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Another Year of FHE
I made it! I planned and shared another Year of FHE.
Will I be back in 2012? I think so.
But I need your help.
PLEASE leave a comment here with lesson topic suggestions for 2012.
Before you add one try searching for the term in the search bar to make sure it hasn't been covered.
I may continue in 2012 if we can get enough good ideas.
Here are a few I already thought of...
- Health & Exercise
- Understanding Death
- Peer Pressure
- Gossip
- More Bible and BOM stories (of course).
- Internet Safety
- Stranger Danger
- Celebrating Diversity (to go along with the One in a Million campaign)
- Adoption
- Genealogy
- Appreciating Music (learning to lead music)
- The Armor of God
- Loving the Elderly
- Serving in our community
- Working Hard
- Priorities
- Using the Children's Friend magazine.
- Happiness
- You are not alone
- Writing a personal history
- All About Me
- Talents
- Family Member Showcase
- Conquering Fears
- What is Heaven like?
- Disabilities (Loving and helping those with)
- Having a good Attitude
- Being reliable (keeping your word/honoring your commitments)
18 Way Righteous Comments:
- HB Redbird said...
Well you mentioned many that I was thinking of. Important events for next year are: leap year, presidential election, and supposed end of times.
- December 28, 2011 at 6:04 AM
- Emily said...
I thought about journal keeping. :)
- December 28, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Jaymerz said...
I wouldn't mind topic repeats either, some topics you can never have to many lessons on. As a family this year we are trying to follow the 2012 Primary outline so any of those topics would be great. I know the first month is on Agency but that is as far as I have gotten in my planning. Thanks for all you do, your lessons have been a huge help to our family!!
- December 28, 2011 at 8:55 AM
I know you mentioned priesthood but just as a suggestion for that maybe compare priesthood to food like a hamburger to a starving man on an island. We can have that hamburger but if we dont eat it we wont be able to gain its benefits i.e. the flavor, nutrition out body needs, energy, calories etc like the priesthood we can "have" the priesthood but if we dont use it like it should be used its is basically useless. If callings are not performed and blessongs not given when asked for and spirit not used the proesthood becomes uselss like the hamburger to the starving man who wont eat it. Maybe that will be something fun to do for that subject.
- December 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM
Also we are doing a year of service. Every month we will meet as a family and decide on a group or charity that we can perform a service for everything from donating dog food to a shelter to actually going and donating time. So every month we will do this and in doing this we will learn more about our community and all of the groups and charities that are in our community and what help they need and in that we will discover our blessings...
- December 28, 2011 at 9:30 AM
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- December 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM
- The Matthews Family said...
I would like to have more holiday/season specific FHEs this year. For instance, more FHEs about the true meaning of Christmas or Easter, or do more love FHEs for February for Valentine's Day. I want to do more FHEs that will tie into the holidays to teach the kids that they aren't just about presents/food/treats/etc! My kids are also quite young, so I'm thinking this will help them put it all into practice! Thanks for all you do! ; )
- December 28, 2011 at 10:20 AM
What about doing a personal safety, knowing address and phone number and lessons on what to do in emergencies such as fire danger, stop drop and roll, calling 911, ect.
- December 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM
What about doing a personal safety, knowing address and phone number and lessons on what to do in emergencies such as fire danger, stop drop and roll, calling 911, ect.
- December 28, 2011 at 12:36 PM
- Amber said...
All of those sound great! I searched for modesty but didn't find it...which can't be right I thought I saw that lesson. But that's my idea. :)
- December 28, 2011 at 2:08 PM
- Becca B said...
i just found your blog and i am so excited that you are going ahead with 2012. I really liked the idea of having a theme for each month, it makes it easy to plan lessons and tie in activities. An idea for the holiday season could be "Christmas Around the World"
- December 28, 2011 at 5:28 PM
- Tristan said...
I wanted to say I've just found your site and look forward to poking around.
On topic - my family follows the Primary themes for the year (each month has weekly subtopics!) so any lessons to match that would be a hit here. I'm planning on searching your archives to see what I can match up already, too.
Thanks! Anything to make FHE more likely to happen is great - especially in my busy family. We welcome baby #7 in less than 2 weeks. He's coming with some physical challenges and surgeries. My other children are 10, 7, 6, 4, 2, 1, so we've got a lot going on here.
- December 28, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Mrs. Wright said...
Hi Emilie! I've been meaning to thank you for some time for all the effort you put into organizing all of these lessons!!! I've been so impressed from the moment I stumbled upon this blog and you have to know how much it helps!! We have a one and two year old so keeping the lessons simple are a bonus. I LOVE the monthly themes and think it would be wise to tie into the holidays somehow. Maybe some lessons on (knowing who you are) a child of God, manners, SHARING, teaching them their important and of worth, teaching them how much their loved (john 3:16) -would be fun for vday. Anything you do I know will be great!! BTW you must know about a week after we did the 911 emergency lesson (which my 2yr old LOVED) our house almost caught on fire!! Also, the alarm was accidently pulled in church while our little guy was in nursery. Because of this lesson he was prepared and knew what was going on. How thankful we've been for having taught him. I don't think I would have thought to have that as a lesson if it weren't for you and this blog. Especially at his age. Knowledge certainly is power!! THANK YOU!!...Please keep this blog going. I know its making a difference!! :)
- December 28, 2011 at 8:54 PM
- Marisa said...
How about humility?
- December 28, 2011 at 9:15 PM
- stevie kay said...
I know you already have your lessons planned (and they look great!) but I was thinking that if you ever had a week you couldn't get a lesson up, it would be a great opportunity to repost lessons on emergency preparedness, or an important doctrine like the plan of salvation. With young children, it seems like those are things we need to go over more than once.
- December 29, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Carmella S. Blitch said...
Please do keep doing this! My suggestion is Esteem. Like self esteem and the family. Praising family members.
- February 6, 2012 at 10:44 AM
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Either Sony's gotta cut its price or the Danish kroner's gotta get a lot weaker against the dollar for the PSPgo's sake. It's listed at 2,000 DKK — or AU$454, one reason retailers there aren't stocking the thing.
Denmark's Ekstra Bladet reports (translation) that Telefonadress ("Fona") will not sell the PSPGo in any of its 64 locations. Danish Supermarket, which runs 80 Fotex supermarkets and 15 Bilka hypermarkets, also is opting out. Finally, Coolshop.dk, one of the country's largest online electronics retailers, has said forget it.
"We initially chose not to take PSPgo into the mix," said Fona's commercial director, Mikael Drott. We belive it is priced wrong compared to the PSP we sell now. It must come down in price before it will be interesting for us. Right now it costs just the same as a PlayStation 3."
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Vatican City, Jun 13, 2012 / 01:56 pm ().- The Vatican has announced that it wants to create a ".catholic" domain name as a way of validating official Catholic institutions online – just one day after rolling out a major shift in its communications strategy.
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The online suffix would be granted by the Vatican to Catholic bodies across the world so that internet users "can be certain that it's coming from a genuinely Catholic source," he said.
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The Vatican Press Office will also increase its staff, following the parallel decision to transfer workers across from the Vatican Information Service, which will close down at the end of July.
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The Vatican's Press Office also announced June 12 that "the extensive archive of more than 85,000 articles" in various languages that were created by the VIS … "will be conserved and integrated, with a simple and rapid search engine," which will be accessible on the press office's website.
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Not enough time for medical training-A problem in Europe as well?
Aggravated Docsurg has recently discussed the issue and quotes an interesting article in the American Journal of Surgery. The article reveals that 89% of surgery residents who completed an anonymous survey reported they "cheated" on the 80 hour work restriction rule. That is- they worked longer but did not report the hours correctly. This also occurred in 74% of non-surgery residents.
The authors of the article seemed to be alarmed that surgery residents were placing their allegiance to the concept of individual responsibility for patient care above a team approach and to adhere to the rules. When did individual responsibility stop being a core value of being a physician or -in current jargon- a major element of professionalism ? Recent apparent revisions in the expressed views of ACME seem to point in that direction. I have written about that before. In 2003 the ACME eliminated the statement that is a touchstone of interning training:
"Physicians...Must recognize their obligation to patients is not discharged at any given time or any given day".
Are there competing visions- the individual responsibility physician versus the shift work doctor.?
The new work hour restrictions in Europe have generated concern that there is not enough time to properly train specialists.Summer's Radiology Site references an article in which British gastroenterologists report trainees no longer have time to perform the necessary number of endoscopies to become proficient due to the duty time restrictions. This lead to the following comments by one of the GI docs involved in a training program:
"You can't shoehorn more training and other work into less and less time and expect the same quality of training."
This statement echos the opinion of the training program directors quoted above who said:
"There is simply insufficient time to educate the internal medicine residents in the present regulatory environment."
This transatlantic meeting of the minds is sobering. The folks who make the rules (ACGME in the U.S.) and whoever in Europe ought to listen to the real life experiences of those program directors and the trainees who have to live by their rules before we have a generation of less well trained specialists who will go home at 5 p.m.
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- Anonymous said...
Hmm. Yes, but what about the large number of patient injuries that result from tired interns/residents? Aren't you asking the injured to bear the cost of med school training? Should the trainees themselves bear the cost (as they derive the benefit directly) and just make medical school training longer? Either the med students pay or their patients do--I say let the med students. (And no whining about debt; everyone has it. In relative terms, it hasn't changed much. Further, it makes no difference to the moral/economic argument)
- james gaulte said...
One of the possible solutions to the problem of increasing educational requirements and decreasing time avaialable is to increase the length of residency training.IM is currently 3 years post med school, in the past it was 4 years and there was significantly less to learn back then.Why was the training shortened anyway?
- Anonymous said...
I am just not getting the complaints over this 80 hour workweek requirement. If a resident gets one day a week off, this translates into 80/6 or 13.3 hours a day. If the resident gets no days off ever, it comes to 80/7 or 11.5 days a week. But I doubt residents NEVER get a day off.
In 13 hours a resident should be able to do everything he needs to do, including substantial learning. Anyway, even if 80 is not enough, what is? 90? 100? I don't think very many people could work 100 hrs a week long term. Myself, I can handle 90 for awhile but the returns are diminishing rapidly at that point.
Caring for patients effectively means not just quantity, but quality. Certainly residencies can figure out how to efficiently mange the time of their residents. Efficiency matters in every job, medical and non medical.
I have to scoff at the idea that there is not enough time in 80 hours to get enough colonoscopies. An experienced endoscoper can do a scope in about 20-30 minutes. If a resident devotes 2 hours a day to endoscopies, that would be 4 studies a day, and well over 1,000 studies a year. That, to my knowledge, is enough to qualify for licensure.
I am not against lengthening residencies if programs feel they need more time. However, the longer a residency is the more medical students will be tempted into specialties and away from primary care. Who wants to spend 5 years becoming a family doc when the same time investment will make you an ophthomologist and double your income?


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Does anyone know who besides Jim was going to be in this movie? I thought for some reason Johnny Depp was in it, and thought i was wrong until i noticed it was being directed by Tim Burton... so that definately make it possible that he was casting Johnny at some point.
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Regardless of whether or not teens should care about body image or physical appearances, the truth is that we do care, a lot. And working out is a healthy way to look and feel better. The trouble comes when people sacrifice their health to look buff—like by taking steroids.
While not that many teens try steroids even once, according to NIDA surveys (about 3 in 100), those who do use steroids are getting a lot more than just larger muscles. Steroids can cause acne and make your hair fall out. They can also damage your heart and change your hormone levels so that girls might grow facial hair, and boys could develop breasts. Seriously.
In the video above, NIDA scientist Dr. Baler reveals more about what steroids can do.
I have a friend who takes steroids since 10 years. He has NO-ZERO-NADA-NONE-0 immune system, he catches colds etc. every week but he continues taking steroids just to look good, I feel sorry for him :(
That's crazy that at the end of the video he talks about the effects can be irreversable. Amazing. It's too bad that it's all about looks. People don't take roids to get stronger (for the most part) they want to get bigger and look better. So sad. Great video and I hope more people start realizing this!
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That is strong video. Good to know all these negative effects. Also, as you have mentioned it, steroids could trigger acne. Acne is one big issue for young people. I have my blog [removed link, per g/l] full with info about acne cure. It could be interesting to those who already developed acne problem using steroids.
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He has NO-ZERO-NADA-NONE-0 immune system, he catches colds etc. every week but he continues taking steroids just to look good, I feel sorry for him :(
Take steriods to improve your look - often it has the reverse effect.
As thatsit say, your immune system can go to zero
Side effects can be hair loss (a tabu subject for many and a BIG influence on your self esteem), lower sex drive (no further comment needed for this one I believe etc.
A steriods side effect campaign would solve a lot of this, I believe - maybe include it with the drug awareness campaigns...
Life is a journey, not a destination "Aerosmith"
And I was thinking to start taking steroids, I think I will leave them be. Thanks for this video, It sure attacks on a broad reasons why we should not take steroids and people need to know this.
But If steroids as that bad, what do you think of supplements??
These supplements although help sometime don't live up to their hype...But this so far has work.
thank you about intresting post.
thanks for sharing the info
mariguana is bad
mariguana is bad
Is It worth it to take steroids? I think steroids also has some advantage though.. Why was it manufactured for? But maybe if you take in excess it will cause problems. Is it really that bad? Even with small amount of it? I really think there's an advantage on it. Although I know in excess of it is bad. I'd prefer not to take it.
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thanks to share very impressive article.Awesome article
Taking steroids to improve your looks isn't worth the affects that can happen. Working out if healthy for your body. Working out correctly can get the same look. You could look buff just by working out. Steroids have so many bad side effects. Its nice to know all of them.
the reason some people use steroids is because the want to look different. but when you use steriods your hair can fall out thats not very attractive. and i know people who hate needles so why would you stab yourself with needles just to be a little faster a little stronger or a little better at sports. i dont thing the long term effects are worth it. as a serious full time dancer i am FULLY against this and fully support all you good people :)
It has been my experience that many health issues experienced by both men and women can be caused by hormone imbalance.
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Do Loose Lips Sink Ships?
Yes, I am sure they do when it comes to war and certainly there are many aspects of business where confidentiality is important.
But in a post on the Union Square Ventures weblog, my partner Brad notes that there is a high correlation between how open an entrepreneur is with the market and how successful they are.
Brad says:
I noticed that, at least anecdotally, there was a correlation between
how open entrepreneurs were with us and their ultimate success. Simply
put the entrepreneurs who are aggressively open in describing their
plans seem to do better than the ones who are cagey. There is
absolutely no data underneath this observation. It is just my sense
after meeting hundreds of entrepreneurs over 15 years as a VC.
and he goes on to suggest that:
an entrepreneur should be open with everyone, and that they will get
the most value out of being open with the people who are most
knowledgeable about the particular problem they are trying to solve.
The people most knowledgeable about a problem are also the ones best
positioned to compete with the entrepreneur, so the entrepreneur has
more to gain and more to lose by being open with these people. From one
perspective, the risks and rewards of being open are perfectly
balanced. Every insight comes at the cost of another potential
competitor, but that calculus leaves out the whole problem of
execution. If an entrepreneur is incrementally more prepared to execute
on an idea that the person they are sharing it with, they should still
gain even if they engage in an open (and equal) exchange with a
potential competitor.
I think that last point is the clincher. "If an entrepreneur is incrementally more prepared (should it be equipped?) to execute on an idea" then they should be as open as possible. It's an interesting suggestion and worthy of debate. Which is exactly what is going on in the comments to Brad's post on the USV blog.


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I highly suggest you to start reading all the posts on a thread WAY BEFORE even thinking of posting
Seriously, are you on a quest to make a fool of yourself?
Wake up already
Also, to respond to a visitor message you should go onto the other person's account and respond to it there. This was something I never learned until recently.
You do know that that a tryout for the clan you want to join should be made IN ADDTIION to your request to join?
YOu should check the front page of the clan. They usually have instructions for their tryouts there.
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ShadowPlay is an extra functionality that allows the owners of compatible Nvidia Kepler-based graphic cards to take advantage of the built-in H.264 encoder to record gameplay video with hardware acceleration directly into small in size MP4 video files. ShadowPlay is a part of the GeForce Experience software that now comes as a part of the Nvidia video drivers, and although it is still in Beta stage it looks quite promising. And while ShadowPlay was introduced last month with the release of the GeForce Experience 1.7 software I still haven't been able to try the software, but now I can and since Nvidia just released a new GeForce 331.82 WHQL video driver that comes with an update to GeForce Experience 1.7.1 it is time to try out this feature. Aside from the new version of the Geforce Experience software the new video drivers also come with a 3D Vision profile for the game Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag and it is rated as "Good" for playing in stereo 3D with 3D Vision setups.
Looking at the ShadowPlay interface you can easily see that it is designed with the normal users in mind, by providing you with a simple and easy to understand clickable buttons for configurations. But more advanced users like me will miss some simple things like an option to remap the default ALT + F9 key combination for manual start/stop of the recording for example or an option to control the recording resolution or framerate and so on. Hopefully Nvidia is going to add some more extra controls for the more advanced users as well with upcoming updates.
What I still haven't mentioned regarding ShadowPlay is if ti supports recording of stereoscopic 3D gameplay videos as this is something that people playing on 3D Vision setups actually do need and can appreciate. Officially before the release of the ShadowPlay feature Nvidia did not say that it will have stereo 3D support, and now that the software is available still no official 3D Vision support. The good news is that ShadowPlay can actually already record stereo 3D gameplay videos, but with one important thing to note – the 3D video you get is also in 1920×1080 resolution meaning that it is essentially recorded in Half Side by Side format (half horizontal resolution per eye). Not that this is a bad thing compatibility wise, but it would've been nice if the user can select between Half SbS mode and Full Side by Side (maybe limitation of the hardware H.264 encoder?). FRAPS for example as the only other gameplay video capture software with stereoscopic 3D video recording support does only output in Full Side by Side format, but the major problem with FRAPS is that the video output is hardly compressed and recording 3D video does result in a lot of gigabytes per minute of recording.
So to summarize things, the ShadowPlay feature is apparently intended for gameplay video recording of 2D gameplay, though it also supports 3D gameplay video recording in Half Side by Side format meaning that the two views are squashed in a single Full HD frame and FRAPS on the other hand produces Full Side by Side output when recording stereoscopic 3D video. ShadowPlay does output small H.264 compressed video files that are ready for online sharing, unlike FRAPS that produces multi-gigabyte files for each minute of recorded footage and recording 3D makes the files even bigger, s you need to re-compress them before uploading and sharing them. The performance drop when using ShadowPlay should be significantly less, because the hardware H.264 encoder of the video card is used to compress and output small files, unlike FRAPS where the CPU handles the minimal compression applied and the HDD/SSD needs to handle the serious load caused by the large amounts of data written each second, so the performance drop is more significant. FRAPS has more features and more controls for the more advanced users while maintaining ease of use by the normal user as compared to the way too user friendly and somewhat lacking features interface of the ShadowPlay.
And now for some tests of ShadowPlay and a comparison with FRAPS when both are set to record video at 1080p 60 fps in various conditions in the game Battlefield 4. The game was chosen because it can be quite heavy even for the fastest GPUs when you up the graphical settings to the maximum as in the current case – Ultra Quality with 4xMSAA with a GeForce GTX 780 Ti video card. Battlefield 4 is not recommended by Nvidia to be played in stereoscopic 3D mode with 3D Vision, but it is still Ok for benchmarks and recording, so take a look at the interesting results below.
2D mode:
– 96 fps in 2D mode playing with 3D Vision disabled in the Control Panel
– 90 fps in 2D mode with ShadowPlay recording and 3D Vision disabled in the Control Panel
– 51 fps in 2D mode recording video with FRAPS and 3D Vision disabled in the Control Panel
3D mode:
– 69 fps in 2D mode playing with 3D Vision enabled in the Control Panel, but turned off
– 38 fps in stereo 3D mode with 3D Vision enabled and running
– 36 fps in stereo 3D mode with ShadowPlay recording video
– 25 fps in stereo 3D mode with FRPAS recording video on an SSD drive
File size:
– FRAPS 1 min 2D – 2.8 GB
– FRAPS 1 min 3D – 4.4 GB
– ShadowPlay 1 min high 2D/3D ~ 112 MB (varies based on the content)
As you can see from the results above, by using ShadowPlay you get to loose much less FPS compared to when recording video with FRAPS and also the output video's file size can be significantly less. Aside from that you can probably notice that Battlefield 4 does not handle that well performance wise with 3D Vision enabled, even when it is not active you still get significant performance drop as compared to normal 2D mode and that is probably half the reason why the game has a Not Recommended rating for 3D Vision and the other half is the visual issues when rendering in stereo 3D mode.
And one interesting observation that I made while testing was the fact that as long as 3D Vision is activated from the Nvidia Control Panel then when you record gameplay video with ShadowPlay you are getting a stereo 3D recording in Half Side by Side format, regardless if you have pressed CTRL+T to enable or disable the display of 3D data on the screen. So you need to be careful when you want to play and record gameplay video in 2D mode you will have to disable the 3D Vision stereoscopic 3D support form the Control Panel before running the game and for recording stereo 3D gameplay video the good thing is that you may not actually play in stereo 3D mode while recording in it.


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If you suspect child abuse
The two most generally recognized forms of child abuse are physical abuse (nonaccidental physical injury to a child) and sexual abuse (sexual interaction with or exploitation of a child by an adult, or by another child when there is a power or age differential).
Child neglect is generally recognized to include failure to provide for a child's physical needs (such as food, clothing, and supervision), failure to meet medical or educational needs, and abandonment.
Some abuse or neglect occurs because a parent intentionally sets out to harm his or her child, or willfully ignores the child's needs. There are other times, however, when the abuse or neglect results from parental ignorance or family stresses. For example, a parent may be immature, or may come from a family or cultural background in which certain harmful approaches to child rearing are not considered abusive. Or parents may be experiencing medical, financial, or emotional challenges that affect their ability to care for their children.
The following two resources explain the types of abuse and neglect and list warning signs in a child or parent that may indicate the child is being abused: "Child Abuse and Neglect: How to Spot the Signs and Make a Difference" and "What Is Child Abuse and Neglect? Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms."
If you think that a child you know may be experiencing abuse or neglect, it is important to follow up on your concerns. We encourage you to consider the following questions.
What is the nature of the situation?As mentioned above, child abuse and neglect can occur within different sets of circumstances for which different responses may be appropriate. Sometimes what appears to be neglect, for example, does not result from intentional lack of care but rather because the family is struggling financially or with some other challenge. Situations such as these can sometimes be remedied by helping the family to access outside support, such as financial assistance, parenting workshops, or respite care.
Sometimes parents are not aware that their actions could be harmful to their children. In such cases, it may be effective to communicate your concerns directly to the parents.
What is the source of your concerns?If your suspicions of child abuse or neglect are based on hearsay, it is worth your time and effort to explore the situation further before taking action. Rumor is often far removed from facts. If your suspicions are based on direct observation of the family, we still urge caution. There may be a reasonable explanation for what you have observed.
We do not by any means suggest that you should ignore your genuine suspicions, but rather that you should proceed with care.
Is a private response appropriate?Whether you should speak directly with the parents may depend on your relationship with the family. If you have a caring, trust-based relationship with the parents, they may feel more open to hearing your concerns and more willing to accept help if it is needed. If you are not close to the family, you might speak with someone among the family's relatives, church, homeschool group, or other community.
It is not always advisable to inform parents of your concerns. In some situations, parents may blame or punish their child for others' suspicions, or abuse may continue in secret. Avoid speaking with the parents if you believe it will place you or the child at risk of harm.
Should you notify the authorities?All states have a child protective services (CPS) system whose role is to investigate child abuse and neglect accusations. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, CPS may refer the family for special services such as counseling or support groups, bring charges in juvenile court, refer the matter to the police for criminal investigation, or remove the children from the home. If you believe that abuse or criminal neglect is occurring, and if personal intervention with the family is not advisable, a report to the police or CPS is appropriate. If there is legitimate reason to believe that a child is being subjected to sexual abuse, call the police at once.
In an emergency situation—if you believe that a child is at risk of imminent serious harm—please call 911.
For those familiar with HSLDA's long-term advocacy efforts for homeschooling and parental rights, you are probably aware that we have sincere concerns about the way child abuse investigations are sometimes carried out. Because the CPS system often takes a one-size-fits-all approach to investigating child abuse, tips are not appropriately prioritized and each family, no matter what the allegations, is subjected to the same interviews and searches. HSLDA believes that a more flexible approach to investigation, as well as a greater respect for parents' Fourth Amendment rights, would more effectively protect children from abuse.
At the same time, we take child abuse seriously and we urge you to do the same. Please do not hesitate to contact the authorities if the situation demands it. Children cannot protect themselves from abuse and are dependent on adults to take appropriate action on their behalf.
Further questions
What is mandatory reporting?
Every state has laws that require certain people (called "mandatory reporters") to report all suspected child abuse and neglect to the proper authorities or be liable to prosecution. Mandatory reporters are usually people who might come to know of instances of child abuse in the course of exercising their profession—doctors and other medical personnel, teachers and other educators, counselors and therapists, and social workers. If you have questions about whether you are a mandatory reporter, please contact HSLDA.
Learn more about mandatory reporting laws here.
If I think a family might be abusing or neglecting their children, can I call HSLDA for advice?
We are always happy to help our members. If you have suspicions of child abuse or neglect, we may be able to assist you as you consider how best to proceed, although the final decision will be left to you.
We may be unable to answer questions that are specific in nature, especially if they involve another member family. Because HSLDA is a law firm, when our attorneys speak with our members about legal issues it can create an attorney-client relationship. We are bound by legal ethics not to represent any interest contrary to that of our clients.
The information below and on our child abuse resource page can also help you think about what action to take if you are concerned about possible abuse in a family.
Do you need help right away?
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
Call 1-800-4-A-CHILD (1-800-422-4453) to speak with a hotline counselor 24/7. All calls are anonymous. The hotline counselors do not report abuse, but can tell you how to get help in your local area. For more information about the hotline, visit Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline or Help for Kids.
Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family offers a wealth of resources ranging from education to help for families in crisis. Visit Focus on the Family or call 1-855-771-HELP (4357), Monday through Friday, 6:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Mountain Time to speak with Focus on the Family Help Center counselors.
If there is an emergency, please call 911.
Please note: Nothing on this webpage constitutes the giving of legal advice. By including links to other websites, HSLDA does not endorse all the information found on those sites.


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Heaven to be outsourced
Security firm G4S' vision for Heavens new pearly gates
In an announcement that rocked global financial markets today the Kingdom of Heaven has revealed it is to outsource much of its operation to the private sector. Numerous invitations to tender have been sent across industry with perimeter security and IT modernisation high on the eternal realms wish list.
Security firm G4S are thought to be favourites for the perimeter security contract, modernising the famed pearly gates with security cameras and a substantial 24 hour security force.
"Take the front gate, the whole Saint Peter keeping the keys and checking everyone in was fine years ago as there weren't that many people around then, but nowadays he just can't cope with demand", said a spokesperson for God. And given Heavens explosive growth over the last 2 millennium it is hardly surprising.
Only last year Heaven hit the headlines when Saint Peter mislaid the keys to the main gate for 4 hours and caused a huge backlog of frustrated souls many of whom gave up and settled for Hell instead, losing Heaven considerable market share. Saint Peter, one of the original 12 apostles who headed up Heaven's Marketing department has held the post of "keeper of the keys" (more commonly referred to as "Main Gate Security") for nearly 2,000 years.
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The largest contract on offer is a potentially lucrative computerisation and IT outsourcing deal to replace Heaven's volumes of ancient tomes that until now have been completed in quill and ink.
"Computerisation will not only make us more efficient but will free up a lot of space" said an angelic spokesperson earlier today "we keep an awful lot of records what with God being omnipresent, he does like to get everything written down".
In the running to win the IT contract is a consortium lead by US IT services giant EDS (now an HP company) with the Church of England as their principal partner. A spokesperson for EDS commented "we were pursuing an outsourcing deal to run the back office operations for Boots the Chemists but this is in a whole other league".
City analysts agree that there are very tangible gains to be had from an effectively outsourced IT department that will allow Heaven to concentrate on its core business of saving souls from eternal damnation.
Difficult Commercial Arrangements
As well as the sheer scale of the deals there are other significant challenges to overcome for the contracts potential new incumbents, "Heaven just has to get in touch with the 21st century, and it is this reluctance to modernise that will present a significant barrier to Heaven's transformation" said an industry spokesperson.
Agreeing financial terms is already proving difficult from the outset, with Heaven only prepared to offer eternal salvation as a means of payment, as a city analyst remarked "eternal salvation for your souls just won't cut it as revenue in today's business world, I mean how are companies supposed to record that in their annual reports?".
Agreeing Service levels is another sticking point, with Heaven so far only identifying one service level "Do my bidding or burn in hell for all eternity". Lengthy commercial negotiations are expected.
Competing with Hell
Heaven can learn a lot from their only competitors in the duopoly market place – Hell. The underworld took the lead and outsourced its IT operations to EDS nearly 6 years ago. Just last year they extended the contract into supply chain management and this extension is already providing real benefits, as Antaeus, a giant demon from the 9th level of Hell remarked "our supply of fire and brimstone in particular has never been so smoothly managed, we now have the luxury of anticipating demand rather than just fire-fighting shortfalls all the time".
A key question on every analysts lips is can EDS effectively manage both contracts without a conflict of interest? Most city analysts agree that they probably can "the clients core business is essentially the same, I think EDS is in a unique position to generate real synergy, however it will give them a bit of a monopoly on the supply of IT services to the eternal realms, I think this may count against them".
Huge Redundancies expected
There is of course expected to be substantial workforce realignment with the introduction of the new contracts. The highest profile redundancy is expected to be Saint Peter who is expected to take a generous offer of early retirement, sources close to him commented "I think Pete is looking forward to it to be honest, he's long had plans to open up a small garden centre in Surrey (England)".
But finding work for most of those made redundant may not be so easy as most of Hell's laid off workforce can testify. Geryon, the Giant centaur who was previously guardian of hell has been out of work since Hell outsourced his security role to Securicor 4 years ago "they'd better start tarting up their CV's now" he advised.
Saint Peter is expected to take early retirement when the deal completes
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The multitudes of practitioners who know what a powerful healing tool yoga can be have been working for decades to include it in health and healing modalities both mentally and physically. Now, fashion mogul Donna Karen is forging a path for yoga within traditional medical settings. Through an $850,000 grant to Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, the Urban Zen Initiative will incorporate yoga therapy into the healing regimens of cancer patients.
Known as the Urban Zen Initiative the year long grant will provide funding for integrative yoga therapists to assist cancer patients with gentle asana, breathing techniques and meditation. In addition, the grant will sponsor research which hopes to show decreased length of hospital stays and a lesser need for anti-anxiety medication. "If this is something we're going to go out and convince hospitals around the country to replicate, we have to be able to show it saves money in the long run or at least is cost-neutral and you end up with happier patients," says Benjamin Kligler, director of the research.
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Karan has personally experienced the benefit of yoga in conjunction with traditional cancer treatments. Her husband, who died of lung cancer at 62, was able to utilize yoga and breathing techniques to increase his quality of life during the end of his illness, and her long-time friend and former model Lynn Kohlman received a devastating breast cancer diagnosis and was given only months to live, but at the encouragement of Karan practiced yoga for 5 ½ years before she passed.
There are skeptics, though. In order for many "scientific medicine" practitioners to utilize alternative therapies, there will have to be proof. The body of evidence is growing. In addition to Karan's initiative, researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have found that patients have found yoga useful in combating the side-effects from breast cancer treatments in a study that was funded by a $2.4 million grant from the National Cancer Institute in 2006. And dozens of other studies are being conducted all over the world to prove the effects of yoga as a supplemental treatment in devastating illnesses.
If the Urban Zen Initiative research proves positive, this experiment could add to the potential of wide-spread change in traditional health care. Instead of viewing patients as a list of symptoms and specialties, there is hope that traditional Western medical practitioners will pay attention to the positive outcomes of treating the whole person. The inclusion of modalities like yoga therapy could be extremely important in defining and addressing these patients as people who deal with much more than physical illness. Yoga therapists may not provide medications to heal sickness or scientifically based treatments, but they can be a salve to the spirit in the midst of frightening and debilitating illness and become an essential component of treatment and maintaining quality of life.


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22.214.171.124 Tropical cyclones
Here we assess only AOGCM-related results pertaining to tropical cyclones. For further discussion of results from embedded and mesoscale models regarding possible future changes in tropical cyclone activity, see Chapter 10 (also refer to Box 10.2 for a summary). The ability of global models to accurately represent tropical cyclone phenomena, and their present limitations in this regard, is important for understanding their projection of possible future changes. These capabilities are discussed in detail in Chapter 8.
Some of the global climate models suggest an increase in tropical storm intensities with CO2-induced warming (Krishnamurti et al., 1998), though a limitation of that study is the short two year model run. However, the highest resolution global climate model experiment reported to date (Bengtsson et al., 1996; see Chapter 10) still has a resolution too coarse (about 1°) to simulate the most intense storms or realistically simulate structures such as the hurricane eye.
Indices of tropical cyclone activity (Gray, 1979) summarise the necessary large-scale conditions for tropical cyclone activity from coarse resolution GCMs (Evans and Kempisty, 1998; Royer et al., 1998). The latter study examined large-scale atmospheric and oceanic conditions (vertical shear, vorticity and thermo-dynamic stability), and suggested that only small changes in the tropical cyclone frequencies would occur (up to a 10% increase in the Northern Hemisphere primarily in the north-west Pacific, and up to a 5% decrease in the Southern Hemisphere). Climate change studies to date show a great sensitivity to the measure of convective activity chosen, and depend less on the model produced fields. Additionally, the broad geographic regions of cyclogenesis, and therefore also the regions affected by tropical cyclones, are not expected to change significantly (Henderson-Sellers et al., 1998). This is because results from Holland's (1997) Maximum Potential Intensity model show that even with substantial (1 to 2°C) SST increases in the tropics from global warming, one would also get a correspondingly much bigger warming in the upper troposphere leading to very little change in the moist static stability (Holland, 1997). Another study shows areas of deep convection that can be associated with tropical cyclone formation would not expand with increases in CO2 due to an increase of the SST threshold for occurrence of deep convection (Dutton et al., 2000). Additionally, since tropical storm activity in most basins is modulated by El Niño/La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, projections of future regional changes in tropical storm frequencies may depend on accurate projections of future El Niño conditions, an area of considerable uncertainty for climate models (as noted in Section 220.127.116.11).
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Or, with their irritatingly ironic "Downgrade Today!" slogan, they're the pre-stained Levis of the electronics world: a snobby fashion statement that makes you look like a dick for calling attention to how much money you spend on your gadgets. Either way. [Highsnobiety —Thanks, David!]


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Seven More Florida Games
Seven more games in Florida, including four at Bright House Field. ESPN and the Red Sox today.
Phillies have 40 players still in camp. Need to get to 25 by April 4, the day before their season opener in Pittsburgh. More than 25 will go north because of the two-game On-Deck Series with the Pirates that starts a week from today.
Minor leaguers in uniform today include pitchers Hector Neris, Lisalverto Bonilla, Tyson Brummett and Ryan Duke and 3B Maikel Franco.
Did You Know?
Rookie Freddy Galvis leads the Phillies this spring in hits (16), total bases (28) and RBI (12).
Spring Awards
Prior to today's game three annual awards were presented:
**John Vukovich Award (loyalty, dedication, competitiveness, knowledge, honesty and terrific work ethic): Carlos Arroyo, currently the Phillies rehab pitching coach. Carlos has been in the Phillies minor league system beginning in 1975 serving as pitching coach at different levels. In addition, he coordinates the pitching in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela academies. Arroyo will also receive the award from a Vukovich family member on Toyota Alumni Night at Citizens Bank Park, August 11.
**Bill Giles Award (love and respect for the game, outstanding work ethic, pride in bein a member of the Phillies organization): INF-OF Tim Kennelly.
**Larry Rojas Award (same attributes as Giles but presented to a Hispanic player): 3B Franco.
Eleven minor league players were sent home on Sunday:
Pitchers Paul Cusick, Rye Davis, Ian Durham, Juary Gomez, Chase Johnson, Jack Van Leur, Robert Cooper and Fabian Cota; outfielder Luis Unda and infielders Geancrlo Mendez and Mike Marshall.
To the family of Dennis Bennett, former Phillies left-handed pitcher, who died on Saturday in Klamath Falls, OR. He was 72.
Bennett pitched in the majors for seven seasons, the first three years with the Phillies (1962-64). He was 30-28, 3.48 ERA with the Phillies, including 12-14 in 1964. Dennis also pitched for the Red Sox, Mets and Angels.
Opening Day Memories
Marty Bystrom (RHP, 1980-84)
"Seeing "Irish" Mike Ryan catch a ball dropped from a helicopter. Still don't know how he did it."
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Evolution Soccer necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 127 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
Evolution Soccer Academy
Evolution Soccer Academy is a new Soccer Training Organization providing professional soccer training for players of all ages & abilities. There are a Multitude of Soccer Training Organizations, but we are looking to set ourselves apart with our Elite level of training, innovative approach to training and being at the cutting edge of the marketplace.
We are based out of Southern California and our name Evolution tells the story of how we expect our players to "Evolve" through the stages of development during their experience with our training programs. Our So Cal base also provides a story for our starting point in this journey from a hip and vibrant community working with young athletes.
Our staff is largely made up of professional soccer trainers from the UK and it is important to us to maintain a clearly "Soccer" related feel to the project with a preference to a badge shape logo often displayed by European Soccer Teams.
With so many Organizations in this genre it is important to Us to create a fresh, vibrant and clean logo that distinguishes itself from the other brands in the field. The Logo will hold a prominent location on the Website, Staff Apparel & possibly on merchandizing that accompanies the programs delivered.
We are open to new and innovative ideas and welcome all submissions.
Our target audience is predominantly Youth Soccer Players in the US. This can include players of all ages and abilities (though our training focus is primarily the serious player)
We also deal on a large scale with the executive boards of Youth Soccer Organizations so a professional product is key.
Our product will also receive significant exposure at a high number of National Events geared towards professional soccer coaches.
Contest Winner MUST provide Vector EPS File of color and Black & White logo versions.
Our preference is for a badge style logo that replicates the many European Soccer Style badges worn by professional teams though do not wont an overly intricate of complicated design. I do like the current LA Galaxy Logo as a modern example and also the NFL updated logo as well.
The logo should be professional, modern, clean and athletic in design.
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I prefer for no abbreviation of the company name "Evolution Soccer Academy" in this project and also do not want any clip art style soccer players or soccer balls in the logo, though I am not opposed to something of this nature if it is a little more abstract and cutting edge.
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As revealed in the verses of the Qur'an, hypocrites are false, two-faced individuals, who behave like true believers, as if they had true faith, when in fact they do not believe at all. Most important, they do not keep this falsity to themselves, but try to infiltrate among true believers and behave like them. The reason they behave in that way is that they hope to enjoy various worldly advantages by staying alongside believers.
They imagine that by approaching believers and pretending to have faith themselves, they can deceive believers and make use of various of the advantages they enjoy.
When they realize they cannot obtain the benefits they hoped for, or when they are visited by troubles or difficulties as a test from Allah, they immediately take their leave and show their true faces. Having departed, or in the act of departure, they also strive to hurt believers or damage the relations between them. Once they have abandoned the believers, they keep trying to collaborate with the deniers. It is for this reason that they are described as "munafiqun" (hypocrites) in the Qur'an (meaning those who spread "nifaq,' or strife and corruption.)
Hypocrites are people described in many verses of the Qur'an, and believers are reminded to watch out for them. Therefore, a believer guided by the Qur'an must be on guard against hypocrites and be aware of their characteristics. Because every community that lives by the moral values of the Qur'an will encounter hypocrites.
It would be a serious error to imagine that these people are a community who only lived in Mecca and Medina at the time of our Prophet (saas). Because these people have changed their guise – as at all periods of history – and adapted themselves to the modern world, and still appear before us as hypocrites.
Today, too, as at all other times, there is a community of hypocrites who imagine they can camouflage themselves by imitating the attributes of Muslims. These people harbor the intention of inflicting material or spiritual damage on believers, turning them away from the faith or turning them toward superstition by sometimes cunningly allying themselves with people who have a dishonest conception of the faith.
All the verses of the Qur'an concerning hypocrites show that Allah will definitely expose them within their community of believers. No matter how cleverly hypocrites may seek to hide their true faces, they will still be recognized by believers at a time of Allah's choosing.
Because that is their destiny. Allah creates them for that end and places them among believers to test the latter. All hypocrites' behavior, words and deeds are described in detail in the Qur'an. No matter what hypocrites do, they will still end up saying and doing these things. It is impossible for them to avoid this course set out in destiny.
There is no need for hypocrites to expose themselves in times of trouble in order for them to be revealed and recognized. If Allah wishes, He gives believers the ability to see hypocrites' two-faced natures. Believers possessing that ability may sometimes treat a hypocrite with tolerance, imagining he may change his behavior. Hypocrites thus imagine they are able to conceal their true selves, but this is a grave error. Believers will also turn their backs on these people when they realize they are totally determined in their hypocrisy.
Allah reveals in the Qur'an that hypocrites can never remain hidden:
"Or did those with sickness in their hearts imagine that Allah would not expose their malevolence?
If We wished, We would show them to you and you would know them by their mark and know them by their ambivalent speech. Allah knows your actions.
We will test you until We know the true fighters among you and those who are steadfast and test what is reported of you." (Surah Muhammad, 29-31)
As revealed in these verses, Allah can expose hypocrites to believers through their expressions and speech. Hypocrites' two-faced natures and the state of fear and insecurity they live in are reflected in their faces and words.
The reward hypocrites' will receive for their two-facedness is terrible suffering in this world and in the Hereafter.
Hypocrites will suffer dreadfully in this world
By giving rise to corruption, hypocrites deserve eternal punishment. By Allah's leave, that punishment will commence while they are still in this world and continue for all eternity in hell in the Hereafter.
First of all, there is a spiritual punishment for hypocrites in this world. They live in a constant state of fear and trouble. They themselves are well aware of their two-faced behavior toward believers. For that reason their consciences are permanently troubled. That unease continues throughout their lives.
They are also in a constant state of fear before and after spreading their corruption. Before their two-facedness is revealed they fear of being exposed by believers. After taking their leave from believers, they live in a constant state of fear that Allah will punish them for their misdeeds. The rise in the number of people living by the moral values of the Qur'an further increases hypocrites' fear. Because as more people believe in Allah they will feel a great regret for having left their ranks for petty worldly concerns. For that reason, at time when the moral values of the Qur'an are widely implemented, some hypocrites come up to believers and try to share their success by suggesting "we were with you." The behavior of hypocrites in the time of our Prophet (saas), when such things also happened, is described as follows in the Qur'an:
Give news to the munafiqun (hypocrites) that they will have a painful punishment. Do those who take unbelievers as protectors, rather than the believers, hope to find power and strength with them? Power and strength belong entirely to Allah. (Surat an-Nisa, 138-139)
Those who anticipate the worst for you say, 'Were we not with you?' whenever you gain a victory from Allah, but if the unbelievers have a success they say, 'Did we not have the upper hand over you and yet in spite of that keep the believers away from you?' Allah will judge between you on the Day of Rising. Allah will not give unbelievers any way against the believers. (Surat an-Nisa, 141)
We are told that in the Age of Happiness, the hypocrites attempted to approach believers in an insincere manner in order to gain a share of the spoils from battles in which our Prophet (saas) had been victorious:
When you go out to get the booty, those who remained behind will say, 'Allow us to follow you,' desiring to alter Allah's words. Say: 'You may not follow us. That is what Allah said before.' They will say, 'It is only because you envy us.' No indeed! How little they have understood! (Surat al-Fath, 15)
As we have seen, the hypocrites tried to reassume their places alongside believers when these surpassed them, but received nothing from the believers. On the contrary, when the believers grew strong they announced the hypocrites' two-facedness to everyone, and the hypocrites were thus humiliated in this world.
They will be cast into the lowest circle of Hell
In return for all this two-facedness, strife and enmity, the hypocrites will receive their real punishment in the Hereafter. The place set aside for them in the Hereafter is the lowest circle of Hell, where the punishment is worst of all. This is revealed thus in the Qur'an:
" The hypocrites are in the lowest level of the Fire. You will not find any one to help them," (Surat an-Nisa, 145)
The Hell whose lowest circle is populated by the hypocrites is described as follows in verses of the Qur'an:
"…even though they can see each other. An evildoer will wish he could ransom himself from the punishment of that Day, by means of his sons,
or his wife or his brother
or his family who sheltered him
or everyone else on earth, if that only meant that he could save himself.
But no! It is a Raging Blaze
stripping away the limbs and scalp,
which calls for all who drew back and turned away," (Surat al-Ma'arij, 11-17)
"There will be sighing for them in it and they will not be able to hear." (Surat al-Anbiya'. 100)
"that Day you will see the evildoers yoked together in chains,
wearing shirts of tar, their faces enveloped in the Fire." (Surah Ibrahim, 49-50)
"The Tree of az-Zaqqum is the food of the wicked,
seething in the belly like molten brass,
as boiling water bubbles and seethes.
'Seize him and drag him bodily into the middle of the Blazing Fire.
Then pour the punishment of boiling water on his head'." (Surat adh-Dukhan, 43-48)
This punishment that the hypocrites will suffer is merely the reward for their deeds. Because they harbored nothing but enmity toward believers, the servants of Allah, sought to deceive them with lies and trickery, and tried to divert them from their path. They collaborated against them with the deniers, slandered them in all kinds of ways, and were behind the traps set for them.
The punishment they will receive in this world and in the Hereafter is simply the reward for their past deeds. As we are told in another verse:
"Allah does not wrong people in any way; rather it is people who wrong themselves." (Surah Yunus, 44)2009-04-01 14:18:25