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A Shift from Hindukush to the Arabian Sea
The signing of the proposed bilateral security agreement between the US led coalition and the Afghan government is nowhere near sight, even though the declared deadline for the complete withdrawal of coalition-led forces by the end of 2014 is drawing closer everyday. This has led to a feeling of growing pessimism amongst the general public as well as those at the helm of public affairs; there is ample historic evidence to support this phenomenon. It took barely a few years for the South Vietnamese regime to fall into the hands of the North Vietnamese after the departure of US troops and drawing upon financial support, the fall of Dr. Najibullah's pro-Soviet Kabul regime to the Taliban was no different a story. While the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was successfully thwarted when Soviet troops withdrew a decade later by an alliance whose three main partners were Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United States, it was the latter's unceremonious and almost sudden withdrawal from this theatre of war, which sent this region into a socio-political mayhem, which continues to date with no immediate end in sight.
Though this uncertainty exists on both sides of the Durand line, the impact of the disputed border between Afghanistan and Pakistan seems to be more profound in the latter, where the unprecedented crisis of terrorism and extremism is multiplying in its gravity with each passing day. Extremism along with its vicious byproduct, terrorism, is not only feeding on the opportunities created by the existing cultural, ethnic, political, religious, and sectarian fault lines, but is also creating ever-new pastures for militants to graze on.
The veteran "Mujahideen" in a war torn country should have been de-weaponized and re-civilized in the post-conflict scenario, but instead they were left on their own in a devastated economy and polity. Resultantly, what started as a movement against the Soviets subsequently went on to confront the so-called anti-Islamic Western powers and manifested itself in its most lethal dimension on 9/11. As the developed nations beefed up their internal security institutions and techniques, the muzzle of the extremist gun turned inwards towards Muslims in the region who belonged to brands of Islam other than their own. Now the menace of sectarianism, which had always existed in some form in South/West Asia, had a new lease of life. The militants went up against the non-Sunni Islamic sects like the Shias and the Ahmadis, a sect which disputes the status of Muhammad as the last prophet. Their latter target was the peace loving moderate Sufi/Barelvi sub-sect within the Sunni faith and now their latest victim is the nonviolent and nonpolitical group of preachers called the Tablighi Jama'at within their own Deobandi/Ahl e Hadith fold. A bomb blast on a Tablighi center in Peshawar killed eight and injured another 50 on January 16th, 2014.
It would not be out of place to mention here that about four fifths of Muslims throughout the world and South/West Asia belong to the mainstream Sunni sect which stresses following the Quran and traditions of Muhammad, the prophet, in spiritual and political affairs of life, while the remaining one fourth belong to the Shia sect in which spiritual and political leadership is the exclusive right of the lineage/house of the prophet. Within the Sunni sect almost three fourths belong to the tolerant Barelvi/Sufi branch while one fourth belongs to the more puritanical and aggressive Deobandi and Wahabi branches, with Wahabis making up only a small fraction of the last subgroup. Wahabi/Salafi/Ahl-e-Hadith is the state religion of Saudi Arabia, which got a great boost in Pakistan and Afghanistan during the Mujahideen movement against the Soviets because of the military, financial and, most importantly, ideological injection from the Saudis. The Middle East and South/West Asia have always been an intra-Islamic ideological battleground between the Saudis and Iranians for their Wahabi and Shia faiths respectively. Saudi backing for their brand during the anti-Soviet resistance period in the region provided a natural motivation for the Iranians to step in. Sectarianism in Afghanistan and Iran thus had and still has a substantial backing from the oil rich regional forces. Needless to say, sectarian conflicts have further complicated the "Politics of faith" and resultant crisis manifolds.
While this wave of fundamentalism has by and large affected the entire region, its leadership and the governing "Shura" remains physically located in Quetta and tribal areas on the Western Pushtun belt of Pakistan adjoining Afghanistan. The federally administered tribal areas (FATA) of Pakistan have provided a safe haven for the Taliban and Al-Qaeda since 2001 when their regimes in Afghanistan were toppled by the US and allied forces with full support from Pakistan. Pakistan's dual strategy of collaborating with some of the militants while unleashing its forces against others has effectively failed, not only displeasing the US and its allies but also strengthening the militants who have taken full advantage of it by consolidating their position and merging it into a unified whole under the joint leadership of Mullah Omar and Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri. They have also strategically extended their sphere of influence to other parts of Pakistan. The most dangerous manifestation of this metastasis can be seen in Karachi, the largest city of Pakistan and the Islamic world, with a population of around 20 million.
Accounting for more than half of Pakistan's economic activity (Pakistan is the sixth most populated country in the world), Karachi, which started with a population base of less than half a million at the time of Pakistan's creation in 1947, has absorbed waves of migrants from India, other neighboring countries like Iran and Bangladesh, and from within Pakistan itself. As the largest industrial center and the only commercially viable port in Pakistan and landlocked Afghanistan, Karachi had always been the favorite destination for Pushtuns who dominate Pakistan's transport sector. Their rate of migration to Karachi increased manifolds after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
At the time of the last census in 1998, the Urdu speaking "Mohajirs" of Indian origin accounted for almost half of Karachi's population, while the Pushtuns made up only a little more than one tenth. The Talibanization and the resultant chaos in the tribal areas and the adjoining settled areas of Khyber Pakhtunkwah, the North Western home province of most of the Pushtuns in Pakistan, has caused a problematic demographic dispersal of Pushtun tribesmen towards the South of the country, with the biggest percentage choosing Karachi as their favorite destination.
The latest wave of Pushtun migrants to Karachi started in 2009 and involves the internally displaced persons from Swat and South Wazirastan, the areas where Pakistan's army had carried out anti-Taliban operations that year. Now the Pushtun population of Karachi is estimated to be more than four million and even up to five million according to some estimates, including about a million Afghan refugees, making it the city with the largest Pushtun/Afghan population in the world. The favorite destinations of Pushtuns are the slums or "Katchi abadis", which are spread in all corners of the city where large Pushtun neighborhoods already exist.
Karachi had been a hotbed of ethnic and political conflicts since the 80s when the Pakistani military establishment supported the formation of a political entity for Mohajirs called the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM) to counter nationalist Sindhi elite. The evolution of this party was fraught with troubles, as it had to create a place for itself by haggling against the dominant political forces of the city, the leftist Pakistan People's Party and the fundamentalist, Jama'at e Islami. Its next battle was against the Awami National Party, the main representative of the Pushtun population of the city, for grabbing state land and political space.
But it is not all about demography. Much more important are the changes that have taken place on the religious landscape. The dominant population of Karachi (comprising more than two thirds), like in the rest of South Asia, is composed of the mild Barelvi or Sufi branch of Sunni Islam. The rest of the population is almost equally divided between Shias and the Deobandi/Ahl e Hadith/Wahabi/Salafi branches of Sunni Islam. The massive influx of petro-dollars from the Gulf, predominantly from Saudi Arabia to support the Afghan resistance in the name of Islamic Jihad against the Soviet Union, was also accompanied by a concomitant export of Saudi brand extremist Wahabi/Salafi Islam, which was also doctrinally very close to the Deobandi Sunni Islam, which is followed by the Pushtun/Afghan population of both Pakistan and Afghanistan. This extremist pro-jihad brand of Islam is adhered to by less than one fifth of Pakistanis, but their representation in religious schools or madrassas is lopsided in their favor with almost two thirds of Pakistan's more than 20 thousand madrassas in their fold. The internationally well-known madrassas like "Dar ul Aloom Haqqania", located in Akora Khattack, Peshawar and Lal Masjid, Islamabad are amongst them. This doctrinal change in madrassa profile has adversely affected the sectarian dynamics of Karachi. The leading Deobandi madrassa of Karachi, "Jamia Uloom ul Islamia" has an enrollment of more than 12 thousand boarding facilities for students from more than 60 countries and has linkages to key Taliban leader. This is evident from the fact that it has given an honorary degree to Mullah Omar.
The return of Ayatollah Khomeini to Iran in 1979 and the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic regime was looked upon with great interest by the Pakistani Shias who make up about 20 percent of Pakistan's population. The then military ruler of Pakistan, Gen. Zia ul Haq, promulgated the "Zakat & ushr ordinance" by virtue of which every citizen was bound to deposit the religiously determined 2.5 percent tax in state coffers. The Shias launched a countrywide protest against this and forced the dictator to exempt them from this injunction. However, this was the first formal step of the Shias towards having a politically active sectarian entity, which also brought them to the sectarian limelight.
The sectarian war on the regional front between Iran and Saudi Arabia had stepped into Pakistan and their petrodollars began to flow into sectarian outfits which has hitherto resulted in the loss of more than five thousand lives, mostly of the minority Shia sect. The tragedy continues and mostly professionals and important businessmen are targeted.
The provocative and aggressive conduct of radical Deobandi and Shia outfits in recent years have ultimately led to the organization and radicalization of the peace-loving majority, the Barelvis, into "Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at" in Karachi. So, yet another key actor has emerged on the sectarian scene.
In the post 9/11 situation within the Pushtun/Afghan population of Karachi, the liberal, secular and anti-Taliban Awami National Party has been slowly losing political ground to the ever-increasing numbers of pro-Taliban elements.
Osama Bin Laden, Dr. Ayman al Zawahiri, Mullah Omar and their associates had already started the process of reaching out to Karachi and Faislabad, Pakistan's third largest city, after the fall of their regime in Kabul, when the Pakistani forces had started getting hold of their key leaders in the tribal belt. Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, the key architect of 9/11 and the person who beheaded Daniel Pearl and his nephew along with many others, had taken refuge in Karachi. Being an internationally connected business and commercial hub, Karachi not only provided these renegade elements with unlimited opportunities in terms of provision of safe hideouts and the possibility of providing safe exit to their nominated leaders, but also acted as a safe conduit for the transfer of funds from their sympathetic donors in the Gulf. There is also ample evidence of outflow of funds to extremist organizations in Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
The traditional power troika of political parties, which ruled Karachi during the last three decades, was always known for its internecine clashes and conflicts. Now, however, the equation has changed.
The result of the 2013 general elections is clear proof of the ability of extremist outfits to determine the outcome of political processes in Pakistan. The Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the flagship organization of about 50 or so groups of jihadi outfits within Pakistan, had clearly warned the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), ANP, and MQM, the largest political parties of Pakistan, the North Western predominantly Pushtun province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Karachi respectively, not to hold public rallies and contest elections. They could not hold election rallies and their leaders could neither address public gatherings nor could they reach out to their voters in door-to-door campaigns. With the exception of MQM, which has a very organized and well regimented structure, the other two were almost wiped out from the political arena, giving in to the Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz group (PMLN) and Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI), which have formed governments in Islamabad and Peshawar respectively. Karachi will be facing the same predicament in time and there is a sense of panic anticipating this within political circles.
Provincial police in Karachi, with its rag tag strength of about 30 thousand, is no match for these forces. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police, the main organization responsible for anti-terrorist activities in Karachi, met a severe blow when its head of the investigation wing was killed in a roadside blast on January 9th, 2014 and the TTP claimed responsibility. Another key officer of the same organization was gunned down four days later in another incident. Unfortunately, law enforcement agencies have limited abilities. Even when they do manage to apprehend the culprits, the prosecution and the legal system simply lack the ability to punish them. Firstly, no one dares to step forward to give evidence in the court and secondly, the prosecutors and judges are under mortal threat by the organizations behind these crimes.
The government of Pakistan conducted three cleansing operations in Karachi during the 90s to rid the city of criminal gangs with limited success. Now a fourth operation is in the process with the support of "Rangers", the paramilitary force. There are large townships within the city such as Liyari, Manghopir, Orangi, Sohrabgoth, Korangi and Azizabad often with populations exceeding a million each where gangs belonging to various ethnic and political identities have established "No go areas". Armed gangsters move in the streets collecting taxes and maintaining their own brand of law and order. The Pushtun/Afghan tribesmen have established their strongholds in several areas, but mostly in the East and West districts. Their style of control thrives on spreading their own brand of Islam through madrassas and religious seminaries, collecting taxes in the name of Islam, and even providing speedy justice through mobile "Qazi courts".
Governance by the state is almost nonexistent in several large swathes of Karachi. Even where it does exist the rogue elements seem to be systemically eroding it. Because of the assistance provided by Dr. Shakil Afridi to the CIA in identifying DNA of the family members of Osama Bin Laden by acting as leader of a vaccination team, the entire Taliban machinery now fully opposes provision of vaccination to children in their areas of influence. Resultantly, Peshawar has now been declared the biggest single hotbed of poliovirus in the world. Almost 30 polio vaccinators have been killed since then. The same is being replicated in Karachi where recently three members of a polio team were killed while performing their duty.
Practice of unabashed and systemic spread of influence by Taliban continues in ever-new dimensions each passing day. On January 18th, 2014 the media van of "Express TV" was attacked in Karachi and three of their staff were killed. TTP not only openly accepted responsibility for this act, but also warned all other media houses in the country not to indulge in anti-Taliban propaganda. The Prime Minister has created a team of two of his senior ministers to look into the media's security issues in the current scenario.
The Taliban has the advantage of having an almost unified command structure. Forces belonging to Al-Qaeda as well as the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban factions owe allegiance to the "Quetta shura" and their "Ameer ul Momineen", Mullah Omar. As against that, the Pakistan establishment faces multiple challenges of dissent and difference of opinion within itself. Several major political entities like the PPP, MQM, and ANP favor outright military action against the militants, while religious parties and PTI strongly oppose this idea.
The prospect of Taliban taking over Kabul in the post 2014 withdrawal of US/ISAF troops from Afghanistan is a very scary proposition for Pakistan. Most of the Afghan Taliban has its tribal and seminary roots in Pakistan and it will be in a far more powerful capacity to influence events in Pakistan if they have a regime of their own on the other side of the border.
It is in this backdrop that Pakistan is looking at the menace of the Taliban. An outright action against the Taliban could unleash mayhem in terms of spreading violence in every corner of the country and could displace virtually millions of people from the tribal belt creating a humanitarian crisis.
It is the considered opinion of most security analysts that fighting the militants in the huge urban jungle of Karachi would be far more difficult than fighting them in the tribal belt.
What the Pakistani establishment needs is to come out of its current phase of indecisiveness by bringing the divergent views in its political circles to a consensus as quickly as possible and put forth a concerted, holistic effort to handle this crisis and then solicit international support in the second phase. And what the international community needs to do is to empathize with the difficulties faced by an impoverished ally in coping with a network of dedicated suicidal fundamentalist outfits which definitely have the capacity to regionalize and globalize their organization and destructive might.


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Working within community and social care settings is core to CLAHRC NWL. Whilst evident in all themes, two notable research projects are highlighted. A shared finding across these projects is the importance of having care networks in place. David Sunkersing discusses his work in the 'Frailty' theme exploring patient networks. Sophie Spitters covers healthcare professional networks as part of her work in the 'Early Years' theme.
Frail individuals' care networks
David Sunkersing
Ongoing research within the Frailty theme has illustrated the importance of the care support network of an individual – and, indeed, the interplay between physical, social, mental and environmental domains. One project at CLAHRC NWL seeks to greater understand the holistic and proactive approaches used in the care of a frail individual, the importance of the 'patient network' (e.g. family, friends, physio) – and aims to understand its impacts from both a patient and healthcare professional perspective.
Looking at these networks in more detail, we find that amongst the healthcare professionals in these networks, a variation in assessments used to assess frail individuals exists. Though recently published guidelines emphasise the importance of assessing frailty in individuals with existing comorbidities1, a lack of standardisation and a consequent variation in assessment practices and support given across healthcare settings and professions exists2,3. Establishing the assessment practices for frail individuals – and whether existing networks of an individual can be leveraged to maximise the management of their frailty, are areas that both require further research. As such, research into these two areas has been conducted in the community setting, acute care setting and longer-term care setting.
Ultimately, identifying, assessing and managing frailty can present many challenges; understanding that frailty is a complex, long term condition can aid in providing approaches that will contribute towards healthy ageing and capability across the life course.
Healthcare professional networks
Sophie Spitters
In the Early Years theme, ongoing research highlights the importance of networks between healthcare professionals. I follow a series of improvement projects that aim to improve the care for children with allergic diseases. All project teams started off with similar ideas. They wanted to improve the patient journey in the healthcare system and they wanted to implement nurse-led clinics in the community to do so. However, they encountered difficulties and saw opportunities that led them to change the plan. Some changes were small, some were rather hefty4. However, when asking people about their projects, I noticed one thing kept coming up. People kept mentioning the value of the interactions they had with different professionals; the value of relationships.
The relationships that were established across the allergy improvement projects came in different shapes and forms. In one project specialist doctors met up with GPs during lunch time to discuss queries about the allergic diseases of patients in general practice. In another project, school nurses shared concerns about the asthma of their pupils via phone with specialist nurses. They would give guidance on what to do or suggest to refer the child to their community clinic. A third project implemented multidisciplinary clinics in secondary care, run by consultants, nurses and dietitians together. This way, patients could get their tests, medication and education all in the same appointment. And healthcare professionals could easily check-in with their colleagues.
These relationships make a network of healthcare professionals who look after children with allergic diseases. Through this network, expertise is shared and actions are coordinated, which supports better care and better experience for patients.
The English poet John Donne once said, "No man is an island". In support of this statement, our work in community and social care settings demonstrates that proactive use and development of networks, whether that be a patient or healthcare professional network, offers many benefits.
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. [Online]. Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and management. 2016. [Last accessed 31 August 2017]. Available here
- Sunkersing, D., Reed, J., Martin, F. and Bell, D. Frailty: Assessment and Communication within a Care Home Setting. Poster presented at: Past, Present and Future of Medicine: Society for Acute Medicine and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Conference; 2016 September 12-13; Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
- NHS Improvement. [Online]. Rapid Improvement Guide to: Identifying and managing frailty at the front door. 2016. [Last accessed 31 August 2017]. Available here
- Spitters, S.J.I.M., Reed, J. and Warner, J.O. Tailoring Interventions in the diffusion of an allergy program. Poster presentation at: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare; 2017 April; London, United Kingdom. Available here

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"Our top story tonight concerns an explosion that occurred in Oklahoma today. We're not sure what happened and no one has been able to get to the exact spot to give a report. It appears to have occurred between Miami and Bartlesville, but the news media and police alike are having trouble getting a fix on exactly where the explosion occurred." A fuzzy picture of a rural area came on screen behind the anchorman's head.
"Look! It's the time warp!" Stilts walked to the set thinking he could see better up close. "See the shimmer? That's what we're looking for all right! Come on!" He started for the door.
"Wait a minute, Mr. Stilts, let's see what they're saying." Zach's dad held up his hand for silence as the commentator continued.
"The explosion registered a 5.7 on the Richter scale, but there's no evidence of a quake and nothing seems to have been damaged. The most unusual effects of it seem to be in the area of time. No one can agree on the day or time within 300 miles."
"That's enough for me, too!" Sparrow looked at Zach. "How do we get to this Oklahoma?
"Well, we're in Indiana right now. How about I show you a map? That will be easier than trying to explain." Mr. Thomas reached over to the table where a road atlas lay. Zach opened it to a map of the US and showed Sparrow where they were and where they had to go. They were between four hundred and four hundred and fifty miles from Miami, Oklahoma.
"Do our miles correspond to yours, Sparrow?" Zach asked.
"I think they're about the same. But we could get there quicker if we let Angari fly us there, I guess."
"Who's Angari?" Mrs. Thomas asked.
"Oh, boy. How do I explain Angari, Stilts?" Zach saw Angari leaning over the map on the far side of Sparrow.
"Let me try," the old man said. "You see, in our land the angels are visible. Here, they aren't. It must have something to do with your world being wounded. In any case, Angari would be known here as an angel. In our land they are called Alari because of their wings."
"He has wings?" Sarah Thomas looked with awe at the spot Zach had
indicated. "He's an angel? Did you say they are here as well? All the time only we can't see them?"
"That's right, Ma'am," Sparrow spoke up. "Angari, do you think you could let the Thomases see you just this once?"
There was a long silence and then Angari changed before Zach's eyes.
He began to glow; his garments became bright white and his skin golden bronze. Zach heard a gasp from his parents as Angari came into full view. Even Stilts and Sparrow stepped back a pace.
"Why don't you look like that in Windfallow?" whispered Stilts, for once subdued.
"Because you couldn't endure the sight of so many of us in this form." Angari spread his glistening wings. "Can you imagine what it would be like to order us around if we looked like this?"
"Order you around?" Sparrow grew pale. "We do, don't we? And we
never think a thing of it. Why do you let us?"
"Because we're your servants. That's part of our service to the Maker, to give glory to Him and to serve His people. Our service gives Him glory."


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Ecommerce sector is rapidly growing and time and again more importance have been diverted to making websites more mobile-friendly. The millennial generation of today are using less and less desktops and more of mobiles when it comes to shopping, emailing and social networking. The endless amount of time that people spend on mobile devices is big enough reason to make changes on websites and make it more user-friendly. Mobile Ecommerce has led online retail industry to grow exponentially with over 2 billion people making use of mobile phones for all eCommerce transactions. In US alone, the estimate is targeted to grow by 40% by the end of 2018. With this data and upcoming growing usage and knowledge based user perception, more and more people are getting onto online retail buying and selling. Let us discuss three basic steps the store owners may look into to:
Uses of Mobile
The basic functions of a mobile device are to ensure giving its users same accessible points as in the desktop. The screen size of a mobile and tablet is small so sometimes it becomes pretty much frustrating for users to widen the screen every time to click on an online webpage option. A mobile site makes it all easy for users to navigate through the site and give its users best experience. Mobile versions of the webpage are split into 3 main types: responsive websites, mobile subdomains and dynamic content:
It is recommended to make use of responsive design wherever possible. It helps mobile layouts to properly fit into mobile screen and no changes to code or the structure of the wesbite. The use of mobile subdomains and dynamic content serving may work good but with less functionality in cases where responsive designs are not always possible.
Speed of Mobile
Customers today are looking for greater experiences with websites whether on desktops or mobile devices. Hence, slow loading times are a little off-beat when it comes to analyzing the speed of the website and user experiences. The short user attention span brings in greater challenges for website owners to make their sites more user-friendly and give faster results. The statistical data calculated between 2012 and 2014 showed the average size of webpages doubled which further led to a rise of 30% by 2016. All this clearly demonstrates the need to have faster loading times for webpages and have a smoother experience.
User-friendly webpage load times
The site owners can estimate the site performance by using Google Pagespeed tool; these tools do not necessarily measure the speed of your site. The sites are based on some basic but firm criteria that do not take into consideration real world situations; it doesn't affect a user from other country visiting your site.
Technical fixation
To make a webpage load more efficiently, it requires a lot of developmental work although there are several means through which it can greatly impact the performance of the webpage:
- Hosting – every website requires a host server, if it's a shared hosting than it may impact the load times so changing to a good hosting provide can show positive impact on overall website page.
- Images – Images are probably a common issue the websites face because they are uncompressed image that takes a huge amount of space and thus affecting the loading of the website.
- WordPress – WordPress uses a lot of plugins, if unwanted plugins are removed it can drastically show up on load times.
Google's Mobile-first Index
Google's "mobile-first index" announcement in the year 2016 has taken the mobile development markets by storm. Time and again their updates have shown that mobile designs are first preferred and the sites may get negative markings if the site are not mobile friendly. Mobile first Index is specially been revealed to give more importance on mobile technology hence it is a slow transitioning to crawling and indexing the web's content from mobile point of view.
Mobile first approach is targeted to make websites more responsive, usually the sites developed by Ecommerce developers are by default responsive. Google webmaster tools use "fetch and render "tool to stimulate by Googlebot that shows if the content is blocked or read by Google.
The above image shows how Google interprets the page and how a user sees it and shows the resources that were not loaded. You can also see technical information in "Fetch" tab, this information helps to debug the configuration of a mobile page and search for errors. Given below is a Mobile usability report giving overview of issues detected:
Ecommerce retails can easily transition from desktop websites to Ecommerce mobile through responsive web designs. It helps for higher turnover through retention since customers are looking for faster load time. Mobile websites are preferred first compared to desktop designs as clearly announced by Google. There are several reasons as to Why mobile friendly websites are need of an hour!


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Moms Feet
After Dad passed away in 2006 I was rushing around getting the family home converted so I could "liberate" Mom from the care home she moved to while Dad got worse with his cancer.
No sooner had I got Mom home than we had to make a number of trips to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital because of her poor circulation and particularly because of her swollen and painful feet.
We were both amazed when one day I was asked to deliver her to the Othapedic Appliances Dept, where we discovered that she was entitled to get one pair (per year) of made to measure shoes or boots. And whats more, when we finally took delivery of them we dicovered the uppers were all leather and the shoes had been made in BIRMINGHAM - who knew?
The shoes were made to very detailed measurements (and a foot plan) prepared in the Orthapedic Appliances Dept and we had to attend a fitting session before she got to leave with her new shoes.
Mom was as pleased as punch with her shoes because she got rid of the horrible slipper type booties supplied by West Heath Hospital (with holes cut in the sides to cater for her bunions).
Luckily Mom lived long enough to get two pairs of these made to measure shoes. Don't anyone let you believe the NHS doesn't provide quality stuff - if we had wanted to buy a pair of these shoes we would have to have found £150.00 - £200.00 per pair!!


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Today, we are happy to share that DBIT students have struck gold again in this competition!
In fact, we did even better than last year, emerging as the 1st runner-up InnovateIT 2014!
|The winning team with their mentor.
From left: Sally, Kenneth, Boh Cheh Wee (lecturer) and Anu
The winning team consisting of two DBIT Year 3 students Sally Chin and Anudharshini and one recent DBIT graduate, Kenneth Tan beat 40+ teams to emerge second in this yearly competition organised by SMU (Singapore Management University)!
And wow, they got a really cool prize for the win - a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1!
|Photo credits to Sally
Besides the students who worked hard and got their well-deserved rewards, we must not also forget the lecturers who mentored and helped them in their journey to their success. The following lecturers provided support for the students:
- Boh Cheh Wee - He was the mentor of the winning team who provided guidance and advice to the team in their preparation for the competition.
- Tan Hu-Shien – He brought the students to Hackathons so that they can learn from there. In addition, he also provided feedback and critic during the rehearsal.
- Clarence Ng – He was the main person who gave feedback to the students' proposals and helped to enhance their presentation skills.
- Chong Chee Seng - He oversaw the competition preparation and mentored two teams.
- Justin Monreal - He was the mentor of one of the 4 teams which joined the competition.
There are also more photos posted by the organiser, SMU at their Facebook Page.
|Photo credits to SMU InnovateIT committee
Team Vulxe – (They got in the Semi-Finals)
- Glenn Ng Guo You
- Ong De Xing
- Puah Zheng Yi
- Mentor – Chong Chee Seng
Team FOT
- Tobias Lim Kuo Jie
- Harrison Wong Jun Yong
- Lee Chi Han
- Mentor – Chong Chee Seng
Team Renewed
- Mentor – Justin Monreal


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Race report by Alexander Hagberg:
There was a warm-up race held as a practice for the upcoming ETS round in Riccione, close to Rimini, on the east coast of Italy. In modified, I was quickly able to find a good setup during the open practice on Friday and Saturday. Thanks to close team work together with Francesco Martini and Alessio Menicucci, we could work towards a good basic setting for the race on Sunday.
I managed to take the TQ position by winning 2 rounds out of 4 in qualifying, as well as setting the quickest overall time in the process. Alessio Menicucci showed a very strong pace, and TQed Q4, to put himself 2nd on the grid.
In the finals, I could win A1 & 3 unchallenged. In A2 I had problem with traction due to a different tire strategy, which gave the win to Daniel Baldissari. Alessio was unfortunately the victim of a couple of incidents, and had to settle for 3rd overall.
In the Pro Stock class, Mattia Collina was the man to beat, taking a convincing TQ position, and converting it into a win in the finals with his T4'17! Mattia was the winner of this ETS event last year, and is certainly looking to be in good form this year as well! Nico Catelani came in 2nd, running for XRAY as well, and Gabriele Berselli rounded out the podium for our team!
The formula class was won by Gianni Zonzini from San Marino! He took his X1'17 to an impressive win in front of ETS Championship leader David Ehrbar! This meant that XRAY secured the win in every category this weekend!
It was a great warm-up and test session for the ETS, with a lot of fun on and off the track as well! It's always great to hang out with our Italian XRAY team – always a good laugh! We are looking forward to an equally strong performance by the entire XRAY team at the ETS in a few weeks!
- Alexander Hagberg – XRAY T4'17
- Daniel Baldisarri VBC
- Alessio Menicucci – XRAY T4'17
- Andrea Ghilotti – XRAY T4'17
- Ronald Völker Yokomo
- Alessio Mancini – XRAY T4'17
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- Giacomo Montanari VBC
- Andrea Selva – XRAY T4'17
- Roberto Fabiano Associated
- Mirco Biondi VBC
- Gianni Zonzini – XRAY T4'17
Formula results:
- Gianni Zonzini – XRAY X1'17
- David Ehrbar Serpent
- Bryan Ferrara
- Andrea Selva – XRAY X1'17
- Valerio Solcà – XRAY X1'17
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Hot Legs & Feet presents: A chemistry professor with a thing for shoes and feet is in a vulnerable position when his students are as fetching as the Hungarian Denise in the red heels and the Romanian Aida Sweet in the pink. See what we mean as Professor Neeo succumbs to his passion with two playful girls. Their test scores are forgotten as they vamp Neeo with their pretty footwear, and he gets on his knees to suck Aida'... show more
s stilettos. When the shoes come off, he inhales their aroma deeply. Denise takes off her pumps too, and soon Neeo is feasting his mouth on their peds through the lacy stockings. Of course, girls need to suck on something themselves, and Neeo's shaft comes in handy as Aida slurps the tip before shifting to savor Denise's feet. It really is an explosive chemistry of foot and crotch elements here as Neeo moves from worshipping their feet to chowing down on Aida's clam. Soon enough he's banging the girls too, his desires obviously not limited to feet. But it's to feet he returns when the ladies take off their stockings and present their bare toes to him, and the girls of course can't resist sucking each other's digits. It all ends in a fine creaming as the students engulf their prof's tool with their agile soles in this foot worship epic!
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Child pornography sentence leads man to tears
A man who was convicted of possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography in May was sentenced last month to 12 years in prison. The man -- a former Army colonel -- cried when he heard the sentence. On top of the time in prison, he will have to serve 10 years of supervised release once he gets out of prison.
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Latitude Blue
Latitude Blue are a band from Oxford/Swindon (bet they don't talk about football!). Moments of the first track !961 sound a bit like I'm So Hollow (compulsory reference to something obscure but brilliant). Add some B-Movie, Psychedelic Furs, and House Of Love but remember these are influences not copying, and you've got a band to be reckoned with. I'll Be Free is perhaps even better as it adds some extra guitar dynamic and a grungy touch to the proceedings.
It isn't spectacular music – Latitude Blue seem to know that great bands don't need to try to hard to impress. No Justin Hawkins and high pitched theatrics needed here – just great melodies, great harmonies, great guitar, great songs to pull your heart out and place it back on a new axis. Gareth Nutter's voice has all the qualities you could ever want to hear – emotional impact honed with heavy-duty sandpaper.
I've been talking with Nick from Alt-Rock review and we both agree that this EP is one of the highlights of all the CDs we have been sent. I normally find it difficult to assess a band just from a few tracks but in this case I can say that Latitude Blue are part of what makes my musical world go around.
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For the compassion, first you try to recognize your own basic feeling which is wish to be happy and doesn't want to be suffer. So everybody has this feeling. So you try to connect with your own feeling first. You come here also looking for happiness. For far, from different places, you come here. And while you are here you are also looking for happiness. I see this you know. If you sit this too long become cause of suffering. I see little bit of happiness but then it is too long. And this too long.
That is why, each movement, each movement is looking for happiness, to avoid problem, suffering. Each eyes blink also looking for happiness. If you do like this, if you don't move your eyes for few seconds then begin to develop suffering. And even with the breath. So first you try to understand and try to connect with your basic feeling which we call wish to be happy is loving kindness. And doesn't want to be suffer is compassion. So everybody has loving kindness compassion for that sense. Once you understand, once you have connection with yourself then you try to understand this within others. So everybody has same basic feeling which is to be happy, doesn't want to be suffer. So slowly slowly you can connect with other people. We all have different outer look, skin different, color different, some taller, shorter. But basic feeling we all have same feeling. It is like we are all like one part of big family. But normally you don't see this, you don't recognize this. Then you just think oh that person I don't like that person because that person doesn't like to eat chili and I like to eat chili. I don't like that person because that person doesn't like it. Or I don't like that person because that person talk more than me. I don't like that person, that person is fatter than me or skinner than me, taller than me. This thinking which is not really, you cannot find common ground, you cannot find connection is because you don't really understand the basic feeling which is we all have sense of loving kindness and compassion.


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Tommy MacDonald and WGBH pursue a new woodworking show
You might know Tommy MacDonald as T. Chisel, from his days hosting a series of web videos first at Bob Villa's website and currently at his own website. Well, all of his hard work (and goofing around with Al) has paid off. Tommy and WGBH, the public television station in Boston, plan to make a new woodworking show. Evidently, a pilot episode has been shot and they are now looking for sponsors. You can watch the official announcement here.
I worked with Tommy shortly after I started at Fine Woodworking. I edited an article he wrote for us about buidling a Shaker step stool. I had a lot of fun with Tommy, and he did a great job. I know first hand that he is a great woodworker and his personality is well-suited for television (to say the least). I spoke with Tommy recently and one of the things we discussed is the new show. Here's what he told me (What follows is meant to express Tommy's vision for the show.)
Most importantly, the show woiuld be about the craft and not about Tommy. You might not even see him woodworking every week. Tommy is a great furniture maker, but he knows that there are others who are better than him, especially when it comes to speciality tasks like carving and marquetry. Tommy would like viewers to learn about the entire craft and if that means they learn it from someone other than Tommy, then so be it.
The show would be filmed in Tommy's shop in Canton, Mass. (It's a great space in an old industrial building, and it's where we shot the photos for his article.) He'd like to have a live studio audience and expert woodworkers as guest. The idea is that the experts could explain techniques, discuss design, or exlpore the history of a particular style, technique, or design element. Tommy would also like to give audience members a chance to participate by inviting on screen to try their hands at the technique being taught.
But he also would like to take trips to musuems to take a look at and learn about historically signficant furniture. He mentioned that what he'd like to do is have other woodworkers come along with him to the museum and that they would get something like a behind-the-scenes look at the furniture and perhaps even get to meet with the curator or other expert to discuss a particular piece or a particular design aspect (like a ball and claw foot).
In terms of the type of furniture to be covered, Tommy says there are no limits. He is partial to period furniture, but would love to follow the history of American furniture from the colonial period right through the most avante-garde contermpary makers.
Tommy also said that in terms of the technique, he would cover both handtool and powertool based techniques. He added that like many woodworkers, he makes use of both in his work and believes that both have a place in the shop. He would also like to explore non-traditional techniques and tools, like CNC fabrication which is now being used creatively by small shops and individual furniture makers.
All in all, I'm excited by the prospect of having a woodworking show back on PBS. I never get enough. Let's hope they find a sponsor and it all comes to pass.


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November 6th-The Mighty Oak
This week we learned all about…OAK TREES! We read a story, made placemats, made our own oak leaves, learned about different kinds of oaks, and learned a whole lot about acorns. Two of our friends taught us a song about acorns and then we spent a great deal of time outside today looking for acorns. We found lots of tops that were missing bottoms and a few bottoms that were all chewed up…by squirrels! We had a very hard time finding acorns for our next project!
Next Tuesday we are going to be "Nuts About Squirrels!" We have a really fun project planned, good stories and of course going outside! If you have any acorns around your house feel free to bring them in! Grown-ups please take note- when storing acorns, expect that as they dry out…living things INSIDE the acorns…will crawl out. Therefore, please store accordingly!
See you next week!
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Hello my sweet little get-away from the real world. Life has not been kind to me over the past few months and it always seems to happen over the months that I really wish it would just settle down, spring/summer. But with all that life throws at us some how we manage to keep going.
We all know about the stuff with my mother in law yet again and worse this summer... well my mind and body out lasted what needed to be done and then fell apart. I don't often get sick but man oh man when I do I *DO*. For a while now (year or longer) I have been dealing with what was thought to be an ovarian cyst that was measured at 8cms (a bit over 3inches) round on my left side. Now I'm not by any means a small woman and so the first steps to try to rid my body of this was hormone pills which didn't work, next was a medical drainage which worked for about 2 or 3 months and then the last which no one was looking forward to was key hole surgery. This last step was waiting for one of two things to happen... either I would lose more weight or the thing would twist. Unfortunately, the later happened.
A couple of weeks ago, I landed in the ER twice within 12hrs with horrible lower stomach pains. First time they were mild compared to when I returned the next morning. I was NOT pleased with how I was treated I have to say in the ER this time around. The first time they did blood and urine work, both came back clear. They also did a CT of my lower/mid section and that looked 'ok' with the exception that it showed the mass I TOLD them about before even running that test. They sent me home telling me every thing to them looked 'fine', to take over the counter pain control and call my GYN in the morning. I slept okish and as soon as I started to move again the morning the pain was back full force times about 10. Back to the ER... asked to take more blood and urine for testing (mind you that I only just had this done *12hrs* before and all was normal) and we questioned why more blood work if the first was fine.... they took that as I refused to give to their testing instead of it being a question. After sitting/pacing/crying due to the pain, it was finally time that the doctor offices were opened (my gyn doc is a specialist in the hospital that I was in through ER) and *I* called him directly to ask if he even 'knew' that I was sitting down in ER with the pain and problems he himself warned me could happen. Well of course he didn't and instantly ordered the ER doctor to send me to his office where he preformed my ultrasound (which the ER didn't do even though I told them it was needed, but of course don't listen to the patient that knows what is going on with her insides... nah would make to much sense after all) and saw that the mass has/is moving around now and has lodged itself behind my uterus which is putting strain on it and even more on my bladder. He suspected that it was twisted but that you can't fully know with anything except surgery which by the location of the cyst, ultrasound findings and the sure amount of pain I was in was scheduled for Friday November 4th, 2011.... 1 week after the pain started.
So, in I went and out it came. It in fact was not attached to my ovary but actually to my left tube. I got rid of the cyst but have now also lost the left tube due to it as well. I don't want kids so this is of no concern to me really, I'm just glad to still have the ovary which I could have lost if that was where it was attached. It was not cancer, just nasty and needed to come out. It had twisted but in the way that it had made a complete 180-360 rotation around my tube and twisted the tube... this and the fact that it was strangling it's blood supply is what caused all the pain. Less then 24hrs in hospital and I was home though... surgery now a days is getting so good isn't it??
I'm now just a bit over a week post-op and I've had my stitches removed (yea got the old fashioned kind cause I don't react well the external dissolving style ones). A few more war battles on my tummy (got my first with the ER admitted removal of my gall bladder about 4years ago now) and a little better feeling. It's been a long battle but with any luck the wonderful miracle we call the human body will correct itself now, heal itself and will return me with a sense of what it is to be a woman and not be afraid of even making love to my husband due to worrying if something might go wrong.
Needless to say, I haven't cooked really anything special since this started but I still have a LOT of really nice stuff on stock that I made before that and quite a few things from my husband's birthday. Oh yea, all of this happened just before *my* birthday which was November 11th... turned 34 that day... came and went uneventful, even the weather sucked. I was just happy to get my stitches out the day before and not have to wait for a long holiday included weekend to go by until they did!
So on to some more yummies... it was just too hard to just sit here typing like this but I'm feeling better now and can get back to giving you more good stuff to go off and try! Oh and through out all of this I got a couple of brand new goodies for my kitchen in the way of cooking items, I'll be posting about them soon!


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We had the end of the netball season with the grand final last weekend - unfortunately DD's team lost. I am on the executive of the association so this is a very big time of year for us.
This Friday night we have having her 21st at home. I almost forgot about my post!
Have just put a couple of slices in the oven, so time to sit down and let you know what I have been creating. I know that this time of year is really busy for me so I have prepared some layouts earlier!! (always wanted to say that)
The theme for 123 Challenge this month is A sketch, words - Love Always and 3 colours - Denim, Sky Blue & Sand. Here is my layout -
I love the simplicity of this layout, and I haven't used a stencil as a background!
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This was my DT layout for the August 123 Challenge.
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Hope you have enjoyed my layouts and they have inspired you.
I did get the slices out of the oven in the middle of this post.
I think I need to do some more scrapping!!!
Until October
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The Mia 18ct Gold & Pearl Necklace
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Sunday, 10 February 2013
Marjorie Dawson Fairy Art News
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Thanks so much for sharing this for me! Her work is so full of magic. I never tire of looking at her work.ReplyDelete
You are sooo welcome - it's my pleasure ^_^ReplyDelete
Love this work of art and the last one done when she was 91 - that is incredible. Thanks so much for sharing this with us. HugsReplyDelete
You are welcome CaroleAnn -beautiful fairy illustrations and exciting too!ReplyDelete
Marjorie Dawson was my grandfather's sister (Howard Dawson from Bournemouth). Although we have in the family some (not many actually) of Auntie Marjorie's watercolors, there were many in your Flickr stream that we've not seen before. I thoroughly enjoyed looking through your Flickr photo-stream and have shared the link with my mother (Marjorie's niece, Anne Dawson) and my children too. Thank you for posting them.ReplyDelete
Thank u CHRJ it's lovely to hear from you.ReplyDelete
The Flckr with Marjories watercolous belong to Kelly.
Marjories late son Tony bequeathed her the artwork. Kelly shared the beautiful fairy art on Flckr for others to enjoy.
Marjories fairies have an old fashioned charm that you rarely see these days - delightful ^_^


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We would appreciate if you could complete the attached short questionnaire. With your help, the NSWATN will continue to grow and provide the services your organisation and community needs to improve Aboriginal transport disadvantage.
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Larry Rueben is a 24 year old man who lives in Vernon, CT. He graduated high school and couldn't find a steady job for a couple years, but has worked at Cumberland Farms for the past three years.
Five years ago, Larry's dad lost his battle to cancer that was caused by his smoking addiction. He got really depressed and started hanging out with bad crowds. They got him to try smoking cigarettes. Although he knew it was bad for him, he did it anyway. His health started declining so he needed to quit smoking so he wouldn't end up like his dad.
His friends suggested chewing tobacco and he got addicted to the nicotine even more. Now, Larry can't run as fast as he used to and has constricted blood vessels. His teeth are starting to decay and he doesn't like his appearance anymore. He is struggling with his depression even more now.
Ever since his mom found out about his addiction she won't talk to him until he quits. Larry got fired from his job after he was caught chewing tobacco on the clock. Without his job, paying $30 a week for tobacco is really hard. Larry has to chew his tobacco after every meal on his front porch.
Larry is trying to better himself though. He's going to meetings to help him quit and his doctor prescribed him drugs to help. Larry has learned that chewing alternatives also help like gum or chewy foods. He is on a five year plan and hopes to recover from his addiction in 2020.
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Here we are Going to let you know about the how to check out the result. You can check out your result here easily. Students need to keep some patience Punjab Board will declare the 10th standard result very soon. This year various number of students appeared in the exam and now they are waiting to attain higher scores. You will get your result on the official web portal of the PSEB. We will provide you direct link to find out the result of the PSEB 10th result 2018, so stay connected to us for quick update.
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So let's say you're a potential client reading this post and are pondering at the idea of hiring a web designer to redesign your website. Or, maybe you have to convince your stubborn boss, who doesn't realize that your company needs a redesign done.
Better yet, you're a fellow web designer / developer looking for reasons to convince a potential client that they need a fresh redesign of their site.
Perfect – you've come to the right place. Over my many years of experience, we've encountered numerous reasons as to why a company needs their site re-designed.
Without further due, let's get started.
1. It's not responsive
We're sure you've been on websites wherein upon landing on the website on your mobile device, you can't read a thing. Everything's really tiny (pictures, fonts, etc), and especially if you're of the older crowd it can be extremely difficult to make out any of the content on the page.
So, what happens when people can't read a website? AKA, what happens when people hit a website, and can't get what they're looking for within seconds?
They leave.
They leave, and they go to your competitor – who has a responsive website. And, they spend money with your competitors – not you.
This is one of the biggest selling points to any potential clients. As of this date, 49% of people on a global scale use their phone to browse online. That is a lot of people. If your website is not responsive (or in other words, not mobile-friendly), you're not only frustrating people, but you're also not getting the business.
2. It looks terrible
Now, a website that "looks terrible" can be subjective. Other times, it's absolutely just… blatantly obvious.
So what exactly makes a website "look terrible"? Here's just a few components:
- Bad usability. The number one thing users cherish more than anything else in a website is the ability to find what they're looking for, quickly and efficiently. That's why it's extremely important to lay out your website in a way where your users can find things in a flash.
- Brand inconsistency. Your brand needs to have the exact same consistency across all marketing materials – be it your website, business cards, and other offline marketing advertisements. Failure to do creates a sense of disconnect in your brand – which reflects negatively to your users as a whole.
- Zero strategy. Some websites collect leads, some sell products online, some are simply up for brochure sake. However at the end of the day, a website should serve in doing one thing and one thing only – making you money. Growing your business. That's the entire point of having a website. In order to do this successfully, this requires planning. A "pretty website" won't do anything for you these days – you have to have a strategy in terms of funneling leads in from your site, directly to you.
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Aiglet - Free flight glider.
Quote: "Hi Steve. Here's the construction article for the Aiglet, a simple but very sweet flying A-1 glider, published in the December 1956 Aeromodeller. It was very popular back in the day, and still appears here and there today. I built several myself and enjoyed them very much. I wish I could give appropriate credit, but I don't remember where I got the article from - it's been on my hard drive for years. Cheers,"
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by Martin Bridge
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December 1956
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A woman and her husband are suing a health care group and a cleaning service after falling in the facility.
Jeannine Fedele and Michael Fedele filed a lawsuit Feb. 24 in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas against Trinity Health Care Alliance L.L.C, Kelly Reinhold, doing business as First Choice Cleaning, First Choice Cleaning Company, First Choice Services Inc., doing business as First Choice Cleaning Services, First Choice Cleaning Services Inc., careof Incorp Services Inc., First Choice Cleaning Solutions Inc., First Choice Cleaning, Josphine Benson, doing business as First Choice Cleaning, MRA Group Inc., doing business as MRA Realty Advisors, and MRA Realty Inc., citing negligence.
The lawsuit states Jeannine Fedele was walking inside Suite 106 of Trinity Health at 700 Horizon Circule, Clalfont, while working for Alliance Cancer Specialists P.C. on April 5, 2012, when she fell and sustained various injuries. The floor was made slippery by substances placed on the floor, the complaint said. She hurt her shoulder, elbow and left knee, among other injuries, the complaint said.
The Fedeles are seeking damages in excess of $50,000, plus interest and court costs. They are being represented by attorney Fredric S. Karpe.
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Embrace the process
So I have been saved for a good amount of time now. I've managed to learn some scripture by heart, stretch my faith in certain areas, and even lean on God's word and his understanding versus mine, however, I'm still not where I want to be yet.
I was reading a scripture today and it said " All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." (2 Tim. 3:16-18). I think sometimes the biggest issue with coming to Christ or even being saved and staying saved, is the purging process we must go through. It seems as if everything that we've learned from birth is now wrong, and now we must learn how to speak to people differently, how to think, how to pray, how to love, how to be an all around NEW creature in Christ, because now at this point and time in our lives our bodies are no longer our own. "Do you not know that your body is the temple (the very sanctuary) of the Holy Spirit Who lives within you, Whom you have received [as a Gift] from God? You are not your own, 20You were bought with a price [purchased with a [a]preciousness and paid for, [b]made His own]. So then, honor God and bring glory to Him in your body." (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
I'm not even gonna lie and say that being a Christian is the easiest thing, sometimes I do feel the urge to take revenge out on the people who hurt me, or talk about someone, or not trust God and do what I wanna do and not my purpose, but what I truly have to remember, is when I'm going through those moments when my flesh wants to rule and reign I have to remember that these tests and trials make me stronger.
Also, I know that the word of God is here to protect me, and keep me from hurt, harm, danger, and even death. Like the verse in 2 timothy states, the word is there so that I can be equipped for every good work; So I know how to handle people who discriminate against me, people who lie on me, or even when my money is funny, or when I need healing in my body. The word provides the answers to ALL the woes of life, and if we stay obedient his word will bring us out of any situation we go through. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord will delivers him out of them all" (Psalm 34:19)
So I encourage you all today, if you are saved, or are even curious about who God is and what his word says, step out on Faith, and believe the purging process of learning how to be Christlike will only bring the best of what God has for you in your life. We may not always understand why we go through the things we go through, but I have full confidence that at the end of the day, if I have honored God's word in my way of doing and being like him, that he will honor that and bless my friends, my family, my Job, and anything that I put my hand to, because he knows that whatever situation I face, or whatever circumstances I may be up against, I'm going to the word to work out the solution.
be blessed!
Posted on January 27, 2010, in Christian Lifestyle. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Very well said hun!!!! This walk wasn't necessarily pressed upon me in my younger years but of course I went to church. Now that I'm an adult and growing into my own I realize how important His word is in my life and how much I need Him everyday to get through each day. I was going through life whichever way it took me. Now Im realizing my purpose and what I was created for and I can't go back. He's been too good!
This is a great forum/blog and I'm happy to be apart of it. Being a Christian is not always easy but trust me the good outways the bad and in the end i want Him to say "well done my good and faithful servant"
I like your blog.


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The Denver Broncos were honored by President Barack Obama for its Super Bowl 50 win against the Carolina Panthers, but for wide receiver Demaryius Thomas, the honor belonged to the commander-in-chief.
President Obama commuted the sentence of 46 prisoners—including Thomas's mother, Katina Smith—for nonviolent drug offenses last year. The release of Smith allowed for the mother of three to witness her son play football in person for the first time ever.
"I talked to him for a quick second. I told him, "Thank you for helping my family,'" Thomas said. "We talked about my mother and we also talked about my grandmother."
Thomas's mother, Katina Smith, and his grandmother, Minnie Pearl Thomas, were operators of a crack cocaine ring outside of their Georgia home. Smith was sentenced to 292 months of prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and cocaine base. Thomas—a three-time drug offender—was given a life sentence. The pair has been housed in a Florida federal prison since 2000 until Obama commuted the sentence of Katina Smith.
"These men and women were not hardened criminals, but the overwhelming majority had been sentenced to at least 20 years," Obama said. "I believe that at its heart, America is a nation of second chances. And I believe these folks deserve their second chance."
Obama added: "Fourteen of them had been sentenced to life for nonviolent drug offenses. So their punishments didn't fit the crime."
When Demaryius Thomas heard that his mother's release date was set for November, he took to Facebook to express his gratitude.
"God is good.. Great news today, My Best lady come home November 10.. Godbless..," he captioned a photo of his mother.
During the team's visit, Obama was presented with a No. 44 jersey and a team signed helmet by Broncos owner Pat Bowlen's wife, Annabel.