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Christine Hirasa, who has been serving as deputy director of communications for the governor, will become communications director. Hirasa replaces Louise Kim McCoy, who served as both communications director and press secretary. McCoy stepped down last year.
"Each a product of our University of Hawaii System, the members of my communications team have strong ties in our community and offer a wide array of experience that includes news, public and private sector communications, and social media," Abercrombie said in a statement. "As the newest member of my staff, Justin will further strengthen our communications efforts and transparency as we head into the new year and a new legislative session."
Fujioka joined KITV in 2002, and has served the station as both chief meteorologist and news reporter. His last day at the TV station was not announced, but his first day with the governor's office will be Jan. 27.
Also, the governor's office announced, Keith DeMello has been promoted to deputy director of communications, and Tyler Kruse will take on additional responsibilities as communications and digital media specialist.


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You Can't Touch This: An Interview with Trauma Healing Rebel Sue Jones.
"I feel like we're right on the cusp of a pretty big shift in mental health services, recovery fields and many kinds of healing and treatment modalities." ~Sue Jones
Devoted to service, in May 2010 I sat in a circle comprised of seva-dedicated yoga practitioners in a conference room that looked more like a temple, provided by Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, N.Y. and gifted to the Yoga Service Council—a collaboration of organizations and individuals committed to bringing yoga to at-risk populations.
Across from me sat a vibrant, thoughtful, and articulate woman and whenever she spoke, our group would hush, her words hanging in the air like semi-weighted balloons. This woman is Sue Jones, and she has something to say, not just via communicating on the surface but by bearing the weight of a universal message and delivering it to our doorstep.
Sue Jones is the founder of yogaHOPE, a non-profit outreach organization dedicated to improving health and wellbeing through increased access to yoga-based mindfulness tools for underserved women in recovery. Sue comes to the world of working with individuals affected by trauma from a personal platform. Her commitment to rolling out her yoga mat while in the depths of deep despair groomed her to become one of the most recognized names in healing trauma for women-specific populations. Launched into this field as part of her own recovery process, Sue took it upon herself to immerse herself in the deepest knowledge available for those wishing to understand how trauma effects the body, mind, and soul. Developing approaches to working with women recovering from and dealing with trauma, Sue affiliates, partners and Tweets with some of the biggest and brightest names in the field of trauma and research. Having been interviewed on CNN and appearing in the New York Times, I had the honor of sitting down with Sue at the recent Being Yoga Conference at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Rhinebeck, NY. to discuss her feelings around the importance of delivering yoga to at-risk populations affected by trauma.
Diane Ferraro: Sue, you're a presenter at this year's Being Yoga Conference, leading a workshop called "Addiction Recovery…."
Sue Jones: "Yoga for Addiction Recovery."
DF (duh) Thank you Sue. Welcome to the interview.
SJ (laughing) Thank you.
DF: Tell us how yogaHOPE was founded, and what brought you to Being Yoga 2011.
SJ: About six years ago, I had my own personal challenges coming up in my life. My own yoga practice, which I had then recently re-discovered, was instrumental in getting me through each day so that I could come through that period…(begins to chuckle)…fairly intact. (Deep breath) It was very profound, and I often say that it saved my life. So once I was on the other side of that experience, I felt compelled to make the practice available to other women who were feeling as hopeless as I had been feeling. That's how I started the organization and we've been going for about five years now. I guess it was maybe two or three years ago when I was invited by Mark Lilly, founder of Street Yoga, to attend a conference here at Omega that assembled the founders and directors of about a dozen organizations bringing yoga to underserved and at-risk populations, including Off the Mat, Into the World. What came out of that gathering was the Yoga Service Council. It feels really good to mobilize people who are inspired to do this kind of service work. I was asked by Omega to present at Being Yoga 2011, and I said "Sure!"
DF: You are virtually the only teacher at this year's Being Yoga Conference presenting a workshop for an at-risk population. What do you think about the phenomenon of how yoga has exploded over the last ten years, and how a lot of people in the mental health and wellness industry are using yoga as a tool to bring these powerful practices to at-risk populations?
SJ: I feel like we're right on the cusp of a pretty big shift in mental health services, recovery fields and many kinds of healing and treatment modalities. The shift is occurring because there are so many people who are beginning to practice yoga, and the numbers are increasing each year. We're going to reach a critical mass as these yoga practitioners who are also social workers, therapists, and people who work with healing populations or at-risk populations, will personally experience how yoga creates shifts in the way they see themselves and how they interact with the world. They're naturally going to want to bring this experience of yoga to the populations they serve. I don't think we've quite tipped the scales yet, but the fact that I was invited here to teach a workshop to an at-risk population is a really good sign that we're headed in that direction, and that's very encouraging.
DF: Absolutely. And the Yoga Service Council is going to be hosting a conference at Omega in May 2012 around this very topic of bringing yoga to at-risk populations….
SJ: (emphasizing) Which is super exciting…
DF: (continuing to emphasize) So exciting.
SJ: There are many different populations that could benefit from these types of healing modalities including at-risk children, people recovering from addiction, women who have experienced violent relationships, and anyone who has experienced trauma that has affected their life. Any kind of trauma will affect a person's life in some way or another. These mindfulness practices are starting to show up in lots of scientific studies showing how they create changes in the brain. What is really going to push this movement forward is the science and the data that is coming out because people sort of need proof . This society kind of needs proof that these yoga practices work.
DF: We were speaking with Kelly McGonigal, Ph.D., a Stanford psychologist and meditation teacher, on a recent show. She is well-rooted in the academic world and she said "Look guys, science can't prove everything."
SJ: Right.
DF: However, there's a lot of evidence leaning toward the idea that yoga contains methodologies that inspire healing, and anyone who has experienced yoga on some level can feel that. As you've told me in previous talks we've had, "The issues are in the tissues," so once we start working with the physical self, and getting the issues worked out through physical therapy, we'll get to the root of the trauma. Tell us about the work and the research that you are studying and culminating around yoga and trauma, how trauma sits in the body and how we touch it.
SJ: We're doing a lot of research on how trauma affects the brain and the body, and how these yoga practices counter those effects. No matter what population it is that you're working with, whether it's people recovering from addiction, combat veterans, or kids in correctional facilities, you'll find their issues are rooted in early childhood traumas. Trauma gets a negative rap, and some people say "Let's not use the 'T' word," but really it's just these adverse childhood experiences which cause changes in the brain which eventually lead to the inability to emotionally regulate. They lead to "Affect Dysregulation.[1]" What that means is that when a sensation comes up in a person's body, there's an inability to put space between feeling that sensation and the person's response to it, their decision, what they're going to do. There's a lot more to it, it's very complicated and interwoven, but that's essentially what's at the root of it. What we're discovering through the studies that are coming out on mindfulness practices, pranayama, and compassion meditation, is that the very center of the brain where the activity diminishes causing Affect Dysregulation is the very area of the brain that these mindfulness practices begin to activate once again. So it's not just kind of a nice idea—we're actually seeing that these brain centers that are housing Affect Dysregulation, which then leads to the addictive or self-harm behaviors, are actually being healed and reactivated by mindfulness practices.
DF: Gatherings like the upcoming Yoga Service Council Conference in May 2012 at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies brings a cadre of well-respected, influential teachers together for people interested in teaching yoga to at-risk populations or learning how yoga can assist with their own trauma. When we show up as a yoga community and we want to work with at-risk populations, what would you say is the best first step?
SJ: Take a training with an organization providing direct service on the front line. While prospective teachers are very well intentioned and coming from the heart, in order to work with at-risk populations, there are a lot of things that prospective teachers need to know about teaching a population that is recovering from trauma. For instance, it cannot be a power vinyasa class. There is a lot to understand around how to deliver information, and it's important to deliver it in a specific way. If you wish to work with at-risk populations, the best first step would be to start educating yourself through trainings or seminars and follow the breadcrumbs from there.
DF: You also provide training for teachers wishing to assist with healing touch. Could you talk a little bit about this because what I think is somewhat overlooked in most yoga trainings is the power of healing, non-sexual, non-violent, non-intrusive touch.
SJ: I'm a little bit of a rebel I guess in the "trauma world" because the western sensibility is that you just don't touch trauma survivors. The women that we're working with at yogaHOPE are recovering from early interpersonal traumas, and they have learned to distrust touch or closeness. We focus on touching these women in a way that can allow them to feel safe and to return back to their bodies. The touch that we give them is very nurturing. It's understood that there are parts of the body where touch can feel safe and there are parts of the body where touch, at least for these women, is never going to feel safe, and we educate our teachers and our assistants about where these parts of the body are and how to sense these women's ability to receive touch. Our teachers are not forcing touch, but rather allowing for the receptivity of touch. There's a non-verbal conversation going on that could be interpreted as "I'm going to touch you, and it's safe, and when you feel safe I'll know it, and we'll go someplace together." It's a really beautiful energetic exchange.
DF: Touch therapy isn't provided in many yoga teacher trainings or workshops.
SJ: No it's not, you're right. I'm trying to spearhead this movement, and I'm excited about it because it's been a very healing experience for me.
DF: You're coming from a place of knowledge because something has affected you in a certain way and then you are able to share that knowledge with someone else, and I think that is the truest, deepest, and most poignant experience between a teacher and someone who is receiving that teaching.
SJ: In order to allow these women to feel trusting of touch, they have to be touched in a safe and nurturing way. It's not going to happen if they're never touched. They will feel continually distrustful. My own personal experience is exactly that, so I feel passionate about it.
DF: Where do you see yogaHOPE going within the next several years? I know you're on a very strong streak to bring yogaHOPE to yet another level.
SJ: To have the most profound impact on these populations, we needed to have some programs that were very objective-focused and were replicable so that we didn't' have constrictions around how many facilities we could be in or how many geographical locations we could be in. It has taken a while but over the past couple of years we've done a tremendous amount of research and we've developed a program that we piloted and are now revising. The pilot was extremely successful which was very exciting. We're revising it with everything we learned in the pilot and re-piloting it at a prison in Massachusetts for women only, and they're very excited about the program. Where I see yogaHOPE in a year is that we've got the program fully designed, fully revised, fully evaluated, with trainings for anyone who wants to facilitate this program, and that we have been placed in several facilities in and around the Boston area, not just yogaHOPE facilitators but the social workers and the therapists that work in those facilities are now running the program internally, so that we can actually empower these facilities to run this program as one of their regular treatment modalities which is going to help them create this holistic healing environment. The response and the enthusiasm from the mental health community in Boston is very, very positive.
DF: We're going to keep close track of you throughout 2011, 2012, and into 2013!
SF: Yeah!
DF: And then we'll see you again at Omega at the Yoga Service Council Conference in May 2012.
SJ: Oh yes, I'll definitely be there.
For more information about Sue Jones, yogaHOPE, and to learn about upcoming workshops and trainings, please visit yogahope.org. To learn more about the Yoga Service Council and the upcoming conference to be hosted at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in May, visit yogaservicecouncil.org, call Omega, and check out the Yoga Service Council Conference invitation on Facebook. "Like" this space for updates on a new website coming soon.
[1] Affect Dysregulation is among the symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) but is a result of diminished activity and the down-regulation of receptors in the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal cortex is the center for emotional regulation, empathy and feelings of contentment and happiness. When the prefrontal cortex experiences diminished activity, even a stressor that is perceived or controllable will feel inescapable and life threatening. Activation in the prefrontal cortex results in the ability to emotionally regulate. In one study, scientists subjected rats to an inescapable shock while they artificially activated the prefrontal cortex. The result was that the stress response did not interfere with the rats' ability to escape the stressor. Additionally in this study, the PFC activity in the rats was artificially diminished while the rats were subjected to escapable shock. The rats stress response was so great that they were unable to escape though the shock was escapable. (Maiar, Amat, Baratta, Paul & Watkins 2006) In human beings, this would be comparable to emotions being so great (experienced as sensations in the body) that we are incapable of moving through a stressor with a sense of control. Cumulative interpersonal trauma has been shown to significantly predict Avoidance Dysfunction because the prefrontal cortex receptors are down-regulated and the survivor has low affect regulation capacity. (Briere, et al. 2010)
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11 Responses to "You Can't Touch This: An Interview with Trauma Healing Rebel Sue Jones."
Great article! Yoga can be so amazingly transformative and she's so right…the rate at which this is being recognized is dramatic. I teach yoga and mindfulness to patients with PTSD in the substance abuse unit of a large, fairly conservative hospital. Every year, on a national level, our hospital takes staff suggestions about ideas or programs which should become nationally based. Everyone votes and the top 100 are at least attempted. Two years ago, my "yoga and mindfulness for PTSD" was about #4000 (out of slightly less than 10,000 ideas); last year, it was #135! Next year? Fingers crossed.
that's so encouraging! Collect the data, speak their language and soon it will be folded into the system (and funded, fingers crossed 😉
Thanks so much Sue and Diane! You're both doing great work.
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Thank you Diane! I LOVE this! It's amazing to me how yoga in a way is becoming so specialised! Excellent interview!
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I went to a meeting yesterday afternoon with a group of women who have been teaching yoga to women in a Chicago jail for three years and are now expanding there program. This issue of healing touch came up and was discussed a good bit. Everyone was aware that many people teaching yoga to those who have been traumatized feel that touch shouldn't be used at all. But in their experience, they found that the women were not only receptive to it, but actively wanted and responded to it. It is highly appreciated and very healing. But, at the same time, the fact that you have to be extra-deliberate and respectful of those who may not want it was also taken very seriously by the teachers. So I think that the perspective of "no touch" is very helpful up to a point because of the reminder for taking an extra degree of care that it conveys.
In my limited work teaching yoga to homeless women, I did make adjustments and like the women teaching at the jail, I found that everyone liked it and responded exceptionally well. I believe it the power of healing touch and so am really happy to see such strong and considerate leadership from you on this issue. Thanks.
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Holy Cow, thank you so much, Tanya!
Beautifully done Diane! Fabulous article and interview, thank you for sharing with me!
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BRISTOL, Conn. — It was only fitting.
The shutdown pitching. The relentless hitting. The comeback.
They were all on display in Saturday's New England regional final. And that is why the Cumberland American players circled Breen Field in jubilation, their championship banner in tow, with Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" blaring over the sound system.
Next stop: South Williamsport, Pa.
Down three runs before taking a swing, Cumberland erupted in an eight-run bottom of the first inning that set the tone for its 13-7 victory against Andover (Mass.) National.
BRISTOL, Conn. — It was only fitting.
The shutdown pitching. The relentless hitting. The comeback.
They were all on display in Saturday's New England regional final. And that is why the Cumberland American players circled Breen Field in jubilation, their championship banner in tow, with Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" blaring over the sound system.
Next stop: South Williamsport, Pa.
Down three runs before taking a swing, Cumberland erupted in an eight-run bottom of the first inning that set the tone for its 13-7 victory against Andover (Mass.) National.
Ryan McCormick clubbed two of Cumberland's five home runs and amassed six RBIs for manager Dave Belisle's squad, which becomes the fifth Rhode Island team to qualify for the Little League World Series, following in the footsteps of Darlington American (1980), Cranston Western (1996) and Lincoln (2001, '04).
The newly-crowned New England champions (13-2) open play in the double-elimination World Series on Friday at 3 p.m., when they will oppose the West region representative.
Saturday's game didn't exactly get off to a rousing start. With one out in the top of the first, Belisle paid a mound visit to starter Connor Mastin after Andover loaded the bases on a double and two singles. Belisle visited him again following Sam Conte's RBI single to center field, this time relieving Mastin with Jake Glod.
Glod walked the first batter he faced, Dan Gemmell, to force in a run, before Cedric Gillette delivered an RBI infield single to put Andover up, 3-0.
But Glod retired the next two batters to avert further damage.
"I thought that was the key to this ballgame," Belisle said of Glod's escape act. "That team was smacking the ball, and it's nothing Connor did, they're just a great fastball team and they were timing Connor's fastballs. Jacob mixes it up beautifully and he got them to hit the ball on the ground and he gave us a chance to field the ball.
"Believe it or not, [a] 3-0 [deficit], if that was a confidence builder, it was, knowing the situation. That could have been 6-0, easily."
McCormick quickly swung the momentum back in Cumberland's favor, leading off the bottom of the first by blasting a fastball from Andover starter Michael Reilly over the center-field fence.
"Ryan McCormick's leadoff homer, after that I knew, 'OK, we're coming,'" Belisle said. "Ryan is the key to our offense."
Said McCormick, "I just wanted to get on base."
After Mastin singled and Max Hanuschak walked, Chris Wright clocked a Reilly offering beyond the outstretched glove of Andover center fielder Conte for a three-run shot.
Reilly's outing came to an end after Tom Faltus reached on an error to pack the sacks with two outs for McCormick, who whacked Conte's second-pitch curveball to left-center for a grand slam – his second homer of the inning, this one giving Cumberland an 8-3 lead.
"He's a heck of a hitter. We knew that going in," said Andover manager Paul Finn, whose team concluded the summer with an 18-4 record. "We made the move to the lefty [Conte] to try to get him out. We threw him two curveballs, [and] the second curveball he drilled. I tip my cap to him."
The eight-run outburst conjured up memories of Cumberland's District IV final against Lincoln, a game in which Belisle's squad trailed 5-1 early on before launching five home runs en route to a 12-6 win.
"We've gotten behind in the past, and I knew that the key was what [Glod] did to stop them from scoring more than three runs," Belisle said. "Once he did that, I was very excited, because I knew that three was reasonable."
Cumberland entered Saturday having scored 10 or more runs in eight of its 14 tournament games. It did not reach double digits in last Saturday's 5-3 win over Andover, the teams' pool-play opener. That game included four errors by Andover, leading to three unearned runs for Cumberland.
Both clubs went 2-2 in pool play, with Cumberland drawing the third seed and Andover the fourth in the semifinal round because of their head-to-head result. On Thursday, Cumberland ousted second-seeded Connecticut titlist Fairfield American, the reigning New England champion, with an 8-7 victory, while Andover knocked off top-seeded New Hampshire squad Goffstown Junior Baseball, 9-4.
Heading into the rematch against Cumberland, Finn knew his pitchers would have their hands full containing the top of Belisle's lineup. And he was right.
"They came out swinging," Finn said. "You have to give Cumberland a tremendous amount of credit. They mashed the ball today. Even their subs were hitting shots all over the place. That's a great hitting team."
With one down in the bottom of the second, Hanuschak doubled to right, advanced to third base on a passed ball with Wright at the plate and scored on the ensuing throwing error by Andover catcher Andrew Selima.
Andover began its comeback charge in the top of the fourth. Daniel Walsh started it with a leadoff dinger to center, and Gemmell added a two-out, two-run homer to center that pulled the Massachusetts champs within a 9-6 deficit.
Hanuschak got a run back for Cumberland in the bottom of the fourth, when he demolished a high fastball from Selima to deep left-center for a solo shot.
But Andover refused to go quietly. Selima's one-out sacrifice fly to left in the top of the fifth chased a tiring Glod, who scattered eight hits and five walks across 4 1/3 innings of four-run ball.
"He's a battler," Belisle said. "They'll get runners on, but he'll make pitches to get out of jams."
The right-hander finished with 82 pitches, shaking his elbow in pain prior to being replaced by Conor Lavallee.
"It was sore at the end," Glod said.
With a runner on third, Lavallee struck out Reilly to squelch the threat.
Cumberland handed Lavallee three more insurance runs in the bottom of the fifth. Following McCormick's sac fly to left, Glod roped a Selima offering to right for a two-out, two-run homer.
"We were a few runs up, so I felt a little more confident," Lavallee said. "I just needed to hit my spots and throw strikes."
Andover put runners on second and third with one down, but Lavallee caught Timmy Kalantzakos looking at a called third strike to bring Cumberland within one out of the Little League World Series.
After running the count full against Nate Abbott, Lavallee stepped off the mound and smiled before returning to the hill. He peered in for the sign from catcher Wright, reared back and fired a fastball past Abbott's swinging bat.
With that, Cumberland cemented its place in the annals of Rhode Island Little League history.
And the story's not over yet.
"I think they really rose to the occasion today," Finn said. "A truly impressive effort by Cumberland."
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Michael Reilly, Sam Conte (1), Andrew Selima (3) and Andrew Selima, Nate Abbott (3). Connor Mastin, Jake Glod (1), Conor Lavallee (5) and Ryan McCormick, Chris Wright (1).


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The bus ride to Hervey Bay from Rockhampton was only 7hrs but I think because it was a night bus it seemed a lot longer and painful then the other bus rides to date. Arriving at 1:30am, the bus depot seemed to be pretty far from the CBD and was thankful there was a taxi there waiting and quickly grabbed it and shared it with a couple of other girls who were also getting off in Hervey and staying at another place on the way to mine. It was my bad as I thought the place had 24hr reception so had to call and wake up the owner who was gracious and came out to give me a key. Next morning after a bit of a lie in I went out to explore and quickly came to realize two things; my accommodation while by the marina was way out of town and once reaching town by foot about 6kms away there is not much to see and do. There is an aquarium there called Reef World that I know wouldn't be huge but in trying to find it I had actually walked by it three times. The sign "Restaurant" on the side of the building and the fact that it looks more like a restaurant then an aquarium didn't help
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. After seeing pictures of people using sticks to poke the animals in the tanks I decided it's probably not the kind of aquarium I'd like to visit. Nearby is the kilometre long Urangan Fishing pier and here they did have a little Saturday market going selling arts and crafts and such. I did find an excellent caf� just a few meters from the pier called Swell Caf� where I had a pretty tasty bacon sandwich and I think the best cup of coffee I've had so far in Australia. As well the owners, transplants from Melbourne to get away from the cold, were super sweet and I had a lovely conversation with them. Accepting the fact that there was not much else to see or do I made my way back to where I was staying and spent the afternoon in evening in the lounge trying to catch up on my blogs. At least this place had comfortable amenities to make hanging out just the little bit nicer. The only reason I came here was so that I could see Fraser Island, the world's largest sand island and this is the closest stepping stone to it. And so the next day that was the agenda as I had booked a day tour (Fraser Explorer Tours) to see the island I had to see, as claimed by many a backpacker I've run into. It was a cool crisp morning but the sun was out so had the promise of being a good day and perhaps get warm enough to go swimming at a couple of the stops on the Island. The half an hour ferry crossing to the island was cold and breezy but beautiful to see the island ahead and the bay we were crossing in the early morning sun
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. Upon disembarking from the ferry we were assigned to a 4WD bus based on our tour and trip duration and I joined 17 others on a big blue bus with a very chatty but informative guide Kristin. Over the course of the day we were feed with lots of Fraser Island history, including aboriginal stories of how they thought the island, which they call K'Gari, meaning paradise, was formed. Our itinerary of the day was pretty much going to be backwards from what is advertised due again to my lovely luck with the ocean tide. So we made our way across the island which is only 15km but took us about 45mins due to the road conditions, hence the need for a 4WD and then after a stop at a lodge we made access onto the beach on the East side of Island and drove up 75-mile beach for a fair distance. Due to some major erosion of late, this ride took me back to the good old days of some of the worst roads in Africa and India as we bounced around inside the bus. There was an optional flight whereby the plane takes off and lands on the beach and does a fly over of the island which some took up and as they did we continued making our way up the beach to meet them at the Pinnacles, a small section of colorful sand cliffs. Then with everyone back on board we turned around and made our way back down the beach stopping first for photos at the Maheno ship wreck, a passenger liner blown ashore during a cyclone in 1935 while being towed to a Japanese scrapyard. Just 2kms from Maheno, we stopped for about 45 minutes at Eli Creek which runs into the ocean and was our first opportunity to go for a swim
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. I opted for wandering along the path up the creek and back as the sun had decided to retreat and the wind wasn't getting any warmer. There were a few brave souls or shall I saw hearty souls then I that did enjoy the creek. Time for lunch we went back to the Eurong Beach Resort for a buffet lunch and then made our way back across the island to do the things we missed in the morning which was simply an hour long stop at Lake Mackenzie for more swimming which even less people did but enjoyed just walking around the lake which is at it's fullest so not much of a beach to walk on. While here I saw a Dead Adder snake, which is highly poisonous and a Dingo that can also be dangerous if provoked. We had been given Dingo safety and at first when I turned around and saw her, my first thought was "Oh, it's a dog" and then panic set in and it was "oh shit, it's a Dingo" but I did what I was supposed to and it went walking by me with not to much care in the world but a few seconds later a group behind me had scared it off and it came trampling behind me and thankfully past as I did have a brief thought that it was coming for me. After the Dingo excitement at the lake and even more at the parking lot we left for Central Station which was a permanent logging camp that had developed over the many years that logging was prevalent on the island up until 1994 when it became a World Heritage site. And then it was a small walk along the Wanggoolba Creek that flows through the sub-tropical rainforest that exists in the middle of the island
The Maheno ship wreck
. Then back to the ferry docks to catch the 5pm ferry, the last of the day and get dropped back at our accommodation. Despite the weather being a bit cool to enjoy the swimming it was still a good day and can understand now why people say "oh you have to go to Fraser Island" as I will say the same but suggest when it's slightly warm. Back to the bus depot early the next morning thanks to a free shuttle service from the hostel and I was on my way bound for Noosa, a place I've been very intrigued about and upon hearing how good my accommodation was, was even more intrigued. My plan for three days in Noosa was to do pretty much nothing and this plan worked out fairly well as the first day I just checked out the town and the beach, the second day I did the coastal walk at the national park in the morning followed by a session at the beach in the afternoon. The third day more beach time and the day I left because it was overcast splurged and checked out other parts of Noosa via the ferry service they offer. One thing that surprised me about this place as it is one of the finer resort towns along the coast is how friendly everyone is in town most notably striking up a conversation with a couple that owns a snack bar called Kebaba's close to the beach and make a really good BLAT (bacon, lettuce, avocado, tomato). They've been here for four years and originally from Raleigh, North Carolina and want to return one day but are trying to get the business going a bit more before selling
Eli Creek - Fraser Island
. At the hostel, thanks to the activities they run I also meet and chatted with a number of different people; more than at any other hostel thus far. The first night they had a meet and greet for those new who have checked in and there I met and spent the evening with a lovely couple, Jo and Ian. I actually recognized them from the place I was staying in Airlie Beach but didn't have an opportunity to meet them there which was too bad because they were a lot of fun. She was 53 and he as 42, so both being a second marriage for them but getting married 11 years after they met and have now been married for 9 years. They were taking sometime to see some of the East Coast before joining a Lions tour that would take them to quite a few of the rugby games over the next few weeks in quite a few different cities. The next night was a trivia night which I love so signed myself up and joined four others to become a team named the Celtic Connection. They were all Scottish and Irish and learning I'm from Canada we agreed there's got to be some Irish or Scottish in me. The trivia was distracting to the Lions vs. Brumbies game being televised on TV or is it the other way around? But in any case our team somehow managed to win, answering 39 out of the 50 questions correctly. Our prize? A jug of beer which we shared over conversation and huddling around the heater as it this point we were seeing our breath in the lounge area. Feeling nice and relaxed I was ready to leave Noosa and head for the bright lights big city of Brisbane which was just a few hours away. I'm not really that excited to be in Brisbane but more of a necessity to catch a flight to Perth in couple of days. My first evening here I actually went to the grocery store and bought some supplies to self-cater most of my meals here and watched the movie Incendiary being shown in the lounge. Checking the weather for the next day and finding out it was going to rain all day I made the decision that I was just going to stay in the hostel and take the day to do laundry, the never ending blog and to just chill out whether it be with movies and/or a book. The day after the weather looks to be better and will checkout a bit of what Brisbane has to offer….if I feel like it.
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Amazon.com Inc. is the world's biggest online retailer and a big public company to boot. As such they—and their public financial documents—should be a cornucopia of information on what Amazon.com has up its sleeve in the way of future plans.
But when it comes to explaining what's really happening in the way of new strategies and company direction, Amazon is notoriously close-mouthed and somewhat stingy with any forthcoming information. To get a real sense of what Amazon, No. 1 in the Internet Retailer Top 500, does see as important, observers need to close pay attention to the little foreshadowing company executives do provide financial analysts on the quarterly earnings call and what's new in the company filings.
Here are a few nuggets I gleaned on how Amazon sees its future business plans shaping up by listening to the year-end earnings call and looking at their just-released annual report:
As I mentioned it's hard to pull information from Amazon, especially regarding the new initiative reporters, financial analysts and competitors are most interested in: sales and profits related to its Kindle electronic reader, tablet and digital content business. In its year-end earnings release Amazon included plenty of statistics on how well it says its electronic book reader and tablet business development is doing—but no unit sales figures. Over the nine-week holiday period ended Dec. 31 Amazon would only say Kindle and Kindle Fire sales increased 177% over the previous year.
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West Mifflin Area school board has adopted a $46,710,296 budget for the coming school year.
It is a slight increase from the current $45.6 million spending plan and requires a .476 millage increase because of Allegheny County reassessments.
District business manager Dennis Cmar said the millage adjustment will be revenue neutral because of changes to assessed property values.
The board adopted the budget by a 5-4 vote, with board president Phil Shar, vice president Nick Alexandroff and directors Michael Price, Ted Cale and Ron Rubinsak voting for it. Directors Harry Fast, Judy Andzelik, Richard Crux and Dan McDonald voted against.
Fast said he voted no because of changes that were added to the budget since a workshop meeting last week. In particular, he said he objects to ninth-grade sports being brought back.
The district says the additional coaches will cost $17,012.
Freshman football, baseball and boys and girls basketball were eliminated several years ago because of budget constraints. All but the football program will be reinstated.
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Much thanks for any help.
I currently have a rooted AT&T Moto X. I want to be able to unlock my bootloader so I can install other ROMs. My question is, if I purchase an unlock key from one of the sites on the Internet, will this allow me to unlock the bootloader? ... or is this just a SIM unlock? Is it maybe possible to bootloader unlock my AT&T phone without purchasing an unlock key? I've looked but I've yet to run into any documentation that says I can.
Much thanks for any help.
i'vve seen no sites selling bootloader unlock codes for the Moto X. (Other than that Chinese site/middleman deal)
What you are seeing are likely only SIM unlock codes for sale.
The info/thread on the Chinese site/middleman being back is the only way to obtain a bootloader unlock code for the ATT X.
There is no way to unlock the bootloader without the code.
Unlocking the bootloader and sim unlocking are two different things.
Unlocking the bootloader allows you to flash/install unsigned or 3rd party supplied parts/partitions (like recovery, modified or custom roms, etc), and that in turn allows you to easily root. Motorola gives out the Bootloader unlock codes for the Developer Edition X and some carrier editions (like T-Mobile and Sprint). For ATT and Verizon (non-developer), Moto does NOT give out the codes (likely due to carrier's wishes). No one has cracked the bootloader lock on the X yet, so to bootloader unlock the Verizon (non-Dev) and ATT X the Chinese Website/Middleman selling the bootloader unlock codes is the only way you'll be able to do this.
SIM unlocking allows you to use the SIM from other carriers in your phone.
Phones that are purely CDMA/EVDO only, like the HTC Incredible, Original Motorola Droid, etc, do not use a SIM and therefore there is no "SIM" unlocking for them. Those phones have an ESN burned into them. The carriers only accept ESN numbers of phones which were made for them (couldn't take a CDMA/EVDO phone from another carrier and use it on Verizon because VZW wouldn't allow the ESN). Verizon's phone's started using SIM slots when they added GSM Global Roaming to phones like the Blackberry 9930 and such. They were sim locked to Vodafone (Verizon's international roaming partner). They could be SIM unlocked for global roaming by calling Verizon's international department directly and requesting the SIM unlock code. Usually telling them something like "I am traveling over seas and I want to use a local pre-paid SIM when I get there), can I have the SIM unlock code for my phone?" would get you the code.
With the introduction of LTE, Verizon is using SIM cards for both LTE and GSM. Verizon's LTE phones are SIM unlocked due to the FCC rules around the 700Mhz C block auction they won years ago. The Moto X, Galaxy S4, Galaxy S5, and others are all SIM unlocked right out of the box. Other carriers like ATT and T-Mobile, ship their phones SIM locked, so to put a T-Mobile SIM in an ATT phone, you need to SIM unlock it first. The exception being something like the X where T-Mobile doesn't sell it directly, Moto does, and ships a SIM unlocked version with a T-Mobile sim.
It depends on what you want to do with your phone.
If you want to root no matter what RW pushes to your phone, and you don't mind voiding your warranty... then yes.
I don't have RW, but from what I understand, their Bootloader is locked, and like with Verizon and ATT, Moto doesn't give out the unlock codes for RW. So your only choice is the 3rd party Chinese website/middleman.
There is a thread for RW, and what can be done while the bootloader is locked. Its pretty much the same as VZW and ATT users... if you have 4.2.2 or 4.4 on your phone you can root and disable write protection by using SlapMyMoto/MotoWpNoMo processes, and if you want to run 4.4.2, you can make use of Safestrap (assuming your phone is still on 4.4 or lower to root it). BUT if you already have taken the 4.4.2 update, or flashed a 4.4.2 SBF, you are stuck unless you can unlock the boot loader.
I did motowpnomo and disabled wp. I have 4.4.2 update with root using this guide
What I want to do is to get rid of this error message "com.motorola.process.system" ? I did everything I tried on google search.
cache & dalvik cache
But one thing I have not done is factory reset. I am unsure I can do that to keep my root on 4.4.2. That is why I'm asking if I do bootloader unlocked, even if I screw up and lose my root or not, I will still be safe with root after because I have bootloader right?
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LAWRENCEVILLE Police on Friday arrested the alleged trigger man in the fatal shooting of a Norcross man last year.Edwin Cabral, 31, is charged with one count of murder for shooting Gabriel Silverio, 38, in the torso and leg in January 2009, according to his arrest warrant. Cabral was picked up at a residence in the 1600 block of Pirkle Road in Norcross, said Gwinnett police spokesman Cpl. David Schiralli. Jail records list his most recent of several Gwinnett addresses as Station Center Boulevard in Suwanee. A warrant for Cabral's arrest was issued last month after "recent developments" in the year-long investigation identified him "as playing a key role in the murder," Schiralli said. Police found Silverio gunned down in his Azalea Drive mobile home near Norcross on Jan. 14 last year. The death could have been part of a conspiracy to rob rival drug dealers that went wrong, or the victim may have been taken out by his own crew, authorities have said. Investigators believe Silverio had been shot earlier in a supposed Lawrenceville stash house on River Drive operated by a rival faction. Nobody was home at the time they stormed in, police said. The case generated an 82-page police report and led investigators to Miami and back, a Gwinnett police spokesman said last month. Police arrested Miguel Abreu, 30, on murder charges in January. An alleged co-conspirator, Donald Jones-Buonpensiere, 24, was booked in Gwinnett a couple weeks after the killing after he'd been picked up in Miami on unrelated charges. Jones-Buonpensiere and the victim were old friends, and both murder suspects raided the Lilburn stash house with him, police have said. Following the shooting, the team drove Silverio home, called 911, and fled. Police found the victim just after midnight, and he later died at Gwinnett Medical Center. Police said neither crew is affiliated with any recognized gang. All but the victim, a native of Uruguay, hail from the Dominican Republic. All three suspects await prosecution at the Gwinnett County Jail without bond.
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Obamacare: One Year Later
March 22, 2011
David Gratzer
Stripping patients and doctors of authority over care
This week marks the one-year anniversary of Obamacare, and there has been no shortage of Washington rhetoric on the goals of the legislation for the occasion: Bending the cost curve. Reducing health insurance premiums. Expanding the number of insured Americans. But as we mark this anniversary, its important to note the other agenda that has been missed in the debates of the past two years: reining in our doctors. Look carefully at the legislation signed into law by President Obama last March, and youll discover a not-so-subtle campaign to dramatically reshape the doctor-patient relationship. From compensation to autonomy, Obamacare represents something of a war on doctors.
Skeptical? Consider key aspects of the legislation. The newly established Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) is mandated to fund research comparing the efficacy of medical and surgical interventions. At first glimpse, PCORI seems reasonable enough. If taxpayers are footing the bill, after all, lets ensure that were paying for effective treatment. However, the body could easily and quickly become a way to favor certain treatments while restricting others.
In other countries, such bodies tend to make politicized and highly controversial decisions, often opposed by physicians. In Great Britain, as an example, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has no hesitation in intervening in medical decisions - decisions that would be controlled by doctors and their patients here in America. The results of years of experience with NICE also show that the PCORI approach by itself does not guarantee lower costs but does decrease options while undermining patient care. Its one reason British cancer outcomes trail ours.
PCORI is only one agency of more than 159 that were created in the 2,800 pages of Obamacare, and virtually all of them will move power and control to Washington and impinge on physicians ability to provide for their patients. This is part of a larger trend in Obamacare - treating doctors as tradesmen in need of guidance and restraint.
Still skeptical? The health overhaul law also establishes the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The 15 members of this independent board, appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, will keep Medicares growth in line, with the power to dictate payment for specific treatments and interventions. In nontechnical language: This unelected body will have the unprecedented ability to single-handedly change the allocation of health care resources should Medicare spending exceed medical inflation - which, for the record, it consistently does. IPABs recommendations, incidentally, are beyond congressional reach unless overturned by a supermajority of Congress.
Many Americans may not see this as being particularly problematic. Hit by the recession, they may be unsympathetic to the woes of the caricatured neurosurgeon driving his Mercedes. But pause for a moment: The doctor-patient relationship is the cornerstone of modern medicine. As Washington bureaucrats are empowered, patients will spend less time with their physicians to understand their illness, its significance and the treatment plan. It also will mean fewer treatment options for their physicians. Americans disliked the corporate decision-making of managed care in the 1990s. Will government decision-making be any more appealing?
Looking to the future, these problems are likely to worsen. As the new mandates and regulations kick in, physicians and hospitals will be forced to form bigger groups and bigger networks to lower costs, creating vertical organizations that are easier to regulate and influence.
Lets be clear: Obamacare did not fire the first shot of this war on doctors, but it certainly will expand and accelerate it. The profession will survive - doctors have demonstrated enormous flexibility. Though these policies certainly are a nuisance, like any government contractor, doctors will change and adjust their behavior to successfully navigate the battlefield. Ultimately, the brunt of these regulations will be passed along to patients in the form of access problems and compromised quality of care - just as they have in other countries.
Perhaps the greatest irony is this: As health care costs continue to soar and promised savings fail to materialize, Washington surely will look to further rein in physicians. Britain would be a case in point. Years of restrictions and rationing have resulted in low standards, yet health care cost inflation is higher on the other side of the Atlantic.
But reining in spending doesnt necessarily mean reining in doctors. In five-sixths of the economy, we look to individual choice and competition. The alternative to Obamacare, then, is clear: Empower individuals and families with better information, foster competition, and move decisions (and their financial consequences) closer to the patient. That would be better than escalating the decades-long war on our doctors.
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El Capitan is a 34-year old man whose wife left him when her number won the six-digit, "regular" lotto… only that he spent her P10 for the Swertres number 475 instead. He was elated to learn that he won P4,500, but his wife's 04-19-22-25-28-44 came out.
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Benefit fashion show to aid Syrian refugees
Dirty walls of sparse rooms are scarred with peeling, multi-colored paint, and in one residence, a small rusting sink connected to an indoor water line forms a tiny corner kitchen.
These are the living quarters of Syrian refugees who fled the large camps, whose apartments in Jordan two La Sierra University students visited last Christmas. With the assistance of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency's Jordan operation, Caitlin Cuenca and Andrew Pedersen delivered winter coats collected at La Sierra and took note of the desperate need for clothes, medical care and food.
Their journey was part of a yearlong aid campaign initiated by Cuenca last fall called Project: Syria, an effort that has involved the winter coat drive and more than $2,000 raised through a February benefit concert by Christian band, The Brilliance. The campaign will culminate Sun., April 27 with an annual benefit fashion show and music concert at La Sierra University called REVO with proceeds aiding the refugees.
The event will be held at La Sierra's Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business in the Troesh Conference Center beginning at 5 p.m. General admission is $10. Fashion show first row seating is $35, and second row seating is $30. Music will be performed by Katrina and Kayla Niere opening for vocalist/pianist Sunn St. Claire.
The fashion show will consist of eight clothing lines created by La Sierra students. The designers make their fashions from scratch or re-work and re-design finished outfits. Some lines have multiple designers. Wendy Diaz and Kristine Osuna are working together on an eight-piece series they call "Whimsical Odyssey." The designs invoke a fairy tale and include elements of mermaids, a phoenix, and elves. The outfits incorporate tulle and shiny material, some jersey and cotton in dark green, black, red, blue with glitter and embellishments such as elf ears and sea shells.
The designers are using eight student models for the line, one for each outfit. As of the second week of April they were two-thirds done with their pieces and busily coming up with styles for the models' hair and makeup. "We have so many ideas," Osuna said.
"I've always been inspired by REVO," said Diaz, a biomed major and Hesperia resident with a self-described artsy side. "This year it's really inspiring to see what they're trying to do." She arrived at La Sierra with a background in outreach and creativity. She helped fund raise for her church, A Voice in the Desert, and designed costumes for Easter and Christmas plays. Diaz says she chose La Sierra because of its active role in community and international service.
Osuna has helped plan La Sierra REVO events that past two years. "Fund raising and helping others is part of my life," said the history and pre-law major. Osuna, a native Oregonian, participated in a hunger campaign for Future Farmers of America during high school that involved picking corn to feed 16,000 people.
REVO is a grassroots movement that began in Hawaii. It raises money for and awareness of social injustice and need through fashion, art and music events benefitting charitable efforts aimed at alleviating suffering. REVO's motto is "start a revolution, start with love." Revolution is defined as a fundamental change and derives from the Latin word "revolutio" which means "a turn around."
La Sierra University has held REVO fund raising fashion and music events the past four years with the first REVO held in 2010. Thus far students have designed a total 78 outfits for REVO shows that have raised $68,000 all together for orphans in Rwanda, an anti-human trafficking organization in Washington, D.C., a children's school in Cambodia, and outreach missions in Peru.
Cuenca organized Project: Syria after researching the atrocities suffered by tens of thousands of Syrians forced to flee their homes in the face of civil war. Since the outbreak of war in 2011, about 2.5 million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries with about 600,000 registered in Jordan as of February, according to the Syrian Refugees, a project of the Migration Policy Centre of the European University Institute. More than 80,000 are housed in tents in the Jordanian refugee camp Za'atri set up in 2012, the second largest refugee camp in the world.
"I wanted to start a year-long project for the campus to engage in," said Cuenca, a senior bio-health science major and religious vice president for the Student Association of La Sierra University. The project also ties in with her career goals of becoming a missionary dentist, and with her beliefs that God calls everyone to some form of service. "This year at least, the refugees happen to be mine," she said.
At the end of the school year, Cuenca will mail a check for the funds raised to aid ADRA's Jordan operation. ADRA is an international humanitarian aid organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In Jordan it is striving to help refugee families who have left the massive United Nations camps and are struggling to pay rent, buy food, clothes and medicine on roughly $35 a month per individual provided through the U.N.
"A lot of families were saying they were behind on their rent and they can't pay for medicine for their kids," Pedersen said.
"We offer Syrian as well as poor Jordanian locals any help and relief available," said ADRA representative Ramzi Remond. "But the greatest need is and might always stay, paying the hefty monthly rent for most Syrian families who took refuge in Jordan."
For further information about the REVO fashion show and music event visit http://startarevo.org/lasierra/ or the REVO Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/revolasierra?fret=ts.
For a related story on Project: Syria, go to http://lasierra.edu/article/universitys-student-leaders-seek-aid-for-syrian-refugees/.


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