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Firstly, I thought I should explain that my family has been unpleasantly touched by cyber bullying, so this is a topic very close to my heart and something that all parents of teens or tweens need to be aware of. Thankfully, for my boys social media is usually more of a platform for chatting, arguing and gossiping amongst their friends. There was however an incident where Lachlan made an inadvertent comment which led to a group of kids from another school waiting to bash him the next day. The incident was eventually diffused but not before causing a lot of angst and loss of sleep for my son. For my niece, being the target of cyber-bullies had far worse consequences. She attempted to take her own life. Thankfully she wasn't successful but she still struggles with it, and uses social media as a means to vent her anger and frustration.
So, how can we, as parents, know what to do about social media in this age of technology and increasing use of smart phones? It is not only cyber-bullying that I am concerned about for my children. It is the cyber-predators as well, masquerading as children. Before allowing our children to have access to the internet we need to understand it ourselves, so that we can educate them and make them aware of what to look out for. We also need to educate ourselves on the signs to look for in our kids...before it's too late.
I am certainly no expert on cybersafety but the Australian Government have already done the ground work for us, and there is a trove of information on this Easy Guide to Socialising Online.It was created in response to advice from the Australia Government Youth Advisory Group on Cybersafety - a group of young Australians providing advice on cybersafety issues.
The guide provides information about the cybersafety features of different sites including social networking sites, search engines and online games. By clicking on the logos for each site, you can learn how to adjust your privacy settings, report inappropriate content and find out more about other safety features. I urge you to click on the link above and save this guide if you have children old enough to use the internet.
The other amazing thing that I never knew about is the Cybersafety Help Button. I wonder how many other parents are like me? This is an excellent idea! You download the 'button' onto your smartphone, ipad, laptop or desktop.
It provides instant online access to cybersafety information and assistance. Your child (or yourself) can click on the button and it directs you to select either TALK (Phone numbers provided for counselling ie Kids Helpline), REPORT (abuse, scams or offensive behaviour direct to the appropriate department or social media site), OR LEARN (provides further information on cybersafety). I urge all parents to fully investigate the LEARN tab. There are links to a ton of information on predators and current scams, government departments and social media sites.
I have learnt so many things that I should have known when the boys first started using social media. The major rule we have here is that they have to keep me as a 'friend' so that I can police them, and they are not allowed to block me from any content. Occasionally I will ask them to remove an inappropriate comment or a page they have liked but usually they are pretty good about it, and I learn so much about what they are up to through their comments or those of their friends.
Do you have social media in your house? If so, I am really curious to know what cybersafe measures you have adopted for yourself and/or your kids. Were you like me and unaware of all this information available to us? I would like to think I am not the only one who lives under a rock sometimes :)
Needless to say, I spent the rest of my morning installing cybersafe buttons on all our phones and computers.


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The present volume came about as a result of my love of both biblical apologetics in defense of the Catholic faith, and compilations of great historical Catholic quotations and arguments. All in all, I shall cite twelve classic Catholic authors, and categorize the arguments or biblical commentary in order of the biblical books. Only excerpts that utilize directly biblical argumentation will be used. Multiple topics often appear under one Bible passage, and the Index of Topics at the end (69 total) is very handy to locate various subjects. 228 biblical passages are featured (including 50 from the Old Testament). I hope and pray that readers will enjoy discovering and learning from this wonderful treasure-trove of historic Catholic apologetics, as much as I enjoyed locating these precious gems and compiling them in some kind of accessible order. DAVE ARMSTRONG (b. 1958) is a full-time Catholic apologist, webmaster, and author of 36 books.
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Other than rats on a glucose [Glc], a maltose [Mal], a high-fructose corn syrup, or a fructose [Fru] rich high-fat-diet [HFD], the rats which were fed the natural alpha-linked disaccharide trehalose did not exhibit the typical signs and symptoms subsumed under the keyword "metabolic syndrome":
After 7 weeks of HFD and saccharide intake, fasting serum insulin levels in the Tre/HFD group were significantly lower than in the Mal/HFD and Glc/HFD groups (P < .05). Furthermore, the Tre/HFD group showed a significantly suppressed elevation of homeostasis model assessment–insulin resistance compared with the Mal/HFD group (P < .05) and showed a trend toward lower homeostasis model assessment–insulin resistance than the Glc/HFD group. After 8 weeks of feeding, mesenteric adipocyte size in the Tre/HFD group showed significantly less [fat] hypertrophy than the Glc/HFD, Mal/HFD, high-fructose corn syrup/HFD, or Fru/HFD group. Analysis of gene expression in mesenteric adipocytes showed that no statistically significant difference in the expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein–1 (MCP-1) messenger RNA (mRNA) was observed between the Tre/HFD group and the distilled water/standard diet group, whereas a significant increase in the MCP-1 mRNA expression was observed in the Glc/HFD, Mal/HFD, Fru/HFD, and distilled water/HFD groups.While these results certainly appear promising, I better add that the laboratory that did the study is financed by the Hayashibara company, the same company which recently developed a new technique to produce or rather to extract trehalose commercially. So treat these results with a grain of skepticism, if you understand what I mean ;-)


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"She has been a stalwart colleague in a lot of the tough decisions that we had to make and certainly with respect to defending our interests and our national security."
Rice had also "played an important role in what we've been able to accomplish in the past four years," Clinton added, pointing to U.N. sanctions which Rice helped fashion against Iran and North Korea.
Rice is one of the front-runners to succeed Clinton when she steps down early next year, but has been accused by Republicans of trying to mislead the American public over the September attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi.
The U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans were killed when militants stormed the consulate in the eastern Libyan city, in an attack which shocked the U.S. public.
Rice said on September 16 that the attack was a "spontaneous" reaction to an anti-Muslim video, using CIA talking points she now admits were wrong. Extremists linked to al-Qaida are now blamed for the attack.
"It's important to remember that what Susan said was based on the information that had been given to every senior official in our administration," Clinton insisted.
Clinton said Rice was simply trying to keep "the American people and Congress informed. That was her goal and that was her mission and she should not be criticized for doing exactly that."
Rumors are rife in Washington about Clinton's potential successor, with Rice and veteran Democratic Senator John Kerry the odds-on favorites to head up America's diplomacy.
But Rice's long-held hopes of getting the top job are now hostage to Washington power games as Republicans gun for the U.N. envoy.
Clinton said the decision on her replacement was up to President Barack Obama, and that she would "support whatever he decides".
However, she dodged a question on whether she would be prepared to stay on longer, saying only that she had promised Obama that she would do what she can to "expedite" a transition.
Clinton has also so far dismissed speculation that she will launch a new bid to be president in the 2016 elections, after narrowly missing her dream to be Democratic party candidate when she was defeated by Obama in 2008.
A Washington Post-ABC poll published Wednesday said 57 percent of Americans would support her if she ran for the White House in four years' time.
She also laughed off a suggestion that her husband, former president Bill Clinton, might be hoping to be named the next ambassador to Ireland.
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013
St Mary Axe Boats
Lowry uses the phrase "St Mary Axe Boats" in his novel Ultramarine; "One of those bloody St Mary Axe Boats; the Leeway is knocking around here. Only its wings aren't clipped." (Pg. 33).
Lowry's seems to be using a slang/colloquial phrase perhaps used by sailors to refer to the Baltic Exchange which was located at 30 St Mary Axe in London.
The Baltic Exchange is the world's only independent source of maritime market information for the trading and settlement of physical and derivative contracts. Read more on Wikipedia.
Lowry's reference may also have an ironic link in that the Leeway had been part owned by the St Mary's Steam Ship Co. Lowry's reference to the ship is probably due to members of the crew of Pyrrhus, on which Lowry sailed to the Far East, being familiar with South Wales where the Leeway had been based and the fact that the former owners St. Mary SS Co. were being investigated by the authorities for the loss of one of their ships the SS Eastway co-owned with Mr. Watkin James Williams. The case was reported in the Times and a full report can be read here.
Lowry's reference may refer to the idea that the Leeway maybe being set up to be "lost" as an insurance scam though this was not a conclusion of the inquiry into the loss of the Eastway. Lowry may have heard of "death ships" - any boat so decrepit that it is worth more to its owners over-insured and sunk than it would be worth afloat. Lowry later would become familiar with B.Traven's novel The Death Ship, about such ships, originally published in 1926 but not translated into English until 1934 when Lowry probably read the novel as his German was poor.
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What a sweet Halloween card...I love your big round pumpkin.
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Whether they are part of fixed or operable shutters, louvers should be 25 percent open and point downwards towards the house when open and downwards away from the house when closed. This angle sheds water away from the window and blocks the sun's rays from entering the room when closed and presents aesthetically pleasing shadow lines when open.


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10 January 2005 The UK's upper house of parliament is today considering a government bill which would sanction euthanasia by neglect.
The House of Lords is holding its second reading debate on the Mental Capacity Bill.
[Times, 10 January ] This stage involves discussion of the bill's principles.
Amendments are not tabled, and the house may follow custom and agree to approve the bill's progress to its next stage by acclaim rather than a vote.
The United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA) has requested $28million in its latest press report for aid to people affected by the tsunami. Among other things, this money will be used to re-establish "basic reproductive health care services".
The UNPFA has not said directly that it will provide contraceptives or abortion aids, but according to the UNPFA's "Reproductive Health in Emergency Situations" manual, it is normal procedure to distribute "Reproductive health kits" to victims of natural disasters.
These kits contain condoms, abortion-inducing drugs such as the morning after pill and portable abortion kits.
[C-Fam , 7 January] Pregnant women are among the priority groups to be helped in a $180 million, six-month UN World Food Programme aid initiative to help survivors of the 26 December Indian Ocean tidal wave.
[Breaking News, 8 January ] An inquiry commissioned by the Royal Dutch Medical Association has concluded that doctors can help patients to die even if they are not ill if they are "suffering through living".
This contradicts a recent Supreme Court decision, which declared that a patient must have a certifiable physical or mental condition if their lives are to be terminated.
The Dutch euthanasia law states that a person must be suffering "hopelessly and unbearably", which the report says can be applied to any suffering, not necessarily a recognisable physical or mental condition.
However, Henk Jochemsen, director of the anti-euthanasia Lindeboom Institute for Medical Ethics, said that the report is dangerous because it implies that "we as a society should say to people who feel their life has lost meaning: right you had better go away."
[British Medical Journal, 7 January ] President Bush is facing opposition from abortion advocates after nominating a pro-life White House legal counsel for the post of Attorney General, according to LifeSite.
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Political commentators say that his nomination is likely to be approved.
[Lifenews.com, 7 January ] China's 1.3 billionth baby was reportedly born last week in Beijing.
The Chinese government used the occasion to promote the one child policy, saying that if it had not been for its family planning campaign, China would have reached 1.3 billion inhabitants four years earlier.
US State Department officials have described the birth control program as harshly coercive.
The baby's parents celebrated and the father said: "I am the happiest guy in the world and my boy will be blessed all his life".
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The Islamic Organisation for Medical Sciences (IOMS) prepared a resolution at a conference in Cairo last month allowing scientists to carry out destructive 'therapeutic' cloning but banning human cloning for reproductive purposes.
No decision has yet been taken on allowing cloning for research purposes.
The issue has sparked controversy in traditionally pro-life Islamic nations and a decision will have significant consequences for the debate at the United Nations.
[Lifenews.com, 6 January ] An Indonesian woman who survived five days afloat in the Indian Ocean after the tsunami was found to be still pregnant.
Malawati, 20, whose husband is missing, was overjoyed when she was told that her unborn child was alive and well: "I am very glad, very happy". Doctors were amazed that she and the child had managed to survive.
[BBC, 6 January ] Women in Scotland as old as 40 could receive state-funded in vitro fertilisation if a proposal from the country's executive is approved.
The current limit is 38 and, under the plan, couples could have as many as five cycles of private fertility treatment while remaining on the waiting list for National Health Service IVF.
[Scotsman, 10 January ] Mao Hengfeng, a Chinese woman imprisoned in a labour camp for campaigning against China's one child policy, has reportedly had her sentence extended by another three months.
She lost her job after becoming pregnant with her second child, was assigned to psychiatric wards and coerced into an abortion. Her sentence was increased by Shanghai authorities despite protests from human rights groups.
[LifeSiteNews.com, 6 January ] Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, Germany, has compared abortion to the Nazi holocaust in a sermon delivered last week.
Green and Social Democrat politicians, and the country's Central Council of Jews, protested.
cardinal's office defended the comparison, which was also made with Stalin's crimes.
[LifeSite, 7 January ] There is a higher risk of infection among women who have caesarean sections than was previously thought, according to Health Protection Scotland.
A fifth of mothers who have caesareans become infected, it is claimed.
It appears that hospitals are not aware of infections which are only detected after the women have gone home and been treated by their family doctors.
[Scotland on Sunday, 9 January ] Doctors hope to spare children brain damage by monitoring their bodies' electrical activity during birth.
Practitioners at the Medical College of Georgia, USA, use Swedish-made machines to monitor ST segment activity for signs of distress.
The college's Dr Lawrence Devoe said that the umbilical cord, brain and heart function needed to be conserved "almost at all costs".
[Medical News Today, 9 January ] An American government study suggests that births to couples undergoing assisted reproduction decline once women reach their mid-30s, falling to just four percent over the age of 42.
The Centers for Disease Prevention and Control research also shows that the number of babies born in the USA after assisted reproduction rose from more than 40,000 in 2001 to 45,000 the year after.
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Swedish Taxes and Prostitution
But let me just repeat that in case you are just skimming. Prostitutes in Sweden want to pay taxes. Want to.
I just love the fact that people actually want to pay taxes here in Sweden. Coming from the US, "taxes" is like a dirty word and politicians promise to lower them to cheers from thousands of onlookers. In Sweden, people get upset when politicians lower taxes, and some people who are currently not paying taxes actually want in on the action. Despite their profession being, well, a bit under the table.
The idea is that the prostitutes want the social benefits that come with being a tax payer. And I suppose prostitution could probably use those benefits. Does not a prostitute get sick like you and me? Does not a prostitute have children like you and me? Does not a prostitute want to take vacation like you and me? Does not a prostitute want to retire? The answer is yes. And to some of those questions maybe even more emphatically than the average person.
However, it seems to me that the widespread paying of taxes by prostitutes might being up a few, shall we say, issues. Filing taxes in Sweden is quite easy. I was pleasantly surprised actually when I did it. However, there are records to be kept, and if you're in a certain line of business, receipts to be kept. So with the furthered legitimization of prostitution comes paperwork.
And paperwork means better records. And with better records comes the potential for tracing who it is that is buying sex. It's a bit of a conundrum really. The Local quotes Blank Thörnroos as saying "[o]ne should really have accounting records. And in actuality [customers] should write out a receipt, because the transaction is considered a private operation which is subject to value added tax. But customers' names need not be on the receipt."
Because that will work like a charm. For some reason, I don't imagine too many sex buyers really wanting a receipt for their recent purchase. But I may be wrong. Maybe it's tax deductible if done on the company dime.
Anyway, bad jokes aside, I find this Catch-22 a bit perplexing. Buying sex is illegal. Selling it is not. Paying taxes on the purchase of sex would legitimize it. But to pay taxes someone needs to be buying it. Which, remember? Is illegal. I guess I just don't really understand. Either make it legal. Or make it illegal. But to have this half-ass nonsense is just ridiculous.
In the end, I'm not all that interested in the prostitution law itself. I just love the fact that prostitutes want to pay taxes in Sweden. Not exactly your average headline in America.
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7 comments:
You're so right! American headlines are full of Mrs. Palin and her family right now. Am I right, or is she a tabloid queen only in Europe?ReplyDelete
Sorry about the previous comment. I created a post of my own about that subject instead. It was just so tempting to comment...ReplyDelete
In Finland the prostitution law is pretty much the same as in Sweden. Now we're talking about the same issues in both countries. I think that, like in many cases, Finland is waiting for Sweden to do something and react based on that. Recently Sweden has done the same thing, e.g. with alcohol tax lowering. Which was a bit of disaster in Finland so they did nothing such in Sweden... That could a subject for another post, but let's face it, it's not THAT interesting.
Another good post from you still!
no worries at all. and ome on now, anything that ahs to do with alcohol prices seems to be of interest here in sweden.ReplyDelete
It's a funny what Sweden does to people. Enjoying paying tax is one of them: me included. Good point there, with the "catch-22" I don't quite see a way around it either. Maybe they should make it legal for both parties, instead of pretending it doesn't exist. Prostitution became legal in New Zealand a few years back and seriously it took a turn for the better, than the worse (as many critics expected), it took the prostitutes off the streets into safer residences and it cleaned up really (according to the newspapers and also the decrease in the amount of tartly dressed women on the streets after 11pm).Anyway, that's not saying i think this occupation is right, but well, if people want to do it, they have the right to be safe (and maybe pay taxes) at least.ReplyDelete
Anyway, nice post. I've subscribed to your blog and it's now become part of my daily ritual :-)
it is an interesting issue isn't it. I suppose it really comes down to whether to legalize it or not. because to pay taxes on something that is technically illegal to purchase just confuses me. but that being said... hell if they want to pay I doubt the government will turn down the tax money.ReplyDelete
Prostitution and taxes are both wrong.ReplyDelete


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