change in pain sensitivity" (Coronado et al., 2012, p. 752).These findings indicate that a chiropractic spinal adjustment affects the dorsal horns at the root levels which are located in the central nervous system. This is the beginning of the "big picture" since once we identify the mechanism by which we can positively influence the central nervous system, we can then study that process and its effects in much more depth.
One of the main questions asked by Corando et al. (2012) "…was whether SMT (chiropractic adjustments) elicits a general response on pain sensitivity or whether the response is specific to the area where SMT is applied. For example, changes in pain sensitivity over the cervical facets following a cervical spine SMT would indicate a local and specific effect while changes in pain sensitivity in the lumbar facets following a cervical spine SMT would suggest a general effect. We observed a favorable change for increased PPT [pressure pain threshold] when measured at remote anatomical sites and a similar, but non-significant change at local anatomical sites. These findings lend support to a possible general effect of SMT beyond the effect expected at the local region of SMT application (p. 762).
The above mechanisms take the effects of chiropractic care out of the realm of theory and validates the processes through which chiropractic works based upon the scientific evidence (literature).
Holt et. Al found that outcomes measured for both sensorimotor and quality of life increased with chiropractic care. The primary outcomes of improvement choice stepping reaction time (CSRT)and sound-induced flash illusion. The CSRT involves feet placement in a timed scenario and sound-induced flash illusion involves multisensory processing to ascertain reaction to perceived illusions. Both have been significantly related to older populations and falling. Although the results of this study has its limitations, as many studies do. Holt concluded" The results of this trial indicated that aspects of sensorimotor integration and multisensory integration associated with fall risk improved in a group of community-dwelling older adults receiving chiropractic care. The chiropractic group also displayed small, statistically significant improvements in health-related quality of life related to physical health when compared with a "usual care" control. These results support previous research which suggests that chiropractic care may alter somatosensory processing and sensorimotor integration." (pg. 277)
As with many of our articles from here forward, I would like to leave you with a last and seemingly unrelated statement. I felt it was important to add this at the end since many of our critics negatively portray the safety of chiropractic care. This statement shall put that to rest leaving only personal biases left standing. Whedon, Mackenzie, Phillips, and Lurie (2015) based their study on 6,669,603 subjects and after the unqualified subjects had been removed from the study, the total patient number accounted for 24,068,808 office visits. They concluded, "No mechanism by which SM [spinal manipulation] induces injury into normal healthy tissues has been identified" (Whedon et al., 2015, p. 5). This study supersedes all the rhetoric about chiropractic and stroke and renders an outcome assessment to help guide the triage pattern of mechanical spine patients.
Author: Mark Studin DC, FASBE(C), DAAPM, DAAMLP and William J. Owens DC, DAAMLP
Source: US Chiropractic Directory
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If you are an office worker, you might find yourself prone to tension-type headaches. These tension headaches can be dull, or throbbing, and make it hard for you to concentrate on your work. But why do you get them? Did you ever consider just how these headaches happen? Is it just general stress? Or is it something more? The Relationship Between Tension Headaches and Your Back It turns out that tension-type headaches may actually have something to do with the muscles in our back. Specifically, one study found that tenderness in the trapezius muscles was correlated with tension-type headaches in female office workers. (We can assume that this is similar for male office workers, as well.) If you look at a picture of the trapezius muscles, this connection makes a lot more sense. The trapezius muscles, or traps for short, are muscles that lay along the spine at the top part of the back. They fan out like diamonds, stretching up into your neck and down into the midsection of the back. Spending a lot of time hunched over a desk or peering into a computer most likely puts stress on these muscles as the head is tilted forward too much in what is called forward head posture. These muscles connect to the muscles of the head and face, encouraging stress and pain. Chiropractic Care for Tension-Type Headache Fortunately, we have a way to safely treat these headaches through expert chiropractic care. Contact us today for a consultation!
Author: ChiroPlanet.com
Source: JMPT. JulyAug, 2018. Vol 41, Issue 6, Pages 483487.
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The American Heart Association (AHA) is now questioning the assumption that eating a diverse array of foods is good for your health. This has been a diet recommendation for years, but doctors and nutritionists dont agree on what an "array" or "variety" of food means. In fact, including a wide variety of food in your diet may actually be unhealthy. According to new studies, diversity in food choices is tied to poor diet, including eating refined sugars and grains, processed food, and sugar-laden drinks. Doctors once recommended getting a variety of food in your diet because it helps you get all the vitamins and nutrients you need. However, with the rise of cheap junk food and its availability, people are confusing variety with quality. The AHA Behavioral Change for Improving Health Factors Committee reviewed fairly recent studies on the topic of food variety in the diet, including its impact on obesity and eating patterns. Overall, they came to the conclusion that diversity in the diet doesn't necessarily connect to healthy habits. In fact, they discovered evidence suggesting that eating a wider variety of foods is tied to eating more food in general, poor eating habits, and gaining weight. Instead, researchers promote eating a large variety of healthy foods, including whole grains, veggies, and fruits.
Author: ChiroPlanet.com
Source: Circulation, online August 9, 2018.
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First off… Does L even age? This man still looks as young as he did when they first debuted, but I digress. It's been a long wait for Infinite's return, but we finally received news that our boys will be dropping a new album on January 8, 2018. Top Seed is Infinite's third full album and first production after the departure of member Hoya, who chose not to renew his contract with Woollim Entertainment in April 2017. Their return suggests a new beginning as a matured Infinite. The comeback photos showcase their manly and sophisticated charms that we hope will be transferred into their album as well.
Although L is technically the group's visual, the men of Infinite have never been lacking when it comes to good looks. It's proven yet again with the newest teasers of L and Sungyeol. We can all feel blessed with these images because both them are smoldering in chic masculinity These images are very promising and leave us anticipating the remaining teasers.
Just ahead of the release of their new album, Infinite will also host a fan meeting where they will greet fans for the first time as six instead of seven. Members, Sungyeol, L, Sungkyu, Woohyun, Dongwoo, and Sungjong will use this moment to "Begin Again" (also the name appointed to the upcoming fan meet) as they celebrate the coming of a new year with fans and move to the next stage of their careers. The fan meet will be held for three days beginning on Friday, December 29th and ending on Sunday, December 30th. We're looking forward to this comeback and their new beginning.
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Dharma has tagged me this time. And if I remember well, this is the same tag that Gaurav forwarded a long time back. So now, given the power of meme with the same tag landing up twice from two people located at two distant corners of the world, I feel I really must keep the game going and do what is asked of me right away.
I did a recap of some of my favourite posts, and this tag is somewhat similar.
What you have to do is simple: Post 5 links to 5 of your previously written posts. The posts have to relate to the 5 key words given : family, friend, yourself, your love, anything you like. Tag 5 other friends to do this meme. Try to tag at least 2 new acquaintances (if not, your current blog buddies will do) so that you get to know them each a little bit better.
Family--- I don't think I have talked a lot of my family here. Of course, references could have come up in other posts (for the influence of baba and aaji on me is more than I would like to acknowledge :) but there are no posts in which I have actually, consciously talked about them. Except in this one, the post that happened in an impulsive, nostalgic moment. This post will give you a glimpse about my baba. I have wanted to, thought of and many a times willed myself to sit and write about what I remember of growing up. But my mind evades the pen, the pen the paper. Some memories are so beautiful and so sad, I dare not freeze them, not just yet.
Friends-- I have less than ten friends whom I really call 'friends'. (Dharma's musings about the randomness of categories and stuff often perplexes me too, but then, I believe if you know where you and others stand in your life, so much the easier) These are the few people I have tagged along with since kinder garten, a few whom I began to love for no special reason along the way in high school and college. Though I am not regularly in touch with them, it's with a fierce Virgo trait that I keep thinking of them, remembering them and bitterly missing them without letting them know I do. I wish I were a little more open with the best of my friends and reach out more often... :) Here's what I have written about my friends.
But then there's one person who hears my rants day in and day out, who takes pains to make meaning of my random blabber and who even tolerates the songs I sing just before falling off to sleep. My best friend...
And my ever loving sis, who tolerated the late night lullabies I sang for me before the task was transferred to M, who I always pushed off a gathering of friends out of insecurity and jealousy. (My friends always had nice things to say about 'Didi' and that irritated me no end) With time, I have realised what a great fool I have been all along. Whom I strictly classified as 'family' , 'sister' and such stuff, was after all the most constant, most un-judging, most tolerant friend I ever had. My friend who reminds me of the most hilarious times of growing up together... The four year gap never made itself felt between us.
Yourself--- How dumb! All that you read on this blog takes you an inch closer to confusion of knowing who I am, who I am not. Pick what you choose of these writings and see if you think you know me.
Love--- Ah!! Hop on to the other blog that has most of the little scribbles born out of love, longing and happiness. Or let me narrow things down- you may want to read this, this and this...
Anything you like--- The most direct way of getting in a trap is giving me a choice- A question like "This or That?" leads me to a labyrinth of confusion, nerve-wracking moments and leaves me with a simplistic solution and twinkling eyes: "Both!!" This fifth point comes with a similar rider... Anything I like??? I adore this entire blog of mine, how unfair to ask me to choose... If you have read till this line, I say, cheers! You are what an ideal reader should be like... :D
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True fiction (Glad you took the earlier one.. I know another comes too soon, but would be great if you do this too!)
Void ( " " " " too!)
Also, Apu and Sudhanshu, do take this tag up and keep coming here more often!
The conditions once more-- Tag five or more people, two of whom should be new acquaintances you have made...


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Fallen soldiers held by Hamas recognized as captives missing in action
The Ministry of Defense has announced that it will be changing the official status of fallen soldiers Lieutenant Hadar Goldin and Staff Sergeant Oron Shaul, who were both killed during Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014. Goldin will be recognized as "killed in action", but will also receive the additional status of "missing in action and in captivity." Similarly, Shaul will be recognized as killed in action and a soldier whose place of burial is unknown, but also as missing in action and in captivity.
The slight difference between the two soldier's statuses is likely due to the fact that while some of Goldin's body parts were recovered on the battlefield, thus enabling his family to preside over a funeral procession, no remains of Shaul's body were recovered thereby precluding the possibility for a funeral. Remains of both soldiers' bodies are thought to be held by Hamas.
The redefinition of the soldiers' status came after the Goldin family petitioned the IDF to add the "missing in action and in captivity" status in an effort to prevent the conclusion of the campaign to return all of their remains to Israel. According to the family, the official recognition of their son as a fallen soldier symbolized the closure of the chapter and would lead to the premature termination of government efforts despite the fact that not all of his remains have been returned. The new status therefore, symbolized the idea of the state's obligation to retrieve Goldin's and Shaul's remains.
"We praise the IDF and the security apparatus for the new status of Hadar and Oron," said the Goldin family. "Indeed, the state of Israel's declaration about Hadar shows that the objective of returning him has not been completed and that the country is fully obligated to return Hadar to his grave in Israel."
"We expect practical steps to be taken by the state, by the IDF and the security apparatus to bring about Shaul's and Hadar's speedy return."


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You ever prayed hard about something near and dear to your heart you feel like you might explode from the waiting?
Well, folks. That's how I feel. Right 'bout now. And I'm asking. Asking for your prayers.
Seems as though we're supposed to imagine it. Expect it. Believe and ye shall receive. I read in the newspaper about a woman who imagined herself right into the most wonderful blessing of her life. I'm wondering how much reality there is in that.
But prayers are what I need now. Your prayers. I'm not whining about it, nor seeking any self-serving pity, God no. It's just, well, when you've fought so hard for so long, found yourself running into one wall after another, and then like a miracle, the end result of your life's work is within arms reach -- it's nigh unto impossible to sit and wait yet again. But all it takes is one person. One person to read and believe.
There's more than just light at the end of the tunnel, folks. I've come out of the other side here, and the sky is achingly bright blue.
I do believe every once in a while a prayer slips in, a sweet sound that reaches the ear of God. It makes Him smile and say, "Why not? Let's make it happen. Let's see what she does with it."
So I would appreciate your prayers.
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I had to modify vectric post a bit to get both router and laser to work nicely together.
Offset swap is done in m3 macro depending on a variable set by my m6 macro- depending on what number tool was up next !
Now I have both working together with independent settings for delay , offset, different m3 pins.
I did have to move the laser up another 30mm as it was fouling tool cones in the Atc rack on tool changes for the router !
Seems birch plywood doesn't always want to laser nicely as seen here - I presume that's why there is special laser plywood sold ?
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THE CLINTON TAPES: Wrestling History With the President, by Taylor Branch (Simon & Schuster, $35.) Branch's conversations with Bill Clinton yielded deep insights and a revealing portrait of White House life.
THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE: How Public Opinion Has Influenced the Supreme Court and Shaped the Meaning of the Constitution, by Barry Friedman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35.) This thought-provoking history treats skeptically the notion that constitutional law is separate from popularity and politics.
LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: A Life, by Melvin I. Urofsky (Pantheon, $40.) An admiring biography of the Supreme Court justice as a reformer and legal innovator.
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DANCING IN THE DARK: A Cultural History of the Great Depression, by Morris Dickstein (Norton, $29.95.) Glorious entertainments thrived in a decade of crisis.


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The Russian government sent out airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, Sept. 30 that have caused many to question the intended target. Though the Russian government insists it is targeting the Islamic State group members with the airstrikes, many believe that the airstrikes were intended to help Russian ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, according to Politico.
Syria is currently engaged in a civil war between the current governmental regime uner Bashar al-Assad and his opposition that has caused violence and fear, leading Syrians to flee their homes for other countries.
Assad's opposition grew because of his use of force and brutality against the Syrian people. Tired, fearful and wanting a change, some Syrians revolted and formed groups of opposition that are trying to force Assad out of power. Meanwhile, the Islamic State group has taken advantage of the political turmoil and staked claim in certain areas of Syria.
The Russian government claims it was targeting members of the Islamic State group, but some claim they were actually targeting members of the opposition to government. Defense Secretary Ash Carter claims that based on the geographical area of Russia's airstrikes, it seems likely that the intended targets were not members of the Islamic State group, but rather members of opposition forces, according to Politico.
Although the Russian government supports the Syrian president and supports his position in power, Russian President Vladimir Putin maintains that the airstrike targets were indeed aimed at members of the radical Islamic State. In fact, Col. Gen. Kartapolov stated that because the airstrikes were working and impacting the Islamic State group members, Russia plans to intensify the airstrikes, according to BBC News.
Also, in an address to the United Nations on Thursday, Oct. 1, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov argued, "I would recall that we always were saying that we are going to fight [the Islamic State group] and other terrorist groups. This is the same position which the Americans are taking," according to The Washington Post.
He denied that the Russian government was attempting to gain support for Assad. He also reinforced the idea that the airstrike targets are terrorist organizations, the same as the U.S. and other western countries. Lavrov argued that the main goal, as well as the main goal for the West, is to take out the terrorists with airstrikes.
The concern for many now is making sure American and Russian wires do not get crossed creating a situation where the two tentative allies accidently attack each other. Because the Russian government only gave the American government an hour warning before the first strike on Wednesday, Sept. 30, tension between the two countries is palpable, according to Politico.
While many countries want to find a way to take down members of the Islamic State group, the West has condemned Russia's efforts based on the unknown true targets, and civilian casualties. Despite worldwide criticism, the Russian government continues to send air strikes into Syria. Though only Putin knows the true targets, the effects will be felt not only by the Syrian people, but on a global scale.
Editor's Note: Information from Politico, BBC News and The Washington Post was used in this report.


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In today's episode (81) we begin the two part study on the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. We touch on the personhood of the Holy Spirit and some of the works of the Holy Spirit including illumination and regeneration.
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The BBC "Inside Out West" Programme about pollution in Bath highlighted the unacceptably high levels of pollution caused by vehicles in Bath. Following the programme the Bathampton Meadows Alliance have issued the following statement to the Chronicle.
Alliance spokesperson, Sian James, said: "The results of this BBC investigation into air pollution in Bath sadly come as no surprise."
"Air quality has exceeded the EU-agreed limits for the highly toxic nitrogen dioxide for several years now in quite a few areas of Bath."
"Instead of doing anything to tackle this huge problem, B&NES is pressing ahead with an ill-conceived plan to spend millions of pounds on a new Park & Ride, when their own reports say it won't make any 'noticeable' difference to air pollution in the city. It beggars belief that they should spend all this money at a time like this instead of focusing on the problem facing families and their children now. That is why so many people across the city are so angry about this."
"The council needs to get people out of their cars – as this BBC programme shows – not encourage them into their cars to drive to a Park & Ride."
"The air quality team in B&NES doesn't even have its own budget, that's how much importance they give to this."
"And if B&NES spends 16 million pounds on a Park & Ride, at a time when they're cutting other services, what money will be left for tackling air pollution? I'm afraid the answer will be: none."
"Councils are obliged to come up with an action plan to tackle air pollution once it goes over the EU-set limits. But the last plan that B&NES came up with, in 2010, only made a minimal difference to NO2 levels. They're supposed to renew these plans every five years but the new plan – which they're consulting on at the moment – is already over a year late. What kind of a message does that send to parents worried about what their children are breathing in on Bath's roads?"
Fellow campaigner and Bathampton mother Fiona Meldrum said: "We know that the environment agency, Defra, wrote to B&NES at the end of last year telling them that they must have a joint air quality and transport plan. But they haven't done that – and instead are wilfully turning their back on this advice by pressing ahead with a Park & Ride that won't make air pollution in the city better and is likely to make it worse on the London Road around the Park & Ride."
"As a mother, it's frightening to hear some of these warnings about air pollution in our beautiful city. The BBC was saying just last month that if you live in Foxhill, you are likely to die 9 years younger than if you live in Lansdown. That is an extraordinary statistic. We need something to be done now."


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Psalm 1:1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalm 1:2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Another, but more verbose, way of wording the first part of verse two could be:
Instead of his delight being in walking in the counsel of the ungodly, or standing in the way of sinners, or sitting in the seat of the scornful, the delight of the blessed man is in the law of the LORD.
Short version:
The blessed man delights in the law of the LORD instead of what was previously listed.
So, what does "his delight" mean?
"His pleasure, his desire, he considers highly valuable".
From Webster's, "A high degree of pleasure, or satisfaction of mind; joy." Webster's also notes, "Delight is a more permanent pleasure than joy, and not dependent on sudden excitement."
Let's consider this for a bit.
Blessed is the man that takes a high degree of pleasure in the law of the LORD. Blessed is the man that takes great pleasure in the law of the LORD. Blessed is the man whose mind is greatly satisfied in the law of the LORD.
Blessed is the man whose mind dwells in and takes great pleasure in the law of the LORD, regardless of circumstances and what is going on around him. This man's joy and pleasure is not dependent upon circumstances, or temporary favorable occurrences, but in his relationship to Almighty GOD through the law of the LORD. Thus, the blessed man places a very high value on the Law (WORD, teachings, precepts, Torah) of the LORD.
Now, a "modern" religious spirit will rise up in many and say, "We are no longer under the law." To which there is a very simple reply: You are under the law of whichever kingdom or Kingdom you choose to submit to at each moment. You can choose to be under (subject to, obedient to) the law of sin and death, as is this world in which we live and the god of this world abides by; or you choose to be under (subject to, obedient to) the law of grace, also known as the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus. The latter of which permits you to live and abide in the Kingdom Of GOD.
Every kingdom has laws by which its citizens abide. Learning these laws and obeying them is called assimilation. We must choose, will we continue to walk in the laws of this world, or will we walk according to the Laws of the Kingdom Of GOD? We must choose. Not choosing is actually the choice to remain in this world and subject to the laws of this fallen world and its god; it is a passive rejection of the Laws of the Kingdom Of GOD.
The blessed man (person) not only chooses to learn and obey the Laws but takes great pleasure and satisfaction in learning, obeying, and living by the Law of the LORD (assimilating into the Kingdom Of GOD). Most of us do not understand that the Law of the LORD is very highly proactive and causative in bringing the blessings of the Kingdom Of GOD into our lives. Dwelling in the Law Of the LORD is such an all consuming way of living that it does not allow room for evil in our lives, but continually advances the Kingdom Of GOD in our lives; spirit, soul, body, and all areas of our lives. (This is something that my own eyes are being opened to.)
What is "the law of the LORD"?
The law is "torah", "a precept or statute".
The pertinent entries under "law" for our discussion from Webster's are as follows:
1. A rule, particularly an established or permanent rule, prescribed by the supreme power of a state to its subjects, for regulating their actions, particularly their social actions. Laws are imperative or mandatory, commanding what shall be done; prohibitory, restraining from what is to be forborn; or permissive, declaring what may be done without incurring a penalty. The laws which enjoin the duties of piety and morality, are prescribed by God and found in the Scriptures.
8. Moral law, a law which prescribes to men their religious and social duties, in other words, their duties to God and to each other. The moral law is summarily contained in the decalogue or ten commandments, written by the finger of God on two tables of stone, and delivered to Moses on mount Sinai.
17. The word of God; the doctrines and precepts of God, or his revealed will.
Almighty GOD is The Supreme Power and Supreme Authority in His Kingdom; thus only He has the right to proclaim and establish the Laws of His Kingdom, and He does so according to His Righteousness. Thus, we have the command of our LORD Jesus Christ to "seek first the Kingdom Of GOD and His Righteousness". We are here commanded to seek before and above all else the rule and reign of Almighty GOD and the Righteousness of Almighty GOD; in our own lives, in our families, in our communities, etc.
For those still balking at the idea of Christians being subject to some sort of law, particularly when it comes to passages from what we call the Old Testament, please consider this – The ultimate law in the Kingdom of GOD (being that GOD IS LOVE, thus, the Kingdom Of LOVE) can be expressed or summarized in a few statements:
1. LOVE the LORD your GOD with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
2. LOVE your neighbor as you LOVE yourself.
3. Husbands, LOVE your wives as Christ also LOVED the church, and gave himself for it.
4. He who LOVES GOD LOVE his brother also. (LOVE the brethren [brothers and sisters in Christ]).
5. LOVE your enemies.
We must understand, the "Old Testament" teaches us how to LOVE GOD, how to love ourselves, and how to love our neighbors. In the "New Testament" husbands are also taught how to love our wives, and from the "New Testament" we are all taught how to love our enemies. Such is the Law (Torah, teaching, precepts, WORD) of the LORD.
Now, whose law does the blessed man take delight it? Whose law does the blessed man highly value? The law that the blessed man highly values and takes delight in is The Law Of The LORD. Notice that "LORD" is in all capital letters. In the King James Version of the Holy Bible, the Name "LORD" in all capital letters is the tetragrammaton "YHWH"; believed by some to be Yahweh and by others to be Yehovah (Jehovah). When the word "Lord" is written in the King James Version of the Holy Bible starting with a capital letter and finished in lower case letters, it indicates the Hebrew Name "Adonai" (Adonay) for Lord.
This YHWH is defined by Strong's Exhaustive Concordance as being "The Self-Existent, Eternal GOD".
From Smith's Bible Dictionary we have:
"Jeho'vah. (I am; the eternal living one). The Scripture appellation of the supreme Being, usually interpreted as signifying self-derived and permanent existence. The Jews scrupulously avoided every mention of this name of God, substituting in its stead, one or other of the words with whose proper vowel-points it may happen to be written. This custom, which had its origin in reverence, was founded upon an erroneous rendering of Lev. 24:16 from which it was inferred that the mere utterance of the name constituted a capital offence. According to Jewish tradition, it was pronounced, but once a year, by the high priest on the Day of Atonement when he entered the Holy of Holies; but on this point, there is some doubt.
When Moses received his commission to be the deliverer of Israel, the Almighty, who appeared in the burning bush, communicated to him, the name which he should give as the credentials of his mission: "And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM (ehyea asher ehyeh); and he said, 'Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.' " That this passage is intended to indicate the etymology of Jehovah, as understood by the Hebrews, no one has ventured to doubt.
While Elohim exhibits God displayed in his power as the creator and governor of the physical universe, the name Jehovah designates his nature as he stands in relation to man, as the only almighty, true, personal, holy Being, a spirit and "the father of spirits," Num. 16:22, compare John 4:24, who revealed himself to his people, made a covenant with them, and became their lawgiver, and to whom all honor and worship are due."
Do we wish to be blessed (happy, joyful, prosperous, certain of our eternal future)? Then we must desire, take great pleasure in, and highly value the Law of the LORD our GOD: the Eternal, Self-Existent, Creator of all that is created; the all powerful, all knowing, all understanding, all mighty GOD Who by His Mercy and His Grace has chosen to favor all humanity (whosoever will believe) with a personal, intimate, covenant relationship with Him in His Kingdom, so loving and cherishing us that He has set forth His Law to teach us His Righteous and Holy Way.
Blessed is the man whose delight is in the Law Of The LORD: Seek ye first the Kingdom Of GOD and His Righteousness. The Kingdom Of GOD and His Righteousness is what we are taught in the Law Of The LORD, which is why we must take the next positive step in this Psalm: to meditate upon the Law Of The LORD, day and night.
All Holy Scripture is given in the King James Version, 1769. Bold emphasis is added.
Translation from Hebrew to English comes from the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance.
Additional definition of English words comes from Webster's Dictionary of American English, 1828.
Also, Smith's Bible Dictionary, 1884.


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Stonewall Brigade Band opens 130th season on June 4
It all started when a young man moved to Staunton from the Winchester area. David Drake had played in a band in Newtown—a sliver of a village between Stephens City and Kernstown, just south of Winchester.
Staunton didn't have a band, so had to send to Churchville for a brass band for parades—6 miles on horseback and then find a band member to urge that member to bring the band to "town." Drake and his new friend Edwin Cushing decided to form a band for their own enjoyment, and so their town could have its own brass band. They raised the money for instruments and persuaded August Turner, Drake's music teacher in Newtown, to move to Staunton, even finding him a day job as music teacher at the Wesleyan Female Academy on Fayette Street. The first band had 14 members: 11 brass including Professor Turner, a flute player, and two drummers. It took a year to be ready for the first concert.
Today, 164 years later, the band has changed and grown. It is now a fully instrumented concert band with the usual brass, woodwinds, and percussion, and 112 on the active roll with an average of 70 participating on each of the 12-14 Summer concerts. Over 140 pieces are played on the various concerts in a year. Members, aged 12 to 84, come from Staunton, Augusta County, Waynesboro, Nelson County and other areas of Virginia and West Virginia to rehearse every Monday when they are not giving concerts. 70% of the members are non-native, having moved to the area, some specifically to join the band.
Staunton native Bob Moody is now in his 43rd year as conductor of the band, chooses all music, but shares his conducting duties with four assistant directors. Ray Hoaster has been a band member 32 years and is retired from the United States Marine Band. Jamie Taylor has been a member for 7 years after retiring with more than 30 years of service as band director at Stuarts Draft High School. Pam Mason has been a member for 9 years, having formerly played with and organized promotions for the Talahassee FL symphony, and Kevin Haynes who joined last year as a trumpet player and has bloomed into a fine conductor this year. The assistants will be conducting a majority of pieces on this years's concert series, and Bob will be conducting some of his favorites. Bob is continuing to handle the publicity, social media, recording, and communication for the band. Cindy Hosaflook continues in her long-held position as band librarian, handling well over 20,000 sheets of music each year. A board of directors manages The Stonewall Brigade Band Inc., a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation, separate from the band itself, that serves as owner of all band property including music and instruments, a management entity for concerts employees and events, and as custodian of the band endowment.
Concerts are free, and start at 8 pm each Monday in June, July, and August, rain or shine in the Stonewall Brigade Bandstand in Staunton's Gypsy Hill Park. Complete programs can be seen on the band's web site www.stonewallbrigadeband.com. The site also has a photo album including the early years to the present. A history page highlights the various phases of band growth and change, and a Director's Page lists the 15 directors in the band's history with their education and experience.
Concessions are available at concerts for the convenience of our audience as well as to generate income for band operation. The band is supported in part by the City of Staunton, the County of Augusta, The Community Foundation of the Central Blue Ridge, Donations by audience members, concert program advertising, and the Virginia Commission on the Arts.


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The nation is one step nearer to a law that would ban Federal prisoners from using mobile phones. The House of Representatives has approved Senator Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) Cell Phone Contraband Act (S. 1749) on Tuesday, which classifies any cell phone used by an inmate as a "prohibited object."
The Senate has also passed the bill, which received praise from the wireless industry. "We strongly oppose prisoners having access to contraband phones and believe inmates, and anyone who supplies them with a device, should be severely punished," declared CTIA - the Wireless Association.
The group is doubtless happy that the bill doesn't approve cell phone jamming technology, which CTIA also strongly opposes. That's the bailiwick of Senator Kay Hutchison (R-TX), whose Safe Prisons Communications Act would permit "targeted interference" against mobiles in prison. The bill passed the Senate in October.
The main motive for these laws is to keep prisons secure. But Feinstein's legislation also addresses concerns that cell phones are sometimes smuggled into prisons because of the high cost of landline access in these facilities. That was the logic of Rep. Bobby Rush's (D-IL) Family Telephone Connection Protection Act (H.R. 1133).
Rush's bill noted that per-minute charges in some facilities go as high as $1 with a $3.95 service or connection charge. Many prisons limit communications to collect calling.
"Excessive inmate telephone service rates thus weaken the family and community ties that are necessary for successful reentry into society by persons who were formerly incarcerated and the reduction in crime resulting from successful reentry," the bill opined. It would authorize the Federal Communications Commission to regulate rates.
Feinstein's proposed law doesn't go that far. But it does require the Comptroller General to issue a report to Congress on ways to "lower telephone costs to inmates and their families, while still maintaining sufficient security."