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1. In the summer of 2000, Israel offered the Palestinian Arabs 97% of land they claim to be fighting for, making Israel the first and only country ever to offer the Palestinian Arabs a homeland. This offer was rejected with no counter-offer from the Palestinians.
At the urging of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, U.S. President Clinton announced on July 5, 2000, his invitation to Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to come to Camp David to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process.
On July 11, the Camp David 2000 Summit convened.
Barak's offer to the Palestinians was the most substantial and far-reaching that had ever been made. In Israel, people were stunned by the extent of the concessions that he was prepared to make. It is unclear whether the Israeli public were prepared to support Barak's deal. However they were never given the opportunity to endorse the proposals, as Arafat rejected them out of hand. According to media reports, Barak's offer included:
* Israeli withdrawal from 95 percent of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and 100 percent of the Gaza Strip
* The creation of a Palestinian state in those areas
* The removal of isolated settlements that would be transferred to Palestinian control
* Slices of Israeli land to be included in the Palestinian state to compensate for the percentage of the West Bank to become Israeli
* Palestinian control over parts of Jerusalem including most of the Old City
* "Religious Sovereignty" over the Temple Mount (rather than Israeli sovereignty, which had been in effect since 1967)
President Clinton, and others who participated, put the blame for the failure of the talks squarely on Arafat and the Palestinian negotiators for declining and not making any counteroffers or continuing the negotiation.
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2. Like the United States, Israel is a democracy. Israel's Parliament includes men, women, Jews and Arabs.
Israel is a parliamentary democracy with legislative, executive and judicial branches. The head of the state is the president, whose duties are mostly ceremonial and formal; the office symbolizes the unity and sovereignty of the state. The Knesset, Israel's legislative authority, is a 120-member unicameral parliament which operates in plenary session and through 14 standing committees. Its members are elected every four years in universal nationwide elections. The Knesset has 10 Arab members.
The government (cabinet of ministers) is charged with administering internal and foreign affairs. It is headed by a prime minister and is collectively responsible to the Knesset.
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3. Israel ensures complete equality of all individuals irrespective of religion, race or gender. These civil rights are granted in Israel's Declaration of Independence and Declaration of Establishment.
The Declaration of Independence (May 1948) states that the State of Israel will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
All citizens of Israel, no matter what religion are free to practice the religion of their choice.
The Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel (1948) guarantees freedom of religion for all. Each religious community is free, by law and in practice, to exercise its faith, to observe its holidays and weekly day of rest and to administer its internal affairs. Each has its own religious council and courts, recognized by law and with jurisdiction over all religious affairs and matters of personal status such as marriage and divorce. Each has its own unique places of worship, with traditional rituals and special architectural features developed over the centuries.
There are roughly 6 million people living in Israel. Jews make up 77.2 percent of Israel's population, Muslims 15.4 percent, Christians 2.1 percent, Druze 1.6 percent and unaffiliated citizens 3.5 percent. The percentage of Israeli residents who are Arab is 19 percent, about the same as it when the country was established in 1948. (palestinefacts.org)
All citizens, regardless of their religion, may participate in the political process.
The 120-member Knesset is Israel's legislature. Members of Knesset (MKs) are elected every four years within the framework of parties that compete for the electorate's votes. Each party chooses its own Knesset candidates as it sees fit. The major function of the Knesset is to legislate laws and revise them as necessary. Additional duties include establishing a government, taking policy decisions, reviewing government activities, and electing the President of the State and the State Comptroller. Some Arab parties: National Arab Party, United Arab List, Hadash.
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4. The West Bank and Gaza Strip are disputed territories, claimed by Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. (UN Resolution 242)
After the Six Day War in 1967, the Arab States had no interest in peace, despite overtures from Israel. Israel advocated direct negotiations between the parties, without prior conditions, aimed at the conclusion of binding peace agreements. Until peace was made, the Israel Defense Forces were deployed on the new cease-fire lines, and the areas occupied in the Six Day War came to be administered by an Israeli Military Government. Jerusalem was reunified at the end of June 1967, and the whole city was thus brought under Israeli law.
1. UN Security Council Resolution 242 calls on all parties to the conflict to negotiate a solution.
2. It anticipates that Israel will withdraw to secure borders (not specified in the resolution) in exchange for peace guarantees from the Arab parties
Resolution 242 was adopted by the United Nation Security Council on November 22, 1967. While the Israeli side accepted the resolution, the Palestine Liberation Organization rejected the deal entirely because, among other reasons, it recognized Israel's existence. The resolution called for the "Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict... termination of all claims or states of belligerency..." and the recognition that "every State in the area... [has the] right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."
While the Palestinian Arabs did not recognize Resolution 242 for years, today the Arabs interpret the resolution as calling for a full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the captured territories. Yet the British and Americans who authored the resolution had worded it in such a way as to allow Israel to retain some of the territory acquired. Arthur Goldberg, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations put it best when he explained: "The notable omissions -- which were not accidental -- in regard to withdrawal are the words 'the' or 'all' and 'the June 5, 1967 lines'.... The resolution speaks of withdrawal from occupied territories without defining the extent of withdrawal."
The British Ambassador who drafted the resolution, Lord Caradon, stated, "It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of June 4, 1967, because those positions were undesirable and artificial."
The territory of the West Bank (i.e., Judea and Samaria) and Gaza Strip were captured by Israel in a defensive war. The Jordanian occupation of the West Bank from 1947 to 1967, or the Egyptian occupation of the Gaza Strip, by contrast, had been the result of an offensive war in 1948.
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Full Text of UN Resolution 242.
5. Israel gained control of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza in 1967 after defeating Egypt, Syria and Jordan in a pre-emptive strike after those countries surrounded Israel with troops, launched repeated terrorist attacks, and threatened to "put an end to Israel."
These days, some people reflexively refer to the "occupied territories" without ever asking the question how they fell into Israel's hands in 1967. Once again, there are those in the Arab world who seek to rewrite history and impute expansionist motives to Israel, but the facts are clear. Here's a quick summary of some of the major events leading up to the Six Day War:
1. On May 16, 1967, Cairo Radio announced: "The existence of Israel has continued too long. The battle has come in which we shall destroy Israel." On the very same day, Egypt demanded the withdrawal of UN forces which had been stationed in Gaza and Sharm el-Sheikh since 1957. Three days later, the UN announced it would comply with the Egyptian request.
2. On May 19, Cairo Radio said: "This is our chance, Arabs, to deal Israel a mortal blow of annihilation..."
3. On May 23, Egyptian President Nasser declared his intention to block the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, thus effectively severing Israel's vital trade (supply) links with East Africa and Asia. Israel replied that under international law this was a casus belli, an act of war.
4. On May 27, Nasser said that "our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel."
5. On May 30, Jordanian King Hussein placed Jordanian forces under Egyptian control. Egyptian, Iraqi, and Saudi troops were sent to Jordan.
6. On June 1, Iraq's leader added his thoughts: "We are resolved, determined, and united to achieve our clear aim of wiping Israel off the map."
7. On June 3, Radio Cairo hailed the impending Muslim holy war.
8. On June 5, Israel, surrounded by Arab forces likely (poised) to attack at any moment, launched a preemptive strike. Within six days, Israel had defeated its adversaries and, in the process, captured land on the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian fronts. Israel had made strenuous efforts, via UN channels, to persuade King Hussein to stay out of the war. Unlike the unremitting hostility of Egypt and Syria toward Israel, Jordan and Israel had quietly cooperated, to some degree, and shared concerns about the Palestinians' aggressive designs. Years later, King Hussein publicly acknowledged that his decision to enter the 1967 war, in which he lost control of the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem, was one of the biggest mistakes he ever made.
Shortly after the Six Day War, Israel indicated its desire to negotiate peace with its Arab neighbors. While Israel was unprepared to relinquish the eastern half of Jerusalem -- which contained Judaism's holiest sites and which, despite the terms of the Israeli-Jordanian armistice agreement, had been entirely off limits to Israel for nearly 19 years (while Jordan desecrated dozens of synagogues in the Old City) -- it was willing to exchange the seized territories for a comprehensive settlement. But Israel's overtures were rebuffed. An unmistakable response came from Khartoum, Sudan's capital, where Arab leaders issued a resolution on September 1 announcing the three "no's": "no peace, no recognition, and no negotiation."
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6. Three major attempts to destroy Israel have been carried out by the Arab world: in 1947, 1967 and 1973. Although many neighboring Arab countries today still wish to destroy Israel, Israel still seeks peace. Israel has forged peace agreements with Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994), and have lived in peace with these countries ever since.
1947-1949 -- War of Independence
Early in the war, from November 29, 1947 until April 1, 1948, the Palestinian Arabs took the offensive, with help from volunteers from neighboring countries. The Jews suffered severe casualties and passage along most of their major roadways was disrupted. Starting in April 1948, the Haganah took the initiative, and in six weeks was able to turn the tables by capturing the Arab sections of Tiberias, Haifa and later also Tzfat and Acco.
From mid-May to mid-July, the critical phase of the war, came the simultaneous, coordinated assault on the new State of Israel by five regular Arab armies from neighboring countries (Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon and Iraq), with an overwhelming superiority of heavy equipment -- armor, artillery and air force. From then through the negotiated agreements that ended the war in 1949, Israel not only ejected the invading Arab forces, it also captured and held some 5,000 sq. km. over and above the areas allocated to it by the United Nations.
More information about the War of Independence.
1967 - The Six Day War
Armed forces in the Arab countries were mobilized. Israel was confronted by an Arab force of some 465,000 troops, over 2,880 tanks and 810 aircraft. The armies of Kuwait, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq were contributing troops and arms to the Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian fronts.
Faced with few choices, on June 4, 1967 the Cabinet authorized the Prime Minister and the Minister of Defense to decide on appropriate steps to defend the State of Israel. On June 5, Israel launched a pre-emptive strike against Egypt and captured the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. Despite an Israeli appeal to Jordan to stay out of the conflict, Jordan attacked Israel and thereby lost control of the West Bank and the eastern sector of Jerusalem. Israel went on to capture the Golan Heights from Syria by the time the war ended on June 10.
More information about the Six Day War.
1973 Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War began with the unprovoked assault on Israel by Egyptian and Syrian military forces. They acted simultaneously against Israeli forces on the Suez Canal in the south and the Golan Heights in the north. The attack took place on October 6, 1973 -- Yom Kippur -- the holiest day of the religious year in Israel, a time obviously calculated to catch the Israelis off-guard.
While the bulk of the combat was between Israel and the forces of Egypt and Syria, at least ten other Arab states (Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Sudan, Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan) actively aided the Egyptian-Syrian war effort with personnel, military equipment, or financial support. Palestinian Arabs shelled Israeli civilian towns from Lebanon and also fought with the attacking armies.
More information about the Yom Kippur War.
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
Egypt Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979, marking the end of 30 years of relentless hostility and five costly wars. The treaty was preceded by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's visit to Jerusalem (1977), at the invitation of Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin, as well as the signing of the Camp David Accords (1978) which constituted a basis for peace between Egypt and Israel and between Israel and its other neighbors.
More information about the Israel-Egypt peace treaty.
Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty
The peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, signed at the Aqaba-Eilat border crossing (October 1994), was preceded by a meeting of King Hussein and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in Washington three months earlier when the two leaders proclaimed an end to the state of war between their countries. Although de facto at war with each other for 46 years, Israel and Jordan had maintained secret contacts and concluded mutually beneficial agreements throughout that entire period.
More information about the Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty here.
More information about Israel's offer to the Palestinian Arabs at the 2000 Camp David Summit.
7. The West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza were never controlled by any Palestinian government or organization until 1993, when Israel agreed to give the Palestinian Authority certain controls under the Oslo Peace accords.
Jews have lived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip throughout recorded history, until the 1948 War of Independence, when they were forced to flee the invading Arab armies. Indeed, some of the current Jewish settlement communities existed prior to 1948, when they where overrun by invading Arab armies and destroyed. Kfar Etzion and other villages in the Jerusalem-Bethlehem corridor fell to Arab forces in May 1948 and those captured were massacred. Sons and daughters of Jews who lived there until 1948 were the first to return after the 1967 war.
Israel's administration of the territory in 1967 replaced Jordan's control of the West Bank and Egypt's of the Gaza Strip. Egypt and Jordan gained control of these areas during the 1948 War with the newly established Israel, which according to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, were to be part of the independent Arab state to be established alongside an independent Jewish state. Neither Jordan nor Egypt had legal sovereignty over these areas. Israel maintains that these areas can thus not be considered "occupied territories" under international law, since Israel did not "occupy" them from another sovereign nation, but are "disputed territories" over which there are competing claims, and whose future must be determined through negotiations. Since 1967, Israeli governments have maintained a willingness to withdraw from areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a component of a comprehensive peace agreement with the Arabs, but it has proved impossible to negotiate such an agreement despite many attempts.
With the negotiating deadlock, Israel found itself with a million Palestinian Arabs under its control and began administering the territories in what has become wrongfully known as the Israeli "occupation" of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Israel hoped that its authority over the Palestinians in these areas would be short-lived. Since Israel did not annex or incorporate the West Bank and Gaza into Israel proper, it could not apply the civil, democratic laws that govern Israeli civilian life to the residents of the territories and those territories continue under military administration.
The Oslo Accords (or "Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements") were signed on September 13, 1993 by representatives of the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The Washington ceremony was hosted by US President Bill Clinton who smiled as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended decades as sworn enemies with an uneasy handshake.
The Oslo Accords committed both parties to a range of obligations. Since then, claims of "Oslo violations" have come thick and fast. The interim agreements were intended to build trust between the parties as preparation for negotiations on a final settlement. As is now clear, however, Israel found little reason to regard the PLO as a trustworthy partner, and little hope of future peaceful coexistence with a Palestinian state on its border.
The main points of the Oslo Accords (or Declaration of Principles = DOP):
1. Transfer of Powers to the Palestinians (West Bank and Gaza)
2. The DOP does not prejudge the Permanent Status on issues certain issues such as Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security arrangements and borders.
3. Security remains an Israeli responsibility.
With 20-20 hindsight it is now clear that the Oslo process, "land for peace," has only encouraged Israel's enemies. The terrorist violence has risen and fallen since 1993, but the trend line is always up, more violence and terror directed against Israel and Jewish people in the territories. There is always an excuse -- the settlements, the refugees, the checkpoints, etc. etc. -- but even as Israel has partially withdrawn, has given the Palestinian Authority control of 95 percent of the Palestinian population, has offered more and more concessions and has agreed to peace plan after peace plan, all that comes back from the Palestinians is terror and more demands.
More about the Oslo Accords.
Oslo 'Scorecard' tracking violations of the Oslo Accord.
8. Israeli Settlements in the West Bank and Gaza are not illegal under any international law.
In 1948, when the British government partitioned Israel, they offered the Jews certain land, and the Arabs certain land. The Arabs never agreed, and instead attacked Israel. Therefore, Israel is not violating any agreements.
The last binding international legal instrument in the West Bank and Gaza was the League of Nations Mandate, which explicitly recognized the right of Jewish settlement in all territory allocated to the Jewish national home in the context of the British Mandate.
None of the signed agreements between Israel and the Palestinians restrict the building or expansion of settlements. Indeed, the issue of settlements is specifically noted as an issue that will only be discussed during final status negotiations, the final stage of the peace process. The only prohibition in these agreements is that neither side take steps to change the status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, such as unilateral declarations of statehood or annexation, prior to final status negotiations. The Israeli government has voluntarily frozen the building of new settlements, dismantled some (very important) but recognizes the needs of existing settlements to meet the changing needs of their residents, such as the expansion of existing homes to accommodate growing families.
The official U.S. position has been over the years that settlements are legal. The Carter administration for a short time held that settlements were illegal, a position overturned by the Reagan administration.
The Fourth Geneva Convention does not apply to settlements even though you will often hear the claim that it does. Israel took over the land in a defensive war in 1967 from rulers (Jordan, Egypt) who themselves had recently acquired control of the land by aggressive war. The only internationally recognized agreements are those of the Oslo process which do not in any sentence prohibit settlements. At some points in time Israel has voluntarily agreed to a temporary halt to new settlements in anticipation of negotiating breakthroughs. But the repeated reversion to terrorism by the Palestinian Arabs has ended such restraint. The endlessly repeated refrain about "occupied territories" is propaganda, since a) the territories never belonged to Palestinian Arabs, b) the Palestinian Authority was given control of the areas, and c) the only reason Israel continues to exert control is in reaction to Palestinian Arab violence.
At Camp David in 2000 and Taba in 2001 Israeli Prime Minister Barak offered to redeploy and uproot settlements from up to 95 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of the Gaza Strip.
9. There have been roughly as many Jews displaced from Arab Nations as Arabs displaced from Israeli territory. Israel has absorbed the Jewish refugees, yet the Arab world refuses to accept the Palestinian Arabs into their countries.
There have been two refugee populations created by the Arab-Israeli conflict, not one. There were an estimated 754,000 Jews in Arab countries in 1948, the year of Israel's establishment; today, by contrast, there are fewer than 8,000, the bulk of whom live in Morocco and Tunisia.
While world attention has been focused on the Palestinian refugees, the plight of Jews from Arab countries, hundreds of thousands of whom became refugees as well, has been largely ignored. Indeed, many experts believe that the size of the two groups was roughly comparable. But there was one profound difference -- Israel immediately absorbed the Jewish refugees, while the Palestinian refugees were placed in camps and deliberately kept there as a matter of calculated Arab policy and with the complicity of the UN.
There is no comparable situation in the world today where a refugee population has been cynically exploited in this way. Until now, only one Arab country -- Jordan -- has offered citizenship to the Palestinian refugees.
The other 21 Arab countries, with their vast territory and common language, religion, and ethnic roots with the Palestinians, have refused to do so. Sadly, they appear to have little interest in alleviating the plight of refugees living in often squalid camps for two and three generations. Rather, they want to breed hatred of Israel and thus use the refugees as a key weapon in the ongoing struggle against Israel.
Throughout history, refugees have been settled by their allies and kinfolk in neighboring lands. But for Arab leaders to allow Palestinians to settle in neighboring countries would be to admit that the wars of 1948 and 1967 really ended as they did. Thus, Arab leaders pushed Palestinians into squalid, "temporary" camps to provide the world with a pathetic, swarming testament to -- as they see it -- the barbarity of "the Zionist entity." Meanwhile, the number of Palestinian refugees has ballooned from 800,000 to 3.5 million.
What happened to the Arab refugees from Israel?
What happened to the Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern countries?
Why did Jews go to Israel from other Middle Eastern countries?
10. The combined land size of Arab countries is 650 times the size of Israel -- i.e., Israel is the size of New Jersey, and the Arab countries are the size of the United States, all of Central America and Mexico combined.
* Arab dictators control 13,486,861 sq. km. in the Middle East, and Israel controls 20,770. (Palestinefacts.org)
* The Population of Israel is roughly 6 million, compared to 300 million living in the surrounding Arab countries.
* The Arab nations are represented by 21 separate countries. There is only one Jewish nation with a tiny country, Israel.
Compare the size of Israel to the Arab world.
Compare the size of Israel to the size of the United States.
Compare populations and territory of countries in the Middle East.


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You can start brushing your baby's teeth as soon as they start to come through. Use a baby toothbrush with a tiny smear of fluoride toothpaste.
Don't worry if you don't manage to brush much at first. The important thing is to get your baby used to brushing their teeth as part of their daily routine. You can help by setting a good example and letting them see you brushing your own teeth.
Tooth brushing tips for babies
- Use a tiny smear of toothpaste for babies and toddlers up to 3 years old, and a pea-sized amount for children aged 3 to 6 years.
- Gradually start brushing your child's teeth more thoroughly, covering all the surfaces of the teeth. Do it at least twice a day: just before bed and at another time that fits in with your routine.
- Not all children like having their teeth brushed, so you may have to keep trying. Make it into a game, or brush your own teeth at the same time and then help your child finish their own.
- The easiest way to brush a baby's teeth is to sit them on your knee, with their head resting against your chest. With an older child, stand behind them and tilt their head backwards.
- Brush the teeth in small circles, covering all the surfaces, and encourage your child to spit the toothpaste out afterwards. There's no need to rinse with water, as this will wash away the fluoride.
- Supervise brushing to make sure your child gets the right amount of toothpaste and they're not eating or licking toothpaste from the tube.
- Carry on helping your child brush their teeth until you're sure they can do it well enough themselves. This will normally be until they're at least 7.
Taking your baby to the dentist
NHS dental treatment for children is free. Take your child with you when you go for your own dental appointments so they get used to the idea.
To find a dentist, you can use our services search, ask at your local clinic, or contact NHS England on 0300 311 22 3 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sugar and tooth decay
Sugar causes tooth decay. It's not just about the amount of sugar in sweet food and drinks, but how long and how often the teeth are in contact with sugar.
Lollipops and sweet drinks in a formula bottle are particularly damaging, because they bathe the teeth in sugar for long periods of time. The acid in drinks like fruit juice and squash can harm teeth as well.
The sugars found naturally in whole fruit and milk are less likely to cause tooth decay, so you don't need to cut down on these types of sugars.
How to cut down sugar in your child's diet
These tips will help you reduce the amount of sugar in your child's diet and prevent tooth decay:
- Avoid sugar-sweetened drinks – the best drinks for young children are their usual milk and water.
- It's OK to use bottles for expressed breast milk, formula milk, or cooled boiled water. But using them for juices or sugary drinks can increase tooth decay.
- From 6 months old, you can offer babies drinks in a non-valved free-flowing cup.
- When your baby starts eating solid foods, encourage them to eat savoury food and drinks with no sugar. Check if there's sugar in pre-prepared baby foods (including the savoury ones), rusks and baby drinks. Read more about food labels.
- If you choose to give your child sweet foods or fruit juice, only give them at mealtimes. Remember to dilute 1 part juice to 10 parts water. Your child should have no more than 1 drink of fruit juice (150ml) in any 1 day as part of their 5 A Day.
- Don't give your child biscuits or sweets – ask family and friends to do the same. Offer things like stickers, hair slides, crayons, colouring books and bubbles instead. They may be more expensive than sweets, but they last longer.
- At bedtime or during the night, only give your child breast milk, formula or cooled boiled water.
- If your child needs medicine, ask your pharmacist or GP if there's a sugar-free option.
- Check your whole family's sugar intake – see how to cut down on sugar in your diet.
Sucrose, glucose, dextrose, maltose, fructose and hydrolysed starch are all sugars. Invert sugar or syrup, honey, raw sugar, brown sugar, cane sugar, muscovado sugar and concentrated fruit juices are also sugars.
Should I give my baby a dummy?
It's fine to give your baby a dummy but avoid using them after 12 months of age. Using dummies after this can encourage an open bite, which is when teeth move to make space for the dummy. They may also affect your child's speech development.
Discourage your child from talking or making sounds with a dummy or their thumb in their mouth, and don't dip dummies in anything sweet, such as sugar or jam.
Read more about thumb-sucking and dummies.
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Welcome to my new blog on all things Dynamo Charities. Throughout the year, I will provide updates and information on Dynamo Charities events and happenings.
Before I talk about our 2013 program, let me take a minute to wrap up 2012. We ended the year with the annual Dynamo Celebration, and what a perfect end it was to a near perfect season. Held at the Hotel Zaza, the event was simply fantastic. Glenn Davis did a marvelous job as emcee, the auction went well and everyone had a great time. It was THE event to cap the year for Dynamo Charities.
Other notable events last year included Calen Carr's bowling event at 300 Houston, Will Bruin's Bald is Beautiful head-shaving event, fighting breast cancer with Bobby Boswell, the Kroger shopping spree with Brian and the Ching's Champions and our annual salute to the military with Brad's Brigade. I want to thank all the players for their work in 2012, as well as each of you that supported one or more of our events. 2012 was our most successful year yet, and the Dynamo Charities Board of Directors along with Executive Director Lori Ginsburg are excited for 2013.
We will have all of the fan favorite events back in 2013. Our first event for the year will again be the Fire Sale, where lots of Dynamo gear from last season will be available generally at discounted prices. The sale will be held the same day as our annual Meet the Team Day, and is open only to season ticket holders. So if the play on the field or the fantastic stadium is not reason enough to be a season ticket holder, then Meet the Team Day and the Fire Sale should be!
As we move into the season, we will announce specific information for initiatives such as Brad's Brigade, Bald is Beautiful and Bobby Boots Cancer. We are also hoping to have a few new initiatives this year and we hope to release full details soon
In September, we will again form a team to ride in the ADA Tour de Cure (with the coolest bike jersey you'll find) and we will of course end the year with Dynamo Celebration
Thanks for taking the time to read my first blog. I hope to provide regular community updates throughout the year. You can also follow me on Twitter @dynamochrtytony for up-to-date information on Dynamo Charities initiatives.
We look forward to taking another step forward in 2013, and with your support, we can make a big impact in the Houston community.
Thanks for your help!


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I've already done some bouncing about this on Twitter, but look at that! Dear Author reviewed The Perilous Life of Jade Yeo, and liked it! :D I am profoundly chuffed, and am making this post primarily so I can reblog the cover with RECOMMENDS on it and coo over it forever.
I emailed them ages ago when the ebook was first out, but since I didn't hear back from them I figured they weren't interested and forgot about it. So I was astonished to see a pingback from Dear Author in my emails when I was going home from work on Friday.
I dithered a little over whether I should read the review, out of a vague feeling that maybe it would be more polite not to? Maybe I would read it and it would hurt my feelings? (I realised this was unlikely given the link said it was an A minus review, but what can I say.) But of course I succumbed to temptation and read it!
A couple of points:
(1) In case it interests people to know how much difference something like this makes — I noticed after the review was posted that I'd made a couple of new sales on Smashwords, was pleased, and went on with my day. It's just occurred to me to check Amazon, and there have been around 50 sales. To give context, there were all of 2 sales last month.
Keep in mind that this is a story that is free to read on my website, and the review says so. What this says to me is that you can trust readers to pay for books if they feel they're gonna get some kind of value and the pricing is reasonable. I believe that readers on the whole want to do right by authors, and all authors/publishers need to do is make that possible — ensure the conditions that enable readers to do what comes natural.
(On a tangent, when I wrote that I felt horribly tempted to tweak the above sentence to make it clear that of course I do not count as an author. Impostor syndrome, my old friend!)
(2) The only thing I would take issue with in that review is the "infidelity" tag. I kind of get it, because I can see that as a reader you might decide that non-monogamy in a romance is not your bag, and you want to avoid that. That is fine, of course. But polyamory is not infidelity. Jade's Romantic Interest #1 is not unfaithful to his wife in making advances to Jade, because his wife is down with it — he is acting in accordance with their understanding. It is possible to be unfaithful in a polyamorous relationship, but Hardie isn't.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that! This all reminds me that recently I decided I wanted to write a sequel to Jade, and hopefully I will do that, and self-publish that too. (I want to do a series about Jade's daughter and grand-daughter and maybe great-granddaughter even, if the dates work.) But this is all for the future. For now, I must focus on my book!


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Nanotechnique creates image 30 microns in width
Aug 5, 2013 | Atlanta, GA
The world's most famous painting has now been created on the world's smallest canvas. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have "painted" the Mona Lisa on a substrate surface approximately 30 microns in width – or one-third the width of a human hair. The team's creation, the "Mini Lisa," demonstrates a technique that could potentially be used to achieve nanomanufacturing of devices because the team was able to vary the surface concentration of molecules on such short-length scales.
The image was created with an atomic force microscope and a process called ThermoChemical NanoLithography (TCNL). Going pixel by pixel, the Georgia Tech team positioned a heated cantilever at the substrate surface to create a series of confined nanoscale chemical reactions. By varying only the heat at each location, Ph.D. Candidate Keith Carroll controlled the number of new molecules that were created. The greater the heat, the greater the local concentration. More heat produced the lighter shades of gray, as seen on the Mini Lisa's forehead and hands. Less heat produced the darker shades in her dress and hair seen when the molecular canvas is visualized using fluorescent dye. Each pixel is spaced by 125 nanometers.
"By tuning the temperature, our team manipulated chemical reactions to yield variations in the molecular concentrations on the nanoscale," said Jennifer Curtis, an associate professor in the School of Physics and the study's lead author. "The spatial confinement of these reactions provides the precision required to generate complex chemical images like the Mini Lisa."
Production of chemical concentration gradients and variations on the sub-micrometer scale are difficult to achieve with other techniques, despite a wide range of applications the process could allow. The Georgia Tech TCNL research collaboration, which includes associate professor Elisa Riedo and Regents Professor Seth Marder, produced chemical gradients of amine groups, but expects that the process could be extended for use with other materials.
"We envision TCNL will be capable of patterning gradients of other physical or chemical properties, such as conductivity of graphene," Curtis said. "This technique should enable a wide range of previously inaccessible experiments and applications in fields as diverse as nanoelectronics, optoelectronics and bioengineering."
Another advantage, according to Curtis, is that atomic force microscopes are fairly common and the thermal control is relatively straightforward, making the approach accessible to both academic and industrial laboratories. To facilitate their vision of nano-manufacturing devices with TCNL, the Georgia Tech team has recently integrated nanoarrays of five thermal cantilevers to accelerate the pace of production. Because the technique provides high spatial resolutions at a speed faster than other existing methods, even with a single cantilever, Curtis is hopeful that TCNL will provide the option of nanoscale printing integrated with the fabrication of large quantities of surfaces or everyday materials whose dimensions are more than one billion times larger than the TCNL features themselves.
The paper, Fabricating Nanoscale Chemical Gradients with ThermoChemical NanoLithography, is published online by the journal Langmuir.
This research was funded by the National Science Foundation (PHYS-0849497, DMR-0120967, DMR-0820382 and CMMI-1100290). The findings and conclusions are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NSF. This material is based upon work supported by the Department of Energy (Office of Basic Energy Services) under award number DE-FG02-06ER46293. This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.


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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Despite data on rising rates of abuse and overdoses of narcotic pain medicines across all age groups, in a new poll from the University of Michigan, most parents said they are not very concerned about misuse of these medicines by children and teens.
In addition, parent support was lukewarm for policies that would discourage abuse of drugs like Vicodin or Oxycontin, according to the most recent University of Michigan Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.
Overall, 35% of parents said they are very concerned about misuse of narcotic pain medicines by children and teens in their communities; only 1 in 5 parents (19%) are very concerned about misuse of pain medicines in their own families. Black parents (38%) and Hispanic parents (26%) are more likely than white parents (13%) to be very concerned about misuse of narcotic pain medicines in their own families.
The poll also confirmed that prescription pain medicine is common in US households with children. Thirty-five percent of parents report that, in the last five years, they had received at least one pain medicine prescription for their children; over half of these prescriptions were for a narcotic pain medicine. Two-thirds (66%) had received at least one pain medicine prescription for themselves or another adult in the household.
National data indicate that the number of drug overdose deaths attributed to narcotic pain medicines is more than overdose deaths from heroin and cocaine combined. However, almost half of the parents in this poll do not favor a requirement that they return unused pain medicine to the doctor or pharmacy. Only 41 percent favor a policy that would require a doctor's visit to obtain a refill on narcotic pain medicines.
"Recent estimates are that 1 in 4 high school seniors have ever used a narcotic pain medicine. However, parents may downplay the risks of narcotic pain medicine because they are prescribed by a doctor," says Sarah J. Clark, M.P.H., Associate Director of the Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Unit at the University of Michigan and Associate Director of the National Poll on Children's Health.
"However, people who misuse narcotic pain medicine are often using drugs prescribed to themselves, a friend or a relative. That 'safe' prescription may serve as a readily accessible supply of potentially lethal drugs for children or teens," Clark says.
Although rates of narcotic pain medicine use have been shown to be three times higher among white teens than their black or Hispanic peers, white parents in this poll are less likely than black or Hispanic parents to be very concerned about narcotic pain medicine use, and are less likely to support policies to limit children's access to them.
There was support for some policies to discourage misuse: 66 percent strongly supported requiring parents to show identification when picking narcotic pain medicine for their children. Fifty-seven percent strongly supported policies blocking narcotic pain medicine scripts from more than one doctor.
But overall, the limited level of concern and the lack of strong support for policy changes show the public may not recognize the seriousness of the problem.
"This is a national problem and a growing problem. The results of this poll are a signal that parents may not be aware of the significant rates of misuse of narcotic pain medicine, which highlights the tremendous challenge of addressing this national problem," Clark says.
Broadcast-quality video is available on request. See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8cXRIEmkTk
Full report: http://mottnpch.org/reports-surveys/parents-numb-misuse-narcotic-pain-medicines-youth
Website: Check out the Poll's new website: MottNPCH.org. You can search and browse over 70 NPCH Reports, suggest topics for future polls, share your opinion in a quick poll, and view information on popular topics. The National Poll on Children's Health team welcomes feedback on the new website, including features you'd like to see added. To share feedback, e-mail [email protected].
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mottnpch
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Additional resources: http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/rxbrief/
Purpose/Funding: The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health – based at the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit at the University of Michigan and funded by the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and the University of Michigan Health System – is designed to measure major health care issues and trends for U.S. children.
Data Source: This report presents findings from a nationally representative household survey conducted exclusively by GfK Custom Research, LLC GfK Custom Research, LLC (GfK), for C.S. Mott Children's Hospital via a method used in many published studies. The survey was administered in September 2012 to a randomly selected, stratified group of parents with a child age 5-17 (n=1,304) from GfK's web-enabled KnowledgePanel® that closely resembles the U.S. population. The sample was subsequently weighted to reflect population figures from the Census Bureau. The survey completion rate was 57% among panel members contacted to participate. The margin of error is ± 2 to 4 percentage points and higher among subgroups.
Findings from the U-M C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health do not represent the opinions of the investigators or the opinions of the University of Michigan.
Media Contact: Mary Masson 734-764-2220


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FJA Radio Podcast
The Florida Justice Association's FJA Radio is your podcast about the people and issues shaping Florida's civil justice system. This program keeps you updated on the happenings at the FJA and delivers relevant and timely information and insight on the practice of trial law in Florida.
New FJA Radio Podcast Series: Titans of Trial:
The Titans of Trial, sponsored by the
Florida Justice Association Research and Education Foundation
(FJA REF), features Florida's legendary trial attorneys revealing their keys to success – in law practice and in personal life – in their own words. Behind the sometimes tough courtroom veneer lies the heart of a champion advocate. Sometimes whimsical, often inspirational, but always with practical advice and lessons, Titans of Trial shares the personal stories of the men and women who've made a demonstrated difference to the practice of trial law in Florida.
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Episode 5 - 2017 Legislative Session Wrap-Up
The Florida Legislature ended its regular session this week and with it, the hope of any fair reform or needed enhancement on several crucial issues for the trial bar and Florida consumers. Among them, bills on: Workers Compensation Insurance, Automobile Insurance, and Assignment of Benefits. None passed the legislature. What happened? And is no bill better than a bad bill with some of these issues?
Paul Jess, Interim Executive Director of the Florida Justice Association and Jeff Porter, FJA's Director of Legislative & Political Affairs share what happened behind the scenes and what's needed now to make progress in the upcoming 2018 legislative session. This includes a call-to-action to FJA members to refer clients to FJA who don't have enough auto coverage.
Legislative Session – Week 4
FJA Interim Executive Director Paul Jess discusses the progress of our civil justice agenda in the fourth week of the 2017 legislative session and what's to come.
Episode 4 –
Prove It!
In a major victory for civil justice advocates, the Florida Supreme Court in February 2017 threw-out the Daubert Standard of expert witness testimony, pointing to "grave constitutional concerns." Four years earlier, the Florida Legislature passed Daubert into statute as a replacement to the longstanding Frye Standard, after pressure from business interests. But the Court declined to adopt it, as well as the "Same Specialty" rule, siding with the Florida Bar and FJA's concerns that doing so would risk undermining the right to a jury trial and deny access to the courts.
Troy Rafferty and Paul Jess, who championed the Florida Justice Association's successful efforts to eliminate the Daubert Standard in Florida courts explain in this program why the Court's decision on expert testimony is so important for Florida's trial attorneys and warn practitioners that it's still critical to have Daubert ruled unconstitutional, to the extent it is procedural.
Program Note: Attorneys who are facing this argument and want to preserve the constitutional challenge to Daubert can refer to the arguments made in Nixon vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (http://bit.ly/RJRcase) in the 15th Judicial Circuit Court, Palm Beach County, February 27, 2017.
Other documents of reference mentioned in this podcast:
Report of the Florida Bar Code and Rules of Evidence Committee(http://bit.ly/SCOFLAFLBAR)
Baricko v. Barnett Transportation (Workers' Compensation)(http://bit.ly/Baricko)
Episode 3 Part Two –
Business Proposal Bad for Workers
Noted Workers' Compensation attorneys Kim Syfrett and Richard Chait return to FJA Radio for a no-holds barred discussion in this second part of our Workers' Compensation program to share their reaction to the Florida business community's reform proposal to a system the state Supreme Court ruled last year as "fundamentally unconstitutional."
In what they describe as a "shock to the conscience", Kim and Richard reveal that the Associated Industries of Florida proposal would eliminate a more than 70 year-old carrier-paid obligation for attorney fees when benefits are wrongly denied. Fourteen years of eroding workers' benefits during past reforms and "incredulous profits by insurance companies" shares Richard, has now created a situation where the only way to prevent total fracture of the system and fall into a tort system under the AIF proposal, would be to institute a bad faith remedy.
"Essentially what the (business) industry is saying with this proposal is 'We're going to keep our right to choose your doctor, we're going to keep our right to decide whether you get the medical treatment that doctor recommends, and when we decide that we don't want to give it to you, we're going to make you pay to show that we were wrong. And there's not going to be any consequence for our wrongful denial.'"
- Attorney Kim Syfrett
Episode 3 Part One –
Florida's Workers' Compensation Crossroad
The Florida Legislature is facing a monumental challenge when it convenes in March: How to address a workers' compensation insurance system which the Florida Supreme Court has determined to be "fundamentally unconstitutional" with respect to certain rights and remedies.
Workers'compensation attorney Richard Chait, a senior partner at Touby, Chait & Sicking in Coral Gables and longstanding leader in this field, chairs the Workers' Compensation Section at the Florida Justice Association. He and fellow attorney Kim Syfrett, a managing partner of Syfrett, Dykes & Furr in Panama City share their insight in this program on the Court's rulings and the challenges faced by their clients who routinely face delay or denial of the provision of medical treatment and related benefits in what they view to be a "fractured system" in Florida.
Chait details the Florida Justice Association's four pillars geared toward positively reforming the system in this upcoming legislative session:
The need for transparency and competition in the ratemaking process
Some element of choice in the provision of medical treatment by the injured worker
Revitalization of the post-maximum medical improvement benefit for those who suffer career-altering injuries
Codify the Supreme Court's decision in Castellanos to ensure access to court through reasonable attorney's fees when benefits are wrongfully denied
You'll also hear about the ever-growing "cocoon of collateral interests" which has spun so tightly around the core principles of workers' comp through the extensive reforms over the years that we can no longer appreciate its underlying intent – to make sure the injured employee is taken care of.
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Manage Millennials in Your Law Firm with Dana Brooks Cooper of Barrett, Fasig & Brooks in Tallahassee.
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Description: Live Music with John Lee Sanders at Perdido Beach Resortin Orange Beach.Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and Emmy nominated composer, John Lee Sanders comes from the deep roots of jazz, blues and roots music through his early years in the Mississippi Delta, Alabama, the Bayous of Louisiana, and the Plains of Texas.
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It is now official: Canada's top women's U23 mountain bike pro, Emily Batty will move to the Subaru-Trek for 2011. Batty has raced for the Trek World Racing team for the past two years, but lost her spot to elite rider Willow Koerber for next season. She will stay within the Trek family by joining the cross-country squad run by Jon Rourke.
"[We are] excited to have a young talented rider like Emily joining the Subaru-Trek program. She's a dynamic individual with tons of potential," commented Rourke by e-mail. " Joining the team gives her some additional support and opportunities for personal development, as she balances both World Cup and North American racing. Looking forward to great things from her and the rest of the Subaru-Trek team as the 2011 race season unfolds."
Rourke says that Batty's schedule is expected to include the World Cup circuit, Sea Otter and selected U.S. XCT and Canada Cup races.
Subaru-Trek official announcement:
Current U23 Canadian Champion Emily Batty will join North America's premiere mountain bike team, Subaru-Trek, for the 2011 season.
Batty will add youth and a lot of talent to a roster that already includes podium regulars Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Sam Schultz, Heather Irmiger, and Russell Finsterwald. Willow Koerber will stay aboard Trek in 2011 as she moves to the World Cup scene as the newest member of the Trek World Racing program.
With Batty's move to the Subaru-Trek team, she will continue to race a full World Cup schedule while also looking to bag some podiums on the US and Canadian circuits. "Trek World Racing was great," says Batty. "With Subaru-Trek, I'll continue to get the best possible support. Also, Subaru-Trek offers a family feel. Being around that collection of riders who are all at the top of their game will be very motivating."
Repeating as the top team in North America and third in World rankings, the Subaru-Trek team will continue racing a full Pro XCT Series in addition to World Cup events. Eleven years of title sponsorship by Subaru have produced a roster of incredibly well-rounded, accomplished riders. Results have included World Cup podiums, multiple US National Champion jerseys, US National Series titles, a Singlespeed World Champion tattoo, and the occasional Iceman Cometh trophy.
Riders Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, Heather Irmiger, Sam Schultz and U23 rider, Russell Finsterwald will round out the rest of the 2011 roster. As a University of Colorado freshman, Finsterwald will be riding for U23 titles domestically and abroad. Meanwhile, JHK, Heather, Sam, and Emily will be racing a full Pro XCT schedule in addition to globe-trotting for Olympic qualification points at World Cup events as they compete to represent USA and Canada at the 2012 Olympics.
The 2011 Subaru-Trek team is online (soon) at www.trekbikes.com/subarutrek
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The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference
– Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
Every single day of our lives, we make choices that open some doors and close other ones.
We spend $40 on an evening out. It opens a social door, but it closes a door to a game of golf this weekend.
We focus on debt freedom. It opens a door to better monthly cash flow, but it closes the door to a lot of short term opportunities.
We have children. It opens the door to parenthood, but it closes the door on a lot of paths in life.
Many of the biggest choices we make in our lives close a lot of them. The choice to get married (or not). The choice to have children (or not). The choice to chase a certain career path. The choice to leave college. Yes, sometimes those choices open a lot of other doors for us, but often, our regret is mired in the doors that we've closed.
I believe in frugality because I believe it's a door opener. The less you spend, the more free you are to choose the career path you want or to choose the lifestyle you want. It frees you from the constraints of indebtedness and teaches you life skills that you can apply no matter what you're doing.
I'm frugal because I want fewer bills. I'm frugal because I want the ability to change my career path without having to worry as much about paying for everything. I'm frugal because I don't want to be chained to a desk all day.
It might be that others find my goals and aspirations boring. My goal is to eventually move to the country and be as self-sufficient as possible so I can spend my later years doing volunteer work. I'd like to spend my later years helping severely disadvantaged children, a la charities like Jump for Joel, in whatever form that may take, whether it's actually in Africa or other places helping the children or helping with fundraising here. Along that path, I want to be present for my children when they need me, and that doesn't involve a job that ties me to my cell phone or requires me to constantly travel.
My ability to get there is paved with frugality. Every dime less that I spend is a dime closer to that goal. It's closer to a paid-off mortgage. It's closer to buying that country house, where I can raise chickens and goats and have a giant vegetable garden and a cellar to winterize what we save. It's closer to being able to spend a lot of my time helping out such charitable groups.
I think everyone has a dream or two deep down inside of them that they'd love to take on. I'm sure your dream is an awesome one, one that makes you excited whenever you think about it, and it's something that makes other life options seem really boring. That's what you should be shooting for, regardless of what exactly that goal is. It's a big giant life-affirming goal, and you should be chasing it with all your might.
Almost every dream is served by being frugal.
Why not just earn more? That's certainly a big part of the equation as well. However, "earning more" is not something you can just turn on and off like a light switch. Earning more is often inherently tied to the individual talents and skill sets of the person involved, and paths to great earning success are as different as the snowflakes on a winter night.
Frugality, on the other hand, is universal. We all eat. We all need a roof over our heads. We all need clothes. There are ways to spend less in each of those areas, things that almost everyone can do. Plus, regardless of what happens to my income, I know that spending less will always help me out.
The goal is not to be cheap. The goal is to take where we're at now and put us on a path that leads us to where we want to be, wherever that is.
Whatever you dream of, you inch closer to that every time you make the frugal choice.
That choice is up to you. Are you going to take the road less travelled?


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Relative and Absolute - Santa Sabina Sesshin 2009 Talk 1By Zoketsu Norman Fischer | Sep 22, 2009
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Reliable Writes
Databases have many levels of read and write caches they use. There's the database's own dedicated memory (shared_buffers), the operating system cache, potentially a disk controller cache (typical on a RAID card), and caches on each individual hard drive. PostgreSQL expects some of these caches to work effectively in order to obtain good performance. But periodically, the database issues a synchronous write request: requesting that something must be committed to disk before the database can proceed. If any of those writes say they are successful to the database, but the data is not really safe, database corruption can be expected if there is a server crash for any reason. Software bug, power outage, UPS failure, accidentally unplugging the server, any of these things can lead to a corrupted database that will not start normally if your system has unsafe writes.
There is a good diagram of how all these levels of caching fit together at Database Hardware Selection Guidelines (PDF, Bruce Momjian)
This page lists articles about this topic that include a mix of theory and practical recommendations about how to setup a reliable system that doesn't have this sort of problem after a crash:
- Reliability: from the official documentation
- Database Hardware (PDF): Chapter on general hardware selection, introduces write-back vs. write-through caching terminology and notes about issues with SSD writes. (Greg Smith)
- Server Configuration Tuning: lists things to be aware of when setting wal_sync_method, as well as warnings about settings changes that can make your server unsafe--fsync, full_page_writes, and synchronous_commit (Greg Smith)
- Tuning PostgreSQL WAL Synchronization: background about the topic of drives that handle writes unsafely and how this impacts PostgreSQL writes. (Greg Smith)
Known problem hardware
- The first and second generation Intel SSD drives such as the Intel X25-E will write unsafely, and this behavior is impossible to fix without serious impact to both the speed and longevity of the drive. See SSD, XFS, LVM, fsync, write cache, barrier and lost transactions (Vadim Tkachenko) for an introduction. Their consumer drives such as the X-25-M G2 have been reported to be even worse (Evan Jones). The 3rd generation Intel 320 and 710 series drives do not have any of these problems, having added a capacitor to provide battery-backup for flushing the drive cache when power drops.


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Taxpayers have the ability to view budget notices in one central online location at BudgetNotices.in.gov. A new email subscription option is provided to taxpayers to stay informed of submissions by their local units. Taxpayers will be able to view all local government units in Noble County, search by their address, or use an interactive map tool. This website has been designed to promote the importance of budget notices and the role that they play in the daily lives of Indiana taxpayers. Taxpayers that do not have internet access or have difficulties with the website may contact the Indiana Department of Local Government Finance at (888)739-9826 and request a paper copy of the notices for their local government units.


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This is an amigurumi crochet pattern in English using US terminology.
Skill level: intermediate (single crochet)
The pattern uses 3.5 mm (E) crochet hook and sport (5 ply) weight yarn.
Size: about 10 cm (4 inches)
Skill level: intermediate (single crochet)
Size: about 10 cm
You will receive the pattern with clear step-by-step instructions and lots of pictures to illustrate the process.
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