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I want to tell you something. A few words of inspiration, you might call it.\nYou are the first of your existence. No one has ever lived the life you have lived, and no one else but you knows what you have experienced. No one shares your joys or your sorrows, and as much as you may want it, you can’t expect anyone to truly share your burden. You are one of a kind, right? There is no one else like you, just as there are no two snowflakes alike.\nYou have your virtues and vices, and once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you; and once you’ve mastered your virtues, no one can beat you in it.\nOnly you have lived your life, nobody has brought you down yet, and I will sound like a spiritual counselor if I continue about how great you are, but in truth, you are nothing. There are millions out there just like you and millions who are better than you in every aspect. You are merely a grain of sand in the vast ocean, and no matter how special words make you feel, it doesn’t matter what you immerse yourself into to make yourself feel better about yourself, it won’t work because eventually you will have to resurface and face the cold hard reality.\nOnly when you resurface can you breathe. And breathing is important. If you don’t breathe you die, but you obviously knew that- See! You are smart.\nIf ever you try to read something to make you feel better, know one thing, writers are the greatest liars. They play with words and create souls you may wish to be with and lands you wish to live in. Never trust a writer. For that matter you shouldn’t be trusting a word I say either, should you? Well if you are, you are just naïve and still have a long way to go in life. Frankly, there shouldn’t be anything wrong with being naïve except for the fact that people can trick you, and steal all your property, leaving you on the street. But I am getting ahead of myself.\nThere are always a handful of people who toughen up too fast, these people might just have faced too many hardships in their life and taken the shorter but harder route to growing up, or they just have extremely huge egos. It is usually the latter. And according to me these people are the best writers, because from their eyes they think they know the world and more often than not they make you believe that they know old beautiful world. Well, they don’t. Nobody does. Nobody should. I guess, in many ways, I envy writers, because they have a way with words and a super power of sorts. A power to have people believe in whatever you want them to believe in. Like a cult leader.\nSaying all these negative things about writers, they also are one of the best people you will meet because they birth literature. Most of the time it is horrible and you wouldn’t want to go back to it, but sometimes it makes you look at the same world through a different perspective. And without writers, there wouldn’t be any good content. In many ways content creators are what I look forward to in a new day.

Private & international schools in Ghana: International preschools in Accra, primary schools, secondary schools, senior high schools, American / British curriculum schools, IB world schools, boarding schools, bilingual nursery schools, kindergarten programs, child care centres. After-school program in Accra for elementary school age children.\nLocated in Osu, 20 minutes south of Accra city center, Floent International School is a Christian school that provides 21st century learning skills to to preschool through 6th grade.\nWe offer an Early Childhood program for kids ages 1-5, and extra classes for children ages 6-11.\nWe teach not only math and English, but computer science, entrepreneurship, engineering, graphic design, and video production among others.\nWe're interested in a holistic development of children. We teach self learning, critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity skills.\n• Located on the Asian side of Istanbul, Kilittaşı Schools offers Preschool, Kindergarten, Elementary, Middle & High School programs for children of dual citizenship (Turkish & other) whose families live in Turkey or are moving back to Turkey.\n• Turkish students who hold two nationalities have the advantage of studying half day Turkish curriculum and half day English curriculum with the Dual Program.\n• Kilittaşı Schools (KIT) implements the Canadian Curriculum for all of the English Language Arts, French as a second language and the branch lessons. The Turkish Ministry of National Education’s (MEB) curriculum is implemented for the other subject areas which are part of the Dual program.\n• Kilittaşı Schools aims to provide children with the necessary skills to become responsible, socially and environmentally conscientious, proud independent citizens of the world, which is why we know that school is more than just the academic experience.\n• Our goal is to provide children with a well-balanced program with the holistic approach that begins to lay foundations for a lifetime of learning. We focus on the complete physical, psychological & emotional wellbeing of each child, and recognize the need of a harmonious balance between academic guidance and creative expression.\n• Students take part in a variety of social outreach projects, environmental studies and Green school activities, as well as an international exchange program and school wide projects and discussions.\nKilittaşı students also take advantage of intensive French language immersion programs taught by native speaking teachers.\nGive your child the opportunity to learn English in a supportive and loving environment with Hello Kids Myogadani! Conveniently situated in Bunkyo ward in central Tokyo, we provide immersion-based preschool and kindergarten programs in English. We also offer English language classes in the afternoons and on Saturdays for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school students (up to age 10).\nAt Hello Kids Myogadani, we pride ourselves on our high-quality curriculum, class structure and dedicated teaching team. While our focus is on teaching the English language, we also help our students to develop social skills, fine and gross motor skills, problem solving skills, and leadership qualities. Our different class programs and special events were created with the simple goal of encouraging and nurturing each student, helping to direct their talent and ambition, and helping them to become their very best.\nOur English immersion school is located directly in front of Hisakata Park and comprises two beautiful schools - our Main school and our Annex school. Our school is only a 10 minute train ride from Tokyo station on the Tokyo Metro Marunouchi subway line, and roughly 25 minutes from Shibuya.\nYou are here: School Search> International schools in Ghana.

Autism, or the Autistic Spectrum Disorder, is a developmental psychological disorder that begins in the early stages of infancy and affects a child’s ability to develop social skills and engage in social activities. Three current psychological/philosophical theories attempt to explain autism as the result of certain cognitive deficiencies. Each theory takes a different approach to the autistic disorder and theorizes different causes. While no theory is without its difficulties, each different approach to the autistic disorder has played an important role in developing the philosophical understanding of social cognition.\nAutism is more prevalent, roughly four times more, in males than females. As a disorder, it only has existed as a recognized clinical entity for sixty years and recent research indicates that it is more widespread in the population than is currently appreciated. Persons with autism show various difficulties in social skills, cognitive processing and other co-occurring behavioral and physical problems. The latter include repetitive movements such as hand-waiving or rocking, self-injurious behavior (in cases of extreme autism) and problems with digestion. Autism has become a nationwide issue with numbers of support groups, websites and research programs. Autism has also become influential in many discussions within philosophical psychology.\nAutism has played a strong ancillary role in many debates concerning social cognition, how it develops and its structure. Because persons with autism lack the basic abilities to think about others, understanding autism may give us a window into understanding much or all of social cognition. Analogous to the role lesion studies and other neuropsychological disorders play in our understanding of cognition, brain structure and function and neural organization, autism may provide valuable insight into social cognition. The study of autism, with its specific constellation of behavioral and cognitive deficiencies, may be able to highlight the structure, development and nature of social cognition in general.\nThis article begins with the clinical definition of autism from the DSM-IV, then discusses the role autism has played in three main theories of cognition: Theory of Mind (hereafter ToM), Simulation Theory and the Executive Control or Metacognitive theory. Finally, there is a brief discussion of the role autism still plays in understanding social cognition.\nPersons with autism show severely diminished or abnormal social interaction and communication, as well as a restricted repertoire of activities and interests (DSM-IV, p. 66). These symptoms can be mild, seen in a lack of certain nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze and gestures or any type of social interaction, or a more serious lack of all reciprocal social interaction and other large impairments in language development and language use. The autistic child may lack close social ties or the abilities to act as “friends” normally with other children. They also may prefer to play alone rather than with others.\nB. Delays or abnormal functioning in at least one of the following areas, with onset prior to age three years: (1) social interaction, (2) language as used in social communication, or (3) symbolic or imaginative play.\nC. The disturbance is not better accounted for by Rett’s disorder or Childhood Disintegrative Disorder.\nThese guidelines intentionally lack specificity to account for the wide variety of symptoms and severity found in cases of autism. One of the more well-known cases of autism, is that of Temple Grandin, who holds a PhD in animal science and teaches at Colorado State University. Professor Grandin teaches classes and runs her own business. These are not the kinds of accomplishments expected from a person diagnosed with autism. The more stereotypical case is the child who neither communicates with others nor seems to want to leave their solitary world. Autism derives its name from the intense feeling one gets of the “aloneness” of the autistic person. Even a brief survey of the literature on autism would suffice to show that people diagnosed with autism have varying degrees of impairment.\nThe clinical and diagnostic features of autism are given to give the philosophical reader a more direct understanding of how clinicians often view the disorder. While such issues are not typically germane to philosophical discussions, they are important in understanding the disorder.\nAutism has played an important role in theories of cognition in philosophical psychology. The first approach with which we will deal is the Theory of Mind [ToM] approach to development and its treatment of autism. The phrase “ToM approach” is used as a general marker for that family of theories that takes our knowledge of other minds to be innate and basic (See Baron Cohen, 1995; Carruthers, 1996; and Botterill & Carruthers, 1999 for related ToM views on development and autism). Further, the ToM approach often holds that ToM cognition is subtended by modules of a sort. The work of Simon Baron-Cohen is seminal and is generally taken to be the locus classicus of these approaches.\nThe following example with help us to better understand the type of socio-cognitive knowledge many theories of social cognition attempt to explain. Imagine two close friends have just come back from a night of trick-or-treating one Halloween and have commenced surveying the candy they received. Sam, being an aficionado of hard candy, begins to gather all those types of pieces into a pile. Sam’s compatriot Alice, on the other hand, is a connoisseur of chocolate and he is reminded of this when he sees her collecting all the chocolates into a pile. As Sam separates his candies from one another he mentions to Alice that he would be willing to trade his chocolates for her candies.\nThis interaction depends upon the one person representing to themselves the preferences of another. This is the sort of knowledge that the that ToM studies. Sam knows that Alice likes chocolate. Alice knows that Sam has chocolates and might be willing to trade. As this example shows, understanding and recognizing the preferences, desires and beliefs of others plays an important role in our interactions.\nBaron-Cohen (1995) believes that our ability to mindread, or understand the beliefs and desires of others and how they influence subsequent behavior, is the result of four separate modules/mechanisms working together in order to produce beliefs about what others know. The mindreading system is broken down into the following four modules, ID- the Intentionality Detector, EDD- Eye Direction-Detector, SAM- the Shared Attention Mechanism, and the ToMM-Theory of Mind Module/mechanism. Each of these four mechanisms line up, roughly, with properties in the world, which are: volition (desires), perception, shared attention and epistemic states (knowledge and belief).\nThe first mechanism Baron-Cohen describes is the Intentionality Detector (ID) (Baron-Cohen, 1995, p. 32). The ID is a perceptual device that interprets the motion of objects in terms of primitive volitional mental states like goal and desire. A more general rendering of this sort of interpretation would be “Object wants/desires x.” Humans use this because it makes sense of basic animal behaviors like approach and avoidance. In order to interpret motion in this way, one needs only two conceptual states: want and goal. The ID is activated whenever there is any perceptual input that might be identified as an agent. We also interpret certain stimuli in the modality of touch, sound, and other modalities in an intentional fashion (Baron-Cohen, 1995, p. 36). If we back up into something we may take it to be a person, and thus say “pardon me.” Only after we verify that it is not a person do we look around to make sure no one was watching us talk to no one in particular.\nThe second device is the Eye Detection Device (EDD) (Baron-Cohen, 1995, p. 38). The EDD works only through the visual sensory mode. It has three functions: detecting the presence of eyes or eyelike devices; computing which direction the eyes are pointing; and inferring that if another organism’s eyes are directed toward a thing, then it sees that thing. It is important on Baron-Cohen’s view that the third function be seen as giving the organism with the EDD the ability to posit mental states about the organism it is viewing. A new mental state, “one of knowing or believing that some other creature may have visual access to” is added to the basic/primitive mental states of the child. The second and third functions of the EDD are important for Baron-Cohen. Baron-Cohen believes that it is highly adaptive to be able to make a judgment about another being’s knowledge, such as when the tiger has prey in its sights (see Baron-Cohen, 1995 pp. 32-36). If one calculates that the tiger has its eyes trained on a friend, and one uses their knowledge that eyes are used to see (extrapolation from self and third function of the EDD), then one should realize that the tiger sees one’s friend and probably will want to attack. This is called a dyadic representation: Agent sees X. The ID and EDD can form dyadic representations that are relations between two objects or people. It resembles the story told about the tiger. With the ID one can interpret the tiger as an agent. If the agent sees ones friend, and eating is a desire of the tiger, then one might realize that my friend is in danger.\nThe third mechanism we will deal with is the shared attention mechanism, or SAM (Baron-Cohen, 1995 pp. 44-50). The SAM’s sole function is building triadic representations. The triadic representation expresses a relation between object, Self, and agent. The representation is put generally thus: [I-see- (tiger-sees my friend)]. The SAM compares input from the ID and the EDD and forms these triadic representations. Continuing the tiger example, with a slight modification, will help. If one sees the tiger prowling (ID), sees your friend some yards away, and sees that the tiger is in a position to see your friend (EDD), the SAM can now extrapolate that both the tiger and you see your friend. Furthermore, if you know that tigers like to hunt humans, you might then warn your friend of his impending lunch date.\nIn this scenario the SAM makes available the ID’s inference that the tiger has a goal, which one interprets through experience, to the EDD and then reads the eye direction in terms of the agent’s inferred goals. With this information one might surmise, according to the example, that the tiger would, more than likely, eat your buddy. After reaching this conclusion one may yell to try and warn your friend of her danger. With all of this in place we can see that this use of primitive representations could be very adaptive and helpful in navigating through a world that has agents who act with goal directed activity.\nThe final mechanism in Baron-Cohen’s architecture is the Theory of Mind Module/Mechanism (ToMM) (Baron-Cohen, 1995 pp. 50-55). The ToMM has a number of distinct functions. The ToMM is a cognitive system that allows the human to posit a wide range of mental states from observed behavior— to employ a theory of mind in parsing the behavior of others. We learn that upon seeing a desired item, ceteris paribus, people will likely try to get that item. We also learn that people can often misrepresent the world and that these false-beliefs might lead to behaviors that are explainable only in terms of this false belief. The ToMM is the one mechanism/module that we can utilize in order to understand and codify what we learn about mental/epistemic states. The ToMM gives us the ability to represent epistemic states. These epistemic states include believing, pretending, and dreaming. The final responsibility of the ToMM is be able to put the various epistemic states together to allow us to understand how these pieces work together in mental life. The ToMM has a grand job according to Baron-Cohen: “It has the dual function of representing the set of epistemic mental states and turning all this mentalistic knowledge into a useful theory” (Baron-Cohen, p. 51).\nThe ToMM has multiple functions. It first processes representations of propositional attitudes of the form: [Agent-Attitude-“Proposition”]. An example is “Selma believes that it is wintery.” This is a different ability than having a mental representation of, “It is wintery today.” It differs because one’s belief about Selma is a representation of what one takes her to believe about the world. Having these sorts of representations is crucial to the ability to represent epistemic mental states. The ToMM also allows us to infer that a person will attempt to obtain what they desire if they believe that they are likely to succeed.\nFor many ToM researchers, the problems persons with autism show in a variety of ToM tasks is evidence for the innate basis of our cognitions about other minds. For example, persons with autism do poorly on the false-belief task. Persons with autism typically use less mental state attribution in their speech compared with average functioning persons and IQ matched developmentally delayed children. Persons with autism also fail to recognize surprise based emotions in others (Harris, 1989). However, persons with autism do show preserved cognitive function in areas as diverse as mathematics, music and mnemonic capacities. These preserved cognitive abilities in persons with autism support a dissociation which furthers the case that ToM knowledge is separate, and thus likely etiologically different, from other cognitions.\nThe ToM approach generally finds socio-cognitive knowledge to be innate and highly structured. It is not without its problems, however. Some argue (Fodor, 1998) that the modularity relied upon as a basis for the explanation is not plausible given the nature of modules. Further, persons with autism show a wide range of socio-cognitive abilities (high and low functioning persons with autism) that seems to be further evidence against the modular nature of social cognition. As a result, some argue that other theories provide better explanations of the autistic disorder.\nAn alternative to the ToM view of knowledge and development is known as the Executive Control or Metacognitive theory. Executive Control Theorists propose that our ability to understand the mental states of others is the result of the development and use of more general cognitive and metacognitive processes such as metarepresentation, the self monitoring cognitive activity and problem solving. Metarepresentation is the ability that our minds have to represent a representation or have beliefs about beliefs. So, on Executive Control theory, to represent to myself a belief state of someone else, i.e. “I believe my friend sees my chocolate is in the bowl,” one does so with the understanding that one is representing the belief state of another. According to the Executive Control view, these highly complex cognitions require certain cognitive resources which develop over time and practice. Furthermore, the ability to represent the mental states of others is not native. The metarepresentation of another’s epistemic state is the result of applying general cognitive strategies and abilities within a specific domain.\nOn the Executive Control approach the mind is a domain general information processor able to utilize a wide variety of cognitive resources across a number of domains in solving problems. Executive Control models of cognition and cognitive development state that most of our upper level cognitive abilities are subtended by the same basic sets of cognitive resources. Our ability to pretend, to problem solve and anticipate the actions of others based on inferred thoughts we take a person to have all stem from basic general cognitive abilities. We use the same sets of cognitive resources to solve problems in math, the social arena and learning our own phone number. Understanding others’ behaviors in a social setting is particular problem that humans must face. In order to understand this arena, we simply use these other cognitive skills within the social domain.\nExecutive Control models rely on a traditional psychological division of labor in the mind that separates memory into long-term memory (LTM) and short-term or working memory (STM). We also have certain cognitive abilities such as the development and use of certain problem solving strategies and the ability to metarepresent. In addition to the strategies one uses to solve problems, one must also be able to generate a plan or method of solving problems that one can implement. As such, the mind is generally able to organize and reorganize activities as a person solves a problem. “Executive function is defined as the ability to maintain appropriate behaviors such as planning, impulse control, inhibition of prepotent but relevant responses, set maintenance, organized search, and flexibility of thought and action” (Ozonoff, et al., 1991, p. 1083). For example, since Alice (a teacher) knows that she wants to be home by 3:00 this afternoon, she realizes that she must finish up the writing she’s scheduled for today. She must also meet with students. If she realizes that student meetings tap her energy leaving her unsuitable for writing, she must then plan to write before meetings if she wants to accomplish her goals.\nAccording to the executive control model, in certain problem solving situations we are able to monitor our strategies for result and economy and make changes with these goals in mind. In the above case, Alice might simply schedule meetings on days that she does not intend to write so that she might more effectively write on the other days. We can also monitor our performance in reaching certain goals. If it turns out that the division-of-academic-labor plan is not working, Alice may alter that plan. She might even inhibit the tendency they have to allow other factors of their job to take time away from writing. If she stumbles onto a procedure that works well in getting them “primed” to write, she might adopt its use. There are many tests used to evaluate our executive control abilities, but the problem confronting experimentalists is that it is often hard to develop a task that reliably taps one set of skills or abilities. However, there are some direct tests, one of the more famous of which is the Tower of Hanoi Puzzle, which researchers rely on to test executive abilities.\nIn the Tower of Hanoi tests, participants follow certain rules in order to accomplish the task of moving the stack of discs from one area to the next. Imagine that you are presented with three poles the rightmost of which has three discs of differing sizes. The goal is then to move the configuration of discs you are presented with, largest disc on the bottom followed by the next smallest on top and then the smallest on top of that, to the leftmost pole. You are told that while you accomplish this task you can only move one disc at a time, you cannot place a larger disc onto a smaller one and that you need to accomplish the move in the fewest possible number of moves possible. As you might imagine, initial solutions usually involve mistakes and a great many more moves than is necessary. Persons with poor executive control (children, patients with certain frontal lobe problems, persons with autism, etc.) typically perform poorly on the Tower of Hanoi task. The reason for these failures is clear, according to the Executive Control theorist.\nTo perform well on the tower task requires the ability to plan a solution. It also requires remembering all the necessary rules that constrain choice. This task also measures the inhibition of prepotent responses, the first of which is to just start moving the discs over to the leftmost pole. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily the wisest first move. If it is the case that persons with autism typically do poorer on this task, this shows that they have poor executive control abilities. There has been some early research that showed persons with autism to do poorly on executive control tasks (Ozonoff, S., Pennington, B. and Rogers, S., 1991), but recent research is beginning to weaken this conclusion (Ozonoff, S. and Strayer, D., (2001).\nOther tests of Executive Control function include a variety of card sorting tasks that require the participant to sort the cards based on color, shape, category, etc. Participants are not told the rule for sorting that will be used during the test. They must figure it out as a result of the response from the experimenter affirming or denying the given response. For example, a set of cards will have animals and artifacts that are colored either red or blue. If the rule the experimenter is using is based on color, the participant, provided there are no conditions preventing the learning of the rule, will figure that the proper rule is “like colored cards with like colored cards.” However, at a certain point during the test, after the participant has shown they are using the proper rule, the rule changes and requires that we sort according to object type (artifact or natural object). In order to succeed, the participant must become aware of this rule change and alter their responses accordingly. This test focuses on strategy, perseverance, and the inhibition of prepotent responses and flexibility of action. As with the Tower of Hanoi puzzle, persons with poor overall executive control do poorly on such tasks. While the abilities tested in the Tower of Hanoi and card sorting tasks are certainly necessary for the development of our understanding of other minds, they do not represent the full complement of skills required for awareness of the thoughts of others. There are still other abilities and skills necessary.\nOn the Executive Control theory, social knowledge comes from our ability to pretend which allows us to metarepresent. Pretence, for many Executive Control theorists, is critically important to the development of metarepresentation (Jarrold et al., 1993). The skills involved with pretence are exactly the same skills required when we begin to think about other minds. When we engage in pretence we are able to divorce the representation of the object from the object itself: the representation becomes decoupled. This allows children the crucial move that separates representation from the object. Once this ability is practiced, the child then realizes that the representation of the object is different from the object itself. Upon the realization that the mind represents and can have representations about the world that are not tied directly to the world (i.e. pretending the hall runner is a parking lot for cars) they are then able to metarepresent a variety of epistemic states.\nIn order to self-represent the belief state of another, children must be able to understand that they themselves hold representations of the world. They further understand that others have the same types of relations to the world with their thoughts. Children can then create a metarepresentation of the person who has some sort of perceptual contact with the world and then, based on that metarepresentation, can predict what that person would do in a given situation. For instance, if Sam knows that Alice saw him hide his candy in the box under his bed, then he could suspect that she might go to the hiding spot if she wants some chocolate. Such metarepresentational abilities also allow us to recognize the so-called “false-belief” states of others. Sam must be able to recognize that Alice saw him put the chocolate in the box under his bed, know that he changed the hiding spot unbeknownst to her and realize that she wouldn’t know that the hiding spot had changed since she never saw me move the chocolate. She would have a false-belief based on his particular epistemic relation to the word that he realizes to be inaccurate. Understanding that someone has a false belief also requires that the user have cognitive control over the contents of his mind so that he does not confuse his own beliefs about the world with what they take others to believe. Only after these ancillary abilities are developed can the child succeed in recognizing the false-beliefs of others. Note that these complex chains of thought require a large working memory span that tracks not only my wants (to keep the chocolate for myself), but also the desires and beliefs of another (Alice wants the chocolate and believes it’s where Sam first hid it).\nA result of this particular view about cognition, development and our metarepresentational abilities is a markedly different approach and explanation of the disorder autism than we encountered with the ToM approach. Instead of taking the root problem of autism to be due to a failure of some mechanism/module dedicated to the processing of certain social stimuli, the metacognitive approach finds that autism is the result of an inadequate working memory, which allows us to metarepresent (Keenan, 2000). The autistic disorder is the result of a failing of the Executive Control mechanism responsible for inhibiting certain responses, problems in working memory, recall and inflexible and perseverative problem-solving strategies (Ozonoff, et al., 1991). The failure of persons with autism on typical false-belief tasks is the result of being unable to differentiate their own views from another’s during recall (Hughes, 2002). They might also adopt the improper strategy of relying on their own personal beliefs, either by confusing which set of beliefs belongs with whom or simply forgetting which belief is theirs, in answering questions about others’ beliefs. The problem facing persons with autism and causing their suite of behavioral problems is thus a general inability to accurately store and recall information rather than a specific focal deficit in understanding mental states.\nSimulation Theory (ST) is usually offered in contrast to other approaches and has is supported more by philosophers than psychologists. While ST traditionally received less critical notice than competing approaches, recently a variety of researchers have ardently and eloquently defended it (such as Alvin Goldman, Robert Gordon and Gregory Currie, Paul Harris and Ian Ravenscroft). ST may be more likely to explain socio-cognitive abilities since it is not laden with the theoretical commitments of ToM and utilizes some of the strengths of the executive control theory.\nSimulation Theory holds that one’s knowledge of other minds is related to some sort of capacity to imagine or simulate the beliefs, desires and intentions of another and predict what they would do if one were to act in accordance with the simulated propositional attitudes. For Currie and Ravenscroft (2002, p. 52) each person is able to imaginatively project themselves into the place of another person and “generate within ourselves states of imagining that have as their counterparts the beliefs and desires of someone whose behavior we want to predict.” For Goldman (2006) mindreading begins with a basic “like-me” judgment based on low-level face based emotion recognition abilities. Using a basic “like-me” judgment, we can sense how others are feeling by the facial display of another. Seeing someone display the disgust face activates in our brains the same motor neuron paths as are active when we experience disgust. Through the use of special mirror-neurons, the brain is wired to fire those motor pathways it sees in others.\nA main point of contention between the “theory”-theorists and the simulation theorists resides in what exactly the “like-me” consists. For the former, the judgment relies on theoretical assumptions, thus vindicating a theoretical component to social cognition; for the latter, it is the result of basic processes, neural or otherwise. The “like-me” judgment is at the heart of Goldman’s (2006) claim that simulation is the basic method through which we understand others. Regardless of what the “like-me” me judgment is or requires, the evidence for neonatal mimicry relies on studies that have proven difficult to replicate.\nFor both Currie and Ravenscroft (2002) and Goldman (2006) simulative abilities are fueled by a very basic perceptual ability to recognize emotions in others. In order to recognize how others are feeling, the infant must be able to cue into social stimuli. Once the infant can see these cues, they can begin to mimicking certain features of the emotional expression. Once they begin to mimic the expression, they begin to generate the affect states involved in the mimicked display. According to Currie and Ravenscroft, once these feats are accomplished the infant can assume that if the perceived creature is in a state, and the infant knows what that state feels like, whatever they feel is felt by other. The infant makes a very basic “like me” judgment and, from that judgment, an understanding of others begins. As the children begin to track eye-gaze and use proto-declarative pointing, they begin to develop more sophisticated ways of understanding that aids them in understanding and predicting the behavior of others.\nThere is an important difference in focus between Goldman’s and Currie and Ravnecroft’s versions of ST. For Goldman, prediction of behavior does not require a feeding in of propositional attitudes or mental states into one’s own cognitive system. In understanding another’s mental states, one mirrors those behaviors or facial expressions. In so doing, one comes to an unmediated understanding of how the other feels. For ST theorists like Currie and Ravenscroft, one places the pretend mental states into imagination and then allows the cognitive system run “offline” and generate predictions. This difference is important for theorists like Goldman who base simulation off certain neural functioning like mirroring.\nOur ability to predict others’ behavior requires an act imagination to run the simulation. Our imagination provides the mental area in which we can simulate the role beliefs would play in certain inferential practices of an entertained person. If one imagines that another is hungry, then one might believe that they will go get lunch. One does this because when one believes themselves to be hungry they go get lunch. One plugs in supposed beliefs and desires and then runs a simulation as to what these states would cause them to do in that situation. Goldman (2006) allows that something like the above process occurs when we attempt to understand other’s mental states, but he thinks that this is an upper-level cognitive process and should be seen as importantly different from the lower level “like-me” judgment. The former processes require the lower level mirroring tasks.\nIn order for one to properly predict another’s behavior based on the simulation of another’s thoughts or behavior, certain assumptions must be made. When one simply thinks “What would I do in this situation” in order to allow the proper inferential chain to go through, one must assume that self and the target are roughly equivalent in a number of important respects. If one lacks basic assumptions about others, or for some other reasons believes that the target is different in important respects, one must augment the simulation with this information so as to have accurate predictions of the other’s behavior. One must disregard or replace certain basic assumptions that they might entertain in a normal case. Thus, the type of simulation one must perform becomes more complex.\nIn a typical case, one would predict that their friend, whom they know is hungry will likely attempt to go get lunch if the opportunity presents itself. One can make this judgment based on the fact that they would do the same thing in the situation. One plugs in the relevant information and runs a simulation. However, if one knows that their friend is on a diet, they have to take that into account when simulating their behavior. One cannot simply run the simulation using their own particular beliefs, as they are not on a diet. Details of this sort are crucial in understanding and predicting behavior.\nOn Currie and Ravenscroft’s version of ST, autism is the result of an inability to properly use imagination in the problem solving process, specifically, the process of placing ourselves, imaginatively, into the place of another. However, the problem facing persons with autism is not a complete inability to place themselves imaginatively in the situation of another. Rather, it is a difficulty in developing the skills necessary to practice the imaginative replacement.\nPlacing yourself in someone’s position, as detailed above, requires that you allow certain belief or desire states that you do not have to become active. We must set aside our own “mental economy” and allow the entertained propositional states to guide our beliefs of what that person might do. As with the earlier example of eating when hungry, since one is not on a diet, one must set aside their own responses and think “as if” they were. Thus, one would choose to not eat in the face of the hunger. Part of the difficulty persons with autism face is they are simply unable to make the proper adjustments to their own mental economy to allow the imagined belief states to play the proper role in simulating another’s beliefs. Persons with autism simply find it too difficult to simulate another person’s belief or desire states. Currie and Ravenscroft claim that the reason that persons with autism cannot simulate others is that they were never able to develop those abilities that allow for complex simulations to occur.\nThe reason persons with autism lack the development and use of ToM abilities is that they lack the “quasi-perceptual capacity for emotion recognition” (Currie and Ravenscroft, 2002 p. 159). They take the ability to recognize emotions to be something that is native or that surfaces early in development. Since persons with autism do not pick up on the basic emotional cues, they lack one of the primary inputs that allow simulation to occur. According to the authors, a young child perceives another’s emotional state, mimics those facial/bodily expressions and, based on how that mimicked facial expression feels to them as they perform it, thereby know what it feels like to be in that state. Since a person with autism does not even cue into these basic emotional states, they are never in a position to make the proper “like-me” reasoning and they never begin the basic mimicry that sets the whole simulative process into motion. The effects of this simple inability to recognize and simulate other’s emotional states are far-reaching.\nThus, autism, for Currie and Ravenscroft (2002), is an imaginative disorder. There are Executive Control problems like those mentioned in Executive Control models, but these problems come after and as a result of the inability to pick up on the basic perceptual content that cues us in to the mental states of others.\nFor a simulation theorist like Goldman (2006) the root of the autistic disorder is to be found in basic mirror-neuron dysfunction. Goldman bases his view off studies that show persons with autism are less apt in imitative abilities than average persons. Goldman cites further evidence that seems to indicate that the mirror neurons that allow simulation to occur are not functioning (Goldman, 2006 p. 206). The evidence for the mirror neuron dysfunction is tentative and Goldman notes this. But ST theorists find that the recent research into mirror neuron function and the role that these neurons play in a host of social behaviors such as mimicry, and thinking about others thoughts and actions are important signs that the theory is more supported than the rival “theory”-theory approach.\nAutism remains an intriguing disorder that is only partially understood. No theory can claim to be the most widely accepted and each has its own difficulties. “Theory”-theory needs to find ways to deal with much of the new research on where and how certain tasks are performed in the brain. Some of this research, as Goldman (2006) notes, seems to violate the modularity basis that “theory”-theory requires. 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SeaTac – Horizon Air is dropping one of its daily flights from Walla Walla to Sea-Tac due to a lack of travelers.\nA spokesman for the airline said Horizon’s larger planes aren’t getting filled to enough capacity to continue three flights per day to Walla Walla. Beginning Jan. 6, the 11:55 a.m. daily flight to Seattle will be dropped, the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reports.\nLast year the airline started using its 76-seat Q400 planes on the route.

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Churn Rate is simply defined as the annual percentage of customers who stop subscribing to a service or product.\nEvery business experiences some type of churn, but if you have a subscription-based business, or if you operate with monthly payments or some type of recurring revenue model, then you know better than anyone how important it is to know your churn rate.\nYour churn rate can have a significant impact on your bottom line. So it’s important to know where you stand at all times. Check out this blog post from the good people at Recurly. They do a great job of breaking down churn rates by industry so you can see exactly what others in your industry are experiencing and if your churn rate is abnormally high.\nRegardless of where you stand in relation to your industry average, the truth is that your churn rate can be better. It is a sobering thought when you realize that most industries with subscription revenue experience a 10-11% churn rate. That means 10% of your revenue is just walking out the back-door of your business. And just because that may be industry average, it doesn’t mean that your business has to be average. You can improve your churn rate. Here are a few tips to get you started.\nIf ‘customer churn’ is the destination for 10% of your customers, then the ‘credit card decline’ is the vehicle they take to get there. Beyond any shadow of a doubt, the #1 way for your customers to churn out of your business is through credit card declines. Which means when you experience a payment failure (ie. credit card decline) you have to be on top of it. If a customer’s payment fails at midnight, then at 8:00am they should get an email notification of the decline. You can not wait 4 days, you can’t wait 8 days, and you definitely can’t wait 30 days. If you do, you will lose this customer to what is called an ‘unintentional cancel.’ Which means they did not necessarily want to opt out of your product or service, but because of your follow-up failure that is unfortunately what has happened. Develop a system that allows you to send timely follow-up to customers who have credit card declines.\nThere are several software platforms that you can purchase that will automate this process for you. If you are new to the failed payment world, this is called dunning software. Recurly, Stunning, and Churn Buster are a few options that we like and can help your business produce timely responses to customers who experience a payment failure. This is a great first step, but you need to realize that this is not a magic bullet. You will not solve your churn problem just by adding software. At most these software programs will help you recover 10-15% of your failed payments and credit card declines. It’s a great first step, but if you want to really want to solve your churn problem, keep reading.\nThe best way to address the problem of churn is to hire a full-time employee to go after your businesses failed payments and credit card declines. In all honesty, this is the only way that your business is going to really solve the issue of churn. A full-time employee who is being measured against the metric of payment recovery will give you the full-time focus your company needs to really solve this problem. (We talk more about who to hire for this position in this blog post.) This is someone who doesn’t have 6 other tasks they are responsible for, or 5 other meetings they are required to be in. This person is 100% focused on fixing your churn problem and closing the back-door of your business. We have seen this work over and over in businesses who hire a full-time employee and they can usually cut their churn rate in half, and sometimes as much as 80%!\nHiring a full-time employee works, but as you well know, this is an expensive solution. A full-time employee comes with full-time costs and it’s important for you to crunch the numbers to make sure the ROI is high enough to warrant a full-time hire.\nFor most small businesses, the ROI is simply not high enough. That’s where we can help. At Gravy we know what it takes to solve the problem of churn. But we also know that its expensive. At Gravy, we can give your business the full-time focus it needs to address this problem once and for all and a fraction of the cost.\nWe have a highly trained U.S. based team that will implement the proven strategies, sequences, and systems that we have developed over the last 6 years to get your customers’ payments back on-line. We will get your customers re-engaged with your company, and the back-door of your business closed tight.\nThe great thing is, we work off of commission. So if we are not adding money to your bottom line then you don’t pay us a thing. We want to help as many small business succeed as we possibly can, and make this a no-brainer for you.\nBook a discovery call below and let’s have a conversation to see how we can help your business take charge of your churn rate once and for all.

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An extraordinary late charge from well back in the field by Flit (by Medaglia D’Oro) was only just thwarted when Anaheed (by Fastnet Rock) and Tim Clark managed to hold on to the lead to land the very valuable $1,000,000, Group 2, Camera House Percy Sykes Stakes (1200m) on Day 2 of The Championship at Royal Randwick in Sydney.\nA high-class field of juvenile fillies headlined by this year’s all-the-way Golden Slipper winner Kiamichi, the 2019 Percy Sykes Stakes might have witnessed a second Group 2 victory by Anaheed, but will probably be best recalled for the eye-catching performance of the runner-up Flit.\nRidden well off the pace in the early stages and still a clear last on the home-turn, Flit produced a remarkable finish under a James McDonald ride to overhaul all of her opposition bar the winner.\nGiven a more conventional ride on a solid pace, Anaheed took up the running shortly after negotiating the Randwick rise and just held on in the shadows of the post to score by the narrowest of margins.\nIn a photo-finish, Anaheed got the judges verdict by a short-head, with Villami (by Foxwedge) claiming third a further one-length in arrears.\nOne of two runners in the race for the stable in addition to Cheer Leader, Snowden Jnr added: “We left it right up until Tuesday morning. The two fillies worked together and there was a cigarette paper between them. They both applied themselves quite nicely in their work.\nNaturally, winning rider Tim Clark was also full of praise for the winner.\n“I think on her day she can match up with them, but she found the track a bit wet in the Golden Slipper and she seems to really save her best for here at Randwick,” claimed Clark.\n“I had a different horse going to the barriers today — I knew I was in play. She travelled so well for me and cannoned past the leader.\nIn reference to the standard of the race, Clark observed: “I thought that was quite a deep race today. They are the best fillies we’ve got. She was able to work early and still hold them off.\nAnaheed was returned at an SP of $8.50, Flit at $6.00, and Villami at $10.00.\nWinning time was 1m09.67s, the last 600m sectional 34.86s.\nAnaheed is raced by Sheikh Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum and has now won three of her six career starts for $954,200 in stakes.

Thank you to the Town of Hudson Bay for hosting the 30th Annual SUMA Golf Tournament!\nIt was another great golf tournament starting on Thursday, July 12 with dinner and comedian Tom Liske.\nFriday morning started with breakfast, followed by 47 golfers teeing off at the Hudson Bay Golf Club. This year there was a tie for first place, and the winners were decided in a chipping challenge. Congratulations to the winning team - James Crouch, Dona Bedi, and Sid Kernohan; our other top place finishers - Gary Philipchuk, Sherry Pilon, Nicole Goldsworthy, and Rob Boulding; and Dennis Draper Award Winners - Dave Kernohan, Teresa Parkman, Michael Prstai, and Kevin Hoy.\nCheck out our Facebook page to see all the 2018 action.\nJoin the Town of Spiritwood for the 31st Annual Golf Tournament in 2019. The Town of Wakaw will host the tournament in 2020.

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Millions of Uyghur people are being held in political indoctrination camps, according to claims.\nWhy is it so easy to turn our back to the systematic violation of human rights when the ‘cultural cleansing’ is committed by our biggest trade partner and a global economic powerhouse?\nLast week the United Nations expressed concern over “numerous and credible reports” by human rights activists that China has been holding an estimated one million Uyghurs, a Muslim Turkic minority mainly from Xianjing, in huge political indoctrination camps.\nThis week China ferociously denied claims that it has detained and indoctrinated millions in camps, saying the allegations were 'completely untrue', but with the Uyghurs having been victims of the nation’s communist regime for 60 years, the allegations make sense.\nThe Uyghurs are persecuted in China because the Han Chinese see their minority religion as a threat, resulting in decades of xenophobia against them, so these recent claims of human rights violations are not a first.\nThe Uyghur's have been persecuted by China for decades.\nIn fact, the UN has previously expressed concern about cases of torture, deaths in custody, arbitrary detention and disappearance of Uyghurs, and yet now, as the atrocities resurrect themselves, Australia turns its back.\nDespite having the most push power, Australia has deflected the issue to the UN as so often happens in the wake of human rights violations. But there’s a compelling argument for Australia to sanction China for these abuses -- because not only does Australia have the most leverage as China’s biggest trade partner, but around 5,000 Uyghurs call Australia home.\nA demonstrator attends a protest denouncing the treatment of Uyghurs.\nWell, it’s easy to turn our backs to human rights violations when these atrocities are committed in a country not only in which censorship is institutionalised but where 14 percent of the world’s GDP economic power is held and on which your economy so heavily relies.\nThis comes as no coincidence, with the Turnbull Government recently admitting that the Australia-China relationship needs a reset. Earlier this year Turnbull admitted there is “a degree of tension in the relationship".\nThe Government's Foreign Interference Laws and bans on political donations have further spurred on these growing tensions, making a firm humanitarian stance the last thing the Turnbull Government seems willing to do if it wants to save face 'diplomatically'.\nAlthough Australia has appeared to take on a more strategically firm stance against China's growing influence, arguably, the Government is too scared of China jumping ship if it were to introduce sanctions or to take other staunch measures to discourage China's xenophobia. China would be likely to see such action as political overreach.\nBut there is hope. According to the Australia-China Relations Institute, there has been a substantial tilt in rhetoric by Australia -- a toughening on China's rising influence.\nOn June 2, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull appeared to confirm that Australian government policy towards China is veering towards a harder line in the face of China’s rise, the Institute says.\nAccording to the Institute, Hugh White, professor of strategic studies at the Australian National University (ANU), in an analysis of the speech said "no regional leader has ever gone this far before".\nWe must then ask, if our nation is willing to go 'this far' in the face of rising political power, why then can we not go at least that far in the wake of human rights violations? It is a fundamental question that goes to the very heart of our humanity's priorities.\nWhile China has outright refuted claims that it has detained and indoctrinated millions in camps as ‘completely untrue’, in a nation where censorship is rife, we can’t turn our backs to a brush off of such horrendous allegations.\nBut why is it Australia’s responsibility, when the UN is involved, you may ask.\nAs victims of systematic state suppression and gross violations of fundamental human rights, Australia, the country with the biggest push-power, is the only one who can truly condemn the nation’s xenophobia and compel the nation to come forward with evidence against these alleged violations on fundamental human rights.\nPutting all of this aside, if there's anything we've learnt from history, it's that inaction in the face of atrocities itself amounts to acquiescence.\nWith a crippled transport network, it's no surprise that Melbourne lost its claim to fame this week.

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Gloria Yvonne Brackett was arrested on Sunday after she allegedly pointed a gun at Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) in Spartanburg, South Carolina.\nPolitico.com reports that Rep. Gowdy was in a church parking lot waiting for his daughter when Brackett approached him with a gun.\nBrackett claimed that Rep. Gowdy had been following her. She began to chase him on foot after he drove away.\nRep. Gowdy drove to the local police department and was escorted back to the church, by police, where he picked up his daughter.\nWYFF-TV reports that Brackett was charged with unlawfully carrying a firearm and pointing and presenting a firearm.\nVideo: Rep. Trey Gowdy Says Journalists "Aspire" to be Imprisoned, "Give 'Em What They Want"

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Guiseley-based stairlift and easy bathing solutions company Companion has become a member of Trading Standards’ Buy With Confidence approved trader scheme, as part of its strategy to reassure customers of its commitment to quality standards and excellent service.\nJune is Scams Awareness Month and many organisations are issuing advice about how to stay safe and avoid the cowboys and fraudsters keen to part people from their money.\nCitizens Advice research shows that almost three-quarters (72 per cent) of people surveyed had been targeted by scammers over a two year period (2015-2017). Over a third, had been targeted five or more times.\nCompanion provides straight and curved stairlifts as well as accessible bathing solutions to customers across the UK. Many of its customers are elderly or have limited mobility; they are some of society’s most vulnerable and as such are frequently targeted by fraudsters.\nSales and marketing director David Harrison said: “We know that customer testimonials and third-party endorsements by reputable organisations play a huge part in the decision-making process when it comes to buying independent living aids such as stairlifts and accessible bathrooms.\nIn June, Companion was granted membership to Trading Standards’ Buy With Confidence approved trader scheme, the largest of its kind nationally. In order to become a member, a business must pass a set of tailored background checks.\nMembership of the scheme is not given lightly – amongst other checks, each applicant has their complaints history reviewed and receives a visit from Trading Standards. Good references are required from previous customers and applicants must agree to abide by the scheme’s code of conduct, which requires them to follow the letter and spirit of the law.\nCompanion is also a Which? Trusted Trader, holds a Feefo Gold Trusted Service Award 2018 and has a TrustPilot score of 9.1/10. It is a member of the British Healthcare Trades Association, whose Code of Practice is the first in the healthcare industry to have been approved by the Chartered Trading Standards Institute, and a retail partner of the British Institute of Kitchen Bedroom and Bathroom Installation (BiKBBI).\n“We advise everyone who makes an enquiry with us to shop around and we don’t put any pressure on people to make a decision. The feedback we get from customers shows how much they appreciate our approach, and we constantly monitor all the review channels to make sure we are getting it right when it comes to customer service,” he added.\nCompanion’s strategy is helping to build its reputation and drive growth. In 2017, stairlift sales increased by 16 percent and bathing solutions sales increased by 25 per cent.

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Act #32: Trust the universe. Trust yourself.\nThey listened to that still, small voice inside.\nNeither has clarity on what lies ahead, how they will spend their days, where they will be (although I have a hunch that one may have a few book deals lined up), but they each know for certain that it was their time to move on, to seek that which feeds their souls. And while their journeys have been distinctly different, at some point recently, they all chose to embrace that still, small voice inside.\nWhether you call it God, or intuition, or calling, we all have the capacity to hear that voice. Rosa Parks listened when she refused to give up her seat on that bus. Dawn Lafferty listened when she gave up her life to stop a shooter from entering her school.\nSo often we are crippled with fear of the unknown, fear of discomfort, and fear of failure. And we ignore that voice. In honor of these women, and countless others who came before us, paved the way for us, won't you take a moment to listen to that still, small voice inside telling you what you already know? What your greatest self is capable of. What truly feeds your soul. What would you do today if you knew you could not fail?

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GUWAHATI, June 29 - Demanding concrete action instead of hollow promises to solve the recurrent artificial flood problem in the city, members of the All Guwahati Students’ Union (AGSU), several civil society organisations (CSOs) and conscious citizens formed a human chain on the RG Baruah Road here today.\nProtesting against the government’s inaction to solve the city’s perennial artificial flood problem that claimed six lives recently, the students’ body was joined by the family members of Pushan Kalita, a student who lost his life on the waterlogged RG Baruah Road due to electrocution on June 13 last. In the same incident, a mason Anowar Hussain was also electrocuted while trying to save Pushan.\nIn another unfortunate incident, one Dulal Malakar lost his life on June 22 after coming into contact with a live wire on Sugam Path of RG Baruah Road.\nThe human chain was formed from the AIDC bus stoppage to the Zoo-Narengi Tiniali on the footpath of one side of the road from 10.45 am. Apart from students of different educational institutions, local traders, members of traders' bodies, members of local women’s committees, members of Unnayan Samity and a number of eminent citizens of Guwahati also took part in the programme.\n“The artificial flood affects all sections of people alike and the problem is getting severe with every passing year. The government cannot shrug-off its responsibility merely by giving compensation to the family members of the deceased,” a protestor said.\nGrandmother of Pushan Kalita, who participated in the protest with a photograph of her grandson, broke into tears, demanding permanent measures to solve the problem.\n“Although there is a change in the regime, we do not see a change in the lackadaisical attitude of the authorities concerned towards the problems faced by common people. Floods still occur, electrocution still claims human lives and the condition of roads is yet to be improved in Guwahati,” another protestor said.\nAGSU president Rajmil Ali and general secretary Raifuddin Ahmed said people of the capital city are tired of hollow promises made by the authorities after every flash flood in the city. People in the city are looking for a permanent solution to this problem, they added.\n“Today’s protest was staged to make the authorities realize the severity of the issue. If no result-oriented scientific measures are announced in the days to come, we will launch a strong movement to ensure the safety of the citizens,” AGSU said.

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Make planning to avoid tossing foods a priority.\nConsider: If wilted lettuce is a frequent occupant of your garbage can, serve more salads at the beginning of the week. If extra mashed potatoes get tossed because they’ve lingered too long in the fridge, make less next time. Or recycle them as potato patties, shepherd’s pie or potato soup within a day or two of making them. Some other ideas: Use ripe bananas in banana bread; add juice to smoothies or make popsicles; freeze leftovers for another meal.\nExample: Tossing a half bag of “tired” lettuce: $1.00.\n3. Avoid shopping when hungry. Everything looks good on an empty stomach. And, it’s all too easy to buy something to tide us over in the car until we make it home. Eating before going shopping not only helps forestall impulse buys, it may save calories. If you’re shopping with your kids, feed them in advance, as well.\nExample: Buying an energy bar at the grocery store to tide you over until you get home: $1.50 more spent.\n4. Brown bag it. If you normally eat out at noon, consider brown bagging it at least one day a week. The typical fast food meal out easily can cost $5.00 or more. Take food left over from the evening meal to work the next day. A peanut butter sandwich and a piece of whole fruit quickly can be packed from foods on hand.\nNOTE: You may save money on your children’s lunch by having them participate in the school lunch program. They can eat a balanced meal that is offered at a reasonable price.\n5. Coupon common sense. Use coupons only for foods you normally would eat, rather than for “extras.” Don’t miss out on potential sources of valuable coupons. Check your grocery receipt – sometimes there are great coupons on the back that help save money. Also, if you have access to a computer, check online for coupons. For starters, check the Web site of the store where you shop or of products you use. Often the Web site address for many foods is given on the product label.\nIf possible, shop on double or triple coupon days when a store increases the value of coupons. Grocery store loyalty cards may be another source of savings, offering in-store discounts to cardholders.\n6. Check expiration dates. Avoid buying a food that is past its prime. If it’s on sale and near its expiration date, use it soon.\nExample: Avoid dumping a half gallon of soured milk down the drain: Save $2.50.\n7. Small scale experiments. Before trying a new food, buy the smallest size of package. If your family doesn’t like the food, you won’t be stuck with a big box of it.\nExample: Limit your purchase of an exotic spice you discover your family won’t eat to a small container: Save $1.50.\n8. Costly convenience foods. How much time do you really save when you buy a convenience food? It takes just a few seconds to mix your own sugar and cinnamon rather than buying it pre-mixed. Microwaving a bowl of regular oatmeal rather than pouring hot water over a pre-measured package adds only a few minutes.\nYou’re likely to save by cutting fruits and veggies yourself. Plus, the precut ones won’t keep as long.\nExample: Buying a carton of old-fashioned or quick oatmeal that provides 30 servings vs. buying 3 boxes instant oatmeal that contain 10 packets each: Save $5.50.\n9. Staple food stock up. Invest in staple foods when they’re on sale. Buying a boatload of bananas (and other perishable foods) isn’t a very good long-term investment. Stocking up on staple items such as reduced-price canned tuna, tomato sauce or mandarin oranges can be. Remember to check expiration dates.\nExample: Stocking up on 10 cans of food reduced by 20 cents apiece: Save $2.00.\n10. Bulking up when the price is right and you can use it. First, do the math and check if you actually do save by buying a larger package. The cost of two foods of the smaller size may be a better price than the larger one. Plus, will you use the food while the flavor is still tasty? Always check it out and if the larger size meets your criteria, go for it!\nExample: Buying a 5-pound bag of rice instead of a 1-pound bag: Save $1.50.\n11. Store brand savings. Store brands are comparable in nutrition to name brands. And, taste-wise, there may be little difference. In some comparisons, they have been preferred over the name brands.\nSome store brands may vary more in size, color, or texture than the name brands. However, this may be unimportant, depending on their use. A less than perfect appearing vegetable may be just fine if used in a casserole or soup.\nStore brands and lower-priced brands tend to be positioned on the top and bottom shelves. The national brands are more likely to be on the middle shelves.\nExample: Buying just two store brands and saving 50-cents on each: Save $1.00.\n12. Prevent food flops. Check preparation methods for unfamiliar foods. Perhaps that tropical fruit looked enticing at the store. However, if you’re not sure how to prepare it or where to find more information once you bring it home, think again. Or, that new cut of meat – do you slowly roast it or can it be grilled? Either way, find out or risk having a food flop.\nOften the produce person or the meat manager at the store can give you some tips. Many produce departments have books with descriptions of all the items, what they taste like, how to prepare them, etc.\n13. Beware of snack attacks. Unless you’re fairly active and need the calories, enjoy snacks, such as chips, cookies, candy, etc. in limited amounts. You’ll save money and may lose unwanted pounds at the same time!\nExample: Buying one less bag of chips weekly: Save $2.00.\n14. Shop the specials. Plan your menus around sale items, especially more expensive purchases, such as meat. A dollar saved is even better than a dollar earned, as you don’t have to pay taxes on it!\nBuying several packages of meat when it is on sale and freezing it may save quite a bit. “It is safe to freeze meat or poultry directly in its supermarket wrapping but this type of wrap is permeable to air,” advises the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS). “Unless you will be using the food in a month or two, over wrap these packages as you would any food for long-term storage using airtight heavy-duty foil, (freezer) plastic wrap or freezer paper, or place the package inside a (freezer) plastic bag.” If you plan to repackage family packs into smaller amounts, USDA/FSIS also recommends using these materials.\nWhile raw ground meat maintains optimum quality in the freezer for 3 to 4 months, larger pieces of meat like steaks or chops will maintain optimum quality for 4 to 12 months, according to USDA/FSIS. At 0 degrees F, frozen foods remain safe indefinitely. The safest way to thaw meat is in the refrigerator on a plate on the bottom shelf so it doesn’t drip on other foods.\n15. Think before you drink: Buy a reusable water bottle and fill it with tap water. Your investment soon will pay for itself. Limit consumption of soft drinks and fancy coffees.\nExample: Drinking tap water vs. buying a 12 pack of bottled water: Save $4.00.\n16. “Checkout” temptation. OK, you’ve almost made it to the finish line … don’t stumble now as you approach the checkout lane. As you’re waiting in line, think twice before buying some last-minute temptation.\nExample: Resist that magazine with the latest diet: Save $3.50.\nGRAND TOTAL: The more of these tips you can use and the more foods you can use them with, the more you can save. Case in point: If you were able to use each of the preceding examples in one shopping trip, you could save as much as $40 a week.\nMultiply that by 52 weeks and the savings would be … TA DA! … over $2,000 yearly!\nI was working out the other day and feeling quite proud of myself for getting on the horse (again) when I really didn't want to. For the umpteenth time it re-emphasized the fact that I always feel better when I move my body - regardless of how I feel going in. Even if I'm tired, sore, or the idea of working out seems about as appealing as a spoonful of cod liver oil, I will feel better.\nAnd isn't moving your body just like taking medication for the body and soul? If we have an illness or we're in pain, don't we take the appropriate medication to feel better? Even if the prescription may be something unpleasant, we do it, because we know the outcome will bring relief.\nI think it's the same with physical activity. Just like taking medication, once it takes effect, you'll feel better, maybe even wonderful! Our bodies like to move - they want to move. It's important to get that blood and oxygen circulating - allowing your body to do its thing! There's no better way to give it what it wants than giving it the appropriate dose of movement every day.\nThis is one of the first steps to realizing the intrinsic joy of exercise. Your body tells your brain that there will be a pay off off when you exercise, and before you know it, you'll want to work out.\nSo, next time you don't feel like working out - do what I do, think of it as a spoonful of cure. Its good for what ails ya!\nThis Jamaican recipe will have your spirit floating away on the warm trade winds. It one of many family recipes from immigrants, brought to you from the Library of Congress Recipe Section, which are accompanied by personal stories: "I remember as a little girl, my mom, who was very active in the church would season the chicken from the Saturday night, and the spices would fill the whole house. Then early Sunday morning she would cook the curried chicken and we would be so tempted to steal a piece of chicken before we left for Sunday School. Almost every Sunday my mom would invite someone over from church and we would enjoy this delicious dish, along with other native Jamaican dishes." We hope that you, too, will enjoy your house being filled with wonderful smells and memories!\n1 tbls. cooking oil Preparation Clean the chicken well, and cut into nice size pieces.\nAdd all of the spices to the chicken and marinate for no less than 3 hours. Brown the chicken slightly, while leaving some of the spices in the bowl. Add water to the bowl then pour into the pot. Make sure there is enough water in the bottom of the pot for the chicken to simmer in. Cook on medium heat until the liquid starts to thicken and becomes like a gravy. Make sure the chicken is well cooked (no hint of pink). Serve with rice and a green vegtable and enjoy.\nWeight Watchers has started a new campaign ad that says, 'Diets Don't Work...Weight Watchers Does.' The experts at Green Mountain at Fox Run have been saying that since its founding in 1973, but have always stressed healthy eating along with fitness goals and mutual support. Now a new study that uses the latest technology such as the Bod Pod (photo-right) reinforces the Green Mountain philosophy.\nUniversity of Missouri researcher Steve Ball belives his study indicates that a multi-pronged approach to weight loss - diet, exercise and support - is much more likely to be effective than simply taking out a gym membership or joining Weight Watchers alone.\nThe study examined how people lose weight in the real world, comparing not only the number of pounds lost, but also the percentage of body fat. Ball used sophisticated methods, such as a 'Bod Pod' and CT scans to measure the body composition of Weight Watchers vs. fitness club members.\nThe Weight Watchers group averaged a 5% reduction in body weight (or 9 pounds) over a 12 week period, but much of that was lean tissue, not fat.\nThe fitness center group didn't see much of a change on the scale, but those participants did lose fat around the vital organs. Ball says that a change in body composition, regardless of negligible weight loss, is still beneficial to overall health and an improved metabolism.\nSticking with any new lifestyle change takes perseverance. The group support in the Weight Watchers program proved to be very effective at helping participants see the weight loss program through whereas nearly 50 percent of fitness club members quit within 6 months.\nUniversity of Missouri-Columbia. "Weight Watchers Vs. Fitness Centers." ScienceDaily 5 July 2008. 5 July 2008 <http://www.sciencedaily.com­ /releases/2008/07/080702101351.htm>.\nYou'll have lots of free time on Independence Day to enjoy family, friends and fireworks with this 4th of July healthy recipe. I buy the angel food cake, vanilla pudding, and whipped cream premade, but you can make it from scratch if prefer. You can even whip up a trifle faster: the photo on the right shows a version made just with blueberries, raspberries and whipped cream. Now THAT'S easy! And kids love to help with the layering, so it's a great way to show them that delicious desserts can be a part of healthy eating. Have a blast!\nMake pudding by directions on the box (or use store bought). Thaw fruit if frozen. If fruit isn’t frozen, slice into bite sized pieces and add a tsp of sugar to make juices flow. Cut angel food cake into large chunks. Using a large clear dish, place a layer of cake chunks onto the bottom of the container. Top with a layer of strawberries, then a layer of pudding, cake chunks, blueberries, pudding - repeat until you reach the top of the container. Finish with a topping of low fat whipped cream.

The federal government operates by borrowing funds through the issuance of Treasury bonds and other debt instruments of the U.S. Government. Congress periodically increases the total amount of those instruments that can be issued, which is known as the “national debt ceiling”. The Treasury Department advised Congress late in 2009 that it had issued the total amount of the then-current national debt ceiling, and that the government would no longer have the funds to operate after December 31, 2009 unless it could issue additional debt. That additional issuance of debt would require an increase in the national debt ceiling.\nThis was on final passage of the legislation that increased the national debt ceiling. The measure raised the ceiling by $290 billion, which was projected to be a sufficient amount to keep the government operating through early February of 2010.\nThe legislation passed by a vote of 218-214. All two hundred and eighteen “aye” votes were cast by Democrats, including a majority of the most progressive Members. Thirty-nine other Democrats joined all one hundred and seventy-five Republicans and voted “nay”. As a result, the House approved and sent to the Senate legislation increasing the national debt ceiling to enable the government to continue operations through February of 2010.

That was a quote by Mark Twain that a friend sent to me today, asking my thoughts on it.\nI don’t believe we should pray for satan at all. Especially not for him to “turn around”.\nSatan’s end has already been predestined (Rev 20:10). Since God has willed it and it is written in Scripture, prayer in the opposite direction just seems counter-productive.\nThe devil is not human. Scriptures teaching us to share the gospel, praying for salvation, baptising and making disciples are not applicable to demons, angels or animals. Sorry, Whiskers.\nHe’s like Global Public Enemy Number One. He has not had our best interest at heart from day one in the garden, he doesn’t have it now, and he is foretold as trying to lead the world astray until his very end.\nTrust God’s final call. God is love. Because He is the author and embodiment of love itself, He loves better than we ever will. The Bible talks about how God cares even for the grass on the field, the single flower or lone bird. So knowing His character, He definitely did all He could to love and preserve all of His creations, including those outside the circle of humankind.\nWhen you pray for satan to be saved, you pray against God’s will, you glorify what is meant to submit to you and you prove you don’t trust God’s wisdom above your own that is limited and finite.\nI would suggest, before anyone tries to save satan, maybe save a friend; before praying for satan, pray for a friend.\nAlso, do we really need to feel bad for satan? I mean this guy was in the Garden of Eden, a sinless place, he dwelt in the tangible presence of God and had conversations with Him (about attacking humans, but still), he spoke to Jesus multiple times and yet, even in such close proximity with God Himself, satan shows no remorse. If anything, his evil nature is repeatedly showcased as he plots to destroy every single thing God loves.\nIdk. You tell me if this guy is a lost cause.

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Shep: Our Most Loyal Dog (True Story) by Sneed B. Collard III and illustrated by Joanna Yardley, is a poignant story that might be just right to read for Valentine’s Day.\nBased on a true story, people began to notice that Shep the dog showed up whenever a train came into the town of Fort Benton, Montana. No one knew why he did this or where he came from. Slowly, however, the mystery was unraveled. Shep had belonged to a sheepherder who had passed away. The man’s body had been put on the train to be shipped for a funeral in another place. Shep evidently met the incoming trains in the hope that his master/owner/human would return. He would continue to do so for more than five years!\nShep’s story has touched a lot of people, both in the 1930’s when it occurred and today. The town of Fort Benton has even erected a statue in his honor.\nAs for the book, the author has done a wonderful job of remaining true to the story, yet keeping it appropriate for children. The lovely illustrations are dynamic and capture a sense of place.\nShep: Our Most Loyal Dog is a cuddle-up and read with your favorite person kind of book. It is an absolute must for dog lovers, and might be a useful way to approach the topic of loss, as well.\nAre you going to be in Tucson this month? Author Sneed B. Collard III will be at the Tucson Festival of the Book on Saturday, March 9, 2013.\nThe book was provided by the author for review purposes.\nToday’s round-up is at Abby the Librarian.\nI have to admit it was the title that caught my eye when I spotted Sneed B. Collard III’s Most Fun Book Ever About Lizards by Sneed B. Collard III at our local library. What middle-grade child can resist a title like that?\nTo say Sneed Collard’s book is special is an understatement. First of all, the text is written is a conversational, second person style that is relaxed and friendly. He starts out with “Meet Joe Lizard,” detailing the life of “your average” western fence lizard. Sometimes books that use the second person try too hard to be cool, but this one hits just the right note. I was also impressed with the detail and accuracy of the text.\nSecond, most of the lavish full-color photographs in the book were taken by the author. This allows the text and images to fit perfectly, plus there’s less chance that the photographs have been misidentified, a real hazard when using stock photographs. The best part is Sneed Collard is a fantastic photographer.\nThird, the author reveals a real passion for his topic, and in fact admits a “special love of reptiles” in the author blurb on the book jacket. This love of reptiles has led him to include a section on lizard conservation and also a realistic look at keeping lizards as pets, which he doesn’t encourage for reasons he has obviously thought carefully about.\nThe bottom line is that Sneed B. Collard III’s Most Fun Book Ever About Lizards is a must-have for budding herpetologists, and an interesting and entertaining read for the rest of us. I am definitely going to pick up a copy for our family (we have been known to wear our local lizards*).\nToday’s round-up is at Ana’s Nonfiction Blog.

Ask a Fool: When Do You Know to Sell a Stock?\nWhen do you know it&apos;s time to sell?\nIt&apos;s a decision that investors have struggled with as long as there have been markets, and one that has a lot of right and wrong answers.\nWe asked five of our contributors to give us an example of when they would sell, and here&apos;s what they had to say.\nSelena Maranjian:An excellent reason to sell a stock is if you can&apos;t explain why you own it. Perhaps you bought your shares after reading a short but breathless article about the company, and now you can&apos;t even recall exactly what the company does. Perhaps you bought it for some good reason years ago, but you no longer know what the reason was and if it&apos;s still valid. After all, companies do change over time, and they can get more or less promising, as competitors and new technologies emerge.Maybe you inherited the shares from a generous loved one, but you know little about the company and its prospects.\nThese are all situations where you have little business owning the stock -- in part because it could plunge one day and you won&apos;t see it coming.\nIt&apos;s a valuable exercise to jot down at least a few paragraphs about each of your stock holdings, explaining why you own the stock, and when you would sell. Revisit these pages regularly as you keep up with your holdings, to make sure that the companies are still executing their strategies well and remain among your best investment ideas.\nAlways aim to have your money invested in your best, most promising ideas. After all, why put money into your 37th-best idea when you could just add more to one of your top five ideas that&apos;s attractively valued? If you have no idea how promising your various holdings are, you need to do more research -- or simply sell the stocks and move the proceeds into an inexpensive broad-market index fund, such as theSPDR S&P 500 ETF,Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, andVanguard Total World Stock ETF. Those are the kinds of investments you can keep for decades without thinking too much about them.\n: I tend to think that it&apos;s true that even the greatest businesses in the world are great for only one reason. If you look atCostco, perhaps one of the best retailers on Earth, it&apos;s great because it sells its inventory faster than just about anyone else and manages to keep a majority of its members paying dues each year.Visais an incredible business because, over time, inflation leads to more spending, and more spending is moving to cards, which drives its profit growth.Berkshire Hathawayis an incredible company in part because its insurance companies do what few can&apos;t -- charge enough in premiums to cover losses and expenses.\nThe best time to sell a stock is when a company&apos;s most fundamental driver breaks down. For RadioShack, that might have been when the company had to change strategies and focus more on phones than on obscure electronic parts and batteries. ForLumber Liquidators, it may just be that price is no longer the most important factor guiding the purchase decision; quality is.\nEvery time I buy a stock, I make a list of a handful of factors that underlie my rationale for buying it. It keeps these things at the top of my mind, and if anything ever changes, I know it&apos;s time to part ways.\nSean Williams: There are a veritable sea of reasons investors jettison a stock, but none stands out as more valid to me than when the underlying fundamentals of a business change.\nThroughout your investing years, you may have heard that you should seek out "broken stocks, not broken business models." A broken stock is merely a company that&apos;s hit a few bumps in the road, but that still has a valid business model over the long run. In other words, there are clear growth drivers that a company&apos;s management and investors can still foresee. In the case of a broken business model, the previously believed growth drivers are no longer in play, and the long-term success of a stock or industry cannot be guaranteed.\nTwo years ago I had to make the painful decision to part ways with my investment in Tower Group, a property and casualty insurer on the East Coast, because the fundamentals of the business had changed. Under normal circumstances, insurers possess incredible pricing power and can boost premiums to cover higher claims costs. However, in Tower&apos;s case, a restatement of its financials led to a $365 million loan loss reserve shortfall. Not only would Tower have to raise this cash (diluting investors in the process), but the resulting credit downgrades that ensued also pretty much wiped out its ability to underwrite new business. The model was broken.\nAs you decide whether to sell a stock, take a close look at the underlying business fundamentals and determine whether you&apos;re dealing with a potentially broken stock, or a broken business model.\nJoe Tenebruso:Every investment has an opportunity cost. That&apos;s because we all have a limited amount of capital, and every dollar we invest in one company is a dollar we can&apos;t invest in another. So the best way to reach our financial goals within our desired time period is to always try to optimize our investment returns. Therefore, the reason I sell a stock is most often that I&apos;ve simplyfound a better investment option.\nWhat makes a stock a more attractive investment than one I already own? Well, admittedly, the process I use to answer this question is more art than science. However, I also think that this iswhere my edge lies -- in looking past the numbers and emphasizing the intangible aspects of business.\nMost often it&apos;s that I believe the new company has stronger competitive advantages. That could be a more valuable brand, better business model, superior products or services, or more competent management. Even better is when the new company is in the process of widening its competitive moat. In essence, I always want to own the businesses that are the strongest and growing stronger, as I believe that is the best way to generate superior risk-adjusted returns.\nJason Hall: The very best reason to sell a stock? You&apos;ve finally reached an investing milestone, and it&apos;s time to cash in some of those hard-earned gains and pay for a child&apos;s education, start funding your retirement, or get that vacation home or RV you&apos;ve been wanting for years.\nI think that keeping this in mind before you sell any stock can help you make better investing decisions, because it can help keep you focus on your goals, and not on the short-term distractions that can lead to bad choices.\nIf you keep your eye on your goals, versus getting caught up in the short-term of the market, you&apos;ll probably make better decisions about when to sell.\nThe article Ask a Fool: When Do You Know to Sell a Stock? originally appeared on Fool.com.\nJason Hall owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Costco Wholesale, and Lumber Liquidators. Joe Tenebruso has no position in any stocks mentioned. Jordan Wathen has no position in any stocks mentioned. Sean Williams has no position in any stocks mentioned. Selena Maranjian owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway and Costco Wholesale. The Motley Fool recommends Berkshire Hathaway, Costco Wholesale, Lumber Liquidators, and Visa. The Motley Fool owns shares of Berkshire Hathaway, Costco Wholesale, Lumber Liquidators, and Visa. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

Vintage 1980's 10K Amethyst Straight Line Bracelet. This beautiful bracelet was made in the 1980s and has twenty oval faceted light purple amethysts, each set with four prongs. The stones have a total weight of 13 carats, as estimated by measurement. The bracelet measures 7 inches long and 3/16 inch wide, with box catch and figure 8 safety clasp.\nCondition: Very good vintage condition, with minor surface wear and no damage noted.\nMeasurements: Bracelet is 7 inches long and 3/16 inch wide.

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Q: About 3 years ago I met a beautiful young lady in need of Jesus. I witnessed to her and she accepted Him into her life and grew in her faith.\nWe began to date after her salvation and she confided in me that she had been married previously to a man who physically abused her and was unfaithful. She got a divorce and moved on with her life.\nI struggled with the relationship after hearing about her divorce, many other believers told me that since she divorced for adulterous reasons, it was ‘okay’ for me to marry her. We’ve now been married two years.\nI’m honest when I tell you that I truly love her, but I am bombarded with feelings of guilt and sin over the whole matter. It seems everything I read and hear on this subject is split down the middle; either that I’m living in adultery by being married to a divorced woman—even if it was for adulterous reasons—or they say we had every right to marry.\nI have read and re-read Matthew 19:9 and Matthew 5:32 so many times that the words are starting to lose meaning. I somehow can’t get past “let no man put asunder what God has joined” and “A woman is bound to a man as long as he liveth.” It just seems so contradictory to the idea of remarriage.\nI’m filled with guilty feelings. My conscience never feels clean anymore; and every time I read the Bible, I’m hoping to hit on a magic verse dealing with this matter. Sometimes I feel like I’m doing the right thing, and sometimes I feel like I’m deliberately sinning against God. I’m so overcome with these feelings that I don’t even know if I should be married anymore.\nA: Keith, I’m so glad that you wrote to me, and thank you for giving me all of these details.\nFirst of all, I want to thank you for your sensitivity to God. You know there are many people who remarry who never give it a second thought. You are trying to think through this. You are trying to please the Lord, and I want to commend you for that.\nSecondly, I can see that this problem in your mind is so serious that unless you clear it up, it’s going to greatly impact your marriage, and so I hope I can help you and give you some advice in that direction.\nLet’s start off by assuming the worst: that when you married this young woman, you committed adultery because God still recognized the previous bond. The fact is, now you are indeed married, and I believe that God recognizes that as valid. Think, for example, of Jesus speaking to the woman at the well. You know He makes that off-handed comment, “you have had five husbands and he whom you now have is not your husband.” I’ve often pondered that because surely Jesus wasn’t saying, you’ve had five husbands because they all died and you remarried. The idea was that there was divorce involved, and yet each of these was considered to be a husband. God recognized the marriage as valid.\nOne day I was having lunch with a very famous Bible teacher who teaches that once you marry someone who has been divorced and you realize that every time you are intimate together you commit adultery, you should sleep in separate bedrooms. And I said to him, “is that what you would want me to preach here at The Moody Church, where we have many divorced people who have remarried?” He never did answer that question, and I think it was because he’s wrong, and because it would be very unwise to teach that.\nSo at this point, Keith, you are married to this woman. Accept that marriage. Accept the fact that you have been bonded together physically and metaphysically by God, and move on. It is so important. It is so important for you to accept God’s forgiveness for her—obviously God has forgiven her—and for any error that you might have made in the past. Having accepted that, get on with your Christian life and your walk, and love your wife as Christ loved the church.\nIt only takes one person to forgive, but it takes two people to reconcile.\nI feel I’m very ineffective at prayer, and just a few days ago, a passage of Scripture struck me in a way that gave me pause.

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Monte Carlo simulation of a human TTR injected with CuCl2. What more can I say? Nature is beautiful. Humans are part of nature – and quite beautiful too, even at the protein level!\nNext to a Voronoi, a Delaunay triangulation is a dual graph of the same diagram. It is used for modeling and mapping randomness in 3D.\nApparently, It didn’t make for a very happy camper in this image. The spiral originated in a random set of hydrogen particles I triangulated on one side and used as a texture for the inverted dodecahedron on the left.\nIt kind of reminds me of a Tahitian Tiki wooden statue. Legends say that Tiki was the progenitor of humanity. Hydrogen is the simplest known element in the universe. Did one lead to the other? Randomness in art can be unpredictable too.\nMathematicians have a good sense of humor, I hope. Linking points on an eggshell make for surprising Voronoi diagrams. The background is a random size and positioning of the particles I used to create the Voronoi tessellation.\nVoronoi make for nice stain-glass window patterns. A Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to point. When the points are set randomly – it creates unexpected shapes.\nThe object on the right side? An import from last week’s design. So many of you liked it, I felt I owed it to you! Thx for the support.

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When you graduate you will therefore be able to jump not only at Skydive Empuriabrava, but also anywhere else in the world.\nTraining is completely personalised. First you are given classes in theory and do practical exercises on the ground. You then fly up to an altitude of 4,000 metres for the first tandem jump. You may then take the 7 levels of AFF.\nOn your first tandem jump, you will practice exercises in freefall and under the parachute. You then will jump with two instructors, who will assist you in freefall: they will keep hold of your arms and legs, secure you and correct your position while you gain a further minute of freefall experience. Once your parachute is open, you should then steer it in to land. Your instructors will already have landed and will contact you by radio.\nDuring the first 3 AFF levels you will continue to jump with your two instructors, who will secure your arms and legs to correct your position, if necessary. As you gain in confidence and freefall experience, you will observe that they progressively let go of you.\nFrom level 4 to 7, your confidence will have grown slightly and you will jump with only one instructor. He will guide your progress as you learn how to do turns, loops and tracks, until you graduate after AFF level 7.\nThroughout the 7 AFF levels, we will record the exercises you do in freefall on video. While viewing the DVD, your instructors can analyse and review your jump extremely thoroughly, thus sharpening your learning curve significantly. Your DVD will also provide a fantastic reminder of this great experience.\nThe AFF PLUS course is internationally recognised. When you graduate you will therefore be able to jump not only at Skydive Empuriabrava, but also anywhere else in the world.\nIn the AFF PLUS course training is completely personalised. First you are given classes in theory and do practical exercises on the ground. Next, you will fly up to an altitude of 4,000 metres for the first tandem jump in order to practice the free fall exercises and the canopy flying.\nThe next step will be done in the WIND TUNNEL (free fall simulator), where you will train specifically the free fall exercises that you will perform in the real jumps.\nThen you will jump with two instructors, who will assist you in freefall: they will keep hold of your arms and legs, secure you and correct your position while you gain a further minute of freefall experience. Once your parachute is open, you should then steer it in to land. Your instructors will already have landed and will contact you by radio.\nAs you gain confidence and experience in free fall you will see how you will gradually be released.\nFrom level 2 you will jump with only one instructor. He will guide your progress as you learn how to do turns,loops and tracks, until you graduate.\nThroughout the levels of the course, we will record the exercises you do in freefall on video ( from level 2 to level 6). While viewing the video, your instructors can analyse and review your jump extremely thoroughly, thus sharpening your learning curve significantly.\nYour video will also provide a fantastic reminder of this great experience.\nThe IFF (Mini AFF) is a two-day introductory course to skydiving and to freefall. Upon completing it, if you opt to continue and obtain your license to jump alone, you can progress by taking a level 2 AFF course, as you have already received full theoretical training.\nTraining is completely personalised. First you are given classes in theory and do practical exercises on the ground. You then fly up to an altitude of 4,000 metres for the first tandem jump. Lastly, you take AFF level 1.\nDuring your tandem jump you will practice AFF Level 1 exercises in freefall and flying under the parachute, under the constant supervision of your instructors.\nYou will jump with two instructors, who will assist you in freefall. They will keep hold of your arms and legs, secure you and correct your position, if necessary, while you gain a further minute of freefall experience. Once your parachute is open, you should then steer it in to land. Your instructors will already have landed and will contact you by radio.\nWe also record the exercises you perform during your AFF level 1 freefall on video. While viewing the DVD, your instructors can analyse and review your jump extremely thoroughly. The DVD will also give you a fantastic reminder of this great experience.\nYou must present a medical certificate specifying that you are fit to do sport.\nMinimum age for skydiving is 16 years old. 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Western Law is taking a lead in the conversation around student mental health. Dr. Susan Battista, a Registered Psychologist, joined Western Law this summer and will be the faculty’s first Student Wellness Counsellor.\nDr. Battista has a BA in Psychology from Western, an MA in Social and Developmental Psychology from Wilfrid Laurier University and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Dalhousie University. She has worked with children, adolescents and adults in numerous settings and has a specific interest in Concurrent Disorders ⎼when there is a mental health and substance use disorder.\nBattista will counsel law students who are experiencing mental health challenges (referring them to outside agencies where appropriate) and develop and deliver programming.\n“The plan is to have a variety of services easily accessible for law students looking for more support or requiring specific treatment,” says Battista.\nShe notes it’s important to open up the conversation about mental health and substance use.\nBattista will offer a number of services including individual counselling, group programs, and community events. She hopes to provide a flexible service that will eliminate barriers to accessing care.\n“Making wellness a priority and building resiliency is a lifelong process that doesn’t start or stop in law school,” says Battista.\nBattista says there’s a perceived expectation that law students needs to be completely devoted to their academics. This kind of pressure can come at the expense of one’s well-being.

In August 2018 the BBC published an article online about a woman in the Netherlands called Aurelia Brouwers. The full article can be found here.\nThe article went on to explain that in the Netherlands euthanasia is permitted if a doctor is satisfied a patient's suffering is "unbearable with no prospect of improvement" and if there is "no reasonable alternative in the patient's situation".\nAlthough most euthanasia candidates in the Netherlands have terminal or otherwise untreatable medical conditions, 83 people with mental health issues were subject to euthanasia in 2017. Only around 10% of requests for euthanasia from people with psychiatric conditions are approved.\nWhen I was 12, I suffered from depression. And when I was first diagnosed, they told me I had Borderline Personality Disorder," she says. "Other diagnoses followed - attachment disorder, chronic depression, I'm chronically suicidal, I have anxiety, psychoses, and I hear voices.\nOn 26th January 2018 she was given the poison that would kill her and took it.\nReaders of this blog will know that I continue to be troubled by people with mental disorders either being allowed to die,or facilitating their deaths.\nAssisted suicide, which is what euthanasia is, remains a criminal offence in the UK, so cases like Aurelia Brouwers cannot happen here. That is not to say that there are no cases of assisted suicide, but the incidence of such cases is low.\nAccording to the Crown Prosecution Service, between 1st April 2009 and 31st January 2018, there were 138 cases referred by the police that had been recorded as assisted suicide. Of these 138 cases, 91 were not proceeded with by the CPS. 28 cases were withdrawn by the police. This is an average of only around 15 per year.\nThere are currently two ongoing cases. Three cases of assisted attempted suicide have been successfully prosecuted. One case of assisted suicide was charged and acquitted after trial in May 2015 and seven cases were referred onwards for prosecution for homicide or other serious crime.\nOne such case was that of Kevin Howe. He was a friend of Stephen Walker, who while drunk, asked him to buy him some petrol so he could set fire to himself. He duly obliged, and Stephen fulfilled his promise. Stephen did survive, but Kevin Howe was found guilty of attempted assisted suicide, and received a 12 year prison sentence.\nAnother case was that of Lyndsay Jones. She was an acquaintance of Philip Makinson, who was suffering from severe depression and had already tried to kill himself by cutting his wrists. She was a heroin addict, and at his request and with his consent provided him with what she knew to be a fatal dose of heroin. She was convicted of manslaughter, and received a prison sentence of 4½ years.\nIt is significant that both these cases involved people with mental health problems rather than terminal illness. In one of these cases, the person who “assisted” the person wishing to kill themselves did so with deliberate malice. According to the CPS, it is less likely to lead to a prosecution if the person assisting “was wholly motivated by compassion”. In these situations, this was certainly not the case.\nHowever, there are situations in which people with mental disorder have been permitted to die, either through no action being taken to save life, or through a decision of the courts to cease lifesaving treatment.\nOne such, of course, is the case of Kerrie Wooltorton, which I have discussed at length in two blog posts, most recently in June 2018. Kerrie took a fatal dose of antifreeze, and because she had written an advance decision to withhold treatment, the doctors in the A&E department allowed her to die. I am thankfully not aware of any other incidences in which an advance decision has been made, or allowed to stand, for a person with mental disorder.\nThere have also been Court of Protection decisions relating to people with mental disorder, where a decision has been taken to cease lifesaving treatment. One, the case of C from 2015, concerned a woman with narcissistic personality disorder who did not wish to continue treatment for the effects of a serious overdose because she had “lost her sparkle” and no longer wanted to live.\nThere have also been two other cases, the case of X and the case of W, both of whom had anorexia nervosa, where the decision was made not to continue with forced treatment for their disorders.\nThere is an essential difference between a regime in which someone with mental disorder can legally be assisted to end their own life at their request, and one where it is necessary for a court to make a situation specific decision regarding whether or not to continue to provide lifesaving treatment for the consequences of a mental disorder.\nWith the former, there is always the risk that a clinic specialising in assisting suicide, which presumably would expect to receive payment for the service, may not be sufficiently rigorous in deciding whether or not someone has the capacity to make a decision that will end their life. Indeed, it could be possible for a rogue clinician to encourage people to die.\nThere are several examples of doctors and nurses who have deliberately killed their patients. A British one is of course Dr Harold Shipman. Another currently in the German courts is Niels Hoegel, a nurse who has admitted killing at least 100 patients under his care.\nMy basic position stands, which is that no-one who wants to end their life because of their mental disorder should be permitted to do so if it can be prevented. This is one of the basic principles that informs my practice as an AMHP. Furthermore, the resources should be in place to reduce completed suicide as much as possible.\nIn October 2018, Jackie Doyle-Price was appointed as Minister for suicide prevention. This was in response to the fact that suicide is now the leading cause of death in men under 45 years in age.\nUnfortunately, despite the recent announcement that £2 billion is being provided for mental health services, this is not actually new money, and in view of the leaching away of funding for mental health care over the last 8 years, even if it was all spent on improving services, it would be unlikely to significantly improve suicide prevention.\nThis report suggested “10 ways to improve safety” in this helpful diagram.\nIt is clear that current services are failing miserably to provide these essential safety strategies, and it is unlikely that the current Government, Suicide Minister or not, has the motivation or will to make a significant difference to suicide prevention.\nI feel that a patient should be allowed to have the means to have a peaceful death if their mental illness is severe and unremitting and the patient has been discharged from support from a mental health team on the basis that the team feel there is nothing they can provide to support the patient or help them towards recovery. To discharge a severely depressed person because the team feel their input is not beneficial is the point when the patient should be enabled to make their own choices as to how much suffering they are able to bear.\nWhat is missing in this is what is the underlying belief system and values the person holds and consideration of this. I dislike the term Euthanasia and prefer Assisted Death. If I have intractable and intolerable mental pain parity means that I have as much right to end my life as someone in physical pain. Severe enduring mental health conditions are a disability with overlying acute symptoms.There comes a time whereby acceptance of the situation is inevitable and if - as in my case- I have always believed in the right to die then this is a decision made with capacity that should be respected. I would want someone to have been offered as much support as possible to live a meaningful life but when it is clear there is no more that can be done then allow me to die with dignity. In lime with my core beliefs. I find it sad that those so young have made this decision but you cant just turn up at Dignitas and say 'kill me i am depressed'- i is a long necessarily complex detailed process. I want peace And my core beliefs to be respected at this stage in my life. I dont see that as suicide.\nBanning reliable, legal euthanasia for those of us who want to end our unbearable suffering does not stop people trying to take their lives, it just prolongs suffering, forces us to go DIY alone, & results in botched attempts & gruesome surprises for F&F. Other countries are more humane.\nFor someone who purports (and is legally ibliged) the social perspective of mental health, I would argue you seem to have a strong paternalistic and state involvement driven element to your oracrice. If a person who, even with all the best resources, care and treatments no longer wishes to end their life because they no longer want to live with the pain of their condition, that should be their right, subject to capacity and strict legal safeguards. I also take great exception to you mentioning Shipman and the German nurse, these are incredibly rare occurrences and comes across as you attacking healthcare orofeprofessi as being inherently untrustworthy.\nI am not opposed per se to someone with a terminal illness wishing to end their life, but I am bothered a great deal by assisted suicide being offered to people with mental disorders. It is Government policy, and the policy of many if not all MH Trusts to reduce the incidence of suicide, which is generally associated with mental disorder. If the mental disorder can be successfully treated, then the person would not want to kill themselves. The fact the the Governemnt have starved Trusts of funds to provide adequate treatment and support for people with mental disorder does not justify encouraging such people to take their own lives, with or without help. I don't think thinking that is paternalistic. And by the way, there was a case in the Netherlands only last week, where a doctor administered a chemical designed to end the life of an elderly woman in spite of evidence that appeared to indicate that the woman was objecting to this procedure.\nWhy not join? With over 5400 members, it's an ever growing, but nevertheless friendly and supportive group. AMHPs, AMHP trainees, social work and nursing students, service users, carers and relatives, and others with a professional or personal interest in mental health, such as psychiatrists, nurses, psychologists, police officers and bloggers, all get on together (most of the time!). It's a great place to pose a question or discuss thorny issues relating to the Mental Health Act, the Mental Capacity Act and mental health in general.\nFollow the Masked AMHP on Twitter!\nYou can follow The Masked AMHP on Twitter: @MaskedAMHP You know you want to.\nIf you sometimes wonder what all the jargon and abbreviations on this blog mean, you can find an explanation here.\nI am an Approved Mental Health Professional and Practice Consultant working for a local authority AMHP Service in England. I have practiced under 3 Mental Health Acts, since as long ago as 1981, even before the 1983 Mental Health Act. Which makes me pretty ancient now. This blog is designed to illuminate and explain the functions and dliemmas of an AMHP within the Mental Health Act. It is intended to be of help to professionals and service users alike. I hope that it is both informative and entertaining. I am also a freelance trainer, and teach mental health law on an AMHP course. 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Energy Level: Very High The American Kennel Club recognizes the Border Collie in 17 colors and 7 markings.\nAllergies are fairly common in Border Collies, which can range in severity from minor localized itching to more serious cases that can develop into full-blown bacterial infections. Epilepsy is also seen in the breed. Border Collies and other collie breeds often react adversely to some drugs such as ivermectin, Imodium A-D, flagyl, and some anesthetics. A mutant gene (mdr1) is responsible for these reactions. A DNA test offered by the Washington State University Veterinary School can identify whether a dog has this gene. These drugs should be avoided until this test is run to determine whether the dog carries this gene. Osteochondrosis Dissecans (OCD), a painful condition caused by improper growth of the joint cartilage, is also seen; it may require surgical repair.\nBorder Collies live to work. Energetic, possessing immense mental and physical stamina and working drive, these dogs are suitable for a very few. Imagine a dog bred with enough intelligence to herd huge flocks of sheep over hilly terrain all day, every day. Now imagine that dog, with all the same energy and drive, in the average home; it is easy to see that this is not the dog for apartment or condo life. Indeed, it is not even the dog for many with large yards. For anyone who wants a laid back, cuddly couch potato or stay-at-home dog, this isn’t it.\nIt’s no wonder that Border Collies are known as master escape artists; their curiosity, intelligence and drive pushes them to find something to do, somewhere, if their humans don’t provide an outlet. Their herding instinct can be strong, which means they are likely to attempt to herd children, which can include nipping at heels. This can be made worse by the noisy play of children, which can excite and stimulate a Border Collie to chase. Many will chase cars if they have the opportunity. Chasing cats should be expected. This herding desire cannot be trained out of them. Their exercise needs are epic, both physical and, just as important, mental, and these needs must be satisfied 7 days a week. Playing some fetch or taking a walk isn’t going to come close to satisfying them. An under exercised or bored Border Collie is capable of unfathomable destruction, hyperactivity and neurotic behavior. Indeed, if you have a Border Collie – especially a young one – your life will be working with him, training, and providing activities to satisfy his intense need to work. This is one of the most challenging breeds to live with.\nBorder Collies were bred to have and use significant brainpower, which makes them very challenging to live with unless you bring vast experience to the table. Their extreme work ethic and need for a job can be overwhelming to those unprepared for such a workaholic dog.\nMany people think if they get an intelligent dog, it will be easier to train. While this can be true in how quickly a dog picks things up, it also means they can learn the wrong things just as quickly, and their need for learning and doing continues for their entire lives. Border Collies excel in many dog sports; obedience, agility, nosework, tracking, you name it. Those that love working and training dogs are infatuated with this breed’s intelligence, sensitivity to their handler, and even their tendency to be strong willed and opinionated.\nBorder Collies carry a moderate double coat in 2 varieties; “rough” which has a softer texture and has feathering on the legs and tail, and “smooth”, which is a short coat with minimal feathering and a coarser texture. Both coat types stay remarkably clean, and weekly brushing and only occasional baths are normally needed. In the spring and fall, Border Collies will ‘blow’ coat, when all the undercoat is shed. Extra time spent brushing and raking out undercoat during these periods will prevent matting and reduce the amount of fluff that ends up in your house. Ears must be cleaned regularly, and toenails may need to be trimmed. Teeth should also be checked and cleaned as necessary.\nThe amount of food a Border Collie will require can vary depending on age, activity level, and type of food fed. On average, BC’s will eat about 1.5 – 2 cups of food. This amount should be fed in two meals per day. A high quality food is recommended for best results. If allergies surface, a hypoallergenic food may be needed. At such times, some trial and error may be needed to find the right food for your dog. To avoid overfeeding during training, you may use a portion of your BC’s daily diet for training treats. A constant supply of fresh, clean water must always be available.\nLooking for a Border Collie?\nModerately priced, Border Collies can be found from $600-$1,200, with some as high as $2,500. Breed rescues are active and provide another source, particularly attractive to people who wish to help a homeless dog and wish to avoid the challenges of raising a Border Collie puppy.\nOngoing expenditures include the typical supplies, food, and regular vet visits. Additionally, you may need to invest in an extra supply of chew and food-dispensing toys as well as training classes to keep your busy Border Collie occupied and healthy.\nThe Border Collie rates a 4, due to the skill level needed to raise and keep them happy, the grooming they require, and their need for ongoing training and mental stimulation.

You've said that the lyrics on new album The Powerless Rise are meant to offer a solution to the problems of the modern world. What, exactly, is that solution?\nThere's a lot of things that we focus on in society that would actually be better if we completely reverse [them]. For instance, there's such an emphasis on material gain, and there's a couple songs on the album that talk a lot about turning that idea upside down and finding the strength in simplicity, and a completely backwards style of living than what we're taught — especially in Western culture ... Instead of trying to solve our own problems and focus on ourselves, which seems to be kind of a popular psychology, the opening track is about finding people whose situation is worse than our own. In the process of trying to help them we actually end up solving our own problems.\nYou're an openly religious band — you recently got a "rocking Jesus" tattoo on the TV show L.A. Ink — do you think that tends to alienate could-be fans, or does it draw new listeners to your type of metalcore music?\nI definitely view it as a no-win situation in a lot of ways. The really traditional metal fans think that our point of view has no place in the metal world. And then, sometimes, the religious side, people that would normally buy the contemporary-Christian type music, think that our music itself is too extreme and the actual sound of our music is maybe a turnoff. But I feel like there's nothing I can do to change that. I can only represent who I am.\nYour side project, Austrian Death Machine, was created in tribute to Arnold Schwarzenegger. Why?\nIt's something kind of fun and lighthearted, a contrast to how serious and heartfelt As I Lay Dying is. It's kind of a play on stereotypes, in that metal kind of has that really, over the top, lots of testosterone, maybe even at times meathead kind of feel to it. And then you think about all of Arnold's action movies and kind of what they were going for at that time. I think that in their own way, they're both things that I love. And it just kind of reminds me not to take everything so seriously.\nYour band name is taken from the William Faulkner novel — what's the story there?\nAt the time, nobody in the band had ever read the book. So we just liked the way the name sounded. We have since, through our lyrics, kind of given the name it's own meaning in this context. Looking back, it's funny because it's obviously a very well written and popular book, but at the time we had never even heard of it. ... To be honest, I've actually only skimmed through it [since then]. The writing style of Faulkner is definitely interesting, but the storyline itself to me isn't enough to get me through the whole book.\nYour last album, An Ocean Between Us, was described as being less metalcore, more thrash/heavy metal, than your previous releases. Which direction would you say The Powerless Rise leans towards?\nI guess it probably balances the two a little bit, but it definitely has mainly metal elements. I think as far as the type of energy, it's more similar to some of our old albums in that we have more variation on this one than we did on An Ocean Between Us.

These days, the slim and uncertain start of Gorham Sand & Gravel is the stuff of lore: these two teenage brothers, 17 and 19, who already had a valued work ethic, decided to strike out on their own shortly after Jim graduated from high school. From the start, they were business savvy, with a clear direction and sense of purpose.\nThat first year, the brothers said, the company might’ve earned $100,000 or so, and equipment was slim. Tom purchased a dump truck and some concrete panels, and soon after, the brothers bought Standish Sanitary, a garbage collection company. By 1994, the brothers had sold Standish Sanitary and the foundation portion of the business to focus on earthwork.\nThe construction industry during those years was enjoying a housing boom, and there was little competition. “They got into it at a time when it made sense,” said Mark Curtis, GSG’s operations manager. When times were lean, Jim would recall his father’s mantra: “What are they gonna do, take away your birthday?” And so on they went, working harder and harder, each brother running a crew and bidding as low as they dared on contracts to earn jobs that would grow the business.\n“They didn’t have much back then,” said Deb Sawyer, an original Gorham Sand & Gravel employee who did the books – and about everything else. There were times, Sawyer said, that neither brother could pay himself, but they made sure the few employees who started out with the company were treated well.\nFrom those early days, the company has emerged as a powerhouse in the construction industry, the go-to guys for earthwork; lines for sewer, storm drains, water and utilities; excavation and backfill for foundations, gravel for roads, parking lots, and sidewalks. They’ve gone from a handful of employees to more than 50, and owning 450 acres, including three gravel pits.\nRecently, revenues topped more than $15 million – not bad for a pair of brothers who still poke at each other as if they were back home on the farm. And, though they used to get jobs by being the low bidder, Gorham Sand & Gravel has forged a reputation for being on time, efficient, fair, and for performing great work. Contractors now call on them for important jobs; some 40% of their business, Jim said, comes from repeat customers and referrals.\n“The whole organization, from the guy in the hole to the guy running the shop, their commitment is what makes them different,” said Greg Patterson, owner of PATCO Construction Co. Central to the company’s philosophy is a strong belief in the Maine work ethic and values. Business often is done with a handshake, nothing is bought unless it’s necessary, and the company makes a priority of paying its bills on time. Independent contractors, in fact, often are paid within days of their work, and the company has always had a goal of being debt-free. “With Gorham Sand & Gravel, it is what it is – you can take their word to the bank more than any piece of paper,” Patterson said.\nBoth brothers now marvel at what is now company lore – how their mother helped to finance the birth of the company. As the story goes, in 1987, Tom, then all of 19, knew he needed some capital to buy a backhoe, so he turned first to his father. Dewayn, however, wanted to charge a higher-than-usual interest rate on the loan. The brothers then went to their mother to co-sign a loan, who considered the request overnight before agreeing to put her house up for collateral – the house that was built by her now-divorced husband, Dewayn. “That was a good lesson for us,” Jim said, chuckling. “He wasn’t going to give us anything – we didn’t expect him to, anyway.” Their mother, Sally, still lives in the house. On the wall is the note, framed, and presented to her years later by her sons.\nGorham Sand & Gravel also works smart – every project is tackled with a variety of strategies to overcome any obstacles and can continue to work efficiently. And while Tom and Jim have retained their character, they’ve also looked ahead to new technologies. Years ago, for example, a job site was outlined with wooden stakes, which these days more often than not are replaced with hand-held GPS devices that clearly map out the terrain, including all existing facilities and proposed improvements.\nIt’s this ability to treat people right that has earned Gorham Sand and Gravel a strong reputation. “All four of my brothers feel it wasn’t them who made their businesses what they are, it was their employees,” Kitty said. “It takes a whole family to run a business.” If you talk to employees, the owners are the key to the success. If you talk to the owners, the employees are the foundation. “We have great people here,” Jim said. “If you ask me, we have the best people in the business.” Many employees have been with the company for 15 years or so, Tom said, adding that they consider employees as extended family. Jim and Tom also have been known to help out employees who have left the company – offering business advice. “Employees leave these guys and they help them with business?” Patterson said, impressed. “Who does that? No one does that!” Or, in Deb Sawyer’s case, Tom spotted her at a restaurant one day and paid for her lunch. “If you ever need anything they’d make sure they were there for you,” she said.\nThe company’s graciousness extends beyond employees: Gorham Sand & Gravel believes strongly in giving back to the community. Each year, they donate thousands of dollars to good causes; in 2007 alone, they contributed to local schools, youth sports teams, Camp Sunshine, Habitat for Humanity, and the Gorham Women’s Club, and many others.\nJim Roberts, a longtime employee, left Gorham Sand & Gravel for a while, and then returned to the company, in part because of the brothers’ commitment to employees and excellence, and to the greater community. “If you have a good attitude and work hard and want to get it done, they make it worth your while,” he said.\n“We never dreamed we’d be this big,” Jim said, shaking his head. “It’s all people – we’ve just got some unbelievable people.” “Two decades into the business”, brother Jon said, “and Gorham Sand & Gravel is just getting going.” “I don’t think they’ve hit their prime yet,” he said.

Large companies, specifically the ones with revenues surpassing $1 billion in the US, may soon have to reveal how much of their processes are being outsourced to offshore locations once the house bill ‘Outsourcing Accountability Act’ proposed by Rep. Gary Peters (D-M) and co-sponsored by Reps. Tim Bishop (D-N.Y.) and Jerry McNerney (D-Ca.) is ratified. The firms will also be obligated to indicate their domestic and offshore employment activities, as well as a detailed report that shows which countries their outsourced employees come from.\nFurthermore, the bill is set to lessen the ambiguous employment figures declared by renowned companies such as IBM, Pfizer, and Apple. All of them publicly share the number of employees, but not the exact number of those who are working overseas. Also, from 2000 to 2009, 2.9 million jobs were lost in the US, while 2.4 million were created abroad.\nAccording to Peters, this will not make things harder for companies as they already have the needed information, and it is impossible for them to not know where they send their pay checks.\nMoreover, a report posted August of last year showed that companies that do not disclose exact data are also appealing for tax breaks under the impression of creating jobs, but since lawmakers are presented with vague figures, they cannot monitor which companies are actually creating jobs.\nGeneral Electric (GE) and Wal-Mart are some of the large companies that have shared the exact numbers of employees who are working abroad. For GE, the number of US-based employees decreased from 54 percent in 2000 to 46 percent in 2010.\nPeters added that correct data will help consumers who want to support American workers easily identify these companies and provide more information for investors.

The A Thousand Guitars blog has posted a nice album review type feature on Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with The Sick-Leaves being described as ‘boundary pushing’ which is certainly great to hear.\nThis entry was posted in Album artwork, Album reviews, Blog, Blog review, Downloads, Eksteen Jacobsz, Interviews, Last Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and tagged album review, blog, blog review, eksteen jacobsz, last dance of the Sugar plum fairy, thesickleaves. Bookmark the permalink.

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adaptable, flexible, all-around, multifaceted, multitalented, resourceful.\nA big thank you to 'J' and Clara for the versatility award! E-hug.\n1}I find it difficult to swallow tablets. I will drink plenty of water EHEN!\n2}I don't like tin-tomatoes in stews. I use it mostly to prepare jollof rice.\n3}I like short weaveons and braids only. Long hair makes my neck itch.\n4}I wear a size 13 shoe, yeah, I knowww, BIG FOOT! ahahaha.\n5}I like watching documentaries, esp about animals and culture.\n6} I don't know how to fuss over people, and trendy stuff, I simply do me!\n7} P-square are my all time fav musicians. I listen to them often.\nThank you and have a blessed weekend.

71. וְהַתַּלְמִיד חָכָם שָׁקוּל לְכָל בַּעֲלֵי הַתּוֹרָה, וְכָךְ צָרִיךְ לִשְׁקֹל עַצְמוֹ מִצִּדָּהּ שֶׁל הַתּוֹרָה, וּמִצַּד הָאֵיבָרִים שֶׁל הַגּוּף צָרִיךְ לִשְׁקֹל לְעַצְמוֹ לְכָל עַמֵּי הָאָרֶץ, כְּמוֹ שֶׁבֵּאֲרוּהָ בַּעֲלֵי הַמִּשְׁנָה, לְעוֹלָם יִרְאֶה אָדָם עַצְמוֹ כְּאִלּוּ כָּל הָעוֹלָם כֻּלּוֹ תָּלוּי בּוֹ. וִיכַוֵּן בְּנַפְשׁוֹ וּבְרוּחוֹ וּבְנִשְׁמָתוֹ לַעֲשׂוֹת אוֹתָם קָרְבָּנוֹת עִם כָּל בְּנֵי הָעוֹלָם. וְהַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא מְצָרֵף מַחֲשָׁבָה טוֹבָה לְמַעֲשֶׂה. וּבָזֶה, אָדָם וּבְהֵמָה תּוֹשִׁיעַ ה’. קָמוּ כָּל הַתַּנָּאִים וְהָאָמוֹרָאִים אֵלָיו, וְאָמְרוּ כֻלָּם בְּקוֹל אֶחָד: אַתָּה הוּא הָרוֹעֶה הַנֶּאֱמָן שֶׁיֵּשׁ לְךָ רְשׁוּת לַעֲשׂוֹת אֶת כָּל זֶה, שֶׁאַתָּה שָׁקוּל לְכָל יִשְׂרָאֵל, וּמִשּׁוּם כָּךְ שָׁלַח אוֹתְךָ הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא בֵּינֵיהֶם. (ע”כ הרעיא מהימנא).\n72. זֹאת תּוֹרָה הָעֹלָה. אָמַר רַבִּי חִיָּיא, אֶת הַפָּסוּק הַזֶּה בֵּאַרְנוּ בַּגָּוֶן הַזֶּה: זֹאת תּוֹרַת – זוֹ כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל. הָעֹלָה – זוֹ מַחֲשָׁבָה רָעָה, שֶׁעוֹלָה עַל רְצוֹנוֹ שֶׁל אָדָם לַהֲסִיטוֹ מִדֶּרֶךְ הָאֱמֶת. הִיא הָעֹלָה – הִיא הִיא שֶׁעוֹלָה לְהַסְטִין עַל הָאָדָם, וְרוֹצֶה לִשְׂרֹף אוֹתוֹ בָּאֵשׁ, כְּדֵי שֶׁלֹּא יִנָּתֵן לוֹ מָקוֹם לְהַשְׂטִין. וְלָכֵן, עַל הַמִּזְבֵּחַ כָּל הַלַּיְלָה. מִי הַלַּיְלָה? זוֹ כְּנֶסֶת יִשְׂרָאֵל, שֶׁהִיא זֹאת, לְטַהֵר אֶת הָאָדָם מֵאוֹתוֹ רָצוֹן.\nThe wise Torah scholar should regard himself in comparison against other Torah students. From the light aspects of Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshamah. From the point of the body parts and the side of the Nefesh, Ruach, and Neshama of the beast level, he should compare himself against all the regular people of the world.\nThe sages of the Mishna (Talmud) taught us that a person should see himself as if the whole world depends on him. He should meditate with all the levels of his soul to make sacrifices together with all people of the world. The Holy One Blessed be He, put together every positive thought and action.\nThe Tannaim, who were the sages of the Mishnah were part of the study that Moses just brought. Their souls came down to listen to these revelations. They said unanimously to Moses; ‘You are the ‘Faithful Shepherd’ that has the permission to made meditation for all Israel because you encompass all their souls and that is why God sent you to be among them.\nRabbi Shiya explains that the Law is a reference to the Torah and the aspect of the Light/Shechina in Malchut. The ‘burnt offering’ is ‘negative/undesired thought’ that comes to a person and distract him from the path of truth. This thought should be burnt to stop the progress of the negative side.\n‘the fire must be kept burning all night on the altar’ to purify the person from all negative aspects.\nWe live in a cycle of life and death. Day and Night. We move in cycles in a forward direction. Every breath is a tiny cycle of life and death. We breathe in life and when we release air its an aspect of death. When we go to sleep we are in almost death state and we wake up to a new life.\nThese cycles give us opportunities for renewals in the right direction. Before we start a new cycle of life we want to start clean and pure in order to have a better move forward.\nThe burning fire is the level of our consciousness that protects us by eliminating/burning any negative thought that invades our thoughts.\nEvery night before we go to sleep we have special prayers that help us cleanse/burn all impurities from the day that just passed and prepare us for the new life in the coming morning.\nThis prayer is called “The Bedtime Shema”. In it, we have a part that helps us be completely pure for the next day by accepting on ourselves the four types of death. Death is the ultimate soul cleansing process and each type of death cleanse different spiritual level for us.\nThe complete unification of light and vessel is represented by the sequence יא-הד-ונ-הי. This is the sequence of Amen that unifies upper and lower. Our sins and impurities sever the connection between the four pairs and to restore it we accept the aspect of death related to that level.\nIt’s important to understand the cycles in our lives and seek renewals on every step. We should forgive and forget people that hurt us because they are part of the past and we must move forward (for miracles…).\nIf you are not used to prayers especially before going to bed, just follow the consciousness above and you would be on a better state in the morning. Accepting death before going to sleep remove ‘weights’ from the soul and it can ascend to higher spiritual levels where it would be treated better and rewarded with new and good energy for the coming day.\nEvery month is a renewal and many choose to fast on Erev Rosh Chodesh to cleanse impurities before entering the new month.\nReincarnation is a major ‘reset/renewal’ and the most difficult cleansing process to go through. It’s better to burn all of our negativities during this lifetime to avoid the process after death.\nPurim - Short guide for proper connection Daily Zohar # 2995 - Tzav - How and why to wash with fire.

Providence Newberg Medical Center (PNMC), constructed to replace the outdated Providence Newberg Hospital, is one of the most technologically advanced and sustainable hospitals in the US and was the first hospital in the world to be certified as a LEED® Gold Hospital. The $47 million facility opened in June 2006, and is fully able to meet the needs of a growing Yamhill County. The 185,000-SF campus sits on a 56-acre site and features 45 inpatient beds, 14 emergency room beds, specialist radiology, cardiology, respiratory, emergency, and MRI departments, clinic space, exam/treatment facilities, and a healing garden.

All through our school lives, we have been a part of traditional classrooms powered by textbooks, notebooks, black and whiteboard, question papers, etc. While the system did well to impart knowledge in students, it often reached its limit when it came to triggering creativity and spirit of innovation. This is because the system itself did not innovate much.\nOver the last decade and a half, schools have come of age in accepting digital solutions to become part of classroom infrastructure and learning solutions. Imagine a touchscreen display board that teachers can now use in place of a traditional black and whiteboard, hyperlinking every word and picture to the trusted sources in the digital library of the school or age-appropriate resources on the internet. With this, the teacher can quickly pull reference material during a classroom discussion and make it more engaging as well as interactive.\nIt doesn’t end here; these solutions could also be backed by an artificial intelligence (AI) powered learning engine to provide a customised/self-paced learning for each student. As a result, it understands and improves the way students receive, comprehend data and retain the knowledge. AI-powered apps are device independent and allow teachers and parents to track the learning journey of the ward throughout the session and introduce relevant interventions to make the process better.\nEmphasis on technology helps to affirm and advance relationships between educators and students, reinvent the approach to learning and collaboration. Our schools are the first incubators of exploration and invention and need to be on a constant lookout for new avenues for knowledge delivery, assessment, and providing a better experience to students. Digital technology serves this and consolidates the hope for a better future.\nGetting suffcient sleep is also important for the heart.

(Reuters) - Mining infrastructure provider Mineral Resources (MIN.AX) on Wednesday said it would not make an offer to counter Hancock Prospecting’s A$390 million ($288 million) bid for Australia’s Atlas Iron AGO.AX.\nThat will likely cool expectation of a possible bidding war for the iron ore miner, after Atlas on Tuesday gave Mineral Resources three business days to match a A$0.042 per share takeover offer from Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting.\nAtlas operates in the iron ore rich Pilbara region of Western Australia and has undeveloped tenements that could potentially be brought into production with a larger partner.\nHancock Prospecting had bid for the iron ore miner on Monday, trouncing an earlier A$280.2 million bid in April from Mineral Resources.\nMeanwhile, world No. 4 iron ore miner Fortescue (FMG.AX) has built up 19.9-percent stake in Atlas, a hold large enough to block Mineral Resources’ offer.\nShares of Atlas Iron were up about 1 percent, while Mineral Resources shares were largely flat.

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As a team of Dallas wedding photographers, we are given the opportunity to work with some of the sweetest brides and grooms in the world. It is such a privilege not only to witness and document the first steps in their lives together as husband and wife, but also to spend time with couples’ friends and families. For a short season, we get to step into their world and experience all of the excitement, emotion, and joy of new love and adventures. And oftentimes we are welcomed as part of the family!\nCapturing Taylor and Alex’s winter wedding at Ashton Gardens Dallas was one such example of how we are constantly reminded of the honor we have as wedding photographers. I had the privilege of capturing their engagement session in Dallas and our phenomenal associate team photographed the wedding day itself for a seamless experience. Although I was not there in person, trust me – I heard all about this beautiful wedding through the eyes of my photographer team! Their favorite moment by far was the first look where Taylor and Alex took their time “breathing each other in” (direct quote) and just basking in their love for one another. Looking at their wedding photos, I can absolutely see the truth in this.\nI also heard wonderful things about the reception hosted by Ed Petty of LeForce Entertainment (who also officiated the ceremony)! While I was off capturing another beautiful wedding, I received a phone call from my team requesting that we add more time because Taylor and Alex were having SO MUCH FUN! In case you need proof, just scroll down through their reception photos!\nTaylor and Alex, I cannot even begin to tell you how much fun we had serving you and your family through this special season of life. Getting to document your engagement and winter wedding at Ashton Gardens has been amazing, and we are so incredibly thankful for you both. Our best and most heartfelt wishes from the entire team at Emily Chappell Photography!

Welcome back to another Grim Misadventure dev update. You may have missed the big news, but we had a pretty big announcement last week: Grim Dawn has just surpassed over 1 Million Copies Sold! And it’s still going strong.\nBut you’re here for expansion news! So let’s dive right in. Last time, we had a lore-heavy update featuring one of the new factions coming your way in the expansion. Today, we’re going back to the Inquisitor, with a detailed look at some of the skills available to Cairn’s hunters of all things eldritch and bizarre.\nPlease note that as the masteries are still under development, the following information may change by release. Damage values are scaled by player attributes.\nYou’ve studied the basic runes and earned your first artifacts. You’ve been trained in the Luminari arts of subduing foes. At the end of the line, these powerful abilities await!\nThis protective symbol guards you and your allies against harm, but also harms any enemy that steps within it. The modifier for this ability empowers allies standing within it with offensive Elemental potential. The Transmuter offers additional protection against ranged attacks at the cost of spellcasting focus. The seal is a powerful spell to use in the thick of combat, or to plant yourself at a distance and take out anyone that dares approach.\nThe Rune of Hagarrad is a chilling addition to the Luminari arsenal, piercing unfortunate foes with shards of solid ice when triggered by an approaching foe. The modifiers for this ability enhance its chilling potential and increase the number of shards emitted upon activating.\nA destructive rune that erupts when an enemy walks near, showering the area with explosive spheres of fire and agony. With the modifier, the rune triggers an immediate eruption upon casting, in addition to its triggered effect.\nDo you enjoy throwing traps everywhere? With proper Artifact Handling (a passive bonus), your Runes of Hagarrad and Kalastor will be at their peak potential and available that much more frequently.\nThis exclusive skill is the culmination of inquisitor training and embodies not only their lethal potential but also their exceptional leadership skills. Unlike most exclusive skills, the Aura of Conviction also benefits nearby allies.\nCause there is always more! More tricks remain within the Inquisitor’s arsenal, but you will have to learn about them for yourself when the class is released with the upcoming expansion.\nLike knowing what is coming up next for Grim Dawn? Check back on 06/12/2017 for our next development update!\nLooking forward to the expansion.\nCrate, great work on the artwork and progress you guys are making. Looking forward to the next update.\nAre we holding on for an E3 announcement?\nAnother exciting update! So much to look forward to... Nice little sneak peak at a new monster too.\nLooks very good, can't wait for the expansion.\nSo did Aura of Censure get the axe in lieu of artifact handling?

On this episode of Pilgrim Heart, Krishna Das talks about the ripening of our spiritual practice and finding the Guru within.\nRipening of the Soul (Opening) – One of the more important things to keep in mind about spiritual practice is that it is not something that provides instant gratification. Krishna Das discusses the slow process of practice that ripeness like a fruit as we discover the Guru within.\nCome, Eat, Go Away (8:15) – Krishna Das talks about what it was like staying at Maharaj-Ji’s temple.\nMind on the Mantra (18:20) – How do we go about finding our personal mantra? KD talks about the role of the mantra in different traditions and finding the right one for ourselves.\nGuru Within (31:00) Krishna Das talks about the faith and understanding needed to find the Guru within.\n“Guru is not outside; Guru is your own true nature. Guru is what is looking out of your eyes right now, what is aware of your thoughts. That is the Guru, consciousness, presence, being. We identify with the physical body, so we think that the Guru must be a physical body.\nFor more words of wisdom on finding the Guru within, click here.

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The National Ground Water Association's 2008 Ground Water Summit will be March 30-April 3 in Memphis, Tenn., and will feature 20 sessions covering the latest in ground water science, technology, and ground water policy.\nThe 4th annual meeting will include the Darcy forum, "Carbon Sequestration: Opportunities and Challenges," and Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecturer Michael Celia, Ph.D., of Princeton University, who will speak on "Geological Storage as a Carbon Mitigation Option."\nEdward Sudicky, Ph.D., University of Waterloo, and NGWA's 2007 M. King Hubbert Award recipient, is the keynote speaker. He will deliver a talk on "Simulation of Flow and Contaminant Transport in Surface-subsurface Flow Systems in a Fully Integrated Framework."\nTo learn more, visit www.ngwa.org/2008Summit and click on Events & Education.\nAt the Web site, visitors also can find information on how to face drought issues. The association created a new page on its site with links to free, downloadable articles related to planning for and managing drought.\nThe Web page can be accessed via the Public/Media tab and clicking on the "Drought-related information repository" link.\n* Water Conservation and the Political Process: Strategies for Policy Making.\nA more extensive article search on drought-related information can be conducted using the Web site's search engine. The association is based in Westerville, Ohio.

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Bok Choy cultivation was first done in China. Bok choy is used in many dishes due to its crisp texture, sweet flavor and nutritional value. It is also known as white cabbage. The Chinese commonly call Bok Choy as Pak Choy meaning white vegetable.\nBok Choy has leafy blades with succulent and translucent stalks that are white in colour. The entire plant is edible and the leaf of the plant is very soft and mild. The stalk is sweet to taste.\nBok Choy is used in many Chinese main dishes, soups, stir fries and appetizers. It is also used to make salads and sandwiches. It is very often used to garnish appetizers. It can be added to several soup dishes to make it more nutritious.\n1. Bok Choy is low in calories and high in vitamin A, C and calcium.\n2. Bok Choy free from saturated fat.\n3. It is also low in sodium and a good source of folate.\nThere are mainly two types of Bok Choy found - Pekinensis and Chinensis. Some commercial types of bok choy found around the world are Pak Choi, Choy Sum and Shanghai Bok Choi.\nStore Bok Choy in plastic bag and refrigerate. It will remain crispy for over a week.\nBok Choy is being cultivated in China for more than thousands of years.\n“Bok Choy” derives its name from a Chinese word which means “soup spoon”, as its leaves look like soup spoon.\nAn authentic Chinese soup, the Cantonese Soup is a hearty mix of chicken and vegetables chopped into small pieces in piping hot chicken stock.\nNasi Goreng is the Balinese rendition of chicken fried rice. Chicken, cabbage, carrots, bokchoy, kafir lime leaves, balinese red paste give this recipe a unique flavor.\nTry out this traditional chicken recipe with flavors from Bali. Boneless chicken leg meat cooked in lemongrass, stock, sweet soya and a variety of vegetables.\nMake a super healthy vegetable Zen Soup. It's rich and delicious! Eat it cold on a summer afternoon or warm on a winter's night and it will keep you going.\nFried shrimps tossed with broccoli, spring onions and black bean sauce.\nTrout fused with butter, herbs and baked perfect. Served with mild flavored stir fried vegetables.\nChinese cabbage, bok choy and red radish stirred in with seasoning and sauces, topped off with freshly made mulberry glaze.\nPumpkin ribbons and morning glory are tossed in with chilli, onions and garlic, served hot with spring onions.\nMarinated and grilled, pineapple slices are served with sauteed bok choy and raw mango slaw, drizzled with papaya-mustard puree.

Leading E.U. politicians want to prevent Donald Trump's likely nominee from becoming the new U.S. ambassador to the European Union, citing his interest in dissolving the alliance.\nU.S. relations with the E.U. appear to be flagging.\nThe European Union isn't going to allow Donald Trump to nominate an E.U. skeptic as ambassador without a fight.\nIn a letter on Thursday, Manfred Weber, leader of the conservative EPP Group in the European Parliament, and Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the parliament's Liberal group, urged E.U. Council President Donald Tusk and Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker not to accept Ted Malloch as U.S. ambassador to the E.U. Mr. Weber and Mr. Verhofstadt cited Mr. Malloch's express interest in dismantling the 27-member European alliance.\n“I helped bring down the Soviet Union, so maybe there’s another union that needs a little taming,” said Mr. Malloch in an interview with the BBC in January. Mr. Malloch, who is said to be U.S. Presdent Trump's top choice for the position, also told the BBC that the euro currency could collapse in 18 months.\n"These statements reveal outrageous malevolence regarding the values that define this European Union," Mr. Verhofstadt and Mr. Weber wrote, adding that Mr. Malloch could seriously undermine the trans-Atlantic relationship. "We are strongly convinced that persons seeing as their mission to disrupt or dissolve the European Union should not be accredited as official representatives to the E.U.," they added.\nIn an interview with Bild, Germany's largest daily newspaper, Mr. Weber said a nomination of Mr. Malloch would be unacceptable. "The leaders of the E.U. institutions and national governments should also make this clear to the new U.S. administration at an early stage," he emphasized.\nAlexander Graf Lambsdorff, a politician with Germany's Liberal Democratic Party and vice president of the European Parliament, also voiced his opposition to Mr. Malloch in Bild: "I am strictly against giving Ted Malloch the accreditation as an ambassador."\nTheir demands could have an effect. In order for an ambassador to be officially recognized by the European Union, several steps are necessary. They include the approval of all 28 member states in the European Council, as well as the E.U. Commission and the E.U.'s diplomatic service, known as the European External Action Service. The refusal of a single state to approve the nomination would kill Mr. Malloch's chances.\nWhile Mr. Malloch has not yet officially been nominated, he is said to have already been interviewed for the post by Mr. Trump.

Let's all take a very deep breath. This week, there's no Frank Ocean, no Leonard Cohen, no Danny Brown or Young Thug; the legacy artists and hit wizards have taken a week off and, as a result, we can focus on records that might ordinarily have gone unnoticed. This feels good.\nMore specifically, this means we can focus on Tkay Maidza, the Zimbabwean-Australian artist whose debut album, Tkay, dropped yesterday. She'll be compared to M.I.A. and, hell, there are worse comparisons out there. But Maidza has an tendency towards dancefloor pop that Maya Arulpragasam has shunned of late, and Tkay is all the more enticing for it. "Follow Me"'s shameless echoes of 90s R&B, for example, should be seductive enough to position the track on every pop playlist before the end of the year. ​​But it's "Carry On," a collab with Killer Mike, that has every iteration of Maidza: a solid flow that jumps from righteously bratty to righteously furious, a unique​​ approach to glitch-rhytmic production​, and a straight-ahead, chantable chorus.\nListen to Tkay and the rest of this week's most notable releases below.

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Sunshine is a beautiful juvenile hawksbill tha twas found in the surf line at city beach access 4 by a family from nearby McAllen, TX. Sunshine's right front flipper was missing but perfectly healed, and did not have any apparent injuries. Radiographs (x-rays) did show some abnormalities in the lungs. We are monitoring Sunshine's swimming and buoyancy to see if the little turtle displays any tilting behavior or trouble diving.\nNovember update: Sunshine is eating well and has good energy. No abnormal swimming tendencies have been observed. Routinely rests at the bottom of a deep tank!\nDecember update: Gaining weight and enjoying swimming with tank-mates Barber, Rhino and Juniper!\nJanuary update: Same report as December only swimming with one more friend, Sheri!\nFebruary update: Unfortunately, Sunshine has an infection caused by the bacteria Clostridium. The good news is one course of Penicillin cleared it up!\nApril update: Still looking good for a June release. Up to 7.5 lbs (Sunshine was 2.4 lbs upon arrival at our facility last October)!\nMay update: Our 7.9 lb beauty is going home on June 12th, 2017! Sunshine will be taken to the ‘South Padre Island Underwater Park’ at the U.S./Mexico border, via the Coast Guard.\nFrida is an adult Kemp's ridley female found by Michael, Stefanie and Hannah Bean near Schlitterbahn. Frida was very non responsive. No obvious injuries. It is believed she is a victim of red tide. A neurotoxin in the algae called brevetoxin affects the turtles' nerves and muscles, keeping them from swimming and diving properly, causing them to strand. She has been in detox mode since arrival and is responding. She should be in an outdoor rehabilitation tank soon, preparing for release.\nCJ is an Atlantic green juvenile found on Boca Chica by friends Charlie and Joe. CJ's right flipper was entangled in fishing line. The good news is that this juvenile Atlantic green had no Fibropapilloma tumors and has recovered with his flipper intact. CJ is swimming in an outdoor rehabilitation tank with friend Boerne.\nOctober Update: CJ and pal Boerne should be headed home the week of 10/17. Follow Facebook for date and time!\nBoerne is a beautiful Atlantic green juvenile. Tina & Michael Hollenbaugh, formerly from Boerne, saw him swimming off the jetties, distressed and entangled in fishing line. They called us after hours, then jet skied out to pick him up and delivered him Dolphin Cove, where assistant curator Kat Lillie met them. Boerne is very active in his ICU pool, but we are still running diagnostics at the time of this writing.\nSeptember Update: Boerne has been moved to an outdoor rehabilitation tank and is swimming well with friend CJ. Both are being prepared for an October release.\nOctober Update: Boerne will be released the week on 10/17. Follow facebook posts for date and time!\nBob is a sub-adult Atlantic green sea turtle. Bob was found in the bay near Holly Beach, Laguna Vista. Bob had a commercial longline hook embedded in his right flipper. The hook was removed and the wound is being treated. Bob is in ICU, eating very little. A laceration was discovered on the inside of his mouth, probably a result of him trying to free himself from the fishing line.\nSeptember Update: Bob is now in an outdoor rehabilitation tank. He should be going back home soon!!!\nOctober Update: Bob also should be released in the next 2 weeks. We had to keep him a little longer than planned, due to red tide.\nCarolina is a sub-adult Atlantic green sea turtle. She was found by Darren Spearman, Aaron Cook and Scott Meeks when they went on a fishing trip with Capt. Andy Davila. While reeling in dinner, they spotted a sea turtle tangled in a mass of cables struggling to keep her head above water long enough to take a breath. They pulled her onto the boat and contacted Sea Turtle, Inc..Her right flipper was entangled in seismic gear (pictured right.) This is the third Atlantic green that has been found in the Laguna Madre entangled in seismic cord in the past 15 months. Drifter, who is also a current patient, and April, who was released last fall, were the other two.\nCarolina was transported to the Gladys Porter Zoo for amputation. She is recovering in our ICU and is responding well.\nAugust Update: Carolina has been receiving laser treatments at her amputation site twice a week. She has been eating some produce. She is still in ICU.\nSeptember Update: Carolina is still in ICU but should be moved to an outdoor rehabilitation tank soon, where she will prepare for release! The Texas GLO is investigating the source of the seismic cable.\nOctober Update:. Carolina will be released the week of 10/17. The Texas GLO is mitigating with responsible companies for the removal of additional leftover cable.\nBrownie is a juvenile Atlantic green sea turtle. His flipper was wrapped around fishing line, and there was a hook stuck near the injured flipper. It will take some time to determine if his flipper will heal. To read more about how humans endanger sea turtles, click here.\nSadly...Brownie's flipper had to be amputated. Since he lost the flipper on June 16, he has been more responsive and eating better. The wound is healing well.\nJuly Update: Brownie is recovering well and has been moved to an outdoor rehabilitation tank with the buddies, Shakira, Harry, Crunchy Waves and Gabby to await FP laser surgery.\nHEE HAW!!!!! Brownie has recovered so well, that he was one of our first four turtles to have FP tumors removed via our new CO2 laser. Brownie's tumors were small and few and cauterized quickly. The surgery was performed at the Gladys Porter Zoo. Brownie returned home same day to recuperate in his hospital ICU bed!\nAugust Update: Brownie is back swimming with buds Harry and Drifter. He appears to have made a full recovery from his FP surgery!\nSeptember Update: No recurrence of FP tumors!!! Brownie and friends should be headed home shortly!!!!\nOctober Update: Brownie and buds are headed out with CJ and Boerne on a boat release the week of 10/17. Keep an eye of facebook posts for date and time!\nDrifter is a juvenile Atlantic green sea turtle. He was spotted and rescued by Captain Faustino and his friend Ysidro Garcia while fishing aboard Faustino’s boat The Drifter. Drifter was in great distress. He was deeply entangled in 15 lbs. of fishing line, rope and electrical cables. Drifter's left flipper will be x-rayed to determine if it is broken. He also has large FP tumors on his front flippers.\nJune Update: Drifter's left flipper is broken, but he is growing stronger. He is in a rehabilitation tank.\nJuly Update: Drifter had a huge FP tumor on his flipper, and he was one of the four who were treated at the Gladys Porter Zoo on July 26. Drifter, like his buddies, is recovering well, and we hope he will be back in his outdoor rehabilitation tank soon.\nAugust Update: Drifter's FP wounds are 85% recovered, and he is swimming well. He is back with Harry and Brownie.\nSeptember Update: Drifter is looking good, swimming well and wounds are healed!\nOctober Update: Drifter is headed home the week of 10/17!!!!\nMadi-Jax is a sub-adult female loggerhead. She was found by Sea Turtle, Inc. volunteers Tom and Nancy Barker who were fishing in the gulf about 15 miles north of STI. They named her after their two great grandchildren. Madi-Jax was covered with epibiota and parasites and was very non-responsive. She is being treated with antibiotics and fluids and supplemental feedings. She is also a survivor of what clearly looks like a shark attack. On 4-12, she lifted her head and ate a squid on her own, but is nourished primarily by other supplemental nutrition. Madi-Jax's is in critical condition, but she has shown some slow improvements.\n4-13 update!!!! She ate a whole plate of fish this morning!!!\n6-30 Xrays showed Madi-Jax had a huge blockage. Over time, she passed gallon bags of sea urchin quills. She possibly ate them while foraging for food when recovering from her shark attack. At any rate, she is definitely on the mend!!!\n7-11-2016 Madi-Jax has been moved from ICU to an outdoor rehabilitation tank!!!! She is adjusting well to the change!

In regard to the constitutionality of President Barack Obama's National Security Agency's (NSA) Prism surveillance program, I shall defer my analysis until the court rules in the recent American Civil Liberties Union action, since the issues are complex.\nWhat is more perplexing is President Obama and the NSA's immediate defensive posture and the implicit claim that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is a traitor and criminal for bringing to light the issue of Orwellian "1984" totalitarianism.\nThe bottom line is that if Obama circumvented American constitutional law vis-a-vis national security activities and lied to the Congress and the people, then we need two trials: one for Snowden on grounds of civil disobedience and another for Obama's impeachment.\nIn the end, "one word of truth shall outweigh the world" (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn). This applies both to the Gulag Archipelago of the former Soviet Union, as well as to the United States of America.

Our ever-popular What’s in Your Shed series visits the Australian farm that set the 24-hour spraying world record.\nWe get the lowdown on the fleet run by Tony and Brendan Mason.\nNear Perenjori, which is 220 miles north-east of Perth in Western Australia and right on the edge of the Midwest wheatbelt. There’s nothing but bush, salt lakes and occasional sheep stations beyond and our average rainfall is just 270mm.\nThe farm has grown from 2,400ha in 1989 to almost 13,000ha now. We’ve bought six different blocks over the years, which has meant our machinery fleet has grown quite a lot in the process.\nWe tend to stick to who and what has been good to us.\nAt the minute, that’s Case for the combines and Agrifac for the sprayers – both companies have given us great customer service over the last couple of years.\nThat said, we like to jump between brands a bit, particularly if we think we can find a better product somewhere else.\nPerformance is the priority, but swapping around from time to time also keeps the dealers sharp and gives us a better chance of securing a good deal.\nDealers are a big deciding factor on what we buy.\nThe bigger dealers tend to be able to source parts quicker and we have John Deere and Case-IH outlets within 60 miles, which is fairly convenient by Outback standards.\nThere’s no point going for some fairly obscure brand such as Fendt or Claas, as we could be looking at a commute of 150 miles or more just to pick up some spares.\nWe tend to carry a big stock of parts ourselves and do a lot of the servicing in-house, though a new mechanic shop has opened nearby, so we use that, too.\nBig breakdowns sometimes need parts not stocked in Western Australia, so we can be left waiting for two days while the bits are flown over from Melbourne.\nThe two Case 7240 combines, which we run with 60ft headers.\nThey have been reliable, simple and drama-free. Spare parts tend to be readily available too, which is important – if you need it in a hurry and it’s a long way away, things can get very expensive.\nThe Agrifac sprayer has also served us well, though we’ll probably replace it soon.\nBy a distance it is the Bednar deep ripper that we ran a couple of years ago.\nWe kept it for just five months before making an economic decision to wash our hands of it. In fact, we took a AUS$30,000 (£17,000) loss just to get rid of it.\nOil leaks, fatigue and expensive points were just a few of the problems – it simply wasn’t strong enough for the job.\nIts replacement is a Depth Charger from an Aussie firm called Rocks Gone. It cost $200,000 (£110,000), but is up to the job – it has 15t of ground pressure on the roller, just to give you some idea how hard our soils can be.\nTwo Scania R730 trucks – they’re only a few weeks old and can carry up to 53t at once in a road train setup.\nThe old ones had clocked up 1m kilometres carting grain to the local bin 20 miles away in Perenjori and hauling our lime and fertiliser to the farm from south of Perth.\nIt’s a pretty big investment given that they only work from October to March and are parked up for most of the winter, but it’s not really worth sending them out in the off season.\nWe have a couple of veteran campaigners on the 70t Grain King mother bins.\nOne is an Allis Chalmers 7580 from the late 1970s. We bought it as a field bin tractor for about $12,000 (£6,800) and it has clocked roughly 10,000 hours.\nThe other is a John Deere 8640.\nIt’s an open-ended question that completely depends on the drought.\nAverage yields on the edge of the wheat belt can fluctuate from 500kg/ha to 2.2t/ha from year to year, so we have to act after harvest rather than following a set-in-stone plan.\nRoughly speaking, the two combines are replaced every three years, tractors will stay for eight years, trucks for 12 and the sprayer will do between two and four years.\nWe tend to be a bit more opportunistic with the trailers, cultivators and seeders – it really depends on the market and the season.\nA new sprayer is high on the list, as we rely on it heavily.\nOur current Condor has clocked 1,800 hours over three years, but we went to the launch of the new one in Amsterdam and like the look of some of the features. It has electric controls instead of air on the boom, turn compensation and automatic weed sensing.\nThe green-on-green camera detection system could save us a fortune in chemical and it will only get better as they develop more algorithms to detect other broad-leaved weeds.\nThe seeding rigs are also due upgrading, as are the grain bins, and we’d quite like to take a closer look at the Tribine combine as well.\nWe have a few granite rock patches than can do a bit of damage to machinery, including combine headers.\nA lump of rock was stood up by the seeder and ended up thumping the header about a metre from the end. It was bent backward by about 50cm and put out of action for a year – luckily the bill was covered by our insurance, as the repair job was $60,000 (£34,000).\nAnother time, a member of staff managed to hit a windmill at 18kph. We have no idea how he managed it, as he was in the middle of a field with the 5m-wide deep ripper on the back, but the windmill was completely flattened.\nThe bent header was the steepest, but the tracks on the Cat are also savagely expensive.\nWe have two and they’ve each been through a set at $30,000 (£17,000) a piece. We try to hold off for as long as possible, but the deep ripping work really wears them out as we have to do it in the summer, when the soil is bone dry.\nA lot of stuff has been knocked together in the workshop – it has to be as we live miles away from the nearest dealers.\nOur most useful invention is probably the tipping bins for filling the drill with seed and fertiliser, which we built 10 years ago. The rig is mounted on the back of an eight-wheel truck and we can open the doors from the tractor to start loading via the auger.\nIn March last year, the Mason family smashed two world records with the help of Agrifac’s Condor Endurance 48m self-propelled sprayer – covering the greatest area in a 24-hour period as well as in a single hour.\nThe Endurance covered a whopping 2,638ha of summer spraying in a 24-hour period, running non-stop. This smashed the previous record of 1,032ha.\nWhile this equates to an average of nearly 110ha/hour, the family also broke a second record by covering 150.7ha in a single hour.\nIn total there were 15 fields with a 10-minute drive between the two blocks.\nA nurse truck kept the sprayer supplied and running, thereby minimising downtimes between the tank loads.\nThe boundaries of the fields were mapped and to make it official, the family invited Jim Gilmour, a local justice of the peace, to adjudicate the record.\nYes, we’ve bought the likes of the excavator, grader and fuel trucks second-hand – basically stuff we don’t rely on. That way, it’s not a big drama if they break down.\nThere’s too much risk in running unreliable kit on the frontline. We have very little rain and need to make the most of it by getting work done in the optimum window. There’s a big yield penalty if the crop goes in too late.\nSpraying – it’s great to drive, and you get over the ground quick.\nScreening wheat in the paddock. Generally speaking, the extreme heat, dust and flies get to you after a while.\nTony: I have a 3.2-litre Ford Ranger, but it’s nothing special – I’d quite like a V6 engine next.\nBrendan: An old Nissan ute, which has served me well. I’ll be keeping hold of it too, as they’ve stopped making them now.\nProbably the Cat 865s for pure pulling power and traction. We need at least 550hp for the job, but would happily buy a bigger one if someone will build it.\nHowever, they’re starting to fall a bit behind in the cab. Sadly, we’ll probably need to replace them before the new models are released.\nWe used to have Belarus tractors in the 1980s. They were crude things and very troublesome. The gears in the final drives used to crunch up regularly.\nWhen we first looked into a deal for the Scania trucks, the company wanted an extra $30,000 (£17,000) for the pair over what we were willing to pay. We decided it was way too expensive, washed our hands of it and walked away.\nBut the dealer rang back a couple of weeks later – apparently truck sales were down in WA, so they ended up accepting our original offer.\nThe two Cat 865Cs were also a snip. Having considered them and the John Deere equivalent, we decided we were going to go for the Deere.\nSoon enough, the Cat sales guys drove 4.5 hours from Perth and matched the price, which worked out as a $100,000 (£57,000) saving for the pair over their original price.

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Term Life Insurance, Is It Right for You?\nHome > Insurance Blog > Term Life Insurance, Is It Right for You?\nMany of us think of life insurance as something that will last for the rest of our lives – but that’s not always the case.\nSo-called “whole” life insurance policies do stay in effect for your lifetime, providing you continue to pay the premiums.\n“Term” life insurance, on the other hand, provides coverage for a limited period of time or “term,” and the length of the term is up to you. For example, if you choose a 10-year-term, the insurance company would pay your beneficiary a death benefit if you die within the next 10 years.\nWhy consider term life instead of whole life insurance? Term life might be appropriate if, for example, one or more of your dependents doesn’t rely on you financially.\nIn this situation, you may want to have coverage for your minor children only, as your spouse is not now dependent on you financially and will be able to care for himself or herself if you die. Coverage for your children may last until they’re grown, if you choose.\nTerm life insurance is usually the least expensive way to purchase a substantial death benefit, so if you are in this situation, purchasing term life may be the solution for you.\nA few caveats: Term life insurance generally cannot be used for estate-planning or charitable-giving strategies, as other types of life insurance can.\nThere may also be issues with re-insurability. Say, for example, that you acquire a terminal illness during the term of the policy. If you want to continue holding life insurance when the term expires, you likely wouldn’t be able to do so. However, some policies offer a feature called guaranteed re-insurability to address this.\nThere are many other factors to take into account when buying life insurance, such as how much life insurance to buy. Your advisor can help you make those determinations.\nConstructing your own island or grill area with stone can get expensive, plus it can’t be easily moved. Keep costs low and set up easy with a pre-fabricated counter or grill space. Pre-fab options are often on wheels, making them easy to move, and can be purchased with built-in sinks and lighting.\nKeep durability in mind. Your outdoor kitchen furniture and appliances will be exposed to the elements; choose resistant, reliable materials and treat them as recommended. Remember that the space will be exposed to cooking oils and high temperatures, so any materials used in the area will need to be heat resistant and easy to clean.\nSetup is important – don’t site your outdoor cooking space too far from where you plan to put the dining area. Also, consider the proximity of the outdoor kitchen to the indoor one; you’ll need to move things from one space to the other, so make sure there’s a clear path.\nPlan to cook and dine, rain or shine? Make sure you incorporate a rain shelter.\nGrow as you go. Plants, flowers, and decor can be added on an ongoing basis. Make sure the essentials are in place before emptying your wallet on extras.\nThe Affordable Care Act (ACA) is confusing for many, and the penalties associated with it are no exception.\nmembers of federally recognized healthcare sharing ministries.\nThose subject to penalties include: Individuals who go three consecutive months without coverage; as well as those who only have insurance for part of the year.\nHow much are the penalties? In 2014, without coverage, you owe the highest of the following: 1 percent of annual household income; or $95 per uninsured adult annually, $47.50 for children under 18, and up to the maximum of $285 for families. If you don’t pay, the ACA doesn’t include measures for penalty collection, so the IRS can’t press criminal charges or get property liens.

Best NBA Games For Android | GUI Tricks - In Touch With Tomorrow! Best NBA Games For Android - GUI Tricks - In Touch With Tomorrow!\nHey there gamers, so you love Basketball eh! But you are too lazy right now to go out and play. Well we are here with some cool top shelf games you can have on your android phones. Our techies send in their reviews after having a go with these games and we sorted out 4 games for you to try out.\nFirst up is NBA LIVE by EA sports. It’s the most incredible Live Basketball ever to have on android with it’s stunning graphics and a list of all time famous players. With it’s unique play style it makes you feel the sport of the bests. Victor Oladipo, Paul George you name it and have it. See them in action with their special moves. Play like the NBA player of the week and get your game up. And if you don’t want any just miz up all capabilities and create your own monster. Explore the streets with different NBA courts.\nThe app is free for downloading and contains in-app purchases. And since it’s live it will require a internet connection.\nWith a less graphics, this game is also a hit. With My career and multiseasons mode you have a lot to play with. This game comes packed up with some popular beats from Lamar, Nas, Shakira and many others.\nIt’s a $5.00 game and contains in-app purchases too.\nLike it Old school? Well here you can be that old schooler, with NBA JAM you get to experience a very 90’s play with all your favorite NBA teams. Play Solo or just jump to the multiplayer option and go wild. It has got legends and some cheats locked up too, so you might need to focus on the play mate. It offers four modes of play that will help you just get right in the middle of the game.\nThis is a $5.00 game and contains in-app purchases too. And comes with a very big download of 300 MBs.\nBut if you not much of a player and have got some managerial skills up your sleeve then you can come head a team and get them ready for the biggest franchise. From player signups and name suggests to getting them practice hard for the championships, it’s all you.\nWith all the graphics pushing up on your mobile, here is a little different game. This game might not have avatars of the most famous NBA players but what it does have is 115 teams and a very fast-paced game. You can manually make the players run or opt for automatic.\nPlay on a single device with max 4 players, or on the multi play which can support up to 4 controllers.\nThe animations of this game will make you fell in love with this game so that you can have a peaceful gameplay.\nThis app is a free for download app containing in-app purchases.\nWell of you’re just fed up of playing games and have an extra dollar in your pocket, well you can always go checkout the NBA Betting Sites and let your expert opinion make way for the money. All the fun of the NBA with your luck and mind on the go.\nWrite back to us with your experience on these games. What are your likes or dislikes about it. What was in the game and what you would have liked.

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Canham DLC 45 is better than the Horseman HD: 1) More than adequate movements in all respects (I would probably sell my Omega 45E if I bought the Canham) 2) Related to #1 but especially has back tilt and swing, where the HD doesn't. 3) Has 22 inches (558mm) of bellows draw (means that I can use the 300f8 Nikkor lens w/o carrying a heavier telephoto lens). The Horseman has 249mm bellows draw.\nHorseman HD is better than the Canham DLC 45: 1) Horseman HD is nearly 1 pound (27%) lighter (3.7lbs vs Canham 4.7lbs) (when it's all on your back it matters - made me consider the Mamiya 7 for awhile) 2) Personally, the controls and folding the camera don't feel as good to me as the Horseman. For example, unfolding the Canham seems clumsier. The lens mount on the Horseman seems simpler (large clip). In the studio, this doesn't seem to matter as much but in the field this might become an issue.\nI think the critical decision points are: 1) How important are back tilts and swings when shooting landscapes? 2) For those Canham DLC owners, do the ergonomics of the camera ever bother you? 3) How much of your landscapes shot are done w/ lenses greater than 240mm? 4) Do you own a Horseman HD and are fustrated by lack of movements, espcially back tilt or amount of bellos draw?\nWhere to start? 1.) Agreed, the DLC has a ferocious amount amount of movements, except for rear rise and fall which is not really a concern for 98.82% of landscape shooting. Bu t this is can be an issue for still life work.\n3.) Not only can you use the 300mm f/9 M-Nikkor but you can even try the 720mm N ikon T(elephoto) lens (equal to a 240 lens for 35mm). More importantly, you can also use down to a 58mm lens, without have to buy, carry and change to a bag bel lows for wide angle work. No compromise in movements either. 3a.) 249mm just is not much bellows especially if you ever want to do macro work with a 150mm or portrait work with a 210mm lens.\n4.) yes the HD is lighter. It is also less versatile.\n5.) Feel of a camera is a personal issue. I have played with a Horseman HD but b ought the Canham instead. It doesn't feel clumsy at all to me, but IMHO is well designed and locks up tight. I wish there was a zero detent for the swings but I haven't a problem with alignment or unintended swing.\n6.) lens mounting: I purchased the Technika (lens board) to DLC adapter at the s ame time I bought the camera as my lenses were already mounted on Technika style boards (a mix of various vintages of Linhof and Bromwell and maybe a Wista as w ell.) The mounting is accurate, fast and secure. Most of my work is in the field : landscapes and architecture.\n7.) Tilts are generally more important than swings.\n8.) No (see answers 5 & 6 above.) I came directly from shooting an Arca Swiss F- Line (which I still use for studio still life.) I miss having a yaw free camera sometimes but neither of the other cameras you mention are yaw free so you won't . By the way, for most landscape work, a yaw free design (tilt axis below swing axis) is irrelevant.\n9.) The 300mm gets more of s workout these days then it used to. these days. it is great for detail shots and portraits (because of the long bellows) as well as vistas.\n10.) For my style of photography, the lack of bellows, lack of rear tilt, and pr obably trouble with short focal lenses would be a pain. Especially if I were pay ing nearly the same price.\nOther points to consider: the fresnel/groundglass combination. The only one bet ter (IMHO) is the Arca. I haven't used the Linhof but experiences with Sinar P and C cameras (extensive), studio versions of the Horseman, Cambo/Calumet, and T oyo led me to the choices I made. The only thing I do not like about the DLC are the bullseye levels mounted on top of the standards. They are accurate but some thing I can see with the camera at eye level would be nicer.\nI love the DLC. To second the above answer if you do buy a wide lens the cost of a bag bellows is high and I'm sure it would weigh a pound.Ya, folding it up is not fun but I usually leave it assembled and carry it on a tripod over my should er. I used to own a Pentex 67 and this thing is a lot lighter.Also the fact you can talk to the guy who built the camera is kind of cool.\nWhy not consider the Wisner Pocket Expedition? Take a look at the wooden camera s that still exist after close to 100 years-the wood Wisner uses is stable, dime nsionally precice, and beautiful to behold besides. Wooden cameras can take a l ot of knocking around, and can be repaired quite easily besides (compare a woode n canoe v.s. an aluminum canoe. I think it might be real interesting to compare the Wisner Pocket Expedition and the Canham.

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