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Joel Gratcyk doesn't understand why certain parents have objections to mothers who breastfeed without covering themselves first.
I'm just going to say it up front. I'm a huge supporter of open-air breastfeeding. It's natural. It's beautiful. It's 100% acceptable and supported by my wife, family, and myself. I read this post by a Chicago Dad and have to respond. Not all Chicago dads are so easily made uncomfortable and I needed to make sure the Internet knows that.
A few years ago, I was with my wife and her family at a county fair. It was hot out. I mean, seriously hot for a Midwestern summer day. The sun was beating down on us, not a cloud in the sky, and the fair was pretty crowded. My wife and I were newly married and not parents yet. My sister-in-law, however, had a little boy who was nursing at the time.
The whole family was hanging out and having a good time. It was hot, but everyone dressed appropriately for the weather (short sleeves, shorts, etc.) so we were all coping with it just fine. I distinctly remember my wife finishing a drink of water and then asking the group where her sister had gone off to. Naomi, of College Kid With Kids, had found a place to sit a few steps away to nurse her little one. She was using a cover then, because "modesty," but the uncomfortable and overheated look on her face will always stick with me. It was over 90 degrees out and there she was completely miserable. Sweat dripping from her face. When her little one was done and uncovered, he was drenched in sweat and appeared miserable too. And for what? To make people she didn't know feel more comfortable by assuming she knew what they preferred? That is ridiculous. Fast forward to my sister-in-law's next kid and she quote, "realized how stupid it was" and she breastfeeds without a cover now.
While Kevin, the author of the post that inspired me to write this rebuttal, does say "Public breastfeeding should be perfectly acceptable. Anywhere. Anytime. Always," he quickly follows that line up with this:
If you want to breastfeed in public, COVER UP.
It makes me very uncomfortable to be around a stranger with their private parts hanging out. I'm sure that I am not the only person that feels that way. They make cloaks, and blankets work too. It's simple to do. Please don't feel the need to make everyone else in the store, room, school, or wherever you are, uncomfortable. It's simply not necessary.
The ego of the author of that article is seriously showing. Why does he think his comfort trumps all mothers in Chicago? Why does a mother and baby need to suffer if open-air breastfeeding makes someone else uncomfortable to see? Why should they be a sweaty mess when those uncomfortable with it could just, ya know, not look. Breasts are not genitals. They're not "private parts" any more than knees are private parts. They're just body parts. Is the author of the "Cover Up" article uncomfortable seeing women in a bikini? It's way more skin. If so, does he feel like he has the right to ask them to cover up?
Breastfeeding should be a completely socially acceptable way to feed a child at a restaurant, theater, museum, park, place of worship, or other public space. My wife breastfeeds without a cover. It is what she and my son prefer, so I encourage it. That also means one less thing to carry around in the diaper bag and one less thing to worry about forgetting when leaving a restaurant. My son would never take a bottle so breastfeeding was a required task and having to worry about covering up would have made the process more complicated than it needed to be.
Another argument against ditching the cover I read last week was a woman's guest post on another dad blogger's site. In it she tells the story of friends gathered at a table for games and food when she says this:
What I and many others don't want to see is the ACTION of breastfeeding. It's an intimate act. NOT sexual, intimate—a very deep form of connection between two human beings. As an artist, I have seen many, many nude women, and even posed nude myself for figure drawing sessions. If I see a boob in public, it's not going to shake the foundations of my world. But when my friend exposed herself to feed her baby, I felt suddenly as if I'd intruded on something private, and I couldn't unsee it. I respect her for giving her baby the best nourishment and a healthy start in life, but had I been in her shoes, I would have excused myself for a few minutes.
Breastfeeding is definitely intimate. It's is an act of affection, bonding, and closeness. It's also eating. It can be a loving, quiet meal or it can be a quick grab and go snack. The act of breastfeeding, even when it's a bonding moment, is no more publicly unacceptable than a parent and child holding hands, hugging, or cuddling each other. These are appropriate signs of affection between parents and children that should be encouraged and not hidden away. There is no reason to exclude a breastfeeding mother from a social situation because breastfeeding is intimate. It's a meal and just like any meal the amount of intimacy and privacy required depends on the occasion.
Don't get me wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with covering up if baby and mother are comfortable with it. If a mom prefers to use a cover when nursing, then all power to her. But, if not, why should a mother and baby be uncomfortable because some anonymous stranger might find a glimpse of it uncomfortable? How is she supposed to know? Should she take a survey before she latches on? Ask everyone who passes by? There is nothing sexual about a baby attached to a boob. It's just eating.
All debate aside, Illinois state law protects a woman's right to breastfeed uncovered as do 47 other states. So, while everyone is entitled to their opinion, a woman can breastfeed uncovered wherever she is legally allowed to be and you can't legally ask her to stop.
I'm sorry the way my kid eats makes you uncomfortable. The fact remains that it's none of your business how he eats. I'm not a fan of kids (or adults for that matter) chewing with their mouths open. That doesn't mean I'm going to ask a stranger to throw a blanket over her kid's head. How about everyone does what they're comfortable with? She breastfeeds uncovered and you avert your eyes. Problem solved.
Originally appeared on DaddysGrounded.com


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Celebrating another St Patricks Day. Green smoothies!
Hi! Today is St Patrick's Day again so recycling this post from 2010 with some new pics and recipes. Even though I have several Irish relatives I had never taken any notice of St Patrick's Day until the last few years and getting into greens in a really big way! Mathew Dalton was sent here in1827 for stealing sugar and met Jane who had stolen a sheet when she was working as a maid. Another one called Daniel Flood was sent here after stealing a watch.
When St Patrick's Day rolls around and everyone goes green crazy putting green food colouring in everything I'm thinking green smoothies! No need to confine yourself to one green day in the year. I'm having a one day green smoothie challenge today. Drinking nothing but green smoothies and fridge and freezer are stocked ready to go!
Here's are 2 recipes I made this morning from my book Dailygreenbar Guide To Green Smoothies
Dailygreenbar Special
1 large lemon with peel cut off
1 large peeled orange
juice of 1 lime
1 large apple
1 frozen mango or banana
3-4 handfuls baby spinach
6 mint leaves
1 tbs coconut oil
1-2 cups water (or half water half ice if using fresh mango)
2 large mangos (or 3 large frozen cheeks)
1 bunch flat leaf parsley
lemon juice
piece of ginger
stalk of celery
2 cups of water
Seriously good with the frozen mango mmm. Like a green creamy dessert. Enjoy!
3 Responses to "Celebrating another St Patricks Day. Green smoothies!"
I am up for the St Patrick's day green smoothie challenge!
Bring it on!
hi-you can call me on the GreenSmoothieHelpLine for backup and support!!!! What's your fave gs recipe? love mumXXX
jane – i am really struggling to get my 19 year old son to drink them. I have to have heaps of frozen berries for him to drink them down. When I make him drink one he brags that he skulled it in 7 seconds! What tips do you have to make it more palatible. My 17 year old can get enough…the greener the better. Thanks so much for your tips etc – I always new the grass was greener on the other side of a my kitchen! Ann a true Fan


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From the time of Pasteur, the people that are concerned about their health pay a lot of attention to cleanliness.
Wash your hands well with the soap every time before you will handle the food.
Wash your hands before you are going to eat.
Wash the fruits before eating them.
Cook the meat until it is sterilized.
The obsession with cleanliness is actually causing a health problem.
Many times I have pointed to the fact that our body will not support what it does not need.
When we live in a sterile environment, there is no need for a strong immune system, isn't there?
You are not going to carry tire chains in your car during the Summer, aren't you?
Neither will you carry a picnic basket when you go to work.
Our body reacts to
its environment so more complicated this environment becomes, the
more sophisticated will your body get to deal with it.
Since the major part of the Self Healers Protocol is hydration which involves the use of none-refined sea salt, many people are asking about the micro-plastic contamination of our seas and the subsequent contamination of the sea salt with the same micro-plastics.
On top of this, multiple questions are arising about the overall pollution of our seas with petroleum, detergents, and other chemical products that are regularly dumped into the sea.
Is it really wise to consume none-refined sea salt at all?
The issue of contamination is what has propelled the sale of the pink Himalayan salt.
It was easy to convince people that in the times when the Himalayas was under the sea, our planet was pristine so the salt that comes from that period must be the cleanest salt of them all.
Millions of people were fooled by this type of reasoning which was instigated by the same people who are now warning us of the dangers of the pollution in our oceans.
Whoever follows my work knows better than this.
We are not the first civilization that had polluted this planet. Four times humanity had destroyed itself and had to start over from scratch.
There are numerous oil leaks in the sea-bed through which the oil is seeping into the sea on a regular basis. It is not all just a human impact.
It is just interesting to see the selectiveness of what we are being warned against.
Vegetarians are warning others not to eat meat since it was polluted through the vaccinations, and the use of antibiotics on the animals, and all the growth hormones...and they promote the consumption of vegetables which are grown filled with pesticides and herbicides and genetically modified.
Also, no vegetable
production is nourished with minerals. The energy is supplied through
artificial fertilizers made from crude oil. It is all plastic no
matter which way you look at it.
Human stupidity knows no boundaries. It is caused by selective thinking.
We are accustomed to creating boxes. One box per subject and one trend of thoughts for each box.
This is why you have scientists warning us about the carbon dioxide raising the heat on our planet so sending endless fleets of plains t spray toxic aluminum is necessary to save our planet. Really?
The young parrots' activists complain about cow-farts dismiss the CO2 emissions from those plains that are doing the spraying.
The biggest pollution and destruction of our planet is created under the pretences of stopping the pollution, and activists are nowhere to be found.
Let's kill the cows, is their answer.
Those are the people who are warning us about the toxicity of our water.
According to them, the more refined the better.
Farmed animals are the problem but do not eat wild salmon and tuna, eat the farmed one, it is safer. Less mercury and BPA pollution. It is safer for your health they say.
Here we come to another absurdity. The flower of the sea.
What is "The flower of the sea?"
In the attempt to produce the finest sea salt, some sea salt manufacturers are skimming the thin crust from the top of the sea water during the sea-water evaporation process. They separate this salt and call it the flower of the sea. They are claiming that this type of sea salt is the best, the finest, the purist an of course incredibly expensive.
If there is oil to be found in the sea especially near the shore, it will be on the surface. The same will be with micro-plastics and other pollutants.
So does the claim by the industry that produces sea salt hold the water?
Is anybody thinking at all?
When seawater is being utilized in sea-plasma production, this is the reason why the water is taken from the depth of 10 meters so that the surface pollution is avoided.
All of this is irrelevant when we are talking about what is best for our body.
Our body is a robot designed to deal with all of this pollution.
It is way more important to provide our body with what it needs to be able to work properly than to make sure that what we bring into our body is clean.
We can be exposed to a permissible amount of toxins and in time our body will collapse from over-saturation of this toxin if it was prevented from detoxifying itself.
On the other hand, we can be exposed to high level of toxicity and our body will function normally if it can eliminate those toxins it had absorbed.
As I have pointed out many times, water and sea salt are the clue as far as the detoxification goes.
When our body has unlimited access to the water and the minerals it needs, it will eliminate what is not necessary. Not only that it will eliminate heavy metals from our blood and cells, but it will also eliminate it from the food which brings it into our body.
If the sea salt contains micro-plastics, when those plastic find themselves in our blood, the blood cleansing organs will take them out from the blood circulation because there is plenty of water and minerals available to do this job.
Remember, from the quantum mechanics point of view, they are all just energies in different frequencies. When one frequency tries to interfere with another frequency, the one that is strongly supported will suppress the other.
One of my brothers told me that I should write two separate blogs. One for people who believe in the science as we were told and another for the quantum mechanics and spirituality because I cannot serve the same meal to vegans as I do to meat eaters.
I do agree that I would have a much bigger following if I would separate the two, or three or more different topics that I frequently mix together but there is a reason I do just that.
The reason is called the awakening of the mind.
We have to exit our boxes and realize that the truth is not what we have been told and the truth has no levels. There are no versions of the truth, just a manipulation of it through our perception, and our perception depends on the accepted programming which forms our filtering system.
After all, our reality is what we believe it is. This is why did the blind man recover his eyesight when he was in the presence of Jesus Christ.
He was so convinced that Jesus will heal him and this is what he manifested.
Now, try to explain this by utilizing the science we obtain through our schools.
Good luck with it my friends.
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The Israel Border Police (Hebrew: מִשְׁמַר הַגְּבוּל, Mishmar HaGvul) is the gendarmerie and border security branch of the Israel National Police. It is also commonly known by its Hebrew abbreviation Magav (Hebrew: מג"ב), meaning border guard, whilst its members are colloquially known as Magavnikim (Hebrew: מג"בניקים). Border Guard is often used as the official name of the Israel Border Police in English. While its main task is securing Israel's borders, it has also been deployed in assisting the Israel Defense Forces, and for counter-terrorism and law enforcement operations in the West Bank, as well as in Jerusalem.
The Border Police was founded as the Frontier Corps (Hebrew:חיל הספר, Heil HaSfar), agendarmerie under the IDF in 1949 with the task of providing security in rural areas and along the borders. In the course of the following years, it was gradually transferred to the command of the Police and became the Border Police. During these years, it secured new settlements and countered infiltration of Palestinian Fedayeen, especially from Egypt and Jordan During the 1967 Six-Day War, the Border Police took part in the fighting alongside the IDF. Following the war, it was deployed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and charged with maintaining law and order as part of the military administration. Since then, a significant portion of the Border Police's activity has been in these territories, especially during the years of the First Intifada and the Second (al-Aqsa) Intifada.
Because of their combat training, border policemen are employed in unique areas, where there are greater risks for riots, violence and even terror. They serve mainly in the countryside, in Arab villages and towns (along with the regular police), near the borders and in Juda and Samaria.
MAGAV Has 5 Special Operations Units:
At the end of basic training after 4 months there is a 3 "day gibush" tryout to gain acceptance into these units.
HaYamas – Is the top counter – terror undercover unit in Israel, it is a special unit of border police which specializes in covert operations, intelligence gathering, arrests and treatment of disturbances. Widely believed to have the most advanced urban warfare capabilities in the world, Yamas has a unique mode of operations that allows it to carry out complex missions with little or no preparation due to the high level of professionalism among its troops. Known for daring day time raids and the brazen ability to surface in the most volatile Arab areas,Yamas does not follow regular military or police command structure and answers directly to the Shabak. (Secret Service) The undercover operators have clocked more combat missions in the field than any other unit in the Israeli arsenal, often conducting multiple operations in a 24 hour period.
HaYamag - Tactical counter-crime and counter-terror rapid deployment unit. The soldiers operate in civilian clothing and are often assimilated into the area during the observations and ambushes.
Samag - specializes in riot control
Matlin - Intelligence gathering and infiltrations interception Unit.
Calbanim (K9 force) - Police k9 unit specializing in operating dogs to locate weapons and prevention of terrorist and criminal activity, and more.
Acceptance to Magav
There is no "gibush" tryout for Magav Acceptance is determined by availability and request. Women are required to take a two day gibush to get accepted.
Medical Profile Required
Combat Profile required (82 and over)
Length of service required for Machal
14 months
After Basic Training (05) Magav offers a variet of gibushim to enter their elite forces. Basic training includes 4 months of basic training (05) and two months of advanced training (07). Basic training takes place at the Magav training center in the South. During basic training, soldiers learn infantry content, weaponry, camouflage implementations, shooting, physical fitness, krav maga, live fire battle drills, war history, a series of education and more.
After completing basic training, soldiers join the various battalions to continue training and tour of duty. All border policemen receive combat training and in addition are also trained for CT (counter-terrorism), riot control and policework.
Tour of Duty
Border Policemen (Magav) do a professional job facing many complex issues. Almost any complex security situation involves the Magav. Among others: Homeland Security (ongoing security within the country), participation in demonstrations and high level security events, policing, preventing violations of public order, giving a response to terrorist events. Magav soldiers have the authority of a soldier and a policeman. Because of their combat training, border policemen are employed in unique areas, where there are greater risks for riots, violence and even terror. They serve mainly in the countryside, in Arab villages and towns (along with the regular police), near the borders and in Juda and Samaria.
Area of Tour of Duty
Magav provides security in every major city of Israel and conducts military operations, raids and arrests on Palestinian people in cities like Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Qalqilyah, Tul-Karem, Ramallah, Bet Lechem and Hebron.
M4Carbine, Jericho handgun
Green and white
Tower and the Israeli police symbol
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The filmmakers' defense of "American Sniper" as "apolitical" is belied by the lack of any depth or humanity in its Muslim characters.
The film version of American Sniper has grossed over $300 million at the US box office, making it the most profitable piece of pro-war propaganda in the history of American cinema.
Since the release of American Sniper, it has either been praised for its patriotic (nationalist) overtones or has been ridiculed for distorting the reality of so-called "War on Terror." The film is based on the bestselling autobiography of Chris Kyle, a man who had a talent for telling tall tales and bragging about his 160 confirmed kills (though he claimed the death toll is closer to 255). The public support for Kyle's actions and attitudes reveal how racial prejudices are manipulated in times of war.
Kyle's autobiography, co-written by Scott McEwen and Jim DeFelice, was published in 2013. Although the book has been placed under scrutiny by various journalists for its factual accuracy (or lack thereof), it provides a fascinating glimpse into the mind of a soldier that is quite similar to many others who served in the American military in the Middle East. He gleefully boasted about his kills, deluding himself to the point where he forgot he was killing human beings. "Just because war is hell," he writes, "doesn't mean you can't have a little fun."
The dehumanization of entire populations is used in boosting public support to carry out imperialist objectives. With the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, pundits and news networks made stereotypes out of Muslims by portraying them as violent fanatics and suicide-bombers. In the toxic atmosphere created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, Americans were conditioned on a daily basis to fear darker-skinned people, especially if they had Arabic names.
Pro-war conservatives in the corridors of power, who often morally justify wars that are not morally justifiable, like to point to such Kyle gems as his self-righteousness take on Islam, "Isn't religion supposed to teach tolerance?" Passages like this are countered by statements like, "I don't shoot people with Korans—I'd like to, but I don't."
American Sniper filmmakers, particularly lead actor Bradley Cooper and director Clinton Eastwood, have defended the film as "apolitical." The lack of Muslim characters with depth or humanity in the film demonstrates the contrary. As described by Abed Ayoub and Khaled A Beydoun, writing for Al-Jazeera, "Redeploying age-old Orientalist images, the film's Iraqis are thinly constructed foes of the democratic and divine – who must be methodically gunned down for both God and country. A belief, in the US today, that is far more fact than fiction."
Such perceptions were evident with Kyle, in both interviews and in his own writings. "I hate the damn savages," he writes. "I couldn't give a flying f**k about the Iraqis." Although he has been criticized posthumously for his choice of words and general attitude against Iraqis (among other things), it is far from being scarce among US soldiers.
Take the following passage from another American soldier: "The scene reminded me of the shooting of jack-rabbits in Utah, only the rabbits sometimes got away, but the insurgents did not." This would appear to be written by a current American soldier, maybe one who enjoys hunting, watching action films and going to rodeo shows like Kyle did. But this letter excerpt was written by Fred D. Sweet over 116 years ago.
The letter was published by the Anti-Imperialist League in their 1899 pamphlet entitled Soldiers Letters: Being Materials for a History of a War of Criminal Aggression. This pamphlet contained numerous excerpts from letters written by US soldiers who were stationed in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, which started in 1898.
During US President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt's reelection bid in 1900, the campaign against Spain was justified with the following phrase: "The American Flag has not been planted in foreign soil to acquire more territory but for humanity's sake."
US leaders are still declaring wars that are allegedly "for humanity's sake" but are really for the sake of war profiteers and their allies.
History books, for the most part, have often failed to explore the racist attitudes of McKinley and Roosevelt. Their views were partially based on the theories of early eugenics and Social Darwinism that suited elitists like themselves. They believed that the Anglo-Saxon race was superior to all others and its strongest disciples had every right to inherit the world through conquest. This was evident in their ambitions to fly the America Eagle over foreign territories, directing it to dig its talons into these lands and fly away with stolen treasures.
Art is an effective conduit for portraying war as a noble cause to unite the masses in a common struggle. British author Rudyard Kipling is perhaps best-known as "the poet of the British Empire." He penned "The White Man's Burden," a racist poem published in McClure's magazine in 1899. The poem caused a stir for glorifying America's involvement in the Philippines. References of "sullen peoples" as "half devil and half-child" fall in line with the stereotypes depicting people in undeveloped parts of the world as "savages." Kipling writes that it is the duty, nay the "burden," of white men from "civilized nations" to bring the Filipinos up from their "lowly" status.
Racial hatred combined with military force has been common with every war since the close of the 19th Century. The terms "savages" and "heathens" are used in many of the letters published by the Anti-Imperialist League, reflecting the hostility of troops sent over to the Philippines between 1898 and 1905. The Filipinos were often called "Pacific Negroes" or simply "n***ers." Journalist H.L. Wells writes, "There is no question that our men do 'shoot n***ers' somewhat in the sporting spirit."
"Most national myths, at their core, are racist," writes Chris Hedges in his 2002 book War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. Even though the racist attitudes of the early 20th Century are not as prevalent as they once were in American society, they still exist and US leaders know how to play on fear and ignorance in order to get what they want.
Soldiers are trained to accept these perceptions as true, making their duties easier when confronted with violent situations. This mentality is still alive in the 21st Century. Today such terms would be applied to Muslims and Arabs, including modern terms like "raghead" and "sand n***er." Once American Sniper hit theaters, some people once again fell under a dark spell, one that never truly lost its power. People flocked to social media outlets and posted statements like "Nice to see a movie where the Arabs are portrayed for who they really are—vermin scum intent on destroying us." In more extreme cases, some said the film "makes me wanna go shoot some f**kin Arabs."
The epidemic of "yellow journalism" under the control of moguls like William Randolph Hearst was the equivalent of today's 24-hour cable news networks in whipping up fear and hatred against the people of "enemy nations." For Hearst, a war against Spain meant selling more newspapers and increasing his personal fortunes. Also, it would give him positive publicity and the image of patriotism that would help fuel his failed political career.
As reported by PBS.org: "Today, historians point to the Spanish-American War as the first press-driven war. Although it may be an exaggeration to claim that Hearst and the other yellow journalists started the war, it is fair to say that the press fueled the public's passion for war."
In the early 2000s, Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch, owner of the Fox News Channel, followed the Hearst tradition by supporting the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. The network's slew of cookie-cutter commentators espoused views that democracy would be delivered to these countries along with Christian bibles, ammunition and American flags. Conservative author and frequent Fox News contributor Ann Coulter is the same woman who quipped, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity."
Though not as eloquent as the slogans produced by the administrations of McKinley and Roosevelt, such calls to action are what such declarations of war amount to.
In the Philippines, concentration camps were built to detain Filipino combatants and civilians and the use of torture were implemented by US troops. Even the practice of waterboarding was used by US troops, using canteens and metal cups filled with salt water to simulate drowning. As observed by historian James Bradley in his study The Imperial Cruise, "When the Japanese later waterboarded U.S. personnel in World War II, America tried them for war crimes." These institutions are no different from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US government-sanctioned torture chamber in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Such atrocities are the natural byproducts of imperialist expansion.
The most intriguing justification for the film is its sympathetic portrayal of soldiers suffering the trauma of war, a problem that has been ignored for too long. The horrific conditions of war have massive physical and psychological effects on soldiers. Instead of blaming their leaders for betraying their trust and sending them to other countries based on false pretenses, they are often desperate enough to blame civilians of occupied nations for why they are there. This seems evident in Kyle's writings and those belonging to other soldiers. These sentiments were common among soldiers during the Philippine portion of the Spanish-American War.
"The boys are getting sick of fighting these heathens," writes Tom Crandall of the Nebraska Regiment (1899), "and all say we volunteered to fight Spain, not heathens. Their patriotism is wearing off. We all want to come home very bad. If I ever get out of this army I will never get into another. They will be fighting four hundred years, and then never whip these people, for there are not enough of us to follow them up…The people of the United States ought to raise a howl and have us sent home."
There are, however, those who are forced into such circumstances and refuse to fall for the propaganda of their governments. Whatever illusions they had before entering these conflicts disappeared when confronting the grim realities of war.
The mainstream media has been ignoring another American sniper named Garett Reppenhagen, who has since left the military and has dedicated himself to the antiwar movement. When he saw the film, he criticized it for what it was: racist agitprop glorifying a man who has been called a borderline psychopath and habitual liar.
In The Acronym Journal, Reppenhagen said:
"You feel like there is this debt that you build for every life that you take. You feel like you owe the world something because you left it without this other person that could have done something amazing. I think about all of these soldiers coming out of the U.S. military and helping them get jobs and education and hearing about what they aspire to do and be in the world. And I wonder about all of the Iraqis, Syrians, Albanians and others that we killed in that country and what they aspired to be."
There are countless other soldiers like him, who had the intention of protecting their country and liberating an oppressed people but did not see the reality through the dense black fog of war.
In another letter from the Spanish-American War pamphlet, signed by General Reeve: "I deprecate this war, this slaughter of our own boys and of the Filipinos, because it seems to me that we are doing something that is contrary to our principles in the past. Certainly we are doing something that we should have shrunk from not so very long ago."
Though the locations and populations have changed, the motives behind war hysteria have not.


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NTR Jr is now busy shooting for Shakti at Ramoji Film City. The film is being produced by Ashwini Dutt under his Vyjayanthi Movies and directed by Meher Ramesh. The female lead is being played by Ileana while Sonu Sood plays the villain. Jackie Shroff and Pooja Bedi play two vitally important roles.
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Today: 08:00 AM – 12:00 AM (Midnight)
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The Ice Cream in Italian, and so serves Ice cream and Frozen Yoghurt. Standards have improved since it opened, and the sinfully generous sundaes are much better than before, especially those with wild berries and strawberries. As close to Italian gelato (ice cream) as you can get in Sri Lanka.
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6-4-3 DP Baseball is proud to announce that Drew Waters, member of the 17U Cougars squad and class of 2017, has been selected to play in the 2016 Under Armour All-America Baseball Game scheduled for July 23 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Waters was also recently selected to play in the Perfect Game All-American Classic on August 14 at Petco Park in San Diego. The entire 6-4-3 staff congratulates Drew on his outstanding achievements and well-deserved honors. We wish him the best of luck in Chicago and San Diego!
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Album Notes
Marco Minnemann- A Mouth Of God-
13 Songs about pain, aggression, faith and disbelief, Love and Hope…..
All noises composed + produced between Jan-May 2008 by MM at Seacoast with guests:
Mike Keneally, additional guitar on 2 and 8.
Petra Lukovic, add Voice on 5+6
Carmen Zavaleta Rojas, Voice on 2
Stephanie from Starbucks:-) add voice on 13.
Dolphins and Waves on 7+13 recorded on Seacoast!!
Mike Haid interviewed Marco in June 2008 about his probably most controversial album to date!
1. What was your inspiration for this new collection of songs on Mouth Of
–Well, it deals with the eternal struggle I see in mankind regarding beliefs, disbeliefs, and the ongoing search and argumentation of why and how people practice or exploit religion, or confuse or even combine it with destiny, stardom, money or wisdom. Also I\'ve seen people living off their own made \"checklists\" instead of reacting from their hearts…and when I hear words like \"everything happens for a reason\", then I think people are looking basically for an easy way out…not having to question anything further, because someone, somewhere will provide it for you…and you don't understand why, and you don\'t need to understand why.
Even though it\'s easy to do and nice to think that way, I\'d rather like to rephrase these words into: \"You\'re the reason to make it all happen\".
So I say, make something out of what you follow…otherwise you\'ll constantly waste energy and have to start over and over again.
2. Where did you come up with the unique and innovative concept of altering the pitch of many of the vocals on this CD?
—Yeah…I want to keep the listeners excited…I want them to listen, especially on this album….so the different pitches and using the vocals as a quasi instrument, using extreme edits, transposing and variations, keeps the energy flowing. It\'s like having different conversations with new people about the same topic:-)
3. Are you playing all of the instruments on this CD? Discuss the positive and negative aspects of playing all of the instruments.
—For years I've made pretty much all the noisesJ on my CDs. It's good for me because I know how I like to hear the song and can execute them without the interference of others….you know, you put your vision down and there you go.
It's interesting: If I'd play you one of the final mixes and tell you that it is a demo and ask for your opinion, it would give you automatic access to find parts you can judge. If I play you that SAME mix…ready on CD in a digi-pack, you have to take it for what it is, and maybe even go: Yeah..sounds good. Isn't that great?
Negative aspects…hmmm, well it's difficult to reproduce it live because that's when additional players have to learn all that stuff that I even forgot how to play. Meanwhile, because most of my compositions happen on the spot and won't be tracked again….you know…I want to keep the moment of the virgin idea and let it evolve while recording. See, I don't practice the words "I love you" to then really say them at a later point to make them sound…more honest?
4. The rhythmic structure of \"Feeding Birds\" is quite unique. Can you talk a little about the various time signatures and polyrhythmic concepts found in this piece? I particularly like the way you incorporate speed metal chops into this track without it sounding too heavy.
– Thanks!…..Well, the main part is in 13/16th….snare on 2 and 5 e….end part is in 5/8+9/8..that's how I divide it. Yeah, I didn't want to use too much distortion on the guitars because they would clash a bit with the synth sounds and vocals going on the same time…..so no, it's not speed metal.
5. \"Moondown\" has a Nine Inch Nails vibe, a bit techno, dark and mysterious. Is Trent Reznor an influential artist to your writing style?
–I like some NIN stuff, but I wouldn't consider Reznor being influential on my style…..however you're right on this song. I wrote this one prior to the MOG sessions for UKZ….Eddie Jobson was looking for a tune with that vibe….we ended up using some parts…this song was a leftover. I found it again on my hard drive and thought…man….fits into the concept. Same as for the Song "Where We Started"…both UKZ demos…lyrics are totally out of the blue, improvised on the spot….no kidding…
6. You tackle some heavy lyrical topics on this release. Particularly, the track \"Relocator (Satanic Characteristics).\" Your vocal sampling and pitch altering are most effective on this track. Talk about your recording concepts on this, and the theme of the lyrical content..and the album cover….
–You're right. The topic is heavy. People were offended by the cover art before the CD even got released. I heard comments like, "The cover is an offense to our Lord, Jesus" …often these are exactly the same people illegally downloading my CDs off the web! Let me explain: The cover represents the terror, pain and struggle a person carries inside while actually searching for love, peace and relief. It shows an unbalance…It also shows the sell-out…heartfelt/materialism for example. The cover shows a person in constant doubt…hiding all these things inside…finally getting exposed…tied to a cross of their own belief. So, by all means, it's NOT an offense…crucifixion happened…it's a statement and in this case, it's PRO-Goodness!! I believe you've got to expose, let's say "evil" to a certain amount to then learn from it…and then rebuild on the ruins…trying to build a better home! So, yes, I want people to see the cover…to think about it…even if it seems to be gross….look behind the curtain, before you judge it so quickly. That's something I really dislike: People preaching tolerance are most of the time the most intolerant folks of all…"don't do this…obey that…be quiet when entering this room…don't say anything wrong—if you're not like this, you can't do that.". Should I feel offended when somebody knocks on my door trying to tell me about the way I have to live or believe??
7. You incorporate various female voices throughout the CD, in several different languages. This gives the overall project an interesting international feel. Can you discuss how you chose these voices and what they represent within each track?
–That was one of my main concepts for this album….I picked people I know from various occasions…non-musicians…Stephanie is a girl from Starbucks…I go there often to pick up a drink before rehearsing or recording…I liked her voice…she speaks English and Spanish…so I invited her over….it's fantastic to have someone in front of the mic being nervous…doing this for the first time….it has a certain freshness to it. I like that a lot.
8. There is a reoccurring theme of religion, and broken relationships on this CD. These are topics of life\'s deepest emotional characteristics. Are these topics that have caused you to look deeper into yourself and ask questions about why we are here, and how the emotions of love can go from euphoric to empty?
–Hmm…no…it's not about the question "why are we here"?…actually it's about knowing EXACTLY what you want…but then having to deal with stones that are sometimes in your way.
I've actually been dealing with persons, even close ones, loved ones, also religious ones, persons you thought you could believe in…that in the end were most probably just in your life to fulfill a "checklist," or as long as you can be helpful to them. Happened a few times…and you know…I don't want to say I've always been a good boy, and yeah, I enjoy good times out there…but….everyone deserves a 2nd chance AND…true feelings never die. And for that acknowledgement I don't need to thank something/someone for dinner every day, you know what I mean?
It's always the same concept I guess….the real folks stick with you through thick and thin. And in the end, I believe people receive the reward for being either dedicated or indecisive. It's nice to think fairytale like about this topic: A prince receives a princess. A customer….a consultant?
Let's at least try to be specialJ
9. Your earlier projects seemed to focus more on material that featured your amazing drumming skills. Your more recent recordings reflect a confident composer that is constantly pushing the envelope in rhythmic, harmonic and melodic creations. How do approach your songwriting now, in terms of what you are trying to present in your compositions?
–Well, first, when you start your career, you try to prove yourself…mostly show yourself, and the world, your facility….technical aspects…sometimes more like "look what I can do" rather than "look what I have to say". I can still see that happening in the world today. There are the ones being able to create music….and there're the race car drivers.
Both have validity…on a drum fest…alone on stage with your kit, you're a soloist…and yeah, deliver the goods at some point.
As a composer I really think basically about the message or vibe I want to "paint" and bring across. This album is very dark…some songs desperate…some songs aggressive…sarcastic…but also very high energy and there're actually some beautiful moments, things I always wanted to say that now come out easier in the songs.
10. You have become one of the most respected and highly acclaimed drummers in the world. Is it important for your career to maintain that reputation, or are you more interested in becoming recognized as a serious composer and musical artist?
–Well, the biggest mistake I ever made was to allow the title "extreme" drumming or Interdependence on my educational releases.
I've always had mixed feelings about that name and was quasi-talked into using these titles. These are my practice routines and all of a sudden these DVDs and books started to sell well and kind of put me in that "extreme" spotlight in the media for a while.
But I'm happy that people buy my music and see me using the tools for the creation of composition. That's what I always wanted, and what I always did. So yes, it goes all hand in hand….but I see myself more as a composer….but you can decide to either pick up my DVDs or CDs …..or…why not bothJ?


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Sydney's smartest buildings are being run by a tiny minority of owners determined to hang on to power at all costs. "They are often retirees with too much time on their hands who treat their buildings like a hobby farm"...
...Sydney MP Alex Greenwich has lashed out at delays to strata law reform that allow one or two owners to continue to control large buildings through proxy farming.
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The Governor is the titular head of the state government, appointment by the Central government. Just like the President, the Governor's role is mostly symbolic unless discretion is involved in which the Governor is not supposed to consult the state government. In this article we will know about the qualification, appointment and service conditions to the post of the Governor. Articles 153 to 159 of the Constitution deal with qualification, appointment and conditions of service to the post of the Governor of a state.
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Qualification to the Post of the Governor
Article 157 lays down only two qualifications to the post of Governor.
A person to be eligible to the post of Governor should be:
- A citizen of India
- Should have completed 35 years of age
Additionally, certain conventions have developed over time that a person appointed as Governor of a state should not belong to that state to influence or be influenced by the local politics. Secondly, the Chief Minister of the state shall be consulted while appointing the Governor to the state to ensure proper coordination between the centre and the state. Of course, both these conventions have been bypassed on many occasions. In reality the Governor is more of an agent of the Centre to monitor the state government particularly if the government in the state is run by an opposition party. Take the example of Delhi where the relation between the state government and the Lieutenant Governor are far from cordial.
Appointment of Governor
Article 155 says that the Governor shall be appointed by the President by warrant under his hand and seal.
It does not speak of either direct of indirect election to post of the Governor. Why is it so? Simply because if the Governor were to be directly elected by the people it would create a separate seat of power and is incompatible with parliamentary system of democracy where the representatives of people are directly elected.
Since the Governor is appointed by the President on the advice of the Central government, he is actually a nominee of the Central government. However the Governor is expected to act on his own wisdom and not as per the wisdom of the Central government entirely in important matters relating to formation of government in a state in the case of a hung assembly. However, it has been seen as recently as Karnataka assembly elections in May 2018 that the Governors happily take orders directly from New Delhi even if they are against laid down conventions and Supreme Court guidelines and basic common sense just to please their political masters.
A part of the problem lies in the way the Governor is appointed. Since no additional qualifications have been prescribed in the way of educational achievements or administrative experience or dealing with judicial or quasi-judicial matters any political person can be cherry picked by the ruling party at the centre as its nominee for the post of Governor. Things work well so long the same party is in power at the centre and the state where the Governor has been appointed. The moment some opposition party comes to power in the state the Governor is used as a tool to create hindrances in the working of the state government by the Centre. This is especially true in the case of union territories where the Lieutenant Governor has overarching powers. The end result is that post of the Governor which was meant as a coordination mechanism between the centre and the states by our founding fathers has become a tool to disrupt the coordination between the two.
Conditions of Governor's Office
Article 158 lays down the conditions for the Governor's office.
- The Governor cannot be a member of either House of Parliament of a House of the state legislature.
- He should not hold any other office of profit
- He his entitled to rent-free accommodation of his official residence (Raj Bhavan)
- His emoluments and allowances cannot be diminished during his term of office
- When the same person is appointed as the governor of two or more states, the emoluments and allowances payable to him are shared by the states in such proportion as determined by the President
Term of Governor's Office
Article 156 says that the Governor holds office during the pleasure of the President. However while holding office during the pleasure of the President the term of office of the Governor is 5 years. But since the Governor holds office during the pleasure of the President, he can be removed before completing the term of 5 years if the President (central government) so desires. The Supreme Court held that the pleasure of the President is not justiciable. The governor has no security of tenure and no fixed term of office. He may be removed by the President at any time.
The Governor can also resign from office by addressing his resignation to the President any time before the end of his tenure. A Governor whose term has expired may be reappointed as Governor of some other state or in the same state. In the case of the death of a sitting governor, the chief justice of the concerned state high court may be appointed temporarily to discharge the functions of the governor of that state.


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Nautical Nonsense indeed.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab is not really a SpongeBob game, at least no more than a generic platformer dressed up with a randomly assigned cartoon license will ever owe that license anything, other than sales. That's not to say that the game doesn't take place in SpongeBob's world of Bikini Bottom, or that his sense of "humor," if you want to call it humor, isn't present. These incidental SpongeBob artifacts are there, surrounding a boring, unimaginative platformer that doesn't recall in any tangible way the TV series on which it is based.
There is one similarity between the show and the game, though, and that is the inane quality of both. Plot-wise, the game seems to take place in and out of dreams belonging to various characters, who sometimes apparently even share dreams. Of course there are no lofty artistic aspirations here, except absurdity, and the game provides plenty of that. One mission takes you inside the belly of an Alaskan bullworm, while another has you rocketing through space chasing a giant hamburger.
The game suffers from a lack of depth mostly due to its simplistic and awkward play mechanic. There are plenty of moves but they are all revealed at the beginning of the game. The developer fails to have any good ideas about how to use these moves to create challenges, instead lengthening each linear level beyond monotony. Furthermore, the Wii control has some occasional level stopping issues, such as when the game requires you to spin the controller in the air to operate a winch or even the simple motion activated attacks while playing as a giant plankton.
There are a variety of missions for you to tackle, from flying and platforming to racing and side-scrolling. The diversity of gameplay types don't make the game less monotonous – in fact the developer completely misuses them and makes the game even more tiring. For instance, to escape the bowels of the Alaskan bullworm SpongeBob is told he must fly out in a nearby airplane. After several long platforming levels this sounded like a treat. However, the plane is broken down and several parts must be retrieved before SpongeBob can fly it out of the worm. What follows is a fetch quest unworthy of Rare, much more boring than anything that British developer would have made. Only after this is over do you get to fly the plane, but instead of a fun diversion or sidegame, the flying portion turns out to be an entire level. To control the plane the Wii Remote must be held vertically like a joystick and titled accordingly. This is unimaginably awkward, especially since the levels require a fair amount of precision when collecting power ups. Even without the control problems, the level just goes on for too long with nearly no changes in gameplay. This much desired variety ends up being a device by which the developer extends the game beyond its limits.
Even though the game is playable and features some interesting looking, if completely static environments, I can't say I could recommend it for any gamer of any age. If the control issues don't stop you, the tired and overdone level design will.


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Questions to Ask Alumni
For Career Exploration Inquiries
- What projects or tasks are performed in a typical week in this job?
- What would be the top 5 skills needed to be a top performer in this job?
- What kind of credentials, education, training, prior experience are needed?
- How was your major related to your current work?
- What was your career path that led you to your current position?
- What was the most significant contributing experience/factor to your being in this type of work?
For Job Search Inquiries
- Which departments within your organization tend to hire (interns/entry-level)? Is there someone in these departments you would recommend I contact?
- What time of the year does your employer typically look for (interview) hires?
- What made you choose this employer?
- How would you describe the culture of the organization?
- Can you talk about the kinds of projects that new hires have worked on this year in your department?
- What type of professional development/ongoing training is available?
For Graduate School Inquiries
- How did you decide on this program and college/university?
- How competitive is the process of getting into the college/program you attended?
- How would you compare this program to other colleges of similar caliber?
- Which key qualities did this college/university look for in candidates?
- Did your Dartmouth education prepare you fully for applying to this program? How would you describe the faculty advising and mentoring that was available?


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Season 1, Episode 2
Age: 36
Location: Los Angeles, California
Addiction: Shopping, agoraphobia
(Guest Post by Stefan) What's Memorable: No other episode of the series has touched on agoraphobia. Also, the fact that she had no family present at the intervention, only friends (Annie, the bulimic dancer from Season 2, is the only other person profiled in the show's history who can claim this).
Update: Vanessa Marquez was shot and killed by police during a welfare check on August 30, 2018. She was reportedly brandishing a BB gun when she was shot. Here is the news story about the tragic incident.
Official Synopsis: Vanessa, who was a recurring character on the long-running medical drama ER, is addicted to shopping. She is heading towards bankruptcy.
Date Aired: March 2005
Interventionist: Tara
Season 5 Episode 16
Age: 51
Location: Texas
Addiction: Self-injury (hits herself), plastic surgery, shopping
What's memorable: Sharon hits herself with her hairbrush in the head, in the stomach. She tried to kill her dog in the toilet, and she still spends everyday with her grandchildren. No one has any idea what's going on her her head. It's hard for anyone watching to know what's going on in her head. Needless to say, her self-esteem issues have seriously affected her life, yet she seems like a really good, caring, sympathetic person.
Official Synopsis: A 51-year-old grandmother, Sharon is a compulsive shopper who has undergone numerous plastic surgeries to feel better about her appearance. She also feels she must hit herself. She has bruises on her thighs and stomach and repeatedly hits her head with a hairbrush. Now things are getting even worse. Sharon recently got the urge to drown one of her Chihuahuas; she didn't harm the dog, but now Sharon's daughter is terrified that Sharon might try to harm her grandchildren. Sharon's dangerous compulsions need to stop.
Original Air Date: March 2009
Interventionist: Candy
Season 2, Episode 4
Age: 46
Location: California
Addicted to: Shopping, plastic surgery
What's memorable: How happy she is when she's shopping. "I'm all the ladies of Sex & the City rolled into one"
Official synopsis: Heidi leads a busy social life and takes great pride in maintaining her health and personal appearance. Unfortunatley, she is addicted to plastic surgery and compulsive shopping. She cites that while she was raped at the age of 16, she blames no one for her need to "fill the void."
Original Air Date: December 2005
Interventionist: Tara


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Wind farm cable installation begins; National Grid commences work at Town Beach
Credit: By Cassius Shuman | The Block Island Times | Fri, 02/05/2016 | www.blockislandtimes.com ~~
National Grid's installation of more than 20 miles of transmission cable from Scarborough Beach through state and federal waters to its connection point at the Fred Benson Town Beach is underway. That's according to National Grid spokesman David Graves, who told The Block Island Times on Tuesday that the first phase of installing the power company's Block Island Wind Farm cable transmission system is progressing at Scarborough Beach and has begun on Block Island.
"We're pleased to have started construction, and very much look forward to what the next several months will bring," said Graves. "Work is progressing according to plan at Scarborough Beach. We anticipate work at the new Dillon's Corner substation in Narragansett, to start at some point in the next couple of weeks. The work at the existing Wakefield substation is minor inside the fence line work."
The cable will run four miles from Scarborough Beach to the Wakefield substation where it will be connected to National Grid's distribution system. On Block Island, the six-inch thick submarine cable will come ashore at Crescent Beach in April, installed 10-feet beneath the surface of the beach, be rerouted to Beach Avenue, and then subsequently be connected to National Grid's new substation on the Block Island Power Company's (BIPCo) Ocean Avenue property.
At the Monday, Feb. 1 Town Council meeting, Second Warden Norris Pike said it was "impressive" witnessing National Grid's horizontal drilling process on Sunday at Scarborough Beach.
"Yesterday afternoon I took the opportunity to check out National Grid's construction at Scarborough Beach," said Pike. "National Grid has started drilling for the cable to Block Island. They were going full bore yesterday afternoon. It was pretty impressive."
Pike said that the corner of the Scarborough Beach parking lot "where the cable connection is going to be made was all fenced off. They had a whole bunch of trucks, drilling rods and a fairly impressive horizontal drilling machine" operating on the property. "So they're headed our way. It was nice to see."
Town Manager Nancy Dodge said, "The fencing that is being erected at the Fred Benson Town Beach parking lot is Block Island's side of the project. The whole north end of the parking lot" will be fenced off and based on "the agreement they have with us (the town) they need to be out of there by May 1."
Graves told The Times that, "The fence is going up in anticipation of construction that will start around the end of the month. Mobilization of the equipment to Block Island for the start of cofferdam construction on Crescent Beach has begun. This includes setting up of the work site and installation of sound mitigation materials. Fencing, both snow and chain link, is being installed at the beach in preparation of construction activities."
National Grid is utilizing a temporary cofferdam, which is a watertight enclosure pumped dry to permit construction work below the waterline, while performing the cable installation work at Crescent Beach. "Our work at the beach is being done by LS/Caldwell Marine/Environmental Crossings," said Graves.
"In the next week, we will begin installation of cofferdam for the cable from the wind farm, which includes work on the beach and nearby beach parking lot," noted Graves. "Toward the end of February, we will begin the cofferdam installation for the cable from Narragansett. Horizontal directional drilling for the cable from the wind farm to Crescent Beach is expected to begin in mid-March, followed by drilling for the cable from Narragansett in April. The entire drilling process should take roughly one month to complete."
Graves said that cofferdam related equipment would be situated on Crescent Beach itself, while the horizontal drilling equipment will reside in the nearby Town Beach parking lot.
Graves noted that National Grid is in the process of beginning construction of a substation on the BIPCo Ocean Avenue property. The substations that are being built for the 30-megawatt, five turbine wind farm pilot project are designed to connect the wind farm to National Grid's mainland electrical grid system.
National Grid explained that a substation is a component of an electrical generation, transmission, and distribution system. Substations are small house-like structures that convert, or transform, electrical voltage from high to low, or the reverse, and perform any of several other important functions.
"We anticipate that site work will begin on the substation this month," said Graves. "As we progress with the prep work, we will work with the New Shoreham Building Official to secure a building permit for the substation's switchgear/control house building. The substation construction schedule is still being finalized; all project components remain on track for completion before the end of the calendar year."
The National Grid-owned and operated transmission cable system is part of the $290 million Deepwater Wind Block Island Wind Farm pilot project that is scheduled to be operational in the fall of 2016.
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How to Delete Windows Installer Patch Files
After your computer applies a Windows patch, the patch file along with other files related to the installation are cached in the hidden system folder C:\Windows\Installer\$PatchCache$. The files in this cache are mainly used to roll the system back when a patch is uninstalled. Over time, this storage place may become quite large, and if you have a computer in your office with a rapidly filling hard drive, clearing the cache can free up gigabytes of space that can be used for business documents such as contracts, invoices, employee evaluations or copies of business letters.
Log in to the computer using an administrator account.
Click the Windows "Start" button, type "cmd" (without quotation marks) in the Search field and press "Enter." A command prompt window should appear.
Type the following command:
rmdir /q /s %WINDIR%\Installer\$PatchCache$
Press "Enter:"
- Only files in the C:\Windows\Installer\$PatchCache$ directory, called the baseline cache, are safe to delete. Do not, under any circumstances, delete anything out of C:\Windows\Installer; doing so may cause serious problems in the future that necessitate a reinstallation of Windows.
- While clearing the baseline cache is safe, if you ever want to uninstall a patch in the future, you'll need to download the specific patch's installer file. For this reason, consider backing up your baseline cache to an external hard drive before clearing it.
- If your goal is just to free up disk space, consider using the Disk Cleanup utility before clearing the baseline cache. Click the Windows "Start" button, type "disk cleanup" in the Search field and click "Disk Cleanup" from the search results.
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The current it-band of Singapore Indie Pop isn't slowing down anytime soon.
With a freshly released sophomore album, Telltale Signs, and a music video of the same title, they're on a roll and based on how much they value the people who share this experience with them, it looks like they might stick around for a long time too. Read on to find out more about the band's process, the virtue of staying organized AND spontaneous, and playing on the moon.
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Tell us about Sobs and what the band is all about?
Sobs is Celine Autumn, Jared Lim, Raphael Ong. Sometimes Sobs is also the three of us plus Zhang Bo, Shaun Khiu, Daniel Castro Borces, Soffi Peters, Spencer Tan, Genevieve Chong, Cherie Ko, and Nigel Lopez. The band is all about having fun and enjoying playing music.
What do you love most about being in a band like Sobs?
Jared: This is probably a pretty general observation about any musician but I personally love being involved in the whole process of creating music from the initial writing, to recording and release, and eventually performing. I don't think any of us would still be doing this if we didn't love the process in some way (no matter how much we joke about absolutely hating it). I guess the difference with us would be the more pop song factory approach in which we write, which might sound pretty manufactured or something but I really enjoy the process of making sure every step is somewhat polished from the initial demo to when we flesh it out with the full band.
Raphael: As much as we worked on this album with a little more intention and self-awareness, keeping things real and spontaneous still play a huge part in how we all work together. There were so many happy accidents throughout the process of working on the album – from finding odd sounds and recording methods around my room to… funnier ones like Bo (of Cosmic Child fame) falling off the amp and wrecking Jared's guitar (I guess that increases the price of it… hopefully).
Totally get you. Rest in peace, Jared's guitar, lol. What is your music writing process like?
Celine: We kinda bounce ideas off each other online and when the basic structure of the song is made, we get together to work on the track. It doesn't sound very organic but I honestly think it is. It can feel more forced when you sit yourselves down and try to write a song on the spot.
Jared: We all are really fascinated by pop music and good catchy melodies and structures, so I think that tends to rub off on our writing style. We usually write (like Celine mentioned) by sending stems back and forth and I feel that makes for more focused songwriting, but for our debut album (that just came out last month), some of it was written and developed from rough ideas with the whole band…I think it went okay.
Not just 'okay', the results could speak for itself – not to sound too patronizing. How did Telltale Signs come about and what inspired it?
Celine: Jared sent me the track idea he came up with last October and immediately, it clicked with me. The lyrics and melodies came really naturally to me, probably also because Jared is such a talented being and his ideas can inspire me so much. Telltale Signs instantly became the track that was our favourite, it anchored the album and tied it together really well. It was also the most explosive one of all. I was going through a stressful period in my life and I guess the stress found its way into the song.
Raphael: In terms of how the album itself came about (because it's called Telltale Signs too), I suppose it was a natural progression after releasing our EP Catflap almost exactly a year ago. We've grown a lot over the past year and wanted to write music with more depth and genuineness; we were very much inspired by our feelings and experiences that were going on in our lives at that time while working on the album.
Dream gigs? Make it grand.
Sobs LIVE on the MOON.
Would love to be there to see that too! Shoutouts?
Shoutout to Nigel Lopez, Subsonic Eye, Cosmic Child, my parents, our friends Gus Bendinelli and Will Merrick worked on the Telltale Signs music video, and everyone from around the world who bothers to listen to us.
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Want more Sobs??? Here's Catflap from 2017. You're welcome!


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Stellenbosch based medical device organisation, Diacoustic, have identified themselves as the "heart sound experts" due to their smart cardiac murmur screening software application, Sensi.
In a recent interview with eHealthNews, Director of Diacoustic, Thys Cronje, discussed the development of Sensi and how it is being used by often inexperienced physicians, nurses or physical examiners across the local and international healthcare arena to distinguish between hard to hear cardiac murmurs when auscultating.
"Sensi was developed for users who don't have the skills to listen to a patient's heart rate – from a nurse to a chiropractor or even personnel involved in sport screenings – to determine if the murmur is due to a structural cardiac defect or an innocent murmur. It also indicates where the murmur is located within the heart beat's systolic and diastolic segments," explained Cronje.
Sensi connects with thelatest, off-the-shelf electronic stethoscopes, such as Littmann 3200 and ThinkLabs One, and interfaces via Bluetooth or USB cable to a computer or iPhone. "The whole procedure takes less than five minutes: the system records 15 seconds of heart sounds that are then uploaded to the cloud for analysis. An answer is then sent back to signal if there is a problem. Sensi provides primary care clinicians the ability to diagnose structural cardiac defects with the confidence of a cardiologist," continued Cronje.
Cronje explained that through Sensi's use of cloud technology, users are able to store multiple heart sound recordings to monitor patients overtime, as well as keep a record of their auscultation findings that can be converted to PDF records and uploaded to Electronic Health Records (EHR).
Sensi is a locally developed product that was researched at Stellenbosch University, "during which time 2000 cardiac sounds were recorded onto our database to create the algorithm," said Cronje. Sensi has since been piloted at Tygerberg and the Red Cross Children's Hospital.
Sensi has received FDA clearance and has officially been on the market for a year across five continents, with an especially high uptake in the US. "An American NGO has used Sensi to monitor 20,000 children for heart defects," said Cronje.
In comparison, the uptake has been relatively small in South Africa, with the biggest use being the screening of 2000 students at Stellenbosch University for congenital heart defects.
"In South Africa the main focus is on infectious disease, however, heart disease should also be a major cause for concern. In the Western Cape alone rheumatic heart disease is extremely high, with a morality rate of 41%," said Cronje.
Cronje went on to explain that Sensi is a good solution for South Africa's rural environment that doesn't have the infrastructure in place to run a traditional cardiac monitoring system and relies heavily on primary care services. "In the next two months our system will also be available for Android users. It's our goal to make Sensi more mobile friendly to target users that have don't have access to computers," said Cronje.
Sensi is available on a subscription-based model for R300 to R500 a month, which according to Cronje, averages around R5 to R10 per patient. "Everyone has a cardiac murmur at some stage in their life so it's important to identify how serious it is. Our system enables users to reduce costs by up to 60% when detecting cardiac murmurs," concluded Cronje.
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Guidelines for protecting the safety and health of health care workers
Published Date:September 1988
Series:DHHS publication ; no. (NIOSH) 88-119
Alternative Title:Guidelines for health care workers 1988
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Description:1. Introduction -- 2. Developing hospital safety and health programs -- 3. Recommended guidelines for controlling safety hazards -- 4. Recommended guidelines for controlling infectious diseases -- 5. Recommended guidelines for controlling noninfectious health hazards in hospitals -- 6. Hazardous waste disposal -- 7. Directory of occupational safety and health information for hospitals -- -- Appendix 1. Distribution of Hospital Workers (SIC 806) by Occupation -- Appendix 2. NIOSH Guidelines for Evaluation of Hospital Occupational Health and Safety Programs -- Appendix 3. Occupational Hazards by Location in the Hospital -- Appendix 4. Chemicals Encountered in Selected Hospital Occupations -- Appendix 5. Joint Advisory Notice: Protection Against Occupational Exposure to Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -- Appendix 6. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports -- Appendix 7. OSHA Work-Practice Guidelines for Personnel Dealing with Cytotoxic (Antineoplastic) Drugs -- Appendix 8. Reprints of Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Nosocomial Infections
"Guidelines compiled by NIOSH were presented for protecting the health and safety of health care workers. The guidelines were aimed at health care workers in hospitals and other health care facilities and were compiled from several sources, among them NIOSH, the Centers for Disease Control, OSHA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Topics included occupational illness and injury among hospital workers, growth of occupational safety and health programs for hospital workers, health service programs and committees, addressing needs for developing hospital safety and health programs, evaluating and controlling hazards, occupational safety and health agencies and organizations, and recommended guidelines for controlling safety and health hazards in hospitals. The guidelines covered such topics as types of safety hazards and hazards specific to each hospital department, infectious disease hazards, noninfectious health hazards (chemicals, physical hazards, ionizing and nonionizing radiation, mutagens and teratogens, dermatological hazards, and stress), and hazardous waste disposal (infectious and noninfectious). A directory of occupational safety and health information for hospitals was provided. It is concluded that adherence to the guidelines should decrease the incidence of disease and injury among health care workers." - NIOSHTIC-2
NPIN 10356: "This manual provides guidelines on protecting the health and safety of hospital workers. It presents an overview of hazards commonly found in hospitals and looks at methods for developing health and safety programs. The manual then examines noninfectious health hazards, the risk of infectious diseases, such as Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and possible safety hazards. It considers methods for disposing of hazardous wastes. Following an introductory section, it looks at the development of hospital safety and health programs, including the enlisting of administrative support and how to identify and evaluate hazards. The third section presents recommended guidelines that involve physical exertion; compressed gases; flammable and combustible liquids, vapors, and gases; electrical equipment; food service; housekeeping; laundry; maintenance engineering; office areas; print shops; patient care areas; pharmacy; laboratories; surgical services; and temporary personnel. The fourth and fifth sections recommend guidlines for controlling infectious disease haazards and for controlling noninfectious health hazards. It concludes with a section on hazardous waste disposal."
NIOSHTIC No 00185949
Content Notes:"The material in this report was originally prepared by: Molly Joel Coye and Stephen B. Mooser, Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations and Field Studies (DSHEFS) National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Sandra E. Bonzo Division of Standards Development and Technology Transfer (DSDTT)." - p. xvii ; Includes bibliographies. ;
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