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The EU's "Ideological Sanctions" Against Russia and… Poland
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Having cracked down by sanctions on Russia, the European Commission during the last week has been reviewing the chances of imposing economic sanctions on Poland – allegedly for limitations on the activities of the pro-EU Civic Platform party in that country.
So, the inability of the European Union to conduct meaningful diplomacy – having a dialogue instead of a barrage of ultimatums, threats, economic sanctions and joint military invasions with the US – this inability has revealed itself in full.
The threat of sanctions against modern Poland – a willing participant in recent Western pseudo-crusades against Serbia, Iraq and Afghanistan, a newly made enemy of everything Russian – this threat demonstrates the EU's inability to have a dialogue even with faithful allies.
The limitations which Poland's ruling Law and Justice party is accused by the EU of perpetrating against the "liberal" opposition in that country are, in fact, laughable.
Putting a new woman judge as the chairman of the country's Constitutional Tribunal (this new chairman being a former ambassador of Poland to Germany, pretty loyal to the EU's political correctness); not allowing the hostile journalists from pro-EU publications to harass Law and Justice's deputies in the Polish parliament…
Is this really a reason for imposing economic sanctions?
The EU, which has recently welcomed (and helped) the violent ousting of a legally elected president in Ukraine, and turned a blind eye to the killing of several thousand Ukrainian citizens, mostly civilians, by the Ukrainian army's aviation and artillery – this European Union is now "gravely concerned" by the "limitations on the work of journalists inside the Polish parliament"? Give me a break!
So, how come the freedom loving European Union is preparing to use article 7 of the EU treaty (allowing a punishment of member states that breach the "rule of law" on their territories) – to use that "nuclear option" against Poland? (The copyright for the "nuclear option" expression belongs to the European Commission's former chairman Jose Manuel Barroso and not to some "Kremlin propagandist.")
The explanation is not pragmatic. The sanctions against two great Slavic nations, Russia and Poland, are not in the interest of Europe, and go against the spirit of true European traditions. The explanation is ideological.
The recent unprecedented crusade of the Western elites against any entity that disobeys their vision of "new brave liberal world" leads to striking parallels with the now defunct totalitarian systems and even with quasi-religious fanaticism.
Just like Jihadist radical "Muslims" hijacked and perverted the noble principles of Islam, the Western elites hijacked and perverted the noble ideas of democracy and human rights.
Liberalism, once noble and fair, has become a militant religious cult of the West, a state religion inseparable from its political system.
Any nation that disagrees with the Western idea of democracy will be declared a tyranny, and the holy war will be waged on it, under the flag of bringing democracy and protecting human rights.
This war can be fought by military means, as in Yugoslavia in 1999, or it can be continued by the economic means, as it is being done in Russia's case, and can be done in the near future in the Polish case.
All of this is presumably done for the 'holy' idea of bestowing the ultimate order on the world, "the Democracy", with subsequent "end of history," as prescribed by Dr. Francis Fukuyama back in 1989. And if the "democratised" country happens to have some valuable natural resources, it will be a nice bonus for the cult leaders, allowing them to add pleasure (for themselves) to a useful lesson (for others).
The Western mainstream media has become a church, a medium blessed by the cult leaders that tells you what's right and what's wrong. Often not knowing a word of Polish, this church's preachers feel qualified to pass judgement on Polish democracy.
Just like US secretary of state John Kerry, not knowing a word of Russian or Ukrainian, allowed himself to deliberate on "non-local accents" of the people resisting the onslaught of Ukrainian army against the formally East-Ukrainian, but actually Russian-speaking cities of Donetsk and Lugansk.
The true gate-keepers of this totalitarian "liberalism", the journalists of the mainstream media believe they possess the monopoly on truth. They dehumanize and punish the infidels – anyone who disagrees with their narrative. As the Polish example shows, this includes even recent "allies of convenience" – the Polish nationalists, who had just recently been useful to the EU by their support for the new nationalist regime in Kiev. A support based exclusively on the joint hatred towards Russia – from both the Polish and the Ukrainian radical nationalists.
If you dare to question the cult's narrative, you will be inevitably punished. On a state level, you will get sanctions or bombs (depending on the mood of the world's new masters). On a personal level, you may be blocked on social media, accused of spreading fake news, called a Kremlin puppet. Or you may even end up in jail, as Russia's friend Mateusz Piskorski, the chairman of the Zmiana party in Poland, post-communist Poland's first political prisoner, whose name is not even mentioned in the EU's reports on Poland.
So, the jihadi liberals' punishment will destroy lives, damage careers and businesses, turn people into political prisoners and may even get you killed. It's a Sharia law in the Western 'liberal' emanation of it.
To this new version of "liberalism", Russians (with the exception of local pro-Western groups) are the same as Jews to the jihadis, a "pagan nation" that dares to resist.
Just like some previous forms of totalitarianism, jihadi liberalism can't "coexist" with infidels, it seeks to subdue or even destroy them. So, for the mainstream media, Russia has become an embodiment of all evil, the enemy that must be sooner or later subdued by all means: be it an economic war through sanctions, or an all-out war. Their hatred of Russia and her President is irrational, absurd and is not based on any facts. And as the Polish example shows, in future this hatred can easily be turned against other nations. This hatred is "ideological," not 'personal.'
The Polish authorities try to reason with the EU, inviting its representatives for talks and showing them the true state of affairs in Poland, where the real chase is not for liberals, but for the ubiquitous "Kremlin agents."
But I am afraid, the Polish authorities are doing the work of Sisyphus, trying to reason with EU officials. Merely because the Western liberalism is a religious cult, no reasoning works with its prophets and preachers. When challenged, they will only double-down on peddling their perverted version of reality.
George Soros with his spider web of numerous NGOs is a good example of this attitude. When some voices among the EU member states asked not to start the sanctions procedure this week, a representative of Soros-funded Open Society European Policy Institute, one Natacha Kazatchkine, "regretted that it had yet again failed to take decisive action against deliberate and severe undermining of the rule of law in Europe." Just like Hitler and Stalin, Soros has no permanent allies, not even the traditionally anti-Russian Poland. He has only permanent interests and a permanent rigid ideology.
The consequences of the wars and forced regime changes that this ideology led during the recent decades are horrendous: failed states, destroyed economies, the rise of the monstrous so called Islamic State, about one million of dead and maimed in Iraq alone, millions of refugees.
With the Western liberal cult resembling the Wahhabi cult to such a great extent, is it a coincidence that Saudi Arabia is the West's closest ally? Personally, I don't think so. There is something on a deep, almost mystical, level that connects those two systems. It's time that the world stood up and resisted the great danger threatening its very existence.
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Today the vast majority of the world's saloon cars are driven by their front wheels from engines that are transversely located across the car, thus providing the maximum amount of space for the occupants. It has not always been so. For the first 80 or so years of the passenger car's history, most were pushed along by their rear wheels driven from front-mounted, in-line engines.
The vehicle that brought about the design revolution is Alec Issigonis's Mini, introduced by the British Motor Corporation in 1959. Next step after the mini, code ADO15 was the ADO16 ("Amalgamated Drawing Office project #16"), generally known as the '1100'.
In 1962 the Morris Minor 'A' series engine was increased to 1098 cc (48 bhp) and became the power unit for the 1100 series cars, producing 55 bhp at 5,500 rpm, and having good acceleration, the engine could take the car to a top speed of around 88mph. The engine sat in a front sub frame that also carried an integral gearbox along the same lines as the Mini. Disc brakes were used at the front with drums at the rear.
Badge engineering saw the introduction of Austin, Morris, Wolseley and Riley versions of the '1100', in two and four door forms. The MG 1100 was launched in 2-door form as this was felt to better fit MG's sporty image.
The 1100 was quite revolutionary being referred to in the promotional literature as "the most advanced MG of all time!". Badge engineering is seldom popular and diehard MG enthusiasts were not convinced, but it appears they were in the minority.
Between 1962 and 1973 more than 3 million of the various 1100/1300 models were produced, MGs version proved to be amongst the most popular, in fact these MG saloons were the top selling cars in Britain for several years! The two door version also headed and attack on the small car market in the <?<span>US, but promotional films contradicted each other showing the car as a club racer one day and the perfect shopping car the next. Sales were rather understandably slow! In the five years from 1962 to 1967 approximately 28,000 were sold, and the Volkswagen Beetle remained the dominant car in the market.
The 1100 also had to compete with it's own family, in a rather silly game of sibling rivalry the all new MGB, a long awaited MGA replacement, was launched at much the same time, and clearly much more in the MG sports car vain.
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Built by Rod.
First released in 1964 Airfix' kit is a gem, with around 60 parts in 1/32nd scale it was highly detailed, especially for 1964. Re-released on several occassions, the last being in 1974, it would be one of the more welcome re-releases today but one suspects that the moulds may have been damaged as most of the other cars have been re-released a lot times over the years and again since Hornby's take over of Airfix.
Rod built this one not that long after the first release. As can be seen from the photos it is all brush painted with Humbrol enamels, perhaps the modelling equipment of the day was outstriped by the quality of the kit? Built more or less straight out of the box it has had some extra detail work done, in the form of the rolled down drivers window. Rod is gaining confidence in his abilities to enhance kits with ideas of his own.
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Innovation set to lift wine's profile with new drinkers
| 17 June, 2019
A number of emerging trends could vanquish the wine industry's reputation for a lack of innovation, according to a panel of experts at the London Wine Fair.
Wine expert and writer Robert Joseph said one emerging trend to take note of is bourbon- aged wine, which, he added, is "phenomenal in the States and it is coming here".
James Hick, marketing manager for Concha y Toro UK, added: "We have seen the bourbon category explode in the US, and this we have seen beer with tequila and beer with rum. We have also seen people getting to know the stories behind segments such as craft beer.
"Our 1,000 Stories brand is made as a proper wine, first in French oak barrels then finished for two months in bourbon barrels. It doesn't have a harsh bourbon taste but it is about subverting expectations. It gives flavours of caramel, dried herbs and vanilla."
Hick said that 1,000 Stories is the number one bourbon barrel-aged Zinfandel in the US and it also had a good start in the UK.
Chuck Cramer, US wine consultant, pointed to another example, The Federalist, which is aged for six months in American oak and six in bourbon barrels.
"We are talking to male drinkers here," he said. "He doesn't really know what he wants but he thinks this looks really cool. There is plenty of ageing with beer so why not with wine?"
Richard Halstead, chief operating officer at Wine Intelligence, also highlighted another brand aimed at men, 19 Crimes, which he described as "a good social media-driven brand".
He said: "The lovely thing about younger people is they are generally in experimental mode in terms of what they like and what they drink but they lack knowledge, so they are looking for cues.
"The generation coming of age this century has far more access to information so they have to be better editors of that information. Younger people are always going to be the ones who like trying new things. Connectivity between them is much better and they can start talking about brands such as 19 Crimes immediately."
Another fast-growing sector in the US highlighted by the panel is "red blends", where the wine label often doesn't highlight a grape variety or region, beyond "California" or "Napa".
Halstead said: "The consumer of today and the next few years is very different from a few years ago and the difference is in what their understanding of our category is. They don't know as much about the countries of origin or regions. Those under 35 are not bothering to learn the difference in wines from France versus Spain, or Bordeaux versus Napa, unlike their predecessors. Those rules are being swept away and I for one welcome this. It's not about wine being some higher power."
Halstead highlighted a number of potential growth segments in wine.
He said: "I would be excited about stuff that is pink in colour and possibly sparkling as well. I think we will see more packaging that does not conform to the bog standard and products that deliberately divorce themselves from their regional origin."
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Q: Spreading-out integers via multiplication Let $a_1,...,a_n\in [0,m]$ be a set of $n$ positive integers, where $n<<m$, $m=poly(n)$.
One can assume $m$ is prime.
Is there an efficient, possibly randomized, way to find an integer $N=poly(n)$, such that
$(a_i \cdot N) (mod \ m)$ is approximately uniform on $[0,m]$.
The value of $N$ may also depend on the approximation parameter.

A: Choosing $N$ at random and checking should work. Put $e(t)=e^{2\pi i t/m}$. Then we have
\begin{eqnarray*}
\sum_{N=1}^m\sum_{k=1}^K\left|\sum_{i=1}^ne(k N a_i)\right|^2 & = &
\sum_{N=1}^m\sum_{k=1}^K\sum_1\leq i,j\leq n e(kN(a_i-a_j))\\
 & = & m\sum_{k\leq K} \#\{(i,j)|a_i\equiv a_j\pmod{\frac{m}{(m, k)}}\}.
\end{eqnarray*}
Since the $a_i$ are all different and in $[0, m]$, for fixed $a_i$ the number of $a_j$ satisfying the last congruence is $(m,k)$ at most, and the last sum is bounded above by $mn\sum_{k\leq K}(k,m)\leq mnK^2$.
Denote by $D_N$ the discrepancy of $a_iN\bmod m$. Then we have
$$
D_N\ll \frac{n}{K}+\sum_{k\leq K}\frac{1}{k}\left|\sum_{i=1}^n e(kNa_i)\right|,
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thus
$$
\frac{1}{m}\sum_{N=1}^m D_N \ll \frac{n}{K} + \sqrt{nK}\log K.
$$
Hence for most $N$ we have $D_N\ll n^{2/3}\log n$, which is reasonable good equidistribution.
Checking whether for a random $N$ we have that $D_N<n$ is small requires between $n^{1+\epsilon}$ and $n^{3/2}$ steps, depending on how small $D_N$ has to be.

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Loving Your Post-Baby Body
Learn to love (and be loved) with your post-baby body
By Megan McChesney
Think of it as a second puberty of sorts. After undergoing remarkable hormonal and physical changes, you're left with a new body (and a baby, but that's not the point here). Despite the newness, there's no reason why you can't feel just as sexy as you did pre-pregnancy. When you're ready to get back to the bedroom, here's what you need to know.
Give yourself some time
"For the first six weeks after giving birth, women don't know their ankle from page eight," says Lou Paget, certified sex educator and best-selling author of Hot Mamas (Doubleday Canada). And if there's been an episiotomy or tearing, sexual ain't the kind of healing you'll need. Your sex drive could take a major hit after baby arrives, thanks to a post-delivery dip in estrogen, as well as the production of the hormones prolactin (from nursing) and oxytocin (from bonding with the baby). So give yourself some time to get back in the saddle, so to speak. Stay connected with your partner during this time — even just a solid cuddle can help you stay physically linked.
Your body will also have gone through changes, some of them permanent: your genitals may have darkened and changed shape, your areolas could have changed colour, there may be stretch marks, and things may have shifted around a bit. "My stomach was a shock right after the baby," says Terri, single mom of an eight-month-old in Lloydminster, Sask. "It was so loose-feeling and -looking. I fit into all of my old clothes now, but they fit slightly differently." Paget points out that patience is in order as you and your partner explore your new body. "You're a beginner with this body," she says. "Beginners aren't supposed to know everything."
Go through it together
Though your body is the one that's changing, all of this will impact your partner too — particularly if your focus is always on the baby, and rarely on the bedroom. "Your attention is one of the most powerful things you can give your partner," says Paget. That doesn't mean you should be having sex when you don't want to, but it's important to remember that your partner has needs as well.
If you're feeling self-conscious about your new body, or you're not ready for penetrative sex yet, explain to your partner what you're going through, so he doesn't take your withdrawal as rejection. And then work hard to make sure that both of you are getting what you need and want (and you'd do well to remember that penetrative sex isn't the only trick in the book).
Don't be too hard on yourself
This process will be different for every woman. And attitude is really what will have the biggest impact on how you feel about yourself. Megan of Peterborough, Ont., gave herself a break after her baby boy, now 17 months old, was born. "I have tried to embrace my new body," she says. "I try not to focus on the media, because the bodies in those magazines are totally air-brushed and the models work out like dogs. I would rather be spending time with my son than working out."
If you're having a hard time focusing on the positives (breast size during nursing, for one), find a custom-fit solution. For Terri, it was a matter of identifying what she was struggling with and finding her own resolution. "I felt unsure of what to do with my new breasts in sexual situations, so I wear a bra to avoid any embarrassment," she says.
"Be honest with yourself about what your body has gone through," says Paget. "You can't beat yourself up for that…it's done something remarkable."
Bring sexy back (the short-list)
Invest in some really great water-based lube. Then use it.
Make time for sex during the day. You could be too tired by the time the sun sets.
Do your Kegels! This not only helps with incontinence, but can re-strengthen your pelvic floor.
There is no right way to do this — do things on your own terms.
This story is part of our New Baby Guide. Check it out for more info on bringing home, planning for and surviving having a new baby.


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U21s game against Burnley postponed
Arsenal Media 18 Jan 2023
Our under-21s' Premier League Cup tie against Burnley, which was due to be played tonight, has been called off due to a frozen pitch.
Mehmet Ali's under-21s were scheduled to face the Clarets at Meadow Park but following a pitch inspection this morning, it was deemed the game couldn't take place.
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News Acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Liveris buys in Tamarama
Acclaimed filmmaker Alexandra Liveris buys in Tamarama
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The international award-winning filmmaker Alexandra Liveris has bought a Tamarama apartment.
It is the middle apartment in a boutique triplex designed by JPR Architects.
The three bedroom, three bathroom apartment was bought off the plan through 1st City Double Bay agents Julian Hasemer and Rod Fox.
Liveris is set to be sandwiched by renters as the apartment above was recently for rent at $3,000 a week, while the unit below was available at $3,600.
Alexandra's 2017 short film Eyes of Exodus won the Special Jury Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and the Audience Award at Aspen ShortsFest.
She most recently directed and was the cinematographer on seven documentaries for Google Labs that reached 18 million unique viewers.
Alexandra, who studied documentary film and video at Stanford University, has previously worked with the NY-based Clinton Foundation and also on the now defunct Charlie Rose show.
Alexandra's brother Nick has just moved back to Sydney, where he's spent $5.25 million in Rose Bay.
Their parents Andrew and wife Paula own an $8.5 million Point Piper duplex but have been based near his Dow chemical HQ in Michigan.
Andrew Liveris was a Donald Trump appointee and had previously worked on an advisory panel for Barack Obama.
This article first appeared in The Sunday Morning Herald.
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Yes, even the tap water isn't safe. Though airlines are required to inspect their water systems for any viruses, they are only required to do so every five years. This leads to a situation where bacteria buildup can occur and a 2015 study actually revealed that it's more prevalent than we may think. Opt for bottled water instead when you can, but remember that the coffee and tea is also made with tap water so it's something you may want to avoid.


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November 27, 2019 - Updated on December 18, 2019
"Taking Control?" Report by RSF on internet censorship in Russia
The Russian government has systematically restricted freedom of the press and freedom of expression on the internet in recent years, increasingly focusing on international platforms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter, according to a country report on internet censorship and surveillance in Russia published today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
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In the report "Taking Control? Internet Censorship and Surveillance in Russia", published today, RSF traces the development of internet censorship in Russia since the mass protests against Vladimir Putin in 2011/12. It documents the large number of laws adopted since then which are intended to ban certain content, increase monitoring of data traffic and make anonymous online communication impossible. It shows how critical editorial teams are put under pressure and how the authorities attempt to silence individual journalists and bloggers. It describes the Russian system of mass surveillance using SORM and provides information about new online media that report on societal ills against all odds.
RSF also analyses the relevance of international platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook for the freedom of expression in Russia and calls on them to take a clear position in the face of a government that systematically violates the freedom of the press and the freedom of expression. These companies must conduct human rights due diligence and commit to resisting any demands by states to censor the internet or to monitor content in a manner that infringes on human rights, the report says. This applies in particular to demands by the Russian authorities that certain content no longer be displayed or disseminated unless this has been ordered by an independent court of law or the content violates human rights.
"By implementing mass monitoring of the population without just cause, the Russian government is flagrantly violating human rights such as the right to privacy or freedom of the press", said Christian Mihr, Executive Director of Reporters Without Borders Germany, in Berlin. "International platforms such as Google, Facebook and Twitter must take a clear stand in this situation. They must not work together with Russian authorities, store users' personal data in Russia or block certain content, which is tantamount to doing the censors' work for them. As the host of this year's Internet Governance Forum, the German government should do everything in its power to counter Russia's attempts to fragment the internet into more or less separate state-controlled networks."
The report describes the Russian system of mass monitoring, documents the cases of individuals imprisoned because of their online activities and discusses to what extent Russia's "sovereign internet law", which entered into force on November 1st, can even be implemented with the technology currently available.
Russia is ranked 149th out of 180 countries in RSF's 2019 World Press Freedom Index.
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Telepsiquiatría: Una revisión sistemática cualitativa
: Feasibility of implementing tele-psychiatry in Chile
Ariel Castro, Alberto Larrain, Rosemarie Fritsch, Graciela Rojas*
The objective of this review was to search the literature on the use of telemedicine in mental health and evaluate if it can play a role in Chile. A systematic, qualitative review was carried out to compile systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and clinical controlled trials (CCT) that were in English or Spanish and that applied information technologies for the treatment of psychiatric diseases. Excluded from the review were articles without summaries or articles that included only the trial design, without results. The references of each selected article were critically evaluated. Of the 265 articles found, 224 were excluded for failing to comply with the inclusion criteria. Therefore, 41 articles were left for analysis, 30 reporting CCT and 11 systematic reviews. It is concluded that the use of information technologies to provide mental health care is widespread. It can be implemented in geographically remote places, without access to specialized mental health care and be a part of complex interventions that integrate several components.
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Castro, A., Larrain, A., Fritsch, R., & Rojas, G. (2012). Telepsiquiatría: Una revisión sistemática cualitativa. Revista Medica de Chile, 140(6), 789-796. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872012000600015
Castro, Ariel ; Larrain, Alberto ; Fritsch, Rosemarie et al. / Telepsiquiatría : Una revisión sistemática cualitativa. In: Revista Medica de Chile. 2012 ; Vol. 140, No. 6. pp. 789-796.
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Castro, A, Larrain, A, Fritsch, R & Rojas, G 2012, 'Telepsiquiatría: Una revisión sistemática cualitativa', Revista Medica de Chile, vol. 140, no. 6, pp. 789-796. https://doi.org/10.4067/S0034-98872012000600015
Telepsiquiatría : Una revisión sistemática cualitativa. / Castro, Ariel; Larrain, Alberto; Fritsch, Rosemarie et al.
In: Revista Medica de Chile, Vol. 140, No. 6, 06.2012, p. 789-796.
T1 - Telepsiquiatría
T2 - Una revisión sistemática cualitativa
AU - Castro, Ariel
AU - Larrain, Alberto
AU - Rojas, Graciela
N2 - The objective of this review was to search the literature on the use of telemedicine in mental health and evaluate if it can play a role in Chile. A systematic, qualitative review was carried out to compile systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and clinical controlled trials (CCT) that were in English or Spanish and that applied information technologies for the treatment of psychiatric diseases. Excluded from the review were articles without summaries or articles that included only the trial design, without results. The references of each selected article were critically evaluated. Of the 265 articles found, 224 were excluded for failing to comply with the inclusion criteria. Therefore, 41 articles were left for analysis, 30 reporting CCT and 11 systematic reviews. It is concluded that the use of information technologies to provide mental health care is widespread. It can be implemented in geographically remote places, without access to specialized mental health care and be a part of complex interventions that integrate several components.
AB - The objective of this review was to search the literature on the use of telemedicine in mental health and evaluate if it can play a role in Chile. A systematic, qualitative review was carried out to compile systematic reviews, meta-analysis, and clinical controlled trials (CCT) that were in English or Spanish and that applied information technologies for the treatment of psychiatric diseases. Excluded from the review were articles without summaries or articles that included only the trial design, without results. The references of each selected article were critically evaluated. Of the 265 articles found, 224 were excluded for failing to comply with the inclusion criteria. Therefore, 41 articles were left for analysis, 30 reporting CCT and 11 systematic reviews. It is concluded that the use of information technologies to provide mental health care is widespread. It can be implemented in geographically remote places, without access to specialized mental health care and be a part of complex interventions that integrate several components.
KW - Psychiatry
KW - Telemedicine
Castro A, Larrain A, Fritsch R, Rojas G. Telepsiquiatría: Una revisión sistemática cualitativa. Revista Medica de Chile. 2012 Jun;140(6):789-796. doi: 10.4067/S0034-98872012000600015


You Should Never Do: Hello Friends Today in this article I am going to share with 10 things you should never do on your android phone and how to keep your mobile safe. So, If you also want to keep your Android phone safe and secure please keep on reading!
Guys, you might be done many things on your Android phone or till now you might be doing many things which should not be done. So, what are the things we should not do on our Android smartphone, Let's see!
1. The First thing does not install an app from any unknown sources: Guys, many of you might be installed many apps from the unknown sources. Many people search for apps in the google because they give you the many paid apps in free of cost. But I want to recommend you that do not install any app from any unknown sources.There is very safe option for you that is Playstore Millions of App are available there, please do install from there. Only for some money you are going to unknown sources and do your phone less lasting and among that you also lose your privacy and shared your information there which may be very dangerous for you later on.
2. Killing Apps from Recent Apps Menu: It is common to almost every android users that the open the recent app button on their phone and used to slide left and right after every minutes to delete the recent apps by thinking that after doing this their phone is work faster but this is very bad habit because android it self-know how to manage RAM and it will itself clean some recent apps if its need. When you do do this it actually harms your phone rather than giving you benefit because when you once again open this app the app once again have to reload from the fast and it gives effect to the processor and battery but if you have not deleted your recent apps it will not have to reload from before.
3. Using An Antivirus Software: Guys among you many of you might of be using Antivirus on your android phone. Guys this is good to install antivirus on your android phone. If you are using trusted apps from the Play store there is no need for any antivirus your phone will always stay secure and download things from the reputed website then there is no need for any antivirus.It is different things to install antivirus on your computer but it is not needed to install on your phone.
4. Using Battery Saver: Guys you might be using Battery Saver because you want that your battery should last until tonight. But using Battery Saver in very bad and you should not do this. The battery saver do the same which I have said above not to do, the battery saver delete the recent apps as soon as you close the apps and it also directly close the wifi, Bluetooth, Flash etc. which you can also do yourself. Why you need this they simply harm your phone. So, guys do not use any battery saver they do not give you any benefit.
5. Fake Apps installing: Guys you might be seen that many fake apps are available in the play store such as they will say that they will give you extra features in your phone like they will provide your fast mobile charging features or they will give you finger print scanner, so they never gonna benefit you they will simply disturb you by showing you too many ads anytime. So, stay away from that time of fake apps available on the internet.
6. Clearing Cache Memory: Nowadays many Cleaners are available in the play store like C Cleaner, Hi security etc. they said that they will keep your mobile secure but it is not good to use any Cleaner in your phone. When you use this type of Cleaner they simply delete the things which are temporarily used to store in your phone such that when we use some thing and close it after opening the same it does not reload once again but if you clean with your Cleaner then all the memory get erase and the same thing has to be reloaded once again which effect the processor and battery. So, Do not install this type of cleaning apps on your phone.
7. Trusting Fake Message: Guys you might be seen on your WhatsApp that much message use to come on your WhatsApp daily they used to say that share this message to your 20 friends you will get Rs.500 after 10 minutes but I want to say you that they are totally fake please do not believe in this type of message. They simply make you fool.
8. Rooting without knowing: Guys this is one type of joke that much people use to root without knowing about rooting, they simply thought that rooting is a very cool process so, they used to root their phone but please do not do if you do not know about rooting but yeah you can do it if you know that what is rooting and what you are going to do by rooting your phone. So, guys please do not simply root your phone if you do not know about it.
9. Ignoring App permission: Guys you might know that the latest version of Android gives you to give permission for apps. You might know that if you want to send voice message to your friend then they will ask you to allow permission for your mike that is right but you might be seen that many apps like torch application sometimes ask you to allow your GPS permission etc. what is the need of GPS there too on the torch. So, ignore this type of permission.
10. Not Restarting your phone: Guys I know that phone is for using a long time but dear friends you should give them rest for few minutes and restart your phone after every 5 to 6 days which will give your phone freshmen and it will work properly and in a very cool way. So, please make habit of restarting your phone after 5 to 6 days.
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The story of his life
May 25, 2018 by Ray Betzner
The mystery behind Starrett's bibliography.
The dust jacket to Starrett's memoirs, featuring the delightful "baby Vincent" cartoon.
There are times when I take months to research a topic, pull together illustrations and write a post.
Not this one.
It came together in hours.
(I hope it doesn't show any signs of haste.)
It came about this way:
I was rummaging through the online archives of the Chicago Tribune when I found a Jan. 4, 1953 column by Fanny Butcher, a longtime Tribune columnist. She first wrote about Starrett nearly 30 years earlier when she was the society columnist and Starrett charmed the ladies with bookish talk at a luncheon social.
Butcher wrote about Starrett off and on over the decades—she was the few among his contemporaries who outlived him and died in 1986 at the age of 99!
She always spoke of him with admiration and affection.
This time was no exception.
I know this clipping is a little hard to read, so I chopped it into three parts, with a transcription of each part, followed by some observations. (Note that I've changed the Tribune's use of "autobiografy" to the more common "autobiography.")
Part 1 of 3 from the Chicago Tribune for Jan. 4, 1953.
The Literary Spotlight
By Fanny Butcher
WHEN VINCENT STARRETT appeared recently as guest of honor at a luncheon given by the Society of Midland Authors, of which he is honorary president, he shared with his fellow writers some of the pages form the autobiography which he has been three years writing. . . .The problems of writing an autobiography are the same as doing any other kind of writing, he noted, and especially the writing of fiction, for a reader's interest is the same in fact and fiction . . . . Publishing an autobiography is complicated by the thousands or so persons, none of whom, Mr. Starrett declared wryly, will buy the book but who will expect to find their names in the index. . . . He quoted a wise and witty old aunt of his (she sounded like a fictional character to most of his audience) who, when asked what her favorite autobiographies were, declared, Rousseau's and Black Beauty's.
Vincent Starrett, before he began reading excerpts from his autobiography, reminded his friends of a remark of Dorothy Sayers' incomparable detective, Lord Peter Wimsey, who insisted that one must "be careful not to let any damned modesty creep in"—which, Mr. Starrett declared, he certainly had not done in his life story.
His Earliest Appearance in Print
THE STORY OF HIS BIRTH he called a highly immodest event but one which any autobiographer who had spent most of his life "wrapped up in print" would consider an appropriately dramatic start for his life. . . When he was born in Toronto on Oct. 26, 1886, he was, he said, taken for dead and wrapped in a newspaper and thrust under the bed, and it was not until some time later that he was spanked into life. "The Toronto Globe was my first garment in a strange new world," he said, "and I wonder if any of my colleagues can point to an earlier appearance. in print."
Starrett's autobiography received the star treatment from his paper.
A few observations on Part I:
It's 1953 and Starrett is well on his way to having completed his autobiography, a work that took him three years. Yet the book was not published until 1965, and not by any of the mainstream publishers but the University of Oklahoma Press. Why did it take so long to see print? And why a university press?
It's largely conjecture, but Starrett's manuscript was probably a very hard sell. While he had seen and met many of the great American writers of the early 20th century, his story is a highly episodic one. He was a reporter at heart and the book very much features a reporter's eye for anecdotes. (I suffer from the same malady.)
For a reading public of the 50s and 60s, the Chicago Renaissance was old news. New writers were making themselves felt in the world.
Butcher says Starrett warns he was not going to "Let any damned modesty creep in" to his life story. That might have also been a deterrent for publisher. Still highly respected in Chicago, Starrett's literary fame had cooled elsewhere by the 1950s. His mystery novels were no longer in print, and while a few of his Jimmie Lavender short stories were being syndicated, they were no longer in demand.
At 250,000 words, the manuscript is also too long, as we'll see in a later section.
The first anecdote about his ignominious birth is the same one that opens his book. For a former newspaper reporter like me, it always draws a smile.
Transcription, Part 2 of 3:
Despite Vincent Starrett's look of a dignified English judge, complete with white wig (his great handsome mop of hair is pure white now), he can be wryly funny, as evidenced by that classic sentence.
Part 2 of 3.
H.L. Mencken was, he said, almost his first editor, the old Smart Set days, he relived for his audience the excitements of the time when for a writer to be "tapped" for the Smart Set was practically equivalent to an Englishman's knighting. . . .But the earliest works he published were Sunday School pieces for which he received $6 apiece, and, he added, "I could still, if I got that hard up, do them."
In his early newspaper days Vincent Starrett was called Charlie—his name in its entirety is Charles Vincent Emerson Starrett—and it was as Charley (sic) that his fellow newspaper men congratulated him on his first big story bonanza—$75 from Collier's. . . .Then and there he decided to stop being a newspaper man and devote himself to short story writing, a profitable venture, he figured, which would pay him $75 a week—until Ben Hecht, his colleague on the Daily News, pointed out that no magazine could possibly use a story by the same man every week—a matter which had entirely escaped his calculations.
Chicago Called the Literary Capital
IN SPEAKING OF the Chicago Renaissance to which H.L. Mencken once put the oft quoted label, "Chicago, the literary capital of the United States," Vincent Starrett declared that Poetry magazine may just possibly have constituted the Chicago Renaissance, since everyone connected with any so-called Chicago literary movement wrote for it. . . .That label of Mr. Mencken's, by the way, Vincent Starrett thinks was merely pulling New York's leg . . "He didn't believe a word of Chicago's being the literary capital of the nation."
Everyland was one of those Sunday School publishing places Starrett wrote for early in his life for a quick $6 in the days when that could get you through a week. You can read more about the story in this issue here.
Observations on Part 2:
I can't help but think that Butcher carried a torch for Starrett. She often mentions his handsome profile, piercing eyes or prominent shock of hair.
Those Sunday school pieces ran in publications like Everyland and could have been an influence from his conservative Christian mother, Margaret Deniston Young Starrett, who frowned on her son's interest in pulp and eerie stories.
Just as Butcher used "biografer" for "biographer," so Starrett insisted in using "Renascence" instead of the more common "Renaissance."
Mencken's relationship to Starrett does not appear to have been "deep," but it was extensive, if a series of kindly rejection slips can be called that. Here's what Starrett says about the Sage of Baltimore:
"I have a nice little collection of his inspiring letters of rejection. Sometimes, to soften the blow, he would lay the blame on his associate. 'I'm really very sorry about this, ' he would write. 'Blame it on Nathan, a rank Presbyterian.' Or perhaps: 'I have made several attempts to convince Nathan that we ought to have this, but he can't see it that way.' Or he might say, 'I confess that Nathan's absurd objections to this admirable story begin to make an impression on me. Try us with something else.' "
Starrett's natural reporting style of writing, where he was hoping to get a wry chuckle at most out of his reader, also left Mencken cold. "I am sorry that this leaves me flat but such is the fact. We want rather more robustious stuff . . . . If you can think of any violent epigrams against leading dignitaries, let me seem them by all means."
Starrett desperately wanted to be in Poetry magazine and collected just as many rejections slips from its editor as he did from Collier's. He would later acknowledge that his verses weren't right for the publication, although he did succeed in being published there many years after the Chicago Renaissance had faded and the magazine's reputation as a kingmaker was long gone.
Part 3 of 3: Enter Basil Rathbone.
The manuscript of his autobiography is 750 typed pages, and contains in the present unedited stage some 250,000 words. . . It is, he declares, not a history of crime in Chicago but a history of culture in Chicago during his lifetime.
A special guest at the Midland Authors luncheon was Maxwell Bodenheim, returned, after many years, to live in Chicago, where he was first published by the late Harriet Monroe in Poetry.
When he stood to talk, Mr. Starrett held in his hand a manuscript which he assured his audience was not the one about which he was going to talk, but a new Sherlock Holmes play which he was reading for Basil Rathbone, who at that time was playing in Chicago . . . . A brief talk I later had with that suavest of British actors evoked some extremely interesting data for literary as well as drama enthusiasts. . . . Mr. Rathbone is the nephew of the great Sir Frank Benson, who inaugurated the Shakespeare festivals at Stratford on Avon and was head of the greatest of the Shakespeare repertory theaters. . . . When his cousin was killed in the first World war, Basil Rathbone became his uncle's hear of the spirit, and from that truly cultured, deeply appreciative man his own natural interest in literature was intensified. . . . That the interest was inherited is evidenced by the fact that the Benson family was one of the most famous literary families in English history. . . .If they are not now so widely read as once they were, the essays of Arthur Christopher Benson, the theological apologias of Father Hugh Benson, and the incomparable and delicious novels of E. F. Benson were in their day in every cultured person's thoughts. . . . E.F. Benson wrote two delightful books about all them called "As We Were" and "As We Are," among the most charming of family chronicles.
Other Names Equally Stellar
Besides the writer bearing the magic name, there were cousins with other names equally stellar—Laurence Binyon, poet, dramatist, and art critic; Stephen Phillips, who was an actor in his cousin's Sir Frank Benson's Shakespeare company before he became a famous dramatist with "Paolo and Francesca"; and A.A. Milne, whose Pooh and Christopher Robin stories and verse for children have become classics.
Mr. Rathbone had just finished reading Frances Winwar's "Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties" and it had so stirred him, he confessed, to me, that he ad written three poems which he, however, modestly refused to share. . . ."I just write for my own pleasure," he said, "and because I can't help it. I did write two plays. One was an immediate failure—a play about Judas Iscariot, and the other, a dramatization of Dostoievsky's 'The Idiot,' never got out of its manuscript."
Basil Rathbone is living proof that in some blood there is an undeniable extra, sometimes undetected corpuscle—printer's ink. . . .
Susan Dahlinger and Glen Miranker tell the sad but true tale of Basil Rathbone's play in the 2007 Christmas Annual for The Baker Street Journal.
750 typed pages! 250,000 words! No wonder publishers shied away.
The finished product, Born in A Bookshop: Chapters from the Chicago Renascence, runs considerably shorter and shows signs of having been chopped late in the production process. We get hints of what is missing by flipping through the index. There are references to footnotes that don't exist, people who are never mentioned, events that are absent from the main text. Page numbers to references that do exist in the text are unreliable.
Here's the part that bothers me most: If the bio was heavily edited late in the production process, where is the rest? I've talked with others who have tried the University of Oklahoma and various dealers who have sold Starrett manuscripts. All roads lead to dead ends. Additional work needs to be done here.
What stories of Starrett's life are we missing? Could a few of the feature stories that showed up in the Tribune in the 1960s about Starrett's experiences as a reporter have been drawn from the unpublished material?
Butcher mentions Max Bodenheim being in the audience. I wonder who paid for his lunch. Bodenheim was a prolific poet whose dissolute lifestyle would lead to his murder a year after this column was written.
The Rathbone references are an unexpected pleasure. Surely the play Starrett references is the one Ouida Rathbone wrote and was produced to disastrous results in the same year this column was written. It opened on October 30, 1953 and closed the next day.
The full story of the play's history was described in The Baker Street Journal's Christmas Annual for 2007, written by Susan Dahlinger and Glen Miranker. And you can read the play itself in the Christmas Annual for 2013, edited and introduced by Nick Utechin. Both are essential for understanding the full import of Fanny Butcher's column, although reading the play is a painful process and reading it's back story is like watching a very slow train wreck.
In light of this, Fanny Butcher's final comment, "Basil Rathbone is living proof that in some blood there is an undeniable extra, sometimes undetected corpuscle—printer's ink. . . .", deserves to be taken as a comment from an era when newspaper columnists were kinder and gentler.
The Rathbone play was published by The Baker Street Journal as its 2013 Christmas Annual, with an excellent introduction by Nick Utechin.
May 25, 2018 /Ray Betzner
Born in a Bookshop, Vincent Starrett, Fanny Butcher, Basil Rathbone, Ben Hecht, H.L. Mencken, The Chicago Tribune, University of Oklahoma Press, Chapters from the Chicago Renasennce, Everland magazine, Poetry magazine, Collier's, Nicholas Utechin, Susan Dahlinger, Glen Miranker, Nick Utechin


That said you will find they vary a lot as previous owner/s may have had many extras fitted.
When the truck is being driven pay attention to any unusual vibrations.
1.Tires, are they round? Might sound silly but larger tires especially can go'out of round'. Make sure tires are at correct pressure.
2.Drivetrain vibration. This is where it can get more difficult to determine the problem, it may just be a worn UJ on one of the props or it could be an incorrectly balanced prop, worn steering components of front driveshafts, warped discs, worn bushes/balljoints etc.
3.Other vibrations and knocks can be caused by engine mounts insecure, gearbox or transfer box mounts insecure.
Check all electrics for correct operation.
All windows open and close and operate smoothly.
Make sure rear window open and closes from the key and the switch.
Check operation on 4wd, go through all gears, select Hi and Lo options and again drive through all gears.
If 4wd is difficult to engage/disengage the truck may need driven back and forwards slowly to allow the diffs to engage. Sometimes the ADD system can be reluctant if it hasn't been used much.
As the ADD engages 4wd you should hear/feel a slight clunk, this is normal.
Ask questions about servicing, it should have had regular oil changes every 3000 miles. Ask if the cam belt has been changed or when its due for a change.
Make sure it's not been started prior to you getting there. A cold start and run up to temperature, checking heating etc. Make sure the coolant is a good colour no obvious signs of overflowing from the expansion bottle.
Bump stops and wooly steering...has the recall been done.
if your in any doubt with regards to the cooling system, walk away.
Bump stops and wooly steering,grease the stops , wooly steering, check ball joints, pitman arm..all reciprocal joints for wear.
Get the price of NEW knocked off the asking price.
ATF should be in good condition.
If not get £50 knocked off for a change of fluid.
Check the rad along the top for any rusty marks, could indicate a hole in the rad or look for any bodged soldering.
See where the vehicle is parked and look for any signs of excessive oil on the floor and in and around the engine.
Start vehicle from cold, there may be a small amount of smoke on start up but should not be excessive.
Again on acceleration may be a little smoke but shouldn't be to much.
Once engine is nice and hot check front and rear heaters for correct operation.
Is the air con working ?
Alot of stuff like checking seatbelts, door locks, windscreen wipers, light etc should be checked as they would for any car you where buying.
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Space of Culture
ساحة الثقافة
Heliopolis University Student Band Shines at the Space of Culture
Again, orient and occident music meet at the Space of Culture. This time was during a concert of "Farsha", the student band of Heliopolis University for Sustainable Development. The young band performed their first gig at the campus in the framework of the new "Space Playground" opening.
Farsha, the student band of Heliopolis University
"Farsha is named after a cafe in Sharm El-Sheikh", one of the band members announced in the beginning of the concert. "There, we found our band is resembled in the mix of its traditional Bedouin decorations and the modern electro music playing in the background."
The student band sang and played cover versions of popular songs in their own fashion – in which the Tabla, as a traditional instrument, created a delightful rhythm combined with electric guitars. Especially unique was the rap song that the band has written and composed. "Farsha" presented their song as a surprise to their colleagues, who attended the concert next to SEKEM's managers and employees.
On the occasion of opening the "Space Playground", the students of Heliopolis University had also spent together an interactive sports day full of competitions.
Heliopolis University 8th Anniversary Monday November 30th, 2020
Greenish Clubs Monday November 23rd, 2020
Jazz Candles Monday November 16th, 2020
Gamil & Gamila Monday November 9th, 2020
Students Abroad Experiences Presentation Monday November 2nd, 2020
Heliopolis University 8th Anniversary
Greenish Clubs
Jazz Candles
Gamil & Gamila
Students Abroad Experiences Presentation
Copyright © 2019 Space of Culture


A while back, we posted a blog about calculating your carbon footprint. If you want to calculate your footprint, you can follow that how-to and see what kind of effect you are having on the earth.
When I calculated mine, like the author of that blog, I was quite embarrassed. It didn't help that I made two international flights in the last year.
So, now that I am ashamed of my number, which is sadly much higher than the average American's, what do I do to rectify my carbon emissions?
Could I burn less fuel that sends CO2 up into the atmosphere? I suppose that is a start. But what if I want to neutralize my footprint, or at least cancel it out somehow?
The industry of carbon offsets provides an option that can give me balance.
This is how it works: I fly across the ocean. A company calculates my carbon emissions. I buy carbon offsets to balance my carbon emissions out. Therefore, it is like I have no carbon footprint, right?
Maybe not. What if those offsets are bogus? How do I know that the money I send to companies to have trees planted or new windmills put up ends up being used for those carbon-reducing actions?
In an article titled Buyer Beware: Got Ecoguilt?, the Christian Science Monitor investigated that matter and found out a lot of the offset programs were bogus. And for a $705 million industry in 2008, according to Ecosystem Marketplace, a lot of green attempts might be wasted.
The lack of regulation in carbon offset programs creates the problem. All the accreditation is voluntary. In 2008 the US Government Accountability Office reported that "limited assurance" was found in offset programs.
Groups such as The Nature Conservancy, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Sierra Club say good programs exist. It might take some research to find those programs first, though. A lot of companies try to persuade you with their green names and promises.
The Nature Conservancy has an offset program geared toward the Mississippi Basin called the Tensas River Basin Project. While they encourage their own offset program, they offer helpful hints on spotting bogus investments, noting that permanence, additional business, displacement and standards all need to be investigated.
The matter of standards, like I said before, is voluntary. These standards are put in place by a third party and offer companies and organizations a way to verify their work. Groups such as Voluntary Carbon Standards , the American Carbon Registry and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance have verification processes and standards that carbon offset companies and organizations can seek approval through.
As you can now see, no universal standard is out there. That leaves a lot of open room for bogus companies or just companies that offset in a non-environmentally friendly way to swoop in and take your green.
How do you feel about the carbon offset industry? Do you offset your carbon emissions? Let us know by leaving a comment below.


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This Pit Bull And Tortoise Are Here To Remind You That BFFs Come In All Shapes And Sizes
It's just another ordinary afternoon for Sheldon the tortoise and Dolly the pit bull, who are in the yard playing their usual game of chase.
"And, yes, Sheldon is surprisingly fast!" says veterinarian Cynthia Jones, who is the adoptive mom to the pair.
Dolly is a 3-year-old pit who was taken from her previous owners in a cruelty seizure. Jones and her husband, Ray, a law enforcement officer, adopted her about a year ago out of the Humane Society of North Texas, where Jones works.
Sheldon, an 8-year-old, 50-some pound tortoise, is a more recent addition to the family -- which also includes another dog, named Daisy, a mini horse and two mini donkeys.
He came home about eight months ago, after he was brought to the Humane Society from another shelter. "[N]o one there knew what to do with him," Jones says.
Everyone pretty much knows the ropes these days. For example, Dolly has taken to toting around a favorite red ball, among other things.
"She has an old dog bed that she loves. She drags it all over the house, making sure it is wherever she decides to take a nap," says Jones.
Sheldon, for his part, now spends much of his time roaming around in the backyard, both with and without his doggy pal.
"He follows my husband and me around when we are working in the yard and loves eating strawberries and rose petals. He is very curious and has an attachment to one of our donkeys, also," Jones says.
Animal advocates hope their story will help others like them -- well, it might be hard to find a pair exactly like them -- get adopted.
"We hope that their amazing story of friendship will inspire people to bring rescue pets of all shapes and sizes into their homes," Humane Society of North Texas spokeswoman Whitney Hanson says. "Sheldon and Dolly are wonderful examples of just how fantastic shelter pets are, no matter what their past was like."
Hanson is especially pleased to show a side of pit bulls -- the side that really enjoys frolicking with tortoises, that is -- that might even surprise this type of dog's biggest fans.
Jones says her sweeties, unsurprisingly, "have many fans in the neighborhood. People are often amazed at all of the animal interactions at our house."
Not that everyone is completely satisfied with the state of things.
Little Miss Dolly, for example, enjoys her regular rumbles with Sheldon -- but she also wants more.
"Dolly tries to get him to play with her red ball, but so far he just isn't interested it that idea," Jones says.
The Humane Society of North Texas has lots more animals up for adoption -- maybe even another Sheldon and/or Dolly!
Get in touch at arin.greenwood@huffingtonpost.com if you have an animal story to share.


Why all this hassle? You and I are going to do so much work up front. This is all to ensure we know what the market desires the most, and to ensure we destroy your competition (all the other homes the buyers are looking at). It is a hassle—and it will pay off for you.
Remember, buyers do not buy a series of rooms displayed in the most boring fashion conceivable. They buy the emotional benefits immediately received from envisioning future life events triggered by the most vital qualities of your home. We will discover these through research, and we will visually present them in film. Buyers make decisions based on emotions, and then quickly rationalize their emotionally driven decisions. Those who present their home in an emotional context win the buyer's hearts.
Finally, nearly 100% of buyers are on the internet. And video gets four times the click-through rates as homes advertised without it. If you are not well represented on the net, you are doing yourself a disservice. And think of it this way, three hours of filming gets you in front of thousands of buyers on the internet. That is much more convenient for both you and your buyers than a half-dozen open houses where maybe two or three people randomly wonder through every room of your home.


Small-scale fisheries and their governance are intrinsically connected to natural, social and political processes that occur outside the domain of a 'fisheries system'. This connection is arguably nowhere better seen than in the case of transboundary fishing, where local, regional, national and international interests and identity are deeply interconnected and play a crucial role in influencing the wellbeing of small-scale fishers and their fishing strategies. To further understand challenges facing small-scale fisheries (SSF), we must therefore explore not only the internal functioning of a fisheries governance system, but also explore cross-sector and cross-scale linkages, connecting small-scale fisheries to a larger political economy.
Disruption of the livelihoods of small-scale fishers and environmental degradation are often observed in cases of disputed sea boundaries as well as in cases of internationalization of fishing fleets. While many scholars have studied the subject of transboundary fisheries (e.g. with aspects involving stock dynamics, political economy, and UNCLOS), there has been little research that explicitly explores implications for small-scale fishers.
This cluster therefore takes a comprehensive and critical look at how small-scale fishers are implicated in dynamics of fishing across and disputes over international maritime boundaries and transboundary fishing spaces.
First, we aim to document and synthesize a research agenda on small-scale fisheries implicated in transboundary settings based on a broad-based search of on-the-ground issues and needs. For this, we are organizing a special session called "Transboundary challenges for small-scale fisheries: Exploring a research agenda" at the People and the Sea conference organized by Center for Maritime Research (MARE) of the University of Amsterdam in June, 2015. This panel aims to explore a research agenda for understanding how maritime transboundary issues intersect with the concerns of small-scale fisheries. Five short presentations drawn from previous experiences on the topic will be presented. The session will then proceed with small-group discussions that actively engage the audience in shaping the research agenda. Two main questions to guide the discussions will be: (1) What are the major gaps in knowledge regarding the impact of transboundary issues on SSF?; (2) What are crucial questions for a meaningful research agenda on transboundary challenges for SSF?
The research agenda identified in this panel leads to a more comprehensive knowledge stocktaking effort that involves a brief online survey among TBTI network members around the world. Based on the gathered insights and experiences, we are interested in producing a concrete and policy-relevant synthesis of various perspectives on transboundary challenges for SSF based on a wide range of cases and experiences.
Secondly, building upon the research gaps and insights identified in the preceding steps, the cluster aims to conduct an in-depth comparative study to further examine the key impacts of transboundary issues on SSF and the related responses and agency of small-scale fishers. We expect that a focused comparative study would help improve our understanding of how maritime transboundary issues intersect with the concerns of small-scale fisheries by generating "thick" descriptions as well as more generalizable insights. The exact format of this segment of the cluster activity (e.g. case study or comparative analysis) as well as the specific research questions will become more clearly defined after the MARE 2015 conference.
1. How and to what extent are coastal small-scale fisheries affected by the encroachments of foreign fishing fleets?
2. What strategies are employed by small-scale fishers to respond to the impacts of foreign fishing fleets?
3. What are the potential environmental impacts of fishing in transboundary areas?
1.How are SSF implicated by marine boundary disputes and how do they respond?
2. How does the process of state territorialization affect small-scale fishers' operations?
3. How, and to what effect, are SSF capable in engaging in the (geo)politics of transboundary fishing practices?
1. What are the role and impacts of International law (e.g. UNCLOS), international fishery cooperation agreements and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations on the resources, economies and wellbeing of SSF?
2. What are the governability challenges of transboundary fishing practices?
4. Building of a network of scholars and civil society members engaged in small-scale fisher responses to international fishing fleets and concerned with the safety and the wellbeing of small-scale fishers in light of larger-scale maritime geopolitical struggles.
1. Join us in the formulation of a research agenda, either by participating in the special panel at the MARE conference 2015 or by providing digital inputs in a draft compilation to be circulated after the conference.
2. Contribute to the comprehensive stocktaking effort through a brief online survey among TBTI network members around the world, by sharing your knowledge of and experiences with transboundary challenges for SSF.
3. Join our network of scholars and civil society members engaged in small-scale fisher responses to international fishing fleets and concerned with the wellbeing of small-scale fishers in light of larger-scale maritime geopolitical developments.
4. Participate in the IUU panel discussion at the MARE Conference in 2017.


This was posted by someone on the Cooking Light bulletin boards. My mom and I decided to make it for my dad, since we couldn't find almond roca in the store. Other than having to measure temperature, it's really simple. It's really, really good. My dad liked it, which says a lot.
Reserve 1 cup of the almonds and set aside. Mix sugar, butter, water, and salt in large, heavy saucepan and heat to boiling over medium to medium high heat. Make sure there's room in the saucepan for the mixture to foam up and boil. Heat mixture over medium to medium high until it foams and reaches 240 degrees on a candy thermometer. When temp reaches 240, stir in 2 cups of almonds. Stir mixture constantly and watch temp carefully until temp reaches 290. Remove from heat, stir in soda and QUICKLY pour onto a cookie sheet covered with buttered or greased wax paper. Mixture should start to harden immediately. As mixture hardens, sprinkle chocolate chunks over hardening mixture and spread the chocolate chunks around until they melt. Sprinkly melted chocolate with reserved almonds. Let sit until toffee hardens and chocolate sets.
NOTE: For this recipe to turn out perfect, you have to watch temperatures CAREFULLY. Don't let the almonds burn (so use medium to medium high heat) and don't remove the mixture from the stove before temp reaches 290. If you do, you'll get chewy almond roca .
For Christmas Eve, we went to a new Japanese hibachi restaurant in Danbury. It was awesome. We got a lot of pictures and videos because it was a lot of fun. It had delicious food. I had a vegetable assortment, and the best fried rice ever. Yum yum yum. For those of you in the area, it is called Ichiro Hibachi. I think it has franchises open in various other places, like Trumbull, CT and Rockville, MD.
For Christmas, my mom and I made a Peppermint Ice Cream Cake from Cooking Light. It was awesome. My brother and his girlfriend don't like peppermint, but everyone else really liked it. I will definitely make this again. It takes a long time to prepare, only because it has to freeze, but it's totally worth it.
NOTE ADDED ON 12/27/09: We made this again with a different pan and it was much better. See that post HERE.
Coat 2 (8-inch) round cake pans with cooking spray. Line bottom of each pan with wax paper.
Combine sugars in a large bowl, stirring well until blended. Add egg substitute; beat 2 minutes or until light and creamy. Add cocoa mixture, and beat for 1 minute.
Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to bowl; beat for 1 minute or until blended. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake at 350° for 28 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes on a wire rack. Remove from pans. Wrap in plastic wrap, and freeze for 2 hours or until slightly frozen.
Spread ice cream in an 8-inch round cake pan lined with plastic wrap. Cover and freeze 4 hours or until firm.
To assemble cake, place one cake layer, bottom side up, on a cake pedestal. Remove ice cream layer from freezer; remove plastic wrap. Place ice cream layer, bottom side up, on top of cake layer. Top with remaining cake layer.
Combine whipped topping and peppermint extract, and stir until blended. Spread frosting over top and sides of cake. Sprinkle with crushed peppermints. Freeze until ready to serve. Let cake stand at room temperature 10 minutes before slicing.
We haven't had much time to cook anything other than frozen stuff or Chinese take-out so that is why no new recipes have been posted in awhile. However, I did feel that yesterday warrants a post since I had some delicious foods.
First, we got out of our first social work class early so my classmates and I went to a bar between classes to celebrate (it was our last day of class). They bought me a drink as an engagement gift, which was sweet. I got a Fenway Slider, which was vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, Oreos, Kahlua, Cocoa de Creme, and some other stuff that I can't remember. It was quite delicious.
HERE is a link to my recipe (complete with pictures I took) for Cranberry Walnut Bread. I love it. It is from Everyday Food magazine. It's really good, especially the day after you bake it because then it gets all sugary and the cranberries aren't as tart as they are on the first day.
I posted the recipe on Something Awful's cooking forum originally (that is why the recipe was submitted by Lauren HaguPie - that is my handle on SA). Then it was picked up to go on this guy's website (Visual Recipes), and eventually it will end up on GBSFood. GBSFood is a compilation site of all of the recipes posted in the SA Cooking forum.
Anyway, I hope you make the bread and enjoy it. I made two loaves: One to eat, one to freeze. The bread freezes ridiculously well if you wrap it up in plastic wrap. I am going to take it to my mom next week for Christmas.


Tony Wagner, Harvard fellow, former Gates Foundation senior advisor and author of this book is determined to have an impact in the transformation of the education of new generations. He sees education as the engine of change for younger generations, which will help them to better adapt to the future that awaits them and consequently improve the society and economy that they will encounter. To read more download the PDF.


Nantucket's Cru is closed for the winter, so chef Erin Zircher recreates the restaurant's seafood-focused hits, like these rich and satisfying oven-roasted clams, at home. "It's a wonderful recipe for a dinner party, as all of the components can be put together ahead of time," she tells us. She suggests smearing spoonfuls of leftover herb jam on flatbread, or folding it into morning omelets.


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Missing travel? Take a virtual trip to a Japanese island with Animal Crossing
As the coronavirus pandemic limits people's ability to travel safely, a popular Japanese tourism destination is hoping to fill in the gap via Nintendo Co.'s smash-hit life simulation game "Animal Crossing: New Horizons." | REUTERS
NIIGATA – As the coronavirus pandemic limits people's ability to travel safely, a popular Japanese tourism destination is hoping to fill in the gap via Nintendo Co.'s smash-hit life simulation game Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Sado Island in the Sea of Japan is host to a number of well-known tourism spots — including a gold mine that is set to be a UNESCO World Heritage site — and such sites are featured in the virtual version of the island as well.
Jointly developed by the Sado city office and Niigata Prefectural Government, the project marks the first time a remote island in Japan has used the game to promote its appeal. It was introduced amid calls for people to stay home over Christmas and New Year's due to the pandemic.
According to the city, there are six areas on the island that players can explore, including a "rice paddy art area" featuring an image of ibises created using rice of various colors. Sado hosts a conservation center for the endangered bird.
Players can dig for riches in a gold mine area, interact with a character based on the Japanese crested ibis, download a T-shirt featuring the island for their character to wear and take commemorative photos while taking a trip on one of the island's unique tub-shaped fishing boats.
The password, or what the game calls a Dream Address, needed to visit the in-game island can be found on the city's official website.
"We utilized many items to recreate the (island's) landscape. We hope people will come and check out the real island when the pandemic ends," said an official from the city.
The popular tourist destination Sado Island is rich in natural beauty. | KYODO
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Electronic Arts is again in the running for The Consumerist's "Worst Company in America" title for 2013, and while COO Peter Moore thinks EA will "win" this title, he has spoken out to defend his company. In a blog entry titled "We Can Do Better," Moore quoted the famous quip: The tallest trees catch the most wind to defend EA's place in the industry.
"Let me cut to the chase: it appears EA is going to 'win.' Like the Yankees, Lakers, and Manchester United, EA is one of those organizations that is defined by both a legacy of success, and a legion of critics," Moore said. "Are we really the 'Worst Company in America?'"
EA faces Ticketmaster in the user-voted tournament's semifinal round.
Moore admitted EA has made "plenty of mistakes," including shutting down game servers too early, shipping games that did not meet expectations, missteps on new pricing models, and, most recently, "severely fumbling" the SimCity launch.
"We owe gamers better performance than this," Moore said. "Some of these complaints are 100 percent legitimate--like all large companies we are not perfect. But others just don't hold water."
Moore listed off a bevy of such claims, the first of which is related to SimCity's always-online requirement. He said many contend this is a form of digital rights management (DRM), but claimed this is not the case. "We can't be any clearer: it's not. Period," Moore said.
The executive also brought up Origin. He said he's heard the claim that there is no room for Origin as a competitor to Steam, but argued that "45 million registered users are proving that wrong." As for free-to-play and microtransactions, Moore said these business models are not a "pox on gaming" as some are suggesting.
"Tens of millions more are playing and loving those games," Moore said.
Lastly, Moore said that in the past year, EA has received "thousands" of emails and physical cards protesting against EA for allowing gamers to create LGBT characters in its games. EA has long been a vocal supporter of LGBT issues.
"That last one is particularly telling. If that's what makes us the worst company, bring it on. Because we're not caving on that," Moore said.
Moore ended his note saying EA is "committed to fixing our mistakes," saying the publisher will continue to factor in community feedback when making decisions.
"So here's my response to this poll: We can do better. We will do better," Moore said. "But I am damn proud of this company, the people around the globe who work at EA, the games we create, and the people that play them. The tallest trees catch the most wind. At EA we remain proud and unbowed."