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Joran van der Sloot, the imprisoned Dutch native charged with killing a woman in Lima, Peru, and extorting money from the mother of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, may be a father-to-be.
The rumor that the Dutchman enjoys private visits from a Peruvian girlfriend, who is now rumored to be pregnant with his child, surfaced in several foreign media outlets, including Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, SBS Broadcasting and Peru's Periodismo en Línea news agency.
A longtime suspect in the 2005 disappearance in Aruba of Holloway, van der Sloot has been in police custody since June 2010.
Van der Sloot's girlfriend was reportedly working in the same casino where he met Peruvian business student Stephany Flores in May 2010. He has been charged with first-degree murder and robbery for the May 30 slaying of Flores, who was found dead in his hotel room in Lima on June 2. If convicted, he could face 15 to 35 years in prison.
Van der Sloot appeared briefly in court in Lima on Tuesday for a private hearing on the murder of Flores. A new lawyer accompanied the 23-year-old van der Sloot. His former attorney, Maximo Altez, quit unexpectedly last month.
Following the hearing, the victim's father, Ricardo Flores, demanded that officials at Lima's Castro Castro Jail investigate the unorthodox visits that van der Sloot is allegedly receiving from his girlfriend. Flores said he is also angered by reports that van der Sloot has been running a lucrative business out of his cell selling candy, allegedly supplied by his girlfriend.
Flores told the Univision Network he had expected to see a "miserable person" –- an emaciated prisoner. But instead he was shocked to see his daughter's alleged killer was a "fatso" because of the snack bar van der Sloot allegedly has in his cell.
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The ongoing violence over the Cauvery issue in Karnataka has no doubt hit normal life hard, with students and working professionals being the ones hit the most. Indian football fans too have been on the receiving end of the mayhem.
Football lovers from all over Bengaluru were waiting with bated breath to see their favourite team, Bengaluru FC, play against Tampines Rovers in the AFC Cup 2016 quarterfinals at the Shree Kanteerava Stadium on Wednesday. Their hopes have been dashed now.
The match, which will be held behind closed doors, has been preponed to an earlier time schedule now. Needless to say, Bengaluru FC loses a chunk of its identity without the fans, especially the super active West Block Blues, who are just a spectacle during every single match of the Sunil Chhetri-led side.
"We always thrive on the support that you – our passionate home fans bring to the stands, and as much as we will be handicapped by your absence, your safety and security will always mean more to us than everything else," Bengaluru FC mentioned in a statement.
"We may not hear you sing but be rest assured; the team will take the pitch knowing that you will be standing up for us, wherever you are. Stay safe and back the Blues."
Football, whether behind closed doors or not, goes on despite all odds, and fans saw that even during the Paris terror attack last year. Even without the spectators, BFC will keen on putting up a dominant show at their home turf. "All we can say at this moment is that we're going to look to put in a good performance in a bid to get the best result," BFC coach Albert Roca said.
"It's been three and a half months without competition and the boys were keen to show where we are trying to get to. We just have to move on and give this our best," the Spaniard added.
Team news
BENGALURU FC - Albert Roca has a relatively fit side at his disposal for the match.
TAMPINES ROVERS - The Singapore side will be without striker Farzul Nawaz, who has a long-term injury. Having said that, the S-League giants have top quality players in Billy Mehmet, Jordan Webb and former Arsenal and Liverpool winger, Jermaine Pennant.
AFC Cup 2016 quarterfinals: Bengaluru FC vs Tampines Rovers is scheduled to kick off at 4 p.m. IST (6:30 p.m. SGT) on Sept. 14.
How to watch
India: TV: Star Sports 2/HD 2. Live streaming: Hotstar.
Singapore: TV: Fox Sports 3. Live streaming: Fox Sports Play.
Live scores: official Bengaluru FC Twitter handle.


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DEKALB, Ill. -- Redshirt freshman wide receiver Isiah Cox (Jasper, Ala.) racked up a career-high 147 receiving yards and scored a career-long 56-yard touchdown, but the Ohio football team (3-3, 1-1 MAC) fell to host Northern Illinois, 24-21, today at Huskie Stadium as the Huskies scored 15 unanswered points in the fourth quarter.
The Bobcats suffered their first conference loss of the 2018 season and first loss in DeKalb since a 23-20 overtime setback on Oct. 4, 2003.
Junior quarterback Nathan Rourke (Oakville, Ontario, Canada) completed 15 of 23 passes for 275 yards with two touchdowns but also threw an interception, lost a fumble and was sacked four times in the loss. Cox set his career high for receiving yards on just three receptions. The Bobcats were limited to just 46 yards on the ground, with redshirt senior running back Maleek Irons (Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada) leading the way with 30 yards on 11 carries.
Redshirt sophomore quaterback Marcus Childers went 17-of-33 for 145 yards but did the bulk of his damage on the ground, rushing for a game-high 169 yards and a touchdown on 23 carries to lead the Huskies to the win.
Starting its second drive of the game in the shadow of its own end zone, Northern Illinois marched 77 yards in 16 plays and 5:42 but was forced to settle for a 36-yard field goal by redshirt senior kicker Andrew Gantz. The Huskies were kept out of the end zone as Childers' pass intended for redshirt senior wide receiver Jauan Wesley on 3rd-and-13 was broken up by redshirt senior strong safety Kylan Nelson (Lexington, Ky.).
The Huskies led 3-0 after the first quarter, but Rourke moved the Bobcats 92 yards in nine plays on Ohio's first drive of the second quarter. He connected with Cox for a 70-yard pass to put the ball on Northern Illinois 15. Two pass interference penalties on the Huskies on two 3rd-and-goal situations helped Ohio keep the drive alive. The Bobcats then capped off their longest scoring drive of the season when Rourke pitched to redshirt senior running back A.J. Ouellette (Covington, Ohio), who scored from two yards out on 2nd-and-goal.
Northern Illinois answered right back on the ensuing drive. Childers completed a 15-yard pass to Wesley on 3rd-and-9 from the Huskies' 27, then scampered 30 yards down the sideline two plays later. That set up a 28-yard touchdown run by senior wide receiver D.J. Brown that put the Huskies back in front. Northern Illinois was forced to settle for a 9-7 lead, however, as a fumbled snap caused the extra point attempt to fail.
Ohio turned the ball over on its first two drives of the second half, but the Huskies could not take advantage of the turnovers, punting on both of the subsequent drives.
On the first play of Ohio's third drive of the third quarter, Rourke completed a 20-yard pass to redshirt sophomore wide receiver Cameron Odom (Bedford, Ohio). Fifteen more yards were tacked on to the end of the play as redshirt junior safety Trayson Foster was flagged for targeting and subsequently ejected from the game Three plays later, Rourke threw a 56-yard touchdown pass to Cox on 3rd-and-16 to put Ohio back in front.
After forcing Northern Illinois to punt it away again, Ohio marched 90 yards in 11 plays. The Bobcats were aided by Northern Illinois being penalized three times for 45 yards on the drive, helping Ohio move the ball to the Huskies' 45. Rourke completed a 12-yard pass to redshirt senior wide receiver Papi White (Seminole, Okla). Runs of seven yards and two yards by redshirt senior running back Maleek Irons (Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada) set up a 3rd-and-1 from the six. A delay of game penalty moved the Bobcats back five yards, but Rourke found redshirt senior tight end Connor Brown (Miamisburg, Ohio) for an 11-yard touchdown, helping extend the Ohio lead to 21-9 after three quarters of play. The touchdown reception marked the first of Brown's career.
Northern Illinois trimmed the Bobcats' lead to five with 10:38 to play, moving 77 yards in 12 plays on the opening drive of the fourth quarter. A pass interference penalty on Ohio set the Huskies up with a first down at the Bobcats' 11. Two plays later, Childers tucked it and ran for a 10-yard touchdown.
Ohio's next drive began with promise, as Irons reeled off a 23-yard run and Rourke completed a 21-yard pass to White and then scampered for a 13-yard gain two plays later to put the ball on the Northern Illinois 40. The tide of the contest turned two plays later, though, as redshirt junior defensive end Sutton Smith produced a strip sack of Rourke and recovered the fumble to give the Huskies the ball.
Childers opened the ensuing drive with a 21-yard completion to Wesley and ran for 20 yards to move the ball to the Ohio 40. A pass interference penalty on the Bobcats on 3rd-and-six gave Northern Illinois a fresh set of downs at the Ohio two, and redshirt junior tailback Marcus Jones scored on the next play to give the Huskies the lead. Northern Illinois then converted on a two-point try that saw redshirt senior offensive tackle Max Scharping score and make it a 24-21 for the home team.
The Bobcats got the ball back with 4:51 to go but were forced to punt. Northern Illinois was then able to run the clock out, with a 32-yard run by Childers on 3rd-and-seven effectively ending the game.
Ohio will look to bounce back next weekend when it returns to Peden Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 20, to welcome MAC East Division rival Bowling Green for a Homecoming showdown. Kickoff is slated for 2 p.m., and the contest will be streamed live on ESPN3.


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This is how I make and edit my videos, as well as tips for beginners. Good luck!
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Samsung Group on Thursday said global Galaxy S3 sales breached the 20 million mark in just 100 days after its debut in May 2012.
The company launched the flagship smartphone powered by Google's Android operating system in Europe in late May. The release schedule was about three months ahead of new phone announcement by rivals Apple, Nokia and Motorola.
The record-breaking sales were three times faster than Galaxy S2 and six times quicker than Galaxy S.
Samsung says brisk sales of the S III are helping it retain dominance in the smartphone market . Strategy Analytics says Samsung overtook Apple in worldwide smartphone shipments in 2011.
The company is embroiled in legal tussles with Apple around the world over whether Samsung's mobile devices copied Apple products. Apple last week added the S III to the "copycat" list in its complaint filed with a US court.
The Galaxy S3 sales exceeded the 10 million mark in 50 days since its debut, equaling 200,000 sales per day, Samsung said.
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September is finally here and autumn has officially begun. The last few weeks haven't been particularly summery here in the UK, and as a student who is itching to get back to uni, I'm especially keen to get some autumn staples together.
One item at the top of my list is a blanket wrap. Definitely not as practical as a coat but snugly and warm all the same (and pretty cool) this is a must for AW15,
Here are some of my favourite styles.
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Thursday nights are community dinner nights at my church, St Peter's Mowbray in Cape Town.
Friends and strangers sit together around tables, those with beds to sleep in and those who sleep under bridges or by the train station. Strangers become friends. Community forms. And amidst the struggles and fights, people feel dignity and warmth. We hope.
One Thursday we decided to write poetry and draw with some of our friends and it went down surprisingly well.
I provided prompts for poems and paper and pens and people engaged and shared what they had written.
I am
– by Maureen
I am a streetwise kid
I feel very sad because I sleep outside
I want a better life
I wonder what will happen to me
I fear death because I don't know what will happen to my children
I hope to get a better life in the future
I try to become a better person
I believe I can come right
I dream real love will come my way
I am streetwise.
I am
– by Tash
I am me
I feel like the world is my playground
I want peace for all
I wonder what life after death looks like
I fear loosing a loved one
I hope that God blesses all of mankind
I try to stay positive even when things and life seems impossible
I believe that I will reach my goal of making a difference in someone's life for the better
I dream of a world without violence, hate, greed and destruction
I am someone who believes in change.
I am
– by Hassiem
I am lost in the world
I feel happy
I want a good life
I wonder what will happen to me this winter
I fear God, no one in the world
I hope for a better life
I try to get me a home
– by anonymous
Cold and hungry,
Wet and tired,
Food, more food,
Will help,
Kind people,
Cruel people?
Wet Reality
– by Zach Stewart, Aged 14, member of St Peter's Mowbray
I've always liked to believe that
Life is like a rain storm.
And you can stand in the middle,
Shivering, and getting sick from the cold,
Or you can be that "weird" person,
That, in the rain, takes off their jersey,
Accepting the cold
While running on the banks of rivers,
Shouting, "FREEDOM".
Two options I thought, but,
A forgotten reality too.
That reality sits under the bridge, in the rain
While the swelling river bites at its feet.
It prays for an end
To the eternal cold, but
A gulp
Or a smoke from it's cigarette,
Between. Each. Word.
It's heart beats slower
Bum… Bum… Bum…
A banging in the back of it's head,
Or a voice,
Hollow, and reassuring.
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Scope and Contents Collection contains 5 folders containing holograph letters written by J.S. Walker to his parents. This extensive file of extraordinarily fluent, candid, and detailed manuscript letters details the experiences of the well-heeled, well-connected, strongly opinionated, and bigoted young American expatriate John Sydney Walker from January 1865 to April 1867 in Paris and Geneva. These letters also cover, in young Walker's questions to his parents, and his responses to their questions and news, many...
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University of Reading and NIAB - Stringano, E., Hayot Carbonero, C, Smith, L, Brown, RH, Mueller-Harvey, I. Phytochemistry (doi: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2012.01.013)
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by Carrie Jurney DVM DACVIM (Neuro)
So, I'm back to taking my class on happiness, and this week we are talking about the importance of social connections in happiness.
Now, clearly loneliness is something that affects your emotional state. What I didn't realize is that it can also affect your physical state. For instance, people who report being more lonely have decreased immune funcition. fMRI studies have shown that social exclusion results in activity in the same areas of the brain as physical pain.
When I get truly reflective on what in the world we do at NOMV, I think the most important thing we do is remove isolation. We all know that veterinary medicine can be incredibly isolating. How many of you are in one doctor practices or are the only doctor on in a day? Or on ambulatory by yourself? I cannot count how many time I have personally had to skip social events, family birthdays, holidays and funerals, because of work. These social connections are an important part of happiness, and too many veterinarians allow our job to remove those connections from our lives.
So, next time that 4:50pm emergency calls on the day of your kid's t-ball game or your friend's birthday dinner, maybe send it to the local ER? It's important.
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Everything You Wanted to Know About AC Maintenance
As much use as cooling systems gets in our region during the summer, AC maintenance is a must for its optimal operation. Routine maintenance also prevents premature breakdowns and lengthens the life of your system.
Things You Can Do
- Check the air filter for the air handler monthly. When the filter is coated with dust, change it. The condition of the air filter makes a big impact on the performance of your system and its longevity. If it gets too dirty, the airflow slows through the air handler and increases the time it takes to cool your home. The longer running time also stresses all the parts inside the system.
- Keep the outdoor condenser free of vegetation. It needs the free flow of air around all its sides to work efficiently. If grass clippings or dust build on the coil inside the condenser, gently scrub with a soft brush and spray lightly with the hose. A clean coil loses the heat that the refrigerant has collected faster.
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Professional AC maintenance usually includes these tasks:
- Inspecting all the electrical components and tightening them if necessary. A loose or dirty connection uses more electricity.
- Checking the refrigerant level. Cooling systems require a precise amount of refrigerant inside them to operate efficiently. If it's low, the technician will look for the leak, seal it and fill it to the exact level required.
- Lubricating the motors if required and checking belt tension. A motor that's low on oil can seize, requiring replacement.
- Cleaning the inside of the air handler, including evaporator coil. If dust collects on either of these parts, the efficiency will be lower. A clean air handler also prevents any dust from collecting inside the ductwork.
- Verifying that the condensate drain is clear and the pan is clean.
- Testing the thermostat for correct operation and recalibrating if necessary.
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Why you need to know how to manage your relationships
This is part of a series looking at micro skills – changes that employees can make to improve their health and life at work and at home, and employers can make to improve the workplace. The Globe and Mail and Morneau Shepell have created the Employee Recommended Workplace Award to honour companies that put the health and well-being of their employees first. Read about the 2018 winners of the award at tgam.ca/workplaceaward.
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Do you have relationships where you feel you're trying harder than the other person?
The key word in the above question is "trying." Behind the word come thoughts, feelings and expectations that trying will achieve a desired outcome. Extending yourself to another person over time with the other person not reciprocating in kind often sends a message to stop trying. Similarly, when someone opens themselves up to a new relationship but hears they're being judged negatively, they stop trying.
There are many reasons why people don't reciprocate or get a good start with respect to building a healthy and safe relationship, such as gaps in trust, interests, priorities, or value of the relationship. When a person feels rejected and stops trying this can result in a variety of emotions, from rejection, to hurt, anger, and sometimes even relief.
Relationship management is hard for most of us. Why? Because we have never taken the course called Relationship Management 101. Many factors, such as gender, education, age, diversity, childhood experiences, social status and support systems influence our behaviour in relationships outside our awareness.
We all are unique, and we all have vulnerabilities. Whether we want to share or acknowledge them influences how we behave in relationships at home and at work. Based on my experience working with people over the years, it seems that how effectively a person uses the micro skill of relationship management can determine their overall mental health and happiness. Gaps in relationship management skills are perhaps why so many people in our country are lonely.
There are three kinds of relationships: those that are positive, safe and feel good; those that are not; and those that we haven't yet established.
Relationship management starts with being aware of what relationships are positive, not so positive, or those we want but feel are missing. For the ones that aren't so positive to continue, it's of value to understand the benefit for maintaining them or figuring out how to better manage them. Once we accept why we need or want a relationship, it's up to us to determine what we're going to do.
Successful and fulfilling relationships typically require two motivated people who are clear on the type of relationship they're in and their expectations.
To work, relationships require trust, empathy and energy. Ultimately, all we can control are our behaviour and actions. But we can't make another person like us or want to have a relationship with us.
Once we accept that in our society we all have free will to decide who we want to have a relationship with, relationship management is the art of balancing facts and emotions. It begins with awareness and accepting what we can control. Sometimes we need to cut loose a not-so-positive relationship, so we have the energy to find a positive one. Often, most of us forget that some of the best relationships in life are those with people we haven't met yet. Being open to this possibility creates opportunity.
A few coaching tips for relationship management:
Relationship monitoring – Most important relationships have some conflict and require energy and investment in time to develop and maintain. What can negatively impact one relationship is when another relationship takes all your energy. By paying attention to where you're spending your relationship energy you can manage your expectations through open and honest communication as to where you are and what you're doing.
Define your relationship expectations – When looking to maintain or build a relationship, be clear on your expectations and what you're willing to do regardless of what the other person does. For example, you move into a new condo, next to a neighbour who seems to be grumpy. You decide to smile and say hello each time you see them, regardless of their lack of effort to return the gesture.
Develop your relationship management skills – Many of us have not learned how to self-advocate and develop and maintain a healthy and safe relationship. People can be taught a set of skills to develop relationships, to set boundaries, and to express their point of view. If you want to develop this skill set, do your own research by reviewing articles, videos or books that cover the topic of relationship building and relationship management. Or consider talking to an employee and family assistance professional to brainstorm some solutions. While many resources are available, there are no shortcuts. It takes time, commitment and practice, but the rewards are worth it.
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A sociology major continues her anthropological studies by Keeping up With the Kardashians
If your friends mock you for watching Keeping up With the Kardashians or The Real Housewives of New Jersey, remind them that you are simply getting an education in Sociology.
Here's a short game for all you TV freaks: I'll give you some facts about myself and you need to guess my favourite telly shows.
I am a social science post-graduate with leftist leanings and a rightist appetite for money. I love eating and spend a lot of time travelling to offbeat destinations. I work in marketing and am absolutely mesmerised by new technology.
From all the data given above, one could surmise that the programs I would enjoy most would be focused on politics & socio-economics, travel & food, geeks & gadgets and possibly a "little big bang" for entertainment.
Far from it.
The serials that I watch go by the names of: Keeping Up with The Kardashians (KUWTK for the uninitiated), America's Next Top Model, The Real Housewives Of New Jersey and American Idol. And need I add that my friends are completely ashamed of me! What they cannot understand is that the same intellectual curiosity which lead me to read anthropological treatises on tribes and cultures for six bloody years also draws me to KUWTK, the one tribe I never got an opportunity to study. And I think it's scandalously unfair that studying tribes in college earns me a degree, but when I study them on television I'm rewarded with a big round of verbal abuse. So I think it's time to set things right. Through this article, I would like to demonstrate how the study of "alternate cultures" completely depends upon your notions of "savages" and "civilized".
The celebrated social anthropologist Verrier Elwin came to India and married Kosi, a Raj Gond girl. He then wrote several books on her, got divorced and then married Leela, a girl from the Pardhan tribe on whom he wrote several more books. Kim Kardashian is also married twice – to Damon Thomas (TV producer) before she got famous, and then to Kris Humphries (NFL Star) for an impressive 72 days to spice up KUWTK. (She is currently engaged to rapper Kanye West with whom she has a baby girl) .
Elwin made his first wife the subject of his anthropological studies and published intimate sexual details about her, calling it "participant observation" (she was 13 at that time, he was 40). In 2007 Kim Kardashian caught the limelight when she leaked her sex tape with then boyfriend Ray J. You can connect the dots.
Elwin documented the Indian tribal life in its entirety. There are stories about the people he met, the land and forests he lived in, as well as his own life. Every detail is alive. I fondly remember his vivid descriptions of the Ghotul (Community house).
KUWTK brings alive every detail of the Dash Ghotul. There is rich ethnographic documentation on every emotional excess one can imagine : Kourtney refusing to marry her boyfriend because of his anger management problems but being fine with having his babies; Khloe's vicious fights with Kourtney over discipline in the Dash Store; Kim giving the "best birthing performance of a life time" over multiple channels; The break and make up's of all three sisters across seasons.
Elwin said that his eternal quest for love, truth and beauty was found in the simple tribal way of life. What he found among the Raj Gonds, Kim has found amongst her tribe of family and friends.
Kim's views on family: I always put family photos under the mattress, in case the house gets burnt. I have sister issues and parent issues but my mom and I had the same vision, and we want the same things.
Kim's views on marriage: I learned how to cook and do a lot of marital things. My decision to end my marriage was such a risk to losing ratings and my fan base. I had to take that risk for my inner peace and to be happy with myself. I think you must have different soulmates through your life.
I sincerely believe that if Verrier Elwin had met Kim Kardashian he would have truly loved her, more than the two Indian girls he married. If Elwin had a reality show in his day and time, who knows what more he could have accomplished in discovering "the other". He could have also saved that long trip to India and found some tribes closer home. Like my friends, Michelle Obama has also tried to stop her daughters from watching KUWTK. The Dash sisters have allegedly responded by insulting the First Lady's dress sense, with one of the sisters calling her wardrobe 'pretend poor'. A White House source told the National Enquirer that the show is 'no example' for young women and 'teaches the wrong message'.
To which I say Rubbish. It is shows like these which help dissolve the fine line between notions of "civilization" and "underdeveloped cultures". It helps expose the universal truth that the noble savage lies within all of us. And this is why I watch KUWTK . I am simply continuing my seventh year of socio-anthropological study while reclining on my living room sofa with some American Chopsuey for company – does anyone have a problem now?
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"I'm a retired nurse so I'm comfortable with hospitals. My daughter isn't. That's why we needed to get a plan in place, and I made an appointment with the palliative care team," said Kay Miller, 85 of Bellevue.
One of the most important things is my life is my relationship with my daughter, Beth. We talk on the phone and get together regularly. One day, we were talking about what she will do when something happens to me. She was having trouble figuring out how she would handle an emergency with me as I get older.
I have experienced serious illnesses as a nurse, caretaker and as a patient. After experiencing what my husband went through with pancreatic cancer, I felt a real need to have a plan for myself and my daughter. My quality of life is what is most important to me, and my wish is to age at home.
I saw Dr. [Atul] Gawande on "Book TV," where he spoke about his book Being Mortal and talked about palliative care. This got me thinking about how I could use it. I had also seen flyers about Overlake palliative care in an Overlake clinic. This led me to making an appointment with Overlake's Palliative Care Services.
My appointment was with Dr. Jane Yeh, and Beth and I went in together. Dr. Yeh was a great listener, and we gave her the information she needed to help us put together a plan. It was very helpful and reassuring for my daughter to have all the information and instructions in place when an emergency comes up. It gives me peace of mind, too.
My first interaction with Overlake was when I volunteered when I first moved to the area in the 70s. Subsequent experiences at Overlake have been when I had a knee replacement in 2004, then I had breast cancer and two mastectomies in 2009. In 2012, I was diagnosed with Atrial fibrillation [a heart arrhythmia], which is managed with medications. I see Denise [LeDoux] and Dr. [Joseph] Doucette at Overlake Cardiology. Dr. [Chailin] Wey, my primary care doctor, has guided me through a lot of medical issues; she is a fabulous internist.
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HONG KONG — He was a towering figure of the 20th century, instrumental in building the Chinese Communist Party from the battlefield to the halls of power. He worked alongside Mao Zedong for decades, and was revered for his rich intellect and even temperament.
And as the first premier of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Enlai met with Henry A. Kissinger in Beijing in 1971 to pave the way for President Richard M. Nixon's groundbreaking trip to China the next year, beginning a new era in global politics.
Now, a book being published this week offers a radical reinterpretation of Zhou's life: He was probably gay.
That assertion is sure to be contentious in China, where homosexuality is not widely accepted and where many may view it as an attack on Zhou's character. Indeed, the book is expected to be banned in mainland China, as are other unauthorized biographies of Zhou.
Tsoi Wing-Mui, the author of the book, "The Secret Emotional Life of Zhou Enlai," writes that Zhou's sexual orientation would explain several mysteries about his life, including his cool treatment of his wife at the time of their marriage and his careful relationship with Mao.
Ms. Tsoi, a journalist who was the editor of a liberal political magazine in Hong Kong, presents no proof that Zhou was gay. There are no lovers with tell-all stories, only clues from his diary entries and correspondence with his wife.
Ms. Tsoi said she wanted her interpretation to add to the understanding of an important historical figure, giving texture to his personality. "Before writing this book, I really didn't have a good impression of Zhou Enlai," she said in an interview. "But afterward, I have a lot of sympathy for him."
She said one diary entry from when Zhou was a young man provided a clue to his yearnings.
In late 1918, Zhou, then 20, was living in Japan, where he planned to enroll in a university. Weeks earlier, he had left the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin. So had a young man two years his junior, Li Fujing, a classmate who had gone to study at the University of Hong Kong. Their separation proved wrenching for Zhou, as he noted in his diary.
"In these months, the moon or the morning breeze, the rain against my window, and flowers; all make me long for my family, and thinking of my brother Hui, I suffer terribly!" Zhou wrote, his Chinese characters rendered with bold and urgent brush strokes.
The relationship between the young Zhou and Mr. Li ("brother Hui") was more than a close friendship, Ms. Tsoi writes; Zhou was in love with Mr. Li.
Viewing Zhou as gay raises questions of what direction his life, and China's path, might have taken had same-sex relationships been accepted in Chinese society.
Zhou and Mr. Li stayed in touch and traveled to Britain in 1921 in hopes of going to a university there; Ms. Tsoi writes that they were living in London at the same time. Mr. Li was accepted to the University of Manchester, but Zhou was unable to afford the high cost of living in Britain. Despondent, he moved to France, Ms. Tsoi says.
There, Zhou received a stipend from the Soviet-funded Communist International and began his rapid ascent in the party's ranks.
"We don't know what happened to them when they were in Great Britain," Bao Pu, the book's publisher, said in an interview. "It's impossible for them to be together, and they know it."
Viewing Zhou as gay adds a new interpretation to a well-documented incident in 1925, when Zhou's fiancée, Deng Yingchao, arrived in the southern city of Guangzhou. Zhou had proposed to her via postcard when he was in Europe, Ms. Tsoi writes. The couple had not seen each other in five years and had never been romantically involved.
Gao Wenqian, a former historian for the Communist Party and the author of the 2007 biography "Zhou Enlai: The Last Perfect Revolutionary," which is banned in China, wrote that Zhou did not meet Ms. Deng when her boat arrived.
So she set out to find Zhou at the Guangdong General Workers' Union.
"When he saw Deng enter the room, Zhou gave her a quick smile, but he continued his intense discussions, and, when the meeting ended, he got up and hustled out of the headquarters building without bothering to greet his bride-to-be," Mr. Gao wrote.
Official party accounts interpreted Zhou's less-than-warm greeting as a reflection of his total commitment to the Communist cause.
Far more consequential, yet also more tentative, is Ms. Tsoi's interpretation of how Zhou's sexuality may have influenced his relationship with Mao. Many historians, including Mr. Gao, believe he behaved in a more cautious manner than he could have.
Zhou, who outranked Mao in the Communist Party until the mid-1930s, failed to stop the rise of Mao's cult of personality, which led to the disastrous Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966 and is widely seen to have ended only with Mao's death in 1976, nine months after Zhou himself died. While Zhou is credited with saving many party cadres from the worst excesses of the marauding Red Guards, he was careful to stay loyal to Mao.
Sidney Rittenberg, 94, an American who joined the Chinese Communist Party, first met Zhou in 1946 at the party's base in Yan'an, in northwestern China. In the 21 years that Mr. Rittenberg had contact with Zhou, he said, he never suspected that he was gay. But he said that if he had been and it had become known, Zhou would have been ruined.
Roderick MacFarquhar, a professor at Harvard who focuses on elite Chinese politics, said, "My reaction is that if it is true and that this was known to Mao, then the chairman had yet another way of threatening Zhou."
Ms. Tsoi said Zhou might have been terrified that his sexual orientation would be revealed to the chairman. Mr. Rittenberg said he "would not only want to hide it, he would have to — if it came out, he would be ruined."
Ms. Tsoi said homosexuality was seen as a sin against socialism. "They viewed it as a capitalist way of life," she said.
While many top cadres cowered from Mao's dictates, some did not. Zhou, as head of government, was in a position to curb Mao's power.
"Why was he so afraid? Where did it come from?" Ms. Tsoi asked. "His original sin was his homosexuality."
But Rebecca Karl, a professor at New York University who wrote a 2010 biography of Mao, said that China was hardly unique in its homophobia and that, until recently, exposing a leader anywhere as gay would have ruined his or her career. Ms. Karl said that the book, which she has not read, may only "provoke needless controversy about Zhou."
"I think this kind of speculation is really not very interesting," Ms. Karl said in an email. "Fluid sexualities were not unusual in China (or anywhere), and deep male-male or female-female friendships and passions were (are still) a norm."
It may never be known whether Zhou's relationship with Mr. Li was more than that of a close friend. Mr. Li died in 1960.
And Zhou himself may have sought to hide his most intimate feelings. He kept a diary, discovered in 1952, for only a short time. In his first entry, on Jan. 1, 1918, he took account of his life so far, his dreams and his shortcomings. Then he opened his heart.
"For the first time in my life I am immersed in this word 'love,' as to the heart of the passion. ..."
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In remembrance of Sonja Hillgren, Farm Journal is funding an experience for journalism students that will allow her spirit to live on. The Sonja Hillgren/Farm Journal Ag Journalism Field Reporting Institute is the backbone of "Field Reporting on Food and Natural Resources," an agricultural journalism course at the University of Missouri in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources.
The Institute explores the vast scientific, economic and social changes under way in U.S. agriculture and their impact on the food supply and the environment. Students meet, learn from and interview leading researchers, government officials, food industry representatives, farmers and others—out in the fields, on the rivers and at the facilities where these issues take shape.
Flood and Drought: Two Years of Extreme Weather Take Toll on Farmers
Teresa Avila, 2012 Sonja Hillgren Institute
In a field a few paces from the Missouri River, the corn exhibits the classic effects of this summer's drought. The stalks are short, the cobs stunted and the kernels small. The crop roots in coarse, tan soil. Not the black silt one might associate with a flood plain, but sand, a remnant of the flood that hit northwestern Missouri a year ago.
High Crop Prices Drive Northwest Missouri Farmers Out of Conservation Program
Anna Boiko-Weyrauch, 2012 Sonja Hillgren Institute
In Buchanan County, Mo., crop news infuses daily life. The news flows from farmer to farmer at the store, the ball game, and lunch after church. Corn price, bean price, bushel per acre. "You know how to figure what you'll get," said Ronnie Dean, one of those farmers. Last year Dean figured he needed a change.
A Moonscape in Corn Country
Cade Cleavelin, 2012 Sonja Hillgren Institute
Corning Conservation Area, a preserve hugging a bend on the Missouri River in the middle of some of Missouri's most productive farmland, is extraordinarily untamed in contrast to the tidy cropland neighboring it.
Fate of Conservation Reserve Program Uncertain
Brendan Gibbons, 2012 Sonja Hillgren Institute
Near a lazy creek in northwest Missouri, a pile of chewed red apples waits on a stump as an offering to hungry deer. The apples' bright red skin, along with the burgundy splotches of poison ivy rusting in the fall, stands out in this part of the state. So does the camouflage-colored camera recording all who pass by.
Missouri River Navigation: Finding Common Ground
Darren Orf, 2012 Sonja Hillgren Institute
On a grassy slope outside Mound City, Mo., scientists and journalists stand on common ground and stare over an expanse of the Missouri River flood plain. Robert Jacobson, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, sweeps his hand across the landscape and describes the prehistoric journey of water and sediment from glaciers that formed the river below.


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Wishing All a Blissful Makar Sakranti and Lohri
A popular festival in India mostly falling on January 14 or 15 every year is Makar Sakranti.
Most Hindu festivals are an event of planetary and spiritual significance. Recognizing, that our human existence is a part of the whole Cosmos.
Sakranti is a Sanskrit word that means moving from one place to another and also the meeting of one with another.
There are 12 Sankranti's during a year, as the Sun moves from one zodiac sign to another.
The most popular one is Makar Sankranti as Sun moves into Capricorn (Makar) sign which is ruled by Saturn.
Some people associate it with Uttrayan or northward movement of the Sun where the days start getting longer or winter solstice( which actually happens now around Dec 21).
In the epic Mahabharata, the great Yogi Bhishma Pitamaha, waited for this exact movement of Sun into uttrayan to leave his physical body. There is the great spiritual importance of this time, detailed in Srimad Bhagavatam by Lord Krishna himself.
At this time more positive cosmic energies are bombarding the earth. It helps people to take baths in holy rivers to fill themselves with pure prana, as water bodies have more energy around them. And of course, to try and connect with the energy of Sun god by doing puja, japa, havan, fasting and meditate deeply.
"Suryah Pratyaksha Devata". Sun is God we can see.
Sun is the giver of light and life on earth. In spiritual language, it is our Atma, the Divine light, Chaitanya(consciousness) or prana.
So we pray to Sun god for our nourishment and expansion in all ways.
Just as the Sun shines its light for all beings in our universe selflessly, may we work selflessly for the growth of all beings.
May we increase our purity and wisdom just like the Sun keeps increasing its light. May we move from the darkness of delusions outside to the radiant divine light inside. The inner world is more real and deeper than the outer world.
Most festivals in ancient times in India were also in-built relationship reset buttons to forgive, forget, and feel love and warmth, which helped in developing equanimity on the spiritual path. Another aspect was to redistribute the wealth or resources around the community. It has lost economic relevance now in the modern consumer culture, where people are buying stuff every day.
Sadly, now in India as well as all over the world, most festivals have become sources of stress; excesses of food, drinks, and clothing; expectations of what to give and get; causing more ill will, pain and anxiety.
The spiritual aspects of harnessing the planetary energies by doing puja, japa, havan, fasting or meditation are mostly forgotten. As no one in the affluent slices of the society is really educated in school about these reasons, they are mostly dismissed as superstition or useless.
But the act of being generous to people who have little or nothing is still very important. On this day, food items like Sesame seeds, urad dal, rice, clothes, and money are donated to the poor and needy.
I feel that even if some people are motivated to donate only for the sake of accumulating good merits for themselves, it helps transform their consciousness even if it happens slowly. They set into motion a current, which at some point drops the greed or need for merit accumulation whether in this lifetime or the next.
The act of charity subtly transforms to an act of Just Sharing what one happens to have by God's grace in that moment with others who don't have.
Just as a channel; No me, No my.
The essence of most Hindu festivals was to bring balance to both our human and spiritual existence in the bigger cosmic play.
You can listen to the powerful prayer Aditya Hridaya Stotra; Aditya the Sun God and Hridayam which nourishes and heals the heart.


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1835 (undated) 10.5 x 8.5 in (26.67 x 21.59 cm) 1 : 5500000
After the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, the Congress of Vienna created The German Confederation to coordinate the economies of these separate but culturally related German-speaking countries. The Confederation acted as a buffer zone between Austria and Prussia, the two largest and most powerful member states. Nonetheless the rivalry between the two powerful states increased until it finally broke out into the Austro-Prussian War. Prussia won the Austro-Prussian War in 1866 which ultimately led to the collapse of the German Confederation. A few years later, in 1871, most of the former Confederation states were folded into the newly proclaimed German Empire.
Switzerland had just undergone a rapid social and economic change known as the Regeneration Movement. Following the French July Revolution in 1830, the Swiss began assemble and call for fair representation and new Cantonal constitutions. Many of the cantons subsequently established representative governments and instituted freedom of the press and trade.
The map was published as plate no. 89 in Thomas G. Bradford's 1835 Comprehensive Atlas Geographical, Historical and Commercial. Bradford's atlas, published in 1835 was an important work on many levels. First, it was one of the first American atlases to follow an encyclopedic format, offering readers extensive geographical and statistical tables to supplement the maps themselves. Second, it was published in Boston and influenced the city's rise as a publishing center later in the 19th century (at the time most publishing in the United States was restricted to New York and Philadelphia). Third, this atlas was the first to contain a separate and specific map showing the Republic of Texas. Fourth and finally, Bradford's atlas in some instances broke the Euro-centric mold regarding atlas production. Among other things, Bradford focused his atlas on the Americas and abandoned the classical decoration common in European atlases in favor of a more informational and inherently American approach.
Bradford published this atlas in several editions and with various partners. The first edition was published by William D. Ticktor and did not contain the iconic Republic of Texas map (although we have in fact seen Ticktor examples with a Texas map, suggesting, against conventional wisdom, that there may have been two Ticktor editions). The second official edition, published in the same year by the American Stationers Company, was the first to contain the Republic of Texas map, which is based on Austin's map, with two pages of descriptive text. A third edition was issued in 1836, also by American Stationers (though still dated 1835), and contained an unaltered Republic of Texas map with only a single page of descriptive test. A fourth edition appeared later, possibly 1837, and included an updated and revised map of Texas that replaces the old Mexican land grants with new inchoate counties. The maps from this atlas are an important addition to any collection focusing on early American cartography and Republic of Texas cartography.
All maps in this atlas, though not specifically noted as such, were most likely engraved by G. W. Boynton of Boston, who also engraved most of the maps for Bradford's later publication.
Thomas Gamaliel Bradford (1802 - 1887) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, where he worked as an assistant editor for the Encyclopedia Americana. Bradford's first major cartographic work was his revision and subsequent republishing of an important French geography by Adrian Balbi, Abrege de Geographie published in America as Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Abridgment of Universal Geography, Modern and Ancient. Afterwards Bradford revised and expanded this work into his own important contributions to American cartography, the 1838 An Illustrated Atlas Geographical, Statistical and Historical of the United States and Adjacent Countries. Bradford's cartographic work is significant as among the first to record Texas as an independent nation. In his long career as a map publisher Bradford worked with William Davis Ticknor of Boston, Freeman Hunt of New York, Charles De Silver of Philadelphia, John Hinton, George Washington Boynton, and others. We have been able to discover little of Bradford's personal life.
George Washington Boynton (fl. c. 1830 - 1850) was a Boston based cartographer and map engraver active in the first half of the 19th century. Boynton engraved and compiled maps for numerous publishers including Thomas Bradford, Nathaniel Dearborn, Daniel Adams, and S. G. Goodrich. His most significant work is most likely his engraving of various maps for Bradford's National Atlas. He also engraved for the Boston Almanac. In 1835 Boynton is listed as an employee of the Boston Bewick Company, an engraving, stereotype, and printing concern based at no. 47 Court Street, Boston. Little else is known of his life.


text: Absolutely loved this movie. It came out while I was in college, and I went to see it with one of my friends. Seeing Dr Seuss come to life through digital animation was amazing. If you somehow haven't seen this movie, you really need to. It's a lot of fun, and not just for kids!


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A review and tribute to one of my favorite all time books...
An inspiring tale of genuine faith
Who was Uncle Tom?
A Brief Summary:
Tom was a slave in the pre-Civil War South, living on his owner's plantation in Kentucky along with his wife and children. His owner, Arthur Shelby, was having severe financial hardships, and with much reluctance on his part, agrees to sell Tom and another slave, Eliza, and her child, to satisfy his overwhelming debts.
While on a riverboat heading South down the Mississippi River to New Orleans, Tom meets a little girl named Evangeline "Eva" St. Clair who urges her father, Augustine, to buy Tom from the slave trader. She and Tom share a special friendship centered around their strong Christian faith.
Later, after the little girl dies from a tragic illness, and her father is murdered during a knife fight in a New Orleans tavern, Tom, along with the other slaves in the household, are sold away again by St. Clair's apathetic widow, who refuses to acknowledge that her late husband had promised Tom his freedom one day.
Tom is sold to the wicked slaveholder, Simon Legree, who takes an instant dislike to his new "property". Although Tom is both reliable and hardworking, Legree hates him because the slave refuses to bow his knee to him or any man. Tom will only bow his knee to his Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This infuriates the evil Legree to no end.
After Tom refuses to divulge the whereabouts of two runaway female slaves, Cassie and Emmeline, whom, unbeknown to him, have taken refuge in Legree's attic, the wily slaveholder orders Tom to be beaten by two other slaves.
Tom still refuses to tell what he knows or even make up a story about where the two women might have gone. He later dies from his terrible injuries he received from the beatings inflicted on him at the orders of Legree.
To me, Tom is more than just a character in this book. Tom is an American hero. His role as the long-suffering servant and his sacrificial love in the face of terrible cruelty mirrors the very image of Christ Himself.
Tom's refusal to betray Cassie and Emmeline in hope that they will one day live in freedom genuinely reflects the words spoken by Jesus when He said, "No one has greater love [no one has shown stronger affection] than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends."
John 15:13 (Amplified Bible).
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is one of the most famous novels of 19th century America. Yet, it is not without it's detractors, especially today, with certain groups of people claiming the book to be "racist". According to Wikipedia, "The book and the plays it inspired helped popularize a number of stereotypes about black people."
In response to this, I would like to say that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" actually gives us a glimpse into how many white people in America thought about black slaves and slavery in general in the pre-Civil War days. Many white people, although opposed to slavery, were also opposed to blacks being assimilated into their culture and society.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin
believed slavery was a great evil.
In 1863, during the darkest days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln wrote his famous Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in America forever. However, neither he, nor any successive American president in the nearly 150 years since Lee surrendered to Grant in Virginia thus ending the war, has stood before the nation and declared a time of national repentance before God for the sin of slavery.
This is entirely different from man made political declarations denouncing slavery.
Slavery was never in the plans of God for the United States of America. If Lincoln or another leader, had realized the need for a national time of fasting and prayer before the throne of the Almighty, seeking God's forgiveness, the Lord, in His abundant mercy, would have forgiven us and healed the breeches that have so divided our nation.
"If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, pray, seek, crave, and require of necessity My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, forgive their sins, and heal their land."
II Chronicles 7:14
Since no leader, right up to now, has attempted this,instead of healing and restoration, the enemy of the souls of mankind has been given a wide open door to come in and sow seeds of discord among the people.
The results of this bitter harvest have been decades of anger and resentment and bitterness. America is more divided as a nation today than it was prior to the outbreak of the Civil War. And it is not only bad race-relations. Our Judeo-Christian heritage is increasingly under attack from progressive-minded, godless politicians and the social media, who are determined to change America from a free, constitutionally-protected nation founded on the principles within God's Word, into a repressed Socialist state where the worship of man and his achievements replaces the worship of God and thankfulness for His Providence and Protection on our land. I believe the following biblical passages are an apt description of the sorrowful state of America today:
"For people will be lovers of self and utterly self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate, greedy desire for wealth, proud and arrogant and contemptuous boasters, They will be abusive, blasphemous, scoffing, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, and profane.
They will be without natural human affection, callous and unhuman, relentless, admitting no truce or appeasement; they will be slanderers, false accusers, troublemakers, intemperate, and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.
They will be treacherous betrayers, rash, and inflated with self-conceit. They will be lovers of sensual pleasures and vain amusements more than and rather lovers of God.
For although they hold a form of piety, true religion, they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it, their conduct belies the genuineness of their profession."
II Timothy 3:2-5
In these perilous times, America needs to turn back to God and truly seek His face and the restoration of our nation as a land of peace and justice for all.
We, the People, need His mercy and forgiveness, and His providence and protection more than ever before!


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|Thankfulness helps us brighten up !!
- I am thankful for the gift of breath… have been having cold and cough and what better time to understand the value of breath
- Thankful for my colleagues at my work place, for their understanding and support, giving me the required space to take a break
- Thankful to the YWCA (Young women Christian association) for the trust and confidence in me to take on leadership position.
- Thankful for my ability and capacity to be able to do all the household chores despite not having a maid.
- Thankful for my husband for the care and concern to be able to take charge of the work at home.
- Thanks to all the inspiring and motivating bloggers who help me nurture the attitude of being grateful… there are so many of them…
- I am thankful to the students who trust me; and share the most sensitive and deepest issues..
- I am thankful for the opportunity to co author a research paper on stress and substance abuse.. which will be presented for International Seminar on Stress Management scheduled for November, 2015.
- I am grateful for all those who are helping m in the process in design, collection of data, analysis ...
- I am glad for this opportunity to post this list as I have been resting today, recouping myself quietly, and feeling so much better doing this exercise….
Be Blessed & Be Happy!


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World War I
National Shell Filling Factory, Chilwell
There was a readiness for war among all the leading European nations. "Many were already in the starting blocks, waiting for the great conflict. If you had to blame someone, then the greatest blame would lie with nationalism itself.
This armaments race accelerated in the decade before 1914 as the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy squared off against the Triple Entente of France, Russia, and Britain. Germany's fears of increases in Russian armaments, and British fears of the German naval buildup, contributed heavily to the outbreak and spread of the First World War in 1914.
The immediate trigger for war was the 28 June 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Some idiot prince gets killed by an idiot and the rest of the idiots start a world war? Not exactly. The military-industrial complex was preparing for the war long before it started. The power elite of different nations were involved in a power struggle. The British Royal Navy feared the Imperial German Navy. The Germans feared the British. Etcetera. The British Empire wanted to wage war against Germany before it would get too powerful. It's all about power.
Neutrality meant that we claimed the right to trade with anyone that we wanted; that we claimed the right to loan money to anyone who wanted it; ... The British position, and that of most belligerents in Europe, was that if they were fighting another country their friends should not trade with those who are their enemies. ... The United States had a surplus of money at that time, and people like J. P. Morgan and others made a lot of money by loaning their cash to foreign countries who paid high interest rates on it. The United States was loaning money to Great Britain and Germany and other belligerents that they were using in the war.
Churchill's commitment to the safety of noncombatant shipping was less than keen: three months before the sinking he wrote to the President of the Board of Trade that it was 'most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores in the hope especially of embroiling the USA with Germany... For our part, we want the traffic—the more the better; if some of it gets into trouble, better still.'
The British power elite did not like the idea of the United States getting more powerful by staying neutral and trading with the rest of the world while they were fighting a war. They wanted to involve the United States in their war. But the American public was against U.S. involvement in the war. So they needed to sway public opinion on the matter. History shows that the most effective way to sway people's opinion is to get a bunch of them killed and blame the party that needs to be attacked...
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
In a disputed incident like this, one often gets to the truth of the matter by asking the question, "Cui bono?" "Who benefits?" After a detailed examination of the facts, one can only come to the conclusion that it was the banksters who benefitted, and grossly at that.
The contemporary investigations both in the UK and the United States into the precise causes of the ship's loss were obstructed by the needs of wartime secrecy and a propaganda campaign to ensure all blame fell upon Germany. Argument over whether the ship was a legitimate military target raged back and forth throughout the war as both sides made misleading claims about the ship.
On 7 May 1915 Germany torpedoed the RMS Lusitania. The Anglo-American power elite obstructed investigations into the event. Why would they do something like that?
Von Jagow argued that the German government possessed information that the Lusitania was carrying munitions to Britain - a situation which would inevitably render her a legitimate target.
The facts are that there is a large amount of ammunition in the wreck, some of which is highly dangerous.
The serial number U-15 VII on the base of this .303 bullet shows that it was made for the British Government by Union Metallic Co. in 1915.
The Anglo-American power elite provoked a German attack by transporting war material on passenger ships. This was a typical false flag meant to create the support of the public for the desired war. This is also evidenced by the war propaganda...
Atrocity propaganda focused on the most violent acts committed by the German and Austro-Hungarian armies, emphasising their barbarity and providing justification for the conflict.
The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany, contributed to the American entry into World War I and became an iconic symbol in military recruiting campaigns of why the war was being fought.
Opinion changed gradually, partly in response to German actions in Belgium and the Lusitania...
The sinking of the RMS Lusitania served the power elite as an event turning public opinion in favor of the war. The exaggerated Rape of Belgium, a typical example of atrocity propaganda, served as the prime example of atrocity propaganda which was exploited by the Anglo-American power elite. This is how war propaganda works. Woodrow Wilson asked Congress for "a war to end all wars" that would "make the world safe for democracy". What a joke. Making war for peace is like fucking for virginity. But it of course fooled the dumb majority again. The so-called "war to end all wars" was only the beginning of an era of wars to come. Since World War I, and World War II, the capitalist elite of the Anglo-American Empire have systematically waged aggressive wars on nations across the globe for obvious reasons.
League of Nations
National political control over the arms trade continued to encroach on the laissez-faire system of the pre-war period. Britain in 1921 established a comprehensive licensing system for arms exports (which excluded aircraft) and embargoed exports to China (until 1929), the Soviet Union, Africa and ex-enemy states. ... Every major seller took advantage of the chaos in China to sell weapons there... The third major element of continuity in the interwar arms transfer system was the continued evolution and rise of second-tier producers who had succesfully industrialised and who subsequently entered the arms export market...
This industry had been active in creating war-scares and in persuading countries to adopt warlike policies, through a combination of bribery, false reports and undue influence on public opinion.
Throughout Knock explores the place of internationalism in American politics, sweeping away the old view that isolationism was the cause of Wilson's failure and revealing the role of competing visions of internationalism--conservative and progressive.
The League of Nations was another step in the process of globalization. The power elite presented themselves as peacemakers and posed for another historical photo. But did it bring "peace and security"? The members of the League of Nations who propagated "peace and security" were also the world's leading arms exporters. The military-industrial complex belongs to the same power elite. This was only the beginning of a century of wars to come. World War II was already in the making when the victors of World War I and the creators of the League of Nations set their minds on the further destruction of Germany by for example implementing the Treaty of Versailles...
The British magazine Punch satirized Wilson's grand dreams of world peace through the League of Nations. In this cartoon, Wilson holds out a very large olive branch marked 'League of Nations' to a dove that is too small to grasp it. Punch March 26, 1919.
Patrick J. Buchanan - Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War"
Margaret MacMillan - The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
Ralph Raico - Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal
Colin Simpson - Lusitania
Mises - Anthony Gregory: The "Great Leaders" Were Mass Murderers
British Library - Propaganda as a weapon? Influencing international opinion
Lusitania - A deadly cargo and the falsified manifests
Irish Underwater Council - Raising the ammunition from RMS Lusitania
Margaret MacMillan - The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
Ralph Raico - Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal
Colin Simpson - Lusitania
Mises - Anthony Gregory: The "Great Leaders" Were Mass Murderers
British Library - Propaganda as a weapon? Influencing international opinion
Lusitania - A deadly cargo and the falsified manifests
Irish Underwater Council - Raising the ammunition from RMS Lusitania


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Congratulations Mama! You're pregnant and in 9 short months you will have a precious baby to love on. Motherhood is fast approaching, but before you get your beautiful bundle of joy there are some less appealing aspects of pregnancy like stretch marks. This tearing of the dermis occurs with rapid weight gain and stretching of the skin. Your belly, thighs, breasts and butt are all sure to stretch. Genetics also plays a part, chances are if you mother got stretch marks you will too. In fact, 90% of pregnant women are affected by stretch marks. It's the battle of the bulge ladies!
There is hope to help prevent women from "earning their stripes" as they say. First of all, as soon as you find out your pregnant start buttering yourself up like a Thanksgiving turkey. The earlier you can start preventing stretch marks the better. Two to three times a day apply a cream or oil all over your body. Moisturizers that contain retinoids need to be avoided due to harmful effects it may have on the baby. If you are already starting to see faint red or purple marks this is when the stretch marks are most accepting of treatments so it's not too late. Try Belli Your Best Baby Bump Duo, this kit is specifically designed to help prevent and treat stretch marks. These products have sweet almond oils, lavender oils and cocoa butter, only the best for moms-to-be. Pamper yourself with these luxurious treatments and trust your motherly intuition that you will come out of this pregnancy still looking fabulous!


text: On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 22:15 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Jon Burgess wrote: > > > A DVB card for PCIe has been announced but AFAIK no one has tried to > > use it with the Linux drivers. > > http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2005-September/004664.html > > Hmm,.. when I'm thinking about this,... it becomes more and more > interesting for me. > > Currently I've got only on videocard (ASUS N7800 GTX). Im not an extreme > gamer (so I don't need all the 3D power) and I wouldn't use a second > videocard for Nvidias SLI technologi (where you combine the power of two > video cards). > However, I'm defenitely going to buy a second display (is very nice when > programming). The current card has two DVI-ports, but can I use the > (one) videocard, to control two displays??? > If so, I wouldn't neet a second videocard at all, an I could use the 2nd > PCIe slot for that nice DUAL (!!) DVB-T card *drols* > If not, I could by a cheap less-power 2nd videocard for PCI-X and use > that one to control a 2nd monitor, can't I? You just need a dual-head graphics card. Many (most?) current graphics cards have dual-head capability. Your card with dual-DVI connectors certainly superficially seems to be a dual-head card. So connect up a second monitor, configure it, and off you go. I'm currently using a dual-head Matrox G450 connected to a pair 21" CRTs giving me lots of room and crystal clear picture :) Now to bring it back on topic slightly... certainly on my setup, overlay only works on your number one monitor. That means you can still view video on other screens, but it'll all be done in software with the additional load etc. Soyeb


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June 27, 2012
I am an individual investor and am concerned that as written, the JOBS act is opening up the way to even more fraud and deception committed by Wall Street against the individual investor.
Strong regulation and rules ensure that investors feel confident about committing their money, boosting the market for everyone. By allowing businesses to go public "on their honor" without any transparency and record keeping is going to cause a lot of people to loose their money and their confidence.
That will bring the whole market down.
I do not support this measure as written.


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There have been direct correlations found between patient satisfaction and payment, as well as between patient satisfaction and patient education. This triangle comes together to essentially mean this: if patient education isn't sufficient, patients aren't satisfied, and that negatively impacts the way they pay their bills. By focusing on patient education—specifically about their financial responsibilities—you can increase patient satisfaction, helping to close the revenue cycle even faster. Continue reading Improving Patient Satisfaction via Payment Education
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How Call Center Reps Can Avoid Being Baited
Unfortunately, it's not uncommon for call center reps of accounts receivable departments to get baited by the people they're calling. Patients will ask specific questions designed to get the rep to violate statutes or laws that govern the way hospitals and medical facilities can collect money.
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Concierge Medicine: Doctors on Retainer?
Since hitting the scene a few years ago, concierge medicine has been the subject of much discussion. Concierge medicine refers to an arrangement in which a patient pays a set amount a month, and the patient has a certain number of hours he or she can see the doctor for that time. These "retainers" are common in other business fields, and are even becoming more common in veterinary medicine, but will it work for human medicine? Continue reading Concierge Medicine: Doctors on Retainer?
Digital Health Tools & Wearables Can Save the Healthcare Industry Billions
Fitbit—the handy little wrist pedometer that is so much more than that—recently had a huge IPO that's gotten a lot of people talking about the future of digital health tools and what it means for the healthcare industry. Continue reading Digital Health Tools & Wearables Can Save the Healthcare Industry Billions
The ACA's Impact on Self-Pay
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Does Credit History Matter in Self-Pay?
Believe it or not, a report issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau states that up to 26 million people—or 1 in every 10—in the United States don't have a credit history with one of the three nationwide consumer reporting agencies. Beyond that, roughly 19 million don't have a credit history extensive enough to create a credit score.
What does this have to do with self-pay and hospitals? More than you might imagine.
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Parisian designer Gaby Aghion founded the now world-famous French fashion house Chloé in 1952. Today the globally successful brand provides fashion-forward women with a coveted collection of ready-to-wear pieces and accessories. From sleek, simple silk-crepe shirts to cut-out blouses in silk and organza, Chloé tops are thoroughly cutting-edge. A polished, pared-back colour palette creates a modern feel, while flattering cuts make these tops perfect for desk-to-dinner dressing.
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