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Here at ChiIL Mama & ChiIL Live Shows, we're absolutely elated about Lookingglass Theatre Company's upcoming season. Save the dates! Many of our top favorite directors and actors are back, to bring these stellar stories to life. With the highly anticipated return of Hard Times and two world premiers, this season is one to watch for sure. We're especially excited for the season opener, adapted and directed by Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman from the book by Charles Dickens. We missed the earlier incarnation of this award-winning, circus-infused Hard Times and can't wait to catch it.
Hard Times is presented in association with The Actors Gymnasium, another top favorite of ours. My teens have each been cast in 3 youth circus shows there over the past few years, and they also spent last summer in a 6 week summer lab intensive at Lookingglass, culminating in an incredible original show created by all the teens involved. We're huge fans of their professional productions and their education and outreach as well. Chicago is lucky to have them!
for its 2017–2018 Season lineup.
The season begins with the return of the award-winning, circus-infused Hard Times, adapted and directed by Artistic Director and Ensemble Member Heidi Stillman from the book by Charles Dickens and in association with The Actors Gymnasium. Following Hard Times is the World Premiere of Plantation!, written by Ensemble Member Kevin Douglas and directed by Ensemble Member David Schwimmer. Concluding the 2017-2018 Season is the World Premiere of 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas, adapted by Ensemble Member David Kersnar and Althos Low from the books by Jules Verne. Kersnar also directs this new work. Subscriptions to Lookingglass’ 2017-2018 season are on sale now and may be purchased through the box office at (312) 337-0665 or lookingglasstheatre.org/subscribe.
The creative team includes Ensemble Members Daniel Ostling (scenic) and Mara Blumenfeld (costumes), with Artistic Associates Brian Sidney Bembridge (lighting), Andre Pluess (sound) and Sylvia Hernandez-DiStasi (circus/choreography). Additional creative team members include Amanda Herrmann (props), Isaac Schoepp (rigging), Eva Breneman (dialect) and Jeri Frederickson (stage manager).
Plantation! features Ensemble Member Louise Lamson (Kimberly) and Artistic Associate Ericka Ratcliff (Sydney), with Hannah Gomez (Diana), Lily Mojekwu (London), Linsey Page Morton (Kara), Tamberla Perry (Madison), Grace Smith (Kayley) and Janet Ulrich Brooks (Lillian).
The creative team includes Courtney O’Neill (scenic), Ensemble Member Mara Blumenfeld (costumes), Artistic Associates Christine A. Binder (lighting) and Rick Sims (sound and composition), with Amanda Herrmann (props), Eva Breneman (dialect) and Ari Clouse (stage manager).
20,000 Leagues Under the Seas features Ensemble Members Kareem Bandealy (Captain Nemo) and Thomas J. Cox (Gideon Spillet/J.B. Hobson) with Artistic Associates Walter Owen Briggs (Ned Land) and Kasey Foster (Professor Aronnax). The cast also includes Owais Ahmed (Harbert), Joe Dempsey (Farragut), Glenn-Dale Obrero (Neb/Mr. Drax) and Lanise Antoine Shelley (Conseil).
The creative team includes Todd Rosenthal (scenic), Sully Ratke (costumes), Artistic Associates Christine A. Binder (lighting) and Rick Sims (sound and composition), with Amanda Herrmann (props) and Mary Hungerford (stage manager).

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We brought our dog with us so we enjoyed the walks around the site aswell as being in an ideal location for walks further afield. We were surprised at how well the lodges were kitted out especially in the kitchen. The lodge was clean and welcoming, and can't fault the facilities such as shower, bath, hot tub etc. We really enjoyed our weekend and will be returning as soon as we can.
Set within the peace and quiet of the Cornish countryside, 10 Stonerush Valley is a beautiful place to stay if you are looking for that perfect family escape.
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With this plaque the winner will feel like he is the best ! This Wooden plaque can be personalized. The size is 19cm, 21cm and 23cm. The minimum order is €250,-.
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industry_corpus2: Power & Energy


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The Five Whys is an iterative technique to reveal the root cause of any given problem. Originally developed in the manufacturing processes at Toyota, the Five Whys has expanded into other practices including Kaizen, lean manufacturing, and Six Sigma.
It's like going to your primary care physician complaining of shoulder pain and then being sent home with a prescription. That pain is a symptom of a potentially larger problem that only a specialist could diagnose. Going through the Five Whys is like seeing a specialist, just within a team of focused, customer-caring people who want to solve the customer experience breakdown.
So when your team gathers together to assess the problem, instead of trying to fix a symptom or piece of the larger problem and failing at the result, they can actually provide a proper diagnosis that identifies the root cause so the appropriate action will achieve a customer-satisfying result.
By asking why at each stage of diagnosing the problem—five times (or more if necessary)—your team will not only understand the root cause of the problem, but it will often reveal the steps needed to resolve or eliminate the problem and possibly even create better efficiencies for your organization. Don't give up too early in your deep dive into the whys; the problem often lies where you least expect it.
Here is an example of going through the Five Whys method. Say the problem is that customers are complaining about the poor quality of installation instructions that come with their product. As a result, customers are calling the customer support line and asking how to do a specific step that is unavailable in the product's manual.
Start with clarifying the first why, which sets off the Five Whys method. Setting up the first question correctly is key to getting to the true root cause, so carefully consider that you are asking the right question in the first place. Each subsequent question then restates the answer to the prior 'why' response and so on, until you arrive at a root cause you can clearly identify.
"Why are customers complaining about the instruction manual that comes with our product?" Because it doesn't tell them how to install the product in older models or in odd-size situations.
"Why doesn't our installation manual cover older model or odd-size installation instructions?" Because we are using an outdated product manual that was borrowed from a product we discontinued two years ago.
"Why are we using an outdated product manual from a product we no longer sell?" Because no one in product development created a new one that supports the new product specifications and installation recommendations.
"Why didn't product development create a new manual for the new product?" Because product development never got the technical specs from the design department responsible for that product.
"Why didn't product development get technical specs from the design department?" Because the design department never got requirements based on all-case scenarios from the outsource division that builds the product.
And so on. So you can see by going through this iterative process you can quickly identify where breakdowns have occurred and set about fixing them. As in this example, it was one root cause (the design department never getting requirements based on all-case scenarios from the outsource division that actually builds the product) that set into motion a series of cascading events that resulted in a negative experience for customers.

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As parents, we try to do whatever we can do and provide whatever we can ,so that our children succeed in their respective fields. But, are all these efforts reciprocated in the same manner with the hard work and effort that is required from children’s side ???
In most cases I see that whatever effort is being made and whatever facilities that are being given from parent’s side are taken for granted and there is no or little effort from child’s and student’s side. That sincerity of effort is lacking.
Now a days we see that children from less privileged families are coming up and shining. So, what is it that is required for succeeding?
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Surveys of adults show that 13-33% of the adult population have regular difficulty either getting to sleep or staying asleep.1 2 3 Insomnia is dissatisfaction with sleep quantity or quality with one of more of difficulty initiating sleep, difficulty maintaining sleep, and early morning awakening. The sleep disturbance causes significant distress or impairment of functioning. There may be a feeling of having been awake all night even when getting some sleep.
People with comorbid disorders of physical or mental health, such as depression, have higher rates of insomnia. Depression and sleep disturbance are the first and third most common psychological reasons for patient encounters in general practice.4 Untreated, insomnia increases the risk of development or exacerbation of anxiety, depression, hypertension, and diabetes.5 6 This article outlines current concepts in insomnia and provides up to date information on treatment.
When does acute insomnia become chronic insomnia?
Most people will experience sleep disturbance or acute insomnia at some point in any given year. This often occurs around predictable times of stress or when sleep patterns are disrupted, such as with travel, busy periods at work, illness, or emotional upset. While people may be distressed about sleep loss during acute insomnia, once the trigger factors are removed, sleep usually returns to normal.

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text: It was an honour to perform and give this interview at Imperial War Museum North in July, launching the new First World War centenary exhibition ‘Lest We Forget?’. My great-grandfather, Jim Marshall, sent this photograph home during training with the Barnsley Pals Battalions. Reading his pencil message around the edges of the photograph, ‘Yours Sincerely The Dirty Five’ was the start of a journey into discovering the rest of this story; Five working class Barnsley lads who stuck together, right up to the Battle Of The Somme.


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text: Outstanding 3D car racing game. Choose your sports car (the longer you play, the more cars you can unlock) and race against other drivers in various locations across the world. Collect power-ups and upgrade your car. Lots of fun!

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Happy "love" week everyone. Whether you love it or hate it, the week of celebrating love is upon us. I have to admit, I'm glad this week helps us focus on love, and more importantly I'm glad my kids Valentine's are all set for the week. I'm more Amazon than Pinterest mom and so when my kid needs a Valentine Box for school we opted for this "almost" pre-made one and completed it on a snow day weeks ago.
Thanks to having boys and probably because I've learned to stay far away from going into retail stores for fear of my kids experiencing too many of the "gimme's" they were happy with some Valentine's I had saved last year and have no idea what's in the stores right now.
This month I end up pulling out a table runner I got at Target years ago, got some heart LED lights from Lidl a couple months ago, and have a couple red vintage heart mugs.
My oldest remembers that I put out candy for him last year and so I'll do that again this year on Valentne's Day. I found some cute felt red envelopes at, you guessed it, Target last year and will reuse those.
I've found some other goodies this month and thought it would be a fun spot to share them here. Are there certain things you're loving right now? I'm super excited about all the spring attire I'm seeing pop up online, but that'll have to wait for another post another day.
Valentine's or not, I got these cotton pajamas a few weeks ago and they are so well made and comfy. Spring is coming and I'm getting ready to ditch my flannel pajamas for these guys! Yes, you can get them for your kids too- because apparently matching Valentine's pajamas is a thing now. Yikes.
If you don't have a simple table runner, I love this buffalo check one because it could easily transition for Spring. I love when things have many uses!
Do you know about the shop Elora Inspired? She does adorable t-shirts so of course this guy is perfect for February, and she just released coloring mats that are totally washable. If you are local, she is too! and if not, what a great gift anytime!
Books books books. If you do opt for getting your kids items, we love If Jesus Lived Inside My Heart and Who Sang the First Song by Ellie Holcomb.
However your week unfolds and whether or not you've been putting stickers on your kids doors each night with ways you love them or not, I hope you find Valentine's a day to tell someone you love them, and to celebrate a day filled with someone you care about! Don't worry about the commercial things and keep it simple.
I'm always reminded during holidays like these that although I may see what other moms are doing, my kids don't. They aren't on Instagram, Hallelujah. Happy week friends. I am thankful for you!


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Quba Mosque is a mosque in Medina. It is the oldest mosque in the world. When Muhammad and his friends were coming to Medina, they stopped over in Kuba. Muhammad started to build the mosque after his friend helped him. Umar II added a minaret and enlarged the mosque. Suleiman the Magnificent destroyed the mosque and rebuilt it.
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The weekend analysis of the Bears' first preseason game seems to have taken on life-and-death significance.
Television and radio sports talk show hosts fielded impassioned comments, dissected every play and fueled arguments regarding the Bears' lackluster victory over the expansion Carolina Panthers.
Meanwhile, the mind of veteran Bears cornerback Donnell Woolford remains fixed on a real-life tragedy.
"My niece died at about 3 o'clock in the morning. She got killed in a high-speed car chase during a bank robbery," Woolford said Friday night after the last wave of reporters had quizzed him about the progress of the Bears' secondary.
"My mind was kind of in and out during the game. She was only 24."
Denise Holden was a police officer in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina. Like her famous uncle, she was trying to do her job in the wee hours Friday morning, chasing the bad guys from Carolina, trying to come up with a big interception.
As the bank robbers continued to speed away, Holden pursued. "Her car hit something and flipped over a couple of times," Woolford said. "She was killed instantly. I can't believe it. It was really bothering me the whole game. We were really tight."
Woolford plans to travel to North Carolina on Tuesday to comfort his family. Suddenly, the Bears-Carolina exhibition game doesn't seem very important.
Winners and losers: Rashaan Salaam became a millionaire last week, winning the "NFL lottery" after signing a four-year, $3.8 million contract. But he was distraught to learn Friday that a former high school football and track opponent from his hometown of San Diego has been charged with second-degree murder.
Riley Washington, a running back at the University of Nebraska, allegedly was involved in a convenience-store shooting last week.
Washington starred in track and football at a public school in San Diego, while Salaam attended a small private school in suburban La Jolla at the urging of his mother. Washington and Salaam competed against each other in major track meets.
"That's too bad," Salaam said. "I hate to hear that, especially about somebody from San Diego. I always thought of him as being a good person. I didn't think he was thuggish or anything. I feel sorry for his family."
Telltale heart: In high school, Washington once defeated Salaam in the 100-meter dash at the frosh-soph championships. The race was extremely close and Salaam protested.
"Well, they went over to this driveway, and you see these other kids go farther down on the driveway. Rashaan had challenged Riley to another race, and Rashaan beat him clearly. That just kind of lets you know that this kid was not going to give in to anybody. The kid just has tremendous heart."
Salaam qualified for the state track meet as a junior and senior in the 200 and 400 meters.
Rookie payback: Salaam may have missed the first two weeks of training camp, but he will not escape the rookie hazing that is part of NFL tradition.
"We'll let him know that he was missed," said veteran guard Jay Leeuwenburg. "We'll have a few things for him. I figure we owe him about 15 things for each day he missed."
Leeuwenburg began his NFL career with the Kansas City Chiefs.
"I was pretty much the whipping boy as a rookie," Leeuwenburg said. "We had a few more veterans on the team there. I had to get them breakfast every morning. And I had to do all the little things to make up for their laziness. I had to carry their playbooks to the meetings for them--the things to show you cared."
Don't even ask: Veteran running back Lewis Tillman is not a part of the "Rashaan Salaam Welcoming Committee."
"I don't even want to discuss the part about Salaam," Tillman said. "That's old news, and I think it's timeout from talking about that. I'll tell you the honest-to-God truth. I don't really care about that situation. I'm here to do what I can do. Certain things you don't have any control over. I'm happy with myself."
NBA update: Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFL Players Association, sent an overnight letter to NBA general counsel Simon Gourdine last week "to set the record straight" regarding the effect of union decertification.
Upshaw wrote: "The NFLPA made a decision to decertify in 1989 for one reason and one reason only: The federal court of appeals in the `Powell' case ruled that NFL players could not pursue antitrust rights so long as they were represented by a union. . . . This put us in one of our bleakest periods in history, but we refused to give up and take the crumbs the owners were offering."
NBA players, led by union dissenters Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing and Alonzo Mourning, have threatened to decertify in hopes of ending the current player lockout. NBA Commissioner David Stern, however, said last week that "if there's no union, the owners will keep the players locked out."
Ride on: More than 100 riders and horses will perform at Tempel Farms in Wadsworth from Friday through Sunday for a showcase of riders aged 16-21 in the North American Young Riders Championships. Chicago area riders include Jacqueline Walker of Naperville and Mikki Gardner from Lake Forest. This event is considered a stepping-stone to Olympic competition. . . . Chet Coppock attended his 44th consecutive Bears preseason opener Friday night. Many of those years, Bears games were broadcast by Jack Brickhouse, who will be a guest of Coppock on SportsChannel's "Back Table" segment at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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Chris Kamara foresaw a cagey Chelsea display against Manchester United last weekend. And our man is going for more of the same when the Blues travel to the Emirates to face Arsenal.
Kammy can see another tale of two contrasting styles unfolding in north London’s Super Sunday clash with both respective managers unlikely to budge when it comes to their traditional approaches.
Mourinho’s penchant for stifling the opposition has been well-documented but can the Gunners go into this heavyweight clash having gleaned something from United’s recent defeat?
“Will Wenger take lessons from Manchester United’s defeat? No. They’ve been on such a great run recently and as far as this season is concerned he’s not going to change” Kammy added.
Ladbrokes go 7/5 that the hosts put something of a dent in Chelsea’s title charge with the Blues priced up at 2/1 to triumph and the draw a 23/10 shot.


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Challenge (college assignment): Use an external tool to create a short video that tells a story showing the value a social media network (Senior Care Share) offers ‘sandwich’ generation adults caring for their senior parents. Use the medium to show: a scenario rich in human factors; participants thinking on multiple levels; progression in the experience; and logic that will bring them back to the social media network.
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The key is, I miss the concept of having family at the Seder table. It’s a beautiful, sentimental idea that belongs with Pesach, like it was written into the script. But I don’t miss having my family at the Seder table, or my husband’s family either for that matter. That’s when the rosy picture breaks down. When I wrote the book, “What Do You Mean, You Can’t Eat in My Home, a Guide for Newly Observant Jews and Their Lesser Observant Family Members,” I had a conundrum when I got to the chapter on Pesach. First I tackled Pesach as a cheerleader: You can do it, you can have Seders even in your mother’s non-observant home, or you can join together with your secular sister and her kids. Here’s how! And for some families, these compromises and adjustments are a small price to pay for the pleasure of being with family on Pesach, and it is a goal that can be accomplished and relished. To those families who have figured out how to bring together observant and non-observant (or lesser observant) families at the Sederim, G-d bless you. In some families, compromises won’t work, and true harmony is only reached by making a mutual decision that on this holiday, or for this simcha, or in this circumstance, we just can’t be together. We still love each other, but we have to separate from each other at this time. And so it is, in our family, for Pesach.
I remember when my husband pointed out to me that all of my life, I had never actually experienced a Pesach Seder on Pesach. When we were growing up in our secular home, we knew we were Jewish because we celebrated Hanukkah instead of Christmas, and Passover instead of Easter. Our Seder took all of twenty minutes. We used a booklet produced by the Reform movement called, “The Concise Family Seder”, and my mom cooked a delicious (non-kosher of course) brisket and bought a box of matzoh. We dipped the parsley, recited the plagues, ate the horseradish, sang “Dayenu”, and got right to the meal. Every Seder, and its accompanying meal, was over before Passover actually began, because who’s going to wait until 9 PM to start? I’m sure we were eating bagels the next morning, and there was no meaningful discussion at the table. What was meaningful was that this completely secular family was still holding on to this annual ritual of the Passover Seder. It wasn’t what the Seder stood for that really mattered; what mattered is that we still identified as Jews, who therefore, did three things: circumcised our babies, avoided Christmas, and then sat around a Seder table reading stories of our ancestors to remember that we are Jews. Even when I was away at college, and an adult in my twenties before marrying my husband, I came home for the Seder.
For the past fifteen years, my husband and I have been conducting the Pesach Seder in our own home. We don’t join with other BT families (as many do, to relieve the sadness of loss of family and to celebrate together in friendship), but instead, we give our three children ample time at the Sederim to share over the volumes of learning they have brought home from Yeshiva. Getting together with family is not an option for us. Going there is impossible because there would be nothing kosher about it, and no willingness to accommodate to the extent we’d need. So then, why not invite family to our Sederim? We’ve always done so, but the answer is always no, and I understand. To them, it looks like a punishment. You don’t start until 9 PM? You spend two hours with all of the rituals before you get to the meal? Instead of nachas over the children’s excitement and learning, there is something between distaste and disdain, and who needs that at the Seder table?
I feel sad when I see the children’s excitement at the Seder table, and I know that their grandparents are missing out on all this nachas. I feel sad when I know that all of our family members choose to separate from us on the most family-centric holiday of the year. I feel sad when I’m going through the sometimes-exhausting Pesach preparations, and I dream about what it would be like to have a mother or sibling to share it with, or at least someone who could even relate. It can be a lonely time, Pesach, one that really reminds me how far we have moved away from our families of origin.
I’m not going to end this essay with a “rah rah” sentimental speech about how good my husband and I feel as observant Jews, and how this makes up for all of the sadness, etc. This is what is true for me. Sometimes the path of the BT is a lonely one, especially when it comes to family. Sometimes I ache for my family to join me. Sometimes I’m angry that they aren’t here. Sometimes they are angry that I am not there. Sometimes I miss the good old days when I didn’t know any better, and I didn’t have to clean out the whole house for Pesach, and the Seder was over in twenty minutes. . . let’s eat. But there’s no going back. What there is, after fifteen years on this path, is increased pride and conviction of where my husband, children, and I have gone – no turning back – and increased acceptance that this has meant a necessary separation from our families of origin. This is what it is. It isn’t perfect, but this is it, so we live with it and make the most of it. And sometimes we cry. While my husband’s eyes are brimming over from too much horseradish, mine are sometimes teary from being lonely for observant family to join us. G-d receives all of our tears, whatever their origin. A very famous alcoholic came up with an expression I find very true everytime Pesach rolls around: “G-d grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Amen!
I only know of seders for the most part that have been small….even when we went to friends’ houses, it wasn’t that crowded..so i don’t feel that I am missing too much with big sederim..
It is so interesting (and often frustrating) to see the wide range of differences between how family members accept you when you become frum. In my experience I found that some are very agressively against it, others are more “if YOU want to, but it’s not for me” and some others may actually partake in some of it. I have one cousin who won’t talk to me anymore and another who is going through the BT process. Most seem to fall in the middle category though. The “the Seder is too late for me” reason might be an actual realistic concern that some have (it is too late for me too as I tend to get stomach problems), but for others it is simply another weapon in their diatribe against observance.
On the idea of having some connection with family before Pesach, such as starting the meal earlier and doing some of the seder before sundwon, as” I”m Jewish” suggests in the last post, this is an idea that some famlies try, to address the late start that turns off many secular Jews. I discuss this option in my book, “What do you mean, you can’t eat in my home?” It can work for some families. Doesn’t work for ours. Our family won’t come within 100 miles of us anywhere around a Jewish holiday. For us to get together before Pesach, it would have to be something like having dinner two weeks before! But thanks anyway for the thought!
I have a thought. For some non-observant families, the meaning of the Seder is indeed as they describe — some matzoh, some parsley, some abridged readings, and a nice dinner.
Is it possible that you could have such a dinner with them BEFORE Pesach? There wouldn’t be a halachic problem with eating matzoh prior to Pesach, or reciting abridged versions of the prayers? That way, they can still have the joy of having extended family together, and you wouldn’t be compromising what needs to happen during Pesach?
Just a thought / suggestion.
Touching post Azriela. It helped me appreciate what we had for the short time we had it.
Our parents lived about 4 miles apart. So each Pesach we would be at my wife’s parents for the first seder and mine for the second. Both our moms were very accomodating with our special kashrut needs, and we, in turn, tried to minimize any unecessary demands. There was always an uncle or cousin who would balk at the late start time, but often it was those very people who kept the seder going late with their extra questions!
My wife’s intent was never to make her own seder while our moms were still able to. Unfortunately they both passed away at relatively young ages and the seder was thrust upon us much sooner than we had hoped.
Even though we now live in Israel and have a “frum” seder with our FFB neighbors every year, we wouldn’t trade those early sederim with our parents, with our kids with their grandparents, with all the compromises, for anything.
When I was growing up my family was traditional (some stuff, yes, other stuff, no), but we were kosher all year as well as for Pesach. So the first night we had my aunt, uncle, and cousins on my Dad’s side, which everyone grinned and bore Manaschewitz hagadda style until 9:00 when my uncle observed it was getting very late, and they’d go home. What we kids enjoyed was the second night, when my mom (who’d lost her family in the Holocaust), invited a couple friends and neighbors whom my parents enjoyed being with. That helped establish my own minhag as an adult, especially after my parents passed away, i.e. inviting friends and singles who otherwise would not have a seder. That even more recently includes some non-frum friends who don’t ask and don’t tell how they’re getting to us (I learned this method from our friendly local Chabad rabbi). Especially after my divorce, I learned the hard way that since no yomtov was going to be Jewish storybook perfect I’d better take care of myself and make sure that the Seder would be as enjoyable as possible for me and my kids so it wouldn’t be so painful.
Certainly less guilty because I don’t want to have my parents having to spend Pesach all alone. It is all a matter of perspective I guess.
My compromise is to visit with my parents shortly before Passover. A seder with them would be impossible, so we have our “family time” early. Having my parents visit before hand also helps me get my cleaning (at least the spring cleaning part) done early.
I think as the years and the observance progressed and we had the meals at my parents, it became more and more difficult. This was obviously seen by my parents and it almost became mutually agreed (albeit unsaid) that we just couldn’t do it anymore.
year 2) we order food from mealmart, parents don’t like it (the taste).
year 3) we build Tin foil structures in their house to protect the food on a newly bought heating tray on a timer and eat at a separate table (pushed next to the big one. We start the Seder at 8:30. No one is too happy about that.
year 4) Oh forget it.
This post has to hit at the solar plexus of any thinking BT or any FFB whose views are more mdakdek than his or her parents and who find such practices foreign to their own. There simply is no easy answer to the issue but one can and should look back at the Avos and Imahos, Moshe Rabbeinu, R Akiva, Resh Lakish and the Ger from Vilna as one’s spiritual parents. RYBS related a story about how the Gaon of Vilna comforted the Ger Tzedek of Vilna at his most lonely night-The Ger Tzedek asked the Gaon who would mourn for him. The Gaon responded by quoting a verse from Isiah 44.6 and stated that God is a father to everyone who has no father and is a son to someone who dies childless. I think that this Dvar Torah rings very true for BTs who face far more in their lives in dealing with family members who simply have no comprehension of what a Torah observant life is and who have adopted heterodox practices and lifestyles. Consequently, BTs develope close friendships with rabbanim and chavrusos, etc, almost out of need. Ultimately, the raising of a family of one’s own and becoming integrated into the Torah observant world, with or without one’s family of origin, are very important factors that simply cannot be understated in importance.
Thanks for the empathic responses. I usually try to write more upbeat cheerleader kinds of posts, and so this one was a risk for me, and I wasn’t sure how it would go over. I see that the responses are small, but the empathy is high, so I know that a handful of people needed to know that they aren’t the only ones who experience this. I think it’s important not to whitewash some of the more painful aspects of the bt process, and to stop pretending that somehow, discovering the Torah compensates for all loss. Loss is loss. I am still convinced that we made the right decision to go on the path we’ve gone, but I can still, at times, feel sad about what and who I had to leave behind to do so. And yes, as so many have agreed, Pesach is a particularly poignant time to be without family, especially when that family isn’t deceased, but rather, just not interested. I appreciate those of you who gave an honest response. Many blessings to you and yours on this journey.
Thanks Azriella; I’ve wanted to write a post like this one since BBT began….I related strongly. It’s too bad there isn’t some organized group of BT’s who can do sedarim together each year. It’s not family, but it could fill the empty spaces a bit.
Bas Yisrael: Thanks for pointing out the silver lining. Hakaras Hatov is what it’s all about.
Chag Kasher v’Sameach to all.
Azriela, this is very compelling. It is painful to read that your parents will not tolerate the traditional seder, even if they don’t quite eat the shiurim or stay up till the “bitter” end.
I must admit that to some extent, however, I think dealing with this is just part of growing up — and not just for BT’s and their children. I remember when I was little, thinking that everyone had a mother, and a father, and a grandmother, and a grandfather, as I did. And then I was confused because my cousin had two of each kind of grandparent. Why didn’t I also have two sets of grandparents? Well, I just didn’t, just as one of my parents just didn’t have two parents, or, later (but much too soon), any. I think it is to my parents’ credit that they didn’t make a big deal about it. This is the life, and the family, God has given us.
Surely your children are being taught that they should be grateful that they have loving grandparents in the first place who most likely did not have the situational and educational opportunities to make the decisions about religious commitment that you did.
And I am sure you teach them, too, that whatever your parents’ limitations, the reason you are making the seder at all and that the children are there with you to celebrate it in its full glory is that those same impatient, “intolerant” parents passed onto you, somehow, that spark of commitment to being Jewish, or that sense that being Jewish meant something special, or something somehow positive about Judaism or even about Hashem, from which you were able to draw and light the flame of Yiddishkeit that warms all their lives on these special nights.
This way your children understand that their grandparents are in some way really always indeed really with them, “in their way,” and their participation in your life, and theirs, can be appreciated positively, and they can be even more grateful to have grandparents at all.
Wow. Excellent. I never knew anyone else felt that. Pesach is always hard for me, because my family will have nothing to do with me either. TG my parents are great, and come in to visit often. But Pesach time? NEVER. Its interesting because everyone always says how the Pesach seder is one of the only Jewish traditions that is done pretty much by everyone. This is a double edged sword. Because my parents have their traditional pre-pesach seder/dinner, they feel they could never give that up for what I do. Growing up Pesach was a great time with my cousins, and I do miss that… But at the same time, I think what disturbed me so much about Reform Judaism was the encouragment to “pick and choose” observances. So.. like they say, I have come to realize I can’t have my cake (chametz free of course) and eat it too.
I have not been home with my parents for thirty years for a pesach sedar, it is a hard time of year for me. As for my kids, all year round they do feel different then their friends, but I think they are happy for the things they do have, like the amount of attention they get at the sedar. Plus they are not working so hard getting ready for all this company and babysitting for neices and nephews. great post, thanks for writing, I can REALLY relate. The lack of frum family is something I truly miss all year round, but I try to focus on what I do have, which is alot.
Your situation sounds a lot like ours, with one key difference – the grandparents are all nifter. Although there are other frum people in the extended family, my husband’s cousins are quite busy with their own rapidly growing (B”H) branches, and their own cousins have relocated to OOT. So my kids will again hear the same mantra as yours have. They’re so used to not having family that they don’t even care about it at this point. I’m the one with the problem!
There are no words to add to what you wrote. You said it all.
Agree completely — very sad. Gives new insight into the medrash that only 1/5th of the Yidden came out of Mitzraim. I imagine there was a general sadness or even anger at those friends and family who couldn’t deal with the emunah, or whatever was required to be one of the yotziim.


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In May 2011, Anna Alaburda filed a class action lawsuit against her alma mater, the Thomas Jefferson School of Law (“TJSL”). Ms. Alaburda alleged that despite graduating in 2008 near the top of her class and passing the bar exam on her first try, she was unable to find full-time employment as an attorney. She claimed that TJSL misled potential students by inflating the post-graduate employment statistics it reported to U.S. News and World Report, the nation’s leading publication for law school rankings. In particular, Ms. Alaburda alleged that when deciding to enroll at TJSL, she relied on a representation in the 2003 edition of U.S. News indicating that 80.1% of TJSL students were employed nine months after graduation.
Following denial of class certification, Ms. Alaburda continued pursuing her individual claims for intentional fraud, negligent misrepresentation, and violation of the Consumer Legal Remedies Act (“CLRA”) against TJSL. After a trial lasting nearly three weeks, the jury returned a 9-3 verdict in favor of the defense on March 24, 2016. Specifically, the jury determined that TJSL did not falsely represent its post-graduate employment statistics in the U.S. News editions that Ms. Alaburda reviewed. In a post-trial interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune, juror Wade DeMond explained that while some jurors believed that TJSL could have done a better job reporting the job status of its graduates, most jurors ultimately decided that statistics reported in the specific editions of U.S. News that Ms. Alaburda relied on were accurate. Had the jury been asked to consider other editions of the publication, Mr. DeMond speculated that the outcome may have been different.
For more on the San Diego Union-Tribune’s interview with Mr. DeMond, see Gary Warth’s article, “Jury rejects fraud claim against law school,” published in the March 24, 2016 edition of the newspaper.

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For the longest time having a Heinkel-I without the proper “Heinkel-I” steering wheel center bothered me. Since the part wasn’t being reproduced and was rarely offered on e-Bay, I resigned myself to my fate and learned to live with this empty spot in my car. A standard “Heinkel” steering wheel badge would have to do; who would really know the difference? Well I did, and then one day a few months ago one appeared on E-bay. I even knew the person who was selling it; I could already visualize it in my car! I contacted the seller to see if he would stop the auction and sell it to me; no, he wanted to let the auction run its course. I submitted my bid with e-sniping software for what I thought was a fair price. Well, apparently someone wanted it more than I did. It sold for almost $80! It was time to take matters into my own hands.
Over the past few years I’d investigated 3D printers for work. If you’re not familiar with them, they print plastic three dimensional objects tiny layers at a time from a computer file you design or purchase. Think of a laser-guided continuously extruding hot glue gun and you’ll have a pretty good idea of how they operate.
As it turns out, my local library (of all places) has a 3D printer. Why not design and print my own steering wheel center? Since I’m always up for a new challenge I decided to try it.
Sounds simple enough, but like many other things on a Heinkel you know that it’s not. This is the story of my 3D printing experience. But first, a little background on the state of 3D printing today.
In the commercial world 3D printers have been making inroads for several years and are well established in many industries as prototyping tools. While the printers are slow, the end-to-end elapsed time of producing a 3D prototype is much faster than the “old” method of designing, sending drawings to a machine shop, having molds fabricated, and so on. 3D machines used for these tasks tend to be expensive ($25,000 and up) and out of the reach of most hobbyists.
There’s an active do-it-yourself community using 3D printers at a consumer level. These printers are available starting at $150, with the sweet spot being the $750- $2,500 market. In this price range there are a variety of features but to be honest they pretty much all operate the same way, with the differences (at least to me) being packaging or the support and user community that has grown up around them.
But let’s get back to printing. Question one: how would I create an image that I could print? My first thought was scanning. I was using a Makerbot printer, and Makerbot makes a 3D digitizer. A digitizer lets you scan an image from multiple angles, and then the software embedded in the device takes over and creates a 3D model. Piece of cake?; not really. As it turns out the local Makerbot “boutique” did not have a digitizer, and the people they referred me to said theirs was broken. Reading between the lines I got the sense that digitizers do not work very well.
My next approach was to use an app for my iPad to scan the part and create a file. Here’s how this works (in theory): Place the object on a flat surface. Take about 30 or 40 pictures from various angles and the software does the rest.
This didn’t work either. The software doesn’t work with shiny objects.
The final option was to create my own design using CAD (Computer Aided Design) software. Several programs are available for little or no cost that you can use to create images. Two of the most popular are Sketch Up and Tinkercad. Sketch Up is a downloadable program that you install on your computer, and Tinkercad is a hosted application that you use over the internet. Sketch Up, even though a professional would tell you is a simplified version of CAD software, still has quite a learning curve. Tinkercad is easier to use, but has an odd interface with unconventional commands so it too takes some to master.
As it turns out I happen to be very lucky. My daughter was home from her graduate school program and volunteered to design the piece for me. If you’ve been reading my blog you’ve seen her work before; she wove my cargo net (http://heinkels.blogspot.com/2013/03/cargo-net.htmlhttp://heinkels.blogspot.com/2013/03/cargo-net.html), made a nice birthday card (http://heinkels.blogspot.com/2013/11/heinkel-birthday-card.htmlhttp://heinkels.blogspot.com/2013/11/heinkel-birthday-card.html), and also has her own Etsy store where she makes custom ordered 3D fabric sculptures: (http://etsy.com/shop/gabbysfeltedfriendshttp://etsy.com/shop/gabbysfeltedfriends). She created the dimensions on paper and then completed some Tinkercad tutorials.
If you think of the steering wheel center as a series of geometric shapes grouped together, Tinkercad lets you make a dome (the top) and merge it with a cylinder (the base) and hollow it out (I think they call it making a donut). Once the shape was configured the engraved “Heinkel-I” image had to be incorporated into the design. There are Heinkel logo files available on the internet. Kate took one of these images and added the “I” to make it a full “Heinkel-I” logo. After that it’s a question of scaling the components and merging in the image. These components are then merged into a computer document called an “STL” (Standard Tessellation Language) file.
Once you have an STL image from the design program you are ready to convert it into the proprietary file format required by the 3D printer. After you load this file into the computer program supplied by the printer manufacturer you will have a chance to make some adjustments. You’ll need to experiment here; I automatically assumed that I wanted the finest resolution and quality and the program told me it would take over 29 hours to print! The fastest option was about 90 minutes. In the end I settled for a finer (but not too fine) resolution that clocked in around 3.5 hours. Once you have this file its time to actually print.
29 Hours is a bit too long!
The hobbyist-level printers use either PLA or ABS plastic. PLA is corn-derived and is biodegradable. ABS is petroleum-based and used extensively in the automotive industry. ABS printing produces fumes and requires ventilation, so my library chose a Makerbot printer that uses PLA. Some printers can use either, so depending on what you are doing you need to be mindful of that. Since I was going to paint my steering wheel center and not expose it to the elements I reasoned that I was fine with PLA. The plastic comes in a variety of colors on spools resembling fat fishing line. I chose a clear/white as that was what was in the printer, and I figured it would be easy to paint.
Printing is pretty easy. Load the file in from a USB memory stick and off you go.
3D printing is a multisensory experience. The melting plastic has faint odor, the machine makes all sorts of noises depending on what it is doing, and of course there are control screens and lights and printer head motion. It’s oddly fascinating to watch. Since we were printing in a public library on a busy Saturday afternoon we drew a lot of attention. Kids were very interested, and we showed them an example of what we were trying to do and you could see the wheels turning in their minds about the projects they would create.
The printer first makes a “raft” which is a base that the actual object sits on. In our case we also asked it to produce supports so it could fabricate the lip of the steering wheel center. Since 3D printing is an additive process (layers upon layers), if the design doesn’t have enough support it cannot print a cantilevered edge.
I had this notion that I could print a part and the thing would come out fully baked and ready to use. Strike that thought from your mind! Once you’ve completed the print there’s a fair amount of cleanup required.
To fully expose the printed object you need to remove the raft and supports. The raft was easy enough to remove. The supports were difficult. There were supports to hold up the edge, but also supports in the middle to hold up the center of the dome. After about an hour with a box cutter and X-acto knife these were sufficiently removed.
It looked like a movie star without makeup. This is where a little patience, a sharp knife, and some basic auto body skills came in handy. My daughter was unhappy with the outline of the letters, so she spent about an hour using a carving tool to clean them up. Then I sanded the dome with 320 grit wet sandpaper and applied glazing compound in the depressions. I repeated the process to make sure I got all the holes filled in.
On the whole I’m pretty happy with how this “Version 1.0” came together. I’m going to try a Version 2.0, which will print the cap and base separately, hopefully eliminating the need for most supports (which were very difficult to remove). I’ll glue the pieces together and determine a way to secure it inside the steering wheel.
Some Parting Thoughts: I don’t suggest trying to make a living reproducing Heinkel parts with a 3D printer! Not counting design time and actual printing, the setup/cleanup/painting processes probably took about 4 hours. I do think with a little work you can make parts that are not available anymore and look like the originals, or create your own custom parts. It’s worth a try and I’m glad I did it.
Also- I am curious what caused the "record player grooves" in the final printed piece, I assume a software artifact but also possibly due to lower resolution printing? Thanks for posting this, it was very informative and looks like fun.
Just $2. The grooves are related to resolution chosen. At the highest resolution available it was going to take 29 hours.


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Color Compensating filters - Some photographic situations require specific color corrections. For example, when shooting daylight film under fluorescent lighting, some magenta correction is needed in order to remove the greenish tint that would otherwise appear. The amount of color correction required is most accurately measured via a color temperature meter.
This filter is glass and measures 100 x 140mm (4 x 5.65") x 4mm thick.
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Time is one of the last abstract concepts to develop in children. It’s why a three year old cannot conceive of 10 more days until Christmas and many a nine or ten year old struggles with the notion that Julius Caesar invaded these shores a thousand years – or ten centuries – before William of Normandy did. It was one of the very few useful observations I recall from my generally poor three year teaching training at Bishop Otter College, Chichester in the 1960s.
It presumably then follows that when a brain is heading in the opposite direction, at the other end of life, time is likely to be one of the first things to slip off the mental hard drive. That is certainly our experience.
I used to joke (perish the thought) about people “who don’t know what day of the week it is”. My Loved One hasn’t had a clue whether it’s Monday, Thursday or Sunday for over a year now. I’m drafting this piece on 14 January. Before I disappeared off to my PC I asked him what month we’re in. After a bit of thought he said brightly, like an approval-seeking child: “Is it September?” Asking him what the year is produces some unlikely answers too. Maybe because he lived the first 55 years of his life in the 20th century he readily slips back there.
None of that matters much because he can simply take each day as it comes and I’ll tell him what’s going on – careful to avoid information overload which always exacerbates confusion.
More disconcerting (for me, anyway) is his increasing inability to sort out what time of day it is or to be able to tell the time reliably on his watch or a clock. Several times in recent weeks I have told him, 6pm-ish, that I’ll start cooking dinner next job only to discover that he’s gone upstairs and started to undress because he thinks it’s bedtime. More than once he’s tried to get dressed in the middle of the night because “it’s time to get up”. I’ve sometimes found him coated and scarfed by the front door too because “We’re going to (Wherever) aren’t we?” when actually that planned excursion was hours later or the next day.
One night last week, I came in from a work job about an hour after the carer had finished her stint. MLO had painstakingly (although very badly – strange items in the wrong places) laid the table for a meal. “Oh” I said, a bit taken aback. “What’s this for?” He said it was for breakfast. He wasn’t sure how many people were coming so he’d laid it for three. He thought it was early morning. It’s quite surprising really that I don’t weep – or tear my hair out – more often.
Even odder – delusional in effect – is his conviction that “they” have in some way altered the time. “I don’t understand it.” he’ll say. “Why did they have to change something which worked perfectly well?” I’ve patiently explained about a hundred times that nothing has changed. In the UK we shift the time forward one hour in March and back one hour in October and have done so all his life, I point out. I get blank looks of disbelief as if I’m the one talking nonsense. It’s an idea very firmly lodged in his dementia-afflicted mind and a conversation we have on repeat loop.
Of course we’ve travelled a lot in recent years and have often had to deal with different time zones. Could that be why when I’m out working and ring him to touch base he sometimes asks me “What time is it where you are?” I tell him it’s nine o’clock at night, or whatever, just as it is for him. “No. I don’t think so” he’ll say. “I simply don’t understand this new system” and off we go again. It’s a circular route.
You are supposed, I gather, not to argue with someone who has dementia. The professional advice is that you simply agree with everything they say. Hmm. I try but I really can’t have him getting dressed and wandering off at 2am or trying to go to bed when he hasn’t had any supper.
When it’s things which really don’t matter I’m trying to cultivate casual granddaughter-speak and that usefully impartial word “Whatever …” although I can’t get it out without a note of irony. In a way it’s rather nice because such an expression is so absurdly far from my normal speech mode that even MLO recognises the incongruity and we smile together. Sometimes.
Learning from GD1 at MLO’s 70th birthday lunch in 2015 (featured photograph). Doesn’t he look well here on the same day!


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In this report we read about two assassins, reputedly working for Mossad, who killed a leading member of Hamas’ engineering department in Tunis. Both gunmen were later identified and arrested in Croatia. Both were carrying Bosnian passports. The Croatian government, in cahoots with the government of Bosnia are, for some as yet unknown reason, refusing to hand the killers over to the Tunisian authorities. The entire episode is murky and dirty and still to be fully understood by the public.
I wonder to what extent Wahhabism is being used by Zionism and western Capitalism to further those agendas across the globe?
I am glad you put the question through… very interesting one indeed.


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PLATTSBURGH, NY __ Diane Austin, dean of student affairs at Lasell College in Newton, Mass., will be visiting Plattsburgh State University of New York as part of the Distinguished Visiting Alumni Program on Tuesday and Wednesday, Feb. 24 and 25.
She will be making a public presentation, "The College, the Student, the Parents: The Challenge of Renegotiating Boundaries," on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 5 p.m. in the Mowry Conference Room, Redcay Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
Austin received both her undergraduate degree in English in 1973 and her master's degree in education in 1976 from Plattsburgh State. She has served as the dean of student affairs at Lasell College since 1995. As the dean, she is the chief student affairs officer for the College providing leadership and administration for a comprehensive student affairs program. She also serves as a member of the President's Cabinet and oversees all student affairs operations including athletics, career services, the counseling center, health services, judicial affairs, new student programming, residential life and student activities.
Prior to her current position, Austin was the associate dean of student affairs and director of new student programs at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass.
While a student at Plattsburgh State, Austin was a residence hall director and a teaching assistant in the Department of Counselor Education.
Austin will spend her time at Plattsburgh State meeting with students, faculty and staff members. She will also host a senior seminar, "Arts Management and the Role of Major Music Volunteer Organizations," on Tuesday, Feb. 24 at 3 p.m. in Room 112, Myers Fine Arts Building. The seminar is free and open to the public.


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Agricultural/Farm - Zehr Insurance Brokers Ltd.
Supporting the Farm & Agri-Business communities for many years.
Farm and Agri-Business play an integral role in our society and communities. Zehr Insurance Brokers understands the importance of these operations and have been supporting the Farm & Agri-Business communities for many years. Through our many years of servicing the agriculture community, we have become a large provider of insurance for all types of farming operations and agri-business. We provide choices to our clients by engaging in explanations to ensure a clear understanding of coverage and also ensuring the proper coverage is applied.
Our success has been our small town approach in communicating effectively to our clients, along with our ability to address situations from a business standpoint. Due to our proven track record of exceptional service, integrity and overall quality of business, Zehr has built a strong relationship with our insurance companies. As a broker we have access to multiple insurance companies to ensure we provide our clients with proper coverage for their specific, unique situation at a competitive price.
With Zehr you have options!
Contact any of our offices to speak to a Farm insurance specialist. We would be more than happy to visit your operation(s) and provide you with a comprehensive, no obligation quotation.

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The idea that worshiping Jesus Christ is best done not when we just sing about Him or what He has done or what He will do in the future. The highest and best worship is modeled by what the angels do: sing to God about God.


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Putting Patients First. Learn what it takes to provide patient-centered care through CE and webinars! ONLINE-ONLY CE OFFERING. Take the online-only CE offering on the Planetree series and earn 4.6 contact hours.
Quality Continuing Education to Fit Your Schedule! PESI HealthCare’s online learning goal is to facilitate a high-quality, continuing education experience that is conveniently available to participants in a no travel, cost-effective format.
September 18, 2012 AHCA and Go Direct® Webinar Questions and Answers. General and Contact Questions. Q1: Can I view or get a copy of this PowerPoint presentation?
Learn firsthand about the School of Nursing and Walden University by viewing an online Webinar.
NICHE Online Connect Webinars focus on new, collaborative approaches for practice innovations and other far-ranging subjects. The webinars are often based on requested topics from past participants and are intended for practitioners interested in new ways to enhance practice.
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ATI Academy is a comprehensive lineup of nursing webinars designed to help you excel and expand your knowledge as nurse educator. Whether you want product information or professional development, ATI Academy has you covered.
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Train on your own time with our nursing webinars! Our nursing webinars are available online 24/7 making them the easiest and most convenient method to receive nursing training.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Find upcoming and archived editorial webinars. Congratulations to Advance for Nurses December 2013 issue "Celebrating Innovation in Nursing Care".


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Foreign bodies like grass blades or yawns may enter the earcanal of the outer ear leading to intense irritation and/or pain.
In case a foreign matter gets into the auditory canal of the outer ear, immediately itchiness begins. The dog will try to remove the foreign matter. Therefore, it shakes the head, scratches with the paw on the ear and inclines the head. Occasionally, the animal rubs the affected ear on objects or the floor. Foreign matters are dangerous since they may provoke inflammation of the ears requiring a medicinal therapy.
As regards dogs that like capering in the forest and on meadows, gundogs or breeds with long, drooping ears, foreign matters such as awns, blades of grass or seedy, etc. may quite easily get into the dog's ear.
Foreign matters in the ear are removed by the veterinarian. In case the dog is unsettled during the examination, sedation (administration of calmatives) may be required to avoid further injuries inside the ear. In simple cases and when no secondary disorders are caused, it is sufficient to remove the foreign matter and to clean the ear afterwards. In case the foreign matter already resulted in an infection, the treating veterinarian will additionally use an antibacterial solution.
In case the foreign matter is located in a point that you can see well and the dog may be kept absolutely quite, you may carefully remove it with tweezers. However, if it is located deep in the dog's ear, you should consult a veterinarian. The best it to directly agree upon a date to exclude possible secondary complications and to eliminate the annoying symptoms for the dog. Furthermore, in case of all ear symptoms, consultation at the veterinarian's is appropriate, since some allergies may exclusively result in ear inflammations which are to be excluded.


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What kind of menus are you serving to your customers? Read the article and learn how creating an interactive and effective menu on the POS system is a great kick-off for your guest’s experience, and how it can increase your profits in 2017.
Outdated menu design and confusing up sales on the iPad POS system can become disadvantage such as indulging in verbal explanation, increased wait time, losing customers.
The menu design is a small fraction, but it is the key point when customers are bringing a purchasing decision.
Having an exclusive palette of servings and choices, great recipes and service, or even great reviews online, it all comes down to the menu when a guest is making a choice on how much money they want to spend. This is where you want your menu to perfectly designed and to lead the buyer on items you recommend.
Point out your most profitable menu articles with an illustration. Guests scan, they don’t read the menus. Focusing on few specific dishes with pictures will draw guests to the food and visually connect them with their order.
Good image with leave guests with ‘watery mouths’ that will increase the value of the dish over the price.
Also known as cost anchoring, is setting your most expensive dish near regular dishes. If your menu is segmented by sectors, each one would include a higher priced menu item, making the other choices look like a deal when compared. Tying your prices, lets you discover the value of your dishes you need to sell the mostly.
Having few options only on the menu is actually an advantage, if you have a lot of menu items you can’t really play with the design and visuals in order to increase profits, this also means fewer food costings and inventory management software features.
Not to mention, fewer menu options means less inventory and reduced waste costs.
Did this give you any ideas on how you can design your POS menu? Digitized menus can also provide you with real-time changes, monitoring and tracking on each dish, revenue per table tracking and much more features that are integrated with your Point of Sale system and inventory management software.


text: Existing homes sales fell 9.6% in February hurt by an increasing number of contract cancellations, as all-cash sales hit a record high and distressed sales continued to climb. The National Association of Realtors said seasonally adjusted sales decreased to 4.88 million in February from 5.4 million for January, which was revised upwardly a few thousand revised. Existing sales for the month are off 2.8% from 5.02 million a year earlier. Analysts polled by Econoday were expecting February sales to decline to 5.15 million with a range of estimates from 5 million and 5.23 million. A Briefing.com survey projected existing home sales of 4.8 million for February. "Housing affordability conditions have been at record levels and the economy has been improving, but home sales are being constrained by the twin problems of unnecessarily tight credit, and a measurable level of contract cancellations from some appraisals not supporting prices negotiated between buyers and sellers," NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun said. "This tug and pull is causing a gradual but uneven recovery. Existing-home sales remain 26.4% above the cyclical low last July." NAR said all-cash sales accounted for one-third of all sales in February, which is the highest level recorded and up from 32% in January and 27% a year earlier. Investor activity in February remained flat with a year earlier at 19% but fell from 23% in January. The median existing home price fell 5.2% from a year ago to $156,000, according to NAR, and homes sold at a discount accounted for 39% of all sales. Distressed sales rose from 37% in January and 35% a year earlier. "The decline in price corresponds to the record level of all-cash purchases where buyers – largely investors – are snapping up homes at bargain prices," Yun said. "We’d be seeing greater numbers of traditional home buyers if mortgage credit conditions return to normal." NAR representatives spent January meeting with mortgage lenders and regulators urging them to loosen underwriting standards. The inventory of existing homes for sale rose 3.5% in February to 3.49 million, representing an 8.6-month supply. That is up from 7.6 months worth of supply in January. NAR classifies existing home sales as completed transactions of single-family, town homes, condominiums and co-ops. Write to Jason Philyaw.

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Our Sustainable Chemical Engineering MSc, PGDip gives scientists and engineers with an understanding of sustainable engineering practices the opportunity to work with researchers in the field of new energy technologies. This includes areas such as fuel cells and gasification, process intensification and new advanced materials.
The course meets the growing need for engineers skilled in material and process engineering. It highlights the potential of sustainable engineering and provides an understanding of the environmental, economic and social issues associated with the operation of industrial processes.

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The peak body is Recreational Aviation Australia, which had it’s genesis in the Ultralight Federation.
There is a very good blog site and access to equipment. The site takes a while to navigate through, but once you join up, there is a much better interface revealed.
Formerly known as the Australian Ultralight Federation, Recreational Aviation Australia Incorporated (RA-Aus.) is the peak body in Australia responsible for administering ultralight, recreational and LSA (Light Sport Aircraft) operations. We train and certify pilots, flying instructors and maintainers, register a fleet of almost 3,500 aircraft, and oversee the operations of 174 Flying Training Facilities throughout the country.
Recreational Aviation Australia Inc continues to experience sustained growth, and has been successful in securing enhanced operating privilages for its members. Our not-for-profit association is governed by an elected Board of volunteer Directors, supported by a small full-time management team who are committed to helping you realise your dream of safe, affordable flying.
RAA is administered [July 2015] through #casa and head of progress is Jonathon Aleck and the supporting act of Lee Ungerman [formerly RAA CEO] and Mick Poole [ex-RAA].
Question does arise: “Are these able to properly represent RAA at this level or is the “representation” purely one of convenience??
The effect of recreational flying, when it leads to an injury or death is put into a serious area when then following decision is considered.
It has been reported in a number of forums, but deserves careful consideration in our flying activities.
1. Gold Coast accident report October 2014 – two-seater Zenith Zodiac CH601 XL aircraft (Reg. VH-ZRS).
The following report looks at some of the issues.
Joy flights (by plane or helicopter) and hot air balloon flights are tourist attractions all around Australia. They are marketed as ‘equally thrilling and relaxing’, ‘magnificent scenic flights’ and ‘romantic adventures’.
Skydiving is an adventure activity available in many tourist locations. It is marketed as ‘the adrenaline rush of a lifetime’.
Occasionally, these experiences end with a crash landing and a fatality.
A recent example is the fatal hot air balloon crash near Luxor, Egypt on 26 February 2013 that killed 19 and seriously injured 2 after the hot air balloon caught fire while descending to land. Another example is the crash near Carterton, New Zealand on 7 January 2012, where the hot air balloon collided with a high voltage power line, attempting to land. The hot air balloon disintegrated and crashed, killing all 11 on board.
Have similar accidents happened in Australia? The last fatal ballooning accident in Australia was the 13 August 1989 crash near Alice Springs, in the Northern Territory, that killed all 13 on board. The hot air balloon was ascending when it collided with the basket of a hot air balloon above it, tearing the fabric and deflating – as a result the hot air balloon plunged to the ground at high speed.
What legal rights do passengers (and their families) have to claim compensation for injury and death in Australia?
Their legal rights depend on whether the joy flight, the hot air balloon ride or the sky dive is considered to be a dangerous recreational activity, as opposed to a safe leisure activity.
In the recent decision of Noel Campbell v Rodney Victor Hay  NSWDC 11, the NSW District Court considered whether recreational flying was a dangerous recreational activity.
Acting Justice Marks rejected a claim for compensation made by a passenger who suffered injuries when the aircraft made a forced landing. The passenger (Campbell) was taking flying lessons in a Jabiru light plane (with a single engine) flown by experienced flying instructor (Hay). For our purposes, he was in the same legal position as if he were taking a joy flight.
The decision was based on the NSW Civil Liability Act 2002. There is equivalent legislation around Australia. The Act provides that a participant’s legal rights to claim compensation may be excluded altogether if they engage in a dangerous recreational activity, as opposed to a safe leisure activity.
The legal argument turned upon whether there a real chance of physical harm in flying a light plane. If so, flying is a dangerous recreational activity.
The court found that the risk of an accident occurring when flying a light aircraft was low – but that when an accident does occur there is a real risk of significant physical harm. And so the court concluded that flying in a light aircraft is a dangerous recreational activity.
Interestingly for our purposes, the court considered that flying in a light aircraft to be ‘in a similar category to recreational parachute jumping, statistically safe, but involving some risk of danger’. Hot air ballooning was not mentioned in the decision, but it can be accepted as in the same category – a dangerous recreational activity.
If the recreational activity is dangerous, the organiser or operator can avoid liability if the risk of injury or death is an obvious risk which is accepted by the participant.
Does the passenger in a light aircraft accept as obvious the risk of injury resulting from pilot error or defective equipment?
On the basis of expert evidence, the court found that the flying instructor was negligent by (a) not flying the aircraft to one of the landing strips available after noticing a second set of vibrations from the engine; and (b) instead, continuing to fly towards Katoomba airfield, where the flight had originated. As a result, when the engine stalled, the flying instructor was not close to a landing strip, and so manoeuvred the aircraft around a tree and into a gully where he pitched the aircraft sharply up a slope.
The court found that the risk that the pilot might be negligent in flying the aircraft, or that the risk that an aircraft engine might fail in flight, were risks that were obvious to the passenger.
Therefore the passenger failed in their claim for compensation for their injuries even though the pilot was negligent.
The significance of this decision is that pilots and operators of light aircraft (on non-scheduled flights) are protected from liability because flying is a dangerous recreational activity and because pilot error and mechanical defects are obvious risks.
Fortunately for passenger safety, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority keeps a watchful eye over operators of joy flights, hot air balloons and skydives by requiring them to hold an airworthiness certificate and a maintenance authority to be allowed to operate these activities.
Normally, operators of dangerous recreational activities will have the participants sign a waiver form, which will be effective to avoid liability. Does this decision mean that waiver forms and disclaimer signs are not strictly necessary to protect against personal injury claims? Yes – in this decision the pilot did not rely on a signed waiver form or disclaimer sign.
Operators of joy flights, hot air balloons and sky dives therefore have an added layer of protection – even if a waiver is not signed, or is not properly signed, and they are negligent, they are protected.
But don’t stop using waiver forms and ‘You fly at your own risk’ signs! The Campbell v Hay decision is by judge in a lower court in NSW, and a different judge might come to the opposite view! And because the Civil Liability Law is slightly different in each State and Territory in Australia, the protection provided might differ from State to State.

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For a few minutes, maybe an hour on Monday, the world slowed down in order to look up into the heavens. Some folks left home over the weekend; or set out early on Monday to be in the Path of Totality. Others went to the roof top, the backyard, the Brickyard or the courtyard to catch a glimpse of the Great American Eclipse of 2017. There was so much that was beautiful about Monday – the heavens declared the glory of God and the firmament proclaimed God’s handiwork! But, something of heaven happened on the ground too. America divided, looked up and, for at least one important moment, saw herself (ourselves) as one Nation under God.
Below is a devotion written by Mary Ellen Taylor for the Presbyterian Women Coordinating Team on Tuesday, then adapted for West Raleigh’s blog, On Being Church. It is a beautiful reflection on her eclipse experience. There are many other experiences that bear witness to what happens on the ground when we take the time to look up. Please, please share those experiences by adding a comment so that we can re-member that eclipse moment and let it shape our common future.
at the very moment of their mutual darkness.
something dying and fighting for its life.
But that is not what an eclipse is.
I had planned a devotional in advance for Tuesday’s meeting, but those thoughts were supplanted after the eclipse experience Monday. The counsel of friends chased away our initial indecision about pursuing the path of totality, but Hank and I had no idea how spiritually moving this adventure would be.
So we hatched plans with no specific destination other than avoiding cloud cover which meant that we kept driving west, again with the counsel of friends. Eventually, we felt guided to Lake Murray near Columbia, SC on a beautiful broad sandy lake shore dotted with pines, but also with spacious clearings. The area was teeming with people of all ages and ethnicities. Some came well-prepared for the day and others strolled in empty-handed. Some sat for the duration; others were constantly on the move. Within view of our little chair circle, a nearby crowd grilled hotdogs, a guitarist entertained us with folk songs, people sat in groups on blankets, and a large family tenderly cared for a matriarch in a wheelchair. Some had expensive telescopes that they shared, most had glasses, and a few came with pin-hole viewers. It was the Kingdom of God’s people coming together with the common goal of experiencing God’s wondrous creation.
After the moon began nibbling at the sun, there was a steady growing groundswell of anticipation for totality. Most days, the sun, moon, and earth seem ordinary, but on Monday they became extraordinary due to their relationship to one another. Towards the moment of totality, the temperature dropped and the view of the “sunset” over the lake was spectacular. It was as if a switch was flipped as the moon completely aligned with the sun and darkness arrived. The brilliant white light of the corona made me weep in wonder and joy. In that moment, I realized that the ordinary becomes extraordinary when in right relationship and that despite darkness that sometimes invades our journeys, there is always God’s love, God’s hope, God’s grace, and God’s Light.
Psalm 139 7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
And, that even when “light becomes night,” that “your right hand will hold us fast” as we live into relationship with you in your steadfast Light.

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Scientific Glass Technology is the manufacturer of a wide range of gas purifiers and related consumables used in the chromatography market. We also manufacture and sell various kinds of laboratory tools such as capillary column cutters.
Office in Singapore City, SINGAPORE.
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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Leading semantic search and natural language processing company NTENT announced that it has named Dan Stickel as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). With over $100M invested in its core technology, and multiple related patents, NTENT is gearing up to scale its business and Stickel’s experience with rapid expansion at both Google and AltaVista, as well as other successful high tech companies, makes him an excellent match for the company’s strategic direction.
Over the last 20 years, Stickel has held a variety of executive positions and was most recently CEO of Metaforic, a security technology company acquired in 2014. Prior to this, Stickel served as the CEO of Webtrends and before that spent several years at Google as the head of syndication products where he led a team that added >$1B to topline revenues and tens of millions of paying subscribers. Stickel ran the enterprise business at AltaVista and the software business at Macrovision, growing it from $25M to >$100M. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University.
“Dan has significant experience in leading and transitioning companies to make them leaders in their industries. His results-oriented approach, management experience, passion and drive to build strategic partnerships will play a pivotal role in extending our track record of search technology innovation while helping us enter the next phase of our business,” said NTENT Chairman Pat Condo.
“Innovation drives change! We have a clear vision of how NTENT and our technology will help drive change through innovation in the search space. Having Dan come on board is another step towards materializing that vision. His experience, passion and background are invaluable and he’s an excellent addition to the team,” said NTENT Co-founder, Colin Jeavons.

industry_corpus2: Artificial Intelligence


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Whether being used to prepare scrumptious meals, host social get-togethers or – best of all – a combination of the two, your kitchen is a hub of activity.
Keep safety at the center of your culinary gathering space by ensuring one key ingredient: a working fire extinguisher.
Relatively inexpensive, and quite simple to use, these protective devices could mean the difference between a small fire and one that causes significant damage.
Select a unit that can be used on all types of fires.
Make sure it's large enough to put out a small fire, but small enough for every family member to handle.
Read the instructions, and be comfortable with how to use the extinguisher, before it's ever needed.
Learn more about fire extinguisher safety in the American Family Insurance Learning Center.

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