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September 22, 2019 September 22, 2019 andy News
This past weekend Equestrian Bahamas was honoured to host representatives from the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI). Mr. Mark Samuel, Vice-President of the FEI Board and Chairman of Group IV (North America and the Caribbean), and Mr. Francisco Porras Lima (Director of Governance and Institutional Affairs) visited us from September 15-17 to conduct a site visit. This site visit was the final step to our recognition by the FEI and the IOC as an official member National Federation of the international Olympic body.
During the site visit Mr. Samuel and Mr. Lima met with EB Directors and Officials, representatives of the local barns, and members of the Bahamas Olympic Committee to undertake a comprehensive analysis of our competitions, facilities, development programs and more. As a result of the visit, upon the recommendation of the FEI Board our application will be presented for ratification at the upcoming FEI General Assembly in Moscow. EB Board Member Mr. Peter Vlasov will be in attendance at the GA to represent Equestrian Bahamas.
Equestrian Bahamas wishes to thank Mr. Samuel and Mr. Lima, as well as the Bahamas Olympic Committee, for their support and encouragement. We also thank those who worked to organize the logistics of the visit and helped to make it a success!
Membership in the FEI presents tremendous opportunities to expand our grassroots programs, provide comprehensive training programs for our coaches and riders, and afford access to international competitive opportunities for our riders at every level. This is an exciting step forward for equestrian sport in The Bahamas. We look forward to hearing positive news from the General Assembly in Moscow!


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A superstar rapper paid a visit to Hull's Dope Burger on Wednesday afternoon – but everything wasn't as it seemed.
The burger shop posted a picture on their social media of owner Ollie Johnson and members of the Dope team with 50 Cent, who appeared to have popped into the eatery during a visit to the city.
People on social media were loving the picture - with some believing the American superstar was in East Yorkshire for the day.
But it wasn't rapper and singer Curtis James Jackson III with his arms around the staff members' shoulders, it was Jerome B Richards – Hull's very own 50 Cent impersonator.
"I've been impersonating 50 Cent for about eight or nine years now," said Jerome, 37, who is originally from Birmingham.
"It all started when friends and family kept telling me I looked like him, and I always ignored it, but back in 2008 my boss gave me the day off work and I went to the X Factor auditions at the NEC in Birmingham to see what they thought.
Now a supervisor of a business off Hedon Road while impersonating part-time, Jerome has appeared on ITV2 as the rapper, and went on to appear at hundreds of events.
The dad-of-five once even had to cover for the star after he was unable to make it to several nightclub appearances in Birmingham.
"The club owners called me after 50 Cent said he didn't have time to attend the club appearances, and straight away I agreed," he said.
"It went really well and nobody rumbled me or caught on that I wasn't really him. I was sat in the VIP booth with security all around me and I had people coming up to me for pictures and everything.
"I can do the accent, but it's better when I've had a drink because he speaks really slow, but people couldn't really hear me, and as far as I'm aware nobody knew that it wasn't really him.
Now living in Hessle, Jerome left Birmingham after meeting an ex-girlfriend from Hull, and decided to stay living in the city after the break-up.
"She moved to Birmingham for a year but wanted to move back to Hull, so I thought I would come with her to see what it was like," he said.
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"But I'm always positive about Hull when people ask me about it, and I like the positivity of being an impersonator.
"For me, it's all about making people smile and giving them the experience that they have met 50 Cent.


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Q: How to add data into mysql using c# (edit table column on combo box selection ) I want to add item in a table in a database in mysql based upon what the user has selected in the items combobox.
Eg: if a person chooses tea (this event should populate tea column in my table) and fills a quantity as 2 then I want to add 2 under the column name tea in mysql table . I'm trying to use the update statement, but it gives an error the syntax is not correct.The column to be filled in table changes if the user chooses tea or coffee that's why I have used "+this.items.Text+"

"UPDATE employee.transaction
 SET   department = ' " + this.department.Text + " ',
 ' " + this.items.Text + " ' =  ' " + this.quantity.Text + " ' ,
 billno = ' " + this.bill_no_txt.Text + "'
 where billno = ' " + this.bill_no_txt.Text + " ' ;";

A: I might see several points in your query that could cause problems. So lets go through it:
SET   department = ' " + this.department.Text + " ',

Please make sure you enter the right data into the database. In SQL queries you need to make sure you have no spaces if you enter a text into a text or a varchar field. What you enter above is " TEXT " and not "TEXT" (mind the spaces). The following will enter the text without a space at the beginning and the end:
SET   department = '" + this.department.Text + "',

What's most likely causing the error is:
billno = ' " + this.bill_no_txt.Text + "'

I assume your billno column is defined as an int (which would be correct). But you have to make sure you insert it as such. By using ' (single brakets) you are trying to enter text into the int field, which would cause an error. I can not say it for sure since I can't see the table definitions of the table you want to update the data in.
What else could cause the problem is that the column name is wrong here:
 ' " + this.items.Text + " ' =  ' " + this.quantity.Text + " ' ,

 ' " + this.items.Text + " '

will basickly enter "' Columnname '" which is wrong (with "'" AND spaces). It probabely should be "Columnname". Try it without spaces and without singlebackets:
 " + this.items.Text + " =  '" + this.quantity.Text + "' ,

But despite all of that I think you have an architectural problem in your database... If you have 30 different beverages you will need to have 30 columns which can be done with a n to n relationship between a three column table and a two column table. I suggest you look a bit into that first.
Heres the corrected query but make sure you understand the changes:
UPDATE employee.transaction SET  department = '" + this.department.Text + "'," + this.items.Text +" =  '" + this.quantity.Text + "' , billno = " + this.bill_no_txt.Text + " where billno = " + this.bill_no_txt.Text + ";

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Researchers identify the origin of a deadly brain cancer
Finding could lead to potential therapies
Researchers at McGill University are hopeful that the identification of the origin and a specific gene needed for tumour growth could lead to new therapeutics to treat a deadly brain cancer that arises in teens and young adults. The discovery relates to a subgroup of glioblastoma, a rare but aggressive form of cancer that typically proves fatal within three years of onset. The findings are published in the latest issue of the journal Cell.
To complete their study, the research team, led by McGill's Dr. Nada Jabado, Professor of Pediatrics and Human Genetics and Dr. Claudia Kleinman, Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, assembled the largest collection of samples for this subgroup of glioblastoma and discovered new cancer-causing mutations in a gene called PDGFRA, which drives cell division and growth when it is activated.
The researchers noted that close to half of the patients at diagnosis and the vast majority at tumour recurrence had mutations in this gene, which was also unusually highly expressed in this subgroup of glioblastoma. "We investigated large public datasets of both children and adult patients in addition to those we had generated from patients' samples in the lab and came to the same conclusion, PDGFRA was unduly activated in these tumours. This led us to suspect this kinase plays a major role in tumour formation" explains Dr Carol Chen, a postdoctoral fellow, and Shriya Deshmukh an MD-PhD candidate in the Jabado lab and the study's co-first authors.
Employing a "big data" resource generated by their team using new technologies that measure the levels of every gene in thousands of individual cells, they were able to discover that this brain tumour originates in a specific type of neuronal stem cell. "We used single cell analyses to create an atlas of the healthy developing brain, identifying hundreds of cell types and their traits," explains Selin Jessa, a PhD student in the Kleinman lab and co-first author on this study. "Since these brain tumours retain a memory, or footprint, of the cell in which they originated, we could then pinpoint the most similar cell type for these tumours in the atlas, in this case, inhibitory neuronal progenitors that arise during fetal development or after birth in specific structures of the developing brain," adds Dr. Kleinman who leads a computational research lab at the Lady Davis Institute at the Jewish General Hospital.
An unexpected finding
The researchers note that the PDGFRA gene is not usually turned on in this neuronal stem cell population. "By using sequencing technologies that measure how a cell's DNA is spatially organized in 3D," notes Djihad Hadjadj, a postdoctoral fellow in the Jabado lab and the study's co-first author, "We found that, exquisitely in this neuronal stem cell, the DNA has a unique structure in the 3D dimension that allows the PDGFRA gene to become activated where it shouldn't be, ultimately leading to cancer."
The finding is also important in properly classifying the tumour. "Previously, this tumour type was classified as a "glioma", because under the microscope, it resembles glial cells, one of the major cell types in the brain," says Dr. Jabado, who holds a CRC Tier 1 in Pediatric Oncology in addition to being a clinician scientist at the Montreal Children's Hospital and leading a research lab focused on studying brain tumours at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre. "Our work reveals that this is a case of mistaken identity. These tumours actually arise in a neuronal cell, not a glial cell."
A hope for potential treatment
PDGFRA is targetable by drugs that inhibit its activity, and there are, in fact already approved drugs that target it for other cancers for which mutations in this gene are responsible, such as gastrointestinal stromal tumours. This offers hope for work into finding targeted therapies for this group of deadly brain tumours, note the researchers.
The combined studies of the genome, including at the single cell level and the genomic architecture in 3D of the tumour compared to the normal developing brain, were crucial in this study. They helped identify the specific timepoints during development where the cell is vulnerable to the cancer-driver event in these "gliomas", which were revealed to be neuronal tumours. Importantly, the authors unravel genetic events that could lead to targeted therapy in a deadly cancer. "Our findings provide hope for improved care in the near future for this tumour entity as these exquisite vulnerabilities may pinpoint to treatments that would preferentially attack the 'bad' cells," say Drs. Jabado and Kleinman, who have joined efforts in the fight against deadly brain tumour. "Stalled development is at the root of many of these cancers. The same strategy will prove important to unravel the origin, identify and exploit specific vulnerabilities, and orient future strategies for earlier detection in other brain tumour entities affecting children and young adults."
This study was made possible in large part thanks to support from the Genome Canada LSARP project "Tackling Childhood Brain Cancer at the root to improve survival and quality of life," which includes funding from Genome Canada, Genome Quebec, CIHR and other sources, as well as the Fondation Charles-Bruneau and the National Institutes of Health.
"Histone H3.3G34-Mutant Interneuron Progenitors Co-opt PDGFRA for Gliomagenesis," by C. Chen, S. Deshmukh, S. Jessa, D. Hadjadj, C. Kleinman, N. Jabado, et al, was published in the journal Cell on December 10, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.012
Fighting brain cancer at its root
New clinical trial at The Neuro offers hope to brain cancer patients with a recurrence of glioblastoma
Two McGill-led brain cancer studies among top 10 discoveries in Quebec for 2020
Brain cancer: An intelligent molecule to fool and kill glioblastoma cells


Would you like to experience fewer of the feast and famine cycles that are so common for freelance writing? To have more accuracy ( and certainty) in creating income projections for your business? To operate more profitability and efficiently in times ahead?
Writer's Agreements can be the ticket to economic stability and freelance success.
And I should know. Over the years, I have been able to cultivate a relatively steady flow of income, have less client turn-over, and greater peace. And you can too.
But before I "show you the money," let's take a look at what Writers' Retainers are and the advantages they afford you and your clients.
WRITER RETAINERS are simply an arrangement whereby a client pays you, (the writer and service provider), X amount of dollars per month, to retain your services for a set amount of hours or project scope.
Though the terms may vary, most agreements are set up for periods of 6 or 12 months.
* More accuracy in your month to month income projections, based upon contractual agreements, as opposed to editors' promises, speculation or hopes.
Here's a case in point. In October, I reached out to a few of my existing clients to let them know that due to some major book projects in the works, I would have limited availability in 2017.
I informed them that I could not guarantee that I would be as "accessible and flexible" as before, and that I would like to know if they wanted to "book me" for long-term assignments now.
It worked. So far I have one client who paid a deposit and will receive 2 hours of monthly, professional blog coaching, another who is seeking ghost writing assistance, and another one who has hired me to manage her health site.
They all paid a deposit toward future work, and will begin monthly installments effective January, 2017.
Of course this does not represent my entire client roster for the year; but it's an impressive start.
Word to the wise: it works if you work it.
Accordingly, here are a few practices and principles to observe for optimal success.
1. Plan ahead. Ideally, November or December is a great time to connect with clients to plan for 2017. Why? Because the beginning of the year is usually when people try to formulate New Years' resolutions and are typically optimistic about what they can accomplish. January represents a clean slate.
3. To enhance your efforts, make sure to keep accurate records and project-related calendars. Color coding also helps. This will ensure greater efficiency and encourage repeat retainer assignments for future years.
Writers Retainers are a smart way to keep good clients, maintain consistency, and keep your business in the black.
2 Responses to "How to Use Writer Retainer Agreements to Keep Your Business in the Black by Jennifer Brown Banks"
Jennifer, you may have uploaded the wrong contract sample, although you wrote it was for informational purposes, as this one does not contain a retainer clause. For anyone who needs to know, the retainer clause would look very similar to the wording of the fourth paragraph of the article.
My company gives retainers for 6-month periods all the time. It simply makes good sense. Many projects only need 1/2 to 1/4 time work for this period. If you are willing to do it this way (reduced time commitment on their part) many good workers will say – 'Yes' – even if they are busy. They have other clients and don't want to quit working with them so, when your work agreement expires, it is a 'win – win' for everyone.


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"As a moose-hunting Jesus-fearing hockey-mom mother of five who hunts moose, Sarah Palin isn't some petty Washington bureaucrat. She's a petty Alaskan bureaucrat, and she's gonna shake things up in Washington! For her first reform she will pose for photographs with a gun and a stuffed moose head! For her second reform she will say something bold and brassy. For her third reform she will give birth at a live press conference to six eagle scouts, three peregrine falcons and an American mastodon, rear them in the Christian faith and release them into the wild before hunting them down, shooting them and mounting their heads in the Roosevelt Room!"


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iCarly star Nathan Kress plays a storm chaser in the new thriller Into the Storm that's guaranteed to blow your Crocs off. We sat down with Kress to find out what it was like to act while being chased by a CGI tornado. Turns out, it's a lot more dangerous than you might think!
While Into the Storm uses many special effects like CGI to create a realistic-looking storm on film, many of the actors had to endure real explosions, falling trees and actual fireballs. Kress claims the fear you see in his eyes is real as he had to dodge large items flying at his face.
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We asked Kress about his most frightening moment from the shoot.
"It's the scene where we're driving along near a car dealership, and four or five tornadoes are surrounding us. There's one sequence where we get out of the weather van and out of the Titus, our little tank vehicle, and we run across this vast expanse into a shelter off in the distance and all this stuff happens to us along the way.
"We got to the point where we got all the interstitial shots taken care of, all the angles were covered. And they said, 'All right, this is the one, we're going to do everything for real, all in one take.' There was a tree rigged with explosives that would blow up and fall down in front of us, there was a big fireball and fire tornado that would show up, we had to vault this ditch-thing that had a hundred-mile-an-hour fan blowing off to the side of us, so we were getting blown over and slipping around, and we had to get up to the shelter.
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"If any of us messed up it would have completely blown the take so it was a little bit terrifying because if they weren't so safe on set, if we didn't have such a great stunt crew, some of us could have died. Fortunately, it was very controlled, and it went well."
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There's only one scene in the film where Kress had a stunt double. It's the scene where a tree comes through the window at the school.
"Because the window was rigged with explosives, they didn't know exactly what would happen, so they went ahead and gave me a stunt double on that one just in case the boom was bigger than they thought or the tree messed up. The guy was actually taller than me and had a different shape, so if you look close, you can tell it isn't me."
We wanted to know from Kress if he picked up any survival tips we could use if there were a natural disaster or perhaps even a zombie apocalypse.
"The problem with this movie is that we do the exact opposite of everything that you're supposed to do."
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He said for both a natural disaster and zombie apocalypse, you'd want to hunker down and find a safe zone. "With a tornado, it's over pretty quick. But for a zombie apocalypse, you have to think long-term. You have to stockpile your resources. You'd want to be up high, like at the top of a skyscraper so if there was a breach in your perimeter, they couldn't get to you."
Good advice, Nathan! Watch our video to find out why he thought he was going to be fired from the film.
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Ah, quality score. Whether you hate it or love it, every search marketer learns early on that having a high quality score (QS) for their keywords is essential to lowering cost per acquisition and increasing return on ad spend. In a recent post, we explained how quality scores are calculated and the impact they have on campaigns. At first glance, QS appears simple. It is a score out of 10 for each keyword, further broken down to three categories: expected click-through rate, ad relevance, and landing page experience. But digging deeper into the factors that determine a keyword's quality score, we learn relatively little. Google is characteristically tight-lipped about the exact algorithms governing the system. It's the proverbial black-box metric: at best vague and inconsistent, at worst hair-pullingly frustrating.
When dealing with a metric as fickle and opaque as quality score, data has to inform every decision. Realizing there was a lack of data to justify hours of work re-writing ad copy, we set out to quantify and answer this question: Does including a keyword in ad copy improve ad relevance and quality score?
Before starting the experiment, we compiled keyword data from existing accounts to see what they revealed about the relationship between quality score, ad relevance, and ad copy. Our goal was to determine if keywords included in ad copy text had consistently better ad relevance and quality scores. We examined 50 exact-match keywords across ten accounts. Each of these keywords had more than 200 impressions per month and included a good mix of branded and non-branded keywords, as well as a wide range of quality scores.
From there, we divided the keywords into groups. The two components of quality score that were not analyzed, expected CTR and landing page experience, were held constant within each group. This ensured any QS differences between keywords were due to ad relevance alone. Within each of these groups, the quality scores were divided based on whether or not the keyword was included in the ad copy and then compared against each other.
These ad changes had a significant impact. While holding the other components of QS constant, including a keyword in the ad copy, nearly a whole point was added to its quality score. Crucially, this increase was observed evenly across branded and non-branded divisions, and all levels of QS - meaning that non-branded keywords increased just as much as branded ones, and keywords with a quality score of eight improved just as much as those with a quality score of three.
It's one thing to observe a relationship, but another to put it into practice. To prove the viability of keyword insertion, our team conducted a series of concurrent A/B tests in AdWords. We took 14 keywords which were not present in ad copy, then duplicated them and split the pairs into test and control ad groups. The test group ran an altered ad containing the keyword, while an unaltered ad ran in the control group. As you can see below, these changes were held to a minimum to keep the ads as similar as possible. Traffic was divided evenly for each pair of ad groups with the campaign experiments tool. The experiments ran for 30 days; then data was collected and analyzed for each pair of keywords.
The success here was even more resounding. None of the keywords included in their ad copy had a lower quality score than their unaltered counterparts without the keywords, and nine of the 14 keywords increased by an average of two points! The keywords which did not see a jump had a starting quality score of eight or ten, to begin with. Ultimately, these results confirmed keyword insertion's effect on improving ad relevance and quality score.
Based on these tests, we determined a direct correlation between keyword insertion in ad copy and increased ad relevance and quality score. It's important to note that a few keywords with a quality score of eight and below average ad relevance did not improve with keyword insertion. Even more perplexing is that several keywords were not present in their ad copy, yet had perfect 10's. These outliers demonstrate that quality score has much more going on under the hood, and that every tactic should therefore be applied under careful observation.
Ultimately, this research provides a strong, quantitative foundation for improving quality score. Incorporating keywords into your ad copy has a high likelihood to raise quality scores by 1-2 points, and has never been observed to decrease it. Digital marketers can leverage these results to not only take simple steps to improve their keywords' quality scores but more importantly, to justify that work beforehand!
If you'd like to learn more about quality score and how to best optimize your search strategy, reach out to Rise.
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Traffic fatalities are an absolute tragedy. These are unexpected deaths that occur under horrific circumstances, leaving family members and friends stunned, grieving and looking for answers. Unfortunately, more and more loved ones are experiencing these devastating circumstances each year.According to an article published on Bloomberg, the National Safety Council recently reported that there were more than 40,000 car accident fatalities in the United States in 2016. This startling number has rose 6 percent since 2015 and a whopping 14 percent since 2014.


About three years ago, I signed up for a Verizon contract cell phone plan. In exchange for paying a fairly steep monthly rate, and committing myself to paying that rate for about two years, I received a free Android phone. My plan included unlimited data (3G was state of the art at the time), and an ample allowance of talk minutes and text messages. At the end of the two years, I could renew my commitment and get a new free or subsidized phone, or I could continue with my old phone as a month-to-month customer at the same monthly rate.
Somewhere along the line, things changed. Verizon started rolling out 4G LTE service, which was much faster and which, I assumed, stimulated data use for streaming videos and music, since it could do so without the problems one encounters at slower data speeds. In response, Verizon decided that any customer desiring a free or subsidized phone would have to go on a limited data plan.
While I could understand this response, I felt it was a little unfair to ask a customer who has paid off her or his phone under a two year contract to keep paying the same monthly fee for service and not get anything in return, except the ability to cease being a Verizon customer without penalty. I therefore set out to find a way to upgrade my phone to a 4G capable model and keep my unlimited data plan. When I went to my Verizon store, I was offered the option of buying a new, unsubsidized phone, but the $500 and up for a new phone was far more than I wanted to spend. Instead, I bought a refurbished phone on eBay for about $80, including tax. It's not the latest model, but it's years ahead of what I had and seems to be performing very well.
Getting the phone to work required a trip to my Verizon store to have a sim card installed and my account transferred to the new device. The process took about 15 minutes and I was not charged for the "device switch." Incidentally, I mistakenly assumed that because my new phone required a sim card that it was GSM capable (i.e., capable of being used, with roaming, in most of the rest of the world). That turned out not to be the case — all 4G phones require a sim card, and most, like mine, are not GSM capable. If roaming abroad is important to you, and you are a Verizon customer, you have limited choices, and you should check on the web site or with customer service before you buy a phone.
While traveling, I've often found that hotels (usually, ironically, the more expensive ones) do not offer free wi-fi. While one can pay Verizon an additional $20 per month to turn one's phone into a wireless hot spot, I chose not to do so, believing that if I want to use my data on another device, I should not have to pay twice for the privilege. Two programs, PdaNet and FoxFi, provide a great solution to this problem. They can turn a supported phone into a wi-fi hot spot (with password security if desired). The basic program is free, but it maintains a connection for a limited time. For a small, one-time fee, the program can be unlocked to provide a continuous connection for as long as one desires. My old phone supported FoxFi, but my new one does not. Fortunately, PdaNet can provide internet access to my tablet and laptop through Bluetooth, which is good enough for me. Information on supported phone types and various products offered is available on www.junefabrics.com. A list of supported Android phones is available at http://pdanet.co/help/devices.php. I have heard that Verizon and other carriers are looking for ways to block or otherwise defeat these kinds of free tethering programs, so there is no guarantee they will continue to work. However, for less than the price of a day's wi-fi access at most hotels, you can support a pro-consumer company and enjoy the internet access you pay for on other devices.
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Q: How to use acast correctly on R data frame? I have an R data frame in this form with thousands of records:
account_id             timestamp    days_since_launch   region  used
    1263562             6/23/16           5               SFO    57
    3821750             6/24/16           11              ATL    10

I want to convert it into a form, where the column names are:
account_id    timestamp  days_since_launch  SFO ATL SEA NYC SLC

Note: In here the columns SFO, ATL, SEA, NYC, SLC are the unique entries of region in the original dataset. I want the entries in these region columns to have the corresponding numeric entry in used.
How can this be done in R?
I tried as.data.frame(acast(inputDF, account_id + timestamp ~ region, value.var="used"))
The issue I have with this is: it forms a column name called account_id_timestamp with the account id's and timestamps concatenated like 1263562_6/23/16 . It also gives a warning: "Aggregation function missing: defaulting to length"


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December 25, 2011 by dandelionsalad
American Presidents: Romancing A Stone by Clive Hambidge
by Clive Hambidge
An American past in an Israeli future for an ever present and brutal occupation
Happy Christmas Mr President or may I call you Barack this Yule Tide? As you know "Christmas is the day that holds all time together" (Alexander Smith) certainly as you rustle through your Christmas stocking and wrestle with your conscience perhaps to find as you dig deep in both and past 'hegemonic imperatives' an olive twig or a so-called 'peace process'? Perhaps not. But as you dig, can you hear the whispers? No. They are not the whispers from the Presidents of Christmas past, we will come to them; no? You are not listening attentively Mr President; that's because you've been genuflecting on the Christmas message of that other great statesman Prime Minister Netanyahu, "we are living in a time of great uncertainty and instability in the Middle East and Israel, throughout this instability, remains a beacon of religious freedom and pluralism." Wow. On what rock is Israel built and how Netanyahu bestrides it as America holds it, for "As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser" (Plato). And which is which?
No Mr President the whispers are coming from the stones of Palestine and Israel and they do "cry out" for past Presidents have remained quiet behind lofty rhetoric and where are they now? "It was [is] the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way." (Dickens). You're a "keen student of history" Mr President what about the human condition and the children lost to a sordid history created by Israel and paid for by American tax dollars? Below are some of their names, the stone told me to tell you their names. God Bless you and God Bless America. Which way are you going?
Remember these Children Mr President:
"Yael Ohana, 11, of Hamra settlement, killed by Palestinian gunfire while in her home. 6 February 2002."
"Fadi Tayseer al-Azazi, 16, of Rafaha, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling to his chest. 6 February 2002."
"Total Israeli Deaths since September 2002 125" children
"Total Palestinian Deaths since September 2002" 1470 children [1]
The Stoned
The American stone cast, that gave rise to the ripples that became the waves that is the American Israeli tsunami that engulfs Palestine today, was even in the beginning unusually dense, in the sense obtuse. Quarried and romanced in the USA this stone was to be formed, scuffed then ruthlessly scored by matchless Zionist discontent and ambition, tossed, retrieved, polished and tossed again by successive American Presidents into the same murky American Zionist Israeli foreign policy sea. The rising waves, Israeli aggression and ambition, supported by Zionist America and Presidential weakness, merciless waves beating against the blameless lives of countless Palestinian children past and present and their valiant resistance through the lengthening shadows and dark hours of a brutal occupation as the international community crept decade after supine decade to rectify this grave and ongoing crime against humanity with all the energy of a sloth on diazepam.
American Presidential rhetoric the becoming edict that led to endless Israeli atrocities "unlawful Israeli behaviour [supported by US Aid] that start[ed] out as "facts" have over time been transformed into "conditions", or in the words of the American Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, "subsequent developments" that are treated [unlawfully] as essentially irreversible." Moreover, "USAID and American taxpayers [are] financing, and thereby further entrenching, the Israeli de facto annexation of the West Bank." (Richard Falk, UNHRC, 16th Session, Agenda Item 7, A/HRC/16/72, 10 January 2011), and the ruinous blockade and the deaths of Palestinian children.
For these two states America and Israel have been / are up to no good; are, in this criminality together, up to their necks "because everything that Israel does is done up to the limits that the United States supports and authorizes. So it's U.S. Israeli atrocities." (Noam Chomsky, Power And Terror).America and Israel justifying, "represent[ing] the institutionalization of a system of power in which justice is inoperative and its perversion hidden in clouds of rhetoric and obfuscation." and where, "The rule of law implicitly applies only to others." (Edward S. Herman and David Peterson)
Successive American and Israeli Administrations, each, an apostate to the other: "See!" he said to all the people "This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the lord has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God." Joshua 24:27.
All the Presidents then
President John Adams, his mind high on effulgent heroic, saw conquest, envisioning Mordeca Manue Noah in 1819 "Marching with them [the Israelites] into Judea & making a conquest of that country & restoring your nation to the Dominion of it". An "independent nation" thought John Quincy Adams, because, they deserved declared Abraham Lincoln a "leg up". All saw the stone that would be a rock and declared it an American good. And the die and the dying in the stone were cast. Time then, wrapped around the stone, ran through it, became beloved in an American Hegemonic Zionist dream warping space and time, imprisoning Palestinians in a boxed 'continuum'. An American red hot wax seal legitimising the continuum making it 'official' in 1948 as the Ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the stealing bit by bit of 'Mandated Palestine' had begun and in ferocious fashion. The Israeli aggression rewarded with a hundred thousand US dollars in 1949 and Israel's aggression rewarded with billions of dollars in 2011.
The Children of Palestine in 1948 were standing in an American Israeli wind tunnel they are standing in it today. And as we come back from the future and indeed as we move from the past to the present, we see the pernicious results of successive Presidential and illegal leg ups the art of hubris and a continuum of failure. Here then an American Presidential Israeli nightmare and the subtitles of the Palestinian river of suffering that runs through it:
"14th November 2011, Israeli aircraft attacked a small naval post building in North Gaza district. As a result, one police officer was killed and ten persons were injured, including one woman and six police officers."
"In 2009 in North Gaza, Gaza, Dair El Balah, Khan Younis, and Rafah, 1061 Palestinians lost there lives to Israeli aggression. In the Gaza strip in that same year, 323 children and 104 women were killed by the occupying forces." [2]
Remember this Child Mr President:
"Basel Muhammad Nafe abu-Edwan, 14 killed by an unexploded IDF ordinance while he and his brother were herding sheep near their home." Died 27th January 2011. [3]
The stone was picked up and skimmed across the surface of the brimming Zionist sea by the deft wrist of Woodrow Wilson 3rd of March 1919 in reaction to the Balfour Declaration, the text of which was presented to him for approval before publication, "The allied nations with fullest concurrence of our government and people are agreed that in Palestine shall be laid the foundation of a Jewish commonwealth." Then President WarrenG. Harding grabbed the stone from the Zionist air stating "the Hebrew people restored to their historic national home," would enter a "new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity."
"Number of houses demolished in Gaza strip, since the beginning of the intifada until the end 2009. North Gaza, houses 5399, residents, 54900. Gaza houses, 7060, residents,73149. Dair El Balah, houses 1004, residents, 8925. Khan Younis, houses, 1596, residents, 12247. Rafah, houses, 3774, residents, 32284. Total houses 18833, Total residents, 181505."
"The number of damaged water wells. North Gaza, 120. Gaza, 154. Dair El Balah, 62. Khan Younis, 23. Rafah, 14. Total, 373."
"2008 Women and children killed by Israel in the Gaza Strip. Children, 107, women, 23." [4]
"Shiran Ismail Abdullah abu-Shawareb 11, of Nuserat refugee camp, Gaza died of heart problems at Nasr paediatric Hospital in Gaza, which lacked necessary equipment, after Israel denied her entry for medical treatment. Doctors had requested transfer to an Israeli hospital on Dec. 27 [2010] On Jan. 10, believing permission for a transfer had been granted, Shiran's father took her to the Erez checkpoint where Israel again denied her entry." Died 15th January 2008 [5]
The stone retrieved by Coolidge was polished with expressed "sympathy with the deep and intense longing which finds such fine expression in the Jewish National Homeland in Palestine." then caressed in short sighted rhetoric by President Hoover who as other Presidents before and after him couldn't see around histories sharp corner or dint want to saying 1932, "I am interested to learn that a group of distinguished men and women is to be formed to spread knowledge and appreciation of the rehabilitation which is going forward in Palestine under Jewish auspices."
"Number of damaged industrial establishments by IOF's, in 2006 19, 2005 7, 2004 86, 2003 77."
"Number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza strip; 2006 531, 2005 99, 2004 646, 2003 398."
"Number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza strip (women, children) 2006 children 115, women 34, 2005 children 32, women 1, 2004 children 156, women 10, 2003 children 81, women 17."[6]
· "Muhammad Jaber hassan Adila Said, 15, of osreen, near Nablus, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest." January 2004.[7]
Franklin Roosevelt viewed the stone empathetically, could feel its vital pulse, perhaps he had a pet name for the stone perhaps it was ineluctable? Or was it inexorable he had in mind as he sat to write to Senator Tydings on October 19, 1938 as The Nakba loomed. "I have on numerous occasions, as you know, expressed my sympathy in the establishment of a National Home for the Jews in Palestine and, despite the set backs caused by the disorders there during the last few years, I have been heartened by the progress which has been made and by remarkable accomplishments of the Jewish settlers in that country."
· "Number of Palestinians killed by Israel occupying forces in the Gaza Strip, 2003 North Gaza 89, Gaza 118, Dair El Balah 75, Khan Younis 42, Rafah 72."
· "Palestinians killed by Israeli occupying forces in the Gaza strip (women children) 2002 children 94, women 25, 2001 children 69, women 4, 2000 children 38 women 0." [8]
Remember this child Mr President
· "Muhammad Jamal Muhammad al-Durrah, 12 of Burejj refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his chest as his father tried to protect him during a demonstration at Netzarim Junction." [9]
Then shining with Zionist zeal, it was to morph into a rock in 1948 enfolded in to Israel's emboldened clenched fist, and as the British looked the other way, smashed Palestine leaving Palestinians between it and a hard place, supported by intellectuals with nothing in their heads but the propaganda they were fed, and a Presidential endorsement. Eleven minutes after Israel's proclamation of independence President Harry Truman declared, "I had faith in Israel before it was established; I have faith in it now." He further said in 1952 "I believe it has a glorious future before it- not just another sovereign nation, but an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."
· "The majority of these [Palestinian] children were killed and injured while going about normal daily activities, such as going to school, playing, shopping, or simply being in their homes. Sixty-four percent of children killed during the first six months of 2003 died as a result of Israeli air and ground attacks, or from indiscriminate fire from Israeli soldiers".(Catherine Cook)
· "Ophir Rahum, 16, of Ashkelon, killed by Palestinian gunfire in al-Birah after being led to believe he was meeting an internet acquaintance, 17th January 2001."
· "Omar Farouq Khaled 11,of al-Bireh, died of head wounds sustained Jan.7 2001 from IDF gunfire during a demonstration." [10]
And after 1948, a Presidential stream of consciousness compounding the problem for Palestinewith unquestioning and ever increasing aid for Israel's gluttony, her voracious appetite to oppress and appropriate, and kill those who would thwart her:
Eisenhower: "our forces saved the remnant of the Jewish People of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn Israel. Kennedy: "Israel was not created to disappear- Israel will endure and flourish." Nixon: "The United States stands by its friends. Israel is one of its friends Peace can be based only on agreement between parties and agreement can only be achieved only through negotiations between them. The United States will not impose the terms of peace. [But] The United States is prepared to supply military equipment necessary to support the efforts of friendly governments, like Israel's to defend the safety of their people." Carter: "a few days ago in a conversation with about 30 members of the House of Representatives, I said that I would rather commit suicide than hurt Israel." President Regan: Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand of its neighbours that they recognize those facts." Bush Sr: "The friendship, the alliance between the United States and Israel is strong and solid, built upon a foundation of shared democratic values." Clinton: "The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all it has accomplished." And President George W. Bush: "Israel is a small country that has lived under threat throughout its existence. At the first meeting of my National Security Council, I told them a top foreign policy priority is the safety and security of Israel."
"Sara Abdul-Azim Abdul-Haq Hasan, 18 months, of Sarah, near Salfit, killed by Israeli settler gunfire to her head while riding with her father in a car. 1st October 2000."[11]
And last but not the least short sighted lacking historical memory, also will as did the others President Barack Hussein Obama: "The American people and the Israeli peoples share a faith in the future and believe that democracies can shape their own destinies and that opportunities should be available to all. Throughout its own extraordinary history, Israel has given life to that promise."
"Haitham Ahmad Mustafa Maruf, 13 of Beit Lahiya, Gaza, died in Shifa Hospital, Gaza, of wounds sustained from an IDF drone attack while working on his family farm 29 August 2011."[12]
[1] http://www.rememberthesechildren.org/remember2011.html
[2] http://www.mezan.org/en/messege.php?view=losesen
[4] http://www.mezan.org/en/details.php?id=12933&ddname=IOF&id2=9&id_dept=9&p=center
[10] http://www.rememberthesechildren.org/remember2011.html
Previously published at Facilitate Global.
Clive Hambidge is Human Development Director at Facilitate Global. He can be contacted at: clive.hambidge@facilitateglobal.org
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Barrasso: Let's Secure Border, Reopen Government
"Let's start 2019, and do it in the right way, by passing commonsense legislation that does secure the border, that does reopen the government and that protects the American people. Let's work together to make 'this, the most important year' the start of a better future for all Americans."
Click here to watch Sen. Barrasso's remarks.
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) spoke on the Senate floor about the need to pass commonsense legislation that secures the border and reopens the government.
Excerpts of Senator Barrasso's remarks:
"The new year and brings with it new challenges, new opportunities and new faces to the 116th Congress.
"I want to welcome the nine freshmen senators: Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana, Senator Cramer of North Dakota, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Martha McSally of Arizona, Mitt Romney of Utah, Jacky Rosen of Nevada, Rick Scott of Florida and Kyrsten Sinema from Arizona.
"Their talent, their hard work have brought them all here. Now we have an expanded Senate Republican majority to build on the progress that we made in the 115th Congress – albeit we're still short of the 60 votes needed to pass most pieces legislation.
"We have a group of people committed to the values of our party and our country and working together to find solutions for the nation.
"During the swearing-in last week, my 96-year-old mother joined us. She attended it, and she enjoyed it.
"She watches the opening every day for the Pledge of Allegiance and for the prayer from Reverend Black. She looks to that as a sign of our nation moving forward.
"From the time that I was a little boy, she would always say: 'This is the most important year of your life.'
"She started from when I was very young, and I think her lesson remains today for me and for all of us.
"This is the most important year of our lives –for ourselves, for our nation, for the world.
"She would say what you do this year makes a big difference for the future so make sure you do it right.
"We are now at a point of divided government with the Democrats controlling the House, the Republicans controlling the Senate, and we need to work together and do it right on behalf of the American people.
"I think we have some immediate tasks. One is to secure the southern border and the other is to fund the government.
"These goals are not mutually exclusive – we can and we must do both. The key to breaking the current impasse is for both parties to work together.
"President Trump is right to insist on border-wall funding. I think he's right to insist on it before agreeing to sign spending legislation to end the shutdown.
"He spoke passionately and convincingly about it last evening.
"If the southern border were a patient admitted to the hospital, it would be listed in critical condition.
"All Americans want a healthy immigration system that secures the border, enforces the law and keeps families together.
"The problem is the rise in illegal entries. Terrorists, drug smugglers, human traffickers, the Mexican drug cartel all exploiting our porous border with Mexico.
"The Customs and Border Protection commissioner has called the situation a 'border security and humanitarian crisis.'
"Here are the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security:
"Currently 16,000 Border Patrol agents and 8,100 military troops guard the southern border. The National Guard has been deployed there continuously since 2006.
"Still, illegal border crossings increased dramatically from 2017 to 2018.
"In this past year, 396,000 people were stopped at the border, including 3,700 suspected terrorists and 800 gang members.
"Of the border's 1,950 miles, a physical barrier today protects about 650 miles. Border Patrol areas with enhanced or expanded barriers have been successful. They have seen a 90 percent decrease in illegal traffic.
"That's why the president wants to proceed with additional barriers, physical barriers to protect the border.
"There's a huge improvement due to the wall.
"Clearly, walls work, barriers work. So I ask why is House Speaker Pelosi prolonging the shutdown by denying critical funding?
"She has called the wall immoral. I would say what's immoral is refusing to provide for the safety and the security of the American people by providing border security.
"Border security policy-making has always been bipartisan. Not now, it seems.
"The Pelosi plan to end the partial shutdown isn't serious policy, its political posturing. And as I say 'partial government shutdown' because 75 percent of the government continues to be funded.
"The speaker's proposal includes billions in wasteful spending while ignoring the crisis at the border. The president has promised to veto what she is proposing.
"Instead of negotiating, the speaker is basically playacting.
"What's needed is an agreement—and agreement between the president and Democratic leaders in the House and the Senate that can pass the House, secure at least 60 votes in the Senate and then be signed into law.
"As President Trump said in his January 4 letter to Congress, 'A nation that fails to control its borders cannot fulfill its most basic obligations to its citizens – physical safety, economic security, essential public services, and the uniform protection of our laws.'
"We cannot afford to play politics with the border.
"I think that we should listen to the advice that my mother continues to give me that this is the most important year of your life. It's important for this body, for this institution, and for this nation.
"Let's start 2019, and do it in the right way by passing common-sense legislation that does secure the border, that does reopen the government and that protects the American people.
"Let's work together to make 'this, the most important year' the start of a better future for all Americans."
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Doc, it may be your business, but your front desk CA is the one in control.
Your front desk CA keeps patients on their recommended care plan schedule… or not.
They handle collections the right way… or not.
They ask for referrals daily… or they don't.
They educate patients to understand the true value of what you do… or they don't.
They kickstart your "wow" experience for each and every patient…or they don't.
Front desk CAs take the brunt of the challenges in your practice. For most, this frustration, overwhelm, and burnout turn into patients missing appointments, cancelling care, and disappearing altogether. For the "rock star" CAs, their organization, preparation, and capability to excel make it easy for your practice to flourish because they are able to take the good, the bad, and all of the ugly in stride.
So how do you get one of these "rock star" CAs? Can you help your current front desk CA become one?
Yep. Let me show you how.
I'm sharing "Front Desk Mastery to Make Your Practice Flourish" for the April A.C.E. Chiro-Team Training. This 1-hour presentation is available online, so your entire team can access it however and whenever it's convenient for them as often as they need 24/7 NOW until the end of the month. Your CAs will be motivated to help build your practice when they understand what a huge difference they can make.
This month's course materials weighs in at almost 40 pages of front desk systems that are downloadable in their original file format for easy implementation.
If you can see that it's worth way more than an hour investment in time and the tuition of just $147 for your entire team to participate if you register as an A.C.E. member (or $227 for April only), then I urge you to register for this course today.
BONUS: Access to Dr. Tom Klapp's presentation on Creating a Vision and Strategic Plan for Your Practice!
When the practice gets busy, the staff is on edge.
When the staff is on edge, patients don't get the experience you KNOW they can get from your office.
When patients don't get the right experience, they stop coming.
When they stop coming, you panic.
Does that process feel familiar? I've heard it from SO MANY doctors over the years.
The reality is that a practice can't grow until it can maximize the flow of patients AND profits.
If you don't have everything nailed down, you're probably reluctant to spend much in advertising to find new patients, too.
All of these issues lead back to an ineffective, unprofitable business that runs you ragged and scares away great talent.
This month, we're going to show you how to put small changes in place that will lead to BIG impacts.
Does that seem overwhelming? I promise you that it's not. By the end of this month, you'll finally "see" what it takes to have a well-oiled machine for an office. You'll understand the difference between the mistakes you've made (over and over again) and the best practices that drive incredible results.
This course includes 90 pages of course handouts and sample forms plus the downloadable files to easily and effortlessly streamline your practice systems. In addition, registration comes with unlimited support via phone or email with Kim Klapp!
Join us today and make March your time for establishing congruence, dealing with stress, and crafting a signature operating plan that makes it easy to grow as you master your flow!
Our best CAs are phenomenal at the details we need them focused on, but few are able to speak comfortably about WHY patients should come in and stick to your care plans.
It can be very challenging for you to run the practice AND find ways to effectively teach philosophy… so we're going to help you out.
In this month's course, we are going to share an AMAZING member of our industry who excels at showing your staff exactly how to grasp and use the science of chiropractic.
Dr. Heidi Haavik will be presenting our A.C.E. Chiro-Team training course this month. This 1-hour presentation is available online in video format, so your entire team can access it however and whenever it's convenient for them as often as they need 24/7 NOW until the end of the month. Not only will this presentation re-ignite your team's passion, but it also includes potential action steps to put philosophy into action to help build your practice.
Dr Haavik is one of the most popular chiropractic speakers in the world today. Director of Research at New Zealand Chiropractic College, Dr Haavik is best known for her groundbreaking research on the impact of chiropractic adjustments on the brain and central nervous system.
SUPER SPECIAL BONUS FOR YOU!
When you start your training program with us (just $147 per month), you'll unlock SEVEN archived sessions from other guest speakers sharing the philosophy of chiropractic. This month could be an excellent opportunity to dive in and get access to these special bonuses to excite and ignite your team!
As the end of the year is upon us, it's time to look back and reflect.
Is your practice hitting the goals you wanted to hit? Are you thriving?
Before you go spending buckets of money on external marketing to try to remedy the issue, I strongly suggest that you look into the practice and study your internal marketing and referrals.
Have you tried internal events that felt like a HUGE waste of time and money? Do you host receptions that no one comes to, and then feel like a failure? Do you skip out on asking for referrals because you feel like you're pestering your patients?
You are NOT alone, doc. I hear these problems ALL of the time.
In fact, I've heard these stories SO often that I decided to solve the problem altogether.
This month, we're talking about Increasing Referrals and Retention with Internal Marketing. Your entire team can access this one-hour online course as they have time, but you're going to want to make sure that everyone gets involved. There are CRITICAL steps to making internal marketing campaigns work flawlessly, and if everyone's not on the same page, you'll feel like you're failing.
Let's start 2019 the right way by empowering your team to increase referrals and retention with powerful internal marketing AND the important steps that mark the difference between success and failure.
Creating excellent internal marketing events starts with excellent planning. Having tools such as a turn-key planning sheet and timeline keep events well-organized, low-stress and cost-effective. Find out how to increase retention, new patients, and collections with some simple internal marketing strategies.
For $147 per month, you will receive access to our highly rated, success-centered CA training programs that will make it so incredibly easy to train AND retain the kind of talent that will keep you focused on your patients and your passions!
Well, guess what? You don't make your own first impression at your practice. Your CAs do.
In fact, think about how much of what goes on in the patient's experience with your office that doesn't include you at all. Quite a bit, right?
One of the most obvious differences between a challenged practice and a thriving, profitable one is how well your CAs communicate with your patients and the rest of the world on your behalf.
You may have GREAT communication skills and a disarming style that keeps people coming back. But if your staff doesn't know effective methods for doing the same, you'll never get to the level you know you can operate at.
You don't have time to take them under your wing and teach them how to communicate, because you're busy working with patients and running your practice!
If you're experiencing these issues, it's probably not because your CAs are actively working against you! They just need a hand with effective strategies built for CAs along with the training they need to learn and implement them.
…and quite a bit more!
Getting involved is simple AND incredibly affordable. When you join the Assistants for Chiropractic Excellence (ACE) program for $147, you'll gain immediate access to this training program and all of the associated benefits. Your team can start learning the materials right away and will be able to move ahead at their own pace. Each month, we will dive deep into a practical, tactical training program that brings immense value to your staff, your practice, and - MOST IMPORTANTLY - your patients. For $147 per month, you'll continue to gain access to these pivotal trainings in a platform that gives your team the freedom they need to dive in, learn the materials, and do wonderful things with the results.
If you're not thrilled with the program and what we're doing to make it easy to empower your staff, just send us a note at any time in the first 7 days and we will refund your purchase. Spoiler alert: this RARELY happens! The ACE program was built BY a successful CA FOR successful CAs, and the results will amaze you.
The good news is, you can choose to focus on the positives, causing those to expand instead. Focus on what's working in your practice, on your successes, on your current clients who stay, pay and refer.
If your CAs concentrate on the patients who are non-compliant–the ones with problems keeping their appointments, who continually run a balance, who are constantly complaining–what do you think you'll attract into your practice? Instead, train your team to focus on those patients who keep their appointments, who commit to corrective and wellness care, who choose to prepay for care, and who refer others to your practice.
What is your team's reaction when there are 5 new patients scheduled in the evening? Excited about the difference you're making? The miracles that might be created? Or crabby over the thought of getting out of the office late. Which will matter a year from now? The mindset and attitude of your team are critical to the success of your practice.
There has actually been a Gallup opinion poll to determine if Americans prefer to be around positive or negative people. Lo and behold, 99% of us prefer to be around positive people (and someone actually paid for this study). So, what implications does this have for your practice? The more positive you and your CAs are, the more patients will be drawn to you.
There are so many examples of the law of attraction in your office. Consider how many times you've stopped to think about a patient you haven't seen in months and they actually come in that same day. Alternatively, think about a time when your office collections were low; if you continued to focus on the unpaid bills, that's all you got more of–yuck!
Rather than speaking negatively about the economy of your community, start noticing the successful businesses in your area. Pay attention to the line at Starbucks, the full parking lot at Whole Foods, the fabulous restaurant that is hard to get into. And also notice that there is no insurance coverage for lattes, organic produce or dinner out.
I'm sharing "Inside Out Practice Growth with Attitude & Focus" for the September A.C.E. Chiro-Team Training course. Your entire team can access this online video presentation whenever it's convenient for them as often as they need 24/7 NOW until the end of the month.
Your CAs will be motivated to help build your practice when they understand what a huge difference they can make. Since I've been running Dr. Tom's office in Michigan since 1995, I really do know what works–and what doesn't. Let me give you a few more examples of the law of attraction at work in our own office. When our own awesome CAs focus on the A.C.E. topic each month, we almost always experience growth in our practice. Keep in mind, the information that I teach is typically not new to our own CAs…they've been listening to it and role-playing it for years. However, when we focused on referrals, one team member had 14 outside referrals in two weeks! When we focused on appointment systems, our scheduled appointments and patient volume increased by 10% three weeks in a row! When we focused on appreciating our favorite patients, our new patients doubled! Again, that's without any changes in procedure at all.
What would your practice be like if your CAs understood how to attract more of what you want to your practice? If you can see that it's worth way more than an hour investment in time and the tuition of just $147 for your entire team to participate if you register as a Basic member (or $227 for September only), then I urge you to register for this course today at http://kimklapp.wpengine.com/chiro-team-training/registration-options/.
This month's PDF of course materials is over 40 pages of forms and tools; all are downloadable in their original file format for easy implementation. The sooner you register, the longer you will have access to this month's online course 24/7. Register today to give your CAs the training, tools and systems to increase your practice success!
Now is a fabulous time to join; October's topic is: "Building Retention, Collections and Referrals with Patient Education." Click to view a schedule of all A.C.E. Chiro-Team Training topics. Plus, CAs who participate in all 14 core topics receive A.C.E. certification.


CareVision has launched a new interactive technology involving the humble TV and the internet which could reduce the rates of social isolation amongst the elderly. There are more than 20% of Australians over 65 are socially isolated and this number is increasing rapidly as the population structure of Australia becomes more and more top heavy. Research shows that socially isolated individuals are 64% more likely to develop dementia, twice as likely to have a fall, and makeup almost 40% of cases of avoidable hospitalisation in Australia each year. Preventing social isolation of the elderly in our community is one way to reduce the burden on the local health system. With the NBN rollout well underway there is now, more than ever before the opportunity to leverage internet enabled technologies to address these challenges.
Irene Ryan, CEO and a founder of CareVision set out to create something that would improve individuals lives, reduce social isolation and help shape a better future for aged care, and the health system in Australia. "We realised early in our research that the only way to successfully engage older people in technology was to bring the technology to a platform they are already very comfortable with, not force them to learn new behaviours such as using a computer" Irene said of the decision to centre their technology platform for the elderly around the TV. According to Neilson Research older people watch on average 5.6 to 7.8 hours of TV per day.
Having overcome the challenges of usability and acceptance by older people, CareVision delivers reminders and alerts for daily living activities, improves medication and therapy compliance, offers information about local social or community events, gives individuals the ability to request support, as well as a range of interactive games and entertainment and the joy that comes from sharing precious moments with their families through secure family communications and photo albums.
In recent trials conducted by CareVision participants felt more in control of their daily lives due to the calendar and friendly reminders, and many reported improved mood, less stress, or lower anxiety levels. Family members are also empowered with information and communication channels through the CareVision mobile applications, giving them the information and peace of mind to comfortable about their parents or grandparents ageing in place as they go about their lives.
CareVision will continue to transform the technology landscape for ageing people and aged care, and our communities, families, aged care and wider healthcare systems will benefit.
How to Build Growth into your Aged Care and Home Care Organisation?


A native of the state of Negeri Sembilan, Shafiq Nordin gained his BA in Fine Arts (Hons) from UiTM Shah Alam, Selangor in 2012.
Shafiq has been participating actively in local group exhibitions since the completion of his formal art education. He was also chosen as a resident artist in Morne Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur. His works were also exhibited in galleries in Singapore and Cologne, German.
Shafiq has also taken part in the Pertandingan Seni Tampak Terbuka, Galeri Seni Johor in 2009 and also won 3rd Prize at the Landscape Design Challenge, Malacca.
Most of my artworks using chimeric animals as the subject matter to personify human character and crisis. For 'Mad Dog and The Superficial Inside', 'Hooreyy!!! Supercow Coming!!!' and 'Kingdom of Fake Crisis'; the theme lingers on humanity and world peace, following the Israeli illegal occupation in Palestine while the rest of the artworks reflects the issues of ethics in the local art scene.


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July 10, 2018 / 5:34 PM / a year ago
Petrobras, Total could form JV, bid on power projects: Petrobras executive
FILE PHOTO: The logo of state-run oil company Petrobras is pictured in the company headquarters in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil, February 10, 2017. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - An executive at Brazil's Petroleo Brasileiro SA said the state-run oil company could form a company with France's Total to explore renewable energy business options, adding that the companies could jointly bid on power generation projects.
Petrobras Strategic Director Nelson Silva made the comments after Petrobras (PETR4.SA) and Total (TOTF.PA) announced a non-binding agreement to assess potential businesses in onshore solar and wind power in Brazil.
Reporting by Luciano Costa, Alexandra Alper; editing by Grant McCool