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When Samsung's Galaxy Gear smartwatch launched earlier this month, it was met with some criticism due to its lack of compatibility. Now, however, anyone owning a recent Samsung smartphone including the Galaxy S4, Galaxy S3 or Galaxy Note 2 can use the watch to its full capability.
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Ottaviano Augusto, Rome
- Free breakfast and free WiFi
- Collect nights
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What's around Ottaviano Augusto, Rome
- In Vatican
- St. Peter's Square - 8 min walk
- St. Peter's Basilica - 9 min walk
- Castel Sant'Angelo - 13 min walk
- Sistine Chapel - 19 min walk
- Piazza del Popolo - 20 min walk
- Via del Corso - 20 min walk
- Piazza Navona - 22 min walk
Getting around
- Rome (FCO-Fiumicino - Leonardo da Vinci Intl.) - 35 min drive
- Rome (CIA-Ciampino) - 40 min drive
- Rome S. Pietro Station - 18 min walk
- Rome San Pietro Station - 18 min walk
- Rome Valle Aurelia Station - 20 min walk
- Ottaviano - San Pietro - Musei Vaticani Station - 3 min walk
- Lepanto Station - 13 min walk
- Cipro Station - 14 min walk
- Airport shuttle (surcharge)
At a glance
Key facts
- 3 rooms
- Arranged over 1 floor
- Check-in time 11:30 AM-1 AM
- Check-out time is 10:30 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check-in
- Cash deposit required for incidental charges
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- Pets allowed *
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free WiFi in rooms
WiFi rated good
- Great for browsing and email
- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
- No parking
Payment types at the property
At the property
- Free breakfast daily
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Luggage storage
- Multilingual staff
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built - 1890
- Designated smoking areas (fines apply)
- In-room accessibility
- English
- Italian
In the room
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Premium bedding
- Memory foam mattress
- Individually furnished
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch TV
- Digital TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Refrigerator
- Access via exterior corridors
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- Ottaviano Augusto
- Ottaviano Augusto Bed & breakfast
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport.
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.Please note that cultural norms and guest policies may differ by country and by property. The policies listed are provided by the property.
For transfers, guests must contact the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
Mandatory fees
You'll be asked to pay the following charges at check-in or check-out:
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.50 per person, per night, up to 10 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 10 years of age.
Optional extras
Parking is available nearby and costs EUR 20 per day
Rollaway beds are available for an additional charge
Pets are allowed for an extra charge of EUR 15 per pet, per day
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 60 per vehicle (roundtrip)
We have included all charges provided to us by this property. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the unit you book.
Recent reviews
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Very well placed B&B 2 minutes walk from the metro and the Vatican city. Clean comfortable room and functional kitchen. Area feels safe and we had no issues at night. The breakfast is from the Lemon Tree cafe next door and consists of a pastry and coffee. ( they serve the best gelato here too) would definitely stay again
The hotel is great on a magnificent location , virtually you are staying at the vatican. Just remodeled facilities. I highly recommend this hotel to everyone.
Pros: Clean! Newly renovated! Very close to Vatican (7 minute walk)! Friendly and helpful host! Cons: Not really a con, but it's a shared apartment (including 2 bedrooms with separate private baths, but shared kitchen & hallway), so maybe if you have noisy neighbors that could be an issue. We did not hear our neighbors. Overall, I would definitely stay again!!
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Liddell is an Anglo-Saxon surname, initially documented circa 1165.
The origin is a locational name from any of the various places in Cumberland and Roxburghshire called Liddel.
It is composed of the Olde English pre 7th Century river name "Hlyde", Loud, and the Olde English "-dael", valley.
That river is also called Liddel today.
Mrs. G M Billy Liddell, the icon of the family, was known to all also as Billie Coutts or Billie Liddell.
She was a legendary horsewoman, trainer and owner in China and Hong Kong racing.
Billie Coutts was born and her father was a banker.
Her family had been associated with the Shanghai Race Club since its earliest days.
After her grown-up, she became a slim, svelte lady and a superb horsewoman.
Billie Coutts entered as an owner–trainer of the Shanghai Race Club and had two wins on her first day.
At the Hankow Autumn races, another winner at this meeting was Jack Liddell, riding his own PUNCH.
Liddell Bros., Hydraulic Packers, was a huge firm with an establishment at every port.
John Liddell, the father, a notable figure at the Shanghai races, was one of the Shanghai Municipal Council's ablest chairmen.
His son in due course held the same office. It was an almost exact modern parallel with being the Doge of Venice.
In the Shanghai races Jack Liddell frequently found himself riding against ponies owned and trained by Billie Coutts.
He and she both rode in paper hunts.
With a mind like a rapier, who ordered men about all her life, Billie never did a day's work.
She shopped annually in Paris and was about the best-dressed woman on the China coast, was not exactly the easiest person to marry.
Nevertheless, Billie Liddell she became, and remained so to the end, long after the marriage had dissolved itself.
Billie Liddell had a dreadful 'animal' called GOING SLOW.
No rider seemed to be able to manage him.
He behaved so badly he got nowhere, and consequently had a terrible reputation.
When Billie Liddell entered him for the Grand National, no one would ride him.
She knew and could command the services of every jockey in town — except to ride GOING SLOW.
On the morning of the race, in despair, she contacted Eric Moller's eldest son, Eric Blechynden Moller, and asked him if he would take it on.
With befitting gallantry, he said that he had never having heard of the horse.
He arrived at the course to find himself surrounded by consternation.
Had he taken leave of his senses? That horse! He would end with a broken neck.
Somewhat unnerved, he was relieved to note that Billie Liddell was very calm.
Her parting words to him were, 'Sit still; don't move.'
This he did, just raising his eyes at the jumps and lowering them once over.
He had a sensational win and, the pony's reputation being known, an equally sensational dividend.
Perfectly trained, GOING SLOW. was a pony who could not stand being interfered with. He wanted to do it all himself. E.B. let him.
Not for the first time, conditions around Tientsin were disturbed.
The races in May had to be held with the entire racecourse guarded by foreign troops.
Willie Howell, Tientsin manager of Liddell Bros., won the Champions that year with GOBI EVE, who later repeated the performance several times.
Strangely enough, in Shanghai at exactly the same moment Jack Liddell was doing the same with WHEATCROFT, who won the Champions four times.
Paper hunts in China were a kind of romance, with a glamour all their own, reinforced by the fact that ladies rode in them.
Many of them wearing pink coats, many of them with more than one silver cup to their credit.
Billie Liddell won 27.
Then came 'We Two', which was the racing partnership of Billie Liddell and Vera McBain.
They at last won the Shanghai Champions, with MISTER CINDERS.
It was always held that racing standards in Hankow were high. BOSTON DRILL was the proof of it.
After his exploits, Billie Liddell bought him and took him to Shanghai.
Autumn meeting, BOSTON DRILL won the Criterions and the Chinese Cup, and was winning confidently a year later, his rider Buffy Maitland.
Billie Liddell bought the winner of the St. Leger, who had beaten two 'MORN' ponies, changed his name to CORDON ROUGE.
He won the Criterions and numerous other races with him.
With FRENCH LEAVE and EARLY SCHOOL both doing well, and with BOSTON DRILL too, she had four current winners.
The races were booming. Billie Liddell won the Champions.
'Peanut' Marshall rode a magnificent race to win the Spring Champions on Mrs Liddell's RAIN.
In the presence of a huge crowd, it was one of the most thrilling races of the season.
He defeated Mr A.S. Henchman's griffin HINDHEAD.
Jack Liddell, the Shanghai Municipal Council Chairman, soon after the Japanese occupation called a meeting of the British, American, and Dutch members of the Council and its committees.
He informed them that the Japanese had asked all of them to resign, otherwise the Japanese would take steps.
"Billy" Coutts Liddell and her racing partner Vera McBain, owners of "We Two" stables, had been warned by the Japanese authority,
so, they gave their ponies to Chinese friends.
Racing never resumed in Shanghai, partly because there were difficulties in obtaining horses and ponies.
But mainly, it was because all were busy carrying a suitcase of currency notes to buy a loaf of bread.
The hardship finally became insuperable, though even then quite a few would not recognize it.
Billie Liddell was there when the Liberation Army marched in.
Then she left: in the opposite direction, of course — north. You could not get out to the south.
In Tientsin, with less surveillance, she got aboard a ship bound for Hongkong.
It was the last voyage to leave before the port closed.
Quite a crowd of Shanghai people were to be seen at Happy Valley in the year when the new China was found.
Buffy Maitland, Jimmie Pote-Hunt, Charlie Encarnagao, Billie Liddell…..
For most of her horses, Mrs Liddell stabled with Chue Po-ming.
For some of her horses, she still kept the racing partnership with Mrs McBain, some with Mr Marton.
The demise of the amateur racing had come.
Only professionals could now train, exercise and ride horses at Happy Valley.
There was nearly one exception, Mrs. G.M. Liddell.
For over fifty years, she was known to all as Billie – had owned horses in Shanghai and Hong Kong and exercised them herself.
The Stewards had not the heart (or, perhaps, the courage) to ban this redoubtable character,
she continued to gallop her horses each morning at the Valley until August 1974.
Mrs Liddell led in her last winner, MASTER ROBERT and passed away that Saturday evening.
She was buried in Hong Kong Cemetery, Plot (Section/Row/Location) 12A/4/13.
It is a Monument of low marble headstone with slightly rounded top with etched engraving, with curbs and concrete infill.
Inscriptions: G.M. BILLY LIDDELL/ Died 7th December 1974.'Esse quam videri.'.
The motto is a Latin phrase in Marcus Tullius Cicero's essay meaning "To be, rather than to seem (to be)".
Finally, one of the last links with China Coast racing was broken.
Mrs Liddell's racing colors were Turkish Blue, Red cap.
Some of the horses owned by Mrs Liddell were:
LI00 TUDOR CONQUEST(59-60), M069 WILLIAM (60-61), T032 DORlS (65-66), V032 D'ARTAGNAN (66-67), C018 WILLIE (70-71),T046 SHINDIG (70-71), H018 MASTER ROBERT (74-75), etc.
CORDON ROUGE, is a red amorphous powder, also one of the world's most consistent Non-Vintage Champagnes.
HINDHEAD is the highest village in Surrey, England, with buildings at between 185 and 246 metres above sea level.
Cumine, Eric (1905-2002) – 《RacingMemories.HK》
Acknowledgement to Mr Paul Cheng kong-yip for offering record data.
Acknowledgement to Mr Peter YUEN for rectifying record data.
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In preparation for the launch of a new call center in Pittsburg that will serve MCE, a five-day workforce development training was organized by Future Build East County, the City of Pittsburg, Calpine, and AnswerNet. Electricity service to nine additional communities in Contra Costa County will begin in April 2018. This is the first time MCE will be able to facilitate full-time jobs in a new community prior to its start of service.
As part of an initiative to bring long-term, living wage jobs with benefits to Pittsburg, Council Member Merl Craft collaborated with Contra Costa-based workforce development organizations, Future Build East County and Rubicon, to recruit local candidates.
"Combining our priorities for sustainable action and ambitions for economic growth is both essential and possible here in Pittsburg," said Pittsburg Council Member Craft. "The partnership between MCE's call center and Future Build helps to fulfill local job needs, builds momentum for the County's Northern Waterfront Initiative, and establishes a template for more public-private partnerships."
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Michael Sandel's The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering is a short and accessible--though not simplistic--critique of the ambitions of parents, scientists, and societies who would employ genetic enhancement in the pursuit of improving the next generation of children.
The philosophical battle, as Sandel sees it, is between the Promethean aspiration to master nature, to take it and remold it into an image of our own making, and his own ethic centering on the "giftedness of human life" which holds that "our talents and powers are not wholly our own doing, nor even fully ours, despite the efforts we expend to develop and exercise them" and that "not everything in the world is [morally] open to any use we may desire or devise." (27) A significant implication of the "giftedness" approach is that children, too, should be seen as a gift and that some of our fundamental values are threatened when we do not respect that giftedness.
Chapter one introduces a variety of cases and possibilities that are intended to stimulate moral discomfort and to make us eager to discover just what is wrong there. Consider the following. Two deaf lesbians chose a deaf sperm-donor so that their child would be deaf. (They succeeded.) Soon there will be a synthetic gene that makes muscles grow and prevents them from deteriorating with age. Also on the horizon are gene enhancements for memory. Perhaps most in demand will be the bioengineering of sex selection. According to Sandel, something seems wrong with these uses of technology. But what, exactly, is it? After entertaining a variety of suggestions, e.g., that there is, in the deafness selection case, an autonomy violation, or that there is, in the sexual selection case, impending sexual discrimination, etc., he finds that even when such concerns can be assuaged, e.g., when sex selection is used only to balance children within a family, some moral concerns remain with the use of the various technologies. The balance of the book is a working out of how "giftedness" can explain this moral response in a way that autonomy and rights considerations cannot.
Chapter two probes the question of the use of genetic (and other) enhancement for athletic purposes. Sandel pulls out a surprise here. The usual plaint against genetic enhancement is that its use would diminish human agency. Think of the bionic athlete who, with more enhancement, becomes less human. Turning things around, Sandel raises the worry that the deeper danger is a hyper-agency. Such hyper-agency of the Promethean spirit cannot accept human talents as given and must transcend them.
Yet Sandel notes that it is hard to explain what we admire about sports and more broadly, human activity and achievement, without appealing to giftedness. Giftedness underlies the idea that excellence--and not spectacle--is the very point of sports. Indeed, he believes that the problem with genetically altered athletes is that they corrupt athletic competition as a human activity that honors the cultivation and display of natural talents. The alternative--accepting that the ends of sports are arbitrary and serve merely spectacle value, e.g., the "belly-bumping" of NFL linemen--fails to highlight natural talents and gifts.
In Chapter three, Sandel addresses the potentially more pervasive and even more troubling concern of parents in the role of makers of children. "To appreciate children as gifts," he tells us, "is to accept them as they come, not as objects of our design, or products of our will, or instruments of our ambition. Parental love is not contingent on the talents and attributes the child happens to have." (45) The parental molding of children, Sandel tells us, exhibits hubris. The pursuit of mastery of nature in this domain may or may not lead to parents being tyrannical, but it certainly will disfigure the parent-child relationship, as well as "deprive the parent of the humility and enlarged human sympathies that openness to the unbidden can cultivate." (46) The danger here is that "parents bent on enhancing their children are more likely to overreach, to express and entrench attitudes at odds with the norm of unconditional love." (49) In what can be seen as the core chapter of the book, Sandel argues that giftedness, and not the spirit of Promethean mastery, best supports what we must accept: that we must love children unconditionally.
Chapter four presents Sandel's thoughts on liberalism and eugenics. The most important point here is that though liberalism, with its official policy of state neutrality, permits non-coercive eugenics and poses as an alternative to Nazi-style policies, in fact, there is a liberal impulse pushing in the direction of coercion. Given the duty of parents to promote the well-being of their children and the fact that the liberal "principle of ethical individualism" commands the struggle to make the lives of future generations of human beings longer and more full of talent and achievement, Sandel comes to the troubling conclusion that "liberal eugenics does not reject state-imposed genetic engineering at all." (79) It merely requires that such coercion be compatible with a child's autonomy.
In the final chapter, Sandel brings together his thoughts on giftedness and considers some objections to his position. Three core values are threatened when giftedness is abandoned for the project of mastery. The first is humility, which "teaches parents to be open to the unbidden." (86) The second is responsibility. As indicated above, the danger is not a loss but an explosion of responsibility since more and more will be attributed to choice and less to chance. Professional baseball players, e.g., are encouraged by pitchers to enter games wired on amphetamines and not to "play naked" lest they perform inadequately. Even more troubling, parents become more responsible for choosing, or failing to choose, the right traits for their children. We are, thinks Sandel, ill-equipped to deal with an explosion of new responsibilities. Finally, there is the value of solidarity with those less fortunate than us. "The more alive we are to the chanced nature of our lot, the more reason we have to share our fate with others." If so, genetic enhancement, which rejects that chanced nature, "would make it harder to foster moral sentiments that social solidarity requires." (90-91) To sum up his concerns, Sandel tells us that "changing our nature to fit the world, rather than the other way around, is actually the deepest form of disempowerment. It distracts us from reflecting critically on the world, and deadens the impulse to social and political improvement." (97)
In an epilogue on the stem cell debate, perhaps the argumentatively meatiest part of the book, Sandel finds Bush's "Don't Fund, Don't Ban" policy to be inconsistent and comes down in favor of the moral permissibility of such research, because its purpose is the relief of suffering and not enhancement. This permissibility, however, must acknowledge respect for embryos by realizing that they are not simply objects at our disposal.
This engaging book, with its rich use of current examples and direct argumentation, is more suited to those who are not specialists in ethics than those who are, but the professional, too, can learn much from it. And though it is slim in size, one should not be led into thinking that the argumentation is superficial. Quite the contrary. Although Sandel is not always persuasive and his defense of the principles of giftedness stops where one wishes more would be said, e.g., with the claim that individuals do not fully own their talents, he nevertheless presents his view and that of his opponents clearly, addresses a number of objections to his proposals, and carries many of the arguments out multiple steps. In so doing, Sandel provides a well-articulated perspective on the debate that may do much to stem the perfectionist tide. In his capable hands, this is done without what might otherwise be the implication that this opposition must result from intellectual naivete.
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A: It is important to consult a doctor to determine the most effective treatment. There are several techniques to eliminate wrinkles such as using Botox and other filling injections, but the effect is only temporary. We recommend using Thermaj technology where electromagnetic waves are directed to the skin tissue in order to break down ineffective collagen and stimulate the production of new collagen to restore the skin's firmness.
A: It is preferable to consult a doctor to determine the type of pigmentation. Chemical peeling is effective under the condition that a specialist performs it and the patient conforms to specific guidelines after undergoing it.
A: When puberty occurs, the body begins to produce certain hormones, which motivate the sebaceous glands to enlarge, become more activate and produce more sebum. These hormones also alter the cells of hair follicles which may lead to combined fatty canals or acne.
A: For reasons that remain unclear, acne may appear for the 1st time directly after puberty or later on during the thirties and forties. This delayed acne is more common with females than males because of hormonal changes with pregnancy, menstrual cycles, aging and the use of cosmetics and greasy creams.
A: There is no relation between cosmetic breast surgery and breast cancer. However, tiny calcifications can be caused by breast surgery; therefore, it is important to distinguish these from cancer tumor. For that, a specialized mammogram is used before the surgery and for 6 – 12 months after it. This is meant to determine the shape and nature of the existing calcifications and follow-up for the procedure.
A: Hair removal methods such as shaving, waxing, tweezing, electrolysis, often irritate the hair follicle. Dead cells can accumulate at the site of the irritation and form bumps which can also contain pus while the skin heals. To eliminate this problem, it is preferable to remove hair using laser.


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About Me – A short biography
What brings a German journalist to Wales? The simple answer is love – and backpacking through Middle Earth.
A short biography of myself. In the year 2000 I decided to explore New Zealand and travelled across both islands with the help of a well-organised bus company called Kiwi Experience. I not only experienced the Kiwis and their beautiful country, but also met the love of my life, who happens to be a Welshman. Back in Germany I applied for jobs in PR and ended up working for an agency in Hamburg, whilst my husband managed to find himself a job in Kiel. In 2002 his contract ended and my beloved cat Freddy died,so we decided to relocate from snowy Kiel to rainy Cardiff.
I originally studied art history, English language and literature, philosophy and politics at the University of Cologne. Whilst I enjoyed my time at university I never really fancied entering an academic career. I therefore declined an offer to do my PhD.
I got a first taste of journalism when I was working briefly for a city magazine for which I wrote CD and film reviews while I was still at university. When I had the chance to choose a different course at Goldsmiths' College, where I studied for two terms with the aid of the ERASMUS scholarship, I opted not only for art history courses, but also for radio and print journalism. My time at Goldsmiths' College was a fantastic and valuable experience. I enjoyed my assignments in which I could combine my passion for animals with journalistic work.
When I graduated in 1996, I took on several office jobs and applied for workplacements in the German media. What followed was an internship in the English radio service at Deutsche Welle, where I produced features in Englishcovering environmental topics, art and pop music. I also worked as an intern for"Medienspiegel", published by the Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft and at "Hallo Ü-Wagen", WDR, a radio talk show, which was produced live in different towns of Germany. My work for the program included research, creating questions for the host and helping with the organisation of the show. My highlight from that time was getting the "Ü-Wagen" to broadcast from the town I was born in.
In 1998 I entered a training scheme for academics who want to become PR Journalists. The training was provided by the Fortbildungsakademie der Wirtschaft (Academy of Business)and taught me everything from writing press releases and features to drawing up press campaigns. A year later I finished my training and realised I wanted to stick to journalism. However the German economy was already entering a recession and after several unsuccessful applications I decided that a break was what I really needed.
My travels proved useful and my first article published in the German media was about whale watching in Kaikoura, which you can read here.
Since I have moved to Cardiff in autumn 2002 I have been building up my portfolio, which consists of German, British, American and Canadian publications. The Internet is my most valuable tool through which I have met a lot of friends, most of them fellow freelancers.
We adopted our adorable cat Bobby in 2005 and finally got married in May 2007.
I love art, music, comedy and film and also create jewellery with various techniques and materials such as metals and polymer clay. I am passionate about animals, especially cats, and until June 2007 I have worked as Press Officer for the Cardiff branch of Cats Protection.
I have launched my jewellery business in 2010 which you can find here: Helenka White Design
Friends have suggested that I should offer translation and German tuition. So this year (2014) I have decided to add these two services to my portfolio.
Thank you for reading and visiting my website.
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In 2015, the City of San Gabriel hosted the inaugural Dumpling & Beer Fest, the city's own twist on Oktoberfest. The Dumpling & Beer Fest unites Asian dumplings and beer, two distinct flavors of San Gabriel, into a one-of-a-kind festival. Festival-goers spend the evening sampling local craft beers and enjoying traditional and fusion dumplings from restaurants around Southern California, while live entertainment outside the Mission Playhouse fills the air with music.
San Gabriel Dumpling & Beer Fest
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Client: City of San Gabriel
Year: 2015-2017
- Community Outreach
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- Festival Production, Operations & Management
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- Millenial/Sub-Culture & Lifestyle Strategy
- Ticketing Management
- Vendor Coordination & Communication
Since its inception, KCM Agency has produced and managed the festival, which in just three years, has grown into an award-winning event, boasting over 20 dumpling vendors, 20 craft beers, and nearly 4,000 festival-goers annually.


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Summer Road Trip: How to Have a Safe and Healthy Journey
Make this the best vacation ever by stocking your car for a healthy road trip. These tips will ensure safe and fun travel.
For many families, summer vacation means hitting the road. But sickness and squabbling can quickly spoil even the most scenic trips. Armed with a few healthy road-trip tips, you can keep everyone in the family happy and healthy and enjoy safe travels this summer.
Safe Travel: Before You Go
Like a Boy Scout, your motto for a healthy road trip should be "be prepared." That means anticipating your family's health needs and wants before you get in the car.
First up is putting together a first-aid kit. Family doctor and father of seven Mark Huntington, MD, PhD, assistant director of the Family Health Center in Sioux Falls, S.D., and professor of family medicine at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, says that your first-aid kit should include the same over-the-counter and prescription medicines that you normally use at home.
Along with a sampling of items from your home medicine cabinet, add in bandages (large and small) and first-aid ointment. Keeping all your doctors' contact information and your insurance cards with you can also make it easier to manage any health problems that may happen.
What else to pack:
- Water. "Something a lot of people don't think about packing is drinking water," Dr. Huntington says. "If you're traveling cross-country and have car trouble, you could be stuck in the hot sun for hours. Make sure you have enough drinking water on hand for everybody."
- Sunscreen. Keep a bottle of sunscreen handy in the car for use during pit stops. "Even if you're just getting out of the car to look at the scenery, over the course of a day it can add up to a good dose of sun exposure," Huntington says. "Sunburn can really spoil a trip, especially for kids."
- Bug spray. Bug sprays containing at least 20 percent to 30 percent N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide (DEET), the most common active ingredient in insect repellents, are most effective at keeping mosquitoes and other biting insects at bay. The higher the percentage of DEET, the longer the product will protect against mosquitoes.
Huntington says there have been some health concerns about using DEET-containing bug sprays in young children. But the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says no serious illness has been linked to the use of DEET in children when used according to the manufacturer's instructions. If you want to reduce your child's exposure to the chemicals in bug spray, you can put the bug spray on their clothing rather than directly on their skin.
Another alternative to keep bug bites to a minimum is to limit the amount of exposed skin — have everyone wear loose-fitting long sleeved shirts and long pants. Clothing impregnated with bug-repelling permethrin is also available from travel outfitters.
Safe Travel: On the Road
Once you're out on the open highway, Huntington says the biggest threat to your family's health is distracted driving. Whether it's the kids yelling in the back seat or your quick glance at a map or GPS device, Huntington says it only takes a few seconds of inattention at highway speeds to create a problem.
"That's when it's nice if both parents are in the car — one as the enforcer, the other as the driver," Huntington says. To keep distractions to a minimum, keep items you'll need, like sunglasses and snacks, within arm's reach so you don't have to go digging for them.
Here are some other strategies to help you while driving:
Stop and stretch. Sitting for long periods of time can increase the risk of blood clots in the legs. Stopping to get out of the car and stretch, exercise, or walk around every hour or two can reduce this risk. Getting out of the car will also help burn off your kids' pent-up energy.
"Sometimes people want to get in the car and drive 15 hours and make only two stops, but it's probably not wise," Huntington says. "Taking time for a leisurely stroll and seeing the sights makes for a more interesting and healthy trip."
Manage car sickness. If twists and turns in the road are making passengers feel queasy with motion sickness, Huntington recommends spending some time looking out the window, especially focusing on the horizon through the front windshield, and opening a side window to let in some fresh air.
"As a father of young kids, I love having the DVD player in the car," Huntington says. "But staring at a DVD screen, reading a book, or looking at an electronic device can make car sickness worse." If members of your family are prone to motion sickness, keep some anti-motion sickness medicine in the car, too.
Safe Travel: Healthy Road-Trip Meals
Finding ways to include healthy meals can keep your family energized and feeling well while you're on vacation. An unhealthy diet can also cause digestion problems on the road. "Make sure you take in adequate fiber, fruits, and veggies while traveling to avoid constipation, which can make the trip unpleasant for everyone," Huntington says.
Look for restaurants that offer more nutritious options than the standard burgers and fries, like deli sandwiches, salads, and smoothies. Restaurant portions can be larger than at home, so don't be afraid to split orders.
Packing the car with healthy snacks can also make it easier to keep hungry kids from becoming grouchy during long road trips. Easy, nutritious portable snack options include:
- Unsalted nuts
- Pre-washed fruit, such as apples, pears, bananas, and grapes
- Pre-cut raw veggies, such as carrots, celery, and broccoli florets
- Whole-grain crackers or pretzels
- Plain popcorn
- Reduced fat cheese sticks or slices
- Individual containers of low-fat or fat-free yogurt
- Low-fat dip, hummus, or guacamole to eat with veggie or whole-grain chips
To avoid overeating, portion snacks into single-serving containers before you hit the road. Don't bring a big bag of chips or crackers — it's too easy to eat too much when snacking by the handful.
And don't forget to drink water! Road food can err on the salty side, so it's important to stay hydrated — another reason to pack the cooler or a thermos with water.
Try these healthy-travel suggestions and you'll arrive at each pit stop on your journey refreshed and ready for the next adventure.


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Billie Faiers , Sam Faiers - Celebrities attend the Sky Kids pop up café for the launch of the Sky Kids app. at The Vinyl Factory Ltd, Marshall Street - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 29th May 2016 (1 Picture)
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Below shows pollution by Nissan models. Please select your model from the list.
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That is the title of this essay by Dr. Walter Starck. If you are just beginning to look into the issues surrounding purported anthropogenic global warming, Dr. Starck's essay is a good place to start. He notes that claims of precision in describing the Earth's climate history are bogus:
The average temperature for the Earth, or any region or even any specific place is very difficult to determine with any accuracy. At any given time surface air temperatures around the world range over about 100°C. Even in the same place they can vary by nearly that much seasonally and as much as 30°C or more in a day. Weather stations are relatively few and located very irregularly. Well maintained stations with good records going back a century or more can be counted on one's fingers. Even then only maximum and minimum temperatures or ones at a few particular times of day are usually available. Maintenance, siting, and surrounding land use also all have influences on the temperatures recorded.
The purported 0.7°C of average global warming over the past century is highly uncertain. It is in fact less than the margin of error in our ability to determine the average temperature anywhere, much less globally. What portion of any such warming might be due to due to anthropogenic CO2 emissions is even less certain. There are, however, numerous phenomena which are affected by temperature and which can provide good evidence of relative warming or cooling and, in some cases, even actual temperatures. These include growth rings in trees, corals and stalactites, borehole temperature profiles and the isotopic and biologic signatures in core samples from sediments or glaciers. In addition, historical accounts of crops grown, harvest times, freezes, sea ice, river levels, glacial advances or retreats and other such records provide clear indication of warming and cooling.
The temperature record everywhere shows evidence of warming and cooling in accord with cycles on many different time scales from daily to annual, decadal, centennial, millennial and even longer. Many of these seem to correlate with various cycles of solar activity and the Earth's own orbital mechanics. The temperature record is also marked by seemingly random events which appear to follow no discernable pattern.
Over the past 3000 years there is evidence from hundreds of independent proxy studies, as well as historical records, for a Minoan Warm period around 1000 BC, a Roman Warm Period about 2000 years ago, a Medieval Warm Period (WMP) about 1000 years ago and a Modern Warm Period now developing. In between were markedly colder periods in the Dark Ages and another between the 16th and 19th centuries which is now known as the Little Ice Age (LIA). The warmer periods were times of bountiful crops, increasing population and a general flourishing of human societies. The cold periods were times of droughts, famines, epidemics, wars and population declines. Clearly life has been much better in the times of warmer climate, and there is nothing to indicate that the apparent mild warming of the past century is anything other than a return of this millennial scale warming cycle.
Starck goes on to document the sheer irrationality of the climate alarmists. He describes the sad history of the "hockey stick."
Not only have they ignored and dismissed the hundreds of studies indicating the global existence of a Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age, they have set out to fabricate an alternate reality in the form of a graph purporting to represent the global temperature for the past thousand years. It portrays a near straight line wiggling up and down only a fraction of a degree for centuries until it begins an exponential rise gradually starting at the beginning of the 20th century and then shooting steeply up in the latter part of that century. This hockey stick-shaped graph was then heavily promoted as the icon of AGW. It appeared on the cover of the third climate assessment report of the IPCC published in 2003 and was reproduced at various places in the report itself.
Among the emails between leading climate researchers released in the Climategate affair were a number which revealed a concerted effort to come up with some means to deny the existence of the MWP. The implement chosen to do this became known as the Hockey Stick Graph.
The methodology used to construct the graph involved the use of estimates of temperatures from a very small sample of tree growth rings from the Yamal Peninsula in far northern Siberia and ancient stunted pine trees from near the tree line in the High Sierras of California. This data was then subjected to a statistical treatment later shown by critics to produce a hockey stick form of graph even when random numbers were used as raw input data. To make matters even worse, the same tree ring data also indicated a significant decline in temperature for the 20th century, but this was hidden by burying it in a much larger number of data points from instrument measurements. The resulting study was published in the prestigious scientific journal, Nature in 1998. Remarkably, this very small, highly selected and deceptively manipulated graph was proclaimed to be an accurate representation of global temperatures and the extensive body of contrary evidence was simply ignored.
Then came Climategate…
It is all well worth reading. We are rapidly approaching the time, I think, when global warming alarmism will be generally recognized as the greatest fraud in human history.


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Kats Netball Club
Kats Club does it again!
Winners of the National Outstanding Club of the Year
Hi, My name is Kim Watson and i run KATS Netball Club. I am very proud of my club, and over the years we have achieved many things. We have now decided to put together this webiste for everyone. Club members can come and find out all they need to know, ie: fixtures, up and coming events and to purchase new kit. Here you will find out everything the club has achieved, all details regarding training times and places and how to join the club if you are interested.
We are always looking for new members to join the club, and after browsing through our pages we hope you would like to come and join the madness.
It's our 8th year.
School yrs 2,3,4,5,and 6 starts on the 14th September 2019.
These sessions are on a Saturday morning 9.15am to start at 9.30am to 10.30am.
School years 7,8,9,10 and 11 starts on the 11th September 2019
These sessions are on a Wednesday Evening
6.15pm to start 6.30pm to 7.30pm for sch yrs 7 & 8
7.30pm to start at 7.45pm to 8.45pm for sch yrs 9,10 & 11
Both at Highwoods Sports Centre. Brinkley Lane Colchester CO4 9PU
New members are always welcome.
If you would like more details please email me.
Big Thankyou's to our Sponsors!
Sponsors of Youth Teams:
XPLORE (the world)
McLAREN Construction
HARBOUR(3D Comms Ltd)
These sponsor have helped our Youth Teams moving forward and are a fantastic support.
If anybody is interested in sponsoring any of the other teams please contact me:
KATS Netball club was first developed in 1999 with two teams KATS and KITTENS. Both teams were in the first division Colchester league. Kim Watson started the club with a sponser from her husbands business "Kim & Andrew Trucking" giving them the name KATS. When starting the club only had 16 members, it now holds over 90 members ageing from 5 - 60!
There are 7 qualified netball coaches, one of which who was the youngest player to pass both her coaching qualification and "C" award umpiring qualificaion at just 15 years old.
The club consists of 13 umpires. 3 "B" awards, 10 "C" awards. We have 1 qualified "C" award testers and 1 qualified umpiring mentors. The club has supported most of the umpires and paid for their courses and tests. We mentor our umpires throughout the seasons and prepare them for their tests.
One club member went on to play for Essex County N.C and for the Mavericks Super League team. Over the years we have had members selcted to play for the County Academy and Regional Potential Talented camps. In 2009 another one of our players was chosen to play for a Regional Team.
We prize ourselves on being a united club, who not only join together for our love of netball, Award Evening and Christmas parties. We also have a social team who work together on Club days out.
In October 2006 Kats Netball Club won the Essex, Southend and Thurrock Sports Award for Club/Team Of The Year.
In 2008 the club worked hard to recieve a four figure sum from the National Lottery Awards For All Scheme to go towards establishing the club further.
In 2014 KATS won
Colchester Club of the Year
Also in 2014 Kim Watson won
Colchester Sports Personality of the Year
In 2015 Kats won
The Goalden Globe Regional
Outstanding Netball Club of the Year.
Then went and won
The National Goalden Globe Awards 2015
Outstanding Netball Club of the Year.
Kim's email address
Colchester Blackwater School Sports
Partnership Club Link
Chelmsford Netball League
Colchester Netball League
Team Colours (Club netball kit)
Netball Uk Ltd (Youth dresses)
Physiotheropy - any type of Physio needed
email Kate or David Schofield
Kate is a Kats player and both have help a few of our players
The Ross Knevett Sports Injury Clinic.
Sports massage with Jordan
10% off if you are a Kats member.
Contact 07568 441655
or go to Rossknevett.com for more info
Kats is an
"Accredited Club"
Accredited by Club Mark
Kats also have their
"Silver Caps"
We have now joined facebook under " Kim Watson"
We have used the site to collect as many pictures as we can from rallies, training, matches, nights out, weekend's away ect.
So join up and add your pictures, or just see if anyone captured one of you!


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Manufacturing ramp is fastest in Company's historySAN DIEGO, and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 19, 2012 — (PRNewswire) — � MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation ("MagnaChip Semiconductor") (NYSE: MX), a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: PSMI), a fabless provider of high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), today announced that MagnaChip has expanded production of Peregrine Semiconductor's STeP5 UltraCMOS® technology-based RFIC product line, including the most recent DuNE™ Digitally Tunable Capacitors ( DTCs) for RF impedance tuning. Peregrine Semiconductor and MagnaChip announced the final qualification and high-volume production ramp of the "STeP5" UltraCMOS process in the third calendar quarter 2011. Due to the continued increase in orders for the STeP5 products, MagnaChip fulfilled the fastest manufacturing ramp in Peregrine Semiconductor's history.
Current generations of UltraCMOS, an advanced form of Silicon-on-Insulator technology, utilize a sapphire substrate, which enables high levels of monolithic integration, and results in smaller die, higher yields, and fewer external components than other competing compound semiconductor processes. Distinctive generations of the UltraCMOS process are released in "STePs." The STeP5 products are produced at MagnaChip's Cheongju, South Korea facility, where MagnaChip also manufactures Peregrine's legacy "STeP3" and "STeP4" UltraCMOS devices in high volume.
"It is important for MagnaChip to engage with partners who are solving the RF-design challenges associated with the latest 4G LTE networks, and Peregrine Semiconductor is one of those partners," said Namkyu Park, Vice President of Marketing for MagnaChip's foundry division. "We are pleased with the successful ramp and rapid expansion of the STeP5 UltraCMOS product line, including the DuNE DTCs for RF impedance matching. MagnaChip's manufacturing expertise, combined with our customers' design capabilities, will allow us to continue to provide robust and cost-competitive manufacturing solutions to our customers."
"MagnaChip has provided excellent support and flexibility in ramping to meet the large demand for our STeP5 UltraCMOS products," said Ian Warbrick, vice president of operations for Peregrine Semiconductor. "They added capacity very quickly, and processed a large volume of wafers with expedited cycle times, enabling us to meet our customers' expectations."
About Peregrine Semiconductor
Peregrine Semiconductor (NASDAQ: PSMI) is a fabless provider of high-performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). Our solutions leverage our proprietary UltraCMOS® technology, an advanced RF Silicon-On-Insulator process. Our products deliver what we believe is an industry-leading combination of performance and monolithic integration, and target a broad range of applications in the aerospace and defense, broadband, industrial, mobile wireless device, test and measurement equipment, and wireless infrastructure markets. Additional information is available on the Company's website at http://www.psemi.com.
About MagnaChip Semiconductor
Headquartered in South Korea, MagnaChip Semiconductor is a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications. MagnaChip Semiconductor believes it has one of the broadest and deepest range of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor platforms in the industry, supported by its 30-year operating history, large portfolio of registered and pending patents and extensive engineering and manufacturing process expertise. For more information, please visit http:// www.magnachip.com.
The Peregrine Semiconductor name, logo, and UltraCMOS are registered trademarks, and DuNE is a trademark, of Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation in the U.S.A., and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
Peregrine Semiconductor Editorial Contact
Michelle Ragsdale, Sr. Public Relations Generalist
Phone: (858) 795-0154
Email Contact
Peregrine Semiconductor Investor Relations Contacts
Jay Biskupski, Chief Financial Officer
Phone: (858) 731-9400
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Suzanne Craig or Melanie Friedman
Phone: (415) 217-4962, (415) 217-4964
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MagnaChip Contacts
In the United States
Robert Pursel
Director of Investor Relations
Phone: 408-625-1262
Email Contact
In Korea
Chankeun Park
Senior Manager, Public Relations
Phone: +82-2-6903-3195
Email Contact
SOURCE MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation
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Ground beetles are commonly found on the property of most any home. Generally considered to be a perimeter pest, ground beetles can become invasive when left to populate and nest. These beetles will range in size from less than 1/4 inch to almost 2 inches long. Generally dark brown to black, their bodies are tough like armor and they are quite resilient. You'll notice a large sounding "crunch" when stepping on one.
This ample body "shield" does a good job of protecting ground beetles from traditional insecticides but they can be controlled when using the right actives.
There are many species of ground beetles that can live around or in the home. Ground beetles are predatory and commonly forage for food in the dark of night. For this reason they're many times able to go unnoticed until their numbers reach the thousands. Under the protection of darkness, they'll emerge from rocks, mulch, wood chips and pine straw to go about their nightly business of foraging for food.
As predatory insects go, ground beetles are quite strong and can cover large distances in relatively little time given their short body size and lack of wings. Fortunately for them, nature has seemingly wired their senses to innately know where good food supplies will be readily available. As most people know, insects are attracted to light. Apparently, the word has gotten out and ground beetles are now "in the know" as well. Bright lights, especially the blue and white neon lights commonly found at gas stations or roadside cafés seem to be particularly attractive to ground beetles.
Homes which burn porch or deck lights will also many times attract insects which in turn attract ground beetles. And though turning it off may seem to make the beetles go away, all that's really happening is a redirection of the population that's undoubtedly living somewhere on your land. In other words, if you don't treat their nests or the turf over which they must travel to forage, it's highly likely they'll start foraging inside your home at some point in the near future.
As previously stated, ground beetles love pine straw, wood chips, mulch and thatch under which they can create secure nests. These nests will protect them from the elements. But excessive rainfall, heat and cold will drive them to seek better shelter. In the fall, ground beetles will forage from their nest sites to more accommodating locations. Residential homes and other structures make perfect winter getaways for hibernating ground beetles.
Because of their thick skin and upright body motion used when walking, ready-to-use sprays won't prove effective for this pest. To treat successfully, you'll first need to apply BIFEN GRANULES to the turf and mulch areas surrounding the home.
You'll need to treat at least 10 feet out from the foundation and your goal is to create a band of treated soil. This band will act as a sort of barrier through which foraging ground beetles will no longer be able to navigate. Other pine straw and mulch areas on your property outside this "band" should be treated as well. Remember, ground beetles forage over great distances so any nest sites on the property can lead to persistent home intrusions.
Bifen granules should be applied at the rate of 1.2 lbs per 1,000 sq/ft of turf. Apply some monthly when they're active; once every 3 months to insure they don't return.
After applying the granules, spray over the top with BIFEN XTS CONCENTRATE. This active works very well on ground beetles. You'll note very little active will be needed per gallon of water but it will provide a quick kill and lasting residual.
Bifen should be applied at the rate of 1/2 oz per gallon of water when using it in a standard PUMP SPRAYER. Use this mixed gallon to cover up to 1,000 sq/ft of ground and home siding.
Apply the mixture with a good pump sprayer for most treatments.
For large areas, use a HOSE END SPRAYER.
If the beetles have already invaded your home, spray baseboards with the Bifen. But for cracks and crevices you can't treat with the liquid, get either D-FORCE or the PT PHANTOM aerosol.
D-Force has a slight odor but it's quick acting, easy-to-use and will provide a fast knock down. Its ideal for use when you know where they're nesting or hiding.
Phantom is non repellent and won't be detectable by insects. This means they'll readily walk over it. But unlike Dforce, Phantom is NOT fast acting . In fact it will take 2-3 days to kill any pest but this is by design. During this time it will be transferred to other insects which in turn will cause many to die even if just a few touch it. Phantom is the better choice to use when the problem is wide spread and hard to figure out where they might be living.
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My name is Mussa Haji Mussa, Self Advocate and am 19 years of old. I live in Zanzibar at a place called Midai. I come from a family of eight; father, mother, three sisters and two brothers. I still live with my parents. I am not stopped to do what I want to do by anyone, I am a free man. I very much love my mother and my father. But my mother is too much concern about me. Sometime I do not like it. She wants to watch over me most of the time.
I have many friends. My friends like football and I also do. I meet my friends in town or in places such as this workshop.
My education background: I only went up to Class 4 (Primary level). I would have loved to have continued with my education, but I could not make it. At the moment I am not in any formal kind of employment. A lot of people like me in the community and sometimes they support me financially
My immediate plans is to get married. I have a fiancé already. She lives Ngombe area and if facilitators had enough time I would have taken you to my lovely fiancé. In my planning process, I wish to involve the Zanzibar Association of Persons with Developmental Disabilities (ZAPDD) members to help me achieve my goal.
However, it has not been easy to convince my parents that I should get married again. Last time I got married but wife died mysteriously. Nevertheless, my fiancé and I resolved that we should go ahead and get married and our stand has been communicated to families from either side.
My ambition is to work for local Bank here in Zanzibar in order to sustain my family. Once I start working and be able to support my family, then I will say I am an Independent. If that plan fails, I intend to become a powerful Politician. I intend to stand as a Member of Parliament in the Constituency".
At this point, Musa was given an opportunity to role play to the participants on how he was going to convince the people in the constituency that he was the right candidate, if given chance to stand. Musa spoke like a full flagged politician, holding his hand on the table and facing the listeners with a lot of authority.
If you make me your area MP, I will see to it that our community is from if free from all forms of Discrimination and create a community that will be included, and no one among self advocates should be allowed to live in an Institution". Then he lifted his hands up and waved to the participants and thanked them for listening to his speech, like a real politician.
Musa says the only major challenge is that he has seen many of his friends being discriminated again in our communities and asked for an end to such practices.
Daltonee Misiko, Self-Advocate from Kenya
Daltone is a 35year old man living with intellectual disability, his disability was discovered at the age of 5 years when teachers told his mother that he needed to be in a special school and not in "normal school". Daltone has always dreamed of a normal life where he lives just as everyone else does, but this has been a difficult dream to actualize because ever since the discovery of his intellectual disability he has gone through a lot of discrimination and oppression.
Daltone joined the Kenya Association of the Intellectually Handicapped (KAIH) in 2005 and has been an active member since then. In 2012 KAIH started a project of obtaining necessary documents for self advocates after realizing that only a few self advocates had Birth Certificates, Identity cards, and so on. These are very important documents for any citizen to have but people with intellectual disabilities don't have them simply because their families don't feel the need to get them these documents even though they are vital in getting a job or leaving the country or just for the mere feeling of being an adult and to be do certain things by yourself like opening a bank account, depositing money in it and so on.
Daltone had a birth certificate but did not have an identity card and so we started the process of obtaining one for him. We went to our local District Officer's office in Kayole Nairobi, we were told to produce his birth certificate so that the process could start. The first challenge we encountered was the way in which the officials addressed Daltone and other self advocates. Daltone's disability is not visible so they ordered him and the others to write up for themselves and "stop pretending that they are retarded". At this point I triesd to sensitize them what intellectual disability.They would have none of it. They instructed Daltone and the rest to write on their own forms thinking we are lying. At that point I told the self advocates to themsleves inform the officials of their disability and why they need support persons. The officials finally agreed but the manner in which they were addressing the self advocates was not good, they were shouting orders at Daltone and this confused him to the point that he did not understand what we were doing there. He was ordered to put his finger print on a paper but his fingers were stiff due to being scared I had to talk him through what the official was saying even though she was speaking Swahili language which he understands.
Due to the confusion, he messed up his paper and the official was furious she started asking what is wrong with him and that those papers are not to be wasted, even after explanation she simply kept asking me why I brought such a lot to them. After that we had to go where Daltonee was to be photographed for his ID this was yet another ordeal since the official was barking orders and this confused Daltonee to the in that he could not get the orders his posture was off and he kept on looking at me for help since he felt like he was doing everything all wrong. After again explaining intellectual disability to the official he would have none of it, he told Daltone that he is a man and should stop acting like a sissy and stand up straight for his picture to be taken. Needless to say by the time we had finished with the district office and given his voting card which he would produce after three months when he went back to collect his ID, we were exhausted we had used up our energy explaining ourselves over and over again.
Then came the time for Daltone to vote in the General Elections after he had picked his Identity Card, this was a bit easier since the government had put aside a separate queue for Persons with Disability to vote in but Daltone does not look like he has a disability and so they refused for him to join the line since they thought he was faking it. He did not have a card that identifies him as a person with a disability this is because many families here in Kenya do not see the need for such things as they do not know the benefits of having them. In this case he had to stand in line for hours waiting for his turn. As anyone who is conversant with intellectual disability knows standing for a long time with no food or drink and while being idle makes a self advocate less attentive and so his enthusiasm diminished, when it was his turn to vote he had his sister there to help him choose which candidate he wanted.
This is just one of the many stories in which our self advocates have to go through discrimination and oppressing just because they have a disability that the majority of the public and especially officials in the government that is supposed to serve them do not understand. And in this case many self advocates and their families give up looking for vital documents for them because it seems like too much of a hurdle and others decide they won't even try because they do not want to go through the humiliation. Getting important documents for self advocates in my experience has been quite challenging and the number of times I have had to explain intellectual disability to the same officials has been daunting. We keep on doing awareness programs, but the challenge is still there.
- Story written by Fayel Achieng, Self-Advocacy Program Officer, KAIH


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How much is enough?
Just like the accumulation phase we have lots of variables. Let's consider how they affect your retirement income. Typically we have an income budget. Besides spending needs what can affect it?
Another way to look at this is Purchasing Power. If inflation is 3% and your income never increases, Your income will only purchase 1/2 of the things it does today.
How long will one or the other member of a couple live? Life expectancy has been increasing and may continue to do so. When you plan your income should you consider having the income last to 90 years old or even 100?
Safe Withdrawal Rates
This concept is one that takes into account your withdrawal amount, the rate of return, taxes and inflationary raises. It examines the length of time that your money will last if you take out 5% per year versus any other withdrawal rate and calculates how long it will take to deplete the investment entirely.
Plan Monitoring
Maintaining a plan and reviewing your progress on a periodic basis with your financial advisor will help you stay on track in retirement.


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Melusine Draco has written a series of Traditional Witchcraft books:
Traditional Witchcraft for the Seashore
The author takes us on a magical journey along the seashore and reveals how to work with the natural oceanic tides and energies. Learn how to harness the powers of the deep, and collect flotsam and jetsam for use as ritual tools.
Traditional Witchcraft for Urban Living
Traditional Witchcraft for Urban Living deals with the constant barrage of psychic problems that confront the urban witch on a daily basis. Based on the teachings of a traditional Craft background, the author successfully manages to blend the Old Ways with practical contemporary practice.
Traditional Witchcraft for the Woods & Forests
For a traditional witch, WoodCraft differs quite considerably from FieldCraft because whereas the woods have been part of our landscape since the beginning of time, fields and hedgerows are a relatively recent innovation. Here we encounter the primitive, sometimes hostile, sensations that we encounter when walking alone in the woods.
Traditional Witchcraft for the Fields & Hedgerows
For a traditional witch, FieldCraft differs quite considerably from WoodCraft because whereas the woods have been part of our landscape since the beginning of time, fields and hedgerows are a relatively recent innovation. The witchcraft of FieldCraft is of a much more domestic and homely variety, not moving far from hearth or cattle byre.
Traditional Witchcraft & the Path to the Mysteries
Traditional Witchcraft and the Path to the Mysteries, the sixth and last in the Traditional Witchcraft series, is a voyage of discovery and, as with every journey, it is essential that we understand where we are now and where we want to be. We need proper direction unlike that popular old Irish saying: "If I wanted to be going there, I wouldn't be starting from here!" So let us make our preparations, put our house in order, and begin our journey of exploration and self-discovery.
The first four books are available now, the last one is due to be published in March.
Although each one could be read individually this series works best by starting with the first one and following them through as they take you on a personal journey, each one not only full of information but also practical exercises for you to work with.


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Engaged Scholars Study
The Publicly Engaged Scholars (PES) Study illuminates the graduate school experiences and career aspirations and decisions of students and early career faculty and staff. The study is organized around a two-fold aim: to deepen our understanding about the career arc for publicly engaged scholarship and practice and to evaluate the impact of IA's Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) program since its first cohort in 2003.
Four major questions focus the study:
The study addresses how publicly engaged scholars develop, including the motivations and identities that contribute to an interest in engaged scholarship, and how the practice of engaged scholarship relates to the graduate school experience.
- How can we characterize the profile of the publicly engaged scholar in humanities, arts, and design?
- How does graduate education prepare students to become publicly engaged scholars?
- What professional pathways exist for publicly engaged scholars and artists?
- To what extent does the PAGE program add value to the academic experiences of student participants?
About the Study
The study addresses how publicly engaged scholars develop, including the motivations and identities that contribute to an interest in engaged scholarship, and how the practice of engaged scholarship relates to the graduate school experience. The study also explores what emerging engaged scholars view as viable career pathways. Focus groups, conventional measures from related studies, and a national committee informed the study's mixed methods design, which includes a survey instrument and interview protocols.
Preliminary Findings
The research team drew from both the quantitative and qualitative data to develop a categorization of publicly engaged scholars in seven emerging profiles:
- Cradle to Community – This profile type exemplifies a scholar that gets involved with their local community because of personal values (i.e. religious, familial). Their involvement with the community may leads to them pursuing graduate work.
- Artist as Engaged Scholar – This profile describes a local artist who uses the community as a "canvas." The artist as engaged scholar grounds themselves in both the academy and the arts.
- Teacher to Engaged Scholar – This profile represents the K-12 teacher who enters the academy for graduate work and teaching, but remains committed to taking an active researcher role within secondary schools.
- Program Coordinator to Engaged Administrator/Scholar – This profile depicts an administrator in higher education who holds a leadership role in a center, an institute, or a consortium for campus community partnership while also holding a faculty position. Engaged
- Interdisciplinarian – This profile depicts a scholar who only lightly identifies with one specific discipline, leveraging every opportunity to borrow from different domains of inquiry for the enhancement of their community based work work.
- Activist to Scholar – This profile captures the community activist who connects with the university and uses the university as platform to further pursue their activism.
- Engaged Pragmatist – This public scholar sees the writing on the wall and suspects that publicly engaged scholarship may become prevalent within the academy. Whatever their connection to the academy their motivation is grounded more in the direction of higher education as opposed to civic engagement.
The study is directed by IA's Co-Director Timothy K. Eatman, and a team of graduate student researchers. A committee of national leaders in graduate education advises the project.


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Laboratories of Inequality: The Adoption of Smoke-free Laws and Inequality in Smoking in the United States
The decline in cigarette smoking has been hailed as one of the greatest public health victories of the past century. Unfortunately, not all have benefited equally, and smoking has become a highly socioeconomically stratified health behavior. This study examines the contribution of smoke-free restaurant laws in ameliorating the socioeconomic inequality in smoking. The results show that states with lower smoking rates were more likely to adopt smoke-free laws than others, while southern states were the least likely of all to adopt them. I estimate the effect of the laws' enactment on overall state level smoking rates, and on smoking rates stratified by educational attainment. I find that smokefree laws were associated with a decrease in smoking inequality among both men and women. Taken together, the results highlight the countervailing influence of smoke-free laws on the inequality in smoking. While the implementation of smoke-free laws contributed to the lessening of socioeconomic inequalities in smoking in the states that enacted them, the unequal nature of the adoption process furthered the health rift between the adopting and non-adopting, predominantly southern, states. The findings of this study highlight the importance of institutional determinants of smoking, such as state tobacco control activism, for population health and population health inequalities.
Lucie Kalousová
studies population health and health disparities, and how they relate to policy and political structures. She works with data from historical sources, legal databases, and population surveys in both domestic and international settings, and uses primarily quantitative analytic methods. She has published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, and the Annual Review of Sociology, among other outlets. She received the 2016 Louise Johnson Award from the ASA Medical Sociology Section.


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More piffle on the internet
Welcome to the first post of my new blog. The internet is an amazing place with many great blogs that are available for free. I grew up during a time when the internet was not available to most people; in fact I didn't know anyone that had any sort of online access. At that time the sort of information that is now freely available often came at a cost in the form of magazines and books. Sometimes I was lucky and found information that interested me at the local library. I thought it about time that I do my bit to add to this bucket of information.
This blog is a place for me to practice and improve my writing skills. I like to think that my High School English teacher would be proud that I since leaving school I have developed some skills in using English, or at least shown an interest and therefore her time was not completely wasted.
Why have I called it the Piffle Lab? Firstly what I put here are just my own observations and I make no claims about the value or soundness of any of it. In fact it could be just a lot of piffle. The other reason is that I couldn't think of anything else that had not already been taken.
I wonder if all the content that is currently on the internet, including all the blogs, facebook pages and other social networking sites will remain in many years to come and be the primary source of freely available information about our generation. Some enthusiastic family historian of the future will discover titbits of information about us through what we have placed online and base their whole understanding about each of us on that. What a sobering thought.


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In 2004, there were 6.8 million dogs and 9.58 million cats in the UK
There are 6.1 million cat owning households, 5.2 million dog owning households, 4.1 million fish owning households, 1.96 million rodent owning households and 1.39 million bird owning households
Dogs are dichromats which means that their eye sight is equivalent to red-green colour blindness in humans
Dogs have nearly 220 million smell-sensitive cells, compared to 5 million in humans
Dogs detect sounds as low as 16 to 20 Hz frequency, compared to 20 to 79 Hz in humans
Dogs sweat through pads on their feet. Their main method of controlling body heat, though, is by panting.
Dog breeds show more variation in size, appearance and behaviour than any other domestic pet 208 breeds of dog are registered with The Kennel Club
The smallest dog is a Chihuahua and the largest dog is a Great Dane
An average dog litter consists of approximately 6 puppies Most dogs have pink tongues apart from the Chow Chow and the Shar-pei, both of which have black tongues!
Dalmatians are born pure white, with their spots developing as they mature!


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Hi! I wanted to make this article to give you a little background and context for the types of posts and categories you will see around some parts of the site. You will see a category about the Candida diet. This section will help you to find recipes that are specifically tailored to meet the requirements of the diet, so you will be able to plan some shopping lists and not end up eating plain steamed carrots out of desperation.
In my practice, I do sometimes recommend this diet for many of my clients, and so I'm not able to post any of the supplement recommendations or specific instructions, because I tailor them for each individual client. But, the very first time I did this diet, I was despairing of food ideas by about the second day. The goal of this diet is to help your body heal faster and balance itself. It accomplishes this through killing candida (yeast) in your body, as well as parasites, and supporting your body to recover and detoxify itself in a natural way.
Our common North American diet is traditionally heavy in wheat, sugar and processed food. Your body has good bacteria all over it (also called "normal flora"), and inside your intestines. This good bacteria community is really really important to help your body digest things, as well as fend off invaders. Part of this normal flora in your body is a family of bacteria called "candida", or "yeast". The Candida family of bacteria are present in your body all the time, and that's ok. The issue arises when it starts to take over and dominate the normal flora landscape. Candida is responsible for a lot of different health problems, such as thrush, some skin rashes, yeast infections, etc. If anyone has made a loaf of bread in their life, they know that yeast likes sugar. A lot. Sugar is the food yeast needs to be effective in breadmaking. The same is true with Candida yeast. It feeds on sugar, and it will keep growing and growing. If the sugar supply is abundant, then the yeast frolic and overgrow. And not just white cane sugar. Lots of sneaky things have a lot of sugar; oranges, apples, bananas, all have high sugar contents, so even if you're not eating donuts and lattes every day, there may still be a lot of sugar in your diet.
The aim of the diet recommendation side of the candida cleanse diet is to cut off the sugar supply for the yeast as much as possible, so that it will die. That's why the recipe options provided are careful to avoid the things that feed yeast.
When a client decides that they would like to pursue this diet option, I will review everything with them in advance, and walk them through the entire 30 day plan. This diet plan is only 30 days, and many clients like to do it once per year. I'm always really impressed by how good I feel at the end of the 30 days. The body is amazingly able to recover and balance itself. And I don't recommend anything that I wouldn't be willing to do, and so I can truthfully tell you that I have done this diet, and tested out all the recipes. Here is an article to help you find some of the more "specialty" type foods used during the cleanse!
No, it's not easy, but yes, the results are completely worth the effort. Your body will thank you. And by thank you, I mean work amazingly well after the cleanse.
Feel free to comment below if you've ever done this cleanse, and how it worked for you, or contact me if you're interested in booking a consultation! I'm always happy to answer your questions!
Take care! Talk to you soon!
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