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Monday April 13th
Life Drawing @Hillyer Art Space
"An independent figure drawing class that allows students to work from a nude model in your choice of mediums.While easels, chairs and artistic ambiance are provided by Hillyer, artists are required to bring their own drawing materials. Space will be limited to 30 attendees. Walk-ins are welcome to join if there are seats available." Every Monday 6-9PM. Member $10/ Non-Member $12″
Tuesday April 14th
First Draft: Saint Mel @The Arts Club of Washington
"The Arts Club Drama Committee hosts First Draft for its monthly play-reading series on April 14 at 7:30pm. The play is "Saint Mel" by Chris Stezin. The evening is free and open to the public. No reservations required.
Spotlight Talks @The Philips Collection
"15-minute spotlight tours, focused on different works of art, are offered every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday at noon." Free(w/admission). @12pm
Wednesday April 15th
Yoga in the Galleries @The Katzen Arts Center
"Join Eva Blutinger for a reflective yoga practice in the Museum. Allow art and yoga to refresh, rejuvenate and take you on a journey to your intuitive, creative and authentic self!"
@10AM. Tickets $5 online or cash.
Thursday April 16th
Culture Blast: Comics Bash @Hillyer Art Space
"Join Fantom Comics & Hillyer for an evening of DIY screenprinting, dramatic readings, and comic book inspired art! Bring your best costumes to our comic book-themed dramatic reading! Share an original work, read your favorite superhero soliloquy, or just shout "I AM BATMAN! WHERE IS HE?!" into the microphone for 3 minutes. Because 3 minutes is all you get.
EVERY READER will get a free comic book and some Fantom swag! BEST COSTUMED PERFORMANCE will win a $50 gift card to Fantom Comics so you can buy those sweet, sweet graphic novels you've always wanted! Artist J.D. Deardourff will show you how to make your own screenprint to take home with you!
Doors, drinking, FREE popcorn, and schmoozing starts at 7:00pm.
Contributors will be drawn from a hat at 7:50 and the performances begin at 8pm."
Factory 449 presents Closet Land @The Anacostia Arts Center
"In an unnamed country, at an unknown time, a man claiming to be a government agent relentlessly interrogates a young woman, insisting that her children's books contain hidden messages against the state. As his methods grow more ruthless, she is forced to decide if resistance is her only weapon… Showtimes: April 17 – May 10, 2015; Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 3pm" Tickets $20-25
Friday April 17th
Naked Girls Reading presents: Music in the Buff @The DCAC
"What does a Naked Girl love as much as a good book? A great piece of music. Even better, great lyrics, stories about great musicians and how they got there. Join us as we celebrate Naked Girl Readings DC's, Wonder Twins, GiGi Holliday and Cherie Sweetbottom's, birthday month, with Music in the Buff. Cherokee Rose is delighted to return to DCAC with the lovely GiGi Holliday, Cherie Sweetbottom and Alice Darling to entertain, seduce and even educate you." @10PM. $25 at the door.
"The Next Chapter" @P Street Gallerie
"Upcoming Artist Show: "The Next Chapter" Featuring the latest works by Daniel Angeles" @6PM-8:30PM. Free.
Spring Art Walk @Georgetown Galleries on Book Hill
9 prominent art galleries in Georgetown host an open house presenting their new exhibits. Refreshments and snacks served. Free. @6PM-8PM
Saturday April 18th
Artist Talk: Glen Kessler @Hillyer Art Space
"Join Glen Kessler for a talk about his process and motivation behind his current exhibition, CircuitScapes.
Glen Kessler paints images that initially appear to be atmospheric urban and industrial landscapes, but are in truth manipulated views of computer circuit boards. In his CircuitScape series, the analogous nature of these two worlds is formally and conceptually explored. The physical similarities between city design and circuitry are obvious, each exerting a bias towards efficient geometric utility. At 'street level,' however, the similarities become uncanny, as the mechanisms that increasingly drive our culture appear to resemble the urban and industrial areas that they maintain." @1PM. Free.
Molotov Theatre Group presents: The Margins @The DCAC
Check out our review of The Margins.
"Fresh from its sold-out, Helen Hayes Award nominated production of "Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe" comes Molotov's chilling production of "The Margins" by David Skeele. Loosely based on the true story of The Philip Experiment in Toronto in the 1970s, five paranormal investigators and a skeptical reporter visit a haunted manor to create and raise a spirit as a psychic experiment – until that experiment goes horribly better than they imagined." Every Thursday- Sunday. Tickets are Pay what you can at the door on Thursdays! @7:30PM
Sunday April 19th
Every Sunday visit Blind Whino to capture the entire Cherry Blossom Festival Art Installation through April 19th! @11AM-4PM. Free.


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There is still time to register for the Foundation's 2016 SupDet symposium, which will be held at the Doubletree by Hilton San Antonio Downtown, San Antonio, TX from March 1-4, 2016. This year's symposium will feature 30 presentations on suppression and detection and signaling research and applications.
In addition, on the afternoon of March 2 there will be a free half-day workshop on "Big Data and Fire Protection Systems". The goal of this workshop will be to identify and prioritize the opportunities for big data to inform decision making around inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire protection systems. An agenda for the workshop is available on the SupDet website.
The suppression session, which will take place March 1-2, will feature a keynote on the "History of Fire" by Dick Gann from NIST, presentations on the latest research on warehouse sprinkler protection, research on the protection of lithium ion batteries, and more.
The detection and signaling section will take place March 3-4 and includes research on residential smoke alarms, smart building applications, notification, smoke characteristics, and more.
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More than half of Asia's 90 species of tortoises and freshwater turtles are endangered. A founding partner of the Asian Turtle Program, the Zoo works to prevent the illegal trade of endangered species for food and commercial use and studies species threatened with extinction.
The challenge
Nearly 1/3 of all freshwater turtle and tortoise species are found in Asia and are threatened by large-scale, unsustainable trade for sale in food markets and traditional medicine.
What we're doing
The primary goal of the Asian Turtle Program (ATP) is to safeguard globally threatened tortoise and freshwater turtle species in Indochina. Working in collaboration with Indo-Myanmar Conservation and Education for Nature - Vietnam (ENV), the ATP implements strategic interventions that directly contribute to the conservation of Asian turtles in the region.
ATP and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Future for Wildlife program work together to protect Asian turtles by:
- Addressing poaching and illegal trade
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Monique Laney. German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 320 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-300-19803-4.
Reviewed by David Jünger (Free University of Berlin)
Published on H-TGS (February, 2017)
Commissioned by Alison C. Efford (Marquette University)
Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the American South: Confronting Huntsville's German Past
The German past of various American regions—meaning mainly the history of German immigrants and their descendants—is well known and an ongoing source of pride and remembrance. The story of Huntsville, Alabama, is similar to many others—and yet different. The German immigrants shaped the city during a boom time, became eminent community members, and have been held by Huntsville's white Christian community in highest esteem right up to the present day. But Huntsville's story is not of nineteenth-century German immigration but of the transplantation of around two hundred engineers and their families from Nazi Germany's military rocket program to the small town in the Deep South in the early 1950s. After World War II, the US military brought Nazi Germany's top rocket engineer, Wernher von Braun, and his team to the United States, incorporated them into their own military program, and finally made them the spearhead of the US space race.
This story has been told many times. The first accounts praised the achievements of the German space warriors, their German pasts relegated to obscurity. Later accounts, however, dealt with the collaboration of von Braun and his colleagues with the Nazi regime and their personal involvement in the exploitation and murder of concentration camp laborers. Monique Laney chose a different approach. In her book German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie, she applies the German model of Vergangenheitsbewältigung to the memory culture of the Huntsville community. Vergangenheitsbewältigung, which can be literally translated as "coming to terms with the past," refers exclusively to the Nazi period and sometimes means "to move beyond the past" rather than to grapple with it seriously.
Laney is therefore less interested in retelling the story of Huntsville and the German rocketeers than exploring how current residents of the city remember the Germans and Huntsville's postwar history. She differentiates among four main groups: non-Jewish whites, Germans and their ancestors, African Americans, and Jews. Her central sources are interviews she conducted with members of these groups, having the advantage of being a native speaker of English and German. Her research gives very interesting insights into the memory culture of this city and reveals the differences of each group's recollections. The non-Jewish whites welcomed the Germans, included them in the white community of Huntsville, and praised them for their contributions to the city and to the nation. When in the late 1970s the debate of the Nazi past of the German rocketeers began, this group predominantly maintained its allegiance to the Germans. The accusations were seen as disloyal to the American government or—by some—as a Jewish conspiracy. The Jews of Huntsville, who had been more cautious from the beginning, distanced themselves from the Germans and sometimes even from their offspring. The African Americans seemed not to have any stake in the history of the German rocketeers in Huntsville. They did not remember the arrival of the Germans, did not know their status within the white community, and hardly noticed the debates about the Germans' Nazi past. The Germans remember the warm welcome by the Huntsville community and cherished their new home. Not surprisingly, they denied any involvement in the Nazi atrocities and presented themselves—also typically—as secret or forthright opponents to the Nazi regime. Most astonishing are the tremendous differences between the memories of the black and the white community. Whereas for the latter the Germans took center stage of Huntville's postwar history, for the blacks they did not register at all.
Laney connects the different stories and shows that Huntsville's memory culture is similar to the memory culture of a family, both being a kind of "mnemonic community." This is the reason, she concludes, that most of Huntsville's residents defend the Germans in spite of their implications in the Nazi crimes: "To the white Christian majority, the Germans and their families ... became like extended family members" (p. 202). The quintessence of German Vergangenheitsbewältigung is illustrated in the famous quote "Grandpa was no Nazi"; a similar idea surfaces in Huntsville's memory culture: "Our Germans were no Nazis."
In spite of the new insight into the memory culture of Huntsville's community that the book offers and the compelling analysis of mnemonic communities, the oral history approach is problematic. Laney privileges her interviews over other sources. The problem is that she seeks to reconstruct events as well as investigate current perspectives on this history. It may make sense not to use primary or secondary sources to evaluate the validity of material gathered in interviews when it is used as evidence of historical memory, but that decision is questionable when she relies on the same sources to tell the story of Huntsville and the German rocketeers. In short, statements in the interviews are at times taken as facts even though one knows that such statements reflect individuals' current state of mind rather than accurately relate the events of the past.
More problematic, however, is the book's punch line: the Jim Crow South can be compared to Nazi Germany. In the very last paragraph of the book, Laney writes, "Maybe one day, this attempt at Vergangenheitsbewältigung concerning the rocketeers' past in Nazi Germany will affect how Huntsville grapples with its history of slavery and Jim Crow" (p. 205). Indeed, the question itself is compelling and seems somehow self-evident: how do people who have lived in a country that had killed millions of people for anti-Semitic and racist reasons react to the segregation of the Jim Crow South? Yet the answer is as revealing as the question. Almost none of her interviewees saw this connection—for good reason. The anti-Semitic and racist regime of Nazi Germany was quite different to the racial segregation of the Jim Crow South. The former was a system of deliberate, industrial mass murder, the latter an economic system transformed into a culture of racial segregation. They are hardly comparable. But, for the sake of her argument, Laney decides to compare. She also depicts anti-Semitism and anti-German sentiments by Jewish victims of Nazi Germany as somehow equivalent when she writes, "Just as the German POWs at Redstone Arsenal tried to veil their hostility toward Jews, Jewish community members tried to hide their feelings toward the German rocket specialists and their families" (p. 81). Likewise irritating is her description of "the contentious relationship between Jews and non-Jewish Germans during and after World War II" (p. 80), as if the mass murder of the Jews amounted to one side of a feud driven by mutual antagonism. Even though none of the people she interviewed—neither the Germans nor the non-Jewish whites and not even the African Americans or the Jews—explicitly compared the Holocaust and Jim Crow, she holds tight to this idea. Talking of the "similarity" of anti-Jewish boycott and Jim Crow segregation, she writes, "None of the interviewees stated this explicitly, but they may have been surprised to encounter Jim Crow because they did not expect to see this similar scenario in a country that prided itself on having recently overthrown the regime they came from" (p. 125). Because no one sees the connection, she tells them what they should have seen.
To sum up briefly, the book offers a very precise description of the memory culture of Huntsville, Alabama, with regard to its immigrants from Nazi Germany. Laney's interviews are as interesting as her analysis of mnemonic communities is compelling. Unfortunately, her approach of drawing parallels between the racism of the Jim Crow South and of Nazi Germany is supported by neither her material nor her interviews and is in my opinion misleading.
If there is additional discussion of this review, you may access it through the network, at: https://networks.h-net.org/h-tgs.
David Jünger. Review of Laney, Monique, German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie: Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era.
H-TGS, H-Net Reviews.
February, 2017.
URL: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=47315
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OAKLAND — The Garrett County sheriff says an inmate escaped from jail by kicking a hole through a wall.
Sheriff Rob Corley explained on Friday how 31-year-old Alisa Shafer of Friendsville escaped Thursday afternoon. Deputies apprehended her that evening.
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The transition from an intimate partnership in which the parents share a personal relationship to the more distant co-parent relationship is difficult for many people to manage. Despite its prevalence—consider the many Hollywood co-parenting scenarios—there are few social norms and cues to help parents who are living apart. The difficulty is compounded because often each parent has different preferences and expectations for co-parenting.
As the State of Texas explains in its Co-Parenting Guide (.pdf), "[t]he main reason to work at co-parenting is that it helps children deal with all the changes that happen when their parents are no longer together."
So, with the interests of the children always in mind, advise your clients who are entering the world of co-parenting to consider the following:
- Act neither like business acquaintances nor like strangers—instead, aim for a friendly but restrained style.
- Keep your opinions about each other's choices, actions, and character to yourselves.
- Engage in positive exchanges much more frequently than complaints.
- Use first names and everyday language. Tone is very important; don't take on a litigious or hostile tone.
- Share parental memories, pride, and gracious appreciation for the other's efforts.
A parent should not have to dread hearing from the child's other parent. When it is necessary to voice a complaint, the parent should make it clear that his or her purpose is to solve the problem in the future, not to allocate blame. The complaining parent should explain the difficulties that arose from the other parent's decision or conduct, suggest possible solutions, and invite the other parent's suggestions and perspective.
On everything you need to know about preparing co-parenting plans, including specific drafting tips, go to California Child Custody Litigation and Practice, chap 4 (Cal CEB 2006). Also check out the program Hot Topics in Child Custody, which includes a discussion of the status of "parental alienation syndrome" and parenting plans for children's different developmental stages. This program will be available On Demand beginning 11/24/2010.
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All you need to know about cap rates
You can expect to hear more about cap rates as the year wears on. But, while theyre simple in theory, theres plenty of complexity in practice.
The words 'capitalisation rate' or 'cap rate' have been flying around the property trust sector recently, as trusts explain away the large writedowns on their property portfolios. But rarely does anyone stop to explain the term for the benefit of outsiders. If you're confused by it, then you're not alone. We've had a number of queries to our Ask the Experts forum, like this one from Alan S: 'Are you able to point me to an Investor College article and or quickly summarise the issue of "cap rates" please.' Well, this, as you'll have guessed, is that Investor's College.
Simple meaning
The good news is that the meaning itself is very simple. 'Capitalisation rate' derives from the verb 'to capitalise', which can be used to describe the process of going from the ongoing income or cost of an asset or liability to its capital value. So a capitalisation rate is simply the rate at which you do that.
If you have an income of $10 a year and you decide to estimate its capital value based on a capitalisation rate of 10%, then you'd have a value of $100 ($10 divided by 10%, or 0.10); if you used a cap rate of 5%, then you'd get $200 ($10 divided by 0.05); and if you used 20%, you'd get $50 ($10 divided by 0.2).
Y = R/P (where P=price, R=annual rent, Y=rental yield)
P = R/Y (where P=price, R=annual rent, Y=cap rate)
It's like the dividend yield on shares, or the rental yield on property. It's just that it tends to get called a yield when you apply it to the value (or more likely the price) of something to see what income you'll get, and (at least with property) it's often called a cap rate when it's applied to the income from an asset to see what its value (or more likely its price) might be. So the cap rate is basically nothing more than an assumed rental yield you use to calculate the value of a property.
Cap rates in theory
So far so good. The real problems are hidden in that word 'assumed'. What rental yield (that is, what cap rate) should you assume for your calculations? This takes us back to the basic valuation fundamentals we looked at in our Investor's College article of issue 198, How to value stocks and shares, and which are covered more fully in our book Value: The Intelligent Investor's Guide to Finding Hidden Gems in the Sharemarket.
But, to summarise here, you'll want a total return from an investment that at least matches the returns you can get elsewhere (your 'opportunity cost'), and your total return is made up of your yield from an investment, plus the growth you anticipate in that yield. The opportunity cost is normally thought of as the yield on long-term government bonds (the safest investment) plus a premium to account for the additional risk of other investments.
Putting all that together, you get the formula: Long-term government bond yield Risk premium = Rental yield Anticipated rental growth. And, turning that around, you get: Rental yield (that is, Cap rate) = Long-term government bond yield Risk premium – Anticipated rental growth.
Right now we're in a curious situation, because the long-term government bond yield has been shooting down (you can see the rates on the Bloomberg website), while risk premiums have been shooting up as investors have lost their appetite for risky assets. Meanwhile, anticipated long-term rental growth may have edged down a little, in response to fears of a long recession. All in all, you'd certainly expect cap rates to edge up a little.
Cap rates in practice
What actually seems to be happening is that cap rates are edging up a lot (as you can see in the chart), and they look set to edge up a fair bit more before we're through. Property valuers (or pricers more like), you see, don't like imponderables like risk premiums and long-term rental growth and prefer to use hard evidence from transactions actually taking place. So instead of working out an appropriate cap rate from first principles, they tend to look at those implied by recent property sales.
At first glance that seems sensible enough, but the trouble is that it introduces a degree of circularity to the calculations. Instead of assessing the value of a property according to fundamental external factors, you've switched to basing your property valuations on the valuations of other properties, and that, bluntly, is how we get bubbles.
As prices move higher, cap rates move lower and property owners get to revalue their properties higher again. Hey presto the bank will lend them more money, so they can pay more for more properties and the price moves higher and so on. When the bubble eventually bursts, then the prices tumble, the cap rates rise, writedowns follow, the banks withdraw credit and prices fall further.
None of this may matter to a conservative property investor – after all, if you don't like the price you don't have to sell. But unfortunately a lot of property trusts have been far from conservative and they've covenanted to their lenders that their property values will stay above a certain level. So when auditors (or perhaps valuers appointed by the lenders themselves) force them to write down the assets, covenants may be breached, thereby giving the lenders certain (in some instances draconian) rights under the loan documentation.
As Nathan Bell wrote last week in Cap rate carnage, there could be much more pain to come for property trusts. Just don't be fooled into thinking that cap rates, as used in practice, have anything to do with property values. In fact they're all to do with the price, but that's what the bankers seem to care about and they generally have the loan documentation behind them.


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Born in Conway, North Carolina, Medford Taylor attended High Point University in his home state, graduating with a bachelor of science degree. After completing five years as a naval officer, he continued his education in graduate school at the University of Missouri, majoring in photojournalism.
Following his schooling, Taylor became a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle and subsequently the Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk. While based in Washington, D.C., he freelanced for Time and Newsweek.
Taylor has been a freelance photographer for the National Geographic Society since 1984. His assignments for National Geographic Traveler magazine have included stories on the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Newfoundland, the Everglades, and Big Bend National Park. He has also contributed to National Geographic magazine articles on the Australian outback, Lake Superior, and the Madeira Islands, among others. His photos also appear in several National Geographic books.
Taylor has won numerous awards from the Virginia News Photographers Association and the White House News Photographers Association. His work has been published in international and national magazines such as French and German GEO and Air and Space. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.


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VANCOUVER - Researchers in British Columbia say they're reached a milestone in the development of a new medical isotope, which could help address a national shortage.
A team from TRIUMF, a national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics, at the B.C. Cancer Agency says it has used a medical cyclotron designed and manufactured in Richmond, B.C., for large-scale production of TC-99m, the isotope needed for medical imaging such as CT scans.
Paul Schaffer, head of TRIUMF's nuclear medicine division, says the process produced enough of the isotope to supply a metropolitan area.
A shutdown of Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.'s Chalk River research reactor in 2009 caused a worldwide shortage of the medical isotopes used to detect cancer and heart ailments.
Ottawa has said isotope production at Atomic Energy's National Research Universal reactor will end in 2016, and earlier this year announced $21 million for research into technology to produce them without a nuclear reactor.
Paul Schaffer, head of the nuclear medicine division, says it's a crucial step toward meeting isotope needs once production at NRU ends.
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One of Ankota's fastest growing products is TherapEZ, which is used by agencies that provide Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech therapy to clients in their homes, in assisted living or rehabilitation facilities. Many of our TherapEZcustomers use tablets or laptops to complete electronic forms and record episodes of care, which are updated live (if connected) or synchronized when they have a connection to the internet.
As home therapy and home healthcare services grow in volume and complexity, demand for devices such as tablet PCs, iPads, and laptops will only increase. With this comes the need to manage and repair devices and keep them secure. While the prices for these devices have dropped considerably, home health and therapy agencies can take a few steps to keep them secure and minimize downtime in the event of breakage or failure.
Today's guest blogger is Ken Currie, Director of Marketing and Business Development for Barcoding, Inc. Barcoding provides mobile devices (such as tablets and laptops) and services to keep them running safe and secure. Ken offers the following 5 tips for securing these devices:
5 Tips to Securing Mobile Tablets
1. Develop Security Policies- Organizations may want to extend to tablets the same security policies, procedures, and protections that are used for company owned laptops, computers, and servers. But for field based workers that are using tablets to automate paper processes, their mobile nature brings an additional set of challenges. For instance, the opportunity for loss and theft of these assets is much greater and a good security plan would provide for remote lock down or a full data wipe to protect sensitive data.
2. Establish Layers of Physical Security – Apply user authentication protocols for tablets that at a minimum include user names and passwords.
3. Ensure Data Security –Make sure that line of business applications use encryption for data. And the following types of software can be worth their weight in gold: anti-virus software, anti-malware, content data loss prevention (DLP) software, and intrusion prevention software. Some device management software providers provide some of these features in their application.
4. Deploy and Utilize Device Management Software – Device management software allows an IT administrator to remotely enforce security policies, push out updates, and manage/control tablets while they are connected to a network. In the case of theft, it may even possible to use GPS bread crumbing to follow the trail of the stolen tablet.
5. Consider a Managed Services Provider - Consider outsourcing to a managed services provider if your organization is not equipped to effectively handle suggestions 1-4. How do you find one? One suggestion is to ask your business software application provider(s) for a recommendation of companies that they are comfortable with.
A company such as Barcoding, Inc. can provide the devices you need, manage updates throughout the life of the device, inventory spares for you, and allow you to leverage their "repair depot." This prevents costly downtime and keep your staff consistently productive. These services are more affordable for even smaller organizations by turning to 3rd parties like Barcoding, Inc. that provide them. Barcoding, Inc. works closely with many of Ankota's customers and "packages" common services to make them very affordable, even for smaller agencies.
If you are considering new software for your home health or contract therapy agency, HME, Private Duty, MCO or ACO, ask Ankota for help in addressing some of these concerns.
Ankota provides software to improve the delivery of care outside the hospital. Today Ankota services home health, private duty care, DME Delivery, RT, Physical Therapy and Home Infusion organizations, and is interested in helping to efficiently manage other forms of care. To learn more, please visit www.ankota.com or contact Ankota


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Growth Mentoring is a fully funded programme where your business is matched with a successful business person who'll support you to tackle the challenges that you are facing in growing your business. These challenges could include: business planning, finance, sales, marketing and human resource management to name just a few.
The mentor will share their knowledge, experience and skills to help you develop your own Growth Action Plan. Over a series of one-to-one or group mentoring sessions they'll then work with you to put the plan into action and address any barriers that may arise.
Working with a mentor helps you take focused time out to work on the business, rather than in the business, developing a growth strategy and clear business development goals.
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March 31, 2016 at UNM Art Museum, noon-1pm
Meeting of the Minds is an informal series of lunchtime conversations and creative interventions that allow for more intimate exchanges with the artwork on view in the UNM Art Museum. Led by faculty, students, artists, curators, and community members – this program invites multiple perspectives and fresh insights in the interpretation and experience of the visual arts.
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Iceland pop experimentalists Múm were formed by Gunnar Örn Tynes, Örvar ?óreyjarson Smárason, and classically trained twin sisters Gy?a and Kristín Anna Valtýsdóttir. Formed in 1997, the group met while working on a children's play. Smárason found his perception of music changed through hearing Aphex Twin and decided that he would abandon the guitar-based concepts of his prior bands. This was fine and dandy with his bandmates. Following a number of singles and remixes, the full-length Yesterday Was Dramatic -- Today Is OK was released in 2000 through TMT/Thule in Iceland and Tugboat in the U.K. Each of the band's four members was in their late teens when the record was released, hailed for its playful and imaginative use of all things musical and not so musical. 2001 saw the release of Please Smile My Noise Bleed on Morr Music, a compilation of remixes from the likes of isan and Arovane. A second full-length, Finally We Are No One, was released the following year on Fat Cat. Gy?a left the band to focus on her studies before Múm's third album, Summer Make Good, arrived in spring 2004; the band rounded out the year with the Dusk Log EP. The next two years found Múm on the road. In 2005, the group collaborated with the National Dutch Chamber Orchestra at Amsterdam's Holland Festival on a piece inspired by the works of composer Iannis Xenakis. Múm returned to the studio the following year, and in the interim released a live album, The Peel Session, which was originally recorded in 2002 by the BBC. For 2007's Go Go Smear the Poison Ivy, the band was down to founding members Tynes and Smárason, who enlisted the help of guitarist/vocalist/violinist Ólöf Arnalds, trumpet/keyboard player Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson, vocalist/cellist Hildur Gu?nadóttir, percussionist Samuli Kosminen, and multi-instrumentalist/vocalist Mr. Silla. The group recorded their fifth album, 2009's Sing Along to Songs You Don't Know, in Finland and Estonia as well as their native Iceland. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide
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3. There Is a Number of Small Things
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text: News and stories News and blogs Global Disability Summit: A Year On Did the Global Disability Summit 2018 make an impact? Motivation staff reflect on learning from the event. It's been exactly a year since the first ever Global Disability Summit. Those 12 months have whizzed past. Reflecting on the event, we feel re-energised about all that happened: governments pledging to improve disability inclusion, organisations sharing ambitions to improve assistive technology access, and hundreds of people committing to improve the lives of disabled people worldwide. It was an incredible event. But what exactly did it achieve? And what has happened since? Our staff have been reflecting on what the Global Disability Summit commitments meant – and continues to mean today. Amanda Wilkinson, Chief Executive The Global Disability Summit was the first time that we have ever seen a global commitment to even discussing disability across the international development sector. Governments and big international NGOs, public and private sectors: they all came together to talk about joint responsibility for disability inclusion. The most important outcome, of course, was the number of commitments from organisations and governments in the charter for change. These were public promises to take a step forward from creating policy frameworks to implementing them. It's one thing to have legislation in a constitution, but it's another to make yourself publically accountable. Promises and assurances were made to disabled people. That was something special. For Motivation, it was thrilling to see assistive technology having platform like we've never seen before – even after nearly 30 years in the sector. The event highlighted exactly what we believe: assistive technology is a fundamental right. People were talking about how important it is to improve access – especially with the launch of the AT:2030 and ATscale initiatives. We are delighted to be part of this conversation and the team informing this global initiative. Since the event, we've seen the start of promises turning into action. This is so, so important. We were delighted to give input to DFID's Disability and Development strategy through the BOND network. And we've been very proud to start the wheels turning on our Motivation InnovATe project as part of AT:2030 and ATscale. We know this is just the start. But it's an incredibly important first step towards a world that enables greater independence and opportunity for disabled people. Fred Semakula, Project Manager My best memory of the Summit was seeing different speakers raising the profile of assistive technology and seeing the pledged support of 500 million people with assistive technology by 2030 through the ATscale. If this is fulfilled by the governments and donor agencies, it will really be a big step towards inclusion of people with disabilities in the world. It was very exciting to see, hear and meet the different people from the different parts of the world and, most importantly, to see them all committing to support people with disabilities. That level of advocacy continues to make a lasting impression in the minds of people who attended, viewed and read about it. We cannot just bury our heads under the sand when people with disabilities continue to suffer. My hope for the long lasting impact of the summit is that the high level of advocacy will continue to ring a bell about inclusion of people with disabilities in the development agenda. Peter Mbuguah, Africa Regional Director I have been working in the disability sector for the last 20 years and as far as I can tell the Summit was the best thing ever to happen in the sector. Seeing the Government of Kenya being a co-host to such a high-level meeting was very exciting. The Summit created some new energy and momentum to tackle and deal with disability issues in developing countries. Like Fred, my best memory of the Summit was the big announcement that by 2030 over 500 million people will have been provided with assistive technology. The coming together of governments, big companies, non-governmental organisations and disabled people's organisations to focus on disability with signed commitments… I hope that converting these commitments to actions and deliverables to persons with disabilities will be the long-lasting impact of the summit. Clare Childs, Sports Manager One of my best memories of the Summit was the opportunity to catch up with friends of Motivation across the sector. It was great to reconnect with Amy Farkas Karageorgos, a global disability adviser who was giving support to the Civil Society Forum. Amy worked at the International Paralympic Committee, when they identified a gap in good quality sports wheelchairs was preventing would-be athletes in low and middle income countries from accessing sport. She connected Motivation with the tennis and wheelchair basketball federations to create wheelchairs for developing sport – as Motivation is celebrating 10 years of sports wheelchair production this year, it was particularly special to reconnect. The Summit also highlighted concerns from UK communities of disabled people as they protested to highlight local cuts to welfare and support. It was so important to hear those concerns and remember there is a long way to go at home as well as abroad, so that we have a fully inclusive society. Our work at Motivation is based on first-hand knowledge that people in developing countries require support and assistance to achieve their potential, too. We exist to facilitate that, while others work in the UK context. With that in mind, though, I felt determined to make as many contacts as possible at the event so that we could get the best value from it and convert that into tangible work to empower the disabled people we work with around the world. At the event, I also had the opportunity to represent Motivation at the DFID exhibit. I was introducing people to various assistive technology products (wheelchairs, walking sticks and glasses) showing how the UK government and UK people are already supporting people to access their rights, education, healthcare, and to live the lives they choose. I hope that the event helped to build understanding of the impact these relatively simple and inexpensive products can have on a person's ability to become mobile and live a fuller, more independent life. I hope the connections and understanding gained at the event will deliver a better outcomes for disabled people living in some of the world's poorest places. Biju Mathew, India Regional Director I felt very motivated seeing the disability sector converge at a global platform and talking about global partnerships. The Motivation exhibit gave us an excellent opportunity to demonstrate our work to a global audience. For me, it was especially great to see the delegation from the Indian ministry visiting our stall. I was impressed by the fact that disability was at the centre stage and that several governments have since shown their seriousness to engage with disabled people's organisations, NGOs and the private sector to bring meaningful change in the lives of disable people worldwide. I believe the Summit ignited fresh interest in the disability sector and has got many players in the field, especially national governments, taking affirmative action on the ground. I'm really hopeful that implementation of these commitments will happen on the ground, and that they are reflective of disabled people's voices and needs. David Constantine, Founder Director To me, disability inclusion means the opportunity to be able to live in society as everyone else. It also means seeing all the opportunities I've had in this country everywhere in the world. That's why the Global Disability Summit was so important. The memories I have of the Summit in 2018 are really positive. It saw governments – including in the UK – commit to making changes for disabled people worldwide. Importantly assistive devices, which are crucial to making sure nobody is left behind, were talked about more seriously than ever before. The change I've seen since the Summit is that assistive devices are now much more on the agenda. For example, we've seen funding being put forward for the design of assistive technology through ATscale. It allows Motivation, for example, to develop new ways of doing our work and making even greater impact for disabled people in developing countries. Since the Global Disability Summit, Motivation has been able to move forwards with our exploration of finding new ways to provide assistive technology. Follow our journey with #MotivationInnovATe.


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The Bodybuilder of the Year Award at the Commercial Motor Awards 2017, recognises best practice, innovation and outstanding levels of customer service delivered by a company in the UK over the past 12 months.
The independent panel of judges looked for a bodybuilder involved in bespoke product design that listens to customer needs and is committed to delivering a quality product. As a new category for 2017, there was no winner at the inaugural Commercial Motor Awards last year.
"The past 12 months have seen some major changes at Peterborough-based Lawrence David as it continues to diversify the services it offers. While it can still launch products like a Volvo dropside rigid fitted with Hiab duo crane at the CV Show earlier this year, it has launched Trailer-eye - its trailer tracking solution. Benefits include instant trailer location on your computer and your smart phone, with the Trailer-eye app set to be launched. The acquisition of Woodston Point, Lawrence David's £4.5m new head office has allowed it to relocate its Asset Management division as well as increase our rigid production facilities. It has also invested in its Advance Body Repair division, with a new £1.2m site in Corby and £1.2m site in Peterborough, equipped with full paint facilities. The judges said that Lawrence David was "clearly a successful company" that demonstrated "good innovation"." – Commercial Motor
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Camp at the Eastward (CATE), the youth ministry of Mission at the Eastward (MATE), is not too far away but a secluded and peaceful setting on 59 wooded acres off Sawyers Mills Road in Starks,Maine. Outside of the summer camp weeks, the facilities are available for rent throughout the year.
The ten cabins in the woods are available in fair weather when CATE's summer camp is not in session. These cabins sleep from two to twelve in bunk beds. Overnight facilities can accommodate approximately 50 - 60 individuals. Our cabins are seasonal use only with no heat in any of our cabins and no electricity except for the First Aid and Directors Cabins.
The Lodge with a well equipped kitchen and 1800 sq. ft. dining space can be used year round. These accommodations are excellent for all types of events: trainings, retreats, wedding receptions, reunions, etc.
Other facilities include Chapel in the Woods; Campfire Circle; an Arts & Crafts building with electricity; Recreation Building with ping pong, games and recreational equipment; Bathhouse with toilets and showers; First Aid building; and spacious fields.
Our Adventure/Challenge Course is a popular part of the summer camp program, building community and teamwork through experiential learning. Six low elements, four high elements, games and initiatives are also available to outside groups. If your group is interested in one of our pre-planned programs or in designing a program to meet your group's needs, contact us.


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During 1950-1952 (Korean War Era), I was on active duty in the US Navy on Guam. As part of my additional duties, I was in charge of the Geiger Counters or radiation detectors which I kept stored in the Officer's Quarters or BOQ. Atomic warfare was expected any day, so I made sure that they were always in working order and calibrated, and checked them out about once a month.
On November 3, 1952, I made my usual checks at the desk in my office which was about 5 feet away from the window screens. No air conditioning at that time. I took out the calibration rod furnished, which has a small bit of a radioactive source, to check out the counter. I put the counter on the low setting and got ready to place the calibration rod near the "windows" of the counter, but the needle was way over on the scale and the audible signal was clicking like mad, or almost a continuous sound. A single radioactive particle made a single click.
I thought the counter was malfunctioning; but when I sort of raised it up and put it nearer the window, the dial and sound increased still further. I then put it close to the screen, which was on the ground floor, and it went off scale. I knew it was not the counter, but that there was some radioactivity outside. I panicked.
I ran outside and the counter was still giving a high reading over the normal background noise (natural radioactivity or it getting hit by Cosmic Rays) and as I got closer to where the rain had run off the buildings, the ground was very hot. I bypassed the Chain of Command and ran about ½ mile to the Admiral's office, who was in charge of the whole Comnavmarianas region.
I went into his reception area and spoke with the Flag Lieutenant (top aide), who just happened to be a friend of mine, and told him that the island was radioactive. I also told him I had not spoken with my immediate Commanding Officer due to the urgency. He told me to go wait outside in the corridor. A few minutes later, he came out and told me that I was to ignore the radioactivity and keep my mouth shut. PERIOD. I started to protest, but he told me to scram. I then knew something was very, very wrong. The old "cover-up."
The saddest part of this story is that the Guamanians, for a large part, had only rainwater for drinking, especially out in the "boonies" or jungle, and they were drinking highly contaminated radioactive water and I could not tell them to stop nor would the Navy inform them not to do so. Madness.
The picture cleared up the next day or so, I forget exactly when it was announced that the "Hydrogen Bomb" had been detonated at Eniwetok. The military forced to admit it when that Japanese fishing boat, the "Lucky Dragon #3," had been too close to the fallout and its crew was very sick from radiation. One of them died shortly, thereafter, from radiation burns. The rest were very sick but survived.
However, even when the military was forced to admit that it had detonated that bomb and it had thrown some quarter of a cubic mile of radioactive dust into the atmosphere, they still did not warn any of the Pacific Island natives not to drink the water but from coconuts or deep wells. How many died horribly from cancer later, will never be known. It was that dust which had drifted down over the whole Pacific which had "rained down" on Guam, which I detected. Why I was told to keep quiet then became clear.
Now very little information was ever released on this explosion. I did glean out a few facts that: 1. The H-Bomb was "very dirty." That meant it created a lot of radioactive debris. 2. It was damn near a total disaster and far stronger than anticipated. 3. It was supposed to have worked by creating helium by fusion, but nothing was ever mentioned that any helium was detected. It worked all right, but not according to theory. Vast difference. This worried me and I had it in the back of my mind for over 35 years. I knew something had gone wrong, hence the cover-up.
It was not until I had worked on this manuscript and finally realized that thermofusion did not exist and that it was cold fusion which did, that the answer became clear. There was little, or practically no, fusion; but that fragmentation, which released untold number of neutrons.
When those neutrons are absorbed, they create radioactive elements and it was those elements in the coral dust and sea water from the explosion which spread over the Pacific, hence made it "very dirty." Not to mention the bomb components, building it was housed in, and everything else within range which vaporized and added to the total radioactivity. Now we go into the present when I went to Washington, D.C. in late March of 1992, in order to testify (and that is another long story) against the Superconducting Supercollider. I stayed in a hotel. One morning, I met a man in the lobby who wanted to know where to go eat breakfast since our hotel had no restaurant in it. I offered to take him to one. Over breakfast, I told him who I was and he told me who he was and that he worked for the Federal Government on designing nuclear weapons. I told him a shorter version of this long one and my suspicions. He, of course, fell back on National Security, secrecy, etc.; but he did say, rather obliquely, "We are doing better now," (more helium created) or words to that effect.
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By Lindsey McClintock. Photo by Anthony M. Nesossis.
It can be difficult to worship and work in the same place. That's the challenge many ministers face.
Megan Lowe found herself in the midst of this conundrum when she accepted a staff position at FBC as Children's Ministry Assistant, working specifically as the Children's Worship and Child Care coordinator.
Megan was dedicated as a baby (as Megan Sterrett) at FBC. From birth to college FBC was like a second home to Megan, a place of comfort, relief from life's stresses, and a sacred place. Lynn Turner was her youth minister and the most influential minister impacting her life and development as a Christian. Lynn, she said, was always welcoming and friendly but also one to "call you out when you were out of line," making her a role model in expressing the love of God and the expectations of discipleship. Megan felt that FBC was her church home and was always glad to come, be it for corporate worship or youth ministry.
While attending VCU, Megan became very involved with the Intervarsity ministries and found a wonderful peer group of fellow Christian university students. On Sundays this group would attend church together, exploring different churches around Richmond. It was in this group that Megan met Brandon Lowe, later to become her husband. FBC was still her home church but her engagement with the congregation was different than she had experienced as a child or youth.
Accepting a position on staff further changed that relationship. In the first year of her employment Megan saw FBC as both her place of worship and work which seemed fine, although she rarely got the chance to worship with Brandon. "I kept thinking we could worship together as a couple during the summers when I did not have children's worship obligations but those opportunities were few and far between." After a year of trying, Megan and Brandon decided they needed to find a different place of worship.
Being employed by FBC and having such close ties from growing up in the church brought a lot of anxiety, guilt and fear of judgment in transferring her membership to another congregation. The timing was also very unfortunate as she and Brandon found another church and withdrew her membership at the height of the membership/baptism conversation which, she emphasized, had nothing to do with their decision. Megan was pleasantly surprised in receiving great amounts of support and understanding from FBC members in reaction to her decision, which made her even more proud of FBC.
"It was a huge relief and joy to be able to worship as a couple again in total freedom. Working at the church I spent a lot of time preparing Bible studies and leading children's worship, however, I had not realized how this had become an intellectual exercise of preparation and not one of the heart feeding me spiritually," she recounted. It was not until she found herself worshiping next to Brandon at City Church of Richmond (whose worship services are Sunday afternoons) that she realized how much this had been missing in her life. While Megan loves her work at First Baptist Church and values the faith community which raised her, transferring her membership to a new congregation proved an important step for her continued faith development.


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Strike Back star Sullivan Stapleton has reportedly been injured in Thailand.
Filming on the action-drama's latest season will go on a forced hiatus to allow Stapleton to recover, Deadline reports.
The Australian actor plays US operative Damien Scott on Strike Back, which will halt shooting for six months.
Though details of Stapleton's condition are yet to emerge, it is reported that he was injured off-set and not as a result of filming.
The new season of Strike Back - confirmed to be the show's last - was scheduled to debut on Cinemax in late 2014. However, the production hiatus could now lead to the premiere date being pushed back.
The series - which also stars Philip Winchester and is based on the book by Chris Ryan - is a co-production between Cinemax, Sky and Left Bank Pictures.
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In partnership with the National Geographic Society. This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics, and take your pledge.
What were you doing when you were a teenager?
Riding bikes, watching movies, learning trigonometry perhaps? Angelina Arora, from Sydney Girls High School, is doing all these things, but Angelina Arora is not your average teenager.
Arora explained to National Geographic the moment when she first understood the impact plastic was having on the environment. One day when she was a young girl, she went out shopping to the local supermarket with her mother when she noticed that her mother paid for plastic bags. Curious, she asked the cashier why. The cashier responded that it was to deter people from using plastic bags and therefore help save the planet.
This idea, and Arora's strong love of science, is what guided her to create a sophisticated biodegradable plastic at age 16. However, the journey was not an easy one. After experimenting and failing with different kinds of organic waste, such as banana peels, Arora turned to prawns (shrimp) after noticing the similarities between their shells and plastic.
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"I looked at prawns and thought what makes their shells look like plastic? Maybe I can take that out and use it someway and bind it to make a plastic-like material," Arora explained to National Geographic in an interview.
"I extracted a carbohydrate called chitin and chemically converted it into chitosan and mixed it with fibroin, which is a protein in silk cocoons."
She found that the combination of the two organic products created a plastic-like material that decomposed 1.5 million times faster than commercial plastics, completely breaking down within 33 days.
Her invention won her the Innovator to Market Award in the 2018 BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards and international recognition at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where she won 4th in the world, as well as a comprehensive scholarship to a prestigious U.S. university. She competed against students from over 81 countries.
"The world is changing faster than many of us can keep up with, but science, technology, engineering, and maths can guide that future through innovation," CSIRO's Chief Executive Larry Marshall explained in a press release.
"We know that the achievements of the winners and finalists will inspire other students to become innovators solving the big challenges that face our world."
However, Arora's sights are set on the bigger picture.
"Everyone should do whatever they can, so I'm just trying to play my part," she urges.
"Eliminate the things you don't need, plastic straws for example, and just drink from the cup."
At just 16, Arora has a bright scientific future ahead of her.
"Every time I fail or things don't work out in the lab, I always think back to why I started doing it," she says. "That is to make oceans plastic-free and encourage other young people, especially young girls, to make a difference in the world, in whatever domain their passion lies."
This story was previously published by National Geographic Australia. National Geographic is committed to reducing plastics pollution. Learn more about our non-profit activities at natgeo.org/plastics.


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Farmers, home owners and business people all have their story to tell
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It's long been clear that Progeny Linux, an attempt to commercialize support for the Debian version of the open-source operating system, had ceased to be relevant. But the company made it official on Monday.
A note on its Web site reads, "We are sorry to inform you that Progeny Linux Systems, Inc. ceased operations April 30, 2007."
Debian and Progeny founder Ian Murdock already had left the company in 2006 to work on the Linux Standard Base project. In March, Murdock joined Sun Microsystems as its chief operating systems officer, where he balances involvement with Linux with Sun's open-source Solaris operating system.
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If you're like me, you're probably caught yourself saying "I'd love to (fill in the blank,) but I just don't have time." Our lives have become so incredibly busy over the last twenty years as technology and informational availability rocket forward on a seemingly infinite trajectory. Our finite minds struggle to keep up! There are so many news stories available, so many social networking sites to interact with, so many movies and television shows to watch and games to play and so on.
There are so many things that exist that demand our attention, making as much noise and bombarding us with as many bright colors and flashing lights as they can to hold our ever decreasing attention spans long enough to…do what, exactly? Improve our lives? Sell us something, or someone? Distract us from what we really ought to be doing? This is going to be the first installment of some reflections on busyness.
I can't help but feel that while people in the Western World may be busier than ever before, we're becoming less productive as a general rule. I can't help but remember the lyrics to Pink Floyd's Time from The Dark Side of the Moon, with its melancholy lament over how much we waste this completely unrenewable resource. This intuition of increasing lost time is mostly aimed at Generation Y and subsequent generations — the generations who have had it better than in any other time in known history.
Take for a contrasting case in point, my beloved grandfather. My Pappaw grew up in the back woods around West Monroe, Louisiana and was dirt poor as a child. Often, he spent his spare time hunting or fishing in order to supplement his diet. If he didn't do that, he sometimes didn't get enough to eat. As a result, he spent time with friends out in the woods learning survival skills and developing an appreciation for hard work that he still holds today.
And yet that sort of hardship and suffering, while it still exists, has been mostly shielded from American life a scant two generations later. I know how to hunt and fish, but not because I had to learn. I learned because my father and grandfather insisted that I learn how to do both. I had a much easier childhood than both my father and grandfather, but I feel like I missed out on a lot. I feel like I'm only now coming to understand things that they knew at a younger age than where I am.
I fully recognize the irony as I type this, but I find myself becoming something of a Luddite as I age. I dislike social media as a general rule because there's very little that I would call important being shared on those sites. I don't need to know about what anybody ate for lunch, nor do you need to know the ins and outs of my day unless you ask me about it in person or over the phone. Ultimately, nobody cares about your thinly-veiled attacks on another person's character, or about what your reaction is to a television show. Most people's opinions (and I include mine here) are not as important as we make them out to be. Social media is just another outlet to make ourselves the centers of our own little universes, allowing us to maintain the self-perception that our opinions matter and we have copious amounts of "friends," even if we never talk to those people or actually care about what's going on in their lives.
But that's an easy target. Let's try one that hits a little closer to home for me: Netflix instant streaming. We have the technological marvel of being able to watch almost any movie or television show that we want on demand. The esteemed John Piper had this to say on the topic:
"One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time."
Imagine how many people will be standing at the judgment of God, having said in their actions, "Meh, I had better things to do. Gray's Anatomy was on Netflix!" I shudder to think about this in my own life. And don't get me started on how much time I have spent on video games, I've covered that one already.
There are so many things worth learning and doing that lay undone due to distraction. The time is there, but the will isn't because learning and doing are hard. The distractions are so much easier and so much more comfortable, just as Uncle Screwtape commented to Wormwood in his letters. To think that by now I could have mastery of Spanish and German, or picked up a productive hobby that could net me some ancillary income. But instead, distractions. To think that by now I could have a more productive walk with God and be more transformed by the renewing of my mind. (Romans 12:2) But instead, distractions. To think of the work I could have done for the community around me. But instead, distractions.
I don't know about you, but I think it's time to turn off the computer/Xbox/whatever else, and do something useful. Being busy is not enough, we must be productive. We must not only have something to do, we must have something worth doing. I implore you, examine your life to find the time eaters and do those things you have always wanted to do but didn't have the time for. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go practice German with Duolingo.


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For the second time in two years gardai are investigating vandalism to the Lia Fail, the 5 thousand year old standing stone on the top of the Hill of Tara, which is a national monument.
It was the inauguration Stone for the Kings of Tara and was meant to "roar" when touched by the rightful king.
The destruction was spotted by OPW staff this morning.
Overnight somebody poured green and red paint all over the top of the stone and it is now nearly completely covered in it.
In June 2012 the stone was damaged when hacked off pieces of it with an axe.
This attack has been condemned by the Minister for Arts Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan who said: "This act of mindless vandalism, on one of our premier archaeological sites, is truly shameful."
He asked for anyone with information to contact gardai.
A spokesman for gardai in Navan, who are at the scene carrying out a technical examination, asked "that anyone with information on whoever was responsible would contact us or phone the Garda Confidential Line on 1800 666 111".
Visitors to the Hill today have been shocked at the sight.
Sinead Rooney had travelled from north London and it was her first time on Tara.
"It is so disrespectful. Where is the humour in this? You wonder what satisfaction there is in having done this," she said.
She was with her aunt Anne Quinn who was very disappointed and said: "I wanted this to be a special day, it was her first time at Tara. To see the state of it now is just disgusting."
"This is an act of cultural vandalism," said Ian Doyle, archaeologist and head of conservation with the Heritage Council yesterday.
He said local people and others, "have a close relationship with the Hill of Tara and this is an assault on their sense of pride and the respect, love and affection they have for it."


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5 Things You Need To Do Before Moving
1) Change The Locks Or Re-Key
Unless you're moving into a new build, there are undoubtedly several copies of your house keys floating around. Ensure that you either change the locks or have them re-keyed. This is a step that can be easily overlooked, but vital to maintaining your peace of mind and safety.
2) Mail Forwarding
No matter how hard you try, you will not cover all your bases on ensuring you receive all new mail to your new home. Important documents will inevitably end up at your old home. You can either pick up a form or do it online, but ensure you have all your mail forwarded to your new home. As you receive forwarded mail, make sure you contact the sender with your new address. You will notice by the end of the forwarding period, nothing will be coming in from your old address, aside from the odd wedding invitation.
3) Pack Meticulously
When you're packing up your home, don't just throw everything in boxes and tape them up. You will find that you will come across many items that you don't need anymore, set them aside and either donate, sell or throw them away, depending on the item. Make sure you have bubble wrap and other packing materials so that none of your valuables get damaged in the move and mark those boxes 'FRAGILE'. Retain a master list of the contents of each box so that you can direct the movers where to put them and properly prioritize unpacking.
4) Painting And Electrical Work
Make sure all painting and electrical work are complete while your new home is still empty. Painting and electrical labor fees will be significantly higher if they have to navigate around furniture to do their job.
5) Cleaning
Whether you're moving into a new build or an older home, there is one guarantee; no matter how clean it looks, don't be fooled, it's dirty. Make sure go through every inch of the home and clean it thoroughly. This will be relatively easy and less time-consuming in an empty home, with no furniture or objects impeding your progress. While you're doing this, also do little things like changing all the toilet seats to ensure you're new home is as sanitary as possible before moving in.


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I did this cartoon shortly after I finished, The Big Belch, my first environmental graphic novel. As you can see I've been thinking about how our world is changing for a while now. Many other folks have too. On the next Planet Philadelphia coming up next Friday, 8/17/18, hear a number of interesting visions and hopes for our future from several other Philadelphians who've given the matter a lot of thought.
Hope you're having a fun safe summer,
Kay Wood
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Bodybuilder Raoul Moat sparked one of the biggest manhunts in British history...
In a suburban street of Gateshead, everything seemed peaceful at 2am on 3 July 2010. But still, Samantha Stobbart, 22, was nervous. Her ex, Raoul Moat, 37, had been released from prison the previous day.
Shaven-headed Moat was 6ft 3in, 17st of muscle, and filled with rage. Jealous and paranoid, during their six-year relationship he often hit her, even holding her at gunpoint once.
When he'd just been jailed for assaulting a 9-year-old child, distraught Samantha had ended their relationship for good. She said she'd met a policeman, who could 'knock him out'.
'I'll go crazy,' Moat had warned, fuming.
In fact, her new boyfriend Chris Brown, 29, was a karate instructor. Samantha had lied, to scare Moat away. Now they were at a friend's house when suddenly Moat appeared outside the lounge window…
'I didn't see the gun at first,' she testified later.
As Chris leapt in front of Samantha, Moat fired his sawn-off shotgun, shooting him in the chest. Next he shot Samantha in the abdomen and chest. While she survived, Chris died at the scene. Then crazed Raoul went on the run…
'I'm coming to get you,' he taunted police. 'I'm hunting for officers.'
True to his word, he shot traffic officer David Rathband in the face and chest, blinding him. A week later, following a six-hour stand off with armed police in a remote field, Moat shot himself in the head.
What had driven him to such a deadly rampage?
Moat had a difficult childhood. His mother was bipolar and Moat never knew his dad. Raised by his grandmother, Moat later claimed his mother often beat him. Certainly, she once burnt all his toys in front of him.
When he was 13, his mother married Brian Healey, who Moat clashed with, causing more family tension because they argued.
Perhaps he felt rejected, like he didn't belong anywhere. Abandoned and out-of-place.
Leaving school, Moat became a panel-beater, night-time bouncer, and bodybuilder, using steroids to bulk his muscles. But the drugs caused terrible nightmares and paranoia.
Regardless, he had two daughters with one partner, and kept custody when they split. Then, age 31, he started dating 16-year-old Samantha. The pair had a daughter, but Moat was convinced Samantha was cheating. They often fought, and he'd beat her. Plus, he slept with an axe and a crossbow beneath his bed, and obsessively watched CCTV footage of passers-by outside his home.
Scared, Samantha repeatedly left him, but such was Moat's control, she always returned. Meanwhile, Moat was regularly arrested by police for a range of charges including possession of weapons, assault, and even conspiracy to murder. But despite 12 arrests he was never convicted.
All the while, his mental condition was deteriorating. In 2006, his psychologist noted Moat felt 'jumpy all the time'. Eventually his doorman's licence was revoked, so Moat started trading in second-hand cars and scrap metal. But it didn't last long Then, in 2010, Moat was convicted for assaulting a young child, and sentenced to 18 weeks.
Then his worst fear came true when Samantha said she'd left him for a policeman. On his release from Durham prison on 1 July, Moat immediately updated his Facebook status… I've lost everything, my business, my property and to top it all off, my lass has gone off with someone else. Watch and see what happens.
Then he tracked down the pair, shot them both. Next he gave a friend a 49-page letter, titled 'Murder Statement,' before going on the run.
The public need not fear me, but the police should as I will keep killing police until I am dead. They've hunted me for years, now it's my turn. They took it all from me. My kids, my freedom, house, then Sam… I'm a killer and a maniac, but I ain't no coward.
Moat then fled, and that night phoned police.
'You bastards have been on to me, right, for years. You have hassled us, harassed us… I can't drive down the street without the blue lights flashing. You police have took too much off me over the years. And now you think you can take me missus. As soon as I found out he was one of your officers I thought, 'Nah, yous have had too much from me… I'm not on the run – I'm coming to get you.'
Next day, he drove around Newcastle with two accomplices, his friends Karl Ness and Qhuram Awan, who were both later jailed for their part in the spree. Spotting PC Rathband sitting in his patrol car on traffic duty, Moat shot him in the face, leaving him blinded, and suffering from critical injuries.
Three days later, Ness and Awan were arrested at a campsite where the trio had been hiding. There they found a recorder filled with more of Moat's rantings. Armed policed swarmed the area. And after eight days on the run Moat was cornered on a riverbank near Rothbury, Northumberland.
There, he demanded police kill him. They refused, and for five hours there was a tense stand-off. Suddenly, Moat put the gun to his temple and shouted: 'It ends in this field tonight.'
Trying to stop him, police fired tasers. But Moat pulled the trigger, making himself his final victim.


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Make no mistake: I am a nurse and I write a blog; I am not a blogger writing as a Registered Nurse. There is a monumental difference. If I were to write a blog as a Registered Nurse giving you all my opinions and advice on health, food, safety issues, etc. my nursing license would be on the line all the time. I'm hyper-aware of this, which is why I always have a disclaimer at the bottom of any post that I deem could be taken as "written by a nurse" that I do not give health advice on this blog and these are my opinions. I also have a huge list of policies you can read here in which I state that very clearly too. I am a mom and a wife, and that is who I write this blog as. It's my freedom of speech to write what I want, especially on my personal blog that I bought and paid for—it's your choice whether or not you want to read it, and where you take it from there in your life's decisions is up to you. Well, someone took it somewhere that I never thought it would go…
The activist claims I directly sell products that benefit my husband on this blog and that is a bold-faced lie. My husband grows wheat and canola, neither of which I have (or ever will) try to sell directly to my readers. Sure, I write about healthy whole grains and that canola oil is a healthy oil, but that is not directly selling them, so someone attempting to twist it as that is a mark of desperation in my opinion.
I have endorsed products as a mother on this blog, but (yet again I digress) never ever as a nurse. I have been approached by medical companies to promote their products but I always say no for this very reason. I also always have to legally disclose when I am being paid to write a post or endorse a product because I believe in full transparency to my readers, and also I don't want to end up paying $11000 in a fine if I don't. Thankfully this complaint against me was dismissed on the grounds that this is a matter of opinions and mine are protected under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. I also did not, and do not, lend my credentials as an RN to endorse or sell products.
This is what activists do: they troll comments sections on multiple blogs and websites looking to disturb the discussion and keep spreading their misinformation and lies, and I'm almost certain some earn money doing so. I was told the name of the person who filed the complaint and this person has emailed me, they have commented on my own blog, on articles I have written on other websites, and many other articles that I have not written. I still cannot believe that an activist stooped so low that they tried to threaten my career and my livelihood as a nurse. Shame on you and how pathetic! What I write on this blog or any other website is essentially opinion pieces. If you take what I write as gospel, then that is how you see it. If you think I'm here to brainwash my readers into being "pro-GMO" or pro-everything-I-write, then you are sadly deluded. This particular activist seems to have chemophobia, particularly in regards to pesticides, which I have of course blogged about before but never endorsed as I was accused of.
I am damn proud to be a nurse. I went to university for four years, obtained my Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree, and I will not be scared to call myself a nurse online or anywhere else. Under my picture on the sidebar of this blog, the first word you will see describing me is "Nurse". My blog title Nurse Loves Farmer is there for a reason. I am proud of the career I chose, I am proud to be a farm wife, I am proud to be a boy mom, I am proud to be a believer, and I will not be bullied or threatened into calling myself otherwise. Amen.
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Loretta's been in the 'test kitchen' so to speak over the past few weeks. I've been trying to re-define familiar caribbean dishes as we know them; from ackee to water crackers (anyone who comes across a caribbean dish beginning with 'z' please contact me and I will edit this post accordingly!).
Last week I started with Breadfruit. Breadfruit has to be one of the most understated fruits I have come across. After sharing a breadfruit recipe last week, I did a little more research and found that as well as being high in nutrients and vitamins, Breadfruit is a great substitute for eggs, so it can be used in cakes. And for those looking for a gluten free, vegan alternative to cooking, it looks like breadfruit pasta is in the pipeline!
We have been sitting on a goldmine. Just like the humble Goiji berry and Chia seeds, Breadfruit deserves superfood status, which means both financial and scientific investment into the versatile qualities of this amazing fruit. Can you imagine what impact this could have on the economy of the communities and islands which harvest it?
Well back to the test kitchen: over the past two weeks I have been testing out breadfruit pasta. Pasta is usually made with a combination of flour, semolina and eggs. I have substituted eggs for breadfruit, inspired by Vegan Chef Tamyer Mason. The original recipe can be found here. Thank you Tamyer for this inspiring recipe!
I have made regular pasta before, but I have to say, I like this one better! It cooks quicker, is softer and more pliable than regular pasta. The first time I made this, I made it with a homemade char-grilled aubergine pesto. However I had some leftover salt fish and ackee from some patties I made in the week, so rather than waste it, I thought I should try the combination of the two.
I didn't use all the pasta, I froze about half of it. It should keep in the freezer roughly a month. You can use any combination of fillings you like, the trick is, to make sure the filling is not too wet and sloppy, if that's the case, then grind some stale bread in a food processor and add little by little to the mixture, the bread will soak up the juices.
As I'm thinking now, you could probably use the same pasta to make a pasta sheets for lasagna…the mind boggles!
If you would like my saltfish and ackee recipe please e-mail me.
Breadfruit Pasta Sheets Ingredients: 1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 3/4 cup semolina flour 3/4 cup mashed breadfruit 4 tablespoons olive oil 1/4 tsp of yellow food powder or tumeric 1 tsp salt 3/4 cup water or more as required Method: Then: For the coconut sauce: Ingredients: Method:
Breadfruit Raviloi w/ Saltfish 'n' Ackee & Coconut Sauce
Breadfruit Pasta Sheets
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 3/4 cup semolina flour
3/4 cup mashed breadfruit
4 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 tsp of yellow food powder or tumeric
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup water or more as required
For the coconut sauce: