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Dangers of Vaping – What to Know
All the serious health dangers of vaporizing cannabis are relatively unknown. Just a couple of individuals who openly admit to vaporizing cannabis are in fact achieving this for personal medical purposes, and therefore you can find currently no studies available that detail any long-term consequences that could derive from smoking marijuana using e-cigs. However, many doctors, including some respected doctors, are advising against vaporizing cannabis. How come this?
One of the first dangers of vaporizing cannabis is you could suffer a lung injury. Smoking a cigarette causes approximately four times how much damage to the lungs as one would experience by smoking a marijuana cigarette. To place it in simple terms, your lungs are a lot more vulnerable once you puff on an e-stick. Simply because there is less air movement in one’s body if you are holding the cigarette in the middle of your lips than if you are holding a cigarette in your hand. The lungs are also much more susceptible to a lung injury for anyone who is smoking multiple cigarettes simultaneously.
Another of the significant dangers of vaping is you could suffer a mouth cancer. This disease generally occurs within a year following the person begins to vaporize cannabis. E-Cigarettes are not considered to be safe with regards to this disease since there is little or no direct evidence that shows contact with e-cigarette vapors increases your risk of developing mouth cancer. But think about second hand smoke? E-Cigarette emissions contain over 40 different chemicals, many of which are carcinogens or cancer-causing agents. This is just the beginning of the dangers of E-Cigs, but there are plenty of more.
Another of the dangers of vaping tobacco is carbon monoxide smoke. Long term smokers have reported Juul Compatible Pods suffering from chronic ailments including respiratory infections and cancer. Many times, the lungs are not affected and the individual continues to inhale the steam from the electric cigarettes. Those that suffer from lung diseases have also reported suffering from ailments such as chronic coughing, asthma and lung cancer. The worst dangers of E-Cigs are really inhalation of vaporized nicotine and not the direct contact of tar deposited in to the lungs.
This brings us to some other important point, which is the dangers of ignoring cases of E-Cigarette poisoning. In the most severe cases the user has reported having cancer along with other complications after only 1 day of consuming vaporized cigarettes. In the worst case reports users have died. This helps it be very clear that E-Cigarettes ought to be strictly avoided. But what is the solution?
The good news is that you can help reduce the dangers of smoking by quitting your current smoking routine. There are lots of products on the market that may help you stop smoking while still enjoying your vapes. The very best of these products are electronic cigarettes, or e-cigs. You should research these products thoroughly before buying them, but they can provide an alternative to the harmful smoking environment of regular cigarettes.
The bad news is that there are plenty of dangers of E-Cigarettes that require to be addressed before they turn into a mainstream product. For instance, vaporizing e-juice is extremely dangerous due to concentration of toxic chemicals in the juice produced. Even the E-juice can carry hundreds of toxins, if it is not produced in an environmentally safe manner. This can be the main reason why the vaporizer is becoming such a revolutionary device, because it permits a clean, fresh taste without ingesting any dangerous chemicals. Also, there are many different flavors that can help to bridge the gap between the smoker and the non-smoker.
The ultimate threat of E-Cigarettes are their potential health effects. Since there is no real evidence that vaporizing tobacco products have any negative effects on human health, there is evidence they can trigger asthma attacks, anxiety attacks, along with other illnesses. These same conditions can be triggered by used smoking. Since it is indeed an easy task to start smoking weed and vaporizing it, this presents a significant threat to the health of everyone who uses it. Make sure you take the time to give up smoking and protect your lungs as well as your body through the use of an E-Cigarette instead.


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Suez Canal officials hoped the high tide and dredging efforts would allow the giant ship to be released on Saturday night, four days after its run. But despite last night’s progress in freeing the rudder and propeller, the ship remains tilted around the canal. Meanwhile, the backlog of ships waiting …Read More »
Human Rights Watch said on Saturday that reports of bodies being found on the streets after the insurgency – believed to be linked to the Islamic State terrorist group. The city is close to a large liquefied natural gas project run by the French company Total. The attack came hours …Read More »
The container ship Ever Gave until the Empire State Building is tall, after it ran aground in a 40-knot wind and sandstorm in an Egyptian canal on Tuesday. Osama Rabbi, head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA), told Egypt’s news outlet Youm7 that it was now hoped tug boats could …Read More »
Suez, Egypt (AP) – A huge container ship got stuck in Egypt’s Suez Canal on Saturday for the fifth day in a row as authorities prepare to free the ship and reopen the crucial East-West waterway for new global shipping. Evergave the Panama-flagged cargo ship between Asia and Europe on …Read More »
Scientists are investigating whether the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa was from a man who survived an epidemic five years ago.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is conducting further investigations into a person who appears to have a virus in their body. People will notice and indicate that the infection continues when there is a possibility of an outbreak in the future. International researchers, including a team from the University of …Read More »

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Yesterday The Monster and Mrs. Monster had a conversation. The Monster really wanted fried chicken and fried okra and fried green tomatoes and gumbo and mac n’ cheese and tamales and a burrito and torilla soup and nachos and churros and cheesecake and bread pudding for dessert.
This conversation never happened. Because it would have been a ridiculous one. Until lunch today. Because in its soft open is Crossroads BBQ and Bubba Diego’s Mexican Restaurant, sharing the same space on Sepulveda Boulevard in a location that was formerly a Hamburger Hamlet.

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A rumor so close to confirmation that gamers are already trying to pre-order, PlanetXbox reports that a sequel to the dietetic arcade tag-team fighter Marvel vs. Capcom franchise is in the works. The rumors are coming in fresh from Capcom’s Captivate showcase event in Hawaii, and given the company’s dedication to re-invigorating their classics, these rumors have been taken with much more than a grain of salt. Details are tightly lidded at this point, but a media reveal is expected early next week.
Confirmed details (as of yet):
– Returning Characters: Storm, Hulk, Wolverine, Spider-Man, and Magneto
– Developers claim that gamers will be “blown out of the water” with the amount of characters on disc, but will still feature “unlockables”
– While remaining 2-D, the style will hover somewhere between Marvel vs. Capcom 2 and Street Fighter IV
– Expected Q4 release date (on disc,) for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3
– 1080p resolution will be supported
– The game can be taken for a ride at this year’s E3


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Friday, April 12, 2013 12:22 am
Moderate earthquake felt in Mexico City
The Associated Press
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 5.2 and its epicenter was 27 miles (44 kilometers) north-northeast of Zihuatanejo in Guerrero state. It was 177 miles (286 kms) southwest of Mexico City.
Buildings swayed in Mexico City at 10:45 p.m. local time, but offices were largely empty for the night.
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DENVER -- The perch among the Western Conference's elite eight lasted less than a week.
When the Calgary Flames returned to their dressing room following Saturday night's loss to the Vancouver Canucks, they knew they were back on the outside of a playoff spot.
Not based on their body language after the 4-2 defeat in the Hockey Day in Canada finale.
"We expect it to be a battle right until the end," said Flames captain Jarome Iginla. "If you don't win, you know you're moving down, and if you win, you're probably gaining a point on somebody because everybody's playing each other.
"It's not the big-picture stuff we're looking at. That hasn't helped us in the past. And it doesn't matter where we are tomorrow. It matters where we are at the end of the season. We just get back at it after getting some rest and be ready to bring our game.
"We knew we weren't going to win every single game from here on out, and we've been able to have strong rebound games all year. Now, we're going to need one."
The Flames need to win Monday night against the struggling Colorado Avalanche.
They need two out of every three the rest of the way.
Breaking down the mathematics for the Flames with 24 games remaining, they have 64 points. To reach the 96 believed to be enough to make them a playoff team, that means racking up 32 more points.
Yes, it's akin to winning two out of every three.
"We've got to get to 95 or 96 points -- we'd like more -- but somewhere around there will probably be a playoff spot," Iginla said. "That's the two-out-of-three we've talked about and we'll stay with that. Being in a playoff spot or out a playoff spot today or tomorrow, that doesn't change our approach for our next game."
The good news for the Flames is they've actually been better than the goal of .667 in their last 23 games, with the 14-4-5 run pulling them from the depths into striking distance of a playoff spot.
Now, does anybody want the bad news?
Going into Sunday's action, all eight teams currently in the Western Conference's top eight are on pace for more than 96 points.
Four of them -- Phoenix, San Jose, Anaheim and Minnesota -- are en route to something between 96 and 97, but you get the picture.
The Flames need to make hay and get some help. Fortunately, the five Pacific Division teams realistically battling for playoff spots have plenty of games against each other.
Don't kid yourself, Flames head coach Brent Sutter knows it's a tall order but won't look at the big picture.
Besides, his team can't be written off right now after recovering from where they were before their final game before Christmas, which was the comeback 3-2 shootout win in Dallas.
"We've done a pretty darn good job having that mindset and been successful, so we won't change," Sutter said. "We still need to win our games. We still need to take care of our business, and the standings will continue to look after themselves. We know where we need to get to, we know what it's going to take for points and how we need to play.
"We're down to 24 games and it's important we have success, but just play well and we'll give ourselves a chance."
Considering all five Pacific Division teams are in the dog fight, the Flames have plenty of say regarding their own future. They have nine games remaining against the Pacific clubs.
Sutter, however, is quick to point out whether games are against divisional or conference rivals is irrelevant.
"It's conference games now with the way the standings are set up," he said. "Sure we'd love to be first in our division, but it comes down to how we play in our games remaining."


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Partners Include Denver OED, Colorado DOL, SkillBuild Colorado, Namaste Solar, Homebuilders Institute and Red Rocks Community College
Washington, D.C. – November 19, 2009 – (RealEstateRama) — Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, U.S. Senators for Colorado, today highlighted how nearly $100,000 in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) will expand Mile High Youth Corps’ (MHYC) capacity to prepare young adults in Colorado for new jobs in clean energy, energy efficiency and natural resource restoration.
Specifically, the funding will be used to implement a strategy to improve and expand MHYC’s capacity to provide green jobs training to YouthBuild participants, with a specific focus on the energy‐efficient building, construction and retrofit industry; the solar power industry; and the energy‐efficient assessment industry.
“Thanks to Mile High Youth Corps, Colorado youth are getting quality experience and skills training, boosting their chances for success throughout their careers,” Senator Udall said. “This grant will help Mile High Youth Corps expand critical training opportunities in the key industries of the 21st century. Not only will it open doors for the next generation of workers, but it will help ensure our growing industries can continue to find skilled, well-trained employees here in Colorado.”
“Mile High Youth Corps does a great job making sure young adults in Colorado are ready to work and compete in the new economy,” said Bennet. “The jobs of the future are in emerging industries like clean, renewable energy and energy efficiency. This funding will help Mile High Youth Corps provide young adults with the job skills they’ll need to prepare for that future and succeed in the 21st century.”
Key partners in this effort include the Denver Office of Economic Development, Colorado Department of Labor, SkillBuild Colorado, Namaste Solar, Homebuilders Institute, Red Rocks Community College.
The funding, which is part of the Green Capacity Building grant program, is intended to build the green training capacity of current Department of Labor grantees. Through these grants, the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) will help people acquire the skills needed to enter and advance in green industries and occupations by building the capacity of active DOL‐funded training programs.
Under the program, grantees will provide education and training in the skills and competencies that are needed in green industries and occupations, and may bolster the capacity of their training programs through staff professional development, curriculum development, partnership development, the purchase of equipment, and where necessary, the hiring of additional staff.
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by Martin Smith-Martinez, et al.
Publisher: Wikibooks 2013
This introductory book is concerned in particular with analysis in the context of the real numbers. It will first develop the basic concepts needed for the idea of functions, then move on to the more analysis-based topics.
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by B. Lafferriere, G. Lafferriere, N. Mau Nam - Portland State University Library
We provide students with a strong foundation in mathematical analysis. Students should be familiar with most of the concepts presented here after completing the calculus sequence. However, these concepts will be reinforced through rigorous proofs.
by John K. Hunter - University of California Davis
These are some notes on introductory real analysis. They cover the properties of the real numbers, sequences and series of real numbers, limits of functions, continuity, differentiability, sequences and series of functions, and Riemann integration.
by Richard F. Bass - CreateSpace
Nearly every Ph.D. student in mathematics needs to take a preliminary or qualifying examination in real analysis. This book provides the necessary tools to pass such an examination. The author presents the material in as clear a fashion as possible.
by G.H. Hardy - Cambridge University Press
This classic book has inspired successive generations of budding mathematicians at the beginning of their undergraduate courses. Hardy explains the fundamental ideas of the differential and integral calculus, and the properties of infinite series.

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Penman for Monday, January 29, 2018
IT’S A strange title, I know, but it’s all I could come up with to highlight the two topics I’m taking up this week. They’re not actually connected—at least not yet—but they were much on my mind as I dusted off my texts for a new semester of teaching at UP (all for naught, as it turned out, as my graduate writing class was dissolved for lack of students—to my secret relief).
“Quiapo” is at the core of Quiapography, a digital-humanities project designed and led last semester by Dr. Patricia May Jurilla. Normally our resident expert on the history of books and publishing—one of those rare nerds who shares my strange attraction to Gothic blackletter and to the aroma of centuries-old paper—May branched out not only into a new subject but also a new approach to teaching and learning under the rubric of “digital humanities.”
Or maybe not that new. I asked Dr. Jurilla to explain the concept to me, and I was told that “Digital humanities has been in practice for over twenty years now. It’s emerged as a discipline itself with its own league of practitioners, dedicated book series and journals, circuit of conferences and events, degree programs, and new job opportunities in the tight academic market.”
Better than any explanation is the product itself of her PhD students’ semester, during which May directed them in a digital exploration and presentation of that most quintessentially Pinoy of urban spaces, Quiapo. That can be seen on the Quiapographywebsite at https://updigitalhumanities.wixsite.com/quiapography, “a virtual museum designed to document and map the culture of Quiapo in order to celebrate, re-view, and rediscover its heritage and its importance in Philippine history and society.”
Aside from the familiar photographs of and stories about Quiapo Church, amulet vendors, and the Black Nazarene, the site contains useful resources such as a list of literary works about Quiapo, pieces on the district’s fortune tellers, camera shops, and historical heritage, and photo galleries of just about everything.
Myself, I wish that I’d known about the project earlier, as I would’ve had my own Quiapo stories to contribute, as central as the place was to my young life—from my memories of descending for the first time into its brand-new underpass (something straight out of a sci-fi fantasy to a ten-year-old) to marching at Plaza Miranda with fist raised as a teenage Maoist and buying Christmas ham on Echague as a family man.
For those who’ve never strayed into this crucible of Filipino-ness (and sadly, in today’s mall-oriented culture, that would be millions of Pinoy millennials), Quiapographyshould provide a perfect introduction.
And now a quick cut to Norwich, some 10,600 kilometers away from Quiapo in southeastern England. For nine months between 1999 and 2000, this city became home for me and Beng when I took up residency there as the David T. K. Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia. It was a restful but also fruitful stay that led to what became my second novel, Soledad’s Sister.
To put it simply, UEA is the most vibrant center of creative writing in the UK. Its community of writers was founded by Sir Angus Wilson and Sir Malcolm Bradbury in 1970, and its graduates have included the likes of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan, and Rose Tremain. (Among the privileges of being there was having books signed by future Nobel prizewinners J. M. Coetzee and Ishiguro.)
Every year, UEA invites a writer to stay and write there—no teaching, no research, no lectures, just writing and relaxation—at its expense, or rather that of a sponsor named David T. K. Wong. A former journalist, civil servant, and businessman from Hong Kong who also writes fiction, Mr. Wong did well enough in life to endow the generous fellowship, an award of £26,000 to enable a fiction writer who wants to write in English about Asia.
I was the second Wong Fellow, and over the 20 years since the fellowship’s inception in 1998, two other Filipinos have followed me to Norwich—Lakambini Sitoy in 2003, and the current fellow, the Davao-born but US-based Nathan Go.
This brings me to my pitch: if you think you have a great novel or collection of stories welling in you—and you’d like to finish it in England, looking out on a lagoon full of graceful swans—please apply for the next Wong Fellowship, like I dared to do two decades ago. All you basically need, aside from the forms and the £10 application fee, is a 2,500-word excerpt from your proposed fiction project. The deadline for applications is February 28. For forms and more information, go here:https://www.uea.ac.uk/literature/fellowships/david-tk-wong-fellowship. Good luck!

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THE HAMMOND MUSEUM
The following are links to websites that are pertinent to the Hammond area.
"The Hammond Advertiser", our local newspaper was published from 1886-1897 & 1907-1947 and is available on line at http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org.
Hammond Cemetery Association ...
Hammond Fineview Cemetery ... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Fineview/Fineview.HTM
Hammond Rarick Cemetery ... http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~stlawgen/CEMETERY/Rarick/Rarick.HTM
Pleasant Valley Cemetery ...
Chippewa St.?Ingham Cemetery ...
The website lighthousefriends.com has pages devoted to lighthouses all over the US. Of specific interest to our area is the page for Crossover Island Lighthouse.
Singer Castle is an architectural treasure
of the Thousand Islands. It was built on Dark Island in 1905 by
multi-millionaire Frederick Bourne. The castle was completed, furnished
and lived in for 100 years. The granite towers,
great rooms, Italian marble fireplaces, secret passages and many of
the original furnishings are still there. Guided tours are available via a
Castle Shuttle from Schermerhorn Harbor.
The artist Frederic Remington created many
of his famous paintings while living on an island in Chippewa Bay.
He often used local people for his models.
While in the area be sure to visit Remington Museum in Ogdensburg. www.fredericremington.org
Nearby Black Lake is well known as one of
the great locations for bass fishing in the Northeast.
Family oriented campgrounds and cottages are available for fishing,
boating, hunting or biking. www.blacklakeny.com
Alexandria Bay, our next door neighbor, a
tourist hub, offers a wide array of entertainment, shopping, dining,
boating and accommodation. www.alexbay.org
The St. Lawrence County Historical
Association is located in the Silas Wright House in Canton, NY.
It has an outstanding genealogy center.
It researches, collects, preserves and interprets the history of
St. Lawrence County. www.slcha.org
An excellent selection of postcards and history of Hammond is on the North Country History site, www.hammond.northcountryny.com.
A website resource ... http://www.expertise.com/optimizing-your-website-what-every-small-business-should-know/.
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McLaren's Melbourne countdown underway 09 Mar 2007
With a little over a week to go before the Australian Grand Prix, the McLaren team are busier than ever with last-minute preparations for the opening race. In addition to the tactical and technical demands, a fly-away event, like the first round in Melbourne, also poses a logistical challenge for all 11 teams. And with tonnes of equipment needed in Albert Park, McLarens countdown started weeks ago
In fact, the first section of McLarens infrastructure arrived in Australia by sea freight at the end of February, having left the teams UK headquarters - the McLaren Technology Centre - on January 10. This will be followed by the air freight, which departed the Woking factory on Friday.
McLaren team members are expected to arrive from Sunday, with race driver Fernando Alonso heading to Melbourne direct from Europe on Monday and team mate Lewis Hamilton scheduled to join him on Wednesday next week, having spent time on Australia's Gold Coast.
Upon arrival in Melbourne, the first task for the McLaren team will be to locate the freight and start the process of setting up the teams garage and office areas. This process will begin in Albert Park on Sunday, March 11 with an initial recce. The work is expected to be completed by the end of play on Monday, March 12.
The crews for Alonso, Hamilton and the T-Car are also due to arrive on Monday and Tuesday to commence the process of preparing the MP4-22s for the Grand Prix. The three chassis will travel to Australia with the front and rear wings, steering wheels, wing mirrors and side deflector panels removed. A protective wooden floor and sides are built round the car, with a bumper at the rear to protect the gearbox. A travel nosebox and tyres are also fitted.
Work for the McLaren drivers will begin on Wednesday, with tester Pedro de la Rosa due to attend a Mercedes-Benz event at Australias Philip Island track. Alonso and Hamilton will then join the Spaniard for a team event at a beach-front restaurant in Melbourne on Thursday lunchtime, before they all head to the Albert Park circuit early in the afternoon to walk the track with their engineers and participate in the first technical meeting of the Grand Prix.
And after next weekends race? The McLaren team will pack up all the equipment and begin preparing for the Malaysian Grand Prix, which is scheduled to take place on April 6-8.


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A research-based book ‘Great Minds on India’, by Salil Gewali is a laboriously compiled beautiful booklet. In this book the author has compiled the sincere confessions of the great personalities of the world, wherein they admit their indebtedness to the great Indian philosophical and religious traditions; and how the Indian classical stores of knowledge have transformed their thought and understanding of the mystery of reality in its material and phenomenal manifestations, as well as in its spiritual and divine nature. This compilation is outstanding in itself. I really appreciate the labour and sweat that the author has put in his research to bring out this precious little book of wisdom.
This book is an eye-opener to the Indians who have lost interest in anything that is traditionally their own, and believing that everything of value should come from the post-industrial civilization of the West. It would also enlighten the people of the West that many of their great personalities have indeed been greatly influenced by knowledge and wisdom contained in the Indian classics. It is interesting to note that the great physicist, Albert Einstein admits that it was the Indian mathematicians who taught the world the art of counting in the scientific sense of the term. Voltaire says that the great mathematician Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganga to learn geometry from the Indian sages. Arthur Schopenhauer, the great German philosopher says that the Upanishads are the product of the highest wisdom; and American professor, Arthur Versluis says that the Upanishads provide the purest metaphysics available to us from the primordial past. These great minds arrived to these conclusions because they have come to believe as C.E.M. Joad, the eminent British philosopher, that the Upanishads’ general conclusion, that mystical experience is the pathway to reality; and as the Canadian scholar, Paul William Roberts was convinced that the Vedas see the ultimate truth behind all ephemeral truths.
The world today in the midst of the terror of religious fundamentalism has still more to learn from the Indian religious philosophy. Hinduism, as noted American scholar Linda Johnsen says, is the one world religion that reaches out to embrace other faiths with respect. This, she says is because Hindus believe that absolutely no one is excluded from divine grace. Hinduism as a system of knowledge is what Annie Besant says, a combination of science and religion in perfect harmony. It is at the same time scientific, philosophical and spiritual. What makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, says George Bernard Shaw is because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact, Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and the crudest idolater, are equally at home with it. Sri Arobindo, the great Indian philosopher and religious teacher testifies to what the western scientists and philosophers are saying, that ‘Hinduism gave itself no name, it sets no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the God-ward endeavor of the human spirit’. That is what Hinduism is – a system of all humanity’s God-ward endeavours, or quests for spirituality.
The world has also benefited much in medical science from the knowledge revealed and stored in the Indian philosophical and religious texts. But the most important contribution of the Indian knowledge system would be, not in the physical science, but in providing the ultimate inductive-leap to reality. As American mythologist, Joseph Cambell admits that ‘Yoga is a technique to link consciousness to the ultimate truth: the mystery of being. The first principle of Indian thought, therefore, is that the ultimate reality is beyond description. It is something that can be experienced only by bringing the mind to a stop; and once experienced; it cannot be described to anyone in terms of the forms of this world. The truth, the ultimate truth is transcendent. It goes past, transcends, all speech, all images, anything that can possibly be said’.
There is in reality, an answer to every human problem. The only problem is that human beings would not find these answers only through intellectual and rational efforts; it also requires spiritual efforts and divine revelations; and these are what the Indian sages of old have achieved. Mr. Gewali himself has hinted in his ‘Acknowledgement’ in, “Great Minds on India” that he pays deep obeisance to ‘the revered sages who, with their supernatural power, thought beyond time and saw beyond the universe’. It is this stand-point from beyond time and beyond the universe that made the sages acquired supernatural power; and it is this supernatural power of the sages that made Indian knowledge system distinct and exceptional in the world. This spiritual methodology of knowledge is still functional and relevant today if strong prejudices and intellectual pride do not stand on the way.
Eminent American physicist, John Archibald Wheeler believes that ‘the thinkers of the East knew it all, and if we could only translate their answers into our language we would have the answers to all our questions’. This is true if man is humble enough to admit that his reason and intellect can only lead him half of the way. Prominent German philosopher, Frederich von Schlegel says that ‘the idealization of reason, as set forth by the Greeks, appears in comparison with the abundant light and vigor of oriental idealism, like a feeble spark in the full flood of the noonday sun’. So, the great Indian sages discovered the truth because they marched ahead, in the light of faith when reason has consumed its oil.
I thank Mr. Salil Gewali for his little book that stirred up my mind to engage in more thought and contemplation. I am amazed by the appreciations the author received from India and abroad for the precious work he has done, while the community where he lives may not be aware of it at all. I would propose that we must learn to appreciate a person not only by the academic qualifications, or the economic or political position that he or she is standing in society, but by the product of his or her labour whether physical or intellectual. We are accustomed to believe that real knowledge and truth can be found only in books written by Europeans or Americans; and we are apt to quote every possible sentence we can find therein to justify our own contention, whether right or wrong. So, I appreciate Mr. Gewali’s effort all the more not only because it has been appreciated by people from abroad but because he is also a permanent resident of Mawprem, Shillong (India), close in our midst.
It is also an honour for the State of Meghalaya (India) that the book published from this state has been well-received across the world and has been translated into ten languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Malayalam Bengali, Manipuri and Nepali; and, an eminent NASA scientist as its the Chief Editor. Another pride of this book is that a world-acclaimed NASA Chief Scientist Dr. Kamlesh Lulla of Houston has voluntarily prefaced this title. I would always recommend serious thinkers to read the book to find out that knowledge is not a prerogative only of the West, but wisdom indeed, primarily belongs to the East.


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Psychological flexibility receives increasing attention as the overarching process in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). This study investigates the psychometric properties of the Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS), measuring "avoidance" and "cognitive fusion" with pain, in a heterogeneous clinical sample of 428 chronic pain patients from four rehabilitation centers. Furthermore, the relationship between the PIPS and mindfulness (Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire, FFMQ) as a theoretically related measure within ACT is explored. Confirmatory factor analyses replicated acceptable/good model fit and internal consistencies. In a subsample from two rehabilitation centers (n = 237), the PIPS showed moderate to high relationships with aspects of mindfulness, pain interference in daily life, pain disability and mental health, and small relationships with pain intensity and physical functioning. The avoidance subscale explained additional variance in outcome variables beyond the FFMQ, ranging from 4.5 to 15.8%. Outcomes support the psychometric properties of the PIPS in a heterogeneous chronic pain sample. The PIPS and FFMQ measure slightly overlapping, but distinct constructs, and can be used complementary to assess a broad range of processes within ACT. Potential problems with the cognitive fusion subscale are acknowledged for future research.
- psychometric properties
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy
- FIT INDEXES

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In addition to being a writer and technology journalist, he is an illustrator, a photographer, an educator, and an explorer. Account Options Connexion. Outside in the Snow with Buster and Friends. A Sight Words Easy Reader. William Robert Stanek. It's a special, snowy day in Bugville and Buster and all his friends have fun playing outside in the snow.
This book is optimized for 3" and larger reader screens, and in full color where viewable and available as such. Bugville Jr. Ultimately, she must choose between her love for Hamlet and her own life. Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real. Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first.
I am next. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest vampires — the ones who never die.
Rose is dedicated to a dangerous life of protecting Lissa from the Strigoi, who are hell-bent on making Lissa one of them. When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it is the lucky discovery of a poor farm boy. But when the stone brings a dragon hatchling, Eragon realizes he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself.
Overnight his simple life is shattered, and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic, and power. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders?
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The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands. Lyra is rushing to the cold, far North, where witch clans and armored bears rule. North, where the Gobblers take the children they steal—including her friend Roger. North, where her fearsome uncle Asriel is trying to build a bridge to a parallel world. Can one small girl make a difference in such great and terrible endeavors?
As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive.
Three years ago, Alison disappeared after a slumber party, not to be seen since. Her friends at the elite Pennsylvania school mourned her, but they also breathed secret sighs of relief. Each of them guarded a secret that only Alison had known. Now they have other dirty little secrets, secrets that could sink them in their gossip-hungry world. When each of them begins receiving anonymous emails and text messages, panic sets in. Are they being betrayed by some one in their circle?
Worse yet: Is Alison back? My disease is as rare as it is famous. I have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly. I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives.
So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself. Then the body disappears into thin air. Or was he a boy? Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender.
But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Luke is the perfect boyfriend, he and Emaline have been together all through high school in Colby. But now, Emaline wonders if perfect is good enough. Enter Theo, a super-ambitious outsider, a New Yorker assisting on a documentary film about a reclusive local artist. Can she ignore the pull of the happily familiar world of Colby?
So Riley swears off romance and throws herself into solving the shocking murder of her favorite teacher, Ms. Riley turns to her best friend, budding filmmaker Desmond. When her mysterious aunt Maggie, a TV producer, recruits Winnie to spend a summer working as a production assistant on her current reality hit, she suddenly finds herself in the one place her mother would never go: New Jersey. Cedar follows him to the renowned Summerlost theatre festival. Soon, she not only has a new friend in Leo and a job working concessions at the festival, she finds herself surrounded by mystery.
Rachel has been diagnosed with leukemia, but a parental mandate has been issued and must be obeyed. When Rachel stops treatment, Greg and Earl decide the thing to do is to make a film for her, which turns into the Worst Film Ever Made and becomes a turning point in each of their lives. But someone needed to look out for her sister, Frida, whose crush, British heartthrob Gabriel Luna, would be singing and signing autographs, along with the newly appointed Face of Stark, teen supermodel sensation Nikki Howard.
How was Em to know that disaster would strike, changing her life forever? One bizarre accident later, and Em Watts, always the tomboy, never the party princess, is no longer herself. Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston , the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before Annabeth was killed in a car accident.
One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy—a hot one—and falls hard. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. Tiny finally gets to tell his story—from his fabulous birth and childhood to his quest for true love and his infamous parade of ex-boyfriends—the way he always intended: as a musical!
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But her last project literally went up in flames. She zeroes in on a sleepy Florida town called Cypress Key. Eben wants the town to be revitalized, not commercialized, and Eb has no intention of letting anybody screw with his town. But Greer has a way of making things happen. And Greer and Eb are way too attracted to each other for either of them to see reason. When she opens the doors of The Venice to those in need, this ticket-taking, fun-time girl becomes the beating heart of the Lower East Side, and in defining one neighborhood helps define the city.
Who was Mazie Phillips, really? A chorus of voices from the past and present fill in some of the mysterious blanks of her adventurous life. As the clock chimes the turn of the twentieth century, Lilly Nelly Aphrodite takes her first breath. The illegitimate, orphaned daughter of a cabaret performer, she finds early refuge at a Berlin Catholic orphanage. From there follows a lifetime of reinventions, from orphan to maid, war bride, tingle-tangle nightclub girl, and script typist. But as soon as Lucy Armstrong arrives on set, she discovers that the staff is in chaos, the stunt director just happens to be her ex-husband, and the temperamental lead actor has just acquired as an advisor a Green Beret who has the aggravating habit of always being right.
Deidre McIntosh became famous teaching women to live simply, and simply live -ironic for a woman who thrives on the chaos of a television career. Seizing on a chance encounter with an attractive stranger, Deidre accepts his offer to use his country home. She hopes to get away for a while and learn to gain the courage to start again, and take the first slow, cautious steps toward a new kind of success-and maybe even love.
Wollie Shelley is a greeting card artist struggling to keep afloat financially and to pursue the search for the love of her life. She reluctantly agrees to be a contestant on the reality television show Biological Clock. As her own biological clock ticks away, Wollie gets caught up in a much more pressing demand on her time. On the big screen, Mia plays a woman in love. Paul is an American author hoping to recapture the fame of his first novel. Keeping a spoiled movie princess under wraps may be more than she can handle.
A young girl awakens in a hastily dug grave—vague memories of blood and fever, her mother performing a mysterious ceremony before the world went away. Germany has lost the first great war and Europe has lost millions more to the Spanish Flu epidemic. But Maddy has not only survived, she has changed. No longer does she eat, sleep, or age. No longer can she die. After taking up with a pair of street performers, she shocks and fascinates the crowds with her ability to survive outrageous traumas.
But at a studio in Berlin, Maddy discovers her true calling: film. When he accidentally gets caught up in insider trading with a handsome stockbroker named Chad, only the help of his crew can rescue him from a stretch in Club Fed. Untimely Death by Elizabeth J.
Who would extinguish the life of such a beautiful young thespian? Seems like just about everyone had a motive to pull the ropes on her final curtain call. The crime scene is most unusual, even for Bryant and May. In a locked bedroom without any trace of fingerprints or blood, the only sign of disturbance is a gruesome life-size puppet of Mr. Punch laying on the floor. Everyone at the party is a suspect, including the corrupt producer, the rakish male lead, and the assistant stage manager, who is the wild daughter of a prominent government official.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mendel. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear.
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Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. The Illusionists by Rosie Thomas. As a turbulent and change-filled century draws to a close. Drawn into his circle, Eliza becomes the catalyst of change for his colleagues. And as Eliza embarks on a dangerous adventure, she must decide which path to choose, and how far she should go. From actor Cary Elwes, who played the iconic role of Westley in The Princess Bride , comes a first-person account and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the cult classic film filled with never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with costars Robin Wright, Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, and Mandy Patinkin, as well as author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner.
Bossypants by Tina Fey. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live ; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon—from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence. Chris Hardwick has learned all there is to know about Nerds.
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Developing a system, blog, and podcasts, Hardwick shares hard-earned wisdom about turning seeming weakness into world-dominating strengths in the hilarious self-help book. From keeping their heart rate below hummingbird levels to managing the avalanche of sadness that is their in-boxes; from becoming evil geniuses to attracting wealth by turning down work, Hardwick reveals the secrets that can help readers achieve their goals by tapping into their true nerdtastic selves.
In this revolutionary, experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life, you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. It begins in North Philadelphia.
Unwanted by his parents. His father was a drug addict who was in and out of jail. His brother was a crack dealer and petty thief. And his mother was overwhelmingly strict. The odds, in short, were stacked against our young hero, just like the odds that are stacked against the release of a new book in this era of social media. With his brand of keenly intelligent humor, that ranges from world history to pop culture, politics and philosophy, he has built an extraordinary fan base that transcends age, gender, and race.
Writing with the same candor and razor-sharp insight evident in his comedy, he reflects on a childhood marked by unutterable loss, sexuality and coming out, as well as a life in show business, politics, and philanthropy. And Other Concerns by Mindy Kaling. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist.
Offerman focuses on the lives of those who inspired him. From George Washington to Willie Nelson, he describes twenty-one heroic figures and why they inspire in him such great meaning. He combines both serious history with light-hearted humor. The subject matter also allows Offerman to expound upon his favorite topics, which readers love to hear—areas such as religion, politics, woodworking and handcrafting, agriculture, creativity, philosophy, fashion, and, of course, meat.
Yes Please by Amy Poehler. In a fun and folksy way of addressing readers, Keep Moving serves as an instruction book on how to embrace old age with a positive attitude. If You Ask Me mixes her thoughtful observations with humorous stories from a seven- decade career in Hollywood.
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Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari. Modelland by Tyra Banks. But someone has plans for Tookie. Before she can blink her mismatched eyes, Tookie finds herself in the very place every girl in the world obsesses about. Postcards From the Edge by Carrie Fisher. Fisher beautifully brings readers the inside of Hollywood through a web of humor, drugs, relationships, Hollywood Party Terror, and much more.
The plot centers on a year-old actress named Suzanne Vale, and follows her challenges as she overcomes her drug addiction, gets back into the swing of things, and falls in love, sort of. Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham. Franny Banks is a struggling actress in New York City, with just six months left of the three-year deadline she gave herself to succeed. But so far, all she has to show for her efforts is a single line in an ad for ugly Christmas sweaters and a degrading waitressing job. She lives in Brooklyn with two roommates — Jane, her best friend from college, and Dan, a sci-fi writer, who is very definitely not boyfriend material — and is struggling with her feelings for a suspiciously charming guy in her acting class, all while trying to find a hair-product cocktail that actually works.
Offered a bundle to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead — a good deed that soon takes a bad turn. Her ascension to the highest tiers of the city parallel the soaring heights—and, at times, the dark lows—of the art world and the country from the late s through today. Tales of love, loss, and betrayal are at the heart of When It Happens to You , the debut story collection from actress and author Molly Ringwald.
Ringwald brings that same compelling candor she displayed in her film roles to the unforgettable characters she has created in this series of linked stories about the particular challenges, joys, and disappointments of adult relationships. Here are stories that grapple with infertility and infidelity, fame and familial discord, in a magnificent collection that will resonate broadly with readers.
In a foxhole in Bastogne, Belgium, the innocent yet charmingly clever protagonist, Corporal Tom Cole, is injured. Wilder moves the action to a romantic wartime London where Cole convalesces and falls in love for the first time. But is the mysterious Danish girl he meets on the up and up? Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other and their struggles to survive in New England during the Civil War. Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead.
She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the years before, when she lived and made love with her husband, Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world and recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the undead.
World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years. Scott Fitzgerald. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. Melanie is a very special girl. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class.
When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. Melanie loves school. The year is Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. It is a unique and triumphant work of fiction — at once romantic, erotic, suspenseful — and completely unforgettable. What happens when the most beautiful girl in the world marries the handsomest prince of all time and he turns out to be…well…a lot less than the man of her dreams?
As a boy, William Goldman claims, he loved to hear his father read the S. Morgenstern classic, The Princess Bride. Now Goldman does Dad one better. Dazzled, Mary falls in love with both her golden prince and her growing role as unofficial queen. Then Mary knows that she must defy her family and her king and take fate into her own hands. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city.
Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine.
Finding himself in Jodie, Texas, Jake begins a new life. But all turns in the road lead to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald. The course of history is about to be rewritten…and become heart-stoppingly suspenseful. The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic.
Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior — to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. The Lovely Bones is the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder — a murder recounted by the teenage victim.
The details of the crime are laid out in the first few pages: from her vantage point in heaven, Susie Salmon describes how she was confronted by the murderer one December afternoon on her way home from school. Lured into an underground hiding place, she was raped and killed. But what the reader knows, her family does not. Anxiously, we keep vigil with Susie, aching for her grieving family, desperate for the killer to be found and punished. Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills, and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit — he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next.
Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him? Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a knight-errant himself. In the company of his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, his exploits blossom in all sorts of wonderful ways.
Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism. They were originally composed for his godchildren, with Eliot posing as Old Possum himself, and later inspired the legendary musical Cats. Introducing one of the most famous characters in literature, Jean Valjean—the noble peasant imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread. Anna Leonowens, a proper Englishwoman, was an unlikley candidate to change the course of Siamese Thai history.
One of her pupils, the young prince Chulalongkorn, was particularly influenced by Leonowens and her Western ideals. He learned about Abraham Lincoln and the tenets of democracy. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is raised in the Paris Opera House with his dying promise of a protective angel of music to guide her. After a time at the opera house, she begins hearing a voice, who eventually teaches her how to sing beautifully.
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But few know the story of the man behind those gestures. Distinguished author Leda Schubert and award-winning artist Gerard DuBois bring their own artistry to this gorgeously written and illustrated picture book biography. With rhythmic swirls of words and pictures, author Suzanne Slade and illustrator Stacy Innerst beautifully reveal just how brilliantly Gershwin combined various kinds of music to create his masterpiece. Eleven-year-old Stevland Judkins Morris Hardaway hit the big time when he signed a Motown recording contract.
At the age of thirteen, Little Stevie Wonder had millions of fans dancing to the number-one song in the nation. Singer, dancer, actress, and independent dame, Josephine Baker felt life was a performance. She even had a pet leopard in Paris! Rising from a poor, segregated upbringing, Josephine was able to break through racial barriers with her own sense of flair and astonishing dance abilities. Maybe Sunday, a pretty new nanny with a knack for getting to the bottom of household mysteries, can crack the case.
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Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Bill 20123774 02 Aug, 2012
Dr. Roopnarine: Thank you Mr. Speaker. First of all I want to commend the Attorney General and his colleagues of the legal fraternity for their display of civility and harmony in recently concluded debate on the important and historic piece of legislation on the Official Gazette and on the Deeds Registry.
I am afraid I cannot commend the Hon. Attorney General with the same feeling in relations to his just concluded disquisition on Parliamentary propriety, appropriateness of the measure that we are taking, the fact that we are in danger of not approaching our business with sufficient circumspection and sufficient care.
I do not believe myself that we are trespassing on the business of the judiciary in relations to review of legislation. I believe that in asking that this matter be sent to a select committee, we are simply saying that there are aspects of this legislation that in our opinion requires some refinement and some more precision. The argument that we should not be proceeding by way of motion and that instead we should bring a bill that can be refer to a select committee in due course, is an argument that I think has a certain validity, but I am not sure that in making the argument the Hon. Attorney General has excluded the procedure that we are seeking to apply this evening.
I am also a little bit disturbed that the Hon. Attorney General assumes that we would not be able to arrive at a consensus in the select committee that is being proposed. I quite agree that Articles 142, 149(B) and 222 would require a two-thirds majority to get anything achieved. But I am not ruling out the possibility that working together on the select committee, we would not be able to arrive at the consensus that we seek. We quite agree that those particular Articles of the Constitution cannot be interfered with by anything less than a two-thirds majority, but I believe that we can, in the interest of what we are attempting to do, win that consensus in the course of the discussions on the select committee.
I have to say that I have had the privilege of listening to the learned Attorney General in the Chief Justice’s court and I know that he is long on disquisition and arrived sufficiently armed with his plethora of precedents to make his argument. I did not realise until this evening myself, what a constitutional conservative the Hon. Attorney General is.
On the issue before us, I want to say that I think it is safe to say, as the Hon. Mr. Greenidge has already pointed out, that no other single matter arouse more wide spread agitation in the election campaign of 2011. An agitation not limited to supporters of the Opposition parties, it was an agitation that we found in all communities where the poor and the powerless were over represented, including communities traditionally supportive of the PPP.
Why did this issue touch such a nerve among the people? This is the question that we need to address. I believe first of all, that the completely derisory pre-budget pensions paid to people who are at the end of a working life receives a pittance of $8100, that it was derisory because not infrequently, this amount of money could not even have supported the transportation cost to uplift the pension in many instances. That was the first issue, that people were being presented with a situation in which the former President would be in effect, be granted an extremely fulsome pension in the presence of their own rather paltry payments.
The second point is that the hassles that are attendant on the ability to access pension payments. For instance, recently there were pensioners on the Corentyne who were complaining bitterly over the inconvenience that is caused when the postmaster is not a justice of the peace, causing them to run around looking for a JP to sign the proof of life document to verify that the individual is indeed alive.
This has been proven to be an exhausting business, hard on the spirit and on the pocket, and citizens across the country are pleading to have the postmaster either be lawfully qualified to sign the proof of life document or indeed have a Justice of Peace (JP) present at the post office.
Indeed, I believe that, and I was very heartened to hear, what is being contemplated is a serious review of the entire system, that the pension system is in dire need of reform. I am happy to hear that there is some commitment by the Hon. Minister to engage in this reform process, but we have to deal with this pension environment which, I believe, had a great deal to do with the agitation that people felt across the country in the presence of the fulsome of the pension that is to be paid to the former President.
One of those pensioners, in fact, called me this morning from the Corentyne, to draw my attention to an article that appeared in today’s Stabroek News in relation to some reforms that were being enacted in Suriname. I will quote. It is on page 5 of today’s Stabroek News:
“Senior citizens who receive their old-age pension from the Central Old-Age Pension Fund (AOV) no longer have to go through the annual registration and requirement to submit a Proof of Life document now that the Fund and Central Bureau for Population Registry (CBB) have matched their data banks.
AOV director John Samson says that the cooperation between the two services must result in a better performance of both systems. On the 29 February CBB director John Sahari and his counterpart at AOV decided to match their data banks after a painful incident when a senior citizen died at an AOV counter moments before he was to submit his Proof of Life document. The incident proved how laborious the process is for senior citizens to prove that they are still alive.”
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“Immediately after the matching,…”
It was between these two institutions.
“…the registration of senior citizens at the banks was terminated. This was bliss for the very old and those that are sick or can barely walk.
I am saying that while we have this level of distress within the pension environment, I think that it is no accident or it is easily understood why the issue of the former President’s pension caused as much agitation as it did in the communities around the country.
I think what we know is that the Hon. Minister of Finance, himself, was eventually of a mind to raise the pension, as we know, from $8,100 to $10,000 in the budget. I believe that he has convinced himself of the inadequacy of the pension payments and told us this in no uncertain terms, in various discussion, that he, himself, would have liked to have raised it even more, but the argument that he made was that we have to be very careful that what we do in this regard is commensurate with the country’s ability to pay. This was his argument and it was an argument that he made which is customary conviction. I have no doubt that he believed this. All we are saying, in relation to this particular package, is that this too must be taken in the context of the country’s ability to pay.
It is obvious that the spreading dissatisfaction over the former President’s pension was biting deep into the PPP’s support and this was evidenced by the very lengthy defences mounted in the press by the highest officials of the Government that launched a media counteroffensive. No less a person than my friend, the Hon. Prime Minister, wrote on 5th November in Stabroek News and he said in that occasion (As a person how has had the pleasure of knowing the Hon. Prime Minister for many year I would not be one to accuse him of, in effect, a self-serving presentation, but others who do not know him as well as I do might well argue that this is a case of special pleading.) that in effect, what the political parties were doing in the course of the campaign was raising up this issue merely to agitate people. [Mr. Hinds: Read the words.] I quote your words.
“The efforts by the opposition parties and their media fanatics to dramatise the value of the allowances and benefits given to past Presidents ignore the fact that not one of the benefits and allowances given to President Jagdeo is new. It is regrettable that Members of the Opposition and the media, being unable to identify real election issues, have stooped to new lows in trying to beguile and deceive and agitate the Guyanese voters…”
The Hon. Prime Minister was not alone. There were other heavyweights who weighed in, namely Dr. Nanda Gopaul, who wrote on this matter; the Hon. Mr. Robert Persaud, who at the time was the campaign manager for the PPP/Civic, and Mr. Prem Misir, all weighted in to provide clarifications and to launch an assault on the competing parties and on the media.
Writing in the Guyana Chronicle, on Monday, November 7, 2011, Mr. Misir pointed us to the legislation of the United States of America (USA) and he provided a table to prove his point. I am, myself, very grateful to Mr. Misir for pointing us in the direction of the US legislation because what he neglected to tell us is that the US legislation is careful to impose a number of restrictions and limits on the benefits that are to be enjoyed by former Presidents. I am choosing to quote from the American process because it is not a poor country and what it states here is very interesting. I am quoting from the Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report for Congress, Order Code 98-249 GOV and it was updated on 18th March, 2008. On page 3 of this report, on the question of staff and office allowances, this is what it states:
“Six months after a President leaves office provisions of the Former Presidents Act, as amended, authorize the GSA administrator to fund an office staff. During the first 30-month period when a former President is entitled to assistance under the FPA the total annual basic compensation for his office cannot exceed $150,000. Thereafter the aggregate rates of staff compensation for a former President cannot exceed $96,000 annually. The maximum annual rate of compensation for any one staff member cannot exceed the pay provided at Level 2 of the Executive Schedule, currently $172,000. A former President supplements staff compensation or hires additional employees from private funds.”
In other words, there is a clear intention to impose limits and restriction on all of these expenses. What is found in this is that, in effect, it is imposing, not only time limits, but it is also imposing administrative measures to ensure that there is no abuse of the system.
The report states:
“GSA, in consultation with officials representing the former Presidents, prepares yearly operating budgets. Funds are appropriated by Congress and are included as part of GSA’s Annual Appropriation Act. In addition to assisting the former President’s offices with budget preparation, GSA also provides administrative support for the offices of former Presidents, assisting on request for equipment supplies and other expenditures.”
It goes further.
“The FY 1955 Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act proscribes the use of funds for allowances and office staff for former Presidents for partisan political activities.”
It is another restriction.
On the question of travel expenses:
“Legislation enacted in 1968 authorizes GSA fund to be made available to a former President and no more than two members of his staff for official travel and related expenses.”
[Mr. Nadir: What is the cap?] It is no more than two. That is a cap.
On medical expenses, this is what the Americans insist on:
“Former Presidents and their spouses, widows and minor children are entitled to treatment in military hospitals because of their status of secretarial designees authorized to receive such benefits by the Secretary of Defense. Health care costs and billed to the individual at an interagency reimbursement rate established by the office of management and budget. Former Presidents and their dependants may also enroll in private health plans at their own expense.”
In terms of Secret Service protection, it used to be that the Secret Service provided lifetime protection for former Presidents but that was amended to say:
“The FY 1995 Treasury Postal Service General Government Appropriation Act amended 18USC 3056 to limit protection to 10 years for former Presidents who begin serving after January 1st for their spouses.”
What we find in this is that even in a country, which is not as deprived in many ways as ours is, and other countries in the Caribbean that have been cited, insists on administrative and other restrictions to ensure that the benefits paid to former Presidents are, in effect, capped and clearly limited.
When we turn to our own instance, which is the Act that we are seeking to review and amend, namely the Former President’s (Benefits and other Facilities) Act 2009, what do we find? We find in clause 2:
“Every person who having held the office of the President and ceased to hold that office by virtue of the provisions of Article 92 of the Constitution, or otherwise, shall during the remainder of his lifetime be entitled to the following…”
It is “shall during the remainder of his lifetime…” Even the United States of America insists that certain of the benefits are restricted to ten years. It cannot continue with these benefits for the lifetime of a former President. In our instance, we are talking about, for a lifetime, having full-time personal security and services of the Presidential Guard Service at the place of residence, and Mr. Greenidge has already made the point about the provision of motor vehicles, without saying how many motor vehicles we are discussing.
All we are attempting to do, in effect, is to take these matters into the Special Select Committee where we can together try to work out what is a rational and affordable set of benefits that would make our former Presidents live lives of dignity. What we are saying is, which I personally believe, that any former President would be more relieved to find that what has been granted to him or her would have, in effect, the agreement of the whole House. I do not believe that we want the President to believe that half of the House somehow disapproves of what it is that he is receiving. I would prefer, myself, to have the former President enjoy his benefits and what he receives after the full agreement of the entire House. I am hoping that this is what can be achieved in the Special Select Committee and I hope that Members of the other side will see the need for consensus on this matter if only because, I believe, that consensus on this matter would be something that the former President would appreciate rather than feeling that he is enjoying something which is disapproved of by half of the National Assembly.
I thank you Mr. Speaker. [Applause]
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Josh Duggar reportedly will be appointed to a senior executive position at FRC.
The oldest son of the Duggar family could be joining the conservative Family Research Council in a senior executive position, according to three sources familiar with the organization.
The hiring of Josh Duggar, 25, the oldest of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar's 19 children, will be announced in about a month.
Duggar will be in charge of FRC Action, the organization's lobbying arm, sources told BuzzFeed. "FRC Action (formerly American Renewal), the non-profit and tax-exempt legislative action arm of Family Research Council, was founded in 1992 to educate the general public and cultural leaders about traditional American values and to promote the philosophy of the Founding Fathers concerning the nature of ordered liberty," according to FRC Action's website.
The Duggars parlayed their reality TV show fame into political activism in the past year, appearing on the stump for Rick Santorum throughout the Republican primary process. Josh Duggar recently announced on Today that he and his wife are expecting their third child.
UPDATE: FRC's Vice President for Communications, JP Duffy, said that a final decision had not been made on Duggar's hiring. " We greatly appreciate Josh and the Duggar family's devotion to the pro-family movement and their counter-cultural courage," Duffy said. "This is why we have talked to Josh about the position. We have talked to him as well as other candidates but no decision has been made."
Let us never forget how a true Christian like Josh Duggar feels about special needs children.
This school only has short buses! #special #onlyinSC
This was posted on Josh's Instagram while he campaigned for Rick Santorum. At the time, Rick Santorum was taking a break from campaigning because his daughter, who has Trisomy 18, was hospitalized.
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Trincomalee is the administrative headquarters of the Trincomalee District and major resort port city of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Located on the east coast of the island overlooking the Trincomalee Harbour, 113 miles south of Jaffna and 69 miles north of Batticaloa, Trincomalee has been one of the main centres of Tamil language speaking culture on the island for over two millennia. With a population of 99,135, the city is built on a peninsula of the same name, which divides its inner and outer harbours. People from Trincomalee are known as Trincomalians and the local authority is Trincomalee Urban Council. Trincomalee city is home to the famous Koneswaram temple alluded to in its historic Tamil name Thirukonamalai and is home to other historical monuments such as the Bhadrakali Amman Temple, Trincomalee, the Trincomalee Hindu Cultural Hall and, opened in 1897, the Trincomalee Hindu College. Trincomalee is also the site of the Trincomalee railway station and an ancient ferry service to Jaffna and the south side of the harbour at Muttur.
The recorded history of Trincomalee spans more than two and a half thousand years, beginning with civilian settlement associated with the Koneswaram temple in the pre-modern era. One of the oldest cities in Asia, it has served as a major maritime seaport in the international trading history of the island with South East Asia. In the ancient world, it was successively the capital of eastern kingdoms of the Vanni country, developing under the Pallava Dynasty, Chola Dynasty, Pandyan Dynasty, the Vannimai chieftaincies and the Jaffna kingdom through the Koneswaram shrine's revenue. Trincomalee's urbanization continued when made into a fortified port town following the Portuguese conquest of the Jaffna kingdom, changing hands between the Danish in 1620, the Dutch, the French following a battle of the American Revolutionary War and the British in 1795, being absorbed into the British Ceylon state in 1815. The city's architecture shows some of the best examples of interaction between native and European styles. Attacked by the Japanese as part of the Indian Ocean raid during World War II in 1942, the city and district were affected after Sri Lanka gained independence in 1948, when the political relationship between Tamil and Sinhalese people deteriorated, erupting into civil war. It is home to major naval and air force bases at the Trincomalee Garrison. The city also has the largest Dutch fort on the island.
The Trincomalee Bay Harbour, bridged by the Mahavilli Ganga River to the south, is referred to as "Gokarna" in Sanskrit, meaning "Cow's Ear", akin to several areas of Siva worship across the Indian subcontinent. Its sacred status to the Hindus has led to the city being declared "Dakshina-Then Kailasam" or "Mount Kailash of the South" and the "Rome of the Pagans of the Orient". The harbour is renowned for its large size and security; unlike any other in the Indian Ocean, it is accessible in all weathers to all craft. It has been described as the "finest harbour in the world" and by the British, "the most valuable colonial possession on the globe, as giving to our Indian Empire a security which it had not enjoyed from elsewhere". Popular tourist destinations include its beaches at Uppuveli, Salli and Nilaveli, used for temple visits, surfing, scuba diving, fishing and whale watching, and the Kanniya Hot Springs. Trincomalee is served by a campus of the Eastern University, Sri Lanka and has been the inspiration of both domestic and international poetry, films, music and literature for many centuries.
Trincomalee which is a natural deep-water harbour has attracted seafarers, trader and pilgrims from Europe, Middle East, Africa, China, East Asia and Australasia since ancient times. Trinco, as it is commonly called, has been a seaport and Hindu pilgrimage center since 400 BCE. The earliest epigraphical inscriptions found in Trincomalee city are in the Tamil language. The Tamil settlement at the port of Trincomalee was one of the oldest settlements on the island. One inscription from 900–1000 CE belonging to the Chola Dynasty excavated near where the promontory's first temple stood is from a sluice and also concerns Koneswaram, as do the 10th century Nilaveli inscriptions. The ancient texts, as well as an inscription unearthed by archeologists, call it Gokarna in Sanskrit.The Vayu Purana refers to a Siva temple on Trikuta hill on the eastern coast of Lanka in the 3rd century. The Mahavamsa documents that the King Mahasena destroyed a Deva temple and built a Buddhist shrine in its stead to expiate for an earlier heresy on his part. This explains the Buddhist archeological remains in the region. The South Indian Tevaram of Tiru-gnana Sambandar makes mention to the Siva temple in Trincomalee once again in the 6th century.
The earliest known literary reference to the Siva temple of Gokarna bay however is found in the Mahabharata, the Hindu epic written between 400—100 BCE, noting that Koneswaram is at Gokarna bay, in the middle of the ocean and is the island shrine of Uma's consort Shiva, known in the three worlds and worshiped by all peoples from the subcontinent, the rivers, ocean and mountains. It continues that the shrine is the next pilgrimage spot for Hindus en route south following Kanyakumari of the early Pandyan kingdom and Tamraparni island (Kudiramalai). In the same time period, the Ramayana in written form describes how King Ravana and his mother had worshipped Shiva at the shrine, when the former wanted to remove the temple of Koneswaram when his mother was in ailing health around 2000 BCE. This literature continues that as the king was heaving the rock, Lord Shiva made him drop his sword. As a result of this a cleft was created on the rock, today called Ravana Vettu – meaning Ravana's Cleft. Upon her death, her last rites were performed at the Kanniya Hot Springs in the Kanniya suburb of Trincomalee city. The Siva-worshipping Siddhar Patanjali's birth at the city in 180 BCE and its connections to another Siddhar Agastya from the 5th–4th century BCE suggests that Yoga Sun Salutation originated on the promontory of Trincomalee. Another mention is found in the 5th century CE Mahavamsa stating that in the 4th century BC, King Vijaya got his youngest son Panduvasdeva to land at the bay. The Yalpana Vaipava Malai asserts that King Vijaya restored the Koneswaram temple and the other four Eswarams upon arrival. The Mattakallappu Manmiam of Batticaloa confirms Trincomalee's sacred status for all Hindus.

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Me, Angela Davis, and A Hopeful Feminism
How My Love for Angela Davis Helped Me Cultivate a Politics of Hope
I’m a really bad cynic. I remember sitting in graduate seminars and feeling unsure of myself because I didn’t come away from the readings with a negative take of the readings. I did not immediately see what was problematic. Rather, I had a much more generous reading of the text. I know now that I lean towards possibility but then, surrounded by so many people who was what was lacking, I thought maybe I missed something. Lately, I have been feeling this way again and find myself wondering I am naïve to be feeling hopeful in the midst of an imploding empire? And how the hell did I, a girl who had a life that no one would categorize as easy, build a feminist consciousness around optimism, possibility, and hope?
I think I cultivated a hopeful feminism because my first feminist love was Angela Davis. Angela Davis has always had an optimistic view of where we can go and an unwavering faith in the people. She credits her optimism with the fact that her mother would often tell her and her siblings to “never forget the world is not organized in the way it should be and that things will change, and that we will be a part of that change.” I did my first big chop right before I left for college and whenever I would style it in an afro people would call me Angela Davis. I only sort of kind of knew who she was. I knew who she was but only in the superficial way that most Black folks know her. She was an afro rocking, black leather jacket wearing, Black Panther revolutionary that terrified white people. The constant comparisons to her made me want to know more about who she was beyond the afro so I eventually I went to a local Black owned bookstore and bought her autobiography. I remember staring at that cover, completely captivated by her image. I know that Davis has spoken about the complexity of being reduced to a single hairstyle, but for me, her image called me in and served as a guidepost towards revolutionary thinking. In her image, I saw the familiar and that she was of and for Black women. That she was ours and we were hers and that what I would find in the pages of that book was a politics that would get me, and people like me, free.
I think I was subconsciously looking for manifestations of freedom when I found that book. I spent long durations of my formative years being systems-impacted which means that I was affected in a negative way by the incarceration of a close relative. Some of my earliest memories were me as a toddler piling into our 2-door car to drive to Quantico, VA to visit my father in the military prison there. My middle childhood memories include family trips to Rikers Island and long bus trips “Up North” to visit my cousin where we would eat mushy hot wings and microwaved cheeseburgers from the vending machine in the visiting room. As an adolescent, I played out my bratty little sister role by picking fights with my brother and running outside where he couldn’t chase me because his ankle monitor would go off. Confinement was an everyday part of my life and the people I knew would cycle between the block, the prison, and the block again.
I think I was yearning for the work of Angela Davis—particularly her work on incarceration. I found hope in the way she articulated that prisons disappear people not problems. In clear, concise language she put forth a framework that explained that the state uses prisons to manage the human consequences of racism and capitalism. Her work helped me understand that these prisons, which felt ubiquitous and unmovable to me, had a history and what I was experiencing was by design. Her analysis of the prison was thorough and I understood that the prison-state was deeply entrenched in almost every facet of my life. There was something in this notion that was ironically was ironically freeing. It’s like when people talk about the sense of relief they feel when they finally receive a diagnosis for a chronic condition. There is a sense of validation and liberation that comes with the naming of the thing that has caused them pain. The naming of the prison-industrial complex made the prison less random and mysterious for me. And with this new knowledge, I was Nancy Drew uncovering the prison state everywhere. I saw it in the schools, the playgrounds, the layout of our neighborhoods, and even our relationships. And I felt hope that if we could name it, we could change it.
I also found immense hopefulness in the way Angela Davis made Black women’s everyday ways of surviving and resisting the prison state visible. Her work made space for thinking about the intersections of state violence and intimate partner violence and in 2001, Critical Resistance the prison abolitionist organization she helped found teamed up INCITE Women of Color Against Violence to pen a transformative statement on the link between gender violence and the prison industrial complex. From their standpoint of living at the intersections of patriarchy and the prison-state, these organizers called out both the prison abolition movement and the domestic violence movement and demanded the need for need systems of accountability that do not ask us to ignore the violence that women face at the hands of men in our communities but that also does not invite the police into our communities where they cause more violent harm, sometimes to the very people they were caused to protect.
Davis’ work also helped me see the invisible gender-dynamics of the prison and it helped me articulate what I saw on all those weekend visits. I always thought it was odd that for all the “ride for my dawgs” lyrics in the music I was listening to, the charter buses Up North and visiting rooms were filled with women and children. While there are systemic reasons for this gender imbalance, the reality is that the supporting of people behind bars is largely women’s work. Regardless of the gender of the person on the inside, it is women on the outside who are organizing carpools, writing letters, buying JPay stamps and paying exorbitant collect call bills, sending magazines, and putting money on books. Women are the ones finding ways to parent the children they can’t tuck in at night and endure the violence of entering the prison in an effort to love. Angela Davis showed me to look to the women for how we get free because they are the ones who know how to penetrate the walls of the prison and show us the ways the walls are permeable.
Finally, I found immense hope in her belief in a world without prisons. Knowing the complexity of the injustices we face can be overwhelming. With so many things to fight for and against, it can be difficult to even know where to begin. Angela Davis made it clear to me that abolition is a worthwhile pursuit, even if we have no idea what that kind of freedom will look like. When I say I want a world without prisons, I am saying that I want a world where prisons are not the first solution to all our social ills. I hope more feminists take up this banner. Big systems can fail. They are falling now, but the powerful are catching the pieces and picking up the pieces to rebuild these oppressive structures. The walls of the prison are being replaced with ankle bracelets and virtual visitations. If we are not careful, they will sell us confinement in place of the progress we have been fighting for. But if feminists are at the forefront, with hope and possibility, we can be there to pick up the rubble and create something new and better.
When feminists take up the banner of abolition, we get to imagine what accountability processes look it and demand one that is all of us or none of us. Abolishing the prison would require funding schools, providing food, creating affordable and safe housing, more jobs, better social safety nets, health services an investment in people and communities. It is in the most micro levels. It is rethinking how we discipline our children, how we deal with conflict with our friends, how we structure our intimate relationships. It will also require that we get to the root causes of the harms we do to each other. And it is in resisting the notions of people as easily disposable “trash.” We don’t let people disappear. Instead, we hold on to humanity and accountability even when it is hard. We abolish the prison so that we can create communities where everyone can thrive. Angela Davis shows us that it is a worthy pursuit and that we are better for trying to get there, even if we have no idea where we are going.
So, I have a hopeful feminism because my introduction to feminism was through someone who had made hope a practice. She has been consistently optimistic about where we can go and the strength of the people. I am so grateful that my afro led me to Angela Davis and a grounded optimism that sees possibility and hope. I believe that we are at the precipice of building something new. At least, I hope so.


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Animal feed has to go from A to B, so that means transportation time. Our clients are evaluating their trucking time and seeing that they spend 20 minutes or more in the loadout bay for each load. Wouldn’t you rather have them on the road to the farm or actually unloading the feed?
We have recently seen loadout systems constructed only 7 years ago that seemed like a decent system. A shuttle conveyor that travelled back and forth to load each compartment on the truck and the truck never moves. It seems we spent too much time thinking about not moving the truck and didn’t check the total time to load, in this case 21 minutes for a 24 ton load. We need to fix that and here is why.
A feed mill that does 200,000 tons per year in 250 working days needs 33 loads per day. This corresponds to a total loading time is 660 minutes or 11 hours! Regardless of how many trucks you have, it takes this long just to load the feed. The current solution is to add trucks, add loading bays, extend hours/night delivery, etc. Manpower, manpower, manpower! If we can cut loading time to 5 minutes, we save 495 minutes or 8.25 hours per day in trucking time. Sounds like we need one less truck per day. And this also means we don’t need to hire that extra person for night deliveries. Sorry for going through the math but we had to establish the reason for correcting the problem. For every mill, even though they are all different, there is a solution.
The challenges might be:
Here are a few improvements to consider:
I know you just read this and snarked that you have a better solution. Good. Use it. Again, different mills, different solutions. But innovate an improvement, do the math to justify it, and implement. Then quit hiring night drivers.


iPhone 7 Camera Achieves Impressive DxOMark Score But Fails to Beat Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and S7 Edge
DxOMark has released its test results for the iPhone 7's new camera giving it an impressive score of 86. The iPhone 7 achieves an overall DxOMark Mobile Score of 86. That's better than Apple's previous best score of 84 for the iPhone 6s Plus and 82 for ...
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