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Do you feel Lonely as I am feeling?
Do you? consider me as your closest one. See How?
This article is based on a lady who is 61 and lives in IL, United States. I am writing on behalf of her as I know her very closely now. I am going to write what exactly she use to feel, which I guess 80% of the Senior Citizens feel too and have the same questions Do you feel Lonely?
So I am very sure you will get to feel the same experience and notice the same concern she had or maybe very similar. Things you need to know is how she get rid of it, what solution she got and how.
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Let see what exactly we feel (Do you feel lonely)
Seniors loneliness and Social Isolation
I feel like I got no one know who is really concerned for me, Yes no one. I am not talking about husband/wife because that is something different which we will read below.
Our kids are not really kids anymore; they have their own family and life which is more important for them. They call me some time to show little concerns maybe they feel like their duty. Sometimes they visit us and really care for us because not all of them are like this.
I am trying my best and show concerns for others but why not others do. I do babysitting for my grandkids which sometimes sound like a job to me but I still do it because I love my grandkids and I really care for my Kids. I try to be polite with everyone as others should try more as I am growing older and it is really hard to keep patience.
I feel like I am all alone, feel like I have no friends, I feel like I have no relatives, feel like I am useless, I feel like no one needs me. Yes I really feel so
Sometime people around ask me Do you feel lonely
? So mostly I say No with a fake smile on my face, I don’t know why but I do, and when I say yes that just like an answer for me nothing else.
Depression in older adults (Do you feel lonely)
I am feeling hopeless and helpless, losing interest in all those activities that I used to enjoy. I thought maybe I am growing older and feel myself under depression. This was impacting my energy, appetite, and sleep.
My relationship life
– I had a good married life till I was 51 and my interest in work, hobbies and relationship was going good. My kid used to give me much attention maybe till then we were a good couple and we used to be together all the time.
After 51 things started changing, my relationship with my husband was not as it was before maybe he was also a victim of depression in older adults. He was not having interested in sex anymore, and that broke me badly. Now its been around 10 years we had no sex and even we don’t talk to each other much.
So now I feel alone at my house, I love my grandkids so I have to visit every Monday and Friday for babysitting, even I don’t mind that doing as I love my grandkids. I really don’t mind living alone at my house without any sex as I have been managing for the last 10 years. and I don’t mind when I find my self alone but trust me I can’t do that all the time.
I do feel to have sex life, I feel like my kids should show care and concern for me, I do want people and friends attention back.
Do you feel lonely, Yes I do.
Sign and Symptoms of Depression in Elderly
- Loss of Self Worth:- Feel like I am not worthy to anyone anymore. Feel like I am a burden for everyone now, the husband has no interest in the relationship anymore, kids are busy in their own life and they consider me as a burden too. This takes me to feel like Senior’s loneliness and Social Isolation.
- Lack of Motivation and Energy:- I had no motivation and Energy in myself anymore. As there was no one to motivate me. My dream once was, you can consider as my plans for the future were to become a Social worker and help all those Seniors who feel lonely and who have symptoms of Depression in the Elderly. But today I am one of them. Do you feel lonely, Yes I do
- Sleeping Disturbance: – Changes happening in my life has ruined everything, now I have difficulty falling asleep or staying asleep. Some people like me must be having oversleeping or daytime sleepiness.
- Memory getting weak in elderly:- All humans in this entire world, please accept and always keep in your mind that everyone will grow old and your memory won’t be as sharp as now. My memory is not as it was before which sometimes make me feel stupid and make me cry.
- Increased use of alcohol or other drugs:- At this age People feel so depressed and helpless that they consider Alcohol or other drugs as their best partner which helps them to forget everything and to be in a different world. My husband does the same and I tried many times asking him do you feel lonely, in return he yell and shout on me.
- Fixation on Death:- At this age, I am surrounded by many diseases, I am overweight, have problems in breathing and have to go with knee surgery very soon. Increase of diseases at this age also destroys our life. Everybody wants to be away from us. And we have to take care of yourself. Stop thinking of Suicide or any similar things because I never thought that and trust me it’s the worst idea.
- Slowed movement and Speech:- Now because I don’t have that young memory and body anymore, so I take some time to speak and walk. Is that a crime, yes I feel so. I feel like my kids and other people hate that. Why? Everyone has to face that.
Enough about the problems, do you want to know what I did to get rid of this and how I fixed it.
Everyone please my friend I am sharing what I did and who really supported me doing this, you can find yourself depending on your mindset. My idea will definitely help you but maybe you need to add more sugar to get your sweetness. So next time our answer to Do you feel lonely?
Will be always NO and that by heart.
Idea 1:- Stop thinking you grew old and can’t do anything. This is just a myth that after a certain age older people can’t do anything. Wrong! Rubbish!
You can do everything, I am not saying this, Science says that and almost most of the people know now. You can learn new skills, new activities or fresh and new lifestyle. The truth is Human brain never stops changing, so an older you can think like young’s.
So I did it, I started learning more about Computer and Internet
as I had an interest in this. And I began with teaching Computers
to people who are of my age. In this way, I gained my confidence, money, and social Interest.
Idea 2:- Do you feel lonely, so why to be alone. Yes so why to be alone.
Engage yourself in some activities; meet people like I got a way to connect people. I Teach Computer now, which takes me 4 hours a day now and that 4 hours I am connected with people and enjoy the company.
Rest I keep myself busy on computers, you can do browsing, chat, emails social media and many more things.
Idea 3:- Follow these activities
- Take care of a Pet:- Pet gives you the best company and doesn’t let you feel alone. Take your Pet on walk though which you will spend time and also have some exercise.
- Join a club or Personal Class:- Join any Club where you meet other seniors and find them who have similar interests or problems, you will definitely enjoy that company. Get any personal class online in case you want to spend a good time at home which will give some good lessons and make you laugh as well.
- Create opportunities to laugh:- Start watching comedy shows, articles, jokes which make you laugh.
Idea 4:- Now count your remaining problems and find a way to fix it.
I found everything except physical relation. So I had two options now in front of me. Either I take divorce or be with him. I took the help of the Bible and read bible quotes about marriage problems.
:- Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
:-Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
:- Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
:- Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
:- To the rest, I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her. If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him. For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy. But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases, the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace. For how do you know, wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, husband, whether you will save your wife?
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Bulgarian Economists Slam Budget Update, Back PresidentFinance | August 8, 2013, Thursday // 11:12| views
Petar Ganev, an analyst at Sofia-based think-tank Institute for Market Economy, commented in the morning broadcast of Nova TV channel on Thursday. Photo by BGNES
Bulgarian economists have taken a stand against a controversial revision of the country’s budget for 2013, which parliament approved last month, citing underperformance.
“The government has failed to provide sufficient reasons for revising the budget,” Petar Ganev, analyst at Sofia-based think-tank Institute for Market Economy, commented in the morning broadcast of Nova TV channel on Thursday.
“The government should have focused on how to improve revenues collections or restructure spending. Instead it rushed to update the budget, which is a problem.”
“I have the lingering feeling that something not very honest is going on,” he said.
The budget revision provides for a new loan in the amount of BGN 1 B to be used as a buffer for the fiscal reserve in 2014, when Bulgaria must make new payments on its foreign debt. Other funds will be slated for the overdue money for the business and for social measures.
Economic growth is revised down to 1% from the original figure of 1.9%, while deficit increases by BGN 493 M, accounting for 2% of forecasted GDP.
“It is weird that the cabinet decided to increase the deficit exactly up to 2% of GDP, the maximum local laws allow,” Petar Ganev said.
“I suspect that the cabinet decided to increase the deficit and then started fishing for reasons to defend the move.”
President Rosen Plevneliev imposed on Wednesday a partial veto on the Law on Amending and Supplementing the State Budget Act for 2013, saying the Socialist-led government had not shown enough transparency in its use of public money.
He explained that the package of social measures included in the budget update constituted a very small share of the earmarked expenses.
Plevneliev pointed out that there was insufficient information about how the new debt of BGN 1 B would be spent.
He noted that he failed to see serious plans about policies and reforms in support of competition and economic growth.
Bulgaria’s Socialist-led government slammed President Rosen Plevneliev after he vetoed a budget revision on Wednesday.
“The president has grossly interfered with the executive authorities in yet another one-sided and unbalanced action," Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski said in an official statement.
It pointed out that the budget revision aims to correct the country’s fiscal policies from th last few years, which hampered economic growth and limited the opportunities for assistance to vulnerable groups in the society.
Oresharski listed once again the reasons that forced his government, under pressure to quit after weeks of protests, to revise this year's budget, saying it thus sets right the misleading forecast for revenues and spending.
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I am really pleased with this one!
Here’s the link to my Ravelry project page for this hat.
Baby A’s mum came to me and asked me to make a hat with earflaps and a pom pom. She was totally open to suggestions on design, and initially she mentioned she wanted it to be super colourful, and pointed out a hat I’d made in the past from hand dyed yarn (Nicole and I had been experimenting with Wilton gels). I LOVE that she wanted to use hand dyed, and I showed her a bunch of options from some awesome dye artists I follow on social media. In the interest of giving a broad range of options (and in particular, a range of price points, because I know that the price of luxury yarn can take the uninitiated by surprise); I also presented some variegated commercially-produced yarns. She selected Riot DK in Magic (shade 404), by King Cole. You can buy this at many outlets – here’s a link to it at Wool Warehouse.
I initially started out knitting Baby A’s hat, because I love how soft and stretchy stockinette stitch feels (such sibilance!); but on my first attempt the colours hadn’t presented in the way I had hoped. It’s variegated yarn with quite a drawn-out repeat and this hat ended up with only greens and purples. A’s mum chose the yarn for its multicoloured properties, so i felt that it needed to include more (if not all) of them.
In hindsight, that first try came out too small, anyway. I’ve kept it to one side. I am quite fond of the colours that did present themselves (bright green through khaki through muted purple) so maybe it’ll become something else in the future.
After a bit of soul searching and harumphing, I decided that anything I could knit would be painfully simple, and if things went wrong I’d need another person (read: Nicole) to come help me… It just wasn’t practical. So I searched again on Ravelry for a crocheted-baby-size-hat-with-earflaps-in-DK-yarn pattern, but I still couldn’t find anything quite right. Something did catch my eye, though. I noticed this Stepping Texture Hat Pattern by Bernat Design Studio. One might almost think that was knitted, mightn’t one? Turns out, the pattern was sized for adults; made with chunky yarn; and, of course, no earflaps. But since when did I ever stick to a pattern, anyway?
Off I set with my yarn and a 4.5mm hook. I won’t go into detail here about the myriad of adjustments I made; but if that’s your jam, check out the notes on my Ravelry project page. They are just my own notes so they might not be 100% helpful if you’re looking to emulate what I’ve made here, but hopefully they’ll give you the gist.
You’ll be wanting a closer look at the finished article, I suppose? Here we are, then.
You might notice that in that last photo, that the brim is folded up. I wanted to make sure the hat was adjustable, so that it might last a bit longer. I’m pleased to report that both Mum and Baby A seemed delighted with it! After I took these photos, it was tried for size. It was a little snug… I took it back and added about an extra 1.5 inches of height before decreasing for the crown. I’m still paranoid he’s going to immediately grow out of it. Anyone else get maker’s anxiety?
Well. All in all, I am thoroughly proud of this little hat. The texture is just what I’d hoped for – stretchy, and cosy, and thick/squashy despite not using a chunky yarn. Baby A’s mum loves it, and it looks adorable on A. Also, both of my sons asked if it was for them, and if they could try it on, so I think it has their approval too. What more could I wish for?


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Background/Objective:Toll-like receptors (TLR) mediate the recognition of microbial constituents and stress-induced endogenous ligands by the immune system. They may also be involved in the maintenance or break down of tolerance against autologous antigens. The aim of our investigation was to study the consequence of TLR4 deficiency on the development of insulin-deficient diabetes in the NOD mouse.Methods:The TLR4 defect of the C57BL/10ScN mouse was backcrossed onto the NOD background and the effect of TLR4 deficiency on diabetes development was analysed by in vivo and in vitro studies.Results:Compared to animals with wildtype TLR4 expression (TLR4+/+), female NOD mice carrying a homozygous TLR4 defect (TLR4-/-), showed significant acceleration of diabetes development, with a younger age at diabetes onset (TLR4+/+ 177±22 d, TLR-/-: 118±21 d; p<0.01). Pancreata of 120 d old TLR4-/- NOD mice revealed increased proportions of islets with advanced stages of immune cell infiltration compared to TLR4+/+ mice (p<0.05). TLR4 deficiency did not affect the susceptibility of islet cells to the beta cell damaging mediators nitric oxide or the inflammatory cytokines tumor necrosis factor alpha, interleukin-1 beta and interferon gamma. The lack of TLR4 further had no effect on the frequency of regulatory T-cells but reduced their capacity to inhibit T-cell proliferation.Conclusions:Our findings demonstrate that TLR4 deficiency results in an acceleration of diabetes development and immune cell infiltration of islets in NOD mice. We conclude that TLR4 is involved in the progression of the insulitis process thereby controlling the development of insulin-deficient diabetes in NOD mice.
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The performance features of Wahoo's Speedplay Zero Pedal System read like a pro racer's wish list. No other pedal system comes close to offering the superior adjustability or cutting-edge performance features of the Zero. By thinking "outside the box", we created and patented the most technically advanced pedal system ever, featuring your choice of either a fixed position or up to 15 degrees of micro-adjustable float. Once you compare the features of Zero pedals to any other brand, you'll find that other pedal systems are no match. And like all Speedplay pedals, we accomplish this without compromise by ensuring that the locking edges of our pedals and cleats are made of metal, not plastic. What more needs to be said? How about Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, Paris-Roubaix, Amstel Gold, Paris-Nice, World Time Trial Championship, Tour of Germany, Tour of California, Tour de Georgia, Hawaii Ironman World Championship, and the countless other races that have been won by champions using Zero pedals. Speedplay Zero Pedal Systems are simply the winningest road pedals on the planet. - Includes walkable cleats - Dual sized, self-locating entry is easy and precise, every time - Large, stable pedaling platform - Fits any shoe with a 3 or 4-hole mount - Weight (pair): 210g
The TerraTrike Comfort Pedal Conversion Kit is a great safety addition for your trike. Providing a comfortable foot support solution, they also allow for hands free entry. Specifically designed for recumbent trikes they are easily adjustable. - One pair is included in the kit. - Pedals not included - mounts to standard TerraTrike pedals. - One size fits most. - Convert standard pedals to pedals with heel support straps - Securely holds heel of foot when going over bumps - Fits TerraTrike and many other standard pedals - Easy sizing with straps
This pedal set is perfect for the rider that needs ankle support in a completely secure pedal. It features a complete foot platform with a solid heel support. It also features 2 oversize straps with reflective strip and stainless steel ringlets that allow for a strong yet comfortable fit. A counterbalance on the bottom also assures the pedal will always remain upright for easier entry and exit. Perfect for special needs and motor control issues. Sold as a set of two. --Note: This pedal is not compatible with our Tandem Pro in the stoker position. The Tandem Pro captain position can utilize these pedals. - Replaces standard pedal - Counter-weighted so that the pedal is always in the same orientation - Reflective accents for visibility in low light conditions - One size fits most: for really small feet, consider our Pedal Platform w/straps kit
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Specialized's Boomslang Platform Pedals are insanely thin, yet still wickedly strong. A tapered outside pedal edge provides maximum grip and ground clearance, while the super low-profile design—a mere 10mm at the center—is like a direct telepathic line from your body to the bike. Custom undercut pins provide incredible traction and are simple to remove, and should one break during your ride, each pedal carries four hidden pins for easy replacement. - Super slick, patent pending, spindle design - Super low-profile design; 10mm thickness at center - Custom undercut pins provide “clip in” style grip and easy removal - Pedal body carriers 4 hidden pins for easy replacement of broken pins - Tapered outside pedal edge for maximum grip and ground clearance - Large foot platform for modern day DH, 110x108mm
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A porch swing sways, and the chains in the eyehooks screwed into the rafters let out their lazy creaks as if this is a day of rest for them, too. Or nearly so. They still have to support the weight of the neighbor who pushes ever so lightly with her foot and feels the breeze on her face and listens through the window screen to the radio playing dance music in her living room. The faint sounds of big band tunes: “Moonglow,” “In the Mood,” “Begin the Beguine.”
Somewhere down the street, a screen door taps against the frame. This is one of those afternoons when the air is so still that sounds travel. Someone is listening to a Cardinals’ game on the radio; someone else is turning the pages of the Evansville Courier, or the Vincennes Sun-Commercial, or maybe last week’s Sumner Press that they’ve finally found enough time to read. The pages rattle just a bit, but not in an unpleasant way, more the way a soft brush sounds when swept through a girl’s long hair.
And maybe it’s that girl who sighs, daydreaming about the boy she loves.
Uptown, a ceiling fan turns slow circles in the sundries store where the girl’s mother sits behind the counter using a file on her fingernails and watching the hand on the Bubble Up clock click off another minute.
Across the street, in front of the TV Repair Shop, a boy and girl sit on the hood of his Impala and watch the color set that’s always on in the window even though they can’t hear the sound. The boy has a Pall Mall between his lips, but he hasn’t lit it. He keeps flicking the lid of his Zippo open and then, after long intervals, closed, and the woman in the sundries store closes her eyes and remembers her husband when she first fell in love with him and how he was never in a hurry, how she thought they had all the time in the world.
“Baby,” the boy on the Impala says, and he draws out that long “a” sound as if it’s the sweetest taste he can ever imagine, and he wants to hold onto it as long as he can.
Eventually, the Impala inches away from the curb. The woman in the sundries store switches off the ceiling fan and turns the deadbolt lock on the door. Her daughter writes her boyfriend’s name over and over on a piece of notebook paper, her handwriting all loops and tails. The baseball game ends and the radio goes off, its hot tubes ticking as they cool. The newspaper slips to the floor as the reader dozes. The porch swing, empty now, sways a time or two and then is still.
Call it a sleepy town. Call it a dead town. My hometown where once upon a time on summer Sundays there was time, if we wanted it, to listen. I hear the porch swing creak, the radio play, the baseball announcer murmur, the girl sigh, the newspaper pages rustle, the ceiling fan turn, the clock hand click, the Zippo open and close, the boy say, “Baaa-by. Oh, Baaa-by.”
I hear it all, and my listening tells me this: when it comes to our writing and our living, nothing is too small a thing.
The lock turns at the sundries store. The woman’s sensible heels make gentle tapping noises on the sidewalk as she starts toward home, taking her time as she strolls past the houses where baseball games and newspapers and porch swings and lovesick girls have gone silent. So slow and dreamy her pace until she climbs the steps to her house, takes the doorknob in her hand. Just before she turns it, she whispers to herself, Baa-by, Baa-by. That word. Just before she goes inside, she sighs.
Lee Martin is the Pulitzer Prize Finalist author of The Bright Forever and other works of fiction and nonfiction. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Ms., Creative Nonfiction, The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. He is the winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. He teaches in the MFA Program at The Ohio State University, where he was the winner of the 2006 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching.

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The Commons environment, food and rural affairs select committee heard that what started as a cross-department initiative had ended up with experts going back to their departments and sacrificing any chance of joined-up thinking.
"People have now gone back into their silos with their specific tasks," said Wildlife Trusts head of living landscapes Paul Wilkinson. "There is not really an integrated approach to delivery."
National Trust natural environment director Dr Simon Pryor used nature improvement areas to raise the issue of funding. The white paper laid out plans for 12 areas to "enhance and reconnect nature", run by councils, communities and businesses.
A small sum of £7.5m had been set aside for the areas, he told the committee. "It is probably the biggest number in the white paper in terms of its commitment. But when you divide it between the 12 partnerships, it works out at only £4 per hectare a year."
Wilkinson said there was a need for a funding timetable for the next 20 or 30 years and set the £7.5m against the £500m found to increase bin collections from fortnightly to weekly. A more thorough funding strategy was "absolutely critical", he added.
Country Land & Business Association president Harry Cotterell said: "Just meeting the Government's aspirations for environmental stewardship would require an extra £1.2bn a year a year. We are talking about astronomical figures."


Two GoFirst planes grounded due to in-flight safety issues
Another Indian airline has come in for closer scrutiny by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation of India (DGCA) after engine issues on board passenger planes.
The DGCA grounded two passenger aircraft of Mumbai-based low-cost carrier GoFirst following two engine incidents in-flight, which recently happened in India, local media reported.
The first incident which caught the attention of the local aviation regulator happened on July 19, 2022, when a GoFirst Airbus A320-200 passenger plane, registered VT-WGA was performing domestic flight G8-386 between Mumbai (BOM) and Leh (IXL).
However, when the aircraft was enroute, the pilots noticed abnormal indications for the right-hand Pratt & Whitney PW1127G engine and decided to land at Delhi (DEL).
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Śrī Subramaniyar Swāmi Kovil, Valliyur
This ancient Murugan temple is located at Valliyur, near Nanguneri, not far from Tirunelveli and Kanyakumari. Valliyoor is located on the Kashi-Kanyakumari highway, it is at 30 milestones from Tirunelveli and 60 kms from Tiruchendur. The Valliyoor Murugan temple is located in close proximity to the Valliyoor railway station. It has been revered by the Tiruppukazh hymns of Arunagirinathar.
The presiding deity here is Subramaniyar, and the sanctum enshrines an image of Murugan with that of his consort Valli. The temple has a rock-cut sanctum carved out of a hill and several mandapams surrounding it. There are also shrines to Natarajar and Dakshinamūrti here. The Saravanapoikai tank is located adjacent to the hill. The diamond studded Vel held by Subramaniyar is of great beauty.
Valli – the Beloved Consort of Lord Muruga
Lord Muruga came to Valliyoor immediately after marrying Valli. References are indicated in the Kandapuran. Valli was so much in love with Lord Muruga that she refused to allow Deivanai in her domain. Deivanai was almost in tears and it was only sage Agastya who consoled Deivanai and took her to Valli and explained to her that Deivanai be treated like her sister.
As this place belonged to Valli who seems to have had a dominating nature, it is not surprising that women born in Valliyoor are said to be extremely demanding wives after their marriage. They are also extra sensitive. Not a surprise - because it appears Lord Muruga simply pampered Valli!
Legend has it that Indra and Agastyar worshipped Subramanyar here. Legend also has it that the Saravanapoikai tank was created when Murugan struck his spear to the ground, upon being requested by his consort.
Benefits of visiting Valliyoor
No one has ever returned empty-handed from the Valliyoor Murugan temple. Childless couples have visited Valliyoor, prayed and have come back to pay their respects after their wish was fulfilled by Lord Muruga. Valliyoor Murugan looks at you and says – “Yamirukka Bhayamen” (Why fear when I am here) and that sums up the power of this shrine which is located amidst picturesque Mahendragiri hills. Lord Muruga is someone who rushes to your rescue provided you remember him. So, what are you waiting for?
Giri pradakshinam is considered to be of importance here as in Tiruvannamalai, Kunnakkudi and Palani. Seven worship services are carried out each day. Skanda Sasti is celebrated with great splendour here as are the float festival in the month of Karttikai and the annual festival in the month of Chittirai.
How to reach Valliyoor
Valliyoor can be reached from Bangalore, Chennai, Madurai,Mumbai. Nearest Railway Stations are Tirunelveli Junction / Kovilpatti/ Vanchi Maniyachi. Tirunelveli is however the closest railway station. Valliyoor is a one hour drive from Tirunelveli. Nagercoil and Thiruvananthapuram are also located close to Valliyoor. Valliyoor has a railway station too. Some trains do halt at Valliyoor (like the Kanyakumari Express). Bus facilities are aplenty to reach Valliyoor from Nagercoil / Tirunelveli. Donavur and Yerwadi are other tiny hamlets located close to Valliyoor where there is a predominant Muslim population.
The once tiny hamlet has grown exponentially over the last few years to become a town. It is famous for the Murugan temple. The population is a mix of Hindus, Muslims and Christians. The Tamil Brahmin community formed a sizeable part of the population in Valliyoor in the early 60’s and 70’s. Today, the percentage of Brahmins in Valliyoor is less than 1%. Valli is the consort of Lord Muruga and Oor in Tamil means village. So, Valliyoor = Valli + Oor ; the village of Valli.
What is so special about Valliyoor?
The breathtaking scenic beauty, the hills of Valliyoor, the temple of Lord Muruga (also called Lord Karthikeya) which is located in a cave under the hill. The temples of Muppandal Esakki Amman (a village deity that is very powerful) as well as Lord Sundara Venkatesa Perumal (Lord Balaji) are other well-known temples. In recent years, the Mutharamman temple has been re-constructed by way of suitable modifications. All these shrines are the pride of Valliyoor. More importantly, this writer was born in Valliyoor !
Mahendragiri Hill that finds mention in Sundara-Kandam is located to the west of Valliyoor. This was the hill where Sage Parasurama did severe penance. The Valliyoor lake is called as “Cheevalaperi lake”.Well known poet-saint Arunagirinathar has written about Valliyoor in Thirupukkazh”. Keezhakallur Mu. Azhvarapillai (1839-1925) has sung about Valliyoor in his verses. These verses were published by the temple authorities in the year 1942.
Village lore has it that Sage Agastya had cursed a merchant called Durlaban in Valliyoor when he refused to part with a few morsels of rice saying that he can’t give anything in charity, even if it was for Sage Agastya. The sage cursed that all the rice that couldn’t be of use to someone like him, be as well converted to stone. This is how the hills were formed.
Between the years 1162-1173, Valliyoor was the capital of Pandiya Kings. It is located fairly close to Sri Lanka. Invasion of Muslim rulers around B C 1310 appears to have destroyed many valuable historical records. In the year 1955, electricity connection was given to the temple.
Though Valliyoor is synonymous with Murugan temple, requests have been made for archaeological survey in the areas in and around Valliyoor. It is widely believed that Valliyoor palace and fort were destroyed by invaders.
Vallioor History, Glory and Splendour
In the entire Tirunelveli district, Valliyoor has the rare distinction of having the one and only cave temple of Lord Muruga. A rock named as Pooranagiri was excavated to build this temple. The temple shape is in the form of “Om”. Lord Muruga stands in the sanctum sanctorum accompanied by his consorts Valli and Deivanai.
Note that Lord Muruga has four arms and the idol is a replica of the one in Tiruchendur. On his right hand are flowers and his left hand is holding onto his thigh. Next to the sanctum sanctorum is located the artha mandapam and then the maha mandapam. In the artha mandapam, Lord Arumuga gives darshan along with Valli – Deivanai. To facilitate circumambulation of the artha mandapam, the hill has been drilled to set up a cave path till the sanctum sanctorum of Lord Shiva. In this temple, Lord Shiva is called as – Jayandeeswarar. The shiva ling faces the west in this temple which is considered very auspicious.
Opposite Lord Muruga is placed the idol of peacock which is Lord Muruga’s vehicle (vaganam). The artha mandapam also has the idols of Vinayaka, Veerabahu and Veera Mahendran. On the right side of the artha mandapam is a cave. Alongside the entrance of the cave are Vinayaka, sastha (ayyappa) and Lord Shiva. The Murugan temple has 13th century stone carvings. The temple also has a specific sanctum sanctorum dedicate to Valli – consort of Lord Muruga. The maha mandapam has kashi vishwanadhar, visalakshi and shani bhagwan. There is also Dakshinamurthy (Guru Bhagavan) idol in the temple.
Legend has it that this temple was first discovered by a Pandya king who came here on a hunting expedition after visiting the Perumal temple at Tirukkurunkudi and that the temple was expanded by his descendents. Valliyur was under the governance of Kulasekhara Pandyan of 13th century, who fortified the village. The pond/lake in Valliyoor is breathtakingly beautiful and it is referred as “Saravana poigai”. Legend has it that Lord Muruga created this pond with the help of his weapon – the inimitable “vel” when Valli requested him for the same.
During festive occasions, the Valliyoor Murugan temple has its own charm and the entire village rallies around the temple to take part in the festivities. The temple history and other religious books are available in the temple itself. But all these are Tamil books. Photographs are available at a price of Rs.20/-. Rose water is available at the temple counter. All the pooja items are available at the temple entrance itself. Abhishekams are performed in the temple for Rs.2/-. If this does not make your heart melt, nothing else can.
People of Valliyoor are naive, almost child-like in their innocence. Unlike other places, you won’t find people in the temple hankering after money. Believe me, the cave temple is a rare visual feat which you must visit at least once.
Archaeological surveys in and around Valliyoor have discovered hidden Shiva temples in and around the Nambi river as well as a few sastha temples that were not maintained so well. Some of the idols that were found were supposedly 3000 years old.
Chitra Vishu (April 14), Chitra Pournami (May 6), Vasantham (Spring) festival, Adi Amavasya, Pongal, Makara Sankaranthi, Mahashivarathri. During the celebrated Karttik month, lamps are lighted in the adjoining hills. The popular soora-samhara festival is also celebrated with pomp in Valliyoor. Soora-samhara is an important event during which Lord Muruga decimates all his enemies. (Soora – evil, Samhara – Kill).
Every day at 7:30 am in the morning, abhishekams are performed for Lord Muruga. On special occasions like Sasthi, Lord Muruga and his consorts are decorated with flowers and clothes and a procession is taken in silver peacock vehicles.
The Temple Executive Officer/ Peshkar,

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Soundless, sorry. Note : I’m not focusing on the 3D a lot (fast) because there is an excellent Earth tutorial on BlenderGuru.com, detailed, I couldn’t do a better one myself, where everything is explained, the different spheres, materials, etc..
So here, I’m mainly showing you my compositing of the earth scene from “Space Oddity 2”, scene inspired by very cool Videocopilot’s Element 3D trailer by Andrew Kramer. (Sometimes ago : “Awesome ! I wonder if I could do this”, and it all started..).
At the end, you’ll quickly see the Spaceship scene, and title as well.
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"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri", won 4 Golden Globe awards with Frances McDormand as best actress
The black comedy crime film by British and Irish film director Martin McDonagh won the Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress – Drama (McDormand), Best Supporting Actor (Rockwell), and Best Screenplay, while also receiving nominations for Best Director and Best Original Score.
Mexican film director Guillermo del Toro won a Golden Globe as Best Director for his movie "The Shape of Water " - the movie won also for Best Original Score
The dark fantasy tale about a mute women at a high-security government laboratory who befriends a captured an amphibious humanoid creature was also nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actress – Drama (Hawkins), Best Supporting Actress (Spencer), Best Supporting Actor (Jenkins), and Best Screenplay.
There were two Golden Globes for "Lady Bird" with Saoirse Ronan winning best actress award.
The coming of age drama by American film director Greta Gerwig won also Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy the movie also had nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Metcalf) and Best Screenplay. Saoirse Ronan
German film director Fatih Akin won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language movie
The film, which is actress Diane Kruger's first German language film is the story of a young woman who seeks revenge after her family is killed.
The movie is currently in the shortlist of 9 films for the Foreign Language category at the Academy Awards.
The most successful TV Series went to "Big Little Lies" with 4 Golden Globes
The show about the apparently perfect lives of a group of women living in an affluent California coastal town, who's lives unravel to the point of murder won Best Actress – Mini-series or Television Film for Nicole Kidman, Best Mini-series or Television Film, Best Supporting Actress for Laura Dern and Best Supporting Actor for Swedish Actor Alexander Skarsgård.


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From a design and functionality standpoint, the Nikon Coolpix S70 is a massive leap forward for digital point-and-shoot cameras. Following up on the S60’s touchscreen LCD-operated device, the S70 ups the ante considerably by moving to a bold and beautiful 3.5-inch OLED display that is coupled with ultra responsive touch controls that make operating this innovative digital camera a joy. The bright, cutting-edge screen allows Nikon to implement several new features that would have been previously difficult to include in a camera of this class.
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Sam Green, President of AQUA-AID Solutions sits down to share a Fall 2020 message. How has Covid19 effected the golf industry, the challenges and solutions the industry has found to combat the boost in rounds many are seeing.
Understand how AQUA-AID Solutions' suite of Moisture Management, Soil, Biological and Cultural Solutions has paid dividends for turf managers through the Spring and Summer of 2020. Sam discusses how to set yourself up for a successful Fall to ensure a great start to your 2021 grass growing season.
Sam shares how looking back on AQUA-AID Solutions' history as a company and the growth over the last several years has set the company up for success not only through 2020, but well into the future.

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This work was started at the Art Print Residence, Arenys de Munt in Spain. Many thanks to Jordi and Claudia and Ariadna!
Cause and Effect
This work was started at a one month winter residency at Jentel in Wyoming. The references to landscape and human responses to land, natural events and attempts to control environments informed the prints and drawings.


I would like everyone to take a moment to listen to Fannie Dillingham of Create Your World. She’s gonna take you through her journey of weight loss and food addictions. This story is so inspiring for those that want a healthy lifestyle. So put down your pig feet sandwiches and chitlin dip. And take listen. While Fannie takes N’Digo Eye On Chi on her journey to wellness and bettering yourself.


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Travelling conmen alert as Perth seniors among those targeted in roofing scam
Consumer Protection and the WA Police Force are making a desperate plea to the community to help them hunt down travelling conmen who are ripping off Perth home owners, many of them seniors, in a roofing scam.
Reports have been received of conmen who knock on doors of unsuspecting home owners, convincing them that urgent roof repairs are required to their homes. They then charge exorbitant rates and either do not carry out the work or perform a sub-standard job.
In the latest case reported, an 81 year old Hamilton Hill woman paid the scammers $7,500 in cash to repair her roof. When they knocked on her door, the scammers said her roof needed repairs and painting and quoted her $3,000. They later advised that asbestos sheets had to be replaced and that would cost an extra $4,500. The small amount of work carried out was sub-standard.
The men, with either Irish, Scottish or English accents, had provided an invoice under the unregistered business name of Best Choice Home Improvements using a false ABN. They were driving a red SUV.
An elderly man from Mount Hawthorn has reported paying $8,000 to the same scammers who approached him in his driveway and came back to the home next day to carry out roofing work. They accepted a card payment but luckily the man’s bank flagged the transaction as suspicious and it failed to go through.
A consumer in Cannington was approached by men driving a similar vehicle who claimed that they were roof tilers and said there was a hole in his roof that needed repairing. One of the men went up on the roof and returned with a broken tile which the consumer believes was broken off by the conman. The offer to fix the roof was declined by the home owner who had to fix the damage caused.
Another consumer was approached at his home by three men in a white utility wearing fluoro shirts who told him that his roof and gutters needed urgent repairs. The dodgy door knockers pretended to carry out some work and charged $7,000, but it was later discovered that they had damaged the roof instead of repairing it.
In a fifth report, an elderly couple in Fremantle said they were approached in a similar way and the scammers were coming back to begin the work but a family member stepped in to prevent the work going ahead.
Director of Retail and Services at Consumer Protection Lanie Chopping said authorities’ need the community’s help to stop these travelling conmen.
“These conmen are highly mobile so people who are approached should contact Police immediately so they can be tracked down,” Ms Chopping said.
“They are breaking consumer law by not allowing a cooling off period for door to door sales and require a licence to carry out roof painting work.
“They prey on seniors and others in our community, misleading them into thinking their roof is in need of urgent repairs or painting when this is not necessarily the case. They then do dodgy work, if they do any work at all.
“These men are using various names of well-known and reputable local companies, attempting to gain credibility by stealing the identity of legitimate local businesses. What we observe is that genuine businesses in WA do not solicit door to door for roof repairs and we recommend people refuse to deal with them and only deal with registered builders and businesses.
“We appeal to people approached by these door to door scammers to reject them completely and always get reputable tradespeople and multiple quotes before agreeing to any work being carried out.”
Senior Sergeant Stephen Castledine, office in charge of the Murdoch Police Station, said it is essential that important information about these men are conveyed to the WA Police Force as quickly as possible.
“We urge homeowners who are approached by people they believe are scamming them to call Police on 131 444 and report the suspicious behaviour immediately. If they have already left – contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 and provide as much information about them and their vehicle as possible,” Snr Sgt Castledine said.
“Descriptions of the men and their vehicles as well as licence plate numbers would assist us greatly in locating them.
“Home owners who may have CCTV vision of the men at their home, even if they didn’t get any work done, are urged to come forward and provide the vision to Police.”
Consumers who are approached by tradespeople offering their services door-to-door and wanting immediate payment or to carry out work straight away should call Police on 131 444 if they are still on the property or in the immediate area. If they have left the area, contact Crime Stoppers by calling 1800 333 000 or submit an online report at www.crimestopperswa.com.au. Advice can also be provided by Consumer Protection by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org or calling 1300 30 40 54.
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Tallahassee Ketamine Clinic Treats PTSD & Depression
For those struggling with a mood condition, the process of finding the right treatment can be far from simple. And those coping with conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression know that there is no magic pill to help them regain a feeling of normalcy. A recent post from First Coast News highlights the growing popularity of ketamine as the treatment of choice among various options for treating depression, suicidal thoughts, and PTSD. The pursuit of treatment protocols under the umbrella of traditional medicine may offer only temporary improvements to some individuals’ overall quality of life. For those searching for a treatment that provides long-term, sustained improvement, ketamine infusion therapy shows promising results. According to Zohar Levites, CRNA, ARNP, MS, board-certified nurse anesthetist, “ketamine is probably the most effective drug right now on the market to treat severe depression, PTSD, suicidal thoughts.”
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The Postal Service – Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie) and prodcer Jimmy Tamborello (Dntel) – have reunited for a tour and the 10th anniversary release of Give Up, a collection of electro-pop songs that has a lasting influence on indie rock since its release in February, 2003. No one foresaw the influence the record would have. The album’s most popular song “Such Great Heights,” began to seep into the zietgeist of pop culture over a period of a couple of years. It was covered by Iron & Wine on the 2004 film and soundtrack, Garden State, and was prominently featured on Greys Anatomy in 2005. The band has not released a second album, however have taken the anniversary of Give Up’s release to tour, which bring them to The Mann Center on Monday, June 17.
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Alcoholism refers to the most severe type of alcohol abuse which creates the inability to manage one’s habit of drinking (DiClemente 2018). It is also known as an alcohol use disorder. People addicted to alcohol mostly feel that they cannot normally function without taking alcohol and this creates several issues and influences personal matters, personal relationships, professional goals, as well as the individual health. After sometimes, severe side effects of alcoholism become worse creating damaging complications. Today, alcoholic behaviours affect many people from many walks of life, therefore, making it appropriate to address. For instance, as per the office for national statistics (2018), alcoholism/alcohol use resulted in 7,697 deaths in 2017 in the United Kingdom which is an average of 12.2 cases per hundred thousand people. Additionally, as cited by Franco (2015), the world health organisation statistics show an increasing number of young people taking alcohol yearly in the UK. Unfortunately, alcohol users are school students who admit taking alcohol during the previous week. Peacock et al (2018), suggest that There were approximately 1.1 million admissions which were related to alcoholism in 2015/16 which is a four per cent increase compared to 2014/15 statistics in England. Of those populations, two-thirds of the patients were male. The study also suggests that teenagers from British are currently among the heaviest alcoholics in Europe; having more chances of getting drunk, drinking, or even suffering from alcoholic issues compared to young people from other states in Europe. This is an indication that the UK may well be on its way to an Alcohol-related epidemic. First to combat the possible outcome of this rapidly increasing alcoholic use, there is need to train staff how to deliver a brief intervention and the use the appropriate equipment and evoke the efficient pathways so we can control or limit the damage done to patients. This paper aims to explore and discuss literature which supports interventions and behavioural change as well as tools which can be used in treatment plans for patients as well as in paramedic practice.
Stonerock & Blumenthal (2017) describe brief interventions as a technique used to initiate change for risky behaviour such as alcohol misuse. Additionally, Timko et al (2016), argues that brief interventions mostly range from five minutes of counselling to 30 minutes of short advice session. Importantly, these sessions are not meant for treatment of patients with severe alcoholism; rather, the brief interventions are used as an element for the management of dangerous substance abuse. Moreover, the short Interventions are also utilised while encouraging people who are addicted to substance abuse to accept to undergo treatment which is intensive within the hospital setting (Berger et al 2017). The study also concludes that; brief intervention is an attempt to change an individual's behaviour within a short period through utilising an unplanned opportunity. In Prehospital care, there is very minimal opportunity to follow a plan with a patient since it is difficult for health care providers to check the same patient more than once. Therefore, there is need to try to use the tools and interviewing techniques given to them.
While looking at the work of Hettema et al (2005); Wittleder et al (2019) suggest that Motivational interviewing is a kind of brief interventions which suit alcoholism. The study defines motivational interviewing as a directive as well as patient-centred counselling technique for prompting change of behaviour which involves assisting a patient to explore and as well resolve ambivalence. The research also goes ahead to explain that the ultimate objective of motivational interviewing is to assist an alcoholic individual to identify and change behaviours which can result to severe health problems or which may hider maximum chronic disorder management. To simplify the meaning, Petticrew et al (2018) suggest that brief interventions usually take a supportive and non-confrontational approach to empower a patient to recognise the risks associated with their drinking patterns. This results in reduced intake of substances as well as motivation to adjust their initial lifestyles.
This suggests that after identification of alcoholism motivational interviewing techniques is a powerful tool that can be used to ascertain further information and as well find out the effect of the problem to social life such as an effect to individual's children/family routines and health issues. To diagnose alcoholism, the alcohol use disorders identification test also known as The AUDIT tool, developed by the World Health Organisation in 1982 is very crucial (Connor et al 2016). Lundin et al (2015) argues that this tool is accurate and quite specific it is also long-winded and is better suited to General Practitioner based care or hospitals. Moreover, as per Tuunanen et al (2019), Hodgson, et al study of 2001 came up with a better tool for pre-hospital-based care. The scholars invented The FAST tool which could be incorporated into a motivational interviewing technique with ease and in most cases without offending patients. Nevertheless, Smith et al (2010), suggest that alcoholism identification test is more cost-efficient and effective compared to what General Practitioners were previously using. Furthermore, the study while looking at the literature of Rapley & Kaner (2006), suggested that the alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) questionnaire, is an efficient and cheap tool for diagnosis of hazardous as well as harmful alcoholics in the setting of a primary care, therefore, benefiting from brief interventions. Unfortunately, this opposes the modern low identification of alcoholism level by health care professionals (Rossi et al 2018).
In 1993, The University of New Mexico, department of psychology released a review on a study which involved numerous trials of 6000 problem drinkers from 14 states (Witkiewitz &Vowles 2018). The review indicated that brief interventions are effective in reducing alcohol consumption and achieving treatment referral of alcoholics. The study further stated that brief interventions are more effective compared to counselling. The scholars also argue that it has similar effectiveness as extensive treatment. From the literature review, it is evident that of harmful alcohol use effects can be alleviated effectively by well-designed intervention plans which include brief-contact contexts like employee assistance programs as well as primary health care settings (Witkiewitz &Vowles 2018). From this study, it is also evident that brief interventions work well with primary health care settings and with the correct training which could be adapted and used in the pre-hospital care setting. Besides, Miller et al (2017), urges that apart from verbal techniques, physical aids such as the Public Health England scratch cards which can be left with patients may also be used. These aids are based on the AUDIT system of 1982.
In their view, Petticrew et al (2018), argues that the health care creates a chance to reach young people who require intervention. The study has also showed the efficiency of brief interventions for adult alcoholics in medical care facilities. Powers et al (2016) state that there are many strategies which can assist physicians to use the screening as well as the brief interventions in their practices. These strategies include making use of group education to hone clinicians’ expertise and other counselling techniques, providing performance feedback, offering training to all clinic staff, providing monetary support to staff and lastly, offering the education using qualified professionals. The study also suggests that younger people mostly seek treatment in an Emergency Department. Moreover, teenagers treated for alcoholism may be receptive to an intervention due to the regency of the event and the patients' state of emotion (Kenna & Leggio, 2017). This represents brief interventions in an emergency department but I believe the same should be provided in pre-hospital setting due to the regency of the event since patients are picked up directly from the scene and with consideration of the patient’s emotional state which makes them more easily influenced.
In 2004 the government released a framework called the alcohol harm reduction strategy for England or AHRSE for short (Hawkins et al 2012). It consisted of four sections which included; Treatment, Alcohol-related Crime and Disorder, Education and Communication, and finally Supply and Industry Responsibility. In the second section -Identification and Treatment, the Government evaluates the best way of diagnosing and treating people who have established alcohol dependency which might affect their health or even the social functioning and recognises. In one study conducted by Petticrew et al (2018) showed that 20 per cent of primary care patients showed high levels of alcohol consumption which is above the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism’s standard limits. The study showed that brief interventions offer medical care professional an ideal strategy for offering patients the assistance they require. After screening, people may benefit from a brief intervention. Simple interventions are often ‘opportunistic' which means they are administered to clients who have not been into a consultation to discuss their risky drinking behaviour. Such brief intervention is usually effective for clients whose conditions are yet to be severe. Several action points in the chapter are relevant to research and screening implementation and simple intervention and the need to train healthcare staff to deliver it. This shows that brief interventions can be successful if primary care staff are given the correct training to be able to deliver the correct information in the right manner and as a whole the medical industry seems to be moving in the right direction and looking at the problem with prevention is better than cure attitude, by trying to train primary healthcare staff.
Jepson et al (2010), also indicate that simple interventions are effective. In research conducted on three hundred and four women who were pregnant and who were to receive alcoholic intervention. Some participants showed positive results for prenatal use of alcohol. The outcome showed that participants with the highest drinking levels also had greatly reduced their drinking behaviour when they were put under brief intervention. Additionally, the impact of this strategy was greater in cases where couples participated. Wittleder et al (2019), also suggest that brief interventions can reduce alcohol consumption among people that are at risk of drinking hazardous or harmful levels of alcohol although are not alcohol dependent. Also, that evidence suggests brief interventions increase a person's willingness to change and that 1 person in 8 changes their drinking pattern following a brief intervention. For those unfortunate enough to be alcohol dependant the only intervention which is proven to help is a referral to a specialist.
As demonstrated by the evidence given above it is clear that Brief interventions have a positive effect on the treatment problem drinkers receive and the care plans put in place for them. However, for effective brief interventions to take place staff should be given correct and quality training. Although currently, staff can give basic brief interventions they may feel unsure and unqualified to offer advice on a subject that they have been given little to no training on. Staff may feel that they do not want to be seen digging and prying into people's personal lives when in fact patients feel more open and honest about their habits when in the comfort of their own home. Staff may employ a host of motivational interviewing techniques to assess whether the patient is mentally in the right place to consider accepting help or at least to see that they may be at risk of doing long-lasting damage to themselves. Once the patient has identified that there may be a problem the clinician can then use a variety of assessment tools to discover how far the alcohol problem has progressed and can treat or refer the patient accordingly. However, if the patient is in denial about the problem or sees no need to change then the brief intervention is not worth starting, although the patient could still be left with one of the AUDIT information/self-assessment cards, leaflets or websites to possibly peruse in their own time. By and Large, Brief interventions are very successful in a patient with alcohol problems but the patient must be willing to consider a change in behaviour for it to be fruitful and effective.
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Kenna, G.A. and Leggio, L., 2017. Alcohol use disorder. In Integrating psychological and pharmacological treatments for addictive disorders (pp. 76-98). Routledge.
Lundin, A., Hallgren, M., Balliu, N. and Forsell, Y., 2015. The use of alcohol use disorders identification test (AUDIT) in detecting alcohol use disorder and risk drinking in the general population: validation of AUDIT using schedules for clinical assessment in neuropsychiatry. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 39(1), pp.158-165.
Miller, J.D., Lynam, D.R., Hyatt, C.S. and Campbell, W.K., 2017. Controversies in narcissism. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 13, pp.291-315.
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Powers, M.D., James, S., Benningfield, M.D., Margaret, M. and Clinton, M.S.W., 2016. SBIRT (Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment)-A Primary Care Tool to Assess for Substance Use Disorder. Tennessee Medicine E-Journal, 2(1), p.5.
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We stay with Patanjali’s Sutras, where 1.5 and 1.6 introduce five types of fluctuations of the mind. But we are focused just on the first of these this week. Sutra 1.7 discusses correct knowledge. To me, it feels as though this touches upon intuition, that sense of knowing to your core something to be true. The Sutra details the types of proof that support correct knowledge. But ultimately it is up to us to discern and decide and like so many things, it is a skill that we can develop if we pay attention to it and nurture it.
Iyengar’s Light on the Sutras of Patanjali has some interesting comments on this Sutra, and the progression from discernment to true inner wisdom. He explains how our asana and wider yoga practice help to cultivate this ability. So in classes, students are asked to listen for their inner wisdom in their practice and to heed it: to know when they have more available within an asana, and when they have reached their edge, or need to pull back a bit. So a fair few challenges to help them hone their skills! Well done to all the students last night. And Happy Easter!
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All-Ukrainian Youth Congress Attracts More Than 1,000 Young People Despite Country's Turmoil
Eight months of work culminates in Odessa, Ukraine
After eight months of preparation, MIWC Associate Vitaly Bolgar led the 13th Annual All-Ukrainian Youth Congress last month near Odessa, Ukraine.
More than 1,200 young people traveled to the event, which was held on the Black Sea, despite a continuing violent conflict between Ukraine and Russia playing out in Eastern Ukraine.
Bolgar said, "God really blessed this event. We had great weather and an outpouring of His grace."
Choirs, instrumental groups and vocal ensembles from all across Ukraine participated, including 600 student musicians.
Bolgar thanked God especially for MIWC supporters whose financial assistance enabled him and his family to travel to Odessa.
Ukraine ministry outreach opportunities, like this youth event, continue even though fighting and bloodshed mar the Eastern border of the country.
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African and US Authorities Search for Missing Airliner
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U.S. and African officials are searching for a Boeing 727 airliner missing since it took off from a southern African airport more than two weeks ago.
In Washington Wednesday, U.S. officials said the disappearance of the jet was probably criminal in nature, but they could not rule out a terrorist connection.
Officials do not know where the jet went after it took off from the airport at Angola's capital, Luanda. U.S. officials say the airliner was last heard requesting clearance to land in the Seychelles, off the east African coast, but it never arrived.
Angolan officials say the plane had been parked at the airfield for more than a year for non-payment of millions of dollars in airport fees. The jet had been flown to Angola by a firm called Air Angola, which reportedly belongs to a group of current and former military officials.
Some U.S. officials suspect the plane was illegally flown off to avoid repossession, while others say it may have been crashed for insurance purposes. However, with recent intelligence uncovering an al-Qaida plot to crash an explosives-laden small airplane into the U.S. consulate in Pakistan, officials say they have to remain open to the possibility that terrorists may be involved in the plane's disappearance.
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East Hampton Man Charged With Placing Fake Bomb In Front Of East Hampton Middle School
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February 1, 2013
David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the FBI, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment yesterday charging SEAN DORAN, 20, of East Hampton, with one count of intentionally conveying false or misleading information and a hoax by leaving a fake bomb device at the front doors of East Hampton Middle School in East Hampton on January 12, 2013.
The indictment was unsealed today during DORAN’s initial appearance and arraignment before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford. DORAN pleaded not guilty to the charge and was released on a $50,000 bond.
“As alleged, the defendant purposefully placed a fake bomb right at the door of a Connecticut middle school,” stated U.S. Attorney Fein. “Hoaxes threaten the sense of security that children and teachers are entitled to enjoy in their school. This indictment should be a clear signal that all threats to schools will be vigorously investigated by my office.”
“The indictment of Mr. Doran should be a warning to those individuals who choose to disrupt and threaten everyday public life, hoax or no hoax,” stated FBI Special Agent in Charge Mertz. “Placing a hoax bomb in a public location is criminal. Placing it outside a school is absolutely appalling. The FBI and its law enforcement partners will work tirelessly to bring to justice those responsible for such criminal conduct.”
If convicted of the charge, DORAN faces a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and a fine of up to $250,000.
U.S. Attorney Fein stressed that an indictment is not evidence of guilt. Charges are only allegations, and each defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The case has been assigned to Chief United States District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford.
This matter is being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s JTTF, the East Hampton Police Department, the New Haven Police Department and the Connecticut State Police. The case is being prosecuted by Special Assistant United States Attorney Anjna R. Kapoor.
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As parents, we like to think of our children as staying small forever. But deep down we all know that one day the tables will be flipped. That time of being old and frail and your children being in your current position draws ever closer. So as parents, what is important when bringing up children? Making sure they’re healthy is important, for sure, and always will be. But this doesn’t have to strictly mean purely physically; it should also mean mentally too. Raising children that have had their mind expanded early on to new ways of thinking, creative and imaginative possibilities, stories of triumph and success will help them never forget those memories. Of course being active is just as important. If you’ve read the news lately or kept up with the current affairs, you’ll know many families are confronting obesity. Start both these tracts off as the norm in their lives while you still have the chance.
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Literature changes their lives
As human beings have gotten more and more advanced, technology has become more entertainment oriented. We see phones, tablets and computers as things that come in handy time to time but really, exciting apps and games get the most use from them. Time for all this to change. Never underestimate the power of literature and the effect it can have on developing minds. The choice is yours whether you want to get them hardback books or purely digital via online purchases. Make sure books aren’t too complex in their language but feel free to give them fantasy books with real moral lessons. Not only will they be entertained and have a connection with the stories, but they’ll also be learning how to read and understand sentence structure, spelling, paragraphs etc. If you haven’t begun reading them bedtime stories, these are the perfect reasons you should start.
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If you’re a parent with more than one child, you know how life can suddenly become hectic. You may not have enough time to cook them a homemade meal started from scratch every day. You might not be able to give them healthy food to take with them as their packed lunch either. Sometimes there just isn’t enough time in the morning or the late evening to do all those things; especially if both parents are working. Not having full control on what they eat can be balanced out with backyard sports. If children have their own sports area, they have access to games they would normally have to go to an establishment for. You can order to install an ice hockey rink, pickleball court, trampolines, basketball hoops and even volleyball courts. Far from being mundane sports, they won’t want to get off the couch for, they can be enjoyed by the whole family.
Expanding their minds with books that challenge how they see the world, is a gift that keeps on giving. Through living vicariously in the shoes of their favorite characters, they’ll be taught certain morals and social interaction by thought stories. Fighting off the fat in your backyard has never been easier. Professional companies can turn your once stale lawn into an exciting space for the children to run and test themselves physically.
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Faridoon Shahryar has written and sung over 100 jingles for FM Radio and Television (Dabur Honey, Coca Cola (Composed by Shantanu Moitra) in India as well as abroad (Sunrise Radio, UK). He has taken formal training in Hindustani Classical music and is influenced by both Western as well Indian music forms. A few of the other jingles written and sung by Faridoon are Dabur Honey, Cinthol Soaps, Axiom Undergarments, Bigen Speedy Colors, GC Telecom UK Ltd., One2Dial Phone Cards, UK, TT Phone Cards, UK, Shalimar Phone Cards, UK, Mother India Phone Cards, UK, Inquilaab Phone Cards, UK, Thangam Phone Cards, UK, Euroline Phone Cards, UK, Spiceworld Restaurant, UK, Bombay Pilsner Beer, UK, Golden Country Foods, UK, Roshni Restaurant, UK, Cuddsies Diapers, Eurovision CDs and DVDs, Marlex Pressure Cooker, Microline Mobiles, UK etc. Faridoon ideated and sang all the songs on a remix album Touch Of Romance (Vale Music, 2001).
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