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BOSTON, MA (August 13, 2013) CBS
Already a veteran of five pro seasons and three months in the big leagues, Jon Lester wasn't a kid in age when doctors told him he had cancer at 22 years old. But he was a kid in attitude.
"I feel like kids don't have the 'why me?'" said the Red Sox lefty. "They're so naive to the process and what's going on. It's more kind of the hand that they're dealt, and they go about it as best they can every day.
"That's what I like about dealing with kids; they kind of have the same attitude as I did, as far as, 'What's my next obstacle — and what do I need to do to try and beat it?'"
In November it'll be seven years since Lester was told he'd beaten non-Hodgkins Lymphoma — but he vows that he'll never forget that period of 2006, and he'll never quit fighting the battle alongside those young people, in particular, who continue to wage war with cancer.
That's why he and his wife teamed with the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation to create the NVRQT Foundation — that's hashtag-speak for "Never Quit" — and why the Lesters invited his teammates along with a variety of local and national notables to the House of Blues on Monday night to raise money for the cause. It was the second annual NVRQT Night, and like the first it featured a game of "3 Up 3 Down," which was a Hollywood Squares-style competition where the Lesters were the contestants and celebrities manned the squares.
A few pics from @JLester31's #NVRQT event last night on TwitpicAcross the top row of the grid sat Bruins winger Shawn Thornton between "Chelsea Lately" comedians Sarah Colonna and Josh Wolf. In the middle row went Sox pitcher Ryan Dempster, funnyman Lenny Clarke, and Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. The bottom row featured NESN's Leah Hextall, Sox pitcher John Lackey, and Boston Marathon bombing heroes Jeff Bauman and Carlos Arredondo.
Jake Peavy, Clay Buccholz and Felix Doubront were also on hand as spectators, meaning the entire starting rotation came out in support, as did manager John Farrell and several other teammates, including reliever Craig Breslow. He started the Strike 3 Foundation with a mission similar to NVRQT, and since being traded to Boston last summer he and Lester have spoken of their common goals and about how to collaborate in achieving them.
"Jon and I have spent a lot of time discussing this cause, why it's meaningful, and the things that we can do to help each other. One of those things is to come out and support his event," Breslow said. "He's an incredibly personable and approachable guy to begin with, and I think whenever someone comes by with a connection to pediatric cancer like he has, and he understands the unique position he's in to be able to relate to these kids and kind of shed some comfort for these kids because he's been through all this."
Others on the red carpet included Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman, MBTA Police Officer Dic Donohue, New Hampshire Motor Speedway Executive VP Jerry Gappens, ex-Patriot Jermaine Wiggins, Sox teammates David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia and Mike Napoli, and injured Sox reliever Andrew Miller — who rolled in with one leg propped on a scooter. There were also a variety of intriguing auction items that fetched donations, including a helmet and jersey signed by Rob Gronkowski, a guitar signed by the Zac Brown Band, and an autographed Boston Strong 617 Red Sox jersey. Afterward the party continued down Lansdowne Street at Game On, where Peavy played guitar with Dalton and the Sheriffs before country star David Nail performed.
But Lester was most excited to talk about the kids who brought them all together. With the help of the PCRF, the southpaw has had the opportunity to meet and greet young cancer patients at parks all around baseball, and bring them around his team prior to the game. Last week he met with kids in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, and recently he says he's done the same in Tampa Bay, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Seattle, and a couple times in New York. Each time the experience is geared toward giving the child a chance to have some fun for a while.
"Obviously, anytime you're dealing with kids it pulls at your heart a little bit," Lester said. "I got to meet a kid out in LA this last trip, named Zein, and it really hit home with me. Just to see them smile, and have a good time at a baseball game, and get their minds off treatment and being in isolation for six weeks — it's just little things that we can do for these kids to put a smile on their face.
"When I went through my treatment, that was something that was very important to me: trying to have as normal days as I could, away from thinking about treatment, away from thinking about being sick. Just being able to do that for that family is rewarding."
Lester said he's "got to met a lot of great kids along the way," and though his event was originally scheduled for late July, the new date probably couldn't have worked out much better. With WEEI's and NESN's Jimmy Fund Radio Telethon taking place Tuesday and Wednesday, and August having been declared Jimmy Fund Month by the Red Sox, NVRQT Night effectively became the event that got everything kicked off.
"The Red Sox Foundation and the Red Sox organization as a whole understand their unique role in the community, how visible they are and the unique impact they can have when it comes to fundraising, obviously," Breslow said. "The Red Sox and the Jimmy Fund partnership goes hand in hand, and it's probably perfectly fitting that although the event wasn't scheduled for right now originally, that it comes during this month is appropriate."


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It's been quite a while since I wrote the last post.
A lot of changes happened, we moved from Mallorca to Germany to settle in Freiburg for a while.
But here I am in Mysore, India once again for one month!
This time it was not so easy to get accepted to study with Sharath, because so many people from all over the world try to get a spot, one has to be on time to apply and be patient waiting for an answer. I applied twice until I got accepted and you can imagine how happy I've been for that positive answer!
Grateful to be here and experience the Mysore Magic once again!
And it IS magical!
Having the opportunity to be close to my teacher and get just the attention I need, not more nore less. Just so that I trust in my own abilities but on the other hand giving me the space that I need so I have to put effort myself, working on removing the obstacles on my way.
Like Sharath said in one of his weekly conferences, where he'd talk about different topics that could be of interest and answering questions as well, he said:
You cannot change the world, you can only change yourself!
That's where we have to put our focus, to work on ourselves. Before we get to judge others or to compare ourselves to others. No need to do that! Be the change that you want to see in the world!
And if we're courages enough to do what we really want to do, there will be more challenges so that we can grow even more and get to know ourselves even better. But we don't have to worry about the outcome because it […]
It happens within you!
It's been quite a while since I wrote the last post.
It is time for transition!
The stork is a symbol for renewal, creation and new birth.
As I'm in Mysore, India at the moment to study at KPJAYI with R. Sharath Jois for the fourth time, that means transition anyhow. India itself can be hardly described, I think one has to experience it by oneself to get a taste of it.
Studying Yoga here in the Shala inbetween people from all over the world is so inspiring as well as challenging.
I'm glad to have my teacher around for these two months as well, it's quite overwhelming sometimes.
I felt before coming to India that it was time for a transition. Mallorca is a beautiful island, I love the sea, the mediterranean climate, the beach, the spanish language…..
But I felt also that it was not the right place for me to grow.
I'm so grateful for the time I had in Mallorca, being able to pass on my knowledge and teach, so grateful for every single student studying with me. You've been so inspiring!
But it is time to move on, Freiburg im Breisgau, that's where you'll find me from mid of March on.
There won't be daily classes, I'll update the schedule as soon as possible. For questions feel free to contact me anytime.
"The only thing that is constant is change"-Heraclitus

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A horrific account of the discovery of the last of the legendary East Anglian Crowns.
A fearful tale of intrigue, murder and the haunted Stalls of Barchester.
MR James ghost story. An academic has his sleep disturbed by the subject of his research.
Charles Dickens's ghost story in which a signalman is haunted by a hooded figure.
Viago, Deacon, and Vladislav are vampires who are struggling with modern life.
An archaeologist is sent to authenticate a collection and finds a gruesome local legend.
Horror. A suburban couple face a moral dilemma when they receive a mysterious box.
Spanish horror thriller about a concierge who tries to make life hell for a female tenant.
Nicole Kidman and Matthew Broderick relocate to an eerily perfect town.
A team of investigators from the Vatican to look into reports of paranormal activity.
A journalist faces a race against time when she investigates a strange videotape.
Thriller. A teenager is plagued by supernatural visions after surviving a house fire.
Comedy drama about a group of city dwellers who visit the cursed Skerra lighthouse.
A Canadian nurse arrives on a Caribbean island to tend an invalid woman.
A nail-biting climax as The Blair Witch Project's Eduardo Sanchez picks the scariest film.
Will these films be terrifying enough to knock the current scariest films off their perch?
Will any of this week's short horror films be chilling enough to make the leaderboard?
As the contest gets ever scarier, what will the audience think of this week's offerings?
The horror film contest continues in terrifying fashion with four more chilling shorts.
TV's most terrifying contest begins, with four scary films and an audience of horror fans.
Hannibal Lecter plots revenge on the barbarians responsible for his sister's death.
Two children are asked by ghosts to solve an ancient mystery.
Kieren is overjoyed by Amy's return, but has misgivings about her friend Simon.
Partially Deceased Syndrome sufferer Kieren Walker returns home to a mixed reception.
Kieren faces his darkest fears when he turns rabid. Danger descends on PDS sufferers.
Kieren is a victim of Roarton's increasing Undead persecution.
Kieren makes a confession which sends shockwaves through the Walker family.
Kieren's relationship with Simon takes an unexpected turn.
Kieren's dreams of escaping Roarton are dashed by Maxine. Jem is humiliated at school.
While awaiting execution for murder, Baron Victor Frankenstein pleads his innocence.
Terrifying spirits are unleashed in this chilling ghost story by MR James.
A peasant couple decide to offer shelter to a mysterious pedlar in exchange for money.
Kieren finally faces up to his past.
Kieren meets his old hunting partner Amy, who persuades him to take a dangerous day trip.
Everything changes for a smooth-talking salesman when he receives an ominous prediction.
Horror. A couple take in a local orphan girl, believed by some to be a fairy changeling.


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Jobs & the Economy
Florida leads America as a center of commerce and trade, yet while billions are made every day, the people in our neighborhoods struggle to make ends meet. A shrinking middle class and more wealth being diverted to the richest Americans is not good for our economy. No one should work 40 hours or more just to be broke at the end of the week. This why Christopher supports the following legislation and changes in the workplace:
Calling Out Rick Scott on his promise, Where are the Jobs?
-Increase the minimum wage to $15/hr
-Equal Pay for Women
-Repeal anti-union laws restricting workers rights to organize
-State funded grants and tax incentives to developers creating affordable housing
-Put Floridians back to work by investing in rebuilding our roads, bridges, public transit systems, wastewater plants, railways, airports, seaports, and other infrastructure projects
-Create jobs in struggling communities by investing in workforce programs through the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity
Florida has some of the best and brightest students in the nation yet our legislature has chosen to not invest in them. Reduced or stagnant funding year after year for growing populations of students in both our K-12 and our Higher-Education systems is absolutely unacceptable. Rick Scott and his allies in the legislature continue their attack on our children's public education while diverting millions to charter schools that serve their own special interests. Christopher believes in the following policies to improve the quality of education in Florida:
DREAMers deserve Tuition Equity
-Hold charter schools accountable and audit the state voucher program to ensure our children are receiving a quality education
-Increase base teacher salaries to $50,000 annually
-Make college tuition debt-free at our state colleges and universities
-Legislation to devote scratch-off revenue from the Florida Lottery to the K-12 system
-Enhance early childhood education programs & ensure childcare workers have livable wages
Florida has an abysmal record on providing affordable and quality healthcare to its people. With such a large aging population investing in healthcare is a win for the people and the economy. So many nurses, doctors, technicians, and aides go to work every day to care for our sick loved ones and the deserve representation that is willing to give them the tools necessary to provide the best care possible. Yet, Rick Scott & Pam Bondi see fit to block access to healthcare for millions of residents while the leadership in our legislature does nothing. Christopher believes healthcare is a fundamental right, not a privilege and this is why he will support the following policies in Florida:
Demanding Healthcare Reform
-Expand Medicaid eligibility for over 1 million Floridians
-Pass a Florida law protecting those with pre-existing conditions from being denied insurance coverage
-Legislation to protect women's access to no-cost contraception
-Fully fund nursing home diversion programs so our loved ones can remain with their families rather than a facility
-Require employers to provide at least 12 weeks of paid family & medical leave and 7 paid sick days per year.
-Fund S-CHIP to ensure every child in Florida has health coverage
-Require nursing homes to install cameras and generators for the safety & security of our loved ones
-Increase funding to local governments and nonprofits for Mental Health programs
-Add opioid addiction as a qualifying symptom for Medical Marijuana in Florida
-Require insurance companies to cover transition for our Transgender loved ones
-Sponsor legislation to end discrimination against Medical Marijuana Patients in healthcare treatments such as organ transplants & ALF's
Florida is one of the natural wonders of America. Protecting our environment is vital to our biosphere and our tourism. As our state grows, we cannot give development a free pass to impact our natural resources. Polluters must be held accountable for threatening the health and safety of our children & families. Conservation efforts to protect our environment and ensure clear water & air must be at the forefront of public policy as we face an ever changing climate. Christopher supports protecting our environment through the following policies:
Save the Dolphins
-Hold polluters accountable for toxic chemicals and pesticides introduced into our aquifer & atmosphere with criminal charges
-Ban fracking in Florida
-Prevent offshore oil drilling
-Provide tax breaks to businesses that implement meaningful conservation practices to protect soil, air, and water quality
-Fund the Land Acquisition Trust Fund to protect our wetlands, forest, beaches and other natural resources
-Tax incentives for businesses that install solar power, our most abundant renewable resource
-Fill in the shortcomings of the Federal Government and EPA to protect our endangered species by funding the Florida Department of Environmental Protection as well as the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
-Expand incentive programs to hunt and remove invasive species threatening Florida wildlife
-Sponsor legislation to authorize and incentivize Florida farmers to grow hemp for renewable energy and carbon negative resources
Civil Rights
Florida has been at the forefront for the battle over our civil rights for generations. Every step towards justice & equality, sees steps back. This is why we must address the attacks on our loved ones, our families, and our communities. Legislators should be protecting our civil rights to promote equality for all rather than accepting contributions from special interests that seek to divide and conquer. Christopher will not accept contributions from those powers that be, our campaign is people powered. That is why he supports the following policies to protect our democracy and civil rights of our people:
Black Lives Matter Rally 2016
-Equal Pay for Equal Work
-End workplace discrimination against our LGBTQ loved ones
-Expand early voting sites to all state colleges and universities to encourage voter participation
-Examine municipalities with racial disparities in arrest by local law enforcement among common misdemeanors and felonies
-Sponsor legislation to protect medical marijuana patients from being fired or precluded from employment
-Support for the automatic restoration of voting rights once someone has served their time
-Study the impact of government policies that have a negative and disproportionate effects among our diverse communities
Criminal Justice Reform
Florida is a great state comprised of amazing people yet we cannot deny its ties to Dixie and how policies have institutionalized discrimination from the Jim Crow past into our modern day. Our state squanders too many vital resources on over-incarceration and zero-tolerance crime policies that could be better spent providing jobs, education, and healthcare to our residents. Increased accountability and transparency for our law enforcement agencies must be part of rebuilding the public trust. This is why Christopher supports legislation that will address these policies:
Asking the FL Senate to Decriminalize Marijuana
-End state contracts with Private Prisons
-Repeal mandatory minimums for non-violent drug crimes
-Invest in rehabilitation programs for inmates through education & job training to reduce recidivism and ease the transition back to being a productive member of society
-Automatic restoration of civil rights for non-violent felons
-Mandatory body cameras for all uniformed law enforcement officers in Florida
-Legislation to end the death penalty in Florida
-Fund programs to assist survivors of sexual & domestic violence and resolve the back log of sexual assault kits
-Sponsor legislation to decriminalize marijuana in Florida and redirect resources for law enforcement agencies to tackle violent crime
-Audit state contracts with companies providing inmate services in order to end price gouging
-Reform the bail system so it does not only favor the wealthy
-Review districts that disproportionately contribute to the school-to-prison pipeline
The brave men and women of the United States Armed Forces have written a check made payable to our nation for the amount up to and equal to their very lives. Many return home with scars from the battlefield both visible and invisible. Florida remains a cornerstone of American military power and we must do better to assist our veterans with their transition to civilian life. Jobs, education, and healthcare all require much more attention by our legislature as they pertain to veterans. Losing more than 22 veterans a day to suicide and opiate addiction is a crisis we must tackle in earnest. This is why Christopher will support the following policies to improve how Florida treats veterans:
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-State funded programs to provide comprehensive healthcare coverage for veterans including dental care, mental health, and OB/GYN services in partnership with the VA and other local hospitals & clinics
-Fund housing for homeless veterans
-Increase workforce development funding for veterans
-Tuition free college in Florida for any honorably discharged veteran
-Waive license plate and tag fees for combat and Purple Heart veterans
Public Safety
America is a nation in crisis. We have lost more children to school shootings this year than we have soldiers on the battlefield. In our own state of Florida we saw the horrific violence and carnage inflicted on our kids at Parkland. Surely we can take steps protect our children without infringing on the 2nd Amendment regardless of what the pundits and powers that be say. This is why Christopher will support the following policies to ensure public safety:
From our house to the State House We Keep Fighting
-Enforce background checks at Florida gun shows
-Stand against open carry
-Create a digital sales record for gun sales that can better allow law enforcement to ensure criminals do not purchase fire arms
-Provide special consideration for Veterans to obtain security personnel positions in the Sentinel program to protect our schools


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It turned out great!
We love our Cuppola!
Cupola is working out great. Did not get it installed until April 19 when the roof was re-done. Here is a picture.
We get a lot of compliments and yes I recommend the product to others and have done so.
Hi Craig. I love the cupola. It has faded a bit in the sun but it fits our needs! It couldn't be put in directly in the middle due to some structural roof thing…
The two cupolas with weathervanes are so stylish! I love how they changed the look of the house. The service from Cupolas & More was superb.
Our 2015 cupola has been great, copper on roof and weathervane has aged nicely and all in all, very pleased.
One reason we needed this addition was the new roof line (not showing in this photo) that joins this roof at 90 degrees was 5" higher. Not unusual when adding on to a 1795 original structure. When cupola was installed, uneven lines disappeared.
Installation was easy. Made a cardboard template to get the cutout right and notched for lightening wires which are also attached to the weathervane.
We love the cupola and weathervane. It really adds the finishing touch to the new barn we just completed. We couldn't be happier with the way it looks.
I ordered both cupola and weather vein. Except for the ups losing my order and having to redo the Order again, I am very happy with the product craig. In fact my husband just installed it today. First time I surprised him in 30 years with an xmas gift ~ thanks again
We have our Cupola on our country cafe which is housed in an 1846 farmhouse. We reside in a small town in Western Illinois and the Cupola has completed the look of the era we were hoping for. We love it and happy with our purchase.
Beautiful cupola, Great Price, Fast Shipping and turnaround, well packaged and arrived in good condition. Perfect Customer Service! Would highly recommend and will definitely purchase again from Cupolasnmore in the future. Adds that special, finished look we were going for. Craig and crew, Thank You Tons!
We're very happy with the appearance and the craftsmanship.
I had planned on building one until I found yours on the net. The material is great and will certainly last longer than one I would have built with wood.
We couldn't be happier with it. Worth every penny. We've received many compliments on it.
The times we have worked with your company its been great. We don't have a huge need for cupolas but you are my go to.
We wanted something to give our garage a "finished" look and your cupola was the perfect choice. Great workmanship, outstanding service and a quality product.
Our cupola is still beautiful after 7 years of New England winters and strong summer sun. The weather vane is a Welsh dragon, commemorating my husband's heritage.
I purchased the cupola and weather vane from you folks back in 2012 as an anniversary gift for my parents & the new home they built in western North Carolina's Great Smoky Mountains. While they are now both deceased, we still have the home and the cupola looks/functions perfectly!
As the home is positioned directly behind a green of a country club golf course, the weather vane also serves as a prominent wind directional for golfers calculating their approach shot to the green, and is mentioned by members who are advising new players on the 15th hole.
Thanks for building such a quality addition that has endured these many years which completes the home with a distinct, classic look, has made the cupola/vane a well-known landmark with the local golfing community, and still provides endearing remembrances for our family.


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MySQL patches by Codership 5.5.33-23.7.6
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- Project:
- MySQL patches by Codership
- Series:
- 5.5
- Version:
- 5.5.33-23.7.6
- Released:
- 2013-09-20
- Registrant:
- Alex Yurchenko
- Release registered:
- 2013-09-20
- Active:
- No. Drivers cannot target bugs and blueprints to this milestone.
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- No blueprints or bugs assigned to you.
- Assignees:
- 2 Alex Yurchenko, 5 Seppo Jaakola, 4 Vladislav Klyachin
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New bugfix release for 5.5 branch.
Bugs fixed since 23.7.5:
- lp:1217653 Non-Deterministic Execution Of Transactions from Same Threads: foreign key constraints could be violated on tables with unique, but non-primary key.
AND THAT'S WHY YOU ALWAYS PUT A PRIMARY KEY IN YOUR TABLE! (Even MongoDB does!)
- lp:1204361 Slave thread crash during FK checking
- lp:1091099 read-only blocks SELECT statements in PXC
- lp:1206129 LOAD DATA INFILE not replicating properly in cluster (regression)
- lp:1212247 CREATE TABLE t LIKE <temporary table> was non-effective on slave nodes (due to absence of source table) and could be a cause for subsequent node abort due to inconsistency.
- lp:1216805 Extra keys were collected from FK parent table. It could result in false certification conflicts.
- lp:1218944 wsrep_sst_rsync ignores log_group_home_dir
- lp:1196898 wsrep_sst_mysqldump fails with unbound variable warning. Who uses mysqldump?
- lp:1224775 made mysqld_safe a bit more selinux-friendly
- node can now be explicitly set to DESYNCED state by either /*! WSREP_DESYNC */ comment on the query or by setting the global wsrep_desync variable to 1.
- MySQL-wsrep can now be compiled for MacOS and FreeBSD.
- Updated to MySQL 5.5.33
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Chris Tucker's Funniest Moments in Rush Hour
Published on 18th September 2018
Text by @MereOfTheOlson
Let's go back in time to when Rush Hour first entered our lives. It's 1998, and life is good. The Spice Girls, recently down one Ginger Spice, rule the world from the towering heights of their platform shoes. Google is in its very first year, Furbies are flying off the shelves, All Saints tops the charts with the wallowing breakup ballad "Never Ever" — and the now-OG Rush Hour is in cinemas. The unlikely team of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker is ready to kick some organised-crime ass, and you're here for it. You pop on your Skechers, plastic choker, or bucket hat and head to the cinema.
Twenty years later, in 2018, watching Rush Hour is a markedly different experience from watching it in 1998, and not just for the knee-jerk reactions to some of the jokes. (Like, wait, can we laugh at these jokes? Aren't they more than a little bit racist? Ha, ha… Ha?) First off, Chris Tucker's wardrobe, even as a cop, is outlandishly 90s enough to make you wince, and the kung fu-type fight sequences are hammy yet intensely satisfying. But the most salient takeaway from a 20th anniversary viewing of this buddy-cop genre mashup is: I had forgotten how many elements of this film are still with us two decades later, deeply embedded in our culture. And now, a look back at seven of the funniest Chris Tucker moments in the film that spawned a globally successful trilogy and continues to make us laugh.
Moment #1
Rush Hour is replete with nods to the King of Pop, Michael Jackson, and the end of the opening scene is no exception. Tucker's character Detective James Carter (dressed like Shaft's little brother) fires on a car full of C-4 explosive and sends it sky-high in flames. Obviously, this is followed by an MJ-inspired victory dance that sets the tone for the whole film.
Moment #2
We've got to tip our caps to the unofficially most-quoted Tucker line in the film. It's cringey, insensitive, melodramatic, and… hilarious.
Moment #3
A word to the wise: "Don't you ever touch a black man's radio!", not even when you want to listen to a) The Beach Boys or b) Edwin Starr's "War".
Moment #4
In a vague attempt to keep up his image as an enforcer, Carter takes Jackie Chan's character Lee to a bar and throws his weight around with the patrons there, who we find out soon after are Carter's friends — and even his family. His crackdown on one poor dude for smoking a questionable cigarette is a hilarious back-and-forth that leads to the glorious portmanteau of "cigaweed". (The actor playing the smoker even appears in the credits as "Cigaweed Man" — what a role to have on your IMDB page, right?)
Moment #5
As Carter notes, to "speak American", you need to be able to pronounce "y'all". Lee doesn't get it quite right, but soon we're witnessing a true cultural exchange as the two swap dance moves and stride off to take down a criminal empire.
Moment #6
Lots of the hand-to-hand fighting action in Rush Hour happens at an almost unfathomable speed. So when Carter gets drubbed in the face by a lightning-fast foot, his cross-eyed retort is understandable — and one of the film's most famous lines.
Moment #7
In a reference to then-president Bill Clinton's daughter, Detective Carter responds incredulously to the kidnapper's demands: "50 million dollars? Who you think you got, Chelsea Clinton?". As the credits roll and outtakes play, we see just *how* difficult it was for Chris Tucker to remember Chelsea's name(s).
Chris Tucker returns to the UK to bring a smile to your face for four shows only. Whether you're a Rush Hour die-hard, a Fifth Element or Friday fanatic, or you just like laughing your ass off — understand the words that are coming out of my mouth: get. your. tickets. now.


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- I saw everything perish, yes. That much is true. But it didn't claim me. I remained apart from it. I am its opposing force. I am the sun-- and I have no use for death.
- -- Hyperion src
The super-being that would become known as Hyperion came to Earth as a baby, sent as the only survivor of the race of Eternals from a dying world. A human named Father raised him under the name of Marcus Milton, teaching him the morals of society. As an adult he became the super hero known as Hyperion, and protected the world along a team of super humans known as the Squadron Supreme.
One day, his universe and another started colliding. While he was trying to prevent the destruction of his reality, he was left in the void his destroyed universe once occupied, as the only survivor, floating in nothingness.
But, the group of scientists known as A.I.M. from another universe managed to pull him to their reality. He spent most of his time in captivity, until he was freed by the Avengers, who offered him a place in their ranks.[3]
His first mission as an Avenger was to rescue the captured members that were being held by Ex Nihilo, Abyss, and Aleph. After rescuing them he returned to Earth and accompanied the other Avengers to the areas hit by Ex Nihilo's Origin Bombs. During his trip to the Savage Land, he found the Children of the Sun, a race of evolved beings created from an Origin Bomb.[3] He began spending a deal of his time caring for and educating them.[5]
Time Runs Out
After the Avengers fell into S.H.I.E.L.D. authority and Steve Rogers tried to use them to hunt down the Illuminati, Hyperion left the team and dedicated to keep on teaching the Children of the Sun. At the request of Sunspot, Marcus joined da Costa's own Avengers team, in order to investigate the incursions.[2]
Using A.I.M.'s resources, Sunspot managed to put into operation a machine capable of transporting individuals across the Multiverse, in hopes of finding the source of the decay of the Multiverse, and a group of them, the "Multiversal Avengers," embarked in said mission. Hyperion was among these heroes.[6]
In their journey, the Multiversal Avengers arrived to the base of the Black Priests, whom they believed to be enemies, as they would destroy alternate Earths. After discovering their true motivation, that of saving the Multiverse, the Multiversal Avengers allied with the Black Priests, and were informed of the true enemies they had to face, the Ivory Kings and Rabum Alal. While the Black Priests tried to find Rabum Alal, the Multiversal Avengers would set out to find the Ivory Kings (also known as the Beyonders).[7]
The Avengers traveled across numerous universes, navigating the map left by the Mapmakers. After one last jump across universes that cost Nightmask's life, the Avengers found themselves face to face with a fissure in time and space. From it, two Beyonders emerged and demanded the heroes to fall back. Upon denying their request, the Avengers faced the Beyonders. In an attempt to reprogram one of the Beyonders, Abyss and the Ex Nihili sacrificed themselves, and after being stabbed by the second Beyonder, Star Brand used his last breath to unleash the energy within him and destroy it. The only surviving Avengers, Odinson and Hyperion found themselves against an incoming wave of countless Beyonders, and faced their deaths with delight.[8]
All New, All Different
When Earth-616 came back into existence, so did Hyperion and the rest of the world. A few months after these events, he left the Avengers and joined the Squadron Supreme.[9] His first mission with the Squadron Supreme was to punish Namor for destroying Doctor Spectrum's world and cooperating with the Cabal as well as numerous attacks upon the surface world. During the attack, Hyperion yanked the city of Atlantis from the ocean, lifted it high into the air, and hurled it down utterly destroying it. Hyperion then decapitated Namor with his Atomic Vision.[10]
Powers and Abilities
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Hyperion's unique physiology is common among the Eternals. His body collects cosmic radiation and operates in a process similar to nuclear fusion, specifically processing and gaining nourishment from solar photon particles. As a result, he possesses various superhuman attributes.
Superhuman Strength: Hyperion possesses great physical strength. Marcus Milton was able to hold two Earths apart to prevent them from colliding with each other for a period of time,[3] confront the Hulk blow-for-blow until the Hulk reverted back to human form,[11], and lift the entire city of Atlantis out of the water and fly high in the air with it.[10]
Superhuman Speed: Hyperion can run, move, and react at speeds that are far beyond the physical capabilities of even the finest human athlete; capable of moving faster than lightning,[5] his top speed is therefore well over 3,700 miles per second within Earth's atmosphere.[citation needed]
Flight: Hyperion has the ability to levitate himself and fly through the air at tremendous speeds by harnessing and manipulating anti-gravitons. At his peak, he is capable of achieving speeds faster than lightning, over 3,700 miles per second. Once in space, he is capable of reaching lightspeed.[citation needed]
Superhuman Stamina: Hyperion's highly advanced musculature converts fatigue poisons directly into cellular energy. He can exert himself physically at peak capacity for several days, his ability to convert solar photons into energy sustaining him before he begins to tire
.Hyperion is also able to physically withstand the rigors of space without any special clothing, and he has stated that he does not need to breathe.[12]
Superhuman Durability: Hyperion's body is far tougher and more resistant to physical injury than the body of a human. Hyperion can withstand high caliber naval gun fire, falls from tremendous heights, exposure to near absolute temperature (from -455 to 11,000 degrees Fahrenheit without issue) and pressure extremes, powerful energy beams and great impact forces. He has withstood direct blows from the Hulk.[citation needed] He was also able to survive in the void of a destroyed universe.
Superhuman Agility: Hyperion's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are far beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.[citation needed]
Enhanced Vision: Hyperion is capable of peering through solid objects, seeing in clear detail objects as minuscule as strands of DNA while in orbit, and viewing all forms of the electromagnetic spectrum as well as any shifts within it.[citation needed]
Enhanced Hearing: Hyperion is capable hearing of amazing clarity, distance, and even frequencies outside normal range.[citation needed]
Superhuman Reflexes: Hyperion's reflexes are similarly enhanced and are far superior to those of the finest human athlete.[citation needed]
Cosmic Energy Manipulation: Hyperion is capable of willfully manipulating great amounts of cosmic energy for a few physical purposes:[citation needed]
- Atomic Vision: Hyperion is capable of firing beams of highly intensive heat from his eyes that's often referred to as Atomic Vision, as well as several others. The full limits of his Atomic Vision isn't known, but it can be presumed that is capable of generating up to at least 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit like the Atomic Visions of his alternate-reality counterparts[citation needed] and is powerful enough to kill someone as resilient as Namor.[10]
- Regenerative Healing Factor: Despite his body's great physical resistance to injury, it is possible for him to be hurt. If injured, Hyperion can purposely channel cosmic energy to repair damaged bodily tissues much faster and more extensively than a human being is capable of. Hyperion's healing powers also dramatically decrease the rate of his aging to an unknown degree. It isn't known if he ages at an exceptionally slow pace or if he has stopped aging altogether. He is also immune to the effects of all known Earthly diseases, viral infections, toxins, chemical poisoning, corrosives, and radiation exposure.[citation needed]
Hyper-intelligence: Hyperion has been able to calculate the impact point of one of Ex Nihilo's Origin Bombs when Avengers Tower's computers could not, even noting specific flaws in the computers' design while doing it. His mind itself is a nonlinear photonic array, storing his memories in light, with virtually instantaneous recall: his mind is structured in such a manner that memories are to him as 'real' as the present, his most vivid memory dominating his perceptions.[citation needed]
Hyperion has had some training in hand to hand combat. However, despite his lack of any seriously formalized training, the sheer scope of his various superhuman attributes make him a highly formidable combatant.[citation needed]
Strength level
Listed by the power grid as between 75 and 100 tons, but this is for comparison means only and not to be taken serious. Hyperion's strength most likely reaches beyond Class 100+ as he is strong enough to physically separate two Earths locked in an Incursion with his bare hands[3], hold off the Hulk[11], and destroy Atlantis by lifting it out of the ocean.[10]
- Hyperion was created as a pastiche of DC Comics' Superman.
- He lives by an often referenced maxim "Truth without compromise, thought without error, All things for the betterment of the whole".[15][16]
Links and References
- 110 Appearances of Marcus Milton (Earth-13034)
- 8 Minor Appearances of Marcus Milton (Earth-13034)
- Media Marcus Milton (Earth-13034) was Mentioned in
- 183 Images featuring Marcus Milton (Earth-13034)
- 13 Quotations by or about Marcus Milton (Earth-13034)
- Character Gallery: Marcus Milton (Earth-13034)
Discover and Discuss
- Search this site for: Unknown · Marcus Milton (Earth-13034)
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #12
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Avengers World #19
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Avengers Vol 5 #4
- ↑ Avengers NOW! #1
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Avengers Vol 5 #12-13
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #36
- ↑ New Avengers Vol 3 #27
- ↑ New Avengers Vol 3 #32
- ↑ Avengers Vol 6 #0
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 Squadron Supreme Vol 4 #1
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Avengers Vol 5 #3
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #31
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #13
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #24.NOW
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #1
- ↑ Avengers Vol 5 #34.1
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In an attempt to increase battery life further I've now got the HTU21D humidity and temperature sensor powered by a digital pin from the ATMega328p. In code the sensor is powered up and then back down again in-between reads in an effort to squeeze some more juice out of the battery. I've left the transmits/reads at every 2 seconds again so I can compare the voltage loss with what I've been having over the last few days to see if there is an improvement.
A test of 24 hours should be enough to ascertain if the voltage loss is the same or less than it was previously. Before I made this change the circuit was losing about 0.27 volts per day which would give the battery a life of about a week with 2 second reads/transmits. Ultimately the sensor will be set to only wake up every 60 seconds, which will give a much greater battery life.


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We've talked about what to do when your Social Security Number is compromised, but what happens when the damage is critical? Chronic and recurring issues may allow you to obtain a new SSN, but it won't be easy, and your credit will be affected. Read on to learn what you need to know about the process.
- There are rules. According to the Social Security Administration, "we can assign a different number only if:
- Sequential numbers assigned to members of the same family are causing problems;
- More than one person is assigned or using the same number;
- A victim of identity theft continues to be disadvantaged by using the original number;
- There is a situation of harassment, abuse or life endangerment; or
- An individual has religious or cultural objections to certain numbers or digits in the original number. (We require written documentation in support of the objection from a religious group with which the number holder has an established relationship.)"
Even if you qualify for a new SSN under these guidelines, you are still required to provide third-party evidence that the damage to your identity, credit and other personal information cannot be repaired with your current number.
- Your original SSN won't disappear. Obtaining a new SSN doesn't erase the past. The SSA states, "When we assign a different Social Security number, we do not destroy the original number. We cross-refer the new number with the original number to make sure the person receives credit for all earnings under both numbers."
- A new SSN could cause credit problems. Although the SSA claims to link a consumer's old and new SSN, the reality isn't that simple. Information logged under your old number cannot be attributed to the new number, making it appear as though you have no credit history at all. For example:
After years of identity theft issues, Claire is approved for a new SSN. Before fraud wrecked her credit, she boasted scores in the high 700s. Assuming a fresh start, Claire uses her new number to apply for an auto loan. She is denied because the bank cannot access her previous credit history. She explains the situation, but the bank is wary of providing a loan to an applicant with two SSNs on file.
Lenders aren't the only ones who may be confused by your new SSN. You'll need to notify the DMV, your medical insurance provider, employer, and anyone else who keeps your identifier on record. At best, a fresh SSN will help you stop harassment, identity theft and other chronic issues. At worst, it will hinder your ability to secure new credit and raise new issues.
- A new SSN isn't a credit repair strategy. As we learned in the example above, a new SSN is problematic because it cannot display past credit history obtained with your original number. Although it may seem like a new SSN can erase your past indiscretions, this isn't the case. Suppose Claire provided her previous SSN to prove credit history. Although identity theft has damaged her score, she is confident that her accurate accounts (including a past auto loan) will illustrate her credit experience.
If you are hoping to erase past credit with a new SSN, don't bother. Future lenders will either deny your application based on lack of history or ask to run a credit check under your original SSN. In either case, you can't escape the facts.
The bottom line: Social Security fraud is a serious and costly problem, and it's important to protect yourself as soon as possible. Weigh the pros and cons of applying for a new SSN and talk to a professional about the issues you are experiencing. Don't allow a common criminal to redefine your identity.
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67 comments for "{Inspired} Seed Catalog Wreath"
Your wreath turned out great Mary and it looks pretty on the door-enjoy:@)
So lovely, you did a great job as usual. Thank you for sharing the book with your readers.
I really love the way that looks, especially where you have it. I have a certain wall that needs something right now. That would be a really quick fix for the space. Thanks for passing along the inspiration!
What an amazing…creative idea! Wow it looks fantastic on your door…just lt was meant to be there. And the antiquing just finishes it! Beautiful!!!
I love your wreath. Perfect for your potting shed. I am pinning this so I can make one later this spring.
What a cool project…I ♥♥♥ how you made the center so special and the ink added a really nice touch.
I didn't know Miss Mustard had a book out! I shall look for it.
I'm so glad you won a copy, because of all people, YOU will put it to much good use.
Love this! and thanks for the tip on the antiquing solution!
I was lucky to get an autographed copy of her book. Isn't it wonderful. I love your wreath and always love getting another peek in your potting shed.
I so love your potting shed! Your wreath is wonderful! Great idea!
There is so much eye candy in you potting shed that I just kept looking and looking. The wreath is great and I am going to share it with a neighbor who loves making paper art. I on the other hand will keep going back to look at your shed again and again.
Love your shed, you have filled it with such wonderful vintage things! I have a Chicken Mansion like that but I need to work it over some more before I could even begin to compare it to yours!
Lovely wreath.
I just love all of your fun and interesting projects, but mostly I love your thoughtfullness…thank you again for bringing more happiness to my day!
What a great project! Your wreath is wonderful and perfect for your potting shed door. The antiquing solution spray is new to me so I will look for it and give it a try. I love that you used a seed catalog for your wreath…now that the holidays have passed we can start preparing for lovely spring…it will help us get thru the wintery months of February and March.
of course I love this!!! so glad you just used copies, and kept the original catalog intact!
What a fantastic idea, and how perfect it looks in your lovely potting shed, that, I swear, you could rent out as a weekend cottage. I am pinning this because I think this would make a great wreath for a guest room made out of maps. Stay tuned!
Love your wreath. Thanks for the tip on the Antiquing solution spray. Love your potting shed.
Perfect for your potting shed door. The book looks awesome and Miss Mustard Seed in an inspiration! Hugs, Linda
I love books, too. What a wonderful win for you! :D I love the seed catalog wreath hanging on your chippy white door. SO CUTE!
You are brilliant to copy your catologs and so thoughtful to share back the poppies. Your artistry is boundless~
What a cute idea! Now I wish I hadn't just thrown away my 2012 seed catalogs! Bookmarking for future reference :)
What a wonderful idea…the wreath turned out gorgeous and it's so original. I love your potting shed, too!
Mary, I'm glad you won the copy of Miss Mustard Seeds book. I didn't know she had one out. I'm going to look for a copy. Your wreath is an inspiration. I always hate to throw away my seed catalogs. This is a great way to recycle, not that I'm at all crafty. Your talents are endless!
Such fun to see your potting shed with all its creative touches. I predict this potting shed will soon be written up in national publications. I'm surprised some magazine hasn't already snapped it up.
Good Morning! Mary. I am not sure if I have ever commented on your blog, but I wanted to begin this new year by saying how very much I always enjoy your posts. You are consistently inspiring and always have the most beautiful photography. Thank you for sharing your talents in this easily accessible format. Blessings to you and yours in this new year!
Your posts are always a joy to view when they arrive in my mailbox each day. It also gives me a way of 'still being in the South' after moving away all those many years ago. How I do agree with you, love of books, a good book, is such a joy and always appreciated, n'est-ce pas? Miss Mustard Seed is a gem and her book another gem that I see you are putting to good use. May many graces and blessings come your way in the year of OUr Lord…2013.
I just love it- It looks really great. I think that misting idea is one of the best I have seen in along time…GREAT idea and you did a wonderful job- xo Diana
Great job with the wreath! Congrats as the winner of this inspiring book. Thanks for sharing the steps with us. Carolyn NC
Congrats on winning the book and what an inspirational wreath. Your potting sheds gets more amazing each time I see it.
Hi there Mary!! Congratulations on winning the book!! I think I will go and check it out at my favorite spot….I spend a lot of time on Amazon!! Your wreath came out beautiful and it looks fabulous on your potting shed door!!! Hugs to Chloe and Gracie!! xo Jeanne, Chloe and LadyBug
I LOVE all the posts you do of or in your shed. Can I move in there? what a wonderful whimiscal heaven to look at and decorate. your wreath is wonderful what better art than seed catalogs?. I have done my entire kitchen before in seed packs(now we are into cupcakes) keep up the great posts. susieDate: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:01:20 +0000 To: firstname.lastname@example.com
An absolutely perfect wreath for your potting shed, Mary!
congrats on winning the book, and your wreath is perfect in your potting shed! I have some old sheet music that I would love to do that with! Thank you for sharing and inspiring me to put those old music books to a new song!
p.s. when you copied your pages was it the 8×11 size?
What a cute, creative idea fpr your potting shed door! I love it. Oh how I have missed you and your beautiful blog. I am home now and trying to catch up…..1200 e-mails!!!!!!!!!!!! Most are getting deleted. XO, Pinky
Mary I love your potting shed and the wreath turned out beautifully!!
2013 Artists Series
I made "this" wreath for my daughter's first apartment to help her cover (inexpensively) large expanses of white wall. I used old gardening magazines. What a satisfying project! Yours is lovely.
I am so happy that I have found your blog. We are very alike in many ways!!
I have added you to my 'blogs I adore' on my blog http://nectarandstone.blogspot.com
Looking forward to reading your stories through the year
Donna x – Australia
That wreath is gorgeous and I too have the book which I love!
What a good idea! I love your blog ;)
Your wreath is amazing! So is the room that you put it in, by the way. So, I tried making this wreath for my Christmas mantel and it was an epic fail. I ran out of sheet music paper,once I bought more it wasn't as aged as the rest if the papers. Also, then the center is somehow lopsided. I think that your center medallion and your walnut ink could cover up my two issues and maybe I can actually use my wreath! I am so glad that I cam across your post!! I'm visiting from the Wow us Wednesday link party. Have a fabulous day! ~ Jamie
I received this book for Christmas from a friends – what a treat it is. I loved seeing your wreath – perfect for the perfect shed!
What a perfect accent. Books made me happy, always have!
well done! darling.
What a pretty wreath! The use of pages with pictures and words really makes it interesting and fun!
This is so cool! I like how you used seed catalog pages. :)
That is just beautiful! I am inspired by your inspiration from Marian's book…gotta get me one of thosebooks. Thanks so much for sharing your version
of the paper wreath (and your fabulous photos of it!).
Your wreath looks great! It fits your potting shed so well.
Congrats on winning Marian's book. I have it also and love it.
Have a great day.
What a cute garden wreath idea, and the perfect addition to your potting shed!
I love it!!! My potting shed is having wreath envy…..guess I'll have to make her one! Hugs, Penny
Great idea! I love the look of that book and your potting shed :)
Fantastic! I made one too and love it.
Hi, I came from Shirley's post on you; so glad I did. I love everything I've seen, especially Gracie and Chloe because my Bichon Hunter is the joy of my life. I think I will have to read back so I can get to know you. I am joining your followers too. Have a wonderfully day and weekend.
This is sooo neat!
I am totally moving into your garden shed.
It is so interesting and charming.
Thank you for linking your neat wreath to Alphabe-Thursday's letter "I".
Totally love it~ thanks for linking up at Feathered Nest Friday!
Really caught my eye at "Between Naps on the Porch" party!
Love it. No surprise "Lake Girl Paints" loves "Home is Where the Boat is"


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The skin you're in...
Instead of the "freshman 15," where the stress and new surroundings of a college environment have a tendency to lead to new eating habits, and sometimes weight gain, I lost weight. My university experience was unique, in that I majored in Modern Dance, and therefore danced or moved (yoga, movement fundamentals, music class, rehearsals) upwards of 8 hours a day. I thought I knew my body - how could I not?, when I was spending almost every hour using my body in beautiful and thoughtful ways? I loved (love) dance. I loved the expanse of space that your body can take up. I loved the creativity and freedom of improvisation. But I stopped loving my body for what it was and wanted to be, and started measuring my success against my weight. Even as I started to get cut from performances, or called into the department chair's office as they voiced their concern, I was sure that the thinner I was the better I would dance.
But when I stopped loving my body, the connection to my fluid bones and muscles was also lost. I look back at videos (rarely, it hurts) and see choppy movement that almost cannot support itself. I see someone who is frail, and trying valiantly to perform vibrantly, leap boldly. I spent years in this cycle of disconnect, with an unwillingness to see the emotional/physical fraction. Over time, my body became so distant from me that I could hate it. I could hate the feeling of clothes on my skin, or the even the touch of skin on skin. I could hate dancing, when each plie and across-the-floor were calorie burning efforts (to be followed by 'cross-training' at the gym).
I moved to New York after I graduated, and unsurprisingly the move did not help my eating disorder. I did continue to dance, and started taking active yoga classes around the area. I showed up at a studio on 24th street one day, and unwittingly began my journey towards recovery. My teacher that first day (who has since become one of my main influencing factors as an instructor) was gentle and so inquisitive in his instruction. Every movement became an exploration of the body. We were in Uttanasana (forward fold) when he asked us to soften our bellies and let the abdomen move towards the thighs on an inhale. Then Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog): let the abdominals relax. I was shocked, frustrated and honestly moved to tears when I realized that I could not do this. I had been holding in my stomach for so many years that the ability to relax the muscles of the abdomen was not available to me.
My initial reaction was to run away - who was this exercise instructor, asking me to do less with my body? But over a period of weeks and months, as I continued to take his class, I felt the unelicited relaxation of the mind, the body and the breath. Instead of moving to my maximum flexibility or strength, I backed off and searched instead for ease in each pose. (The mirroring of this intuitive yoga practice and the intuitive eating that I practice now is not lost on me). As B.K.S. Iyengar stated, "When movement becomes mature, effort ceases."
I feel so lucky to have found yoga, and am proud that my body knew that this is what I needed. It took a long time for me to accept the softening of my life. I think, though, that I was so tired of the work of an eating disorder - falling asleep to the thoughts of what I would get to eat the next day; waking up in the middle of the night with pangs of hunger; leaving friends behind at the restaurant when I was too afraid to eat with them - that change was inevitable. As I continue to work towards being kinder and softer in my actions towards myself and others, I thank yoga and the community that surrounded me for my health. And I thank my body for listening to its own needs.
**For those considering signing up for EBT's 6 week series, please join Sofia for a free class at Body Wisdom Studio on Thursdays at 5pm to see how doing less can improve your yoga practice, making you feel the asanas more completely, and with a clear understanding of your own body in space.**
By Sofia Belen (2016 co-facilitator)
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Amazon Prime is already a fantastic package for the TV junkie, music-lovers and shoppers. Now it could also prove the best bet for the hardcore gamer too.
Starting with the release of Star Wars Battlefront tomorrow Amazon Prime Now is offering special release night deliveries. You'll no longer have to go stand in line outside your nearest game store to get the earliest access to your long-awaited new game.
So long as you place your order between 10pm and 11.45pm tonight Amazon will deliver your copy of Star Wars Battlefront between 12am and 2am on November 19, the date of launch.
Sound too good to be true?
Well, if you live outside of Birmingham or London then yes it is. Amazon's Prime Now two hour delivery service is only operating in post codes around England's two largest cities.
That does though also include Coventry, Dudley and Wolverhampton.
Post code lottery
If you're not sure if you lie within those two catchment areas then you can check out to see if your post code matches.
We're all smug because our London office does...
If you live in the right areas then all you need to do is grab the Prime Now application (on either Android or iOS) which will allow you to make your speedy special release purchase.
Though Amazon does stress that you ought to get in early after pre-ordering opens at 10pm because capacity is going to be limited. Though you will also be able to order extra supplies to keep you going through the early hours of the new Star Wars game, including drinks, snacks, controllers or headsets.
And the cost of this extra service? Why, it's free to you, Mr. Prime Member.


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BOSTON — The Bronx Bombers kept catapulting home runs over his Green Monster, his only still-healthy All-Star caliber teammate had left the field too, and one would imagine David Ortiz felt all alone.
After Sunday's 7-3 loss, Ortiz would joke that his only company on his flight to Kansas City for the All-Star game would be the pilot. He is the Red Sox' only All-Star, and perhaps their only hope if they stand to catch the Yankees, who are nine and a half games ahead of them in the American League East.
"Anybody's catchable," Boston Manager Bobby Valentine said, although he hadn't sounded convincing all weekend as the Yankees took three of four games in Fenway Park. He added: "They'll have to come back a little."
It hadn't seemed that way Sunday, when four different Yankees batted in runs and Ortiz continued what should be considered a blistering Yankees-be-damned pace, even for him. He reached base 13 times — and in six games against New York, he has reached base at a 71-percent rate — but he did not score Sunday; only twice in the series he was not stranded.
A reporter later repeated the statistic to Ortiz, who said: "It is what it is, man. It is what it is."
"Nobody is facing the situation that we are right now, all the injuries," Ortiz said. "One come in, and another go back out. It's hard to play, hard to compete like that."
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Datalogic announces Voice-Picking Solutions for Mobile Computers
Improving productivity and efficiency of the warehouse picking process
July 23, 2013 - Eugene, OR USA - Datalogic is pleased to announce the availability of voice-picking solutions for their mobile computer lines. The Lynx™ PDA, Elf™ PDA, Memor™ pocket mobile computer, as well as the Skorpio™ X3 mobile computer, all have received certification for the Wavelink Speakeasy™ voice-picking application, and can now be complemented by industrial-grade headsets to achieve higher efficiency in warehouse environments.
Accurate and efficient inventory picking is essential in today's technology driven markets to meet the high expectations of consumers. Real-time inventory counts and order fulfillments are essential to stay competitive in today's vertical sectors. Inventory management through manual counts and printed lists are rapidly being replaced by the use of voice technology resulting in a streamlined process. A 10% - 20% improvement of productivity in warehouse management systems may be realized through the use of voice-picking technology.
The Datalogic headset is specifically designed for voice-picking and speech recognition applications in distribution centers and other high-noise industrial settings. The Wavelink Speakeasy system does not require any additional enterprise hardware or server installation but is able to be implemented on the backbone of pre-existing ecosystems. As opposed to various custom voice systems, the Datalogic picking solution implementing the Wavelink Speakeasy system does not call for specific unit voice training. Instead it allows for the recognition of various voices, accents and dialects.
Datalogic's ability to combine voice technology with bar code scanning is ultimately expected to deliver an intuitive solution for faster pick-rate, fewer errors, and a safer working environment. Usage of the headset offers increased safety for operators by allowing hands-free mobility and ability to keep eyes up instead of looking between stock shelves, pick lists, and mobile device.
"Datalogic is happy to offer this accessory to our mobile computer line, that will offer our customers the benefit of improving the workflow during the picking process," stated Tom Burke, VP of Product Marketing - Mobile Computers. "Datalogic strives to develop products that combine both innovative technology and the recognized needs of our customers."
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The Untrusteds drool at the possibility of UK secrets in China's and Russia's hands.
MBC1955 as usual missing the point:
The point of the story is that the Guardian does indeed have offsite back-ups, and no doubt more than one, and that the destruction of the hard drives is no more than a symbolic gesture to a government force as ignorant as it is fascistic.
Another line has been crossed, and this is no longer Britain, or England, or however you want to describe it. Another step has been taken towards the creation of all those SF dystopias that people used to regard as exaggerated.
Followed by Sheff Pixie also failing completely to understand the point:
It is so cheering watching this horrible, authoritarian regime being given one in the eye.
And James Dixon
I don't think it's being particularly hyperbolic to suggest that we're not so much at the top of a slippery slope, as we are already hurtling down it at a pretty rapid pace…..
And BeautifulBurnout at her most hackneyed:
Does anyone else feel like they have walked onto the set of "V for Vendetta" by mistake?
And thaumaturge in hero worship mode:
I've been critical of him in the past, but I think he's spot on here and admire his fortitude in the face of what has surely been a huge amount of intimidation.
So the collected ranks of the Untrusted including it's own tame barrister sees nothing amiss with the editor of the UK's main left of centre newspaper caving in to the demands of two security officers from GCHQ who've walked into his office and instructed him to destroy two computer hard drives? And him complying like a school boy caught by the headmaster with some illicit magazines?
There was a time, and very recently when the Telegraph had a CD containing the details of all the corruptly obtained expenses of Members of Parliament. I can't imagine that there wasn't serious pressure on the editor to hand it over or destroy it. But in the long tradition of a free press this was refused. Now following Rusbridger's short sighted folly, his action will be used as the means to threaten any and every newspaper and media organisation that happens to get hold of leaked government information. Rusbridger has used the excuse that he has backup copies in the USA and will continue to report, but does he seriously think that's how the same Security Service personnel are going to play this the next time they want to intimidate an editor? (Rusbridger says he was intimidated.) Of course they won't. What they'll do is to point out that even the world famous editor of the Guardian – born out of the Peterloo Massacre, saw sense and co- operated.
Rusbridger added that the alternative to destroying the computer hard drives would be "essentially surrendering control of that material" to the courts while fighting a lengthy legal case with only a small prospect of winning. But he omitted to say that he could also have refused to co-operate and if necessary gone to prison as other journalists have done in the past.
And when did all this happen? Yesterday, last week? A month ago? On the 20th July and then after discussions had gone on for over a month.
The second issue given that this hard drive smashing all happened on 20 July, is what on earth the Guardian was doing using Miranda, Glenn Greenwald's partner, as a courier to carry the State secrets of the USA and the UK, that Snowden had stolen, on an international flight that required him to transit at Heathrow? Not only was this naive in the extreme, but it also shows an incredibly cavalier attitude to the safety of Miranda. For the moment I'm discounting the possibility of him being set up by the Guardian and / or Greenwald.
During his trip to Berlin, Miranda met Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has been working with Greenwald and the Guardian. The Guardian paid for Miranda's flights. Miranda is not a Guardian employee but often assists Greenwald in his work.
In their rush to hero worship the Guardian, Greenwald, Miranda and Snowden, any critical thinking and analysis by the armchair revolutionaries and anarchists has been jettisoned. The Guardian, whatever praise it deserves for bringing the Snowden material into the open, although it did so alongside numerous other news outlets, has made some serious errors on the way as these reports indicate:
The left must challenge Greenwald
NSA Nutjob: Anatomy of a Fake 'Observer' Story
Cops blame "pressure cooker" questions on ex-employer tip, not government surveillance
This featured in an ATL Guardian article and attracted 996 comments, under the heading – "Long Island resident said her web search history and 'trying to learn how to cook lentils' prompted a visit from authorities but police say search was prompted by tipoff". The raid according the the article was conducted by a "joint terrorism task force" Except it wasn't and the tip-off was from her husband's former employer.
One final question which is while Snowden was waiting for his flight from Hong Kong to Russia and later waiting in the airport lounges in Moscow, where was his luggage?
Far more important it seems to me is this story about the jailing for fraud of Kent businessman Gary Bolton, over the sale of thousands of devices based on novelty golf ball finders which he claimed could detect explosives and drugs but which detectives said were "nothing more than plastic handles with aerials as antennae. Human rights campaigners have reported they failed to detect bombs that then killed four people. Hundreds more have been wrongly imprisoned after the fake equipment indicated they had handled explosives.
A Home Office scientist who ran a test in 2001 that demonstrated the so-called bomb detector was useless said he had issued a written warning against the device which was circulated to at least 1,000 officials across Whitehall, the military and police departments. It was circulated before the government launched its cross-departmental promotional drive to sell the devices around the world.
Despite the stark warning, in the years after 2001, members of the Royal Engineers took Bolton's products to several exhibitions and demonstrations in 2003 and 2004, including sales drives to the Bahrain Defence Force, Kuwait, Poland, France and Venezuela.


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There are two kinds of people: those who will kiss their cat on the cheek or their dog on the lips and those who won't. I once had a vet who kissed her dogs on the lips. She's lived to tell the tale.
Don't kiss the cat
As most of you know, I recently made the decision to go off my ADHD medication. I've been hypervigilant in monitoring what changes occur in my decision-making, relationships, and ability to find my keys.
I've noticed some differences but I'm happy to say not enough to go back on medication. It hadn't been working very well anyway.
Still, there was this one incident…
Let me provide some background. When I was a little girl, I walked through three fields on my way home from school, scooping up the field mice (I didn't smack them on the head). I brought them home to mom.
My mom screamed about rabies when she saw the tiny piercings in my bloodied fingertips, but somehow I managed to escape rabies shots. I guess she wasn't that worried.
In my early twenties (and still undiagnosed) I got home from work and kissed my cat, who ritually greeted me every day. My new neighbor and her seven-year-old daughter were sitting on the stoop of their next-door apartment. That's when I overheard mom whispering to her child, "Don't kiss the cat."
Back to the present
Recently my friend Elaine was visiting. I pointed out the pile of fur, or feathers, I wasn't sure what, on the white snow covering my backyard.
I have no idea what that is, I said. A groundhog? Baby hawk?
Elaine approached it.
"It's an owl. A little screech owl." She nudged it gently with her winter-booted foot. I knelt down to see if I could find its eyes.
What should I do? I asked.
"Nature will take care of it."
Before I knew it, I was touching its curved beak, its sharp talons. No, I did not kiss the screech owl.
"You shouldn't touch that."
There was no blood, no sign of injury. It seemed to be in perfect condition. I'd never been that close to an owl before.
It's been out here for days and nobody's touched it, I mused aloud. In the back of my mind, a thought was forming…
"If they don't wanna touch it maybe it's diseased. You shouldn't be touching that."
Oh my God, I thought. She's right. Thus the murky thought was spoken, fully-formed, and frightening.
"Better go wash your hands."
Unmedicated judgment?
All God's creatures had shied away from that owl. All but the impulsive, curious, animal-loving ADHD human. I went into the house, opening the door with my clean hand.
Elaine! I called from the bathroom. Does hydrogen peroxide kill germs?
I grabbed the bottle, doused my hands in hydrogen peroxide, scrubbed vigorously, and prayed.
I spent that night imagining death-by-rabies or some rare, lethal interspecies disease that had caused that poor screech owl to meet its untimely demise. Ever since I was a little girl, I'd been unafraid of touching animals, dead or alive. I like to think my adult judgment would have been less impaired, and my impulsivity more in check, had I been medicated.
A week has passed.
So far, so good. Or maybe it's the field mice that caused the ADHD in the first place. I guess I'll never be sure.


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Although the 2013 Solar Decathlon is due to kick off more than six months from now at its new home in sunny Southern California after getting the boot from Washington, D.C. by the National Park Service, it's never too early to take a sneak peek at some of the solar-powered abodes that will be showcased during in the fiercest collegiate design-build-operate competition in all the land.
Further details emerged last week about the home conceived by first-time Decathlon contender, the West Virginia University (AKA "Team Peak"). The WVU's SD landing page gives a general overview: boasting "a wholesome, rustic design" that's heavy on the use of "wood and natural materials" the WVU team has created "a self-sufficient house for a self-sufficient family — a reflection of Appalachia culture and history. The house will tie in elements of its natural surroundings while functioning with the demands of modern society. It will integrate innovative technologies and passive design techniques to maximize energy efficiency and support sustainable design practices and approaches."
A rustic, Appalachia-influenced shelter constructed with lots of wood? I suppose that can only mean one thing: The Solar Decathlon is getting its very first log home.
According to WVUtoday, the team recently got the go ahead to start test assembling and disassembling the log-style home after the Department of Energy approved the finalized design. And test assembling and disassembling they will — over and over and over again on a piece of vacant land near the school's rec center. "It allows time for errors and will give us time to perfect it," explains Kenneth Hite, an electrical engineering student who's serving as the team lead. "We'll put it together a few times like Legos, and we're going to make mistakes. We'd rather make those mistakes here than in California." Adds computer engineering major and team member Brendan Bellanca: "We want to do as many practice runs as possible. In California, we'll have only seven days to build it."
Other than its cozy and down-homey design and the fact that it will obviously be clad with solar panels, there's not that many more particulars to share on the home as of yet other than it will include a nifty app-based automation system and, as detailed in an earlier WVUtoday article, also include a hearth-esque central fulcrum that divides the "day areas" on the western end of the home and the "night areas" on the eastern end. There's no early word on the home's couches, an important aspect to any WVU-sponsored project.
The WVU team consists of approximately 50 students from across a range of disciplines (the design kids get to comingle with the ag school kids!). Thanks to an international research agreement, reps from the University of Rome Tor Vergata are also involved with the design and building of the home. And because plane tickets from Morgantown to Orange County don't come cheap, you can find out how to make a tax-deductible donation to the team here.
The 2013 Solar Decathlon is due to kick off Oct. 3 at Orange County Great Park in Irvine, Calif. As in past Decathlons, a total of 20 teams from around the globe are in the running including entrants from Stanford, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USC, the Vienna University of Technology, and a favorite of mine from the 2011 Decathlon, Middlebury College. You can keep up with the WVU teams's progress on their Facebook and Twitter accounts.
Via [WVUtoday]


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Liverpool player autobiographies reviewed & rankedPosted: July 19, 2017 Filed under: Uncategorized Leave a comment
As you're about to discover, I have a bit of a soft spot for footballer autobiographies. It's a much maligned genre, and often rightly so, but I usually find the bad ones every bit as revealing as the good. So strap yourself in, get the Anfield Rap blaring on repeat, and let me guide you through a bunch of books I've read so you don't have to.
#6 Steven Gerrard – My Autobiography (2006)
I hate to say it but I found this a rather charmless, self-serving, and uneventful memoir, largely lacking in revelation or insight. At its worst, Gerrard comes across as spoiled and incredibly self-obsessed but not at all self-aware, even if nothing is quite on the level of Ashley Cole's infamous outburst about nearly crashing his car when his agent told him he would 'only' be earning £55,000 per week.
A lot of time is devoted to him growing up, but this could have been covered in a single, unrevealing sentence: I really, really loved playing football. The period when he was passed over to play for England kids is given a prolonged, bitter examination which is about as tedious as the equally protracted account Morrissey gives in his autobiography of his court case with his former bandmates.
On top of that there is also a lengthy justification for his near-transfers to Chelsea which led to death threats and grown men burning their Liverpool shirts. This clearly rattled Gerrard, and the book appears to have been written mainly to tell his side of the story, which perhaps explains his 'I want to set the record straight' po-facedness.
For the large part it's a by-numbers retelling of events with precious few anecdotes to liven things up or add any colour.
#5 Peter Crouch – Walking Tall: My Story (2007)
Everyone loves Crouchie. The easy-going, self-effacing wit, the equally self-deprecating robot dance. Unfortunately, precious little of his natural charm comes through in this rather drab volume.
To save you some time, the main jist is: yes, I was a lot taller than everyone else from a young age but I never let this bother me one little bit. So little, in fact, that he reiterates this point again and again. He is also a tad bitter about the coaches who didn't believe in him, which occasionally gives a slightly smug, Partridge-esque 'needless to say, I had the last laugh' vibe.
He defends his 'good touch for a big man' angle, pointing out that his scissor-kicked goals for Liverpool came not from chance but from endless practice. But sadly there is not much to recommend this lighthearted but lightweight memoir. A slightly rushed, not to mention premature, job that fails to do justice to this fondly remembered footballer.
As one Goodreads review pithily summarises: "I don't really like biographies, footballers or tall people and this book didn't change my mind about any of them."
#4 John Barnes – The Autobiography (1999)
Bizarrely, this gets a real kicking on Goodreads, being the lowest rated book here by a wide margin (with just 2.93 out of 5). I haven't read this in 15 years – and, no, I am not going to re-read it just for the sake of this article – but from what I remember this is a rather tedious slog. Which is an enormous shame, given that the subject is the greatest kicker of the round thing of all goddamn time.
Not only that, Barnes has a more interesting story to tell than most, with his upbringing in Jamaica as the son of a military officer, having to deal with vile racism, being the star of arguably the greatest Liverpool team ever assembled, then struggling with injury through the Souness years before his reinvention as a central midfielder, and his never quite transferring his sublime talent to the national team, despite scoring one of England's very greatest goals, against Brazil, aged just 21.
I recall being quite shocked by his coverage of the racism he suffered, and this part obviously deserved serious, sombre discussion, but the book never quite slips out of that subdued tone, making this a somewhat dour affair, suffering the same fate as Crouchie's in that very little of the great man's charm and charisma make it on to the page. But what a baller he was.
#3 Steven Gerrard – My Story (2015)
Given my reservations about his first volume, it was with some trepidation that I sat down with this. I don't know whether he managed to get things off his chest with his first book or if he just had a more sympathetic ghost-writer this time around but he comes across as less uptight and ill-at-ease, making for a far more enjoyable book that paints him in a much better light. He even talks about cutting his penis open which adds some welcome levity.
The narrative breaks from chronology, which saves it falling into the trap of bare fact-recounting which afflicted his first memoir: I scored this goal, and in the next game I scored another goal yadda yadda.
The story is intertwined with the 2013/14 season, the infamous year when Liverpool came close to winning the coveted but elusive Premier League title and Gerrard, buoyed by Suarez, enjoyed something of a late-career renaissance.
Inevitably, 'the slip' gets a lot of coverage. He tries to pass this off as just an exceptionally cruel freak accident, one of those things that could happen to anyone but befell him at the most inopportune moment possible. Yet I'd argue even this is a bit disingenuous – the slip was unfortunate, but if he had not let the ball roll under his foot in the first place… And his questioning of Rodgers's tactics in that fateful game against Chelsea smacks of deflecting the blame and being smart after-the-fact.
Anyway, this is still an okay read, even if the whole "I'm just an honest player trying to say it how I see it" schtick gets a bit tiresome.
#2 Robbie Fowler – Fowler: My Autobiography (2006)
Undoubtedly the trashiest volume here, yet possibly the most enjoyable. You get the impression there was no prank Fowler ever thought below him, however stupid or puerile.
He says he finds the narrative that he was some street urchin dragged from the Toxteth ghetto a bit patronising, even though that's exactly the angle his publishers chose to go with. He makes a lot of the fact that he was the first superstar of the Premier League era, and as an 18-year old thrown into an unprecedented bear-pit of exposure without any guidance or media training he was bound to make a bunch of mistakes.
Loads of autobiographies will boast about being candid, but Fowler's really goes the extra mile. He is openly critical of former, and even current, teammates. He gleefully refers to 'Gary fucking Neville' and 'busy bollocks Gary Neville' – you can't imagine Gerrard the diplomat doing that.
I can't say I warmed to Fowler at all, though. His bitter attacks on Houllier are over the top and lack credibility, and his defence of his homophobic taunting of Graeme Le Saux is weak and without contrition. Nevertheless, it's fun to remember what a phenomenon he was – not for nothing was he nicknamed God – and he drags us through the eye of that storm with a kind of blasé bemusement. He's only just into his thirties when this came out, yet he seems to barely understand how he scored so many goals. Published in 2005, just before his unexpected return to Liverpool, it busts the myth that biographies written when the players are still playing tend to be bland, guarded affairs.
#1 Jamie Carragher – Carra: My Autobiography (2008)
Carra's straight-talking but likeable character translates well onto the page. He is an undoubted student of the game, as his successful transition to one of the most insightful pundits demonstrates.
Whilst he accepts that his self-drive and fiercely competitive mentality meant he made the grade where others foundered, he challenges the assumption that he got by on passion alone, arguing that he could never have played at the top level for so long if this was the case.
The most thoughtful and insightful volume here, with Carra carefully arguing his points about how the game should be played, how the club and academy should be run, and offering his views on the managers he's worked with, and other teammates he has played alongside. But lest this be mistaken for an overly academic tome, this is still Carra, and there are plenty of japes to amuse along the way. A satisfying blend of reflection and entertainment.
If you only read one (and why would you stop at one?), make it Carra.


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A few months back, we wrote blog post about a new business Shoptrawl. To refresh your memory, Shoptrawl is a website search engine show casing all of the amazing Australian and New Zealand designers and retailers who do everything homewares, jewellery and kids stuff. Basically the Shoptrawl team have pulled together all of the awesome designers and retailers that they love and have them all located on the one, easy to find, website. They have absolutely exquisite taste and the list of designers they have curated are enviable to say the least.
Each month they put the spotlight on one of their favourite designers or retailers, this month was none other than, Talo Interiors! We were absolutely delighted to be approached and had lots of fun answering some of the questions and pulling together a list of our favourite things from Shoptrawl (it was very hard to narrow it down to just twelve!)
If you haven't visited Shoptrawl, do yourself a favour and check it out (warning, you may lose track of time whilst browsing!) and while you're there check out the Talo Interiors Guest Edit.


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A Gathering Voices post by TheThoughtfulChristian.com team.
Labor Day is this Monday. Here's a prayer to share with others for the day from Prayers for The New Social Awakening: Inspired by the New Social Creed (Westminster John Knox Press).
Against Cheap Labor by Walter Brueggemann
Since our mothers and fathers cried out,
since you heard their cries and noticed,
since we left the brick production of Egypt,
since you foiled the production schedules of Pharaoh,
we have known your name,
we have sensed your passion, we have treasured your vision of justice.
And now we turn to you again,
you whose precious name we know.
We turn to you because there are
still impossible production schedules,
still exploitative systems
still cried of pain at injustice,
still cheap labor that yields misery.
We turn to you in impatience and exasperation,
"How long?"
Before you answer our pleading question,
hear our petitions.
Since you are not a labor boss and do not set wages,
we bid you, stir up those who can change things:
in the jaded halls of government;
in the cynical offices of the corporations;
amid the voting public too anxious to care;
in the church that thinks too much about purity and not enough about wages.
Move, as you moved in ancient Egyptian days;
move the waters and the flocks and the herds
toward new statues and regulations,
new equity and health care,
new dignity that is not given on the cheap.
We have known now long since
that you reject cheap grace; we now know as well that you reject cheap labor.
You God of injustice and dignity and equity,
keep the promises you bodied in Jesus,
that the poor may be first-class members of society;
that the needy may have good care and respect;
that the poor earth may rejoice in well-being;
that we may all come to Sabbath rest together,
the owner and the worker,
the leisure class and the labor class,
all at rest in dignity and justice,
not on the cheap, but
in good measure,
pressed down,
running over . . . forgiven (Luke 6:37-38).


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A GOLD warrior ring! Delicate yet powerful! AND open rings are trendy and fun to wear. They are easy to stack with other rings.
This awesome piece is a 'Spike' shape cut open ring made in 14k gold with two spikes gradually getting softer. Open rings are easy to adjust. For very small or large finger sizes please message me directly.
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Are you feeling down, depressed or worried? Is your mind full of negative thoughts or feelings? Do you want to talk about your mental health?
If so you might want to get in touch with the following places for support:
If you need urgent help or feel suicidal, then there are people who can help you and won't judge you, so please find one of them. This could be a teacher, friend or someone else you trust that you know. If not, then online or phone support can help:
Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline
0300 330 0630 (10am-10pm)
Website: www.switchboard.lgbt
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Support around gender identity / being trans.
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For any problems you are facing.
Tel: 0800 1111
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Polio Vaccine Refusal Cases among Well-educated People Baffle Officials in Pakistan*
By Ikram Junaidi
During the recent polio campaign held in the capital it was observed that a large number of educated people did not want to vaccinate their children.
Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Abdul Sattar Isani termed the situation unfortunate and claimed that all possible steps would be taken to ensure that every child was administered the polio drops.
He said even cases were registered against those who refused the vaccination.
Prime Minister's Focal Person on Polio Eradication Senator Ayesha Raza Farooq said she was not in favour of registering cases as the administration of polio vaccine was a continuous process.
A well-known doctor working in a private hospital found involved in advising citizens not to administer polio drops to their children, says official.
She requested the media to play a role to create awareness that polio vaccine is safe.
During the current year environmental samples collected from different parts of Islamabad and Rawalpindi were found positive for the poliovirus.
As a result, a special polio campaign was launched on March 27 in the high risk areas of the twin cities.
An official of the polio programme, requesting not to be quoted, said teams were formed to administer polio drops to every child.
"However, it was strange that we faced a strong resistance from even well-educated people. Though they did not have religious reasons but were not in favour of vaccinating their children. A majority of them claimed that they had administered polio drops privately but failed to produce a vaccination card or certificate," he said.
Sharing an incident, he said a resident of Sector G-7/2 refused to vaccinate his son.
"We tried our best and even a representative of the district administration was sent to the house to convince him. However, the citizen started threatening the team after which an FIR was registered against him with the Aabpara police," he said.
Abbas Khan, a duty officer at the Aabpara police, told Dawn that though the citizen was arrested and an FIR registered against him, he could not be detained as it was a bailable offence.
"My initial impression was that the person against whom the FIR was registered would be totally illiterate but I was shocked to see that he was well educated," he said.
The official of the polio programme said the polio team faced an awkward situation when a deputy secretary of a ministry refused to administer polio drops to children present in his house.
"A well-known doctor, who works in a private hospital, was found involved in asking citizens not to administer polio drops to children. During the campaign when we reached a school in Ghori Town, the principal closed the gate and called the police.
"Even some foreigners refused the polio vaccines claiming that their children had already received the drops. But they failed to provide any certificates due to which we administered vaccine to their children," he said.
ADC Isani told Dawn that some people believed that they should administer polio drops to their children privately. In such a case, citizens need to provide a certificate that they had administered the vaccine to their children.
"I can afford administering the polio vaccine privately to my children but I have always administered the vaccine given by the government because it is quite safe. Unfortunately, there is a double standard: people who refuse to give vaccine to their children get the same vaccine for themselves before traveling abroad because of the visa requirements," he said.
"Polio drops are given to every person travelling to Saudi Arabia and no one refuses when the drops are given to them before departure," he added.
Ayesha Raza Farooq said as refusals were reported from across the country, arrangements had been made to send officials to the houses and convince people that they should vaccinate their children.
In reply to a question, she said the situation was improving as a task force had been established in the twin cities comprising representatives from the administrations of both the cities.
According to a report issued by the polio programme in March 2016, parents of 46,967 refused to vaccinate their children across the country.
Related Topics:
Vaccine-derived Polio Spreading in "Polio-free" India*
Doctors Say Bill Gates Polio Vaccine Has Created Deadly 'Super Polio'*
How Biotechnology has Made Global Polio Eradication Impossible*
Pakistan Makes Polio Vaccine Mandatory for all Travellers*
Why Is Polio With 68 Cases Worldwide This Year AGlobal Emergency,; But Autism Not With 1 in 25 Families Affected?*
Polio Vaccine Spreads Polio-like Disease*
Millions of Americans Contaminated with SV40 Virus through Polio Vaccine