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WASHINGTON – November 10 – A veterans' organization ask the nation to remember the original intent of Veterans Day.
The original Armistice Day ended World War I on November 11, 1918, but not before nearly 30 million soldiers had been killed or wounded, and over seven million taken prisoner.
Congress responded to a universal hope that this would never happen again and passed a resolution calling for "...exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding…inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches…with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples." Congress later resolved November 11 was to be "…a day dedicated to the cause of world peace."
Of the many veterans' organizations in the U.S., one exists specifically to carry out the original purpose of Armistice Day, now celebrated as Veterans' Day. In word as well as action, Veterans For Peace, a national organization with 120 chapters, is dedicated to the cause of peace.
"Unfortunately Veterans Day has turned into a day to support war rather than a day to reflect on the horrors of war and the need to work for peace," said Veterans For peace Executive Director Michael McPhearson. "Veterans For Peace has over 120 chapters around the country, many of whom will be commemorating veterans day by marching in traditional parades, conducting solemn ceremonies and vigils to give an alternative view about war and the meaning of the day," McPhearson went on to say.
"Our statement of purpose is clear and direct when it says we intend to 'abolish war as an instrument of national policy.' We want this generation of veterans to be the last," said VFP president Elliott Adams.
The former Army paratrooper and Viet Nam veteran added, "We not only speak out for peace, our organization works towards it every single day. We will continue to do so and in fact increase our efforts as VFP seeks to raise awareness of the human and monetary cost of war in the face of the global economic crisis."
Please visit www.veteransforpeace.org to learn more about VFP Veterans Day activities.
CONTACT: Veterans For Peace
Michael T. McPhearson, 314 303-8874
Elliott Adams, 518 284-2048
Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985 and includes veterans of all eras and wars from the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current Iraq wars as well as other conflicts cold or hot. It has participated in every major demonstration against the war in Iraq. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. VFP is represented at the UN as an official Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).


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Submitted to: Potato Progress
Publication Type: Popular Publication
Publication Acceptance Date: 3/15/2008
Publication Date: 4/18/2008
Citation: Nitzan, N., Cummingson, T., Johnson, D., Batchelor, D., Olsen, C., Brown, C.R. 2008. Resistance to Black Dot in Potato. Potato Progress. VIII (5) p 1-3.
Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: Black dot fungus can colonize tubers on the surface, in the stolon end, or in a combination of both.On the surface the fungus is prevalent as sclerotia, and in the stolon end the fungus colonizes the vascular tissuesas hyphae. The fungus is introduced to non-infested soils mostly by infected potato tubers. It becomes soil-borneas infected plant debris carrying sclerotia (Fig.2) is left in the field. The disease develops from either the soil-borne or the tuber-borne inocula, which are the major sources of inoculum. Inoculum may also be air-borne as sclerotia disseminated by wind, or as spores splashed onto leaves o stems by irrigation water. Among the three inocula sources, soil-borne is the more aggressive causing higher disease severities than tuber or air-borne inocula. Infections of potato plants usually initiate on roots and stolons. The infection takes place relatively early in the season without evident symptoms of chlorosis or necrosis on the foliage. As potato plants enter the tuber bulking stage (growth stage 4) and the foliage starts to senesce the fungus spreads into the aboveground stems andcolonizes the plant. At the end of the season sclerotia become visually evident on roots, stolons, and stems, andblemishes may be present on tubers. A breeding program was initiated in 2006, screening potato selections (clones and commercial cultivars) for resistance to black dot. To evaluate disease, stem disks were removed from the aboveground stem at different heights, and a disease severity index was calculated. To standardize the screening Russet Burbank was chosen as the susceptible standard and all selections were contrasted to R. Burbank. Selections with disease severities lower than Russet Burbank were considered resistance. In 2006, thirty-six potato selections were tested for black dot resistance in a commercial field near Moses Lake. The plants were exposed to the natural inoculum that was present in the field. Nineteen selections were more resistant to black dot than Russet Burbank (Fig. 3). These selections progressed to the next season and were retested in 2007 in Moses Lake (Fig. 4). Summit Russet, PA98NM38-1, A00681-7 and A0012-5 were resistant to black dot both years (Figs. 3 & 4) indicating the presence of resistance to black dot in potato germplasm. Currently, the resistant selections are retested in Moses Lake the third year, and greenhouse studies are in progress in attempt to develop a rapid screening technique that would hopefully correlate with the results from the field.Resistance to Black Dot in Potato.

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Farmington, Maine – UMaine-Farmington women's basketball team was edged out by SUNY Canton on Friday night by a final score of 60-49 in Dearborn Gymnasium in a North Atlantic Conference (NAC) battle.
- The Beavers were led by McKenna Brodeur with 16 points after shooting 7-12 from the field with 10 rebounds and three blocks as Paige Carter finished with nine points and six rebounds.
- Haley Felkel added eight points with four rebounds as Makayla Wilson finished with six points, four rebounds, three assists, two steals, and one block.
- Breanna Cullers led all scorers with 25 points on 11-21 shooting with six rebounds, two assists, and two steals as Antanasia Chambers added a double-double with 17 points, 14 rebounds, two assists, and five steals.
- Autumn Watkins added 10 points with five rebounds as Jenifer Morgan-Aubin finished with two points and six rebounds.
The Beavers will host SUNY Canton tomorrow at 3:00 PM in Dearborn Gymnasium.


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This Slow Cooker Zesty Barbecue Chicken is crazy easy needing only 4 pantry staples, but doesn't skimp on flavor. Perfect weeknight meal!
Monday…er…Tuesday! Those three-day weekends always screw me up. Guaranteed I'll be confused the entire week. But that's not really anything new. Ha. I do know that my slow cooker is getting used, there will be chicken involved, and I also have cake balls to make.
So we had an, um, interesting weekend. It was sort of a roller coaster of fun and not so fun. Saturday started with me walking into a wall. More specifically, the towel rack in our bathroom. It hit right on the bridge of my nose. And it wasn't pretty. It's unclear whether I am just stupid enough to get up at 5am to exercise and not turn on any lights, or if I was sleep walking.
After that Paul and Trevor did some baseball-y things, while Haley and I had a girls afternoon of shoe shopping and lunch.
Then Sunday, I was cleaning my ears and noticed that one of the Q-Tip ends was missing. MISSING. Well, only one place it could be, right? Paul couldn't find anything in my ear canal, so I tired to ignore it. Off to the movies we went to see The Greatest Showman. Outstanding! That's one we will own, for sure.
But I spent the entire day completely consumed with worry over my ear, so we finally went to the emergency clinic at 5:30pm.
Nothing in there. The Q-Tip end must have been missing from the start. It's unclear whether I'm just stupid enough not to notice before putting a pointed object in my ear, or if the nurse lied to me as punishment for me being an idiot.
Sunday we went to Top Golf and stayed for three hours. Because…golf, french fries, and warm couch cushions! But then on the way down the stairs I missed a step and tumbled.
The universe was definitely telling me I should never have left my bed this past weekend.
Anyway, I'm fine. And I have this Slow Cooker Zesty Barbecue Chicken dish to share with you – I've made it a few times and at least had the sense to make it again yesterday!
It's another one of those set it and forget it recipes – crazy easy, using pantry staples, but doesn't skimp on flavor.
Slow Cooker Zesty Barbecue Chicken
- 12 ounce bottle barbecue sauce
- 1/2 cup Italian salad dressing
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
- 6 6-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- salt and pepper , to taste
- cooked rice or mashed potatoes , for serving
- Coat a 6-quart slow cooker with non-stick spray.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together the barbecue sauce, Italian dressing, brown sugar, and Worcestershire sauce.
- Season the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper, to taste. Place in the slow cooker.
- Pour sauce mixture over the chicken and toss to coat. Cover and cook for 5 hours on low.
- Transfer chicken to plates with some cooked rice or mashed potatoes, and drizzle some of the sauce on top.
Other Notes
Other slow cooker chicken recipes you might like!
Slow Cooker Italian Lemon Chicken – Belly Full
Slow Cooker Tomato-Balsamic Chicken – Belly Full
Whole Chicken in a Slow Cooker – The Little Kitchen
Slow Cooker Chicken Tortellini Soup – The Reluctant Entertainer


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Now that autumn has started, the Congressional Angels in Adoption have been awarded and National Adoption Awareness months is not far from the horizon, it is time for us to start the nominations for Pound Pup Legacy's Annual Demons of Adoption Awards.
Over the years, our readers have rightfully pointed out the wrongdoings and condemned the practices of such agencies like: Bethany Christian Services, LDS Family Services, Adoption by Gentle Care, adoption attorneys like Raymond W Godwin, such trade associations of adoption service providers like the National Council for Adoption and the Joint Council on International Children's Services,
With such an impressive line-up of villains, comes a daunting task to come up with an equally deserving candidate for 2015.
We invite our readers to nominate and decide who eventually has the dubious honor of actually receiving PPL's 2015 Demons of Adoption Award.
You, our reader, can make your voice heard. Who should receive the most critical recognition in Adoptionland? Until November 1 the nomination process will be open. After that date PPL will post a poll where readers may vote for the nominees.
The link for nominations may be found at: http://poundpuplegacy.org/nineth_demons_of_adoption_nominations. Please make your nomination by adding a comment.
When posting, please state your nominee and a short explanation as to why this candidate is so deserving of this award.
Earlier this month, the US Department of State, published its annual report on inter-country adoption, and for the 10th year in succession, the number of children adopted from abroad dropped.
Much has been written in the last decade, about this decrease in inter-country adoption, and while it is a real phenomenon that can be observed in all receiving countries, there is more to the story than just a decline within the last decade.
When American mainstream media reports news about the decline in inter-country adoption, they usually use 2004 as a starting point, when the US alone received 22,972 children from abroad.
Any recent figure will pale in comparison to this figure. For instance, the 6,441 children adopted from abroad in 2014 is less than one third of the number reached in 2004.
For eighth year in a rows, Pound Pup Legacy has asked its readers to choose the worst person or organization in Adoptionland as the
recipient of the Demons of Adoption Award. Today we announce this year's recipient.
We started the Demons of Adoption Awards, back in 2007, as a parody of the Congressional Angel in Adoption Award , annually awarded by the Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute (CCAI). Although humorous in form, it was serious in intent.
At the time, little attention was given to serious issues like abuse in adoptive families, child trafficking, coerced relinquishment and re-homing., while at the same time, Members of Congress were busy praising adoption attorney's and executive directors of adoption agencies, by honoring them a Congressional award.
Something was very wrong with this picture. Abuse in adoptive families and re-homing often are the result of bad screening practices and insufficient preparation of prospective adopters, if not the result of withholding information about the conditions of the child, important to make a proper decision whether to go forward with an adoption. Coerced relinquishment often is the result of having no well-defined protocols to guide the adoption process. Child trafficking is often the result of working with unreliable partners in sending countries and the profit motif that can easily become the driving factor behind the adoption process.
Members of Congress should worry about these issues and provide regulation that curtail what is wrong in Adoptionland. Unfortunately they much rather look the other way and sail on the feel-good sentiments that surround adoption.
The Angels in Adoption Award gala is mostly an adoption agency's love fest, organized with congressional allure It openly shows the intimate embrace of special interest groups and federal government, more so than in any other field of business.
Congress is often said to be ruled by special interests, but nowhere is the intimate embrace of politics and business so blatant as in the field of adoption.
There are no congressional awards for members of the petrochemical or financial industry, nor is there a defense contractor of the year award. When it comes to these branches of business, members of congress at least presume to maintain a certain distance.
Adoption is an entirely different matter. Members of Congress don't view it as a business, after all, as defined by law, no children are being sold. And even if viewed as a business, it dwarfs in comparison to Wall Street, the oil industry, insurance, and the pharmaceutical industry.
For members of congress the political value of adoption is not economical, but sentimental. Members of congress like to present themselves in favor of adoption, because it superficially shows a virtuous side, something as much needed to get elected as having well filled campaign coffers.
For members of the adoption industry, adoption certainly has economic value. Their livelihood depends on it. Of course the industry likes to present itself as virtuous and charitable, but at the end of the day salaries need to be paid and the cost of doing business needs to be recouped.
The Angels of Adoption Awards shamelessly shows the exchange of sentimental political capital for the economic and religious interests of the adoption industry. Members of Congress get the opportunity to demonstrate their virtuous side, and the industry gets Congress's seal of approval,and minimal federal oversight.
This cynical trade of feel good sentiments for economic and religious interests made us start the Demons of Adoption Awards, seven years ago.
As a parody of the Angels of Adoption Awards it only highlights the worst. Just like no agency or attorney is as angelical as Members of Congress want us to believe, neither are the demons of adoption exceptionally evil. For every nominee there are several others equally guilty of unethical practices.
The Demons of Adoption Awards shine a light on the darkest corners of Adoptionland, but they don't tell us much about the overall darkness of the adoption industry.
Business methods, used by the worst agencies of our time, are the same as those used by "demons of adoption" a century ago. Coerced relinquishment, fraudulent paperwork, the use of jurisdictional mazes, illegal payments, all of that is not a recent invention; it has been part and parcel of the adoption business since its inception.
This year's recipient of the Demons of Adoption Award is a good example of being among the worst in an industry that thrives on bad practices.
Founded, in 1978 by attorney James S. Albers, Adoption by Gentle Care has been in the spotlight before. Already in 2011, the agency was nominated for a Demons of Adoption Award for their handling of the case of Benjamin Wyrembek.
In that case Adoption by Gentle Care placed a boy with an Indiana couple, in November 2007, knowing that the paternity of the child was not established. Benjamin Wyrembek, the father of the child contested the adoption and after a long court battle, the adoption was dismissed.
As a result, the child was officially in custody of Adoption by Gentle Care, which was ordered to show the child to his father on February 8, 2010. The agency failed to comply with the court order and through it's executive director John Cameron was held in contempt on July 2, 2010.
The Indiana couple appealed all the way up to the US Supreme Court, but eventually October 30, 2010, the boy was handed over to his father.
Adoption by Gentle Care quickly dismissed executive director John Cameron, who was replaced by Trina Saunders. This change of leadership however didn't change the way Adoption by Gentle Care operated.
In March 2014, Adoption by Gentle Care was involved in the placement of Camden, the son of Carri Stearns. Carri Stearns found herself in a crisis situation after getting pregnant as the result of a one-night-stand. Her partner wasn't exactly pleased and told her to choose between the baby and their life together.
Carri Stearns contacted Adoption by Gentle Care days before she was due, to discuss the placement of the child. Adoption by Gentle Care was very eager to assist in the placement and their counseling was geared to only one option, to make sure the child was being placed for adoption.
In the process Adoption by Gentle Care ignored all red flags. The mother was financially capable of raising the child, she herself wanted the child, and she had proven to be a good mother for her other children.
When the issue of paternity came up, the agency coached Carri Stearns to list the father as "unknown" on the birth certificate, even though the father was known.
The case worker, having learned her lesson from the case of Dusten Brown (baby Veronica) asked if Carri had any Native American blood. When she answered truthfully that she did, the case worker responds: "Carri, you can't say that. If we name Native American blood, then this adoption won't happen. He'll go to foster care."
Apparently the fear of the child going into foster care was enough for Carri Stearns to lie, something Adoption by Gentle Care apparently found entirely acceptable.
Three days after the initial intake and only counseling session, Carri gave birth to her son Camden by means of a c-section. Four days later, she signed off on the adoption.
During the relinquishment she had to testify that she was of "sound mind and body". In such testimony one must state that they are not under any mind altering substances and are making this decision of their own free will, independently of any coercion of duress. At the time Carri was still under doctor's prescription for Vicodin and Dilaudid, but was advised by Adoption by Gentle care worker to say "no" to the question whether she was using any medication.
Three days after the relinquishment, reality what has transpired set in and Carri came to the conclusion she had made a terrible mistake.
Adoption by Gentle Care refused to revoke the consent and pushed through with the placement of Camden. However, the family chosen to adopt the boy, returned him to the agency and he has been in foster care ever since.
Adoption by Gentle Care, with this case proved to be anything but gentle, and it seems all they cared about is the quick placement of children. They didn't seem to care about proper procedures, proper counseling and it wasn't even beyond them to instruct someone to lie.
We believe our readers made an excellent choice by declaring Adoption by Gentle Care this year's Demon of Adoption, and with sadness realize next year we will most likely have another recipient just as deserving.
Over the years, our readers have rightfully pointed out the wrongdoings and condemned the practices of such agencies like: Bethany Christian Services, LDS Family Services, adoption attorneys like Raymond W Godwin, such trade associations of adoption service providers like the National Council for Adoption and the Joint Council on International Children's Services, and even showed our utmost contempt for the United States Congress. All worthy recipients of the Demons of Adoption Awards.
With such an impressive line-up of villains, comes a daunting task to come up with an equally deserving candidate for 2014.
We invite our readers to nominate and decide who eventually has the dubious honor of actually receiving PPL's 2014 Demons of Adoption Award.
You, our reader, can make your voice heard. Who should receive the most critical recognition in Adoptionland? Until October 10 the nomination process will be open. After that date PPL will post a poll where readers may vote for the nominees.
The link for nominations may be found at: http://poundpuplegacy.org/eighth_demons_of_adoption_nominations. Please make your nomination by adding a comment.
Nepal Children's Organization (NCO/Bal Mandir)
Nepal's newspapers generally refrain from writing articles critical of NCO/Bal Mandir (an organization with powerful friends).
A recent article in the Nepali Times is a notable exception -- looking at alleged child trafficking, corruption and sexual abuse at Nepal Children's Organization:
Child predators: Even compared to recent scandals in children's homes, allegations of abuse at Bal Mandir are shocking
Nepali Times
4-10 July 2014
Sunir Pandey
When Sarah Robinson first came to Nepal with her son and niece in 2009, she took time out from sightseeing to visit Bal Mandir in Naxal.
At the squalid state-run orphanage, Sarah's niece happened to pick up a five-year-old blind girl. Sarah, a special-needs teacher back in the UK, decided to adopt the child.
Usually things get easier to write about over time. Not this time. It's getting harder.
My First Cousin (technically he's not, but he'll always be my Very First Cousin) was eager to help me. He's an elderly man in poor health, who needed the mental stimulation such a puzzle provided. He's been very encouraging, even as my moods have swung like a weather-vane in storm.
I'm one of the least emotional people you'll ever meet, although I'm self-aware enough to realize that for me this symptom is a sign of an underlying problem. But here I was obsessively combing through genealogies and bursting into tears at every photograph. I desperately wanted to know who these people were, what their stories told about them, and how their stories related to my stories. I craved the stories grownups swapped while visiting and told to the kids on the porch during long afternoons.
I cried the first time I spoke to First Cousin on the phone. It was the first time I'd heard the voice of a blood relation I hadn't given birth to.
Earlier this year, the US Department of State published its annual statistics on inter-country adoption. Again a significant decline in the number of children adopted from abroad could be noted. The year 2012 had already been a low-water mark with 8668 inter-country adoptions. In 2013, the number went down even further, to 7094.
The decline in inter-country adoption is not equally distributed, as can be seen in the following table. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ghana and Nigeria have seen sharp increases in the number of adoptions, while traditional adoption countries such as South Korea and The Russian Federation have seen adoption drop to unprecedented low levels. The number of adoptions from South Korea haven't been this low since 1955.
It has been less than three years ago that Pound Pup Legacy's Demons of Adoption Award was given to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for their dubious adoption practices.
Over the years the church and its daughter organization LDS Family Services had been involved in various dubious adoptions, showing a lack of respect for the rights or unmarried parents. On top of that, LDS Family Services has been the least transparent adoption agency in the world. Unlike other adoption agencies, it is registered as a church and therefore it is not required to submit any financial information to the Internal Revenue Service.
LDS Family Services resembled the type of hush-hush operation one would have expected during the 1950s and 1960s, an anachronistic organization out of touch with the societal make-up of the 21 century.
Nepali Times -- Child predators detained
Saturday, June 28th, 2014
Two men working in an orphanage in Kathmandu have been arrested and are facing trial next week accused of sexually abusing children in their charge.
Rabin Shrestha, former head of the adoptions at Bal Mandir, and Rabin Chalise, an ex-student who ran a Youth Club at the shelter, were arrested by the Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) last week after child rights activists presented evidence of repeated rape and abuse of girls and boys at the orphanage.
Shrestha had been arrested before in 2012 after a British woman lodged a complaint against him for allegedly raping a five-year-old blind girl that she was going to adopt.
"I tried to adopt her, but Shrestha told me I couldn't do that. He wanted me to sponsor her instead and told me I would get a decision after she turned 16," the mother told Nepali Times this week.
Nepal -- Rabin Shrestha (alleged child rapist) & Action for Child Rights International
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Rabin Shrestha, the former Head of Adoptions at Nepal's largest children's home, "Bal Mandir" (pictured), operated by the Nepal Children's Organisation (NCO), was arrested this past week by the Nepal police for alleged sexual assault on three minors.
Nepal adoptions chief raped and groomed orphans for prostitution, claims British teacher
The Daily Telegraph
A British woman who adopted a five year old blind girl from a Nepalese orphanage believes she uncovered an abuse and vice ring after her new daughter said she'd been raped every Saturday
By Dean Nelson, New Delhi and Anil Giri in Kathmandu
27 Jun 2014
The former head of international adoptions at Nepal's largest orphanage is in custody over allegations that he raped young girls and groomed them as prostitutes in Kathmandu dance bars.
One of the alleged victims was a five-year-old blind girl who who was later adopted by a British teacher. Three others suffer from autism and severe learning difficulties.
According to the girls, they and two young boys at the orphanage were sexually abused and raped every Saturday when the adoptions chief, Rabin Shrestha and his friend throw 'birthday' and 'wedding' parties at Kathmandu's Bal Mandir children's home.
Nepal Children's Organization -- former head of NCO/Bal Mandir adoptions arrested for child rape (reprinted from PEAR Nepal)
Kathmandu Post:
KATHMANDU: Two suspects have been arrested behind alleged rape of three young girls living in a public orphanage, Nepal Children's Organisation, popularly known as Balmandir. Police arrested Rabin Shrestha, a former employee of Balmandir, and Rabin Chalise, the current president of Balmandir Club, following the complaints of rape and sexual abuse at the orphanage lodged by Action for Child Rights International-Nepal. (PR)
Posted on: 2014-06-21 08:54
Action for Child Rights International Nepal
Police Investigate Rape at Orphanage
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PTSD blankets my emotions with numbness. It's hard to feel any emotion, I think them more than I sense them. Unexpected strong emotions tend to cause an automatic whole-body shutdown response. But this was so unexpected it blew through my automatic defenses like they weren't even there.
It had been a few weeks since I was told that my results would be ready in a month and a half. I checked the site everyday, but the expectation of seeing anything had long since slumbered. I almost forgot to check that Saturday when I remembered it before running off to do some outdoor work.
I logged on to Ancestry.com, expecting to see the now-familiar white page with a tiny "come back later" notice. Instead I saw colors. There were greens, beige, browns, oranges, blues, pinks, blacks, and even a few tiny full color photographs. Some of the colors formed words, but I couldn't read them, too shocked to see that there was something -- quite a lot of something -- there at all.
Been reading a bit more on your site and I thought I would share some more with you. Although I don't think I was necessarily abused by my Aparents it certainly never stopped me from realizing that the whole chosen/ grew in her heart not in her womb thing was bullshit created by a pro adoption agenda. Kinda like an engagement ring made out of a cubic zerconia. Beautiful and yet still fake. You may want and wish it was real but it's not.Also it is the pain of being separated from our mothers that is our true and ultimate abuse.
Adversely an abused adoptee at least is spared the lies and false hopes that a true family bond has formed when I find that to be a childish and wishful notion altogether. I found myself thinking of apes today and what happens when the babies are removed from their mothers. In watching such footage it nearly brought me to tears in empathy and yet it wasn't till today that I actually realized that we generally treat apes and kittens better than humans because that's just animal abuse to do such things lol.
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I took a DNA test to learn about my biological relatives and found out some things.
Let's start with the basics, shall we? I found out I was a human being, homo sapiens sapiens (at least mostly, I haven't compared it with the non-human samples yet.) This actually was a concern for my younger self. There were no people around who looked or acted like me in my adopted family or in the society around us, and everyone was quick to point out how weird and alien I was. So what's a kid supposed to think? Where was the evidence I hadn't fallen off a UFO? I became sensitive to attempts to "other" me or anyone else.


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We get to see, first hand, the immense benefits that a child can gain from a more personalised approach to education. For too long, 'tutoring' has been the unjust privilege of the few. Alongside our small group model, which allows us to drive down rates for classes, we have pro bono classes that offer free education to children from 'disadvantaged' backgrounds. We work closely with local schools, extending the opportunity to learn to Year 5 pupils who are entitled to Free School Meals (FSM).
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We have two different types of scholarship scheme. First, we offer Maths and English classes, at a substantially reduced rate (up to 50% off), to children from families that fall just outside the FSM bracket (between £16-20K annual household income). This is open to pupils in Years 4 and 5, and we offer three scholarships places per academic year. This scholarship scheme is not dependent upon academic ability; just a desire to learn.
Our second scholarship scheme has two available places each year and is for exceptionally gifted pupils as they enter Year 5. We aim to offer this RTC scholarship to a child from a low-income family (£16-20K annual household income), that is working towards Level 5 and interested in gaining a place at a grammar school. Children are assessed via our RTC Scholarship Assessment, which is held in the first week of September.
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We are delighted to be supporting AIM, a local 11+ charity. AIM is affiliated with Number One Community Trust and was set up by a group of three local mums to 'level the playing field' and offer 11+ preparation to bright children from low income families. Like AIM, The Right Tuition Company are passionate about making supplementary education available to all; thereby making Grammar School a realistic prospect for an ever-widening demographic.
We are pleased to be able to help AIM by providing the charity with RTC tutors, our exclusive learning materials and on-going education advice and guidance.
We are also very happy collaborate with Kallikids, which provide online information to parents about reputable children's activities and services. Over the past two years, we have worked with Kallikids to offer free education to children from less privileged socio-economic backgrounds.
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Portsmouth: Balram Chainrai pulls out of purchase
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Portsmouth are again facing the prospect of liquidation after potential owner Balram Chainrai announced he had withdrawn his offer to buy the club.
Administrator Trevor Birch had cleared the club's wage bill by 10 August, in accordance with Chainrai's stipulation.
But the club's former owner has pulled out of the purchase, leaving the Pompey Supporters' Trust as the only hope.
"We note Portpin's statement that it has withdrawn its bid for Portsmouth Football Club," said Birch.
Birch added in the statement: "In reviewing the options available to the club, we also note Portpin's offer to support any efforts to save Portsmouth in the forthcoming days.
"We are therefore urgently seeking a meeting with Portpin and the Pompey Supporters' Trust (PST) to determine if the Trust's bid can be brought to a successful conclusion.
"We are working behind the scenes with [manager] Michael Appleton to enable the club to field as strong a team as possible for its first League match on Saturday."
Pompey went into administration in February for the second time in three years after their parent company, Convers Sports Initiatives, had entered administration in November.
They were docked 10 points by the Football League at the time and were eventually relegated from the Championship. The club are said to be £58m in debt.
Chainrai's company Portpin and the PST have been vying for control of the club for several months.
On Monday manager Appleton called Chainrai "unprofessional" after being told his playing budget had been reduced from £4m to £1.5m as promised to him in May.
The Pompey Supporters' Trust have offered Chainrai £2.75m for the club, to include Fratton Park. The Hong Kong businessman has £12m secured credit against the club and owns the stadium.
He had offered creditors of the club two pence in the pound as part of a company voluntary arrangement, something the PST have matched.
Fans have already pledged almost £2m and a combination of associate directors and individual 'high net worth' investors another £1m.
Last Thursday Portsmouth City Council agreed a £1.45m bridging loan to the Trust, in the event of a 'commercial' solution not emerging.
"This is the moment we have been waiting for," said Trust spokesperson Colin Farmery.
"Fans need to be ready to come up with the money they have pledged. It is a pivotal moment in the club's history.
"We welcome the fact Portpin have stated they want to help save the club. It is in no-one's interests Pompey are liquidated.
"I am certain Pompey fans, the city of Portsmouth and the wider football family will be able to do what is needed to make Pompey the biggest community club of its type in the UK."
Pompey will start the new season on minus 10 points and on Tuesday fielded a team that included nine youth-team players in the League Cup.


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Is your bathroom a place where you can unwind after a long day at the office or on the slopes? A serene atmosphere and calming colors are key to changing a person's mood or setting the right one for the day ahead. Whatever the size of your home, your bathroom should be the center of relaxation and rejuvenation.
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Article by Derek Cosson, January 22, 2017
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A large explosion took place Sunday evening at the International Paper mill in Cantonment, Fla. near Pensacola, with residents reportedly hearing the explosion as far away as Pace and Warrington.
The plant experienced what International Paper spokesperson Thomas Ryan called a "manufacturing process failure," causing "significant structural damage to the largest pulp digester as well as the power house."
International Paper's Pensacola Mill was originally opened in 1941 by the Florida Pulp and Paper Company; it became part of International Paper in 2000. The mill currently has around 450 employees.
Officials don't yet know the exact cause of the explosion, the full extent of the damage to the mill, or the possible long-term impact on its operations. The mill is not operating as of Monday afternoon.
Here's what we do know so far:
All mill employees accounted for
All mill employees have been accounted for with no injuries or fatalities, according to International Paper officials.
Emergency crews, environmental authorities still on scene
Escambia County Emergency Communications began receiving calls about the incident at 7:38 p.m. As first responders arrived on scene, they reported a total loss of power at the mill but no active fire.
As of 9 a.m. Monday, personnel from the Escambia County Sherriff's Office, Florida Highway Patrol, Escambia County Fire Rescue, the State Fire Marshal, Florida Department of Transportation, and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection are on scene. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has also reportedly dispatched personnel to the site.
Escambia County Water Quality and Land Management Staff are testing local waterways for potential environmental impacts.
Roads remain closed
The Florida Highway Patrol said Monday morning that U.S. Highway 29 remains closed from Muskogee Road south to Tate Road. Muskogee Road remains closed between Jacks Branch Road and Highway 29, and County Road 95A is closed between Woodbury Place and Muskogee Road.
Crews are still working to clear the roads and openings will be announced as they occur, officials said. Motorists are asked to avoid the area if possible.
"The process of roadway cleanup includes placing sand on the roadway and collecting the mixture of sand, pulp and paste, containerizing the material and transporting it to a staging area at International Paper," said Escambia County spokesperson Joy Tsubooka in a statement. "pH testing is being conducted to ensure cleanup was effective and to ensure that the roadway is safe for drivers."
"US 29 will remain closed until work crews can wash the roadway," Florida Highway Patrol officials said in a statement. "The chemical is of a soap type base chemical, and it is unknown what type of reaction the chemical will have when moisture is introduced. The roadway could become slippery, and cause a hazard to the roadway and motorists."
The Florida Highway Patrol reported two vehicle crashes on Sunday night in the vicinity of the explosion.
FHP is recommending those headed southbound on U.S. 29 detour via County Road 196 (Barrineau Park Road), County Road 97 (Jacks Branch Road/Muskogee Road/Highway 97), and West Kingsfield Road. Northbound traffic is recommended to detour via the reverse.
Officials issue statements regarding ash, chemicals
"The incident released a mixture of wood fiber, water and pulping liquor into the surrounding community," International Paper said in a statement released Monday afternoon. "We have engaged contractors to develop and implement plans to clean up and dispose of the discharged material as quickly as possible. We are providing all necessary support and resources to our local community and residents as we work through the clean-up."
"Our primary focus is on ensuring the health and safety of our employees, contractors and neighbors and on the clean-up of the affected areas and property," the statement added.
A statement issued Monday by the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed the substance on area roadways contains "black liquor," an industrial byproduct, noting that it is "a skin, eye and respiratory irritant."
"If you come in contact with the pulp material (which is a sticky substance), it is advised that you immediately wash your hands with warm or cold water and vinegar," International Paper said in an earlier statement. "Avoid contact with your eyes and mouth. If your vehicle comes in contact with the pulp material or ash, you are encouraged to wash your vehicle."
No residential areas have been evacuated as a result of the explosion.
Medical line set up for residents
International Paper has set up a special medical line for residents concerned about the potential health effects of the materials discharged from the plant during Sunday's incident.
The line, staffed by Dr. Fred Kohanna, MD, a specialist in the field of occupational and environmental medicine, is accessible by dialing (855) 859-2056 or (404) 537-3406 and entering the conference ID 59722336.
Schools open Monday
Escambia County Superintendent of Schools Malcolm Thomas announced last night that all Escambia County schools will be open today.
"We are working with the Escambia County Administrator as they manage the situation following the explosion at International Paper's mill," said Thomas. "Our employees who need to travel through the affected area along Highway 29 need to be alert to possible detours or heavy traffic."
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- Includes ThermoTread GT Treadmill Base and Cascade Standing Desk
- SteadyType® Keyboard Tray
- American-made desk, import price
- World's first treadmill designed for the office
- Revolutionary Freedom Base
- Most configurable standing desk line in the world
- Exclusive ergo-contoured 3D laminated tabletop
- Neat™-certified
SteadyType® adjustable keyboard trays offer unmatched ergonomics and stability for standing and treadmill desk users. You can set your keyboard to any angle up to 85 degrees, which allows for a truly neutral arm / wrist position while standing. The benefits are even more pronounced while treadmill desking. Additionally, SteadyType trays are far more stable than traditional trays, leading to significantly less monitor shaking. And they match the finish of your desk to boot. To learn more about SteadyType, click here.
American-made Quality, Import Price
Key to the Cascade's cost competitiveness, state-of-the-art quality, and high performance is our exclusive advanced manufacturing technology. Our precision robotic base production combined with our unique tabletop construction deliver peerless durability and performance for a desk in this category. Above-average height range, lift capacity, and transit speed—all backed by an industry-leading warranty that testifies to the Cascade's superior American-made quality.
Note: The Energize is identical to the Cascade, without the SteadyType™ keyboard tray.
ThermoTread GT—Designed for the Office
Silence is golden. That's why our Cascade Treadmill Desk operates at just 46 dB when rising and 42 dB when lowering. The ThermoTread GT is the quietest treadmill on the market, running at a faint 43 dB and beating its closest competition by a whole 5 decibels. These ratings are lower than the ambient noise levels of most offices, so you don't need to worry about disturbing your coworkers.
This treadmill desk bundle is well-suited for shared, departmental use as well. The Cascade features two different height presets, and the ThermoTread GT also supports multiple user profiles to remember your individual usage stats and preferences. And just in case your legal department has any concerns about company liability, show them this: Before activating the treadmill, our console requires the user to click off on a liability waiver "click wrap," just like they do when using the GPS navigation system in their car. This exclusive feature of iMovR treadmill desks protects your organization from unsafe operation and potential liability, while creating a contemporaneous record of all equipment usage.
Made with Modern Technology to Work Better
The ThermoTread GT is the only office treadmill on the market to feature a desktop console with a full-color, touch screen display; not unlike the smartphone in your pocket. This display, coupled with the console's powerful microprocessor, makes it faster and easier to operate the treadmill than the antiquated membrane keys every other walking treadmill base uses. All the basic functionality to display walking speed, distance, time, calorie burn and other performance statistics are there, but the ThermoTread GT is the only office treadmill that allows you set up your own user profile (up to 5 profiles can be created) and track these stats across all three work modalities - walking, standing, and sitting - for a complete picture of your total office fitness.
Built to Last
The ThermoTread GT is built to our exacting standards for reliability and performance. Where other treadmills use lower-cost melamine or phenolic walking decks, the ThermoTread GT uses a premium 1"-thick Bakelite deck, providing unmatched durability. The entire motor and drivetrain are optimized to give you the most torque at low walking speeds for long periods of time, so you needn't worry about motor failure – a common problem when people try walking on what is really a running treadmill under the hood (designed for high torque at high speeds, but underpowered at low speeds). The ThermoTread GT's impressive 400 lb. weight rating was engineered using finite element analysis, and verified with machine-simulated, real-world stress testing.
The desktop console includes a USB port for you to easily update the office treadmill's software with regular software improvements. Soon, the ThermoTread GT will become an appliance on the "Internet of Things" through the addition of the optional iMovR CloudStation, available next year. Your treadmill, computer, and stand up desk can all plug into the CloudStation. The ThermoTread GT's patent-pending circuitry interprets electrical current fluctuations caused by you stepping on the belt, precisely measuring your walking speed, the distance you walked, and your step count as well as the health of the treadmill. This data is then sent to the CloudStation, uploaded to the iMovR Cloud, and attached to your user profile. Your user profile can also include your preferred treadmill speeds, desk height, and monitor height, allowing you to log into any iMovR treadmill desk and immediately get to work at your ideal ergonomic setting. The CloudStation is expected to be available in 2018.
Revolutionary Freedom Base
The Cascade desk is built on iMovR's revolutionary Freedom™ Base. We've used pioneering robotic automation techniques to manufacture the Freedom to the highest precision tolerances. The result is seamless performance and impressive stability. With this much built-in quality, we're able to provide a 10-year warranty on all base components.
PerfectPaint™ Glide System
The Freedom Base is rated to 265 lbs. yet easily outperforms imported bases with higher weight ratings. This is because linear actuators (the legs of the desk) made to sloppy manufacturing tolerances have to overcome far greater side load stresses and friction compared to actuators on the Freedom Base. The Freedom Base's PerfectPaint™ glide system ensures smooth operation and scratch-free legs. Conventional standing desk legs use plastic end caps which wear down with daily use. The distinctive crimped tube ends of the Freedom base not only reduce parts cost, but are designed to last many years longer.
With a transit speed of 1.5 inches-per-second and whisper-quiet motors, the Freedom outperforms most imported bases. It even includes electronic anti-collision detection as a standard feature. The digital LCD controller displays the desk height in either inches or centimeters, and the UP and DOWN buttons cleverly double as your sitting and standing height memory preset buttons.
Freedom and Freedom XT
The Freedom base comes in two versions. The standard base has two-segment legs and a height range of 24.7" to 42.8" (not including top, extended leveling feet or casters). The Freedom XT has three-segment legs and a height range of 20.3" to 46.4", and is ANSI/BIFMA certified (5.5 and 7.1). We recommend the XT base for users over 5'11". For extra tall users (over 6'2"), you can add 6" height extenders to the XT base, expanding its range to nearly 54". Both bases are UL 962/ CSA 68 Certified. Color options include black, silver, or white.
Note: Initially some of the components of the Freedom base are robotically manufactured in Europe (GSA compliant). We expect to be manufacturing all components, other than the German Bosch motors, in the USA soon.
iMovR's Exclusive 3D Lamination Technology
Defining the state-of-the-art in adjustable-height furniture, all iMovR tabletops are ergo-contoured on precision CNC (Computer Numerical Control) equipment and then hermetically sealed with Surf(x) 3D lamination, providing superior performance to conventional high-pressure laminated, powder coated, and even hardwood tops you'll find on other desks.
Every desk manufacturer claims their table tops are "unique," but in fact, most all of them use the same "high-pressure lamination" (HPL) process that's been around for decades. Sounds fancy, but all it really means is that a 3mm thick laminate is pressed onto a particle board or MDF (Medium density fiberboard) core, usually 3/4" or 1" thick. If you've ever removed the grommet cover and looked at the cross section of the unfinished inside of one of these typical table tops you've surely noticed the raw wood showing through. All iMovR table tops are manufactured with much more advanced technology than standard HPL. They outperform all HPL and powder-coated table tops, and even most hardwood tops, in resistance to dings, scratches, discoloration and damage from cleaning chemicals – and they look oh, so much nicer. People often mistake our 3D-laminated tabletops for expensive solid hardwood tops, even though they cost less than what competitors charge for the old stuff.
All the edges and corners of our tabletops are precision-contoured to create an elegant, yet ergonomic "comfort edge," while also rounding off those sharp corners that are unavoidable with standard "PVC edge-banded" rectangular table tops. The chosen color or woodgrain image is then thermofused to the core using an advanced 3D lamination process that covers every exposed surface of the wood - even down through the insides of the fully-laminated grommet holes. This 3D lamination method is not only more elegant in appearance compared to standard lamination, it better protects the table top from moisture damage and warping, and guarantees a higher level of durability. So durable, in fact, that even strong disinfectants used in hospitals will not tarnish your table top's finish. Learn more about the advantages of 3D lamination, and about iMovR's commitment to environmental sustainability.
The Cascade is a NEAT™ (Non Exercise Activity Thermogenesis) certified product; its usage will help combat the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Standing while working is the first line of defense against sitting disease, as the small movements you make throughout the day while standing increase your body's energy expenditure and heart rate.
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Customize your Cascade Treadmill Desk
Choose from hundreds of color and size options, and a plethora of matching accessories to customize your desk to ergonomic perfection.
Choose your tabletop color:
iMovR offers 22 standard colors plus hundreds of custom color choices - more than any other manufacturer of height-adjustable desks. See below for full-screen, hi-res color samples.
For 4″ × 6″ handheld samples, see our iMovR 3D Laminate Color Sample Kit to find a match for your workspace.
Solid Colors
Wood Grains
Because of the way these woodgrain images wrap perfectly around the ergo-contoured edges of a desktop, visitors to our showroom often have a hard time distinguishing the hand-carved look of these 3D woodgrain laminates from real, solid-wood desks sitting right next to them. These woodgrain colors also hide fingerprints, water rings and dust very well.
Textured Wood Grains
Through advanced, state-of-the-art 3D-lamination technology these reclaimed wood simulations actually have the ridged tactile feel of real wood planks. This technology was developed for customers who love the romantic, weathered look of reclaimed wood but don't want to deal with its high propensity for cracking, warping and decomposition.
Soft-Touch Matte Luxe
These newly invented, state-of-the-art "soft-touch" laminates have an amazing tactile feel. Both to the hand and to the eye they exude a sense of luxury, beauty and style like no other desktop surface. These warm, neutral tones are as calming as they are elegant, and the matte finish makes fingerprints, water rings and dust disappear from view. The Matte Luxe finishes are just as easy to clean--even with the harshest hospital disinfectants--as all of iMovR's healthcare-grade Surf(x) 3D laminated surfaces.
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Choose your base color:
Choose from black, silver, or white PerfectPaint™ finish today.
Choose your Power Management Options:
Bring power to the top of the table. iMovR offers a variety of power management devices that will meet your needs, with different modules mounting at various positions on or under your desk, and providing a selection of Qi wireless charging pads, AC outlets, USB outlets in both Type-A and Type-C, and even two-way Bluetooth speakers for conference calling. This is ideal for shared workstations where users may want to power their laptops or charge their mobile devices, without having to bend down and search for a free outlet along the floor.
iMovR's entire line of power management products are proudly made in Michigan using superior quality components and have been designed to be compliant with all electrical codes across the United States.
Choose your Monitor Arm:
For the best ergonomics, you'll always want to keep your monitor(s) at the proper height, distance, and angles. Monitor arms make moving your monitors easy, so you can find the right monitor position whether you're sitting, standing, or 'perching' at your desk. They help keep neck and eye strain at bay, and ensure you work in optimal comfort at all times.
Curious which iMovR monitor arm is right for you? Visit our guide Selecting the Right Monitor Arm.
Choose your Keyboard Tray:
Our "Stowaway" Retractable Keyboard Tray offers every conceivable keyboard and mouse adjustment and accommodates 98% of all keyboard models nicely, while priced well below other trays of similar capability. With the pre-drilled holes in our table tops, installation is much easier, too. On the 71" table tops the rail mounts are pre-drilled in the left and right as well as center positions, directly opposite the grommet holes, for perfect keyboard/monitor alignment. On the 48" and 60" tops the tray mounting is aligned to the center of the table.
Choose your Standing Mat: Sit Less, Stand More, in Comfort
Take care of your feet and get the most out of your new standing desk converter! A good anti-fatigue mat means more hours standing in full comfort, by reducing strain on your back, legs, and feet. iMovR EcoLast Anti-Fatigue Mats are made from 100% polyurethane material and won't lose their bounce or curl up at the edges like cheaper mats. Designed to last a lifetime, they help you save time, money, (and the environment!) by eliminating the need to replace your mat every year. 100% made-in-America, these mats come with a five-year full-performance warranty, and are completely recyclable. Select an iMovR Standing Mat for your sit-stand workstation.
Manage Your Cables
Keep your cables safe and organized and your new desk tidy with iMovR's Cable Management Kit. These kits are easy to install, and include a variety of versatile and reusable components to allow you to easily reconfigure your cable bundles time and time again. For minimal cable needs, choose the Basic Kit, reusable cable ties, adhesive mounting brackets, and magnetic cable guides. Most users will want to opt for the Advanced Kit, which includes a 7-outlet surge protector with a 12'-long cord and a 24" cable trough to hold it and any excess cable bundles. The surge protector and trough together make it so that you only need to make sure the surge protector's cord has enough slack for your desk to reach its top height. With twelve feet to work with you'll have plenty of flexibility to place your new desk as far or close to the wall outlet as possible.
Make It Mobile
Need more mobility in your desk? The 8mm caster wheel set replaces your new Cascade desk's leveling feet with four locking casters to help you shift your desk where you need it easily and safely. These casters are designed to screw into provided recessed threading on the feet of your Cascade desk, and installation is very simple. Just remove the desk's leveling pads, use the included wrench to screw in the casters, flip it back on its wheels with a helper and you're good to go! Lock the casters when you find a good spot, unlock them to glide to a different one.
Bulk Orders
Please contact our Corporate Solutions Department to discuss custom color and logo engraving options, as well as installation details and large quantity discounts at (888) 208-6770 ext. 3 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com
$150 Conquest Rebate—Exclusive Offer!
Do you have a competing treadmill desk like a Lifespan and want a better product? Send us a photo of your old model, and we'll send you a Cascade Treadmill Desk or any other iMovR treadmill desk for $150 off! For more details, see our Conquest Rebate page.
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France's 'anti-jihad' hotline gets results
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A hotline launched by France in an effort to stop its citizens travelling to Syria to join Islamist groups engaged in the country's civil war has already received numerous calls, ten days after going live, France's Interior Ministry said Wednesday.
A total of 24 "relevant" reports have been made to the hotline by members of the public since it launched on April 29, the ministry told the AFP news agency. In five of these cases, a person has left France to fight in Syria, it said.
The hotline and an accompanying Internet site were part of a number of "anti-jihad" plans launched by the French government last month after figures revealed that hundreds of the country's citizens and residents have travelled to Syria to take up arms against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
People are encouraged to call the number if they suspect a friend or family member is considering travelling to the country or is in danger of becoming radicalised.
Those reported to the hotline comprised eight women and 16 men, aged between 14 and 34, said the ministry, and came from 16 different departments around France.
"For each relevant case, we immediately initiate a monitoring process by state services in the region," it added.
An estimated 285 French citizens fighting in Syria
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve unveiled some 20 measures in April designed to stem the flow of French citizens to Syria, ranging from the increased monitoring of Islamist websites to the threat of revoking French nationality.
France already has among the most comprehensive surveillance programmes and anti-terror laws in Western Europe.
But the high number of French youths travelling to Syria, potentially to fight alongside hard-line Islamist groups, has led to fears that they could return radicalised and ready to carry out attacks on French soil.
Cazeneuve said in April that an estimated 285 French citizens were currently fighting in the Syrian civil war, another 120 were "in transit" to Syria while 100 had already returned to France after fighting.
The hotline is now set to be reinforced with extra staff members, the Interior Ministry told AFP.
"The service is designed to be ramped up as needed," it said. "It is useful in terms of security and in terms of supporting the people involved."
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Atlanta Braves star Ronald Acuña Jr. had the chance to make one of his best plays of the season on Tuesday. It turned into an embarrassing lowlight instead.
The play started when Philadelphia Phillies utility man Scott Kingery hit a long fly ball to center field, which Acuña tracked to the wall and made a leaping catch. Acuña appeared to have hauled it in, but didn't complete the process of the catch and saw the ball leak out of his glove as he hauled it down.
Rather than immediately pick up the ball and throw it into the infield, Acuña spent precious seconds waving his arms to appeal to the umpires that he had still made the catch.
By the time Acuña got the ball in, Kingery was rounding third and scored the inside-the-park home run on a close play at home.
It's safe to say that is a brutal sequence for the 21-year-old Acuña. The Braves felt the effects of that inside-the-park homer, as they ended up losing 6-5. Acuña at least made up for it with his bat by going 3-for-5 with a run.
This is the second questionable-effort play Acuña has made in as many months, as he received a benching from manager Brian Snitker in August for spending time admiring a home run that wasn't. This time, Acuña could catch flak for a home run that was.
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Reduce heat, add Five Tastes Curry Paste Shot and cook for 1 minute until fragrant.
Stir in coconut milk, water, vegetables and fish sauce, simmer covered for 10 minutes.
Serve garnished with Thai basil and accompany with steamed rice or roti bread, if desired.
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Union Reducers are a quick and convenient method of connecting components in a pneumatic system. Designed for use with 95A durometer polyurethane tubing, these fittings accommodate tube combinations ranging from 1/4 OD to ½ OD. The oval design of the release button provides a larger surface area making tubing disconnection easier than standard round style collets.
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- Can accommodate vacuum applications to 29.5" Hg
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Operating Pressure Rating: 29.5" Hg to 150 psi
Max Pressure: 250 psi
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AUSTIN (AP) — Every odd-numbered year, the Texas health and human services commissioner appears before state lawmakers hungry to cut spending on Medicaid.
And at every meeting he or she shows them a chart of whose health services would suffer: impoverished children, senior citizens and the disabled.
That's the moment when even the most hard-hearted lawmaker realizes that cutting the program, which accounts for a quarter of state spending, will be tougher than they thought.
But the number of poor children and impoverished elderly continues to grow, and federal law requires the state to provide a basic level of services.
Texas lawmakers have promised to maintain support for the poor, but Medicaid has reached a quarter of state spending.
Republicans are looking for ways to reduce those costs without cutting services.
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Sam Connor carded a final-round 68 to win the Matchroom Sport Championship by seven shots on 20 under par on a dry and windy day at Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa in Bedfordshire.
Connor (Alsager Golf & Country Club) made this his third EuroPro title, after two wins in 2015, and lead from start to finish on the final day.
Jonathan Thomson (Rotherham) and James Simpson (Close House Golf Club) came closest to challenging Connor, carding fantastic -7 and -6 final rounds respectively, both ending the tournament on -13. It wasn't enough to stop Connor though who responded to a putting foul challenge on the 5th, which wasn't upheld, with three consecutive birdies.
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text: The course created to save many mothers and their babies in Haiti organized by ISUOG and Fondazione Francesca Rava has been inaugurated at the N.P.H. Saint Damien Hospital in the presence of authorities and numerous media. The prestigious ISUOG (International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) course was inaugurated yesterday at the N.P.H. Saint Damien Hospital in Tabarre, in the presence of many authorities amongst which the Director of the Haitian Health Ministry, Mr. Gabriel Timothée, Mr. Jorge Velazquz Pardo responsible for the office of Health and Education at the U.S. Embassy, many representatives of MINUSTAH (the permanent UN mission in Haiti) and U.S. Aid, Dr. Jean Hugues Henrys Dean of Notre Dame University in Haiti, Mr. Johnny De Matteis the Italian Consul in Port-au-Prince. Many of the journalists present, print, TV and radio flocked to witness the start of this important scientific event. The course is organized by the prestigious ISUOG and by Fondazione Francesca Rava N.P.H. Italia, and will train doctors and midwives in the maternity ward of the Hospital Saint Damien and other Haitian maternal clinics, introducing the modern echography technique that will allow to diagnose diseases of the mother and fetus in advance and to assist deliveries with complications, saving many women and their children. A special thanks to Dr. Enrico Ferrazzi, chief of the pathology of pregnancy at Buzzi Hospital in Milan, Fondazione Francesca Rava volunteer, coordinator of the maternity ward since its opening in the emergency earthquake emergency. Today in the maternity ward at Saint Damien Hospital, fully set up by Italy with 42 beds and 5 labor stations, equipped with ultrasound and intensive care, every month, more than 400 children are born and the staff runs more than 600 visits; together with the Department of Neonatology with 20 cots, has become a reference center for the pathology of pregnancy throughout the country and it is taking a leading role for knowledge and training. The event opened with a screening of the video showing all the work done by N.P.H. with the support of Fondazione Francesca Rava in the 12 months after the earthquake, which was followed by a speech by Father Rick, director of N.P.H. Haiti, Dr. Genevieve Arty director of the Hospital, dr. Jean Edgar Aupont responsible for the maternity ward at Saint Damien, Alfred Adulhamal the outreach programs manager and Dr. Lisbeth Hanson of ISUOG, and Dr. Ferrazzi.


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This week, an amber alert was issued for a missing girl who was seen being forced into a van by two men. Every parent across the country had the same thought, "What if that was my kid?"
Thankfully the child was found safe, but now that we have all had a moment of panic, it's time we take actionable steps to make sure our children are safe from possible abduction.
Please know that I am not here to be a fear monger. In fact, let me calm your anxiety by saying that statistically speaking, abductions by strangers are extremely rare. Most abductions are by non-custodial parents. However, when a child is abducted by a stranger, the outcomes of that event are so horrid that if we can do anything to prevent it, then of course we should.
To do so we have to start by understanding a basic premise: abductors try to trick and fool children, and children are gullible. As a result, parents need to approach safety from a "follow the rules" angle, rather than with an "assess the situation" attitude. We do NOT want kids using their poor logic and reasoning to assess what course of action to take. Instead, we want them to memorize and apply six rules that will keep them alive.
Teach your kids these six rules they should never ever break and explain their rationale as follows:
1. I won't go with someone I don't know.
One way adults fool children is by offering them rides. Abductors come up with convincing reasons why kids should get in their car: it's rainy, I am going your way, your mom is in the hospital and asked me to bring you to her, and so on. The list is so long, you can't teach your child every possible way they might get duped. Help them understand it's just easier and best to memorize and apply the rule, "I don't go with someone I don't know." Explain to your kids that it's okay to offend someone or feel confused by the choices, but as long as they pick "I don't go with someone I don't know," they are doing the right thing. Tell them not to think; just apply the rule.
2. Take two steps back.
If a car or person approaches, take two steps backwards and stay on the sidewalk. If someone is approaching you on foot, move away so the distance between you is always two steps apart. It's important to not be within arms reach of strangers.
3. Adults seek help from other adults, not from children.
Adults behaving normally ask for help from other adults, not children. So, if an adult has lost their cat and needs help looking and asks a child for help, that is wrong. Take two steps back and offer to get another adult to help them. Go look for another adult immediately.
4. Never display your name or GPS location.
Children are easily duped if someone knows details like their name and address. Sadly, adults can get this information off a child's backpack or from a GPS locator that was not turned off in an app setting. It's so convincing when someone says, "Hey, Oscar. It's me, Bob, your old neighbour from Elm Street. Don't you remember me?" Just because someone knows your name and where you live, doesn't mean you shouldn't apply rule number one: "I won't go with someone I don't know."
Parents, please turn off GPS locating on your children's devices.
5. Create a family code word.
It's 4:00 p.m. pickup time in the school yard and someone approaches and says, "Hey, your mom's car broke down and she wanted me to pick you up. You don't know me, but I work with your mom and she asked me to do this favour for her." Since you should not go with someone you don't know, you can ask them what the family code word is. If mom really sent a coworker to pick you up, she would have given the secret code to that person. No code, no go. Be sure to change your code word regularly, too.
6. A weapon means you must scream, kick and shout.
Abductors don't want to raise a firearm because they don't want to draw attention to themselves and get caught. The likelihood of being harmed is far less if you flee than if you get in the car with an abductor, so teach your child to make a hell of a scene! The louder, more aggressive and obnoxious they are, the better. They must draw attention from bystanders and passersby. Scream, shout and kick! And because so many kids act badly in public, it's important they say, "This is not my parent. Help!"
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