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Petersburg Fire
This family in Petersburg was devastated by a fire caused by a curling iron. VRS completely renovated the interior of the home, replaced half of the siding, and rebuilt the screen porch. Now their home is better than how it was, before the fire. Keep us in mind for any restoration or home addition needs. Our experienced and friendly staff will take care of it, you don't have to worry about … [Read more...]
Visit VRS new Web site!
Great news! Our new website is now complete. Thanks to River City Consulting for a wonderful job. Please take the time scroll through, and see the new stuff! Make sure to visit our website often and be on the lookout for updates and new features. Don't forget, if you're in need of fire, water, storm, and smoke restoration or home addition services, you may call our emergency hotline at (804) … [Read more...]
We have been BUSY!
Virginia Restoration Services has been extremely busy in the past year. Obviously our blog posting slowed to nothing but we are back and hope that you will follow us weekly as we post information about our expanding company, current and past jobs we have worked on and what we have in store for the future. In the past year we have spent a great deal of time attending business related conferences … [Read more...]
Virginia Restoration Services partners with The Certified Restoration Team
When you have had a fire or water damage in your home or business finding a qualified company that really understands what is needed to be done is difficult. Certified Restoration Team is here to help you to find a firm that has been trained to correctly return your home to the clean, dry, safe haven that you want. We are a group of independent companies that have dedicated ourselves to … [Read more...]
VRS has purchased the "World's Fastest Drying System"!
TES, the latest in drying technology, dries most water damages in 30 hours or less! TES deploys the "Reets Evaporation Method," that forces large volume of heat directed to the water-saturated space, swiftly evaporating the water. The vapor is then excluded with air expulsion/dehumidification. All of this results down to solid dry, undeniably fast. Meaning, less damage and fewer cash … [Read more...]
New Website
Virginia Restoration Services has hired local web development firm HamerDesign.com to create a new dynamic website that will feature a lot of photos and time-lapse movies by RichmondTimeLapse.com. Bookmark our website and keep checking back for website updates and new features, and other news about our business and restorations. If you need restoration or home additions, you may contact our … [Read more...]


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We all have trouble areas- the parts of our bodies we would like to improve. For some people it's the arms. Genetically we are predisposed to gain and hold on to weight in different areas and for some people this area is the arms. For people who have excess fatty tissue in their arms, liposuction alone can improve the shape and contour of their arms.
For other people, diet and exercise or bariatric surgery leads to massive weight loss. These people are then left with excess sagging skin under the arms. Brachioplasty (arm lift surgery) is an operation to remove excess skin from the arms. Sometimes it is combined with liposuction. Any patient wanting to have their arms lifted has to accept that cutting out the excess skin leads to scars. They have to be willing to trade an improved shape and contour for some visible scarring. Everybody is different in how they heal and the scars can vary from person-to-person.
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Whistle Stop RV Resort
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The three-number rating that accompanies each campground listing in the directory gives readers an at-a-glance assessment of a campground's amenities, cleanliness and environment.
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All three ratings categories are measured on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best.Less than 1 percent of parks or campgrounds receive the coveted 10 / 10 / 10 rating, which indicates superior facilities that are well maintained, clean, well-appointed restrooms and a highly appealing appearance.Campgrounds are inspected annually by dedicated RVers like you.
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Commodity activism in a transmedia world: our latest publication
There's an academic publications page on our blog that gives a taste of, and provides access to, our research papers about the followthethings.com project. A book chapter has just been published in an open access e-book that brings together a series of lectures in Switzerland asking if and how social scientific research can transform society. Our answer is a qualified yes.
Cook et al, I. (2017) followthethings.com: analysing relations between the making, reception and impact of commodity activism in a transmedia world. in Ola Söderström, Laure Kloetzer & Hugues Jeannerat (eds) Innovations Sociales: Comment les Sciences Sociales contribuent à transformer la Société, MAPS: Université de Neuchâtel, 50-61 Full Text
What we are keen to find out are what filmmaking, artistic and activist tactics lead to what kinds of public and corporate responses, and with what kinds of impacts on whom. There is an established argument that, when this work is didactic and tries to enroll its audiences through blame, shame and guilt, it tends to fail. Audiences feel powerless, overwhelmed, apathetic, and angry at those making them feel this way rather that at the injustices exposed (Barnett 2010, Sandlin & Milam 2008, Cook & Woodyer 2012). Even the most cursory examination of our website suggests that the elements of, and relationships set out in, this argument are quite narrowly defined. To illustrate this, we offer below a taste of what's to come from the analysis of the followthethings.com archive. We provisionally outline one engagement tactic, one kind of consumer response, one kind of corporate response, and one kind of impact.
Guest blog: Dear iPhone Girl
Here's another excellent example of journal writing from the Exeter Geography module behind our website. At the start of the module, we ask the students to add to their phone homescreens this photo of an Apple factory worker which, it seems, was accidentally left on an iPhone bought in 2009. The person who found this and four other photos posted them online and the quest to find out who she was, why photos of her were on that phone, and what would happen to her after they went pubic went viral (as documented on our followthethings.com page). We ask our students to keep her photo on their homescreens until the end of the module, for almost 4 months. What can happen to you when she looks at you every time you look at your phone, wherever you go? Sophie Woolf explains… to the person who became known as 'iPhone Girl'.
Our 4th #followtheteachers post: on subvertisement workshops
A couple of weeks ago, we published a guest post from Eeva Kemppainen describing the ways in which her work for followthething.com and her masters thesis on trade justice pedagogy in the UK and Finland, had led to her work on a 'Closing the Gap' project with Finnish pro-ethical trade NGO Eetti . This is Eeva's second post, in which she describes how she works with diverse groups of students (using followthethings.com as a resource) and shows the kinds of subverts that her students create.
Our 3rd #followtheteachers blog post: from Finland
The Geographies of Material Culture module that I took at Exeter University in my Erasmus year triggered a fascination about trade justice education and culture jamming. Quite an effect? Yes… and let me tell where this has led.
I'm one of the interns who helped to develop the followthethings.com website. I also worked with the site's #followtheteachers group. My Masters thesis at the University of Helsinki focused on creative teaching of commodity geographies, young people's geographies and culture jamming – a research field in which academics are narrowing school-university-NGO-gaps. My aim was to introduce these mindboggling ideas in Finland.
Foxconn factory work: 2 perspectives
In response to a student query today about the pride that factory workers can have in making consumer goods for others, I recommended that the two short films below were watched one after the other.
Both are about the notorious manufacturer of Apple and other electronic goods: Foxconn.
Dreamwork China
This is an extract from a documentary film in which young factory workers are interviewed in a photo studio across the road from the factory.
This is an episode of from the Al Jazeera TV series Activate, about the investigation into worker rights, health and safety in Foxconn factories by Hong Kong based NGO Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour.
Our 2nd #followtheteachers blog post
Over the course of the 2013-4 academic year, we're following seven school teachers and they use and adapt followthething.com in their classrooms in England. Our second post is by Natalie Batten. She reflects on how she encouraged her students to use our site last year to help compare and contrast multinational corporations. This year, she will be using one of our new game-based teaching resources to encourage her students to better appreciate corporations' diverse policies regarding workers' rights and monitoring.
I covered a similar topic to the one discussed in Oprah's #followtheteachers blog post – that of globalisation and multinational companies. This scheme, however, was implemented for AS Level Geography students (studying the OCR exam syllabus). This highlights the versatility of followthethings.com site as a resource for a variety of student ages, even when covering the same topic area. For example, while Oprah used the site to introduce globalisation at Year 7, I used it at A level to consolidate pupils' prior learning and provide them with examples and case studies for their exams.
The pupils were not familiar with the site, so time was incorporated into the scheme of work for them to explore it. They really liked the layout and navigation of the site and its recognisable format – like other online stores such as Amazon – which made the site personal to them and their interests.
The different forms of data presentation on the site (eg. film reviews, travel journals, newspaper articles and Lego re-creations) provided opportunities for differentiation with more able pupils challenging themselves through interpretation of more abstract research sources. In particular, some used the Ford Car Seat page – based on a 2006 film called 'Made in Dagenham' – to explore social and historical geographical topics such as feminism and women's rights. This was important as it allowed pupils to 'find the geography' and make synoptic links to other geographical topics during their MNC research task.
An extension to a task like this could be to incorporate followthethings.com's new teaching resource – Ethical Trade Trump Cards as a way to compare and contrast global MNCs on categories such as worker's rights, policies and monitoring in an exciting and familiar game for pupils.
Both they and myself as a trainee teacher took a lot of positives away from this activity and I will certainly be using followthethings.com in my future teaching for this and other topics.
IWD: dedicate your smartphone homescreen to 'iPhone Girl'.
It's International Women's Day today. We're asking smartphone owners to dedicate their homescreen to 'iPhone Girl'. She was a quality control worker checking iPhones in Foxconn's Shenzhen factory. Her workmate is said to have taken her photo to check the camera, and then failed to delete it.
It was found by a UK iPhone buyer. It appeared on his new phone's homescreen the first time he switched it on. He posted his experience and the photos on his camera on the macrumors forum. The rest, as they say, is history…[read our ftt page that tracks this story here).
Young women (and men) like her assembled your smartphone, so let's acknowledge this today (and every day).


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This weekend two years ago, I could barely walk. Every morning, I'd wake up, strap my immobiliser brace on to one knee (or both, depending on the pain), grab my crutches, and hobble to the bathroom. Some days I'd have to knock back four different types of painkillers before I could even get out of bed.
Things were looking grim. I'd had three surgeries to fix my knees, but both I and my surgeon knew that my weight was making it near enough impossible to correct the issue. He never said so outright, but he'd alluded to it a couple of times – but having pretty much decided to myself that it was impossible to lose weight, I'd concluded that this was just how it was going to be for the rest of my life. Pain, pills, crutches. Rinse and repeat.
But when I moved house, I found myself uncomfortably close to a gym – and this weekend, two years ago, I decided to sign up. I'm not sure what I was expecting – but it certainly wasn't anything like this.
Two years on, I'm now 170lbs. There is a whopping 41% less Katie than there was two years ago. I can't be alone in thinking that's pretty ridiculous, right?
And the thing is, my life has changed in so many crazy ways as a result, directly or indirectly, of my decision to lose weight. I can walk, for one thing – in fact, I can run if I need to, so I'm considerably better off in the event of a zombie invasion. And my attitude to pain is very different now. You don't have as much knee surgery as I had without expecting to be in some pain forever – I'm like the bionic woman these days – but the strain on my joints is so reduced that the pain I do have, I can generally work through.
That said, I'm also a lot more in tune with my body now. I had so many issues related to my weight – from plantar fasciitis, to lower back pain, to stomach cramps, to a constant, unquenchable thirst, to name but a few – that the 'new me' feels pretty much invincible. I was in complete denial, at the time – no way would I have ever admitted that these problems were related to my weight – but now, there's no avoiding it. I was ill because I was morbidly obese.
I'm admitting all these things on here not because I'm trying to make anyone feel bad about being overweight – but because I know, having had such an amazing response to this blog, that I am definitely not alone in having done that. It's a lonely place to be, and it can seem pretty hopeless.
But it's not.
Those first few weeks in the gym – when all I did was walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes (which at the time still felt pretty exhausting) and tentatively tried out the resistance machines (which I was actually pretty good at – carrying 290lbs on crutches does give you pretty good upper-body strength) – they were hard. The point of this programme is that it's easy – and relatively, it is – but I was in a very bad state.
Against all odds, though, it worked.
I could probably be even further along than I am now – but I had a 9 month hiatus of lapsing back into eating badly and exercising less. I know now that was because I was still very much reliant on processed foods – 'low fat' ready meals, high sugar yogurts, and cereal bars, for instance – so it was all too easy to fall back into a sugary, fatty diet. But the thing is, it doesn't matter how many times you've tried and failed, or whether you've fallen off the wagon, or whatever you want to call it – you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start again.
Sure, it would've been easier had I not had to re-lose 20lbs, and had I had an extra 9 months of healthy living under my belt – but I'm happy to take the hit on that one and call it a valuable lesson. Because now I know that it really is mind over matter, and I know how to motivate myself to get back up and carry on.
Weight loss suddenly seemed easy for me the day I changed my thinking to focusing on the long-term, rather than expecting a quick fix. You can only lose this much weight by looking further into your future than just next week. Two years really isn't that long in the grand scheme of things. It's flown by, but at the same time, looking back on who I was when I first stepped into that gym… It seems like a whole different lifetime.
Which I guess it was – because the whole cliche of 'it's a lifestyle change' rings true here.
If, two years ago, you'd told me my life would be this different… I'd probably have bashed you over the head with a crutch. You can do anything you put your mind to – but it's a marathon, not a sprint. If you stay focused on the long-term benefits – being healthier, happier, and able to live your life to the full – it's totally possible to change your life.
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Wow - a new project!
I'm in cahoots with an awesome bunch of ladies, we are preparing for a group show in August featuring the use of embroidery. Carly Altree-Williams is the bandleader who has brought us all together, she has started our very own blog, and of course I'm urging you to visit.
Needlework Needleplay is the place to go, complete with our very own header designed by the fabulous MaricorMaricar. Here's our blurb.
Needle Work Needle Play brings together nine contemporary Australian textile artists and craft practitioners who use embroidery in innovative ways working in a wide range of mediums including drawing, soft sculpture, portraiture, footwear, jewellery, and installation to explore the contemporary uses of embroidery. Featuring the work of Carly Altree-Williams, Cat-Rabbit, Evie Barrow, Emma Greenwood, MaricorMaricar, Alison Munro, Gemma Pobjoy, Demelza Sherwood and Haeli Van Veen.
I'm first cab off the ranks with an artist profile, I must say it's lovely to see my words and my work all together. I often get a bit frustrated that I can't create all day every day, but when I see what I have been making over the years, I get a bit of a glow inside. Slowly but surely I'm amassing a body of work that ticks all the boxes for me. I hope that it ticks your boxes too.
I'd love your feedback, my blog stats tell me that 316 of you visited yesterday, many from the US of A, please leave a comment to say hi, it'd be great to meet you!


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People who take psychiatric medications long-term are no strangers to stigma, or the threat of it. We perennially face, for example, the question of whether it's worth risking others' judgment and the potential negative repercussions of disclosing our conditions — and the fact that we take medication for them.
But you can commit to taking medications long-term and still perpetuate or further the stigma associated with meds. And I don't just mean that in the sense of keeping your medication regimen secret. Most of us do so in another way altogether that we're largely unaware of.
The fact is, most people have some kind of internal barometer when it comes to medications – which ones they are willing to take, and which ones they're not.
In his book "Is It Me or My Meds," the sociologist David Karp notes that patients "ascribe very different meanings to different medications." "They carry around in their heads," Karp writes, "a kind of hierarchy of medications based on their relative acceptability."
Everyone's hierarchy is a little different and the reasons variable, but usually it breaks down to this: Some medications seem too heavy-duty, too hardcore, too risky, or too stigmatized because they are tied to disorders, symptoms, problems or even people we know that we don't want to be associated with.
I think it's fair to say that very young children don't make such distinctions, but from my interviews with young adults who began taking medications as children or adolescents, I've found that even young teenagers are "more okay" with some meds than others.
For one young woman whose story I tell in my book, "Dosed: The Medication Generation Grows Up," Ritalin was relatively acceptable – but Prozac, she decided, was not.
Part of this may have to do with how the doctor who prescribed the meds framed them: He diagnosed her with ADHD and told her the Ritalin was to treat that condition. But he prescribed the Prozac as a "just in case" measure, saying many young people with ADHD get depressed about under-performing in school.
After about a year, this young woman stopped taking Prozac. Part of it was that she wasn't sure it had helped her feel any less depressed. But part of it had to do with the idea of medicating away depression in the first place — she had a certain, romanticized attachment to the idea of being an angsty, messed-up teenager.
Meanwhile, she continued taking the Ritalin because she knew other kids at school who did, had seen how her ADHD had nearly gotten her kicked out of her elite private school, and thought the drugs were justified because they leveled the playing field: In theory, anyway, they were intended to help her perform up to her potential.
Other people I've talked to have had the opposite attitude: they were okay taking antidepressants for what seemed like a chronic condition, but less sure they merited an ADHD diagnosis in the first place and uncomfortable with the idea of somehow getting an academic "leg up" from stimulants prescribed for that.
You might think that the longer you take medications, the more comfortable you become taking them, and a sort of "slippery slope" mentality sets in, wherein you figure that you take one medication so you might as well add in another.
This is certainly true for some people, but in other cases, a long history with medication actually reinforces ideas that some drugs are acceptable and others definitely are not.
An episode in James T.R. Jones' recent memoir of bipolar disorder, "A Hidden Madness," which I am reviewing for Psych Central, provides an example of this kind of thinking.
After many years on lithium, Jones has an adverse reaction to the drug resulting from long-term use. In its place, his psychiatrist prescribes an atypical antipsychotic drug. He consents to taking it, but reluctantly.
"Antipsychotic" is a scary-sounding term to many people, and Jones is not, as he explains to his psychiatrist, psychotic or delusional (though he had imagined, while manic, that a tree in his backyard and a bus on the interstate were both trying to attack him).
To Jones, this distinction between mania and psychosis is important, and it takes some convincing from the psychiatrist for him to accept that atypical antipsychotics are often prescribed for bipolar disorder (whether or not they ought to be prescribed as often as they are is another matter altogether, and one that's hotly debated).
Some of Jones' resistance also has to do with his long history with medication and psychiatric treatment. Decades before, he spent six months in an institution where many patients who were taking older kinds of antipsychotics developed neurological tics and spasms after long-term use. The threat of these permanent side effects justifiably alarms Jones.
I'd love to hear some of your personal experiences with "hierarchies of medication," and what you think more generally about the idea of some meds being more acceptable to some people than others.
Are these hierarchies understandable, or are they illogical, arbitrary or unfairly biased? What's your internal barometer when it comes to medications you'll take – or will give to your child or prescribe to your patients?
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Press Releases
Preventable Environmental Hazards like Lead and Chemicals Cost Californians Billions
June 16, 2015
Eliminating exposures to preventable environmental hazards related to four childhood health conditions could save families and the state of California $254 million annually and prevent losses of $10-13 billion over the lifetime of all children born in a single year, according to a new report, Costs of Environmental Health Conditions in California Children, released by the Public Health Institute's California Environmental Health Tracking Program. more
California Border Community Tackles Air Pollution Crisis, Unveils First of 40 Real-Time Data Monitors
May 29, 2015
What do you do when your children can't breathe? In Imperial County, which has the highest asthma-related hospitalization rate in the state, you take action. Today, community members and research partners in California's Imperial County unveiled the first of up to 40 new air pollution monitors that will be installed across the county this year in an effort to identify hazardous pollution "hot spots" near vulnerable populations. more
National Cancer Registrars Week (NCRW), April 6 – 10, 2015
April 02, 2015
C/NET Solutions of the Public Health Institute joins with other cancer professionals to observe the 19th annual National Cancer Registrars Week (NCRW), April 6-10, 2015. The purpose of NCRW is to emphasize the important role cancer registrars play in capturing the data that informs cancer research, prevention, and treatment programs. more
Where are Californians the Healthiest? 2015 County Health Rankings Map Differences in Health Across State
March 25, 2015
Marin is the healthiest county in California and Sierra is the least healthy, according to the sixth annual County Health Rankings, released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. Read more about this year's Rankings and explore an interactive data visualization tool developed by PHI with LiveStories to help counties quickly examine obesity data. more
Tobacco-Smoking Moms and Dads Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk for Daughters Exposed in Utero
February 10, 2015
Children exposed in the womb to tobacco smoke from their parents are predisposed to developing type 2 diabetes as adults, according to a study from the Public Health Institute and the University of California, Davis. more
Majority of Californians Have Experienced Early Childhood Adversity, Trauma, New Report Reveals
November 05, 2014
A first-of-its-kind report released today by the Center for Youth Wellness details the long-term and far-reaching consequences of childhood exposure to trauma and chronic adversity. The report, released in partnership with the Public Health Institute, highlights serious implications for the state's public health and healthcare systems, and calls for solutions. more
Study Shows Women Have Higher Risk of Injury Than Men After More Than 3 Drinks
October 30, 2014
A new study of emergency department patients in 18 countries, made available online today by the scientific journal Addiction, shows that the risk of injury caused by acute alcohol consumption is higher for women compared with men. more
BJOG Releases MPT Special Supplement
October 21, 2014
Broad-spectrum prevention that can simultaneously prevent unintended pregnancy along with STIs, including HIV, is on the horizon say experts in a special supplement of the BJOG: The International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The issue features an international assemblage of researchers, funders, developers and advocates who identify the pressing global health rationale for MPTs and present new research and strategies for making the go/no-go funding and research decisions that shape the field. PHI's Bethany Young Holt, Executive Director of CAMI, served as co-editor on the issue. more
The Public Health Institute Receives Three Million Dollar REACH Grant
September 25, 2014
Today the Public Health Institute was awarded $2,938,025 over three years to launch Cultiva LaSalud, as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) initiative. more
EPA's Gina McCarthy heads "Action in Climate Change and Health" Event Held on the Eve of UN Climate Summit
September 19, 2014
The EPA's Gina McCarthy, Acting U.S. Surgeon; General Boris Lushniak; Dr. Maria Neira, Director of Public Health and the Environment Department at the World Health Organization; and Dr. Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet will speak at the "Action in Climate Change and Health" event held the day before the UN Secretary General's Climate Summit in New York.
Public Health Institute Symposium Explores Intersection of Data, Health and Technology September 17 event in San Francisco
September 17, 2014
On September 17, from 12-4 p.m., at the Delancey Street Foundation in San Francisco, a panel of experts will discuss how technology, innovation and new public/private partnerships are changing how we prevent and treat disease.
"PHI's 50th anniversary is a time to celebrate the tremendous gains in public health over the last five decades, while also looking to the challenges of the next 50 years," said Mary A. Pittman, DrPH, president and CEO of PHI. "Harnessing the power of data and technology, and forging alliances with non-traditional partners—a focus of this symposium and our entire 50th anniversary celebration—will enable us to continue to build a healthier world." more
Local, National and International Luminaries Receive Awards as PHI's Champions of Health
September 17, 2014
A local civic leader committed to climate change and social justice. A filmmaker and philanthropist who gives voice to women peacemakers around the world. A pioneer in preventing and ending cancer. Two physician-advocates: for progressive policies at the U.S.–Mexico border; and for young people whose health can be permanently altered by childhood trauma. A woman who just retired, at 91, from leading a nation's health system.
These varied individuals are all modern-day public health champions, who were honored together as part of Oakland-based Public Health Institute's (PHI) 50th anniversary celebration, on September 17 at San Francisco's Exploratorium museum. more
New Study Identifies Best Ways to Reduce HIV in Adolescent Girls Worldwide
July 16, 2014
The best way to reduce HIV among adolescent girls worldwide? Help girls stay in school. This is just one of a set of strategies that a new study has proven to be effective in reducing the risk of HIV among teenage girls.
The study is published in an article, "What HIV Programs Work for Adolescent Girls?" as part of special issue of JAIDS, the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. The special issue, entitled "Ending HIV and AIDS in Adolescents," was developed by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the U.S National Institutes of Health (NIH). The findings will also be released at the 20th International AIDS conference, held in Melbourne, Australia, July 20-25. more
Study: Tobacco industry influenced public debate to block a ban on menthol
June 11, 2014
Stoking fears of job loss and strategically positioning itself on the side of civil rights groups, the tobacco industry influenced news coverage of mentholated cigarettes — which disproportionately impact the health of African Americans — to prevent a ban on them, found a study published today in the American Journal of Public Health.
The study, conducted by researchers at the Public Health Institute's Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) and the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, analyzed public debate on menthol policy between 2008 and 2011, including news coverage, government documents and meeting transcripts of a key advisory committee to the FDA, which was charged with evaluating the public health effects of menthol. more
Irregular Menstruation May Predict Increased Risk of Death From Ovarian Cancer, PHI Study Finds
April 09, 2014
Women with irregular menstrual cycles had a twofold increased risk of death from ovarian cancer, according to a large, prospective PHI study presented here today at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2014. more
Oakland Has Much to Be Proud of – Including Being Home to One of 50 'Best Nonprofits To Work For' in US
April 01, 2014
In the last year alone, Oakland has been proclaimed the "Most Exciting City in America," the fifth "Hippest City in the U.S.," the "Greenest City in America," the second "Best California City for Singles" and one of the "Top 10 Cities to Walk a Dog."
And now, this other city by the Bay has one more feather in its cap: the Oakland-based Public Health Institute was named today as one of the 50 "Best Nonprofits To Work For by The NonProfit Times. more
2014 County Health Rankings Highlight Health Differences Across California
March 26, 2014
Marin is the healthiest county in California and Lake is the least healthy, according to the fifth annual County Health Rankings, released today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute. more
Soda Industry Played Behind-the-Scenes Role in Influencing News Coverage of Richmond and El Monte, Calif., Soda Tax Proposals
February 26, 2014
The soda industry influenced news coverage of two soda tax ballot measures in the working-class cities of Richmond and El Monte, Calif., found research released today by the Public Health Institute's Berkeley Media Studies Group. more
Community Health Workers: An Answer to Growing US Health Care Needs, New Public Health Institute Report Finds
January 16, 2014
The time has come to bring community health workers (CHWs) and promotores "into the mainstream of the US health care system," states a new PHI report, "Taking Innovation to Scale: Community Health Workers, Promotores and the Triple Aim."
CHWs and promotores can reduce avoidable emergency department visits by 42%, deliver an impressive 4:1 return on investment, ensure that more patients keep their medical appointments, and improve health outcomes, the new report from PHI's California Heatlh Workforce Alliance finds. more
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Montgomery County resident James Michaels said he's used to sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, but that doesn't mean he likes it.
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At some point in history, it became possible for writers in country X to accuse their own country of an atrocity committed against the people of country Y. When and how did this happen? What place does it have, or should it have, in literary history? Is it possible or desirable to make self-accusation of atrocity into the organizing principle of a literary history-- a literary history that would therefore be cosmopolitan in a stronger than usual sense?
Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. His most recent books are "Cosmopolitanisms" (co-edited with Paulo Horta) and "The Beneficiary," both of which appeared in 2017.
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Alan Nelson's comments on Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. Part 2.
Posted in Authors and critics, tagged AMC-SMST, Spinoza on April 29, 2014| 1 Comment »
In accordance with Spinoza's plan to metaphysically relate God and humans, Part I of the Ethics deals with God and Part II with the nature and origin of the human mind. It is striking, therefore, that Spinoza cannot prevent himself and the human mind from intruding into Part I. This is what one would expect from a picture that emphasizes the human standpoint, but it confuses a picture that makes God the starting place for a rigorous geometrical ordering of ideas. Let's look at some examples.
In the Part I definitions, we find the first personal pronoun (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8) or appeal to "what is said" (2 and 7). The all-important E1D4, "By attribute I understand what the intellect perceives of a substance as constituting its essence" is, in isolation, most naturally read as asserting that Spinoza's own intellect, and others like it perceives attributes thus. Most commentators, including Melamed, think that it absolutely crucial that it must instead be the infinite intellect, God's idea, doing the perceiving. Here I make use of a popular interpretive trope: "surely if Spinoza had meant "infinite intellect" in E1D4 instead of his own intellect, i.e. his capacity for making true ideas clear and distinct, he should have said so. How sloppy of him!" One thing that might support reading this definition as referring to the infinite intellect is that in the similarly all-important E1P16, Spinoza says that everything that can fall under an infinite intellect follows from the necessity of the divine nature. That too, however is rather strange. It is not until later, in Part II, that Spinoza gets around to demonstrating that thought is one of God's attributes (E2P1) so that God's idea can be one of his infinite modes (E2P3). The demonstration of E2P1 is enthymematic; it relies on the existence of singular thoughts. But the existence of singular, finite, thoughts can be demonstrated only because Spinoza himself and his readers have some. Spinoza has marked this in E2A1, which formally introduces humans to the scene and E2A2 which asserts simply: "Man thinks." [the Dutch translation very suggestively adds, "or, to put it differently, we know that we think" (emphasis added)]. It is also worth noting that in E1P16D, that Spinoza again refers to the "intellect" and here he definitely means the human intellect, for he considers how this intellect infers things from definitions—hardly a task appropriate to the infinite intellect. So this is further evidence that the intellect mentioned in E1D4 is human intellect.
Alan Nelson's comments on Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. Part 1.
Posted in Authors and critics, tagged AMC-SMST, Spinoza on April 28, 2014| 1 Comment »
I'm glad of this opportunity to express my admiration for Melamed's exceptionally good book. Very few books on any early modern figure reach this standard. It addresses most of the hardest problems facing interpreters of Spinoza's mature masterpiece, the Ethics, and it constructs a systematic reading from which direct answers to these problems naturally fall out. This systematicity is just what is wanted from a reading of a philosopher like Spinoza, more perhaps than for any other philosopher, but it is notoriously hard to attain. The book is densely argued in an analytic style that features interpretive hypotheses and the weighing of texts as confirming evidence. The focus is on the Ethics and closely related letters, but Melamed makes skillful use of the rest of the corpus when appropriate. He also builds on hundreds of years of scholarship while adding important innovations and synthesizing it all. The book remains free of philosophical anachronism to an unusual extent and, as a bonus, it is readable throughout. OUP has done a good job as well: the copious notes are at the foot of the page, and there is a separate bibliography and a useful index of passages from the Ethics.
In this brief commentary, there is no space to develop direct objections to Melamed's interpretation. He has himself done a highly admirable job of anticipating and dealing with objections. That includes the recognition of potentially unfriendly texts, almost all of which are fit into the overall interpretation. Instead, I shall try to suggest an alternative framework for understanding Spinoza's metaphysics from which questions for Melamed's interpretation might be raised. This can serve as an invitation for extending the argument of the book (a task which is already underway in other manuscripts and published articles). For now, I will try to put some pressure on Melamed's interpretation of the infinite intellect, or God's idea, and its relation to the attributes. Although the book is superbly integrated, this aspect of Spinoza's metaphysics is its core.
Yitzhak Melamed's reply to Alison Peterman
Posted in Authors and critics, tagged AMC-SMST, Spinoza on April 24, 2014| 6 Comments »
I turn now to the comments by Professor Alison Peterman (University of Rochester).
Y.1.6: Alison begins her comments with a genuine confession: "I've never liked the infinite modes." I understand this sensibility, and for a while I was tempted to share it. The infinite modes are probably some of the least understood elements of Spinoza's ontology. His contemporaries and 18th-century successors barely marked their presence, and when they did, they made trivial and basic errors. Even a sharp mind like Tschirnhaus seems to have had hardly any clue as to how important they were (see Ep. 63). Could it be that the infinite modes are a complete invention of Spinoza scholarship in the late 19th and early 20th century? I do not think so. Spinoza's reply to Tschirnhaus in Ep. 64, as well as various references to the infinite modes in the Short Treatise and the Ethics, make this suggestion untenable. Still, I believe there are many questions about these entities which have not been adequately answered. My own discussion of the infinite modes (Ch. 4 of the book) was written much later than the rest of the book, because there are many issues related to Spinoza's mereology which I still find problematic. I noted some of these issues in the footnotes to Chapter 4, and I am still working on a study of Spinoza's mereology. Nevertheless, since my picture of the infinite modes was very different from the standard account, I thought it would be worth publishing, even though there are several issues I had to leave as open questions.
Alison Peterman's comments on Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. Part 2.
Posted in Authors and critics, tagged AMC-SMST, Spinoza on April 22, 2014| 1 Comment »
Melamed argues that (1) for Spinoza, "[p]arts are prior to their whole, both in nature and in our knowledge" (47). But he also claims that (2) a finite mode can't follow directly from God's attributes considered absolutely, so it can only follow from God as part of an infinite mode (131). These seem to be in tension, since if it is the infinite mode that follows directly from the absolute nature of God's attributes, and the finite modes only as parts of that, the infinite mode should be prior in nature. I'm not sure we need to accept either claim.
Let's start with (1). Melamed points to several places where Spinoza simply states that parts are prior to wholes (47-48). But Spinoza doesn't elaborate in those passages on what he understands by "part" or "whole" or "prior." In the Cogitata Metaphysica I/258 (which Melamed cites at 48n145), Spinoza distinguishes among the ways that one thing can be distinct from another, which suggests there might also be a variety of ways that parts can constitute a whole. In fact, when Spinoza claims there that parts must be prior to their whole, it is clear that he is discussing only really distinct parts, and he later denies that the parts of nature are really distinct. I know Melamed has carefully considered Spinoza's taxonomy of distinctions, so I wonder in light of this in what sense he thinks we can declare that for Spinoza parts are prior to wholes simpliciter.
Alison Peterman's comments on Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. Part 1.
Posted in Authors and critics, tagged AMC-SMST, Spinoza on April 21, 2014| 1 Comment »
I'm so happy to be able to comment on Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought, which exemplifies the Melamedian blend of formidable mastery of Spinoza's corpus and metaphysical insight. I wish I could talk more about the specific things I liked, like Chapter 5's account of Spinoza's two parallelisms and the ingenious solutions it provides to a swarm of interpretive problems. But in such a short space, I'll have to cut to the chase with a confession:
I've never liked the infinite modes. Melamed points out that these modes must be important to Spinoza, since he invents them ex nihilo and invokes them at crucial argumentative junctures. But I always feel hoodwinked when he does invoke them, and while Melamed's treatment of the infinite modes taught me very much about their nature, I'm not sure it supports his conclusion that they go "quite a long way" toward solving the problem of Spinoza's derivation of the finite from the infinite.
That problem arises because, according to Spinoza, only something infinite can follow directly from the "absolute nature of God's attributes" (EIp21), which are infinite. But as Melamed shows in Chapter 2, Spinoza does think that there are finite things. So where do they come from? According to Melamed, "once we realize that finite modes are parts of infinite modes, we make significant progress in explaining the derivation of the finite modes: they follow from God's essence as parts of the infinite modes" (131).
I don't share his sanguine attitude. Here are a few questions. Most importantly, what does it mean to say that the finite modes "follow from God's essence as parts"? If parts are prior to wholes for Spinoza, as Melamed argues (47), and the finite modes are parts of the infinite modes, then it would seem that the finite modes should follow from God prior to the infinite modes. This mereological morass will be the topic of my next post. Here I'll focus on three other questions.
Yitzhak Melamed's reply to Lia Levy
Posted in Authors and critics, tagged AMC-SMST, Spinoza on April 17, 2014| 1 Comment »
Let me begin by thanking my three critics for the thought and time they have invested in their comments. I am very much flattered by the composition of this team, and am greatly indebted to them for their insights, critiques, and challenges. All three raise deep and fundamental issues, and in the following I will attempt to address as many of their arguments as the current forum allows. Let me also admit from the beginning that I do not have solutions to some of the important problems they have raised. I warmly welcome these objections and hope we can explore them together, making whatever progress we can. My ambition in the book was to solve some of the long-standing and fundamental problems in Spinoza's metaphysics, but not, alas, all of them.
In order to help shape our exchange, I will use the notation of posts and paragraphs, so that future responses can address specific claims by referencing the paragraph instead of repeating the claim. Thus, "Y.1.1" will designate the first paragraph of my first post. For the sake of simplicity, I suggest that we address each other by our given names (as we normally do).
I will begin by addressing the comments by Professor Lia Levy (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil), the author of the important study, L'Automate spirituel: La subjectivé moderne d'après l'Ethique de Spinoza (Van Grocum, 2000).
Y.1.1: Lia provides a very helpful (and generous) outline of the main arguments of the book. She suggests, however, that I "did not consider the hypothesis that the dissociation between the concepts of individual and substance implies that Spinoza's substance may simply be of the wrong logical type to perform the roles of substratum and ultimate subject of predication." Now, I do address in detail the "wrong logical type" argument (pp. 40-60 of my book). My argument, in brief, is this: in order to criticize a claim P as confusing the logical type of things, one must either (1) defend and substantiate a theory of logical types (call it "T") and show that P and T are inconsistent, or (2) show that the same theory of logical types (T) is accepted by the author of P. However, I argue that we have no indication that Spinoza accepted the relevant theory of logical types (on the contrary, we have plenty of evidence that he and his contemporaries drew a very fuzzy boundary – or none at all – between things and qualities). Thus, I do not think that Spinoza is guilty of simple inconsistency with regard to the logical type of modes. Now, one may of course criticize Spinoza for not adopting a theory of logical types (option 1 above), but then the onus of proof is on the critic, i.e., she should convincingly substantiate such a theory. I, for one, am not aware of such a compelling substantiation of the logical types of things, and thus I have no objection to Spinoza's view of modes as both things and qualities.
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I know I'm very late in writing about Father's Day. Juggling baby duty while trying to live a normal life is tough and I completely understand now why it took so long for my Mom to take down the Christmas decorations or to develop the film she had sitting in her camera: she was just trying to keep everybody appropriately clothed, our faces adequately wiped, and our vaccinations up-to-date. Accomplishing anything else on top of that was a bonus.
Father's Day this year was memorable for several reasons: 1. it was the first time my family got together without my sister, who is in Hawaii, 2. it was Anthony's second Father's Day, 3. and it happened twice. Yes, twice. You see, I haven't been keeping track of dates and things since I've been off for the summer. I always get really lazy about that. For some reason I thought the weekend before Father's Day was Father's Day. Anthony, who never keeps track of holidays like that, just went along with the flow. And why wouldn't he? I kept saying things like, "We'll do whatever you want! It's your day!!" Who was he to question that? Especially when there was Piping.
What is Piping? Piping is something that originated organically within my group of friends years ago, but it is not unique to us. We found out that a whole bunch of people do it, and they have a different word for it (Boffers). Basically, it's a game. It started with friends hitting each other with PVC pipe and grew to include insulation and duct tape. Some of my friends are into martial arts and some of them are into SCA. All of them enjoy running around and beating the crap out of each other with padded weapons. It's a match made in heaven.
The day that I thought was Father's Day was also Piping Day. Since my friend Dave was moving away we held a giant piping match in his honor. What better way to show our affection than to hit him repeatedly with PVC pipe?
It was Anthony's day! Father's day! He could do whatever he wanted! And he wanted to pipe all day. Which was fine by me. Isobel and I joined the festivities by relaxing in the shade and talking to Stefanie.
We were lucky that it was a relatively mild day for summer and not nearly has hot as it could have been. A nice breeze cooled us down and kept the day from reaching 100. We were lucky.
My friends have been piping together for years. People who started piping as children are now piping as adults. Almost a decade ago I used to go to the park with Anthony on Saturday mornings and think, "One day, we'll have a little kid and I'll bring he or she to the park to play while Anthony pipes."
We spent pretty much all day at the park with Anthony while he ran around and hit people with a pipe. He was probably the happiest Dad ever.
Before he got bogged down with a shoulder injury Anthony was a major part of the piping scene. He organized weekly matches and really helped the sport it grow and gain momentum in our area. A lot of the younger guys that pipe now pipe because of him. It killed him when he had to stop participating regularly, but it couldn't be helped: injury and responsibilities kept him away. I was glad to indulge him as a Father's Day present.
Who could have known fifteen years ago that Aaron grabbing a PVC pipe from his Dad's sprinkler repair would grow into a huge local hobby involving so many people?
I know Anthony was proud to have Isobel and I there to support him.
I had a great time even though I don't pipe (please note my marked dislike of running around and being hit with things). Isobel had a great time at the park and I got to see some old friends, friends from out of town, and spend some quality time with Dave and Stef before the move.
That night I tried calling my Dad to wish him a Happy Father's Day, but I couldn't get a hold of him till the next day. Aaaand that's how I found out it wasn't actually Father's Day till next Saturday. Well! There you go. I invited my parents and grandma over for a Second Father's Day Celebration.
Anthony, of course, did not mind, and I have no regrets. It was nice to have a day just for Anthony to celebrate what a fantastic father he is. He is incredible Anyone who sees him interact with Isobel or kids in general notices this.
Saturday I'll be posting Father's Day, Part II to include our actual Father's Day activities.
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Bird nest pendants and necklaces with freshwater pearl eggs, handmade with sterling silver or copper jewelry wire and available with white, blue, or pink eggs. Bird nest designs from Mama's Magic Studio can be customized to represent boys (blue pearls) or girls (pink pearls). Pearls are also available in large or small, to represent parents and children or children and grandchildren. These sweet symbols of family are perfect for mothers, grandmothers, and other caretakers.


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'Tis the season
Posted on Dec 12, 2016 in Campus News and News
'Tis the season for a little cheer, so we dressed our loved ones up in silly gear!
Happy holidays from the KU Alumni Association. We appreciate your loyalty as a member.
Need more holiday cheer? Check out our holiday videos from previous years.


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Chemical Guys Signature Series Glass Cleaner is the perfect way to achieve streak-free glass, windows, and mirrors. The advanced formula is designed to easily break down dirt, dust, debris, bugs, fingerprints, and road grime in seconds. We engineered the Chemical Guys Signature Series Glass Cleaner to be the world s most advanced glass cleaner. The professional grade formula is ammonia-free; therefore there is no harsh smell. Our advanced formula is safe for tinted glass and great for cleaning interior and exterior windows. Quickly and easily achieve streak-free glass on any car, truck, motorcycle, boat, and even RVs. Signature Series Glass Cleaner is also great for cleaning household and industrial windows. We designed our Signature Series Glass Cleaner to perform with ultimate versatility. We engineered our glass cleaning formula to clean plastic windshields, gauges, and navigation screens for improved visibility while driving.
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A deadly super villainess who is able to put any man under her spell by singing a note of three octaves above high C. In the series she was able to get Commissioner Gordon to sneak into the batcave via the boot of the Batmobile, then entranced Bruce Wayne to sign over all his fortunes to her and even made Chief O'Hara jump into Gotham lake.
When she almost fell off the top of Wayne Headquarters building (pictured above), Robin promised to pull her up only if she sang an antidote note to release all those still under her spell. She did so causing her to lose her voice for good.
She appeared in two episodes during the third season, including a team up with the Riddler during her first episode. The Siren's other associates/thugs were Allegro and Andante who had to keep putting on earmuffs/headphones to block out Siren's entrancing note. Her only lair was the "underground grotto".
Before being the Siren, she was simply Lorelei Circe a world famous singer and musician (played the harp) but unfortunately decided to use her voice to pursue a life of crime.
Click "play" on the video below to listen to Siren singing at three octaves above High C!
Joan Collins
The Siren was played by famous English actress Joan Collins, she was one of the biggest stars who played roles in Batman. She is most remembered for her role in Dynasty. In her biography she describes herself as politically conservative minded and admires British Prime Minister (1979-1990), Margaret Thatcher.
The introduction of the Siren in episode 96 "Ring Around The Riddler" was an attempt to shorten the gap between each episode (#96 & #97) when the show was only broadcasted once a week in the third series.


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Thank God for Stark. Raving. Mad. Mommy. She pulled this together at the last minute for me and I feel like she just wrote my math exam for me.
Have a read of her level headed perspective on this:
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A handful of studies have come out recently linking autism to the environment, including the environment in the womb. In particular, one study, which followed fewer than 300 families, found that taking antidepressants during pregnancy may be connected to a higher risk of autism for the baby.
Experts in prenatal mental health point out that this is a very small study, and that it shows a correlative link, not a causative link. In other words, maybe moms who reach out for mental health support for themselves are more likely to reach out for diagnoses for their children. Any medication – prescription or over-the-counter, can pose risks during pregnancy. However, according to the Mayo Clinic, the risk of birth defect or other problems for babies of mothers taking antidepressants is low. Some antidepressants have been shown to be safer than others; a list is provided by the Mayo Clinic here.
In 2009, the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a joint statement outlining their recommendations for treating pregnant women with depression, as well as women planning to become pregnant. It recommends that for women with mild depression or no symptoms for six months or longer, it may be appropriate to taper off medication before becoming pregnant. However, for women with a history of severe, recurrent depression (or with bipolar disorder, psychosis, or a history of suicide attempts), medication discontinuation may not be appropriate.
What does this mean? It means that it's imperative that women who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant work closely with their ob/gyns and their mental health professionals to weigh the risks and benefits of taking antidepressants. Non-treatment of depression during pregnancy has its own risks, including preterm birth, growth problems, and a potentially much greater risk of postpartum depression.
Also, please heed my warning: reading a two-sentence news bullet point doesn't actually make random people qualified to ask pregnant women if they're taking antidepressants. In fact, unless you're that woman's obstetrician, or maybe Oprah, it would be kind of awesome if you would just shut the hell up about it.
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Thank you Stark. Raving. Mad. Mommy., I couldn't have said it better myself.


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On one of my many quieter days of late, I decided to thumb through our filing cabinet to see what was getting a little stale, and maybe take some older files downstairs for storage. I happened across our Passport File and out of curiosity decided to check the "Expiry Date". Looked like they were going to expire this October and after telling Nat, we decided we should renew them for another 10 years. We have no travel plans in the foreseeable future, but we should definitely renew them just in case. You never know, we still have a couple of months left on the Heart and Stroke Calendar Lottery and we could possibly still win $5,000 – $10,000. I've always been a positive thinker and stranger things have happened.
The renewal process was easy enough. You can now fill out the Renewal Forms online (http://www.ppt.gc.ca/info/), print out your completed form, sign it, get your two References and away you go. The Passport Office is now located at the Pen Centre, which provides plenty of parking, and the offices have plenty of staff to serve you.
After Nat's golf game on Monday, we brushed our hair, pinched our cheeks and headed down to WalMart to have our Passport photos taken. We waited a few minutes for the photographer to return from her lunch, stood in front of the white screen (no smiling allowed) and we were done in less than five minutes. We all know the photos make you like you're in a police line-up, but they'll at least be tucked away in our Passports and not on display for all and sundry to see!
This morning we were waiting on our landscaper guy to come and give us another quote. Once he left, we decided we would ask our Pharmacist and a staff member to be our two references, after which we would drive into St. Catharines to complete the whole process at the Passport Office. Our Landscaper was a little late in arriving, but we were still able to explain what we wanted done for the back walkway and allow him to measure up for a quote. This is going to be our Spring project, with the front walkway being done this October. (Can't wait – as we think it's really going to look great.)
With the landscaping sorted out, we hopped in the car, had Donnie (our Pharmacist) and a staff member complete the Reference portions, hopped back in the car and drove the 35 minutes into St. Catharines. The new Passport Office is certainly easier to get to as compared to its old location in downtown St. Catharines. With my file in hand we stepped up to the first teller, handed her our file with a smile and explained we wanted two renewals.
Well. The teller opens our Passports and promptly tells us "You know you have another year to go for renewal, don't you?" (Internal brain saying to itself: "what the hell is your problem, Twila?). I looked at Nat and shook my head as I apologized for my goof. I explained that when I checked the passports I seriously thought this was 2014, and gave a stupid little laugh. I added that my memory isn't what it used to be, but she's not laughing!! The Teller then asks if we want to wait until October 2014 arrives or, still proceed with the renewal. After mulling it over, I said to Nat that since we're here why not just go ahead – what the hell, so we lose a year. It's not like we're going anywhere. He agreed. The Teller then pushed out our "line-up" number and told us to have a seat in the lounge area and wait for our number to come up.
Now this is where I get a little perplexed – there is no one else in the whole entire Passport Office waiting to be served!!! Seriously!! She couldn't just tell us to proceed to the next window for completion of this whole matter?? Nope! We had to walk those 20 or so paces to the lounge area, have a seat for all of 10 seconds for when our number pops up on the illuminated box wired to the wall.
We proceed to Window No. 4, as directed. I, again, hand over my file. The new Teller looks at our Passports, looks at us, and with no humour at all, repeats those infamous words "You know you have more than a year left before renewal, don't you?" "Yes", we replied, "but since we're here we thought we would still proceed". She then asks us "Why". I, again, replied, "It was a stupid mistake on my part mixing up the years, but since we're here, we thought we would still proceed". She then stares at us like a couple of idiots and says "Well, if you decide to go ahead then the Government needs to know "Why" I'm now looking at Nat and thinking this is going to get complicated and not worth the effort. We both agreed to leave the whole affair and return next year. Whereupon we told little Miss Prissy to forget it, gathered up my file (which was now all asunder) and left the building. We hope that when we return a year from now that these two ladies who have no gift of laughter at all, will be gone by then!!
Yes, the whole affair was stupid on my part – but at least I was honest about it. Yes, I felt silly, but anyone should be able to see the humour in the whole affair. I'm now thinking that human relations and being personable are not a part of any Federal employee's training. You'd think that sitting in those high stools all day long, doing the same work day in and day out would get a little boring and the staff would look for a bit of a stupid mistake now and then to at least break up their day?? If Stephen Harper has any sense of humour you won't see it in public and I guess that's the way he wants the rest of his Federal employees to act. A shame, really. You live longer if you laugh!!


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Creality 3D – Laser Engraver Module Upgrade
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This is a dedicated laser engraver module upgrade for your Creality CR-10 3D Printer.
Product Information
This high powered laser engraver module mounts directly to the extruder head turning your CR-10 3D Printer into a laser engraving machine. Comes with a FREE pair of safety goggles.
Compatible with the following models:
- CR-10 S3 (300mmx300mmx400mm)
- CR-10 S4 (400mmx400mmx400mm)
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- Voltage: 12V (DC)
- Working current: 2100mA
- Wavelength: 405NM
- Power: 500mW
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- Cooling Method: Fan Forced Air Cooled
- Housing Material: Aluminum Anodized Black
- Mounting Style: Non-Adjustable Co-axial Mount
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MF/HF Marine Transceiver
The latest ICOM Digital Signal Processor technology
with a compact remote head.
Professional design.
The IC-M802 has a professional design.
(2) Position exchange with external GPS receiver.
When connected to an external GPS receiver*, position information can be exchanged with other stations.
When the receiving side is connected to a PC**, position monitoring is possible.
* NMEA 0183 output and RS-232C interface are required.
** Position mapping software required. (Not supplied by Icom)
Standard 4×8 remote controller.
The IC-M802 offers an industry standard 4-inch tall ( 10,16cm) remote controller When set up with the IC-M503 VHF radio, Icom offers you a complete communication station.
Large LCD with dot matrix characters.
You can easily read the alphanumeric name of any of the 1355 ITU channels at a glance with the large LCD display. Nighttime operation is no problem with 10 levels ( plus OFF) adjustable backlit display and keypad.
Easy to use in all conditions.
The IC-M802 offers two large dails – bank and channel – for easy channel selection. Up to 16 banks of 20 (max.) each for user channels, and 17 banks for for ITU channels are available.
Built-in Digital Selective Calling (DSC).
For added safety at sea, the IC-M802 offers the latest in one-touch DSC emergency communications technology. (ITU Class E standard) The emergency button is covered by a red, spring loaded hatch to avoid accidental DSC activation.
Digital signal processor advantage.
The speech compressor, utilizing DSP, increases average talk power. Flexible filter settings provide for narrow band signals like E-mail, SITOR, FSK and other operation without an optional filter.
150W (PEP) of powerful output.
150 Watts of power offers superior worldwide communications. A one piece, die cast aluminum chassis and a large cooling fan allow continuous transmission at full output power – very important for data communication, like e-mail.
One-touch e-mail* access.
An SSB first! The IC-M802 can be set to memorize your HF e-mail access frequency, mode and bandwidth settings. At sea e-mail has never been easier. * For HF e-mail, an HF modem, PC and cables are required.
Automatic antenna tuner, AT-140.
An optional automatic antenna tuner, AT-140, easily connects to the IC-M802. When the tuner cannot tune the antenna, the IC-M802 bypasses the tuner and displays a warning indicator on the LCD.
Other features.
- Wide band receive coverage (0.5-29.9999MHz)
- VFO mode is available (depending on version).
- Remote control mic allows you to select channels directly.
- Accessory RS-232C port allows connection of modem, etc.
- GPS input, NMEA 0183 version 2.0 or later.
- A headphone jack in front of the controller.
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Today we're sharing a great, creamy tomato soup that avoids using cream. That may seem like a contradiction, but trust me: it is absolutely delicious and 100% vegan.
We wanted to recreate a creamy tomato soup with a perfectly velvety texture without actually resorting to using cream. In effect, this should provide the same taste while keeping the dish vegan. The trick, it turns out, was to add a slice of white bread torn into pieces. It softened in the soup, and processed perfectly to give us that texture we wanted. As an added bonus, this non-dairy soup had a brighter, fresher tomato taste to it, not dulled by butter or cream. Keep reading below for this great vegan tomato soup recipe.
Creamy Vegan Tomato Soup
(makes 6 servings)
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 28oz cans whole tomatoes packed in juice
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 large slices sandwich bread, crusts removed, corn into pieces
- 2 cups vegetable broth
- 1/2 cup fresh chopped basil
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons brandy (optional)
- salt and pepper to taste
- chives or croutons for garnish
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat until shimmering. Add onion, garlic, red pepper flakes, and the bay leaf. Cook, stirring frequently until the onion is translucent (3 to 5 minutes). Stir in tomatoes and their juice. Mash the tomatoes until no large pieces remain.
- Stir in the sugar, basil, and bread, then bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat to medium and cook, stirring occasionally, until the bread starts to break down (about 5 minutes). Remove and discard the bay leaf.
- Transfer half the soup to a blender. Add 1 tablespoon oil and process until the soup is smooth and creamy (2 to 3 minutes). Transfer to a large bowl and repeat with the remaining soup an oil. Rinse out the dutch oven and return the soup to the pot.
- Stir in the vegetable broth, lemon juice, and brandy (if using). Return the soup to a boil and season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve the soup in individual bowls. Sprinkle with chives and croutons if using, and optionally drizzle with olive oil.
- Enjoy!
Recipe adapted fromFood.com