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An effective San Francisco business marketing plan includes Social Media, Customer Loyalty programs and new technology to streamline operations. All organizations need to set up short term as well as long term business marketing plans. Schedule a call with David Mitroff, Ph.D. today to learn more about how we can help you achieve your goals and strengthen your San Francisco business.
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While working with LexisNexis, David conducted CLE presentations, seminars, and other workshops at leading law firm's throughout the West Coast. David is an active member, on the executive board, or advisory committees for several organizations. He continually collaborates with several consultant groups, merchant associations, and charities to best serve the community. To learn more about Piedmont Avenue Consulting and how we work with San Francisco law firms like yours, or for more information about our Continuing Legal Education Seminars for law professionals in San Francisco, visit our site.
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A San Francisco restaurant marketing strategy begins with a solid business marketing plan and restaurant concept that is continually adjusted to meet the demands of the highly competitive San Francisco marketplace. Whether you are a restauranteur, retail business owner or owner of a professional services firm – any San Francisco Business would benefit from a consultation with marketing expert and business consultant David Mitroff, Ph.D. Piedmont Avenue Consulting works with businesses to create and/or improve current marketing strategies. This often includes Social Media, Customer Loyalty programs and new technology to streamline operations. For more information on how you can correctly and effectively market your San Francisco restaurant, visit our website.
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Piedmont Avenue Consulting organizes, hosts, sponsors or promotes 50 to 75 events each year. We produce and promote many Bay Area networking events, social mixers, business networking, music, and charity events. To learn more about how your San Francisco events can be promoted more effectively, visit our website.
Getting the word out about your product or service offered at your San Francisco business should always be a priority.


Is the Mid-Currituck Bridge Suddenly in the Fast Lane?
No Outer Banks topic inspires more heated debates than the Mid Currituck Bridge. The two-lane toll bridge from the Currituck mainland to Corolla has staunch supporters and opponents from all over the globe. Both sides seem to think that their opinion is the sole choice for the future of OBX.
That future just jumped into the fast lane with news coming out of Raleigh last week that the timeline for the bridge was being advanced. Once slated to begin construction in 2019, the governor's office announced the project would begin in 2017 instead. This is now possible because of budget reforms passed in August that granted $700 million in new funding for transportation. The bridge is just one of four projects having their timetables sped up in the state.
This announcement comes on the heels of the North Carolina Board of Transportation approving a request for $5.7 million to purchase land in Corolla earlier this month. The seven acre stretch of property lies to the north of the Food Lion shopping center and just south of the Corolla Bay housing development. Currently owned by Towne Bank, the land will be the eastern terminus of the Mid-Currituck Bridge upon completion.
Even with these different milestones, many people feel though that the talk is all political posturing in advance of state elections next year. Residents and tourists alike have adopted the philosophy of "I'll Believe it When I See it" with regards to the project actually getting underway. Especially since it has been talked about and in various stages of development for decades.
Proponents of the bridge see it as necessary for the growth of the Outer Banks as a tourist destination, as well as for the safety of residents and guests. On summer weekends, Rt. 158 and Rt. 12N can back up for miles in a number of locations and in both directions depending on the time of day. Supporters feel that without the bridge, the multiple hours of added travel time will cause some vacationers to spend their summers elsewhere. Evacuation concerns in the event of a natural disaster are also frequently listed as another reason the bridge is needed.
Opponents contend that the easier access to the beaches of Corolla and Carova will lead to over development of the area and the eventual removal of the Corolla Wild Horses. Some feel that crime levels will also skyrocket with easier access. But the main complaint seen across social media channels, is that the overall cost of $410 million is too much for a bridge used mostly on weekends just three months of the year.
No matter which side of the bridge debate you fall on though, there is still plenty of time before the first piling is scheduled to be laid in Currituck Sound even with this advancement of the project timeline. As they say, anything can and will happen.
For more information on the Outer Banks and Outer Banks Real Estate, check out our blog.


The dream of the '90s is alive in this big jelly bag from Sun Jellies. It's great for bringing a touch of nostalgic whimsy to your look or even just as storage to keep things in at home. P.S. It ships flat so it won't break in transit. All you have to do is fold it and snap it in place, and you're good to go.
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Initially, I had no empathy for the countless overdoses we reversed. We'd revive them, take them to the hospital, they'd sign out AMA (Against Medical Advise) and we'd see them again, the next time a stronger batch came to town. My attitude started to shift when we treated a fellow a few years my junior. When I was gathering information for my report, I realized he was the younger brother of a singer I had worked with a few years previous. When I asked him "You're Xxxxx's little brother, aren't you?" the color that had come back to his face from breathing again, drained away.
In recent years, there has been a lot written on Big Pharma's alleged contribution to the mounting opioid addiction crisis in the US. In particular, "The family that built an empire of pain" documented how Perdue Pharma used data and aggressive marketing tactics to push the opioid Oxcontin and bring in billions of dollars of profits. More recently, this led to a lawsuit by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against Perdue Pharma.
The topic of medication assisted addiction treatment is controversial among treatment specialists. Perhaps even more so is the use of Suboxone® (buprenorphine and naloxone). My indirect reference to this medication is, in no way an endorsement of it's efficacy, I am simply pointing out irony/shameless greed in the fact that the patent is held by…Perdue Pharma.
The concept for the song had been kicking around in my head for a long time. Sometimes, projects need a catalyst to get them going. The ingredients are there; the reaction needs to be jump-started. Sometimes, you just need a boot to the back side. In this case it was the latter. When Toby and I found out we would be heading to Memphis to compete in the International Blues Challenge, we agreed we needed some more original "pure blues" material. I sat down in my bunk room at work one evening. I knew I had about 45 minutes until my room mate would heading to bed, so I pulled out a Telecaster and half an hour later, "Got no spoons" was down on paper.


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Palin on open convention: Anything is possible
(CNN) - In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin did not shoot down the idea of accepting a proposal to run for president should the Republican presidential race lead to an open convention in August.
"Anything is possible. I don't close any doors that perhaps would be open out there, so, no, I wouldn't close that door," Palin said after casting her vote in Alaska's Republican caucuses. "My plan is to be at that convention."
Speaking at a caucus site in her hometown of Wasilla to CNN's Paul Vercammen, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee declined to say whom she voted for on Tuesday.
Palin has long been calling for an extended nominating process, insisting a longer primary season will more thoroughly vet the eventual GOP nominee ahead of the general election.
"I believe the competition makes all our candidates better. Remember, there are five men running for president, and I think Barack Obama is the worst choice," she said.
She added that the ideal Republican nominee would be able to "bust through" what she called "Orwellian-Obama rhetoric and pandering."
Pressed on whether she would consider running for office in the future, Palin said she would "seriously consider" whatever she could do to help the country and "put things back on the right track."
"Anything I can do to help, I will be willing to help," Palin said.
The former governor also weighed in on the recent controversy over Rush Limbaugh's verbal attacks against a law student who advocated for contraception coverage.
Palin, echoing similar refrains this week from another top Republican woman, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, said the uproar over Limbaugh's comments were primarily driven by the left and argued conservative women face the same level of vitriol but without such an outcry.
"I think the definition of hypocrisy is for Rush Limbaugh to have been called out, forced to apologize and retract what it is he said in exercising his first amendment rights-and never is that, the same, applied to the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, about the defenseless," Palin said.
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What a JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 6, 2012 10:25 pm at 10:25 pm |
Palin has no intention of accepting the nomination for president at a brokered convention, or running in 2016. Anyone who believes that is a fool. She is just trying to stay in the spotlight and keep the donations coming.
Why am I not surprised that Sarah Palin prefers a nineteenth century approach to presidential elections?
This woman will destroy the GOP. It's all about her and her ideals now. She care less about the state in which she'll the Republican party to. She and the likes of Rick Santorum will give Obama a second term and deliver the Democrat the House this November as well. I'm done with the Republican party. After this election, I'm switching to Independent. This election cycle shows how radical these Tea Party and the right wing of the GOP has hurt the party. They have done damage that will last for years to come. I was going to support Romney (and still will if he's the nominee), but will sit on the sideline if that radical Rick Santorum gets the nomination.
This is unreal. She actually thinks the Republican party will nominate her. This is delusional thinking. Who would vote for a quitter?
Jeetu
Palin has no idea of what is civility and humility. She also does not understand the American values and spirits. For her to defend RUSH is a clear sign that she has no respect for people who happen to have a different viewpoints than hers. She cannot be trusted. I do hope that the republican party nominates her as that is a sure sign for her to losf the electtion and democrats to win the house and the senate.
Who said that Palin has no sense of humor.;-)
The GOP convention will be contested and Sarah Palin will easily win the nomination and the White House. She will be our next and greatest President!
lgny
If Palin wins the nomination and the election, the north eastern states should secede and join Canada 😉
It's impossible to imagine a less qualified candidate.
bellablue
Wow!! Sarah!!!! Sarah!! Sarah!!! Just what we need for our next President!! A person who can see Russia from her house, visit Putin when she becomes President, and lead our Country right back into the financial hole that Bush and Company left us in!! Oh, and it will be "war time" again for America. Never mind the last 2 wars that Bush started. Sarah will no doubt start one with Iran, Syria, and the entire Middle East! Do you suppose she can talk the Republican Party into another entire "wardrobe" when she comes to the convention??? Or maybe she can "buy" her way into the nomination!! Afterall, that is the whole purpose of the 2012 election isn't it????? " The Republicans have lots of dirty money that might even be laundered to use to win the general election!! Buy your way with Super Pact money and corruption!! Now that's a real American if I ever knew one!!
Avi Shlomo
If this were to Happen, I will convert to Islam and live in Saudi Arabia
DaveinSC
Please, oh please let Sarah get the GOP nomination. Obama will win by 95%.
S.B. Stein E.B. NJ
I don't know if she has a full understanding of what is going on now. The idea that she would be nominated from the floor of the convention is just laughable since Romney, Santorum and Gingrich wouldn't give it up the nomination without a major fight.
daves_not_here
Wait – what??
First, no one took away Limbaugh's 1st ammendent right. He can be a sumbag – that's his right, but he must deal with the public's right to outcry. Second – I hope Palin runs – it increases Obama's odds even more.
"the leftist radicals who say such horrible things about the handicapped, about women, about the defenseless," Palin said. Huh? Care to provide any examples Sarah? I believe the powers that be in the GOP (the wealthy, not the religious nuts) are fairly satisfied with Obama in the White House. They get to bash him in public but he has followed the wishes of the wealthy elites and that's the key to political success. GOP are putting up with crazy candidates who they don't believe will be electable. If they feel Romney or Santorum have a chance at beating Obama, maybe they'll put Sarah up to ensure a loss.
I consider myself a Republican and I could care less what Sarah Palin has to say!! She offers us nothing!!
If this woman had any respect for the democratic process, she would not accept the nomination of a brokered convention, nor would any Republican who believes in the democratic process ever think of nominating her. But that said, I think there will be a brokered convention, simply because Republicans do not care for the will of Americans, of the left or right. They will usurp the power of the voters, ignore their will, and call it leadership. And while I plan to vote for Obama, I think it is an utter slap in the face to the four remaining GOP candidates who have campaigned so hard for their party's nomination only to see it given to someone who can't even remember why Paul Revere ever got on a horse to begin with.
Patrick from Minnesota
Does she WANT the Republicans to lose?
Proud to be an Independent !
The Republican Party has turned into a joke ! I'm going Democrat straight ticket this election !
The absurdity of her comment is her reference to Obama as somehow Orwellian. She and her pathetic friends on the right are the true embodiments of that which George Orwell warned us about so long ago. She never backs up her ludicrous allegations; she never explains how Obama is "Orwellian;" and, frankly, I doubt if she has any idea what it means for someone to be "Orwellian." Fortunately, she can find the answer to that question anytime she wants. She need only look in the mirror while she talks politics. The defense of Limbaugh by Bachmann and Palin reveal that they are utterly incapable of separating any real truth from their warped political view. It is unimaginable that this country has become so degraded as to treat Palin as a serious person worthy of attention from the media. What a disgrace that our political leadership has become so impoverished. Is she really any different than many of the tin horn dictators that hold power throughout the world? It is an insult to airheads to call her that name.
Former Republican, now an Independent
Palin couldn't even fulfill her term as governor of a low population, welfare state, what makes her think she could handle anything tough?
phenoy
OMG this is wonderful! Let her run for president! I can't wait to hear what she has to say on anything...This is exactly what the Republicans need, a fresh perspective from a smart woman....
Bootstomper
Won't Bristol be the GOP'S VP canidate?
Lets see, she says it's great to stretch out the nominating because it will allow a full vetting of the Republican candidates. Then she implies she would accept the nomination if it came to her at a brokered convention???? Now wait a minute. What's the point of vetting all the candidates, then giving the nomination to someone who isn't vetted and didn't go through the process? Part of it may be Sarah Palin knows she could never stand up to a thorough vetting.

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What CEA Has to Say About New Earthquake Research Results
Today, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) released a new long-term earthquake forecast for California called "UCERF3."
The California Earthquake Authority (CEA), a not-for-profit provider of earthquake insurance for California residential property—and a significant financial supporter of this research—will use these results to evaluate insurance-coverage options it offers and the rates it charges its policyholders.
"Delivering coverage options and rates that accurately account for the risk of earthquake damage is the most important responsibility that CEA manages for its policyholders," said CEA CEO Glenn Pomeroy. "This research result also creates another opportunity for California residents to learn more about the risk for earthquake damage to their homes."
This research, for example, notes that the inventory of faults has grown over the years and that Californians are not just dealing with a few well-separated faults, but with a vast, interconnected fault system.
The research also reports that scientists now can consider more than 250,000 different fault-based earthquakes in assessing risk, whereas previous research and models considered far fewer.
And the research affirms that the likelihood for magnitude 6.7 and larger earthquakes somewhere in California remains near certainty (at 99 percent) in the next 30 years, the duration of a typical mortgage.
Finally, the research reports the likelihood for an earthquake of magnitude 8 or greater in the next 30 years in the entire California region has increased 50 percent over previous (UCERF2) estimates.
By law, CEA rate determinations use the best available science. Next steps include earthquake loss modelers' incorporating these research results into their models and refining previous estimates for potential damage, as necessary.
CEA then will use these new research results to refine its coverage options and rates, as well as the financing needed to ensure its future policyholder coverage needs and claims can be covered.
More information on CEA earthquake insurance coverage options and premiums can be found at CaliforniaRocks.com or EarthquakeAuthority.com.
About the CEA
The CEA is a publicly managed, privately funded, not-for-profit organization that provides catastrophe residential earthquake insurance and works to help encourage all Californians to take steps to reduce the risk of earthquake loss.


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Dutch designer Cees Braakman was born in Utrecht in 1917. At the age of 17, he began working at Pastoe, a Utrecht-based furniture manufacturer, where he learned the trade. His father, D.L. Braakman (1885-1966), was then the company's head draftsman and manager.
In 1948, following the Second World War (during which time the factory was dismantled), Braakman followed in his father's footsteps, taking on the role of Pastoe's manager and designer, where he would remain until 1978.
Pastoe's story began in 1913 in Utrecht, when German-Dutch businessman Frits Loeb (1889-1959) decided to produce chairs in a traditional cabinetmaking workshop to sell in his own shop. His atelier—named Utrechtsche Machinale Stoel-en Meubelfabrik (UMS) at the time—quickly grew and in 1917 moved into a large factory facility, manufacturing furniture for a range of retail outlets. In 1918, the factory was moved again to the Rotsoord area in Utrecht, where it is still located today. While the early furniture lines produced by UMS were intended for a general audience, the company—under the direction of designer-manager D. L. Braakman (1885-1966) -was one of the first in the Netherlands to adopt a more austere, minimalist aesthetic expressed in then-novel materials like tubular steel and bent plywood. The Dutch market was slow to respond to these designs, so it was all the more audacious when UMS, in 1947, became dedicated to producing only modernist furniture. To reflect the new mission, the company's name was changed to Pastoe.
Today Pastoe continues to manufacture formally simple, high-quality furniture, including cabinet systems, storage pieces, chairs, and more. Many of Pastoe's designs have attained an iconic status, such as Cees Braakman's SMO5 Chair (1958), one of the first stools to be entirely fabricated in steel wire, and Studio Pastoe's L-Series Cabinet (1979). Recent collaborations include projects with the late, great Belgian designer Maarten van Severen and rising-star Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings.
Pastoe's objects have been exhibited in galleries and museums broadly, including the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.


Ask an expert | Queensland Association for Gifted and Talented Children Inc.
What does QAGTC do to improve the education of gifted students?
QAGTC has a State Management Committee consisting of professionals who regularly attend meetings with top level staff in Education Queensland, Brisbane Catholic Education, and Independent Schools of Queensland to advocate for gifted students everywhere. We have developed a comprehensive set of Indicators and Strategies for schools to check whether they are making progress in their achievement of the best possible provisions for gifted children.
Can gifted children be overly sensitive?
Super-sensitivity and over-excitability in gifted children is real and can be misinterpreted as immaturity and bad behaviour. Here are some websites about super-sensitive gifted children which might provide additional insights into behaviour.
How can you tell if schools are suitable for gifted children?
Where do I start to learn about giftedness and gifted children's needs?
QAGTC Management appreciates the predicament faced by those who want to learn more. Start with one authoritative book or browse the websites.
Clark, Barbara. (2008). Growing up gifted: Developing the potential of children at home and at school. 7th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall.
What type of education do gifted children need?
This could be the most frequently asked question from parents (and teachers too).
Gifted children have high ability and, while there are many definitions and many ways to identify giftedness, the single best indicator would be a standardised test, properly administered and interpreted by gifted-friendly professionals.
Should my child start Year One early?
Early entry to Year One is available in Queensland. It is one of many forms of acceleration that make up the best strategies for gifted children. You need to put your case to a gifted-friendly school and apply through Education Queensland if you are looking at a state school. Enter 'Early Entry' in the search box at Education Queensland website to find the guidelines. If you are looking at a non-state school they can do as they choose.


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This continuing education course with text, study guide, and exam provides advanced-level strength and conditioning instruction and presents the key considerations that are essential for safely and effectively training athletes to reach peak physical condition and gain a competitive edge.
Periodization Training for Sports CE Course, Third Edition, will ensure you know what works, why it works, and when it works in the training room and on the practice field. Using content from the book Periodization Training for Sports, Third Edition, by Tudor Bompa and Carlo Buzzichelli, this advanced-level course presents Bompa's scientifically based principles while detailing how to apply them to optimally train athletes' biomotor abilities for their respective sports and for their roles in those sports.
Coaches and athletes will immediately benefit from ready-to-use programs and training models for more than 35 popular sports that take into consideration the unique demands for athletes competing in each sport. The periodization principles described in this course are proven to maximize performance, minimize the risk of injury, and eliminate training plateaus.
You will learn how to use periodized workouts in order to peak at optimal times by manipulating strength training variables through six training phases (anatomical adaptation, hypertrophy, maximum strength, conversion to specific strength maintenance, and tapering) and integrating them with energy system training and nutrition strategies. Rather than experiment with untested training regimens, you can apply the proven methods of Bompa and Buzzichelli to safely and effectively train athletes to reach peak physical condition and gain a competitive edge.
A continuing education course for strength and conditioning coaches, athletic trainers, personal trainers, and fitness coaches and instructors.
Dr. Bompa's books on training methods include Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training (Human Kinetics, 2009), Periodization Training for Sports (Human Kinetics, 2015), Conditioning Young Athletes (Human Kinetics, 2015), and Serious Strength Training (Human Kinetics, 2013). His books have been translated into 17 languages and used in more than 130 countries for training athletes and educating and certifying coaches.
Bompa has been invited to speak about training in more than 30 countries and has been awarded certificates of honor and appreciation from such prestigious organizations as the Argentine Ministry of Culture, the Australian Sports Council, the Spanish Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee.
A member of the Canadian Olympic Association and the Romanian National Council of Sports, Dr. Bompa is professor emeritus at York University, where he has taught training theories since 1987.
Carlo Buzzichelli, AAS, is a professional strength and conditioning coach and the director of the International Strength & Conditioning Institute. Carlo was a pupil of Tudor Bompa and is considered one of the foremost experts on strength training. Carlo has held seminars at various universities and sport institutes worldwide, including the Superior Institute of Physical Education and Sports of Camaguey in Cuba; the University of Makati in Manila, Philippines; the Superior Institute of Physical Education and Sports of Ciego de Avila in Cuba; the Universidade Paulista and the Olympic Center of Sao Paulo in Brazil; and the World Athletic Center in Arizona. In 2012 Carlo was a speaker at the International Workshop on Strength and Conditioning of Trivandrum in India. Carlo's teams have conquered eight promotions and placed first and second in league cups. Carlo was a team coach in the World Track and Field Championships and Commonwealth Games. He has coached athletes who have won 17 medals at national championships in track and field, swimming, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and powerlifting. His athletes have won two international golds in track and field and three silvers and one bronze in track and field and Brazilian jiu-jitsu; they also have set five national records in powerlifting.


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LIBBY CLARK - SPIRITUALIST MEDIUM - HEALER - TEACHER
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Spiritualist Medium, Healer, Teacher
About Libby
Libby has been aware of the Spirit world from being a small child, and for over 40 years she has developed and fine tuned her abilities to work with spirit and has become one of the UK's leading mediums and healer.
She has traveled the world and serving Spiritualist Churches groups, organizations and private individuals, undertaking Church services, demonstrations of Mediumship, Spiritual and Deep Trance Healing, Private Sittings, workshops, seminars and teaching groups.
Since 1992 Libby has been privileged to be a Course Organiser and Tutor at the world renowned Arthur Findlay College and thoroughly enjoys teaching and sharing with her students, many of whom return again and again
to continue their Spiritual and personal education under Libby's expert guidance.
Libby has entered into an exiting and innovating partnership with musician and producer Andy Wills to create a series of guidance and meditation CD's.
Andy's music is a very positive and empowering sound and combined with spoken meditation they have created a new avenue of exploration and support for those exploring their Spirituality and personal power
I love my work, for me it is a way of life, a vocation, not just a job and hope that this shines through in all that I do in my work for Spirit.
Whenever I am in the presence of Spirit I am always in awe of the power and energies that they share with us, be that finding the right words to express to an individual in a Private Sitting or to a large group of students working with their development.
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More About Libby
Libby has so many skills and gifts that she utilises in her work with Spirit, she is fortunate in that she is able to work with all of the different aspects of mediumship and spirituality that are currently available and share them through her teaching with her students.
She travels worldwide sharing her genuine love of her work, her incredible Trance Healing skills with Dr James , her bond with your loved ones in Spirit and the joy she expresses when she is teaching others how to develop their own gifts and abilities.
When she is participating in a Divine Service and sharing the intensity of Philosophy, communicating with loved ones in the Spirit World and passing on the messages of love, proving survival and bringing back beautiful memories for the recipient of the message or sitting quietly in Private Sitting with an individual, Libby's love for Spirit shines through in the manner, attitude and details that she shares.
If you would like to book a Private Sitting, Spiritual Healing or Trance Healing appointment with Libby simply contact her via the Contact Page and she will respond as quickly as possible.


Discovered 1888 Oct. 25 by J. Palisa at Vienna.
The name is exceptionally appropriate because the planet's orbit was the farthest from the Sun then known. Except for the special dynamical case of the Trojan asteroids and some other spectacular objects, which probably are cometary nuclei, Thule still occupies this position. It is very near the 3:4 commensurability of period with Jupiter.


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Town/City Warrington, Market Harborough, Gateshead and London.
TEP is an environmental consultancy with a team of over 30 permanent ecologists. We have a variety of opportunities for ecologists to join us working on a wide range of interesting projects. We work with NGOs, government and commercial clients.
We are looking for ecology field surveyors to support our team for the 2018 survey season. Applicants should have a scientific background but experience may range from recent graduates through to experienced ecologists including those holding protected species licences (primarily for great crested newts and bats).
In addition to seasonal positions we are also interested in hearing from experienced ecologists with 4+ years working in consultancy who have a range of office and field based skills.
The core survey season is March to September. TEP operates throughout the UK but the work for which we are currently recruiting is predominantly in the North West, Midlands, South & West Yorkshire. A full driving licence and access to a vehicle is essential.
An Open Day will be held in our Warrington office on Friday 2nd February 2018. This will give an introduction to TEP and feature talks from experienced surveyors.
Expressions of interest for a permanent position (4+ years consultancy experience) should be made by sending your CV and a covering letter which should detail your experience and expectations to recruitment@tep.uk.com.
Please visit www.tep.uk.com/jobs for further information and to download an Open Day Information and Application Form 2018. If you would like to be considered for a place on the Open Day your CV and application form must be emailed to recruitment@tep.uk.com by noon on Monday 22nd January 2018. If you are selected to attend the Open Day invites will be emailed by Friday 26th January.


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What Silicon Valley Thinks of Hillary Clinton's Innovation Agenda
In June, Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed Technology and Innovation platform. Tech issues rarely feature in Presidential campaigns, but Clinton seems determined to shore up an already strong position in Silicon Valley by promising an administration that recognizes the singular role disruptive innovation has played in driving U.S. economic growth over the last two decades.
Clinton's plan may have been designed to deflect concern here in California and other innovation hubs about growing criticism of the tech economy from the Obama Administration and Democrats on the left. Just a day after Clinton released her plan, for example, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has taken an increasingly active role in the campaign, directly attacked leading technology companies including Apple, Amazon and Google, hinting that they had grown too large to escape the blunt instrument of antitrust to break them up.
Overall, the Clinton agenda is something of a dog's breakfast, mixing unlikely promises for significantly increased federal spending in education, basic research, and infrastructure with more specific reforms in such hot-button areas as immigration, intellectual property, and tech infrastructure.
Though nearly every aspect of the plan would require a cooperative Congress, there is still much to admire in the particulars, and, more to the point, much that innovators and their investors have wanted to hear from Washington for a long time:
Immigration – Among Silicon Valley's highest priorities, for example, Clinton promises "comprehensive" immigration reform, including a pledge to "staple a green card" to the diplomas of non-U.S. masters and PhD students in science and engineering, "enabling international students who complete degrees in these fields to move to green card status." No technology company would object to that proposal.
Patents – Clinton also pledges to fix the badly out-of-balance patent system, although here the promised reforms are modest. Clinton endorses legislation floating around Congress that would break the stranglehold of the notoriously plaintiff-friendly Eastern District of Texas, which openly courts patent trolls and frivolous litigation. But there is no mention of larger patent issues, notably the scaling back or eliminating patent protection for software and business methods, an invention of the courts and the patent office in recent years. The consensus, even among many leading software providers, is that those new categories have done far more harm than good.
Copyright – On copyrights, Clinton promises a law that would "unlock" a ballooning number of older written and audio-visual works that, thanks to repeated and retroactive copyright extensions on behalf of Disney and other large rights holders, can't be licensed or used because no one knows who owns them anymore. (Liberation of so-called "orphan works" would have been enabled by a proposed settlement in a case involving wholesale scanning by Google Books, but that settlement was scuttled in 2011. Google went on to win the case outright.) The Clinton plan is silent, however, on scaling back the expanding copyrights that created the orphan works problem—and others—in the first place.
The Sharing Economy – During the primaries, both Sen. Bernie Sanders and Secretary Clinton raised repeated concerns about new "sharing economy" services, including Uber and TaskRabbit, that help contractors and freelancers coordinate their work through network technologies. Sanders dismissed these services as "unregulated" and said he had "serious problems" with Uber in particular. For her part, Clinton said last year that network-based employment raised "hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look like in the future."
Clinton's Tech and Innovation plan is more measured, if non-committal, about whether she sees the sharing economy as a direct attack on unions and labor regulators. She promises only to "convene a high level working group of experts, business and labor leaders to recommend how best to ensure that people have the benefits and security they need no matter how they work." Depending on what specific "benefits and security" her experts believe casual workers need, that could mean either an endorsement of the sharing economy or its death by a thousand regulations.
Broadband Infrastructure – The recent decision by the Federal Communications Commission, at the urging of the White House, to transform Internet access into a public utility has already spooked investors, who spent nearly $1.5 trillion over the previous twenty years continually upgrading broadband infrastructure even as America's roads, bridges, water pipes, gas mains and electrical grid—the actual public utilities—fell catastrophically behind. (D.C.'s own Metro system, once the city's pride and joy, is largely closed for the summer for repairs.)
On that front, the Clinton agenda gets a mix grade. On the positive side, the candidate strongly endorses reducing regulatory barriers (largely at the state and local level, however) that unnecessarily deter more and more efficient private infrastructure, including "dig once" and "climb once" policies to encourage faster deployment of, respectively, fiber optic cable and next-generation mobile equipment.
But at the same time, and even as the Clinton plan waves in the direction of continued Internet self-governance under the multistakeholder process that has worked so well, Secretary Clinton "strongly supports" the idea that Internet access should be closely regulated as a utility. As I've argued before, that approach is bound to slow both the speed and size of investments in continued infrastructure improvements.
Radio Spectrum for 5G Networks – On the plus side of the ledger, Clinton promises to continue President Obama's support for next-generation mobile networks, known as 5G, which utilize densely-packed cellular antennae and higher-band radio spectrum to offer as much as 100 times the speed and capacity of today's wireless Internet. Secretary Clinton promises to release spectrum warehoused by the federal government itself, and to support a mix of licensed, unlicensed, and shared new frequencies that will accelerate nascent 5G applications including the Internet of Things and autonomous vehicles, as well as increasingly high-definition video.
Internet Adoption – The Clinton plan also promises to expand broadband entitlement programs aimed at closing what remains of the digital divide. But these programs, including the troubled Broadband Technology Opportunities Fund, have had limited (if any) success. So far, they've produced little besides wasted taxpayer billions and corruption.
While everyone shares the goal of universal broadband adoption for all Americans, the solution doesn't come from raising taxes on consumer phone bills (currently approaching 20%!) to fund poorly-managed programs to subsidize rural and low-income communities. Among those who do not have a broadband connection at home, as repeated surveys make clear, availability and even price are rarely cited as the principal reasons.
Non-adopters—especially older Americans—don't have a broadband connection, it turns out, largely because they don't want one. Rightly or wrongly, digital hold-outs don't see the Internet as having any relevance to their life. That was a problem identified as long ago as 2010 in the visionary National Broadband Plan, from which the Clinton agenda cribs frequently without acknowledgment. And it's one problem government could play a crucial role in solving through public education and the President's bully pulpit. But not from throwing more money at federal contractors.
As Secretary Clinton's wish list suggests, what Silicon Valley really wants from both presidential candidates is not more government, but less. In many cases, much less.
That desire, of course, distinguishes tech from most special interests, and Clinton's team deserves praise for getting it at least partly right. For years, I've watched visiting politicians looking to partner with the venture community grow disappointed to hear from tech leaders across the political spectrum that they don't actually want new federal programs or legislation aimed at promoting innovation.
What they really want most is to be left alone; to be allowed to continue to practice the kind of largely unregulated experimentation that the Mercatus Center's Adam Thierer calls "permissionless innovation." That wise policy has been strongly supported by a bi-partisan coalition since the mid-1990's. It has done more than any grant or subsidy could to promote U.S. leadership in the Internet and other emerging technologies, in sharp contrast to Europe, where centralized innovation planning and micromanagement have had the opposite effect.
But Washington's commitment to permissionless innovation has been under attack, particularly in the last few years. As the innovation economy increasingly becomes the economy, lawmakers can't help but refocus their attention there. Law enforcement and intelligence operations, at the same time, are increasingly wary of open networks and encrypted communications (about which the Clinton plan hedges), generating some very public fights with innovators in the name of both consumer privacy and national security.
The closer the next President–whoever it turns out to be–can hew to the U.S.'s longstanding if battered commitment to let a thousand Silicon Valley start-ups bloom, the better off everyone will be, in the short as well as the long run. Political pandering aside, what the innovation ecosystem really needs is a reboot of the 1990's promise to leave the Internet "unfettered by Federal or State regulation" – a policy that now needs expansion to equally high-potential disruptors in energy, materials, robotics, genomics, health care, transportation and manufacturing.
That, in any case, is the lesson of the last election in which innovation policy played a major role—the election, that is, of that other Clinton.
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The importance of hollows in debris flow studies; Examples from Marin County, California
Steven L. Reneau
Department of Geology and Geophysics University of California at Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720
William E. Dietrich
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Steven L. Reneau, William E. Dietrich, 1987. "The importance of hollows in debris flow studies; Examples from Marin County, California", Debris Flows/Avalanches, John E. Costa, Gerald F. Wieczorek
Hollows are the concave-out portions of hillslopes not occupied by channels. The topographic convergence in hollows forces colluvial debris to accumulate and causes shallow subsurface runoff to be concentrated during storms. Consequently, hollows are more susceptible to landsliding than side slopes and constitute important mappable source areas of debris flows. Hollows can be extremely subtle topographic features that require recognition in the field; these subtle hollows are commonly tributary to larger hollows, and greatly increase the density of mappable debris flow sources. In a study area in Marin County, California, hollows are spaced 20 to 60 m apart along the slope, resulting in a density of 25 to 35 km of hollow axis per km2. Even the subtle hollows can produce debris flows capable of destroying houses, particularly when large trees are carried by a flow. Mitigation measures that focus on draining the main hollow axis may be inadequate because of the destructive ability of debris flows shed from small tributary swales and from side slopes. Road runoff discharged onto hollows can trigger landsliding and gullying, but this problem can be prevented by extending culverts downslope to stream channels. Along the drainage network, from subtle tributary hollows to major hollows, and to first-order channels where many additional hollows enter, the recurrence interval of debris flow events probably systematically decreases as the number of upslope sources increases, perhaps reaching the lowest recurrence interval on second-order channels. Farther downstream, debris flows may occur less frequently. A greater emphasis on hollows as debris flow source areas and as paths for flows from upslope should make a significant contribution toward identifying the hazard to existing structures and toward improved siting of new development.
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Debris flows and debris avalanches are among the most dangerous and destructive natural hazards that affect humans. They claim hundreds of lives and millions of dollars in property loss every year. The past two decades have produced much new scientific and engineering understanding of these occurrences and have led to new methods for mitigating the loss of life and property. These 17 papers pull together much of this recent research and present it in these categories: (1) process, (2) recognition, and (3) mitigation. Much of this work results from cooperative efforts between GSA's Engineering Geology Division and Quaternary Geology & Geomorphology Division.
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Certain ideas of Europe
Can Sarkozy save Europe?
And other French delusions
Jul 1st 2008
by The Economist | PARIS
THAT, with no hint of irony, was the headline of Sunday's edition of Le Parisien newspaper. It reflects an ambient sense of expectation in Paris about the French presidency of the European Union, which starts today. Last night, I took part in a debate on Europe 1 radio entitled "Can Sarkozy relaunch Europe?" The other guests looked genuinely surprised when informed that this was not quite the question being asked of the French presidency in London or Berlin. There seems to be a vast, and potentially dangerous, gap opening up between what Nicolas Sarkozy is promising to do for the French through Europe, and what he has any realistic chance of achieving.
For one thing, he is not, as of today, the "president of Europe". He may appear to see it that way. In his live televised interview on France 3 last night, he described himself, en passant, "as president of Europe". But it is France which holds the rotating EU presidency, not Mr Sarkozy himself.
For another, most of the proposals that Mr Sarkozy made last night during the interview, all designed to show how Europe is not just a remote technocratic construction but is capable of responding to the fears and concerns of ordinary people, have about as much chance of being accepted by his European counterparts and the European Commission in Brussels as a request for a glass of milk at a French dining table. Mr Sarkozy called not only for a ceiling on VAT on fuel (which London and Berlin will reject, as will the commission) but also a reduced VAT level for restaurant bills, videos and CDs. On top of this, he once again laid into the European Central Bank for targeting only inflation (which is its official mandate) and not growth.
Few, if any, of these proposals will get anywhere during the six-month French presidency. And Mr Sarkozy must know this. His attacks on the ECB's inflation-fighting obsession have got precisely nowhere in the past either. So why does he persist in inflating French expectations about what he can pull off, as if ordinary French people have such short political memories that promises made yesterday will be forgotten tomorrow?
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Accounting records store information about all the financial transactions and events of a business. A small business may only have a few financial transactions a day to record while a large, multinational business may have many thousands.
This course focuses on business organisations but the core concepts and principles of bookkeeping also apply to non-profit organisations.
Why do all businesses need to keep accounting records?
They keep track of where money comes from and how it is spent.
They help to keep control of goods and property owned by a business.
They are used as the basis for financial statements.
Financial statements are summaries of accounting records that are drawn up to satisfy the information needs of owners and other stakeholders in the business. These stakeholders are presented with the financial records in the form of two main financial summaries or statements. The first of these is a balance sheet which shows the financial state of affairs of a business at a specific date; the second is a profit and loss account which records the income and expenditure of a business for a period of time.
Who are the typical stakeholders of a business and what information do they need?
Owners Owners, whether they own all or part of a business, want information on the risk and return of their investment in a business.
Managers Managers need to have reliable financial information on which to base their decisions.
Lenders Lenders and potential lenders need to have information about the ability of the firm to repay loans and to pay interest.
Suppliers Suppliers, if they give credit to the business, want to know if they will be paid.
Employees Employees are particularly interested in the ability of the firm to pay wages and pensions.
Customers Customers, especially if they are dependent on a supplier, need to know if the business will continue to exist.
Governments and their agencies Reliable financial information from businesses is used as the basis for taxation. In some countries it is also used to compile information about the economy.
The public Financial statements often include information relevant to the public interest, such as environmental information or policies on employment of disabled people, etc.
The biggest businesses have the most stakeholders. Whatever the size of the business, active and responsible stakeholders will always be interested in how a business, in which they have an informed interest, is financed, and how this finance is used to run the business.


The drought we have been suffering lately has produced one of the worst forest fire seasons in Colorado.
Half of the nation's brave firefighters are in the state helping us control the destruction and devastation.
May and June have set a state fire record with the most homes lost.
We are nearing the end of June with the hottest and driest part of the summer ahead of us.
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Q: Invalid argument(s): Illegal argument in isolate message : (object is a closure - Function 'createDataList':.) I tried to fetch data from the internet with moviedb API, I followed the tutorial at https://flutter.io/cookbook/networking/fetch-data/
but I'm getting the below error.

Invalid argument(s): Illegal argument in isolate message : (object is a closure - Function 'createDataList':.)

This my code

Future<List<DataModel>> fetchData() async{
    final response = await http.get("https://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/now_playing?api_key=d81172160acd9daaf6e477f2b306e423&language=en-US");

    if(response.statusCode == 200){

      return compute(createDataList,response.body.toString());
    }
  }

  List<DataModel> createDataList(String responFroJson) {
    final parse  = json.decode(responFroJson).cast<Map<String, dynamic>>();

    return parse.map<DataModel> ((json) => DataModel.fromtJson(json)).toList();
  }

Screenshot of the error message

A: compute can only take a top-level function, but not instance or static methods.
Top-level functions are functions declared not inside a class
and not inside another function
List<DataModel> createDataList(String responFroJson) {
...
}

class SomeClass { ... }

should fix it.
https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/foundation/compute.html

R is the type of the value returned. The callback argument must be a top-level function, not a closure or an instance or static method of a class.

A: As per today (2020. Aug) the compute is working fine with static methods.
For me, the issue was that I was trying to return a http.Response object from the compute() methods.
What I did is I've created a simplified version of this class, containing what I need:
class SimpleHttpResponse {
  String body;
  int statusCode;
  Map<String, String> headers;
}

Then I've updated the original method from this:
static Future<http.Response> _executePostRequest(EsBridge bridge) async {
    return await http.post(Settings.bridgeUrl, body: bridge.toEncryptedMessage());
}

to this:
static Future<SimpleHttpResponse> _executePostRequest(EsBridge bridge) async {
    http.Response result = await http.post(Settings.bridgeUrl, body: bridge.toEncryptedMessage());
    if (result == null) {
      return null;
    }

    SimpleHttpResponse shr = new SimpleHttpResponse();
    shr.body = result.body;
    shr.headers = result.headers;
    shr.statusCode = result.statusCode;

    return shr;
}

Worked like charm after this change. Hope this helps somebody ranning into similar problem.

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A classic dip traditionally prepared in Greek and Arabic kitchens, blending crushed chick peas, garlic, toasted sesame seeds and parsley - ready for you to prepare.
It is known that chickpeas are among the oldest foods, people have been eating them for 10,000 years, and as they contain vitamin C, iron, folates and vitamin B6, we should keep on eating them!
When served with any grain based food, like bread or corn tortillas, you can get all the essential amino acids your body needs - so why not try some on a slice of toast?
Chick Pea flour*, Toasted Sesame Flour*, Onion Powder*, Sea Salt, Paprika*, Garlic Powder*, Parsley*, Ground Black Pepper*.
* = Certified Organic Ingredient processed in accordance with EU standards.
May contain traces of Gluten due to manufacturing processes of some of the ingredients.
To serve, dust with a sprikling of paprika and fresh coriander if desired.
Use as a dip with raw vegetables, bread sticks or tacos. For a creamier texture, stir in 2 table spoons of natural yoghurt (natural soya yoghurts are also good).
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Hill watched as his defense played well in the first half but the offense dropped passes and had a costly holding penalty 28 seconds before halftime that cost the Chiefs a 28-yard touchdown pass and sent them into the locker room down by seven.
Northwestern (4-5, 2-2) grabbed its 7-0 lead on a nifty, well-executed fake field goal late in the first quarter when holder Andre Adams took off around the left side and scooted untouched into the end zone for a 27-yard touchdown run.
The Chiefs finally got things together on their first possession of the second half when, following a short Bulls punt that gave them a short field, quarterback Steven Calvert found Kevaughn Dingle for a 34-yard touchdown to cut the Bulls lead to 7-6 following a missed extra point.
Then came the first of two big plays on special teams from Brian Lainer.
When Northwestern punter Cedric Frazier tried to take off on a fake punt on fourth-and-3 from midfield, Lanier wasn't fooled. He was waiting for Frazier and took him down.
The Chiefs then took the short field and turned it into a 1-yard Nayquan Wright touchdown run with 3:01 left in the third, putting Carol City up for good.
On the next series, Lanier broke through and blocked Frazier's punt, setting the Chiefs up at the Bulls' 20.
Seven plays later, following a clutch 11-yard pass from Calvert to Victor Tucker on fourth-and-7 down to the Bulls' 6, Wright went in again to make it 18-7 with 9:25 left.
"I had a feeling he was taking off and was waiting for him," said Lanier of the fake punt attempt. "On the blocked punt, I saw the snap was low and he was taking a long time and knew I could get there to block it."
Northwestern had a late rally, scoring on fourth-and-goal when quarterback Chatarius Atwell took a fumbled snap and took off around the right side, getting to the flag for a score with 1:33 left. Oddly, the Bulls kicked the extra point instead of going for two, which left them down 18-14. The ensuing onside kick attempt went out of bounds, and the Chiefs were just barely able to bleed the remainder of the clock.
"The first half was definitely frustrating," Calvert said.
"We came out to play, but it wasn't good enough. Everybody talked about it at halftime, and we came out focused in the second half and executed the plays the coaches called and found a way to come out on top. Coach Hill has been there with us through the rough times, he believed in us all along and there was no way we wanted to let him down [Friday night]. This was for him and the coaching staff."
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Northwestern quarterback Chatarius Atwell tries to elude a Carol City defender during the first half at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Ky'Mond Knight leads the way as Northwestern gets fired up before their game against Carol City at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Carol City receiver Victor Tucker tries to break a tackle during the first half of the Chiefs' district-clinching win against Northwestern on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015 at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami. It was Carol City's first district title since 2009. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Northwestern running back Corey Lane gains yardage during the second quater against Carol City at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Northwestern quarterback Chatarius Atwell gains yardage against Carol City in the first half at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Carol City running back Nayquan Wright tries to break a tackle during the second quarter against Northwestern at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Northwestern's Andre Adams scores against Carol City in the first half at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Carol City's Kevaughn Dingle goes up for a pass in the first half against Northwestern at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Carol City's Montray Smith (4) and Ahmad Sanders (71) fire up their team before the start of a game against Northwestern at Traz Powell Stadium in Miami on Friday, Oct. 30, 2015. Gaston De Cardenas For the Miami Herald
Northwestern High's Samuel Brooks commits to the University of Miami
Carol City's head coach talks new football season
What's Miami getting in its newest defensive line commit? Columbus' new coach evaluates
Elijah Roberts gave the Miami Hurricanes' Class of 2020 a local boost Friday when he orally committed. The defensive end quickly impressed new Miami Columbus coach Dave Dunn in the spring.
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Manny Diaz at first Paradise Camp as coach: 'Hurricanes belong to our football alumni'
Miami Hurricanes kick off Paradise Camp with commitment from Columbus defensive end
Miami adds to top-ranked 2021 recruiting class with commitment from Hialeah receiver
Norland lineman works with Butch Barry at Miami camp. 'Everything he taught me I'll use'


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Zbór Kościoła Zielonoświątkowego w Wałbrzychu – zbór Kościoła Zielonoświątkowego w RP znajdujący się w Wałbrzychu przy ulicy Andersa 185 należący do okręgu zachodniego Kościoła.

Historia

Historię zboru zaczęli tworzyć: Karol Szałomski oraz Karp Korniluk, którzy wraz z żonami wystąpili z Kościoła Chrześcijan Baptystów w Wałbrzychu. Utworzyli grupę modlitewną w celu utworzenia zboru. 19 grudnia 1959 roku wynajęli od Kościoła Ewangelicko-Augsburskiego w Wałbrzychu kaplicę znajdującą się przy ulicy Ruchu Oporu 2. Po wyjeździe Karola Szałomskiego do innego miasta pastorem został Zdzisław Gąsiorowski. 29 września 1968 roku został on ordynowany na prezbitera. Ordynacji dokonali: naczelny prezbiter – Stanisław Krakiewicz oraz prezbiter okręgowy – Aleksander Mańkowski. Z funkcji pastora zrezygnował w 2002 roku. Jego następcą został Roman Bortkiewicz. W 2018 roku zbór przeprowadził się do nowego obiektu przy ulicy Andersa 185 zakupując od miasta budynek po Wałbrzyskim Ośrodku Kultury.

Linki zewnętrzne

Kościół Zielonoświątkowy w Wałbrzychu – oficjalna strona
 Informacje na stronie Kościoła Zielonoświątkowego w Wałbrzychu

Zbory okręgu zachodniego Kościoła Zielonoświątkowego w RP
Zbory protestanckie w Wałbrzychu

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Titan Volcano
Photojournal: PIA07965
This false-color mosaic of Saturn's largest moon Titan, obtained by Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, shows what scientists interpret as an icy volcano (see inset). The mosaic was constructed using six medium-resolution infrared images, obtained during Cassini's flyby of the hazy moon on Oct. 26, 2004.
The colors correspond to atmospheric (red) and surface (green and blue) features that are not visible to the human eye. The inset shows a high-resolution image taken using a 2.3 micron filter near the point of Cassini's closest approach to Titan at 1,200 kilometers (746 miles). The resolution in this inset image is 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) per pixel. The image scale of the large image is 25 kilometers (16 miles) per pixel.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona.
For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov . The visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team homepage is at http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu. .
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Saturn Moons
The Cassini spacecraft captures a crescent of Saturn's moon Enceladus. See Bursting at the Seams and New to Old on Enceladus to learn about this moon and the spectacular water ice plumes emanating...
Sliver of Enceladus
This wide-angle Voyager 2 image, taken through the camera's clear filter, is the first to show Neptune's rings in detail.
Slumping features and landslides can be clearly seen near the base of the largest scarp in this image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft. Some of the hummocky terrain near the scarps is probably due to la...
Scarps, Hummocky Terrain and Impacts at Vesta's South Pole
South Polar Turbulence August 30, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06465 Structures in the turbulent cloud bands near Saturn's south pole are visibl...
South Polar Turbulence
The moon Dione is eclipsed here by the narrow band of Saturn's rings, which in this image display one of the interesting ways that they transmit light. Dione is 1,118 kilometers (695 miles) across...
F Ring Edges
A quintet of Saturn's moons come together in the Cassini spacecraft's field of view for this portrait.
Quintet of Moons
A chef's bounty of colors is represented in this full color view of Saturn's northern hemisphere. Butternut, peach, and olive hues have replaced the azure blue of winter. The blue of Saturn's wint...
Cornucopia of Color
Eyeing the Culprit October 11, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06495 Gazing beyond Saturn's magnificent rings...
Eyeing the Culprit
This excellent grouping of three moons --Dione, Tethys and Pandora-- near the rings provides a sampling of the diversity of worlds that exists in Saturn's realm. A 330-kilometer-wide (205 mile) im...
Satellite Trio
Moons and Gaps October 19, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06501 This image captures several important targets of the Cassini mission: icy moons, ri...
Moons and Gaps
The low angle of the sun over Tethys' massive canyon, Ithaca Chasma (near the terminator, at right), highlights the contours of this enormous rift.
Dark Chasm
Rhea's bright ray crater features prominently in this southern view. The feature is surrounded by bright ejecta -- material thrown outward by the impact that formed the crater. The view looks towa...
Bright Rays
"This is an RGB-composite of Saturn's moon Titan made from raw Cassini images acquired on Jan. 2, 2014. The moon's south polar vortex can be seen just along the terminator, as well as its cyan-colo...
Crescent Titan by Jason Major
A mosaic of nine processed images recently acquired during Cassini's first very close flyby of Saturn's moon Titan on Oct. 26, 2004, constitutes the most detailed full-disc view of the mysterious m...
Hovering Over Titan
The Cassini spacecraft stares directly into the great Odysseus impact basin on Tethys. Peaks near the crater's center cast long shadows toward the east. The elevated eastern rim of the crater catch...
Odysseus Out of Shadow
Daphnis leaves a path of disturbance on either side of her as she moves in her orbit within the Keeler Gap. The gravity of the small moon (8 kilometers, or 5 miles across) is enough to carve wavel...
In Her Wake
The terminator between light and dark throws Rhea's cratered surface into stark relief while the southern hemisphere is scored by bright icy cliffs. North on Rhea is up and rotated 42 degrees to t...
Crater Terminator
This image from NASA's Dawn spacecraft shows a relatively fresh crater with bright deposits exposed in the crater wall that streak downslope on the giant asteroid Vesta.
Bright Material Deposits in Crater Wall
This image of Ceres is part of a sequence taken by NASA's Dawn spacecraft on May 7, 2015, from a distance of 8,400 miles (13,600 kilometers).
Dawn RC3 Image 21
Saturn's moon Dione, in the foreground of this Cassini spacecraft image, appears darker than the moon Tethys. Tethys appears brighter because it has a higher albedo than Dione, meaning Tethys refl...
Tethys and Darker Dione
This movie taken by the Cassini spacecraft shows the surface and atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan over a range of infrared wavelengths, from .8 to 5.1 microns.
Window to Titan's Surface
The small ring moon Atlas is seen here, on the far side of Saturn's immense ring system. Cassini was only 0.6 degrees above the ring plane when this image was taken. Atlas is 32 kilometers (20 ...
Straight Across the Rings
These two color composite images of Saturn's moon Iapetus from Cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer were obtained on Dec. 31, 2004, an hour and a half before the New Year, at a distan...
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Titan's Mottled Surface July 3, 2004 Full-Res: PIA06109 Shown here is a mosaic of Titan's south polar region acquired as Cassini ...
Titan's Mottled Surface
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We pit old technology against new.
Which of these would be more effective at defending a target from enemy bombers?
Do the Russian's not have electronic warfare capability then (or have I missed something in the jargon)?
The S-300 is a particularly nasty missile. Basically the Russian equivalent of the US Patriot. Even in the 1990s we called it the "I wish you dead" missile because that's how effective it was. In the B-52G our ECM was almost completely ineffective against this thing. All we could have done is maybe get low enough to put a piece of dirt between us and the missile.


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The Disclosure Pilot Scheme - implications for professional defendants
On 1 January 2019, a two year disclosure pilot came into effect in the Business and Property Courts (B&PC) in England and Wales. It applies to existing and new B&PC proceedings where an order for disclosure has not previously been made.
The B&PC determines specialist business, financial, regulatory and pension disputes, as well as claims against professionals (e.g. accountants, auditors and financial advisers). The pilot will therefore have wide-reaching impact for many professional negligence and financial claims.
So what are the implications for professionals that are either threatened with a claim or dealing with proceedings covered by the new pilot? We summarise below the key provisions in the new rules and some of the practical issues for professionals.
Duty to Preserve Documents
There is now an enhanced, codified duty to preserve documents which applies from the time proceedings are commenced or a person knows that it may become a party to proceedings that may be commenced.
Accountants and other professional advisers faced with the threat of litigation will need to focus on the documents that may be disclosed in the proceedings at a far earlier stage. As well as actively suspending document deletion and destruction processes within their organisation, advisers must also take reasonable steps to contact former employees and third parties, who may hold documents or know their whereabouts, and provide them with written notice to preserve relevant documents.
Lawyers must obtain written confirmation that their client has taken reasonable steps to preserve documents relevant to issues in the proceedings, including preserving relevant "adverse" documents which contradict or materially damage or undermine their case or support their opponent's case. If the client refuses to provide this confirmation, then the court may make an adverse costs order against him and may even order him to be in contempt of court.
But how should the duty to preserve documents possibly held by former employees or third parties be approached where a claim is not fully matured and proceedings have not been commenced and may never be? This is a grey area and the new rules do not address this point. There may be good reasons why a professional defendant may not wish to contact former employees or third parties in this scenario and if this is the case, in view of the enhanced duty to preserve, we suggest the professional keeps a written record of the reasons for its decision not to make the approach initially, so that the reasons may be explained if the decision is challenged subsequently.
Modern definition of "Document"
The term "document" includes any record of any description containing information. It includes documents stored on a computer, memory stick, mobile phone, electronic metadata (i.e. the embedded data in documents), databases (including servers and data back-up systems) and includes emails, text messages, webmail, social media, voicemail, audio and visual recordings.
Professional defendants, who are increasingly frequent users of this modern media, will need to give careful consideration to the use of technology to reduce the burden and cost of identifying potentially relevant documents, the know-how needed to unearth hidden "meta-data" in their systems, and how best to over-come the challenges of disclosing these "modern-day" documents to their legal advisers and opponents.
Disclosure at an earlier stage and the duty to cooperate
The obligation to disclose documents starts as soon as proceedings are served. Parties will engage in Initial Disclosure by serving an initial disclosure list and providing electronic copies of the documents referred to in their statement of case. For an accountant or auditor defending a professional negligence claim, this means he/she must serve an initial list and provide the key documents that he/she relies on in support of the defences advanced. If a pre-action protocol response has previously been served with accompanying documents, this task is unlikely to be onerous. The parties can dispense with Initial Disclosure by agreement, and they may choose this option in document heavy cases or complex claims.
Thereafter, the parties are expected to cooperate to identify the issues and agree proposals for Extended Disclosure which are reasonable and proportionate in scope, and file a joint Disclosure Review Document (DRD). The five disclosure models (A to E) range from agreeing that no further disclosure is required, through to full train of enquiry disclosure in appropriate cases. Which model is appropriate will depend on common sense factors including the nature and value of the case, the volume and nature of documentation and their likely probative value, and the financial position of the parties. No model will apply without the approval of the court and different models may be used for different issues.
The courts will critically review the DRD, the parties' preferred model and cost estimates for issue-based disclosure and determine the need and use of technology to reduce the burden on the parties. Parties may apply to the court for a disclosure guidance hearing if further court guidance is needed.
The disclosure reforms have been driven by concerns that the old disclosure process often produced unwieldy volumes of documents, usually after the parties had finalised and served their statements of case, most of which were irrelevant and never referred to.
The reforms suggest a genuine willingness by the judiciary to see an end to the inefficiencies of the old process and this change should be cautiously welcomed. On the downsides, disclosure costs will be front-loaded under the new rules to some extent (there will be legal costs associated with document preservation, drafting written confirmation statements and initial disclosure lists, and discussions between the parties on which issues are key). However, provided it does not become a cynical tool in the hands of aggressive and/or well-funded claimants, an early focus on disclosure may be helpful; for example the obligation to disclose adverse documents could see the early disposal of weak claims before costs escalate. If claims do proceed to Extended Disclosure, and the scheme is effectively policed by the courts, then we should see a marked step away from kitchen-sink style disclosure and a much greater focus on disclosing only relevant documents that go to the fundamental issues in the case. These changes may take a little getting used to, but overall there is, in our view, reason for defendant professionals to welcome the changes.
Francesca Muscutt
fmuscutt@dacbeachcroft.com
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Inspired by Ohler, Lindbergh boys' soccer team is rebuilding
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Despite losing 11 starters to graduation, Lindbergh High head coach Mark Giesing is confident about the 2018 season for his boys' soccer team. Photo by Jessica Belle Kramer.
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Lindbergh High School boys' varsity soccer head coach Mark Giesing is looking to fill the gaps after the loss of the team's starting 11 players.
"We have a lot of positions available, so right now, we are trying to find who that starting 11 is going to be," Giesing said. "There were a lot of vacancies. We were a very senior-latent team last year. And so a lot of guys will have to step up and fill some big spots, especially on the goal-scoring side where our biggest goal-scoring threats have all graduated."
Despite the loss of all last year's starters, Giesing is confident in his incoming senior players.
"We know we've got a lot of great talent, and they're eager to get their chance now," Giesing said. "We think we do have the talent to fill those shoes, but we've yet to identify exactly who those guys are going to be."
Though the team has yet to identify their starting offenders, when it comes to their lead goalie, they don't need to look any further.
"Wil Ohler is back this year, and (he) looks to be early on to get the knot as our lead goalie," Giesing said.
Last year, a battle with leukemia took Ohler out of the game.
Giesing calls it the "very fabulous story of, literally, survival."
He said, "Wil brings a huge energy and inspiration to these guys because here's a guy who was truly on his deathbed many times last year. And here he is, ready to go and really recharging the team with his positive attitude and his enthusiasm."
Last year, the team and the school rallied around Ohler during his cancer treatment, selling "Where there's a Wil, there's a way" shirts.
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International: A starring role in India
Imagine the first day in a new job where your opinion is sought on reinsurance pricing of a group life scheme. The group membership is large but uncertain. Member ages are unknown; in fact, many cannot be known, as reliable age proof for them does not exist. Analysing industry mortality statistics is difficult for a country with an insured population similar to Europe's, with a comparable geographic spread in a time of rapidly changing demographics and economic advancement. Declining to quote was not an option. Welcome to India!
Many years ago when I first considered my actuarial path, the problem-solving aspects seemed to set it apart from other professions. My career in London was growing roots and so I chose a move to India at the start of 2008 in search of challenge and adventure. To say I found it in abundance would be an understatement.
The challenges are various and plentiful every day; for instance it may be technical pricing research on a bespoke critical illness product that needs careful consideration of long-term effects particular to the predispositions of an Indian population. Diabetes and heart disease are examples.
In a completely different vein, staff retention-related activities are continual issues. Growth of the profession has been rapid, so that demand for actuaries far exceeds supply. The shortage is set to continue. Consequences of frequent personnel changes can be additional training needs, postponements of decisions or strategic changes. In India there is one qualified actuary per seven million people, which is around 1,000 times less than in the UK.
Life insurance industry background
LIC, the government-owned Life Insurance Corporation of India, was established as the sole life insurance company in 1956 by combining 245 existing insurance providers as the industry was nationalised. The industry was liberated 10 years ago so now there is a total of 22 licensed life companies. LIC remains as the majority insurance provider and the top five insurers account for some 90% of the market's total annual new business volumes.
For the most part, life insurers are joint ventures between Indian financial institutions and foreign insurers. An appealing aspect of the market is its international representation. Examples of international participants are Prudential, Allianz, Sun Life Financial of Canada and Old Mutual. All appointed actuaries must be fellows of the Institute of Actuaries of India. Many also have fellowship status from a mature international market and, of those, a significant number are non-Indian.
Now and the future
The recent global financial crisis has had a slowdown effect on the Indian economy but notably it has been one of only a few economies to have avoided recession. More generally, Asia continues to be the focus for above-average economic growth in the medium to long term.
Currently, foreign ownership of Indian insurers is restricted to 26%. There is a wide expectation of the government increasing this limit to 49% in the coming months. This would lead to greater interest by foreign insurers in entering the market. As a comparison, China currently has around twice as many licensed life companies.
So there are many factors contributing to this market's stimulating work environment. From a reinsurance perspective, my work extends beyond traditional activities to support valued in a developing market. It is a varied market where products range from the complex and sophisticated to deceptively simple micro-insurance schemes that require thoughtful risk and operational controls.
At the end of the working day
Living in India is not all about work. I have enjoyed opportunities to explore a diverse and beautiful country. Mumbai has introduced me to a mix of interesting people, heady nightlife and delightful regional cuisines.
Many of us have witnessed the look of disappointment after a misheard introduction leads to the realisation of you not being an actor. In contrast, India is a place where insurance is a high-profile industry and being an actuary has a glamour tag unimaginable in the UK. It can't be long before a mistaken Bollywood hopeful is asked the follow-up question — so which insurer do you work for?
Jug Parmar is chief actuarial officer at Munich Re India Services, Mumbai


Marilyn, Jim, Gary, and Ian did the 100 km challenge.
Lucy and Graham completed the 25 km route and met up with us at the Smythesdale lunch stop. All riders finished on a huge high and with a great sense of achievement.


Direct use of naphtha in compression ignition (CI) engines is not advisable because its lower cetane number negatively impacts the auto ignition process. However, engine or fuel modifications can be made to operate naphtha in CI engines. Enhancing a fuel's auto ignition characteristics presents an opportunity to use low cetane fuel, naphtha, in CI engines. In this research, Di-ethyl ether (DEE) derived from ethanol is used as an ignition enhancer for light naphtha. With this fuel modification, a "drop-in" fuel that is interchangeable with existing diesel fuel has been created. The ignition characteristics of DEE blended naphtha were studied in an ignition quality tester (IQT); the measured ignition delay time (IDT) for pure naphtha was 6.9 ms. When DEE was added to naphtha, IDT decreased and D30 (30% DEE + 70% naphtha) showed comparable IDT with US NO.2 diesel. The derived cetane number (DCN) of naphtha, D10 (10% DEE + 90% naphtha), D20% DEE + 80% naphtha) and D30 were measured to be 31, 37, 40 and 49, respectively. The addition of 30% DEE in naphtha achieved a DCN equivalent to US NO.2 diesel. Subsequent experiments in a CI engine exhibited longer ignition delay for naphtha compared to diesel. The peak in-cylinder pressure is higher for naphtha than diesel and other tested fuels. When DEE was added to naphtha, the ignition delay shortened and peak in-cylinder pressure is reduced. A 3.7% increase in peak in-cylinder pressure was observed for naphtha compared to US NO.2 diesel, while D30 showed comparable results with diesel. The pressure rise rate dropped with the addition of DEE to naphtha, thereby reducing the ringing intensity. Naphtha exhibited a peak heat release rate of 280 kJ/m3deg, while D30 showed a comparable peak heat release rate to US NO.2 diesel. The amount of energy released during the premixed combustion phase decreased with the increase of DEE in naphtha. Thus, this study demonstrates the suitability of DEE blended naphtha mixtures as a "drop-in" replacement fuel for diesel.
Vallinayagam R, Vedharaj S, Sarathy SM, Dibble RW (2016) Diethyl Ether as an Ignition Enhancer for Naphtha Creating a Drop in Fuel for Diesel. ASME 2016 Internal Combustion Engine Fall Technical Conference. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icef2016-9324.


Web content management (WCM) has changed. Both marketers and consumers are taking more and more control over web content. And, as they do, it's no secret that the amount of content in the organization, along with the tools producing it, have increased significantly. The production of social and mobile content alone has more than doubled the number of properties that the average business is now responsible for managing.
The business need has changed from simply managing web content to managing user experiences and supporting a buyer's journey across multiple channels.
As a result, selecting a new WCM solution is more complex than it has ever been before - this Insight Paper will provide you with best prqactices to make the right selection.


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David Dalrymple Butler, född 12 november 1927 i Larkhall, död 27 maj 2006 i London, var en skotsk manusförfattare. Han blev Oscarsnominerad för De fördömdas resa (1976) i kategorin bästa manus efter förlaga. För samma insats blev han dessutom Golden Globe-nominerad i kategorin bästa manus. En Emmy Award-utmärkelse vann han år 1986 för manuset till miniserien Mountbatten - Frihetens timma.

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Today, I am sharing what is in my makeup bag. It's always nice to see what other women do to feel pretty, and for me, I like to wear makeup. This makes me feel like I am ready for the day! Stick around to check out the things I use daily!
We expect that our homes are one of the safest places for our families to be, right? What if I told you that you may not be as safe as you thought? There can be toxins in our homes that cause cancers, birth defects, immune system damage and more! Shocked? Read on to see what you can do about it.
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So, we asked many of our clients what they thought about us and we have collected several translation service testimonials. We hope they will be useful when you decide to entrust Pangeanic your translation work.
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With packaged software delivery, translations come in always at the end, close to the release, during the hectic final rush to get the release out. We have been using Pangeanic for the past 5 years and it is a nice feeling when among all the mayhem of the final weeks of the run to the release, you can trust them to deliver. They are always fast to respond to quote requests, are easy to communicate over email, and fast and good quality translation delivery with a good pricing to boot.
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On the second of every month I buy Al Arabi, a leading Arabic magazine published in Kuwait and distributed throughout the Arab world, Europe and the United States. This month's issue of Al Arabi commemorated the Palestinian catastrophe, the Nakba of 1948. Everywhere else, Al Arabi was distributed with an attached publication: a map of lost Palestine. This month Al Arabi arrived seven days late to Palestine, and the map, showing areas of my homeland that were lost 52 years ago, was missing. Israeli authorities disallowed distribution of the map that was sure to remind Palestinians of dispossession and occupation.
Last week marked Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel and around the world. Just as there was a Palestinian Nakba, there was a Jewish Holocaust, a dreadful transgression that bears remembering. Local and international TV channels, newspapers, magazines and web sites gave us a mélange of Holocaust programming. Special as the day was, it was not particularly unique in Israel. Books, short stories, continuous documentary films, plays and Hollywood movies about the Jewish experience of mans' inhumanity to man never fails to keep the Holocaust before us.
No one I know denies what happened to those of the Jewish faith before and during WWII. Even for Palestinians, sympathy does not wane, in spite of the fact that we became victims of Israel's, and therefore Jewish, inhumanity to man, which echoes of an era Jews themselves ask that they never forget and never duplicate.
What happened during Palestine's Nakba (we have a word for mans' inhumanity to man as well) is another matter. Deleting maps from an Arab publication is considered necessary as an Israeli "security measure." It is also a sham, the act of a frightened bully of a nation that preaches what it does not practice. Prohibiting maps to hide the reality of what the maps show perjures the sincerity of Jews who ask the world to remember their tragedy.
A frightened overweight and impertinent bully, afraid of his own insufficiencies cannot be comfortable without constantly nullifying his lean and disconcerted opponent in words, if not in deeds. He must always maintain the lie, the perception of strength hidden by bulge that is in reality only fat without sinew. The bully must never succumb to the reality of who and what he really is; a people frightened by the success of their own fabricated, overweight nationality is rightfully afraid. Some of those who know that Israel was deliberately undemocratically established and maintained on the basis of construed ethnicity, suggested by religious leaders like Moses Hess long before the Holocaust, have much to disguise. Like the fat bully, they must never succumb to allowing justice for those who trouble its conscience, and they must bolster their image by constantly reminding the world of their own suffering.
Keeping the Holocaust in the thoughts of all of us is useful in terms of reminding us of the wrong that can be wrought in the name of right. Individuals devised the Holocaust through manipulation of industrialization and were able to use modern techniques to destroy those they saw as capable of knocking the air out of their myths of cultural superiority. Jewish groups in Palestine today who place possession of land above globally recognized laws of human rights are capable of generating endless holocaust and catastrophe, not just for those of us who are Arab, Christian and Muslim, but Jews as well. They bully anyone who wishes to take a role in a successful democratic, economically viable modern Middle Eastern system that acts responsibly in the world that is realistically available to us today.
Isn't it time we began to expose the bully of Zionism and the history that made our life what it is today? Yes, we must remember the Holocaust. After all, it was leveled against Semitic people like ourselves and against others unlike us. It was not just a Jewish disaster, it was a human disaster. Is it enough to argue that the Holocaust was worse than other tragedies because it grew out of the industrialization of murder? Does industrialization of murderous concentration camps matter to the families of Palestinians massacred at Deir Yassin? Is there a justifiable difference between pulling the gold teeth from the mouths of dead Jews or cutting off the ears of dead Deir Yassin women to steal their earrings?
Israel was created by formulated nationality, guilt inspiring visualization of the most recent genocide in history and the tragedy of an era which came too quickly to allow for inter-cultural adjustment. If we can, we must understand the history that has put Israel into the position of bully: one that laments its own pain, but hides the suffering of those its intimidates.
The Jews' physical tragedy may have ended at Auschwitz but their spiritual and ethical tragedy is still in tact and will be until the reality of Zionism is understood and dissolved through compassionate intervention.
Every time a Jewish settler or a government acting to placate a settler ravages the hearts, minds and land of those of us who are not deemed one of the chosen, Palestinians mostly, but other Jews as well, a little Holocaust happens all over again. It is time to give Palestinians their rights to the land of their forefathers and to restore to the Jews their rightful place in history as authors and sustainers of some of the great spiritual values of civilization.
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