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My kid, not my husband.
In retrospect, if you are a disability advocate, never, ever, EVER plan a wedding during IEP season when clients are calling nonstop (in different states, mind you!) about their IEPs, ARDs, IEEs, FBAs, FAAs, MDRs, TAs, and any other acronym that you can think of. And if you are a community organizer on top of your disability/civil rights work, never, ever plan a wedding while you are organizing a new project. AND if you have a teen with autism like me with all of THAT going on, well, maybe you should just give up getting out of the house at all, much less the idea of a wedding.
Saying goodbye to our old kitchen crap was just an excuse for a wedding, really. We wanted a wedding: we've each been married before but my husband had never had a big public ceremony and I fell in love with our location in downtown L.A.: Union Station, just perfect since we both have adopted this city and love it. We planned it for May 4th, our first anniversary.
On top of the wedding, I had to figure out how my boy Aidan was going to be cared for during the event itself: something hard when you want a child with AU to have meaningful participation but not overload him—if you know Mexican weddings, that means a LOT of tequila and mariachis. I've been training a new attendant AND a new behavioral trainer to work with him and was stressed that I wouldn't have backup during the wedding and/or my ex-husband would be difficult to work with because I was asking him to pick up/deliver Aidan at all times during the rehearsal/dinner/and wedding reception itself.
We practiced with Aidan's behavioral trainers, school, and attendants for weeks leading up to the wedding: using social stories, practicing walking around the house, etc. Aidan had been a ringbearer in his aunt's wedding last year so he had to constantly be reminded that he wasn't going to be carrying a pillow and to hook his arm through mine. We talked about the tuxedo, the big white dress, the tuxedos, the CAKE. Dear god, we talked nonstop about the cake. Aidan had been looking forward to this for a year now and I was tired beyond belief about reassuring him each night at bedtime that there would indeed, be a cake for him to eat.
All that said, FOUR wedding coordinators later, we we had a fun and memorable wedding, of course
with a few mishaps. The wind blew out our ceremonial decorations and, because we had our wedding in the former Fred Harvey Restaurant—there is no working kitchen and fire code wouldn't allow our caterers to cook in the huge cavernous interior kitchen. This meant that the food all had to be cooked OUTSIDE and while we planned for rain, no one foresaw the winds that blew the fires out repeatedly, making food late for some guests.
The highlights?
1) Aidan walking me down the aisle!!!! Even though we had to bribe him with gummy worms given at the end of the aisle by his attendant, it was meaningful.
2) Being introduced in our classic 40s car with the mariachi walking in front of us and our wedding party (including Aidan) waiting on us. Not to mention the tourists and audience we gathered along the way that security had to keep from crashing our wedding.
3) Our 40s/Pachuca/chola/zoot suit theme that fit our Union Station wedding.
4) Related to #3 but really deserves its own post: my bridesmaids' hair and dresses. Look at the pictures so you know what I mean.
5) Being married by one of my best friends in the world, who is a combo of a brother/cousin to me: thank you, Reno! (And thanks for saying "By the powers invested in me by Aztlan, I pronounce you two husband and wife." Nice touch.)
6) Reading our vows off our cell phones to one another.
7) One of my bridesmaids (@tigercrush on Twitter) posting repeatedly DURING the ceremony because we asked her to (good work, Cedar!)
8) Johnny doing the hang loose sign during our vows. Yes, he did.
9) My friend Amanda doing a reading from my FAVORITE book in the world: Jazz by Toni Morrison. The passage about old people love.
10) Mentioning Match.com during our vows—and by the way, Match.com, you missed an awesome wedding that would have made for a TERRIFIC commercial: downtown L.A., Latinos, MOM OF A CHILD WITH DISABILITY. Seriously you could have hit SO many markets with us. !!!
11) My husband waving like he was El Presidente to the crowd as we entered the reception.
12) My husband singing "You and Tequila (Make Me Crazy)" to me.
13) Aidan making us rush the cake cutting so he could leave to go to his dad's.
14) Speaking of which: THE CAKE, which was a Dia de los Muertos theme.
15) Running out of tequila—we bought CASES, people! But a Chicano/Mexican wedding requires way more than you will ever know so we sent my best friend's hubby and my brother to get more. Luckily the guests were fine with the vodka, beer, whiskey and wine that were still flowing during that time.
16) My sister and brother-in-law's AWESOME photo booth and their memory book they gave me that they had people sign !!! And posted the photos online! I had no clue they do so much work in their business. Aidan's former therapist was there to help him in the booth–like most families with AU, our therapists and teachers become integrated into our family life.
17) Johnny's best man's speech (who happened to be his older sister, Tina). She made both of us cry talking about how happy her brother is and welcoming me to the Stewart family.
18) Dancing with my friends from Austin and my cousins from Dallas in my new adopted city. ❤ ❤ ❤
19) Passing out on my maid of honor's lap in our hotel room at the Biltmore in downtown L.A. Yes, on my wedding night.
Ultimately, it was worth it. My husband told me a couple of days later: "I know we've been married a year, but I feel MORE married now."
Truer words have never been spoken: we got married a year ago in a private ceremony after knowing each other only 4 months. (We ran, we didn't walk, to the altar.) But doing it again with our friends/family and having a celebration—that's what made it perfect for us. It doesn't matter how much you spend or what you do, it's the public act of a commitment ceremony that makes it right, at least for us. I also appreciate now that I am ahem, older, being able to say and do things that mean things to both of us as a couple.
And now? After days of almost 15 people in my home, things have settled back to normal–if you can call a household with multiple staff and visual schedules and sound machines in most rooms normal.
One of the items we registered for and received was a quesadilla maker that we are using in Aidan's ABA and attendant care sessions. It's teaching him to make his favorite foods ON. HIS. OWN.
He's not allowed to use the stove yet, and a tortilla in the microwave is completely gross (mushy tortilla anyone?). I'm unwrappinh color-coordinated RED appliances and dishware gifts and donate my 80s crockpot that I bought 14 years ago in a thrift store–and it was old even then. (One of my friends said it was from the 70s but I refuse to believe her.)
So we go on living our lives with AU (along with those of us without it) and enjoying every minute that we can.
xoxo, Gloria Perez-STEWART


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An afternoon made of encounters, discoveries, entertainment and smiles: on Sunday 27th November Nice welcomed more than 400 people to the social hub TheNicePlace for the second edition of Open Factory, the biggest manufacturing tourism event in Italy's North East.
Guided tours to the Group's Headquarters, the Nice Garden and the new Installer Training School to directly see and touch Nice products in action, while more than 50 children took part in electronics and digital fabrication workshops, experiencing soft circuits and LED games, to play and learn at the same time!
Finally, a meeting with our Chairman Lauro Buoro and the economist Stefano Micelli, who presented his book "Fare è innovare", which inspired a dialogue with the public on the importance of strengthening the link between art, manufacturing and technology and on the value of culture as a key element behind the drive towards innovation.
RAI3 chose Nice for its coverage of the Open Factory event, broadcast on Sunday evening's edition of the regional news at 19:30. The video can be found here (minute 09:20): TG Veneto 19.30 edition.
Thanks to everyone for your enthusiastic participation and for having made this Sunday truly Nice!
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Gliding deep through the inky void between planes is the Saturnine, completing once more her sisyphean tour of the nine known worlds. The Dragon Friends have little time to sample her many, decadent luxuries however, as a string of disappearances has them rattled and there's a mystery to solve, a child to rescue and… an open mic night to win?
This episode features Ben Loomes from Syrinscape providing live (and at times very distressing) sound effects.
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Bobby and Freezo have used Disguise Self to disguise themselves as ship's officers and are searching the ship for the Gillmen and the missing Bonathan Kndd, while Philge and Hagdar are eating together, and Hagdar is telling Philge about the ranks of the ship. The owner of the ship, Lady Casilda, is never seen by passengers. Below her are the Favored, paper-masked staff disfigured by inbreeding, who are the only ones with access to Casilda. The engines are run by the Order Of The Bellows who wear great helmets; and below even them are the Gillmen. The ship never takes on new staff; the castes form self-sustaining populations.
Bobby and Freezo, still in disguise, go to recruit Philge and Hagdar in the restaurant. Hagdar mentions that there have been previous cases of children - or those under 30 - going missing on the ship. Philge decides to chase a passing Gillman, but he escapes through a bulkhead door embossed with a sigil of a bellows Bobby examines the door and finds it locked by a card reader, but as he does so, three Bellows Men emerge from the corridor, asking what they are doing there. Freezo, still in disguise as a Favored, claims that he is trying to escort the passengers out of the area - but learns in the process that the Bellows Men do not tolerate the Favored in their workspaces either, and that they are led by a Cardinal. Freezo is able to calm down the Bellows Men, and when Philge complains about Freezo and the Bellows Men talking about her over her head, the Men calm her down by giving her tickets to an open mic comedy night (which God/Dave is forced to improvise the details of). As they walk away, Bobby watches the Bellows Men and sees them open the door, not with a card, but with a key with an etched design on the bottom.
Freezo ad-libs that there may be some benefit for the "winner of the comedy show", and after a long pause, God/Dave rules that the tickets allow the Friends to attend and to take priority on the mic, and that the winner of the show will get an invite to dinner with Lady Casilda. The four Friends take turns giving individual performances, which are not going well until Freezo cracks a borderline-racist joke which actually impresses the "first class shits" in the lounge, and so goes ahead to outright racism against the Gillmen, which wins him 4 tickets to dinner with Lady Casilda (and potentially starts a riot against the Gillmen)
The four Friends are given fancy evening wear and an escort to dinner on the bridge with Lady Casilda, during which Bobby casts Charm Person on Casilda and seduces her, apparently coupling with her on the Captain's table in front of the Favored (which, God/Dave explains, is not unusual as there is a great deal of debauchery at the Favored parties). Meanwhile, Freezo and Philge suggest robbing one of the Favored for an access key and taking over the ship. Hagdar remains behind and eats the dinner.
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- The Family of Harmans
- The Bellows Men
- The Caste of Revelry
- Tolstoy and Martha Kndd
- Lady Casilda
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- Gillmen (Wetboys)
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- "Me dealt with a Caste system before. Frogs sucking each others' dicks off and all that." - Philge, a reference to Tomb of Annihilation
- "Have a wonderful trip. I'm sorry you had to see that inside baseball." "Well nobody likes to have First Class passengers talked about like they are not there." "Please accept these tickets to the.. comedy show.." "Oh, THANK YOU, Ben. Alright, FINE."
- "HELLO! I'M SHRILL!" - Bobby's impression of Martha Kndd
- "Hello everybody. My name's Freezo and you know what I was thinking the other day? I was thinking, isn't it odd that High Elves all talk like this, in this voice? You see, I've always met a High Elf who's always been 'oh, this is right up here, you know, we're quite charming individuals, you know." But you know what Dark Elves sound like, right, Dark Elves.... aw, not like that, guys, oh no!.. No, no, no, I just.. in this PC culture a joke's a joke and sometimes people are going to say things that offend you, alright, but it seems like we can't say anything anymore because everyone's like a precious snowflake are they? You know what I want to do? I want to get all those little Wet Boys and I want to line them up and then I'm going to just, um, woo, I'm going to set them all on fire, is what I'm going to do! That's what you want to do, line up all the things from the ocean and burn them! That'll teach them a good lesson because that's what they deserve because they're different from us!" - Freezo's comedy act
- "You don't have to talk to me, the Captain of this ship, if you want to meet the pig chef."
- "My name is Freezo. I'm just as charming as you are." "See, that's not typically something a charming person would say." "Well, if you think that then maybe you don't think you're very charming." "Would you like to be ejected? Like, not from the room but out of an airlock?"
- "Three Wood Elves walk into a bar. And you know how.. Wood Elves have.. keen senses and intuition and fleet feet that carry them quickly and stealthily through native forests." "Are you, in desperation, reading the Player's Handbook?"
Table Talk Edit
- "You're talking about the caste, the Parliament of Harmans, which is a middle tier caste whose job is mainly gastro but also exposition." "Guys, you can't see this but Dave's glasses have started to fog up again."
- "What? It's true! You can't talk to a monster that's running away from you! That's not a joke, that's just basic human interaction which I've learned!" "Hing, this feels like a gimme, but I don't feel you're in a position to lecture anyone about basic human interaction."
- "That's like the first time I've done stand-up in about six years! And it went about as well as I could have hoped!" - Alex Lee on Philge's comedy performance


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'Scroll Free September': how was it for you?
'Scroll Free September': how was it for you?
An estimated 320,000 people pledged to 'switch off' from social media this September, with the aim of building a healthier, more balanced relationship with social media in the future.
After taking a break from all personal social media accounts over the past month, people across the UK are now being asked to reflect on what they missed, what they didn't, and how their lives improved without social media being in their lives.
The campaign has a history of being supported by the NHS, with Claire Murdoch in her role as National Director for Mental Health, NHS England, stating: Scroll Free September is right to highlight growing concerns that social media is contributing to increasing mental health issues in young people.
"We need to see concerted action, with everyone taking responsibility, including social media giants, so that the NHS is not left to pick up the pieces of a mental health epidemic in the next generation."
As 'Scroll Free September' comes to a close, Dr Steve Thomas has shared his experiences of social media, and his perspective on how reducing 'scrolling' can be beneficial throughout the year. Steve has been a Sheffield GP for 24 years, and is Clinical Lead for Mental Health, Learning Disabilities and Dementia at NHS Sheffield Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
"Social media and the use of internet in general can of course be a force for good in our lives. We can develop and grow relationships, learn new things, be challenged in the way we think about things. And it can help stop one of the potential biggest emerging issues of our time – social isolation and loneliness.
"But nearly all these positive things can also lead to possible real and significant issues in life. Connectedness can lead to anxiety, the pressure to over perform and stay connected for fear of missing out. It can cause issues related to our self-image, self-worth and lead to abnormal thinking about what other people think of us.
"We are increasingly recognising how social media and the chronic use of electronic devices are affecting people's health through deprivation of sleep, through reduction in physical activity, and through the pressures of performing, conforming and bullying.
"For this reason, appropriate, balanced and measured use of devices and social media throughout the year is key. Having reasonable boundaries that are age appropriate and help give our young people a framework to self-regulate is something we should model as adults (difficult though it can be!).
"In my household, we have used various methods including things like no tech at the dinner table, having 30 minutes of 'wind-down' time without technology before bedtime, and making sure that all devices are 'docked' in the kitchen before going to bed. We even had a fairly long season of having a screen free day a week that started as soon as the kids came home from school.
"I encourage everyone to think about whether using social media is having a detrimental effect to our mental and emotional wellbeing. Asking the question and talking about it together is a great start, and let's lead by example whilst recognising the power for good that these whizzy apps and social connection can also bring!"
You can read more about Steve's career here. For more information on wellbeing and social media, visit the Royal Society for Public Health webpage.


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Cristinelouise Magyawi
National City, CA
Grade: 12
How It All Began
During my junior year of high school, my friend Angelica and I found a common love for creating change in our community. As we began to put our energies into this idea, a plan emerged. We would start a club at our school with the intention of spreading awareness of social justice issues. However, this proposition was ultimately turned down since we couldn't find a staff member to be our club adviser. I was frustrated, upset, and infuriated…that all changed with a single email. Our principal usually sends out meaningless messages to the student body, but this one caught my eye. I clicked on the corresponding link, and it led to me to the Social Fabric Initiative website. As I read through the descriptions, I was stunned. This was everything I wanted to do. The Social Fabric Initiative (SFI) would help me make a difference by allowing me to build hope within my community; it would help me grow and improve . I would make new friends who think like me; I would make new friends who don't think like me. The tools and resources that this program provides would allow me to master my skills in communications and collaborations, which will in turn aid me in my future goals. When I realized that this was something I wanted to do, I clicked 'sign up'.
The Process
During the process, I learned that nothing can be achieved without a little struggle. And I struggled. A lot. When I read the sign up process, I already knew that I wanted to submit a video. However, I wanted to execute this project so bad that I overthought everything and ended up with nothing. I spent hours on hours filming and editing countless videos–none of which I was happy with. I was retaking and re-editing footage until an hour before the deadline. That's when I gave up. In the little time I had left, I quickly typed up an application form and submitted it. But I was unhappy. I lost so much sleep trying to film something good. I put every single bit of energy I had into this video but each bit was wasted. Then I had an idea. I emailed the head of the program and asked for a few more days to submit a video application. To my surprise, she said yes. For about another sleepless week, I repeated the process and still ended up with something I was not happy with. I sat down and asked myself why I still wasn't feeling satisfied with my work. I realized that these videos were not me. I was trying too hard to be perfect. With this in mind, I took out my camera and explained why I wanted to be part of the program. I sent in the raw, unedited footage and hoped for the best.
Things I Would Do Differently
So many people say that they don't have regrets because their choices led them to where they are now, but there are so many things about this journey that I would change. Although everything I did ultimately got me into the program, I still wish things could have gone smoother. If I had the chance to redo everything, I would have gotten more sleep. The final video and essay application I submitted must have taken me about one to two hours altogether. It took me about two weeks to film and edit--and that was just for the bad videos. One of these things got me into an incredible summer program. The other just made me hate my life. I regret wasting my time trying to perfect something I couldn't. I should have just kept things simple and honest because in the end - that's all that matters. No one cared about how nice I edited my videos; no one cared about how long it took me to execute my ideas. The only thing that really mattered was how much and how badly I wanted to change my community.
My Future Goals
I still remember the first SFI event. I was terrified. But meeting new people and learning new things really helped me ease into the program. I made new friends, and I made more connections. Suddenly, I had an epiphany. I realized that there are so many more things I wanted to accomplish through this program. Before actually participating, I thought that it would just help me fulfill the goals of my failed school club. But now, I see that SFI will actually guide me into creating change. The program connected me with organizations I never would have approached. It introduced me to people I would have never spoken to, and it made me fall in love with contributing to my community in ways I never would have thought of. My plan to raise awareness about social issues at my school may have failed, but SFI allows me to take action, and that's even better.


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Melanoma is an increasingly important public health problem in the United States and worldwide. The incidence of malignant melanoma continues to rise at an alarming rate in the US. Since prognosis in melanoma is directly proportional to the depth of the tumor, early detection is critical to save lives. Patients diagnosed with melanoma in its earliest phase have an almost 100% survival rate.
To make an early diagnosis of melanoma, the clinician needs to recognize the clinical features of early melanomas, and differentiate melanomas from common pigmented lesions and variants of clinically atypical melanocytic nevi (also known as dysplastic nevi) seen in association with melanomas.
Most early melanomas demonstrate the following clinical features:
- A – Asymmetry (if the mole cannot be folded like a book, and one half does not look like the other half)
- B – Border irregularity (most early melanomas are irregularly shaped with ill-defined borders)
- C – Color variegation (colors may range from shades of brown to areas of black, and less commonly, red, white and blue, except for amelanotic melanomas which lack colors)
- D – Diameter (most early melanomas when clinically identifiable are greater than 6mm in diameter)
Other factors that increase the risk for developing melanoma include personal or family history of melanoma, history of other non-melanoma skin cancers (such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma), presence of dysplastic nevi, presence of many (>100) melanocytic nevi, intermittent sun exposure and sunburn history, history of tanning booth exposure (especially in childhood/adolescence), red/blond hair, light eyes, fair complexion and freckling, and history of long term use of immunosuppressive medications.
We recommend a full skin examination yearly for skin cancer screening, for every patient. If you have a new diagnosis or previous history of melanoma, dysplastic nevi (atypical moles) or many nevi (>100) or if you have higher risk factors for skin cancer (please see above list), you may be seen more frequently for routine skin cancer screening (e.g. every 3 or 6 months).


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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS – U.S. Congressman Bill Enyart (IL-12) announced this week that two communities in southern Illinois have received critical development grants.
Congressman Enyart stated that the Anna Fire Department has received $798,143 through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant from the Department of Homeland Security. The award will fund vehicle acquisition and is the largest of eight announced today in the State of Illinois.
"This grant brings critical equipment dollars for the Anna Fire Department," said Enyart. "I'm pleased that almost $800,000 in federal dollars for new vehicles will assist the critical work that the Anna Fire Department does every day."
The Department of Homeland Security awarded the grant to the Anna Fire Department through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program. The grant was awarded specifically for vehicle acquisition, which can include pumpers, aerials, brush trucks, tankers/tenders, rescue vehicles, or ambulances.
Additionally, the Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone (SIDEZ) in Mounds was awarded a $44,700 Rural Business Enterprise Grant from the USDA.
Southernmost Illinois Delta Empowerment Zone (SIDEZ) will use the $44,700 Rural Business Enterprise Grant from the USDA's Rural Development Program to purchase equipment to lease to local small businesses focused on community and economic development.
"SIDEZ is an important force of development in Southern Illinois," said Enyart. "Now, with the assistance of the USDA's Rural Development Program, they will continue to promote the continued economic development of Alexander, Johnson, and Pulaski Counties."


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Danish director Lars von Trier is back at Cannes Film Festival, proclaiming that 'it's all good – we had a little misunderstanding for seven years' and worrying that his new serial killer movie, The House that Jack Built, isn't divisive enough.
In fact, the reception of the film has indeed revealed an divide in the mentality of contemporary culture. More than a hundred members of the audience walked out in protest at the film's première and a similar number did the same from the press screening this week. Nonetheless, Von Trier received a lengthy standing ovation on his arrival to the première, and those who stayed till the end acknowledged the film with demonstratively insistent applause.
A strong tension between two approaches to art and culture has come to light in Cannes this year, as the festival explicitly declared its dedication to the #MeToo movement and at the same time welcomed back after seven years of exclusion one of the least conforming and most provocative directors with a film about a misogynist mass murderer. On the one hand there is the moral, and these days distinctly feminist, approach that demands that art is prescriptive in a morally correct and inoffensive manner and that it only provoke those highest in the hierarchy of cultural privilege. This approach dismisses the notion of the auteur, does not support artistic genius unless it follows certain prescriptions, refuses to distinguish between artist and artwork, and prefers democratic, consensual art to originality and singularity of artistic vision.
In opposition to this there is the approach that stresses the autonomy of art, recognises moral ambiguity and experimentation as not only unavoidable in art, but as highly valuable, and expects art to provoke not just certain privileged groups in society, but all individuals. According to this approach it is not the responsibility of art to help those who are lowest in the hierarchy of cultural privilege. Though that can of course be one of the intentions and effects, this responsibility essentially belongs to the political sphere.
To critics with a prescriptive inclination the film proves to be an inconvenient challenge, and their fumbled attempts to disparage the film have been amusing to behold. The Guardian's Kate Muir has tried to discredit Von Trier and the film by simply mentioning him in the same breath as Woody Allen and Roman Polanski – an unethical and manipulative move, as there is no basis for branding him a sexual predator. In a long and ambivalent review Variety's Owen Gleiberman claims that the film fails because we are unable to identify with the mass murderer it portrays – which is funny considering the outrage in 2011 at Von Trier's own ability to identify with a mass murderer (Hitler). The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw substantiates his two-out-of-five-star-assessment with the fact that a supermarket logo on a plastic bag in the film looks inauthentic. And then there is the general outrage caused by the film's simulated cutting off of a duckling's leg, which is entirely absurd considering the extent of human mutilation in the film, not to mention that at this very moment kids all over the world are at work maliciously mutilating animals in reality as kids do (and let's not forget the daily extinction of animal species due to unconscionable human behaviour).
The reception, therefore, brings to light the hypocrisy, short-circuited logic, and lack of critical self-assessment of this faux-moral approach, which has increasingly come to determine cultural debate, and its untenability is becoming evident. Moreover, the inclusion of Von Trier at Cannes this year has revealed a surprising resistance and an underlying ambivalence in the current cultural mindset. Perhaps the strong ambiguities and contradictions at this year's Cannes indicate that there is hope for a turn of direction, away from the pseudo-moral, prescriptive approach to art and towards a culture that is inclusive, but which above all else values and prioritises artistic originality and vision.


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Mental melancholy
Phil's had a good run, but now faces his first sectioning for years – and he's depressed
Phil's had a good run, but now faces his first sectioning for years – and he's depressed
My luck has run out at last. Today, I had to section a patient. It's six years since I last had to do this. Most GPs are nowhere near so lucky. Of all the tasks we are occasionally burdened with, this seems the most unpopular, time-consuming and depressing.
On the previous occasion, I was called to the patient's house, in company with a psychiatrist and two policemen. The gentleman had been living in his mother's utility room on a bare mattress for three months, and had barricaded himself in with a cassette player and a kitchen knife. He had been playing the same Britpop compilation tape for three weeks before his mother called the authorities in sheer desperation. She could not bear to hear 'Parklife' by Blur any more, and I have every sympathy. It's a good record, but not that good.
'Brian! Come out with your hands up!' I negotiated. Brian opened the door and tried to look intimidating by passing the knife rapidly from one hand to the other, ninja-style, but basically he was a hopeless little weed and he dropped it. I picked up the knife and handed it to one of the policemen, who was lounging against the wall, languidly waiting to see how the situation would resolve itself. We banged him up. As far as I know, he's still there.
On this most recent occasion, at least my patient was already in the psychiatric ward. She's a bright young professional woman with two children, and we've struggled with her postnatal depression for five years now. Last week her husband told her he'd had enough and she should consider herself separated. She considered herself persona non grata and the ambulance crew should be congratulated for getting her down off the balcony of the Wearmouth Bridge.
It's a long time since I've visited our local mental hospital. It used to be a big sprawling place, a halfway house for fragile souls re-entering society at their own pace. Those places are long gone and the inmates are now care in the community punters, in lonely council flats, seeing us if they are organised enough and seeing nobody if they aren't.Now the hospital is just two wards running at full capacity. Just to enter them is to breathe in depression. There is a fug of stale cigarette smoke and the patients wander up and down the corridor, leaving grubby trails with their shoulders against the wall. There is no privacy, no space for anything.
Our conference takes place in what was obviously once a cupboard. A nurse opens the door six inches (the maximum physically possible) and asks how long we will be. They have a lot of reviews to get through. Some of the paperwork is missing but there's no way of finding it just now so we agree to lock up my patient until she's better.I go out and find her; an angry young woman sitting at a trestle table between two locked-in women who are rocking and keening. She has a book but she is obviously not reading it.
'I'm sorry about this but I really think it's better for you in the long run,' I tell her, but I don't really believe it and I think she can tell. We've got on well in the past but now she shoots me a look of pure hatred. I excuse myself and eventually I find someone who will unlock the door for me.
I go outside. It's a lovely day. I take a deep breath and get into my car and drive away back to my wife and my children.
Dr Phil Peverley is a GP in Sunderland – he is MJA Columnist of the Year


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This presentation was made at the 2019 NAFEMS World Congress in Quebec Canada
Resource Abstract
Thousands of pedestrians die due to road accidents in the world, especially in India, every year. Head injury, being more life threatening, is the most common cause of pedestrian deaths during pedestrian-to-vehicle front collision scenarios. To reduce head injury occurrences, different International Safety Committees have developed homologation tests wherein headform shaped impactors are impacted upon passenger vehicle and utility vehicle front hoods, while measuring the head acceleration within specified pass/fail range.
During initial stages of vehicle development, use of computer simulation is essential to make the design compliant to different safety standards, including pedestrian safety. Since this is without the availability of a vehicle prototype, it is essential to predict vehicle performance accurately using FE simulation.
Different privately owned FE Adult and Child Headform models are available in different solvers across the globe. Since these are available on cost basis, it adds to the existing magnanimous product development cost. This necessitated the development of open source FE models (initially in LSDYNA® solver format) for use of the general public.
3D Scanning of physical adult and child headform impactors were performed to prepare 3D CAD geometry. Through material characterization, material properties of each headform component were mapped and converted to LSDYNA® material cards. These developed headforms were validated initially for calibration tests as required by homologation standards AIS 100 / GTR 9. This was also useful to setup simulation methodology for next phase of simulations.
Post initial validation, these FE models were impacted on different passenger vehicles in computer simulation, while the physical impactors were impacted on similar category vehicles. The yielded simulation results for head acceleration correlated well with the physical test results, further validating the FE models created thus.
These validated FE models would be useful towards initial design evaluation and would play a major part in reducing vehicle development costs through prototype reduction.
|Deshpande. S
|18th June 2019
|Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)


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Everyone, get ready. On Saturday, September 15, Boom Sizzle(TM) is back and in full force!
As usual, for the first one of the year, we go big and do it potluck style. The parents have graciously volunteered to coordinate the potluck so we should be covered!
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Home prices nationwide, including distressed sales, increased year over year by 3.6% in May 2019 compared with May 2018 and increased month over month by 0.9% in May 2019 compared with April 2019 (revisions with public records data are standard, and to ensure accuracy, CoreLogic incorporates the newly released public data to provide updated results.)
Forecast Prices Nationally – The CoreLogic HPI Forecast indicates that home prices will increase by 5.6% on a y/y basis from May 2019 to May 2020. On a m/m basis, home prices are expected to increase by 0.8% from May 2019 to June 2019.
HPI & Case-Shiller Trends – We note that both the CoreLogic HPI Single Family Combined tier and the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Index are posting positive, but moderating y/y percent changes, and forecasting gains for the next year.
2019 CoreLogic Consumer Housing Sentiment Study
During the first quarter of 2019, CoreLogic together with RTi Research of Norwalk, Connecticut, conducted an extensive survey measuring consumer-housing sentiment in high-priced markets. Despite significant increases in home prices in these markets, supply remains challenged as home owners question their ability to afford replacement homes. In the last three years, 25% of residents in high-priced markets have bought a home, while only 6% have sold, according to the survey. Similarly, only 22% say they plan to buy while only 7% say they plan to sell. Four in 10 sellers say that affording a new home would require them to move outside of their current market.
The CoreLogic HPI provides measures for multiple market segments, referred to as tiers, based on property type, price, time between sales, loan type (conforming vs. non-conforming) and distressed sales. Broad national coverage is available from the national level down to ZIP Code, including non-disclosure states.
– Nationally, the y/y home price changed by 3.6%. All states but North Dakota experienced increases since May 2018.
– The states with the highest increases? y/y were Idaho (10.7%) Utah (7.8%) and South Dakota (7.7%).
– Nationally, Las Vegas lead the cities with price increases of 7.1% y/y.
In an analysis of the country's 100 largest metropolitan areas based on housing stock, 38% of cities have an overvalued housing stock as of May 2019, according to CoreLogic Market Conditions Indicators (MCI) data. The MCI analysis categorizes home prices in individual markets as undervalued, at value or overvalued by comparing home prices to their long-run, sustainable levels, which are supported by local market fundamentals such as disposable income. 24% of the top 100 metropolitan areas were undervalued and 38% were at value.
– CoreLogic HPI features deep, broad coverage, including non-disclosure state data. The index is built from industry-leading real-estate public record, servicing, and securities databases?including more than 40 years of repeat-sales transaction data?and all undergo strict pre-boarding assessment and normalization processes.
– CoreLogic HPI and HPI Forecasts both provide multi-tier market evaluations based on price, time between sales, property type, loan type (conforming vs. non-conforming) and distressed sales, helping clients hone in on price movements in specific market segments.
– Updated monthly, the index is the fastest home-price valuation information in the industry?complete home-price index datasets five weeks after month's end. The Index is completely refreshed each month?all pricing history from 1976 to the current month?to provide the most up-to-date, accurate indication of home-price movements available.
Note: The report is published monthly with coverage at the national, state and Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA)/Metro level and includes home price indices (including distressed sale); home price forecast and market condition indicators. The data incorporates more than 40 years of repeat-sales transactions for analyzing home price trends.
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Contact Centre Complexity Will Destroy Your Bottom Line
Complexity in the contact centre will significantly harm how your organisation is able to address and support the customer experience – with a direct repercussion on your bottom line.
Organisations everywhere are struggling to retain control over their contact centres, and it shows in the quality of their agent and customer experiences. The Contact Centre Satisfaction Index (CCSI) fell by 4 points to 68 out of a 100-point scale in 2015, marking the lowest score for the study's 9-year history. This score then held steady in 2016 and 2017.
Arguably, complex, multi-touch contacts are the cause of the drop. Contact Centre process, policies and procedures are the biggest drivers of CCSI. When issues aren't resolved on the first interaction, or if additional follow up is needed, satisfaction scores drop.
Contact centre agents typically use between 3 and 5 different software solutions to support customer service requests during a typical working day. As interactions themselves become more complex (with increasing numbers of simple and routine issues handled by customers self-serving), this complexity is driving down satisfaction.
Wasting Valuable Time
Agents waste 14% of their time looking for the right information to serve a customer due to ineffective tools. Without a unified experience, 1.12 hours a day are being wasted, and customers are finding service teams less and less effective. Integration with existing systems is arguably the biggest roadblock to implementing strategic objectives – the average company could lift revenue 15% if they maximized the satisfaction with their customer journeys.
According to Aberdeen Group, in order to reduce complexity in the contact centre, organisations should adopt a unified agent desktop, with integrated customer data and tool set, reducing agent time wasted. They should also implement an intelligent routing system that sends customers to the right agents with the right resources, in order to reduce Average Handle Time (AHT) and increase customer satisfaction.
Significant Impact on Your Bottom Line
Ultimately, contact centre complexity drives down customer satisfaction and significantly affects your bottom line. Our partners Serenova evaluated a series of key research pieces from leading sources including Aberdeen, Deloitte and CFI Group in order to gain a better understanding of current concerns across the contact centre industry regarding technical complexity.
Their findings show that many analysts agree that the solution could lie in the adoption of open-API cloud contact centre platforms due to the ability to integrate all tools into a unified environment. They created a diagram to illustrate what a core technology stack should look like. You can see this diagram below.
- DMG Consulting – What End Users Want From Their Cloud Based Contact Centre Infrastructure
- CFI Group – Contact Centre Satisfaction Index (2016/2017)
- Aberdeen Group – Contact Centre and Customer Experience Process Trends
- McKinsey & Company – The Three C's of Customer Satisfaction: Consistency, Consistency, Consistency
- Deloitte – Global Contact Centre Survey 2017
- Dimension Data – 2016 Global Contact Centre Benchmarking Report
- Microsoft – 2016 State of Global Customer Service Report


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See No Evil: The Times Tries to Ignore the Global Warmist Scandal
By Spartacus Thrace
If you do not think that the liberal media is devoid of altruism or that they do not censor the news that they provide you in accordance with their political agenda, consider how the St. Petersburg Times has treated the ongoing "ClimateGate" scandal.
Today, newspapers run by liberals are all about power and influence through the control of the flow of information to the public. In that regard, it seems the Times would like to ignore the inconvenient truth that someone broke into one of the motherships of the global warmists, stole several thousand emails and other documents, and spilled their dirty little secrets on the internet.
The Times is a liberal newspaper and has, over the years, enthusiastically and uncritically taken the side of the global warmists. It has even used its PolitiFact project — which the Times claims exists "to help you find the truth in American politics" — to denigrate and discredit critics of anthropogenic global warming and declare their arguments to be false and promote the false impression of a "consensus" on the topic.
The essential facts of the scandal are as follows: On November 17th someone hacked into a server used by the Climate Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia and stole more than 1,000 emails and 3,000 other documents dating back to 1996 and as recent as November 12th. The CRU is an extremely important hub in the international community of global warmists. Two days later, on November 19th, the emails and other documents were uploaded to a Russian server and copied to numerous locations across the internet. The stolen materials give the appearance that the CRU and its political allies have long been engaged in a deliberate effort to manipulate the data about anthropgenic climate change, suppress by various means those skeptics who opposed them, and foster the appearance of a world-wide consensus on the subject when in fact the debate among scientists is quite vigorous.
If newspapers are supposed to be social watchdogs protecting the public by revealing the objective truth about matters of general public concern, the Times is the dog that should be barking but isn't. Since the news broke about what could be the greatest scientific scandal in a generation — namely that science has been politicized to promote a very costly hoax on the world's population — the Times has remained almost mum.
While the major national and international news outlets have been treating this as a major story, an on-line search reveals that the substantive coverage of the St. Petersburg Times to date has been limited to publication of a short Associated Press wire story that ran on November 22nd and the reprinting on November 27th of an editorial that appeared on Wednesday the 25th in the Washington Post.
The editorial, titled "How not to fight climate of denial" in the Times reprinting, was a leftist global warmist apologia that quickly (1) questioned the authenticity of the documents, (2) asserted that critics are "taking them out of context and misinterpreting at least one controversial e-mail exchange," and (3) summarily pronounced that "[n]one of it seriously undercuts the scientific consensus on climate change." The editorial concluded with the broad diktat that:
"By our reckoning — and that of most scientists, policymakers and almost every government in the world — the probability that the planet will warm in the long term because of human activity is extremely high, and the probability that allowing it to do so unabated will have disastrous effects is unacceptably large. The case that governments should hedge against that outcome is formidable enough. Climate scientists should not let themselves be goaded by the irresponsibility of the deniers into overstating the certainties of complex science or, worse, censoring discussion of them."
This is a pathetic demonstration of agenda-driven pseudo-journalism. The uncritical reprinting of a wire story and an opinion piece from a leftist newspaper, in particular, is not a substitute for critical reporting, and certainly does not lift the virtual blackout imposed by the Times on this very important issue.
But is there really anything to report and discuss? To get a sense of the huge extent to which the Times is ignoring or minimizing the importance of this story, consider the following sample of the immense coverage of ClimateGate that has been published in assorted news organizations and blogs all over the world during the past two weeks, organized by publication date from most recent to least recent, and compare it to the coverage given by the Times:
Michelle Malkin, All the president's ClimateGate deniers, MICHELLE MALKIN, December 2, 2009
James Delingpole, Climategate: it's all unravelling now, TELEGRAPH (UK), December 2, 2009
John Ingham, Climate Change 'Fraud', DAILY EXPRESS, December 2, 2009
Declan McCullagh, Fallout Over "ClimateGate" Data Leak Grows, CBS NEWS, December 2, 2009
Juliet Eilperin, Climate scientist at center of e-mail controversy to step down WASHINGTON POST, December 1, 2009
John Fund, The Great and Powerful Climate Oz, WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 1, 2009
Bret Stephens, Climategate: Follow the Money, WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 1, 2009
Jeff Greer, Penn State Will Investigate 'Climategate', U.S.News & WORLD REPORT, November 30, 2009
L. Gordon Crovitz, The Web Discloses Inconvenient Climate Truths, WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 30, 2009
Richard S. Lindzen, The Climate Science Isn't Settled, WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 30, 2009
Kyle Smith, The end of cap-and-trade, NEW YORK POST, November 29, 2009
Jonathan Leake, The great climate change science scandal, TIMES (UK), November 29, 2009
Jonathan Leake, Climate change data dumped, TIMES (UK), November 29, 2009
Christopher Booker, Climate change: this is the worst scientific scandal of our generation, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 28, 2009
Robert Mendick, Climategate: University of East Anglia U-turn in climate change row, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 28, 2009
Mark Steyn, CRU's Tree-Ring Circus, NATIONAL REVIEW, November 28, 2009
Noel Sheppard, ClimateGate's Michael Mann Being Investigated By Penn State, NEWSBUSTERS, November 28, 2009
Gordon Rayner, Who's to blame for Climategate?, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 27, 2009
Kurt Schlichter, Cross-Examining the Climate Change Scammers, BIG GOVERNMENT, November 27, 2009
Vincent Gray, Climategate: 'There Was Proof of Fraud All Along', PAJAMAS MEDIA, November 27, 2009
Gerald Warner, Climategate e-mails sweep America, may scuttle Barck Obama's Cap and Trade laws, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 26, 2009
Editorial, Rigging a Climate 'Consensus', WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 27, 2009
James Delingpole, Climategate: the scandal spreads, the plot thickens, the shame deepens…, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 26, 2009
James Delingpole, Climategate: five Aussie Mps lead the way by resigning in disgust over carbon tax, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 26, 2009
Carol Driver, Climate change scandal deepens as BBC expert claims he was sent leaked emails six weeks ago, MAIL (UK), November 26, 2009
New doubts on warming, but most favor action, WASHINGTON POST, November 25, 2009
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., Global Warmists Caught Red-Handed, AMERICAN SPECTATOR, November 25, 2009
James Delingpole, Climategate: how they all squirmed, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 25, 2009
David Warren, The Skeptics Are Vindicated, REAL CLEAR POLITICS, November 25, 2009
Jeff Poor, ClimateGate Ignored, Again – Broadcast Nets Go With State Dinner Menu, Sea Lions and Pete the Moose, NEWSBUSTERS, November 25, 2009
NRO Symposium, Climate of Fraud, NATIONAL REVIEW, November 25, 2009
Willis Eschenbach, Willis vs. The CRU: A History of (FOI) Evasion, The Unbearable Nakedness of CLIMATE CHANGE, November 24, 2009
David Derbyshire, Scientists in climate change 'cover-up' storm told to quit, MAIL (UK), November 24, 2009
Editorial, Global Warming With the Lid Off, WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 24, 2009
Robert Tracinski, Climategate: The Fix is In, REAL CLEAR POLITICS, November 24, 2009
Editorial, Hiding evidence of global cooling, WASHINGTON TIMES, November 24, 2009
James Delingpole, Climategate reminds us of the liberal-left's visceral loathing of open debate, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 24, 2009
Juliet Eilperin, In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes, WASHINGTON POST, November 22, 2009
James Delingpole, Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of 'Anthropogenic Global Warming'?, TELEGRAPH (UK), November 20, 2009
Ed Morrissey, Do hacked e-mails show global warming fraud?, HOT AIR!, November 20, 2009
Ian Wisehart, Climate Centre Hacked, INVESTIGATE MAGAZINE, November 20, 2009
Andrew Bolt, Climategate: Warmist conspiracy exposed?, HERALD SUN (AU), November 20, 2009
Plainly, there is no lack of material to write about or refer to in attempting to get at the truth of the global warming story, if that is indeed what a newspaper is supposed to do.
The Times does not have an excuse for ignoring this scandal, and ignoring it won't make it go away. It is indeed saddening, for when one of the largest newspapers in the state effectively blacks out a story of this magnitude, the community is ill-served. In the meantime, those who are concerned about this issue will have to look someplace other than the Times to get their facts and analysis.
UPDATE 12/06/09: Today, three weeks after the scandal hit headlines all over the globe and the hacked materials became available to anyone in the public who cared to download them, the Times has finally discovered ClimateGate and has republished a pro-global warmist article about it that appeared in the Washington Post. Apparently, this is all the reader is going to get from the Times. Pathetic.
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Sorry Harleigh!
You wrote a lot but apparently you haven't actually investigated the evidence yourself. If you had, you might be aware that there are actually more climate scientists & other qualified scientists who do not believe that man is responsible for any increases in global temperatures. In fact, if you were really interested in the facts, you might have heard of a fellow named Anthony Watts. He managed to get volunteers to photograph & document the weather surface stations in the United States. It is called the USHCN & consists of 1221 stations. So far the have documented 1003 of them which is about 82%. If you go to this web site, http://www.surfacestations.org/, you'll see that only a very small percentage of these stations are in compliance with the guidlines that are supposed to be followed to insure accurate temperature measurement.
Read the literature on this site & you'll see why our record keeping here in the US cannot be trusted to prove that there is even any actual warming occuring. There are even pictures so you don't have to take someone's (can we say Al Gore) word for it. You'll see weather stations on rooftops, next to parking lots, air conditioners(you know, the part that is outside & removes the heat from the unit, thus exposing the station to this heat), by airport runways & large bodies of water. These are all no-no's, as NOAA is well aware of. One other thing. In case you haven't heard, Al Gore's hockey stick graph that he showed in his movie doesn't really prove CO2 causes temperatures to rise. If you remember, in his movie he shows the two graphs & then wants you to believe that the CO2 is going up or down & the temperature is following it. Notice that he doesn't place on graph on top of the other. There is a reason for that. He says later on in the movie that their relationship is very 'difficult' to explain. That's probably the only true thing he says in the movie. The 'difficult' part he was referring to is that, if you place one graph on top of the other, you'll discover that, in fact, it is the temperature that rises or lowers with the CO2 following later on. Lime about 800 years later on. GET IT???? Temperature goes up, 800 years later CO2 rises. Temperature goes down, 800 years later CO2 goes down. Yeah, I guess that would be 'difficult' for Al to explain. Then he wouldn't be making all of these millions that he has been making from all of the Green companies that he is involved with.
Check it out Harleigh.
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In the largest massacre since the beginning of the violent escalation at the end of last April in the area called "De-escalation," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented the killing of 70 people as a result of air and ground bombing carried out by the regime's planes and Russia on the mercenaries' areas and the bombing of mercenary groups supported by the Turkish occupation on Aleppo.
57 killed in regime's bombing, 13 by Turkish mercenaries
47 people, including four children and four unidentified civilians, were killed during the bombing of the warplanes of the town of Sarqeb in the eastern countryside of Idlib and two children by aerial bombardment of the warplanes targeting the village of Lutman in the northern outskirts of Hama.
A man and a citizen were killed by an explosive barrels targeting the town of Kafroma, south of Idlib, and a citizen as a result of air raids by Russian planes targeting the city of Kernabal in the southern countryside of Idlib.
A man, his wife and their child were also killed when a shell exploded from the remnants of a previous ground shelling of the regime forces in their house in the village of Al-Kastan in the western Jisr al-Shughour village and a rocket attack by the regime forces on the village of Badama al-Soghra west of Idlib governorate, as well as another citizen in the regime's rocket shelling on Kafr Da'el in the western countryside of Aleppo.
The Turkish mercenaries killed seven people by firing rockets at the neighborhoods of Jamiliya and Hamdaniyah in the suburbs of Aleppo under the control of the regime. Six citizens, including 4 members of a family, including a man and two of his children, were killed in mercenaries' massacre targeting the regime-held village of Naoura Shatah with missiles in the northwestern countryside of Hama.
180 wounded, some critically
Mutual shelling also injured 180 people, some of them in serious conditions, causing casualties to rise, as well as the missing and trapped under the rubble.


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The Madonna and Child
Six Photo-Mezzo Engravings of Pictures Belonging to the Italian School in the National Gallery
Printing Details
First edition, hardback. Quarter vellum with paper covered boards, gilt titling to upper board. 30.5 × 23cm, 19pp.
Six high quality reproductions of images of the Madonna with accompanying text. Each plate is tissue guarded. The pictures here are: 1. The Madonna and Child by Giovanni Bellini, 2. The Virgin Adoring the Infant by Perugino, 3. The Madonna and Child, with St john the Baptist and St Catherine Embracing the Divine Infant by Titian, 4. The Madonna and Child after Raphael, 5. The Holy Family by Correggio, 6. The Virgin in Prayer by Sassoferrato.
A good copy. There is tanning to the boards and darkening to the vellum. The pages are in good condition, but there is foxing and offsetting to the tissue guards.
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The Kegels Game
You know there is this sumptuous idea of convincement of doing some floor services but there is regular stuff that keeps you from running them off and that is boredom…., or I maybe not? Maybe not sure it could be it or am right?…. The kegel thing gets its help out of a trainer I should say an ever trainer..yes obviously and it make the game simple and fun out of it.
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Iberdrola is installing its first 1,25MW/3MWh Li-ion battery for real operation on the Spanish grid, at the end of a long feeder in the region of Murcia.
The plant is located in an area prone to adverse weather events with difficult accessibility in a confluence of several 20kV lines. In case of an outage, the battery, which will be operational by the end of 2018, will maintain the power supply to the neighbouring villages, deciding automatically the line or lines to be fed by the battery and the size of the electrical island considering the current demand and local generation.


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Funeral Celebrant
Funerals: Thinking ahead and planning for the inevitable
With Dying Matters awareness week in May 2019 posing the question, "Are we ready?" one Celebrant takes a look at why it is so important to think ahead and plan...
What happens at a Celebrant-led funeral?
Here is a step-by-step guide to what happens at a Celebrant-led funeral. This is a typical funeral at a crematorium.
What is a eulogy and how do I write a good one?
A eulogy is a speech, or piece of writing, in praise of a particular person, or thing. These can be living eulogies – i.e.
Does humour have a place in a modern funeral?
The simple answer here is that a funeral should reflect the family's wishes, and people are increasingly looking for a service that fully represents the loved one they have lost.
How to include young children in funerals
It's a question parents often ask me as a funeral celebrant. In this article, I will explain why attending a funeral can be a healthy, healing and positive experience for children.
Music Choices For Your Loved One's Funeral
Music can be so important in life and is always something to consider when organising a funeral. Music can uplift the soul even at the hardest of times.
New Alternative Ways of Saying Goodbye
In the same way that wedding couples are increasingly looking to find more personal ways of tying the knot, families in the UK are also beginning to seek out alternative...
What is a Natural Home Funeral?
Did you know you can have your loved one at home for their funeral service? There are natural and arguably more personal alternatives to a funeral home.