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CDC: Hospitals Impede Breastfeeding
CDC recommended that hospitals providing maternity care adopt evidence-based practices to support breastfeeding. “Because nearly all births in the United States occur in hospitals, improvements in hospital policies and practices could increase rates of exclusive and continued breastfeeding nationwide, contributing to improved child health, including lower rates of obesity,” the CDC report said.
The Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding include:
- Existence of a model breastfeeding policy;
- Staff competency assessment;
- Prenatal breastfeeding education;
- Early initiation of breastfeeding;
- Teaching breastfeeding techniques;
- Limited supplementation of breastfeeding infants;
- Teaching feeding cues;
- Limited use of pacifiers;
- Post-discharge support.
The majority of hospitals were implementing three to five recommended practices (60.5% in 2007 and 54.3% in 2009), with only 2.4% of hospitals implementing at least nine recommended practices in 2007, and 3.5% in 2009.
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Crystal Palace Eagles will be flying high with new mascot
PUBLISHED: 16:38 08 September 2010
A 21-year-old North American Bald Eagle is set to be unveiled as the official live mascot for Crystal Palace Football Club.
Kayla, who is kept at Eagle Heights Wildlife Park in Eynsford, will be officially unveiled next Tuesday at the game against Portsmouth at Selhurst Park.
The eagle, which has a two metre wingspan, first appeared at the ground for the final game of the season against West Brom where she flew up and down the ground as Crystal Palace, nicknamed the Eagles, stepped out onto the pitch.
Kayla’s handler, Christopher Belsey, from Eagle Heights, said: “As soon as we got the call from the club we were more than willing to come down to Selhurst Park and help the Eagles.”
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The heavy arched door opened and they all began filing in: the old, the young, shuffling tiredly and bowed with their sticks or wheeling infants in pushchairs, all of whom had waited patiently like their poorer or war-worn ancestors might have done queuing for meat rations or bread.
never before witnessed such a scene, (and I never hope to again), for
it was a depressing sight. One that lingers in your consciousness
long after it has passed; even after I knew what they had huddled in
the bitter cold for and that it wasn't what I'd imagined.
wasn't as I thought a matter of survival, although perhaps it was to
them. Perhaps it meant more than I realised now or then.
crowd weren't, as I would have expected if my hunch had been right,
exhibiting any signs of being saved, only relief that the wait was
over. There was no excited chatter as birds might give when they're
disturbed from their roost, just a silent adjustment of hats, scarves
and coats which they each did with a deadpan expression, their faces
grey and drawn.
going-through of motions, grown hardened to, not that it helped to
keep out the cold or lessen, what I took to be, a humbling act,
performed automatically which left me in no doubt that this gathering
happened regularly: people representing all socio-economic groups
camped outside the same place, the same stone government building, at
the same time, around midday until half-past two when the huge
cave-like door creaks open and admits them, shuffling snakelike, in.
I can't confirm if it was always the same day, a Wednesday, or in
what frequency it occurred, it was clear from the scene before me
that it was, if not looked forward to, waited for with numb
expectation, almost like a last salvation which was by no means
guaranteed for each and every one, so that even the air seemed stale,
like it had been inhaled and exhaled too many times by these hopeless
body of this snake writhed as if a large mammal had been swallowed,
distorting itself into four distinct lines which shuffled forwards
and up the entrance steps like a centipede or caterpillar of the
Jurassic age. The only audible sounds sniffs and coughs, an odd cry
or low groan, and the scrape of shoes, sticks and wheels on paved
I joined the tail. Here, some young men, late to these proceedings,
were being more uproarious: jostling each other and kicking the
ground, their heads mostly down and their hands entrenched in their
trouser pockets. They weren't like the rest, up ahead, subdued. And I
wondered why...were they new to whatever awfulness this was? Or being
young, were they not disenfranchised enough to either meekly submit
or rebel? These were my musings. I would have liked to engage with
them, but not being young nor familiar with their particular type of
shiftiness or the general pervading atmosphere, it seemed wiser to
resist that urge.
I leant on my wooden walking stick, doing my best to be unobtrusive
and yet keep up with the shifting crowd; a few latecomers had joined
us, two more young men and an old woman in a headscarf, so the only
real feature, I think, which stood out about me was the dull thump of
my stick. The young never take much notice of an old person, although
officials do and might; that was my sickening dread, yet I'd seen
nobody, for any obvious reason, singled out. Actually, I'd seen
nobody who'd entered leave. What were they doing in there? Was it
some sort of meeting, one that had moved from outside to in, where
items of importance were discussed? Was there another, unseen, exit?
I had to black out didn't I?, then and there; it's a condition I'm
prone to when my circulation plummets, and when I came round,
properly round, I was on laundered sheets in a community hospital.
There was a white-coated state official by my bedside, who I mistook
for a doctor, who presented with me a cerise raffle ticket on behalf
and with the compliments of the council. The first prize he informed
me, with a winsome smile, a day in a state-provided chauffeured
Picture credit: The State Lottery Office, 1882, Vincent Van Gogh

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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas
Why Verne's celebrated novel is more than just a boys' own adventure
It is an all-time adventure classic, a novel by Jules Verne that started life in serialized form 150 years ago and has gripped readers ever since, making it one of the most translated works in publishing history (and yes, the original French title says 'seas' in plural). It also made a household name out of its main character, Captain Nemo, the troubled and enigmatic commander who transports us through underwater wonders - including the lost world of Atlantis - in Nautilus, a submarine that itself is a technological marvel. So popular is the story, stars as famous as James Mason, Omar Sharif and Michael Caine have featured in movie versions. But there are dark undercurrents in the novel, themes of anger and revenge, as well as a number of enigmatic passages.
To explore the long-lasting appeal of Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, Rajan Datar is joined by Marie-Helene Huet, professor of French at Princeton University and MIT; French writer and translator Laurence Sudret, general secretary of the Société Jules Verne; Swiss-born author and engineer Jean-Michel Margot who had amassed one of the world's foremost collections of Verne materials; and Terry Harpold, Professor of English, Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida who specializes in science fiction.
Photo: Submarine in the style of Captain Nemo's 'Nautilus'. (inhauscreative/Getty Images)

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Thanks to NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, we’re learning new things about the red planet nearly every day. However, we’re also learning a few new details about ancient Mars here on Earth, thanks to a meteorite from the planet discovered over 30 years ago.
NASA’s focus for human spaceflight seems to change every few years as we learn something new about what it will take to keep human beings alive out there. However, NASA usually picks one of a few targets. Will we go to Mars next, maybe back to the Moon, or perhaps an asteroid is a better option? NASA’s Langley Research Center has put forward an interesting proposal — instead of the traditional choices, why not make the trip to Venus?
A NASA spacecraft that recently arrived in orbit around Mars is already helping to solve a Martian mystery. Scientists are using the space agency’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft to gather more data about how Mars’ atmosphere bled molecules out into space over time.
Ever imagine that the red planet’s surface may once have had a different appearance? Well while researchers at NASA have had rovers scoping out Mars’ surface for years, new information received from NASA’s Curiosity Rover suggests that the planet’s craters may once have served a different purpose, and that the arid red planet may once have had long-lasting above ground lakes.
Take a virtual trip around the Solar System and you’ll come to one conclusion pretty quickly: Earth is odd. One of the most significant oddities about our pale blue dot is the vast quantity of liquid water. Astronomers and other scientists have proposed various arguments for how Earth ended up with huge, stable liquid oceans — and now, thanks to research from the Rosetta probe, we’ve got evidence that one prominent theory may not be correct.
When New Horizons left Earth nine years ago, its destination was still being taught to schoolchildren as one of the 9 planets in our solar system. The spacecraft’s final destination of Pluto has since lost its planet status, but that doesn’t make its upcoming arrival at the mysterious dwarf planet any less exciting.
It’s a well-known fact that Earth’s ozone layer protects us from a great deal of the Sun’s ultra-violet radiation. Were it not for this protective barrier around our planet, chances are our surface would be similar to the rugged and lifeless landscape we observe on Mars.
In the recent past, a lot of unusual features are rportedly being noticed in Mars. The latest to join the numerous other things that have been allegedly found is an alien skull that looked like it was buried in Martian sand.
2005 cassini captures an astonishing sight, a hundred geysers shooting ice particles miles into space from cracks in the south pole. Enceladus is hurdling its guts into space at a colossal rate. As enceladus orbits saturn, these icy plumes feed a vast shimmering halo around the planet the mysterious e ring.
According to new research from a team of scientists at MIT, Cambridge University, and other various institutions, the shape of the early solar system was likely determined a massively powerful magnetic fields, the likes of which has never been seen.
Discovered by Sir William Herschel in March 1781, gas giant Uranus is the penultimate planet of the Solar System and currently well placed for observation in the constellation of Pisces. Despite being four times the diameter of Earth, its immense distance from the Sun (2,870 million kilometres) means that most visual observers consider discerning its tiny 3.7-arcsecond, magnitude +6, blue-green disc in backyard telescopes is achievement enough.
Large enough to swallow three planets the size of the Earth, Jupiter’s Great Red Spot (GRS) is the greatest and most persistent anticyclonic storm in the Solar System, having raged in the planet’s atmosphere for at least 400 years.

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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump landed in Japan on Saturday, kicking off a highly anticipated state visit — with the president to become the first foreign leader to meet Japan’s new Emperor Naruhito.
The trip, which will last through Tuesday, comes amid fears among Japanese political and business leaders that U.S. tariffs on the auto industry will have a crippling effect on the Asian nation’s economy.
The president’s first stop was a dinner with business leaders at the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Tokyo after a brief airport welcome.
Trump told reporters that he’s working to introduce “fairness and reciprocity” in the new American-Japanese trade agreement.
“Japan has had a substantial edge for many, many years but that’s OK,” Trump said during remarks with the business leaders in Tokyo, noting that negotiators were “hard at work” on the trade talks. “We’ll get it a little bit more fair.”
“Japan has had a substantial edge for many, many years but that’s ok. We’ll get it a little bit more fair.”
— President Trump
He added that the new trade deal will “address the trade imbalance” and eliminate the existing “barriers to U.S. exports.”
Japan enjoys a $70 billion trade surplus with the U.S, while it imports just a fraction of U.S. goods and imposes protective measures against competition from other countries, a source of frustration for Trump, who sees tariffs as a corrective measure.
Japan is expected to use the state visit as a charm offensive to convince Trump to spare the country of the punitive tariffs.
To fulfill this task, Trump is officially the first foreign leader invited to meet with the country’s new Emperor Naruhito, who inherited the throne earlier this month, a fact Trump gleefully acknowledged earlier this week. The emperor will treat Trump to a meeting and host an imperial banquet in Trump’s honor.
“Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe said to me, very specifically, ‘You are the guest of honor.’ There’s only one guest of honor … I’m the guest of honor at the biggest event that they’ve had in over 200 years,” Trump said this week.
“So it’s a great thing. And we get along very well with Japan. I get along very well with the prime minister.”
During the first remarks in Japan, Trump also stressed that Japan is buying military equipment from the U.S., which he says was a sign of threats in the world.
“We make the best equipment in the world — the best jets, missiles, the best rockets, the best everything,” he said. “So Japan is doing very large orders and we appreciate that.”
“It’s probably appropriate for everything going on,” he added. “The world is changing.”
On Sunday, Trump and Abe are expected to play golf and then watch a sumo wrestling tournament in front-row seats. Trump previously called the sport “fascinating.”
Only on Monday will the two leaders sit down to talk about trade. A possibility of a trade deal is reportedly on the table, but officials on neither side committed to such goal. (Because of the Japan trip, Trump paid a pre-Memorial Day visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Thursday, to honor America’s war dead.)
The U.S. and Japanese leaders will also discuss the threat from North Korea, an issue that comes in the wake of U.S. national security adviser John Bolton’s comments on Friday that a series of short-range missile tests by North Korea last month was a violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.
But it remains to be seen whether the celebrations and close relationship between Trump and Abe will be enough to force Washington to reconsider imposing tariffs on Japanese auto exports.
The Trump administration is currently embroiled in a trade war against China over the country’s treatment of American companies.
Yet the administration has been tough and criticized both Japan and the European Union for, in its view, unfair trade practices that exploit the U.S. economy.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Author: Lukas Mikelionis

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Google has announced a bunch of new updates coming to Assistant today that should make it possible for developers to make more functional applications that better integrate with your Google Assistant devices.
One of the biggest additions is support for new languages. Developers will now be able to write apps in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Indian English.
Another major update is the ability for developers to create applications that take advantage of having both a Google Home and a phone with Assistant, allowing Home devices to hand off requests to smartphones for completion of actions (like, say, paying for a sandwich you ordered on your Home). Google will also allow apps to recognize implicit requests, so that you don’t have to specifically call them out by name. It’s the difference between saying “turn off the lights” and “have the Philips Hue app turn off the lights.”
Lastly, Google is making it easier for users to find new apps for Assistant. Instead of the hodgepodge of apps that are presented now, the Assistant companion app is getting “What's new” and “What's trending” sections to help surface recent and popular integrations.
In other Assistant-related news 9to5Google is reporting it seems that Google has quietly updated the Nexus Player — the original Android TV device, released in 2014 — with support for Google Assistant, too. So if you’re still using one of those, enjoy!
The new updates to Assistant covered here (along with some other, more minor features that Google details in its blog post) should be rolling out now, although it may take developers some time to integrate the new features into their apps.


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Lang Lang to be Global Ambassador for Leeds Comp
24 August 2012, 17:56
The Leeds International Piano Competition, led by Dame Fanny Waterman, has selected Lang Lang as its Global Ambassador.
Renowned concert pianist Lang Lang has been selected by the Leeds International Piano Competition to be its Global Ambassador. Dame Fanny Waterman, chairman and artistic director of the competition, bestowed the honour on Lang, who will visit the competition on September 9th.
Announcing the news on his Twitter feed, Lang described the appointment as an "Incredible honour." Waterman commented: "In his chosen repertoire he is absolutely exemplary. Lang Lang has a pair of hands every pianist would envy."
The competition itself kicks off on August 29th with the first of several heats. The final will take place across two nights, the 14th and 15th September, and will be led by the Hallé Orchestra and Mark Elder.
The competition has previously been won by such piano luminaries as Murray Perahia and Artur Pizarro. Find out more about the competition here.


Chevrolet Corvette: The first four decades of racing success 1956-1996
This revised reprint of a classic title covers the history and development of the racing Corvettes, from the car’s beginnings in the 1950s with just 250 horsepower, through the Corvette GTP of the 1980s, with over 1000 horsepower, and on to 1996, when 4th generation cars give way to the 5th generation.
Included are many interviews with the drivers who raced these exciting, weighty and always fast cars, including John Greenwood, Dick Gulstrand, Jerry Grant and ‘Fast’ Phil Curring, amongst others.
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A team of researchers at The University of Manchester and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust conducted an in vitro research which exhibited a new way human embryos communicate with their mother-to-be just after six days of its development. The study also put light on the fact that the embryos could detect foreign cells in their environment including pathogens. Early human embryos are highly sensitive to their local environment but before this study, relatively less was known about how they detect and respond to specific environment cues.
This study has discovered a signalling system which is generated by the embryo which allows communication with mother in a new way wherein it was found that when foreign cells are detected by the embryos’ special proteins called Toll Like Receptors(TLRs), cytokines (IL8) are produced which typically plays a role in the body’s immune system by engaging neutrophils to the inflammation site. The team examined the behaviour of the embryo throughout the fifth and sixth days of the embryos’ development wherein it is free-living in the female body before implanting into the uterus lining.
It is already known that embryos communicate with mothers when they begin to implant but we do not know why this above-mentioned new signalling happens. Perhaps this presence of TLRs in the fallopian tube and vagina is an additional way of signalling an inflammatory response to the maternal tract in response to pathogens or to modulate the implantation process and the initiation of pregnancy.
The team used a literature search of published data to analyse the expression of TLRs and related genes in human embryos. Then they cultured 25 days old human embryos in the presence of poly (I:C) and flagellin which attach to the toll-like receptors TLR3 and TLR5. EThe team only investigated TLR 3 and 5 and on the sixth day, they measured gene expression and cytokine production to compare the results with the controls.
The data also reveals that there is a balance between suppression and stimulation of the innate immunity response in embryos. That may reflect the need for embryo survival in the presence of benign foreign cells versus the need for maternal tract to respond to infection. This groundbreaking research may help to understand fertility issues, helping people who struggle to achieve natural conception and even enhancing IVF methods. The research is published in the Journal Human Reproduction Today. Still further investigations need to be done to determine whether the TLR stimulation response is effective during the embryonic journey in the fallopian tube.


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Live music nights are back at the Jordan House! Take in music from local bands with a beer and pub fare in hand, including favourites like burgers, fish & chips and very addictive hand-cut fries.
Dates & Acts
- Friday, March 25th: Marty Allen Band
Learn more about our bands below.
Friday, March 25th: Marty Allen Band
Join us for live music from 8:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Honky-tonk, Rockabilly, Rhythm & Blues. Telecasters, Gretsch’s, and tube amps! If music was a religion then Memphis would be Jerusalem and Sun Records would be it’s holiest shrine.


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Bahrain's King on March 14, 2018, enacted law 32 of 2018, ratifying the DTA Protocol signed with Thailand.
Thailand's tax agency has confirmed the DTA with Cambodia became effective on January 1, 2018.
Thailand and Cambodia signed a DTA on September 7, 2017.
Jordan and Thailand agreed the text of a DTA on May 11, 2017.
Bahrain and Thailand signed a DTA Protocol on April 25, 2017.
A new DTA between Singapore and Thailand will become effective on January 1, 2017, following the completion of domestic ratification procedures.
A DTA Protocol between Singapore and Thailand entered into force on February 15, 2016.
India and Thailand signed a DTA on June 29, 2015.
Singapore and Thailand signed a DTA on June 11, 2015.
According to preliminary media reports, Thailand and Kazakhstan agreed to begin DTA negotiations on December 24, 2014.
Ireland and Thailand signed a DTA on November 4, 2013.
The Philippines and Thailand signed a DTA during two-day meetings concluding on June 21, 2013.
Tajikistan and Thailand are to sign a DTA on May 17, 2013, Thailand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed.
According to preliminary media reports, representatives from Qatar and Thailand held five-day negotiations towards a DTA, concluding on May 10, 2013.
Thailand and Taiwan signed a DTA on November 30, 2012.
According to preliminary media reports, Estonia and Thailand signed a DTA on September 28, 2012.
At a meeting on July 7, 2012, representatives from Tunisia and Thailand committed to negotiating a bilateral DTA.
According to the Estonian government, representatives from Estonia and Thailand agreed to begin negotiations towards a DTA on June 11, 2012.
The pending DTA between Bahrain and Thailand was forwarded to the Bahraini Cabinet at its latest meeting, following the earlier approval of Bahrain's Shura and Representatives Councils, the state news agency reported on May 20, 2012.
Thailand has called for the commencement of negotiations towards a DTA with Cambodia.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh revealed on January 25 that India and Thailand have signed a revised a DTA.
According to Thailand's Revenue Department, the DTA between Thailand and Myanmar became effective for tax periods beginning on or after January 1, 2012.
The Philippines and Thailand are expected to sign a draft DTA at their next official meeting, according to the comments made by the Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra during a meeting with the Philippine President on January 19.

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Updates on the progress of Gulf restoration nearly four years after the BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster.
We have one Gulf and one chance to restore the natural resources we rely on. There has been some progress in the last four years that we should recognize and celebrate, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Since the onset of the spill, Ocean Conservancy has led the charge for a comprehensive approach to restoration. For us, that means restoration of our coastal communities as well as coastal and marine environments. Four years on, the discussion about coastal restoration and economic recovery has grown more robust, but we still have a long way to go.
Determining the full extent of the impacts from the oil spill will take time, and researchers are just beginning to release their findings. This map illustrates impacts they’ve documented in the region so far, including fish with lesions, impacted bluefin tuna spawning habitat and shifts in whale shark abundance and distribution.
Some impacts from the BP oil disaster, such as oiled animals and damaged coral, are visible. But sometimes we can't see the changes in the environment that are unfolding. Scientists have been working hard in labs to determine the full extent of the BP oil disaster. The graphic above shows some of the preliminary findings scientists are beginning to reveal.
We are still responding to and recovering from the BP oil disaster. As decision-makers begin planning and choosing restoration priorities and projects, Ocean Conservancy and the Gulf of Mexico University Research Collaborative (GOMURC) are working to ensure the waters of the Gulf are part of the plan.
The two groups convened a workshop of experts to identify a list of top restoration projects and approaches to help reverse damage from the BP oil disaster and decades of environmental degradation in offshore areas, and promote the economic value of the Gulf’s natural resources.
The Marine Restoration Workshop Report’s focus on offshore areas is meant to complement the significant coastal wetland restoration planning and implementation efforts already underway, and to serve as a catalog for making investments in the restoration of marine resources.
As recovery from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill continues, it is critical that we begin comprehensive environmental restoration across the Gulf – from coastal wetlands to marine waters and from Texas to Florida.
Ocean Conservancy has joined with a group of conservation, environmental and social equity organizations that have worked to support long-term recovery in the region for decades to create a model portfolio of projects that take an integrated and comprehensive approach toward restoring the Gulf. The coalition believes a program of this type will be most effective in helping to rebuild the region’s ecosystems, economies and communities.


This year marks two somber anniversaries: Seventy years ago, the United States became the first and only country ever to use atomic weapons in war, incinerating the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the last days of World War II. Two decades later, the massive bombing campaign of Operation Rolling Thunder and the introduction of ground troops in Vietnam ushered in an era of napalm-fueled destruction, Agent Orange defoliation, and brutal “search-and-destroy” missions. The prolonged war cost tens of thousands of American lives and displaced, maimed, and killed millions of Vietnamese.
The use of the atomic bomb and the escalation of the war in Vietnam represent two of the most controversial episodes in the history of American warfare in the 20th century. Yet we rarely think of them as connected. We should. The terror unleashed at the dawn of the atomic era established the high stakes of the Cold War and pushed American policymakers to draft the infamous ever-escalating yet non-nuclear blueprint for war in Vietnam. The bombings in Japan and the conflict in Vietnam also share a surprising set of common players: American scientists. Twenty years after their handiwork wrought destruction in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Manhattan Project veterans found themselves ensconced in key government and military advisory positions just as the war in Vietnam reached lethal new heights. Perhaps no other group of Americans offers as poignant a portrait of the tortured path from Hiroshima to Hanoi as these men do. Twice in their lifetimes, these elite scientists willingly contributed their expertise to devastating projects whose outcomes they couldn’t control and would come to regret.
The physicists who joined the Manhattan Project in the early days of World War II were largely patriotic men who worried that Nazi scientists were racing to build an atomic bomb. They saw their work as intellectually exciting, but also necessary and just. As it became increasingly clear that the Germans had failed in their efforts, however, a handful of Manhattan Project participants began to worry about how the bomb might actually be used. In July 1945, concerned researchers at the University of Chicago’s “Met Lab,” home of the first nuclear chain reaction, sent a petition to President Harry Truman, urging him to consider the “moral responsibilities” involved in any decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan. The physicist Leo Szilard, who in 1939 had joined Albert Einstein in calling for what would become the Manhattan Project, now begged the president to avoid a direct atomic attack and instead opt for a demonstration of the bomb’s destructive power on an uninhabited island. His entreaties fell on deaf ears.


Spending the night in an ice hotel is one of those once-in-a-lifetime experiences we can't wait to check off our bucket lists. While they are not exactly known for being comfortable — how cozy can an ice-carved bed be? — these man-made wonders are just incredible to behold. The construction alone requires muscle power, snow ploughs, and tons of ice — a very respectable feat considering the fact that these hotels have to be built from scratch every year. And, we haven't even started on the ice sculptures yet.
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The Bordeaux Pit fishery is located in Essex – in Saffron Walden, to be precise. It is a coarse fishery type and is comprised of two different bodies of water. The pond is 1/3 acres, while the lake is 2.3 acres. Overall, both waters are under ideal shelter for fishing.
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A Hyderabad based businessman has been conned out of INR 73 lakhs by cyber fraudsters posing as a crypto investment service provider.
According to the police, the man, a resident of Kavadiguda, received a message on the Telegram messaging application to join a group, reported The Hans India.
After that, he began receiving messages about crypto investments.
Lured by the high returns over investment, he contacted the fraudsters who asked him to download an application from Google Play Store.
The victim created an account on the application and transferred around INR 73 lakh over a period of 20 days to the bank accounts of the conmen, as directed.
After a while, the perpetrators told him his profits were around INR 30 crore and asked him into investing more money.
When the victim asked for profits, the conmen stopped responding to the messages and fled.
Finally, upon realizing he has been duped, the victim approached the police.
Since crypto is unregulated many people are misusing the regulatory uncertainty. The volatility of these digital assets attracts many people whose greed for quick money takes over logic. A due diligence of any financial offering is recommended before investing money.
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Framing can help you communicate strong messages
Framing is an important technique of focusing the attention of people within a broad context. How something is presented (the ‘frame’) influences people’s attitudes and opinions. Framing is a form of agenda-setting – the process by which a communication source defines and constructs a public issue.
A framing example is the ‘war on terror’ (it is not actually a war, but the term has been used, probably with the aid of audience research, by the US administration to generate support for its actions).
Framing can be conveyed through:
- Metaphor – to give an idea a new meaning by comparing it with something else.
- Stories (myths and legends) – to frame a subject by anecdote in a vivid and memorable way. For instance, some managers tell and retell stories of how teamwork helped pull their organization through in tough times.
- Traditions (rites, rituals and ceremonies) – to use to define and reinforce organizational cultural values. For instance, certain activities (some humorous and some serious) traditionally done during annual strategic planning conferences.
- Slogans, jargon and catchphrases – to frame a subject in a memorable and familiar way.
- Artifacts – to illuminate corporate values through objects that strike a chord with employees. For instance, a current best-selling product compared with an outmoded product from an earlier time.
- Contrast – to describe a subject in terms of what it is not.
- Spin – to talk about a concept in a way that gives it a positive or negative connotation.
US linguistic expert, Professor George Lakoff, views the term ‘tax relief’ as a current frame conceived by the Republican political party. The word ‘relief’ implies that taxes are unfair and have been imposed on innocent citizens. The Republicans will be the ones who rescue taxpayers by lifting the burden on them. Yet taxes provide the means for governments to provide essential public infrastructure.
Using metaphors for framing
According to Lakoff, metaphors are contained in most of the concepts of everyday life and should be used in communication activities.
He gives the example of an environmental group whose research found there are large numbers of toxic chemicals in our bodies and tried to publicize this in terms of statistics. The media response was minimal. Lakoff said the program should have been reconceptualized in a campaign called ‘Be Poison-free’. ‘Poison’ is a strong, emotive word that implies someone must be the poisoner. It makes you look at who is doing the poisoning – the companies that allow humans to be exposed to chemicals.
If you are working on media strategy, a speech or an issue, you should note the power of using metaphors and images in framing concepts for more effective communication. You can extend concepts into sub-concepts. For instance, if you frame your organization as a ship on a voyage, you can extend this frame or metaphor into related travel or progress sub-frames or themes such as steering the best course, avoiding the hazards (think Titanic here!), staying afloat, delivering cargo, keeping a good lookout for shoals and rocks, arriving safely at the destination, etc.


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My recent trip to France was not part of the original plan. I was only supposed to travel to Belgium for an umpiring assignment. It just happened that an invitation arrived for a conference in Aiguebelette as well. I decided to attend since the date was quite close to my other commitment.
The first time I heard of Aix-les-Bains was when I got a list of recommended hotels near the conference venue in Lac d’Aiguebelette area. My contact from the organizers in Lausanne emailed it to me. I picked the hotel in Aix-les-Bains because it had the most user-friendly website. But I had zero knowledge about the place.
Usually, I take time to do some research to find out more about my destinations every time I travel. But I was not able to do that before my trip because things had been hectic. So I was clueless about what to expect. And I was okay with that.
The trip that brought me to the picturesque town of Aix-les-Bains was a long and tiring one. It took me roughly more than 24 hours (including transits). I started my trip in Davao then spent about 10 hours at the airport in Manila waiting for my flight. Then it was 9 hours to Abu Dhabi plus almost 4 hours of layover. I met up as planned with my colleague from Myanmar at the boarding gate. She was attending the conference with me. The last leg of our journey took a little over 7 hours. I was drained by the time we landed in Geneva. Someone picked us up at the airport and drove us to Aix-les-Bains. It took us less than 2 hours to get to our destination. It was a pleasant ride in roads surrounded by beautiful scenery.
I thought that I would be spending the rest of the afternoon sleeping when we arrive at the hotel. But a bath and brief rest re-energized us enough to venture outside to see more of the place. I was immediately charmed by what I saw and experienced at that time. There was something about Aix-les-Bains that made me fall in love with it. It is restful, but far from boring. It has a quiet elegance that is not standoffish. And I like how most of the people I met were nice. Some even took the time to chat with my friend and me. Quaint, charming, and fascinating are just some of the words that I can think of to describe it. I wish I could have stayed longer.
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(Hollywood, CA) Peter Fox, co-star on the popular FoxTrot Sunday comic strip, is being held on $1 million bond in the death of younger brother Jason.
"He was pulling a beach prank," said Peter to the judge. "I didn't see the harm of him being so far from the water."
Jason was discovered unconscious and pronounced dead at the scene. He was buried up to his neck with the bucket over his head Peter had placed there.
Extensive bruising from a blow to Jason's face is not attributed to Peter.
"An unusually high tide contributed to the boy's drowning," said the medical examiner. "We are also interested in finding the individual who may have kicked the bucket."
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The company may seek exemption from Australian takeover rules
MELBOURNE, Australia - A Chinese State-owned nuclear power producer could be forced to make a bid for Australia's Extract Resources worth $2.7 billion as part of a bid for Kalahari Minerals, as China looks to secure uranium from Africa.
A unit of China Guangdong Nuclear Power Holding Corp (CGNPC) is lining up a $1.23 billion offer for Kalahari, Extract's top shareholder with a 43 percent stake.
The move on Kalahari sent Extract's shares to an 18-month high on Wednesday on bets that the company had been put into play, pitting the Chinese against Extract and Kalahari's 14 percent shareholder, global miner Rio Tinto.
"Rio could block a bid or turn around and bid themselves. This is going to be interesting," said Ric Ronge, a portfolio manager at Pengana Capital, which does not own shares in Extract.
Uranium is key to China's push to use cleaner energy, with 28 nuclear reactors under construction as the country races to meet soaring energy demand.
If CGNPC took over Kalahari, it would own more than 20 percent of Extract, the threshold at which Australian rules would require it to make a takeover offer for Extract.
The Chinese company said on Monday it would seek an exemption from that rule.
Extract said on Wednesday to protect all its shareholders, it would ask the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) to grant that relief to CGNPC on condition that "all Extract shareholders are not disadvantaged in any way".
If the exemption is not granted, the Chinese company would be required to make a matching takeover offer for Extract Resources.
In a similar case last year, the ASIC refused to force Spanish construction group ACS to buy out the minorities in contractor Leighton Holdings as part of ACS's bid for Leighton's German parent, Hochtief AG.
ACS was not forced to bid because there is an automatic exemption to the takeover rules when the stake is acquired through a takeover of a company that owns more than 20 percent of an Australian company and is listed on one of several exchanges.
The Kalahari takeover does not fall under that automatic exemption because Kalahari is listed on London's AIM exchange, which is not on the list of approved exchanges, an ASIC spokesman said.
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Wait! Didn’t the price of a first class stamp increase about, oh, five minutes ago? So why has the Postal Service announced yet another stamp cost increase?
If it seems postal rates increase every year, you’re right. On January 26th, the cost of a first class stamp went from 46 to 49 cents. This 3 cent rate hike in the price of a stamp is the Postal Service’s largest in more than a decade. Last year’s increase was by only 1 cent. It is now more expensive to mail a postcard as well, though that fee has only increased by a penny, to 34 cents.
Clearly, the mailing public didn’t make this decision. The Postal Service has been asking for a larger price hike for about three years now. Requests for these increases must go through the agency’s watchdog, the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC). And the PRC is a tough overseer: they turned down the Postal Service’s 2010 request for an abnormal rate increase, claiming that they didn’t provide sufficient evidence of financial hardship. And the Postal Service was persistent — they then filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals, which agreed with the PRC and turned it down.
For this go round, the Postal Service presented evidence claiming that the agency had a loss of $22 billion between the years of 2008 and 2012. They also estimated a loss of $44 billion for the period between 2013 and 2014. The PRC uses a different calculation method than the Postal Service, however, and their grand profit loss total came in at just under $3 billion…
Therefore, they’re finally allowing the Postal Service to make only this amount in profits over the next eighteen months using higher than normal pricing. The Postal Service, which is hoping to keep this large rate hike permanent (the PRC says no, although this doesn’t mean postal rates will go down) is in the process of appealing the PRC’s decision to allow permanent increased rates.
So what did the PRC decide justified a stamp price increase at all? There are four main factors in their order granting the increase and they include losses suffered due to the economy, legal ramifications, the typical rate hike according to inflation and business risks around the USPS’s ability to operate.
Losses Due to the Great Recession and E-mail
The PRC agreed with the USPS that the recession was to blame for some profit losses in shipping, mailing letters, and doing business by mail; but they also blamed “electronic diversion” for much of the agency’s losses. This term refers to doing business over the Internet, e-mailing, etc. You should have seen this coming folks, and you didn’t, the PRC told the Postal Service. This reasoning plays a part in why the PRC thinks the Postal Service has lost much less money than they’re claiming.
The Stamp Price Increase Meets Legal Guidelines
Legally, the Postal Service’s rates are not permitted to rise at a greater rate than that of inflation and the PRC is required to enforce that. However, if the Postal Service can provide evidence of extreme financial hardship if capped by inflation, than this legal rule can be suspended (although this is somewhat debatable). The Postal Regulatory Commission says they have been provided with enough justification by the USPS to use this loophole. This is why they’re calling it an “exigent” rate hike.
Prices Can Go Up with Inflation Too
Despite all these mailing increases, the Postal Service actually hasn’t been keeping up with inflation over the years, so the decision issued by the PRC allows for an additional bump in price by 1.7%, just to keep up with inflation. This blends with the “exigent” part of the hike for a grand total of a roughly 7% increase.
USPS Services Were at Risk
In the PRC’s December decision, it was stated that the Postal Service “lacks a sufficient level of liquidity”(money) to provide services (like delivering packages and letters), and that the inflation-based rate alone will not be sufficient to finance operations. Because the USPS could show that their basic services were at risk, the PRC could justify a larger increase.
The PSRC will be reviewing this case to determine the fate of the exigent hike in May. In a strange twist in events, it’s possible that the price of a stamp will go down. Stay tuned…


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Still a bit blustery today, so sweat pants, clogs, tissue turtleneck, fluttering silver scarf and hoodie, my fave soft brown clogs — SOCKS! who knows what socks are anymore after the sandals and flip flops have been out for SO very long now it seems — alas, but I turn to them again … we may have to coddle the herbs we planted one evening this week when it dips down near to below freezing temperatures … crazy — but this is Spring as well.
Even so, the strange strange sight of LEAVES are showing on the trees and indeed it seemed such a long, though so mild, but they seem so foreign. I was just enjoying the snow pink petals and now the wind has taken them to the street in just piles and loads of them and the freshest of greens … I want to paint geometric shapes in these colors. When it rained over the weekend and the most beautiful contrasts of charcoal and black occurred with the whites and pinks and purples and new greens — oh my. The painter was alive!
I read Chopra last night while resting for the third bout on the moist heating pad, that the time for seeking wholeness is NOW. I read just that little some four paragraphs of intro into the sections of ten steps to wholeness and put the book down, to absorb that, and was quite happy meditating. I read it to Jason as well. I would have read it to Chipper but he I’m quite sure is already whole and lives each day to its fullest.
YET, I felt no urge to get out of bed this morning. Nothing I said to encourage myself out of the warmth and comfort of the bed could stir me. How very sad. Because one would quite think the opposite. I did get up eventually and found a bright day and burst of energy after some food and coffee and noticed it after some nice bright purple, not shocking mind you, eyeshadow and finding my lost eyelashes with the mascara. One of my younger alters told me that they were supersonic eyelashes when we were out in the brisk wind among the pollen and such, and that we must use them strategically, which made me giggle out loud. It’s fun having alters who think magically sometimes.
My high school friend has now been moved to a regular room, thankfully, and says he’ll be back to his regular activities (re: whirlwind) soon. I advised him on FB to do so when he is really better, but that I’m glad he’s feeling so much better. Yay! I say this as a former whirlwind myself, subject of multiple serious burnouts, when I was still working full-time, read, OVER-time.
We saw a marvelous period film called Princess Keiulani (sp?) over the weekend, well-done, about a Hawaiian princess from around the time that Hawaii became a US Territory and she gained suffrage for her people. It is a wonderful, though tragic story that I highly recommend.
That new blue area is a mix of Prussian, Cobalt Blue Hue, Titanium White, and my mix of the turquoise you see above, along with a bit of acrylic glazing liquid to make it a bit glossy and smooth. I also painted gray three edges of the Wild Peony series, so they are a bit closer to being out of the studio. I remembered what I learned growing up, If you are to do something, anything, do it well. Puritan Work Ethic? Well, I agree, to the infinite detail.
And although I need (need?) a pedicure due to three chips in the perfect polished toes now, I more dearly need the moist heat pack and some rest, to get this headache to go away. And we shall see if there be time before cooking the chicken for this week’s Chinese chicken for stirfry … for the pedi. Mayhap so?
Last time I walked by, after washing my last brush from painting, Chipper had a smile on his face. Yes, he is the Buddha.


IT support for schools now child’s play
Camden Council has switched to an IT Automation platform from Kaseya to improve the level of IT support it offers to local schools.
The Council, which covers parts of central and north-west London, manages and maintains a range of buildings, services and facilities, including educational institutions such as primary and secondary schools, as well as colleges and learning centres.
In total, the Council oversees IT support for 54 schools, covering over 2,200 desktops and servers. Support was provided by a full-time staff of 18.
Lee Carn, technical team leader at Camden Council, said that although the schools were relatively close to each other, getting to and from them could be a long process. “While the schools across the Borough are not geographically dispersed, the inner city location meant travel to reach schools could take engineers as much as an hour each way for every visit. Our schools were suffering as we couldn’t attend to their problems as quickly as they needed us to, and engineer productivity was low due to wasted time travelling to sites.”
Carn also suggested that security was a big cause for concern, with the network often being taken down to enable support staff to fix issues: “It’s imperative that we keep the IT networks up and running to ensure productivity in the classroom. We had been affected by security breaches and viruses in the past and this resulted in networks being taken off line for as much as a week as engineers travelled between schools fire-fighting the problem.”
A reactive approach to problem solving is usually inefficient and not cost effective, so Camden Council decided to implement a system that would enable support staff to identify and solve problems before they impacted on the network.
After looking at a number of different platforms, Camden Council settled on Kaseya’s IT Automation platform.
The Council now uses a single, integrated web-based interface, which enables staff to remotely manage the entire infrastructure, network components, servers and desktop PCs. IT support staff now get real-time notification of any potential threat to the network.
The Council can also produce detailed reports into network performance. Carn said: “We regularly have to go to the schools and show what we’ve done for them to prove the value of our offering. We can now provide far more in-depth reports to demonstrate the issue we’ve resolved, the upgrade path we’ve provided and service levels achieved. It makes our service provision more transparent and easier to justify.”
The Kaseya platform has improved efficiency at the Council, says Carn. “Our IT support operation has become much more streamlined, as we can carry out maintenance and monitor every network from the comfort of our desks, as if we were there in person. We used to spend half our time waiting for buses to travel to the schools, but what used to need a half day visit can now be carried out in a matter of minutes. We have also made cost savings by reducing our transport budget and delivering consistently high levels of service without having to employ more engineers.”
“In just one morning we can carry out the same amount of work that would previously have taken us 10 days. This allows us to manage workloads much more effectively and solve mission critical problems in an impressive timeframe.”
The Council initially set out to find an offering that would improve the ability to patch computers but implemented a system that gives staff much more control over the network.
“Patch management was an initial priority, but Kaseya is also giving us a multitude of features to help us work efficiently and effectively, such as remote control and the ability to schedule key tasks and procedures. Deployment took a matter of days rather than weeks or months, so we were able to realise benefits almost immediately,” Carn said.


text: Story Tellers In Middle School Have you experienced seeing a puppy die slowly due to a brain problem? My First Pet Was a chihuahua and it was crying every day for help It all started when my family and I went on a trip to California. My cousins gave us a puppy it was the very first pet we had and my mom fell in love with it. Suddenly one morning we were eating breakfast and Pewey fell and started foaming. We took him to several Vets and we were told he had a brain problem. We brought him to Texas to a vet in Cedar Park there we had to put him down because he was going through lots of pain. My dad could not stand seeing mom and me sad. So he bought a new chihuahua and we named her Pearl because the color of her coat. At our new home dogs were not allowed, so Pearl had to go live at my dad's property in Liberty Hill where she watches the property. Pearl was lonely for two mouths. My dad got her a companion, a Lab guard dog. It's actually the other way around because the small dog beats up the big dog and the small dog is the guard dog. What I learned is to be more responsible and be happy that I have a healthy dog and now I know that I need to get used to difficult events in life.

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Streamline your approach to gathering and analyzing data, and improve the way your business operates and serves customers.
As a business owner, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by all the data you need to manage on a daily basis. From employee information to customer details, there are numerous bodies of data that help paint a picture of your company's overall performance. Making the most of this information can allow you to identify your organization's biggest strengths and weaknesses and leverage them for greater success.
By streamlining your approach to gathering and analyzing data, you can improve the way your business operates and serves customers. Better data organization also gives you the chance to boost productivity among your workforce and increase your output in the long term. Here are some useful strategies for simplifying your company's data and handling it with greater efficiency.
Define Your Data Processes
Before you can change the way you manage your data, the first thing you need to do is clearly define your data processes. This helps give you a better understanding of the way you document and keep track of your data. Once you've defined your approach to data processing, you can determine what you need to do differently going forward.
Begin by making a list of all the processes and workflows that you use to execute data. Next, indicate the purpose of each process or workflow. It's crucial to have a clear purpose in mind to ensure that you're not aimlessly pursuing your goals. You can then assign a qualified employee to each goal to help the process go as smoothly as possible.
Prioritize Your Workflows
Now that you've made a list of all your processes and workflows, it's time to rank them in order of importance. Prioritizing your data processes helps improve productivity by ensuring that you don't waste time on tasks that don't deserve your immediate attention. Instead, you can take a more proactive approach by tackling your most pressing concerns first.
This step may be tricky, as many data workflows are strongly interconnected. To make the process easier, ask yourself which workflow you would attend to first if you only had enough time to tackle one of them. By forcing yourself to reorganize your data processes according to priority level, you'll have a much easier time streamlining all of your company's data.
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While there are many steps that you can take to streamline data on your own, it's important to know when to ask for help. Your friends, colleagues and employees may have their own ideas and suggestions to share that you never thought of yourself. Don't be afraid to welcome feedback so that you can explore a new perspective and make your job easier for you.
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It’s been almost two years since we’ve heard anything about Eastward, but Chucklefish and Pixpil have returned with almost a full half-hour of gameplay and it’s gone from memory to most anticipated for me this year.
Shanghai-based Pixpil has detailed Eastward and it sounds wonderful even though its content deals with the end of the world. Set in the near future, society has collapsed and the population is dwindling. With deadly toxins spreading throughout the world, humans are forced to head underground to survive.
However, an unlikely duo heads topside and explores the cross-country railway while exploring the remnants of humanity. Eastward gives me heavy Secret of Mana vibes from watching the latest trailer and that’s reason enough for me to keep this on my radar once again. Both John and Sam will embark on a strange journey together, one to discover the truth of Sam’s true nature and what caused the world to turn into the displaced nightmare it is.
You’ll be able to control both John and Sam to solve puzzles and unlock hidden paths while humming along to the soundtrack from Joel Corelitz (Hohokum, The Unfinished Swan, The Tomorrow Children, Gorogoa).
Eastward is set to launch this year on Nintendo Switch and PC.


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3 WWE Superstars who should confront Edge when he returns & 3 who shouldn’t
Edge is set to return to WWE this July 16th on SmackDown. It will be the start of WWE’s 25-city tour, and Friday Night SmackDown will be graced with three big returns – Edge, Sasha Banks, and the WWE Universe.
It will be interesting to see who The Rated-R Superstar begins a rivalry with when he returns. When we last saw him, his run started with a Royal Rumble 2021 victory and culminated in the main event of WrestleMania 37 Night Two, where he lost to Roman Reigns in a Triple Threat match also involving Daniel Bryan.
Here are three superstars who should confront Edge on SmackDown and three who shouldn’t:
#3. Should confront Edge: Roman Reigns
While rumors are going around about SummerSlam being headlined by a blockbuster match between Roman Reigns and John Cena, that could always change. The originally scheduled main event of WrestleMania 37 Night Two was Roman Reigns vs. Edge, but WWE decided to add Daniel Bryan to the mix.
Bryan turned out to be a great addition in hindsight, being a part of the best WrestleMania main event in at least six years. However, one person who didn’t want Bryan involved in the match was the man himself.
The argument made by him was that he wasn’t needed in the WrestleMania main event, and felt that Reigns vs. Edge was big enough to headline the show. It’s hard to disagree with him, and if Cena vs. Reigns doesn’t work out, re-booking the original WrestleMania 37 main event would be a great idea.
Since we never got to see the Roman Reigns vs. Edge singles match, what better stage to put it on than the second biggest show of the year? In terms of expected attendance, SummerSlam could be larger than WrestleMania 37.
While there might be some fans complaining about WWE re-running a program, we never got to see the actual match. This would, of course, require Edge returning as a babyface. He had a brief run as a heel this year, but since the crowds are returning, it won’t be difficult for WWE to quietly bring him back as a babyface.


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“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”Luke 10:27
We can sometimes glaze over this verse and say, “Yes, I love the Lord.” However, sometimes we only love with a part of who we are. We find ourselves compartmentalizing God, just like we see in society, meaning you can profess God in the church but don’t dare speak about God in the school, at work, or in a public setting.
To love our neighbors as ourselves is dependent on the value we see in ourselves, our self-esteem, and how secure we are with who we are on the inside. We can only be secure within ourselves when we co-exist with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God who leads and guides us.
A person who is absent of God’s presence bottles up contempt, bitterness, and prejudice within his or her heart and allows it to take root. In such as state, how can they love themselves much less love others? The answer: They cannot.
This verse, spoken by Jesus, comprises the two greatest commandments and the formula, so to speak, is to set our focus on loving the Lord our God with the totality of who we are, the essence of our entire being. When we do so to the very best of our ability with the unsurpassed help of the Holy Spirit, loving our neighbor as ourselves becomes a natural byproduct of our love for God.
Therefore, let us set out each day to genuinely love God with our entire being–our heart, soul, mind, and strength, and in so doing, extend that love to our neighbors without any reservation or conditions attached. Let us love as God so loves each of us.
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Mumbai, Jun 20 (PTI) Vice President Venkaiah Naidu will lead the Yoga Day programme at Bandra Reclamation Sealink Promenade in the city tomorrow morning, an official said today. Also Read - Goa Will Not Open For Tourists Until Everyone in State Has Received First Jab of COVID Vaccine
The event is being organised by Spandan Art, an NGO run by BJP’s city unit chief Ashish Shelar. Also Read - COVID19: Check Latest Travel Guidelines For Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand And Karnataka
Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar will also take part in similar events at two places in the city. Also Read - COVID Travel Updates, June 14: Indian States And Foreign Countries Where Tourists Are Allowed Now
“The vice president has decided to lead the Yoga Day celebrations at the event being organised by BJP MLA Ashish Shelar,” a government official said.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis will also be present on the occasion, a statement issued by Shelar’s office said.
Union minister Babul Supriyo, BJP MP Poonam Mahajan, Mumbai Police Commissioner Datta Padsalgikar, civic chief Ajoy Mehta and a number of state officials will also take part in the event, it added.
Javadekar will first attend the Yoga Day celebrations, jointly organised by NGOs “I Love Mumbai” and “Giants Welfare Foundation”, at Marine Drive. Thereafter, he will take part in a similar event at the Sports Complex situated in Mumbai University, an official said.
Maharashtra Education Minister Vinod Tawde will attend a yoga event at the Gateway of India.
Meanwhile, the Department of Post (Maharashtra and Goa circle) has also decided to celebrate the day by releasing 12 picture post cards on the 12 postures of Surya Namaskar at an event to be held at the General Post Office here.
“Besides releasing the post cards, we will also use special cancellation seal to mark the International Yoga Day tomorrow,” Chief Post Master General of the circle H C Agrawal said.
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to celebrate the day by organising yoga events in which 1.25 lakh students from civic schools will participate.
“The civic body has planned to hold yoga sessions at 44 places, in which 1.25 lakh students studying in BMC schools will take part under the guidance of 15,000 teachers. The events will last for 45 minutes,” a statement issued by the BMC said.
This is published unedited from the PTI feed.


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People said it for years as a joke: vote early and often.
Now you can legally vote early, but there are those who say people indulge in the other part of that saying, too.
Millions of people across America voted fraudulently this past national election, according to the words of President-elect Donald Trump recently. He gave few details of how he arrived at that number, leaving many election officials wondering just exactly what he meant.
Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in the November election by getting the most electoral votes, while Clinton received more than 2 million more popular votes than Trump.
What bothers many local election officials is that claims of widespread voter fraud tars them and the work they do to run elections fairly. Ken Menzel, general counsel for the Illinois State Board of Elections, said that is unfair.
"In the decade I've been with the state, the thing that has impressed me is that these are a bunch of people trying to do the best job with the resources they have," he said. "And they do it in an amazingly non-partisan manner. When one calls for help from another election administrator, there is no D or R after their name."
Menzel said Trump's claims are vague.
"I don't think anyone will tell you that there isn't any vote fraud," he said. "Without more specifics from (Trump), we're just speculating on what he is talking about. The general consensus among people who work in this and study it academically is that fraud is a very small thing these days."
One of the main reasons is that voting is different now. There is plenty of election lore from years gone by of places like Chicago - and most big cities - where party regulars held back ballots to cast when they needed them, or where dead people were registered to vote, and voted.
And even as recently as 2000, the country learned of things like hanging chads and punch cards that possibly allowed for mistaken counts, or voters being missed altogether, during the contested presidential election between Republican George W. Bush and Democratic challenger Al Gore.
"But things are better now than they used to be," Menzel said.
Kane County Clerk John Cunningham came up as a politician in the days of paper ballots, and later in the punch card era.
In those days, election officials could decide if a ballot was marked with a proper "x," or if a chad had indeed been properly pushed out to form the square hole. But today, electronic voting has eradicated those scenarios, officials said.
"There's actually less error today than there was," Cunningham said.
Kane County uses an electronic system where people use a wheel to find their candidate on a voting screen, then push a button to vote for that candidate. Voters get to review their choices on a screen, then again on a paper printout.
No one ever touches the screen or fills in any hole on a piece of paper, as with optical scan voting systems, Cunningham said.
Robert Saar, DuPage Election Commission director, said what Trump appears to be concerned about are people who are non-citizens having registered to vote.
He said some states have had Secretaries of State who compared voter roles to lists of undocumented workers, and found non-citizens who were registered.
Still, he said it seems unlikely that would produce millions of fraudulent votes, he said.
There are other places where fraud could take place, officials said. They include:
• The vote by mail system in which ballots are mailed to voters who can mail them back. Linda Fechner, Aurora Election Commission director, said there was one organization that sent mail ballots to people several times.But her office can check ballots mailed in by their bar codes, which would cancel a vote if a voter had already cast a ballot.
• Multiple registrations by people who have moved and registered in their new residence.
This happens much less now with county clerks and election commissions linked through databases where they can check in real time if someone has voted somewhere else, election officials said.
"Most of the major counties in Illinois, everything is networked in real time," Saar said. "If I move to Decatur, they are able to pick it up, and I don't have to do anything. We even get to look at signatures."
As far as checking for people who have moved out of state, Illinois is working to link with more and more states. It has long been a member of one interstate group known as the Kansas group, which has about 10 states.
"It does data mining to try to find people registered in two places," Menzel said.
Illinois also recently joined ERIC, which stands for Electronic Registration Information Center. Funded by grants from the Pew Foundation and donations from IBM, it uses voter and driver's license data, "and all sorts of other sources," Menzel said.There are 21 states in ERIC right now.
Saar pointed out that election jurisdictions now get Social Security numbers on death files, which allows them to quickly take voters who have died off the rolls.
"A person can die anywhere in the country and we get notified," he said.
Computer hacking into systems, possibly even affecting vote counts, has been raised as a possible issue as well.This is not as much a concern, local election officials said, because most of the counting systems are closed and not communicated anywhere by the internet. Saar said in DuPage the system is closed, and a new flash drive is used to transfer information to the system where people can see the count online. That drive is discarded after one use.
"We are tied down so tight," he said.
Cunningham said the system Kane uses also is insular, has at least four levels of security, and has a paper trail that cannot be tampered with.
"We're very confident in our equipment," he said.


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First of all, this book is so well made. It is hard bound and just all nice and shiny. I know that sounds weird, but I LOVE a well made book. The only problem is that I have a problem really using the book when it is made so well, because I don’t wan to mess it up.
Okay, now that you know I’m a bit neurotic about hard bound books, I will have to balance it out by saying when I have a soft cover book, I will generally ‘break’ the spine of it first thing. That way the pages are easier to turn.
I hope you still want to read my blog after knowing how weird I am…
Anyway… back to the review…
Our oldest daughter is 10. Really starting to grow up in so many ways. She has always been way more mature than her age, so talking to her about things have always been easy.
We are now diving into the time of thinking boys are cute and talking about her future husband and what not. Way too early for all that! I don’t see a lot of harm in it though. I remember writing, ‘I love so and so’ on my notebooks when I was her age. Clearly, I didn’t actually love that person… I didn’t really know what that kind of love was yet. And neither does my daughter.
I don’t want to become the militant mom that won’t allow her to just be a kid. I also don’t want her to become immersed in how sexual/sensual this society has become, either.
We started reading Raising Maidens of Virtue together and I think it is really good for us. We have not finished the book, but I do like it and will continue on with our study of the book.
The book talks about modesty, purity, femininity, and more. It gives you a way to talk to your daughter about these things from a biblical viewpoint instead of how the ‘world’ would like you to see things.
Within the book are also memory making project ideas to do with your maiden as well as suggestions for a journal.
Each chapter ends with a set of questions to go over with your daughter to help get a discussion started about what was talked about in the chapter, as well as a prayer that you can say with your daughter. I love the way the prayers are written. They are perfect.
This book will help me with the right words to say to help my girls (my other daughter is only 4, so we have time before we talk about all this) grow up to be modest. I want them to wear clothes that make them feel good, not clothes that will attract attention. Now, here is where I differ from most moms that will read this book with their daughters… I do not mind if my daughter wears clothing that some may not consider modest IF she is wearing them because she likes them and not to get attention. This book will help me convey that.
Right now, I will help her to make the decisions about what she will wear and what is ‘modest’. That way, when she is older she will understand what modesty is and how she can still be ‘stylish’ and modest at the same time.
Like I said, we are still reading this book. I am taking my time with it and letting it sink in and allowing questions to come up naturally. I’m mainly doing this because she is still a bit young and I think it would be more impactful to take our time. Maybe when we work our way through this book, she will understand why I’m the mean mommy on the block who doesn’t allow bikinis! And, if I’m lucky, she will agree!
Information at a glance:
What is it? A 228 page book called Raising Maidens of Virtue – a biblical study on femininity
For Whom? It is for mothers and daughters to study together. However, the book also mentions doing it with a women’s bible study group and in other settings as well. The book recommends it be used with maidens (girls) between the ages of 12 and 16, however my daughter is 10 and it worked well. There were a few things she needed help understanding, but not much. You will have to use your own judgment to know when your daughter is ready.
How much? $18.50