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Being upright reveals a whole new world for your child to explore – tabletops, shelves, drawers, and other spots previously out of reach. Instead of getting down on all fours to figure out your childproofing strategy, start looking up – to some little climbers, that high-up cupboard is the equivalent of Mount Everest, and your toddler might try to reach the top just because it's there.
For more about child safety, see the complete guide to all our safety articles, expert answers, and other features, including two more safety checklists: Before Your Baby Arrives and Before Your Baby Crawls.Bathing
- Never, ever leave a child in the tub unsupervised, not even for a few seconds.
- Put nonslip mats in – and next to – bathtub.
- Prevent scalds by turning down your water heater to keep water temperature below 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
Nice to have:
- Soft cover for bathtub spout
- Covers for bathtub knobs
- If you're choosing a crib for the first time, be sure it meets the new federal safety standards.
- Get a new crib if yours has a drop side rail, which can cause accidental suffocation and strangulation.
- Don't leave toys (or anything else that could help him climb out) in crib with your child.
- Consider moving your child from his crib to a bed when he's 35 inches tall.
- Use a detachable rail to prevent falls from the new bed. You may also want to put padding on the floor.
- As an alternative to a regular bed, place his crib mattress on the floor.
Preventing burns
- Don't carry hot food or drink and your child at the same time.
- Keep hot food and drink away from edges of tables and counters.
- Don't hold your child while cooking at the stove.
- Turn pot handles toward back of the stove.
- Secure the oven door with an appliance latch.
- Install a stove guard and knob covers.
- Keep your child in a rear-facing car seat as long as possible. Don't switch to a front-facing one before he's 2 years old or before he reaches the maximum weight and height limit (set by the manufacturer) of his rear-facing car seat.
- Install the car seat properly, preferably in the middle of the back seat.
- Lock car doors and windows when driving.
- Don't dress your child in clothing that has drawstrings.
- Be sure sleepwear is flame-resistant and fits your child snugly.
- Use doorstops and door holders to protect child's fingers.
Electrical outlets, cords, and appliances
- Put safety plugs or outlet covers over unused outlets or block them with furniture.
- Hide electrical cords behind furniture or use a hide-a-cord device.
- Keep blow dryers, toasters, and other appliances unplugged and out of reach.
Preventing falls
- Never leave your child alone in his highchair or let him climb on furniture from which he can fall.
- Use window guards and safety netting on windows, decks, and landings.
- Cut looped window blind cords. Use safety tassels and cord stops.
- If railings have openings wider than 4 inches, block them with plastic garden fencing, Plexiglas, or other material.
- Use the safety belt (or bring one of your own) on shopping carts.
- Install a fireplace grill and keep it in place when a fire is burning.
- Move gas fireplace keys out of reach.
- Stow logs, matches, and fireplace tools out of reach.
- Clean chimney regularly.
Fire prevention
- Check batteries in smoke detectors monthly and replace batteries once a year.
- Check batteries in carbon monoxide detectors monthly and replace batteries once a year.
- Plan a fire escape route and review it with your child.
First aid
- Take a CPR class in your home.
- See our illustrated guide to choking and CPR.
Forbidden territory
- Keep knives, breakables, heavy pots, and other dangerous items locked up or out of reach.
- Restrict access to unsafe areas with safety gates, door locks, and knob covers.
- Put locks or latches on accessible cabinets and drawers that contain unsafe items.
- Keep trash cans in inaccessible cupboards or use cans with child-resistant covers.
- Cover or block access to radiators and floor heaters.
- Secure refrigerator with appliance latch.
- Keep electronic equipment like DVRs, DVD players, and stereos out of reach or locked up. Store remotes where prying fingers can't get to batteries (which might seem like enticing objects for your child to put in his mouth).
- Don't use tablecloths or placemats because your child can pull them – and what's on top of them – down
- Keep one cupboard unlocked and filled with lightweight, child-safe items to distract him from the cupboards you don't want him to get into.
- Remove clutter and move protruding furniture that your child could trip on.
- Attach corner and edge guards to furniture that will become a hazard as child walks, climbs, and grows taller.
- Secure furniture that can topple (bookcases, chests of drawers) to the walls.
- Keep televisions on low, sturdy furniture, and push the set back as far as possible. Or mount your flat screen TV on the wall.
- Secure tall, unstable lamps behind furniture.
- Store guns – unloaded– in a locked and inaccessible spot.
- Store the ammunition in a separate place that's locked and inaccessible. Hide the keys to the locked storage boxes.
- Use additional gun safety devices such as trigger locks.
- Teach your child that guns aren't toys. It's never too early to learn about the dangers of guns.
- Find a playground that's age-appropriate for your child. Look for one with a play area for younger children that's separate from the play area for older kids.
- Make sure the surface under the playground equipment is rubber, wood chips, mulch, sand, or pea gravel – not asphalt, concrete, or grass.
- Check for well-maintained play equipment that doesn't show signs of wear or rust. Make sure safety netting isn't frayed or torn, bolts and screws are tightly fastened, and "S" hooks are closed.
- Survey your house and move cleaning agents, medicines, vitamins, toiletries, mothballs, and other potentially toxic items out of reach or lock them up.
- Remember that your purse or a visitor's purse may hold medicines, toiletries, and other toxic substances. Move handbags out of reach.
- Get rid of toxic houseplants, such as philodendron, or move them out of reach.
- Post the number for the Poison Help hotline (800/222-1222) near phones at home. Program the number into your mobile phone.
- Keep child out of the sun as much as possible during peak sun hours of 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- When your child is outside, protect his skin with hats, sunglasses with 99 percent UV protection, clothes that have a tight weave and long sleeves, and a broad spectrum sunscreen of at least SPF 15. (Look for a brand that's rated four stars for the highest UVA protection.)
- Install a toilet-seat lock (top-heavy young toddlers can fall in and drown).
The safest toys:
- Are securely put together and in good condition
- Have no buttons, eyes, beads, ribbons, or other pieces a child could pull off and choke on
- Are not too heavy (If a toy would harm child if it fell on him, it's too heavy.)
- Don't have sharp edges or points
- Have no strings or cords longer than 12 inches
- Are appropriate for toddler's age and physical skills
- Can't be hung around your toddler's neck
- Teach your child to be careful around cars and to hold a grown-up's hand in the street or parking lots.
- Don't leave your child unattended – even for a moment – around a pool or another body of water.
- Put fencing around your pool that's at least 4 feet high and has a self-closing, self-latching gate.
- Empty wading pool and store upright after each use.
- Don't leave even small amounts of water, cleaning solutions, or other liquids in buckets or other containers.
- Buy cordless window coverings if you can.
- Cut off or tie up dangling cords on drapes and blinds or buy a tension device to keep looped cords tight.
- Mark sliding doors and other expanses of glass with colorful stickers.
- Install window guards to prevent falls (though be sure they're easy for an adult to remove in case there's a fire).
- Install window stops so windows can't be opened more than 4 inches.
- Don't depend on screens to prevent falls.
- Move furniture away from windows.


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The Daily Recap is a collection of news and notes from around the web that will be posted at the end of each day. Bout signings, injury news and much more can all be found here.
Jason "Mayhem" Miller will apparently be getting another chance in the UFC after all. Miller has revealed that he will face C.B. Dollaway at UFC 146, which is tentatively scheduled for May 26 in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Mayhem" returned to the UFC this past December, falling to fellow "TUF 14" coach Michael Bisping via third-round TKO. Dollaway has his last two bouts, stoppages at the hands of Jared Hamman and Mark Munoz respectively. [MMA Weekly]
DEEP lightweight champ Mizuto Hirota made a successful title defense against Seichi Ikemoto in the featured attraction of DEEP's "57 Impact" event in Tokyo, Japan on Saturday, winning a three-round unanimous decision. Other notable results from the card saw Kazunori Yokota defeat Hideki Kadowaki by decision, Yoshiro Media submit Takafumi Otsuka in the second round, Daisuke Nakamura hand Akihiro Gono his fifth loss in eight fights and Amanda Lucas announce her cut down to 145 lbs following her submission of Yumiko Hotta. [Sherdog]
Continue reading "The Daily Recap: Mayhem-Dollaway at UFC 146, DEEP 57 Results & More"
News and Notes
- According to his management team, it seems that Fedor is going to sign with a promotion very soon:
That situation isn't likely to remain so for much longer though, as speculation has swirled around Fedor's contract status, or lack thereof, as of late. The hot rumor over the past few days has been that he has inked a deal with the UFC.
Not so says Reed Wallace, President of White Chocolate Management, who represents Fedor Emelianenko in the United States.
"Fedor has not signed anything [as of Tuesday afternoon]," Wallace informed MMAWeekly. "He's going to do something soon. They can't negotiate forever."
So Wallace and company are getting fed up with waiting, just like the rest of the MMA world. It's nothing surprising, but Apy Echteld sayng that contract talks with the UFC are going well certainly is:
Fedor's managers, Vadim Finkelstein and Apy Echteld, met with the UFC late last week, but a signed contract has yet to materialize. "UFC discussions went very well according to Apy," said Wallace in reference to the meeting. Initially it seemed the UFC was unwilling to make any modifications to their contract, but it now appears there has been some movement.
"I can say that they are very close to a deal, but some last minute players have stepped up as well," he said.
One of those players as we all now know is Mark Cuban. The other is assumed to be K-1 Hero's.
- Sherdog is reporting that Rumina Sato will take on Hideki Kadowaki at Shooto's Back to our Roots show on September 22nd:
Shooto charisma Rumina Sato (Pictures) will fight Wajyutsu Keisyukai grappling ace Hideki Kadowaki (Pictures) on the Sept. 22 installment of the "Back to Our Roots" series, a source confirmed to Sherdog.com.
Leading Shooto promoter Sustain is expected to officially announce the Sato-Kadowaki bout later this week. The match-up will be the ninth, and likely final bout added to Sept. 22's fight card.
- MMA Weekly has released their latest set of rankings...
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But that's not my only reason. Not by a long shot. You see, in recent months, I've gone through a handful of changes and, while no single transpiration seems particularly significant, cumulatively they've impacted my life in a wholly transformational way. (That I can use the word "transpiration" correctly is, believe me, just the tip of the iceberg.)
Of course, I'm well aware that such a sweeping explanation won't satisfy the curiosity of this column's devotees. So, in order to fulfill my final responsibility to you, the reader, allow me to recount for you exactly why this will be my final recounting.
Jesus has entered my life. It went down like this: I'm at RadioShack biting on AAA batteries for cheap thrills when Somebody suddenly appears at my elbow. All hushed and earnestlike, the Somebody introduces Himself as Jesus Christ and, when He sees my skepticism (a rotating finger at my temple accompanied by "cuckoo" sounds), produces his driver's license. And there it is in black-and-white: Jesus Christ. (Interestingly, His middle initial is "I," not "H." Also, His blood type was designated "wine" and he looked way shorter than the 5-10 he'd told the state.) I've seen and used my share of fake IDs and this, I'm sure, is the real deal, so I say, "Glad to know you." Which apparently is all He needs to hear, because He immediately starts working me, turning on the divine charisma, which He has in spades, I can tell you.
I mean, by the time we leave RadioShack, He's intimating how he's counting on me to set up His One True Religion -- The Holy Temple of If You Prayed Here You'd Be Kneeling By Now -- and do I say, "Me? What, is Your arm broken, Mr. Son of God?" No. My totally heathen ass goes totally along (though I do tell Him if He plays Christian Rock around the office, the deal's off). How's all this impact the column? Well, since the first steps in establishing any religion are getting tax-exempt status and fundraising, these days, by the time I'm done filling out IRS forms plus crafting fervent direct mail solicitations, I'm plain "written out."
I hit the lottery. Meaning I no longer need the income from this column to sustain my lifestyle. On the other hand, don't think my $50 bonanza is going to change me as a person; I'm far too level-headed for that.
I finished my PhD. After far too long, I'm finally out of school. (Field of study: Behavioral Science. Dissertation: The Reflexive and Immutable Human Impulse to Circumvent Pre- and Post-Pubescent Dermal Lesions, Macules and Inflammatory Pigmentation or "Get Lost, Pizza Face."). Naturally, since I'm now officially, quantifiably and certifiably more educated, nay, smarter than the overwhelming majority of you, the ignorant public, I'll now eschew writing in favor of long periods in my ivory tower silently disdaining your feeble efforts to bring order and happiness to your pathetic lives. I know you'll wish me luck in that pursuit.
My family obligations have grown. In November, Mom moved from her home in the distant suburbs to a retirement community nearer to me, forcing a fundamental adjustment in our relationship. Now, instead of the boilerplate excuse of, "I don't have the time to drive all the way over to see you this week," I have to concoct a new, yet plausible excuse every time she calls. This has severely drained my creative reservoir, the same reservoir I tap to produce this weekly quagmire of twaddle and lies.
I've begun training for the Olympics. OK, OK, for the record, not the Olympic Olympics, the Special Olympics. (I forced my way in by threatening a long legal battle that put a "reverse discrimination" spin on the Casey Martin/PGA case.) But now that I'm in, I've committed to an ambitious training program in order ensure my athletic dominance. No way do I want to just barely beat out some mentally retarded girl from San Diego in the 100 meters or squeak by a learning-disabled French guy in the high jump. Unh-unh. I want to soundly and roundly kick some differently-abled ass.
All that being said, if these changes undergo any changes, it's possible I could change my mind -- that is, change course yet again -- and, barring any change of heart by the editor, return to this space a changed man.
Actually, no. Forget it. I'll spare both our heads the aches. ©
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Mixing it up: Frenchie Aravane Rezai caused a mild upset at yesterday's Australian Open, taking out countrywoman and No. 13 seed Tatiana Golovin 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 in the second round. The rising 20 year-old's next opponent will be Taiwan's Su-Wei Hsieh.
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Chad Greenway of Minnesota Vikings wants Metrodome fans 'super-duper drunk' - ESPN Chicago
""We have to play accordingly and our fans have to show up accordingly, which we know they will. Hopefully, they're super-duper drunk. ... So drink liquor, not beer," he said after Minnesota's loss to Green Bay last Sunday, according to the Star Tribune."
He's since (obviously) backed off of that statement, but el-oh-el.
*Edit: And, of course, after bringing up JP's spelling of the pep rally location, I write Viking's instead of Vikings'. Let the appropriate level of pointing and laughing begin.
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Isn't that the solution of an Iowa Hawkeye?
Is he implying there's another way to get through watching a Vikings games?
Eyes closed, head first, can't lose.
The Bears will feel right at home if there is a stadium full of super drunk people. . .
They say country music speaks to the heart. Unfortunately, it has to go through your ears to get there.
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Hi everyone, I've asked about feeding issues before, but basically I'm trying to decide what to do in regards to feeding therapy and would really appreciate hearing the advice of others as to whether or not it really helps.
Ds is almost 2 years old and while he's been gaining and growing well (went from <1st adjusted height and weight to now about 50th+ height and 20th weight actual), it's only due to a LOT of effort and distractions while eating on our part (i.e. youtube videos during each meal, which takes an hour). He shows very little interest in food on his own other than a bite here or there or crackers. But again, he will eat with youtube and us feeding him, so purees and yogurt and sometimes a few real foods (bananas, grapes, nuts, cheese, chicken finger, seeds, apple, granola, etc...). He won't use the spoon on his own, though he plays with it when he ironically pretends to eat, so we know he can.
Anyhow, we've been in feeding therapy for a year with a great therapist (speech pathologist). We've also tried a few others along the way with no progress (OT, ABA, GI, nutritionist, EI). Even with the great therapist, we're really starting to question what we're all getting out of it. He improves over time v-e-r-y slowly, but I am not sure I can attribute it to the therapy. And then to top it off, a few months back our feeding therapist tried an "intensive" where we met daily for a week to push him a bit further, and this actually set him back. He resisted food and drink he would eat, then got constipated, and then stopped eating and dropped 1/2 lb that one week. We stopped therapy for a while and he eventually bounced back weight and eating wise to where he was (where we are now). I just feel so conflicted as to whether we should continue therapy at all, especially given the high out-of-pocket cost (I pay up front each month and then get reimbursed for 60% later).
Did feeding therapy truly help you, or does it just take time and slowly ease up and get better a little on its own??


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Arjowiggins is to close its Stowford Mill in Devon in the first quarter of 2014.
The paper manufacturer is consulting with Stowford Mill's 103 workers, some of whom will be offered a transfer to Stoneywood Mill near Aberdeen, over 600 miles from the south Devon paper plant.
A spokesman for the mill, which produces security and creative papers, said that job search assistance would be provided to help staff gain new employment.
Parent company Sequana also announced that by the end of 2012 it would shut Arjowiggins' Dalum graphic paper mill in Odense, Denmark and the Argentinian Witcel plant, which produces creative papers.
A total of around 430 of Arjowiggins' 5,200 employees will be affected by the closures.
The combined closures will reduce Arjowiggins paper output by 126,000 tonnes, the equivalent of 10% of the paper manufacturer's overall production.
Sequana said in a statement: "Given the structural decline and overcapacity in the market, and following the shutting down of a machine at the Chartham plant in the UK in August 2012, Arjowiggins has decided to continue to adjust its capacity in line with demand."
The global paper group is to book a restructuring cost of €25m in the third quarter of 2012 although it expects to create a full-year net cost saving of €17m from the closures, the bulk of which it anticipates will be generated from the beginning of 2013.
Sequana's distribution business, Antalis, has also finalised its acquisitions of packaging companies Branopac in the Czech Republic and Abitek in Chile. Both businesses were bought for a combined cost of €17m, which Sequana expects will contribute an additional €15m in full-year sales.
Antalis McNaughton also bought Ambassador Packaging in Winsford, Cheshire for £9m and German company Pack 2000 at the beginning of the year.
The acquisitions expand Antalis McNaughton's geographical market capture in emerging economies within the packaging industry, which Sequana claims is growing by 5% annually.
In an earlier version of this story, we reported that the Stowford Mill was part of ArjoWiggins Graphic, whereas the mill actually reported to the parent company ArjoWiggins. Apologies for any confusion caused.


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Jimmy D. Cole, 43
Published: Monday, August 17, 2009 at 4:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 11:52 p.m.
Jimmy Dean Cole, 43, of the David Hills community in Hendersonville passed away Saturday, Aug. 15, 2009, at the Elizabeth House.
Born in Homestead, Fla., he was a son of Harold Dean Cole and Dicie Hyder Cole of Hendersonville.
Having lived in Henderson County for over 30 years, he was an East Henderson High School graduate and had worked for the Henderson County Sheriffs Department for over 15 years.
In addition to his parents, he is survived by his wife, Meg Foley of Brevard; a brother, Chris Cole, and his wife, Holly, of Tuxedo; a sister, Kim Cole Roberts of Hendersonville; grandmothers, Mary Ellen Cole and Ruth Hyder Jones; two uncles, Joe Ogden Cole Bud of Hendersonville and Jimmy Beddingfield of Dana; an aunt, Linda Beddingfield of Dana; two nephews, Clay and Tyler Cole; one niece, Sarah Roberts, and many close friends.
A funeral will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in the Chapel of Forest Lawn Mortuary. The Rev. Sherrill Moore will officiate. Burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park will follow the service. The family will receive friends from 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials can be sent to Four Seasons Compassion for Life, 571 S. Allen Road, Flat Rock, NC 28731.
Guests may sign a register book at www.forestlawnhendersonville.com.
Forest Lawn Mortuary is assisting the family with the arrangements.
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Lots of articles on dvcs systems claim superior branching and merging support as one reason to move from svn to dvcs systems. How exactly do these systems do branching and merging differently that makes it better?
Historically, the difference between merge-tracking in git and svn was this: git has merge-tracking, and until version 1.5, svn didn't. At all. If you wanted to make a merge you had to always specify exactly what changes were to be merged, and if you merged one branch into another more than once, you would have to manually keep track of which revisions had and hadn't been merged, and manually select only the changes that hadn't been merged yet, to avoid conflicts. Good luck with that if you ever cherry-picked any changes.
Beginning with version 1.5 (released in 2008), if your client, server, and repository are all up-to-date, then svn is capable of acting a lot more intelligently; it uses properties to keep track of where a branch came from and what changes have already been merged into it. The upshot is that in many cases you can just
The difference is not, contrary to popular perception, due to the distributed nature of DVCS's, vs Subversion's centralised model. There is nothing inherent in a centralised model that entails that branching and merging will be substandard.
My take is that Subversion made a massive design gaffe by deciding to model code-base directory structure, branching and tagging (and all manner of other code management patterns) in a single, unified directory tree, which made the problem of reliably detecting branching activity one hundred times more difficult than it would have been if branching were explicit in the model.
Don't forget the human components of any version control system. Earlier today I created and deleted 3 different local git branches, because that was the least disruptive way to accomplish cleaning up a problem on the main branch. Try that on centralized version control and you are likely to get a lecture from the server admin or a storm of angry emails, if you even have privileges to do it at all. The very fact that you can have branches in a private repo removes many cultural barriers to using branches effectively. The algorithms used by centralized systems are catching up to DVCS. Those human factors will remain.
From Joel's hginit:
Branching or tagging in SVN is merely copying a particular directory and its subdirs to another location within the same repository. In git, branches (and tags) are instead described as metadata (much like CVS), except that it does not throw all this data in a single file, but many (allowing for much faster updates since you don't have to rewrite a huge "foo.c,v" for example). Furthermore, git makes heavy use of pointers. (http://eagain.net/articles/git-for-computer-scientists/ ) so there is in fact, few to update in the first place when something changes (e.g. a commit is made).
The difference lies in the repository format used by most DVCS's - the Directed Acylic Graph.
SVN Will just store your history in a series of lines, each branch its own line. But a DVCS will store it in a DAG that contains much better information for merging.


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A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Tuesday (Oct. 8) found that of the $1.5 billion in farm subsidies doled out in 2012 to people who were supposedly "actively engaged" in farming, nearly half went to individuals who wouldn't know how to steer a tractor or run a combine.
Even if the government miraculously opens for business tomorrow, several critically important USDA conservation and nutrition programs will be shuttered.
Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) is no longer the only member of Congress who's publicly quoting the Bible to justify his votes to cut food stamps for the poor while increasing farm subsidies for the rich. Now Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) is joining in the hypocrisy.
If you live in one of America's 100 hungriest counties, there is a one-in-three chance that you rely on food stamps. There is also a pretty good chance that your member of Congress just voted to kick you off food stamps.
The federal requirement to blend nearly 14 billion gallons of corn ethanol into gasoline – more than the system can physically absorb – is slowing the nation's transition to low carbon fuels, harming the environment and hurting California's farmers and livestock producers.
The House of Representatives will debate this week whether to cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) by $40 billion over the next 10 years – and eliminate food assistance for roughly 6 million hungry Americans.
Studies show that labeling genetically engineered foods won't result in big changes in consumers' buying choices at the store, but they say overwhelmingly that they want the information.
Did you know that many counties with the highest rates of food stamp users are also home to recipients of huge farm subsidies?
A report released today (Aug. 27) by the Natural Resources Defense Council supplies the latest evidence that the federal crop insurance program desperately needs fundamental reform.
The harm done to consumers and the environment by the federal biofuels mandate is destined to grow worse as a result of the recent decision to once again increase the amount of corn ethanol that must be added to the nation's gasoline supply.
With interactive maps from EWG's new report Going Going Gone!, you can find the "hot spots" where wetlands and other fragile lands are being torn up for crops and wildlife habitat is being destroyed.
It's just common sense: If you're not sick, your doctor doesn't prescribe you medicine. Why should the animals we eat be treated any differently?
At some point Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.) might just want to stop talking about the farm bill and his support for ending the direct payment program (which doesn't actually end for cotton farmers like him) and how much he supports "reform."
It's time to face facts: the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) created by Congress in 2005 and expanded in 2007 is producing too many "bad biofuels" that increase greenhouse gas emissions, drive up food and gasoline prices and pollute our air and water – and not nearly enough "good biofuels."
Under the best-case scenarios, crop insurance alone is expected to cost taxpayers $9 billion over the next 10 years. So who are the 48 Republicans who voted for this lavish taxpayer funded giveaway?
Farm income has never been higher. The federal deficit has never been deeper. So why are House Republicans celebrating passage of a "farm-only" farm bill that includes the most generous farm subsidies in history?
The House should overwhelmingly reject the terrible "farm-only" farm bill being considered this morning.
Raising animals in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) is bad for public health and the environment.
House leaders got a lot of grief for the failure of the farm bill. And, now they are getting a lot of grief for proposing to divide the bill into two bills.


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Thirty-three bottles: one for each rescued miner.
No doubt: The story of the rescued Chilean miners is heartwarming! Amazing, even. But we're not so sure we can say the same about Chilean Winers. A "creative agency" in London has put together a set of 33 bottles of Chilean wine (each one named for a different rescued miner) and distributed them to clients and "industry figures." In a press release, the company says they did it to celebrate the story of the year. Well, okay. We'll grant them that it's slightly more noble than Ron Jeremy rum. [Chilean Winers via Liquor Snob]


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Announcement: WhiskyBrother Store!
Dear Whisky-Friends, near and far,
You may have heard me make mention of an impending big announcement. Life has run its usual delayed course, but the undertaking in question is finally in an advanced enough state that I am comfortable sharing the news that has excited me (and given me sleepless nights) for the last several months.
I am genuinely excited to reveal that WhiskyBrother is expanding beyond just a humble blog. Within mere weeks, I will proudly (and with a healthy dose of consternation) open the doors to a WhiskyBrother specialty whisky store here in Johannesburg.
The store will be the first of its kind in Johannesbug; specialising only in whisky and related paraphernalia (glassware, books, magazines, etc.). Within a few weeks of opening, I plan on having the largest selection of whisk(e)y held in a brick-and-mortar store in the country (and indeed the continent). I hope for the store to become a focal point of the Johannesburg whisk(e)y community; a place catering for all those interested in whisk(e)y, no matter their knowledge or experience. A place to learn, taste and experience all things whisk(e)y.
A store of this kind is conspicuously absent from the local Johannesburg whisky community and, as a passionate whisky drinker myself, I have dreamt of opening such a store for the last several years. Fortunately, after raising the necessary capital earlier this year, I actively began working on the concept and navigation of the necessary bureaucratic red-tape. In July I made the final commitment of resigning from my employer and have since been dedicated to getting the project up and running.
The store will be located in the Hyde Park Corner mall and is currently under construction. Although there are still several dependencies, the expected opening date is Monday the 26th of November.
I have many, many exciting ideas and plans, but my main focus of attention for now is getting the store open. After that you can expect new developments on a monthly basis, from tastings to clubs and exclusive whiskies.
As a fellow whisky enthusiast and blog reader, I wanted to inform you about the store in my own words before the professionals take the lead. (Although his blog will always be in my own words!) Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like to know more. This is a labour of love, and I am only too happy to share my ideas and involve all those who are interested. I will also use the blog to post updates and images as the construction and fittings progress.
I look forward to seeing you in the WhiskyBrother store!
Your brother in whisky,
The below images are renderings of the store. Although some changes have been made, these representations are 90% accurate and give a very good indication of what the final creation will look like:
Posted on October 31, 2012, in SA Whisky News and tagged WB Exclusive. Bookmark the permalink. 28 Comments.
Marc, so glad to hear this awesome news go public. Best of luck and I will be sure to buy a bottle or 5 when budget allows to help you along. I can't wait to come and see the final product and you may even just open the day before my birthday😉
This is fantastic news I truly hope you have great success and wish you all the best.
Such brilliant news Marc! Looking forward to spending some quality time there!!
Wow Marc looks awesome, well done for making your dream come true! Hopefully we can come visit in Dec!
Store really looks something special Marc, wish I could pop in & support your most worthy venture. See you next February. Lex
So so excited for you Marc! You've had the guts & courage to realize your dream and one I too shared ten years ago but it was to include flowers (scents and aromas of a different kind) ;-0. Wishing you loads and loads of success that you deserve.
Wow! Congrat, pictures looking awesome. Wish you all the luck with your shop. A visit isn't going to be easy, long travel from the Netherlands but you never know.
This must be the best news since the announcement of sliced bread!!! And it not even so far away from me… C'mon 26 November, C'mon!
I'm so excited Marc! Now I'll have a serious Whisky Place to call home in Johannesburg. I'm so looking forward to my next visit to South Africa (sometime next year hopefully).
Does this mean you're giving up your whisky room at home?😉
Congrats Marc! This is very exciting news. I'll definitely be swinging by a lot!
We are based in Pretoria and was wondering if you plan to offer on-line orders and deliveries of orders?
Marc, that looks awesome! Well done!! I will definitely pop in next time I'm in JHB for a proper tasting with you! Hope the opening goes well, Morgs
A decent whisky store closer to me than London. Brilliant. Hope you have a good stock of interesting Islays.
Good luck Marc – it looks great.
Congrats Marc!!
I look forward to picking up some rare breeds in your store and many fine tasting sessions, just don't kick me out if I add sprite😛
Congratulations!!! And what a beautiful store! This is exactly what Joburg needs. I can't wait to see the store and start shopping!😀
I too am exited as hell. And to echo the sentiments of my rotund friend above, a whisky store stocking decent Islays is going to be a very welcome addition to South Africa, never mind Johannesburg…!!!
Sincere congratulations, Marc. Hoping to visit in person soon!
Awesome news Marc, congrats and best of luck!! Judging by the number of comments posted already you're going to be kept busy when you open.
Congratulations and best wishes for your success. It looks like a promising place for all whisky enthusiasts to gather. Much luck
All the best, a great decision
Fantastic Marc, that looks really interesting. I hate to say this, but I a a whisky philistine, but my wife is the single malt lover. However, she is also budget conscious, so I battle to sneak bottles into the house. Interestingly we found a very nice SA single malt, Bain, that she likes but we are always looking for new and interesting malts. We will definitely pay you a visit when you open. The only issue is going to be the resposne from the Whisky SISTER!
Very excited for you, Marc! The renderings are looking amazing – can't wait to see the finished product. Best, Elizabeth


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Bachelor 2014 Spoilers: How Far Does Sharleen Joynt Make It?
Look, no offense to Juan Pablo Galavis's remaining handful of girls, but we're obsessed with Sharleen Joynt. Yes, seriously, sir. And we're not the only ones. After JPG gave her the First Impression Rose in the Season 18 Premiere, it's been the up and up for JuanSharlo. The girl got a 1-on-1 on Episode 4, has breathed easy through every Rose Ceremony, and even got the group date rose on Episode 6.
Her big deliberation over accepting that first rose was definitely a moment for the annals of Bachelor history, and we can't help but think about whether she and JPG might someday look back on that and chuckle. Nervously. Especially considering that in New Zealand, she ended the ep with a little ITM confessing that she might want to GTFO sooner than later, threatening to peace out if things don't get better when they travel to Miami.
And we'll have to just keep imagining her future with JPG, since — according to Reality Steve — Shar won't be there in the end. But it's not like all of a sudden, Juan Pablo decides she's too elegant and self-possessed to fit into his crazy lifestyle.
Sharleen makes it through all the Rose Ceremonies she walks into — and we can't wait to see her dresses every week. Honestly, though, after Season 18 Episode 3, when we had to watch her horrifying makeout with Juan Pablo on the soccer field, we started wondering if we could make it through all the weeks.
If you hate watching them kiss, we have good news for you. In Week 7, the girls head to Juan Pablo's Miami hometown, where Sharleen goes yachting with the handsome Bachelor. But while it goes just swimmingly, she finally decides once and for all that she's gotta bounce. "Once JP was back from his date with Nikki, Sharleen showed up to his hotel room and tells JP she's not feeling strongly about him so she eliminates herself," spoiler king Steve wrote back in his November episode-by-episode spoilers.
This info would be shocking if we were talking about any other girl, but it was clear from the first moment we met Sharleen that she didn't walk into this show with a suitcase full of giggles and whimsy. She has said from the start that their connection feels "forced," so it sounds like she gave it a chance, decided it wasn't for her, and left before things went too far.
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Well, color me shocked as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) decides to actually do their job by initiating a nationwide sting of synthetic drug manufacturers, which resulted in the arrests of more than 200 people that were involved.
The DEA served a total of 375 search warrants, 150 arrest warrants, seized bank accounts throughout 35 states and clutched approximately 2,000 pounds of the chemicals that are used to manufacture potentially fatal synthetic drugs such as bath salts and the ever popular synthetic cannabinoid compound that is sold as imitation marijuana.
The United Nations drug control agency cautions that the proliferation of designer drugs is getting out of hand. They are claiming that new variations of the compounds are being developed quicker than governmental officials can outlaw them.
These are the types of assignments that the DEA needs to be tackling, not performing "smash and grabs" on medical marijuana dispensaries in order to restock Obama's stash box. Maybe the DEA is starting to feel a little better about not being invited to the "bigger fish to fry" picnic and feels it's time to get some real work accomplished. I doubt they stop the storm-trooper tactics, but at least they are doing something worthwhile for once!


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UPDATE: The Last 3 games of the year have been sold.
If you want a C3 parking pass to the UNI, Iowa or Texas game, PM me your offer.
Still have the C3 parking pass for the Texas game. PM me if you want it.
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Over the past two days everyone has been talking about the Interstate freeway bridge collapse in my hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota. While the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will be investigating this disaster and it's expected that we won't see the investigation concluded for at least a year, it's interesting to speculate already on what factors contributed to the bridge's collapse. In a number of reports over the past decade, including a March 2001 study for the Minnesota Department of Transportation conducted by the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota, questions have been raised about the structural integrity of the bridge. In light of these reports, what we can expect to see in the coming days is any number of claims that the bridge obviously should have been rebuilt. But any experienced civil engineer knows that's not the way things work, as eloquently described in this editorial in the NYT by Samuel Schwartz, who was the NYC Department of Transportation's chief engineer from 1986 to 1990. In an era of tightened budgets and lack of political will for dealing with the prosaic elements of day to day life in modern technological cultures, infrastructure projects rarely get funded except in the face of a crisis like this. And so engineers have to look for other approaches.
In the end metal fatigue, which has been implicated in the reports and even in the most casual conversations with engineers I know who are familiar with fracture mechanics, is surely going to be one of the key factors. One of the fundamental strategies for managing fatigue is to inspect rather than repair — good engineering practice involves designing the product so that the so-called critical crack length is a size that can be readily seen by the naked eye. In fact, this is a core feature of any aircraft design since the days of the de Haviland Comet, which was one of the keystone design debacles that contributed to the field of fracture mechanics and was the driver that made this design strategy universal in the aerospace industry. What aerospace engineers do is very carefully identify the points where the key crack formation is critical to the integrity of the overall structure. They also design in many mechanisms for arresting crack propagation. (This in fact is why there are so many rivets in airplanes and why the process of making a rivet is so very carefully managed and circumscribed — as much as possible, each of those little circular holes is a crack arrestor.) In the case of the I-35W bridge and the myriad other bridges that have been classified as "structurally deficient" by the Bureau of Transportation (see stats), the strategy has been to secure budgets for routine inspection (as was the case with the I-35W bridge) rather than to ask for funds for the kind of massive infrastructure redevelopment that needs to be done. Unfortunately, the I35-W bridge is an early form of a platform on truss design, which the University of Minnesota clearly asserts has only one level of redundancy – the absence of which means that a crack anywhere has the potential to be catastrophic for the entire structure. The problem, however, is that visual inspection of every square inch of a structure of this size is simply impractical. Any engineer watching the video of the bridge collapse that has been made available would find it hard to believe that a critical crack propagation is not core to the failure mode of this bridge. (I happened to be at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology when the video was released yesterday morning and the materials science researchers I was with all found it hard to believe that a structure of that size would fall so quickly for anything less than a fatigue failure.) What do you think? Watch the video and comment below. Of course, as we have learned in virtually every major failure of a large-scale engineering structure (the Challenger Space Shuttle, the New Orleans levees), the technical basis for the failure is frequently only the primary (albeit catastrophic) symptom of the actual reasons for the failure of the system in question. (See Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents, whose title forms the basis for this entry's lede.) We will undoubtedly find that there are economic, institutional and political factors that led to this technical vulnerability in the bridge and the ultimate resolution to this problem is going to depend on far more careful strategies than simply saying "make it a bit thicker here."


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Religion: Politics plays a role in Oklahoma's top religion headlines for 2012
It's always interesting to consider which news stories will make it to the top of the list of the most significant religious happenings of the year.
Every year, we run a year-in-review story listing the notable religion news events around the nation. My personal top two 2012 religion stories were: faith-based groups' religious liberty battle against the federal government's contraception mandate; and Mitt Romney's presidential candidacy draws increased attention to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I also have my picks for the Oklahoma-related religion stories in 2012. I've never made this type of list for fear that I would leave something out, and I may have. These are just a few of the stories I thought were significant in the state's religious realm.
They are, in random order:
David Green, founder of Oklahoma City-based retail chain Hobby Lobby, announced plans to fight a federal health care mandate that requires employee health care plans to provide insurance coverage for types of contraception that the firm's owners consider to be "abortion-causing." Green said the mandate conflicts with his religious values that include opposition to abortion.
Oklahoma faith groups, most notably the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, citing a violation of their religious liberty, expressed their opposition against the federal Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to provide insurance coverage for employees that includes contraceptives they believe can cause abortions. Lay Roman Catholics, in conjunction with Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, held a religious liberty rally in June in downtown Oklahoma City. Messengers attending the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma's annual meeting in November approved a resolution asking President Barack Obama to withdraw the mandate. Leaders at several private Christian colleges and universities across the state, including Southern Nazarene University and Oklahoma Christian University, also expressed resistance to the mandate.
Hobby Lobby Inc. donated $2 million to the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma to purchase the Newburn Conference Center, a youth camp near Davis, from the Oklahoma Assemblies of God.
Baptist leaders, announcing the gift in September, said they plan to relocate the CrossTimbers Children's Mission Camp from McAlester to the Newburn location.
Vandals shot paintballs at the doors of the Grand Mosque of Oklahoma City in August. A mosque leader said the mosque's Muslim congregation received numerous letters and expressions of support from people of other faiths after the vandalism incident.
Gov. Mary Fallin lighted a menorah for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Dec. 7 at the state Capitol. She is believed to be the first Oklahoma governor to do so. Fallin also accepted a commemorative menorah on behalf of Oklahoma from the Chabad Jewish Center of Oklahoma City, which co-sponsored the Hanukkah event.
The Baptist Messenger, the official newspaper of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, marked its 100th anniversary.
Christian leaders from all walks of life gathered in September in downtown Oklahoma City for the Salt and Light Leaders Training or SALLTed Conference. The gathering included some of the most influential people in the state, including Gov. Fallin, Hobby Lobby founder David Green and SandRidge Energy CEO and Chairman Tom Ward. Oklahoma Commission for Human Services Chairman Wes Lane served as host.
The popular Villa Teresa School, run by the Carmelite Sisters of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus, held its final graduation ceremony in May. Leaders of the private school closed its doors after 79 years, citing the high cost of major building renovation needs, rising costs of health insurance and salaries and an aging population of nuns who work outside the order and help support the school.
A Ten Commandments monument was installed in November on the north side of the state Capitol grounds. The monument was the result of 2009 legislation authored by Rep. Mike Ritze, R-Broken Arrow, authorizing the monument on the Capitol grounds. Ritze's family paid for the monument. Spelling mistakes were corrected later.
Several individuals in the faith and religious arena announced their retirement or took a new position in the community.
The Rev. Thomas R. Jewell, regional pastor of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Oklahoma, said he plans to retire Dec. 31. Jewell began his 20th year of regional church ministry Aug. 1.
The Rev. Justin Lindstrom was appointed the new dean of St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral in downtown Oklahoma City, one of more prestigious churches in Oklahoma that became a haven for rescue workers in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Lindstrom shared his first homilies as St. Paul's dean in the fall.
The Rev. Blake Gideon became the new senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Edmond, a prominent metro-area church, in October. Gideon, the church's fourth senior pastor, took the post vacated by the late Rev. R. Alan Day, who was killed in a February 2011 motorcycle accident.


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WEST LIBERTY - Fourth-ranked NCAA Division II men's basketball power West Liberty got off to a slow start shooting the basketball Monday night, but the Hilltoppers' relentless pressure eventually wore down road-weary Bluefield State 111-72 at the ASRC.
Coach Jim Crutchfield's once-beaten club began the game hitting 12 of 34 shots and led 34-31 nearing the five-minute mark of the opening half until constant harassment from West Liberty's full-court defense finally took its toll.
The Hilltoppers then excited another big home crowd by outscoring the Big Blues 21-5 to carry a 55-36 lead into the locker room at halftime. From that point the game was never in doubt, as West Liberty led by as many as 40 points in the second half.
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Continuing pursuit of a fourth consecutive West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship, the Hilltoppers racked up victory No. 18 overall while improving their league mark to 12-1.
Bluefield, 0-16 at the outset of the season, came into the game with hopes of springing another upset after having knocked off two highly-regarded opponents Glenville and Shepherd in its last two starts.
''Wow, it was really ugly," Crutchfield said after his team finally took care of business. ''We had some bad turnovers and we shot the ball horribly. Yet, if you look at the scoreboard we're up 40.
''It is all about style," Crutchfield continued. ''Everybody is vulnerable to what we could call an upset. But our (aggressive) style of play limits it some."
Early in the game, Crutchfield kept running players in and out of the game to keep fresh troops on the floor, hoping to take advantage of what he thought would tired legs by the visitors.
''This was about wearing people down," Crutchfield explained. ''I've been around this league long enough to know what two long road trips and three games in five nights can do to a team."
One Hilltopper who stayed on the floor through most of the first half was Alex Falk. The 6-foot-4 senior wing led both the offensive and defensive charge by scoring 16 points, dishing off for five assists and coming up with six steals.
With the game well in hand, Falk played just a couple of minutes in the second half before taking a seat on the bench. After the lead was extended past 30 points, he was soon joined by the rest of the Hilltoppers' first five.
''The starters didn't play extended minutes ," Crutchfield happily pointed out. ''Alex played 40 minutes two nights ago at Wheeling and after he took his second charge, I thought that's good (enough) for him.
''For a half, defensively, Falk was just about as annoying as he could get for another team. He got his hands on the ball all over the place," Crutchfield added.
Falk, with his 16-point opening half, was one of five Hilltoppers scoring in double figures.Goodwin had another good night with 14 points overall, four rebounds and two assists. Hester, Brown and Cedric Harris ended with 12 points each. Hester also pulled down 10 rebounds.
Bluefield's leading scorers' were Treon Clairborne and Detterance Norwood with 18 points each. Ouedraogo, a Damien (N.Y.) transfer hails from the West African nation of Burkina Faso, formerly known as Upper Volta.
West Liberty played the second half minus starting forward Chris Morrow, who sustained a possible dislocated jaw during the game's first 20 minutes.


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A friend and I were curious as to whether you could detect levels of ionizing radiation by looking at rates of single bit errors in memory. I did a little research and I guess most errors are caught and fixed at the hardware level. Would there be any way to detect errors in software (say, in c code on a pc)?
I'm sure it depends on the architecture you're running on, but I'm pretty certain you won't be detecting any single bit errors in your memory any time soon. Most if not all RAM controllers should have implemented some form of ECC protection to safeguard against the rare bit problems RAM chips have. DDR RAM, for example, is VERY reliable compared to crap mediums like flash memory, which will be spec'd to REQUIRE X number of bits of ECC protection (somewhere between 8 and 16 or so) before they guarantee functionality. As long as you have under a certain number of bit errors, the bad bits will be corrected and probably unreported before even reaching the CPU software level.
Silent (Unreported) data corruption from something as simple as a single bit error is considered a huge "no-no" in the storage industry, so your memory manufacturer has probably done their darndest to prevent your application from seeing it, much less making you deal with it!
In any case, one common way to detect problems in any sort of memory is to run simple write compare loops over the address space. Write 0's to all your memory and read it back to detect stuck '1' data lines, write-read-compare F's to memory to detect stuck '0' data lines, and run a data ramp to help detect addressing problems. The width of the data ramp should adjust according to the address size. (i.e. 0x00, 0x01, 0x02... or 0x0000, 0x0001, 0x0002, etc). You can easily do these types of things using storage performance benchmarking tools like Iometer or similar, although it may be just as easy to write yourself.
Realistically, unless you're going to dedicate a lot of time to the problem, you might as well quit before you start. Even if you do detect an error, chances are pretty fair it's due to something like a power problem, not ionizing radiation (and you normally won't have any way to tell which you've encountered).
If you do decide to go ahead anyway, the obvious way to test is allocate some memory, write values to it, and read them back. You want to follow sufficiently predictable patterns that you can figure out the expected value is without reading from other memory (at least if you want to be able to isolate the error, and not just identify that something bad has happened).
If you really want to differentiate between ionizing radiation and other errors, it should at least be theoretically possible. Run your test on a number of computers at different altitudes simultaneously, and see if you see a higher rate at higher altitude.
If the errors are frequent enough that you have any chance of detecting them, you'd be in big trouble already - nothing would work. Or at least you'd feel like you were using Win95 all over again. I suspect you'd need a whole datacenter to have a chance of measuring this kind of error.


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An errand boy from the Bronx makes a delivery to the big city with dreams of making it on the Great White Way. He encounters the madcap eccentrics inhabiting that world in this hilarious and tuneful adaptation of the hit play based on the semiautobiographical novel by Carl Reiner.
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Writing Inspiration by Vicki JulianPosted in Author Guest Posts by STELLAA Blog
I love to write inspiration, and I do it for myself as much as for others. Thinking positively and optimistically just makes for a happier existence. So it was easy for me to adopt a Bible verse from Hebrews 10:24, "Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds," as my mission in life, and as the focus of my next book. Although that is a Christian directive to help make this world a better place, I certainly don't believe that you must be Christian to make that happen. I do, however, believe that love must be a factor of any positive change that we hope to accomplish.
It seems to me we are "wired" to love and care for our fellowman. If that were not the case, it wouldn't feel so good when we perform random acts of kindness, anonymously do something special for another person, or seize the moment to just do something good. While it's easy to let negative things affect us, because that will always dominate the media, if the majority of us were not doing the right things, this world would be intolerable. But, still, I think we can do more because love without action is meaningless, and impossible.
It doesn't take vast amounts of money, time or effort to make a positive difference for ourselves and for others. All it takes is the desire to see the opportunities we have, and those opportunities come many times each day. For instance, a smile to a stranger costs nothing. Using the name of the checkout person at the store and saying something nice, such as "you have such a lovely smile, Ashley" couldn't be easier. Letting someone with fewer items go ahead of you in line costs you only a couple of minutes. Starting a simple conversation while in a doctor's waiting room is a great way to pass the time and maybe enrich your life as well as someone else's. Returning a found item in a store takes nothing from you, but it could well delight the person who lost it.
Thinking of others with kindness is the clue, and once you do that, your ability to make this world a better place is endless. You can buy inexpensive umbrellas in the dollar store and keep them in your car to give out to those who are caught in a sudden down pour. You can pick up extra goodies at the grocery store for the local food pantry serving the needy, or share with friends and neighbors. You can donate your used magazines to free clinics. You can recycle more goods than you throw away. You can buy fast food certificates or bus passes to give to those who ask you for alms. You can write a letter of appreciation to friends and family just to let them know how much they mean to you. You can mow your neighbor's grass or throw their newspaper closer to their front door. When going to the grocery store, you can offer to pick up something for someone who is a shut-in. You can spend a little time visiting with a resident in a nursing home or someone who lives alone. You can donate your time, money, or goods to a number of great causes, including this organization. You can share a cold glass of water with those who are working outside. You can reach out to those who are different from you in race, culture, religion, disability, economic social status, or sexual orientation. Just an acknowledgment with a smile or simple conversation shows kindness as well as acceptance that we are more alike than different. You don't have to believe the same or be the same to spread good will in the world, and the best of all is that it's often contagious.
So what stops us from treating others as we wish to be treated? I think that judgment may be our biggest obstacle. We become so focused on our differences that we forget how much we are alike. Unfortunately, since we only see the world through our own eyes, our tunnel vision perceptions can sometimes drive our actions and thoughts inappropriately. That means we must be aware of the negatives that can influence us and cause us to stereotype and form prejudices. And, that can include what entertains and surrounds us.
I personally refuse to lose my sense of humor about the world, but I avoid reality shows that feature people at their worst behavior, songs that incite violence, and jokes and emails that cruelly poke fun of others who are different. I know that if we aren't aware, such negative influences can cause us to judge our fellowman unfairly and skew how we see the world in general. Some people may not want to avoid the things I do, but it's still important to make sure they aren't an influence. Instead of things that may impede our judgment, I think our first step is to come out of our comfort zones and try to dispel whatever keeps us from seeing our common humanity.
I can't think of a single instance when hate and apathy made the world better, but I know our love and kindness toward one another can. So I will continue to follow my mission, and hope that readers of this blog may choose to also, to seize our daily opportunities to make this world a better place for our fellowman, even if it only begins with a smile.
By Vicki Julian
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