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Community Partnerships for Protecting Children wants to connect families to resources, information and knowledge that will help caregivers take care of the children they are responsible for. Please find some information we think is important and helpful below:
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Protective factors are conditions in families and communities that, when present, increase the health and well-being of children and families. They are attributes that serve as buffers, helping parents who might otherwise be at risk of abusing their children to find resources, supports, or coping strategies that allow them to parent effectively, even under stress.
Research has shown that these protective factors are linked to a lower incidence of child abuse and neglect:
Nurturing and Attachment
A child's early experience of being nurtured and developing a bond with a caring adult affects all aspects of behavior and development. When parents and children have strong, warm feelings for one another, children develop trust that their parents will provide what they need to thrive, including love, acceptance, positive guidance, and protection.
Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development
Discipline is both more effective and more nurturing when parents know how to set and enforce limits and encourage appropriate behaviors based on the child's age and level of development. Parents who understand how children grow and develop can provide an environment where children can live up to their potential. Child abuse and neglect are often associated with a lack of understanding of basic child development or an inability to put that knowledge into action. Timely mentoring, coaching, advice, and practice may be more useful to parents than information alone.
Parental Resilience
Resilience is the ability to handle everyday stressors and recover from occasional crises. Parents who are emotionally resilient have a positive attitude, creatively solve problems, effectively address challenges, and are less likely to direct anger and frustration at their children. In addition, these parents are aware of their own challenges—for example, those arising from inappropriate parenting they received as children—and accept help and/or counseling when needed.
Social Connections
Evidence links social isolation and perceived lack of support to child maltreatment. Trusted and caring family and friends provide emotional support to parents by offering encouragement and assistance in facing the daily challenges of raising a family. Supportive adults in the family and the community can model alternative parenting styles and can serve as resources for parents when they need help.
Concrete Supports for Parents
Many factors beyond the parent-child relationship affect a family's ability to care for their children. Parents need basic resources such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, and access to essential services that address family-specific needs (such as child care and health care) to ensure the health and well-being of their children. Some families may also need support connecting to social services such as alcohol and drug treatment, domestic violence counseling, or public benefits. Providing or connecting families to the concrete supports that families need is critical. These combined efforts help families cope with stress and prevent situations where maltreatment could occur.
Social and Emotional Competence of Children
Just like learning to walk, talk, or read, children must also learn to identify and express emotions effectively. When a child has the right tools for healthy emotional expression, parents are better able to respond to his or her needs, which strengthens the parent-child relationship. When a child's age, disability, or other factors affect his or her needs and the child is incapable of expressing those needs, it can cause parental stress and frustration. Developing emotional self-regulation is important for children's relationships with family, peers, and others.
This information was taken from the National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention website. Click here for this and more information regarding the Protective Factors
40 Developmental Assets
Search Institute's research shows that kids who have a lot of assets are more likely to do well in school, volunteer in the community and care about others. Kids who have lots of assets are less likely to use tobacco or drugs or be sexually active. Search Institute has identified the following building blocks of healthy development that help young people grow up healthy, caring, and responsible. This information was taken from the ChildrenFirst website. Read about them here.
Local Parent Educators suggest the following sources for more parenting information:
- Centers for Disease Control: Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers
- Centers for Disease Control: Child Development, Positive Parenting Tips for Children 0-17
- Family Dynamics: Communication & Discipline
- The Period of Purple Crying
- Child Sexual Abuse Prevention for Parents
- Dr. Ken Ginsburg's 3rd edition of Building Resilience in Children and Teens: Giving Kids Roots and Wings
- Publications from the Child Welfare Information Gateway on the following topics:
- Protective factors
- Child and youth well-being
- Parent and caregiver well-being
- Strengthening marriages
- Fatherhood resources
- Parenting resources


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Background and study aims
Some people with diseases affecting the function of the heart or liver can collect fluid in the space between the lung and the chest wall (a pleural effusion). The amount of fluid that builds up varies. If the amount of large enough, it can press on the lung, stopping it from expanding fully as the patient breathes and causing breathlessness. Treatment varies greatly as it largely depends on the underlying cause. However, there is limited guidance on how to treat the effusion directly. This study will compare two treatment methods: removal of the fluid with a needle and syringe as and when needed (control) or insertion of an indwelling pleural catheter through which fluid can be removed in the patients home by means of vacuum filled bottles, usually by district nurses.
Who can participate?
Adults (at least 18) with a pleural effusion resulting from heart or liver disease.
What does the study involve?
Participants are randomly allocated into one of two groups. Those in group 1 are treated using the needle and syringe method. Those in group 2 are treated via the pleural catheter method. Levels of breathlessness, quality of life and the cost and complications of treatment are then compared between the two groups.
What are the possible benefits and risks of participating?
All patients in the trial will have fluid taken off from around their lungs which should improve their breathing. Both treatments have some potential risks, including bleeding, infection or discomfort. We will limit these by making sure patient's blood is clotting normally before any procedure, making sure that procedures are done in a clean environment with clean equipment and using a numbing injection before doing any procedure and using pain-killers after the procedure if patients have any pain. Patients will have regular contact with study doctors to ensure that any problems are picked up as early as possible. Patients with fluid around the lung often need chest x-rays to monitor the fluid, however patients in this study will require two additional chest X-rays, at the beginning of the trial and at the 12 week follow up visit. There is a small theoretical risk with this extra radiation; however chest x-rays are associated with a low level of radiation. Two X-rays are equivalent to one and a half weeks of background radiation in the UK.
Where is the study run from?
The lead centre for this study is North Bristol NHS Trust. We aim to run the trial from a total of 11 centres in England. Centres will be chosen on the basis of whether they have experience with this sort of trial and have the access to the right specialists and procedures.
When is the study starting and how long is it expected to run for?
January 2015 to August 2016
Who is funding the study?
CareFusion Corporation
Who is the main contact?
Prof Nick Maskell
Trial website
Contact information
Primary contact
Prof Nick Maskell
Contact details
Southmead Hospital
Southmead Road
United Kingdom
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
Study information
Scientific title
A randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of indwelling pleural catheters in persistent non-malignant symptomatic pleural effusions
Study hypothesis
This study aims to compare two methods to treat pleural effusion; removal of the fluid with a needle and syringe as and when needed (control) or insertion of an indwelling pleural catheter through which fluid can be removed in the patients home by means of vacuum filled bottles.
Ethics approval
NRES Committee South West - Central Bristol, 01/05/2015, ref: 14/SW/0075
Study design
Randomised; Interventional; Design type: Treatment
Primary study design
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Trial type
Patient information sheet
Not available in web format, please use contact details to request a participant information sheet
Topic: Respiratory disorders; Subtopic: Respiratory (all Subtopics); Disease: Respiratory
1. Insertion of indwelling pleural catheter at randomisation, three times weekly drainage for 2 weeks then drainage as frequently as clinically required
2. Therapeutic aspiration at baseline and further therapeutic aspirations as clinically required
Follow Up Length: 3 month(s); Study Entry : Registration only
Intervention type
Drug names
Primary outcome measure
Change in breathlessness (VAS score); Timepoint(s): Change to VAS over 12 week trial period
Secondary outcome measures
1. Adverse events related to trial intervention; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
2. Albumin levels in patients with liver disease; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
3. Cost effectiveness; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
4. Failure of initially randomised treatment; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
5. Health related quality of life (EQ-5D); Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
6. Hospital visits and bed days; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
7. Number of pleural interventions; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
8. Pleurodesis; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks; Volume of fluid drained; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
9. Volume of fluid drained; Timepoint(s): 12 weeks
Overall trial start date
Overall trial end date
Reason abandoned (if study stopped)
Participant inclusion criteria
1. Clinically confident diagnosis of non-malignant pleural effusion secondary to either advanced stage CHF or liver failure requiring and amenable to pleural intervention for relief of breathlessness
2. Assessment by a cardiologist or hepatologist determining the presence of established heart failure or liver failure and a pleural effusion that persists despite optimised medical therapy
3. At least one previous therapeutic aspiration of pleural fluid with results consistent with the cause of the effusion being due to CHF or liver failure either:
3.1. a transudate by Light's criteria in cases of effusions due to liver failure OR
3.2. either a transudate in effusions due to CHF or an exudate in cases where diuretics have been used and CHF can confidently be stated to be the cause
4. No evidence of malignancy on pleural fluid cytology
5. Expected survival >12 weeks
6. Written informed consent to trial participation
7. Target Gender: Male & Female
8. Lower Age Limit 18 years
Participant type
Age group
Target number of participants
Planned Sample Size: 86; UK Sample Size: 86; Description: Anticipated 8% loss to follow up.
Participant exclusion criteria
1. Age <18 years
2. Known pleural malignancy
3. Pleural fluid pH < 7.2
4. Previously sited indwelling pleural catheter on the side requiring intervention or current indwelling pleural catheter on the contralateral side
5. Pregnancy, lactation or intention to become pregnant
6. Inability to give informed consent
7. Absolute contraindication to IPC or therapeutic aspiration of pleural fluid
8. Patient has no access to a telephone
Recruitment start date
Recruitment end date
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Southmead Hospital (lead centre)
Southmead Road Westbury-On-Trym
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Windmill Rd
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Cambridge University Hospitals
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
North Tees and Hartlepool Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
United Kingdom
Funder type
Funder name
CareFusion Corporation
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Following completion of the study data from all centres will be analysed and published as soon as reasonably possible. Data will be submitted to a peer-reviewed medical journal within 1 year of trial completion for publication.
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not expected to be available
Basic results (scientific)
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Recipients of "minority" scholarships are expected to keep the same grade point average and, of course, load as recipients of "white" scholarships. Secondly, affirmative action has not benefited minorities all that much. In fact, the people that have profited the most from affirmative action are white females. The number of managerial positions white females held rose to 36% from 27% from 1980 to 1990. In contrast, the number of managerial positions held by minority females and males only rose to 7% from 3% and to 7% from 3% of the total respectively. The weekly income of white women had more than doubled between 1979 and 1993, rising to $403 from $ 184. On the average, white women are earning more than black men and women. 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Many people are made aware at an early age that in this society, that they are different and that their difference is perceived as a deficiency. We are all marginal creatures and now that the good white man has decided to give minorities and women a few meager opportunities despite their deficiencies, people are to be grateful and to accept that centuries of discrimination have been reversed in 20-something years. Minorities especially need to realize that we are now viewed as equal and just as good as white people in this society. We need to back off because now 20% of people are strongly empowered, and they are threatening the welfare of our beneficiaries, the good white people who only make up a measly 80% of the country and have only a lousy 90% of the jobs to compete for. That 10% quota is just ridiculous especially when 9% of it probably goes to the highly prestigious secretarial pool and other such departments. In addition to the earlier arguments against affirmative action, white males have come up with a nifty new term: reverse discrimination. Discrimination is a negative action taken against a group of people based on race/class/gender/sexual orientation, etc. Now discrimination, because it consists of action, cannot occur without power. There have been very few opportunities when women and minorities in this society had the power to do much of anything, even control their own lives. To suggest that they have somehow amassed enough power to discriminate against the dominant group is laughable. A lot of claims of reverse discrimination arise because white males see minorities and women in positions they desired and assume that they had to be infinitely more qualified. Now the truth is having white skin does not make one immediately more qualified. 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[SYDNEY] The US dollar held near a two-week high after Federal Reserve officials fueled bets that the US central bank may lift interest rates as soon as next month, while the yen maintained losses as Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda reiterated a readiness to ease policy further.
Japan's currency slipped 0.1 per cent to 101.96 per dollar as of 6.29am in Tokyo, after losing 1.3 per cent on Friday, its biggest single-day drop in more than six weeks.
The dollar also gained 0.1 per cent against Europe's common currency, to US$1.1184 per euro. The Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index, which tracks the greenback against 10 peers, last week notched up its biggest gain since early May.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said at a central bank retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, that the case for tightening US monetary policy had strengthened, a message later energised by Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer, who said a rate increase in September is possible.
Futures indicate a 42 per cent chance that the Fed will raise rates as early as next month, up from 22 per cent a week earlier, with US economy watchers turning their attention to payrolls data later this week.
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Meanwhile, the BOJ chief said he would bolster stimulus "without hesitation."
"Friday's gain in the dollar, driven by Fed Reserve leaders, is expected to be sustained this week and the market could be fairly quiet as we approach Friday's US employment report," said Jason Wong, a currency strategist at Bank of New Zealand in Wellington.
"With most other central banks clearly in the mood to ease, the Fed may still be cautious in its approach to guard against the negative effects of the dollar strength on the global economy."
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If you already know how to quilt, or if you want to learn, come join us for inspiration and friendship.
We normally meet the 1st and 3rd Mondays every month in the church. Anyone who wants to get involved can just show up to any meeting.
You don't have to know how to quilt, we would love to teach anyone who wants to learn!
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Long story short, my life has taken a turn where I no longer need a car. I live in the same city I work in (not 6 hours away), I live in the downtown core and have zero need for a car.
That being said, I've been getting into karting and now want to expand on that hobby and also look into auto cross/track days/curvy road driving.
My budget is currently up to $14,000 Canadian. I can likely swing up to four times that but I have zero need for this car so it's 100% a glorified toy. I don't really want to spend more than $14k as it's low enough that when I sell it in a year or four, it won't lose much value and wasn't a stupid financial decision for a toy.
Things I will do with the car:
- Track it
- Drag strip
- AutoX
- Road trips
- Drive out to do my hobbies (cycling/go karting)
- Groceries once a week?
- Only drive it on weekends lol
Things the car needs to be able to do
- Fit myself and 1 passenger (I am 6ft 3 and want to fit with a helmet comfortably)
- Be fun as hell to drive whether it's a highway or a track (think Corvette
- Be reliable enough to consistently take a beating on the track
- Not cost a fortune to keep running
- Low depreciation curve in the future
- Either fit a bicycle/other stuff on top or inside the car (I'm thinking sea sucker)
Cars currently considering:
- BMW 128i (seems a bit weak/not the greatest driving experience)
- Fiesta ST
So, what are your suggestions oppo?
TLDR; I don't need a car, want one, don't want to spend a fortune. Uses are track/road trips (for driving pleasure)/curvy roads and sometimes groceries. I am 6ft 3.5 and want to be able to fit with a helmet comfortably.


text: Eugene Kontorovich gives a clear explanation of which legal bodies have the power to influence the borders of countries, and more importantly, which do not. This fascinating video gives a different perspective on the boundaries of Israel.What is international law and how does the history of Israel reflect it? Professor


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Is your machine operating at optimal performance? Were the components used certified to a specific IP rating? If you do not know, you may want to ask your machine builder about the process they use in specifying the components for your machine. The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Standards is the international standards and conformity assessment body for all fields of electro technology.
These standards help engineers to determine the level of protection required based on the environment in which the machine will operate. With this said the IEC guidelines for ingress protection ratings are used by engineers to insure that machines will meet the environmental requirements specified by the customer over a specified period. Using these guidelines may not be a necessity, but if followed and applied appropriately, they can provide, with some degree of certainty that the machine being designed is not under- or over-engineered.
In today's world of high-tech manufacturing plants and facilities, the design and functionality of machines are becoming increasingly sophisticated and multi-faceted – meaning the designs are modular, fast, and smart. To design a machine with these attributes, both machine designers and network engineers are challenged to reduce the overall size of a machine, while improving its intelligence. It also means that machines are becoming more flexible in that they can be quickly disconnected from one application while seamlessly being integrated into another. This is where the ingress protection ratings prescribed by the IEC becomes more of a necessity than a guideline.
Ray DiVirgilio, field solutions manager for our Lumberg Automation brand, has written a white paper to address enclosure-less I/O systems. It offers the benefits of the system as well as close consideration of ROI.
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Unconditionally, if you are planning buy comfortable mattress, now may be the time to do so. A review published in JAMA Internal Medicine states that trouble sleeping has been linked to varied negative health effects. In our generation, as technology has progressed variant types of mattresses have appeared to meet the many needs of families. Let's talk about varied opportunities exist.
What does recommended mattress back pain mean? If you are looking for an option that is cost effective and yet comfy check out the latest selection online. To help winnow the field a bit more, we have consumer reviewers from some major mattress brands. Factors that can predetermine your choice are various. Note that the price of the mattress doesn't always indicate its quality, specifically if you are shopping offline. Positively a bed with the correct comfort will ensure you wake less and are less likely to wake up feeling aching. On the other hand, you must provide for some time so that you can find a great one.
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When you write in the WEB keyword "top mattresses", there appears a mega list of online stores with numerous offers. Various companies offer foam mattresses. This is a perfect mattress, but I strongly recommend only using it as a mattress topper. Presently, it's one of a kind product that is a must-have these days. Regardless of the type of sleep system you decide to buy, always evaluate a mattress for space. By breaking down your usage, you can better estimate what your really need. Select between numerous offers. Of course it isn't all.
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A tender for engineering and planning for the Morley-Ellenbrook Line has now been awarded, while applications are now open to help develop a business case for the vital METRONET project.
Perth-based consultancy group ARUP has been chosen to work with the METRONET team to investigate and plan the early stages of the Morley-Ellenbrook Line project.
Once the business case has been finalised and a preferred option is confirmed, work will begin to develop the concept designs to inform a final government investment decision, enabling the project to move into procurement and delivery.
A tender for similar work on the Karnup Station project has also been awarded to GHD Pty Ltd. Meanwhile, a tender for the new Midland Station and Midland Line Extension to Bellevue will be awarded soon.
Local businesses are encouraged to bid for future works related to the METRONET program via http://www.tenders.wa.gov.au


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The strange thing about advice is how oddly it sometimes bears fruit. In other words: things never happen the way you think they should. Take my mom's advice for example.
I set aside the novel (which was really a reframing of an old story idea, sort of a story within a story). There may or may not have been weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for years of work that would never see the light of day. The framing story had started in 2016…but the original story had begun in 2011.
I bought several eco-friendly notebooks. I bought pens. I started writing the new idea. I decided to start in a place I'd never started before: the beginning. I don't mean page one, mind; I mean an outline. I wrote the outline…yes, I have an outline. (It's complete, it's beautiful and it's laminated. Do you want to see it? It's real!) Then, I started at page one. Starting things has always been easy for me…it's finishing them I suck at. I wrote page one. Then I stared at page one. Then I took page one to Mom to see if she could spot the trouble. It took several minutes of de-tangling before we solved the problem of page one…and that wasn't because of the simplicity of my mistake. No, it certainly wasn't that.
I'd written in first person, mostly because I'd never written fiction in first person and I thought it'd be a nice break. The character was quite firm that this story wasn't to be told in first person present tense. I agreed because my CNA Edge writing had all been first person present tense and past tense would be a nice distinction. But page one was about a woman who was reflecting back on her life. Double-past tense. Double reflection. In trying to figure out how to do that, I'd managed to insert every single verb form into the same paragraph…and a few more verb forms yet to be invented.
When we de-tangled all the verb forms, Mom and I had a good long laugh. It was either that, or burst into more weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth. I was rusty. I was really rusty. Out of practice, out of habit. I crumpled up the page and threw it away. (I wish now that I'd kept it and laminated it as well.)
The wall was still there. Oh, there were several large cracks in the wall, but it was still there, still looming between myself and my stories.
The next week was a Peter week. (At the nursing home, I have a two-week rotating schedule: week one I work four 12 hour shifts, week two I work two 12 hour shifts. In addition, I work two days a week at the coffee shop. So one week I'll just have one day off both jobs, the next I'll have two days off both jobs. I call it my "robbing Peter to pay Paul" schedule.) Work left me little time to solve the problem of my own writing rustiness…although I had plenty of time to mull things over. I kept running into the same two thoughts.
One was how a visual artist would perceive the world, as opposed to a written word-artist. A couple months back, my best friend had suggested for our monthly adventure that we go painting and the experience stuck with me. The protagonist of the original story in the novel was an artist, but it wasn't until that painting class that I realized how little I'd understood of how she perceived the world. Since that painting class, I'd begun to see where I'd gone wrong in that story. The second thought was the problem of the double past tense. I knew how other writers had done it…but how could I do it?
The two problems merged and morphed while, of all things, I had a resident up in the hoyer lift. I consider it a great testament to my professionalism and caregiver abilities that I finished taking care of her before I ripped my little notebook out of my pocket. Five minutes later I had the rough draft of two chapters. I also had the intense curiosity of a mystified old woman.
It was the original story, the first novel I'd set out to write. I hadn't heard that character's voice in five years. She'd changed, just as I had changed, but in the whole we both approved of the other. Character and writer were both well-content to interact with each other once again. The wall had collapsed, and now I could see each crack was a story waiting for me to learn how to tell it. Behind the wall was not one story, but five. The original novel, the frame set all by itself, the new story idea and its sequel, and the story of the wall itself.
I've writing steadily since then. The pace isn't quick, but it's balanced: not so fast I burn myself out, not so slowly the story burns out.


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Lily Maase: Unbind
The band is different from that on her previous release Aftermath (LMS, 2005) released more than two years ago. That was her Texas band, while theSuiteUnraveling is her New York band, although bassist Matt Wigton and drummer Fred Kennedy know Maase from Texas. Joining them are alto and soprano saxophonist Peter Van Huffel whose own album Silvester Battlefield (Fresh Sound New Talent, 2007) was released to high acclaim and tenor saxophonist Evan Smith.
Maase's compositional style, at least at this point in her career, is (usually) to tie together a very strong and memorable thematic phrase and place it within the context of a specific mood. The intersection of the two is developed through the arrangement, which has both controlled and free sections deftly spliced together.
The music that comes out of this process is both intensely personal and abstractly utopian. It beckons the listener to enter Maase's world of emotion and sound and explore it along with her; one does not remain detached for very long. Each piece has an identity that is fleshed out by the band within the limits of the arrangement. The personalities of these particular band members take the music in a specific directiona different band would create something else.
The music is driven by its bottom, and Wigton and Kennedy are a superb unit. Wigton's sound is extremely tight and powerful and his unerring rhythmic sense meshes perfectly with Kennedy's multi-phase driving pulse. Van Huffel and Smith play in front of this snarling beast both as a team in harmony and separately. Van Huffel is particularly effective on the higher horns and manages to play "inside" and "outside" the basically static harmony.
Behind all of this is Maase's guitar, which she uses less as a single-line instrument and more as way to give harmonic color, but not by simply strumming. She uses many different techniques that help shape the overall sound.
Unbind, while having twelve tracks, is an organic whole. With one exception, the main tracks are surrounded by short electronic-laden vignettes that cleanse the ears. They separate and connect what precedes and what follows, providing an emotional bridge.
Containing actual masterpieces such as "Made To Be Broken," "The Great Escape" and "Anaphora" and with "Reduction Sketch" not far behind, Unbind is a thrilling and fulfilling work of sound and emotion.
Track Listing
Prelude: Inner Weave; Made To Be Broken; Interlude: Boolix Redux; The Great Escape; Interlude: Inspected By 6; Anaphora; Centerlude: Vanishing Point; Ricochet; Interlude: Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector; Kinetoflux; Reduction Sketch; Postlude: Suite Release.
Lily Maase: guitar; Peter Van Huffel: alto and soprano saxophones; Evan Smith: tenor saxophone; Matt Wigton: electric bass; Fred Kennedy: drums.
Album information
Title: Unbind | Year Released: 2007 | Record Label: Addtract Initiative


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The National Weather Service has issued a Flash Flood Warning for Western Athens County until 10:15 AM.
At 4:15 AM, Doppler radar and automated rain gauges indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. 2 to 3.5 inches of rain have already fallen. Flash flooding is expected to begin shortly.
Some locations that will experience flooding include Nelsonville, Albany, Buchtel, Carbondale, New Marshfield, Shade and The Plains.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS; Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding.
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You may also report severe weather by posting your report to the Charleston West Virginia National Weather Service Facebook Page, or by using the Twitter Hashtag, NWSRLX.


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1. I would like to know how does one add a menu catagory-- I can add items manually just fine.. but so far haven't been able to figure out how to add a new catagory.
2. Is there a way to configure the clock to show the seconds also? if So how.
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Quote from: kc1di on May 30, 2008, 04:58:30 am2. Is there a way to configure the clock to show the seconds also? if So how. Yes there is. If you are running lxpanel-0.3.5.6 (like me), you can right-click on the clock and point to "Digital Clock Settings".If you are running al older version, you'll need to access the panel settings window... point to the "Add panel applets" thing. Click on Diginal clock, and then hit the edit button.Both procedures will take you to a little window that has the clock format definition... in this box, enter this Code: [Select]%l:%M:%S %pThat will display the clock like "10:00:05 PM"I really like this desktop too... I haven't used anything else since I discovered it
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remember to delete the --enable-hal line in lxsession-lite. also notice that lxsession has been replaced with lxsession-lite
I am using VL5.9 STD. Works pretty good with JWM, but I have to always worry about disk space, b/c have mall HDD.
I do have a problem with the LXDE panel. How do I get it back? When I logged in, there was no panel.
Also have a question, does LXDE lighter than XFCE? Is there a lot of bugs in it?


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Resharper is becoming more and more monstrous. Soon it will be an IDE in itself and won't need Visual Studio at all!
When a new 8.1 version was out, I was overly excited with it. Even paid almost 100 quid for a licence out of my own pocket (for my personal use). After using it for 2-3 months, I'm not so happy with it.
Project I mostly work on has some sizeable amount of MVC controllers and views: 180K lines of code excluding code for views. On this codebase R# is choking badly.
A lot of the times I get very random completion suggestions, even through I almost typed complete name for local variable that was defined a line above. Many times I get some random namespaces added to
using block because R# thought I'm done with typing and concluded that I need some random namespace. I've disabled Resharper Intelisence and now using native Visual Studio functionality for that. VS does seem to do not a bad job there. Also it is not as automatic as R#, so I need to press
Ctrl+Space to get the completion. Yes, extra 2 keystrokes, but that protects you from random crap that R# decides to add to your class.
Go Anywhere
Go Anywhere in Resharper 7 was useful. Most of the times it got me where I needed to. In v8 this is a VERY global search, and order of suggestions is nowhere near how it should be. When I type "web.cofnig" in Go Anywhere box, I expect to see
web.config file in root of the project as first suggestion. Not some other auto-generated classes that have
web and
config in their name somewhere, like
MyApp.Web.Infrastructure.AutomapperBootstrap.config. Most of the times the suggestion is bang on, but when it is not, it is so wrong – I don't know where to start rant about it. Also, why does it offer me auto-generated classes as a first navigation option? (think T4MVC-generated controllers).
Turns out that Visual Studio has it's own
Navigate To option. Usually invoked by
Ctrl+,, but probably R# have messed up the keyboard shortcuts for you, so you'll need to re-assign the mapping again. And navigation in VS is not trying to be very smart, hence getting me to the places I'd like to go.
I'm dependant on Resharper so much, at the moment I can't work without it. This is bad! I'll keep adding here native replacements to R# functionality, as I discover them.
Here are the options I'd like to find replacements to:
- Renaming of classes and controller actions
- Creating of new classes from their name.
- Initialise fields from constructor parameters – for IoC injections
- … probably another infinite list of functions coming from R#


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Working in partnership with the University of Nottingham since 2007, CRP members have been involved with excavations and surveys in and around the Roman town of Venta Icenorum. Information about this work, including interim reports, blogs and links to videos can be found here.
CRP Blogs
Excavations and surveys at the Roman town
From 2007 until 2012, CRP was involved in research within the walled area of Venta Icenorum, including major seasons of excavation from 2009-2012. See the dig blogs to see what we found. As well as the project's academic publications, a useful summary can also be found in this article from Current Archaeology magazine.
"A town of the Iceni" conference
In January 2017, CRP organised a one-day conference with the University of Nottingham. Sponsored by the British Academy, the conference brought together specialists and archaeologists working on the Roman town to summarise results to date. Abstracts from the day can be found here. Copies of the displays used at the conference can also be accessed including a timeline for the development of the town and more information on the work of the volunteers.
Archive work on the site and the village
As part of our recent Heritage Lottery Fund project, our members have been carrying out archive research relating to the site and the village itself. For an excellent collection of newspaper cuttings relating to the history of Caistor in the 20th century, click here.
New test-pitting and survey in Caistor St. Edmund village
During 2014 and 2015, CRP members have been investigating the extra-mural area of the Roman town that lies in the area of the present village. In particular we have been looking at the area that lies within the triple-ditch enclosure that surrounds the Roman town. This work, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Foyle Foundation, the John Jarrold Trust and the Norfolk and Norwich Archaeological Society, is giving us important new information about the suburbs of the Roman town. An interim report on the 2015 work can be found here.
New excavation and geophysical survey around the Roman town
In 2016, CRP was awarded a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to help the group develop the skills of its members and enhance the wider public benefit of its work through a new programme of survey and excavation around the Roman town. This project will run from 2016-2019. See the CRP blog for further updates.


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The Department is the primary goverment agency responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country's environment and natural resources, specially forest and grazing lands, mineral resources, including those in reservation and watershed areas, and lands of the public domain, as well as the licensing and regulation of all natural resources as may be provided for by law in order to ensure equitable sharing of the benefits derived therefrom for the welfare of the present and future generations of Filipinos.
To accomplish this mandate, the Department shall be guided by the following objectives;
1. Assure the availability and sustainability of the country's natural resources through judicious use and systematic restoration or replacement, whenever possible.
2. Increase the productivity of natural resources in order to meet the demands for forest, mineral, and land resources of growing a population.
3. Enhance the contribution of natural resources for achieving national economic and social development.
4. Promote equitable access to natural resources by the different sectors of the population.
5. Conserve specific terrestrial and marine areas representative of the Philippine natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations.
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I have now finished two of my four exams. I took last night off, for a much needed break. Here are a few things helping to keep me calm.
1. Frozen (and the soundtrack)
I finally got round to watching Frozen, it is amazing. Love the soundtrack so much.
2. calm.com
This website is lovely. Choose a scene, play some music and drift off for a bit.
3. A quote that my Mum sent me.
That I have since re-created as a background for my phone and desktop.
Such a positive spin on struggling. I admit I do struggle with my course and get upset at it, but I've been trying to look on the positive side after reading this quote.
4. Norah Jones
One of my all time favourite albums.
5. More water/less coffee
I have tried to moderate the amount of coffee I drink. Instead of my first thing in the morning cup, I have been trying to wait as long as possible before having it! Drinking water seems to be working to wake me up.


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South Sudan: A Reflection
Today marks the three-year anniversary of the outbreak of open conflict and fighting in South Sudan. The Rev. Ranjit K. Mathews, Staff Officer for Africa Partnerships, has shared a reflection about his visit to South Sudan earlier this year.
I remember it like it was yesterday.
On the surface it looked like a scene you would see on a typical Sunday morning in many churches around the world. People were dressed in their Sunday best; hymns were sung; the lessons were read; and the Gospel was proclaimed. And then, there was preaching – preaching like I had never heard before. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Bilal was preaching at a packed All Saints' Cathedral in Juba, South Sudan. He was preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the midst of a civil war. You could have heard a pin drop it was so quiet as people listened to the Good News amidst the despair and horror that have become common place in South Sudan.
As a foreigner, a guest in South Sudan, I was struck by how the normal act of going to church felt anything but normal as I sat there and thought about what was going on outside the walls of this Episcopal Cathedral in the world's newest country.
I had spent a lot of time with Joseph before I heard him preach. He spent several days with my colleagues from the American Friends of the Episcopal Church of the Sudans (AFRECS) and me, accompanying us as we met with the Justice, Peace, and Reconciliation Commission of the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan (ECSSS). He is a man of integrity who lives out his faith in the most trying of circumstances. As he preached, his faith, integrity, and deep commitment to his people were on display for all to see, hear, and learn from. He spoke of the desperate need for reconciliation in South Sudan and he called on the government and opposition forces to repent. He spoke with boldness about the mass atrocities that were being perpetuated. The gang rapes. The incredible turmoil that has taken over the country.
I've heard powerful preaching before, but never like this. I've never sat in a pew and listened to a sermon that could cost the preacher his or her life. That is the gift that Joseph gave me and everyone else in that Cathedral. We saw a man of immense faith living out his vocation as a priest and fully embracing the Gospel imperative to preach the Word of God. He spoke truth to power and didn't pull any punches. What I heard that day was a clarion call for Christians to live out their faith boldly, even when doing so could have the harshest of consequences.
Joseph must have known that there were members of the government who were in the congregation that day and yet he felt it was less risky to tell the truth than it was to stay silent.
We do not all encounter the same realities that our brothers and sisters who live in the midst of daily conflict and violence do. And yet, as Joseph Bilal reminded everyone that day, we are all called to claim our faith boldly and follow the way of Jesus of Nazareth. When we do this, we look at the world through the lens of our faith in the God who loved us so much that he came to be present with us here on earth. We see the ongoing violence, massive food insecurity, and the real threat of genocide in South Sudan. We see this and we know that we are called to pray for and with our brothers and sisters there. We are called to speak up and speak out on their behalf in our churches. We, like Joseph, are called to have the courage to take up the mantle of Luke 4:18, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives…"
In times like these it is easy to feel lost, to give into despair, and to lose hope. The season of Advent reminds us that we have the opportunity to wait and watch for the Christ child to be born in our hearts anew. And with the reminder that Christ has always been present, is present, and will be present in us, around us, and through us; may we step out in faith and let our Sudanese brothers and sisters know that they are not forgotten and that we will be with them in thought, word, and deed.
It seems appropriate to end this in the words of Canon Ezra Lawiri, the well-known Sudanese teacher, priest, and Bible translator, "but God is not defeated!"
To learn more about how you can support the Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan, please visit www.afrecs.org.
For an in depth view of what is currently happening in South Sudan, please watch the recent United States Institute of Peace seminar "Not On Our Watch in South Sudan" available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAr7XvzIfZs


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USHCC Announces 2019 Local Chamber Grant Recipients
"Small businesses are essential to vibrant communities and we're proud to award these grants to local chambers that are helping to develop and grow Hispanic entrepreneurs in our communities, said Heyward. "Grant recipients have demonstrated an enduring resolve to support local Hispanic businesses in their development and success. They also represent Wells Fargo's commitment to work with the USHCC and its local chambers to provide the resources to support the growth of the Hispanic business community across the U.S."
"These grants benefit both the Hispanic small business community and our local chamber network, serving two constituencies that are at the heart of our mission and values," said Ramiro Cavazos, President & CEO of the USHCC. "We are extremely proud to support this selection of programs that will work to grow the economic power and prosperity of the Hispanic community across the nation. I would also like to thank Wells Fargo for their generous support. We commend their dedication to advance the Hispanic business community at all levels."
The 2019 USHCC Local Chamber Grant recipients include:
$15,000.00 Grants
● Morris County Hispanic-American Chamber of Commerce (Morristown, New Jersey)
- Program name: Su Salud Primero
● Hispanic Chamber of E-Commerce (San Diego, California)
- Program name: HISCEC Startup Series
$10,000.00 Grants
● South Carolina Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Greenville, South Carolina)
- Program name: Entrepreneur Empowerment Series
● Fresno Area Hispanic Foundation (Fresno, California)
- Program name: Mujeres Hablando de Business
● Greater Oklahoma City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
- Program name: OKC HUB (Helping Urban Businesses)
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● Nevada Hispanic Business Group (Las Vegas, Nevada)
- Program name: M.A.N.O. Program (Mentoring to Attain New Opportunities)
● Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)
- Program name: The Small Business Assistance Program
● PROSPERA (Charlotte, North Carolina)
- Program name: Prosperity Through Entrepreneurship
● Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)
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● Northern Virginia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Tysons, Virginia)
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● San Joaquin County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Stockton, California)
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● Utah Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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The USHCC actively promotes the economic growth, development and interests of more than 4.37 million Hispanic-owned businesses, that combined, contribute over $700 billion to the American economy every year. It also advocates on behalf of 260 major American corporations and serves as the umbrella organization for more than 200 local chambers and business associations nationwide. For more information, visit ushcc.com. Follow us on Twitter @USHCC.
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Entitlement reform would indicate maturity
By Russ Roberts
The opinions expressed are his own.
Reuters invited leading economists and writers to reply to Larry Summers' op-ed on his reaction to the debt ceiling deal. We will be publishing the responses here. Below is Roberts' reply. Laura Tyson, James Hamilton, Donald Boudreaux, Robert Frank, Benn Steil and James Pethokoukis as well.
Summers begins with a refreshing instance of honesty about the effect of the debt deal:
Despite claims of spending reductions in the $1 trillion range, the actual agreements reached so far likely will have little impact on actual spending over the next decade.
It is hard to reconcile this likely truth with the accusations coming from the left that Obama has caved and the Republicans are "terrorists" for "slashing government spending" but such is the nature of political life these days. Summers is also right about the importance of the baseline. When is a cut not a cut? When it's a reduction from an artificially high baseline. There is very little austerity in the debt deal.
Summers next claim is harder to swallow:
The deal confirms the very low levels of spending already negotiated for 2011 and 2012, and caps 2013 spending about where most would have expected this Congress to end up.
Spending in 2011 is estimated to come in at $3.8 trillion or just over 25 percent of GDP. That's the highest ratio since 1945 — in 2005, the ratio was under 20%. Calling $3.8 trillion dollars "very low" is very hard to understand, unless you see a crying need for an even larger number. And that brings us to the essence of Summers' worldview, a view that is summarized in the title to his piece: A Debt Deal That Solves the Wrong Problem. The key problem, says Summers, isn't that we spend too much, it's that we spend too little to reduce the unacceptably high level of unemployment. According to Summers, growth is driven by aggregate demand and aggregate demand is driven by government spending.
What is the evidence that increases in government spending lead to growth? Very little, unfortunately. Defenders of government spending like to point to CBO estimates of 3 million jobs created by the stimulus package. But those estimates are not real estimates. The CBO did not look at the actual path of the economy and compare it to the path in the absence of increased spending. They confessed that that task was too difficult. Instead, they used past econometric relationships between government spending and employment, assumed that those relationships were unchanged, and mechanically entered the levels of government spending to yield estimates of job creation. That is the essence of assuming the answer you're trying to discover.
Perhaps the recent stimulus was too small? Always a possibility, but hard to test. Was it poorly designed? Surely it was. Even proponents of large increases in government spending say now that it was poorly designed — the tax rebates were saved and the transfers to the states were ineffective. That accounts for about 2/3 of the money.
It's hard to understand how these two arguments make the case for a new burst of even higher spending. It's like hiring a contractor to build a house and discovering that he has underestimated the cost of the project and squandered much of the money that you gave him in advance. Would you give him the new amounts he is requesting?
What about the evidence on government spending from the historical record? There are two great natural experiments — WWII and its aftermath. True, measured GDP boomed during WWII when government spending surged to build tanks, planes and bombs. But the vaunted Keynesian multiplier should have stimulated the private sector. That didn't happen because the private sector was starved and rationed — the military was using too many people and too much steel and other raw materials. Wartime was a time of austerity. When the war ended the Keynesians predicted a depression worse than the Great one. But the economy thrived and private sector employment took off despite the drop in government spending.
The problem we face isn't inadequate government spending. The problem is that the private sector is profitable but cautious. How do we regain that confidence? One route is for Washington politicians to act like honest grown-ups instead of dishonest children. Serious entitlement reform that reduces the long-run budget pressure would indicate maturity. That's a better strategy than spending more money in the short run.
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With nearly 1/3 of US Government spending going for the support of the current government in Israel, it is irresponsible to suggest entitlement reform can solve our problems. American citizens have been paying "premiums" for social "insurance" for over a half century on the assurance that the country would make good on their claims in old age or catastrophic disability. The USA has a very large multiple of the assets needed to pay these claims. Why is it necessary to default on obligations to taxpayers while we spend nearly 1/3 of the budget supporting a country that has paid nothing into our country? How can abandoning our own elderly and disabled be less important than supporting a country that has given us little or nothing?
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@txgadfly – 3 billion a year is not 1/3 of the federal budget.
@ the author:
What sort of entitlement reform do you have in mind? No one who talks about it dares to get specific. That's the biggest problem with politicians. They love euphemisms.
It's easy to target the disabled, the retirees, and those on welfare. Or are you talking about people who you don't think need it because they have substantial means? That may be more of a myth than you realize. But I can think of a few exceptional cases where you might be right.
So many entitlement payments are recycled within the public housing system, the nursing home industry, the medical industry etc. and even in support of higher rents for what are never the best apartments or even good apartments in most towns or cities. Has the author ever seem low-income housing? I've seen subsidized apartments in a northeast city and in NYC and you don't (rather the gov't) doesn't get much for the money even with some tenant contribution in many cases. If one could see some real figures about the true size of unemployment in this country it could be a substantial number of people who might find they can't afford their homes and apartments. That would further undermine the housing and real estate market. Unless cities and towns were willing to change occupancy requirements – that could mean a nightmarish situation of millions of homeless people.
Suburbs will balk at increased density in single-family homes, condos and apartments because so many of the middle and upper income people like communities that are pristine and guarantors of their investment. They won't bend to relax rules for those who seek market rate housing through landlords who always factor in extra rent for occupancy that exceeds the terms of the lease, even for extended families. It could also transfer the burden of housing subsidies to cities and towns that are already strained.
This is a very different period than the WWII era. The fact that gold is climbing is some kind of indication that many people are very well off and hoarding their money in unproductive bullion. The savings that many people had accumulated during the period of war rationing fueled the post war boom. Since it was illegal to own gold it went to savings bonds and bank accounts and supported the public debt and the currency. That's what kicked in after the war and helped fund the baby boom years.
BTW – it's one thing to say "get a job". It's quite another finding one.
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Just look at another Big Issue all the pols keep bringing up: the high cost of college. Obama talks about it all the time. 3 things. One, we probably have too many college graduates anyways. Two, more colleges could go co-op, I went to Northeastern and it took me 6 years but I paid a good part of my own way. Third, I suspect that college assistance is the reason tuition fees and college salaries of staff are so high and that it is government assistance that makes colleges expensive, if anything is. August 2 was very depressing.
txgadfly: you're not alone in the mistaken perception that Social Security is a form of insurance, where policy holders pay premiums that go into a big pot of capital reserves regulated in size so as to pay out forecast claims according to actuarial predictions.
It's actually a Ponzi scheme. The first crop of people to get money from the Social Security system paid little to nothing (just like Bernie Madoff). The money they received came from younger people, who hoped that when they when they became older people, the younger people entering the system would then pay them. This works until the new money coming in becomes less than the money going out, which is what eventually happens in all Ponzi schemes. The Baby Boom generation is big. The generations behind it are smaller. The math is very straightforward. Absent some action, Social Security will collapse, just like the many smaller Ponzi schemes out there have.
funny how this guy doesn't mention how much the economy has shrunk since 2005, affecting the percantage of government spending versus GDP. typical economist who only spouts off half the numbers to make their point
The link to Larry Summers' op-ed is broken. Please fix it or remove it.
@jwws9999 : Yes the economy has shrunk. But Government has not. And Government spending has gone up. At best, you are helping prove that the Government is irresponsible. Everyone else is losing their jobs, tightening their belts, yet the Government continues to grow and grow.
Anyone who believes this pack of trollops in Washington and many of our State Houses will responsibly address the current fiscal situation our nation faces has either been oblivious or is deluded. The concept or even perhaps the definition of statesmanship escapes this current class of elected representatives. Our political parties are only concerned with maintaining or grasping power(getting reelected). What they say and do is little more than smoke and mirrors.
I just checked on online college degree program with a very obscure college. They want about $26,100 for a 13 to 16 month 90 credit per hour bachelors degree working at home with one's own computer.
Entitlement reform won't indicate maturity anymore than those who grabbed the inefficiently loaded lifeboats of the Titanic indicated public spiritedness.
It is simply that those in the boats have to spend a great deal of time for the rest of their lives arguing with themselves that their own welfare was somehow better for society as a whole. Good Luck trying!
There will be many more riots in the street. Its very difficult not to when one find oneself freezing to death.