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this week was good because of...
...how comfortable Gru-kitty is on our new couch. (We're fans of it, too.)
...our nephew's second birthday.
...this fantastic reminder that a blogger friend shared about the importance of taking advantage of every moment - most importantly, this one right. now.
...the winter boots that keep my feet warm while I commute.
...a fun evening of food and games with a new circle of friends.
...the relief that, when traffic jams happen, I can find an alternate route.
...getting all my necklaces and bracelets unpacked and hung up.
...all of our belongings (finally) being either in our apartment or in our storage unit.
...the amusement of reading an email in which someone wrote "glutton-free" instead of "gluten-free."
What made your week good?

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Note: The Native Access repair function is available on Mac OS X 10.10 (and higher) and Windows 7 (and higher).
When starting Native Access, it automatically scans all activated products and detects missing software items, like applications, plug-ins or libraries. Possible reasons for missing items include:
- The software has been moved to a different location on your computer.
- The hard drive containing the software has been renamed.
- The files have been deleted.
In case Native Access finds missing software, the corresponding product entry in the Installed products tab shows a REPAIR button:
When you click the REPAIR button, Native Access shows an info box containing more information about the missing items. In our example on Windows, Native Access cannot find the FM8 application, nor the FM8 64-bit VST plug-in:
There are two options:
1. If you know where the missing items are located now, you can relocate them:
- Click RELOCATE in the REPAIR info box:
- In the list of missing items, click an entry's BROWSE button:
- Navigate to the new location of the missing item's folder and confirm your selection.
- After you relocated all missing items, click the RELOCATE button to finish the procedure.
2. If you do not know where the missing items are located or the files have been deleted, you can reinstall the whole product:
- Click the user icon in the upper right of Native Access to open the Preferences and make sure that the File locations are set correctly. You can find more information about how to change install locations in this article.
- Click the REPAIR button again and choose REINSTALL in the REPAIR info box:


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Life is fundamentally imprecise. The Big Ten has 11 teams. L.A. has no lakes, and Utah has no jazz. Madison Square Garden is nowhere near Madison and is neither a square nor a garden. And now, LOD has a j-o-b.
Today I'm nursing a cocktail of equal parts excitement and unease, because as much as I look forward to the new gig, I've grown very attached to the simplicity of this carefree, hand-to-mouth lifestyle. I like that I can't remember how my alarm clock works. I like shaving once a week. I don't even mind having no disposable income, because I don't have to think about where to dispose of it. Most importantly, I like our current family dynamic, which is tightly knit and mutually respectful. Basically, I'm happy. And now that I have to shake things up, I'm feeling a little like a Dead Man Walking along the Green Mile.
I knew this couldn't last forever, and I've at least found a way to get paid pretty well for something I love doing. So I probably won't mind rising at that ungodly hour as much as I did at my old job, which was cubicular and stifling and utterly pointless. There's also the steady hours and ample vacation, which will let me pal around with the kid while he's still young enough to want me around.
So there it is. The air's much better out of the closet. After the elephant shit hits the fan, it's back to commutation and dry cleaning—which isn't really dry.


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If you thought the dream of life on Golden Pond died in the '80s, think again. Boomers are making retirement plans and, based the results of a Gallup poll of the over-50 set, a majority of them would like to settle down in a small town or rural area.
By 2005, Americans aged 50 to 59 will number 35 million - an increase of 140 percent in just ten years. No one can say for certain what the percentage of moving boomers will be; conservative estimates put the number at 4.5 percent, consistent with mobility rates of previously retired generations. But some researchers suggest the number may be as high as 38 percent. Richard Reeder, an economist with the Economic Research Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), says such predictions aren't outlandish, considering the fact that today's retirees have more income, independence, and motivation for migrating than those of the past.
But even if 77 million boomers don't pick up and go at unprecedented rates, the total retirement pie is still so large that even a small slice of movers could be quite filling.
And hundreds of rural counties out there stand a good chance of getting a seat at the table.Increasingly, retirees moving out of state are going from large metro areas to smaller-size communities or rural regions, a trend that is expected to continue. Retirees most likely to move tend to be younger, since mobility is highest in the early years of retirement. Most interstate migrants today are in their mid-60s, but with more and more workers choosing early retirement, the median age could drop slightly in coming years. The rural-bound are also likely to be highly educated, experts say. At least 30.2 percent of Americans aged 60 to 64 in 2010 will have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 19.7 percent of those 60 to 64 today, according to the Census Bureau. Movers are also likely to be married and white.
But above all, the boomer movers will be wealthy. The first wave to retire will show an increase in the number of dual-career couples. As a result, their retirement income will come from a multitude of sources. They'll also have benefited from the real estate boom of the '70s and '80s and a surging '90s economy. Boomers with money to spend today are already having an impact on rural communities by purchasing vacation homes that can be converted into retirement homes 10 to 15 years down the road.
Back to the land
So just where in the boonies can we expect to see a growing population of wealthy, married, educated, young-ish retirees? William Frey, demographer for the Milken Institute in Santa Monica, California, says that states in the "new" West will lead the nation in elderly migrants to rural areas, beginning en masse around 2010. Topping Frey's list of states with the highest percentage growth of people 65 and older from 2000 to 2025 are Utah, Alaska, Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado - states with relatively small populations, lots of rural space, mild climates, and natural beauty. Southern states are predicted to grow as well, but slower than in the West: Georgia, the highest-ranking Southern state, is trailed by Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.
Boomers won't mind leaving Metropolis for Main Street, Reeder says, because they've identified with rural areas ever since their hippie days, when many grew fond of hiking, mountain biking, skiing, and camping - activities they still participate in in large numbers. In addition, this generation has traveled more for work and education in their lifetime than previous generations, which means they've been exposed to more places. Rarely do people move to a place that was previously unknown to them.
While states like Florida and Arizona will continue to draw hordes of seniors in the coming years, many movers will be looking off the beaten path for that undiscovered oasis, and counties like Skagit, Washington, are counting on it. Skagit is one of 190 rural counties labeled a Retirement Destination County by the USDA. These counties, located mainly in the South and West, experienced a 15 percent or more in-migration rate of persons 60 and older from 1980 to 1990. Total population in those counties also grew more than 16 percent, outpacing both the metro and non-metro averages, according to Reeder. Of course, seniors did not account for all of the increase. But the oldest cohort, those 65 and older, did experience the highest percentage of growth - 31.5 percent. The younger population grew as well: The cohort of 18-to-34-year-olds grew by 7 percent; 35-to-64-year-olds by 27.8 percent.
The young and the old rely heavily upon one another in such communities. The elderly residents are consumers of goods and services, including housing, food, entertainment, and health services, and the young are the workers servicing those needs. An influx of retirees to an area creates a mix of jobs, from a few highly skilled medical jobs to the more abundant, unskilled retail jobs.
Still, those unskilled jobs can help to increase the income of the unemployed or underemployed. Skagit County outpaced both the nation and Washington state in percent increase of new jobs in the service sector from 1993 to 1996 (up 116 percent). It also added a greater percentage of retail establishments (nearly 106 percent growth) than either the state or the nation during the same time. In addition to bringing new jobs and businesses to town, retirement counties are also able to keep existing businesses open. This is due in part to retirees' declining mobility, which increases the likelihood of spending locally.
Most boomers will have to settle for dreams of quiet nights with fireflies and cicadas for at least another ten years. But rural counties should plan to be ready when the retirees come knocking.


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Watch ASAP Rocky "Scuffles With Security At VMAs" Video - it's the latest video from ASAP Rocky, having dropped on Thursday, August 29th, 2013. ASAP Rocky's musical situation is improving with every new release, and ASAP Rocky "Scuffles With Security At VMAs" Video will most definitely help the cause. It's a fine addition to the growing body of work ASAP Rocky has been developing since stepping foot in the game. We're looking forward to what ASAP Rocky has in store.ASAP gets up in the grill of a security guard in some footage from the red carpet of the MTV VMAs.
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Five-Year Plan for the Wayne National Forest to respond to the USDA Forest Service Climate Change Scorecard
The Wayne National Forest has developed a proposed strategy for implementing the Forest Service's National Climate Change Scorecard. Our strategy uses the scorecard as a framework to organize relevant parts of our program of work and to link our Forest Management Plan to appropriate national frameworks. For example, this approach would allow us to be especially responsive in the area of broad scale assessments, which are an expected part of our forest monitoring program under the pending national planning rule, and to do so in an especially efficient way. The 5-Year Plan was adopted in 2011, and this update reflects our progress to date (July 2014). Contact Jarel Bartig for more information.


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As an American, I am endlessly tired of the asylum in the Washington DC Beltway screwing up our country. Whether Democrat or Republican, Conservative or Liberal, our elected officials are so drunk with power, so void of consciousness and so devout in their narcissism, that it is clear to everyone but themselves that they have brought us to the edge of implosion on the scale of the Roman, Greek, Egyptian and British Empires.
Our Government was built on the fact that if it no longer worked, if it got too big, or unjust, or just plain too silly, we should rise up take back control and overthrow the government. I fear we are reaching this stage much too fast.
But, I have not given up hope. I have but one life to give to my country, so I thought I might as well ask what I can do for my country. For this reason I am forming an exploratory committee to explore my options of running for President of the United States.
So here is my foreign/ domestic policy platform:
1) "The US will apologize to the world for our "interference" in their affairs, past & present. You know, Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Tojo, Noriega, Milosevic, Hussein, and the rest of those "good 'ole' boys", we will never "interfere" again.
2) We will withdraw our troops from all over the world, starting with Germany , South Korea , the Middle East , and the Philippines . They don't want us there. We would station troops at our borders. No one allowed sneaking through holes in the fence.
3) All illegal aliens have 90 days to get their affairs together and leave. We'll give them a free trip home. After 90 days the remainder will be gathered up and deported immediately, regardless of whom or where they are. They're illegal!!! France will welcome them.
4) All future visitors will be thoroughly checked and limited to 90 days unless given a special permit!!!! No one from a terrorist nation will be allowed in. If you don't like it there, change it yourself and don't hide here. Asylum would never be available to anyone. We don't need any more cab drivers or 7-11 cashiers.
5) No foreign "students" over age 21. The older ones are the bombers. If they don't attend classes, they get a "D" and it's back home baby.
6) The US will make a strong effort to become self-sufficient energy wise. This will include developing nonpolluting sources of energy but will require a temporary drilling of oil in the Alaskan wilderness. The caribou will have to cope for a while
7) Offer Saudi Arabia and other oil producing countries $10 a barrel for their oil. If they don't like it, we go someplace else. They can go somewhere else to sell their production. (About a week of the wells filling up the storage sites would be enough.)
8) If there is a famine or other natural catastrophe in the world, we will not "interfere." They can pray to Allah or whomever, for seeds, rain, cement or whatever they need. Besides most of what we give them is stolen or given to the army. The people who need it most get very little, if anything.
9) Ship the UN Headquarters to an isolated island someplace. We don't need the spies and fair weather friends here. Besides, the building would make a good homeless shelter or lockup for illegal aliens.
10) All Americans must go to charm and beauty school. That way, no one can call us "Ugly Americans" any longer. The Language we speak is ENGLISH.. learn it...or LEAVE.
11) "The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses." She's got a baseball bat and she's yelling, 'you want a piece of me?'
A special thanks to Robin Williams for outlining my Foreign / domestic policy so perfectly. I will strongly consider him for Secretary of State or Vice President.
View of Abortion: (cause they say you can't get elected without a position, like that's the guiding star we should all choose for electing our government) I believe in a woman's right to choose, because it is the law. I believe that if a woman is raped, or her health is in danger that she should have a choice. I also believe that only the Supreme Court interprets that law. However, I believe in something more basic. I believe that for most women, the right to choose took place BEFORE she got pregnant, in a bedroom, the back seat of a car, at prom, when she was drunk at a bar, or just because she didn't want to say no. I believe that is when she made the choice and was free to do so. I believe that abortion absolves a woman of her first choice and should be applied universally. If abortion is the law, and freedom to choose the outcome of our decisions is upheld, then that must be applied universally to all who "make a choice" but are unwilling to live with the result. Therefore, it should be illegal for children who smoke to get lung cancer, because they should have the right to choose. Golfers, who slice the ball into the water, should not incur a penalty stroke for the hazard, nor the penalty of a drop, because they should have the right choose. Obese people should not have to endure the health problems of being overweight due to over eating. They should also have the right to choose what they want to eat, without consequences. In short, under this reasoning, anyone who does not like the outcome should be allowed to choose if they are willing to accept or reject that outcome.
View of Personal responsibility:
Hand in hand on my stance of abortion is my position on personal responsibility. I believe that everyone should be held responsible for everything. All of us, responsible for everything. It is all our fault. Except in the cases of men who get women to the state in the above paragraph, they too should have the right to choose the outcome of their actions.
View of Tort Reform:
If we are all responsible for everything, then there is no reason for tort laws in our country. This will rid the U.S. of more than half of all lawyers in the US, freeing up the courts to decide important things like religion in our schools.
Employment Policy:
After we release half the lawyers and secure our boarders, the lawyers will step in and take the jobs left over by migrant workers. It is about time that they earned an honest living.
View of Religion in our Schools:
I believe that there should be no religion in our schools, none. No religious works, no faith, no prayer and absolutely no Mel Gibson's Passions, or Passions of any sort. This therefore, would include Al Gore's passion for fighting global warming, Nancy Pelosi's passion for bringing down George Bush, George Bush's passion for beating terrorists and CNN's or FOX's passion for news. Neither will Bobby's passions for Suzy be allowed either!
My Energy Policy:
Drill in Alaska. Find out how much is there and how long it will last. Divide that number by three. That is the time we absolutely, positively, without exception must have alternative fuels in place or we dissolve our government. If the people in the capital can't create energy by then, they shouldn't be in power. (did you get the word play there? Energy, power? O.K. here's a marble.
My Education Policy:
There should be a voluntary 25% contribution from all professional athletes, successful movie stars, music stars, corporate CEO's, real estate moguls or anyone who make more than 10 times the national median income. The 25% contribution is not negotiable, and without loopholes. They should want to give back to their schools and communities. This money will go directly into a fund and divided by all teachers equally. They can live off 75% of what they are making, the rest of us do it everyday.
All schools should be privatized. We've now done it that way for 50 years without success, let's try it the other way for 50 years and then compare.
My drug Policy:
Take North Dakota, (no one is living in most of it anyway,) and build a big electric fence around the perimeter and post guards every hundred yards with orders to shoot anyone trying to escape. On a user's or dealer's third offence, transfer them to North Dakota Treatment Facility. If they really want help, they will flee to the Canadian boarder for health care. The walk alone should dry them out.
Legalization of Marijuana:
No. I'm not stupid. All you pot heads can't remember when to vote anyway. Want some cookies?
Boarder Policy:
Read statement given by Secretary of State Robin Williams, nothing goes in and nothing comes out. Unless we know about it and can track it.
Foreign trade Policy:
Trade equally. Period. If lets say China has a surplus of $100 million, they could buy 3,500 Chevy's. If Japan has a $500 million dollar surplus, they could buy 5 billion shares of Enron. You get the picture.
Gun Control:
Criminals should not have guns. Therefore we should trade food stamps, rent assistance, housing subsidies and child care for guns and ammunition. Set up the operations right in the pawn shops or check cashing stores in those neighborhoods, they are not hard to find. No I am not implying that all criminals are poor, but let's be serious here, more crime is committed in neighborhoods with higher concentrations of check cashing and pawns shops than in others. It will just make it easier.
"NO, a knife will only get you three days of food. Go over to your hommies crib, get his AK47 and bring it to me, then we'll talk about a months worth."
Political Correctness Policy:
People tell me daily that I have to be tolerant of others who beliefs are not mine. They say I have to accept sexual orientations, different religions, and people's actions I don't agree with. They say that there can be no lines drawn, no demarcation of any kind between right and wrong, even if there are state laws against it. All must be accepted. How stupid is that? Under those terms bestiality, child pornography and human sacrifice are all O.K. Oh, wait, you say there is a line? You believe that it is before those things? What makes you so smart as to know where to draw that line for me. Thanks, but I will draw that line where I see fit and so should every father and mother in this country. I will choose when to call a duck a duck.
Immigration Policy:
At the boarder, each person entering the US will have a GPS monitor implanted. We will then know EXACTLY where they are at all times. What human rights violations? They still have a choice, but if they want to be in the U.S. they got to get implanted. That's how we know where all the movie stars are, simply follow the implants!
Farm Policy:
Grow food, lots of food, all kinds of food. After we close our boarders we are going to need it. Because we need it, we will get better at it and use the ground more wisely.
Term limit policy:
Member of congress can only serve for four terms, Senators for two, Presidents for one. We've seen what long term politicians can do to our country. Completely new blood with every new generation.
Line Item Policy
I will line item veto every single add on to every single bill that crosses my desk. If you want some money to build a geese museum in your state, go ask everyone in your state for a dollar! I will not tolerate pork barrel spending in any shape or form. If you want something be strait up about it and ask your constituents for the money. If they don't have it you probably don't need it.
Media Policy
I pledge to shut down every 24 hour news outlet in the country. It won't matter; they are making half this stuff up anyway! You try filling 24 hours of news programming without sensationalism, 4 hours of talking heads, entertainment gossip, and catering to your base with half truths and unsubstantiated information. It's hard.
Channels should be limited to 4 hours a day. That's it, and then we can all bet back to work instead of watching the news.
Health Care policy:
Honestly, I haven't got a clue. It is so screwed up now; it is like trying to chuck a frog to the moon. As soon as I am elected I will have the cast of Grey's Anatomy and ER look into it. I will also include Fifty Cent and a couple of other rappers on the committee just to keep them honest.
Vacation Policy:
I want a royal Caribbean cruise ship parked in the Potomac. That way I can stay close, but be far, far away. Oh, everyone else gets three weeks minimum.
Stupidity Policy:
I heard a comedian say once, you get five marbles. Each time you say something stupid, you have to give someone a marble. When you are out of marbles, you can't say anything else the rest of the day. No. Shhh. No, not another word. You have already used all your marbles today.
You may not agree with everything in my policies, but ask yourself, do you like it more than any of the people running now?
I will use this blog to do three things. One, provide a voice of opposition to the liberal controlled government. Two, to track their progress on promises they made to get elected (to see if they ever deliver.) Three, to vent, educate, and to work through my own frustration. Please read the ground rules if you wish to respond to this blog.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
3 comments:
- Passion Party said...
well american parties look so cool :)
- January 15, 2009 at 12:05 AM
- Kara and Todd said...
You get my vote
- January 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- Loreen Bliss said...
Tim and I will vote for you. Beats what we have now! ...here's a marble...lol
- January 24, 2009 at 12:12 AM
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|Our caketopper...isn't cute!
|From the movie, Love Actually...which we are watching tonight!!
|Our caketopper...isn't cute!
|From the movie, Love Actually...which we are watching tonight!!
I love Love Actually! Happy 8 months!
I am in love with your cake topper! That is so cute! And Happy 8 Months!
HAPPY 240 DAYS OF LOVE! It only gets better :)
the cake topper is too cute!
This is very sweet! It's amazing how time flies.. I totally agree with you each month does get better! And it think we can all still be called newlyweds even after the first year?! I would say at least up to three years?!
Have a wonderful 8 month anniversary! So cool that your husband will watch Love Actually with you - now that's LOVE ;-)
This is so sweet! Love it!
Awww Happy 7 Months!! :)
Seriously that cake topper is my favorite of all by far! SUPER CUTE! Congratulations on this special day. Merry Christmas and ditto on that movie, specially that scene. I watch this movie over and over again just for the sake of that scene! I think had that happened to me I would have died and gone to heaven (ha!)
How cute is that topper! :) Congrats on 8 months hun! :)
Awesome cake topper!
Very sweet! Merry Christmas to you and your family!
Great cake topper! Happy 8 month anniversary!
*Tear* How sweet is this?! Happy 8 months to you guys! xoxo
Aww! Congrats!
Caketopper is awesome hahah love it!!!
Best cake topper ever!


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Spirit & Life®
"The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)
Human Life International's Statement on the Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy
Friday, August 28, 2009
Human Life International's Statement on the Passing of Senator Edward Kennedy
I know I said I was gone for the weekend, but this is a must read:
Posted by paramedicgirl at 4:30 PM
3 comments:
- Shirley said...
St Augustine says "Costly funerals and expensive displays may afford the living some consolation, but are no benefit to the departed."
Pray for his soul and hope that his family will offer up Gregorian Masses for his soul,for only the Mercy of God now sits between Mr. Kennedy and hell.
- August 29, 2009 at 8:13:00 AM PDT
- Owen said...
I know I was shocked to read this Kennedy on right to life in letter to Pope.
- August 30, 2009 at 5:56:00 AM PDT
- paramedicgirl said...
Owen , I read the letters from that link you provided. The second letter was dated 1971, ans Kennedy sure slipped in his outlook on abortion over the years.
- August 30, 2009 at 6:54:00 PM PDT
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Year in Review: Yahoo India's Bollywood Newsmakers 2017
While some of them wowed us with their performances, the others made headlines for their ugly spats. Blockbuster successes, box office collections, love affairs, gossips and acting excellence – these are just a few of the things that kept our favourite celebrities in the news. Here are the movers and shakers from tinseltown this year:


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Milan: Napoli`s Gonzalo Higuain scored early with an acrobatic volley, his fifth goal in three league games, to set them on the way to a convincing 2-0 win over sluggish AS Roma in Serie A on Saturday.
Higuain, who missed a stoppage time penalty in Wednesday`s 1-1 draw at Atalanta, also set up the second for Spanish forward Jose Callejon who atoned for a miss earlier in the second half.
Napoli, who have picked up speed after a slow start to the campaign, hit the woodwork twice as they moved up to third place on 18 points from 10 games, four behind Juventus and AS Roma.
Title holders Juve are playing at Empoli later on Saturday (1700 GMT).
Napoli went ahead in the third minute when Lorenzo Insigne`s long-range effort was deflected off a defender and Higuain, with his back to the ball, leapt to spectacularly hook the ball into the net.
Callejon and Marek Hamsik both hit the crossbar as Napoli continued to dominate while Roma struggled to get into gear.
Although Roma dominated early in the second half, Napoli should have gone further ahead when Kalidou Koulibaly powered down the right and laid a pass into the path of Callejon.
The Spaniard dinked the ball over Morgan De Sanctis but his effort was so delicate that Radja Nainggolan had time to get to the ball before it reached the line and hoofed it away.
Hero Nainggolan then became the villain when he lost possession in the centre circle and the ball was fed to the left flank where Higuain`s incisive cross into the area saw Callejon get there first to turn it into the net.


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A mod about stealth,technology,extreme fighting, and guns!
Nice, not bad. Do want!
Sounds angry! Can't wait to get some with it :)
always loved the sound of the M60
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we are discussing at BFSP about this weapon using and it's copyrights. I can not confirm do it will be added, but if yes, then It will be one and last P4F weapon here.


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Mr Science Reports, again . . .
I kept score today for
Karen Stupples http://www.lpga.com/player_
Wee-Won Han http://www.lpga.com/player_
Song Yi Choi http://www.lpga.com/player_
All of them were over par yesterday. Hee-Won started out with birdies on the first two holes, but followed with bogies on the next two, and shot 73. Karen had 74, with a 3-putt par and a lot of makeable birdie putts that she didn't make. Song Yi had a very hard day, 79, missing a lot of very short putts. Karen got her name on TV today, first on the list of "notables missing the cut". Otherwise, it was another day of no TV for me or my group.
My assistant standard bearer was Hanna
Karen is a delight to be with. She has a criss-cross of tape on her right knee, because of some cartilage problems. Hanna asked her about it while two groups were waiting on the 5th tee (someone else in the wash, taking unplayable lies and calling for rulings), and Karen said it was rough where it was supposed to be smooth, and let Hanna touch her knee while she flexed it. Hanna squealed, like only a 13-year-old girl can do, and said "ooh, yuch!", or something to that effect. Karen alllowed as how Hanna probably didn't expect to get that up close and personal with the players today.
After the round, I go into the scorer's tent with the players, and I check their scores as I have recorded them while the marker reads them to the player. Hee-Won started out reading Song Yi's scores. In Korean. When she finished, Song Yi indicated that she agreed, and I said "Right", indicating my agreement as well.


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DG Infso (Information Society) organised a conference on
telemedicine, as a chronic disease management tool, on December 11 in Brussels.
This was one of the steps developed by the Commission to identify barriers to
broad telemedicine development. Other concrete actions for the European Union institutions,
member states, regions, industries, user organisations and other stakeholders are
expected in view of the upcoming communication of the Commission on the subject
in October 2008. This conference follows a consultation organised by the
Commission earlier this year.
The seminar was opened by Frans de Bruine, Director of the 'addressing societal changes department' of the ICT at DG Infso. He sketched a fairly striking picture of the EU demographic landscape, and of the need for action on the telemedicine front. There are presently 860 million people worldwide suffering from chronic diseases and the incidence of chronic conditions in people over
65 will double by 2030. It is time to find solutions to this problem which already mobilises 60% of hospital bed days in the UK, before EU member states spend 20% of their GNP on healthcare, as is foreseen by 2020.
Reasons for the wide development of telemedicine across Europe are obvious enough: technical progress (in particular broadband), financial reasons, geographical motivations (rural and remote areas), patient empowerment and skill shortage, to name a few. The Commission could facilitate large scale deployment of these devices through contributing to the advancement interoperability, for instance.
According to surveys already conducted by the Commission, the main obstacles to telemedicine include cultural acceptance by health professionals and patients, but also a need for standardisation, a resolution of legal issues, funding incentives, and the establishment of clear reimbursement schemes.
Several high level speakers then contributed to the debate by illustrating the usefulness of telemedicine through concrete projects or expressing stakeholders'opinions about it.
Dr. Daniel Mart, Director of the Standing Committee of European Doctors, gave the physicians' point of view. He emphasised the importance of telemedicine being used in the interest of the patient. It has to be a tool at the disposal of the profession, he said, fit into an existing framework, and should not change the way doctors practice. Under no circumstances should it replace the normal doctor-patient relationship or be a cost-cutting tool. According to him, crucial problems revolve around network security, ethical problems, and most importantly responsibility issues.
Josep Roca, from the University of Barcelona, described the Catalonian health system and the many benefits of IT: it enables early prevention and diagnosis, avoids hospitalisation, allows home care and serves as end of life support. In that respect, IT and telemedicine should modulate disease progress and not just manage the patient. Healthcare should also be linked to other areas, such as social support and preventive medicine. He identified some key factors to the development of telemedicine: the co-morbidity challenge (chronic patients combine several pathologies), the organisational and educational issues (telemedicine modifies the roles of doctors and nurses), and the identification of business models ensuring service sustainability.
Dr. Simonetta Scalvini from the Salvatore Laugeri Foundation, underlined the communication benefits of telemedicine: GPs finally talk to specialists, specialists to each other, which results in better quality care: in 80% of the cases, a solution to the patient's problem is found at the GP consultation, after a phone conversation with a specialist.
Some other speakers gave more practical examples of the kind of services telemedicine can deliver:
Silas Olsson, from Sweden, explained that 90% of all Swedish ambulances are now equipped with telemedical devices which inform hospitals of the patient's vital signs before he/she arrives. Even patients' mobile phones are now used for medical purposes.
Peder Jest told the audience about the Funen hospital project, which offers high level services for patients in remote areas of Southern Denmark.
Dr. Hans Billing works at the European telemedicine clinic in Barcelona. With more than 9,000 exams a month, it is the largest teleradiology and MRI reading center in Europe. He identified challenges linked to telemedicine as: language problems, quality assurance and also malpractice issues, which still have to be cleared up legally.
The afternoon program focused on legal issues, such as privacy and security, as the Commission is considering introducing legislation streamlining telemedicine at the European level. (CH)


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Tuesday, 24 July 2012
I Grieve Deeply For Them
Maybe I'm a strange person. But, since I was a child, I have been aware of the sky most of the time.
Look, I know it's not possible to gaze steadfastly skyward when driving. And I was used to driving - a bike - for the majority of my young adulthood.But times when I wasn't driving, or engaged in study, or reading before going to bed, I'd be running Sky Watch 2.0 on my brain's operating system. Quietly. In the background. But ever ready to snap into full Wonder Mode at the slightest aberration in the heavens.
I can find Venus in daylight, and I know almost without thinking about it where the relative positions of sun and moon are at any given time of day or season of year.
Maybe this is what stokes my antipathy towards cellphones. I caved in and got myself a smartphone a little while ago. I make maybe one call on it per day - to Warren - and the rest of the time it's a handy-to-have internet connection, weather predictor, moonphase calculator, and camera.
Except, of course, that I don't really need all those things. The phase and sign of the moon are, as I have already mentioned, mostly a given fact for me - I'd only have to think about it for a few seconds max -and the weather I can foretell much more accurately than any app running on the phone. The internet is nice to have - you can look up on Twitter just what accident has caused you to be sitting in traffic, looking up on Twitter...yes, well you see what I mean.
Nevertheless, I do catch myself checking in with my son on Facebook, fielding tweets around as if they were penny wisdom cards, and even saying Oh look -it's 2 degrees this morning, while tapping the touchscreen of my phone.Oh yes, and spelling very slowly and badly, too. My fingers are a bit big for the virtual keyboard and I can't be bothered to have to keep track of a bloody stylus as well.
So, looking down from the balcony at work this afternoon, I took in the sight of about a dozen people who, when they weren't actually talking on their phones, were sitting alone in rapt communion with them.
I think I've gone on about this before, probably more than once.
So I turn my face back up to the sky - high and wide and blue and white - and drink in the radiance through my pores. Birds careen across my vision and I recognise each one. Trees and construction cranes sway gently in the late Winter air. I feel my whole body reaching out to the World, its magnificence sheathing me like a vibrant extra dimension, and smell, faintly, the first stirrings of the coming Spring.
No one else is looking up. No one else is seeing, feeling or smelling these things. Their windows on the world have narrowed their perceptions so sharply that I - who loves the human animal but often doesn't like it - grieve deeply for them.
Pic: Sparrows exalt in the sky. Yes, Sparrows, not Larks.
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In March of 2004, I was hastily fired from the radio show I had hosted for three years as a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles and found guilty of "sexual harassment" against my entire audience for parodying two student government rivals on my show. My crime? I had called one a "bearded feminist" and the other a "douche."
Sure, it may have been impolite, but my show was called "Rant and Rave," and the entire point of the show was to deliver the "shock jock" humor that is typical of college radio programs. That style, which criticized everyone from Donald Trump to my pug, Jasmine, made the show the most popular radio program on campus.
While undoubtedly some were offended — and like any good comedy act, we tried to mock the campus, society, and myself as much as possible — certainly no one was "harassed."
Once the accusations against me became public, I contacted the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and they came to my defense. They wrote to Occidental College to remind them that California's "Leonard Law" forbids even private institutions from punishing students for "offensive" speech.
Instead of responding to FIRE's serious concerns, Sandy Cooper, general counsel for Occidental College, notified FIRE that I was suddenly being "investigated" by the school for criminal acts, such as slashing tires, registering students for SPAM e-mail, abusing and distributing prescription drugs, and making late-night sexual prank calls to women.
I was never arrested nor charged with any of these crimes. Yet, the school found me "guilty" as I said, of sexual harassment and a hostile environment against my audience.
When I first read the school's allegations I was shocked and hurt: How could my own school so cavalierly accuse me of such serious offenses? I've never been late to class, let alone dealt prescription drugs out of the trunk of my Mazda. These charges were leveled during the final weeks of my senior year and were devastating to my academics as well as my health. I was pressured into an interrogation only days before final exams. I was stressed out to the point that my physician, as well as my professor, recommended I take a week off from school.
My friends routinely asked me why I was acting so "weird" –they'd never seen me in such bad shape. The college provided no evidence to back up their allegations and never even brought judiciary charges. Was the college leveling these baseless charges simply to scare off FIRE and other groups that might try to help me?
Next, FIRE called Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney for the ACLU of Southern California. Eliasberg vehemently disagreed with the college and said it misconstrued an ACLU position paper to justify charges of sexual harassment. I was happy that I now had two major civil liberty groups on my side, but I was still being judged by students who based their opinions on the lies the administrators who were "investigating" me were publicizing.
Any privacy I thought I had vanished.
My grades started to suffer, professors were telling me awful rumors about the case, and my last semester in college was completely ruined. Rather than work on my senior paper, I literally spent weeks researching the school's insanely vague rules, and fighting administrators who threatened to expel me. The only time I was able to step back and laugh at the situation while going through all this, was ironically when someone at the college decided to send me letter requesting I donate money to the school! Occidental plowed ahead attacking me rather than admit it was wrong in its decision to punish me. By refusing to rescind the findings of sexual harassment, Occidental was in fact dooming any hopes I had of going to graduate school. This is quite a punishment for just making a few jokes on a satirical radio show.
Occidental administrators went far beyond punishing "offensive" speech; they sought to intimidate and silence me with a campaign of misinformation. For example, a segment of my radio show was titled "Token Black Girls" by one of my African-American friends, to jokingly describe a segment that parodied racial stereotypes.
Is anti-racist social satire prohibited at Occidental because some people misunderstand it? The inability of many in the administration to see past a personal reaction to the title of the show proves that the college administration has become so hypersensitive to perceived "offensiveness" that even obviously satirical social commentary escapes its comprehension.
Fortunately, FIRE and the ACLU understand the difference between "offensive" and "unprotected" speech, even though Occidental does not.
Again, fortunately, there is no Constitutional protection against speech that one finds "offensive" — if that were ever the case, everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Howard Stern, your butcher to your postal worker would be in jail.
It's time that the public fights against these types of speech codes, and reject the type of backhanded tactics too many college administrators use to threaten and silence their students who actually stand up to their abuse. It is my hope that Occidental will finally overturn its ruling against me, admit their mistakes, and change their illegal speech codes, so this never happens to an Occidental student again.
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Facing an ultimatum from the U.S. Olympic Committee, USA Gymnastics said Friday its entire board of directors will resign over the sexual abuse scandal involving Dr. Larry Nassar, convicted of molesting female athletes, some as young as 6.
The embattled federation, which oversees Team USA and member clubs across the country, faced dissolution after harsh criticism from top gymnasts, including gold medalist Aly Raisman, for what victims said was lax oversight that permitted Nassar to assault gymnasts at the Karolyi Ranch and at competitions around the globe.
Among other Olympians who have alleged abuse by Nassar, the former longtime team physician for the national women's team, are McKayla Maroney, Simone Biles, Jordyn Wieber and Jamie Dantzscher. On Wednesday, Nassar, 54, a longtime USA Gymnastics national team doctor, was sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison in Lansing, Mich., for sexual abuse inflicted under the guise of patient care.
Victims and their attorneys have been calling for changes and an independent inquiry of both USA Gymnastics and the USOC, but both organizations had resisted until this past week, when the seven-day sentencing hearing - which featured emotional testimony from 156 girls and women - galvanized national outrage over the case.
USA Gymnastics move was part of a fast-paced Friday of fallout that included an announcement by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee that it will conduct hearings on sexual abuse within organized sports, and the resignation of the athletic director at Michigan State University, which employed Nassar.
In Texas, Walker County Sheriff Clint McRae said there was a "very good possibility" that local investigators will seek to question Nassar.
Some former gymnasts have said they were abused by Nassar during team training camps at the Karolyi Ranch, the 2,000-acre ranch in the Sam Houston National Forest, midway between Huntsville and New Waverly, that housed monthly training camps from 2001 through 2017.
Prosecuting Nassar in Texas is unlikely, given the length of the Michigan sentence on top of a 60-year federal sentence imposed on Nassar for possession of child pornography.
"A full investigation has been conducted, and it is still an active investigation," McRae told the Chronicle. "There are certain witnesses that still need to be interviewed. We are still waiting on some statements."
McRae would not say if investigators have spoken with ranch owners Bela and Martha Karolyi, who were former USA Gymnastics national team coordinators. He said an investigator has spoken with USA Gymnastics officials in Indianapolis but did not elaborate on details.
Walker County has assigned one detective to the case with assistance from three other investigators. McRae could not estimate how long his investigation would take and would not speculate whether it could lead to local prosecution.
Some gymnasts and others have cited the secluded nature of the ranch as contributing to the factors that enable Nassar to abuse girls and women over a period of years. A lawsuit filed in California has accused Martha and Bela Karolyi with fostering a toxic environment during training camps that enabled Nassar to gain the trust of gymnasts.
"I have been to the ranch, and I viewed it as a safe place," the sheriff said. "The unfortunate thing I have seen throughout my law enforcement career is that many times things have occurred that do surprise us."
In addition to information gathered by detectives, McRae said investigators would consider evidence submitted to the office. He did not know if the local probe would be merged with potential state or federal investigations but that investigators have been in contact with other law enforcement agencies.
"People with factual information can contact us," he said. "We would like to see our investigation completed in a timely fashion, but we're not going to rush anything."
Nassar was employed by USA Gymnastics from 1996 through 2015 and was present at training camps in Texas in a medical capacity. The Dallas Morning News reported this week that Nassar was not licensed to practice medicine in Texas, according to the Texas Medical Board.
USOC CEO Scott Blackmun had given USA Gymnastics until next Wednesday for the resignation of its 21-member board and to meet other demands within three months to a year.
Blackmun said the USOC has no knowledge that USA Gymnastics staff members or board members "had a role in fostering or obscuring Nassar's actions. Our position comes from a clear sense that USAG culture needs fundamental rebuilding."
Other requirements include employee training, increased USOC oversight and cooperation with an independent investigation into who knew or who should have known of reported abuses by Nassar.
USA Gymnastics, meanwhile, continues to lose corporate sponsors in the wake of Nassar's sentencing. Chobani, KT Tape and nutritional supplement maker Thorne Research are among the latest defectors, Sports Business Daily reported.
The Nassar case also continued to reverberate at Michigan State, which employed Nassar as a faculty member. Mark Hollis said Friday he would retire Jan. 31 as athletic director at the school, which faces an NCAA inquiry and an investigation by the Department of Education. School president Lou Anna Simon said late Wednesday that she would resign. ESPN reported on Friday that the school insufficiently complied with federal officials monitoring the university under Title IX, the gender-equity law. The network's investigation described a pattern in which sexual assault complaints involving prominent athletes, including more than a dozen on the football team and a few in the celebrated men's basketball program, were handled by the athletic department rather than regular university channels.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, called for the Senate to establish a select committee to investigate, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent letters to USA Gymnastics and the USOC as part of its investigation into sexual abuse in organized sports.
The letter to USA Gymnastics seeks details on how allegations against Nassar were reported and the organization's response.
"The abhorrent abuses associated with this case are outrageous, and raise serious concerns about your organization's ability to oversee your sport and protect your athletes from abuse and mistreatment," the letter read.
The USOC letter requested information regarding abuses within gymnastics, swimming and taekwondo, which the committee said "raise serious concerns about protecting athletes from abuse and mistreatment in organized sports."
U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says her agency is also investigating the scandal.


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ASHLAND, Mo., September 2, 2008- Home Movie Depot, Inc. - the nation's largest online destination where consumers and professional videographers have their family movies digitized onto DVDs and Hard Drives - now offers photo books, a modern solution to the old family photo albums. Effective immediately, anyone can visit HomeMovieDepot.com and use the free software to create and purchase a customized photo book.
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Thought of the Day !!
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place.
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching
If any church wants to be faithful and true to God's will and calling they must gather together. We were created to be a community, and we can only make a real difference when we're connected as such.
What's the first thing that Jesus did when he started his ministry? He brought together a community of people. We call them the disciples. Did he ever tell someone to go off and do ministry alone. No. He sent the people out by twos.
The Psalmist tells us to worship the LORD with gladness; to come into his presence with singing…or to gather.
Jesus told his disciples that where two or three are gathered in his name, he'd be there.
Paul encourages the church at Corinth to gather for the right reasons.
In coming together, we seek God's presence as his communal children…and not just renegades out there doing as we wish. We prove that even though we're different parts of the body with different functions...different talents...different God-given gifts, we're still one body...the body of Christ.
Jesus had previously ordered his disciples to stay together in Jerusalem and wait for something great. They did. They gathered. And something great did happen. The Holy Spirit came upon them, and the living, breathing Church was born.
Let us not neglect to gather together.
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What is an Academy? UK Schools
What is an Academy? UK Schools
Academies are publicly-funded independent schools that provide a first-class education.
What's different about academies?
Academies benefit from greater freedoms to innovate and raise standards. These include:
- freedom from local authority control;
- the ability to set their own pay and conditions for staff;
- freedoms around the delivery of the curriculum; and
- the ability to change the lengths of terms and school days.
- Sponsors
Some academies, generally those set up to replace underperforming schools, will have a sponsor. Sponsors come from a wide range of backgrounds including successful schools, businesses, universities, charities and faith bodies. Sponsors are held accountable for the improving the performance of their schools. They do this by challenging traditional thinking on how schools are run and what they should be like for students. They seek to make a complete break with cultures of low aspiration and achievement. The sponsor's vision and leadership are vital to each project.
Academies receive the same level of per-pupil funding as they would receive from the local authority as a maintained school, plus additions to cover the services that are no longer provided for them by the local authority. However, academies have greater freedom over how they use their budgets to best benefit their students.
Academies receive their funding directly from the Education Funding Agency (EFA) rather than from local authorities.
The principles of governance are the same in academies as in maintained schools, but the governing body has greater autonomy. Academies are required to have at least two parent governors.
… and what's the same
Admissions, special educational needs and exclusions
Academies are required to follow the law and guidance on admissions, special educational needs and exclusions as if they were maintained schools.
Academies have to ensure that the school will be at the heart of its community, collaborating and sharing facilities and expertise with other schools and the wider community.
We expect all schools that are performing well and applying for academy status to work with another school to raise standards. Collaboration and partnership are now embedded in the school system, and this is also the case for academies.
Schools which already select some or all of their pupils will be able to continue to do so if they become academies, but schools becoming academies cannot decide to become newly selective schools.
Freedom of information
The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act (2000) applies to academies as it does to maintained schools.
Article sourced from the Department of Education Website - http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/leadership/typesofschools/academies/b00205692/whatisanacademy


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"Knowledge acquired out of English is not harmful but the Anglicization penetrated into the youth is dangerous", said BJP chief Rajnath Singh as he bemoaned the system of education introduced by the British in India eroding our cultural values and stymieing the growth of Sanskrit in the Country. The ToI report of this news on July 20th, 2013 averred that it was not in keeping with the commitment to "modern social order and dynamic growth" BJP projected. Rational prejudice – the kind of hostility towards certain ideas rooted in a well-defined ideology is very much in display in the newspaper report.
"All that was good and living within us was made, shaped and quickened by…British rule" Nirad C Chaudhuri, the brilliant though controversial writer had opined. Nradbabu, however, found that the anglicised upper-middle class leadership of the ruling Congress party "weak in character, mediocre in intellectual ability, and totally lacking idealism and public spirit". I am sure those who run the ToI News Network do not want to share that view!
But then there was nothing contrarian in the BJP chef's opinion. In fact it was something which every second politician, social scientist, educationist and economist in this country has been airing since Independence. Mulayam Singh Yadav had always vowed to work against the use of English in education and even computers and hopes that abolition of "expensive education in English" would create a level playing field for all and less use of computers would generate jobs. The Samajwadi Party is a supporter of the UPA Government, the harbinger of "dynamic growth" in India. The Communists had opposed computers for 25 years!
During the Freedom struggle, most stalwarts of the Independence movement had asserted that free India that is Bharat will have a National Language of its own, and experiment with the educational system Gandhiji envisioned (Nai Talim - Basic Education) and not Macaulay's system prevalent in the British India. In an interview Gandhiji had said: "To give millions knowledge of English is to enslave them. The foundation that Macaulay laid of education has enslaved us." In his view, the schools and colleges were only factories for turning out clerks for British Government. He foresaw that in such an educational system Indian children would be alienated from their cultural template and 'career-based thinking' would become dominant. That is what eventually happened! The products of the high-voltage English-medium Convent education come out as arrogant, self-seeking, and self-serving brats who visibly lacked the proverbial Indian tolerance of oddities and broadness of sympathy. I remember somebody writing that English is less of a language than an operating system like Windows. S/He also pointed out that speaking and writing good English ensures 300% higher employment outcomes for entry-level jobs! S/He was not indeed arguing against mother tongues, but presenting a case for being multilingual. Point taken.
It may be relevant to add here that while the Gandhian Basic system was running, it was reported that compared to the English Medium Schools, the children in Basic Schools were more active, cheerful, self-reliant, with well-developed power of self-expression. They were found to be acquiring habits of co-operative work and social prejudices were breaking down.
An honest review of the statements of even the ruling elite of the Nehruvian era and thereafter too will reveal that this was a kind of collective anxiety of the nation – that the uncontrolled invasion by the Western civilization would engulf our cherished values.
The Father of our Nation said once: "I am and I have been a determined opponent of modern civilization. I want you to turn your eyes today upon what is going on in Europe and if you have come to the conclusion that Europe is today groaning under the heels of modern civilization, then you and your elders will have to think twice before you can emulate that civilization in our Motherland. But I have been told: "How can we help it, seeing that our rulers bring that culture to our Motherland?" Do not make any mistake about it at all. I do not for one moment believe that it is for any rulers to bring that culture to you unless you are prepared to accept it, and if it be that the rulers bring that culture before us, I think that we have forces within ourselves to enable us to reject that culture."(Speeches and Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, pp. 312, 313; 27-4-15) He continues elsewhere: "Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty, and developing accuracy of thought."
Gandhiji's warnings against the British Education system were prophetic. The educational system his "truant and errant" political disciple allowed to run in India was a continuation of the British one. The results are for everyone to see: It made them see western education as superior and destroyed the pride they in their own languages and culture. Perhaps that is what makes the English language and the British sysstem of education dear to so-called liberal-Left combine who have largely abandoned connections with the nation's deeper meaning system. Macaulay had openly claimed that the major goal of his system of education was disintegration of the coherent Hindu social ethos…Eventually English education, particularly imparted by the Convents, taught Indians self-contempt. The syllabi and the teaching persuaded native Indians the ideals of Western civilization, and made them despise every other, particularly their own. Particularly, the political left has by and large abandoned Indian history, tradition, and culture, perhaps in pursuit of their lopsided agenda for "fundamentally transforming Indian society".
Reporting the discovery of several Urdu Gazals Veer Savarkar wrote during his 11-year incarceration in the Andaman Jail, the ToI reporter couldn't withhold her 'view': …."there is much surprise that Savarkar has written in fluent Urdu, a language considered unlikely for the champion of political Hindutva." Urdu, was indeed the socio-administrative requirement of Muslim conquerors who plundered, pillaged and looted before deciding to settle down around Delhi. Urdu drew its vocabulary mostly from Turkish, Persian and Arabic. While Persian was the official language of Mughals, it was the British who made Urdu the lingua franca in northern India since 1837. Naturally, the Hindu elite too chose to learn and speak Urdu along with the Muslims then. It is said however, that linguistic supremacy of Urdu, a rootless wonder, imposed over regional languages became a permanent source of irritant for the Hindus. The founder of Aligarh Muslim University, Sir Syed Ahmed Khan, was so obsessed with Urdu, that he projected it as a symbol of Muslim domination over the cultural and linguistic identity of India. Savarkar was not against Urdu as a language, but as a symbol of this kind. After the establishment of Pakistan, Urdu was declared as the language of "100 million Muslims". In hostile symbiosis with this attitude Hindu nationalist began to move towards Sanskritised Hindi which the South Indians happen to grasp easily too. When the Indian Muslim League and all the Communal Muslims speak against our National Language and support Urdu, and Communists and the so-called liberal-Left politicians back them, it becomes difficult for the "Hindu nationalists" to applaud.
It was obviously Rajnath Singh's reference to the richness of Sanskrit language and about the poor state of affairs of the "Mother of all our languages" in India that is Bharat, which irritated the "secular" ToI News Network. Let me remind them, Sir Monier-Williams (1819-1899) an Orientalist, professor of Sanskrit at Oxford in his book Hinduism, and no pro-Hindu nationalist described Sanskrit as "the only vehicle of Hindu mythology, philosophy, law, the mirror in which all the creeds, opinions, and customs and usages of the Hindus are faithfully reflected and the only quarry whence the requisite materials may be obtained for improving the vernaculars or for expressing important religious and scientific ideas."
Jawaharlal Nehru wrote "The Sanskrit language… is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either: yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs, and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all without believing them to have sprung from some common source which perhaps no longer exists..."(source: Discovery of India - p 165). Prime Minister Nehru said many times that the soul of India resided in this ancient language and its literature. I suppose every Indian could feel proud of this language, and feel sorry that we are unable to do to it what Israel did to a defunct language like Hebrew. Do they not use Hebrew at all levels of teaching and learning? Don't Russians, Germans, the French, Japanese and Chinese have their own languages as medium of instruction in all educational institutions and still have dynamism in every sphere?
It does not escape the attention of readers of Time of India that this paper for quite some time it has been on BJP-bashing job; almost every day devoting one or two of the 3-piece editorial, and in every news report the paper's official views interpolated into the text. In the past, BJP's promise if elected to rule the country, to ensure "progressive and equitable ingredients of all personal laws" to be picked while drawing up a Uniform Civil Code for all Indians was misrepresented an effort to impose the will of Hindus on the Muslims in India. Ridiculous comparative survey reports are released day by day to belittle Gujarat's economic progress. ToI economist had the gumption to write about the Naroda-Patiya judgement as delivered by Gujarat High Court and get away with it! Unfortunately, such news-views mix are "mainstreamed"; and the perceived effect of such "mainstreaming" is a convergence of political attitudes into a core position that is either anti-nationalist or skewed to Left or anti-national!
I have always thought that The Times Of India was in the "business" of printing news and making money. When did they begin to adopt "Colonel" McCormick's maxim "its our job to print news and raise hell"? Is it "proprietorial pique" that is reason for the obvious and constant bias?


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text: The forecast water consumption values are the most critical input data in the pump schedule optimization of water distribution systems. The aim of this paper is to present a simple technique which is able to estimate the mean consumption and its distribution for a given demand zone with an hourly resolution. Simplicity (low computational cost) is advantageous since the forecast model needs to be run for any optimization computation. The proposed technique uses a recorded hourly consumption database and consists of two steps. First, the database content is automatically grouped based on the similarity of the elements (more precisely, their normality). This step is time-consuming but is performed only once for a given database independently of optimization. The second step – which is quick but has to be performed before the actual optimization – makes use of this grouping for forecasting mean value and standard deviation. The proposed technique provides hourly water consumption predictions independently; that is, the neighbouring hours do not effect each other, which prevents the accumulation of prediction errors. The daily overall consumption is computed


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Shoppers were entertained by ukulele players in comical wigs and red noses at Sainsburys in Morecambe.
The group from Morecambe Ukulele Club were all dressed up to raise money for Comic Relief.
They performed a string of popular songs at the Lancaster Road supermarket on Saturday afternoon.
The club rehearses every Saturday at the Trimpell Club.
They have an extensive repertoire and as you will see from the video, one of them is 'Karma Chameleon' by Culture Club!


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London: The inquest into the death of India-born nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who was found hanging after a hoax call made to a UK hospital treating Kate Middleton, reopened here on Tuesday and a two-day hearing to record a cause of her death has been scheduled for May 2.
The 46-year-old mother of two had been found dead days after she forwarded a hoax call from two Australian DJs posing as the royal family to the ward where Middleton was being treated for pregnancy-related sickness.
Coroner Fiona Wilcox announced that the formal inquest proceedings will take place at the Council House Chambers in Marylebone on May 2-3.
Saldanha`s husband Benedict Barboza, 49, and their children Junal, 16, and Lisha, 14, were present at Westminister Coroner`s Court alongside Labour MP Keith Vaz, who has been supporting the Bristol-based family since the incident in December 2012.
"Today marks the beginning of the end as far as the legal process is concerned but it does not take away the terrible grief the family are still suffering," said Vaz on the court steps.
"The next few weeks are going to be very difficult for the family until May 2 when, of course, the inquest will begin. Both children have very important exams which they wish to concentrate on. These have been dreadful, dreadful weeks and months for them.
"They will never, ever come to terms with the death of Jacintha who they loved so much, but they hope this process will begin the healing process," he added.
The radio broadcaster involved in the hoax call that tricked the nurse days before she was found hanging in her nurse`s accommodation at King Edward VII`s Hospital in west London were also granted permission to be part of the inquest.
Southern Cross Media group`s lawyer Maya Sikand had applied to be a party to the proceedings, claiming her clients may be able to assist.
John Cooper, who has been representing the family pro-bono as they were denied legal aid for the case, indicated he would be asking how it was that Jacintha Saldanha came to be working effectively as a receptionist and whether that was in her contract.
The coroner said there would be four witnesses to the case including the duty nurse, whose name cannot be reported, and the hospital chief John Lofthouse.
She also indicated her hearing would be a court of inquiry to allow a cause of death to be recorded and not deal with other issues.
The wife of Prince William was being treated at King
Edward VII`s Hospital in December last year for an extreme form of morning sickness when DJs Michael Christian and Mel Greig made their prank call pretending to be members of the royal family.
Saldanha had answered the call and put them through to another nurse who gave an update on the Duchess of Cambridge`s condition.
The prank call had sparked international outrage against the radio station following Saldanha`s subsequent suicide.
In February, the UK`s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) had decided there was no evidence to support a charge of manslaughter against the Australian DJs.


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Along with the addition of a second title fight, lightweights Chad Laprise and Bryan Barberena were also added to UFC 186.
Set for April 25 from the Bell Centre in Montreal, the card will feature T.J. Dillashaw defending his bantamweight title vs. Renan Barao and Demetrious Johnson putting his flyweight belt on the line vs. Kyoji Horiguchi.
Laprise (10-0) was a winner on The Ultimate Fighter: The Nations, while Barberena (10-2) has scored a TKO victory over Joe Ellenberger in his Octagon debut last year.
Below is the current lineup:
UFC Bantamweight Championship
T.J. Dillashaw (c) vs. Renan Barao
UFC Flyweight Championship
Demetrious Johnson (c) vs. Kyoji Horiguchi
Light Heavyweight: Quinton "Rampage" Jackson vs. Fabio Maldonado
Middleweight: Michael Bisping vs. C.B. Dollaway
Welterweight: Patrick Cote vs. Joe Riggs
Lightweight: Olivier Aubin-Mercier vs. David Michaud
Women's Strawweight: Jessica Rakoczy vs. Valerie Letourneau
Welterweight: Nordine Taleb vs. Claudio Silva
Lightweight John Makdessi vs. Abel Trujillo
Bantamweight: Yves Jabouin vs. Thomas Almeida
Lightweight: Chad Laprise vs. Bryan Barberena


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Montgó Residents' Association [APMJ]
Thank you for visiting the website of Asociación Propietarios Montgó Jávea [APMJ] Montgó Residents' Association.
We are a non-political and non-profit Association, formed in 2001 to represent property owners and residents of the Montgó urbanisations, in Jávea/Xàbia, Costa Blanca, Spain, regardless of nationality.
To learn more about us, click on any of the subjects, where you will find information on our Meetings, Social Events and Neighbourhood Watch Programme, together with other topics of general interest.
Click here for our FACEBOOK page
Please note: if you click on a link and it appears not to work, you are probably using Chrome. The document opens [usually] bottom LH corner of your screen - click on it and then it opens OK.
January: Happy New Year!
Jávea Players: next production is My Fair Lady in March. Bookings open 7 Feb. See What's on in Jávea
Don't miss this photographic exhibition! see What's on in Jávea
Hope you all had a festive Christmas and have a Happy/Healthy 2019!
Recycling advice: click for details.
New to Jávea and not sure what a NIE is? See Useful Information
General Data Protection Regulation: See Useful Information
Useful Information re how to obtain Residencia etc.
Know how to drive in Spain? Free lecture 18 April - click for details.
Permission required to drive your wife/husband/partner's car: click for details [bear with me, having difficulty with the format of the original file!].
Hill walking: We are a small (10-15 in numbers) group of active walkers who meet on Sunday mornings for hill walks of up to 3 hours duration in the areas around The Montgó, Pedreguer, Jalón and surrounding areas. We normally meet up before 10.00 am each Sunday for coffee and then drive to our start point and hike off to the hills. Many of us are residents on The Montgó, but our group is not exclusively so. We claim to be international with English, Dutch, Belgian, Danish and Spanish friends joining in. We only walk in the winter months from October until April. If you would like to join us please contact Phil on 688 611 390 and we can e-mail you our upcoming walks.
BREXIT Up-date: See Useful Information for notes on the Consul's visit to Jávea on 20.2.18
Podiatrist/Chiropodist added to Recommended Services
Facing a crisis, need help? See Recommended Services - Psychotherapy
Basura - Emita: for those who haven't yet noticed, this Punt Verd has been removed [as 'threatened' by Fernando]
Which wood to burn this winter? Click for information
Social Welfare care in Spain: see Useful Information
Latest N332 Magazine with road information. See Useful Information
Time to FINALLY learn/improve your Spanish? Click for details
More information about the roundabouts - in Spanish - but scroll down to page 8 then 13 for maps and drawings. See Useful Information
Latest brainwave by the Diputación de Alicante: see Useful Information
Fire hazards: notices have been placed in strategic positions and flyers are going in buzones: for more info on how you can help everyone living on the Montgó see NHW
Need to keep your visitors occupied?? What's happening in Jávea this month - click for details.
Anyone fancy Jazz? see What's on in Jávea
Outing for visitors if you want a day's peace and quiet...?! Click for details
Costa Blanca Concerts: forward planning see What's on in Jávea
For those who missed the Ghost Tour: see Meetings & Social
NO fires or BBQs: as outlined in the Ley de Costas, fires for San Juan and barbecues are NOT permitted on the beaches in Jávea or anywhere else along the coast.
The Policía de Xàbia will be carrying out more drink/drug tests. Click for more details and always be a responsible driver.
Tues 9 May: Fire prevention advice at 10.00 at the Ermita/Ctra de Jesús Pobre. See Useful Information for a summary. This doc may appear at bottom of your screen rather than in a new window.
We have formed a Montgó NHW WhatsApp group: see Neighbourhood Watch
NB: For reasons best known to technology, some documents now don't open full screen when you click on them so you may find them lower left screen - I never said I was an expert !!
The Ayuntamiento has launched a new app called Xàbia Connecta to facilitate communication between the Town Hall and residents of Jávea. See Useful Information
Javi's last day at the Ermita Supermercado was Saturday 25 February. He's moved to premises in Els Poblets [opposite Mas y Mas]: 6 5967 7732.
General reminder: anyone renting out their property, please ensure you leave one of these posters to warn holidaymakers of the risks of fire.
You SHOULD all be aware of the Local Fire & Weather Watch site which keeps you up to date with weather and, at the moment, fires. Click for their EvacPack document - which I hope you'll never need!
Every drop counts ! Message from AMJASA 24.8.16:
A very severe and prolonged drought has caused the depletion of the wells in Pedreguer that supply us, as well as the drop in pressure available to the Pedreguer Community of Irrigators which has helped us so far.
– The Desalination Plant is working at full capacity without interruption since the daily water demand of the town in the second half of August is still higher than in previous seasons.
– Although the water supply is guaranteed for most of the network, there are some imbalances in supply due to the difficult terrain and the complications in restoring supply after breakdowns caused by high water consumption.
– In this situation Amjasa is working in extreme conditions, especially in the areas located at high levels and which have a very high demand for the watering of gardens and the maintenance of pools, in some cases even higher than the supply at full capacity.
– To avoid intermittent cuts to supply, we ask our customers to use water sensibly & focus on human consumption, thus avoiding irrigation and the filling of pools. Thank you for your cooperation
What to do with visitors... http://en.comunitatvalenciana.com/
FIRE PREVENTION | Attention Smokers: In the aftermath of the fire that destroyed two hectares in Nova Xàbia this week, the cause of which is remains unknown at the time of writing, N332 reminds you that there is a 200 € fine and three points for throwing a lit cigarette from a car. Many fires have been caused by this bad practice and N332 urges everyone to be responsible and ensure it doesn't happen again.
Mossies: StopMosquitoTigre.com (Company registered and classified at the "Registro de contratistas y empresas clasificadas de la Comunidad Valenciana") is going to carry out, at the properties who request it, the exclusive treatment against mosquitoes at a price up to 70€. Request a date and a budget by phone or WhatsApp to 0034-633-0123-78. Or Facebook, or by mail email@example.com - Jaime Tomás
Cyclist? See Useful Information re road manners in Spain.
Please conserve water! Reservoirs are at an 8-year low and although we have the desalination plant, as you know from last year, this was stretched to capacity during these two high tourist season months, so turn off taps and your car can stay dusty!
Traffic Rules - don't get caught! See Useful Information
Ambulance service: see Useful Information
Guardia: They're out in force checking you're wearing your seat belt. Lazy taxi drivers have been fined. See Useful Information re fines and points. You have been warned!
Tiger mosquitoes - rearing their ugly fangs again already: more info
Not changed your driving licence? You WILL be fined - see Useful Information
Want to explore more of Spain? see Useful Information
Cinema La Paz in Gata: Re-opened in October 2015, NOW showing some films in English! See What's on in Jávea Bottom of page includes info about Jesús Pobre, Gata and Teulada.
Cine Jayan: Live screening of ballet and opera! See What's on in Jávea
2015 & earlier info
From 27 November, you will not be able to purchase garden chemicals [against Picudo Rojo, even herbicide] unless you have completed a course, in Castellano, proving that you know how to use them correctly!
Invasive plants: Go to Useful Information for more details about plants to avoid and which are OK.
More info about driving licences: see Useful Information
A Walk in the Valls? Click for info
GUARDIA: Beware the alcohol limit for drivers in Spain is 0.05%, which is the equivalent to a small beer, but this reduces to 0.01% for new drivers (those who have passed their test within the last two years). For comparison, in England and Wales it is 0.08%, in Scotland 0.05%.
NO NOISE! If you're planning on making any or are bothered by it, click here.
Points on your driving licence!? - click for details.
Speed limit on Ctra de Jesús Pobre: Letter herewith requesting a revision of the current speed.
Interested in walking? Click for info
All resident EU expats in Spain MUST renew their driving licence. See Useful Information for details.
More traffic information, this time use of indicator [some Spaniards may need to look up the word?!] See Useful Information
How to negotiate a roundabout: this is how it should be done in Spain - click for diagram.
For advance information about cultural events in the region, scroll to the bottom of What's on in Jávea.
If you/your partner have/has become physically or mentally disabled or are terminally ill, you should be aware that you may be eligible for the Attendance Allowance. See Useful Information for details.
For more information about Jávea check out the Grapevine - see What's on in Jávea.
Want to learn more about our historic old town? See What's on in Jávea.
IBI direct debit form in English from Town Hall: yet another example of co-operation with expats to help us understand bills. English translation of the form you will receive. Click here
Forest Fire info - see Useful Information
Info re health and the padrón - see Useful Information
British Passport Renewal: this must now be done on-line. See Useful Information.
Something to Sell or Swap? See new page with that name.
Power cuts? See Useful Information
Stay up-to-date with what's happening in Jávea via Agenda 21: link on Useful Informationpage
Improved map of Montgó, showing some house numbers. See About Us


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Cat-Proof Your HouseA little bit of forethought can prevent major mishaps - for both your cat and your home.
Keeping Your Cat Happy IndoorsHere are some tips for safely confining your cat and making the great indoors an interesting, feline-friendly environment that meets all of your cat's needs.
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A nice day off!
So I went to work today and told Jared that I'd be home by lunch. He took the day off and said we could just hang out together. Now I love my husband dearly but he cannot be still! He's always doing projects around the house, so I figured he'd have some things in mind for today. As promised I got home at 12:00 for lunch, and he was nowhere around and, of course, he didn't take his cell phone (common prob. for him at our house!). He comes home from Home Depot with a truck load of stuff: 1) paint for the nursery -Ashley, what would we do without you? I told you he just couldn't wait! We got the colors you suggested; thanks so much! 2) all the supplies to paint the nursery A.S.A.P. - no, we have no idea the gender for the baby! 3) a fan for the nursery! baby just can't be hot in Texas heat! 4) 2 trees, mulch, and whatever else needed to get them in the ground and pretty. I just kept watching him come in with stuff thinking, "That's probably the last thing", but it took a few minutes to unload everything. It isn't safe for me to be around paint fumes yet, so Jared will be painting the nursery all by his big self ;-) I'll post pictures soon. I'm so thankful for Jared and his eager attitude!


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