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Dear Journal,
It's been amazing since I got back from leave. First off, I did get a letter from Josie, which did shock me silly. I thought for sure that she would months in writing a note or anything as per her previous history. Maybe just starting "over" will have its merits for us, I hope so. I do care for her a lot more than I've let on to anyone, however, you never know how these things are going to work out.
I know that when I got back to Panderia, the farm looked marvelous and Kae has been working very hard to keep up with everything in my absence. It was so nice to get back here and feel like I had come "home" again. Let's face it, it has become my home now because my family is scattered to the four winds these days. I never realized how beautiful Kae was either – maybe that old thing of "absence makes the heart grow fonder" has some merit or I am just extremely off-kilter in the libido department.
I wasn't too thrilled at getting called into the Sentinel Commander's tent when I got back to our base camp though. It seems as though I haven't been doing all of my duties that I am supposed to do, such as helping to maintain the morale of some of the other women. I explained very respectfully to the Commander that I haven't even been maintaining my own "morale" in that area either for quite some time which caused her to look at me with a bit of disdain as well as surprised. Just like everyone else in camp, she thought that I was sleeping with Kae, which I am but not that way. She asked me if I preferred men – I think the look on my face told her everything that she needed to know on that matter.
We did have a rather heated conversation about my heritage and the fact that some of the women didn't trust me because of my heritage and then the fact that some of the girls wanted to see how a Sindorei made them feel physically. I think I exploded at that point. I'm only half Sindorei, I'm not even sure what the difference is between the two races other than size. Let's just say that the conversation ended up on a not so happy note for neither one of us. At least I'm not being put out to stud now because my feelings were quite open on the matter. I understand about how males are viewed by Sentinels and I also told her that I didn't practice any kind of birth control for my own personal reasons. Well, the corker was that she sent for Kae to report to the "meeting" that we were having.
I don't know who was more embarrassed at the time, Kae or myself. Kae admitted that we were living together and that we'd not had any kind of physical relations at all during all of the months that we had been together. The only response that the Commander gave was "Oh, I see!" with a smirk on her face. That's when Kae put the icing on the cake and told the woman that I was seeing a Worgen – oh man, that really sealed the deal.
Now, I'm being called a eunuch by the women in camp which is pretty damned insulting if you ask me, however, they aren't trying to see which one of them can seduce me anymore. Naturally, some of the other men in the camp just kind of laugh at me when I join them for any kind of male bonding. I guess I'm being ostracized a bit for a while and the only companion I have is Kae.
I get a lot of this got started by that Phaendra because of the fact that I didn't try to jump her bones and then the scuffle that Kae and she had didn't help matters any. Oh well, I'll adapt to the "new" situation and keep on doing my job.
I think I can understand some of the comments that Harrier had to make about Sentinels when I was in Stormwind really were true even though I tried to defend the order with him, which made him dislike me even more than he already did.
At first, they wouldn't let Kae and I do any scouting together, now, it seems like we're being sent out all of the time together. We're also being sent out further than any of the other scouting missions, which seems kind of odd. Instead of being gone for a few hours at a clip before reporting back in, we're being sent further afield and never even report back to camp for days now. When we do go out on patrol, we have to take point guard.
I'm not a fool, I know why this is being done and they are in hopes that someday, we won't come back. Kae keeps apologizing to me about what has happened and I keep telling her that it isn't her fault. Things just happen for a reason sometimes.
We rarely have time to get back to the farm and I've kind of let some of the people help us out there. I miss being able to go there every few hours and at least getting to sleep there most nights. Kae and I both have put in for transfers to a new unit, however, we've not gotten any positive responses other than from some of the groups in Kun-Lai. Some of them will take Kae and not me, a couple have said that they didn't care about my heritage, they needed people for fighting. So, who knows where we might end up next?
I'm exhausted. Sure, we've had our run-ins with Horde a few times while we're scouting, however, there do seem to be even more of them heading North. I wonder if there is going to be another offensive up there. How spread out can we get before we start having other issues – supplies, people – you name it. I'm worried about these scouting missions.
Kae told me that she ran into my Father a few times while I was gone and that he seemed like a nice man. I told her that I was a bit biased but I thought he was a good person. Naturally, we've been graced by Dawnglory leering over the fence a few times but he's been absent a lot lately since he blew up his outhouse.
Oh, that was a real choice event and I am sure that most of Halfhill heard the racket. Kae and I both had quite a belly-laugh out of that one. We didn't get to see it but we've heard the stories of the idiot Blood Elf and explosives. Kind of reminded me of my little brothers in Dalaran.
I will have to admit that I have been holding out on my Father a bit. I know that my Mother is expecting to get to Panderia very soon because of the letters she's written me. I don't know what she put in the notes for my Father but he just shakes his head when I have given them to him and gets this kind of misty eyed look. I know he loves her very much, however, I hope that I don't ever get that silly to where my emotions are out there for everyone to see like that. It's kind of embarrassing to see your Dad almost cry.
Well, Kae and I do seem to have a couple of days off, so, we're going to be here in Halfhill doing our farming thing and trying to rest. I know that Kae is exhausted because her moods have been a little crazy of late. She looks at me with tears in her eyes and then chews me out for the smallest things. She keeps acting like she wants to talk to me about something and then gets upset when I ask her what she wants to say. Women are strange creatures, that's a fact.
Oh well, guess we need to go take care of our laundry too. I know I ran out of some things a couple of days ago and my lovely Sentinel told me not to stand upwind of her. Well, hell, I can't do laundry when we're scouting. I did do some trading with a grummel and got some cologne that I've been splashing on myself to try to make things better – that's some nasty cologne.


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Welcome to Jupiter: Nasa's Juno spacecraft successfully enters orbit
"Welcome to Jupiter," said a commentator at mission control at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.world Updated: Jul 05, 2016, 09:39 IST
Nasa's unmanned Juno spacecraft on Monday began orbiting Jupiter, a key triumph for a $1.1 billion mission that aims to uncover the origins of the biggest planet in the solar system.
"Welcome to Jupiter," said a commentator at mission control at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
The room erupted in cheers as the solar observatory, which has travelled 2.7 billion kilometers since it launched five years ago from Cape Canaveral, Florida, successfully entered its aimed-for orbit around Jupiter at 11:53 pm (0923 IST Tuesday).
Success! Engine burn complete. #Juno is now orbiting #Jupiter, poised to unlock the planet's secrets. https://t.co/YFsOJ9YYb5— NASA (@NASA) July 5, 2016
Main engine burn is go. I'm burnin', burnin', burnin' for you, #Jupiter. pic.twitter.com/b3SHm3Gphj— NASA's Juno Mission (@NASAJuno) July 5, 2016
Confirmation: #Juno fires its main engine for a 35-min burn to enter #Jupiter's orbit. Live: https://t.co/KX5g7zfYQe https://t.co/hPxLILiHMe— NASA (@NASA) July 5, 2016
Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas admitted to being "nervous" and "scared" about the fate of the spacecraft, which is travelling at a speed of more than 130,000 miles per hour (209,200 kilometers per hour) toward what he called "the king of the solar system."
A key concern is that the spacecraft must survive radiation levels as high as one hundred million X-rays in the course of a year, explained Heidi Becker, senior engineer on radiation effects at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Those high-energy electrons, moving at the speed of light, "will go right through a spacecraft and strip the atoms apart inside your electronics and fry your brain if you don't do anything about it," she said.
"So we did a lot about it," she added, describing the half-inch-thick layer of titanium that protects the electronics in a vault to bring the radiation dose down.
Still, she described the close approach as going "into the scariest part of the scariest place... part of Jupiter's radiation environment where nobody has ever been."
Dodge debris
Juno must also avoid debris as it speeds through a belt of dust and meteorites surrounding Jupiter.
"If it gets hit -- even by a big piece of dust, even by a small piece of dust -- it can do very serious damage," Bolton said.
On approach, the engine doors are open, leaving the nozzle vulnerable, he said.
"If any dust is in our way and hits that nozzle, it will knock a hole right through the coating that protects that nozzle and allows the engine to burn uninterrupted," he told reporters.
"That is one of the big gambles."
After that, a tricky, fully automated orbit maneuver must go well as the engine fires to slow it down enough to be captured by Jupiter's orbit.
The spacecraft must then re-orient itself toward the Sun in order to power the solar arrays.
If it fails to enter orbit, Juno may shoot past Jupiter, bringing a mission 15 years in the making to a swift end some 540 million miles (869 million kilometers) from Earth.
How Jupiter formed
Scientists hope to find out more about how much water Jupiter holds and the makeup of its core in order to figure out how the planet -- and others in the neighbourhood, including Earth -- formed billions of years ago.
The solar system's most massive planet is fifth from the sun.
With an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, it's known for its Great Red Spot, a storm bigger than Earth that has been raging for hundreds of years.
The first mission designed to see beneath Jupiter's clouds, Juno is named after the Roman goddess who was the wife of Jupiter, the god of the sky in ancient mythology.
She was said to be able to see through the clouds with which Jupiter veiled himself to hide his mischief.
The Nasa mission aims to orbit Jupiter from pole to pole, sampling its charged particles and magnetic fields for the first time and revealing more about the auroras in ultraviolet light that can be seen around the planet's polar regions.
Juno should circle the planet 37 times before finally making a death plunge in 2018, to prevent the spacecraft from causing damage to any of Jupiter's icy moons, which Nasa hopes to explore one day for signs of life.
Although Juno will not be the first spacecraft to circle Jupiter, Nasa says its orbit will bring it closer than its predecessor, Galileo, which launched in 1989.
That spacecraft found evidence of subsurface saltwater on Jupiter's moons Europa, Ganymede and Callisto before making a final plunge into Jupiter in 2003.
Nasa says Juno should be able to get closer than Galileo -- this time within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops.
"We have done everything humanly possible to make this mission a success," said Nasa's director of planetary science, Jim Green.
However, "it is still a cliffhanger for me, too."
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Lastly, "non-chemotherapy" options are unconventional to prior cancer therapies. When I decided to pursue my dream as an oncologist, I remember my friends calling me "chemo-doctor," but now with the evolution of cancer therapies, like immunotherapy, targeted therapy, vaccine therapy, etc., I ask them, "Where is chemotherapy?" I suggested a new name: "smart oncologist"!
Approximately 60 novel therapies for multiple myeloma are being tested in clinical trials, noted Raphaël Szalat, MD, and Nikhil Munshi, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
Writing in a recent review in The Cancer Journal, they said: "The therapeutic landscape of multiple myeloma has dramatically changed in the last 15 years with the advent of immunomodulatory drugs and proteasome inhibitors. However, the majority of patients relapse, and new therapies are needed. Various agents with diverse mechanisms of action and distinct targets, including cellular therapies, monoclonal antibodies, and small molecules, are currently under investigation."
More specifically, novel mechanisms of action being explored include monoclonal antibodies targeting the B-cell maturation antigen, cellular therapies, and vaccines that target NY-ESO and other tumor antigens, and small molecule inhibitors of XPO1 and the kinesin spindle protein. "These novel agents will deeply modify the course of multiple myeloma and eventually allow for a curative outcome in this disease," Szalat and Munshi said.
Cellular therapies are an especially promising approach, noted Jacalyn Rosenblatt, MD, and David Avigan, MD, of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, writing in the same issue of The Cancer Journal. "Cellular immunotherapy for myeloma has the unique potential both to potently kill the malignant clone and to evoke a memory response to protect from relapse. Tremendous progress has been made in the area of cancer vaccines and adoptive T-cell therapy in recent years."
Monoclonal Antibodies
Monoclonal antibodies targeting CS1 and CD38 have been approved for multiple myeloma. Novel targets being explored include the B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA), a proliferation-inducing ligand (APRIL), and CD138. The B-cell maturation antigen is a cell-surface receptor of the tumor necrosis superfamily required for plasma cell survival; it is highly expressed in multiple myeloma cells, and levels correlate with disease status and prognosis, Szalat and Munshi explained. "These data have highlighted BCMA as a very promising target in multiple myeloma. Several monoclonal antibodies and cellular therapies targeting BCMA are under investigation."
For example, GSK2857916 is a novel anti-BCMA antibody conjugated to a microtubule-disrupting agent. In an open-label, phase I, dose-escalation and expansion trial, 73 patients with relapsed or refractory disease were treated. There were 38 in the first dose-escalation phase and 35 in the second dose-expansion phase. In the second phase, 21 patients (60%) achieved an overall response, "suggesting a promising role of this conjugated monoclonal antibody."
There were no dose-limiting toxicities, and a maximum tolerated dose was not identified in the first phase of the trial. Corneal events were common (53% of patients in part 1 and 63% in part 2). Most of these were grade 1 or 2, and they resulted in two treatment discontinuations The most common grade 3 or 4 events were thrombocytopenia (34% of patients in part 2) and anemia (14% of patients in part 2). There were 12 treatment-related serious adverse events and no treatment-related deaths.
Myeloma Vaccines
Researchers have identified several aberrantly expressed "idiotype" proteins unique to myeloma that can be targeted by vaccines, including NY-ESO, WT1, MUC1, survivin, RHAMM, and DKKI. "Targeting of these antigens has the potential advantage of disrupting critical aspects of oncogenesis and may prevent immune escape by down-regulation of target antigens that are not biologically critical to the malignant cell," Rosenblatt and Avigan said.
For example, a phase I/II study tested a cancer vaccine encoding the signal peptide domain of MUC1. The study included 15 MUC1-positive multiple myeloma patients with residual or progressive disease following autologous stem cell transplantation. Patients received six or 12 biweekly intradermal injections co-administered with human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor.
The vaccine resulted in increased levels of anti-MUC1 antibodies, antigen-induced IFN-γ, and T-cell -- mediated cytotoxicity. Eleven of the patients had stable disease or improvement for 17 to 41 months. The vaccine was well tolerated; all adverse events were temporal grade 1 or 2 and spontaneously resolved.
"The period following autologous transplantation may offer an advantageous platform for vaccination due to a lower burden of disease and reduced tumor-mediated immune suppression," Rosenblatt and Avigan said
Adoptive T-Cell Therapy
Adoptive T-cell therapy involves the isolation and expansion of tumor-specific T cells, usually from the patient, the authors continued. These cells are then infused into patients to fight the cancer. Types of adoptive T-cell therapy include chimeric antigen receptor T cells, marrow-infiltrating cells, natural killer cells, and T-cell receptor-modified T cells.
To give one example in more detail, T-cell receptor–modified T cells are engineered to recognize tumor antigens, Rosenblatt and Avigan said. In a phase I/II trial, cells engineered to recognize NY-ESO-1 and LAGE-1 were administered to 20 patients with advanced multiple myeloma following autologous transplantation. The cells expanded, persisted, trafficked to marrow, and exhibited a cytotoxic phenotype.
Sixteen patients (80%) achieved a clinical response, with a median progression-free survival of 19.1 months. Disease progression was associated with loss of T-cell persistence or antigen escape, consistent with the expected mechanism of action. The infusions were well tolerated, without clinically apparent cytokine release syndrome, the study found.
Small Molecule Drugs: Selinexor and Filanesib
Selinexor (KPT-330) is a first-in-class, orally bioavailable, selective inhibitor of the nuclear export protein XPO1 (also called CRM1). Szalat and Munshi cited two recently published phase II clinical trials that evaluated selinexor in heavily pretreated patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma. The first trial tested selinexor in combination with dexamethasone, and the second tested the drug in combination with low-dose bortezomib and dexamethasone.
The overall response rate in the first study was 21% in all patients and 35% in patients with high-risk cytogenetics. The median duration of response was 5 months, and 65% of responding patients were alive at 12 months. In the second study, the overall response rate was 43% in proteasome inhibitor refractory patients and 84% in non-refractory patients. The median progression-free survival for all patients was 9.0 months: 6.1 months for proteasome inhibitor-refractory patients and 17.8 months for non-refractory patients.
Common grade 3 or 4 adverse events reported in both studies included thrombocytopenia, neutropenia, fatigue, and anemia. "Both studies showed good response with limited toxicity and confirmed selinexor as a promising novel agent in multiple myeloma," Szalat and Munshi said.
The drug has been submitted for FDA approval, and the manufacturer recently announced in a statement that the FDA has decided to await results of the phase III BOSTON study before making a final decision, which is expected in July 2019.
Filanesib (ARRY-520) is a kinesin spindle protein inhibitor with clinical activity as monotherapy in heavily pretreated multiple myeloma patients, Szalat and Munshi continued. The kinesin spindle protein is required for mitosis, and inhibition by filanesib arrests cells in mitosis and induces apoptosis.
In a phase I dose-finding study, the drug was tested in 31 relapsed/refractory patients with at least two lines of prior therapy. The overall response rate was 16% with a tolerable safety profile, Szalat and Munshi said. The most commonly reported treatment-related adverse events included hematologic events (anemia, leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia) as well as anorexia, blurred vision, diarrhea, dizziness, fatigue, febrile neutropenia, mucositis, nausea, and rash.
Szalat and Munshi noted that ongoing phase II clinical trials are evaluating filanesib in combination with pomalidomide and low-dose dexamethasone, bortezomib, and carfilzomib.
All the authors reported having no conflicts of interest.
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The Cancer JournalSource Reference: Szalat R, Munshi N "Novel agents in multiple myeloma" The Cancer Journal 2019; 25: 45-53.
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The Cancer JournalSource Reference: Jacalyn R, Avigan D "Cellular immunotherapy for multiple myeloma" The Cancer Journal 2019; 25: 38-44.


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Opened 10 years ago
Closed 4 months ago
#7170 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add Ticket Voting support to Haiku's Trac
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I think it would be extremely valuable to add some kind of "Ticket Voting" feature to our Trac installation.
This would allow users/testers to vote up bugs/enhancements that they feel are pertinent to them (for example, hardware/driver issues that affect their ability to run Haiku, etc.)
This would allow us to better prioritize resolution of issues. In the case of enhancements, such as drivers for unsupported hardware, or new features, the votes could be used as a measurement for creation of bounties, developer contracts, and/or hardware purchases to incent developers to work on the issues.
Note: There appears to be a "trac-hack" plugin which is *NOT* sufficient IMO:
It is URL-based, and not specific to tickets. I don't think this is the solution we should seek.
Change History (23)
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
Actually, it does look like a report can be written to find "most voted tickets", example on edgewall's Trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/report/34
Perhaps it could be workable after all.
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
hizzah !
I am willing to loan some hardware and pay shipping for any Dev interested in tackling any bug I or anyone else may have posted with the same hardware.
comment:3 by , 10 years ago
comment:4 by , 10 years ago
comment:5 by , 10 years ago
comment:6 by , 8 years ago
Any possibility we can install the trac-hacks VotePlugin?
I'd like to start encouraging users to use this so we can really start analyzing the importance of bugs/enhancements across our userbase.
comment:7 by , 3 years ago
|→ no change required
|new → closed
Closing request as it hasn't come up for the past 6 years.
comment:8 by , 3 years ago
FWIW, the idea is still as good today as it was 6 years ago...
comment:9 by , 3 years ago
Seconding that.
comment:10 by , 3 years ago
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comment:11 by , 3 years ago
I agree also. Some parts of Haiku have been broken for years, making the end user experience much less than it could be.
comment:12 by , 3 years ago
Yes, I would still want to have it.
comment:13 by , 3 years ago
A common question newcomer devs ask when joining Haiku is "what could I work on"? It may be interesting to point them to "most voted" tickets, in addition to the "easy tasks".
Not so much useful for the current devs however, I think we all know where the problems are...
comment:14 by , 2 years ago
It appears https://trac.edgewall.org is actually running the Vote plugin. So that one seems good to use...
comment:15 by , 19 months ago
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We now have the vote plugin installed and working. However it doesn't provide a way to query for votes, or view them by default; there is a sample SQL report included that is what most people seem to use to find "high-voted" tickets, but no way to easily expose this on the Queries page.
nielx, could you take a look at this? It seems the TracVote plugin could probably be modified to add a "Voted" field to the Queries page, probably, much like your AttachmentFlags plugin adds a "Has a Patch" field.
comment:16 by , 18 months ago
The difficulty is that the TracVote does not store the vote count as property of the Ticket, but in a separate table. The ticket query system only looks at ticket properties. We have disabled the SQL report builder because quite frankly it is not that nice, nor user friendly. However, if we want to create reports with the votes we should re-enable it.
comment:17 by , 18 months ago
Do we need the report builder enabled, or can we just set up the SQL query once and link it from somewhere (as we do for the "easy tasks" query, for example)?
comment:18 by , 5 months ago
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comment:19 by , 4 months ago
I have enabled the module, and you can see the resulting voting report here: https://dev.haiku-os.org/report/9
comment:20 by , 4 months ago
|assigned → in-progress
Sollicited feedback on the mailing list.
comment:21 by , 4 months ago
Is it possible to add vote field to custom query field list?
comment:22 by , 4 months ago
Unfortunately not due to how the field is stored in Trac.
comment:23 by , 4 months ago
|→ fixed
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- The report can be found as report:9
- There is a link to the 'Most Voted Tickets' on the query page


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Jack Hooper: 00:25 I am, I'm the CEO and founder of Take Command Health.
Paul Edwards: 00:29 So I love this, anytime I can have a founder-to-founder conversation, Jack. By the way, that's one of my conditions about bringing people in and working with them is that I have to be able to have this kind of a conversation. It's gotta be owner-to-owner and at any time, if I need to get you on the phone, or anybody that I'm working with that runs a company, I can pick up the phone and I know, that you'll get back to me
Jack Hooper: 00:50 You know where to find us, yeah.
Paul Edwards: 00:52 And the same, you know, the same, same works for me so people can reach out to me as well. So, so you know, Jack is with Take Command Health and Take Command Healthy has systemized and software-ized, if that's a word, the ability for your practice to leave your employees on the exchange. They're out there getting their own health insurance. But Jack then makes it possible so that you can contribute. And one of the things that, you know, as an HR company that we learned early on was that those contributions — say you just went to an employee and you know, Jack, you know, we weren't supposed to do this as employers: you just give them money and say, look, I'm, I'm giving you $200 a month or $300 a month or X amount of dollars a month. I'm adding it to your paycheck and you can go buy health care with it. And that sounds like a great solution. But it wasn't exactly –
Jack Hooper: 01:49 Until you get the tax bill.
Paul Edwards: 01:50 Yeah. Until you get the tax bill and you had to pay the taxes on it. And it wasn't exactly the legal, it was actually against some of the rules in the Affordable Care Act where if you were making a contribution, there had to be some accountability around that contribution. So Jack let's just kinda jump in. We're going to use the QSEHRA, the word, QSEHRA. We're gonna use the word, you know, HRA, can you give us a little overview of what these things mean?
Jack Hooper: 02:19 Sure. Yeah. Thanks. Thanks, Paul, for having me on. You know excited to continue our relationship with CEDR and, and your clients. Talking about insurance, you know, there's a lot of health insurance jargon. And HRA is one of those, you hear it with HSA and FSA and what does it all mean. So HRA is a Health Reimbursement Arrangement. Now typically they've been bolted onto a traditional group plan. So in the past you would offer let's say your practice, you decide you want to offer group benefit. So you, the practice owner decide you went off for a Blue Cross policy or a Humana policy, you buy that for all your employees and you could attach an HRA on top of it to allow, it's usually for medical expenses or out-of-pocket costs. What you need now though; these HRA's can reimburse individual policies. So like you're talking about, Paul, employees being able to stay on the public exchanges. We'd purchase their own plan. Now employers, instead of buying a plan for the group and say, I'm going to give everybody $300 a month tax free or $600 a month or whatever you want the budget to be, and we can put that under a nice tax-free umbrella and then employees can use it to go buy any plan they want. So that's HRAs
Paul Edwards: 03:41 Is that tax free on both sides? So is it a tax free contribution to the employee as well? So it's tax free for me and then tax free for them?
Jack Hooper: 03:49 Correct. Yes. It's a tax deduction for the employer or a business expense. And then, that's tax free. There's no income tax or payroll tax that the employee has to recognize on it. I liked your idea before where you just give money, which seems really easy and nice, but the IRS would treat that as income
Paul Edwards: 04:09 And also your employee would sooner or later just treat it as income as well, not purchase health insurance with it. [Inaudible]
Jack Hooper: 04:17 Yeah.
Paul Edwards: 04:18 I think that one of the key things here, is the word you're using is reimbursement. So how does that work when, so let's just say I'm going to give everybody on my team $300 to go towards health expenses. And so, so tell me how that works on the reimbursement side.
Jack Hooper: 04:38 Yeah. Paul, you latched onto the operative word. There is, it is a reimbursement. So if you're give everyone at CEDR $300 a month you know, employees use that to go purchase their own insurance. They can also get on Medicare or depending on the type of HRA, they might go put it towards their spouse's plan.
So, there's some flexibility there, but they, they go get, get their own coverage somehow, some way. And then have to submit a proof of coverage and claim a reimbursement. So the nice thing as a practice owner, is what we love about these new HRA's, cause you can offer benefits, but if employees don't claim it, then you don't pay anything. So it's, it's really a, an efficient vehicle to make it, make it available. But if employees aren't using it or don't use all of it, then you don't have to pay for it.
Paul Edwards: 05:32 I have so many questions, Jack. So many questions and so little time. So can my employees use it for something else health related, which isn't health insurance? So let's just say they, they wanna just, just bank on the fact that, you know, they're young and dumb and they're 23 years old and they're, you know, they go to the, they go to the doctor like once a year when they've got tonsillitis or you know, a terrible sunburn for being at the beach and drunk laying on the, on the, on the sand for three days, whatever. They go to the doctor once a year. Can they take that money and can they get, can they participate in the plan and just pay their doctor and not have health insurance?
Jack Hooper: 06:10 So, so the rule number one with, with these HRA's is employees have to be covered by something. Which is good because then you take that young, dumb 23-year-old and hopefully convince him or her that, Hey, I'm going to give you 300 bucks, but you gotta go buy a policy. And if they're, if they're 23, they can get a very affordable policy. Right. But then there's some real options and flexibility on top of it. So you, you the practice owner can decide whether or not you want to allow medical expenses or just do premiums. Most of our clients, we recommend, you know, hey, go ahead and turn on medical expenses, that way, you know, back to our 23 year old getting $300. If he buys a $180 policy, all right, $180 a month is going to go towards this premium and now he's got $120 left over for, you know, prescriptions, doctor visits, eyeglasses, copays. Exactly. And then the nice thing is if he doesn't use it, it's a great benefit. If he needs it, employer will never pay more than that $300. But if at the end of the year, it's, people here are used to hearing, you know, use it or lose it, which are FSA's, that's a whole another conversation where the IRS takes it, right? With HRA's we call it, kind of use it or don't use it. You know, the employer makes it available, the employee doesn't use it. Employer just keeps it. So there's no loss.
Paul Edwards: 07:38 Right. So when the when the ACA came in, you know, all those years ago I had a little bit of a dog in the hunt. I had someone in my family who had a, a pretty serious ongoing condition, which required them to take, you know shots, which were about
$6,500 a month. And, and the health insurance, you know, the health insurance plans that we were in weren't, weren't going to cover any of that stuff. And I also had an employee who worked for me for several years and she had been, you know, sick, had cancer, lost her job, lost her savings, lost her home. She was back in the job market eight years later, you know, thankfully healthy. She's still healthy today. And we couldn't get affordable healthcare for her. She, she couldn't get it individually. I mean, it was literally $2,100 a month.
Paul Edwards: 08:30 And, and because we were such a small company back then and had fewer than six employees it was really hard to get insurance. So I, you know, when the ACA came in, I saw it as a good first step. I had hoped you know, as business people do, like you and I do Jack, we start something and, and it doesn't look the same 10 years later we worked very hard and we, you know, we to let go of some things that we thought were going to work. We have to you know, swallow some things that we, that we said we'd never do, but we make our businesses work and I'd hope the plan, the, the ACA would work that way. But this looks like, this looks like the, you know, some of the planning that was done inside of QSEHRA as the previous administration was going out, it looks like it's all coming to fruition now where they really are taking care of us as small employers and they're saying, look, you don't have to get in the, in the healthcare game. You don't have to do that. You can just be outside. Jack, what's your take on this stuff, man?
Jack Hooper: 09:34 Yeah, you're exactly right. So what makes this model work? And this is a, you know, really is because of the consumer protections on the individual market. You know, HRA, these types of HRA's don't work. If, you know, in your example, Paul you know, someone with a preexisting condition, if they were to try to, you know, before ACA, buy a plan, they would be denied on road. So you have to do these group things. But now because they can go get a policy and they are protected against preexisting conditions you know, it's a great way to contribute to them and give them the flexibility to go get the plan that they need. And as you mentioned, being an employer, being able to support employees without having to choose a plan for them or, or kind of get in the insurance game, you could say, Hey, here's, here's some money.
Jack Hooper: 10:28 We're here to help. This is a benefit for you. If you need the Blue Cross plan, you can get it. If you need the AETNA plan, you can get it. And, and obviously has all this consumer protection. You brought up another interesting point though about the history of these HRA's. You know, with obviously the state of
our, you know, politics and healthcare being quite a bit of a political football, HRA's, I feel like the one area where there is a lot of agreement between Republicans and Democrat. So, the QSEHRA we've mentioned, stands for Qualified Small Employer Health Reimbursement Arrangement. It was the last act of Obama administration. So the very last bill that they signed is the QSEHRA and then just this summer, the Trump administration has kind of taken it one step further and announced what we're calling the Individual Coverage HRA, or ICHRA, [inaudible], but it really builds on QSEHRA and provides a lot more flexibility and that becomes available on January 2020. So you know, for all the political upheaval and frustration on, in the healthcare arena, it feels like HRA'S are a safe bet. And really when you take a step back, it makes a lot of sense, right? Why can't I, as a business owner, as a practice owner, I should be able to pitch in a few hundred bucks to help my employees buy health insurance and, and not have just hassle with administering a plan. I have the hassle of taxes. Just so much better. It makes sense.
Paul Edwards: 11:57 Yeah, no it makes absolutely, it makes great sense. I've, I've said this many times, why am I, as an employer in, in the health insurance business for my employees? Why am I involved at all? I don't, I don't, it shouldn't be my job. Now I understand, you know, the, the level of need for employers to support this. I love this approach that you guys have figured out and I love that you systemized it. Now trust me, I've been all through your system. I've been playing with your software. And, and it's just super easy to use and it looks to me like you guys are, obviously you're governed by these rules that are coming into place, but it looks like you're adding more and more services, making it easier and easier and easier. And frankly, Jack, I've been recommending you guys now for over a year and I'm hearing nothing back but good about Take Command, about your team, about the program, about the, this low administrative cost per employee for you to you guys to just take this headache off their plate. I just want to thank you. I just really want to tell you you've done something really good here.
Jack Hooper: 13:07 Ah, thanks Paul. Yeah, we appreciate it. And, and you know, loved working with CEDR. I think what makes it work well is having the connectivity, you know, with kind of HR expertise. You know, if you're a practice owner you know, you're juggling a lot, right? You, you've gotta manage your office and you've got to manage your patients. And you know, you've probably got some part time or full time help that you know, they're, they're asking about benefits and the idea of battling with a traditional group plan when you've got mix of part time and full time and,
and, you know, maybe just a handful of employees, doesn't make sense? And, and that's where we really designed our solution is, is kind of for that small practice owner in mind. You know, setting up an HRA sounds like, Oh my gosh, there's tons of legal complicated stuff.
Jack Hooper: 13:57 Takes about two minutes. We do all that for you and, and handle all the IRS notices and accounting. Employees just take pictures on their smartphone of any bills and receipts. And then we push it, push the reimbursement through as a tax free item on, on their next paycheck. So our goal and design has actually always been to take, take the headache and hassle for the practice owner out of the equation. Let's get it set up, let's design it how we want, let's make it fair and compliant and then take a step back. And then we'll work with your employees, make sure that they love it, but they understand how it works. And you know, the results have, have been really encouraging with, you know, it's a good, it feels like a real benefit for an employee. Even if you're just giving two or 300 bucks a month, you know, they go pick up a prescription for their child. They take a picture on their phone and they get reimbursed on their paycheck. It's just a great, it's just a really great flexible benefit employees really love. So it's been, it's been fun working with CEDR clients.
Jack Hooper: 15:01 Awesome. So, my clients, look, I have everybody out there from, I, I mean I actually have some folks out there as members who have one employee. You know, we run the gamut for two or three employees all the way up to 300 employees. I mean, we, we've got everything there. I think the sweet spot average is, you know, nine to 15 employees. I got plenty out there that have, you know, in the mid-twenties and thirties. So where is the cutoff for this? Where, is there, is there a cutoff where this planning doesn't, doesn't, can't come into play?
Jack Hooper: 15:31 Yeah, great question. So currently, as in 2019 you know, the cutoff is 50 employees. But that was one of the things that's been expanded. So with kind of the Trump administration, surprisingly building on some policies from the Obama administration so starting in 2020, the handcuffs come completely off where it can be used for any size employer and satisfy as a corporate mandate if you're over 50 employees and it can accommodate all sorts of different reimbursement structures. So currently right now we're limited to one reimbursement level and you can choose to include or exclude part time employees or seasonal employees. Starting in 2020, we'll actually build a design different solutions for, so you could give your part time employees in dislocation, $300 a month and
your full time employees $1,000 a month. You can even mix and match it with traditional group plans. And, you know, really I think what the biggest story for employers will be, is just as long as it's fair, you know, and I think most, most your clients have good intentions in mind. As long as it's meant to be offered fair. We can almost design anything. You know, the, the, it's a very open canvas to design a solution to fit whatever needs you know, you have as an employer.
Paul Edwards: 16:59 I love that. I didn't know that it was going to expand to the over 50. So everybody, I just learned, I just learned something new here as well. As a, as I, I know several of you are learning lots of new stuff during this conversation with Jack. So Jack the, I think the last thing that we want to talk about today is what do they need to do? I, I mean, first of all, and I'll tell you, you need to call Jack's team and you need to let them know that you've come in from CEDR and that you saw this call and say I saw Paul and Jack talking and I want more information. Jack, where do they go to get more information? What do they need to do?
Jack Hooper: 17:33 Great question. So, you know, step one is your, your CEDR reps should, should know about this. So that can always be a great place to start. And they- we've, we've trained them a little bit so they can tell you, hopefully, yes or no. Hey, this is a good idea. No, it's not the pursuit. [Inaudible]. They know. So they may not be the full experts on it. But that's okay. They can help you get started too. That's a great way to start. The second way is, as Paul mentioned, takecommandhealth.com is our website. And if you come through that way, just let us know that you're a CEDR employee. There's some discounts associated with it. So you'll, you'll definitely, excuse me, a CEDR client. There's some discounts we're able to share because of that. Definitely want to let us know. But then our, our, our HRA design team knows CEDR well and we know how to kind of link that to your, to your accounts there. So either through your CEDR rep or directly through takecommandhealth.com. Hopefully we'll be able to put a link under this broadcast or something. That'd be great.
Paul Edwards: 18:40 Yup. And so Jack, anybody who has access to this link and, and has gotten this recording can give you a call, whether a member of mine or whether or not they're a part of our Facebook group or, or wherever they are, no matter who you are. Jack and I are on a mission, we're trying to get, we're trying to get employers out of the line of fire of having to manage a health insurance for their teams because it's just cost so much to even stop and deal with it for a couple of months while you're trying to figure it out. And, and we're empowering your employees to be able to pick the plans that make sense to them and you to fix your cost.
That's the biggest thing is, is this is what my contribution is and this is how it can be used. And it's all done through software and, and through the employees with Take Command Health.
Jack Hooper: 19:28 If I, if you'll permit me a quick story, Paul. So we were meeting with an eight person dental client about two weeks ago. And poor guy, who really was trying to do right by the employees, but it was kind of renewal for their group health plan. And again, and he was just stressed out to the max because his receptionist, you know, her son, you know, had some additional care needs. But, but another, another employee didn't want to change doctor networks you know, and was just causing all sorts of, kind of, headache and burden falling on the, the the dentist who's just, you know, he's just trying to provide benefits and kind of keep the staff happy, but, but being able to accommodate all these things was very confusing with the old context. And he'd gotten a bunch of different quotes from Humana and Aetna and Cigna and was trying to make sense of it.
Jack Hooper: 20:20 And what was nice was being able to sit down with them and say, well, you know, Doctor, what's, what's your budget for benefits? And he said, I want to do $400 a month, is what I'd like to pay. And it's like, great, you're done. Let's, let's plug it in, we'll drop the document and then we're going to help each employee, you know, the receptionist's needs Blue Cross and the dental hygienist needs Aetna. You know, we're going to connect everyone with the right plan that they need. And now, as you're alluding to Paul, that the burden is totally off and he can provide a great benefit and get back to being a dentist and not a health plan administrator. So it was a great win.
Paul Edwards: 20:59 So Jack, can you help the employees actually pick a plan if they don't have a plan yet? Is that something that your company helps with?
Jack Hooper: 21:08 Yeah. I forgot to mention that too. So we handle the HRA and then we also have a private individual health insurance exchange. So we pull in all the options from healthcare.gov or, or the local state exchanges. But then we also have some additional plans that that may not be found. They're usually called off exchange plans and they're not some like secret magic sauce to them, but sometimes they are a little bit broader network or a little bit less expensive. And then, and then we have some cool tools where employees can search for their doctors and prescriptions and we'll, we'll help connect them to the right plan that's going to have their doctor cover their prescriptions the best. It's pretty cool. You get a really
optimized tailored thing and most employees end up liking it more than, you know, big group plans they'll never use or they didn't, didn't have a hand in choosing.
Paul Edwards: 21:59 Yeah, or didn't understand it. That's about half of our problem is. Yeah. Yeah. So, so everybody Jack again, what's the website?
Jack Hooper: 22:10 takecommandhealth.com
Paul Edwards: 22:12 And, and the best phone number for them to reach you
Jack Hooper: 22:16 Is, ah well, the best way is actually on our website. There's a call scheduler, so that's probably the best way. That way we can make sure to accommodate you and you're not on hold [inaudible] if you're busy at your practice. We don't, don't want to be playing phone tag.
Paul Edwards: 22:31 Okay. Absolutely. Perfect. So everybody, you heard it here, get in touch with Jack and his group, go to the website, schedule yourself in. Go ahead and do it now because I know he's going to be super busy cause I'm sending this to all of my members and all, all of the people who are in all of our groups. So I know, I know you're a busy man, Jack. So everybody get in there. You get a personal conversation with Jack. No, I'm just kidding.
Jack Hooper: 22:55 He will come to your house, [inaudible] your children.
Paul Edwards: 22:59 Jack, thank you so much. It's been really informative. I learned some new stuff today and again, thanks. Thank you so much for helping our members out.
Jack Hooper: 23:09 Oh, thank you Paul. And thanks to the CEDR team, we've really enjoyed working with you all
Paul Edwards: 23:31 Awesome.


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I'm building the interface for a music application and you can sort by songs, albums, artists, etc. I have icons for all of these, but I'm currently using a generic "person" icon for artists/musicians. What icon can be used to represent "music artist"?
I've seen this represented by an outline of an artist holding a mic. Depending on what your userbase will be like, you could have more fun with it, like maybe an outline of someone holding a guitar, a concert pianist, etc.
Use of 2 different icon for musician and music artist will be a good option, you can design something like this.
I like your first one but I'd like to clarify that I don't need a separate icon for musicians; that was just to give a synonym for artist. – Keavon Jul 24 '14 at 5:32
In my opinion, in that case you may use the second one. As I feel mic is most suitable for a vocal artist. While a musical note can represent both. – S.M. Jul 24 '14 at 5:39
Good point. Any other secondary icons that may fit as well? – Keavon Jul 24 '14 at 5:43
If the dimensions is not big enough, you may remove user pic and try to do a mix of both mic and music note. – S.M. Jul 24 '14 at 5:47
You could somehow add a microphone to the icon, or notes maybe a portion of a music score.
You can use this for inspiration: http://thenounproject.com/search/?q=musician
One of my favourite icon collections website =)
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You met and agreed to marry the love of your life, but you still have another love in your life which you want to incorporate on the big day: Your pet!
Whether you're looking to have your pet simply be in attendance, be the ring bearer, or even be in your wedding party, you need to find a pet friendly wedding venue. These are the top 4 wedding venues in Austin which allow pets:
- Chateau on the Creek
Chateau on the Creek is a romantic wedding venue set in an expensive yet cozy 7 acres.The venue features all inclusive packages, allows off site catering and is (of course) pet friendly! Old oak trees, flowing creeks and classy stone architecture make for a beautiful and unique setting – one that will surely leave your guests impressed and you with the wedding of your dreams.
- The Sanctuary Event Space A venue with a cause, The rental cost of The Sanctuary goes to support The Amala Foundation's youth programs, but it doesn't stop there. The beautiful wedding venue is shaded by a canopy of ancient oaks, surrounded by lush gardens, and includes 3 indoor spaces as well as several other nice amenities. The venue also comes with great pricing making it an affordable and pet friendly venue!
- Zilker Park Clubhouse
Zilker Metropolitan Park is considered "Austin's most-loved park", and its beautiful clubhouse and amenities make it a serious contender for "Austin's most-loved wedding venue" too! In addition to being friendly towards your animal companions, the venue allows off site alcohol and catering, free parking, corkage, a garden view and more.
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Reasons Why Older Women Like Younger Men
In the world of dating, people have had bizarre experiments. Starting from dating a man or a woman of your own age to dating a man or woman who is twenty years elder. We have found happiness in every type of dating, yet we have a lot of questions.
Questions that often strike our mind when we see an elder woman with a younger man are why do women like younger men? Why would an older woman want to date a younger guy? Why do women become cougars and what makes a woman fancy a toy boy who is younger to her by a decade?
These question are all based on ideas of what you want in your life when it comes to dating.
Everyone has a different perspective about dating. You might find it hard for dating a younger man or an older man than you but you are comfortable dating a man of your age and things can be vice versa.
We never know what we exactly want unless we explore.
So, let's see the reasons behind why older women like younger men.
1. Men of Their Age Are Already Married:-
This is the most common reason why older women seek younger men. Lack of choice in their age makes them search below their age and it often turns out good in return. Read about depression killing you inside even when in love.
An older woman may start dating a guy who is younger than her because of this reason. Yet, she will be called a cougar because the term itself points to women who date men younger than them by many years.
2. Older Women Like Being In Charge:-
Older women like having command over the relationship. They like taking the charge of younger men.
An older woman will have more relationship experience than her young lover, making the woman feel more capable of handling the turns and twists in the relationship. She derives pleasure in knowing that she is in charge of the relationship.
A young guy may also not mind the woman taking charge in the relationship, as long as her behavior does not come across as annoying or nagging. This is a win-win situation for the younger man and the older woman. Do you fancy love letters?
3. They Feel Younger:-
Women feel younger by dating young men. They feel their young version is back alive and they are experiencing it again.
The presence of young men makes older women be updated with the latest trends in life. This is the only way in which they feel something which they never had a chance while being burdened by the responsibilities of marriage, children, and work. Reasons why we break-up.
4. Advantage In Sex:-
Dating gets way more difficult for women as they age. Older women may be able to confidently enter a relationship with a younger man knowing they have had more experience in sex and they know how to make the sex better and more enjoyable for themselves and for the young men.
There are no insecurities and the fear of not living up to expectations is transferred from the older woman to the younger guy.
The way older women take the better way of feeling the epitome of orgasm becomes way better as the younger men have more stamina than older men. Having problems in the marriage?
5. Younger Men Tend To Be Lesser Serious:-
This helps older women in not having any complications and, at the same time, enjoy the company of a man.
Older women prefer casual relationships with younger men, as they know they can work their way out of the relationship whenever they want without having any kind of troubles and problems.
These are the reasons why older women like younger men and not of their age.


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The world would appear to be evolving into a very unstable place to live and, sadly, that has nothing to do with environmental changes; the structural integrity of our planet, or some cataclysmic event in our solar system. Sadly … it has everything to do with us. Continue reading
It continually amazes me that, despite our numerous (and serious) flaws, we are still the dominant species on this planet!
A friend recently commented that she did not like the band Queen. Being a lover of Queen, I was rather surprised. Of course I recognize that not everybody is going to share my taste in everything, including music, but Queen? Continue reading
Love thy neighbour?
Given the divisive politics in the US, and the fact that it would appear to be coming a trend outside that country, I am linking back to a Post from September 2017. Continue reading
We don't need no education!
In the context of Pink Floyd's "The Wall", it (the subject line) may be worth contemplating but, to quote the late Leo Buscaglia in one of his talks, "You cannot teach what you have not learned." Such a basic truth!
His context was love, and was stressing that you cannot teach somebody how to love, if you have never experienced love! I have not studied nuclear physics so clearly I cannot teach it. Unless I have learned the Spanish language, then I cannot possibly teach that either. There is no deep thinking involved as it is just plain common sense.
If we look at education in the context of what we learned from our upbringing, it could be interesting to identify exactly what we did in fact learn.
I learned that my father was the major financial provider; that I should not be afraid to attempt anything, and that frustrations can be released by a fit of temper! I learned that my Mom was the emotional support, the cook and housekeeper, and the "Dad pacifier" as necessary.
I learned so much more of course but, in the context of this Post, I learned to accept other races, beliefs and skin tones. I learned to help others if I could. I learned to base an opinion of somebody on personal experience only. My parents were not a particularly social couple, but they would do anything for anybody if necessary!
In the event of a natural disaster, help has typically come from a broad spectrum of our species! In the current flooding in Texas, the offers of help from inside and outside the USA have been reported regularly. People have driven for hours simply to do whatever they can to assist.
Thinking about Texas, and then the current racial unrest in Charlotteville, I have to really question the basis for racial discrimination and cannot come up with anything that makes sense… unless it is a learned perspective, or simply ignorance.
In Texas, there are many boat owners who are voluntarily helping with rescue operations. There are many police officers heavily committed to search and rescue. There are medical staff dedicating huge amounts of time to doing whatever they can for injured survivors, and our TV often shows coverage of so many "average citizens" helping out whenever an opportunity presents itself.
None of the above groups of people are going to be 100% "white" so I have to ponder some obvious questions:
In any racist community experiencing life threatening flooding (e.g.), would the person in danger refuse help from a person of different skin tone? If they were clearly going to drown in their vehicle, and a person of different skin tone was their only hope… would they really refuse the help? There are many cases of doctors being spurned because of their ethnic origins, but these are not usually in life/death situations. If those same people had been seriously injured as a result of an environmental disaster, would they really refuse life saving treatment by a doctor of a different ethnic background?
To answer yes would, to me, confirm total stupidity. To answer no would, to me, confirm total hypocrisy. Are these traits that are surfacing, an intuitive result of learned family perspectives perhaps?
I can understand and totally support disliking certain individuals, but that must not only have a tangible basis for the dislike, but must also be put into perspective. It is unreasonable to expect to like everybody one meets, but to base the dislike solely on skin coloring is irrational. It makes no sense whatsoever. I have worked with a wonderful doctor from Pakistan, and also with one from UK who should perhaps consider a career change. It has everything to do with the individuals and nothing to do with color.
There are many people who claim to be non-discriminatory, but deep down they still have "preferences". Perhaps now would be a very opportune time to examine those preferences. If you were to find yourself needing potentially life saving help, and the only person able to do so was one that you really didn't like too much… would you really have to think about what to do? If they are good enough to want to save your life, then surely they are good enough to earn your respect.
We don't need no education? Oh….. I think we most certainly do!
Food for thought.
"Say what you mean…
… and mean what you say." Continue reading
Change of Plan!
I had another Post planned for today, but Carol came across a three minute video from TV2 Denmark! I found it so moving, and so particularly relevant in our current times, that… well here it is! It would seem to me that the more "mileage" this video gets, the better off we should all be. Continue reading
Learning from a 6 year old!
A friend of mind shared this video. Sceptics will no doubt suggest that is a fake, or it was contrived for political purposes… but I prefer to believe that it is genuine. Why shouldn't a 6 year old boy be in a position to embarrass a large proportion of the world's population? He is not old enough to have learned arrogance, discrimination, prejudice, hypocrisy, intolerance and greed. These are all learned traits. Continue reading
Where there are still some cultures that consider women inconsequential and insignificant (odd perspective given how critical they are for the survival of the human race), perhaps I was just lucky? I got a good one in my daughter. One that was consequential and significant! Continue reading
More discrimination!
I have written before about the blatant discrimination experienced since having Ray.
https://meandray.com/2015/06/18/blatant-discrimination/ Continue reading
Blatant discrimination!
Knowing Ray's relationship with various business around here, and knowing that he occasionally gets preferential treatment (blatant discrimination against humans)*, the following incident could not go unrecorded! Continue reading