Take 2 capsules two times daily between meals for a maximum of eight weeks, or as recommended by your health-care practitioner.
This GI support product is formulated for specific support of healthy flora in the upper gastrointestinal tract, particularly the stomach.
Pepti-Guard helps maintain a healthy balance of GI flora while helping soothe and heal mucus membranes. This product contains the same primary ingredients – deglycyrrhizinated licorice (DGL), aloe vera, berberine HCl and bismuth citrate.
Aloe vera is used to soothe and heal the sensitive mucus membranes of the GI tract. Our aloe is the top of the line organically grown and is taken only from the inner gel of the aloe plant. It does not contain any other portions of the plant that might cause gastric upset or have a laxative effect.
I use this product with cases of H Pylori overgrowth and signs of gastric reflux that is not responding to diet change alone.
It is best to do a full 6-8 week protocol using this product, even after symptoms improve to be sure to eradicate the H Pylori infection.
H pylori is an opportunistic bacteria that can infect and spread rapidly in individuals with a compromised immune system (1). While this bacterium is natural and beneficial to our bodies in small amounts, it can be extremely dangerous when allowed to propagate without control. This infection is the leading cause of stomach ulcers, poor digestion and stomach cancer (2).
It is estimated that over 50% of the world's population has elevated levels of H Pylori (3). This microorganism can spread very quickly through the saliva and so it is easily transmitted. It is very common to see entire family's test positive for this infection. Immune compromised individuals can develop this through sharing a drink, kissing and eating off the same dishes as an infected individual.
Other issues that can be caused by a H Pylori infection include pernicious anema which is a B12 deficiency (4). Your stomach produces a protein called intrinsic factor which allows the small intestine to absorb B12.
H Pylori affects the stomach's ability to produce intrinsic factor which causes this problem. The major symptoms associated with pernicious anemia are constant fatigue, shortness of breath, pale skin, swollen tongue and nausea.
H Pylori disrupts the digestive process so it can lead to inflammation throughout the gut and gastrointestinal permeability. This state of leaky gut can also cause iron-deficient anemia, irritable bowel symptoms with fluctuating diarrhea and constipation and ulcerative colitis.
Since gut health is intimately related to brain health, an H Pylori infection can lead to depression, anxiety and trouble concentrating (5). Altered digestion also increases food sensitivities and auto-immune reactions. This can lead to any number of auto-immune conditions that are so prevalent in our society today.
Licorice is a powerful herb that has been used for thousands of years in various cultures to help with indigestion and ulcers. Licorice helps to stimulate the release of secretin which enhances the stomach's mucus lining. This gives it its characteristic demulcent (agent that soothes and relieves irritation in mucosal membranes) properties (6).
This is why licorice is revered for its use with stomach ulcers, because it helps protect and heal the gastric lining. It is also a powerful defense against the H Pylori bacteria that is implicated with stomach ulcers and a number of other digestive health issues (7).
DGL is made from licorice but the glycyrrhizin ingredient is removed. This is important because glycyrrhizin inhibits the metabolism of cortisol and thus it can cause an elevation in blood pressure. DGL supports the body's natural healing process in the stomach and small intestine.
This powerful leaf contains polysaccharides that help to balance and modulate the immune system. This reduces inflammation throughout the body and in the gut. Aloe is also an adaptogen in that it helps the body to adapt more effectively to stress. This impact the gut by helping to stimulate bowel movements in times of constipation and helping to form solid bowel movements during times of diarrhea (8).
Aloe has a very positive effect on the microbial balance in our intestines. It is one of the best things to use on a regular basis to promote healthy gut flora. Aloa is a vermifuge in that it has compounds that help the body to remove intestinal worms and other parasites (9).
Bismuth citrate is an organo metallic compound that is used to reduce dyspepsia. Bismuth salts have been used for over 3 decades to treat issues involved with GERD and H Pylori overgrowth. This compound reduces H Pylori levels by inhibiting the organism's ability to adhere to the epithelial cells in the stomach (10).
It also reduces H Pylori's ability to create proteins, a cell wall and ATP energy. The recommended dosage is 200-250 mg – 2x daily. It is best when used in combination with an anti-microbial such as berberine.
Berberine is a powerful alkaloid anti-microbial that effectively reduces H Pylori and other opportunistic bacteria levels (11). It also works to help stabilize blood sugar and reduce inflammation.
The form of berberine in this formula comes from the roots and bark of Indian Barberry extract. The roots are where the berberine alkaloid is contained and that is the component with this specific medicinal property. This herb has been used throughout Europe, the Middle East, India and China for healing purposes.


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Christian Group of Ex-LGBT People Go to D.C. to Explain Why the 'Equality Act' Is a Terrible Idea
2:00PM EDT 11/1/2019	 Jason Maxwell
Twenty members of the Changed Movement traveled to D.C. to protect their rights. (Facebook/Jim Domen)
Note: This week, a group belonging to the Changed Movement traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak with senators and representatives about their views on HR-5 ("The Equality Act") and HR-3570, which would outlaw conversion therapy of any kind. This group also publicly shared their testimonies of how Jesus rescued them from an LGBT lifestyle and empowered them through the Holy Spirit to walk in His freedom.
Jason Maxwell, a formerly gay man who now leads Flames2Fire Ministries, traveled with the group. He explains his perspective here:
When I found out my Changed family was going to be going to Washington, D.C., to speak to our nation's leaders about The Equality Act and HR-3570, I knew I had to be there.
For those of us who have experienced real-life transformation through the power of Jesus Christ, the whole idea of being viewed as a fraud is gut-wrenching! My wife of eight years, our three daughters and everyone who knows us personally know the truth and know how God transformed my life.
If The Equality Act or HR-5 passes it will destroy the fabric of our country. I 100% believe that every person, gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender, queer/questioning straight or former LGBTQ deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. I don't think there are any reasonable people in the United States who think it's OK for people to be tortured or forced into being something they don't want to be. After all, God gave us free will. That means He gave us the choice to choose. He also gave us the Bible to know the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, as well as the consequences or blessings for choosing His way over our own.
There isn't a single person who is part of the Changed Movement who doesn't have sincere compassion and love for our friends who identify as LGBTQ. That is also true of many people I know within the church.
I don't think everyone has to make the same change I did, but I think everyone should have the right to make that choice for themselves without being bullied or pushed one way or the other by the government, their families, the church or the LGBTQ community. That includes the thousands of former LGBTQ individuals around this country and the world who have willingly chosen to walk away from that identity. For many of us, that meant being forced out of the community we love and once found our family in. Discrimination goes both ways in the U.S. when it comes to these sensitive issues.
My family and I have as much right to live our lives the way we choose as anyone in the LGBTQ community does. To pass the Equality Act or HR-5 would purposefully force anyone who no longer wanted to be part of the LGBTQ identities to either stay in the community or commit suicide to escape.
It is as dangerous to prohibit therapy for those who experienced childhood traumas that led them into LGBTQ-affirming identities as it is to force someone who feels they have no choice to be someone different. One of the leading reasons suicide rates are so high among questioning teens and young adults is because the world tells them they have no choice and so they feel trapped and without hope. The passing of this deadly legislation would further destroy any hope leading to far greater rates of suicide.
Talk therapy is not deadly or traumatic and should always be client-led. The school systems and counseling systems today are forced to affirm and encourage identities that most don't want to have. I never would have chosen to be gay at 18 if I thought I had a choice. I didn't know or believe that God could heal my childhood trauma and give me sexual wholeness; if I had, I might have chosen it much earlier in life.
Today, I live an amazing life with my wife and three daughters.
Having been totally set free from same-sex attraction and the mental stresses of my childhood trauma, I can stand before you and say I Am Changed and overcomers exist!
An abiding relationship with Jesus is the key to that change and allows me to live my best life and enjoy the heritage of my family and children as God planned it.
Please don't take away my rights and those of others like me. Don't keep us from living our best lives.
Jason Maxwell is a follower of Jesus, husband of Sarah, daddy to their three daughters, a former homosexual and an overcomer of childhood sexual abuse, rejection, consistent bullying, suicidal thoughts, depression and anxiety. He is the directional leader and founder of Flames2Fire Ministries in Centerton, Arizona, who travels the country and world discipling believers, sharing his testimony and preaching the full gospel of the kingdom of God.
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In Hawaii we call it manapua, but to the rest of the world, it's a char siu bao, or BBQ pork bun, either way… it's delicious and I went around Honolulu in search of the best manapua! I'm very lucky because I work just blocks away from Chinatown in downtown Honolulu so my search didn't take me far. Take a look at some of the places I visited.
Royal Kitchen is at the end of Chinatown in the Chinese Cultural Plaza on the Beretania Street side. They are known for their baked manapua and they usually have lines out the door of their small kitchen shop. What I like about their manapua is the texture of the bun, even though it's baked, the bun retains a its softness and has an airy quality to it. The filling is a good amount, but is a little too sweet for my taste. The manapua, in general, is very "light".
If you don't pay close attention, you may miss Char Hung Sut in Chinatown – only a tiny sign outside distinguishes it from the other buildings. And once inside, it looks like you've walked into a manapua factory (which, really… you have!) Only the counter in the middle of the room with a cash register is an indication that customers fill this factory daily to buy manapua.
Char Hung Sut only makes steamed manapuas (no baked here), but they are probably one of the best around. The manapua itself is HUGE! (See photo above in relation to my hand!) The bun is steamed to perfection and is pillowy soft and just a little sweet. What I love about it is the meat filling – there is A LOT of filling in each bun and the filling is tasty, sweet, and not greasy at all! The manapua in general has a bit of a heavy, denser feel to it which I like. It certainly fills you up!
I passed Sing Cheong Yuan as I was doing my first round of manapua tasting. I made a mental note to come back to try their manapuas and then a co-worker told me it was her favorite so I HAD to come back!
They make a baked manapua that is SO HUGE in size and SO FILLED with meat filling that it's more than a full breakfast for me (in fact it was breakfast and part of lunch!!) The thing that's great about it is their meat to bun ratio – just look at that photo above, the filling was just spilling out of it. The filling is also very sweet, and tasty and the char siu is not shredded like other places! They are actually in chunks! I'd never heard of this place before I started research for this blog post and I'm very thankful I found it!
Honolulu Kitchen in Waipahu (yes, I ventured out of Honolulu for this place!) specializes in deep fried mini manapuas. They have tons of sweet and savory flavors like crab cream cheese, apple pie, pizza, oreo cookie, cheeseburger, chocolate chip pudding (whaaaat??!) lychee, etc. I love that they are so adventurous with their manapua flavors, and I love the crispiness of the deep fried outer shell, but the fillings I found were not as tasty as I had originally hoped. Still it's VERY interesting and a great novel idea!!
Lee's Bakery is known for their array of terrific baked goods – especially their famous custard pie that people will line up for hours for on Thanksgiving! Little known is the fact that they make manapua. Their baked manapua has a good, solid texture to their bun (which, sadly, is not as tasty as some others I've tried). The filling has more of a bbq-ish taste to it and the whole manapua in general has more of a baked good taste to it than a manapua. Still a pretty solid manapua choice in Chinatown.
U Choice is in the Don Quixote shopping complex on Kaheka Street. They sell a wide variety of Chinese food plates and made to order noodle dishes, but they have a counter that only sells manapua, roast pork, roast chicken, and other dim sum items. I discovered this place when I used to work at the Kapiolani branch of my company many years ago.
Chris Bakery is located in the heart of Chinatown and is a little bakery that sells a variety of dim sum items. Their manapuas are baked and are HUGE! (Too bad you can't see scale on the photo above!) Their buns are a little darker baked than I'm used to, and the meat filling is in a dark-ish sauce, which is surprisingly not too sweet (more on the savory side…) The thing I wished was that there was more meat in the bun. I'm sure they make some really great items, but I wasn't a huge fan on their manapua.
A little disclaimer (I am a compliance officer, after all… ) 😉 — I might be a tiny bit biased, however, because eating a Libby's manapua reminds me of my childhood. Whenever we went to Hilo to visit my relatives, my Mom would bring along a box of Libby's manapua as omiyage (gifts when one travels…) and so I grew up with it as a standard in my mind. But that being said… eating it again after a long hiatus, and this time as an adult, I realized that my Mom hit the jackpot early on. It really is STILL my favorite manapua in Honolulu!
Chun Wah Kam has a selection of great Chinese food both for plate lunches and catering. I remember their noodles being something dreams are made of… But I went in recently to specifically try their baked char siu manapua and I was rather surprised at what I found…. The bun was nice and sweet, but had a really porous texture and was almost eggy and was not the softest. The meat filling was good – it was mixed with green onions and was pleasantly sweet. They also have a great meat to bun ratio, but the bun was a little too porous and not soft enough for my taste.
Bread House Bakery is a small, cute bakery in Chinatown. They have many glass cases filled with baked good – one of them is the char siu manapua. The manapua itself was very pretty and baked to a perfect light golden color. The bun had a very nice texture and was very tasty! The meat filling was a little on the salty side and was not of the traditional char siu variety, it was more of a stewed meat filling. Still, it was VERY tasty – I just wish they put a little more meat filling in the bun.
Although the manapua from Golden Palace is smaller in size, they are some of the best that I have tried. The bun is very sweet with a really soft, chewy texture and the tops of them are glazed with honey – which really makes them heavenly. They have a good amount of filling which is sweet and very tasty. And because they are on the smaller side, I could eat several of them,… in succession… Ooops!
I decided to try Dim Sum House because I loved their other dim sum items in the past and thought I'd give a more traditional place a try. First off, the char siu bao here is more of the traditional type (steamed in bamboo containers and semi-open at the top.) They are sold in threes and are so cute and tiny. (See photo above for scale – noting that my Asian hand is already quite tiny to begin with….) The bun was so light and soft, it was almost as if you were eating air…I wish it had a little more flavor to it, but that's okay… The filling was juicy and very sweet. It might be a little unfair of me to judge these in a "manapua" category as they are more traditional and should be rated against other char siu baos, but it was mentioned by a co-worker, so I felt I should include it. For a traditional bao, it was pretty good.
So there you have my list of favorite manapua places in Honolulu. What is YOUR favorite manapua place? Please let me know in the comments.
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was a Jungian analyst, regression therapist and lecturer with degrees in psychology, religion and philosophy from Oxford and London Universities. He trained as an analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. Born in England, Roger lived and taught Jungian and transpersonal psychology and comparative religion in North America and England. He has been a Guest Professor at Vassar College, where he gave the Mary Mellon Memorial lectures in 1988. He also was a Visiting Professor the University of Vermont (1975) and Concordia University, Montreal (1979-80). He led workshops at the New York Open Centre, Esalen Institute and Omega Institute, and lectured at a broad range of conferences internationally.
Roger Woolger's first book, Other Lives Other Selves, (Doubleday, 1987) is an innovative synthesis of Jungian depth psychology, bodywork, yoga psychology, psychodrama and eastern meditation principles. It broke regression therapy out the narrow confines of hypnotherapy and talk therapy giving it embodiment and lived experience through psychodrama and bodywork. Rooted in yoga concepts of the subtle bodies and shamanism, and drawing upon Tibetan teachings about death and transition through various bardo or intermediary states, his method is a major contribution to transpersonal psychotherapy.
Other Lives Other Selves, (1987) is one of the most influential works in the field of regression therapy and has been translated into German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Japanese. More popular versions of his work areHealing Your Past Lives (2004) and Eternal Return (Audio-book, 2002). A definitive presentation of his work appeared in the foundational text Regression Therapy: A Handbook for Professionals by Winafred Blake Lucas (1993). He has a chapter in Transpersonal Psychotherapy. (ed) Seymour Boorstein, CA, 1996.
During the last decade Roger's work has continued to evolved into the highly original therapeutic tool which is called Deep Memory Process®. He discussed and demonstrated his work on American, Canadian and Italian network television, in 2011 he appeared in a PBS special in the States.
Roger ran training programs In DMP for therapists in Britain, North America Portugal, Austria, Turkey and Greece, also teaching professionals in Holland and Romania. He also ran a series of training programs throughout Brazil where in 1996 he was a keynote speaker at the International Transpersonal Psychology Conference in Manaus hosted by Stanislav Grof. He also presented at the First World Congress for Regression Therapy in Holland in 2003 and the Third World Congress in Rio de Janeiro in 2008. Roger was also an acclaimed keynote speaker at first Brazilian Transpersonal Congress (ALUBRAT) in Lindoya (2002) the following year and at the Third international Conference in Lisbon (2003). He again slectured at the sixth ALUBRAT conference in Lindoya in 2010.
In 2004 Roger hosted MalidomaSomé in a widely acclaimed conference on Voices of the Ancestors in London. This was followed in 2005 by an equally popular conference called Mary Magdalene: Priestess, Apostle or Goddess? to which he invited noted Magdalene, Gnostic and Goddess scholars Susan Haskins, Tim Freke, Lynn Picknett, Anne Baring and Caitlin Matthews.
In 2005-6 Roger gave a series of popular seminars near Oxford entitled Mystics, Gnostics, Psychics and Shamans, and well as a later foundational seminar on C.G. Jung. In Search of the Self and the Hidden Christ Then in 2007-8 he gave the highly acclaimed lecture/seminar Mystical Body, Man of Light: The Lost Secret of the Cosmic Christ to the Oxford Jupiter Trust and the Canonbury Centre for Masonic Studies.
Between 2006—2008 Roger helped establish the International Deep Memory Association (IDMA), through which he had helped hosted a number of international Spiritual Healing Conferences: Regression and Shamanism (Portugal: 2006) andWar and Human Memory: Soul Loss and Lost Souls (Austria: 2007), Exile and the Longing to Return (Ireland, 2008) andThe Sacred Marriage of Body and Spirit (France, 2009).
In April 2008 Roger opened in Salvador and Brasilia the InstitutoWoolger para a Psique e as TradicoesEspirituais for Brazil where he taught two extended seminar series on Jung: in Search of the Soul & the Hidden Christ and Mystics, Gnostics, Psychics and Shamans.
co-presented The Mystical Marriage of the Soul with Jungian analyst and author Anne Baring. In the autumn of 2009 the Institute hosted a conference on Jung, Goethe and the Politics of the Spirit with Paul Bishop Ph.D. and Leon Schlamm, Ph.D.
A lifelong interest in the Grail legend and the esoteric spirituality of medieval Europe has inspired Roger to lead several extraordinary tours to sacred sites in the South of France, to troubadour and Cathar country; sites of Black Madonnas and the Magdalene. His talk The Holy Grail; Healing the Sexual Wound in the Western Psyche was published on CD in 2010.


Environmentalists and scientists alike warn us that the ice caps present in the Arctic Circle are melting at an alarming pace. Global warming is the cause of the retreat of large amounts of ice caps, which has the effect of opening more sea waters in the North for ship navigation.
Because now these waters are navigable in more days in a year, it results in an opportunity for energy buyers and sellers, especially those that deal with liquefied natural gas (LNG), to use the Northern Sea Route, as they call it, which can cut travel days from the Yamal LNG project in Russia to Asia completely in half when compared to the Southern Sea Route which uses the Suez Canal.
This year alone brought record temperatures which caused ice melting in the northern hemisphere. This combined with the minimum extent of sea ice is believed to be among the top 10 lowest in forty years, ever since satellite records began to be used.
A consequence was the increase in the volumes transported through the Northern Sea Route, which is also due to a rise in LNG exports in Russia. This information was shared in Bloomberg by Sergei Balmasov, head of Murmansk-based consultancy Arctic Logistics Information Office.
According to him, although the number of shipments taken through the Northern Sea Route is basically the same as the one registered last year, the difference comes when we think about the LNG traffic out of the port of Sabetta. This port is used by the Russian gas producer Novatek to ship Yamal LNG cargoes to Asia and Europe.
Bloomberg compiled the Arctic Logistics data which shows that a total number of 34 tankers traveled from Sabetta to Europe and one took the route to the East by early July.


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My Dad and Carol gave us the meyer lemon one last year! Yum.


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Nueva Trinidad: 3rd Municipality in El Salvador to Declare Itself a "Mining Free Territory"
Category: Territories Free of Mining
Published: Saturday, 18 April 2015 14:29
Juan Carlos Jimenez - Upside Down World
Nueva Trinidad, an agricultural town in the department of Chalatenango in El Salvador, became the third municipality in the country to declare itself a "Territory Free of Mining" after having a historic popular community consultation on March 29.
In a process of grassroots democracy and popular community engagement, Nueva Trinidad joined its neighboring towns of San Jose Las Flores and San Isidro Labrador in rejecting the presence of mining exploration and exploitation in their territories. The former guerrilla stronghold in North Chalatenango has fought to prevent mining projects in their territories for over a decade, often resorting to road blocks, marches, and political graffiti to declare its opposition to mining.
This important landmark decision in El Salvador follows several community consultations that have occurred in Central America, such as in the municipality of Santo Domingo in Honduras and the municipality of Mataquescuintla in Guatemala. International observers from Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, joined in this historical democratic process to provide insight and support to the community consultation, as well as to learn about community consultations and its applicability in other national contexts.
The community consultation ended with 99.25 percent of voters voting NO to mining in their territory, with a voter turnout of 61.85 percent. This popular vote will be used to create a municipal bylaw in Nueva Trinidad to ban all permits for metallic mining exploration and exploitation in the municipality. Municipal code in El Salvador dictates that a municipality requires a minimum of 40 percent minimum voter turnout rate in order for a community consultation to be legally standing in municipal law.
"This popular consultation is important for us to say no to mining, since we are a community with a big social conscious and knowledgeable about the effects of exploration and exploitation of mining; because having mining projects means that we must relocated in a location where we loose the security that we have here, as well as contamination [of the environment]," Julio Rivera, a community leader in Nueva Trinidad, told Gato Encerrado reporters.
Community members of Nueva Trinidad were assisted with technical support from the National Roundtable against Metallic Mining in El Salvador (La Mesa), and other civil society organizations such as Association for the Development of El Salvador (CRIPDES) and the Association of Communities for the Development of Chalatenango (CCR). Months prior to the consultations, organizers from the municipality and civil society organizations mobilized an educational campaign, using general assemblies, banners, and house visits to educate the population on the popular consultation and the effects of mining.
Sister Cities, a US-based partnership organization that works in solidarity with communities in El Salvador, coordinated 24 international observers from the United States, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to give international legitimacy to this process. National observers gave logistical and legal support for the community consultation; participants included the Assistant Counsel for the Protection of Human Rights (PDDH), as well as the mayors from San Jose Las Flores and Arcatao.
Mining and Community Consultations in Chalatenango
There are currently 10 municipalities in Chalatenango with mining concessions. This is a concern for local residents and civil society as it threatens the water quality of the Lempa River and Sumpul River, both which provide access to clean water for the Salvadoran population. The Lempa River alone provides fresh water for 50 percent of the population of San Salvador, and 60 percent of fresh water to the rest of the population of El Salvador.
The Salvadoran national government has passed a moratorium on mining, preventing further mining concessions from being implemented in the country. Currently, there are two lawsuits against El Salvador for denying an exploitation permit to two corporations; Pacific Rim, now Oceana Gold, and the Commerce Group. Oceana Gold is currently suing El Salvador for $301 million in a World Bank arbitration tribunal.
As the Salvadoran government has yet to approve an official mining ban in El Salvador, civil society organizations have opted for a sustained campaign to pressure for laws that prohibit large-scale mining. Community consultations have fallen under this strategy, and the results from the consultations will be used to pass municipal bylaws to ban mining projects and as legal court documents in the case of a lawsuit against the country.
San Jose Las Flores became the first community to do a consultation against mining in August 2014. Community leaders coordinated an educational campaign about the community consultation by organizing community assemblies and training 150 organizers to make house visits to teach the population about popular consultations. Since some residents of the municipalities have received little schooling in their lifetimes, some of these house visits also entailed teaching residents how to vote, explaining the wording of the ballot, and discussing the issue of mining in the community.
Nueva Trinidad Heroico
The township of Nueva Trinidad and its surrounding neighboring municipalities were abandoned by its residents in 1980s when the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military began bombing campaigns that sought to crush support for the left-wing FMLN guerrillas in the region. Many residents fled to San Salvador and Honduras during this period to refugee camps, and some residents joined the FMLN guerrillas to fight government military forces.
Nueva Trinidad was repopulated in 1992, as residents came back to their villages and houses against government wishes. Civil society organizations, such as CRIPDES, and partnership organizations such as Sister Cities, have accompanied these communities for years, walking with them and supporting their residents.
Throughout the 1990s and the early 2000s, the municipality was governed by the right-wing ARENA party. When the FMLN finally won power in the later 2000s, Nueva Trinidad witnessed a new relationship with the municipal government, with campesino leaders taking leadership roles in the town councils and mayoral offices. Currently, the municipality is a FMLN strong hold, and the municipality and town councils have been supportive and given logistical support to the formation of popular consultations to vote NO to mining in the region.
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When I began to feel the pressure of having no experimentally verifiable facts to substantiate my position as a theistic evolutionist, I turned to what I thought was my ace in the hole: Genetics. Didn't everyone know that the science of genetics had irrevocably shown evolution in progress? Without mutations (changes in the genes and chromosomes), there is no evolutionary change. The question my students asked was, "Do mutations produce new life forms or improvements in present life forms?" Naturally, I assumed they produce new forms and I thought I could prove it from the scientific literature. I was due for another rude awakening!
Many creationists102 and evolutionists study the phenomenon of genetic mutation. Dr. Ernst Mayr of Harvard expressed the predominant view of evolutionists: "Ultimately, all variation is, of course, due to mutation."103 Dr. Mayr instructs us that all variation (different types of plants and animals) observable in life is due to changes in the genes and chromosomes. These mutations occur in the make-up of DNA.
DNA, the basic information system of the cell, contains the blue prints needed to manufacture 2,000 or more different proteins. Each of these proteins is manufactured in little "cell-factories" at the direction of the DNA and is essential for the maintenance of life. So, which came first? If DNA is essential in the manufacturing process of proteins, and the manufacturing process produces the proteins essential to DNA, then you can't have one without the other. This means they both must have been created fully functional and at exactly the same point in time. In other words, God must have created the information system of all cells at a point in time and fully functional. Proteins are necessary to make DNA, but DNA is needed to make proteins! DNA provides the instructions to the chemical factories inside the cell for making itself.
Scientists call DNA the "language of the cell." All scientists agree that language requires intelligence. Notice that language is information and information is non-material. Could there be an implication here that DNA, the "language of the cell," required non-material intelligence to create it? Could it be that DNA was created fully functional in all the different kinds of life by an intelligent designer God, Who ingeniously inserted thousands and thousands of pages of unbelievably complex technical information into some microscopic strands of protein called DNA? The God of the Bible, Who is infinite in His wisdom, would have no trouble here!
How does a professor who is a believer in evolution on a university campus answer the following syllogism?
Language is caused by intelligence.
DNA is the language of the cell.
Therefore DNA had an intelligent cause.
The professors answer with silence!
How could life have evolved into all its millions of forms if the very mechanism that causes it to evolve (mutation) is a rare event? Most scientists would agree that when mutations do occur in nature, they are either harmful to the organism or harmless (silent mutations), but there has never been an observed beneficial mutation that added new genetic information.
If "survival of the fittest" is true, then the harmful mutations should contribute to extinctions, not to new and better life forms. Of course, what we observe in nature are extinctions of plants and animals rather than emerging, new life forms. There are millions of living things, from plants and animals to insects, but we hear almost weekly of more extinctions. How many newly evolved creatures have you heard about in your lifetime? With all the millions of living things in the world, surely mutations are happening, and something is or has evolved into something else somewhere. The evolutionists are frantically searching for the smallest hint that something will produce new genetic information equipping it to evolve into a new biological entity to prove their theory to be true.
Some of you may have heard the argument that dog-breeding experiments have proven evolution to be true. In fact, it proves just the opposite. Beginning with the Mongolian brown haired dog, you can selectively breed poodles, St. Bernards, dalmatians, golden retrievers, rat terriers, blood hounds, collies, chihuahuas or any of 250 different dog breeds. But, you obtain those dog breeds by loss of genetic information, not by gaining any new genetic information. You will never regain lost genetic material. A poodle will not revert back into another breed of dog because the genetic information has been permanently lost—unless Mr. Stud Mongrel Heinz 57 jumps over your back fence to supply some extra genetic material!
A few years ago, the evolutionary community presented to the public one of their examples of evolution in progress. It was a guppy family that had been separated from their old friends for several years. When the guppies were reunited, they would not mate. Evolutionists consider a life-form to be a new species when it will no longer mate with its old friends. Maybe the guppy didn't smell good when it came back from its temporary environment. Or maybe its old friends didn't recognize it, or maybe the researchers didn't wait long enough to see if the guppy would be accepted again. The fact is that both populations of guppies were still unmistakably identifiable to scientists and laymen as guppies. Where is the evidence for the evolution of one creature into another when, after eleven years of breeding guppies, they are still guppies?
Even if these fishes refuse to breed with each other and are therefore categorized as a new species of guppy, does this prove evolution of one kind into another kind of creature? People have devised their definitions of and limits to species, but God refers to "kinds" in the Genesis account. Biblically, there are certain boundaries that no living form can cross. A specific "kind" of creature will never evolve into another "kind" of creature. Guppies are fish. Within the fish-kind there is a lot of room for change, even "evolutionary" change, but fish will forever be fish—big ones, little ones, fresh water and salt water, but still fish.
So, we learn that mutations in a healthy life-form invariably cause harmful changes or death (lethal) to the organism. How does evolution from molecules-to-man occur if the very process that supposedly causes it to happen, in truth, harms or kills the organism? To put this another way, why did the evolutionary scientists evacuate the area when the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania and the one in Russia at Chernobyl leaked radiation? Why didn't these scientists move their families into the area to be irradiated so mutations might develop and they could evolve into the next higher life form? The scientists knew that their offspring would inherit unhealthy characteristics from the radiation. They got away from the mutation-causing radiation as fast as they could!
According to expert Corner, there is no evidence for the evolution of plants. In fact, when plants are studied closely they appear to be a special creation!
A good example of a "very special creation" in the plant kingdom is the Ophrys stylidium orchid. One day I typed "flower" into my Internet search engine and that led me to the Ophrys orchids. You will most probably never have read about the stylidium orchid in your public school or university textbooks because it is impossible to describe in evolutionary terms! This amazing little flower is designed to bring glory to its Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The orchid has its petals and on the end of one of the stamens (little things that stick up in the middle of a flower) is a configuration that looks like a certain species of female wasp. How does evolution explain a flower that mimics a particular insect? The aroma that the orchid puts out is the same aroma that the female wasp puts out when she is looking for Mr. Wasp. So Mr. Wasp is flying around looking for Mrs. Wasp and he smells the aroma. He looks down and sees Mrs. Wasp, but it is the flower mimicking the female wasp. Mr. Wasp swoops down and lands on the flower. Well, does he get a big surprise! The part of the flower that looks and smells like Mrs. Wasp is on a hinge-action, spring-loaded joint. When the male lands on this part of the flower, the spring-loaded joint flips him down into the flower and pollen sacs attach to his head.
As the astonished male wasp climbs out of the flower, he must be thinking, "I think I'll find a different Mrs. Wasp." He is fooled again and is "popped" into another orchid. This time the pollen sacs on his head are exchanged for some new ones and he just pollinated the orchid. For two weeks, the male goes from flower, "pop," to flower, "pop," to flower.
Two weeks after the males mature, the females mature. Once the real Mrs. Wasp comes on the scene, the male will never again go back to the orchid. Here is another problem for the evolutionist: The timing must be perfect or the orchid will not be pollinated and will go extinct in one generation. There is a two-week window when the flower is mature and ready to pollinate, which must be the same two-week window when the male wasp is mature and is looking for the female wasp, but it must be the same two weeks that she is not yet on the scene!
The even more amazing fact is that there are many varieties of these orchids and each one mimics a different wasp or bee or fly! It is such a shame that there are so many truly wonderful things that our dear Lord has made for us to enjoy and for us to study and to give him glory and praise, and we have been taught nothing about them. As of 2002, they still are not in our children's textbooks.
The field of botany (plants) does not prove evolution. Yet, evolutionists like Dr. Corner still believe in an evolutionary mythological system. He is trusting his compatriots in "biology, bio-geography and paleontology" to prove evolution to be true. In Corner's field (plants), special creation appears to be the best option. AND, PUTTING ALL THE EVIDENCE TOGETHER, SPECIAL CREATION IS THE BEST OPTION!
If there is no evidence for the evolution of people or plants, then is there any evidence for the evolution of fish?
According to these experts, there is no evidence for the evolution of plants, and no evidence for the evolution of fish. What about amphibians?
No evidence for the evolution of plants and no evidence for fish. What's more, the only evidence for amphibians is the "speculations" of the fossil experts. Speculation is just a big word for "guess." A guess is not proof that legs and aerial breathing evolved! The evidence, then, for evolution of creatures, as they supposedly developed the ability to crawl out of water and live as land animals, is in the imagination of the evolutionist. There are no fossils and no facts to support belief in the evolution of amphibians from fish. How about birds?
The evolution of birds is a "matter of deduction." "Deduction" in this case is a polite synonym for imagination. The evolutionists are back to guessing again. There is not a single, undisputed fossil that shows the evolutionary transitions of cold-blooded reptiles into warm-blooded birds.
The Pacific Golden Plover is a good example of a bird that cannot be described in evolutionary terms. Alaska is its summer nesting grounds and Hawaii its winter home. Golden plover hens raise their young each summer in Alaska. As soon as the young can fend for themselves, the adults take off for Hawaii, leaving the young behind. The young must gain strength and weight to get ready for their long flight to winter with their parents.
The average weight of the golden plover before it leaves Alaska to fly to Hawaii is 200 grams. It is a small bird about the size of a pigeon. It is also a bird that does not swim! Researchers have concluded that 70 grams of its 200 grams is burnable energy. The rate at which the bird burns fuel when flying is about one gram per hour. This means right at 70 hours of flight is possible. Now we have a potentially disastrous situation. The flight to Hawaii takes 88 hours of continuous, non-stop flight! The little bird must fly for three days and four nights without food or rest or stopping at all. Impossible! How does it do this?
The birds fly in a formation that breaks the wind, taking less energy to fly. New leaders are constantly rotating in and out. Formation flight saves energy and when the birds arrive in Hawaii, they have as much as 6 grams of fuel left over. God must have built the reserve fuel supply into the plover in case of a strong head wind along the way.
Scientists are not certain how the plovers navigate from Alaska to Hawaii and back, since there is no land under their flight path. Utilization of earth's magnetic field seems to be the best solution at this point. Some have suggested that they use the sun and stars. And how do the young birds find their way to Hawaii without an experienced adult guide, weeks after their parents have already flown back to Hawaii? A one-degree mistake in navigation over the more than 4,000 kilometer flight and the birds miss Hawaii completely! But they never miss! The God of the Bible is the guiding force behind the incredible endurance and navigational abilities of the little golden plover. Nothing is too difficult or impossible for our Creator!
Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee (Jeremiah 32:17).
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me (Jeremiah 32:27)?
Our evolving bird discovers that Texas gets a bit too cold in winter, so it flies down to Mexico for the winter. Each year or so, it flies further north for the summer and further south for the winter. Finally, it finds just the right climate for summer and winter and migrates between these two places from then on. I think the God of the Bible made the little Pacific golden plover to totally discredit this kind of evolutionary teaching! It had to make its full migratory flight the very first time (and every time after that) or it would drop into the ocean and drown.
According to the evolutionary experts cited above, evolution is grossly lacking in hard evidence! Although we are told that mutations are good because they generate new life and produce evolution, we do not see this "good" happening in reality. Genetic mutations cannot be the driving force behind evolution. Nor do the evolutionists provide evidence to prove the evolution of any creature.
But what if earth history was counted in billions of years? The old argument always comes along at this point that anything can happen in a mindless, purposeless, totally random chance, accidental system, if it is given enough time. The miracle of life can come from informationless dead chemicals if given enough time. We will discuss the "billions of years" argument in Chapter 9.
A short discussion of "information" may be helpful at this point. Dr. Werner Gitt is a specialist in information transmission and technology. In his informative book, In the Beginning was Information, he records several impossibility theorems dealing with information.
It is impossible for information to exist without all five hierarchical levels: statistics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and apobetics.
Information is nonmaterial, but it requires material media for storage and transmission.
Information is not life, but the information in cells is essential for all living beings.
Information is a necessary prerequisite for life.
According to Dr. Gitt, information is not life, but is necessary for life (as we all know). Since information needs a code, and a code requires a mental source, mindless evolution of new genetic information is technically impossible!
O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth (Psalm 8:3-9)!
102 Dr. Walter Brown wrote a paper several years ago on the evidences for creation. In his footnotes was a selection of quotes from the pro-evolutionary literature dealing with genetics. For this valuable information, please contact Dr. Walter Brown, The Center for Scientific Creation, 5612 North 20th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85016.
103 Ernst Mayr, Mathematical Challenges to the Neo-Darwinian Interpretation of Evolution (Philadelphia: Wister Institute Press, 1967), p. 50.
104 "Although mutation is the ultimate source of all genetic variation, it is a relatively rare event..." (Francisco Ayala, "The Mechanics of Evolution," Scientific American, September 1978, p. 63).
105 Theodosius Dobzhansky, "On Methods of Evolutionary Biology and Anthropology," American Scientist, Winter, December 1957, p. 385.
107 C. P. Martin, "A Non-Geneticist Looks at Evolution," American Scientist, January 1953, p. 162.
108 "If we say that it is only by chance that they (mutations) are useful, we are still speaking too leniently. In general, they are useless, detrimental, or lethal" [W. R. Thompson, Introduction to the Origin of Species, by Charles Darwin (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1956), p. 10].
109 "Lethal mutations outnumber visibles (Albinism, Dwarfism, Hemophilism) by about 20 to 1. Mutations that have harmful effects are even more frequent than lethal ones" [A. M. Winchester, Genetics, 5th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mufflin Co., 1977), p. 356].
110 James Crow, "Genetic Effects of Radiation," Bulletin of Atomic Sciences, 14 (1958), p. 19-20.
111 "Do we, therefore, ever see mutations going about the business of producing new structures for selection to work on? No nascent organ has ever been observed emerging, though their origin in pre-functional form is basic to evolutionary theory. Some should be visible today, occurring in organisms at various stages up to integration of a functional new system, but we don't see them: there is no sign at all of this kind of radical novelty. Neither observation or controlled experiment has shown natural selection manipulating mutations so as to produce a new gene, hormone, enzyme system or organ" [Michael Pitman, Adam and Evolution (London: Rider Press, 1981), pp. 67,68].
112 Dr. Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (New York: Random House, 1957), p. 199.
113 E. J. H. Corner, 'Evolution' in Contemporary Botanical Thought, eds. Anna M. Macleod and L. S. Cobley, Oliver and Boyd, for the Botanical Society of Edinburg, 1961, p. 97. As quoted (partially) from The Quote Book, p. 11.
114 J. R. Norman, "Classification and Pedigrees: Fossils," in A History of Fishes, 3rd ed., ed. Dr. P. H. Greenwood, British Museum of Natural History, London, 1975, p. 343. As quoted (partially) from The Quote Book, p. 11.
115 Barbara J. Stahl, Vertebrate History: Problems in Evolution (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974), pp. 148,195. As quoted in The Quote Book, p. 11.
116 W. E. Swinton, "The Origin of Birds," Chapter 1 in Biology and Comparative Physiology of Birds, A. J. Marshall, ed., Vol. I (New York: Academic Press, 1960), p. 1. As quoted in The Quote Book, p. 11.
117 See: Werner Gitt, In the Beginning was Information (Bielefeld, Germany: Christliche Literatur-Verbreitung e. V.), 1997, p.80.
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Stepping Up to the Plate: Dialogues for All
By Ivan Rahman, July 12, 2016
Editor's Note: In May, Ivan Rahman wrote "How to Engage School Staff in Dialogues in Race in Class" about his work to jump-start conversations about race, class, and privilege in the school where he worked. In this piece, Ivan reflects on that experience, what he learned, and why talking about race, class, and privilege is a necessity for all of us working in education.'
Last week, I went grocery shopping at Trader Joe's. The week before, I went to Key Food. The difference in demographics at both places was stark. Trader Joe's customers were predominantly white; Key Food's, mostly black and brown.
Unfortunately (or fortunately), I cannot walk into a space without dissecting the racial, socioeconomic, or gender makeup of the people in that space. I wish I could stop thinking about these identities. But that's hard to do when I see just how much they shape and color almost every aspect of a person's life experience. They affect how others treat you, the expectations others have for you, and the doors that open for you.
And that's why I could no longer suppress my urge to provoke dialogues on equity, privilege, or bias at my school, Coney Island Prep. In the process, I learned a few things.
I learned that if you don't prioritize interactions on such topics at your school, and if these conversations are not already happening in a structured way, then you can't expect them to suddenly transpire.
Someone must take initiative. And all schools—urban and non-urban, public and private—need a tactful crusader for such conversations. Kids—both white and non-white, poor and not poor—need these dialogues to be the norm amongst those serving them.
I also learned that if the conversations get heated, that's probably good.
A heated conversation indicates that people are engaged. But the purpose of the discussions should seldom be to instill any particular viewpoint. It should be to ignite more frequent thinking about the sensitive topics in the first place.
Yet, I fear that school leaders reading this post will applaud efforts to spark and sustain such dialogues at other schools, only to return to business as usual at their own school. After all, the outcome of these conversations can't be measured on Excel, right? So if it can't be measured, are these conversations worth having? Why rob staff of their precious time and energy in order to have these discussions when that time and energy could instead be directed towards generating more tangible results?
I understand that having these discussions may seem inefficient. Even if they were—and I don't think they are—efficiency is not always the path to long-term productivity. Our reverence for efficiency can keep us from having humanizing experiences at the workplace. And humanizing experiences can make our work life far more fulfilling and, ironically, more productive.
All in all, there needs to be a paradigm shift in the education world. There needs to be a shift toward how we view discourse on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Instead of viewing such discourse as a luxury, we need to begin viewing it as a necessity. We need to view it as indispensable to the ongoing cultivation of the cultural competence of those who work with kids daily.
Ultimately, cultural competence is like a muscle; it's not a quality we magically gain after attending a diversity training or two. It's a skill, and like any skill, we need to consistently flex it in order to keep it strong and relevant.
By fostering school staff members' cultural competence, we are more likely to develop staff who transcend a superficial understanding of the realities affecting poor youth and youth of color. By developing staff who are more deeply attuned to the context in which they work, we create a school that is less divorced from or discordant to what our youth experience once they leave their school every weekday.
So how did the sessions wrap up at Coney Island Prep? We spent our last session discussing what has been a hot topic in education these past few months: grit. The conversation was already in full swing when one of our school deans poked his head into the room we were in. "Did I hear you say race?" he asked. I told him that we were, in fact, talking about race and that he was more than welcome to join us. He did, and, by the end of the session, he encouraged us to consider involving some of our students in our discussions. Although this was not the first time I received this suggestion, it made me think.
What if we mandated periodic dialogues with our students about power, privilege, and prejudice? Currently, the New York City Department of Education is busy implementing Computer Science for All and Pre-K for All. What if we also implemented Dialogues for All? I wonder how that would better prepare our youth—on both sides of the opportunity gap—for the real world. It certainly would have helped me when I was a kid.
Ivan Rahman is a 2015-2016 Education Pioneers Fellow and currently serves at the Director of Data for Coney Island Prep in Brooklyn, New York. Born in the Bronx to Bangladeshi immigrants, Ivan witnessed his parents' struggle to become citizens and make ends meet and, through that, he learned to value resilience and fortitude. Now, he works tirelessly to expand opportunities for working- and middle-class families. He is a lifelong student of what works and what doesn't in the landscape of social innovation.


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Q: What is order of operational precedence in SQL Case statement? I am having a time discovering how to best write the following:
SET @SAMPLE = (SELECT CASE
WHEN @A < 0.01 AND @B < 0.01 THEN -1
WHEN @A < 0.01 THEN @B
ELSE @C
END )

I do not get what I expect here. I am finding that @SAMPLE contains 0.00 after running this. Thanks for any guidance.

A:
The CASE statement evaluates its conditions sequentially and stops
  with the first condition whose condition is satisfied

From your example, all one can deduct is that @B or @c is zero.
Operational precedence usually refers to which operator is first evaluated ("*" or "-", for example). Your question should probably be titled "Case evaluation order".
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181765.aspx

A: Without values I cannot be sure that this is what you mean but it seems that you are asking in what order does a case statement evaluate its WHEN clauses. If that indeed is the question then the answer is fairly simple. A CASE WHEN will return the value of the THEN statement for the first WHEN that is true and will stop evaluating immediately once it returns. This means that in your example @Sample will evaluate first WHEN to last WHEN (and within the WHEN it evaluates left to right) such that your logical checks are:

*

*Is @A < 0.01, TRUE continues on this same line while FALSE goes to the next line.

*If 1 was TRUE then @B < 0.01 is evaluated, TRUE returns -1 and the case statement ends while FALSE goes to the next line.

*If you are here either 1 or 2 is FALSE, either way @A < 0.01 is still evaluated again, if TRUE returns @B and the case statement ends while FALSE returns @C because all WHEN statements were FALSE.

Hope this helps.

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Ryan Newman wins the Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway. Jimmy Spencer and Kurt Busch fight in the garage after the race. NASCAR suspends Spencer for one week for punching Busch.
One of the rituals of the Brickyard 400 is "Kissing of the Bricks." The honor goes to the winning team in the midsummer classic at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Kevin Harvick, wife DeLana, team owner Richard Childress, and the entire GM Goodwrench team knelt down in unison to perform the joyous celebration. The Brickyard 400 victory was Harvick's first of the 2003 season.
Terry Labonte wins the last Labor Day weekend Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. NASCAR has announced that beginning in 2004, the race date will be moved from NASCAR's original superspeedway to California Speedway.
Bill France, Jr., steps down as chairman and chief executive officer of NASCAR and names his 41-year-old son Brian as his successor.
Ryan Newman makes up a two-lap deficit to win the MBNA 400 at Dover International Speedway. For the race, NASCAR implemented a rule that prohibits racing back to the caution flag, and gives a lap back to drivers who aren't on the lead lap. The new rule was announced in the wake of drivers narrowly avoiding a collision with Dale Jarrett's crashed car a week earlier at New Hampshire.
Jamie McMurray, one of the many high-profile young guns to hit the NASCAR Winston Cup tour in recent seasons, drove the #42 Chip Ganassi Dodge in 2003. The 27-year-old from Joplin, Missouri, competed in all 36 events in the '03 season, logging five top-five finishes and 13 top-10 efforts. McMurray won the '03 Rookie of the Year award, finishing 27 points ahead of runner-up Greg Biffle.
Pontiac announces it is withdrawing from NASCAR competition, leaving Chevrolet as the lone General Motors make for 2004.
With a fourth-place finish in the Pop Secret 400 at Rockingham's North Carolina Speedway, Matt Kenseth wraps up his first NASCAR Winston Cup Championship. Bill Elliott scores his first win of the season in what will be Rockingham's final autumn race.
Jimmie Johnson's #48 Chevrolet leads #17 Matt Kenseth and #8 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in the latter stages of the Aaron's 499 at Talladega. As Kenseth was battling Johnson for the lead, Earnhardt, Jr., swept low to overtake both rivals, making the pass while his left tires were below the yellow "out of bounds" line. NASCAR ruled that Earnhardt, Jr., had completed the pass before he drove below the line, a decision that outraged many competitors.
Bill Elliott pops a tire on the final lap allowing Bobby Labonte to win the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Elliott, in his final full season as a competitor, had dominated the race until fate dealt him a harsh card with less than a mile remaining.
Reports indicate NASCAR will adopt a new points procedure to determine the 2004 NASCAR Nextel Cup champion. NASCAR will adjust the points awarded to race winners, and develop a 10-race Chase for the Nextel Cup. The top 10 in the points standings after the 26th race qualify for the final 10-race chase.
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If you want to get into the Japanese style and know more about Japanese streetwear brands, this article is for you. In this Japanese style guide, I'll be telling you the essential parts of Japanese style. Japanese street fashion brands are known for their unique and creative cuts, and colors. In this Japanese style guide, I'll tell you what they're all about.
The first part of Japanese fashion is, of course, the cut of the clothing. Here, we'll discuss Fujiwara and the kimono. A Fujiwara is basically a short sleeve kimono with a long obi. A Fujiwara is traditionally made out of cloth from a variety of Japanese fabric workshops. You'll find this type of Japanese fashion around many garment stores online.
Bape is another essential Japanese streetwear brand. They're very famous for their easy-care, affordable yet stylish designs. Bape was founded by Hidehiko Yamane, who is also the founder of the brand Kyo, which is responsible for many sportswear products. Yamane thought that it would be better to use simple designs on inexpensive materials. Today, Bape has branched out into other areas, such as computer wear and even sunglasses.
Japanese streetwear clothing
Speaking of Fujiwara and kimono, these are the fundamental materials used in Japanese streetwear clothing. These Japanese streetwear brands use these two basic clothing materials to create beautiful Japanese style clothes. As I said, Fujiwara and kimono are woven fabrics. There are many variations to these Japanese street style clothes. For instance, some Japanese clothing brands make use of what is known as "ginsu" which are strips of material sewn together to create different designs.
The last Japanese fashion brand to be mentioned is miyagihidetaka. This Japanese streetstyle brand was started by a Japanese man named Hidehiko Yamane. He designed two pairs of miyagihidetaka pants that were tight and spandex-like. Today, this Japanese brand is known for their incredible range of jeans, shorts and skirts.
Japanese streetwear pants and jackets have now become popular all over the world. You can see them being sold at street side shops in shopping malls all over the globe. People love to dress up in Japanese style clothes because they're extremely comfortable, affordable and really look great. No matter what style of Japanese clothing you prefer, there's a great chance it will be available in one place or another.
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One popular Japanese brand is Evisu. Evisu was founded back in 1979 by a man named Minoru Mochizuki. The brand itself is centered on producing sportswear. They cooperate with Japanese influencers from baseball and soccer. Evisu jackets are definitely among the most popular and well know Japanese streetwear jackets.
A few other Japanese brands have also become popular worldwide. These include brands such as J Brand, Evisu and several others. Most of these Japanese brands were founded back in the 1970s. Then they were first introduced to the international market. Today they continue to stay true to their roots as a Japanese fashion brand.
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The Japanese school uniform is a modern day version of the traditional kimono. It was first worn in the late 19th century. Compared to the kimono, the modern-day Japanese school uniform is similar to European naval outfits. It was first used in Japan's public schools and is now used in many of its public and…
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Although the Japanese makeup have always favored subtle colors and a neutral face, makeup styles in Japan aren't as restrained as those in many Western countries. Despite the strict regulations, students have developed ways to bypass these laws, including using their own creativity to experiment with different types of makeup. Here are some tips for…
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Japanese street fashion is an eclectic blend of clothing from domestic and international brands. It is considered a form of modern contemporary clothing in Japan, and it has an extremely distinct style. Those interested in Japanese fashion should not miss an opportunity to experience the style of this unique fashion trend. In this article, you…
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The Japanese bomber jacket is just like it sounds: a long, sleeve-style coat with pockets. It was designed to be worn in the colder months when the streets are often blocked by heavy snowfall, giving extra protection to the wearer. Although the jacket probably originated in Japan, its styles have been adopted and adapted by…
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Q: iterate through SimpleXMLElement Object in php I can't iterate through this xml file. I'm using simplexml_load_file(). does anyone have a solution? Thanks for your time. I'm a newbie!
SimpleXMLElement Object
(
[ReferenceMember] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [Agency] => SimpleXMLElement Object
            (
                [ID] => xx
                [ActivityID] => xxxxx
                [ActivityReferenceID] => xxxxx
            )

    )

[Member] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [Agency] => SimpleXMLElement Object
            (
                [ID] => xx
                [ActivityID] => xxxx
                [ActivityReferenceID] => xxxx
            )

    )

[SubmissionID] => xxxx
[Company] => xxxxx

[Emails] => SimpleXMLElement Object
    (
        [Email1] => xxxx@xxx.com
    )

[UploadedDate] => 24/11/14
)

this is what I've tried
$data = simplexml_load_file($file);

foreach ($data as $item) {

        foreach ($item->item as $entry) {
            $this->set_date($entry->UploadedDate);

        }

}

$array = array(
            "DATE" => $this->get_date()

        );

var_dump($array);

this is what i get
array(1) {
  ["DATE"]=>
  NULL
}

when i try to acces object value
var_dump($date->UploadedDate);

object(SimpleXMLElement)#9 (1) {
  [0]=>
  string(8) "24/11/14"
}

A: According to the information you've given us, you don't need to loop at all, because you only want one answer, and you know exactly where to find it:
$data = simplexml_load_file($file);
$this->set_date( (string)$data->UploadedDate );

Note that I've used (string) here; this removes the SimpleXML magic from the found value, which will probably be what you want later. echo does this for you, so echo $data->UploadedDate; would show what you expect.


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One of the online multiplayer video games which were going up on the popularity charts constantly for the last few years is the League of Legends. You'll use this identify to log into the game but that's it. After you have downloaded the sport consumer and logged in for the first time you're going to get to decide on your summoner's identify which is the title you'll appear beneath to all the opposite people enjoying LoL.
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When Valve announced their involvement within the development of Protection of the Ancients 2, gaming information websites world wide swarmed. Nevertheless, every week many free champions can be found for playing, thus giving summoners a possibility to test the champions before buying them. League of Legends gave the additional choice of utilizing 3v3 for MOBA selection, and brought within the Dominion gameplay type.
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You've most likely heard some of your folks point out it on a regular basis, and in the event you're on the internet it's most likely that you've got stumbled upon hundreds of individuals speaking about "LoL", but what is that this League of Legends so many individuals speak about? Gamers may use affect points, known as IPs, for getting in-game objects, like runes and champions. It's a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game primarily based around a crew of 5 champions. Initially of each match players every select a champion (there are 80+ champions to choose from) after which work collectively to push by means of the enemy group's defenses and kill their base.
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Remembering when Sir Alex Ferguson broke his own rules to sign Bebé
Nathan Egerton
When Bebé joined Manchester United in 2010, it became the rags to riches story that Hollywood scriptwriters couldn't have predicted – but there was no fairytale ending.
Fans were left scratching their heads as United announced the signing of an unknown winger who had recently been playing in the Portuguese third division. He didn't even have a YouTube compilation video.
Sir Alex Ferguson later admitted that he'd never seen Bebé play and reportedly acted on the advice of assistant manager Carlos Queiroz. That turned out to be a big mistake.
Bebé's troubled upbringing brought him worldwide attention after he completed his move to Old Trafford. His unlikely path to stardom had intrigued and inspired so many people.
He'd grown up in the small city of Loures in Portugal, but his impoverished parents were unable to look after him and, aged 12, he was placed into an orphanage near Lisbon.
It was at the Casa do Gaiato shelter where Bebé learned how to play football and first honed his skills.
He went on to play for Portugal at the 2008 Homeless World Cup, scoring 40 goals in six matches, and then played at the European Street Football Festival a year later.
Bebé was soon spotted by Estrela da Amadora in the Portuguese third division and their coach immediately loved his style.
"He's a player who is the fruit of street football," said Jorge Paixão. "Nowadays players are schooled in the clubs, but he has none of this.
"He's an old-school player. He learnt to play in the street and has that natural creativity, an irreverence, and that makes all the difference."
After a year of playing semi-professional football, Bebé earned a dream move to Vitoria de Guimaraes in 2010 hoping to get a chance in the Portuguese top division for the first time.
He would have to wait for that chance – but not for the reason he might have expected.
Joining Manchester United
Bebé quickly began to catch people's attention at Vitoria, scoring five goals in six matches in pre-season and impressing onlookers with his skill, speed and raw talent.
Still, nobody could possibly have expected Manchester United to pay the £7.4million release clause for the Portuguese prodigy just five weeks after he'd joined Vitoria – and, unsurprisingly, that included Bebé himself.
"It was a shock for me, too," he said. "For the week leading up to it, I thought the whole thing was a joke. I thought they were leading me on.
"Then I realised it was serious. I was surprised. I was playing in the third division in Portugal and all of a sudden one of the world's biggest clubs wanted me? That's not very normal."
Without even playing in the Primeira Liga, Bebé, plucked from obscurity only weeks earlier, suddenly found himself about to train alongside Rio Ferdinand, Ryan Giggs, Wayne Rooney and co.
For the first and only time during his career, Ferguson bought a player without seeing him play, hoping the club had unearthed another gem like Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
"I know Real Madrid were hovering and so were Benfica," Ferguson said. "It was one of those decisions that had to be made quickly.
"Sometimes you have to go on instinct and sometimes you have to trust your staff as well. This was a first for me, but we rate our scouting department very highly and our scout in Portugal was adamant we needed to do something."
Bebé immediately began working with the first team as he tried to adapt to life in another country and meet the physical requirements of English football.
He made his Manchester United debut on September 22 as a substitute in a League Cup tie at Scunthorpe. The Telegraph described it as an "impressive cameo appearance" in which he "showed pace, trickery and an eye for a shot".
Another substitute appearance followed against Sunderland in the Premier League in October, before Bebé was handed his first start against Wolves later that month, again in the League Cup.
It went better than he could ever have imagined.
Picking up the ball on the right wing early in the second half, with the score still 0-0, Bebé drove forward and beat George Elokobi for pace before his cross was deflected up, over Wayne Hennessey, and over the line.
It was a moment he had dreamed of all his life. He had overcome all the odds and his journey from the streets of Portugal to Old Trafford was complete. The BBC even described him as "the best of the United bunch" that night.
Bebé's bright start to life at United continued with his next appearance in November when he made his Champions League debut against Bursaspor.
Introduced just after the hour mark, Bebé was played in on goal by Paul Scholes and fired past the goalkeeper with the outside of his right foot.
It was his second goal in as many games, and at that moment he was on top of the world.
However, Bebé's dream soon started to turn sour.
His next match came against Wolves, this time in the Premier League. United won 2-1, but Bebé, introduced as an early substitute for the injured Owen Hargreaves, frustrated fans – and clearly his manager – with his wayward crossing to the extent that he himself was subbed off in the second half.
It was a performance and a moment from which Bebé never really recovered.
He quickly became a figure of ridicule across the country. The early promise, not to mention the fact that he'd just stepped up from the Portuguese third tier to the Premier League, had been immediately forgotten. No matter, he'll forever be named on lists of United's worst signings.
The truth is simply that this Portuguese kid, who couldn't even speak English, lacked the footballing education to thrive at a club like Manchester United. At least straight away.
Bebé has also since admitted that he didn't have the right attitude during his time in Manchester. The move just came too soon for him.
He said: "I never took Manchester United seriously. I thought, 'I'm here, I'm doing well and I don't have to try hard every day. It was my fault. I was messing around too much.
"It's hard to play at Old Trafford. There's a lot of pressure to perform at the same level as some of the best players in the world. I couldn't get to Scholes' level overnight, nobody could.
"I basically went from playing on the street to the biggest team in England, it was impossible that I was going to click in the first year, I needed far longer to adapt."
Bebé only made two more appearances for United's first team after that Wolves game, playing regularly instead for the reserves but failing to stand out and being sent on loan to Besiktas in 2011.
Two more loan spells followed, and by 2014, he was desperate to leave the club.
He said: "Every day I called my agent to ask him to get me out. It was a bad time. When you do not play, even if you are at a great club, then you are not happy, so why continue?"
Bebe would join Benfica that summer, having only played 334 minutes for the Red Devils.
And nine years on, his move to Old Trafford remains one of the most baffling transfers in football history.
By Nathan Egerton
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