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Another Paramedic Treatment for Epileptic Seizures
Epileptic seizures effectively stopped with intramuscular drug injection
(RxWiki News) Most seizures come and go quickly on their own, but long-lasting seizures may require drugs to stop them. Help could come faster with an Epi Pen-like injection, according to a new study.
Currently, seizure-stopping drugs are usually administered through an IV by a medical professional.
Now, there's a more effective alternative: A hand-held auto injector, which quickly delivers the drugs through a stab to the thigh, similar to Epi Pens used to treat severe allergic reactions.
"Ask your doctor about muscular injections for prolonged seizures."
The study was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and was based on a two year trial that compared intravenous treatment to intramuscular injections.
Nearly 2 percent of Americans suffer from epileptic seizures, and 50,000 die each year from prolonged seizures. Prolonged seizures last for five to ten minutes – long enough for a person to suffer serious brain damage or die from accidents sustained during the seizure.
Four thousand emergency medical technicians were trained in administering seizure-stopping drugs called benzodiazepines, using two methods.
The first method was the current technique of inserting an IV into the arm of the person having the seizure. The drugs work fast once in the body, but the problem with this method is that it can be difficult to get an IV into an arm during a seizure.
The second method used the auto-injector device to inject the drugs into the thigh muscle. The drugs take longer to take effect, but administering them is quick and relatively fool-proof.
The study involved 893 patients, who were treated by the paramedics by either the IV or the auto-injector.
The study found that the auto-injection to the thigh was safer and more effective than the IV method. The injection stopped 73 percent of seizures before the patient arrived at the hospital, while the IV stopped 63 percent.
The difference, according to the researchers, is that it's easier to use a quick injection than take the time to find a vein for an IV for a patient who is in the midst of a seizure. An IV can take several minutes, while an injection took 20 seconds during the study period.
The study authors said that the success of Epi Pen-like injections could bring a significant change in the way that prolonged seizures are treated. Epilepsy patients could have the syringe on hand at home, to respond to seizures even more quickly than EMTs.
However, there are some side effects. The drug used with the auto-injection causes heavy sedation and low blood pressure. These issues need to be researched before the syringes can be made available to patients at home.
The study was published in late February 2012.
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"A powerful work of scholarship, Continental Divides will become a model for reconceiving American literature, culture, and history in a complex international context. Adams's work on North American literature and culture will be highly significant." - Jose David Saldivar, University of California, Berkeley"
North America is more a political and an economic invention than a place people call home. Nonetheless, the region shared by the United States and its closest neighbors is an intriguing frame for comparative American studies. "Continental Divides" is the first book to study the patterns of contact, exchange, conflict, and disavowal among cultures that span the borders of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Rachel Adams considers a broad range of literary, filmic, and visual texts that exemplify cultural traffic across North American borders. She investigates how our understanding of key themes, genres, and periods within U.S. cultural study is deepened, and in some cases transformed, when Canada and Mexico enter the picture. How, for example, does the work of the iconic American writer Jack Kerouac read differently when his Franco-American origins and Mexican travels are taken into account? Or how would our conception of American modernism be altered if Mexico were positioned as a center of artistic and political activity? In this engaging analysis, Adams charts the lengthy and often unrecognized traditions of neighborly exchange, both hostile and amicable, that have left an imprint on North America's varied cultures.


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Literary: correspondence on the serialisation of WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War") with representatives of the New York Times [United States], and correspondence on foreign editions of the memoirs and other miscellaneous matters, A-L., Apr 1947 - Sep 1955
Scope and Contents Correspondents include: representatives of the New York Times including General Manager Julius Adler (6), publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Chief Correspondent Herbert Matthews (5), and Chief European Correspondent Raymond Daniell (5); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine]; Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (6); William Deakin (12); Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz] (12); Jacques Pirenne, Secretary to King [Leopold of Belgium]; French Defence Minister Paul Ramadier; General Pierre Billotte...
Dates: Apr 1947 - Sep 1955
Found in: Churchill Archives Centre / GBR/0014/CHAR and CHUR, The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill / Churchill Papers / Literary
Literary: News of the World articles by WSC 1., Apr 1938 - May 1938
Scope and Contents Includes annotated proofs, galley proofs and cuttings from the News of the World for: "How Wars of the Future will be Waged" on the importance of the horse in the Boer War, of machine-guns and tanks in World War I, the need for foresight and initiative amongst generals, and the importance of air power in a future conflict; "Future Safeguards of National Defence" on the importance of the Navy to national defence, the German submarine campaign in World War I, the threat of air attacks on ships...
Dates: Apr 1938 - May 1938
Literary: Sunday Chronicle articles by WSC: 1 ("The World Crisis" series)., Oct 1939 - Nov 1939
Scope and Contents Includes cuttings from the Chronicle for: "War - from inside the Admiralty" on experiencing naval action at the Admiralty during World War I, and a detailed description of the battle of the Dogger Bank; "U-boats - How the Navy Beat Them" on the morality of submarine warfare, the development of the Q-boat, the U-boat campaign against supply from the United States, and its consequence, the entry of the US into the war; "War on the Western Front" on casualties among the French, Germans and...
Dates: Oct 1939 - Nov 1939
Conditions Governing Access: Open.
Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., Mar 1940 - 19 May 1940
Scope and Contents Includes proofs, suggested introductions and cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "Lloyd George" praising [David] Lloyd George on his contribution to British life, commenting on his actions during World War I, his fall from power, and his personal qualities; "England" on English traditions, qualities, and patriotism; "How Does the Chancellor Do His Job?" on WSC's experiences as Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Gold Standard, and budgets; "Women in War", looking at the subject from both an...
Dates: Mar 1940 - 19 May 1940
Literary: The Second World War, Volume 4 "The Hinge of Fate", Chapter 11 "The shipping stranglehold"., 1941 - Nov 1950
Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/263
Scope and Contents Includes typescript and galley proofs of Chapter 11 "The shipping stranglehold" annotated with suggested amendments and corrections by various people including Denis Kelly, William Deakin, WSC, Charles Wood, Sir Edward Marsh, 1st Lord Ismay, [George] Gordon Allen, Sir Norman Brook [later 1st Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet], Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall and Emery Reves [earlier Imre Revesz].Also includes source material: sections of Chapter 7 "The U Boat Paradise"; a...
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Dealing with an alcoholic parent can be a difficult and painful experience. Getting help for a parent suffering from alcoholism can seem out of reach and unattainable. At times it can even seem impossible. However, there are steps the children of alcoholic parents can take to secure the help they need and guide them on the path to recovery. Strategies that children of alcoholics can use to help their loved one recover from this devastating disease includes processing guilt, building support, effective communication and consulting with a licensed professional.
As a child of an alcoholic, you understand how alcoholism affects the lives and relationships in a myriad of destructive and unhealthy ways. The first step in helping an alcoholic parent is to help yourself better understand the disease by consulting with a medical professional. The professional will help you with resources and help you to acknowledge that you are not to blame for your parent's alcoholism.
Oftentimes, children of alcoholics suffer guilt over their parent's substance abuse. Sometimes the parent specifically places blame on their children, whether explicitly or implicitly, for their behavior. Successfully helping a parent recover from alcoholism cannot come from a place of guilt. The children must recognize that the parent is responsible for their actions and their behavior.
If a parent is abusive, it is important to create distance and get yourself in a safe space. Sometimes this can seem impossible particularly if it involves young children of alcoholics. However, recognize that there are people you can reach out to for support and guidance including other family members, teachers, school counselors, and friends of the family. Find someone you trust and allow yourself to be vulnerable to open up to them about the problems you are facing.
While many children of alcoholics are embarrassed, ashamed, or feel guilty over the substance abuse of their parent, it is again important to recognize that the disease is not yours, and nor is the responsibility for that disease. There is no shame in reaching out to others for guidance and help. In doing so you can help build a support system for yourself, which is an important step in helping an alcoholic parent.
With your safety secured and your support system in place, take the time to communicate with your parent exactly how you feel and specifically what you would like to see change. Only do so if your parent is not violent towards you. If your parent exhibits violent tendencies, seek professional help for a guided intervention with medical professionals.
First, write down what you would like to communicate. Think of the ways that your parent's alcoholism has negatively affected your life, your family, your relationship with your parent, and anything else that you can think of. Organizing your thoughts on paper before you discuss them with your parent can be beneficial for both you and your parent. It can allow you to sift through the emotional trauma of living with an alcoholic and pinpoint specific examples of how their disease has impacted your life.
Your parent may not be aware of some of these effects, and certainly sharing your perspective is an important tool to demonstrate the negative impact their alcoholism has made on those around them. Having your thoughts written down provides a tool for reference tool as the conversation will inevitably be emotional and may be met with resistance or denial.
When you are ready to have the conversation with your parent, it is important that you choose an appropriate time and place. Do not attempt to have the conversation with your parent when they are heavily intoxicated and less likely to hear what you are trying to communicate. Speak from a place of love and compassion. It is always good to be prepared if the person reacts with anger or outright denial to the message you are trying to convey.
The conversation will have a greater impact if your loved ones can see that their actions and behaviors have genuinely hurt you and that you have a deep desire to see them recover. Use "I" phrases such as "I have seen…" or "I have experienced." Speaking from a first person perspective about how your parent's alcohol abuse has affected your life limits the ways in which your parent can dispute your claims since they are your own experiences. Also, speaking in these terms can minimize the appearance that you are placing blame on your parent.
To achieve lasting recovery, it is important to seek treatment from a qualified medical professional or recognized treatment facility. It is important to research different treatment plans and to find the option that is best for your parent. Well respected facilities are typically accredited by organizations such as The Joint Commission which sets predetermined criteria and standards for quality care and patient safety.
Things to consider when researching treatment options are whether the treatment facility has both inpatient and outpatient treatment, how many medical staff they have, the ratio of medical staff to patients, and the cost of specific treatment plans. If your parent is open to discussing treatment, find out what type of treatment options they would be open to and help guide them towards seeking help.
As with anything, developing the right treatment plan is a crucial step towards a successful recovery. Be engaged in the process and open to suggestions from those around you including your support system, other family members, loved ones, and medical staff. There are many different paths to recovery, and speaking with a qualified medical professional can help you determine which path is right for your loved one.
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Jon Snow Wins HBO's Game Of Thrones Elections By Small Margin
By Seerat Chabba @crat074
As the United States gears up for the 2016 presidential elections, HBO held its own version of the "Game of Thrones" elections where the King of the North — Jon Snow — has emerged victorious.
In order to promote the release of the show's Season 6 on digital platforms, the network has launched the "GOT Party" campaign where fans can vote for their favorite candidate from the Game of Thrones fantasy universe.
The four candidates in contention for the race to rule Westeros were Daenerys Targaryen, Cersei Lannister, Petyr Baelish or Littlefinger and Jon Snow. Each candidate also had a "running mate" — Tyrion Lannister, Qyburn, Sansa Stark and Lyanna Mormont respectively.
Each candidate also had a set platform and released campaign ads.
While Littlefinger and Sansa led with almost 34 percent of the vote in the first two weeks, the final race was a tight one. Finally, Jon Snow and Lyanna Mormont won the elections with a small margin. While the Snow-Mormont partnership held 35 percent of the vote, Daenerys and Tyrion came in second with 32 percent. Littlefinger-Sansa gave up their initial lead to settle for 31 percent in the final tally.
The most dismal show was put up by Cersei and Qyburn who could barely garner two percent of the vote.
In a statement released on the "GOT Party" website, Jon Snow said: "Winter has come and the war between the living and the dead will not end swiftly. We have cast aside the differences between Crow and Wildling, bastard and trueborn, Northerner or Southerner, to fight a common enemy."
"We have seen that we cannot survive the Long Night divided. Unity is a necessity to meet the challenge of our time, but it is only the beginning," the King of the North said. "The Long Night is coming, and the dead come with it."
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Mumbai, May 17 -- The Cannes Film Festival is a master-class in precision. Everything is micro-managed, right down to which direction the stars look in as they pose on the red carpet, and how long they pose in one place before moving a little ahead so that the next lot of photographers can capture the incredible fashions.
But even the mighty French can't control the weather. Which is why on opening night in Cannes, beautifully dressed women struggled to keep billowing gowns and wayward hair in place as gusts of wind and rain put a dampener on the famed red carpet at the Palais des Festivals. Among them were our very own Sonam Kapoor, Vidya Balan and Mallika Sherawat, the latter in a sober mustard gown. Even her most acidic critics have to admire Mallika's ability to unexpectedly show up where it counts! A little after her, Amitabh Bachchan walked the red carpet, along with his The Great Gatsby co-star, Leonardo Di Caprio.
The Great Gatsby brought a torrent of star power to the Croisette, but many Western critics skewered the film for being gaudy and overwrought - visually and dramatically. Earlier in the day at a press conference, director Baz Luhrmann defended his work by saying that even the author, F. Scott Fitzgerald, was derided when the book was first published. But Luhrmann, who didn't give his actors much of a chance to speak, asked critics not to hold back on the criticism. "I love it," he said. When asked why he chose Bachchan for the role of the shady businessman, Meyer Wolfsheim, Luhrmann replied that he wanted someone charming, beguiling and larger than life and that the first person he thought of was Bachchan.
Despite the somewhat damp start - literally and film-wise - the 66th Cannes Film Festival looks like a sure-shot winner. Coming up in the next few days are films by Asghar Farhadi, the Coen brothers, Sofia Coppola, James Gray and Jim Jarmusch. It's a mouthwatering slate - some say the best in years.
The films make Cannes what it is. This is the world's premiere film festival and each year it sets the global cinematic agenda - the red carpet, the fashions and the breathless media headlines about pretty frocks are just the icing on the cake. Each year, Cannes attracts more than 35,000 film professionals and over 4,500 journalists. It's an unparalleled cinema carnival. So irrespective of weather conditions - more rain forecast for the next two days - Cannes will keep buzzing like a beehive on steroids!


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Chapman Freeborn handles oversized cargo
Chapman Freeborn coordinated the delivery of oversized industrial cargo from Germany to Australia aboard a Boeing 747-400 freighter aircraft.
The shipment weighed 92 tons (83.5 tonnes) in total and consisted of over-dimensional units that measured 15 m in length and weighed 17 tons (15.4 tonnes) each.
Chapman Freeborn said delivering the "highly specialised" industrial cargo required exceptional professionalism and attention to detail. Prior to the loading operation, load planning was carried out to ensure centre of gravity flight efficiency. The cargo was restrained by placing straps into the crates and directly over the cargo, and both the main and lower decks were used.
Two main deck loaders and two cranes were used to load and offload the cargoes. Chapman Freeborn also oversaw the visitor permits in Australia to allow trucks to receive the cargo at the airport.
The consignment is destined for a project in Western Australia.
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The research behind why Journal To Save Your Life/J2SYL works!
For every 350-800 high school students, there is but one counselor.
The World Health Organization reports that worldwide, up to 20% of children and adolescents suffer from a disabling mental illness.
Worldwide, suicide is the third leading cause of death among adolescents.
Major depressive disorder often has its onset in adolescence and is associated with substantial psychosocial impairment and risk of suicide.
Conduct disorders tend to persist into adolescence and adult life and are frequently associated with delinquency, adult crime and dissocial behavior, marital problems, unemployment, and poor physical health.
Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood represent a key point of brain development in which self-destructive psychological patterns can be identified and addressed.
Why isn't everyone who needs it getting mental health care in an organized fashion?
Systemic: Our current mental health care system is splintered between specialty mental health, primary health, welfare, education, and juvenile detention systems.
Poor access: Availability of mental health care services is limited, especially within minority populations.
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The CBT used in J2SYL has been taken from several CBT programs for youth developed and then published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) by Gary Clarke.
After the J2SYL pilot year, we will review qualitative feedback from the members as well as the quantitative (survey based) research to determine the efficacy of the program. We will integrate all feedback into J2SYL 2017 App. We will also share our research with the public through articles (academic and/or trade publications) and on this website as a way of furthering the public's knowledge of innovative, exclusively online mental health programs.


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This is another Inspector Van Veeteren mystery – previously of Borkman's Point which I loved! This story was, to me, a little more obvious but still definitely worthy. Something up with those Swedes as this book begins with a funeral. Not light hearted stuff. The woman being buried was not very old when she died but she went to her death bed after making a confession of sorts to her daughter. Then she challenges her daughter to do something. One wonders if she really means do something with your life that was different from mine but nevertheless the daughter, Maria, definitely acts. Van Veeteren and the police department are called into a homicide case of a man who has been shot three times. No one sees or hears anything. He was a dull man who doesn't seem to go anywhere or do anything. His wife only remembers some odd phone calls. What they fail to realize at this point is the calls only have music playing. The investigators pull his life apart and just when they think they have nothing an identical murder happens to someone seemingly unconnected to the first victim. Finally they have something more to go on. Did these men know each other and who do they have in common? The investigation has some renewed energy now and the hunt is on. Van Veeteren is pretty gritty and unapproachable but well respected by his peers. You can almost see the group sitting around the conference table with their cups of coffee and bleary eyed expressions from too little sleep talking over each point in the case.


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Q: Do 79-42 in binary using 2's Complement I did:
79_10 = 1001111
42_2 = 101010
I took 2's Complement of 42 and got 010110. Then I did 1001111 + 010110 and got 1100101 but this is 101. If I remove the leftmost one it becomes 37 which is correct... where did it go wrong?

A: When doing 2's complement, you have to decide beforehand exactly how many bits you have, and then use that many bits, nothing more, nothing less, for any number in your calculation.
To be able to calculate with $79$, you need at least $8$ bits. So let's go for $8$ bits. Then
$$
79_{10} = 01001111_2\\
42_{10} = 00101010_2
$$
So with $2$'s complement, we get
$$
-42_{10} = 11010110_2
$$
Now we can add the two to get
$$
\begin{array}{cc}
&01001111\\
+&11010110\\
\hline=&00100111
\end{array}
$$
with a carry that disappears. So the end result is
$$
00100111_2 = 37_{10}
$$
as expected.

A: Let us make the computations in a parallel manner, bases ten and two:
$$
\begin{aligned}
&79-42
\\
&= 79+(64-42)-64
\\
&=79+22-64
\\
&=101-64
\\
&=37\ .
\end{aligned}
\qquad
\begin{aligned}
&1001111-101010
\\
&=1001111+010110-1000000
\\
&=1100101-1000000
\\
&=100101\ .
\end{aligned}
$$

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Maren Morris and Sugarland surprise fans at Taylor Swift's final U.S. Reputation Tour dates
October 7, 2018	Music News
Matt Winkelmeyer/TAS18/Getty Images for TASTaylor Swift had plenty of surprises in store this weekend for the last two U.S. dates on her Reputation Stadium Tour.
Friday night in Dallas, TX, native Maren Morris joined Taylor to do sing her pop hit, "The Middle."
"Did we just become best friends?" Maren asked on Instagram, along with a photo of the two rehearsing. "Got to play my hometown stadium with this woman. Thank you Taylor Swift. Congratulations on a mind-blowing tour."
Later, Maren also posted a performance clip of the two from the concert.
"Rooted in country, 90s babies, genre-bending, unapologetic," she added. "I look up a whole lot to how you've made a career and I hope to someday achieve even a percent of what you've so gracefully cultivated Taylor Swift."
Maren continued, "You know no boundaries, and that's what music should be about. So happy to have gotten to spend the day with you and your beautiful family."
Then on Saturday, Taylor brought out Sugarland for the first-ever live performance of "Babe," their current country hit together.
"'Babe' live for the first time tonight in Dallas!!!!" Taylor shared on her socials, along with a clip of their collaboration. "THIS WAS SO MUCH FUN."
Taylor and Train singer Pat Monahan co-wrote "Babe" several years ago, and Sugarland recorded it for their current album.
Later this month, Taylor takes the reputation Stadium Tour to Australia, before heading to New Zealand and Japan, but on Tuesday night, she'll open the American Music Awards, live on ABC.
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I'm not pregnant, which is one way I suppose of starting out a blog post. I'm definitely not pregnant but I've had a hankering for pickles this past month. My local grocery store carries Ruuska pickles, which are probably the most delicious that I've ever eaten, and I've been buying jars on a weekly basis. Not the bread and butter kind - nasty stuff - but the legit dill kind and also the fire dill ones (just enough bite to them). These crispy, crunchy pickles are just swimming in dill and garlic (I could kill scores of vampires by exhaling alone) and I eat them plain, by themselves, standing over the sink. They're that good. Or I'm that crazy.
What's even crazier still is that once I'm done with the pickle spears, I've started drinking the pickle juice. Apparently, pickle juice is the coconut oil of the brining world (okay maybe vinegar is the coconut oil of the brining world). It's good as a hangover and heartburn cure, for replenishing electrolytes after a workout, PMS remedy and shot chaser, among other things. So this blog post serves double duty as my PSA announcement for the week - Drink Pickle Juice. You'll thank me (or hate me) for it.
This balances the ledger for drinking pickle juice. A SIL (who is nuts and who I'm not too eager to see) drinks it. I'm going to stick with a few dill slices on my burgers. I don't eat them, but our house pickle seems to be sweet gherkins.
when i was little i loved pickles. or most anything pickled for that matter. luca is always wanting pickles. he has the same weird food cravings as me (and the same issues as well - wheat). i have begun to wonder if there is some connection? probably we just love salt and vinegar and crunchiness. most importantly however .... did you make up that last bit? is it really good for heartburn? i have had heartburn so bad lately it's been really strange.
I didn't know pickle juice had health benefits! I'll remember that when we finish the jar in our fridge right now!
Dill pickles are the best! I've never heard of that brand though.
My sister ate a whole jar of peperoncini peppers and drank the juice when she was pregnant and it didn't sit well with her, I'm sure your stomach would have words with you if it could talk. :) I will admit to using my pickled hot pepper juice as a sauce, it's so good.
I do love pickles a lot. I eat a lot of them. Sometimes a whole big jar at once. Never tried the juice though because there are often onions swimming in it. Maybe I should give it a try.
Pickle juice?! Ew. But I'm not judging ;).


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Die St.-Maria-Magdalena-Kirche in Rozogi () ist ein neugotisches Bauwerk aus dem letzten Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts. Bis 1977 war sie die evangelische Pfarrkirche für das ostpreußische Kirchspiel Friedrichshof und ist heute das Gotteshaus der römisch-katholischen Pfarrei Rozogi in der polnischen Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren.

Geographische Lage
Rozogi liegt in der südlichen Mitte der Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren an den Landesstraßen DK 53 und DK 59. Die Kirche steht in der Dorfmitte westlich der Hauptstraße in Richtung Myszyniec.

Kirchengebäude
Vier Jahre nach Entstehung des Orts Friedrichhowen wurde hier im Jahre 1649 eine evangelische Kirchengemeinde gegründet. Anfangs benutzte man zum Gottesdienst einen Schuppen. Im Jahre 1665 erbaute man eine Kirche, die jedoch 1700 abbrannte.

Noch im selben Jahr wurde eine neue Kirche in Fachwerk mit Kirchturm errichtet. Altar und Kanzel waren in Schnitzwerk gefertigt, die Glocken 1706 und 1798 gegossen. 1842 erhielt die Kirche eine Orgel, die aber wohl schon 1844 an die Kirche Kurken (poln. Kurki) im Kreis Osterode in Ostpreußen abgegeben wurde.
Die Fachwerkkirche musste 1869 verlegt und der Turm wegen Baufälligkeit abgetragen werden.

Für den Bau der dritten Friedrichshofer Kirche wurde am 10. September 1882 der Grundstein gelegt. Sie konnte nach dreijähriger Bauzeit am 15. Dezember 1885 durch den ostpreußischen Generalsuperintendenten Gustav Carus mit dem Ortelsburger Superintendenten Karl August Bercio eingeweiht werden. Bei dieser bis heute vorhandenen Kirche handelt es sich um einen gelben Ziegelbau mit fünfseitiger Apsis. Der mit gotischen Formen versehene Bau hat einen schlanken Turm für ein aus drei Glocken bestehendes Geläut. Das Kirchenschiff und der Turm sind mit Schiefer gedeckt. In der Apsis, die mit halbkreisförmigem Backsteingewölbe bedeckt ist, befinden sich bunte Glasfenster, die den Hintergrund für den barocken Altar bilden. Dieser Altar mit dem Hauptbild der Kreuzigung Christi war ein Geschenk des Friedrichshofer Pfarrers Heinrich Surminski. Er wurde später der Kirche in Fürstenwalde (polnisch Księży Lasek), an der Surminski zuvor amtiert hatte, zum Geschenk gemacht. Die Kirche Friedrichshof erhielt einen neuen Altar mit der Darstellung der Auferstehung Jesu Christi im Hauptbild. Drei messingfarbene Kronleuchter, die das Innere der Kirche zierten, waren eine Stiftung zweier Familien aus dem Kirchspiel.

Bis 1977 befand sich das Gotteshaus im Eigentum der evangelischen Kirche. Danach wurde es der römisch-katholischen Gemeinde übereignet, die sich nach dem Krieg in dem nun Rozogi genannten Ort gebildet hat. Die Kirche wurde renoviert und in ihrer Ausstattung dem veränderten liturgischen Gebrauch angepasst. Sie trägt jetzt den Namen der Maria Magdalena.

Kirchengemeinde

Evangelisch

Kirchengeschichte
Zur Zeit der Dorfgründung von Friedrichowen gab es nur im nördlichen Teil des Amtes Ortelsburg Kirchen. Die evangelischen Einwohner im südlichen Teil mussten weite Wege zu den Kirchen in Aweyden (polnisch Nawiady), Ortelsburg (Szczytno), Rheinswein (Rańsk) bzw. Willenberg (Wielbark) in Kauf nehmen. Im Jahre 1649 ließ der Große Kurfürst den Befehl, für die Menschen im südlichen Ortelsburger Bereich in Friedrichowen eine Kirche zu bauen und einen Pfarrer einzusetzen. Die räumliche Ausdehnung des Kirchspiels in den Anfangsjahren war immens und wurde erst im Lauf der Jahre durch die Errichtung weiterer Kirchspiele verringert, obwohl die Zahl der Gemeindeglieder sich stets vergrößerte: 1817 zählte das Kirchspiel Friedrichshof 4932, 1824 bereits 6419 Menschen, und die Zählung im Jahre 1895 erbrachte 9612 evangelische, 937 katholische, 147 baptistische und 43 jüdische Einwohner.

Wenige Jahre nach Gründung der evangelischen Kirchengemeinde Friedrichshof wurde ein erster Pfarrer eingesetzt. Damals unterstand die Pfarre der Inspektion Rastenburg (polnisch Kętrzyn). Bereits 1864 wurden zusätzliche Hilfsprediger berufen, und ab 1923 sogar eine weitere Pfarrstelle errichtet.

Noch bis Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts wurden die Gottesdienste in deutscher und in polnischer Sprache gehalten. Im Jahre 1925 zählte das Kirchspiel Friedrichshof 7200 Gemeindeglieder, die in einem immer noch weitflächigen Gebiet mit mehr als zwanzig Orten wohnten. Bis 1945 gehörte die Kirche Friedrichshof zum Superintendenturbezirk Ortelsburg im gleichnamigen Kirchenkreis in der Kirchenprovinz Ostpreußen der Kirche der Altpreußischen Union.

Die kriegsbedingte Flucht und Vertreibung der einheimischen Bevölkerung in den Jahren 1945 bis 1950 war ein Aderlass für die evangelische Gemeinde. Sie zählte nur noch sehr wenige Gemeindeglieder. Zuziehende polnische Bürger waren fast ausnahmslos katholischer Konfession und beanspruchten das bisher evangelische Gotteshaus seit 1977 für sich. Die evangelischen Einwohner des jetzt "Rozogi" genannten Dorfes orientieren sich heute zur Pfarrei in Szczytno in der Diözese Masuren der Evangelisch-Augsburgischen Kirche in Polen.

Kirchspielorte
Bis 1945 bildeten neben dem Pfarrort noch mehr als zwanzig Orte das Kirchspiel Friedrichshof.

Pfarrer
An der Kirche Friedrichshof amtierten bis 1945 als evangelische Geistliche:

 Martin Grabowius, bis 1677
 Johann Fröhlich, 1687/1696
 Gutowski, Adam, 1686
 Raphael Skerle, 1690–1710
 Johann Schwartz, 1711–1718
 Andreas Madeicka, 1718–1723
 Andreas Tischer, 1723–1747
 Michael David, 1747–1760
 Johann Gregorovius, 1760–1794
 Ernst Ludwig Biehan, 1778–1798
 David Zielinski, 1799–1815
 Johann Simon Bolck, 1815–1820
 Bernhard Brachvogel, 1820–1837
 Ludwig Wilhelm von Gizycki, 1837–1846
 Friedrich Leopold Ollech, 1847
 Johann Skierlo, 1847–1862
 Heinrich Surminski, 1863–1882
 Johann Ludwig Mahraun, ab 1864
 August Friedrich Myckert, 1882–1910
 Paul Hensel, 1891–1893
 Robert Paul Sczesny, 1893–1895
 Georg Friedrich Foltin, 1895–1899
 Otto Friedrich Burdach, 1901–1902
 Max Myska, 1902–1903
 Eduard Bachor, 1903–1904
 Ernst August Ed. Sperling, ab 1905
 Richard Fischer, 1906–1908
 Bruno Albert Rathke, bis 1909
 Oskar Losch, 1909–1910
 Louis Oskar Franz Ehm, 1910–1926
 Helmut Lappoehn, 1922
 Johann Samuel B.K., 1923–1927
 Johannes Worm, 1926–1930
 Kurt Schalaster, 1928–1929
 Herbert Braun, 1930–1931
 Arnold Kreckow, 1931–1932
 Egon Bellmann, 1931–1945
 Bruno Schiemann, 1932
 Paul Czekay, 1932–1933

Kirchenbücher
Einige Kirchenbücher der Pfarre Friedrichshof sind erhalten. Sie werden aufbewahrt
 bei der Deutsche Zentralstelle für Genealogie in Leipzig: Taufen 1724 bis 1743 und 1834 bis 1863, Trauungen 1724 bis 1743, Begräbnisse 1724 bis 1743 und 1828 bis 1838
 beim Archiwum Państwowe w Olsztynie (Staatsarchiv in Allenstein): Taufen 1724 bis 1833, Trauungen 1760 bis 1814 und 1842 bis 1859, Begräbnisse 1765 bis 1838 und 1856 bis 1879.

Römisch-katholisch

Pfarrgemeinde
In der südlichen Region des Amtes Ortelsburg lebten zur Zeit der Gründung einer evangelischen Kirche in Friedrichshof nur wenige Katholiken. Ihnen wurde bei ihrem sonntäglichen Kirchgang ein weiter Weg zugemutet: bis nach Ostrołęka bzw. Myszyniec. So traf man sich oftmals zu Gottesdiensten und Messfeiern in Privaträumen in verschiedenen Dörfern. Wirkliche Abhilfe wurde erst 1869 geschaffen, als in Liebenberg (polnisch Klon) ein katholisches Gotteshaus errichtet wurde. Liebenberg war bis 1945 in das Dekanat Masuren I (Sitz: Angerburg, polnisch Węgorzewo) im damaligen Bistum Ermland eingegliedert.

Nach 1945 erfolgte ein starker Zuzug polnischer Bürger meist römisch-katholischer Konfession nun auch nach Rozogi. Sie nutzten das evangelische Gotteshaus auch für ihre Gottesdienste und wurden 1977 Eigentümer des Kirchengebäudes. Am 29. Juni 1982 schließlich wurde hier eine eigene Pfarrei errichtet, die jetzt – wie auch die Pfarrei in Klon – dem Dekanat Rozogi zugeordnet ist, das zum jetzigen Erzbistum Ermland gehört.

Dekanat Rozogi
Zum Dekanat Rozogi im Erzbistum Ermland gehören acht Pfarreien:

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Einzelnachweise

Erbaut in den 1880er Jahren
Backsteinkirche
Umgewidmetes Kirchengebäude
Maria-Magdalena-Kirche
Kirchengebäude des Erzbistums Ermland
Kirchengebäude in der Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren
Kulturdenkmal in der Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren
Gmina Rozogi
Neugotisches Bauwerk in Polen
Backsteinbauwerk des Historismus

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Few of the Tagalog words that I learned when I first arrived in the Philippines was Pancit and pusit. Pancit is easy for me to remember as it goes with another word Canton. I speak Cantonese so the word Pancit Canton easily stick to my mind. The other word Pusit ( squid or calamari ) sounds like Pancit. Sometimes I do get it mixed up and ended up calling the must have Filipino birthdays dish Pusit Canton. My Pinoy friends would laughed at me and corrected my blunder.
One time when I was in a Chinese restaurant in Malate, I saw this calamari dish on the menu called Calamari with Salt and Pepper. Suddenly I have a feeling that I will never forget the Tagalog word for calamari. I just put the words "Pusit Some More" together as it reminded me of a popular 90's song by Salt and Pepper "Push It Some More". I am sure those of you who are actively involved in the disco scenes in the 90's are hearing the tune in your head now.
Few weeks ago, I made a dish named Begedel and it gave me an idea to use part of the concept for my stuffed calamari dish. So here are the steps on how I made my calamari dish and I shall name it "Pusit Some More".
The hardest part for me when making this dish was stuffing the filling into the slippery calamari. I have to admit that this is my first attempt in making this dish. The result was pretty good but I wouldn't rate this as my best dish on first attempt. My batter wasn't thick enough and it did not really coat the calamari as much as I would like it to. Maybe I should have dried the calamari by covering it with very thin layer of flour to make it dry. I am sure my second attempt would be better and I can get 3 different kind of texture from this dish. Crunchiness from the batter, spongy and rubbery from the calamari and soft and easy from the mash potato. The curry powder will give a very nice taste to this Pusit Some More dish.
and the squid looks nasty, like you found and slaughtered a baby alien then cooked it with little fried crunchies!
This is the thing we gotta work on Z-Man. To train you to eat 100% like an Asian dude. If you can love namprik, I have faith in you. We shall start with the baby alien dish!
Squid by nature is tough, even in the raw form. Best way to do it is to cook with high heat and not for long. It does get cooked real fast though. If some dishes that requires the squid to be cook a long time ( adobong pusit ), I suggest you cut it into smaller pieces.


Lake Bled Wedding. Weddings at Lake Bled are getting more and more popular and that comes as no surprise. Locals are probably used to it, but c'mon, where else do you get a scenic lake with an island and the church in the middle of it? Slovenia is full of hidden jewels, but this one is not hidden and probably shines the most. Being a wedding photographer at Lake Bled is always fun and you never run out of things to shoot.
It has been pouring down with rain when Mike and Katja started their day. This was really discouraging as they were planning to have civil ceremony out in the open. Mike and his best men were getting ready at lovely Vila Alice but stumbled upon a great test – how to tie a bowtie! For those of you that haven't done this before, it is surprisingly hard, even with video tutorials on Youtube. Luckily a friend of Mike saved the day and somehow got it done! Katja was getting ready at Vila Bled, retro but gorgeous mansion that was once Tito's summer residence. Luckily they were not discouraged by rain and who would've thought, it didn't just stop raining, there was also a rainbow!
Mike is a photographer too and wanted to have first look at a very special place. They have chosen Slovenian's most famous tree, right on Lake Bohinj beach. Lake Bled wedding is great but Lake Bohinj wedding is even better (in our honest opinion). They had their civil ceremony held on a meadow above Lake Bohinj and since we posted this story, many have asked us where this was. Just a hint – in Slovenia you can get married anywhere you get land owner's allowance and is accessible by car. After the ceremony we had a session on the same spot and weather was just perfect. So were Mike and Katja.
Wedding reception was in Vila Bled and it started with a tasty dinner at the Vila bled terrace and ended with disco rhythms in a place nearby that is used to grow oranges. How awesome is that? Mike and Katja made and arranged decorations themselves and Petra from Pcakes took even a level higher with her pops and cakes!


I spent a lovely morning browsing the local independent book store Page and Blackmore with my partner. My favourite was the collection of love stories edited by Jeffrey Eugenides 'My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro'.
It turned into a grey afternoon so we read in front of the fire all afternoon. Heavenly.


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A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War
Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction.
In the midst of an unfolding international crisis, the renowned journalist Deborah Campbell finds herself swept up in the mysterious disappearance of Ahlam, her guide, "fixer," and friend. Her frank, personal account of her journey to rescue her, and the triumph of friendship and courage over terrorism, is as riveting as it is illuminating.
The story begins in 2007 when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus of Iraqis into Syria following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. There she meets and hires Ahlam, a refugee working as a "fixer"—providing Western media with trustworthy information and contacts to help get the news out. Ahlam, who fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped while running a humanitarian centre, not only supports her husband and two children through her work with foreign journalists but is setting up a makeshift school for displaced girls. She has become a charismatic, unofficial leader of the refugee community in Damascus, and Campbell is inspired by her determination to create something good amid so much suffering. Ahlam soon becomes her friend as well as her guide. But one morning Ahlam is seized from her home in front of Campbell's eyes. Haunted by the prospect that their work together has led to her friend's arrest, Campbell spends the months that follow desperately trying to find her—all the while fearing she could be next.
Through its compelling story of two women caught up in the shadowy politics behind today's conflict, A Disappearance in Damascus reminds us of the courage of those who risk their lives to bring us the world's news.
https://www.amazon.com/Disappearance-Damascus-Friendship-Survival-Shadow-ebook/dp/B00R04GCQU
Author: Deborah Campbell
Deborah Campbell is an award-winning writer known for combining culturally immersive fieldwork with literary journalism in places such as Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, the UAE, Israel, Palestine, Cuba, Mexico and Russia. Her work has appeared in Harper's, the Economist, Foreign Policy, the Guardian, New Scientist, Ms., and other publications. Her writing has been published in 11 countries and six languages. Her latest book, A Disappearance in Damascus, won the 2016 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize, Canada's largest literary award for nonfiction. The jury citation called it "a riveting tale of courage, loss, love, and friendship." It also won the Freedom to Read Award and the Hubert Evans Prize.
She has won three National Magazine Awards for her foreign correspondence. Besides Middle Eastern Studies, her academic interests include languages, politics and history. She has guest lectured at Harvard, Berkeley and Zayed University in Dubai. She teaches at the University of British Columbia.
http://deborahcampbell.org/
Reviewed by: John Stokdijk
A Disappearance in Damascus: A Story of Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War by Deborah Campbell is the 2016 winner of Canada's largest prize for literary excellence in the category of nonfiction. I am grateful to the Ajijic Book Club member who made us aware of this book as otherwise I would probably never have read it. My wish list of books to read is always growing but many good books inevitably escape my notice.
The book tells the story of Ahlam whose last name we never learn for very good reasons. She was an Iraqi refugee living in Damascus and it was there that the author met Ahlam in 2007. What follows is quite a story!
Today Syria is often in the news because it is currently suffering through a terrible civil war. But other than that I know little about modern Syrian history. Campbell provides some background relevant to the story, describing conditions hard to imagine, horrendous but later getting even worse.
It was the peak of Iraq's civil war, and absolutely no one was travelling into Iraq on a happy journey; a million and a half refugees had already fled the other way, to Syria, and they were happy for nothing but to be alive.
Damascus— holding out the promise of salvation by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, or UNHCR— was swelling with the largest migration the region had ever seen. There was concern that the Iraqis would bring their war along with them. If that happened, it could tear Syria apart.
Deborah Campbell undertakes a style of journalism that is refreshingly different from what is fed to us by the mainstream media.
While most reporting focuses on those who "make history," what interests me more are the ordinary people who have to live it. I wanted to put a human face to the war. As an immersive journalist, my work, the work I love, involves getting as close as I can for long periods of time to the societies I cover, most recently six months in Iran. But that was not possible for me to do inside Iraq. So I had come to Syria to meet the eyewitnesses...
To do her work Campbell requires the services of a "fixer" and finds Ahlam, an eyewitness to what happened in Iraq. I found it difficult to not be angry with the American government decision to invade Iraq in 2003, a mistake of historic proportions similar to Vietnam. It is easy to understand Americans now living here in Ajijic who left their own country in disgust during the Bush Presidency. The American government greatly contributed to making a very bad situation worse.
The story of Ahlam includes losing a son, being kidnapped, fleeing Iraq and being jailed and tortured in Damascus. With the help of the UNHRC and others, in 2008 Ahlam makes it to America. Campbell writes,
I should end the story here. Happy ever after in the land of opportunity.
But happily ever after is for works of fiction. It would be almost unbelievable if Ahlam did not suffer from PTSD. It was gratifying to read that her children are doing well and I will probably wonder how Ahlam is doing for quite a while.
As a small subplot in the book, Deborah Campbell shares a few insights into her own intimate relationships, helping us realize a tiny bit of human complexity.
I was hesitant to burden her (Ahlam) with my concerns. The gradual demise of a long relationship that showed obvious signs of deterioration whenever I was in the field for too long, and nagged at me even as I ignored it, was petty by comparison to what she dealt with every day.
I spent some time reviewing the notes at the end of the book which document some of the relevant history, the ugly history, that is the backdrop to the story of Ahlam and Deborah Campbell. Saddam Hussein, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Bremer and others will be controversial historical characters in the bloody story of the Middle East for decades to come.
Reviewed by: Karl Homann
Reviewed 12/1/2017
A Disappearance in Damascus: Friendship and Survival in the Shadow of War – Author Deborah Campbell
Review by Karl Homann
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
With regret, Deborah Campbell comments at one point of the book about her own journalistic effort:
I could accept the knowledge that nothing I wrote or would ever write would change a thing and that the world would continue to create and destroy and create and destroy as it always did.
Unfortunately, the author may be right, despite the "immersion journalism", which she practices, as compared to, what she calls "parachute journalism" - the flying in and out, taking a couple of photos, interviewing two or three locals, and thus thinking you were an expert when you could have written the same thing without leaving the office.
Today, between talking points, superficial verbiage masquerading as "news" that fills the time between commercials and cable "headline news" which is endlessly picked apart by ideologically opposed "analysts", there is no time or taste today for the kind of tenacious in-depth reporting which Deborah Campbell writes.
Today, we watch war on our TVs as if it were a video game: a little square on a drone's radar screen homing in on its target, followed by a huge cloud of dust. No close-ups, no ear-splitting screams, no blood and guts spilled on a concrete side walk. Neat, clean and antiseptic, far away and somewhere else. And then we go back to munching our pop corn and watching skin care commercials in the smug belief that among the children and the elderly and sick, we may have killed a couple of bad guys of our own making.
However, there is no escape from Campbell's passionate and searing account of the 1.2 million of Iraqi refugees fleeing the brutal and unjust war to seek fragile refuge in Syria. There is no escape from the pain and suffering and injustices of these refugees, personified in a charismatic Iraqi woman, named Ahlam, who becomes Campbell's "fixer" – a go-between for the Canadian "undercover" journalist and her sources – and, eventually, her friend.
When Ahlam refuses to cooperate with the Syrian Secret Police, she is kidnapped, thrown in jail and beaten. Campbell courageously returns to Syria at her own peril and spends months desperately trying to find and free her friend.
There is no substitute for the suffering of an individual that brings home the folly and brutality of war. We cannot get our heads around the thousands or the millions affected by war - the numbers are too great - but the personal encounter with one or two or three of its victims perhaps gets our attention.
It has happened to me before when I visited the US Civil War memorial site in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Emotionally, I felt nothing for the thousands who had been killed or wounded or displaced. I only had intellectual curiosity. But when I came upon a clearing in a Mississippi wood with only three graves of confederate soldiers from the small town nearby, I felt the enormity of pain inflicted by this fratricidal war.
And so it is with A Disappearance in Damascus: Ahmal's story and her struggle to do good in a world of madness emotionally gripped me and brought home to me the insanity of the Iraqi war, or any war for that matter.
P. S. Deborah Campbell mentions at one point that the Syrian government was afraid that the war of Iraq would follow the refugees and, indeed, it did.
Here is also an email I received earlier from Deborah Campbell, in which she comments about our Ajijic Book Club website and her book, which we will be discussing in January. Check out Deborah's website.
From: Deborah Campbell
To: "Karl Homann"
Subject: A DISAPPEARANCE IN DAMASCUS
Dear Karl,
What a lovely email and website. It's a good thing you are doing.
It seems more important than ever to engage in this civil dialogue. And it seems to me that, in this time of simplification and polarization, books are one of the few places left where complex conversations can still take place.
In writing A DISAPPEARANCE IN DAMASCUS, I wanted to achieve something John Berger said in an interview shortly before he died: "What two different people have in common will always, in all cases, be larger than what differentiates them." These differences start diminishing as soon as we can see one another as complicated human beings.
My fixer, Ahlam, who became the subject of my book, is my friend today because we are much more the same than we are different. She's probably just a bit more badass than I am.
All my best, to you and your book group. I dream of spending more time in Mexico...
www.deborahcampbell.org
"A seamless blend of storytelling and reportage. . .. A riveting tale of courage, loss, love and friendship." —Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize
In addition to my review, here are a couple of internet links with interviews given by the author; both worth watching, and have been aired on US TV:
https://www.mgshow.org/ Featured Interview
_A Disappearance in Damascus_ - Conversation with Deborah Campbell.mp4
https://www.c-span.org/ September 17, 2017
Panel Discussion on Refugees with Deborah Campbell
//www.c-span.org/video/?433414-12/panel-discussion-refugees
Aging as a Spiritual Practice by Lewis Richmond - Review by Karl Homann
The CV of the author is rather scarce:
Lewis Richmond has been a Zen priest and meditation teacher (a role from which he has recently retired), and software entrepreneur. He remains an author, a musician and composer, a piano and composition teacher, and an editor and mentor to other authors.
So, does that qualify him to write with authority about aging? Perhaps, but I found his book, Aging as a Spiritual Experience fairly light-weight. None of the examples of other cases mentioned in Richmond's book applied to me, either because I am beyond their age, including that of the author, or because their personal circumstances of work, life and family were different from my own. His writing is not particularly inspiring either. I certainly would not consider him as editor or mentor of my own writing. I also did not care for the references to his being a Zen "priest" and the later chapter on Buddhism. Sitting around in an ochre-coloured gown, half naked, under a Mahabodhi (fig) tree just isn't my stick.
"Everything changes" (Buddha). I knew that already. Others say, you are only as old as you feel. Silly aphorisms like that which pretend to express a general truth just don't do it for me.
I AM old, and I feel it. No doubt about it. I feel the pain in my bones. Every morning when I wake up, I am surprised that I am still alive and feel slightly depressed about it, until after I have had my shower and a double Expresso coffee.
With that said, though I do not "meditate", I do reflect, and Richmond's book gave me the chance to reflect on my past life, mostly at night before falling asleep. And in my reflections, I realized, perhaps for the first time, that my life had been a succession of survivals: surviving a war, the death of my family, the anger of my father, an unhappy adolescence, three years as a monk, a chronic illness, the losses and sadness of the break-down of three marriages, an addiction to alcohol (driving at 160 km an hour and throwing the bottles out of the window), a machete attack on a Caribbean island, and starting a new life four times in a different country.
I also found that I did not have any elders in my life who could have helped me understand the aging process because all of them died before I needed them. I was, however, present at the side of my two mothers, when they exhaled their last breath and died, one violently and one due to illness. So, I wondered, how, when and where will I die and what happens afterwards.
Once I asked a good friend, a priest, ten years my elder:
Don, as a priest you know these things, what happens when I die?
He teed off first (we were playing golf) before he answered: It will be a great surprise!
He, himself, died a year afterwards, peacefully, in his sleep.
So, I keep breathing in and out in order to survive until I die. Until then, I hold with the incisive words of Dylan Thomas, poet, who died at the age of 39:
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning, they
Do not go gentle into that good night….
In The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Aug 23, 2016), Steven Lee Myers recounts Putin's public life --from his childhood of abject poverty in Leningrad to his ascent through the ranks of the KGB, and his eventual consolidation of rule in the Kremlin. (Amazon.com)
A Man Named Vladimir
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, that is, the four-time President of the Russian Federation and Commander-in- Chief of the Russian Armed Forces.
Putin has served as President of Russia from 2000 to 2008 and again since 2012. In between his presidencies, he was Prime Minister of Russia. On March 18, 2018, he was re-elected as president with 77% of the popular vote, although his popularity has declined somewhat to just above 60%, given the drop in petroleum and natural gas prizes, of which Russia is a major exporter. When Putin steps down in 2024, he will barely have reached the age of 72
But WHO is this man, named Vladimir Putin, a question that was not only asked by foreign leaders and commentaries when he suddenly appeared on the political scene in 2000 as a protegee of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of the Russian Federation (1991 to 1999), but by Muscovites themselves.
The New Tsar: The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin (Aug 23, 2016) by Steven Lee Myers in his Putin biography provides some of the answers, though, at times, skewed by the writer's western perspective. Myers gives a succinct answer at the very end of the biography, as Putin inevitably and unchallenged cruises towards his fourth presidency:
No Putin, no Russia.
And that will, indeed, be the case until 2024.
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin was born on October 7, 1952 in Leningrad (today, Saint Petersburg), the third son of the elder Vladimir, who worked in a railroad carriage factory, and was a member of the Communist Party. His mother Maria was forty-one years old when she gave birth to her son. They lived in one room of a communal, rat-infested apartment; no hot water, no bathtub, only a communal kitchen and bathroom, which they shared with two other families.
"We lived simply - cabbage soup, cutlets, pancakes, but on Sundays and holidays my Mom would bake very delicious pirozhki, stuffed buns with cabbage, meat and rice, and vatrushki, cottage cheese tarts."
An elderly Jewish couple became his surrogate grandparents, and ever since, Putin holds a strong disdain for all religious intolerance, especially anti-Semitism. At school, he was bullied for his size but learned martial arts to defend himself. According to his teachers, he was an indifferent student, petulant, disruptive, and the only one among 45 classmates who did not join the Communist Youth organization.
"I was a hooligan, not a Pioneer," he wrote later.
In fact, Putin never became or was a member of the Communist Party, but popular Russian espionage novels and movies of the 60's inspired him to join the KGB. Young Vladimir tried three times to find the right entrance to the KGB "Big House" in Leningrad, before an officer flatly told him that the KGB did not accept volunteers. To get rid of the young man, the officer suggested that he attend law school. So, against the wishes of his parents, Vladimir enrolled in the university law school in the fall of 1970. He also continued his studies of the German language, which he still speaks fluently today.
During the summer, he attended judo competitions, cut timber, worked in construction camps, and once earned 800 rubles, with which he bought a coat that he wore for the next fifteen years.
In the summer of 1975, he finally fulfilled his childhood dream of joining the KGB, which by this time had grown into a vast bureaucracy. Putin was assigned to the personnel office, not exactly what his childhood imagination had hoped for. But luck was on his side when the former KGB chairman Yuri Andropov became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union and sought to reform the Soviet system, especially in economic affairs and international relations.
As if he had anticipated it, Putin had written a thesis on the principle of "most-favored-nation status in international trade" during his study at the Leningrad State University. He, therefore, was transferred to the elite branch of the KGB, the Directorate responsible for intelligence operations beyond the Soviet Union's borders. But once again, he was assigned rather routine tasks such as monitoring religious Easter processions. When a friend asked him what it meant to be an "intelligence officer", Vladimir answered,
"I am a specialist in human relations."
In 1979, with the rank of captain, he attended the KGB Academy in Moscow, whose training manual described an intelligence officer's characteristics as having "a warm heart, a cool head, and clean hands."
From 1985 to 1990, he served in Dresden, East Germany, undercover as Mr. Adamov, the director of the Soviet-German House of Friendship, a social and cultural club.
Personal note: As a high school student, my class visited one of these centres in East Berlin in 1960, one year before the Wall, where we discussed the benefits and/or disadvantages of the capitalist versus the socialist political system with our East German counterparts.
Putin genuinely enjoyed spending time in Germany, and he respected the German culture. According to Putin's official biography, during the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989), he burned KGB files to prevent demonstrators from obtaining them. Then he confronted the angry mob, alone, and talked them out of storming the building.
At age 28, still a bachelor, Putin met Lyudmila Shkrebneva, a blue-eyed stewardess with Aeroflot. Whenever she asked what he did during the day, he evaded her questions with jokes like:
"We go fishing all day. Before lunch, we catch. After lunch, we release."
Her, however, he did not release.
In April 1983, on a trip to the Black Sea and Crimea, he hinted that in three and a half years, she had probably made up her mind. "Yes," she said. He replied: "Well, then, if that's the way it is, I love you and propose that we get married." Vladimir and Lyudmila stayed married for 30 years and had two daughters, but almost nothing is known about Mariya, 33 and Yekaterina, 31. As adults, they have never been photographed by the Russian media, and it has been said that the Russian public would not recognize the women if they ran into them on the street. The girls have always been carefully guarded by the Russian government and were even pulled out of school and taught at home once their father hit the spotlight.
Two articles, one in BUSINESS INSIDER, August 28, 2012, and an investigative report by Reuters in 2015, tried to dig up some details, but had to admit that much of what they found was unconfirmed speculation and social media gossip.
Much the same can be said about Putin himself. While his public life and career are well-documented, little is known about his private life. We know that he loves sports:
"I just love everything new. I enjoy learning new things. The process itself gives me great pleasure."
He skies, plays ice hockey, rides horses, scuba dives. He flies air planes from ultralights to guide Siberian white cranes on their migration route south, fighter planes for fun and water bombers to put out forest fires. He also takes a keen interest in animal protection programs: Amur Tigers, Beluga Whales, Polar Bears, and Snow Leopards.
His mother has said that Vladimir loves his daughters, but Putin also loves dogs, perhaps, even more than his daughters.
"The more people I know, the more I love dogs," says Putin.
His beloved black Labrador Konni died in 2014. Once answering a question at a press conference, Putin stated that, like everyone else, he, too, can be in a bad mood: "In those moments, I consult with my dog Konni, who gives me good advice."
Konni has since been replaced with other puppies, the gifts of political leaders: Buffy, a Bulgarian Shepherd; Yume, an Akita, as thanks for Russia's help with a Japanese earthquake in 2011; an Alabai puppy from Turkmenistan, named Verny (or "Faithful") in Russian.
Little else is affirmatively known about Putin's private life. Apart from social media gossip, he remains an enigma. But a 2017 Business Insider article gives us a glimpse of his working life.
He rises late; has breakfast at noon. Next, he takes time to exercise. Newsweek reports that Putin spends about two hours swimming, one at noon, another at midnight. According to Putin, when he is in the water, he "gets much of his thinking about Russia done". After his swim, Putin lifts weights in the gym. As we know from photos – some real, some photo shopped – the 66-year-old has, over the years, cultivated a "macho" image.
When he gets to work in the early afternoon, he reads his briefing notes, reports on domestic and foreign affairs, as well as clips from the Russian press and the international media. He is extremely well-informed on all political matters, domestic and foreign.
Occasionally, Putin will watch a satirical online video mocking him and his government. Otherwise, he abstains from most technology at work, preferring "red folders with paper documents, and fixed-line Soviet War Era telephones" to computers.
No hacking, no tweets!
The Russian president stays up until midnight working. And so must his staff and advisers, one of whom says that Putin is a modest man, soft-spoken who waits his turn to speak. But when he speaks, he speaks with authority and is very articulate. He vigorously confronts any inefficiency and incompetence in his ministers, firing them openly or suggesting that they resign, if they are not capable of handling their job.
NOTE: Putin's rather unusual work schedule may have something to with the former 11 and present 9 time zones.
Putin doesn't drink alcohol, except a little at formal receptions. According to Politico, the Russian President may be taking a symbolic stand amid Russia's widespread alcoholism and wishes to separate himself from his drunken predecessor Boris Yeltsin.
Over the weekend, he leaves time for his English classes, and on Sunday he sometimes goes to church and to confession, although those close to him stress that "his life is not that of an Orthodox Christian."
When Putin took on the Russian presidency for the first time (2000), he inherited a country that was run by eight oligarchs who controlled almost 50 percent of Russia's GDP, in companies gifted by Boris Yeltsin for political support (sort of a Russian form of "Citizens United"). In February 2003, Putin called them all together and told them:
There will be no more oligarchs. If you are unhappy with that, you have only yourselves to blame.
I have watched a Russian video of Putin flying halfway across the country to meet with the owners of a factory which they were planning to close. He called them "cockroaches" and put a contract in front of them to keep the factory open. When the main oligarch owner lied about having signed, Putin said, "I don't see your signature." Then he gave him a pen, pointed to the spot of the document: "Sign here", and after he had signed, he walked away while putting Putin's pen in his pocket, Putin called him back, saying "Now give me my pen back."
While some might argue that Putin's leadership does not reflect a specific ideology, Chris Miller (Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School and author of Putinomics: Power and Money in Resurgent Russia) has discerned three beliefs which are consistent with Putin's political pronouncements and actions.
When Putin began his political career, the former Soviet Union was unable to effectively collect taxes or provide services, therefore…
1. Putin believes that the government needed a strong centralized control of the vast empire (then 11, now 9 time zones). To maintain that central control has been his highest priority.
2. Second, to keep the populace supportive of his government and thus to prevent revolt, Putin believes that the key is rising wages and pensions.
3. Third, economic progress depends heavily on private enterprises but only so long as those enterprises (or oligarchs) do not interfere with either central government control or rising salaries and pensions. Whenever a private enterprise violates either of first two beliefs, then the government takes control of the enterprise.
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain. (Vladimir Putin)
Putin wanted to make Russia strong again and reconnect it with the West. But after several attempts and many rejections, he just does not seem to care any longer whether the West wants a relationship with Russia or not.
Today, Russia's economy has stabilized, inflation is at historic low, the budget is nearly balanced. Gazprom, Russia's largest natural gas exporter, has again increased its deliveries to Europe. The Russian share of the European gas market increased to 34 percent last year. Ironically, even the remaining 20 US military installations in Germany are heated by Russian natural gas.
At a summit in June 2001, in Slovenia, George W. Bush said,
"[Putin] is a man deeply committed to his country…. I looked the man in the eye. I found him very straightforward and trustworthy – I was able to get a sense of his soul."
The relationship between Bush and Putin, however, soured, once the US invaded Iraq.
Did Trump in Helsinki get a sense of Putin's soul? – Why would he? Or should that be, why wouldn't he?
Hilary Clinton remarked in one of her loosing electoral debates: Putin was a KGB agent and this, by definition, means that he has "no soul". Would she say the same about her successor, Secretary of State, Mike "Top CIA Spy" Pompeo? That he, too, has no soul.
According to Putin, the United States must respect another country's interests and not change the rules whenever it suits them:
You asked me, who am, friend or foe? – I am not your friend, I am not your bride or groom… I am the president of the Russian Federation.
THE ECONOMIST - Feb 4th, 2016
VLADIMIR PUTIN seems impervious to the woes that afflict normal leaders. His approval rating stayed at slightly above 80% (2016), but has since fallen to slightly above 60% (2018). For his fans, Mr. Putin's shock-resistant ratings serve as proof of his righteousness.
Some Russian liberals and Western observers have claimed that there is something wrong with the polls. But the independent Levada Centre records approval levels for Mr. Putin similar to those of state pollsters; and so does the in-house sociological service of Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader, whom The Wall Street Journal has described as "the man Vladimir Putin fears most."
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"My favorite thing about engagement sessions is the simplicity of it all. I get to follow a couple in love around for a couple of hours with no distractions. It allows me to focus on them and for them to focus on each other and nothing else.
I first me Denise and Bryan in Palm Springs at my favorite coffee shop, Koffi. We had a wonderful meeting and I immediately fell in love with their energy. Denise is from Chicago and Bryan is from Stockton, but two years ago they found each other in Southern California. Listening to them tell their story I couldn't help but be inspired by the love they have for each other.
Their love story: Denise and Bryan met working at a medical device company in Orange County, CA in 2011. Denise was waiting in the lobby on her first day when Bryan arrived for an interview. It was love at first sight for Denise, but Bryan doesn't recall the encounter ; ). Bryan was hired a few weeks later and they soon became good friends. Several months passed before Bryan got the courage to ask Denise out and the rest is history.
The proposal: Bryan proposed to Denise in the kitchen of his apartment. He had received the ring in the mail a few days earlier and had nervously been trying to get a hold of Denise's father to ask permission to marry her. Bryan was so anxious by the time her dad gave the ok that he immediately proposed.
About their shoot: The engagement photos were shot at Crystal Cove State Park in Newport Beach, CA. This is one of the couples favorite spots for hiking or just hanging out on the beach.


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It is only a 5 minute walk from this station.
The VU University is reachable by car by following exit S108 from both directions. Go left at the end of the exit, another left and drive along the hospital. After 400 meters the University is at your right hand.
There is a limited parking space at the VU University, but at the other side of the road (between the University and the highway A10 – Gustav Mahlerlaan) there is more parking space.


The Mayor of Somewhere wants to build a bridge between his town and the Town of Nowhere. His secretary, Amarillo Saffron, is all for the connection. Her sister, Cerulean, has been stranded in Nowhere for nine years and Amarillo desperately wants to find her. There's strong opposition to the bridge and saboteurs may just have prevented its construction for good. Can a town with no hope be connected with hope to spare?


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We will make a VB6 application to display a message to the user when the user starts the application.
Private Sub - It tells that this is a private subject and cannot be used by elements outside the form.
Load - The Form's Load Event. This will be triggered when the form is loaded.
End Sub - This specifies where the block of code ends.
message = "Hello Visual Basic 6"
The 2nd line shows how to declare a string variable. Dim tells VB6 that you want to declare a variable, message is the name of the variable, as ______ tells VB6 that the varialble will be declared as which type. in this case we declare a string variable. The next line is pretty clear. We set the value of the String variable message that we just declared. The following line tells the msgbox function to display message variable. After you are done press F5 or the run button to test the program.
Ask Microsoft to bring back VB6 Visual Basic programming.


CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa.– Police are investigating a series of vehicle entries and are seeking the identity of a female suspect.
The vehicle entries occurred on November 26 between 9:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. along the Hartzdale Drive corridor and an office building on Simpson Ferry Road.
The suspect is described as a white female who was wearing a blue/teal cloth over her head and silver rimmed glasses.
The woman was driving a black Nissan sedan.
Anyone with information in the case is asked to call Lower Allen Township Police at 717-238-9676.


A discarded tile may be claimed by another player to complete a winning hand or a set.
Only the last discarded tile may ever be claimed. Once the next player has drawn and discarded, the previous discard may no longer be claimed.
When one claims a discard to complete a set, the entire set must be displayed as exposed. One may not take the discard into his concealed hand.
There are four types of claims: win, chi, pong, kong (big exposed kong). These will be detailed below.
One must verbally announce his claims (and also his win and kong declarations). In particular, if one makes no verbal announcement, and discards before exposing the set, it may be ruled as forgetting to draw, resulting in a "short hand".
Please refer to Appendix C: "Pronunciation Guide".
Calling: A hand which is one tile from completion of a winning hand is a calling hand, and it is said to be calling for the tiles which will complete the hand.
Self-draw Win: If a player completes his winning hand by drawing a tile from the wall, this is called a self-draw win. ("Win on Kong" is naturally a self-draw win.) The winner should announce "fu" or "tsumo".
When a player wins, he should reveal his entire hand, so that his winning hand can be verified and scored. The three opponents should not reveal their hands or disturb any tiles on the table until they have verified the win; otherwise, should the hand be continued in case of a "false win", the opponent will be held responsible and penalized.
In principle, one can win in all cases provided he has completed a winning hand. While there is the "Rule of Same-Turn Immunity" in the "Scoring System" chapter, the World Series of Mahjong does not adopt any "sacred discard" rule or such which prohibits the player from winning with a completed winning hand in certain cases ("penalty tiles" excepted).
If an opponent discards a tile which matches a pair in one's hand, one may announce "pung" and claim the discard to form an exposed triplet with the pair.
The three tiles which compose the exposed triplet must be revealed and displayed as a set in front of one's concealed hand (in the space between the concealed hand and the wall). One of the tiles should be rotated 90 degrees (to a horizontal position) to indicate which player made the discard: if the upper seat discarded, rotate the left tile; if the opposite seat discarded, rotate the middle tile; if the lower seat discarded, rotate the right tile. The three tiles in the exposed triplet are thereafter locked in the set, and cannot be taken into the concealed hand or rearranged (except be extended into a "small exposed kong").
After claiming a pung, the player discards a tile. Then his lower seat takes his turn and draws a tile.
If one's upper seat discards a tile which can complete a sequence with two tiles in one's hand, one may announce "chi" and claim the discard to form an exposed sequence with those two tiles. Unlike "pong" or "win", one may "chi" only a tile discarded by one's upper seat.
The three tiles which compose the exposed sequence must be revealed and displayed as a set in front of one's concealed hand (in the space between the concealed hand and the wall). The three tiles should be arranged in numerical sequence from left to right, and the claimed tile should be rotated 90 degrees (to a horizontal position) to indicate that it is the tile discarded by the upper seat. The three tiles in the exposed sequence are thereafter locked in the set, and cannot be taken into the concealed hand or rearranged.
After claiming a chi, the player discards a tile. Then his lower seat takes his turn and draws a tile.
After announcing "chi", it is permissible (but not recommended) to first discard a tile, and then to reveal the exposed sequence. The "chi" procedure is considered complete only when both steps are finished; until then, the clocking runs against the claimant. The other players should wait for him to display the exposed sequence before drawing a tile or claiming the discard (except for winning).
The claimant should first announce "chi", and then after a suitable time (about one second) display the exposed sequence or discard a tile. This way, once he has displayed the sequence or has discarded, the two other players forfeit their rights to claim the previous discard for pong or for kong. If the player did not announce "chi", or if he displays or discards too quickly after the announcement, the other players have the right to claim the discard according to the "Precedence of Claims" rules.
Four identical tiles can be declared to form a kong. There are three kings of kong declarations: "concealed kong", "small exposed kong" and "big exposed kong". The claimant should announce "kong".
Concealed Kong: If a player has four identical tiles in his concealed hand, he may declare and form a concealed kong with them. One may declare a kong on one's own turn, after having drawn a tile from the wall (or immediately after the deal for East, or after drawing a supplement tile), but not immediately after claiming chi or pong. The player first reveals the four tiles to show that they are indeed identical. Then he displays them as a set in front of his concealed hand (in the space between the concealed hand and the wall). The two middle tiles should be placed face up, while the tiles at both ends be turned face down (to indicate a concealed kong). Then he draws a supplement tile.
Small Exposed Kong: If a player has a tile in his concealed hand which matches his own exposed triplet, he may declare and form a small exposed kong with them. One may declare a small exposed kong under the same timing as a concealed kong: on one's own turn, after having drawn a tile from the wall (or after drawing a supplement tile). After announcing "kong", the player reveals the hand tile and adds it to one end (not adjacent to a horizontal tile) of his exposed triplet to form an exposed kong. Then he draws a supplement tile. Note that one must announce "kong" before revealing his hand tile. Otherwise the judge may rule it as a discarded tile, in which case the lower seat may claim it for "chi".
Big Exposed Kong: If an opponent discards a tile which matches one's concealed triplet in hand, one may announce "kong" and claim the discard to form an exposed kong with the concealed triplet. The four tiles which compose the exposed kong must be revealed and displayed as a set in front of one's concealed hand (in the space between the concealed hand and the wall). One of the tiles should be rotated 90 degrees (to a horizontal position) to indicate which player made the discard: if the upper seat discarded, rotate the left tile; if the opposite seat discarded, rotate one of the middle tiles; if the lower seat discarded, rotate the right tile. Afterwards, the player draws a supplement tile.
If an opponent discards a tile which matches one's exposed triplet, one may not declare a kong with the discard.
Once a kong is declared with four identical tiles, these four tiles are thereafter locked in the set, and cannot be taken into the concealed hand or rearranged.
Supplement Tile: After declaring a kong, one should take a supplement tile from the "kong box". (Because a kong uses up 4 tiles for a set which is normally 3 tiles, the hand becomes one tile short and needs to be replenished.) After taking a supplement tile, the player discards a tile. Then his lower seat takes his turn and draws a tile.
The player must first reveal the four tiles which constitute his kong to be confirmed by the other players before drawing a supplement tile. Drawing a supplement tile before revealing the kong is prohibited, and may be ruled as a "long hand".
Winning on the supplement tile is called "Win on Kong", and is a category 9 pattern which is worth points. "Win on Kong" is considered a self-draw win.


KDZB is an example of a private airport where an IAP exists but is not able to be published within ForeFlight. In this case, on the Airports page, you will see "No Approaches" next to the Procedures line or there will be none listed under the Procedures tab.
Image 1. KDZB is a private airport with IAP's that can not be published in ForeFlight.


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