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Exposure to abnormal or prolonged amounts of heat and humidity without relief or adequate fluid intake can cause various types of heat-related illness. Children and teens adjust more slowly than adults do to changes in environmental heat. They also produce more heat with activity than adults, and sweat less. Sweating is one of the ways the body cools itself. Children and teens often don't think to rest when having fun and may not drink enough fluids when playing, exercising, or participating in sports.
Children and teens with chronic health problems, or those who take certain medicines, may be more susceptible to heat-related illnesses. Children and teens who are overweight or wear heavy clothing during exertion, such as marching band or football uniforms, are also more susceptible.
Heat related illness can occur in two ways, exertional and non-exertional. Exertional heat illness occurs when your child exerts themselves in a hot environment, such as practicing football on a hot day without any breaks. Non-exertional heat stroke occurs when a child is trapped in a hot environment. Examples of this would be an infant left in a car on a summer day, or a child with disabilities left in a hot apartment without access to water.
Heat-related illness includes the following conditions based on the severity of a child's condition:
Heat cramps
Heat exhaustion
Heat stroke
Heat cramps are the mildest form of heat illness and consist of painful muscle cramps and spasms that occur during or after intense exercise and sweating in high heat.
Heat exhaustion is more severe than heat cramps and results from a loss of water and salt in the body. It occurs in conditions of extreme heat and excessive sweating without adequate fluid and salt replacement. Heat exhaustion occurs when the body is unable to cool itself properly and, if left untreated, can progress to heat stroke.
Heat stroke, the most severe form of heat illness, occurs when the body's heat-regulating system is overwhelmed by excessive heat. It is a life-threatening emergency and requires immediate medical attention.
The following chart contains the most common symptoms of heat-related illness. Specific treatment will be determined by your child's doctor and may include some, or more, of the following:
First-aid and treatment
Painful cramps, especially in the legs
Flushed, moist skin
Move to a cool place and rest. Don't continue the activity.
Remove excess clothing and place cool cloths on skin; fan skin.
Give cool sports drinks containing salt and sugar.
Stretch cramped muscles slowly and gently.
Muscle cramps
Pale, moist skin
Usually has a fever over 100.4° F (or 34° C)
Anxiety, and faint feeling
Move to a cool place and rest.
If no improvement or unable to take fluids, take your child to an emergency room immediately. IV (intravenous) fluids may be needed.
Warm, dry skin
High fever, usually over 104° F (or 40° C)
Rapid heart rate
Loss of appetite
Seizures, coma, and death are possible
Call 911 or your local emergency medical service. Heat stroke is a life-threatening medical emergency and needs to be treated by a doctor.
Remove excess clothing and drench skin with cool water; fan skin.
Place ice bags on the armpits and groin areas.
Offer cool fluids if alert and able to drink.
Some general guidelines to help protect your child from heat-related illnesses include the following:
Don't leave children unattended in a car. Even if the windows are cracked open. This is a leading cause of infant death from heat illness in the U.S.
Drink plenty of fluids during vigorous or outdoor activities (including sunbathing), especially on hot days. Drinks of choice include water and sports drinks. Don't drink alcohol or fluids with caffeine, such as tea, coffee, and cola. These can lead to dehydration.
Make sure your child dresses in light colored, lightweight, tightly-woven, loose-fitting clothing on hot days.
Schedule vigorous activity and sports for cooler times of the day. Take rest periods in shady or cool areas.
Makes sure your child is protected from the sun and wears a hat and sunglasses, and uses an umbrella. Use a sunscreen that is at least SPF (sun protection factor) 15.
Increase time spent outdoors gradually to get your child's body used to the heat.
Teach children to take frequent drink breaks and "wet down" or mist themselves with a spray bottle to avoid becoming overheated.
Student athletes need frequent breaks for water or sports drinks. Most athletes should drink 200 to 300 milliliters (about 1 cup) of fluid every 15 minutes of exercise.
Try to spend as much time indoors as possible on very hot and humid days.
Teach your child to warm-up and cool-down before and after exercising.
If your child has a medical condition or is taking medicine, consult his or her doctor for further advice for preventing heat-related illnesses.


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Arrieta recalled from Triple-A to aid overworked bullpen
BALTIMORE -- Orioles right-hander Jake Arrieta was recalled prior to Saturday's game, where he will be used -- at least initially -- as an extra bullpen arm who can go multiple innings and help spell an overworked relief corps.
Arrieta, who made the drive from Williamsburg, Va., got the call following Friday's night's 12-10 loss -- which marked the fifth time in six games the Orioles have had a starter go five or fewer innings -- and the 27-year-old fit in for a few reasons. Arrieta, who threw a pair of sides on Wednesday and Thursday, was slated to start Triple-A Norfolk's game Saturday against Durham, so he can give the team length and is already on the 40-man roster.
"This is the guy that everybody felt like fit the description we had," manager Buck Showalter said of the decision to promote Arrieta, who had a 6.63 ERA in four big league starts this season before he was optioned on April 22. "Right now, he's here to help us in the bullpen. And we'll see what Monday brings. I shouldn't say Monday -- wherever those days fall. As long as [Miguel Gonzalez] has a good work day, we are leaning toward him on Tuesday."
Arrieta, who won the final rotation spot this spring, could be an option to start Monday against the Yankees. The Orioles have yet to name a starter past Chris Tillman on Sunday, although Monday would be Freddy Garcia's scheduled turn.
"What I really did is I started to take the emotions out of it," Arrieta said of his time in Triple-A, in which he posted a 2.75 ERA in three starts, throwing 19 2/3 innings on 16 hits and three walks with 17 strikeouts. "For me, when I was getting in high-stress situations where I needed to make quality pitches to get out of big innings, I allowed anger or over-aggression. And those sort of emotions come with a pitcher, and I basically tried to do more than I needed to to get outs.
"I went down there and really relaxed. I took the emotions completely out of it [whether] there were guys on base or nobody on base. That translated to pretty solid results, and I was throwing a lot more strikes that way as well."
Arrieta, who last pitched in a game on May 7, has been dealing with some right shoulder tenderness, but he said he's happy with how it feels now.
"I developed a little stiffness as few starts ago. It's something that has been manageable," Arrieta said. "They wanted to give me a few days, kind of push me back a little bit. I've stayed on top of it as much as I can.
"Flexibility-wise and mobility -- those are the two main things that are my focus to keep the shoulder feeling the way it is right now. I look forward to the shoulder to continue to progress and get to 100 percent. But I definitely feel a lot better than I did a few days ago."

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Did you know that this week is National Geographic's Geography Awareness Week? NG is challenging you to gain a better understanding of your own community through studying it's geography! Kids are encouraged to form teams of friends and family to explore their own neighborhood with NG's 'Mission: Explore' guidelines. Using the guidelines, team members will develop and improve geography skills: storytelling, photography, mapping and becoming involved.
So get out there with your team to develop a better understanding of the your own community and the world at large. Every mission completed will earn you and your team points towards badges in the geography skill set.
GAWeek was established by Presidential proclamation in the United States in 1987 and is organized by National Geographic Education Programs (NGEP). Each year more than 100,000 people actively participate in GAWeek through activities, events, lessons, games, and challenges. Download a print version of the missions in the form of a fun activity booklet or visit the 'Mission: Explore' website using the link below.


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As the eurozone continues to wobble, new analysis of countries' economic interconnectedness finds that some of the countries with the greatest potential to cause a global crash have surprisingly small gross domestic production.
Using data from Bureau Van Dijk - the company information and business intelligence provider - to assess the reach and size of different countries' economies, and applying the Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model, physicists from universities in Greece, Switzerland and Israel have identified the twelve countries with greatest power to spread a crisis globally.
The research published today, Thursday 25 November 2010, in New Journal of Physics (co-owned by the Institute of Physics and German Physical Society), groups Belgium and Luxembourg alongside more obviously impactful economies such as the USA in the top twelve.
Using a statistical physics approach, the researchers from the Universities of Thessaloniki, Lausanne and Bar-Ilan used two different databases to model the effect of hypothetical economic crashes in different countries. The use of two different databases aided the avoidance of bias but threw up very similar results.
The data used allowed the physicists to identify links between the different countries, by mapping the global economy to a complex network, and gauge the likelihood of one failed economy having an effect on another.
One network was created using data on the 4000 world corporations with highest turnover and a second using data on import and export relations between 82 countries.
The SIR model, successfully used previously to model the spreading of disease epidemics, is applied to these two networks taking into consideration the strength of links between countries, the size of the crash, and the economic strength of the country in potential danger.
When put to the test with the corporate data, the USA, the UK, France, Germany, Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and Luxembourg were part of an inner core of countries that would individually cause the most economic damage globally if their economies were to fail.
Using the import/export data, China, Russia, Japan, Spain, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, USA, and France formed the inner core, with the researchers explaining that the difference – particularly the addition of China to this second list – is due to a large fraction of Chinese trade volume coming from subsidiaries of western corporations based in China.
The researchers write, "Surprisingly, not all 12 countries have the largest total weights or the largest GDP. Nevertheless, our results suggest that they do play an important role in the global economic network. This is explained by the fact that these smaller countries do not support only their local economy, but they are a haven for foreign investments."
The researchers' paper can be downloaded for free from Thursday 25 November 2010 here: http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/12/11/113043/fulltext


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The day has two purposes:
On 29 May, UN offices, alongside Member States and non-governmental organizations, hold solemn events to honour fallen peacekeepers. Since the first UN peacekeeping mission was established in 1948, more than 3,100 military, police and civilian personnel have lost their lives in the service of peace as a result of acts of violence, accidents and disease.
Adapting to new challenges
International peace and security needs are changing rapidly and this year the UN is using Peacekeepers Day to focus on how UN Peacekeeping is 'Adapting to new challenges'.
UN Peacekeeping is being given new mandates to meet new challenges. We are being asked to deploy in new operating environments such as Mali, a vast desert nation where international terrorists continue to threaten national sovereignty and local people.
In response we are developing innovative approaches to get the job done in the most challenging conditions. For example the deployment of an 'Intervention Brigade' and the use of 'Unarmed Aerial Vehicles' in the DR Congo.
More than ever, UN Peacekeeping is a flexible tool. While we are increasingly called upon to deploy large-scale multidimensional peacekeeping operations, we remain flexible enough to rapidly deploy small-scale monitoring missions, such as in Syria in 2012.
Additional links:
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485


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Inspired by her sense of adventure, reflected in her world travels and entrepreneurial spirit, Joanne Snodgrass founded her first company in South Africa, shortly after graduating from University. Her innovative product development and colorful designs, still selling today, sparked her career in luxury design.
Joanne decided to make the US her home 16 years ago. Her sense of style and creativity was exemplified in her successful boutique, Via Pelle, in Dallas. She was honored by Fashion Group International (FGI) with the Rising Star Award, for retail in 2008. It was during this time that she started designing her own collections that developed into her line, Nouvelle Palm Beach, launched in 2013 after moving to Florida.
Nouvelle has evolved from a resort print collection in 100% silk to a contemporary collection created in her trademarked washable stretch "Silk95Five" fabric. The focus is on shirts, tops, and pants in a myriad of colors, carefully curated to encapsulate the casual sophistication of a luxury lifestyle. Joanne won the coveted 2018 Contemporary Designer of the Year at Phoenix Fashion Week after grueling 4-month fashion bootcamp, culminating in the brand being worn on popular TV shows.
Since the launch of Silk95Five, Nouvelle has expanded to over 300 of the finest boutiques stateside. In 2020, we launched in France showing at Who's Next and are now selling to top French and Italian stores. The European launch has also brought attention to the sustainable element of Silk95Five as featured in Luxiders Magazine about the fact that we implement a holistic plan for sustainability through the guidelines of the circular fashion systems approach.
"Creating Nouvelle melds my passion for fine silk, color and a casual sophisticated aesthetic. I am delighted how the brand is loved by so many great retailers", says Joanne.
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What is 'Silk95Five'?
'Silk95Five,' the proprietary blend of weaving pure silk with elastane, is a perfect combination to enhance the radiant and featherlight feel of silk, with added benefits of stretch for comfort and easy-to-take-care-of features including at home washing and wrinkle resistance. Our silk is a trademarked, washable stretch 'Silk95Five'. It blends just a touch of elastane with pure silk for the ultimate in wear-ability. Sensual and elegant, it radiates in an assortment of natural and vibrant colors, custom dyed for each season. Ideal for those who travel, our silk is made to curb wrinkling and ensure lightweight packing.
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James Rodger is a Partner and Regional Leader for UK & Ireland as well as a Member of the Global Management Committee at BearingPoint. James has worked at BearingPoint for over 11 years, and specialises in Automotive, Digital Strategy, and operational performance improvement.
James has spent his entire career in the Automotive industry working primarily in the Sales, Marketing and the Aftersales arena. James specialises in Customer Management, Supply Chain, Retail, and fleet sales and warranty.
Key focus areas:
Having graduated from St Anne's College Oxford with an MA in History, James started his career at Rover Group in Sales and Marketing in 1986 and has been working within the Automotive industry for the past 30 years. He made the move from industry into consultancy in 1998, working for KPMG and IBM Global Services before joining BearingPoint in 2005. As a consultant James has worked for a range of blue chip companies across multiple industries with a particular specialism in Automotive. His advisory work with clients encompasses developing and operationalising strategy, target operating model design, operational performance improvement and digital transformation.
James also sits on the corporate advisory boards for the University of Surrey Business School, and Imperial College Business school.


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Raymond Carver crafted some of the most precise and delicate short stories of the late 20th Century, evoking a depth emotion and understanding with an economy of words that few could match. Trying to tease a feature-length film out of a 1600-word masterpiece is no easy feat.
But writer-director Dan Rush's "Everything Must Go" largely succeeds in bringing to life Carver's "Why Don't You Dance?" The film stars Will Ferrell as Nick Halsey, a man who gets laid off from his job because of his drinking, and upon arriving at home finds that his wife has thrown all his things on the front lawn, changed the locks, and moved out. So Nick does what any sensible man would, he cracks a beer, sits down in his easy chair and has a five-day yard sale.
Ferrell, a man who's never been afraid to play it broad, restrains himself, bringing to Nick the appropriate balance of despair, fatigue, humor and anger. Ferrell was gave a great dra-medic turn in "Stranger Than Fiction," and here he goes even darker, but without making you feel like your having to endure a comedian's "serious phase" (See: Williams, Robin; Carrey, Jim). Ferrell plays a washed out regional sales manager, with the occasion whiff of Ron Burgundy peeking through, without ever taking over.
The supporting cast is a who's-who of underappreciated talents: Michael Pena as Nick's AA sponsor, Stephen Root as the tut-tutting neighbor (with some pretty steep predilections of his own); and Rebecca Hall, as the pregnant newlywed who's just moved in across the street--each is typically excellent.
But it's Nick's relationship with Kenny, played by Christopher Jordan Wallace (son of the late rapper Notorious BIG) that's at the center of the film. Kenny spends his days alone, biking up and down the street, while his mother cares for an elderly women. Kenny and Nick are drawn to each other by their shared solitude.
Not surprisingly, the film falls flattest when it strays furthest from the source. You can almost feel Rush straining to get Nick's story past the 80-minute mark. A detour to visit a long lost high school friend feels forced and improbable, and the betrayal revealed toward the end of the film is unnecessary.
But Rush is to be commended for expanding upon Carver's story as well as he does. More than a snapshot of a man fighting a losing battle, "Everything" delves into the, the ways in which we are all damaged and the desperate lies we tell to hide those wounds. And he manages to find the humor in the story with making light of it.
Review: Will Ferrell's "Everything Must Go" a Minor Gem
Raymond Carver crafted some of the most precise and delicate short stories of the late 20th Century, evoking a depth emotion and understanding with an economy of words that few could match. Trying to tease a feature-length film out of a 1600-word masterpiece is no easy feat.


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Intel Reports Earnings Today, Facing Lots of Big Questions
Chip giant Intel will be reporting quarterly earnings today after markets close for trading in New York. The report is coming amid a moment of high uncertainty for the company.
For one thing, there are questions about CEO succession. Current CEO Paul Otellini (pictured) surprised everyone in November when he announced plans to retire well before it was expected. All the smart money is being placed on an internal successor being named, though Intel's board of directors will give at least some consideration to outsiders. Here's a pretty thorough list.
Management issues aside, Intel has a more fundamental question to struggle with: The personal computer industry, to which Intel has long been the primary arms merchant, is contracting. Data from both Gartner and IDC showed a market that shrank in 2012 by more than 3 percent — or about 13 million units. And there's little sign of that changing.
The damage to the PC industry is being wrought by tablets and smartphones, markets where Intel has yet to penetrate with chips of its own in any meaningful way. At the International CES, Intel showed off its Lexington and Bay Trail generations of mobile chips. Impressive as they may be — one attraction is to bring the x86 instruction set that is a fundamental underpinning of mainstream PCs to tablets and phones — the chips won't be inside any devices on store shelves until late this year.
It didn't impress analysts at Piper Jaffray, who wrote in a research note to clients, wrapping up their impressions of CES, that the base of customers the new chips will attract is "not likely large enough to move the needle for the company," and that "we continue to be concerned about the rate of cannibalization from tablets. We believe it is unlikely that 2013 sees any renewed interest in PCs."
Meanwhile, Intel has one business that is largely safe from a meaningful competitive threat: Servers. Yes, it's safe for now, but not entirely. Server chips using technology licensed from ARM — the British chip-design firm whose technology is found in most all of those non-Intel mobile devices — are on the way and, if nothing else, looking like an interesting option for the not-so-distant future.
The uncertainty has certainly weighed on Intel's shares, which fell by more than 8 percent in 2012 but have since recovered. The shares were up more than 1 percent today in trading on the Nasdaq to $22.41 by midday in New York.
So what does the Street expect today? Per-share earnings of 45 cents on revenue of $13.53 billion. However, there are whispered numbers making the rounds, suggesting that Intel may fall short. That would be rare, as Intel typically beats the Street, even in tough quarters. But then, this isn't just any tough quarter.


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Whitsunday Regional Council today resolved to assist the Cannon Valley Rural Fire Brigade(CVRFB) to secure land for the construction of a fire station.
Mayor Jenny Whitney said as part of this resolution Council also approved the exploration of aconversion of the road reserve at the Gregory/Cannon Valley and Shute Harbour intersection asan option for the CVRFB fire station.
"The Cannon Valley Rural Fire Brigade approached Council asking for assistance in findingsuitable land of approximately 1,000m2 to house a fire station in the Mt Marlow/Riordanvale area,"she said.
"The brigade has been operational for nearly three years, is steadily growing in size and is in need of a station to adequately service the growing local community.
"Queensland Fire and Emergency Services have also indicated they will assist the fire brigade with the funding required to construct the facility as they have an interest in using the facility as aregional communications hub during an emergency.
"Council officers are happy to assist the brigade with planning approvals, including conversion ofthe road reserve.
"There is no timeframe available from State Department of Natural Resources and Mines, however the reserve conversion may take up to six months and require public consultation prior to granting approval," she said.
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The Trump administration on Monday proposed a $4.4 trillion budget for 2019 and a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan. In practical terms, neither of them will matter all that much — but both are already sparking further debate about our national priorities.
Trump's budget, like his proposal last year, calls for sharp cuts to domestic spending, including Medicare and Medicaid, while asking for more money for the military, infrastructure, border security and opioid treatment programs.
But the budget is already being described as "dead on arrival" — and Congress is likely to pay it even less attention than it does most presidential budgets, which are typically regarded as little more than political vision statements. "A lot of presidents' budgets are ignored," Jason Furman, a top economic adviser to President Barack Obama, told the Associated Press. "But I would expect this one to be completely irrelevant and totally ignored." Furman was echoing the conventional wisdom. "While all presidential budgets are largely political exercises, this one is widely anticipated to be the least relevant in decades," The New York Times said on Friday.
That's because of the spending deal passed by Congress, and signed by the president, last week. That deal authorizes spending billions more on programs Trump's budget would slash. "Without more Republicans in Congress, we were forced to increase spending on things we do not like or want in order to finally, after many years of depletion, take care of our Military," Trump tweeted on Friday.
A Budget Hole Trump Can't Even Pretend to Fill
Still, the budget represents a landmark shift for what it doesn't do: reach balance.
The proposal "discards longtime Republican orthodoxy about balancing the budget, instead embracing last year's $1.5 trillion tax cut and new spending on a major infrastructure initiative," The New York Times' Julie Hirschfeld Davis writes.
Last year's White House budget, which used some highly questionable math, projected a surplus of $16 billion in 2027. This year's budget envisions a $450 billion deficit that year, or 1.4 percent of projected GDP, and a $363 billion deficit, or 1.1 percent of GDP, in 2028. It projects accumulated deficits totaling $7.1 trillion from 2019 through 2028, more than double the 10-year deficit projected in last year's budget — and that's after significant cuts to non-defense spending that would trim more than $3 trillion from the deficit over a decade. The 10-year deficit would also be much larger were it not for some rosy assumptions about economic growth baked into the projections.
As The Washington Post's Aaron Blake sums it up: "Republicans have the power to balance the budget now, and they are not even trying — despite this having been a rallying cry for their party and the tea party movement for years. … Apparently $1 trillion in tax cuts and $500 billion in new spending in Congress's bipartisan deal last week have made it too difficult to even stretch the numbers in a document that is almost purely hypothetical."


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HarryTuttle wrote:Who thinks Dr. Cullen in the movies look like Spike from Buffy?
Spike was rocking his own version of Billy Idol/Sid Vicious. And I've never thought Jaxper looked anything like Edward Scissorhands.Openhome wrote:Great. First we have Jasper who looks like Edward Scissorhands, and now Carlisle looks like Spike?
Now you've ruined it for me.
In my head, in the novels, I always saw Carlisle as resembling Achilles or Hercules. Bella often says he resembles Zeus' younger, better looking brother. But, I think that the key component to his look is his eyes. His compassion would shine through those beautiful tawny eyes.


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Sathya Sai Education
The end of education is character. Education without character is useless.
Sathya Sai Baba, Prasanthi Nilayam, November 20, 2001
Sathya Sai Baba has fostered a unique approach to education called educare, drawing out divine qualities of truth, right-conduct, peace, love and non-violence which are latent within the individual. Educare aligns the heart, head, and hands. True education must in Sai Baba's words, "broaden the heart and expand one's love." True education is "that which fosters the sense of oneness, draws out one's divine qualities and promotes the blossoming of human personality."
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Sathya Sai Schools and Institutes
Sathya Sai Schools integrate educare with traditional curriculum promoting students with good character skilled in academic areas. Sai Baba established the first Sathya Sai School in India in 1968. By the early 1990s Sathya Sai Schools began to be established outside India, and Institutes of Sathya Sai Education (ISSE) were soon established to train teachers and assure quality. There are now 31 Institutes of Sathya Sai Education (ISSEs) in 31 countries, and 37 Sathya Sai Schools around the world.
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SSE and SSEHV
Inspired by the teachings of Sai Baba the Bal Vikas programme was established in India in 1969 to teach the country's spiritual heritage to children of devotees. Later to be known as Sai Spiritual Education (SSE) outside India, the programmes promoted Unity of Religions, the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man, and stories about the life of Sathya Sai Baba. By the 1980s the SSE programme was also adapted to foster human and spiritual values in children of parents who were not devotees without the focus on a specific spiritual leader. This new programme called Sathya Sai Education in Human Values (SSEHV) is taught in community and after-school settings.


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Adults today.... where has historical knowledge of the game gone.Originally Posted by bounty37h
Adults today.... where has historical knowledge of the game gone.Originally Posted by bounty37h
whats your point?Originally Posted by westofyou
That slugging percentage increases in the game are always matched by a decline in steals.Originally Posted by bounty37h
What's yours?
Other than to imply that "kids today are dumb?"
Well, the Reds won more at the begining of the season, when the small ball was more prominent in the game then relying just on the slugging it out with the long ball, which isnt consistant, even though always a threat with us. Yeah, I know, chiz dig the long ball.
I am only 31, was being more a smart-a$$ with the kids comment.
Actually a .361 team OB% in April has alot more to do with the winning then "small ball"
Originally Posted by Aronchishttp://www.daytondailynews.com/sport...106inside.htmlSo while Bailey is throwing 97-mph fastballs and shutting down Class AA Southern League opponents, he still has to work on other pitches, his quickness in delivering the ball to the plate, covering first base and other sundry skills.
http://www.baseballamerica.com/today...irstround.htmlHe still has plenty of room for projection, and Bailey will need to improve his changeup and get stronger
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs....607100312/1035"I believe that we're on the right track with this kid, not rushing him," Owens said before the game. "In my level he's able to go to his fastball to get out of trouble. Major league level, he may not be able to do that so much. He really needs to tweak his off-speed stuff, especially his changeup."
After Sunday's game, Owens said his point had been proven in Bailey's one inning of work. Bailey picked up the win in the USA team's 8-5 victory, but gave up two hits and a run.
All 20 of Bailey's pitches were fastballs.
It's not MY problem, buddy, it's BAILEY'S problem. He may have an off-speed pitch, but it's apparently far from perfected, and he's obviously not comfortable using it. Do your homework before you call someone out next time.
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
Saying he has NO offspeed pitch is different then him working to improve his off-speed stuff.
The reason he threw nothing but fastballs was he had a blister break on his finger.It's not MY problem, buddy, it's BAILEY'S problem. He may have an off-speed pitch, but it's apparently far from perfected, and he's obviously not comfortable using it. Do your homework before you call someone out next time.
"Strickland Propane... Taste the meat, not the heat." - Hank Hill
No offspeed pitch that he could use in the majors.Originally Posted by membengal
I'm certain that he is working on it, but right now, he doesn't have an offspeed pitch that he can effectively use. Which is the same as not having one, if you can't use it.
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
You dont see any correlation to getting on base and stealing, eliminating DP's, and advancing base position?Originally Posted by westofyou
Even when he's blister-less, the scouting reports I have read indicate that he relies predominantly on his fastball, and that his off-speed stuff has not reached the point where he can consistently get runners out.Originally Posted by redsfan30
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it.
23 steals in April - .361 ob% Rc/27 - 6.14Originally Posted by bounty37h
20 steals in May - .325 ob% Rc/27 - 4.63
23 steals in June - .345 ob% Rc/27 - 6.01
No, I don't
So, 66 stolen bases in 3 months is irrelevant and overrated?
No, not at all, but it's not the base that makes the offense humm, nor is "small ball.Originally Posted by bounty37h
did you even read what prompted me to start this, i was responding to a post that said stolen bases are overrated.
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Linux patch 188.8.131.52
Linux patch 22.214.171.124 and fix for fbcondecor for 22.214.171.124
Linux version 184.108.40.206. Removal of redundant patches.
Patch to fix cdc-acm regression in open
Patch to fix cc1 options check to not use -fPIC when compiling
Linux patch 22.214.171.124
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Linux 184.108.40.206 patch and the removal of redundant patch
linux/sysrq.h needs linux/errno.h
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MacBook display corruption fix
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Linux patch 220.127.116.11 and removal of redundant patches
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Linux patch 220.127.116.11
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Alpha/PCI patch to make PCI resources available
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Adding fbcondecor fix for 18.104.22.168.
usblp patch to poll continuously for the status.
Linux 188.8.131.52 patch
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Preventative measure against future vmsplice-like security issues
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Fix SCSI CDROM implementation of CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS ioctl
slightly newer version of fbcondecor patch
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More unneeded patches go bye-bye.
Removing unneeded patches.
Forking the .24-pre branch.
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usb-storage capacity quirk for Nikon D200 camera
Deprecating vesafb-tng in favor of uvesafb.
Deprecating fbsplash in favor of fbcondecor.
Fix hostap AP interface type to prevent udev confusion
Both, 2700_usbaudio-logitech-id.patch and 2900_powernow-k8-acpi.patch are now upstream.
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Correcting the From: of the CONFIG_ALPHA_UAC_SYSCTL.
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Dropping speakup from 2.6.22 on Daniel's request.
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Fix detection of Logitech QuickCam microphone
Fix resuming of hda-intel sigmatel codecs
Add support for AL2230S-based ZD1211 USB-WLAN devices
Fix vgettimeofday() system call on x86-64
Linux 126.96.36.199.
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cx88 patch merged
sk98lin is now deprecated UPSTREAM!
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new speakup patch
Cx88: Add support for svideo/composite input of the Terratec Cinergy 1400 DVB-T
I think genpatches-2.6.20 is ready.
Updating the squashfs patch.
Those are stable patches, already present in current git.
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fix speakup and squashfs
pdc2037x patch still broken upstream
forward-port r707: fix ieee1394 module reload oops on PPC
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David Miller advised that this patch can be removed
real fix for VIA IRQ quirk was merged
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sky2 v1.9 is already present in 2.6.19_rc1.
Starting work on 2.6.19-pre, as _rc1 is now on its way.
Add support for RTL8168 ethernet, tested by Sebastian Stammler
sky2 update
updated pdc2037x PATA support
Linux 2.6.18 should be ready now.
Backport some recent additions from 2.6.17 branch
Updating the squashfs patch.
speakup update
Removing the sparc64 naming fix, since on 2.6.18 it should be fixed in mainline
Adding back 4000_deprecate-sk98lin.patch, deleted it by mistake
Updating the vesafb-tng patch (thanks to spock)
Removing patches already in the 2.6.18 git tree
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Support USB ASIX 88178 ethernet
Support new nvidia IDE hardware
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Add PCI ID for bcm4319 wifi card
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Merge r476 from 2.6.16: Print a message when a device is rejected due to insufficient power
new and fixed speakup
merge r449: Reduce ACPI verbosity on this error condition
the real fix is merged upstream now
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Fix disconnect when renewing keys with hostap driver
input.h header fix for splashutils compile
skge update, hopefully solves performance issues
sky2 update, hopefully solves stability issues
Use sparsemem for ultrasparc machines, thanks to Gustavo Zacarias
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new numbering scheme
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These patches are already in the upstream git tree, so they're not necessary anymore
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Enable libata ATAPI (i.e. SATA CDROM) support by default
mqueue security fix
sky2 v0.13
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sky2 v0.12
Several patches from 126.96.36.199 queue
Support the upcoming Intel ICH8 chipset
Fix ptrace/strace on sparc64
Fix crash-on-resume with ata_piix driver by implementing suspend support
Fix framebuffer on Sun Blade 100/150 workstations
drop unapplicable sparch patches for now
sky2 v0.11
Experimental fix for speakup highlight tracking on amd64
speakup 20060103
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sky2 -- driver for marvell yukon-2 ethernet cards
New speakup version
fbsplash and vesafb rediff
PPC64 multilib patch will need to be redone
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Fix a bug which caused BIND to fail after some time
Fix compile on alpha
Speakup 20051028
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vesafb-tng 1.0-rc1-r1
Fix compilation on uclinux systems
Updated Kconfig patches for 2.6.14-rc4-git4.
Promise pata rediff
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Fix clock skew on AMD64 X2 cpu's
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Stop scsi_execute being so verbose
Fix bad BUG_ON in de_thread and add forgotten yenta patch
Yenta oops fix
Hopeful fix for the AMD64 SMP userspace crash issues
Speakup vs gameport fix
Linux 184.108.40.206
Stop kallsyms requiring an extra pass for some configs
Linux 22.214.171.124
Fix bootup of mac hardware
skge tree update
2.6.13-pre --> 2.6.13
Updated speakup snapshot.
Removing 1370_sparc-modpost_stt_reg.patch as it is in upstream now.
Stop skge flooding the logs with bogus messages
Merge forcedeth linkinit fix (r142) into 2.6.13
Support for nvidia mcp5x SATA in 2.6.13
sparc Kconfig updates to rc4-git2.
New speakup from gregkh's tree
Support promise TX4200 hardware
Squashfs 2.2
I marked ffb broken, so don't even bother with this patch any more.
Further cleanup of the sparc Kconfig.
Updated sparc Kconfig goodies
speakup needs work as usual
Drop sparc kconfig rework, does not apply cleanly
Remove patches which are already applied
Creating 2.6.13-pre branch from 2.6.12
Add irqpoll boot option for buggy BIOS workaround
Correct modpost to work with newer glibc on sparc
Revert bridge fix; Fix buggy conntrack behaviour
Fix odd NTP timing behaviour on PPC
netfilter conntrack bridge device fix
Gameport probe order fix
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Add PPC64 makefile fix for multilib
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Add it8212 storage driver
skge tree update
skge: Fix startup bug for yukon-lite cards
Support MCP51 and MCP55 hardware in nv_sata driver
Support MCP55 hardware in amd74xx IDE driver
New hardware support for forcedeth and a bugfix
Support Elecom (Laneed) LD-USBL/TX in pegasus driver
Support Planex FNW-3602-TX in tulip driver
Support USR 997902 in r8169 driver
Support >2TB capacity in libata
e1000 spinlock fix
Fix remap_pte_range BUG
Add pci-driver typo fix
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Speakup returns
Remove AHCI ATAPI patch. We aren't going to be able to support SATA-ATAPI for 2005.0.
Remove unneeded nfsacl patch
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A recent study suggests going easy on teens who have incurred a concussion, at least as far as homework goes.
SALT LAKE CITY - A recent study suggests teachers and parents go easy on teens who have incurred a concussion, at least as far as homework goes. The medical journal Pediatrics published the study on Jan. 5. Among other findings, researchers discovered that when mental exertion was limited during the first 100 days post concussion, recovery was more successful and speedy, according to NBC News. Dr. William Meehan is the director of the Sports Concussion Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital and was co-author on the study. He said he recommends children limit mental strain for at least the first three to four days following a concussion. "They should do as much as they can without exacerbating their symptoms," Meecham told NBC. According to the Center for Disease Control, almost half of the concussions treated in emergency rooms each year are sustained by children under the age of 14. In every age group, according to the CDC, males outnumber females in numbers of reported concussions. 355 patients, ages 8 to 23, participated in the study. The subjects were being treated for previous concussion-related injuries. During a series of visits, each participant was asked to rate his or her cognitive activity as it differed from the previous visit. According to CBSNews, the study was conducted based on five different responses to the inquiry about "cognitive rest" following a concussion. Participants could answer if they participated in "complete cognitive rest" (no school activity or intensive mental exertion was performed), "minimal cognitive activity" (less than 20 minutes of intense brain activity a day), "moderate cognitive activity" (less than 10 minutes of reading or less than one hour of video games a day) "significant cognitive activity" (reading slightly less than normal for school), or "complete cognitive activity" (normal brain exertion). The research found that students took much longer, up to 100 days, to recover completely from a concussion if they maintained normal school performance. Students who were able to limit strain on their brains recovered typically within 20 to 50 days. Research conducted previously on animal subjects lead to similar conclusions; a rested brain heals faster from a concussion than an active one. Prior to the new information release in the study, the American Academy of Pediatrics came out with new guidelines for teens and children recovering from concussions in March of 2013. "Management of the athlete with a concussion revolves around hastening recovery while avoiding activities and situations that may slow recovery stressing adequate time for both physical and cognitive recovery," It states on the AAP's website. "Thus cognitive and physical rests are the mainstay of management."%3Cimg%20src%3D%22http%3A//beacon.deseretconnect.com/beacon.gif%3Fcid%3D136369%26pid%3D46%22%20/%3E


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Although the Islands are slightly harder to get to that the average caravan holiday destination the ferry route between the Channel Islands and the UK is an easy one. Operated by Condor Ferries from both St Helier, Jersey and St Peter Port, Guernsey, using high-speed catamaran fast craft to Weymouth and Poole in the UK as well as a regular passenger ferry service on the Commodore Clipper that goes from both Channel Island ports to Portsmouth daily, and carries both passengers and freight.
Caravaners visiting this area should make sure they learn the local lingo to make sure they don't order anything too different off food menus. The main islanders have traditional animal nicknames – Guernsey: donkeys, Jersey: toads, Sark: crows and Alderney: rabbits.
The Islands also have a varied history – they were the only part of the British Commonwealth to be occupied by the German Army during World War Two. There was mass evacuation during this period and the remaining Islanders suffered from the Royal Navy who blockaded the islands from time to time, particularly following the Invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
Attractions in the area include St. Brelade's Bay Beach, Corbiere Lighhouse, Jersey War Tunnels, Durrell Wildlife Park, Elizabeth Castle, Plemont Bay, Jersey Museum, Maritime Museum and The Channel Islands Military Museum.


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New-look LaRoche says he's ready to bounce back
First baseman shows up in camp with full beard
VIERA, Fla. -- Nationals first baseman Adam LaRoche arrived at Space Coast Stadium on Monday with a new look. He has a full beard and looks like he could be a regular on "Duck Dynasty."
LaRoche expects to have the new look for quite a while.
"I always let [the beard] out in the winter a little bit. I just didn't shave for a while. I didn't shave for a while longer and then never shaved," LaRoche said. "The crew I hang out [with during the offseason], I'm the odd man if I don't have a beard."
LaRoche hopes this year can be better than last. LaRoche had one of the worst seasons of his career in 2013, hitting .237 with 20 home runs and 62 RBIs.
Adam LaRoche looks good with his beard. #Nats #Nationals #MLB pic.twitter.com/TSDj94CQMU- William Ladson (@washingnats) February 17, 2014
It didn't help that LaRoche lost 15 to 20 pounds during the season. It was believed, at first, that LaRoche was losing the weight because of the flu he caught right after the All-Star break. LaRoche later revealed that the weight loss was caused by the medication he is taking for attention deficit disorder (ADD). LaRoche was able to adjust the medication and gain some of the weight back.
"I probably still have five [more pounds] to go," LaRoche said. "Physically, I feel a lot better."
After the season, LaRoche underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his left elbow. LaRoche never had a problem with the elbow until the final two games of the season. He still has soreness in the elbow, but he expects to be ready by Opening Day.
"So far, so good. It gets a little sore from time to time, especially when I start to throw and hit a little more," LaRoche said.
LaRoche is familiar with new manager Matt Williams. When LaRoche played with the D-backs in 2010, Williams was the first-base coach. They were together one year, but LaRoche calls Williams one of the best coaches he ever had.
"A big part of it is because [Williams] was just out of the game. For whatever reason, those guys have a tendency to relate a little better," LaRoche said. "He has a great combination of being intense, as you guys know. He was the same way as a coach as he was when he played. I'm sure he will be the same as a manager. He wants to win. He is an intense guy, but he can be very calm at the same time when he needs to be. He has a knack for communicating with guys. He remembered how the game was. He has a good outlook on it."
Williams believes LaRoche, 34, is not on the downside of his career.
"He is too good a player," Williams said. "The question is, you look at Adam and say, 'Generally, he hasn't started the season well.' [Two years ago,] was kind of the opposite early on. Sometimes, there are years like that. There is no rhyme or reason for it, but I think he is healthy. I think he feels good. He will be a big part of it. We need him and he will play a lot over there [at first base]."


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"Behold Your Little Ones," Ensign, June 2001, 2
First Presidency Message
"Behold Your Little Ones"
My wife and I once took some of our grandchildren to the circus. I was more interested in watching them and many others of their age than in watching the man on the flying trapeze. I looked at them in wonder as they alternately laughed and stared wide-eyed at the exciting things before them. I thought of the miracle of children, for it is children who become the world's constant renewal of life and purpose. Observing them in the intensity of their interest, even in that atmosphere, my mind reverted to the beautiful and touching scene recorded in the book of 3 Nephi when the resurrected Lord took little children in His arms and wept as He blessed them and said to the people, "Behold your little ones" (3 Ne. 17:23).
It is so obvious that the great good and the terrible evil in the world today are the sweet and the bitter fruits of the rearing of yesterday's children. As we train a new generation, so will the world be in a few years. If you are worried about the future, then look to the upbringing of your children. Wisely did the writer of Proverbs declare, "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6).
When I was a boy, we lived in the summer on a fruit farm. We grew great quantities of peaches—carloads of them. Our father took us to tree pruning demonstrations put on by the agricultural college. Each Saturday during January and February we would go out to the farm and prune the trees. We learned that by clipping and sawing in the right places, even when snow was on the ground and the wood appeared dead, we could shape a tree so that the sun would touch the fruit which was to come with spring and summer. We learned that in February we could pretty well determine the kind of fruit we would pick in September.
E. T. Sullivan once wrote these interesting words: "When God wants a great work done in the world or a great wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He doesn't stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunderbolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And then God puts the idea into the mother's heart, and she puts it into the baby's mind. And then God waits. The greatest forces in the world are not the earthquakes and the thunderbolts. The greatest forces in the world are babies" (quoted in The Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis [1965], 53).
And those babies, I should like to add, will become forces for good or ill, depending in large measure on how they are reared. The Lord, without equivocation, has declared, "I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth" (D&C 93:40).
If I may be pardoned for suggesting the obvious, I do so only because the obvious is not observed in so many instances. The obvious includes four imperatives with reference to children: love them, teach them, respect them, pray with them and for them.
Love Them
How fortunate, how blessed is the child who feels the affection of his parents. That warmth, that love will bear sweet fruit in the years that follow. In large measure the harshness that characterizes so much of our society is an outgrowth of harshness imposed on children years ago.
Once, when I met one of my childhood friends, there came a train of memories of the neighborhood in which we grew up. It was a microcosm of the world, with many varieties of people. They were a close-knit group, and I think we knew them all. I think, also, we loved them all—that is, except for one man. I must make a confession: at a point in my childhood I detested that man. I have since repented of that emotion, but as I look back, I can sense again the intensity of my feeling. His young boys were our friends, but I thought he was my enemy. Why this strong antipathy? Because he whipped his children with strap or stick or whatever came to hand as his vicious anger flared on the slightest provocation.
Perhaps I felt as I did because of the home in which I lived, where there was a father who, by some quiet magic, was able to discipline his children without the use of any instrument of punishment, though on occasion they may have deserved it.
I have seen the fruits of that neighbor's temper come alive again in the troubled lives of his children. Every social worker, every duty officer in the emergency room of a large hospital, every policeman and judge can tell you similar stories. The whole tragic picture is one of beatings, kicking, slamming, and even of sexual assault on small children. And akin to these are those vicious men and women who exploit children for pornographic purposes.
No man or woman who is a professed follower of Christ or a professed member of this Church can engage in such practices without offending God and repudiating the teachings of His Son. It was Jesus Himself who, while holding before us the example of the purity and innocence of children, declared, "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones … , it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matt. 18:6).
Could there be a stronger denunciation of those who abuse children than these words spoken by the Savior of mankind? Do you want a spirit of love to grow in the world? Then begin within the walls of your own home. Behold your little ones and see within them the wonders of God, from whose presence they have recently come.
President Brigham Young once said: "A child loves the smiles of its mother, but hates her frowns. I tell the mothers not to allow the children to indulge in evils, but at the same time to treat them with mildness" (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young [1997], 340).
He further stated, "Bring up your children in the love and fear of the Lord; study their dispositions and their temperaments, and deal with them accordingly, never allowing yourself to correct them in the heat of passion; teach them to love you rather than to fear you" (Teachings, 172).
Of course, there is need for discipline with families. But discipline with severity, discipline with cruelty inevitably leads not to correction but rather to resentment and bitterness. It cures nothing and only aggravates the problem. It is self-defeating. The Lord, in setting forth the spirit of governance in His Church, has also set forth the spirit of governance in the home in these great words of revelation:
"No power or influence can or ought to be maintained … , only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned; …
"Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;
"That he may know that thy faithfulness is stronger than the cords of death" (D&C 121:41, 43–44).
Teach Them
Behold your little ones and teach them. Your example will do more than anything else in impressing upon their minds a pattern of life. It is always interesting to meet the children of old friends and to find in another generation the ways of their fathers and mothers.
The story is told that in ancient Rome a group of women were, with vanity, showing their jewels one to another. Among them was Cornelia, the mother of two boys. One of the women said to her, "And where are your jewels?" to which Cornelia responded, pointing to her sons, "These are my jewels." Under her tutelage, and walking after the virtues of her life, they grew to become Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus—the Gracchi, as they were called—two of the most persuasive and effective reformers in Roman history. For as long as they are remembered and spoken of, the mother who reared them after the manner of her own life will be remembered and spoken of with praise also.
I return again to the words of Brigham Young: "Let it be your constant care that the children that God has so kindly given you are taught in their early youth the importance of the oracles of God, and the beauty of the principles of our holy religion, that when they grow to the years of man and womanhood they may always cherish a tender regard for them and never forsake the truth" (Teachings, 172).
I know that there are parents who, notwithstanding an outpouring of love and a diligent and faithful effort to teach them, see their children grow in a contrary manner and weep while their wayward sons and daughters willfully pursue courses of tragic consequence. For such I have great sympathy, and to them I am wont to quote the words of Ezekiel: "The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son" (Ezek. 18:20).
But such is the exception rather than the rule. Nor does the exception justify others of us from making every effort in showing forth love, example, and correct precept in the rearing of those for whom God has given us sacred responsibility.
Respect Them
Nor let us ever forget the need to respect these, our little ones. Under the revealed word of the Lord, we know they are children of God as we are children of God, deserving of that respect which comes of knowledge of that eternal principle. In fact, the Lord made it clear that unless we develop in our own lives that purity, that lack of guile, that innocence of evil, we cannot enter into His presence. Declared He, "Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:3).
Channing Pollock once wrote these interesting and provocative words: "Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger and cleaner and ever simpler and more innocent, until at last, with the white souls of little children, we lay us down to eternal sleep" ("The World's Slow Stain," Reader's Digest, June 1960, 77).
Pray with Them and for Them
Behold your little ones. Pray with them. Pray for them and bless them. The world into which they are moving is a complex and difficult world. They will run into heavy seas of adversity. They will need all the strength and all the faith you can give them while they are yet near you. And they also will need a greater strength which comes of a higher power. They must do more than go along with what they find. They must lift the world, and the only levers they will have are the example of their own lives and the powers of persuasion that will come of their testimonies and their knowledge of the things of God. They will need the help of the Lord. While they are young, pray with them that they may come to know that source of strength which shall then always be available in every hour of need.
I love to hear children pray. I appreciate hearing parents pray for their children. I stand reverently before a father who in the authority of the holy priesthood lays his hands upon the head of a son or daughter at a time of serious decision and in the name of the Lord and under the direction of the Holy Spirit gives a father's blessing.
How much more beautiful would be the world and the societies in which we live if every father and mother looked upon their children as the most precious of their assets, if they led them by the power of their example in kindness and love, and if in times of stress blessed by the authority of the holy priesthood, and if they regarded their children as the jewels of their lives, as gifts from the God of heaven who is their Eternal Father, and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.
Said Isaiah of old, "All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children" (Isa. 54:13). To which I add, "Great also shall be the peace and the gladness of their fathers and mothers."
I humbly pray for that peace in behalf of all children and all fathers and mothers.
Ideas for Home Teachers
Some Points of Emphasis
You may wish to make these points in your home teaching discussions:
The Lord has said, "I have commanded you to bring up your children in light and truth" (D&C 93:40).
To do this, we need to:
Love little children.
Teach little children by example.
Respect little children as children of God, as we ourselves are.
Pray with and for little children.
Discussion Helps
Relate your feelings about the blessings of little children.
Are there some scriptures or quotations in this article that might be read aloud and discussed?
Would this discussion be better after a previsit chat with the head of the house? Is there a message from the bishop or quorum leader?


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The results of our Tauntaun appreciation contest from Star Wars Day are in. And we're blown away — you guys are more talented than ten Cantina bands. Check out our favorites from among your Tauntaun art submissions.
But who will win the sleeping bag?
First and foremost, a huge thank-you to everyone who participated. You're all much more talented than I could ever hope to be. Check out the best responses — click on each image to enlarge. Thank you for making this amazing Tauntaun art gallery possible!
Gorgeous Tauntaun art from Brian J. Smith Commenter (BrianMnemonic)
"To sleep, perchance, to dream..." From Winroo.
A commenter team up: An_Enemy came up with the idea, and Darth Sethius designed the t-shirt. You guys rule!
Rebel Mounted Corps "Iron Bellies" propaganda poster by Jennifer Bradford.
GALACTIC EMPIRE NEWS - THE TAUNTAUN MURDERER By Stephen Lunsford.
A soothing tauntaun watercolor from Alien Sunset titled "Nap Time On Hoth."
Commenter Larry Joe dressed their child in style. (Coolest kid on the block or coolest kid in the galaxy?)
T-shirt design by Email.Garyjin.
Won Tauntaun Soup by Daniel Spilatro.
A Han Solo sleeping bag for Tauntauns! Created by Is this the end of Milhouse.
A Shakespearian Sonnet for a Tauntaun (a.k.a. "To freeze or not to freeze")
by Steve Townsley
O, alien marsupial of Hoth!
Thou art a swift and steady mount to ride—
As Arctic Banthas are more kin to sloth,
Unscented breeds will less offense provide!
No fur can keep the weather fierce at bay,
Torrential snow will quickly howl and swirl—
And dropping fast the temperature this day,
Unsettling the fate which will unfurl—
Now soon the far first mark we will approach,
So desperately you strive to keep your pace
Resounding cold will through hide encroach
One last triumphant gargle from your face....
Cans't any creature prove a braver breed?
Keep warm, or else a hungry Wampa feed.
Kitty Tauntaun by Gilese.
Tattoo from the leg of commenter Steve Gerritsen: "How's this for Tauntaun appreciation? It's Han Solo riding on a tauntaun, on my lower leg, which is on it's way to becoming a shrine to the planet Hoth."
Firebert's tauntaun t-shirt submission.
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Darth Sethius made a diorama. A DIORAMA! AMAZING!
"I Heart Tauntauns" t-shirt via subryu.
A Tauntaun Meme from SquirrelDragon.
More awesome Tauntaun memes, via Illundiel.
Tauns Gonna Taun.
Butterbelly says it best: "I Want You Inside Me."
Grand Prize Tauntaun Sleeping Bag: Galactic Empire News' Stephen Lunsford
Second Place: Jennifer Bradford's Iron Bellies Propganda
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Finally, a solution for those of us with pesky lovers who like to fall asleep on our asses!* Introducing the Booty Pillow, which is "meant to look like and replicate the feel of laying on a woman's backside and the small of her back." Featuring products with names like "The AmsterDAAMN," for a small sum of $29.99 you can purchase a product that promises to "put a smile on your cheeks."
Booty Pillow's website directs us to the origins of said product, called "Birth of the Booty":
The story of the Booty Pillow is quite simple. Lull was laying on a girl's butt/small of her back. He thought to himself, "Man, this is really comfortable. I wish I could just take this and keep it. It feels so great!" The next day, he called Nic, told him the story, and then said, "We should make Booty Pillows!" Nic laughed and followed, "I'm down. Let's do it!" The rest is history.
Really gives Genesis a run for its money, doesn't it?
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Nendo: 10/10
Oki Sato founded nendo in Tokyo in 2002. Since then, it has become one of the most sought-after design studios worldwide. The name nendo is Japanese for modeling clay. It is indicative of the studio's playful, yet rational approach.
Nendo: 10/10 is a comprehensive monograph of the studio's work. Each of the book's ten chapters showcases one of nendo's design principles. Chapters explore, for example, nendo's compelling approach to multiplying, linking, concealing, balancing, magnifying, and folding.
Featured projects include vibrant store concepts and mystically inspired exhibition spaces as well as sculptural furniture pieces, home accessories, and design objects. Nendo's impressively clear, yet intriguingly sophisticated work not only represents the epitome of contemporary design from Japan, but also sets the tone for design's future on the global scene.
There are few design studios worldwide that can deliver projects of such consistently high quality as the Japanese studio Nendo. Expertly melding architecture and interior, product, and graphic design with sculpture and installation, Nendo's work is both impressively clear and intriguingly sophisticated. The functionality and unobtrusiveness of their projects is in line with established Japanese design traditions, yet their lightheartedness and humor is also inspired by the country's pop culture. In this context, the name Nendo, Japanese for modeling clay, is indicative of their skill at playing with the fundamental properties of objects.
The studio, which was founded by Oki Sato in Tokyo in 2002, has now firmly established itself on the global design scene and routinely wins international awards. The magazine Wallpaper*, for example, celebrated Nendo as "Designer of the Year 2012."
Nendo's work has been shown at a range of galleries and museums around the world, at design events and festivals, such as the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, and in commissioned projects for notable clients such as Bisazza and Cappellini.
This comprehensive monograph presents a striking selection of Nendo's astonishingly multifaceted work including vibrant store concepts, mystically inspired exhibition spaces, sculptural furniture pieces, home accessories, and design objects. Regardless of how diverse the included styles appear to be, they all give the reader a sense of where the future of design is heading.
"Nendo is definitely one of the best examples of contemporary Japanese design and architecture. While his designs make his historical roots very clear, what differentiates him most from other important modern Japanese creatives is his hyperbolic quest for both synthesis and overall project simplification. Nendo creates pieces that are often a real challenge to produce, objects that almost vanish into immateriality, but still always manage to surprise us and make us laugh." – Giulio Cappellini
"Oki Sato is a designer who thrives on creating thoughtful, whimsical, yet provocative work. His interest in creating work with an integral logic, developed with an acute attention to striking the right balance between the formal and functional elements of a design, yet with an interest in rethinking typologies of form and function with work that at the same time confounds expectation, aligns him with some of the great designers from Japan, including Shiro Kurumata and Naoto Fukusawa. Yet the playful quality of his work and his interest in connecting with the user through his designs is reminiscent of designers such as Piero and Achille Castiglioni, as well as the witty designs produced by Droog that seek to respond to the time and place in which they were made." – Zoë Ryan (Curator of Architecture and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago)
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Pagine: 320
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Shukar Alhamdulillah!! Finally after a very long time I was actually able to make it through an episode without having to rewind a thousand times and straining to catch the murmurs and whispers. In terms of the sound quality and background score, therefore, this latest installment was a surefire winner in my book. This should not, however, be read as a thumbs up for the episode as a complete package. Though coherent in terms of narrative – the insightful conversation between Baray Sahab and his lawyer, and excellent acting by Sania Saeed and Farah Shah were all plus points – the inordinate emphasis on catfights and OTT theatrics from the khaandani bahu and her partner-in-crime Rukhsana left me sorely disappointed.
The one question that was answered from those horribly melodramatic confrontations between Mahjabeen and Neelam was that Wali was unaware about Qasim's existence, and it is this secret that has held Mahjabeen a prisoner for so long in the Bakht household. If it was just her, much like Amtul, she too would've turned her back on all this madness and sought refuge in the deepest recesses of her mind. Unlike Amtul though, Mahjabeen is not a khaandani bahu, mother to the publicly acknowledged heir of the Bakht khaandan. Rather she is a vani, a woman handed over to the enemy by her own family members. More importantly, she is a vani with a dark secret. If Baray Sahab had gotten even a hint of Qasim's existence he would've been dead long ago.
Though we still don't know how Mahjabeen was able to keep Qasim's existence a secret for so long, but after the filmi threats from Wali's Star Plus inspired wife, she is afraid for her son. Though Mahjabeen implores him to stay away Qasim laughs off her concern. Much like Alamgir, who lived life as he pleased and never knew what it meant to live on somebody else' terms, Qasim too makes light of her warnings. Feeling more alone than ever, Mahjabeen can only look longingly towards the wide open sky. Will there ever come a time when she is freed of the seen and unseen shackles that keep her bound to the Bakht household?
Earlier Neelam had appeared like a breath of fresh air; she was bold, unafraid of questioning the status quo, but after seeing her in the past couple of episodes one is left to wonder if she is indeed any more different than the other feudals around her. Enjoying typical wadera pleasures, wallowing in the joy of owning property, getting her legs pressed, involving maids in gharelu matters, have them spy on family members, and deriving pleasure from watching others squirm, she seems to be turning out to be more like Baray Sahab than his own flesh and blood, his grandson Wali. Now that she is pregnant, God help everybody in the household when the prima donna returns after araam-ing at the hospital, not that anything seems to be physically wrong with her!
The most meaningful scene today was the one between Baray Sahab and his lawyer. Though the writer/director seem to have chosen to highlight the useless tussles between the biwi and the vani, for me the clash between the past and present, tradition and modernity, which is taking place between Wali and Baray Sahab is so much more interesting. Baray Sahab might have thought of the sugar mill as no more than a harmless toy to pacify Wali, but clearly he has underestimated his seemingly quiet and submissive grandson. I hope we get to see more of this track as now Neelam's inheritance is also coming in to play. I don't think Wali will take too kindly to his grandfather's continued interference in the way he runs his business. The boy who played on his grandfather's lap and looked to him for assistance is now showing that he is a man with his own mind. Wali's transition, from his laid back foreign returned pants/jeans wearing avatar to the stiff-backed wadera, wearing starched shalwar kameez-es, has been handled very smoothly.
For a serial that I have been raving about for its subtle approach, the over loud scenes between Neelam and Mahjabeen were jarring to say the least – what the heck was that with the "boy" bit?? Neelam seems to be losing her marbles pretty fast! Moreover her "fall" was pathetically fake, and the maid attempt to spy on Mahjabeen walking by the pool was was even more useless. Another very poorly executed scene was the one at the hospital. We have more than enough problems with the portrayal of working women in our drama serials, was it necessary then to show the twit of a lady doctor flirting with Wali? Yes, Fawad Khan is pretty irresistible, but surely the actress in question could have tried to appear a bit less smitten?
Finally, a shout out to the the DOP for the lovely night time shots. The scenes, Amtul walking in the gardens, perhaps the only time where she allows herself to come out of her self-imposed shell, Mahjabeen looking up at the moonlight sky, and her meetings with Qasim were beautifully shot. Also nicely done are the exterior scenes in Baray Sahab's haveli. Overall, a mixed bag, getting there but hunooz Dilli door ast ….
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Numm ~ Episode 13