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People talk about, ‘What is a white director doing making an Indigenous story?’ But I’m not … They’re telling the story, largely, and I’m the mechanism by which they can.
– Rolf de HeerRolf de Heer, quoted in Michael Fitzgerald, ‘Keeping Time with Rolf’, TIME Pacific, 13 March 2006, <http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1172744,00.html>, accessed 5 May 2014.
Few would contest the fact that Rolf de Heer is one of Australia’s most accomplished, noteworthy and distinctive filmmakers. He’s probably the closest thing we have to an auteur. But as D Bruno Starrs points out in his little book on the Dutch-Australian, it’s hard to isolate just what it is that makes de Heer so noteworthy and distinctive.D Bruno Starrs, Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer, VDM, Saarbrücken, 2009. The guy has knack for self-effacement, for handing over the authorship of his films to his collaborators. Think of Dance Me to My Song (1998), whose true voice is given to actor Heather Rose, or of course the Ganalbingu-language film Ten Canoes (2006), in which de Heer makes a sincere attempt to hand over filmmaking authority to the community of Ramingining in Arnhem Land. Paradoxically enough (and, let’s face it, aspirational intellectuals like me love paradox), if de Heer’s directorial stamp can be located, then it’s probably in his concerted attempts to abnegate directorial authority – to, in his own words, ‘relinquish the almost absolute power normally associated with producing and directing a film and cede it to the people I’d be making [the film] with’.De Heer discusses the making of Ten Canoes in ‘Personal Reflections on Whiteness and Three Film Projects’, Australian Humanities Review, issue 42, August–September 2007, <http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-August-September-2007/Deheer.html> accessed 5 May 2014.
This agenda of self-effacement, of empowering his films’ subjects with narrative authority, is most noticeable in the films that he has made with Aboriginal people. As de Heer is a white Australian filmmaker, racially inscribed with political and cultural power, his motivation to become a ‘mechanism’ for the representation of marginalised Aboriginal voices asks to be understood as a consciously formulated politics of filmmaking. De Heer’s clearest ideological motivation is to use his power as a successful white male director by giving it to those without. And so this trend continues with Charlie’s Country, which premiered at the 2013 Adelaide Film Festival and screened in the Un Certain Regard program of this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where David Gulpilil won Best Actor for his portrayal of the titular character).
Charlie’s Country is a brilliant film – and I’m not just saying this to feign support for our local industry. But as de Heer himself pointed out at the premiere, ‘It’s really David’s film.’ And indeed it is, not just because Gulpilil gives one of the greatest performances of Australian cinema, but also because Charlie’s Country, in a very real way, is about David Gulpilil. There are many important parallels between Charlie and Gulpilil that warrant mention – parallels surrounding the circumstances that led to the writing of the script. Unfortunately, they centre on Gulpilil’s drinking and domestic troubles, which were first publicised during his problematic involvement with Ten CanoesSee Garry Maddox, ‘After Jail, Gulpilil Rebuilds His Life with the Help of an Old Friend’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 2013, <http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/after-jail-gulpilil-rebuilds-his-life-with-the-help-of-an-old-friend-20131011-2vdpm.html>, accessed 4 April 2014 and which, in subsequent years, only worsened. De Heer has stated that much of his motivation in making this film was to keep Gulpilil’s spirits up during a period in prison and to keep him on the straight and narrow during the subsequent parole period:
[Gulpilil had] shifted out of Raminginging [sic], which is the community he comes from, into Darwin and had taken to drinking heavily in a sustained way and often being homeless in the long grass. He was in some way drinking himself to death. On previous film shoots before he was in prison they had to hold him up he was that bad […] He was depressed and he didn’t like prison of course – nobody does. I said, ‘What do you want to do, David?’ He said ‘I want to make more films.’Rolf de Heer, quoted in Maddox, ibid.
For white southerners at the time, it seemed hard to understand (within the terms of our culture of individual achievement) how a man who had achieved so much could possibly become a homeless alcoholic and then imprisoned. But so it was. Perhaps by virtue of his very recognition in white culture, Gulpilil had become terribly alienated from his own Ramingining community, ‘distinguished’ in a way that serves no function in community life. Those of us who are not Indigenous – those of us who have nothing comparable to a spiritual kinship with land – probably can never fully comprehend this.
So it’s a story of spiritual restoration, a story very much about the spirit of its main actor and his need to reconnect with his country and people in order for his soul to be at peace. That is what we might call the film’s personal dimension. But, of course, Charlie’s Country has a more pronounced political dimension, too. As a film set largely in a remote community, it necessarily provides its (mainly white) audience a window through which to view a reality only discussed in passing by politicians and the mainstream media. Here, again, de Heer’s commitment to self-effacement – to empowering the subject – and to the film’s reciprocal relationship with the reality on which it is based works positively towards, if not objectivity, then a kind of egalitarianism of perspective. Like a lot of great realist cinema – Samson & Delilah (Warwick Thornton, 2009), many Iranian New Wave films, not to mention Italian Neorealism – in having the very people who live these lives act them out on screen, the film achieves a factual quality. Yes, we are watching people act for the camera, but the contents of what they are doing maintain a degree of factual truth, and so the film retains a strong degree of documented reality. A document of life in a remote far-northern Aboriginal community – this statement describes a large part of what this film offers.
For some critics, the manner in which Charlie’s Country goes about documenting community life may seem a little heavy-handed and didactic. And, for sure, there’s a conscientious decision on de Heer’s part to ensure that certain points do not go missed, specifically those points having to do with black–white relations. But, for anyone familiar with life in remote communities, such a stark dramatic approach is entirely appropriate because nothing could be starker than the breakdown that exists in a remote Aboriginal community between the local people and the governmental apparatus of white service people set up to ostensibly run the place. The first half of the film demonstrates this breakdown with an almost pedestrian sense of inevitability: Here is a scene of Charlie at the Centrelink office. Here is a scene of Charlie at the general store. Here is a scene of him giving the rest of his money to relatives. Here he is at the employment office. And, of course, here he is at the police station. It’s the everyday that we’re watching. Every day is the same.
Pedestrian though they may be (not unlike the opening of Samson & Delilah, actually), the mundane realities of Charlie’s life convey a great deal about the social dysfunction that prevents him from being able to live adequately, either as a ‘traditional’ elder or as a ‘modern’ Australian. Charlie is stranded between two worlds – worlds that make no sense to and, in fact, contradict each other. Success in one means failure in the other. Freedom in one means slavery in the other. Compliance in one means transgression in the other. The film shows these contradictions again and again: when, for instance, Charlie acknowledges his traditional obligation and promptly hands over most of his welfare payment to members of his extended family, only to go hungry later and have to rely on catching food; when, after having his hunting gun confiscated and receiving a fine, he carves himself a spear to hunt on his own traditional lands, only to have this confiscated as well. And so he relies on the food he can afford from the general store, the food that makes him terminally ill. The contradictions have no end.
Think about it long enough and you might come to the conclusion that social transgression is the only option for people like Charlie. He begins to think so, too. Charlie might sleep underneath a couple of pieces of corrugated iron, but he’s no ‘dummy’: he’s a reader. As a petrol-station manager – and probably the most informed white person in the community we were living in – once warned me: ‘They’re the ones to watch out for, the readers.’ (Believe it or not, the man was far from a racist.) Perhaps because of his exposure to Western norms, perhaps because of his knack for English, perhaps simply because of his analytical mind, Charlie is well aware of the hypocrisies and injustice of the whitefella’s system, and he takes the opportunity to point these out in his own non-provocative way. As he tells the employment officer: ‘You’re in my community, my land, and you have a job and I don’t.’ As he asks the police: ‘How can I have broken a law I didn’t know?’ As he tells his parole officer: ‘You put me in jail for being Aboriginal.’ Each of these comments elicits a kind of bemusement from the white characters, but none of the statements are as easily dismissed as they might first appear. Indeed, from Charlie’s perspective, these statements carry absolute validity – a validity the film asks us to consider. Shifting the gaze into Charlie’s reality, the confrontations with the local police and Centrelink are revealed as nothing less than confrontations with a deeply entrenched colonialist system, almost penal in its character, which prevents Charlie from living a free and healthy life.
Perhaps the film’s most important message has to do with food. History shows that it is often the most mundane, passive and disorganised forms of genocide that have the strongest impact.Take the Irish famine, Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans or Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward – none of these terrible examples could be said to be the deliberate work of a despotic mastermind. They are the products of chaos, absurdity and sheer idiotic disorganisation. The same goes for the bulk of the genocide that has been carried out on Australian Aboriginal communities since 1788. And when Australians look back on this period in history, perhaps the most appalling thing will be the inconceivable callousness with which we supply food to remote communities – all the more so given the rhetoric about ‘closing the gap’. Charlie and his community are literally made terminally ill by their ‘modern’ sugary diet. Healthier options are simply unaffordable, so they are forced to rely on costly trips to Darwin for dialysis treatment (although mobile dialysis treatments are becoming more common in some remote areas, there is no dialysis treatment servicing Charlie’s community). That most people over forty-five seem to be affected is no exaggeration.See, for example, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Chronic Kidney Disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, cat. no. PHE 151, Canberra, 2011, <http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10737420068>, accessed 16 May 2014. Because of his intelligence, Charlie sees too much, understands too much of his deplorable situation. And so, like many before him, after leaving hospital he chooses a city (Darwin) over his home and resorts to a marginalised existence of boozing and sleeping in the long grass. In a perverted way, it’s a life he is more in control of – an outsider’s life in which the hopelessness of his situation is at least of his own volition. But in a world of self-destruction, every day flirts with disaster … until Charlie finds himself in prison. And the hardened cynics in the audience tell themselves this was inevitable from the start for a man like Charlie. But to Gulpilil and de Heer, this is an unacceptable conclusion.
This is not a film about diagnosing the ‘problem’ with Aboriginal Australia – about finding the ‘silver bullet’, as it has been referred to. If this film is diagnosing something, then it’s the ‘problem’ with white Australians. That’s the proposition Gulpilil presents us at the film’s conclusion: you’ve come to my home, my country, so you should learn to live with me and understand my ways. It sounds reasonable, but perhaps the true gap in this country is the tragic unlikelihood of such an understanding ever even being attempted by mainstream white Australia. Indeed, there’s a tragedy that you can read in the eyes of the white characters, which is almost laughable because it’s so accurate. The white characters tolerate a sadness and a hopelessness (not to mention an anxiety) that Charlie and the other Aboriginal characters, despite their hardships, prevent from invading their spirits. That’s how Charlie and his kin can laugh when the car runs out of petrol 50 kilometres out of the community. That’s why the white service people despair over a piece of paper. Were it not an unacceptable proposition in our enlightened secular culture, one might almost suggest that, for all their material might, the white characters are spiritually impoverished – and that, for all his material imprisonment, Charlie is spiritually free.
|1||Rolf de Heer, quoted in Michael Fitzgerald, ‘Keeping Time with Rolf’, TIME Pacific, 13 March 2006, <http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1172744,00.html>, accessed 5 May 2014.|
|2||D Bruno Starrs, Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer, VDM, Saarbrücken, 2009.|
|3||De Heer discusses the making of Ten Canoes in ‘Personal Reflections on Whiteness and Three Film Projects’, Australian Humanities Review, issue 42, August–September 2007, <http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-August-September-2007/Deheer.html> accessed 5 May 2014.|
|4||See Garry Maddox, ‘After Jail, Gulpilil Rebuilds His Life with the Help of an Old Friend’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 12 October 2013, <http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/after-jail-gulpilil-rebuilds-his-life-with-the-help-of-an-old-friend-20131011-2vdpm.html>, accessed 4 April 2014|
|5||Rolf de Heer, quoted in Maddox, ibid.|
|6||Take the Irish famine, Joseph Stalin’s five-year plans or Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward – none of these terrible examples could be said to be the deliberate work of a despotic mastermind. They are the products of chaos, absurdity and sheer idiotic disorganisation. The same goes for the bulk of the genocide that has been carried out on Australian Aboriginal communities since 1788.|
|7||See, for example, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Chronic Kidney Disease in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, cat. no. PHE 151, Canberra, 2011, <http://www.aihw.gov.au/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=10737420068>, accessed 16 May 2014.|


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A remix album is an album consisting of remixes or rerecorded versions of an artists' earlier released material. The first act who employed the format was American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson (Aerial Pandemonium Ballet, 1971). As of 2019, the best-selling remix album of all time was Michael Jackson's Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix (1997). List of best-selling music artists.
We continue to publish results of the best of the year community poll results. EPs are also known as Extended Players – are usually much shorter in length, 3-5 tracks. Below you can see a listing of the most interesting ( best ) REMIX EP, ALBUM of 2017, as voted in our poll. We sincerely hope you will find your favourite artists in the list and will discover something new. As always, don’t forget to give support to creators of music.
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- 1 kg dates, seeded and broken into small pieces
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- Place all ingredients, except coconut in a non-stick pan and cook till thick(the mixture begins to collect in the center)
- When cool enough to handle, shape into rolls of desired thickness.
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Pugs & Kisses, by Red Fox Design
Beautiful quirky Pug greeting card featuring a sweet vintage style pug with little love hearts. Perfect for Pug Lovers Printed on 300gsm Matt White card for a beautiful quality finish & texture.
The card comes individually cello wrapped and complete with a brown Kraft paper envelope ready for you to send. The card features the caption “Pugs & Kisses” and is blank inside for your own message. This little Pug is perfect for any occasion!
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Pathways of Adolescent Suicidal Behavior
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This study addresses 3 questions on adolescent suicidal behaviour: 1) why do some adolescents with psychiatric disorders have a history of suicidal behaviours & some do not? 2) how do intrapsychic & interpersonal underpinnings of adolescent suicidal behaviours differ from patterns of similar behaviour among children & adults? 3) how do pathways of adolescent suicidal behaviour differ for boys & girls? Findings indicate a low level of perceived family support was the only significant predictor of history of suicide attempts among females. Suicide attempts among males were predicted by perceived family support, higher levels of externalizing & internalizing behaviour, & greater age when compared to females.

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Ghost Civilian Holster
Civilian GHOST is a universal holster designed for concealed carry – both for police, military as well for sport (IDPA, IPSC and ACTION SHOOTING). It is made of unbreakable techno polymer, thermoformed for many specific pistol types. Holster comes with two mounting systems: high ride system can be used with all kinds of belts (3,5 – 5,5cm) and PADDLE BELT attachment allows you to carry the holster without the belt, the holster will stay stable during the extraction of the pistol.
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Poonch: Three persons were killed when a vehicle they were travelling in skidded off the Mughal Road and rolled down into a gorge near Poshana village in Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir.
The incident took place on Wednesday morning when the vehicle carrying bovines was on its way to Kashmir valley from Rajouri district. All the three persons travelling in the vehicle were killed in the mishap, they said. They have been identified as Mohmmad Tariq, Tahir Ahmed and Mohmmad Zaber, all hailing from Rajouri district.
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This project is confidential and SynAbs is not able to disclose the target antigen and the context of the project.
A high affinity mAb has been synthesized with success by SynAbs team and is now part of blockbusters molecules of our client.
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Matanzas is a waterfront inn and restaurant with an upper level sports bar. The restaurant is located on water with terrace and a constant display if Dolohins playing. The food is good both in the restaurant and in the upper level bar. Small bands play upstairs and it is a fun atmosphere for locals. Pizza is especially good. Locals frequent this place. Staff is friendly and it is just three blocks from Ft Myers Beach. Enjoy!
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Writer’s Block – the beast that lurks beneath my bed
It is the beast that has burdened me for around five years. Writer’s block jumps joyfully on the shattered shards of any creativity that may leak from my addled brain. It haunts me, taunts me, teases me with snippets of brilliance. Then fails me when I feel ready to face the world and produce something amazeballs. I’m certainly capable of sparkly unicorn poo with sprinkles fantastic things. EVERYONE IS!
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago
There was a thirty something woman stuck in a loveless marriage with two children who went wandering into her mother’s attic and brought down her old journal. In the journal among the notes taken for Biomedical Sciences and anatomy classes were masses and masses of poems. Something which was such an integral part of me not so long ago had been boxed up, forgotten about and grown dusty amongst the cobwebs of mam’s attic.
I asked myself, what had happened to this hopeful girl who had penned hundreds of poems, countless short stories. Even illustrated short books for kids? Had I forgotten what it was like to feel proper emotion an translate it into a spine tingley array of random words? It might sound a little melodramatic, but this girl was jut a shade. I decided in my unhappiness that I could resurrect her somehow. Mould her and make her better. Because by now I had more experience to write about. My heart had been broken. I had loved intently. Maybe I could communicate to the world the frustration I felt every day. Every day doing the same thing. Groundhogging my way through a life which should have been joyful.
I should have known at that point that I was desperately bad with post natal depression and possibly at the lowest ebb of my thirty years. I just thought it would be an outlet. And it certainly was.
I was convinced that I was no good, but a friend read some of my earlier work, and basically coerced me into forcing it on the rest of the world. I started to blog, because that’s what she recommended. She kept her own blog and introduced me to a circle of poets, and the rest is history. I worked incredibly hard to improve my writing during this period. I was full of inspiration. Everything got me thinking. Talking about writing wanted to make me write more. Pretty sure I was full of endorphins and high on words. I look back at this blog now, with the same sense of longing as those coffee stained notes I found at mum’s. Some of the earlier pieces are very rough around the edges. But you can see how much love and development went into stringing these words together.
I was a bit like Alice through the looking-glass. I wrote and wrote endlessly. It definitely helped me through the separation, and messy divorce. And most of it came from observing. I’ve always been keen on people watching and analysis.
When we learn to listen was one such real life observation. out of nowhere at two o’clock in the morning after people watching on a very long train ride on a damaged rail line between King’s Cross and King’s Lynn. We were stuck, waiting for some leaves, or detritus or a particle of dust to be removed from the rail. I just had an itch. It grew and formed in the back of my mind. Bob’s your uncle, by two in the morning I had written the damn thing in toto. Words just flowed. They worked.
At this point in time I also got into writing bits and bobs for different sources. Guest posts for different authors, women’s networks etc. I decided I would like to retrain as a journalist. The rest my dear is history…
Combatting Writer’s block
So, how do you do it? Is there a magic Hufflepuff wand I’ve forgotten somewhere in the room of requirement? I promise – no more Rowling references. It’s bloody hard work. This post, and this blog is one way of trying to find my mojo once more. I lost love for all things poetry back in 2014 ish. The poetry group I belonged to, who were so supportive and nurturing dissolved into the ether. They were partly responsible for giving me that confidence I needed to create.
I got fed up of the like for like commenting on blogs. I read what I enjoy, and I’ve stuck to that mantra. But the reading of poetry is also at a stop. I’ve read a load of posts about overcoming the dreaded dark beast of wordlessness. Yet nothing juicy comes my way. I find myself searching my brain for something. A stanza. Perhaps a little light in the dark. I’ve written stuff. Yes, sure but it all seems to be a little bit like a soggy wet fart when I read it back to myself. Definitely not professional or high brow enough for publication.
One of my favourite poet in the world, Maya Angelou said:
“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.’ And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.’”
Where are you Musey?
I’m convinced that someday my muse will slink back from her extended jollies in Casablanca, Salou, Rhyl or wherever the heck she’s been and we will once again be a flaming hot couple of strong women. She will whisper her seductions in my willing ear when I least expect it and BOOM, there it will be. Writing like a mad person again. My pink fountain pen will be on fire, burning the midnight oil until my journal is brimming at the scenes with amazing material.
Until then, the block resides firmly under my bed. Breathing nothing at me but a halitosis stench that makes me gag, making me wish it had brushed it’s bloody teeth when it was a kid. There is no blame here. I don’t blame sleep deprivation, I was deprived of that when I was at my peak years ago. I don’t blame the kids, moving house or my relationship. The buck stops beneath my divan. One day I’ll blast the little shit out with my magic fingers. Until then, I’m blessed with this place, and my gorgeous peeps.
All stationary featured here is from the current correspondence range at WHSmith. They’re possibly my fave things ever at the moment next to my kids!

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The track is called "Never Forget who you are" the music was produced by Private Asylum and vocals by Petra Faulk of XEW. The song was composed by Julian White of Private Asylum in November 2002.
That track is quite modern but includes elements of Acid Jazz and Chillout genres. The track is being distributed freely on the internet to support the independent artists and musicians as well as free streaming audio on the internet.
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As mothers, we can use books to have intentional conversations with our kids about biblical topics and incorporate the language of the Bible into their everyday lives, regardless of age.
My son loves to read, and I’ve found that the more Christian books I read with him, the more his biblical vocabulary grows. I can’t wait to keep reading with my son as he grows older and for our conversations to be enriched by more complex ideas found in the Bible and in Christian books. That is also my prayer for you and your children.
The following is a thematically-organized list of books I have either read with my son or read growing up. I highly recommend each and every one of these. Because many of our kiddos range from babies to teenagers, I have also included multiple suggestions within each genre to appeal to variety of ages:
1) Illustrated children’s Bibles
“The Jesus Storybook Bible” by Sally Lloyd-Jones, Kevin DeYoung’s “The Biggest Story” and Carl Laferton’s “The Garden,” “The Curtain and The Cross” are all wonderful and suitable for elementary age. When I was a teenager, I also loved “The Picture Bible” by Iva Hoth and illustrated by Andre Le Blanc. I almost had it memorized. Boys will love this Bible. And, for your artistic children, there is the “NIV Beautiful Word Coloring Bible.”
2) Books on theology
“Everything a Child Should Know About God” by Kenneth N. Taylor is an excellent primer for toddlers. If your child is in elementary school,”The Ology” by Marty Machowski is a good place to start. Finally, “The Case for Christ for Kids” by Lee Strobel (2010) is great; If you have a teenager, I would recommend Strobel’s original version for adults.
Tim Keller just came out with a wonderful, modern book of catechisms called “The New City Catechism.” There is a kid version for elementary-age students and an adult version for middle-school and up. Now, if your child is a history fan like I was, why not try reading older catechisms together, too? In the spirit of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, you could read Luther’s “Small Catechism” (1529) as a family, discussing one Q&A per week and its relevance for today.
4) Books on faith and race
Trillia Newbell’s book “God’s Very Good Idea” just came out in September 2017, and it is fantastic! The book talks about how God made all of us different, yet special, and why He wants us to love Him and each other. I also would recommend the writings and speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., as he provided a pastoral view on the issues of race and racial reconciliation. Kadir Nelson has put together a book and CD called “I have a Dream” for elementary-age kids, while King’s “I have a Dream” speech and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” are great for teenagers.
5) Christian Fables, tales, and allegories
First, kids, young and old, need to read Aesop’s Fables. “Pilgrim’s Progress” by John Bunyan is a classic. It also has been adapted for young children in Oliver Hunkin’s “Dangerous Journey.” Also, R.C. Sproul’s children’s tales are a hidden gem. These include “The Prince’s Poison Cup,” “The Lightlings,” “The King Without A Shadow,” and “The Donkey who carried a King.” There also is Tony Hutter’s “How A Spider Saved a Man’s Life” and 51 other great Spurgeon stories.
6) Christian fantasy
I’m going to be picky here, because I am a literature professor. I don’t love all Christian fantasy; Some are not written well. But you can’t go wrong with the “Chronicles of Narnia” by C.S. Lewis and “The Lord of the Rings” Trilogy by J.R. Tolkien. Both have kid and adult versions available.
7) Daily devotion books
I think we can and should encourage our kids to have daily devotions, no matter how young. Billy Graham’s “Hope For Each Day: 365 Devotions for Kids” is great for elementary kids as well as Max Lucado’s “Grace For The Moment: 365 Devotions for Kids.” Tim Keller’s “The Songs of Jesus: A Year of Daily Devotions in the Psalms” is suitable for middle-school ages and higher.
8) Family devotion books
There’s so much by Marty Machowski that I love to read, including his “Wise Up: Ten-Minute Family Devotions in Proverbs.” There’s also Nancy Guthrie’s “One Year of Dinner Table Devotions and Discussion Starters” and Champ Thornton’s “The Radical Book for Kids: Exploring the Roots and Shoots of Faith.”
9) Books for advent
For elementary age-kids, I would recommend Marty Machowski’s “Prepare Him Room: Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Family Devotional” and Nancy Guthrie’s “Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room: Daily Family Devotions for Advent.” For ages 12 and up, I would recommend Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas.”
10) Books on the Protestant Reformation
Because 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of Luther’s nailing of the 95 Theses, I think there is a place for kids to learn about and reflect on this special moment in church history. Check out Stephen Nichols’ “Reformation ABCs” and R.C. Sproul’s “The Barber Who Wanted To Pray,” as well as Martin Luther’s “A Simple Way To Pray” (edited by Matthew C. Harrison) and Stephen Nichol’s “The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World.”
Now, Christian ABC books aren’t on my top 10 list but, since I have a toddler, I’d recommend Kevin DeYoung’s “ABC The Biggest Story,” Stephen Nichol’s “Church History ABCs,” and “My ABC Bible Verses” by Susan Hunt. They have all been helpful in establishing basic Christian vocabulary for my son.
Do you have anything in your home library I didn’t mention here? I’d love to hear other ideas, too!
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Yay! The Bears quarter back has finally put a ring on his fiancé/Hills star Kristin Cavallari.
According to Us Weekly, the pair wed today, June 7! The Hills actress — err, reality star, took to Twitter to share the happy news. She wrote, “I’m officially Kristin Elizabeth Cutler!!!!!”
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— Kristin Cavallari (@KristinCav) June 7, 2013
Earlier in the year, after the birth of their son Camden, Cavallari gushed about her wedding. She said, “It’s going to be about 150 people, so not huge.”
“I was never the girl who dreamt about my wedding or any of that stuff, but the wedding how we’re planning is exactly what I wanted. I think it’s going to be perfect for what we’re doing.”
According to TMZ, Cutler and his gal purchased their marriage license at the Davidson County Clerk’s office in Nashville, Tenn.

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SAN ANTONIO — The State of Texas is the only state to produce four different division one women’s basketball national championships.
Baylor and Texas A&M have combined to win three titles in the last decade and A&M head Coach Gary Blair said Texas is a basketball state.
“Texas is a basketball state,” Blair said. And our slice of the pie and basketball keeps growing and growing and growing.“
The growing piece of the pie starts at the High School Level and Boerne ISD Athletics Director Stan Leech has 39 years of experience in coaching amassing 833 wins as a Boys basketball head coach and was recently named to the UIL’s Top 100 Texas High School Coaches. Leech also started the women’s volleyball team at Tarleton State in the 1980’s. He has seen first hand the rise of girls basketball in this state.
“We’re getting where these girls are in great programs and then they go and become coaches,” Leech said. “The coaching on the girls side has improved greatly in.”
One of those coaches is Amy Ruede who has been the head basketball coach at Boerne High School for the last twelve years. In that time has seen communities embrace the sport allowing for opportunities for girls in basketball continue to grow.
“It’s the communities that really push girls to play sports, and really understand the value of women’s sports and the development of young women to be successful mothers and professionals and to be able to do more than just be a wife,” she said.
Ruede led the Boerne girls to a regional championship in 2021 and the success at the college level in Texas has helped improve the exposure and popularity among her girls.
“that really pushes the younger groups,” she said. “They want to emulate those players they want to be like those players you want to be that successful.”
Events like the NCAA women’s tournament will only help the game continue to grow with the next generation of players in south Texas.
“I think for San Antonio to be able to host a women’s Final Four, and to have the girls day basketball tournament San Antonio, it’s been amazing for the girls program,” Ruede said.

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Quebec groups press immigration ministry
MONTREAL–The Coalition Against Precarious Work, Monday, July 14, delivered a letter to the Quebec Ministry of Immigration, Diversity and Inclusion of Quebec Kathleen Weil regarding the recent changes to the Temporary Foreign Workers Program (TFWP), in an effort to defend the rights of all workers impacted by them.
The Coalition, composed of the Temporary Agency Workers Association, Temporary Foreign Workers Association, PINAY, Immigrant Workers Centre of Montreal, Dignidad Migrante, Mexican United for the Regularization, and The Spanish Immigrants Collective of Montreal , wanted a response on “how the provincial government will be accountable in reacting positively to better protect migrant workers given that the federal changes to the program will entrench precarity even further for migrants and drive down labour conditions for all,” the statement said.
The Coalition said the changes are ambiguous and with unclear effects upon foreign worker rights and upon other Quebec workers.
“Some of the modifications include that the Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) is increasing from $275 to $1,000 for every temporary foreign worker position requested by an employer. This measure will decrease possibilities of migrant workers to find employment if they stop working with an employer.
This measure also increases their vulnerability and the pressure to accept work and labour conditions more and more hard and precarious. But also the new LMIA – which replaces the LMO – is more rigorous than their predecessor, then finding a new job or employer for migrant workers will be harder.
“At the same time, the duration of work permits will be reduced from the current two-year standard duration to one-year periods as set out in the Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIA) which means more reduction of migrant workers ́ possibilities to find a job in Canada. But also employers seeking to hire high-wage temporary foreign workers will now be required to submit transition plans to demonstrate how they will increase efforts to hire Canadians, including through higher wages, investments in training, and more active recruitment efforts to recruit Canadians within Canada. This measure obviously is creating worst conditions for foreign workers to compete and access to better paid jobs and with less precarity,” the letter said.
“In this sense, the new regulations worsen the work conditions and labour rights of foreign workers,” the letter added.
As Noé Arteaga says “The debate about the abuses made against foreign workers has been manipulated by the government and the conservative and traditional media. They make the people believe that the ‘abuses’ are committed by employers and enterprises resulting in foreign workers displacing and taking jobs from Canadian citizens. Actually the abuses are those committed by enterprises and employers against foreign workers inside the programs.”
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I like the look of a laminate stock on a hunting rifle...in some cases.
However it must be well executed and look like a hunting rifle.
Some of the Sako 85's come to mind (Grey Wolf, Brown Bear...etc).
The only one I can find for a Blaser R8 is made by GRS.
The GRS Sporter is a high quality...
If I remember correctly, you had a thread about 416TAYLOR.
Should have went with that guess first.
Cheers and enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
Not even gonna try on the other two bullets.
I'm way over my head already.
From left to right...
Guessing 416RM brass.
An early Barnes TSX before they put bands on it.
Woodleigh RN SN but those have a cannelure and your pic doesn't have it.
I'm out to lunch on this last one, no ideas.
Not being a reloader I'd be thrilled to just get the brass correct.
I agree...to an extent.
The beauty of hunting Africa is the unexpected.
In other words...everything is on the menu.
We all have a wish list when we step off the plane.
But when we get into the bush, things can, and often do, change.
Seeing an incredible Sable, Roan or even a Black Wildebeest...
I don't own a 9.3x62 so I'm certainly at a disadvantage.
And I didn't' cast a vote because of this.
The ballistics between the two are close.
However, it's clear the 375 delivers more energy on paper.
But I doubt any animal would be able to tell the difference.
I chose the 375 because it is...
What about sights...scoped, v-notch, peep/ghost ring?
Makes a huge difference.
What are you shooting...paper or animals?
I can effectively hit paper at distances I wouldn't shoot animals.
What bullet and load are you going to use?
Trajectory and speed are gonna be a factor.
What are your...
But there have been advances in the past 6 years.
I'd say ammunition alone has come a long way.
Making those "mountain calibers" take game with more authority.
Thinking a NULA Model 24 in 270WIN would be nice.
Weighs in at 5.5#, so it's a bit heavy for a "mountain rifle"
After a scope, rings &...
I agree with @CBH Australia, a 6.5CM or 25-06 is not a step up.
Although the 25-06 is debatable because of the long action and sharp recoil.
The reality is that he should have his own Blaser R8.
You can add a kickstop for whatever caliber you decide on.
Then, when he's more confident and...
We took 9 animals with a 375H&H & 300 grain Swift A-Frames.
Here are the only recovered bullets from a Gemsbok & Eland.
All other bullets exited with incredible damage.
That being said, I now have a different 375H&H.
It seems to prefer the Barnes TSX 300 grain over the SAF's.
IMO - If you stick...
The 243WIN can be hard to figure out.
Mostly because it can cover a large range of game.
Multiple twist rates, bullet weights, types of bullets...etc.
I just believe that it is a versatile caliber when used properly.
And that pink spider web stock wouldn't stop me from using it.
The Hornady V-Max bullet is a fragmenting bullet designed for Prairie Dogs.
Using that bullet on "goats, pigs and deer" would be less than ideal.
And I would not be surprised if you experienced wounded animals as a result.
The Hornady SST was specifically designed for game up to Deer.
You and your son are certainly entitled to your opinion on the 243WIN.
But I will have to respectfully disagree...
The fact of the matter is that it's adequate for up to Deer sized game.
Proper bullet selection, reasonable ranges and shot placement are the critical factors.
Just like a 375 is...
I did not mean to imply that the Warne rings are inexpensive (or cheap).
You are absolutely correct...nothing about big bores is inexpensive.
I had a CZ550 375H&H with the B&C stock and an AHR #2 upgrade.
It did have 1" Warne QD rings with a Leupold 1.5-5x20 scope.
Not even close to...
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned Alaska Arms.
Although I've not used them myself, I've heard good things about them.
Machined from solid bar stock, heat treated and carry a lifetime guarantee.
They are not cheap, but you generally get what you pay for.
Sounds like you REALLY need a 243WIN.
So what if Bob doesn't like it.
You drop a few Hogs with head shots at range and he'll change his tune.
Take back the 243WIN and make it a MANLY MAN cartridge again.
Gotta dance with the one you came with.
Check and double-check...triple check (if you are German like me).
Last week at the range we had to make an adjustment for our "target" ammo.
Scope dope was noted and will be changed back when the good stuff comes out.
And then zero will be...
LaRue does not offer a direct mount to the CZ550 action.
One of the reasons for having a CZ550 is the double square bridge.
With dovetails and the notch it eliminates an adapter and makes QR possible.
You simply go from the receiver to the rings to the scope...no rail needed.
This also allows...
The 308WIN is the parent case to several options out there...
243WIN, 260REM, 7mm-08, 338FED & 358WIN to name a few.
After looking at what you have, the big stuff is pretty well covered.
How about a 243WIN for Varmints to Deer sized game?
I've always had good results with Warne.
Recommend you contact them directly with pictures and info.
Not sure you are open to accepting help from a company with a fault.
But at the price of (possibly) free, you might give it a try.
I've been told of hunting sheep successfully...
You need a lot of time, or a lot of money.
The guys from the hunting rags/TV shows certainly have the $.
The locals have the time to scout, know the land, weather patterns...etc.
Unfortunately, I'm neither.
I've used PPU 375H&H and 300WM for target practice.
Both have returned reasonable results, but not pin point accuracy.
So to answer your question, I've not used PPU 7x57 on Deer.
I would lean more toward what @mdwest mentioned.
Shooting, saving the brass and reloading with a quality bullet.
I'm with you, 9.3 would be a great caliber for a stalking rifle.
Although I'd have to go with a Kipplauf style rifle from Krieghoff or Blaser.
And make it 9.3x74R because these are single shot rifles.
Don't you have a 9.3x74R over/under double?
Wife and I each shoot between 7-12 shots a week each, takes less than an hour.
We break it up between the 300WM, 375H&H and 416RM.
Admittedly, she has not shot the 416RM yet, just getting comfortable with the 375 now.
We also do about 25 shots a week each of 22lr.
This is mostly done off sticks...
I owned a 300WSM Savage 16 Bear Hunter.
It was an OK rifle, but there were several things I didn't like.
As @WAB mentioned, magazine capacity was one of them.
The biggest was the way the rounds fed from the magazine.
The steep shoulder made it feel very different than other rifles I had shot.
The more PH's I talk to, the more I hear recommending premium bonded softs & mono's.
Swift A-Frame, TBBC, Barnes TSX and Norma Oryx are commonly mentioned.
The current bullet technology is so great that solids for a client are rarely necessary.
The better plan is to get very accurate with your...
Would getting a 275RIGBY handcuff you when it comes to ammo?
I understand that the 7x57 is the same and available most anywhere.
What I mean is when traveling to a foreign country...ammo matching the firearm.
Some countries check headstamps of each and every cartridge.
I just checked Midway...
I have used 2 kinds of recoil reducers...liquid mercury and the Blaser kickstop.
I had 16oz KICK-EEZ recoil reducers in my CZ550 375H&H in the butt section.
The stock was synthetic, so I bedded the tube in the butt with Bondo and sanded it flush.
For a little guy like me (160# & 70") it made a...
Beautiful scenery and rifle.
You made out both ways...
#1 - Didn't get mauled and didn't shoot by forgetting your rifle.
#2 - If you HAD your rifle and shot it...having to explain it to fish & game.
Hard to tell what you (or anyone else) may have done in a situation like that.
Way to stay...
This build you have in mind has some very specific requirements.
Creating >4000lb-ft of energy with a .30 caliber is asking a lot.
Heaviest (and longest) bullets at maximum speed in a production action.
As others have stated...
The two best cartridges designed to do this are the 300WBY and...
I have significant NA hunting experience, however my wife does not.
We are a hunt together most of the time, both in the US and abroad.
On our first safari we only hunted PG.
Although in retrospect, we agree that I could have hunted Buffalo.
Taking a 375H&H that I was very confident with was a...
I'd appreciate if you checked for me.
I had a conversation with Jim at ASC and I thought he said the large breaks down to 29".
29" ACS and $380 vs 30" BOG-POD's we already have...
If it were 26" OAL, I'd have to give it a little more thought.
Not a typo, and BTW good eye...most would not have caught that.
We had 2 of the 1650's and have downsized to one 1560.
The fact that the 1650 was right around the 65" mark...made it questionable.
Most airlines allow 62", and if they pulled out the tape...we'd be screwed.
Realizing we WAAAAAAY...

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Scot Nakagawa: Wednesday, Bill O’Reilly took us from the No Spin Zone to the make-your-head-spin zone in his rant, “The Truth About White Privilege.” And what was O’Reilly’s “truth?” That white privilege is a myth, the proof of which lies in the experience of Asian Americans.
Rankism, a term coined by physicist, educator, and citizen diplomat Robert W. Fuller, is used to describe "abusive, discriminatory, or exploitative behavior towards people because of their rank in a particular hierarchy". According to Fuller rank-based abuse underlies many other phenomena such as bullying, racism, sexism, and homophobia.
Jonathan Simon: Human dignity arose on the streets of Ferguson, hovering over Michael Brown’s body, growing ever larger as that body was degraded in the hot sun. Not his soul or his ghost, but the specter of the humanity he shared with all of us.
Berry Craig: McConnell is an old-time Social Darwinist who doesn’t believe business owners have any meaningful responsibility toward the well-being of their workers or their communities.
Soya Jung: The mutually reinforcing myths of black criminality and the model minority have no place in the world envisioned by the people of Ferguson, defiantly standing their ground, armed with love and rage in the face of tanks and guns.
Scot Nakagawa: The shocking situation evolving in Ferguson, Missouri, has laid bare an ugly feature of American life: that the relationship of American society to Black people is founded upon the logic of slavery.
Mark Byrnes: In racial matters where the facts are in dispute, we all too often use evidence of “character” as a substitute for facts.
Irene Monroe: The leading causes of suicide in African diasporic communities are not only the cultural stigma about mental illness, but also the barriers to mental health treatment.
Murray Polner: What was hardest for Campanis was that he had mindlessly squandered what he treasured most in life: authority, companionship, responsibility, the respect of his beloved baseball community.
Yohuru Williams: We should all be angry about the killing of Michael Brown and moved by love to shape a world where we do not merely claim to care about urban youth but actively work to protect them from the most pernicious dangers that haunt them daily – violence and poverty.
Christopher Rounds: Since the election of President Obama, much of what has been taken for racism in politics has been conflated with the policies of the Republican Party.
Robert Reich: 27 states have passed laws allowing companies to incorporate as “benefit corporations.” This gives directors legal protection to consider the interests of all stakeholders rather than just the shareholders.
Winona LaDuke: They seem seamless on the field. That I notice. As if they are communicating with a long history. This is fortunate, because there are very few players from which to pick
he college football season is right around the corner and fans across the country are getting ready to cheer for their favorite teams. But plenty of action is taking place already—not on the football fields, but in courtrooms and by legislative bodies—about players and what constitutes fair treatment. The big splash came when Northwestern University football […]


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It’s rare that those words come so bluntly from a company, but that’s Kickstarter’s message to its users.
The crowdfunding site published a blog post today titled “We were wrong,” in which the company apologizes for not canceling a project that included appallingly sexist material.
The project in question, which Kickstarter cached in the spirit of transparency, was for a seduction guide that featured such atrocious suggestions as:
• Don’t ask for permission. Be dominant. Force her to rebuff your advances.
• If a woman isn’t comfortable, take a break and try again later.
On a blog post that made the rounds on Reddit (link has NSFW language), Kickstarter was bashed for allowing such a project to gain funding through its service.
In the Kickstarter mea culpa, the company says it was mainly a matter of timing:
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Delicious, pretty and easy recipe. And pretty cheap too. I normally make it as a side dish for a sunday roast, or a barbacue.
I try to make my recipes with seasonal products, can you tell? I hope so, and I also hope that you do the same, in case you don’t already do so.
The advantages of cooking seasonal are many, but I will say just a few. It is more environmentally friendly and also economical, since the harvest is not forced, and the need of greenhousing for crops is reduced substantially. All this affects, as is logical, on the nutrients but also on flavor.
But what I like most about the changes from season is just that, the change. It bores me so much always finding those sad tomatoes, tasteless apples and ugly carrots, all year the same, month after month in big supermarkets. Thats why I love my farmers market, where they bring the product from nearby, at it’s best, and it all keeps chnging, acording to the seasons.
Now in November it’s time for chestnuts, chard and spinach, cabbage, cauliflowers and all that family, artichokes, eggplant, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, persimmons, endive, escarole, mangos and my favorite, all the variety of wild mushrooms.
Autumn vegetables seem particularly delicious to me, so expect some more ideas on them soon. For today I leave you this recipe with two more autumn vegetables, beets and carrots. The recipe is based, once again, one of Jamie Oliver’s, here you have his one.
Do you have any beets recipe to share with me? And any recipe on side vegetable dishes that could help me with my Christmas menus?
- 1 bunch of fresh beets (about 700gr)
- 1 bunch of carrots (about 700g)
- 1 handful baby potaotes
- 10 garlic cloves, 4 whole and unpeeled, and 6 peeled and smashed (Have you bought your garlic crusher yet?)
- juice of 1 orange
- sea salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- extra virgin olive oil
- a few sprigs of fresh thyme, leaves picked
- a few sprigs of fresh rosemary, leaves picked
- 5 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
- Preheat the oven to 220°C/425°F. Put your carrots into a large pot and your beets into another, and add enough water to cover them. Bring to the boil, and add salt as soon as it starts simmering. Cook for about 15, until just tender. Beets might take a little longer than carrots.
- We drain and place in separate bowls. Peel your beets and cut in fours. Cut larger carrots in half lengthwise.
- Season while they are still hot. Toss the carrots with half the smashed garlic, a glug of olive oil, salt and the thyme leaves. Mix the beets with the rest of the garlic, the rosemary, orange juice, balsamic vinegar and salt and pepper.
- In a roasting tray place all the vegetables, the baby potatoes, the whole garlic cloves and roast until golden (it could take from 10 to 20 minutes). You can do it in a separate roasting tray, or together with your favorite sunday roast.


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The Duchess will tour an exhibition of Freud’s portrait paintings of his lovers, friends and family, referred to by the late artist as “the people in my life,” at the National Portrait Gallery next month.
The gallery is one of four organisations that the Duchess has recently chosen to support as patron.
She will embark on supporting her causes next month, when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will separated for six weeks during the Duke’s deployment to the Falkland Islands.
The Duchess is said to be eager to keep as busy as possible while her husband completes a six-week mission in the Falklands as a search and rescue helicopter pilot.
A royal aide said: “The Duchess, as Patron of the National Portrait Gallery, will take an active interest – publicly and privately – in all aspects of the Gallery’s work.
"The Gallery’s planned exhibitions, such as on Lucian Freud, are important moments for the organisation and for its Patron.
“While the Duke is away, she is fully intending to use those six weeks to do nothing but work and will be using that time to visit her patronages, both publicly and privately, and undertake a number of engagements in support of the Royal Family.”
The Duke’s imminent deployment to the Falklands has been described as “a provocative act” by Argentina, which disputes the Islands’ sovereignty.
Despite heightened diplomatic tensions between Britain and Argentina, royal aides insisted that the Duke will undertake his deployment next month.
They said: "There has been no suggestion whatsoever that he shouldn’t go and it is absolutely not something he has considered.”


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Alarm Over “Wafer-Thin” Supply Chain Insurance Coverage
March 23, 2023
Based on the results of a survey of risk managers, logistics managers and CEOs worldwide, the Global Head of Broking at Willis Towers Watson (WTW), in a post in StrategicRisk, says that for many large companies “insurance to cover purely financial supply-chain losses provides only a wafer-thin patchwork of protection.” The situation is said to have created a demand bulge for relevant business interruption coverage.
The survey tapped 800 risk managers and other senior decision makers across Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific, and Latin America in companies with annual revenues of more than $250 million, in sectors ranging from food and agriculture to semiconductors and complex manufacturing. Part of the issue is the difficulty that companies have understanding all the links in their own complex supply chains. For years, says a WTW post about its survey, ever-expanding and more efficient supply chains were “like magic oil lubricating the global economy.” But that model has been battered, first by fallout from the pandemic and more recently by tensions related to the war in Ukraine and the potential conflict with China.
Among the survey findings: Sixty-five percent of respondents said supply-chain-related losses were higher or much higher than expected over the past two years (although a majority of those said the sales impact was short term). Eighty-three percent said they had made changes in their supply chain, including 18 percent who said their supply chains had been “completely transformed.” -Today’s General Counsel/DR
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Billing modifiers were created to provide additional information to the payer about the performed procedure(s) and help describe and/or qualify the services provided. There are common modifiers used by commercial payers and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), that indicate to the payer that the services provided have been altered in a way that is different than the ascribed definition of the billing code. For example, a modifier should be used when all of the tests in a bundled code were not performed or when only one ear was tested.
Topic(s): Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare, Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN), CPT - Current Procedural Terminology, Coding, Reimbursement, Practice Management, Patient care, Treatment
A culture of quality is needed if we are to bring audiology into the spotlight and highlight our expertise in hearing and balance. Ritz-Carlton co-founder and former president Horst Schulze states that we can create transactions every day, but until we place the person next to us as the most important person in the world in that moment, we will never create an experience.
Topic(s): Professional, Patient care, Public Awareness, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Coding, Reimbursement, Practice Management, Hearing Assistive Technologies (HAT), Balance/Vestibular, Hearing Aids, Hearing Health Care
As cochlear implant awareness increases and more individuals receive cochlear implants, the demand for related audiological services is growing across the country. To meet this need, many audiologists have begun to add, or are considering adding, cochlear implant services to their practices.
Topic(s): Coding, Reimbursement, Practice Management, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare, Medicaid, Cochlear Implants (CI)
On November 2, 2017, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) final rule for 2018.The final rule addresses adjustments to the MPFS and other Medicare Part B payment policies, including changes in valuation for services and overall payment updates.
Topic(s): Coding, Reimbursement, vestibular evaluation, vestibular disorders, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), Medicare, CPT - Current Procedural Terminology, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE), American Medical Association (AMA), Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC), Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS), Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS), Quality Payment Program (QPP), Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS)
Understanding the correct use of the Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN) Form CMS-R-131 is important to ensure billing compliance for traditional Medicare (Part B). Audiologists may face challenges determining when Medicare covers a service and when an ABN is required. Federal law requires that providers, including audiologists, must notify a Medicare beneficiary in advance when a service that Medicare typically covers is likely to be denied and/or when the item or service is not considered by Medicare to be medically reasonable and necessary. The ABN meets this requirement.
Topic(s): Medicare, Coding, Reimbursement, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Balance/Vestibular
You may have received a notification to revalidate your Medicare enrollment, or heard others discussing Medicare revalidation, and were unsure what this process was, or if you were required to do anything. The Academy has put together some quick answers to your questions and links to resources to help you through the revalidation process.
Topic(s): Coding, Reimbursement, Medicare, Revalidation


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Parishioners from Preston have raised more than £500 to help communities across the world grow enough food this Harvest.
Churchgoers from Our Lady and St Edwards parish held their annual Harvest soup lunch and donated the proceeds to Catholic aid agency CAFOD’s Harvest appeal.
The annual fundraising campaign is this year focused on families in the South American country of Bolivia whose crops and livelihoods have been impacted by an increase of extreme weather.
John Woods, local parishioner and CAFOD representative, said: “We held our annual Harvest Day soup lunch to raise money and to get hands on to support CAFOD.
“It was a wonderful team effort. Volunteers worked hard to prepare the soup and arrange the hall. Parishioners enjoyed the homemade soup. By the end of lunch, the soup was all gone”
CAFOD is working with the communities on the Bolivian Altiplano, where nearly 60 per cent of the rural population are living below the poverty line.
The changing climate has caused unpredictable rains and frequent hailstorms, which are destroying the crops which the communities rely on.
The charity’s partners are working to provide greenhouses to protect crops and train communities with new farming techniques to help them to grow more food.
Preston’s donation will enable CAFOD’s partners to continue working with communities like those in Bolivia.
CAFOD’s representative in Preston, Patrick Gardner, said: “I have the utmost respect for all the hard work that goes into planning the soup lunch, there’s a real ‘all hands on deck’ approach.”
“You get a buzz as soon as you walk into the parish centre. You can really tell that the parish loves coming together at Fast Days. There’s a joy on people’s faces.
“Harvest fast days are great way of bringing people together and raising an incredible amount of money to help others, so we’d like to say a huge thanks to the parishioners for their generosity.”
Donate to the Harvest Appeal at: cafod.org.uk/harvest


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Exercise and sexual activity are just two ways to help you catch some more z’s.
Instead of bragging about how little sleep we need, what if we rewarded star sleepers for their healthy habits?
First, we’d have to identify those key qualities that make someone good at sleep. A recent survey from Consumer Reports may offer some clues.
The publication asked more than 26,000 subscribers about their sleep habits. Nearly 60 percent reported feeling tired or having trouble falling or staying asleep at least three times a week. They cited common sleep stealers like work-related stress, health issues and money problems as the reasons they couldn’t get enough quality shut-eye.
Many said they had at least once turned to over-the-counter sleep aids for relief, while others reported that techniques like mediation, yoga and white noise had eased their bedtime bothers.
However, not every respondent had bad news to share. Nearly 9,000 people said they had few or no sleep difficulties during the past 30 days. The survey found that these sleep stars share a couple of sleep-promoting healthy habits that really set them apart from those of us perpetually waking up on the wrong side of the bed.
By now you probably know that to get the best sleep, it’s important to make your bedroom a calm and soothing haven by keeping it cool, dark and quiet, and that you should ditch caffeine early in the day and keep technology out of the bedroom. But here are a few extra measure that help true sleep stars fall — and stay — asleep, plus why each one makes you a star.
Exercising During The Day
Physical activity tuckers you out — literally! A number of studies have linked exercise to better sleep. Last year, one published in the journal Mental Health and Physical Activity found that breaking a sweat for at least 150 minutes a week led to 65 percent better sleep quality.
As long as you don’t exercise right before bed, any time will do, but late afternoon or early evening may be best, according to Dr. Robert Oexman, director of the Sleep to Live Institute and HuffPost blogger, when the body’s core temperature naturally increases. “In order for us to fall asleep, we need a decrease in core body temperature,” he explains. So when the buzz from that early evening workout starts to fall off, “that coincides with our natural tendency to get sleepy.”
Breaking a sweat too close to lights out can mean your core temperature is still too high, which can lead to fragmented sleep, says Oexman.
Unwinding 30 Minutes Before Bed
“What we’ve done in our society is stimulate ourselves all the time,” says Oexman, “and then suddenly it’s ‘lights off!’ and you can’t go to sleep.” Instead of expecting sleep to happen like a switch, he says, it’s important to allow the brain and body some time to ease into sleep.
Before electricity, as it got dark outside, even with oil lamps, it got dark inside too, signaling to the brain that it was time to start secreting melatonin, a hormone that not only puts us to sleep but helps us stay that way, he says. Today, we leave the TV, the laptop and the iPad on until the minute before we hope to be in dreamland, and that light seriously messes with our sleep cycles, he says.
It doesn’t matter what you do in these relaxing minutes — it could be meditation, breathing exercises, reading (but nothing too stimulating) listening to music, or many other calming activities — just so long as you allow yourself the time to do it.
Going To Bed (And Waking Up) At The Same Time
Oexman says he hears lots of complaints that following this rule is just impossible. “What do you mean you can’t?” he rebuttals. “You don’t want to, but really, you can,” he says. And if you don’t — say you stay up late on Friday and Saturday nights, then sleep late all weekend and head back to work on Monday exhausted — you’re living in a perpetual cycle of artificial jet lag, often referred to associal jet lag.
Engaging In Sexual Activity Before Bed
You’ve probably heard to reserve the bed for sleep and sex only. But doing the deed may actually help when it comes to hitting the hay. The hormone oxytocin, released during orgasm, has beenshown to promote sleep in some studies.
However, the effect may be greater for men, says Oexman, while for women, the release of hormones during sex often has more of a stimulating effect.
What Else Makes A Star Sleeper?
While not mentioned by Consumer Reports, there are a few other traits Oexman looks for in sleepers who deserve a pat on the back, including using the right mattress and pillow (and replacing them as needed), addressing any pain issues that disrupt sleep and kicking Fido out of bed.
“I get it, I love animals,” he says, “but animals have a very, very different circadian rhythm than humans and have a tendency to move at night.” You may not remember it in the morning, but it’s likely you’ll wake up when your dog or cat does, and you’ll feel groggier in the morning because of it. “They belong in their own bed,” he says.
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Researchers found that the grape seed extract prevents amyloid beta accumulation in cells, suggesting that it may block the formation of plaques. In Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta accumulates to form toxic plaques that disrupt normal brain function.
The researchers tested a grape seed polyphenolic extract. Polyphenolic compounds are antioxidants naturally found in wine, tea, chocolate, and some fruits and vegetables.
To determine whether the extract could mitigate the effects of Alzheimer's disease, the researchers used mice genetically modified to develop a condition similar to Alzheimer's disease. They exposed pre-symptomatic "Alzheimer's mice" to the extract or placebo daily for five months. The daily dose of the polyphenolic extract was equivalent to the average amount of polyphenolics consumed by a person on a daily basis.
After the five-month period, Alzheimer's mice were at an age at which they normally develop signs of disease. However, the extract exposure reduced amyloid beta accumulation and plaque formation in brains of Alzheimer's mice and also reduced cognitive decline: compared to placebo, extract-exposed Alzheimer's mice showed improved spatial memory. These data suggest that before symptoms begin, the grape seed extract may prevent or postpone plaque formation and slow cognitive deterioration associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Chemical analysis showed that the major polyphenol components in the study's grape seed extract product are catechin and epicatechin, which are also abundant in tea and cocoa. The intent of the researchers is to develop a highly tolerable, nontoxic, orally available treatment for the prevention and treatment of Alzeheimer's dementia.
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