A very scary scene that developed on the field at LaVell Edwards Stadium late Saturday night has ended with some very good news, relatively speaking.
BYU running back Jamaal Williams was laid out and motionless for several minutes following a collision with a Utah defender. Williams’ facemask was removed by medical personnel and he was ultimately immobilized on a back board and transported to a local hospital for further treatment.
Prior to the end of the broadcast of the Utes’ win, it was reported that Williams had movement in all of his extremities.
BYU updated Williams’ condition Sunday afternoon, with a press release stating that Williams suffered a concussion and severe stinger as a result of the collision. He was discharged from the hospital and is doing well according to the school.
Ahead of a Friday night game against Middle Tennessee, BYU wrote in the release that “[t]he status for his return will be based on day-to-day progression and continued improvement throughout the week.”
Williams is the Cougars’ leading rusher, entering the game Saturday the as the nation’s No. 3 rusher at 163.3 yards per game. He is currently 10th at 126 ypg.


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Legislature: AARP Alaska as fierce defender
July 1, 2022 | View PDF
Note: This story was updated after the printed version went to press.
AARP Alaska advocates for public policies that matter most to Alaskans age 50 and older and their families. During the 2021-22 legislative session, we passed 15 of our 22 budget and bill priorities benefiting older Alaskans.
We saw successful passage of policies that support family caregivers, improve healthcare access and promote health. With wins ranging from dementia awareness and telehealth to expanded scopes of practice for Physician Assistants, Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRN), and Advanced Practice Dental Hygienists, we saw significant progress in access to care in Alaska.
This year, we focused on changing the perceptions and treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia (ADRD), which is a chronic disease, not a natural effect of aging. Increased public and provider awareness can lead to risk reduction, delayed onset and earlier diagnosis, leading to better patient outcomes and reduced costs. AARP volunteers shared their stories with legislators, several of whom had stories of their own, and HB308 Dementia Awareness passed with broad bipartisan support. The bill establishes a dedicated position in the Division of Public Health to access federal funding and lead awareness work alongside the Alaska Dementia Action Collaborative.
We continued to empower Alaskans to choose how – and where – to live as they age. While most older Alaskans are self-supporting and independent, some need financial assistance to live independently when the need for long-term care arises.
During the session, the Legislature funded critical deferred maintenance projects for Pioneer Homes, ensured continued access to lower-level care settings. They also passed a budget increase for Medicaid reimbursement rates for home and community based services providers helping to make up ground lost in recent years, when flat funding fell behind inflation and the growing population of older Alaskans. We were disappointed that Governor Dunleavy vetoed a similar increase to senior centers and other non-profits for senior community services like meals, transportation and in-home help.
With COVID radically changing the healthcare landscape, we also ensured that pandemic-related strides in healthcare access weren’t lost. Telehealth benefits older adults by reducing or eliminating distance and transportation barriers and promoting autonomy. Prior to 2020, many insurers, including the Alaska Medicaid program, limited telehealth access by setting restrictive standards, including provider/service type and delivery modalities. To ensure beneficiaries could receive care while maximizing infection control, federal and state governments temporarily lifted many of these restrictions during the pandemic.
These flexibilities bolstered telehealth access by expanding the locations, delivery methods, providers, and services covered during a telehealth appointment. The legislature passed HB265, Healthcare Services by Telehealth, to maintain telehealth delivery flexibilities, including upholding patient choice and preserving the ability to have audio-only visits, critical for older adults challenged by technology or Alaskans lacking reliable high speed internet. The bill also allows for telehealth follow-up care with out of state physicians, imperative for Alaskans who see specialists Outside.
Concurrently, we supported the passage of legislation to establish a state broadband office and the architecture for federally funded universal broadband deployment. Access to high-speed internet brings aging at home within reach by providing connections to friends and family, telehealth, assistance programs, and meaningful work and education.
We want Alaskans to be able to live and thrive in their local communities throughout their life. That’s why we also support a long-term fiscal plan that includes a broad-based tax and other new revenues. We will continue to fight to ensure that older Alaskans can choose how to live as they age.
Read our full legislative report at aarp.org/ak.
Marge Stoneking is the Associate State Director of Advocacy for AARP Alaska.

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World Commission on Dams reports on its work with wetlands
[Reprinted from Dams: Official Newsletter of the World Commission on Dams, No. 7, August 2000, pp. 5-6.]
Wetlands, Dams and International Policy
When the World Commission on Dams looked at the positive and negative environmental impacts of dams, one pivotal issue was how and where dams affect freshwater riparian wetlands.
So WCD began asking the experts: What is the nature of dam impacts on wetlands? Where are they most acutely felt? Can dams create new habitat? How can dam operations change the sustainability of wetlands? Do dam reservoirs mitigate the loss of natural wetlands they deprive downstream or inundate upstream?
And, what are global organisations doing about the cumulative international impacts of dams on wetlands?
As it turned out, very little.
To its own surprise, the WCD found that, due to time constraints or inattention or scarce research dollars, few international wetlands experts and organisations had closely examined the direct relationship between large dams and wetlands. Of all the many and diverse aspects of development seen by environmental scientists as posing serious threats to wetlands, the construction of 800,000 dams did not make the top ten.
Over the course of WCD's study, presentations and research, that blur gradually grew focused. In the process of answering WCD's questions, wetlands experts began to ask a few of their own. Organisations began to recognise threats and impacts -- both positive and negative -- that they had previously overlooked.
"Dams positively and negatively affect 98 of the 1,005 designated Ramsar wetlands," observed Commissioner Deborah Moore in presentations and essays. "On one hand, a dam created Greece's Lake Kerkini, a shallow reservoir that is now a Ramsar wetland and important habitat for waterfowl. On the other hand, Tunisia's Lake Ichkeul is a Ramsar wetland that is becoming salinized due to the restriction of freshwater inflows by dams upstream."
All this culminated at the 7th Meeting of the Conference of the Contracting parties to the Ramsar Wetlands Convention in San Jose, Costa Rica, 10-18 May 1999, and again in Tokyo in February 2000.
A formal decision of the parties directed its review panels "to follow and participate actively in the programme of the World Commission on Dams, providing input on themes of relevance to Contracting Parties, and to report back to Ramsar COP 8 concerning the findings of the WCD and their implications for the future."
In layman terms, this meant wetlands officials recognised that dam impacts on wetlands are significant, that they need to be closely monitored and addressed, and that the emerging evidence and ultimate findings of the WCD offer an opportunity that should, where appropriate, be internalised within Ramsar's own work programme.

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The financial technology company UNest recently raised new funding and brought on board NBA All-Star Baron Davis as an investor. I sat down with UNest founder Ksenia Yudina and Baron Davis to learn more about the company and it's goals.
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NEW DELHI (AP) - Hundreds of Indian farmers took to the streets on Friday to protest new laws that the government says will boost growth in the agricultural sector through private investments. ...
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The Peninsula insurance tech unicorn's valuation doubled to $2 billion in a Series D round led by Alphabet Inc.'s late stage investment arm, Capital G.
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As Amazon signals its growth in India with its office in Hyderabad, its largest in the world, local business owners are pushing back.
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The word growth is a noun. Growth means (1) the gradual beginning or coming forth, (2) vegetation that has grown, (3) something grown or growing, (4) a progression from simpler to more complex forms, (5) a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important, (6) (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor).

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Topical Uses of Essential Oils
We all love having essential oils in our life, but what are they in essence? How can we best utilize them? To answer these questions, we must dive into the science of where the oils originate and how they interact with our bodies.
Where Essential Oils Come From
Essential oils are sourced directly from medicinal plants; they are made in special cells, usually under the leaves, bark, or peel. There are different compositions of every essential oil that affects how they are absorbed and used by the body. Even oils from different plants within the same species have minute differences in their chemical structure. The oils are distilled by either steam or pressure and are collected for use. For reference, it requires approximately 220 pounds of the lavender flower to create one pound of lavender essential oil.
How They Are Absorbed into Our Skin
We don’t usually think about it this way, but our skin is the largest organ in our body. It forms a barrier between us and the outside world and is our first line of defense, however it is not impervious.
The Dalton is the standard unit of measurement for atomic mass. If the molecular weight is under 500 Dalton, it can freely pass through the top-most layer of skin. Essential oils easily pass into our bodies because they are far below that mark. However due to the volatile properties of essential oils, they can evaporate quickly, so they are blended with carrier oils to protect from evaporation and to prevent skin irritation from its high level of concentration. Essential oils pass through the body’s lipophilic (oil loving) and hydrophilic (water loving) layers due to its nature of having an affinity to both.
Benefits of Essential Oils
Essential oils are used to help the mind, body, and spirit. Each oil has their own unique properties that are determined by the plant. They improve quality of life by reducing anxiety, stress, pain, nausea, and so much more.
How to Apply
Before applying directly to skin, make sure the essential oils you are using are diluted properly, typically in the range of 1-5%. Our CBD products it can be diluted up to 10% for extra-strength relief. Thinner oils (fractionated coconut, sweet almond, or grapeseed oils) will be easier to absorb by the body than more viscous oils (olive or avocado oils).
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Essential oils can evaporate quickly as they are applied to warm skin, however warm surroundings will enhance the ability of the oil to penetrate the skin. Applying oils to a warm bath or warm massage oil will significantly increase absorption from increased blood flow to the area of application. Covering the skin with fabric that is non-permeable will also significantly increase absorption into the bloodstream. Topical use is complemented by aromatherapy, or smelling the oils, which also introduces the oil into the bloodstream.
At the Original Oil Shop, we have choices for our customers to determine what would best fit their needs. We carry both full strength oils and oils that are pre-diluted with a carrier oil in a roll-on bottle (we mostly use fractionated coconut, hemp seed, and arnica oils). Each method has its own benefits. The full strength bottles allow more flexibility in your use; you can combine it with an oil or lotion of your choice, use it in diffusers, apply drops to your vacuum filter, or use in a spray bottle to spritz on your clothes to smell so fresh.
Dallmeier, Lorraine. “Can Essential Oils Get into Your Bloodstream?” Herb & Hedgerow, 26 Aug. 2018, www.herbhedgerow.co.uk/can-essential-oils-get-into-your-bloodstream/.
“Essential Oils - National Library of Medicine - PubMed Health.” Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 7 Aug. 2018, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMHT0025082/.
Morgan, Leah. “How Essential Oils Enter the Body.” Healingscents, 2018, healingscents.net/blogs/learn/18685875-how-essential-oils-enter-the-body.

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As I mentioned previously, we seem to have a family of snackers. I made Sweet and Crunchy mix to have something that could be easily grabbed and eaten.
I also made a batch of these refried beans to serve as a dip with baked tortilla chips. It too makes a tasty and filling after school snack.
- 3 cups cooked pinto beans
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 2 teaspoons cumin
- 2 teaspoons chili powder
- 1/2 teaspoon coriander
- 1-2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- juice of 1 lime or 1 lime ice cube
- Puree 1 1/2 cups pinto beans. Set both whole beans and pureed beans aside.
- In a large skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Saute garlic, cumin, chili powder, and coriander until garlic softens but doesn't brown.
- Add both pureed and whole beans to the skillet. Reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes.
- Stir in lime juice and salt. Taste and adjust seasonings.

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American leaders and their loyal media pundits love to sit in judgment of other countries’ election, declaring them fair or rigged according to their seemingly meticulous standards. In fact, the real standard is that the regimes “we” like hold free and fair (enough) elections, while the regimes “we” dislike don’t. What about regimes “we” like that hold no elections at all, like Saudi Arabia? They are forgotten whenever the loveliness of democracy is the topic of discussion.
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Halloween is the perfect holiday for children to discover the humanity of trade. Trick-or-treating may be the main attraction, but the spontaneous candy swap negotiations that occur afterwards are often just as enjoyable and help children learn important economic principles.
Episode 411 welcomes back Dennis Pratt to chat with Skyler on the following topics: the shutdown of Rodger Paxton’s Pax Libertas Productions; his multi-year career writing thoughtful answers to libertarian questions on Quora; New Hampshire’s Free State Project; life and politics in NH; how the locals are responding to the influx of libertarians to NH; what taxes are levied in NH; his involvement in building community centers for NH residents; why all economic regulations are a type of hidden tax; libertarianism as a paradigm shift; respecting cultural diversity among libertarians; slavery reparations as federal land divestments; why everyone is owed reparations by government for its many crimes; the dangers of cultivating and maintaining victimhood mentality; Porcfest, freedom festival; Joe Biden on the minimum wage; and more.
The fact that many people refuse to do what works is a flimsy reason to humor them. And it is a terrible reason to endorse clear-cut errors like, “They just can’t do it.”
Episode 353 welcomes back Alex R. Knight III to chat with Skyler on the following topics: the tumultuous year 2020; coronavirus hysteria; looking forward 10 years and what we should expect; reducing statism through technology instead of ideological persuasion; Kamala Harris’ possible ancestry; what becoming a politician does to people; why voters are rationally ignorant; who’s to blame when democratic government fails; inconsistency in the behaviors we tolerate from other people, government and not; postmodernism; the effectiveness that communist defectors have on getting people in freer countries to see the mistake in pushing for more government; 2020 US presidential election prediction; and more.
I mentioned my dislike of non-political sites dragging politics into their content. When I mentioned this to one of the guilty parties, they said “everything is political“. If that were the case, we’d be living in a dystopia.
Last week, I outlined much of my argument against Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet that I incorporated into our debate, but here are five takeaways from Monday’s discussion.
Economics textbooks are full of clever-and-appealing policy proposals. Proposals like: “Let’s redistribute money to the desperately poor” and “Let’s tax goods with negative externalities.” They’re so clever and so appealing that it’s hard to understand how any smart, well-meaning person could demur. When you look at the real world, though, you see something strange: Almost no one actually pushes for the textbooks’ clever-and-appealing policy proposals.
With the violent crime rate increasing disproportionately in urban communities, it’s no surprise that a recent phone survey of black voters found that 80 percent felt gun violence was an “extremely serious” problem. However, it seems this surge in violence actually has many in the black community changing their views on gun ownership.

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Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, who was appointed by George W. Bush and wrote the majority opinion that ushered in Obamacare, rebuked President Trump. Roberts chided Trump for referring to Judge Jon Tigar as an “Obama Judge” after he ruled against Trump’s executive order requiring migrants who are seeking asylum to enter at official ports of entry, which necessitates that they wait in line.
Trump responded by writing, “Justice Roberts can say what he wants, but the 9th Circuit is a complete & total disaster. It is out of control, has a horrible reputation, is overturned more than any Circuit in the Country, 79%, & is used to get an almost guaranteed result. Judges must not Legislate Security…and Safety at the Border, or anywhere else. They know nothing about it and are making our Country unsafe. Our great Law Enforcement professionals MUST BE ALLOWED TO DO THEIR JOB! If not there will be only bedlam, chaos, injury and death. We want the Constitution as written!”
President Trump refused to back down and continued to spar with Chief Justice Roberts on Thanksgiving morning.
On Tuesday, President Trump lashed out at the liberal activist ‘Obama judge’ in San Francisco who put his asylum policy on hold.
Chief Justice Roberts, who was nominated by George W. Bush and voted in favor to uphold Obamacare, lashed out at Trump on Wednesday saying the U.S. doesn’t have “Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges.”
John O’Looney, owner of Milton Keynes Family Funeral Services who has been a funeral director for 15 years, gave a disturbing account of how COVID-19 is being used as an excuse to administer toxic COVID vaccines to murder people and sterilize children in a depopulation agenda.
Attorney Devore stated, “The court said quite clearly that a mask is a device that’s intended to limit the spread of a disease so it is a quarantine by definition and you cannot require anyone, students in this particular case, to wear that unless there’s consent of the parent or court order.”
The whistleblower said that the MBMC hospital, part the Barnes Jewish hospital system in St. Louis, Missouri, actually shut down three out of four floors of intensive care during COVID because they were UNUSED!
The FDA shut down Biden’s plans to roll out boosters on Monday, September 20 in a revolt against the Pfizer’s shot that was sparked by two top FDA officials retiring and denouncing booster shots in a Lancet paper. Although the FDA isn’t obligated to follow the advisory panel’s decision, it typically does.
Jesse Watters chronicles the recent history of corruption of the FBI, ranging from molestation cases to mass shootings to the the kidnapping plot of Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer that appears to be orchestrated by the FBI.
California: On the night of the election to recall Governor Gavin Newsom, over 350,000 ballots tabulated in favor of removing him from office disappeared on a live CNN show. There is video showing 9 similar incidents that happened when the election was stolen from Trump in 2020.
Brnovich’s lawsuit argues that Biden’s mandatory vaccine policy discriminates against American citizens because illegal migrants are not required to be vaccinated. Critics believe that Brnovich may be pursuing a losing strategy that will be defeated in court and will set a precedent favoring mandatory vaccines.
Globalists propose restricting individual behavior utilizing “personal carbon allowances,” with all adults receiving an equal tradable carbon allowance that reduces over time in line with national [carbon] targets.” The allotment could act like WW2 ration cards that limited individual purchases of commodities.
Dr. Cole stated that as a result of this vaccine-induced “killer T-cell” suppression, he is seeing an “uptick” of not only endometrial cancer, but also melanomas, herpes, shingles, mono, and a huge uptick in HPV. Dr. Cole’s videos have been censored off of Youtube.
There were 204 cases of myocarditis and other disease with inflammation in and around the heart following vaccination. Most cases occurred in males after the second dose of either mRNA jab; 106 of these cases involved people under the age of 25.. All but two of the cases required an emergency room visit.
Despite restrictions and vaccine saturation of 80%, the number of cases is increasing. As we have reported many times, Covid cases have been conjured from flawed PCR tests, deaths from other causes are counted as Covid deaths, and it has never been proven that a Covid virus exists and makes people ill.
Gen. Milley called a meeting of senior officials at the Pentagon to warn that Donald Trump, the sitting President, was a threat to national security as he questioned the results of the 2020 election. Milley said that the US may be required to use physical force against the President and that “We’re the guys with guns.”
The leftist media, Democrats and many Republicans, includingTrump, demonized the unarmed January 6 protesters at the Capitol and called them ‘terrorists’ and ‘insurrectionists’. The protesters have been held in indefinite detention, tortured, beaten, racially abused and locked in solitary confinement in DC jails.
Teachers and administrators can be arrested, charged and prosecuted, not only if they don’t wear masks themselves in school, but if their students don’t wear masks. Tri-County Health says if educators don’t enforce the mandate, it’s a class 1 misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in prison and $5,000 fine.
Bush conflated the January 6 protesters/ Trump supporters, who he called “domestic extremists”, with jihadists, and said that they share a “disregard for human life”. He characterized them by saying, “They are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our… duty to confront them.”
The US government treats Americans like enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, intimidated, invaded, raided, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, denied due process, and killed. The US government poses a greater threat to our freedoms than any terrorist, extremist or foreign entity ever could.
Dr. Mary Rudyk is seen telling Director of Marketing Carolyn Fisher that she wants hospitals to become more “scary to the public” by inflating the number of COVID patients so they can falsely tell individuals, “If you don’t get vaccinated, you know you’re going to die.”
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Judge Tigar said that refugees can seek asylum “whether or not at a designated port of arrival” is used. According to DHS, 107 people detained between official crossings have sought asylum since Trump’s order went into effect.
Republican Representative Kevin Yoder advanced an amendment that would nullify AG Jeff Sessions’ decision to stop granting asylum to people who claim asylum from gang and domestic violence, essentially throwing US borders wide open to hundreds of millions of migrants from Latin America.


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Recently the headlines have been inundated with tragic incidents of domestic violence and the murder of women by their partners, many of them from the Arab sector. Together with the reports from the media, and the criticism that the authorities have been impotent there has been discourse among the Arab public on the subject, as well as a bevy of references to a Muslim man’s responsibilities towards his wife, as is evident from the Quran, the Hadith and early Muslim history.
Early Islamic sources tell of “Ṣaʿṣaʿa Mūḥī l-Mawludāt” (Sasaʿa The Reviver of Baby Girls) – a man who would walk along and save baby girls from the cruel fate of a girls’ grave during the Jahiliyya period, the period preceding the rise of Islam. The story of Sasaʿa is an example of the accepted narrative that emphasizes the gap between Islam and the Jahiliyya: the people of the Jahiliyya worshipped idols, while the Muslim believers served the only one true God; the people of the Jahiliyya buried baby girls in order to prevent the embarrassment they could bring upon the family, and so as to not to waste precious resources on girls who could not contribute to the tribe, while the Muslim believers honored women and gave them a part in their inheritance.
According to the Muslim narrative the Jahiliyya was a period of ignorance, during which they did not believe in the one God, Creator of the World and did not recognize basic morality. One of the characteristics of the period was the humiliating mistreatment of women, and like many other characteristics, the Muslim community and its principles of faith rejected it.
Modern research has doubts regarding the framing of these issues in this way, and exposes the contradictions and the many problems with the description of a sharp turn, so to speak, from the Jahiliyya to Islam. Even more so, according to modern scholarship, the status of women in Islam was not unaffected by the historical transition from idolatry to the faith in one God, but rather is also related to issues of gender, the division of roles, and the rights of women to a place in the public sphere today.
In scholarship of gender issues in the Middle East, one can sometimes discern two opposing assumptions. The story of Sasaʿa and the laws of inheritance in Islam are useful tools for those who claim that there was a sharp turn from the immoral, Jahiliyya, to moral Islam, a pivot that included, not only principles of faith, but also new rules of behavior, including respect for women. This position, presents Islam as a real and tangible improvement in the lives of women in the Arabian Peninsula: from lacking status and value, to people, believers, with equal obligations and rights in the eyes of God.
On the other hand, the other position reads the Jahiliyya past differently, and emphasizes a change for the worst, actually. It assumes that during the Jahiliyya women were strong, owned money and property and were involved in society in various ways. Khadijah, the Prophet’s first wife, was a good example of this. whereas Islam pushed women away from positions of influence and prevented them from filling valuable roles in society.
Both positions are apologetic, and both of them use women no less than scholars of yore did. Both use female figures to reinforce their positions, and negate women’s basic agency and define their sphere of activity in the past and in the present for them.
Religious figures, social activists, internet commenters, and more, are party to the historians in this trend. The public discourse that was awakened over the last few weeks in light of the many incidents of violence against women in the Arab sector in Israel, demonstrates this very well: Sasaʿa’s story often stars in the attempt to teach “the right way to behave”, and proper gender power roles in society and in the family are explained and justified in religious terms, with verses from the Quran and traditions attributed to the Prophet.
Permission to use violence against women is derived from verse 34 in the Sura of Women. Many commentators claimed, and still claim, that this verse proves the superiority of man over women and is the foundation of the right of a husband to use violence against his wife. This verse is mentioned again and again in discussions regarding the authority a man has over a woman’s life, the tools with which he is permitted to enact this authority, and the ways that are accessible to women to receive aid in situations in which men take advantage of this right malevolently.
However, this verse, like many other questions regarding the place of women in relationships, family and society, is still up for interpretation. Even as early as the first centuries of Islam, the four legal Islamic schools of law disagreed regarding what are the limits that curb the right of a man to hit his wife: the number of blows, the way in which he may hit her, which results render the hits legitimate or illegitimate, but also, maybe most importantly, the very essence of the permission to strike. How does this verse go hand in hand with the characterization of the Prophet Mohammed as a gentle person, who had respectful relationships with his wives, without any mention of use of violence? Can one see the documented behavior of the Prophet in the sources as proof of the rejection of the right to hit, and any use of violence against women?
In recent years feminist readings of the Quran, which suggest additional interpretations of this verse and other verses and makes room for a gender balance that would allow women to integrate into diverse cultural, economic spheres, in the private arena and also in the public arena, have been added to the discussion.
However, it seems that the legal argument has been too secondary in the public discourse regarding domestic violence. The superiority of men, and the right to use force against women is prioritized over religious law, and those who support this right use claims that fit their stances and ignore the religious legal disagreement on the subject both in the far past and in the present.
Using the Quran in order to justify the right of a man to hit his partner, or to reject that right is part of the discussion regarding the place of women in the private sphere and the public sphere in the 21st century. However, the interpretation of religious law is influenced by accepted social norms in a given place and time, by the laws of the country, and the traditions of the community and family. Recognizing that interpretation is a chosen interpretation and not a clear-cut body of knowledge will make it possible to widen the boundaries of the discourse, and at the same time allow for a reading of the past without the obligation to justify the present, and could even to lead to strong and un-compromising action towards the eradication of violence in society and in the family.


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Mechanical properties of silicene
RE Roman and SW Cranford, COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE, 82, 50-55 (2014).
The potential of atomistically two-dimensional (2D) materials has created a new paradigm of materials science. Among the various 2D crystalline structures is silicene - a monolayer allotrope of silicon - similar to the structure of graphene. While this material has been previous investigated for potential in electrical applications, successful implementation in such nanodevices requires full understanding of its mechanical behavior. Here, using full atomistic first-principles-based ReaxFF molecular dynamics (MD) we quantify the elastic stiffness (50.44 N/m for zigzag direction, 62.31 N/m for armchair direction) and limit states (ultimate strength on the order of 5.85 N/m, ultimate strain on the order of 18%) of monolayer silicene. A weak directional dependence is observed. Moreover, we quantify the effective bending stiffness of silicene (38.63 eV per unit width), indicating that its corrugated-like structure increases the bending rigidity compared to the similar system of graphene. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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The Boxcar Children #9: Mountain Top Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Boxcar Children (9)
I am re-reading the original 19 in numerical order. A fine romp that continues in the tradition of the previous books. The "mystery" this time is two-fold, first the ever-present identity of the mystery person, this time an Indian boy, and second, the hunt for a hidden treasure. This is the next summer after the previous book and the kids have decided to go where Grandfather was supposed to be taking them when they inadvertently ended up at the Lighthouse last time. The children are obviously older now, though no ages are given. Illustrations of Benny, sometimes called Ben now, show him as an older boy, not the little boy shown on this cover. John Carter is the only recurring character who returns this time but he has now assumed the role of Grandfather's right-hand man. The book has a cultural message about not forgetting the ways of the past, specifically here the "Indians", and presents them in a positive light showing how the Great-Grandmother Indian woman is passing along her skills of sweetgrass basket weaving and wampum bead making to the present generation. This is then the first time in the series in which the book ends with words presuming to tell us that there will be another adventure next summer and that will be time for another story. The series has gone through some minor changes since the early novels but one knows what to expect by this point.
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The Captain’s Duty by Krystal M. Anderson
He’d never let a woman ruin his beloved bachelorhood… not until he met the feisty ship captain, that is.
As lighthouse tender to two magnificent lighthouses off the Oregon coast, Arthur Hugh treasures his time spent fishing in the bay and the isolation of living in a small lumber town. He can do what he wants, whenever he wants, answering to no one. But when a little boy shows up in Spruce Hill and turns Arthur’s life upside down, he begins to rethink everything that is important to him.
Bent on saving her family’s floundering freight business, Captain Sarah Ballinder has problems enough of her own without having to put up with an irritating ox of a man like Mr. Hugh. Forced to work together on a lighthouse project, Sarah wonders if anything worse could happen. She never imagined she could fall for the very man she despised…
The Captain’s Duty is part of the multi-author series Keepers of the Light but can be read as a standalone.
I could barely put the book down and I know you’ll enjoy it.
Author Krystal M. Andeson
Krystal M. Anderson is a Utah, USA native and a wife and mother of four young children, including a set of twins. She loves telling stories to her children and they remind her to write down their favorites. She grew up on horseback and treasured any time spent riding through the red sands and sagebrush, always yearning to find out what was over the next ridge.
Nothing makes her happier than being a wife and mother… but reading is a very close second!
Krystal also writes sweet contemporary romance under her pen name, Katrina Kyle.

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Can you tell I'm having a hard time thinking up interesting titles??? Today is the last day of the tour of my sisters home, and she really does have some great ideas, especially for hanging pictures.
I really like how she hung these pictures. The rod and the iron work above it is from that store Rod Works that I've told your about.
More fun stuff from Rod Works. They do have a online store if your interested. Just Google Rod Works and you'll find it.
I love this easel, I actually think she bought it from Tai Pan, I love these pictures that she had taken at Kiddie Kandids.
This is her Fire Place Mantle. I love these hearts that she made and the sweet Willow Tree figurine.
Sorry, not the greatest picture, I was trying to be a little too creative with the angle.
Here is there coffee table with some fun stuff from Tai Pan, I haven't been there forever, now I want to go!
She probably wouldn't appreciate me taking pics of her bathroom. I just really like it though. I like the paint color and the tile and how she's decorated. I love the little topiary.
I thought this was a cool idea. I might have to try it in my bedroom.
This is above the hot tub in the master bath.
I thought this was a cute idea. It's just one of those canvas covered frames that artists use, and she's decorated it up.
Isn't Modge Podge awesome!
My friend Megan thought I need to show pictures of the families to go along with the home tours. I thought that was a good idea, maybe it will make it feel more personal. Here is my sister and her hubby on their wedding day, a little over two years ago.

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A Childhood Spent in Foster Care Informs Award-Winning Film
November 11, 2021 | Noel Anaya
I turned 21 in 2017, which was a pivotal year for me. It could go one of two ways: I could either get what felt like a forced divorce because the foster care system had outgrown me—and end up an angry adult filled with rage. Or, I could turn 21 and choose to emancipate, on my own terms, and get the closure I deserved. I chose the second option. I knew I wanted to process everything that had happened to me since I was placed in the foster care system at the age of 1. After living with several different foster families in different states throughout my childhood, I was now aging out of the system.
When I emancipated, I produced a broadcast media story about my own experience in the foster care system with YR Media. I was granted unprecedented media access to the courtroom proceedings, and the resulting story was so compelling that NPR aired what then became an Edward R. Murrow and Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Competition award-winning radio piece. YR Media received hundreds of emails, calls, and comments from across the world from people wanting to help me. After that, I wrote a story about college after foster care for The New York Times and continued to publicly advocate, write, and speak on behalf of foster youth.
When I saw how my stories were being leveraged by foster care agencies, educators, and advocates working to improve the system, I knew I wanted to create a feature documentary that would be an even bigger tool for change.
I made Unadopted to answer the question: What happens to those who grow up in the system and emancipate? My focus on child welfare comes from my experience spending 20-plus years as a ward of the state. There is so much that goes unspoken, especially when it comes to pre-teens and young adults in the system. In the Unadopted documentary, we uncover how that happens, and who is accountable for the system’s failure to find permanent family placements for kids like me.


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DRAWN & QUARTERED
COURTESY TOKYOPOP; TOKYOPOP; ADV MANGA
Short & sweet
One-volume reads for manga fans who need a breather from long series
There are times when manga readers just want to go for a simple, compact series.
Maybe it's for cost purposes -- it's difficult to get into some series because they run for more than 30 volumes, and you don't have enough time and money to invest. Maybe it's because you just finished reading a long series and want something short and sweet as a follow-up. Or maybe it's because you're busy working on other articles and columns to be published later this month about local anime and manga culture (shameless plug).
Whatever your circumstances, we present a roundup of "one-and-dones" -- manga that start and finish in one volume -- that will help fill your short-term manga needs.
"Bus Gamer 1999-2001: The Pilot Edition"
Synopsis: Businesses compete with one another. That's a true statement in any capitalistic setting. But the world of the "Biz Game" takes matters one step further, pitting teams of three against each other. The "home team" protects a disc filled with their corporation's secrets; the "away team" tries to steal it.
Toki, Nobuto and Kazuo are "Team AAA," three students thrown together because they need the money. Things seem simple enough at first: They kick butt and quickly become one of the elite teams in the game.
But as they advance, it becomes clear that while the prize money is nice, losing is simply not an option. There's high-stakes betting going on among the companies, and losers are mysteriously dropping dead ...
Jason's take: This is actually the self-contained prologue to a "Bus Gamer" series yet to be released in America; if this is indicative of what's to come, here's hoping Tokyopop sees fit to order a full season.
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"Go With Grace"
Synopsis: Young Grace is afflicted with an illness that has kept her bedridden and isolated for the last 10 years, with just her younger sister taking care of her and a chain-smoking father worried only about the cost of Grace's emergency-room visits. Aside from her sister, Grace's only solace is in her writing.
Things change when a boy named Andy appears in her room one day. He's actually a ghost, and he takes Grace on amazing journeys. But each time, the girl ends up in the hospital near death. And there's more to Andy's presence than the spirit is letting on.
Wilma's take: This one is not for the faint-hearted. "Grace" is submerged in gloom, and its few high points barely rise above the surface of that dark pool. The story seems to veer off in several different directions, but it finally solidifies into an ending that is not so much happy as it is vaguely satisfying.
It draws you in all the way to the end, though its despondency makes you glad to reach that last page. And by the time you close the book, you might discover just how deeply it has marked your soul.
Synopsis: Life isn't going well for Jeremy Rosen, an insurance claims investigator. He recently broke up with his girlfriend, and his depression is affecting his work and meager social life. Then comes an urgent jury-duty summons from the Superior Court.
When Jeremy shows up at court, the clerk cryptically informs him that he's Juror 13 -- in a 12-person jury system -- and directs him to his assigned room. When he returns from court, things quickly plunge further downhill in his life: Jeremy is the target of an embezzlement probe at work and finds himself on the run from the police. He makes startling discoveries and finds out how a white-hot moment of passion can alter life forever.
Wilma's take: This action tale of love and betrayal is nothing new, with a slight futuristic bent and several almost predictable twists at the end. But the sci-fi element is a great exploration of human nature and the power of the mind as we witness Jeremy's transformation in the dizzying spiral of events around him.
All this makes "Juror 13" an excellent one-time read but not much after that.
Synopsis: Chiko is just an average high school girl. That alone would make for a really boring story, though, so to spice up this tale, she eventually finds a cell phone ... and a new calling in life. Literally.
As it turns out, a certain person has the phone's number and is more than happy to call it to tell Chiko that someone will die in a few minutes. Oh, and she's the only person who can save the would-be suicide victim, so good luck, ha ha ha, buh-bye. Soon, Chiko, accompanied by her classmate, Bando, are running all over Tokyo trying to save people.
It's a wicked game that this unseen caller is playing, with Chiko and her cohorts, with them clearly as the pawns.
Jason's take: This story is like the first hill of a short roller coaster: It takes a while to build up to the action, but once it hits, events quickly happen one after another. Things happen so quickly, in fact, that the story threatens to derail completely at the end but manages to hang on. Barely.
Synopsis: Private eye Al Foster is in for a whole lot more than he realizes when 13-year-old Rai Spencer hires him to find out who's been trying to kill him. The boy not only is a son of the billionaire Spencer family, he's also a genius who's already graduated from college -- and he has telekinetic powers. Add his strong-willed -- and strong-armed -- sister Rei, and Al's got just about all he can handle.
After the case is resolved, Rai proclaims himself Al's new employee, and the boy -- at least when Al's not sending him out on mundane errands or to help with elderly clients -- faces others with paranormal abilities. Rei, meanwhile, struggles with her feelings for Al as the issue of her marriage looms ever closer.
Wilma's take: This manga crams in a steady stream of danger, intrigue, action, tension and romance in a few short stories. The main characters are given just the right amount of development and focus, with each person having their good and bad sides that make them appealingly real.

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A couple days ago, I sat outside my house while shuffling through songs in the Spotify playlists I had made and felt generally uninspired by them. Realizing that most of my current music bored me, I decided to play the Today’s Top Hits playlist, featuring America’s newest and most popular songs. As I continued listening, however, I had a horrifying realization that I recognized every single song, but not for a good reason. All of the tunes that I listened to had been played repeatedly on the popular social media platform TikTok. Many of the songs are catchy, and it is obvious that numerous people listen to them on a regular basis. However, the fact that I had heard almost every song so many times ruined them for me. Gone are the days when I could listen to Myron by Lil Uzi Vert without picturing a TikTok “influencer” thrusting their hips towards my screen in a vulgar manner. Gone are the days when I could hear a perfectly good song by The Weeknd without visualizing another amateur indie-coming-of-age-I’m-not-like-other-kids movie. TikTok’s ability to make a song viral overnight has overrun the music industry and significantly detracted from its integrity.
Some might argue that if a song is popular on TikTok in the first place, it must be widely recognized. Although this is true in some cases, the vast majority of songs found on TikTok start out relatively unknown. Take Lil Nas X’s Old Town Road, which was his first big hit, or Arizona Zervas, whose top two listened-to songs on Spotify (Roxanne and FML) blew up from advertising on the app. TikTok trends always gain popularity outside of the app, rewarding cheap viral hits in place of other, higher quality, music. For example, Times We Had by Barlito originally attracted attention as a joke on Twitter, later spreading to TikTok, making itself a trend. The song became a popular feature in many videos, which either restated the joke or simply used it as background noise. Despite its low quality, the song debuted atop the Spotify US Viral 50 chart on May 18th, a couple weeks after blowing up on TikTok. The fact that a joke, a meme, could reach the highest billboards in the US shows how much control TikTok has over the music industry. Its trends dictate the charts and pay no attention to an artist’s merits.
Other music creators have been flooding TikTok to capitalize on the constant viewership, which attracts listeners for reasons other than the song itself. Doja Cat’s Say So (currently No. 2 on the Billboard Top 100 list) maintained its high popularity much longer than what the song deserved due to the viral dance that accompanied the song. The most popular TikTok influencers, as well as Doja Cat herself, joined in on the dance, and it appeared in her official music video that was released later. Only after inadvertently listening to the song hundreds of times did I realize that Doja Cat was abusing the TikTok craze before most knew about it. By fully claiming the internet trend that grew without her involvement, she was able to monetize the internet’s knack for trendsetting. Therefore, Doja Cat had an unfair advantage over other contending artists who didn’t use the app, which hurts the integrity of her as an artist and the industry as a whole.
Songs now have a new way of being advertised. TikTok allows a viewer to judge a song (subconsciously or not) by a visual piece, not just by how it sounds. TikTok causes authenticity to be sacrificed for immediate approval. From internet memes to unorthodox forms of advertisement, music artists and labels have been taking advantage of the multimedia platform and hurting the integrity of the music industry along the way.

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Have you signed up for JCPL's Summer Reading Club yet? If not, make sure you do! There are just of three weeks left to get in your eight hours of reading - easy, right?
Kids and teens who read at least eight hours will be entered to win a Kindle Fire and adults who read eight hours or more could win an iPad 3!
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“We must demand return to geopolitical relations the way they had been before annexation of Crimea. This means, that Russia must leave Crimea”, - stated President of Poland Andrzej Duda during his visit to Washington, informed Polskie Radio.
During his meeting with journalists in the National press club, Duda focused mainly on reinforcement of NATO and Russian aggression in Ukraine. “For the first time since World War II, European borders have been changed by force”, - Duda pointed out.
According to the President of Poland, actions of Russia regarding annexation of Crimea and support of militants in eastern Ukraine are unacceptable. “In this regard, there are serious concerns that peaceful times in our part of Europe are over”, - he said.
Talking about Ukraine, Andrzej Duda encouraged NATO to act. According to the President, increase of military presence in Central and Eastern Europe is necessary. “We want military presence of NATO. We want soldiers of the Alliance to be permanently located in Central and Eastern Europe”, - Duda stated.

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The Sibley Guides series began with the publication of The Sibley Guide to Birds in 2000, and since then has expanded to include four additional books on birds and, in 2009, The Sibley Guide to Trees. This website presents some of my ongoing efforts to identify and understand the birds and trees of North America.
I’ve been watching and drawing nature for most of my life, with a heavy emphasis on birds until about seven years ago. I consider myself a scientific illustrator and the goal of most of my art is to reveal the larger patterns and systems of nature by learning what makes each species different from (and similar to) other species. I hope you’ll join in this pursuit of knowledge and share the pleasure of discovery. There are still so many mysteries to solve and things to discover all around us, and the opportunities for learning never end.
I have written and illustrated a number of books, listed below. Clicking on any title will lead to a page with more information about that book.
Bright Wings$22.95 Buy at Amazon
Sibley Backyard Birding Flashcards$14.99 Buy at Amazon
Sibley’s Birding Basics$15.95 Add to cart
The Sibley Birds Coloring Field Journal$19.95 Add to cart
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Author and illustrator:
Sibley’s Birding Basics, 2002
The Birds of Cape May, 1993; revised edition in 1997
Bright Wings, 2009
Atlas Of The Breeding Birds Of Nevada, 2007 (cover)
Birds of Denali, 2002
The Wind Masters, 1995
Hawks in Flight: The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors, 1988
The Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State, 1988
Hawkwatch: A guide for beginners, 1986
Tales of a Low-Rent Birder, 1986
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Samson Venture Partners made the investment.
Medical device start-up SteadyMed Ltd. has raised $2 million in its first financing round from Samson Venture Partners LLC, the investment arm of Becker & Associates Consulting. Becker advises companies on work with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
SteadyMed is developing the PatchPump, an inexpensive miniaturized infusion pump for the smart delivery of therapeutic drugs.
SteadyMed has raised $3 million to date, including the present round. The company was founded in 2005 at Rad BioMed Incubator, a unit of the Zisapel brothers RAD Group.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on January 28, 2009
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Great Guide To Having A Healthy BodyWhy should you give a hoot about nutrition? Well, nutrition is the building block to all life. What you put into your body is what you get out of it, so nutrition is a great way to enhance the quality of your day-to-day life. This article will outline a few simple ways you can get on the path to better nutrition, with just a few little things!
When cooking your lower-calorie and lower-fat diet meals, increase the amount of spices and flavoring you use. click here to investigate will help you feel more satisfied with less food. If you get a variety of tastes in your meal, you won't feel as deprived as if you are eating bland low-fat foods.
Vitamin E is an important part of a healthy diet. It acts as an antioxidant, ridding the body of free radicals that have the ability to damage your cells and help to cause cancer and cardiovascular disease. Immune function and DNA repair are also helped by Vitamin E. You can get Vitamin E in vegetables oils, fortified cereals, nuts, beans, whole grains and leafy green vegetables.
To understand nutrition's importance, you need to gain an understanding of how your body functions. It is made up of many complex systems: the neural, the gastro-intestinal, the lymphatic, the endocrine, the muscular-skeletal and so on. These all dovetail and work together as a whole. This complex "wholeness" is what you need to gain a good sense of, in order to meet your body's nutritonal needs.
When considering a diet that provides an adequate nutrition level, it is important to know what your daily calorie intake should be and to adjust your portions accordingly. The range of calories that you need depends on your sex, age, weight, and level of activity on a normal day. Many nutritional sites will provide this information for you after plugging in your information.
Drink lots of water every day. It's OK to serve juice or milk with meals, but don't have it be the drink of choice between meals. The likelihood of them not being hungry when they are offered the meals is higher if they constantly drink juice or milk during the day.
When possible, include more foods in your diet that are high in omega 3. Omega 3 is one of the good fats that has many benefits. It can help reduce pain and swelling in an injury. It is a great source of protection against cardiovascular disease and strokes. It also has some benefits in treating attention deficit disorders.
You will want to watch out for any foods that are labeled "fat-free" or "zero trans fat." "Fat-free" foods may be devoid of fat, but in most cases, they certainly are NOT devoid of refined sugars. When you are reading the nutrition labels on these items, you will want to be careful and pay close attention.
Healthista reveal the 14 best supplements this year - Daily Mail Online
Healthista reveal the 14 best supplements this year - Daily Mail Online Here, writers from the British lifestyle website Healthista have rounded up their 14 favourite supplements of the year. They range from pills, powders and potions.
Tomatoes are a versatile and terrific addition to the diet. In addition to being relatively low in calories and high in fiber, Vitamin A, and lycopene, it's used in everything from pizza to cocktails. However, in order to get the best use out of it, one should lightly cook it with foods containing oil, like cheeses or meats.
To lower http://www.iamsport.org/pg/bookmarks/bernadette801kiersten/read/32234686/terrific-ways-to-get-fit-made-easy , you should include plenty of potassium in your diet. Studies have shown that consuming potassium on a regular basis can give you significantly lower blood pressure. Some examples of foods rich in calcium are lima beans, potatoes, and spinach. Fortified benefits of jointace collagen is another great source.
Folic acid is one of the most crucial nutrients to keep in your diet, because it is important for proper growth and neural health. It is particularly important for women who are pregnant or nursing because a deficiency can lead to major birth defects. Good sources include vegetables, nuts, grain, and organ meats.
Always be aware of your sugar intake. Many times people will drink juice thinking it's a nutritional choice, when really it can be filled with sugar. Some juices actually contain more sugar then a can of pop. Read the food labels of everything you eat, and if it has a lot of sugar, skip it.
By doing this you will not be tempted to eat something unhealthy. Having a good variety of foods and meals to select from will stave off boredom from setting in.
Such a system will help avoid deviating from your healthy selections when you are short on time or undecided about your next meal. The variety of meals you find in your notebook will help you avoid getting bored with your food choices, and giving up on your diet as a result.
Healthy eating isn't quite difficult, mind you, but it's also not as easy as it sounds. A rabbit-food diet is lacking some vital nutrients, and other types of "diets" considered to be healthy can also leave you malnourished. Follow the tips you've read in this article when your goal is a balanced diet with proper nutrition.


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Associated Press, Published April 15 2013
Leadership of Spirit Lake Nation in disputeFORT TOTTEN, N.D. — Members of the Spirit Lake Nation have voted to oust chairman Roger Yankton over concerns about his leadership, but it's unclear whether he has been removed from office.
The tribe's constitution says a petition is needed to remove a chairman, and opponents say they expect a legal battle.
Yankton didn't attend the Sunday meeting of the tribal general assembly. He did appear at a meeting of elders on Friday and offered assurances that his administration would look into problems, such as ineffective child protection services on the reservation.
The assembly chose tribal college administrator Leander "Russ" McDonald as the new chairman. He was sworn in as chairman Monday, but some tribal officials say Yankton remains in charge.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press.

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Posted by bj on Sunday, January 30, 2011
Yep, got to fiddle with Jeff Wisor, formerly teacher on the Music Moose site (those lessons are still floating around somewhere on the web.) Wow, what an incredible fiddler! Got some tips for playing outta chord positions, which was different for me, and I might actually use it someday if I'm playing in EyeTalian tuning.
My fiddler friend Arlene Schar and I took the trip up to East Stroudsburg for Winterfest, run by the Pocono Bluegrass and Folk Society, which is ably managed by my friends, John and Neil, who are also Varmint Jammers here in Easton.
Jeff Wisor gave Arlene and me a quick fiddle workshop, which was great. He's more bluegrassy, but some of his tricks were directly transferable to OT. Some cool bowrocking variations and some other little slidey tricks that are simple and fun to throw in here and there. They were small, easy, but very cool little techniques. I think I got more from him in fifteen minutes than I got out of the last hour and a half long workshop I took!
We all got to jam for awhile and played some fiddle tunes, and some bluegrass and old country tunes, and even some texas swing. And I got to yodel, which I haven't done in a long time. I forgot how much fun it is!
And I discovered I could play House of the Rising Sun on fiddle, which I never woulda guessed . . .
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @5:31:01 PM
Shoot, you could probably play just about any song melody you've got rolling around inside that head of yours. Some, like House.. that have been there for a long time will be surprisingly easy. Good practice for ear/finger coordination.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @5:45:17 PM
What surprised me is I was basically doing a bluegrass treatment, since there was a singer. It just . . . happened. Not that I'll make a habit of it, LOL!
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @6:14:45 PM
bj, it's ok to play bluegrass. No more do you have to play bluegrass in back allies and seedy dives. Come on out in the open and say loudly and proudly "I CAN PLAY BLUEGRASS AND I LOVE IT!!!!!!!". It'll be ok.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @6:18:12 PM
Um, we were in a seedy dive . . .
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @6:38:57 PM
Yodeling, huh? Awesome! Must remember this for when we eventually meet in person.
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @6:43:56 PM
Even better, it was yodelling in three part harmony . . .
Sunday, January 30, 2011 @6:54:58 PM
Bluegrass. Humph. (Just teasing you.) Sounds like it was a great day.
Monday, January 31, 2011 @5:17:24 AM
Amazing how your perceptions are changing. Congrats. It's all music and it's all good.......unless, of course, it's bad. :-)
Monday, January 31, 2011 @8:33:35 AM
Steve, my musical tastes have always been broad ranging, so I'm trying to figure out how you see my perceptions as having changed. I've been going to bluegrass events periodically since I started fiddling, and back when I was The Jazz Chanteuse I ended up doing a stint with a country band, which I never thought I would do, but it ended up being fun for a bit. Anyway, bluegrass is fine for an occasional side dish, but it for sure isn't the main course for me. Never will be.
Now, having said that, I'll actively look to learn tricks from ANY sort of fiddler. Jeff does play mostly bluegrass but he does also play oldtime on occasion and does it justice. He's one of those musicians with very big ears. He's also a hellaciously great teacher. When you follow him and get it right that man INSTANTLY beams from ear to ear and it's like the angels just broke into three part harmony. Which makes you wanna get it right again.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 @6:26:18 AM
My mistake. I was under the impression that you only liked tunes, as opposed to songs, singers, singers singing songs or fiddlers providing chordal accompaniment, backing up singers singing songs.
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Okay, no puns. No polite, squeamish euphemisms. This is big news.
A team in the Netherlands has shown that fecal transplants are wildly effective in curing intestinal infections. Fecal transplants! That's the taking of a healthy person's stool and putting it into your gut.
The technique was so effective that the trial was actually stopped. Why? It was considered unethical to continue while withholding the wonderfully-effective fecal transplants from the other control groups.
The way it works is that the healthy bacteria in the stool transplant essentially repopulate the flora in the barren ecosystem of the sick person. Though there has been talk of this method for a long time, (occasional papers on it, doctors practicing it here and there), this study represents the first randomized trial comparing transplants to antibiotics. The results were pretty astounding. 43 patients. All of them have a vicious intestinal infection called Clostridium difficile. 17 got the fecal transplants. 13 got an antibiotic (vancomycin). 13 got the antibiotic plus an enema (to deep clean the colon). One of the fecal transplant patients had to drop out for unrelated reasons, and from there, 15 of the 16 were completely cured. Of the folks on antibiotics, only 7 of 26 were cured.
There's been a lot written about this in the last few days, but I found Maryn McKenna's article at WIRED to be the most thorough. She had written about this treatment a year ago and received overwhelming interest from patients -- those suffering from intestinal infections and desperate for a cure -- and almost complete radio silence from doctors. Her read is that the main barrier to the treatment being widely available is reluctance from doctors: "physicians’ own distrust of the procedure, or distaste for it."
It's true, the nuts and bolts of fecal transplant are pretty grody. Since doctors don't know exactly which bits of the healthy stool are necessary for the transplant to fight off the bacterial infection, they have to transplant it basically as-is. Stool is taken from a healthy person (and screened to make sure there are no parasites or infectious organisms). It's put in a blender. It is mixed with salt water. It is then pumped into the gut via enema or nose. Yes, nose -- a tube full of stool is fed in through the nose and down the throat, past the stomach and into the intestines.
The hope is that, over time, it will be possible to isolate the helpful bacteria from the healthy stool, and come up with an easier (and less stomach-churning) way of getting it into patients. But for now the stool needs to stay intact. So, poop in a blender it is.
So, here is my question for you. Couldn't we come up with a better sounding name than "fecal transplant?" A Canadian group came up with the term "RePOOPulate." Cute, but I'm still not feeling it. Couldn't we come up with something more soothing-sounding? Something that would sound reassuringly potent and healthy if you had a painful infection? Something you could brag about to your coworkers on your way to the doctor's office?
Please post your ideas below! And heck, if we get some good ones, I will gladly send them over to the good folks in South Holland who conducted this trial. Onward folks, poop to the people!
To get your brain whirring, remember -- the way this works is that the sick person's intestine gets repopulated with lots of nice healthy flora (bacteria) from the transplant. So maybe something about fertilizer?
Avoid marketing mistakes from times past. Turns out this treatment has been around a long time. A really long time. The Chinese were doing it as far back as the 4th century (according to this New York Times article); they'd give it to people by mouth. But they apparently called it (again, according to the New York Times)... "yellow soup."

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In 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court rendered the ban unenforceable, ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that such prohibitions violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution.
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More police officers were killed in 2021, the first year of Biden’s presidency, than have been in any single year since 1995.
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