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About Restaurants being Saved by Tax-Payer Money
Last week I wrote about the "haves and the have nots" of the restaurant industry created by the ineffective (and often litigious and controversial) distribution method of the 2021 Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a $29B grant program underwritten by taxpayers and distributed by the SBA.
My post was only been read by 100 people or so, and I'm super appreciative that many showed up. But in the back of my mind are the thousands of comments made by readers of other such articles and posts that consider the pros and cons of tax-payer funded bail outs, including the RRF. Many of the comments are scathing and rail against saving restaurants and other for-profit businesses. Without taking the time to go back and quote them exactly, I'll paraphrase them all to my best ability in my own words here:
"Why the f&ck would my tax dollars go to save for-profit businesses that couldn't survive the pandemic? What about all the money they made over the years prior? What about the savings they could have amassed? Why do we need to save food businesses that are located in areas that no longer have people who need them? If restaurants were built to feed the hordes of downtown workers at their lunch break, and there are no more downtown workers taking lunch, why throw good money after bad?"
When the June 1, 2020 riots took place after the George Floyd murder, one of our Boloco restaurants was vandalized and so I wrote about it. I wasn't complaining about our poor fortune, but instead I was observing the situation and eventually came to a place where I felt like I understood why people were taking their anger to the streets and causing damage and even endangering lives. Because I wrote about it in that way, a few close friends of mine who know I covet at-times painfully honest feedback told me they assumed my "seeking to understand the violence" also meant I was "condoning violence." Nothing could have been further from the truth. The assumption, however, was that when I didn't condemn the violence, which I didn't and don't, I therefore supported the violence.
In a similar vein, just because I wrote about the "haves and the have nots" of the 2021 RRF program does not mean I necessarily support tax dollars being handed out to restaurants now or at any time. If I believed that my restaurants, or any restaurants, were vital to the ongoing interests of the City of Boston or the Town of Hanover, NH, I suppose I would feel differently. But that's clearly not the case.
Restaurants in many of the urban centers of this country right now often look pretty silly, frankly. There they sit, lights on, food prepared, staff cleaning but also leaning, waiting. And waiting.
The other night I was strolling along Boylston Street in Boston and at peak dinner hour, other than the brand-spanking new Chick-Fil-A (that just so happened to replace our former beloved Copley Square Boloco), even the hippest, hottest restaurant spots were dead or closed altogether. As many former retail shops were also permanently closed with For Lease signs on the windows. The remaining businesses aren't in demand right now, and to be honest there are just way too many of them! Most of us in the business have known this for some time. When we opened on Copley Square in 2011, not one of the ones you see pictured here existed. We felt like trailblazers joining Wendy's and Finagle a Bagel on what the experts said was questionable real estate (it was by far our best location out of the gate, for the record).
So back to the RRF, I'm not actually sure if it should be replenished. And as I've said previously, if that means the end of Boloco in most or all of Boston, then so be it.
When I wonder to myself about how tax-payer money possibly designated for the RRF and similar programs could better be spent, I think about, as one example only, investing in technology that more efficiently connects food workers to training for the very few additional skills they actually need to qualify for jobs in health care which also badly needs workers. Now is the time. Workforce Development Organizations and skills training providers like JVS, Tech Goes Home, English for New Bostonians, or ABCD all need to continue engaging with their thousands of alumni and more dollars funneled to them and their counterparts could fuel former food workers into better careers with higher current income, better benefits, and room for growth and more education.
Why don't restaurants have money saved up, people ask? Well, the big chains do. They are flush with cash and they will end up just fine. So there will be food to feed the masses if and when most of them return.
But most independents don't because the business economics, on average, are quite simply brutal. Rents in Boston are at nose-bleed levels and landlords still haven't reset on this one so the economics aren't set to change anytime soon either. Not to mention skyrocketing supply and labor costs. I applaud the higher wages employees can demand today, but it doesn't mean every restaurant can actually pay them and stay afloat. We are already seeing a real reckoning with reality.
If the United States wants restaurants to exist exactly as they did prior to the pandemic, then replenishing the RRF is one way we have a chance of getting back there – and the amount to do so is no less than $60B if it is to be distributed in the same manner it was in late May 2021. But if we think now is our chance to change the landscape for the millions of workers who didn't want to be working for those restaurants in the first place, its a perfect time to rethink how tax-payer money gets used on their behalf. Personally, I don't think our politicians are capable of that kind of strategic thinking, though they are certainly good at administering unnecessary complexity in some of these programs. To fully pivot from the blunt solutions of the past to future-focused strategies (which might even help make the "great resignation" from restaurants permanent) requires letting go of so much of what we take for granted today and seeding a new vision for tomorrow's workforce. Leading with skills training and development funding, perhaps while paying workers to learn instead of toiling away on the fryer day after day, seems a far better use of today's tax-payer dollars. And that's just one example…. there are surely countless others.
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"Sterling, you are going to die if you do not make a change in your life." Those were the words from my doctor when I visited him to get a prescription for a sinus infection in the spring of 2016. He was referring to my resting heart rate, which was now pushing well over 90, and a blood pressure, which fluttered around 180/120. "Your body is a ticking time bomb" he followed up. All I could do was mumble, "yeah, I know" staring at the skeleton in the corner. I weighed in well over 300 LBS in a 6-foot-tall frame. But this wasn't my wake-up call.
I wasn't always a big guy. In high school I played Varsity in 5 different sports. But in college, the "Freshmen 15" turned into the 30,40, 50+. 10 years after college I still carried the weight and gained even more after getting married. When my wife and I would go out to dinner we always opted for the table, instead of the booth. I knew I'd never fit into the booth. We never went to Disneyland because we'd never fit on the rides. Even my office chair had become terribly uncomfortable and too small. Our eating habits were terrible. We loved "window food", especially Taco Bell. Drive right up, don't get out of the car.
Six months after my doctor visit, I was at a concert in Oakland, CA. I felt weird all day, super drained. A flight of stairs took my breath away. When the headliner hit the stage, I began to feel dizzy. Next thing I know I'm laying in the concert venue medical room hooked up to a blood pressure machine and being asked, "has your blood pressure always been this high?" This, right here, was my wake-up call. The person who was attending to me was a friend of over 5 years. Having a friend provide medical attention to you when you are at your weakest and most vulnerable really puts things into perspective. A lot of things flashed through my head. Things like: I never saw Yosemite, I love my wife and don't want to lose her, I'll never see my mother's face again.
On January 9th, 2017 I decided to do something about. Something was different this time. My wife and I had tried diets in the past, but they never lasted very long. We needed a real change, a lifestyle change. That change only needed to be two simple things: Healthy food and burning calories and fat through movement. I reminded myself, and her, this isn't rocket science. Keep it simple.
Over the next few installments, I'll explain my plan on how I will go from my "wake-up call" to hopefully finishing my first marathon this December. I'll detail my "couch to 5K" experience, meal prep and healthy choices, and extended training strategies.
You're right!!! Just keep it simple – CLEAN EATING and move those bunns!! Thank you!for showing the way. It's not easy but it is so doable and you are so worth it.
Continued success Sterling! Healthy food is a choice…..the healthy choice and good for you!!
Bro keep up the good work. I recently went from 290lbs in November of 2017 to my current weight of 229. I know I have a long way to go but when you change your lifestyle, the weight comes off. Once again, congrats to you and keep up the good work.


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What Ukraine could borrow from Kenya's Constitutional reforms
CONSOLIDATING CENTRES FOR POWER
Zelensky got to power on the "Servant of the People" party, which also happens to be the name of the TV comedy show in Ukraine and Russia in which he played a role as president
• Power struggles between the President and the Prime Minister created an unstable constitutional order.
• The huge task for President-elect Zelensky, therefore, is to consolidate the partisan centres of power.
by MONICA NG'ANG'A
Ukrainian president-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy reacts following the announcement of the first exit poll at his campaign headquarters in Kiev on April 21
During the Second Nairobi International Political Forum in November 2017, the Center for International and Security Affairs examined the Central and Eastern European-Africa relations in a dialogue graced by then Ukrainian ambassador to Kenya, Yevhenii Tsymbaliuk, among other diplomats.
The conversation came against the backdrop of increased need for African states to expand their foreign relations portfolio to non-traditional allies in the wake of Brexit and US President Donald Trump's America First policy, which created uncertainty about future relations between Africa and its two long-standing traditional development partners.
The forum, an annual event that discusses various international political dynamics and developments, sought to identify shared opportunities and challenges that could spur greater interaction among Central and Eastern European States and African governments, and identify channels for people-to-people interactions.
While it might have been a tad bit difficult to engender the specific areas that needed greater interaction, especially between Ukraine and Kenya, it is not until the just-concluded presidential elections in Ukraine, that the link between the two states has become clearer.
Ukraine, the breadbasket of Europe has elected TV comedian Volodymyr Zelensky, defeating President Petro Poroshenko, a billionaire tycoon in the chocolate business with a landslide victory of 73 per cent. Poroshenko' garnered 24 per cent in the second round of the election.
Zelensky got to power on the "Servant of the People" party, which also happens to be the name of the TV comedy show in Ukraine and Russia in which he played a role as president.
It may look surreal that a country in the midst of armed conflict with Russia, a well-known belligerent in international power politics, would vote a candidate with no political or military experience whatsoever as President and the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces.
As most of the world muses over this "comical" development, comedy writer Jack Bernhardt in an opinion piece in The Guardian seems to think this is not a unique Ukrainian phenomenon.
He observes that Boris Johnson, former UK Foreign Secretary, "made his name off comic appearances on "Have I Got News For You", rising to the mayor of London with nothing more than a stupid hair cut and a propensity to say "whiff-whaff". Then there was the election of Donald Trump, who is touted to not only be the joke himself but the comedian telling it.
Members of a local electoral commission count votes at a polling station following the second round of a presidential election in Lviv, Ukraine April 21, 2019.
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Kenya's 2017 General Election was also not short of "interesting" choices by the electorate, and we were treated to a menu of musicians, comedians, and even suspected criminals into positions of power.
It is a wave of populism that is increasingly becoming the biggest threat to democracy, by creating an "us-versus-them" political system, in a bid to overhaul establishment models of governance, heavily controlled by socioeconomic elites to the perceived determent of the masses.
DIFFERENT CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS
The outcome of the Ukrainian election is a reflection of the disenfranchisement of angry populations, frustrated by years of poor governance.
Since its independence in 1991, when the Soviet Union finally disintegrated, Ukraine adopted a semi-presidential constitutional system in 1996, in which the President is directly elected by the people, and shares power with a prime minister, who can be dismissed by Parliament.
Power struggles between the president and the prime minister created an unstable constitutional order, with a presidency that has often fallen prey to autocratic tendencies and foreign intervention by Russia.
Comedian 'wins Ukranian Presidency'
The polls give him more than 70% support.
Leonid Kuchma, the second President of independent Ukraine and the first to serve under the 1996 constitution, had no less than seven prime ministers in his 1994-2005 regime.
Two revolutions, the Orange Revolution in 2004 and the Euromaidan Protests of 2013-14, saw the constitution amended back and forth from a presidential-parliamentary system to a premier-presidential system, where only the legislature can dismiss the prime minister, in an effort to curb presidential powers.
None of these efforts, however, have borne fruit in combating entrenched corruption [Transparency International's 2017 Corruption Perception Index ranks the country 130th place out of 180 countries], low levels of institutionalisation of political parties, which are also highly personalised and have weak programmatic development agendas, a script that mirrors the situation in Kenya.
Evidently, these constitutional amendments have not done much to alleviate the constitutional and political instability, something Kenya could learn ahead of the 2022 polls.
Kenya and Ukraine are grappling with defining the true nature who they are, where they belong as a people and which governance system best creates a stable environment for the two states to prosper.
Kenya, however, managed to institutionalise power-sharing models in the 2010 Constitution, by creating devolved units to decentralise power, enabling an environment where power struggles no longer greatly impede implementation of public policies, and establishment of independent institutions to oversight the Executive.
This is what Ukraine lacks: A functional constitutional dispensation that enables consolidation of Ukrainian territory and its people, the lack of which has created political and constitutional instability, worsened by the perennial meddling by Russia in Ukraine's domestic politics.
TASK AHEAD
The huge task for Zelensky, therefore, is to consolidate the partisan centres of power, starting with clinching enough parliamentary seats in the upcoming parliamentary election in October.
In the current premier-presidential system, the president only gains legitimacy to implement government policies through Parliament, and will hopefully lead the country towards long-term constitutional reforms for a stable Ukraine.
If this is not achieved, then "laughter will no longer be just a medicine, but a poison, allowing untrustworthy people to rise to the top" as described by Jack Bernhardt.
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And why it matters
A favorite gift I once received is a lovely canvas designed by Kelly Rae Roberts. Her extraordinary work combines quotes and collage. Even though I don't know her, I feel we share something in common and her art pieces always speak to me. The message on the one that I own is: Your beautifully, messy, complicated story matters. Tell It.
Don't you just love that?
Do you believe that your story matters?
Are you telling it?
One of the reasons that I failed to tell my story in the past was because I believed it was not extraordinary. After all, the story of a shy introvert who was so afraid of her voice that she tried to live under the radar while she waited for her life to be "just right" so she could start making her dreams a reality, isn't a story worth telling… is it? To have a story to tell, you need one that's remarkable, right? You need to have scaled mountain peaks, and overcome great obstacles, maybe even slain a few dragons. I hadn't done any of that, so what was there to tell?
It's All in Your Perception
It wasn't until I started telling my unremarkable story that I learned that telling my story could be an inspiration to others. It could bring comfort, hope, and challenge to someone else who felt the same way. And then this amazing thing happened. As I told my story, it became a remarkable story because through telling it I was no longer the shy introvert who tried be invisible and didn't make a difference or take a risk. I became the take charge person who moved beyond the story I told myself to the confident, capable, make a difference in the world person that I am (most of the time!) today. That's a remarkable story isn't it? It's a story of overcoming personal challenges, scaling seemingly impossible mountains of doubt and slaying some internal dragons. Turns out there's a lot to tell. And there's a lot of people who need to hear my story to give them the encouragement and the strength to slay their own dragons.
Do you believe that you have a story to tell? Are you afraid that it's too unremarkable, too messy, too imperfect, too shameful, too embarrassing to tell? Who needs to hear your story? Begin today to share your story. Maybe you only share it with one person at first. Maybe you start slowly and cautiously, but please start. Because your story does matter. Tell it. Someone is waiting to hear.
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The design and operation of networks requires technical concepts such as information theory, algorithms, and optimization, but also depends on economic, social, and even political factors.
One example is the concept of net neutrality, in which infrastructure providers seeking to recoup their investments by charging differently based on bandwidth consumption come into conflict with users who oppose making economic distinctions related to information content. The department has deep expertise in all facets of these and other problems of technology implementation and usage in the real world.
Professor Ron Howard defined the field of decision analysis in 1964 and continues to lead research at Stanford.
Although many people make personal decisions instinctively and haphazardly, a more serious approach essential for management is to analyze the problem as a three-legged structure of preferences, alternatives, and available information in the context of a frame.
The mission of the Engineering Risk Research Group (ERRG), led by department Professor M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, is the analysis, mathematical modeling, and management of the safety of engineering systems using probabilistic methods and systems analysis. Recently, the members of the ERRG have extended the application of these methods to the domains of medical operations and devices, national security, and the strategy of firms in the financial industry with the objective of identifying the most cost-effective risk-reduction measures within these complex systems. Technical, organizational, and strategic solutions are considered, and decision analysis is often used to make the final choice among a spectrum of risk-mitigation options.
Through systematic analysis and application of sophisticated mathematical tools, engineers make vital contributions to understanding commodities, credit, currencies, derivatives, equities, pricing, profits, resources, and other core economic and financial concepts.
Research and teaching in the department cover a range of topics including investments, economic growth, natural resources and energy, entrepreneurship, and microeconomics.
Research spans the study of technical work, technology's effects on individuals and teams, the formation and growth of entrepreneurial firms, and strategy and innovation in technology-based firms.
Some projects examine the role of technology in the work of engineers, including the interplay between workplace technologies and engineering knowledge, on-the-job learning, problem-solving, and coordination. Other research investigates the dynamics of globally distributed work teams, the implications of contracting and outsourcing, human-robot interaction in the workplace, and evidence-based management.
At the firm-level, research examines how entrepreneurial firms gain financing, build alliance networks, and grow. Other investigations center on established firms, including creating successful R&D collaborations across businesses, effectively competing against other firms, and entering new markets. Researchers also study strategies that enable established organizations to discover, develop, and commercialize technologies.
The department is home to premier teaching programs in these areas including Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the Center for Work, Technology and Organizations (WTO), a world-class center dedicated to understanding how work is changing and how to design more effective organizations and technologies.
In many complex systems, randomness plays an integral part in the outcome of an event.
The likelihood of a system to produce an event is based on the initial state and a range of parameters. Results are predicted and described by a number of mathematical methods in this academic field, including: axioms of probability, probability trees, random variables, distributions, conditioning, expectation, change of variables, limit theorems, discrete and continuous time parameter Markov chains, queuing theory, inventory theory, and simulation.
Operations Management involves the development, manufacturing and distribution of products and the provision of services in the modern global economy.
Problems studied involve scheduling, inventory control, supply chain coordination and contracting, product development, operations strategy, and "green" or environmentally friendly sustainable systems. Underlying methodologies used include mathematical modeling (both deterministic and stochastic), game theory, economic analysis, and simulation.
Research and teaching in this area focus on the design and analysis of public policies and corporate strategies, especially those with technology-based issues.
It features a grounding in microeconomics and modeling approaches. Courses with a policy focus include such topics such as national security, energy and environment, and health care. Courses with a strategy focus cover topics such as entrepreneurship, innovation, and product development.
An optimization problem involves finding values of the variables that minimize or maximize an objective function while satisfying constraints.
For example, how might a meat packer running a supply chain minimize fuel use given the constraint of needing to get a ton of hamburger to 50 customer warehouses by 6 a.m. each day?
The Systems Optimization Laboratory conducts basic and applied research on large-scale mathematical programming, including algorithmic development, model formulation, and software production. The field has a strong intersection with scientific computing, partnering with the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) headed by current director, Margot Gerritsen.
MS&E is home to multiple research centers, groups, and labs, including the world-renowned Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and Center for Work, Technology and Organization (WTO).
Learn more about MS&E centers, groups, and labs.
Stanford Libraries hosts MS&E PhD theses and dissertations in a digital and searchable format.
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Pandemic Picks: The Martian
May 4, 2020 Matt Dykes Leave a comment
Ridley Scott was shot into the mainstream with his 1979 Sci-Fi thriller Alien, he cemented his position as a visionary director of Science Fiction with 1982's Blade Runner and then he moved onto other genres. In 2012 he returned to Sci-Fi with the mediocre Prometheus, audiences felt like he had lost his touch when it came to Sci-Fi. Thankfully he proved everyone wrong with the exceptional 2015 Sci-Fi drama The Martian.
Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Andy Weir, The Martian follows astronaut Mark Watney as he tries to survive alone on Mars after he is accidentally left behind when his fellow astronauts perform an emergency evacuation of the planet during a storm. The film has a lot of elements to it that make it such a wonderful film, the acting is superb and the characters themselves are deep and believable. The realism in the film is interesting because everything feels like it is something that not only could exist, but will exist in 2035. The realism is due to the fact that the filmmakers consulted NASA in the elements of space travel and Mars.
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In Space They Still Can't Hear You Scream: The 40th Anniversary of Alien
August 2, 2019 Matt Dykes 1 Comment
Still seen as one of the most iconic horror films of the modern era, Alien has re-written the book on what a Sci Fi Horror film could be, and in doing so, has launched the careers of several influential people in modern cinema. From its humble beginnings to its worldwide phenomenon- even 40 years after its release, Alien still has the power to terrify audiences to this very day.
The brainchild of writers Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, the story of how Alien came to be is one of risk and timing. Dan O'Bannon worked on a student film called Dark Star with John Carpenter and it was through this that he got into contact with Ronald Shusett. Shusett had heard about Dark Star from a friend and contacted both O'Bannon and Carpenter. After a phone call with both, he found that he had more of a rapport with O'Bannon and invited him to his house. They both decided that they would like to work together on a project, and Shusett had acquired the rights to the Philip K. Dick short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. Meanwhile, O'Bannon had been working on his own script about an alien monster that systematically attacks and kills the crew of a space ship. He had written 29 pages so far and was stuck. Shusett read the initial pages and decided that they should focus on O'Bannon's script as it would be a cheaper film to shoot.
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ATH ORIGINS Ep #12 – Prometheus
June 15, 2017 After The Hype Leave a comment
Welcome to the second week of our ORIGINS month in which we're taking a look back at the origin stories of each of the hosts of the podcast. Last week we went back to the very beginning to talk Dead Space. Let's jump ahead a few weeks to our PROMETHEUS episode, which just so happens to be Jonathan's introduction to the podcast, as well as Graham's introduction as frequent guest!
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Who Cares About Spoilers Anyway?
May 30, 2017 Jonathan Hardesty Leave a comment
Do spoilers matter in our movie marketing? Jonathan doesn't seem to think so, and can't wait to tell you all about it!
Hey Internet people! I've got a problem that I've been mulling over for quite some time. Do spoilers in trailers matter? Does a trailer revealing a particular plot point or showing the last moment from the last scene "ruin the experience" for you? For me, the short answer is no. The longer answer? I don't know. My arc as a moviegoer has gone from trying to avoid anything about a movie until I see it in theaters to being completely ambivalent. I have to be careful around my more spoiler-cautious pals these days because I forget that they might want to go into a movie completely fresh.
So, what changed? When did it change? Could this trailer for ATOMIC BLONDE (which I love) be the culprit?
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How Much Do Doctors Make In Canada?
How Much Do Doctors Make In Canada? is the question people are very curious about. Apart from having the privilege to serve the needy, medical professions also come with healthy pay. Before entering any career, anyone would be interested in knowing the monetary reward it would give. Students, who are interested in pursuing medicine always have the question How much do Canadian Doctors Earn in a Year? or What is the average doctor salary in Canada?
The number of doctors and their earnings in Canada has been rising steadily throughout recent history. By 2015, there were roughly 228 doctors for every 100,000 people in the country and the average earnings of Canadian doctors as per the data of 2018 was $307,482. However, there is a huge variation in the earnings, not just on the basis of specialization but provinces. So let us study How Much Do Doctors Make In Canada in different provinces to get a better understanding.
Average Doctor Salary In Canada
The average doctor salary in Canada ranges from $278,000 for psychiatrists and over $769,000 for ophthalmologists comes from several sources like the number of patients they see per day, the amount they can bill for the patient, and the province where they work. Among the three mentioned factors the number of patients per day is the factor that plays a key role in determining the salary of the majority of doctors in Canada.
Clearly, the number of patients that a doctor sees per day, is not the only determining factor. It is apparent that family physicians see more patients per day, but based on the Canadian Institute for health information (CIHI) specialists bill a higher rate per patient. According to the CIHI, the average cost per service for a family physician was $47, whereas for a medical specialist and surgical specialist was $82 and $89 respectively.
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Finally, the location where doctors choose to practice. All provinces and territories use the fee-for-service model that permits physicians to bill the government for every patient they see, but the amount that doctors are allowed to charge in each province is different. These differences ultimately led to noticeable differences in doctor's annual salaries, for instance; family physicians earn an average doctor salary of $217k per year in British Columbia (BC) and $309k in Ontario. Therefore, a doctor's annual salary in Canada will depend on how many patients they can see, how many hours they work, and how much they can charge for each service. Lets see how much do doctors make in Canada in different states.
Following is a list of the average doctor salary in several provinces below:
1- Alberta
Doctors in Alberta are earning quite well in comparison to the national average at about $384,380 a year which is the highest in the country. This makes Alberta a preferred province for physicians to locate their practice in. It could be a reason for the growing doctor population in Alberta compared to that of many other provinces. Specialized doctors are well in demand too in Alberta.
2- Ontario
How much do surgeons make in Ontario? Is the most asked question. Ontario has very few regulations in controlling the earnings as compared to other provincial governments even though the state is highly populated. The doctors in Ontario earn an average of $360,000 per year which is a little better than the national average. There are also no disclosure requirements about the earnings, unlike other states.
3- Manitoba
Manitoba has a law that mandates doctors to report their earnings to the government every year as they are considered to be public-sector employees. The amount a doctor earns in the province varies heavily with specialization. An ER physician earns a heavy sum of $680,000 every year at the peak while the average salary of all types of doctors combined is only $354,705 per year.
4- Quebec
How much a doctor earns in Quebec is widely varied based on specialization and expertise. The average salary of a doctor is $325,000 yearly which is at par with the national average in Quebec, but many feel that earnings are quite disproportionate and the incomes should be distributed fairly in all sectors of the healthcare system. The income level of specialists and surgeons is much better than general practitioners in Quebec so the average level is not a good representation here.
5- Prince Edward Island
The salaries of doctors in Prince Edward Island are comparable to the salaries of a doctor in New Brunswick at about $305,091 per year. Doctors in Prince Edward Island can earn without any limitation due to the policy of the fee for service where there charge for every individual service provided for a separate charge. There are many doctors here earning more than $1 million per year with some reaching as much as $1.4 million each year for specialization.
6- New Brunswick
The salary that a doctor earns in New Brunswick is almost at par with the national average at around $302,123 per year. It is low in comparison to some high-paying provinces, but it can still provide a good standard of living in New Brunswick. However, highly specialized doctors at the top earn more than $1 million per year but the number of doctors that earn this much is just top of two dozen as per MCC data.
7- Saskatchewan
The earnings of physicians in Saskatchewan are regulated by the government. The Medical Council of Canada has capped the amount that doctors can charge for services that are covered by insurance. Thus, the earnings of doctors are restricted, but they are still earning a very fairly good salary at $288,995 per year.
8- British Columbia
British Columbia government releases a paper every year with the assistance of the Medical Council of Canada known as the Blue Book. This document is based on surveys and studies which show how much different types of doctors earn on the basis of their specialization. According to this paper, the doctors in British Columbia earn an amount lower than the national average in every specialization. A family doctor here earns about $273,000 per year on average.
9- Newfoundland
Newfoundland is the worst performer in terms of paying their doctors among all Canadian provinces. The average earning of doctors here is very low at about $269,646 per year. This has caused growing distress among the doctors here and led to petitions to the Medical Council of Canada urging an increase in their pay. So, Newfoundland is the least preferred place for doctors to establish their careers.
10- Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia pays very moderately in comparison to other provinces in all professions, and medicine is no exception to this. In a year, doctors here earn about $259,368 a year which is well below the national average. Thus, there is a huge dissatisfaction between the doctors here and a desire to work in other provinces if they can.
The Average Annual Salary Of A Doctor In Canada Is $312231
The important thing to remember is that these numbers are averages across all specializations and fields of medicine which have huge variations in their pay. The earnings of doctors are highly disproportionate with specialists in high-paying areas earning very well as compared to some doctors who struggle to pay their staff and cover their expenses. A successful doctor can earn 10x than an average doctor in low paying area.
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To dream of a plum represents feeling good noticing that something doesn't have to be perfect.
a dream may be a sign that you like something that others wouldn't choose first. may also reflect your enjoyment of thinking someone else isn't around anymore to make you feel like you're not good enough. Finally getting to relax not having to be perfect for someone else.
Negatively, may reflect awareness of yourself not being perfect, but also liking others never getting to be perfect either. Preferring to stay in mediocrity because you are too scared or insecure to try anything else.
Example: A woman dreamed of seeing moldy . In waking life she was going through menopause and felt that a hot flash was close at hand. The moldy may have reflected her feelings about having wasted the opportunity to enjoy herself during the duration of time she knew she would be free from caring about her hot flashes.


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New 4+1 program for humanities undergraduates
Arizona State University offers a variety of accelerated programs allowing students to earn both a bachelor's and master's degree in as little as five years.
The School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies has partnered with Thunderbird School of Global Management to offer a new 4+1 program allowing students to receive an undergraduate degree in a humanities-related field and a graduate degree in global management.
The new transdisciplinary program was made possible by School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies Director Richard Amesbury and Thunderbird's Associate Dean Lena Booth.
As the world continues to grow as a global market, the demand for knowledge across many disciplines is growing. The partnership allows humanities majors to pursue management careers and because it is an accelerated program, they can save both time and money.
"With all the disruptions in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and more recent disruptions caused by COVID-19, students with diverse skill sets are future-ready and have a higher chance of success in today's ever-changing world," Booth said.
There are many new paths available through the program. A student can receive a degree from the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and can pair it with the global management graduate degree and could add on any of its four concentrations, including global business, global affairs, global digital transformation or global entrepreneurship.
"Whether studying business ethics, the history of renewable energy or the geopolitics of religious identity, the knowledge and skills SHPRS majors acquire in history, philosophy and religious studies courses provide a solid foundation for leadership in a global context and humanities degrees are sought-after in international boardrooms," Amesbury said.
Thunderbird strives to have a student body that is professionally and culturally diverse and the new accelerated program helps both schools achieve that. By enrolling in the program, students can pursue their passions while training to be global leaders.
"Many global organizations documented that diverse teams are the most innovative and are able to offer many unique perspectives to solve world challenges," Booth said. "Humanities play a big role in educating global leaders to advance inclusive and sustainable prosperity worldwide. At a time when the world is experiencing record environmental challenges, the rise of nationalism and parochialisms, and the impact of disruptive technologies, it is increasingly important for global leaders to be equitable and inclusive, govern and lead with compassion."
Students who are considering the program are recommended to take their required undergraduate courses early to leave room for at least twelve hours of electives their senior year. By leaving those credits open, students can ensure they can complete the shared courses for the Thunderbird program.
For more information about how to apply for the 4+1 program, please see the degree information page.
For Luis Moreno '77, Adaptability is the Key to Success


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A to Z reflections
May 1, 2015 Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter57 Comments
This time last year I was celebrating completing my first A to Z Challenge. This year, I'm celebrating my second – and third: I've also fulfilled the 2015 challenge on my library blog. So my first reflection is that I'm not sure I'd do two at once again! Alternate years, maybe.
Thinking about this blog specifically, I'm really pleased with how it went. Somewhere around T, I surpassed last April's total page views, so I did better than last year in statistical terms. But it's the people who make the challenge – both the blogging friends I met last year and the new ones I've made this month. I've learned a lot from all your posts – and I've also laughed, cried, been terrified or repulsed! Sometimes all at once.
I've awarded myself a medal. Ok, fridge magnet.
I'm very grateful to everyone who read and commented in return, and gave such warm and positive responses to Gallus Glasgow. I hope that those who don't know the city will now be tempted to visit, and that those who do will have found at least one or two things they didn't know about.
Potential blog posts have been piling up since the end of March, so it's time for a little rest, then back into action. I hope some of you will still be with me. Au revoir!
Awards and ChallengesA to Z Challenge 2015
Gallus Glasgow Z: World War Z
April 30, 2015 April 10, 2015 Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter66 Comments
There can't be a corner of Glasgow which hasn't featured in home-grown films and TV shows such as the long-running detective series, Taggart. But Hollywood has also come to call on several occasions. For example, there was great excitement in 2011 when the centre of Glasgow "played" Philadelphia in World War Z – especially as the star was none other than Brad Pitt. Here's the City Chambers in George Square with the green signs and yellow traffic lights of a US city.
In my own picture of the same building, you can just about make out the normal UK lights at the bottom left.
Zombie attacks aren't my thing, so I haven't seen World War Z. However, shortly after Brad Pitt's visit, Halle Berry was here filming the San Francisco sequences of Cloud Atlas. That I did go to – and very strange it was, thanks to CGI, to see streets which were totally recognisable on one side and completely imaginary on the other. Glasgow has also doubled as 1890s New York in House of Mirth (with Gillian Anderson) and, as far as I know, the most recent Hollywood A-lister to film here was Scarlett Johannson (Under The Skin).
We're famous! Come and see us! I hope my roundup of Gallus Glasgow has tempted some of you.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Glasgow, World War Z
Gallus Glasgow Y: Yorkhill
Yorkhill is a mainly residential area on the north bank of the Clyde, but say its name to most Glaswegians and the instant association is "Sick Kids". The Royal Hospital for Sick Children, usually just known as "Yorkhill" treats thousands of patients each year – approximately 90,000 out-patients, 15,000 in-patients, 7,300 day-cases and 35,000 Accident and Emergency cases.
This wasn't the hospital's original home, however. After 20 years of arguing about a suitable site, the first children's hospital in Glasgow was founded (by charitable donations) in Garnethill in 1882. It quickly became too small, and today is an annexe to a local school: that's it below with a close-up of the relief over the door showing Charity comforting a child.
Former children's hospital, Garnethill
Charity comforting a child
In 1914, a public appeal raised £140,000 for the new site at Yorkhill – approximately £7m in today's money. The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow recently held a symposium to celebrate a century of paediatric care at Yorkhill – the College Library blogpost about it has some lovely images, including one of dolls wearing the 1964 uniform of the Queen Mother's Hospital (the maternity hospital on the same site).
Now the hospital is on the move again. The redeveloped Southern General campus in Govan, on the other side of the river, is almost complete and will serve both adults and children from later this year. This time, of course, it's funded by the National Health Service (although the admirable Yorkhill Children's Charity raises money for additional resources). Let's be grateful that we no longer have to rely on charity for our healthcare.
I can't believe it's the last letter tomorrow! Let's go to the movies for Z.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Garnethill, Glasgow, Yorkhill
Gallus Glasgow X: Glasgow Cross
Glasgow Cross
I couldn't think of anything beginning with X so here's a plausible "cheat", if you like to call it that (though I bet a lot of other bloggers are having to do the same thing). X, in this case, does not represent a kiss – a Glasgow kiss is something you definitely want to avoid! It's a headbutt. No, I'm going to talk about Glasgow Cross.
This was the heart of the medieval city, the meeting place of five roads: High Street, Gallowgate, London Road, the Saltmarket and the Trongate. Those roads are all still there, but Glasgow's centre has moved west over the centuries and the only true remnant of the Cross's former glory is the Tolbooth Steeple. Today, this sits alone on a traffic island, but when it was built in the 1620s it was part of a more extensive building. The Tolbooth had several uses, including as the seat of the Council until 1814 and, less pleasantly, as a place of public execution (hence Gallowgate. And gallus – remember that third definition I didn't really want to talk about?) The rest of the Tolbooth was demolished in 1921.
Tollbooth Steeple
Across the road, the Mercat (Market) Cross with its heraldic unicorn looks just as ancient but was only constructed in 1929/30.
Mercat Cross
Mercat Cross Unicorn
Nearing the end! Tomorrow, in Y, we visit a place that generations of Glasgow weans and their parents have had cause to be grateful to.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Glasgow, Glasgow Cross
Gallus Glasgow W: Wellington
April 27, 2015 June 7, 2019 Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter48 Comments
Duke of Wellington and cone
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, hero of Waterloo and twice Prime Minister, has sat on his horse outside what is now the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) since 1844. For the first 140 years or so he was unmolested, but sometime around the 1980s the tradition of capping him with a traffic cone emerged. The council and the police don't like this, but as fast as they take one down, another goes up in its place, costing, allegedly, £10,000 per year to remove.
In 2013, Glasgow City Council considered a £65,000 plan to raise the statue's plinth in an attempt to deter the 'coning' of the Duke. This led to #Conegate: a storm on Twitter and Facebook, an online petition and even a rally to Keep the Cone. The plans were quietly dropped and the cone remains. GoMA (owned by the council which so dislikes it) continues to sell greetings cards of the coned Duke and a new hotel is using his image in its interior decor because it represents the humour of Glasgow. I found the article about this quite hilarious. Apparently the Sculptor in Ordinary to the Queen in Scotland (me neither) thinks the cone is comparable to "acts of cultural destruction carried out by so-called Islamic State." Get a grip!
The street artists are getting in on the act too. I came across the mini-Wellington above in Buchanan Street before Christmas. I'm not sure he'd want to ride into battle on that horse, but he looks pretty gallus all the same.
X is a bothersome letter – I bet lots of people have to cheat a bit, and I'm no exception. Come back tomorrow to find out what Glasgow X represents.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Wellington cone
Gallus Glasgow V: Victoria
April 25, 2015 January 4, 2018 Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter30 Comments
George Square
Queen Victoria in George Square
Queen Victoria at GRI
Twelve statues stand in George Square in the centre of Glasgow. Only one is of a woman – Queen Victoria. I imagine most British cities have a statue of her. At least ours is a youngish, lively Victoria, sitting side-saddle on her horse, and not the unamused elderly widow (although you can see a version of her on the façade of the Royal Infirmary).
But only one statue of a woman in George Square? Shocking! Not only that, there are only three in the whole city, and of those just one is a native Glaswegian. Isabella Elder sits in Elder Park, which she donated to the people of Govan, and Spanish Civil War heroine La Pasionaria (Dolores Ibárruri) raises her arms by the Clyde.
Isabella Elder
Perhaps this will change soon. There is a campaign to raise a statue to Mary Barbour, heroine of the 1915 rent strikes, which could take our total to four. It's progress.
A Queen today – in W tomorrow, we meet a Duke.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Glasgow, Isabella Elder, Queen Victoria
Gallus Glasgow U: Umbrellas
April 24, 2015 October 8, 2015 Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter36 Comments
This post is not about the Glasgow weather – though it's true that if you visit you should always remember to bring an umbrella. However, this post is about two much bigger umbrellas.
Heilanman's Umbrella
The Hielanman's Umbrella (Highlandman's Umbrella) is the local nickname for the glass walled railway bridge which carries the platforms of Glasgow Central Station across Argyle Street. During the Highland Clearances in the 19th century, thousands of Highlanders came to Glasgow looking for work. As they were dispersed throughout the city, this is the place they came to keep in touch with each other.
Bridgeton Umbrella
The second umbrella is in Bridgeton in the East End. Erected in 1874, it also sheltered the unemployed and, unlike the Hielanman's Umbrella, was actually designed to do so. I'm disappointed to find its real name is the dull "Bridgeton Cross Shelter".
For the next couple of days, we'll be looking at equestrian statues. Anyone else remember the song by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band? No? Well, it's nothing to do with that anyway. I just thought I'd throw it in.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Bridgeton, Glasgow, Hielanman's Umbrella, Highland Clearances
Gallus Glasgow T: the Tardis
Hands up the Doctor Who fans! Ok, so you know about the Tardis then – an old, blue Police Box which is bigger inside than out. At one time there used to be over 300 in Glasgow, allowing officers to keep in touch with their stations and access first-aid boxes. At least one of the handful remaining is now in use as a coffee shop, though, sadly, when I looked inside the interior was just as tiny as the outside.
However, Glasgow does have a Doctor Who connection. Look at the box in the bottom right picture which, I'm sure you'll have noticed, isn't real. It's part of a University of Strathclyde mural (see the previous post on Street Art for more) and is there because the University Archives hold the papers of Verity Lambert, founding producer of Doctor Who in 1963. I'm old enough to remember watching the first episode. I was six and we'd only recently got a television so I didn't have much to compare it with, but I was entranced.
For more on the Police Boxes, see STV Glasgow's article and the Facebook page Police Signal Box. Tardis.
U tomorrow, in which we take shelter from the rain.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Glasgow, Police boxes, Strathclyde University
Gallus Glasgow S: Street art
In some ways, Glasgow is like the geeky kid trying to be cool here. More and more street art is popping up, but much of it is officially sanctioned, some to brighten up the city for last year's Commonwealth Games. There's even a City Council trail you can follow to find the major sites. Here are some I found in the City Centre – my favourite is the girl with the magnifying glass. I was so lucky to catch a woman standing underneath in just the right place. I also like the picture of the elephant with its group of living statues sitting below.
Mitchell Street
Argyle Street
Howard Street
Strathclyde University
Clyde Walkway
The Fish Plaice
Street art is not confined to the centre. Closer to home, there are several murals in the west of the city. This scary squirrel and some transport-related murals are at Kelvinbridge Subway Station.
I suppose not strictly street art, because this time it's inside, the refurbished Hillhead Subway Station has an Alistair Gray mural. There's also a mural behind Hillhead Library and the adjacent Hillhead Bookclub (which is actually a bar / restaurant despite the name.)
Hillhead Bookclub
Hillhead Subway
For the final part of my street art tour, how about these spectacular murals in Maryhill? A friend calls the one on the left "the depressed panther".
Tomorrow in T we could travel beyond the galaxy. Well, not really, don't get too excited….
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Glasgow, Street art
Gallus Glasgow R: Religious buildings
April 21, 2015 April 9, 2015 Anabel @ The Glasgow Gallivanter30 Comments
St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art was the first in the world to cover all major world religions together. It sits next to Glasgow Cathedral (1197) and superficially looks almost as old, but it dates from the late 1980s. The Scottish baronial style was deliberately chosen to emulate the Bishop's Palace which used to sit on the same site. In the images below, the third building you can see is the Royal Infirmary.
St Mungo Museum
Glasgow Cathedral and Necropolis
Some details from the museum:
The Cathedral is Church of Scotland and there are, of course, many more Christian denominations represented in Glasgow as well as buildings for other world religions. For example, Glasgow Central Mosque:
Garnethill Synagogue:
By RonAlmog, (Flickr page) (Flickr) CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5), via Wikimedia Commons
And Gurdwara Guru Granth Sahib:
Most religious buildings which have been mentioned in the Challenge so far have been converted to other uses. This is a small, and by no means comprehensive, selection of those which still fulfil their original purpose.
Tomorrow in S we'll look at some art – but not in a gallery.
Scotland, UKA to Z Challenge 2015, Glasgow, Glasgow Cathedral, Museums, Religious buildings, St Mungo, St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art


There is a large variety of cultural events in Greece that are organized in Athens, other cities and the Greek islands.
After reading about the cultural events, get also informed about the traditional music in Greece.
The Athens Epidaurus Greek Festival takes place every summer (from June to August) and includes various performances, like modern theatre, ancient drama, ballet, opera, jazz and classical music concerts and art exhibitions. The events take place in various theatres around Athens and in the Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus. In fact, the peak of this festival are the ancient drama performances that are displayed in summer weekends in Epidaurus.
The International Film Festival of Thessaloniki is one of the most important cultural events in Greece. It takes place every November and it works as a stand for new directors to present their work.
The Rockwave Festival takes place every June and welcomes international bands and musicians. The rock concerts are presented in the Rockwave Scene in Malakasa, about 40 km north of Athens. The festival lasts for three days and concerts are performed all day long, from morning till midnight.
A yearly celebration since 1993, bringing together nationally and internationally acclaimed artists at Sani Halkidiki. Events, such as music concerts, dance performances and painting exhibitions, are held in different venues around the Sani Resort from July to September.
Megaro Gyzi Festival takes place every August in Santorini island. It includes music concerts, performances, art exhibitions and lectures that take place in Megaro Gyzi Cultural Centre in Fira Santorini.
Naxos Festival takes place every July and August in Bazeos Tower, Naxos island. It includes musical concerts, theatre performances, art exhibitions, lectures and art workshops.
A large range of other cultural events and festivals take place all around Greece and the Greek islands. Most festivals are organized in summer.
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Scott Mueller's Upgrading and Repairing PCs Forum • View topic - Netgear DG834Gv4 firmware update fail notes.
Post subject: Netgear DG834Gv4 firmware update fail notes.
You already know I Bricked my router!
Hope this helps, may even refer it myself one day!
Post subject: Re: Netgear DG834Gv4 firmware update fail notes.
Thanks David, I didn't know about that tool.
Did you happen to try the 30/30/30 hard reset (here's another explanation) before you used that utility?
The power light was flashing red/green very fast, like a strobe!
What is it they say about the gas station out in the middle of nowhere with the plastic Jesus on the register?
I haven't heard of that firmware. What made you choose that one specifically?
Well That router seems to be time limited, it has been run 24/7/365(except when blackouts longer than my UPS could deal with) since new!
So 5/12/2005 is 5/Dec/2005 and not May/12/2005!! Honestly you could have at least completely reversed the date format like the Chinese! I say this because it does create confusion, perhaps I should run for US president to change this?? So I wonder is their a nice US "female" I can marry to get one's "Green card"?
I wonder how many people go off their own topic?


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visitedbythem
posted on Aug, 25 2019 @ 09:47 PM
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: IAMALLYETALLIAM
Not too "up" on Aussie politics soOo... is cultural appropriation still OK there?
As a Cherokee, just wondering.
As for the "oldest continuing culture and civilization", you may want to speak to the Chinese about that.
Or the Hopi.
My ex wife is Cherokee too. She is 2 years younger then you. She also has the same preference
We still love each other, but that is why we divorced. Ive been meaning to tell you.
kwakakev
Stories and associations to past lives is somewhat common, you are not alone there. As for all the technicalities, I don't know, maybe some part of us gets recycled as the wheels of reincarnation tick over. So far I have only been able to establish one of me with this mind, body and maybe spirit all together in this life.
Traveling Australia can be a pretty clicky place at times with many small towns and communities having their own culture. If you can find a community where things just flow, great. With some reports and investigations into past memories it does make one go, hmmm...
LABTECH767
I was finding your account interesting right up until you attacked Christianity and then?.
First of all ever hear of parasitic entity's?.
In Christianity it is stated you are given to be born ONCE then to die and then the resurrection, this does not mean that you sleep for a very long time though perhaps some do but that you rise in spirit - and yes there are some whom will argue this including certain sect's whom deny that Christ was God in human form which he most certainly is and was.
Now to some strange experiences of my life, memory's of floating away from a dead crusader who died in an attitude of prayer kneeling with his hands on the pommel of his sword after a fight in a desert somewhere big very muscular youngish bloke with dirty copper blond hair and beard very much like the old stereotype of your surfers but not flashing his muscles to attract the lady's and instead dying after a battle, I was a small boy when I had this strong and impressionable vision.
WAKING shock as I felt someone hitting me hard on the back of my head (I already had received a head injury in this life) then seeing through some girl's eye's as an older man poured hot water over her groin area waking her then turned her head and I felt the shattered skull under the back of her/my head moving like pieces of an eggshell on a boiled egg like when someone has taken the back of a spoon to break the boiled egg's shell before peeling it, I felt the bones grind against one another and into my brain, as he turned my head I saw an old fashioned bare light bulb hanging from it's cord on the ceiling and then blacked out, then I was floating away or being pulled along with the body which I believe was in the boot of a car like I did from the crusader but outside a house about two to two and a half feet over the ground along a dirty mud road with two wheel ruts in it, it was dark but I could see, I was about 24 this time, I got the impression that this was from the 1950's or 60's and somewhere in Yorkshire but somewhere were there were rolling hill's with grass but no tree's, it was night time but I could see the distant light of dawn and in spite of the darkness even the colour of the grass under the wet sky and the reflection in the puddles of water that filled the wheel rut's.
Another occasion many years previously, I was about 14 years of age, I came too in the darkness and found myself flying - this was an oobe and no I do not do drugs and never have, I resisted but was only half awake and could not stop as if something had me by the back of my neck so it was all I could do as I found myself moving fast - very fast through the air to notice my surrounding's in a bewildered state - below me was a jungle and I could see the branches on the tree's, the leaves but not through the tree's except here and there and it was only to the top's of other tree's below them - so dense jungle and despite the darkness and the fact I seemed to be hundreds of feet above them my eye's were so sharp I could see the individual leaves in detail, unable to control my flight I saw a cluster of building's, crude wooden shack's in a clearing and a dirt road and tree stumps in places like they had thinned out the area perhaps loggers or rubber tappers, one of these shack's was the biggest in this crude and temporary looking village that I believe was in the Amazon somewhere in deepest Brazil, this was the early 1980's, I was forced downward with no inclination to do so on my part by whatever was taking me there and toward this largest of the shack's which looked like a normal shed like cabin with a flat roofed lean too added on one side, a big lean too and I flew through the roof, I barely had time to notice that the wall of the shack that had the lean too on it's side was removed leaving it's floor above the ground like a stage and to one side a crude bar, inside the large lean too held up here and there with posts was crude wooden tables and chairs, workaday thing's crudely made and on them were rough looking, dirty faced and clothed men all of whom appeared to be perhaps Brazilian Portuguese by descent except one whom was paler, big obese bloke with a balding head and sweat showing through his shirt.
I was unable to stop myself as I was flown toward a little girl, perhaps nine to eleven years of age dressed in what looked like a piece of sack cloth made into a poncho and tied around her waist with a piece of rope, I flew into the crown of her head and it was to put it this way like being plugged in instantly, I could see, hear, feel all she could but she remained in charge and I still half asleep and utterly bewildered by this, she was giddy, drunk or drugged I don't know which and not so much dancing as stumbling about on that cabin flood that was like a deck while these dirty scruffy rough men were drinking from bottles at there tables and shouting things I could not understand at her, they shouted something and she lay on her back and lifted the front piece of her crude poncho with her two hands her leg's up showing her wares and the big fat man stood up and unbuckled then came toward her, I felt everything and it hurt like hell shocking me awake so I took control of her and screamed NO!, the pale fat man had a look of wide eye'd shock on his face which was dripping sweat as I pushed him upward with her small arm's and I think he may have seen me, I for all this had not understood a word they were saying but had shouted NO! in English as I pushed him upward with a strength that child should not have had and then like an elastic band snapping the connection was broken and I flew backward like an overstretched elastic band to my own body back here in England were I woke screaming NO! and putting my hand's up frantically at the empty air feeling sick, the experience left a very deep scar on my psyche.
Later in my twenty's I found myself on a number of occasion's outside of my body at a time when I was suffering repeated sleep paralysis episodes and on each of these three times in the night I could see my body like a dark mass and had to fight as if walking underwater back to it while an unseen current seemed to be trying to pull me backward and down into the darkness waking each time I reached my body gasping for breath as If I had stopped breathing.
Also in the 90's I saw demon's, had - small - hoof print's appear on the wall of my room up the wall and across the ceiling to over me from beside my head.
Had a piller of black smoke or mist like thing shimmering like a heat wave jump into me and turn my silver crucifix jet black with a film of tarnish, too years for that to stop and metal to stop corroding but I clung to my faith in the TRUE Lord Jesus even more and it eventually stopped going back, just kind of goes grey these day's though metal corrodes on me very fast which it never did before so it may have changed my skin chemistry to become acidic or something.
Encountered demon's twice and faced them off holding a bible - I was not alone as there were other spirit's with me - not saying they were good or bad though, once encounter was a large rabble of them they looked like shadow people I saw there kind several time's but on other occasions they seemed to move away as I came closer, the second encounter was with what I believe was a Gestalt of these entity's (multiple entitys' merging to create an abomination***
a reply to: LABTECH767
*** technically a kind of suicide as the gestalt can gain it's own ego and devour those idiot demon's eventually becoming no more powerful then any individual one of them after it has consumed there energy and becoming a leech needing more to keep itself strong), they had strange over sized appearing body's with long stocky trunk's, short limb's and huge heads, were like shadow itself but in three dimension's and absorbed the light as it hit them making it difficult but not impossible to see through them and there eye's were just as dark but were tiny pin prick's of red darkness, my faith and some other spirit's drove these monstrous abominations back toward an old mine shaft which while it was capped they were driven through the solid earth by the mist like grey spirit's that had come to my rescue.
I could go on and on and on, native American's - north and South (obviously) and Aboriginal's from around the world have my respect but PLEASE do not equate them with being anti Christ because they are not though the devil does have his anti missionary's now doesn't he, disposable people that will do his bidding while he uses them up.
But I digress it depend's what you are referring to in your statement about Christianity.
Christ is real and he is exactly whom Christianity say's he is but that does not mean that Christian's are all Christian or correct in there way life does it.
As a small child I had golden hair, unusual golden not straw blond and as I got older it turned to dark brown but back then it was kind of unique and my mum was proud of it and would not cut it which led people to thinking I was a little girl.
At the age of about two and a half we were driving through a town in the north west of England called Huyton were I had never been taken before and I was a typical little boy, this was the 1970's so no seat belt's, and I was carrying on a bit refusing to sit down on the back seat of my mum's mini until I had this strange experience of something coming into me, suddenly I knew an entire life time of knowledge and so much more and it took me over, I Started claiming to be some guy called John and talking beyond the capability's of a two and a half year old, I remembered were shop's were and were John's local pub was before we even got there telling my mum about them before we did while the hair's were standing up on the back of her neck, remembered walking down the street with a walking cane, thread bare trousers made of a cheap tweed and a mismatched jacket and cloth cap with a stained shirt, holes in my kneed's and shoes that were falling apart I was an elderly man whom would go every day to the pub and sit there from morning till night drinking ale with his old cronies, I remembered people saying Morning John as they walked past me in the street and seeing road's that had very few cars on them and those being of the Morris minor and similar type then as we drove away from that place he left my body and I was left trying to remember what he had given and then taken back with him, his attempt to REINCARNATE in a two and a half year old had failed, now here is my point I am for one not sure it was John, it could have been a parasitic entity that had lived IN john and then saw an unformed young mind and decided to have a go at that one and failed or was told to get out by something else?.
Now about the same time, shortly after I was playing with two Matchbox brand toy cars under the living room window in the garden of our council house back in the town of Skelmersdale were I then lived - I was two and a half or three when this happened, I felt a breeze in my right ear and froze then heard a voice like that of an asthmatic old man kind of whispering gasping as it said "Poor poor Paul you are going to have such a terrible terrible sad life I feel so so very sorry for you", it paused then continued while I was frozen in fright "I'll tell you what give me your soul and I will give you a wonderful wonderful life my name is Satan" it then allowed me to move and I screamed NO! in fear and ran for my mum but between the garden and the house he made me forget everything until I encountered that same entity later in life (when I was seeing those vile entity's) and it stole something from me and blocked another memory - turn's out if he block's your memory twice it kind of work's against the older block so while he steals something new he loses what he had blocked and so I had full recall.
So I am telling you that you are wrong, it is not reincarnation if there is then it is a parasite and PERHAPS it still has the soul of it's previous host asleep but still in it's clutches because I don't think they have identity's of there own so they need to hold onto something.
Demon's are real pal reincarnation is NOT unless you are sent back by GOD himself and we live another life in the Spirit but like I say demon's are real so too are angel's and GOD is most certainly real, by the way Christ is God, in the beginning was GOD and with GOD was the WORD and the WORD was/is GOD.
Turn back to Jesus, as for colour I know the Aboriginal people have suffered terribly, evil was done unto them by unchristian men BUT that saying he made was wrong, people are people are people and colour has nothing to do with it, culture now there is the difference everything else is just down to inbreeding.
IAMALLYETALLIAM
This novel because you got to the part where I think there is hypocrisy within Christianity specifically Catholicism?
Sorry for being wrong and not embracing your views, guess I'll burn in hell then.
TexasTruth
It's really embarrassing when white people try to be something they are not so they can feel connected to another culture or group. We all are connected and have our strengths, weaknesses, and differences so why do people try so hard to be something they are not?
How many times have you seen black aboriginal people say they were born in the wrong body and identify with whites rather than their own? Surely it goes both ways if what you claim is true?
Then you go a step further and insult your own "wrong" people as having "infantile" knowledge of your spirit culture.
I suppose it shouldn't bother me really, so have fun with your peeps Kip. fungi's up
a reply to: TexasTruth
It's terribly embarrassing when it's something they have cooked up themselves but what do you make of it when indigenous elders tell you that's what they believe you are and can feel/see in your spirit?
For the record, I'm still not sold on it but it has been nearly all I've thought about since.
There's absolutely no chance of me heading out in to wider society and claiming to be indigenous.
The 'you' Europeans was tongue in cheek but on reflection reads poorly.
I'm not sure who my people are - could be Celts, Anglo Saxons, Norse, Maltese (and there's atleast half a dozen races that make up Maltese) coupled with the fact that I was born in Australia so I have no idea. Fun story, I wrote a song about it.
Actually don't go that far, I was angry because you insulted a faith which at it's core is GOOD and actually truth but in this day and age when idiot's want to mouth off against it, well freedom of speech and everything I have told you about myself on that is true - and believe me it was not pleasant these are just excerpts from a life time of strange, never really stopped just got used to it I guess.
No one said you were going to burn in hell - Sheol - but that depend's on what you want to do with your life attack Christ and lead vulnerable easily led sleep walkers to there doom and if so then the case is most likely yes or just seeking your own way and if you are part of our family then you will hear the shepherds call in your own way eventually and then the answer is no you won't.
Before my encounter with that horrible old man thing my older sister and her friends had played with a Ouija board in the shed of that garden I later found out, the glass had apparently started to move on it's own so they smashed it and ran away leaving whatever parasite they had unleashed to seek something to feast on so it tried me? or I assume so as that is what the pieces of straw I have after all of these years seem to indicate.
All Christ wanted was for people to be good to one another, live there lives decently, help those less fortunate than themselves and not live like rich guy's overburdened by wealth that does not do them no good in the end as they still die like anyone else and have to come back to him for judgement oh and he did not want you to worship false God's and belief's, as for drug's, well they do you no good but you are free to do as you will to yourself just don't do it to others.
Peace kid.
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Twitter buys Summize
July 15, 2008 by Whitney Hess 2 Comments
Twitter's search engine has always pretty much sucked. The functionality was put on the site in August 2007, but it only searches username, location, bio and URL — not the actual tweets in the stream.
Lots of folks out there have used the Twitter API to build their own search engine, the most popular of which was Terraminds until it shut down. People were dismayed. Then Summize came on the scene (in early April, I think), and it's all anyone could talk about. They allow you to filter results by language, have a "reply" link beside every tweet for easy access, and allow you to specifically search for tweets to or from a particular username. Also really nice is the in-page update when a new matching tweet is posted.
Real-time search means that when Twitter Track is down (as it has been for many weeks, maybe months at this point), you don't have to miss replies and can stay on top of what's important to you.
So was what the natural thing for Twitter to do? Buy Summize.
The transition happened today. Summize.com is no longer. What it used to look like:
Now automatically redirects to search.twitter.com
Everything works the same, so no need to worry. Twitter promises to more tightly integrate the functionality in the future. Looking forward to see what they come up with.
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Yoni says
Would it have killed them to at least minimally integrate the search immediately?
itechgirl says
I have to disagree with Yoni above. I love the fact that they bought them because I feel that a search is a major aspect of the site that is missing, however, with all of Twitter's downtime, glitches, and issues, I would rather they take the time to integrate a nicely designed / working search engine.