text:
Seeing the Signs
The Celtic Cross
Samhain is traditionally a time of divination. Some methods – such an apple and tossing the peel over your shoulder and seeing the design of the peel – have gone down in history as "folk love magic", since the apple peel, left overnight on the hearth, will set into the letter of your true-love. We did this as children.
In my own Samhain rituals, I always use tarot cards – tarot cards have always been my first and favorite form of divination. I first picked up a deck in 1988 – a Rider-Waite deck – and I have never stopped loving the feel and the ease of reading the cards. At this point in time, I own seven Tarot decks. Most of the time, I use the Rider-Waite – it's just my go-to deck – easy to read in every aspect.
I have a Tarot notebook filled with notes of the twenty-eight years of study. Once a section of my Book of Shadows, it is now a giant-sized notebook of its own with numerous divisions. I have read almost every book I have found in libraries or borrowed from friends or have been able to buy. In the 1990's, when I became connected to the Internet, I found another rich source of Tarot information and my Tarot notebook grew by leaps and bounds. Now my favorite source of information is Pinterest – for images of cards, for new spreads – for all kinds of enlightenment. I'm at a point with my Tarot notebook where I'm thinking of dividing it up into two notebooks – one for notes and one for spreads alone. I have 102 Tarot spreads as of this writing – organized by subject matter, shape of the spread and number of cards used. There is a section for The Celtic Cross, which was the first spread I learned to read and remains my favorite spread to use.
I have eighteen versions of the Celtic Cross, including the one I developed myself. The first one in the section is from Tarot: A New Handbook for the Apprentice, by Eileen Connolly, which was published by Newcastle Publishing in 1979. I used to own this book but gave it away because I felt it had too much a Christian bias and I am a Dianic Witch. But looking at the spread today, it is a simple and easy-to-use spread that is perfect for the beginner, and I do remember that the entire book was the same way so if you ever come across this book, I do recommend it for that reason. Don't let the Christian-speak turn you off. For years, this was the only Tarot book I had in my possession – since you have to return library books – so I am glad that the woman who gave me my first deck of cards also gave me this helpful book. Teachers do come from all spiritual backgrounds so it is important not to let religious or political differences get in the way of enlightenment.
In the beginning of my spiritual search, I hadn't learned the rules of research so many of my spreads do not have bibliographic information telling me from which book I found it, which is disappointing to me today. But nowadays I make sure I cite all my sources on each page. Some of the spreads are named after the person who wrote the book in which I found the spread – therefore, Celtic Cross #5 is subtitled "Angeles Arrien" Celtic Cross #6 is subtitled "Joanne Kolwalski". Celtic Cross #7 has the subtitle "Mary K. Greer" and it is one of the more involved spreads that I have seen, in that for each position it presents between seven and ten concepts to consider. Mary K. Greer is one of my favorite Tarot instructors via her books, website and blogs. Her book, Tarot for Yourself: A Workbook for Personal Transformation has an entire chapter devoted to the Celtic Cross and just rereading it for this column was like a refresher course in Tarot! I bought this book back in 1993 and did all the exercises – many of them turned into poems. I cannot recommend it enough. ALL of Mary K. Greer's books are fabulous.
My personal Celtic Cross came about simply because when you do something all the time, you naturally start seeing things in a certain way and the cards start speaking to you in a certain way. Reading all the spreads that I have collected, I can see how they all influenced me – from the very simple ones to the very complex ones. Being on the simpler side, I keep my spreads easy to read and to the point. I scanned the page with my Celtic Cross but since it was written in pencil – which I do in case I make a mistake and can easily change things – my tiny handwriting didn't show up very well. So here is the basic spread, which is of course the same as everyone else's Celtic Cross:
This is how I read it:
Cover. The basic situation.
Cross. What is screwing up the situation.
Base. What is at the bottom of the situation.
Past. What is no longer happening but is still affecting the situation.
Hopes. This is connected to #9, Fears.
Future. This is connected to #10, Outcome.
Environment. What is surrounding the situation.
Querent. The person who wants to know what's going on.
Fears. Worries & anxieties surrounding the situation.
Outcome. If this card is from the Minor Arcana, then deal three more cards and see if a card from the Major Arcana comes up. If none appears, then the situation is as yet unsettled spiritually and set it aside for another day. This is the way it is sometimes. Meditate on the issue and do another reading on another day.
I have kept records of my tarot readings in my regular diary and in special tarot journals since I started using the cards in 1988. It's a good
practice to acquire. Looking back on my old readings, I can see how I have developed as a reader. I rarely read for other people – I look for my own answers – and I use the cards for meditation. But I'm at the point where I can lay out the cards and generally read them at a glance. Quite often – after writing it all down in my journal – I'll refer to one of my Tarot books or the notes I have in my Tarot notebook for more enlightenment. As I said before, I love all of Mary K. Greer's books. Another favorite is A Feminist Tarot, by Sally Gearhart and Susan Rennie. Originally published by Persephone Press in 1976, it is now published by Alyson Publications and is in its sixth edition. I have the fifth edition, which was published in 1981.
Of course Radar has to get in the way when I'm recording the reading in my Tarot Journal!
There are as many versions of The Celtic Cross as there as tarot readers – many more than I have in my Tarot notebook – so find some of the books I have mentioned and teach yourself some of the finer points of this easy to learn, easy to use Tarot spread. And on Samhain evening, as you sip your apple cider by candlelight, shuffle your favorite deck and find out what your ancestors have to say to you. Brightest Blessings!


text:
Yellow indicates area within range of missiles.
North Korea has drastically increased the range of its missiles. In tests last year, the nation showed that it could probably strike the United States.
North Korea is among a number of countries that have been working to improve the accuracy and range of their missiles.
"We believe we're entering a missile renaissance," said Ian Williams, an associate director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, who has been compiling data on missile programs in different countries.
A growing number of countries with ready access to missiles increases regional tensions and makes war more likely, Mr. Williams said. Countries are more apt to use their arsenals if they think their missiles could be targeted.
In addition, many of the missiles being developed by these countries are based on obsolete technologies, which makes them less accurate, increasing the risk to civilians. And there is a risk that missiles could fall into the hands of militias and terrorist groups.
Many of the countries that have heavily invested in missiles over the last two decades are in well-known hotspots in Asia and the Middle East. Their maximum ranges are overlaid on the map below.
Estimated maximum missile range.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Who doesn't want to make a living from their passion? In reading this article, you've made that all-important first step of conducting some research into the feasibility of making a living from photography. We don't need to tell you that there's nothing quite like the satisfying feeling of expressing yourself creatively and honing your craft. As The Balance Small Business notes, there are pros and cons to starting your own photography business, but it can offer a more flexible and rewarding lifestyle. Since you've reached the point of seriously thinking about this, it's safe to assume that you've got some talent, but what's needed to start a photography business? Read on to find out!
Have a Plan
It's not the most exciting part of starting up your photography business, but planning is a necessary evil. As Bplans mentions, breaking down the basics like expenses, competition, ownership, and cashflow is essential. There are numerous free online resources available to assist you in putting together your business plan, including from the Government. Of course, as part of this planning process, you'll want to establish the necessary costs incurred in the startup of the business. For example, do you have all the photography equipment and software you need? Will you need a marketing budget?
Assess Your Personal Finances
It's not realistic to expect that your new business will be making money straight away. As photographer Lauren Lim wrote in her article for Photography Concentrate, it took six years before her business was in a place she expected it to be just one year down the line. Making your business work takes a lot of hard work and patience. You need to prepare yourself for the long game; how are you going to bridge the gap between startup status and profitable business?
Perfect Your Portfolio
In photography, your portfolio is of paramount importance. Expert Photography offers strong advice for building your portfolio. If you have limited professional experience, make sure you network with more seasoned photographers gaining projects for your portfolio alongside them. Undertaking work experience with a professional photographer will also allow you the opportunity to learn more about the business side of being a photographer.
Invest in Equipment
You don't need a complete kit of top of the line equipment from the start, but you should begin with quality gear. Small Biz Trends recommends as a bare minimum that you'll need a good camera, a tripod, camera bag, lighting, lenses, backgrounds, and props. You'll also need a reliable computer, transport and editing software. You will want to have at least two cameras so that you have a backup.
Establish Your Pricing Plan
When you're used to working on a salary, coming up with an hourly rate can seem an abstract concept. Remember that your hourly shoot rate needs to reflect the fact that you may spend triple the time editing images. If you want to read more about moving away from free sessions to paid gigs then check out this article here. And if you want to absolutely perfect your pricing, then you need to get the only system that does the hard work for you – Pricing Made Easy.
Have a Quality Online Presence
In order to showcase your creative talents, a quality online presence is essential. In 2019 it's not acceptable to simply have an informational website; you're competing with numerous photographers using social media to its full potential. Given its status as a visually focused platform, Instagram is proving increasingly popular with photographers. Canva has a particularly useful article for using Instagram to promote your photography.
Decide on Your Services
Making the decision about the services you'd like to offer will ultimately begin with where your talents lie. If you're a jack of all trades when it comes to photography, what do you enjoy the most and which photography styles have you received the most compliments about? Starups.co.uk mentions that wedding photography is considered the most lucrative type of photography. This work is highly seasonal, with most weddings taking place between May and September and it is also extremely competitive. Ultimately, most photographers work across a variety of styles to supplement their income throughout the year.
Appreciate the Importance of Networking
Networking is important for creative professionals of any experience level. As Dylan Goldby writes for Creative Live, it is of paramount importance to do what you can to spread positive word of mouth about your business. Think about who you already know that may be interested in hiring a photographer and take up any local business networking opportunity you come across.
Use these as a benchmark
So I hope you'll use these pointers as a good guide to how, when and how much you'll need to start a photography business. Being a photographer is such an incredibly enjoyable way to spend your life, meeting new people, capturing memories and going to new places. Just make sure you've ticked the right boxes in deciding if it's the right business for you to run, do the research upfront, and you won't go far wrong!
Extra help
And there's always extra help & support from The Happy Photo. Check out a full range of resources, courses, tools & tips to suit every budget and every stage – whether you're just dipping your toe in, or are taking it seriously and want to progress to the next stage 🙂
With my happy photo love,
Laura x


text:
Adding Form Pages with Open UX
The default form pages in the template application provided with the Open UX libraries may not provide you enough for your application.
Click below to watch the short video which guides you through creating new pages, and binding them to you application. (You can click here to watch it directly on YouTube)
You can access the Temenos Journey Manager Open UX Docs here.


text:
If you look into the Merriam-Webster dictionary, it defines stress as a state of mental tension and worry that is caused by the problems and struggles in your life, work, etc. Another definition of it is that stress is something that causes strong feelings of worry or anxiety. It is indeed inevitable part of a person's life. Lots of factors in the environment can cause it. It may come from the family, work, friends or even just random stranger from the street. One may try to avoid it as much as he can but he should accept the fact that he can't. Every person would want to live a happy life; but stress could greatly affect that simple wish.
Stress could be caused with emotional or physical factors. Emotional stress could be caused by disappointment, expectations, an anxiety caused by a certain problems, friends or family loss, grief, rejections, etc. Stress being caused by physical environment maybe work related such as sitting all day without any physical activities, excessive computer usage or even commuting for home.
There are lots of ways to reduce stress caused by emotional factors. You could seek the attention of professionals to help you cope with stress, if you felt that it was on its severe case already. Another thing is you could engage on activities that could generally increase your happy hormones such as active exercise and other physical activities. You could surround yourself with positive people that could affect your state of mind. Speaking of which mindset is really the key to combat stress. You should always be optimistic about every problem you encountered in life. Emotional stress could sometimes difficult to deal with but as an individual suffering from stress, you could start small ways to help you cope with it. There are certain things you could do to alleviate stress caused by physical factors.
You could opt for a trip to massage center to ease stress and tension in your body. Some ancient techniques such as meditation, yoga or acupuncture might also help. However, as career person who is always busy and lacks time to personally visit dedicated centers for the said activities, there are tools you could use as substitute. You could buy your own heating pads that could be used to ease tension and stress on your body such as back pains and cramps. Take a look at the Mighty Bliss Heating Pad which is one of the most talked about heating pad on the market. You could refer to http://thesoothingeffect.com/mighty-bliss-electric-heating-pad-review/ for more information.
Just a quick overview, this site shares detailed information about Mighty Bliss Heating Pads. It highlights the products best features. It also shares about the pros and cons of purchasing this product. For the busy reader who wants direct information, the site conveniently summarize the whole article at the end. It also listed other top heating pads in the market if the reader wants to view other options. Finally, a final verdict by the editor was stated to further assist interested buyers.


text:
(USA Today) -- Mohamed Merah, a 23-year-old Frenchman, was buried Thursday in the Muslim section of a cemetery in the Toulouse neighborhood of Cornebarrieu. About 20 men attended the ceremony, hiding their faces from reporters gathered outside.
Police say Merah filmed himself killing seven people in a spate of attacks earlier this month. Merah, who espoused radical Islam and said he had links to al-Qaeda, was shot in the head after a standoff with police last week in the southern city of Toulouse.
France was plunged into mourning and national outrage Monday by the terrorist-style killings of three young children and a rabbi as they gathered for classes at a Jewish school in a quiet residential neighborhood of Toulouse.
The lone gunman rode up on a motor scooter and opened fire with two pistols, first shooting at a group of waiting children outside the school and then following some of them into a courtyard as they ran for safety toward the building, a local prosecutor, Michel Valet, told reporters. In addition to the four people killed, six students were wounded, including a 17-year-old boy reported to be in serious condition at a Toulouse hospital.
The style of the killings and one of the weapons used led law enforcement authorities to suggest a link with the slayings of three soldiers last week in the same area of southwestern France — and possibly a political motive arising from France's military role in the Afghan war.
The first soldier was shot and killed in Toulouse on March 11 as he met a man who pretended to be interested in buying his motorcycle. Four days later, two other soldiers were killed and a third was badly wounded as they took money from an automated teller machine in Montauban, about 30 miles to the north.


text:
- Bounce Back Tours
- Magazines
- Guides
- Focus On…
- By Category
- Tools
- Subscriptions
- Contact
Select Page
Greetings! As Tour Colorado's new director, I'm immensely proud to present the 2020 edition of our Colorado Group Tour Planner. Even though I've been a Colorado resident for over 20 years, it never ceases to amaze me how our state boasts such an extraordinary variety of urban adventures, culinary culture and rich history. This year's planner highlights all of these facets of the Centennial State, with features that focus on the outdoor activities tucked away in Colorado's cities, the state's Native American and cowboy heritage, and the agritourism opportunities in the Grand Valley. Also, this edition's itineraries provide motorcoach groups with ready-made adventures in the Colorado Spring's area and Colorado's Historic Hot Springs Loop.
Tour Colorado would be nothing without its members, who go above and beyond to promote our state and make it welcoming to group tours of all interests. Without them, Colorado would not be the premier American tourism destination it has become. This year's guide provides in-depth listings to introduce the attractions, destinations, hotels and service providers that constitute Tour Colorado.
Thank you for your continued support, and welcome to Colorado!
Julianne Fredrick,
Executive Director, Tour Colorado
We've included some of the best videos from Colorado Tourism. We hope you enjoy them.
Every season in Colorado is packed with something to do or see. Bring your tour groups to cheer one of our professional sports teams – Go Broncos!, watch a spectacular sunrise from the majestic Grand Mesa or step into the boots of our historical Wild West days. Your groups will love it all.
Colorado is known for its national landmarks, open spaces, soaring mountains, historic trains and wildlife. Whether your tour includes visiting our national parks, riding our trains, or traveling
through the beautiful Colorado Rockies, you'll find towns and cities in every corner of our state with farm-to-table restaurants, art galleries, unique museums and one-of-a-kind shopping. We invite you to visit Colorado Springs, Manitou Springs, Canon City, Durango, Cortez, Grand Junction, Glenwood Springs, Greeley, Boulder, or Denver where you will find artists, antique shops, outdoor cafes, food trucks, brewpubs, distillers and a wide variety of activities.
Sit back, put your feet up and take a moment to explore our Colorado Group Tour Planner, which we've designed to spark new itinerary ideas, such as our featured stories highlighting Fun Experiences, Scenic Beauty in Northern Colorado's Front Range and Discovering All There is to See & Do in Grand Junction.
As always, thank you for bringing your groups to Colorado.
From the heart of downtown Denver to the top of Pikes Peak, Colorado abounds with options for group trips. Tour Colorado's inaugural planner for the group travel industry offers itinerary ideas in all corners of the Centennial State.
In "Colorado National Parks are a Sight to Behold," group organizers get a peek at the scenic majesty that awaits their travelers. Great Sand Dunes National Park is home to the tallest sand dunes in North America, while Mesa Verde National Park showcases the fascinating cliff dwellings built by an ancient Native American culture. Rocky Mountain and Black Canyon of the Gunnison national parks also inspire awe.
If the notion of picking your own lavender, biting into a fresh-picked peach or feeding an alpaca sounds like fun, check out "Colorado Agritourism Adventures." In "Discovering Colorado on the Rails, you can read about eight vintage trains that showcase the state's scenic splendor, including one that climbs to the top of Pikes Peak. "Tribal Traditions" focuses on Native American attractions throughout the state.
Group planners will get further inspiration from the guide's sample Colorado itineraries, including the four-day "Following the Trail of the Ancients." The four-day "Unforgettable Colorado Experiences" is a hub & spoke tour of the Denver area and Colorado Springs. A map and driving-distances chart in the front of the magazine put the state into focus.


text:
A Defense of Intellectual Property Rights
Richard A. Spinello and Maria Bottis
Appendix: Table of cases
Richard A. Spinello and Maria Bottis
321 Studios v. MGM, 307 F. Supp. 2d 1085 (N.D. Cal. 2004) ACLU v. Reno, 929 F. Supp. 824 (E.D. Pa.) (1996) aff'd Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997) Agnes Dit A. Sorel v. Fayard Frères, Tribunal Civil de la Seine, 16 Decembre 1899, D.1900.2.152 Alfred Bell & Co. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., 191 F.2d 99 (2d Cir. 1951) Amazon.com. Inc v. barnesandnoble.com, Inc., 73 F. Supp. 2d (W.D.Wash. 1999), vacated and remanded, 239 F. 3d 1343 (Fed. Cir. 2001) Ansehl v. Puritan Pharmaceutical Company, 61 F. 2d 131 (8th Cir.) (1932). Appellant's Brief (2001), Universal City Studios v. Corley, 273 F. 3d 429 (2d Cir) (2001) Apple Computer, Inc. v. Franklin Computer Corp., US Court of Appeals, 3rd Cir., 714 F.2d 1240 (1983) Aro Manufacturing Co. v. Convertible Top Replacement Co, 377 U.S. 476, 84 S.Ct. 1526, 12 L.Ed. 457 (1964) Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 975 F.2d 832, 24 USPQ2d 1015 (1992) Aunt Jemima Mills Co v. Rugney & Co, 247 F. 407 (2d Cir. 1917) Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, 494 U.S. 652 (1990) Autogiro Co. of America v. US, 384 F. 2d 391, 400 (Ct.Cl. 1967) Baker v. Shelden, 101 US 99 (1879) Baltimore Orioles v. Major League Baseball Players Ass'n, 805 F.2d 663 (1986) Basic Books, Inc. v. Kinko's Graphic Corporation, 758 F. Supp 1522 (S.D.N. Y.) (1991) Belmore v. City Pages Inc., 880 F. Supp. 673 (D. Minn. 1995) Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co., 188 U.S. 239, 23 S....
You are not authenticated to view the full text of this chapter or article.
Elgaronline requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books or journals. Please login through your library system or with your personal username and password on the homepage.
Non-subscribers can freely search the site, view abstracts/ extracts and download selected front matter and introductory chapters for personal use.
Your library may not have purchased all subject areas. If you are authenticated and think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.


text:
Mona said the other day, she and Corry were eating Broas with fresh butter! So, ever since then ... I've been dreaming about it.
I have decided to bake my own. I got the recipe from Recipe of the Philippines by Enriqueta Diaz-Perez.
3 egg whites - beaten until stiff, add 6 Tablespoons sugar... then add 3 egg yolks. Fold in 8 Tablespoons sifted flour.
Sprinkle with powedered sugar.
Pipe unto a lined baking sheet, baked for 10-15 minutes at 375.
|Broas inside the oven.
My Kuya, who is my neighbor, suddenly "popped" into my house and asked what was that wonderful smell.. I said I was baking something. When he saw my Broas, he asked " Lengua de gato?" Hahahaha because my Broas were flat! But after he took a bite he said... It tastes like Broas.
I just have to try and try until I succeed. It already tastes like Broas ... but looks like Lengua de gato.
|Broas with Queensland Butter
I'm going to practice again and use another recipe. I hope my next experiment will be successful.


text:
Public Telescope Stargazing Nights at New England Sci-Tech
We have Not Yet Posted This Year's Information for This Event Yet
If new information for this event is already available for this year, please let us know.
If new information for this event is already available for this year, please let us know.
The public is invited to join the New England Sci-Tech community for an evening of astronomy at 16 Tech Circle, Natick.
|Tue, Fri from 4/9/19 - 12/3/19
|Hours Vary see below
|Kids, Teens, Adults
|Indoor, Outdoor
|Free see below
|Science & Technology
Public Telescope Hours Tuesday and Friday evenings 8:009:00 pm in the spring, summer, and fall, weather permitting. See website for occasional variations for astronomical events or special children's programs.
Depending on conditions and season, we will point our larger telescopes toward a variety of planets, the Moon, and stars.
Visitors also can borrow smaller Starblast telescopes to hunt sky objects on your own.
Depending on staff availability, we may offer inside activities as well, such as planetarium shows, touching a rock from outer space (70 lb meteorite!), weighing yourself on the moon and planets, visiting the astronomy classroom, viewing the 3D astronomy displays, selfies with the R2D2 robot, operating the Mars robotic arm to pick up Mars rocks, and more.
Children are welcome, but must be supervised by parents at all times.
|↑ top
Tuesdays and Fridays 8:00-9:00 pm.
Open for public telescopes this fall through Dec 3, 2019.
|↑ top
Free (donations always appreciated)
|↑ top
|↑ top
16 Tech Circle, Natick, MA, 01760 map
Phone: 508-720-4179
16 Tech Circle in Natick (located on the Wellesley/Natick line)
|↑ top
- Telescope viewing is an outside event. Be sure to dress for the weather. Verify times and conditions on the website www.nescitech.org.
|↑ top
- Profiles
- Localities
Info changes frequently. We cannot warrant it. Verify with Public Telescope Stargazing Nights at New England Sci-Tech before making the trek. If you find an error, please report it...
Popular ResourcesBoston with Kids
Free Things to Do
Family & Kids Events
Mass RMV - DMV
Boston Birthday Parties
Boston Museums
Boston Aquarium
Boston Massachusetts
Boston Kids Furniture
Boston Baby


text:
State Representative Philip Miller (D- Haddam, Chester, Deep River, Essex) voted in favor of S.B. 387, An Act Increasing The Minimum Fair Wage. The bill would raise the minimum wage to $8.70 per hour, effective January 1, 2014 and to $9.00 effective January 1, 2015.
"I support this bill because Connecticut's families are struggling," remarked Rep Miller. "These full-time employees earn a legal wage that puts them below the poverty line. Connecticut is a very expensive state to live in and raising the minimum wage ensures that Connecticut's workers can afford to stay in Connecticut."
According to the 2011 American Community Survey (ACS) and the U.S. Census Bureau, more than 10% of those employed in Connecticut earn the minimum wage. 80% of those earning the minimum wage are adults older than 20, 50% of whom have had some college education.
The minimum wage disproportionately affects women; 60% of the 106,000 minimum wage earners in Connecticut are female. One in three women workers in Connecticut earn the minimum wage and 20% of all minimum wage earners are female heads of households, single moms working to provide for their families.
"The National Employment Law Project found that two-thirds of America's low-wage workers work for companies with more than a hundred employees, such as Walmart and McDonald's," argued Miller. "Small business owners know that paying their workers a higher wage makes them work harder and reduces turnover. Most small businesses in Connecticut already pay their workers more than the minimum fair wage required by law."
Economists on all sides of this argument agree that what the economy needs most are consumers. Low-income workers spend their entire paychecks in their community, unable to afford to accumulate savings. "Our farms and small businesses need consumers therefore giving low-income, full-time employees an extra $936 per year for their labor will help put more money into our local economy."
The bill passed the House 89-53. The Senate passed the bill on May 23. The bill will now be sent to the Governor, who has indicated his support.


text:
U.S. Marine Corps Marines assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment enjoy a game of basketball during downtime at Camp Eggers in Asadabad, Afghanistan, on December 14, 2004. U.S. Marine Corps, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment Marines are conducting security and stabilization operations in Afghanistan, in support of Operation Enduring. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. James L. Yarboro) (Released)
Published May 29, 2012 at 3072 × 2048 in FOB Asadabad (Camp Wright)


text: MS London 18/11/2014 - 21:48 Permalink Report Abuse 5 out of 5 Great plus-fours The cashmere blend of these plus-fours is amazing! The length is also very good. Fits true to size. Would you recommend this product to a friend? Yes Comment | Was this review helpful? Yes | No Name Leave a Comment Submit Comment


text:
You are visiting: Sandvik mining
For decades, customers have counted on us to develop the most durable products on the market. With every Sandvik machine we engineer, we prioritize safety and reliability, and apply the right technology for each application. We don't just supply equipment. We provide peace of mind that your business will keep moving.
Sandvik Mining supplies a comprehensive range of equipment, tools, services and solutions that help the global mining industry excavate, transport and process ore, safely and productively. Part of the Sandvik Group


text:
Tag Archives: wisdom from a father
One of my followers asked a simple question. How do you create covers and how important are they. Well, in my opinion, covers are just as important as the body of work. In a way, it may even be more … Continue reading
Preaching, Teaching and Reaching
Nothing is set in stone as yet, but it appears I may be making regular pulpit appearances around northern Maine in the coming months. I had a very good conversation with the district superintendent Wednesday expressing my willingness to serve … Continue reading
Why Do I Write?
I was asked recently a loaded question — why do I write? It's a good question, but it's loaded because there are a lot of reasons why I write, many decided because of my particular station in life. If I'm … Continue reading
Health, Family & Other Random Writing
It's been a straange week. It hasn't been unusual, but it sure has been straange. Since returning from New York, I have been battling a bad winter cold. It all started with the dripping sinuses that led to congested lungs. … Continue reading
One of the downsides of publishing is the need to promote it … especially if you're not necessarily into self-promotion. That's me. I want to build readership {and sales} for the novella Heaven Shining Through and the collection of essays, … Continue reading
Last call
It looks like today is the last day for Round II balloting for AllAuthor's Cover of the Month contest. I'm not sure I'll survive the round, but I am proud of the way the cover has been received and thankful … Continue reading


text:
Losing her high-profile gender discrimination trial against one of Silicon Valley's most prominent venture capital firms hurt, but she doesn't regret the fight, Ellen Pao writes in her new memoir.
The tell-all book, which promises juicy new details about the bias Pao says she faced in the tech world, and about the trial that made her a household name in the valley, doesn't go on sale until Sept. 19. But Pao published an excerpt Sunday in New York Magazine's The Cut.
Pao took Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to trial in San Francisco in 2015, in a case where she says she "was often cast as the villain — incompetent, greedy, aggressive, and cold."
Get tech news in your inbox weekday mornings. Sign up for the free Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter.
"My husband and I were both dragged through the mud, our privacy destroyed," she writes. "For a long time I didn't challenge those stories, because I wasn't ready to talk about my experience in detail. Now I am."
The excerpt chronicles some of the exclusion she faced as one of few women investors at Kleiner, offering her fresh perspective on the stories that came out at trial. She describes an instance where, while on a private plane for a business trip with Kleiner partners, a tech CEO and another investor, she tried to "lean in" by taking a "power seat" at the front of the plane with the men. But the conversation quickly turned to porn star Jenna Jameson, and then to the men's dating preferences.
"Taking your seat at the table doesn't work so well, I thought, when no one wants you there," Pao writes.
Pao also claims that former Kleiner managing partner John Doerr specifically requested an Asian "Tiger Mom-raised" woman for Pao's chief of staff position. She says he once told her "There are certain things I am just more comfortable asking a woman to do."
Kleiner Perkins responded to Pao's book in an emailed statement:
"Kleiner Perkins wholeheartedly believes in the need for greater diversity and inclusion in the workforce," spokeswoman Amanda Duckworth wrote. "We support Ellen Pao's mission and efforts through Project Include to improve workplace culture for women and other under-represented groups. However, Pao's claims against Kleiner Perkins were examined thoroughly during a five-week trial in 2015 and were rejected by the jury which ruled against her on every claim."
Pao's excerpt of her book also provides an inside look into the cutthroat world of venture capital, where she says backstabbing and under-the-table deals are commonplace. Partners trade votes for investments on a quid-pro-quo basis, she writes. Or, she says, they trash or block investments they don't wan to see go through.
"Venture capital's underbelly of competitiveness exists in part because the more I invest, the less money for you, my partner, to make your investments," Pao writes. "And we're all trying to make as many investments as possible because chances are low that any one investment is going to be successful. Partners can increase their own odds by excluding all of your investments."
Pao describes some regrets she has about the trial — in an effort to avoid antagonizing the jurors by getting fired up over the questions posed by Kleiner's lawyers, she says she came across as "distant, even a bit robotic." And she kept quiet when Kleiner's lawyer asserted that she'd "never done anything for women," which she says was difficult.
Pao also reveals some personal details, including about her relationship with married partner Ajit Nazre, for which she was attacked at trial. She says she had a "short-lived, sporadic fling" after Nazre told her he'd split up with his wife, and she broke it off immediately upon learning the couple was still together.
And she describes the backlash she faced after filing the lawsuit.
"The negativity wore me down," Pao writes. And, she was pregnant at the time. In June 2012, she suffered a miscarriage, which she suggests might have been at least partially caused by the stress of the case.
"I felt, in that moment, that Kleiner had taken everything from me," Pao writes.
Then she was fired from the VC firm.
"On the drive home, I wept," Pao writes. "Some of it was sorrow. Most of it was relief."
Check mercurynews.com Sept. 19 for a write-up on the entire book.
Photo: Ellen Pao is photographed on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, in San Francisco. (Aric Crabb/Bay Area News Group)
Tags: book, ellen pao, harassment, memoir, VC


text:
It's the ultimate middle-class urbanite's store. With it's minimalist feel and clever design, it's a shame to see the brand suffer. Founded in 1964 by Sir Terence Conran and bought from him by the Swedish Kamprad family during the last recession in 1992, Habitat's problems have kept stacking up.
Yes, the recession has hit the company hard as shoppers shy away from splashing out on furniture, but retail experts say many of the business' woes - such as poor customer service, a wrong product mix and overpricing - have been self-inflicted. Its latest accounts (of March 2008) show losses of more than £13.4m, and now investment bank Lazard has been called in to assess a number of options for the chain, ranging from sale to break-up.
But the owners aren't giving up on the interior design chain quite yet. The Kamprad family has turned to 77-year-old Sir Terence for advice on restoring the company to its former glory. 'Obviously, I still remain very attached to Habitat', he told The Sunday Times yesterday. 'I'm proud to have created it. Sadly, I'm not proud when I see the sort of mess it's in at the moment.'
When he was asked for his advice a couple of months back, Sir Terence suggested injecting a bit of charm and humour into the brand, and improving customer service but Habitat's CEO Mark Saunders told him: 'Price is singly the most important thing to me and you known I don't want to consider anything that puts the price up.'
But there's the problem. Habitat furniture is more expensive than Ikea and many of the high street department stores – it's madness to that that it can successfully compete with them on price alone. By tapping into the aspirations of stylish middle class folk, it has to convince them that parting with a bit of extra cash will make them feel special – not only for owning a piece of design but for all the extras that come with it, like excellent customer service.
Conran argues that the last time Habitat made money was when Vittorio Radice ran it in the early 1990s: 'He sprinkles stardust. That's what it needs: a bit of stardust.' And stardust, unfortunately, doesn't come cheap. Despite the best efforts of tourists taking advantage of the weak pound for a bit of retail therapy (news out today shows that wealthy foreign shoppers in London contributed to a bounce in retail sales last month), a serious strategic shakeup at Habitat is desperately needed.
'[Habitat is] a good brand that's not suffered from underfunding but suffered from management that hasn't had a clear idea of what to focus on,' says Conran. Respected designer Tom Dixon left Habitat as creative director last year, and with him, some of the brand's sparkle. It can't continue to charge designer prices without providing the wit and glamour that goes with genuinely good design, and the service that is expected to go with it. It looks like it's back to the drawing board, then.
In today's bulletin:
Cut down on fags, booze and shoes if you want a mortgage, says FSA's Sants
TNT offers to 'help out' in postal strike
BAA facing double dose of turbulence
Habitat up for sale?
Nomura's dress-code shows up cultural divide


text:
Here's What I Know About a Narrative Essay
How to Compose a Novel
In this, the author puts a personal experience over the context of a bigger theme, such as, for instance, a lesson learned. If it is some thing from the experience, you should make use of the first person. Starting from an excellent awareness of literature to some great awareness of composing, informative article has ever been playing with the major function.
The Downside Risk of a Narrative Essay
Angelouas work was regarded as being a series mainly because she doesn't comply with this tradition. Whether you can find alterations required, make the required modifications. Additionally, there are scores of time periods to select from, which range from historical Egypt through life for a samurai from Japan into modern American background ( such as wars, westward expansion, and many waves of immigration ).
What You Should Do to Find Out About a Narrative Essay Before You're Left Behind
A picture is going to be comprised together with a brief explanation about that product. If you're worried about a paper sounding too informative you comfortably turn this, just tell us. Such a paper might be difficult for everyone.
Choosing Good Narrative Essay
Don't forget that sometimes taking a rest from creating might provide you with the potential to locate things that could possibly be reworded to generate your personal story better. It isn't a race, but however, it's about quality and enjoyment. If you make an effort to retell the storyline to some friend, then writing a methods section of a research paper
it is going to require you several minutes and plenty of hand waving.
In truth, it's somewhat like a narrative, but also different inside it is weaved around a motif. You have to first track down your story as a way to tell it. Usually, as the story takes shape, and also you've received the possiblity to consider about everything you have composed, the theme will soon turn out to become far clearer.
The Way to Write a Book
It's a support for a announcement you're upto produce. It truly is often written in the very first person the I shape. At times, the significant idea might be revealed within the former sentence of the launch.
The War Against a Narrative Essay
It wasn't until I ran across that a totally free of charge country I realised my emotions and professional enjoyment and also confidence to the very first time. All the important points relate with the absolute most important thing that the writer is hoping to create. A story essay stipulates the reader a better opportunity to relate into the experience and can be among the most effective procedures of catching your reader's awareness of continue to continue to keep their eyes on the webpage.
Disregard irony and sarcasm if you mean to state appreciable ideas. When you analyze a storyline essay illustration, you are going to understand this orgasm is close to the ending of the informative article and indicates a reversal of center, a lesson learned or something like this . Inside this way, viewers are going to have the ability to view and listen to your person.
Whether there's a thesis, an investigation query, or even only an general motif to be followed, it's likely to be built together with clear thoughts and careful assistance every moment. Show which you might be a pro on this subject, also yet in the event you donat have some preceding book experience. Thus, he needs to pay attention to taking advantage of true in place of conceptual details directly through this article.
An essay is component of producing, typically by a writer's individual perspective. A story essay is permissive when it comes to picking this theme. The most crucial part of composing a story essay would be the option of the story you desire to share with.
Content Creation Recommendations – How To Write a Novel
By doing so, you immediately catch the visitors' consideration and they're planning to to need to keep reading. You will need to offer a thorough opening to participate the reader. How to compose the story select a topic you're acquainted with.
Precisely the specific very same situation can be viewed in various ways by different folks. From time to time, it's required to compose a storyline story to obtain work situation, necessitating imagination program. If you're going through a hard time focusing on how exactly to compose an individual narrative essay, then you ought not feel being a collapse you've got good business.
The Best Way to Compose a Novel
Modify is always only inch thing away. Past tense is your very best tense for practically any story telling as it's taken as a right. After producing a narrative composition, yet, building a minumum of 1 scene is a must.
It will be possible to compose an autobiography once you feel you've got something to express. When you compose a narrative article, you're telling a story. Telling a story isn't always simple and telling a terrific story is much tougher.
a Narrative Essay – What Is It?
How to Write a Novel
College students that truly need to write on their own personal deserve respect should they have been rather great at composing. Inch matter to keep in mind about narrative documents is that they should stay glued to a chronological order of functions. Remember to edit a script a few times once you've completed it.
The Ultimate Narrative Essay Trick
Thus, let us take a peek on how best to commence a story essay. Our professional exclusive essay authors will undoubtedly be very happy to assist you and certainly will supply you with the most best. Writing a personal story essay is not a simple undertaking.
Story is really a exact cosmetic art. Narrative essays don't have such discussions. Writing narrative essays isn't precisely every single university student's favourite activity.
The Benefits of a Narrative Essay
Just How to Start a Vocation
The others might wish to read a particular selection of pages. You'll find several techniques to achieve that. This will supply you with a few ideas on the way to start.
The music written tackle the main topics mental disease from many of unique angles. There aren't a good deal of policies for the kind of essay. You've got a geo-social aesthetic.
0 responses on "Why Everybody Is Talking About ANarrativeEssay...The Simple Truth Revealed"
Leave a Message
You must be logged in to post a comment.


text:
China's Economic Reforms Are 'Trending Negatively'
In the fall of 2013, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) unveiled an ambitious economic reform agenda at its Third Plenum under which General Secretary Xi Jinping vowed that the markets would play the "decisive role." At the time, Premier Li Keqiang invited foreign observers to evaluate the progress of these reforms.
Today, the Asia Society Policy Institute and Rhodium Group are taking Premier Li up on that invitation by launching the China Dashboard — a tool that tracks China's reform progress based on its own stated objectives with interactive data visualizations in 10 different policy clusters. The data will be updated regularly with new analysis each quarter.
As Xi and Li conclude their first five-year term in office and begin a second, the dashboard characterizes the Third Plenum reform program generally as "stalled" with a few bright spots. Of the 10 policy clusters, only one area has made clear progress, with five remaining neutral and four regressing.
Here are three takeaways from the current data.
The Bright Spot: Innovation
As manufacturing-led growth slows due to rising wages, and infrastructure investment experiences diminishing returns, the economic model that has propelled China for the past four decades is running out of steam. Becoming a more innovation-driven economy is thus crucial for continued growth. The dashboard suggests that this is currently one bright spot in China's reform process.
One measure the dashboard uses is "Innovative Industry Share in Industrial Value-Added," which shows how much of China's overall industrial GDP is occupied by innovative industries. A rising percentage suggests a structural shift in the economy toward more innovation-based growth.
This measure has been rising for seven consecutive quarters — reaching a peak of 32.48 percent in 2017Q2 — which is nearing parity with the United States.
"Gauged by changing industrial value-added (IVA) shares, China is making solid progress toward becoming a more innovation-oriented economy," the dashboard notes, adding, though, that this growth spurt is likely to be temporary.
Strong cyclical ups and downs in IVA growth are evident over our five-year window for all of China's innovative sectors, suggesting that macroeconomic conditions are driving the story at least as much as specific industrial policies. The prevalence of these cyclical patterns suggests that current innovative IVA levels are at the top of a five-year range and are unlikely to be sustained.
'Mixed Results': State Owned Enterprise (SOE) Reform
If Xi's vow to let the market play a "decisive role" in the economy is sincere, there is perhaps no arena more in need of disruption than the state-owned sector. China's large-scale privatization and consolidation of SOEs in the 1990s was a crucial — if often painful and disruptive — driver of the country's sustained growth.
But many SOEs remain today, and they tend to be far less efficient and profitable than their private sector counterparts — often staying afloat on the back of unsustainable state-financed debt. So opening the state-owned sector to more competition and greater market accountability was a major part of the 2013 reform agenda.
The China Dashboard's primary indicator for progress on this front is SOEs' share of revenue in certain industries.
The analysis notes that SOE's revenue share has actually gone up in some industries and remained relatively flat in others. Overall there's been "no real SOE reform progress on the ground," though policy movement has been "impressive" in 2017, suggesting there may be progress in the near future.
It adds:
"Important SOE policy reform developments occurred in the second quarter [of 2017], even if these have not yet translated into outcomes. In 2015-16, SOE reform largely stalled despite frequent State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission announcements on paper. Weak market conditions, priority attached to target GDP growth numbers, and emphasis on stability left limited space for SOE reform other than a handful of government-directed mergers."
Backwards Movement: Labor Reform
Since 2012, China has been hemorrhaging millions of workers each year as the large population of Mao-era Baby Boomers begins to yield the workforce to the artificially small One Child Policy-era Millennials. As a workforce shrinks, it's important for the remaining workers to become more productive and achieve greater per capita economic output via improved skills and greater mobility.
The dashboard notes:
Labor policies that facilitate investment in people are needed to sustain growth once nations – like China today – reach middle-income levels. China's plans call for labor policy reforms to boost job creation and entrepreneurship, regulate discrimination and labor abuse, address income distribution, fund social security and pensions, and improve healthcare and education.
However, China appears to be moving backward on these goals according to the dashboard's indicators
One measure looks at how fast worker wages are rising compared to overall GDP growth. Wages that rise faster than GDP growth would suggest improving individual productivity and greater economic equality. However, the reverse is happening.
Migrant worker wages had a growth rate of only 68 percent of overall GDP growth in the second quarter of 2017. This was up from a low of 61 percent last year but marked a major drop from 2012 quarter 2, when wages rose 54 percent faster than overall GDP growth.
Other dashboard indicators showed that job creation similarly slowed over the same period, the income gap between rural and urban households widened, and there are mismatches between where workers are and where they're most needed. Western China, for instance, has 126 job openings for every 100 applicants. "Infrastructure projects under the Develop the West rubric and Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) boost investment in inland China," the dashboard says. "But do not make the region more attractive to job seekers or address labor mobility impediments."
One major barrier to labor mobility is China's hukou residency policy, which restricts internal migration and largely ties access to social services like healthcare and education to a citizen's hometown. In the dashboard's labor policy analysis, it notes that proposed policy measures that grant urban hukou to millions of rural residents and provide greater social services for migrant workers would ease inequalities and be "a major accomplishment."
Overall, the dashboard concludes that the current data suggests a pessimistic outlook for China's reform program:
Policy activity, a precursor of future outcomes, is mixed, with continued public displays of policy resolve, but with limited fundamental progress on the ground. China's 2013 reform program is key to long-term, sustainable economic growth, and if the economy does not move forward, both China's GDP potential and its contribution to common development externally will be depleted. Given the accumulated impact from past growth choices, and the current paucity of reform movement, longer-term prospects for growth are therefore trending negatively.


text:
Red Canadian Clay
From a natural source of red clay deposits in Saskatchewan, red clay is ideal for treating dry skin anywhere on the body. With ongoing use, it will gently remove dead skin cells and repair damaged skin to reveal smoother, softer-looking skin. Bring your skin back to its optimum moisture level.
Prepare a smooth paste by mixing two parts of clay with one part of lukewarm water. (2 tablespoons of clay to 1 tablespoon of water is a good place to start).
Apply to the face or body. Leave for a few minutes. Rinse with warm water. Do not allow to dry completely.
Natural red clay. No preservatives or additives.
NOT edible.
128 g
We Also Recommend


text:
Elliott, Clifford (Age 56, N/a)
Published on 5/12/2018
Clifford ELLIOTT, on Monday, in his 57th year. Loving husband for 32 years of Cindy Elliott. Father of Christa Frey and Jon of Atwood, Carolyn Marles and Stephen, and Andrew Elliott all of Kitchener. Proud grandpa of 7. Dear brother of Bob and Bonnie; brother-in-law of Dan Roth and Elaine, Laurie Brink and Paul, and Darcy Roth and Missy. Predeceased by his parents Jim and Esther Elliott, brother Paul and in-laws Del and Nelda Roth.
Visitation at the Graham A. Giddy Funeral Homes-Waterloo Chapel from 4 til 8 PM on Thursday with the funeral service in the Chapel on Friday, at 11 AM. Interment Molesworth Cemetery.


text:
Expert Article Library
Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v Gardner in the Family Courts (Part 1 of 2)
Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v Gardner in the Family Courts (Part 1)
by Jerome H. Poliacoff, Ph.D., P.A., Cynthia L. Greene, Esq., and Laura Smith, Esq
By Jerome H. Poliacoff, Ph.D., P.A., Cynthia L. Greene, Esq., and Laura Smith, Esq E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Marriage and Divorce
In 1990 the marriage rate was just double the divorce rate (approximately 2.4 million marriages and 1.2 million divorces). Following the literally millions of divorces during the preceding decade approximately 35% of the minor children in the United States were affected by the divorce of their parents.
Despite the spousal conflicts leading to divorce, almost ninety per cent of divorcing parents are able to reach a mutual agreement regarding custody and visitation with little or no intervention from the Court. Because the other ten per cent of the divorcing parents cannot agree on custody and visitation issues initially, they are likely not to be able to agree on parenting issues in the future. Courts strive to help these families by creating flexible arrangements that will hopefully work as families grow and change.
Unfortunately the adversarial nature of the system that is supposed to provide relief serves only to become an alternate forum for the expression of conflict.
For instance, Sullivan (FN1) studied sixty-one divorcing families with children over a five year period. After five years many of the parents were still fighting and nearly one third of the children continued to be subject to intense bitterness between the parents.
Children become the prize to be won or lost in what often becomes an escalating conflict. And, the courts, often at a loss as to what determination to make for which children, turn to mental health experts for advice.
With increasing caseloads and limited time to assess a divorcing parents claim for designation as either residential or responsible parent the courts have responded to simplistic accusations which cast blame on one parent in order to make it easier for the other parent to prevail.
Notable among the allegations made by counsel in representing their clients claim for "sole ownership" of the "prize" is that of "parental alienation syndrome". The popularity of such a claim has been enhanced by the prolific writing and public appearances of Richard Gardner, M.D. as originator of this "syndrome" (FN2).
In this article we will challenge both the scientific and legal legitimacy of this syndrome. After first defining "parental alienation syndrome" (PAS) we will review the criteria by which expert testimony may be accepted into evidence and explore the shortcomings of PAS under Frye and Daubert. We will then delineate the mental health experts ethical obligation when serving as an expert before the court as it relates to PAS. We will review the relevant case law as it pertains to the admissibility of PAS before the courts. Finally we will offer alternative areas for inquiry into the source of impaired parent child relationships occurring in the context of child custody litigation.
Termination of a spousal relationship without attendant damage to the parental relationship is a difficult task. When one parent refuses to allow the other parent to be involved in the childs life, conflict ensues and a return to court becomes inevitable. Where one parent sabotages (intentionally or unintentionally) the other parents role in the childs life or a child becomes estranged from a parent the term "parental alienation" is used.
The term has its historical roots in the common law tradition where the tort of alienation of affection was a cause of action against a third party adult who "steals" the affection of the plaintiffs spouse.
More recently Richard Gardner coined the term "Parental Alienation Syndrome" to describe the situation in which, he asserts, a child is brainwashed solely by an alienating parents actions.
Wood (FN3) (1994) notes that in developing the PAS "the criteria Dr. Garner uses to determine whether PAS is present are essentially borrowed from and built upon his earlier and now widely discredited objective test for determining whether children were fabricating allegations of sexual abuse, the "Sex Abuse Legitimacy Scale" (SALS).
Gardner believes that PAS arises almost exclusively in the context of child custody disputes. Gardner further asserts that, while a child contributes to the development of the alienation process, the predominant source of alienation is one parent, generally the mother.
Unfortunately, again, too many courts and too many of the mental health professionals upon whom they rely have blithely accepted in toto Gardners theoretical writings without the critical examination requisite either under the law or the ethical standards of professional psychological practice.
Before accepting PAS as science in family litigation it behooves both the family practitioner and the court to have a clearer understanding of what is more hyperbole than substance.
Frye v. Daubert: A Consensus Nevertheless
Among the legal tools available to aid the court in determining the value and utility of expert testimony in deciding a particular case are the Federal Rules of Evidence and the Frye rule.
The Frye rule is derived from a 1923 Federal Court of Appeals (Frye v. United States, 293 F. 1013, 1014, D.C. Cir. 1923) decision which holds that for scientific evidence to be admissible in court it must be gathered using techniques that have gained general acceptance in their field.
In 1993 the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc., 113 S. Ct. 2786, 2792-93,1993) (hereinafter Daubert) that provided a more clear cut, albeit sometimes ambiguous, set of guidelines for the admissibility of scientific expert testimony.
In setting forth the factors that should be considered when determining if a theory or technique qualifies as scientific knowledge that will assist the trier of fact the Court did not forgo Frye. The factors enumerated in Daubert are: (a) Is the theory or technique based on methodology that can or has been tested? (b) Has the theory or technique been the subject of peer review and publication? (c) What is the known or potential rate of error? (d) Does the technique enjoy general acceptance within the scientific community? (the old Frye rule!).
The court held that the Frye rule, including general acceptance as the primary determinant of admissibility of evidence based on scientific techniques, had been superceded by the revised Federal Rules of Evidence.
Rotgers and Barrett (FN4) cogently argue that the Daubert decision (and the Frye decision before it) has "important implications for psychologists and other health care professionals .whose professions have taken on the mantle of science".
They point out that mental health practitioners (psychologists, psychiatrists), despite the doubtful scientific status of many theories and assessment techniques in the field, have held themselves out to the public (and to the courts) as utilizing scientifically valid theories and methods of practice and therefor should be held to the same standards by courts as other professions that have done the same.
What then are the courts standards?
In Daubert the Supreme Court sought to clarify the criteria for the determination of admissibility of expert testimony. According to Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence "If scientific, technical or other specialized knowledge will assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or to determine a fact in issue, a witness qualified as an expert by knowledge, skill, experience, training, or education may testify thereto in the form of an opinion or otherwise".
That the evidence must be reliable is implied by the use in Rule 702 of the term "scientific knowledge". According to the Supreme Court the term "scientific knowledge" "implies a grounding in the methods and procedures of science". In a similar vein "the word knowledge connotes more than subjective belief or unsupported speculation". In any case involving scientific evidence "evidentiary reliability will be based on scientific validity".
This approach allowed, in Daubert, sound science (based on sound scientific methodology) to prevail even though it was new science and not yet widely accepted among the scientific community from which it sprang.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association Gold (FN5) and his colleagues warn that the implication for medical (or mental health) practitioners under Daubert , and Frye before it, is "first and foremost .that there is a difference between science and pseudoscience, and that it is the judges role to ensure that testimony offered as scientific meets a minimum test of validity before it may be put to the jury".
How then does Gardners PAS meet the standard of scientific knowledge under the criteria set forth in either Frye or Daubert?
- Is the theory or technique based on methodology that can be or has been tested?
- Has the theory or technique been the subject of peer review and publication?
- What is the known or potential rate of error?
There are many competing theories of human behavior on which mental health professionals have drawn in reaching diagnoses and treatment recommendations. There is also a large scientific literature that has addressed empirically testable predictions based on those theories.
However, many theoretical constructs are presented by clinicians as expert testimony for which there is no scientific validation. Gardners PAS is one of these "syndrome" theories for which the scientific basis is non-existent.
Rotgers and Barrett (Id.) note that "although it is possible to identify common behavior patterns among persons who are known to have suffered traumatic experiences of various types, syndrome theory, and often the testimony based on it, goes well beyond this possibility to state that "all" persons who suffer particular types of trauma show characteristic behaviors".
These authors go on to cite Gardners PAS as the exemplar of "some practitioners (who) have been willing to engage in reverse logic and state that because an individual demonstrated a particular behavior pattern, trauma must have occurred". They go on to acknowledge that the fit between syndrome theories and particular legal questions is often good but, they point out, these theories have not been scientifically tested.
Referring to the exhaustive and erudite critique of PAS by Wood (Id.) they note further that the lack of scientific testing "makes any conclusions or accounts of events that are based on syndrome theories problematic. Even if the data relied upon are gathered using scientifically valid methods, if the theoretical explanation underlying the data is faulty, the data may be presented in a fashion that misleads the trier of fact".
Berliner and Conte (FN6) (1993) scathingly note "Indeed the entire scale (the SALS) and the Parental Alienation Syndrome on which it is based have never been subjected to any kind of peer review or empirical test".
Less kind have been comments such as Contes (FN7) (Moss, D.C., 1988) when referring to the SALS " is probably the most unscientific garbage Ive seen in the field in all my time to base social policy on something as flimsy as this is exceedingly dangerous".
Stephanie Dallam (FN8) examined Gardners counter-claim that his work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, a list of which is provided at Gardners website.
She reports that two publications were chapters in books, two other articles were published in a newsletter of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and the two remaining articles were published in legal journals none of these six being peer reviewed journals!
This authors exploration of Gardners website reveals that he cites thirty (30) cases in which PAS has been introduced as evidence before a family court.
A more thorough investigation reveals that one case (In the Interest of T.M.W., 553 So. 2nd 260, 262, Fla. Dist. Ct. App., 1988) is cited three times! and in fact PAS was not accepted as scientifically valid!
The known or potential rate of error refers to the psychometric properties of a test or assessment methodology. In developing a predictive measuring tool one is concerned with both the reliability and validity of the instrument or theory.
As defined in classical test theory reliability consists of the extent to which an obtained score (or value or assertion) corresponds to the "true" (or real world) score. Is what is measured being measured accurately (reliably)? Are the results consistent when the same case is examined by different evaluators? The "true" score is an abstraction that can never be known for sure, the obtained score is a statistical measurement of the combination of this unknowable score and some error variance.
The manner in which an estimate of a scores reliability is derived (parallel form, split half, test-retest, and internal consistency methods), that is, whether it yields scores on which one can rely as providing a true picture of the property being measured, have crucial implications for forensic testimony.
Validity, as classically defined, consists of the extent to which it is known what a test measures.
A test is considered to have face validity if its items have some clear and obvious relationship to the purpose of the test (if for example the test is a measure of depression we would expect to see items like "Are you feeling depressed?" as indicative of it having face validity).
A more important measure would be criterion related validity. This is a measure that consists of the relationship between a test or test score and some other measured (or known) variable.
Substantial correlation between test findings and current status, behavior or condition demonstrates concurrent validity. Substantial correlation between test findings and future events, conditions or behaviors provide evidence of their predictive validity. Finally construct validity consists of the extent to which observed relationships between test findings and present or future events, conditions or behaviors can be conceptualized in terms of a sound theoretical rationale that accounts for both the test findings and the extra-test behaviors or states.
Commenting on the poor test construction of the SALS Berliner and Conte (Id.) commented that "there are no studies which have determined if the Scale can be coded reliably. Many of the criteria a re poorly defined. There have been no scientific tests of the ability of the SALS to discriminate among cases".
In assessing the SALS criteria for reliability Campbell (FN9) (1997) notes that the SALS criteria are "vague and ill defined" and that as a result they invite a wide range of subjective opinion and therefor "Gardners criteria cannot support expert testimony in legal proceedings".
Deed (FN10) applied Gardners SALS (Sex Abuse Legitimacy Scale), from which PAS theory is derived, to confirmed cases of sexual abuse and found that the SALS produced inaccurate assessments.
Gardner (FN11) himself, in summing up whether PAS should be properly admitted in court, admitted that "PAS is an initial offering and cannot have pre-existing scientific validity".
(d) Does the technique enjoy general acceptance within the scientific community? (the old Frye rule!).
Gianelli (FN12) asserts that the principal justification for the Frye test is that "it establishes a method for ensuring the reliability of scientific evidence". This serves to take the responsibility of determining the validity of a scientific principle away from the trial judge and leaving the determination to experts who know most about it.
In the case of PAS Gardner has based his theory entirely upon the observation of his own patients. It is for the most part self-published which circumvents peer review, and has not attracted wide acceptance in the scientific community.
In refusing to admit PAS into evidence a Florida court (In the Interest of T.M.W., 553 So. 2nd 260, 262 Fla. Dist. Ct. App., 1988) noted that "no determination was made in the order or on the record as to general professional acceptance of the parental alienation syndrome as a diagnostic tool".
The Court went on to caution that "when considering the theory of expert testimony it is vitally important to avoid the confusion engendered by reference to syndromes At the present time experts have not achieved consensus on the existence of a psychological syndrome use of the word syndrome leads only to confusion, and to unwarranted and unworkable comparisons to battered child syndrome".
[End of Part 1; Click here for Part 2]
Continue to the next article in the Parental Alienation Syndrome: Frye v Gardner in the Family Courts series


text:
The CGD1042H broadband RF power module that is ideal for laboratory use such as boosting the source of signal generators and network analyzers. It is also useful for amplifying low power video and FM transmitters in the 50-1000MHz range. This product requires a heatsink and 24V DC power supply (not included).
- download pdf (product datasheet)


text:
The biggest factor driving plant disease ecology in the future will be the role climate change plays in altering the interaction between plants and their pathogens. The coevolutionary framework developed over thousands of years of adaptation will be thrown out of balance as pathogens with shorter generational times will be able to adapt more quickly to changes in abiotic stresses than their longer-lived plant hosts.
Research Focus
Research in my lab investigates the population biology and evolutionary ecology of plant-associated microbes including pathogens, endophytes, saprophytes and mutualists. Research areas integrate ecology, epidemiology, population genetics, and genomics to develop a broader understanding of pathogen dispersal over space and time, host adaptation, host-pathogen interactions, and the three-way interaction between host, pathogen and changing climate.
Research Overview
How and why do new pathogens emerge, and more specifically, what makes a pathogen a pathogen?
Emerging pathogens include both invasive species, native species that have recently made a host-jump to a novel plant species, and native species that have increased in abundance and cause greater disease due to climate change. These represent unique natural evolutionary experiments that allow us to understand what genes are selected for during an invasion or host-jump event. We can use comparative genomics of pathogen species along with closely related non-pathogenic species to determine what genes under positive selection pressure and which genes are present in pathogen species and absent in non-pathogenic microbes. We also use experimental evolution approaches, such as serial inoculation, to observe phenotypic and genotypic differences when microbes are forced to adapt to new plant hosts.
What impact will climate change have on geographic expansion, disease intensity and evolution of pathogens?
Perhaps the single biggest factor driving disease epidemiology in the future will be the role climate change will play in altering the range of pathogen species. We study pathogen epidemiology and ecology in response to climate change in both temperate and tropical ecosystems, using a combination of historical climate data, future climate predictions, surveillance of natural pathogen populations and controlled experiments to determine impacts of temperatures and CO2 concentration on pathogen evolution.
How many fungal species are in the tropics?
Current estimates of the number of fungal species globally range from 1.5 to 3 million. However, this is largely based on surveys and work done in temperate regions and there remain comparably fewer studies investigating the number of fungal species in the tropics. Our work utilizes traditional culturing approaches and molecular identification along with metagenomic approaches to estimate fungal diversity from plants, insects, soil, leaf litter and air. Developing long-term fungal datasets in tropical sites will allow us to estimate how well our sampling efforts capture the full complement of fungal species richness, and how these fungal species fluctuate between season, location and niche.
B.Sc. University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2008
Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2014.
Selected Publications
Wyka, S.A., McIntire, C.D., Smith, C., Munck, I.A., Rock, B.N., Asbjornsen, H., Broders, K. 2018. Effect of climatic variables on abundance and dispersal of Lecanosticta acicola spores and impact of defoliation on eastern white pine (Pinus strobus). Phytopathology. 108: 374-383.
Schuelke, T. Woeste, K., Plachetski, D., Broders, K., MacManes, M. 2017 Comparative genomics of beetle-vectored fungal pathogens reveals a reduction in genome size and independent evolution of pathogenicity of two tree pathogens. Genome Biology & Evolution. 9: 3312-3327
Wyka, S.A., Smith, C., Munck, I., Rock, B., Ziniti, B., Broders K. 2017. Emergence of white pine needle damage (WPND) in the northeastern U.S. associated with changes in pathogen pressure in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 23: 394 – 405
Wyka, S. A. and Broders, K.D. 2016. The new family Septorioideaceae, within the Botryosphaeriales and Septorioides strobi as a new species associated with needle defoliation of Pinus strobus in the United States. Fungal Biology. 120: 1030-1040.
Broders, K. D., **Barbison, L., **Boraks, A., **Brown, J., and Boland, G. J. 2015. Recent insights into the pandemic disease butternut canker caused by the invasive pathogen Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum. Forest Pathology. 45: 1-8.
Hale, I., Broders, K. D., and Broders-Iriarte, G. A. 2014. A Vavilovian approach to discovering crop-associated microbes with the potential to enhance plant immunity. Frontiers in Plant Science, 5:492.
Broders, K. D., Boraks, A. W., Sanchez, A. M. and Boland G. J. 2012. Population structure of the butternut canker fungus, Ophoignomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum, in North American forests. Ecology and Evolution. 2: 2114-2127.


text:
Cooper Black Leather Jacket(ls104)
Hover to zoom or click to enlarge:
Product Reviews :Write a review
Free Delivery!
Understated style from a leather jacket that is tailored to fit like a glove.
Fully lined.
One internal pocket and two external pockets that are incorporated into the design of the jacket to ensure the simple clean lines of the Cooper are maintained.
Please note that your parcel will need to be signed for and will not be left unsigned for.
Miscellaneous :Email a Friend
Product Inquiry


text:
Josh Taylor is a young man who exudes humility and goodness. More than anything he's a guy who you like to be around because he's honest, dependable, and kind.
I met Josh somewhere around a year ago, he came to us with a group that joined us after a church plant in the area changed directions. He came to audition for the worship team as a drummer, and I could tell he was nervous. His audition went well and he was really excited to have made the team. I remember him saying how happy he was that his hard work was paying off (Josh is self-taught).
Ever since then Josh is someone that I know I can count on. He's committed to improving and working hard, and he's grateful to be a part of the team. I can see Josh growing in skill as a musician and as a leader. He is continuing to bring his ideas and input to the table, and I'm grateful because he has great things to say. I'm thankful to have Josh around, he inspires me to be humble, to keep working hard, and to be grateful for all that God's given me!


text:
Well, lookie here! Seems that ThinkPad Tablet's getting more real by the hour. For what it's worth, Lenovo hasn't exactly done a laudatory job keeping its next major Honeycomb tablet under wraps, but flaunting it in public? Now that's just asking for it. According to ZTOP, the enterprise-centric Tablet will arrive within three to four weeks boasting Tegra 2 silicon, a 10.1-inch display (1280 x 800) and an optional folio / cover that might just steal the show. According to the report, it's a leather-wrapped case that contains a full-on keyboard and optical tracking sensor, presumably using a USB connector to make the magic happen. Think Clamcase, but tailored for Lenovo. There's no mention of a price on that one, but we're guessing it ain't gonna be tossed in gratis. Tap the source for one more look, and expect to hear more on the whole kit and kaboodle as July draws closer.
ThinkPad Tablet shown off with keyboard-laden folio cover, could ship within a month originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:18:00 EST.


text:
College announces disposition in Dr. Oluwarotimi Fashoranti case
A Hearing Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Nova Scotia has released its disposition in the case of Dr. Oluwarotimi Fashoranti, a family physician from Pugwash, Nova Scotia, pursuant to Section 66(2) (e) of the Nova Scotia Medical Act.
On September 27, 2013, the Committee released a decision that found Dr. Fashoranti guilty of professional misconduct arising from a violation of patient/physician boundaries. The Hearing Committee found that Dr. Fashoranti had engaged in an inappropriate examination of a female patient.
Following a resumption of the Hearing in March 2014 where counsel for the College and counsel for Dr. Fashoranti made submissions respecting an appropriate disposition, the College's Hearing Committee issued its decision dated May 12th as follows:
- Dr. Fashoranti's licence to practice medicine will be suspended for a period of three months commencing July 1, 2014.
- Dr. Fashoranti is required to have a chaperone present for any female patient.
- Dr. Fashoranti must successfully complete the Understanding Boundaries Course offered by the University of Western Ontario.
- Dr. Fashoranti must pay the College costs of the proceedings in the amount of $65,000.
The September 27, 2013 and the May 12, 2014 decisions of the Hearing Committee are available on the College website at www.cpsns.ns.ca.


text:
Are We Becoming Too Dependent on Applicant Tracking Systems?
According to a recent article published by Forbes, there has been a massive interest and investment into how employers are increasingly becoming dependent on Artificial Intelligence to streamline the efficiency of the workforce. Luckily, the article says that it is unlikely to ever completely replace the human touch. However, signs are that AI in its emerging form of Applicant Tracking Systems filters job applications before a hiring manager becomes involved.
How to Make ATS Your Friend in the Recruitment Process
Recruitment and job applications today take place in a digital environment and with more and more applicants chasing fewer positions, human resource professionals have had to resort to automated systems to assist them in the selection process. One of the major applications being used today by many companies is the Applicant Tracking System (ATS).
Job hunters should know that nearly 40 per cent of employers use an applicant tracking system to screen candidates for their job openings. Don't let the name fool you. Applicant tracking systems don't 'track' where you are in the recruitment process. They save employers time by dividing good candidates from weak ones. But the way in which your resume is written, and the language you use — not necessarily the information it conveys — is what the technology actually uses to decide. As a result, most companies have thousands of resumes sitting in a database that they've never looked at.
ATS is a software application designed to help an enterprise recruit employees more efficiently. An ATS can be used to post job openings on a corporate website or job board, screen resumes, and generate interview requests to potential candidates by email. Other features may include individual applicant tracking, requisition tracking, automated resume ranking, customised input forms, pre-screening questions and response tracking, and multilingual capabilities.
It is estimated that roughly 50-80% of all mid-sized companies and almost all large corporations are dependent on software of this sort. But don't worry; there are ways to make the software work in your favour.
Getting AI to Work for You
The first thing people think of when talking about automated systems is keyword searching. But although this is used to help recruiters pick out certain industry-specific skills or adjectives that denote your attitude to your profession, seasoned HR specialists realise that great talent is not always recognised just via keywords. A talented HR professional will use software sparingly and strategically. However, it is incumbent upon you to do your homework and not hope that a one-size fits all resume will do the trick. Read up on the company and especially the position description and search for keywords you can use organically and congruently within your resume. But this is also where keyword optimisation comes in. It's not just about using certain keywords; it's how often you can use them without making your resume unreadable.
When you are listing your qualifications, key skills and technical proficiencies, stick to standardised descriptive methods and acknowledged ways of stating things like your degree, your IT software skills and so on. If you stray from the norm, ATS is likely to miss them, and you could get rejected on a technicality.
Seek.com.au have put together a great list of do's and don'ts that summarise the simple things you can do to ensure that a human gets to see your resume.
You Can Beat the System if You Work At It
Summing up, Applicant Tracking Systems makes the job easier for HR departments; it reduces their time in sifting through hundreds of resumes. But for most positions, it is not likely for the recruiting process to be 100% automated. If you know your best attributes can only be fully appreciated at the interview stage, you can still rank highly within the ATS. Spend time to research the companies and role details and optimise your resume with relevant keywords before you apply to them and apply to the ones for which you best meet the requirements. Employers may be becoming more and more dependent on Applicant Tracking Systems to make their lives easier, but you needn't be lost in the shuffle when you know the rules of the game.
Are you seeking a professional resume writing service? Select Resumes can provide this service to you at the highest standard. Select Resumes also offers dedicated selection criteria writers to give you the help that you need for even the most complex government job applications. Once you have secured your interview, talk to us about our experienced and passionate interview skills coaches so that you can feel more confident at your next job interview.


text:
Asking $1600, plus utilities
Available December 1st, 2018
1Bed, 1Bath available for Rent
3rd Floor (Top Floor)
5 Mins from Town, Camana Bay, and 7 Mile Beach
Luxury Furnished fully and recent renovations
Includes - Washer/Dryer, Cable, Fast Internet, Dishwasher, Parking Space, 3 Pools, Gym, CCTV Security and Security Guard at Night, and much more.
No Pets, No Smoking.
For more information or to organize a viewing of the property please contact
Valentino Salvi at 325-6372 or visit our new website at:


text:
There is is still a few days to wait until Amazon Prime Day 2019 officially starts, but this year Amazon has started to release some of its headline deals a bit early to get us in the mood for its two-day sales fest.
This smart home combo is one of the best looking early deals we have spotted so far at Amazon.com. It combines its slim-profile Ring Video Doorbell Pro, with the Amazon Echo Dot. The Ring hooks into your existing doorbell wiring, and allows you to see and talk to the person at your front door wherever you are. And it also integrates with the Amazon Echo (so you are not reliant on having your smartphone by your side when you are in the house).
This deal is for Prime Members only (that is the whole point of Prime Day). But you can take out a free 30-day trial if you are not a member - and just want to use the service over the sales period - and try out the ever increasing number of Prime benefits.
Get a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime: US | UK | Canada | Australia | India
Ring Video Doorbell Pro plus Echo Dot (3rd Gen) - Charcoal $169
Save $129.99 - ends 14 July 2019
This is one of a handful of items that Amazon is putting on sale before the main Prime Day event starts at midnight on Sunday. You get the hard-wired Ring Video Doorbell Pro, plus the popular (and most recent) Echo Dot smart digital assistant. It is a powerful combo that will turn your abode into a smart home.
Prime members only - ends 14 July 2019
Other Amazon deals that are now live
Amazon Echo Dot | Half price £24.99 at Amazon UK
Amazon Echo Dot | Half price $24.99 at Amazon.com
This early offer seems to be available on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a classic Amazon sales favorite - giving you the excellent Echo Dot at a price that is too good to be true. Those who haven't got one should try it at this price... and those who already have one will be seriously tempted to buy one or two more!!.View Deal
Samsung Galaxy S10 SIM free $642.49
The Galaxy S10 family is one of the best phones you can get right now, and it is also boasts some of the best photography smarts that we have seen on a mobile handset to date. The deal gets you the international model of the phone, and it comes unlocked for use on GSM networks like AT&T and T-Mobile. The price is down from $899 to $629.49 at AmazonView Deal
Microsoft Surface Laptop (Core i5, 8GB, 256GB) was $999 $692 on Amazon
Microsoft Surface deals are always popular items in Amazon sales, and this year we have spotted this deal on the laptop version of this series. This version comes with a 7th-Generation Intel Core i5 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB SSD storageView Deal
Echo Plus (1st Gen) AUS$49 for Prime Members
Here is an Early Prime Day offer for those in Australia. The first-generation Alexa-driven smart speaker is a steal at half price which will fill your room with sound.
Read more
• Best buy Ring security kit: get great deals on Ring doorbells & security cameras
• Amazon Prime Day 2019 camera deals
• Best wifi camera: for home security and surveillance indoors and outdoors
• Best dash cam in 2019


text:
Toggle navigation
Passport ranking
Border ranking
'); document.write('
'); } //-->
Visa requirement to travel from Thailand to Slovenia
Admission accepted ?
Visa required
Visa required ?
Check visa requirement for traveling from Slovenia to Thailand !
Looking for embassy and consulates of Slovenia in Thailand ?
Travel from Thailand to Slovenia, Travel to Slovenia from Thailand, Visit Slovenia from Thailand, Holidays in Slovenia for a national of Thailand, Vacation in Slovenia for a citizen of Thailand, Going to Slovenia from Thailand


text:
An update about the campaign to show solidarity with persecuted Jehovah's Witnesses in Eritrea:
"Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute." (Proverbs 31:8)
By making a public pledge of solidarity with the persecuted, you have opened your mouth for the mute–for the rights of the destitute.
Throughout the month of September (the 20 year anniversary of the imprisonment of first Jehovah's Witnesses) 239 Eritreans have signed the pledge acknowledging the inhuman treatment of Jehovah's Witnesses by the Eritrean government and expressing their solidarity with the victims.
This pledge will have informed many, and reminded others, about the suffering of people back home and the level of human rights abuses in Eritrea.
Hopefully this pledge will encourage many to take a firm stand against human rights abuses and stir their hearts to do something about it. Continue reading


text:
|Last hidden column for tag filter
Nov 08, 2019
Please join us for lunch at the Plaza Club, 12:00n and meet our speaker, Elise Ono!
Topic: DECA (Distributive Education Clubs of America): Opportunities DECA provides our High School students.
Elise Ono currently serves as the Hawaii Deca Chartered Association Advisor, as well as an Account Executive at Edward Enterprises. She has been running the Hawaii DECA program since graduating from the UH Shidler College of Business in 2015 and has been with Edward Enterprises since 2018.
Elise was raised on Oahu in the McCully & Salt Lake areas and is a proud graduate of Moanalua High School. (Go Menes!) She believes in the importance of Business Professionals educating the mentoring our keiki to help provide them a strong foundation for a successful future.
Please show your support by clicking onto the link to sign up and save the date!
Nov 15, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Please join us for lunch at the Plaza Club, 12:00n and meet our speaker, Janine LeGrand of Rotary Club Uganda, East Africa.
Her topic: Life, Health, and Rotary in Masindi, Uganda (East Africa).
To view her credentials and BIO, click onto the following link:
Please show your support by clicking onto the link to sign up and save the date!
Nov 22, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Nov 29, 2019
Dec 06, 2019
Dec 07, 2019
Dec 13, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Dec 20, 2019 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Dec 27, 2019
Jan 03, 2020
Jan 10, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jan 17, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jan 24, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Jan 31, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Speaker chair Wes Fong has secured a private tour of the UH Medical School and a demonstration of a life robot on 1/31/20. It should be an interesting and fun tour.
Special tour of John Burns School of Medicine for WHR.
"Experience Sim Tiki – high fidelity life sized mannequins that talk, breathe, and respond to administered medications and procedure – a unique experience and a highlight of the medical school." Non hosted lunch in
the special med school cafeteria. Parking on street or behind school.
Suggest car pooling. 12 -1:00p.
Feb 07, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Feb 14, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Feb 21, 2020
Feb 22, 2020 6:00 PM
Feb 28, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Speaker: Rae Weightman, Community Relations and Sales Support Director, The Plaza Assisted Living
Bio: Rae Weightman is the Community Relations & Sales Support Director of The Plaza Club Assisted Living. In this role, she is responsible for educating the local healthcare community and the public on the services available at each of The Plaza Assisted Living's senior communities, which include Punchbowl, Mililani, Moanalua, Pearl City, Waikiki, and Kaneohe.
Topic: The Plaza Assisted Living Introduction and Overivew
Mar 06, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Judith Clark is the Executive Director of Hawaii Youth Services Network, a statewide coalition of youth-serving organizations and Pacific Islands training and technical assistance center. Ms. Clark has worked in the areas of youth services, crisis intervention, teen pregnancy prevention and youth homelessness for many years. She is the recipient of many awards including Hawaii's Outstanding Advocate for Children and Youth from the Hawaii State Legislature and the Community Collaborator award from the Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations.
Mar 13, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Mar 20, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Ken was born and raised in a bilingual home (Japanese) here in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is passionate about movement and the human body. This led him to pursue a bachelor's degree in Athletic Training at Azusa Pacific University and a Doctorate of Chiropractic at Palmer College of Chiropractic West. TRIO is an integrative neuro-musculoskeletal clinic that incorporates a hybrid approach on treating nerves, muscles, and joints; hence TRIO. We combine chiropractic adjustments, sports medicine, and corrective rehab to find pain relief.
Mar 27, 2020 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Cynthia Arnold is the Vice President of Senior Move Managers and De-Clutter Hawaii. These companies help clients to de-clutter and downsize their homes to either move or age in place. Cynthia has a wealth of knowledge in this area and has helped to grow this company dramatically over the last 10 years. Prior to working with Senior Move Managers, she was the Marketing and Fundraising Manager with the American Diabetes Association as well as a Catering Manager with Ala Moana Hotel. After 20 years of coaching tennis at St. Andrew's Priory and Sacred Hearts Academy, she retired last year to spend more time with her daughter Alexis and her schools needs. Through all these experiences, Cynthia has gained valuable skills that she currently uses today, including problem solving, organizing people and events, patience and providing excellent customer service
Subscribe to this Calendar
Using the URL below with your calendar software, you can stay up to date with events from this website.
Help me add this subscription to my:


text:
Also found in: Thesaurus, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
Wah·ha·bior Wa·ha·bi (wä-hä′bē)
n. pl. Wah·ha·bis or Wa·ha·bis
A member of a Muslim sect founded by Abdul Wahhab (1703-1792), known for its strict observance of the Koran and flourishing mainly in Arabia.
Wah·ha′bism (-bĭz′əm) n.
Wahhabi(wəˈhɑːbɪ) or
n, pl -bis
(Islam) a member of a strictly conservative Muslim sect founded in the 18th century with the aim of eliminating all innovations later than the 3rd century of Islam
Wahˈhabism, Waˈhabism n
or Wa•ha•bi(wəˈhɑ bi, wɑ-)
also Wah•ha•bite(-baɪt)
n., pl. -bis also -bites.
a member of a conservative Muslim group founded orig. by followers of 'Abd al-Wahhab (1703–92).
[1800–10; < Arabic, ='Abd al-Wahhab + -ī suffix of appurtenance]
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Switch to new thesaurus
|Wahhabi - a member of a strictly orthodox Sunni Muslim sect from Saudi Arabia; strives to purify Islamic beliefs and rejects any innovation occurring after the 3rd century of Islam; "Osama bin Laden is said to be a Wahhabi Muslim"