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If you want to play the game of marriage well, you have to assess how much participation you wish to put in, how much attention you pay and the degree of your care. How can you get any great pleasure without active engagement?
It is like playing on a basketball team. A player who cares for the team will put all his effort into training because he’s serious about competition and cares about everything related to the team.
He treasures his uniform and make sure to show up on time for practices. It is all about being dedicated and taking it to heart. If you give your full efforts and are serious, you can then play it for the best enjoyment, enjoying the highest collaboration with the team.
In contrast, some people, though on a basketball team, do not care much about playing or practicing.
Something else is always on their mind. It is imaginable that their performance will be affected.
The relationship between team members are the same way. If everyone is equally dedicated, and they all like playing the game, then the game will be fun and high spirited. On the contrary, if some players love playing the game, while others do not, unhappiness in the team will ensue.
Just by looking at the field of playing sports, we can see the big differences between attitude and result. You can choose what you want.
If you do not wish to participate that much, it is only natural that you do not get much rewards back.
To be a good player in the game of marriage, you need to be well- equipped, apart from your level of commitment.
Happiness is not based on luck. Instead, it is based on continuous practice and hard work, constantly ‘doing’ until it materializes.
A happy marriage requires a great deal of interest and commitment from one’s part, and lots of management. Serious problems occur in a marriage not because of ‘marriage’ itself. It is because those who are involved do not value enough, do not understand, or do not concentrate on this aspect of life.
For example, if you only like to work and are not willing to spend time managing your marriage, then the rate of failure is of course very high.
The key to marriage management is your ability, which can be acquired through learning. Many people have acquired this ability at my Love Seminar events.
No matter what is your goal for your relationships or marriage, the success of it fully depends on whether you are serious and whether you will work hard to develop that “love ability” – it is all boiling down to one’s decision to do so or not.
I will be holding my Love Seminar in Los Angeles on September 29. Looking forward to see all of you in LA.


text: Tummy Tamer Massage Oil, is a wonderful blend of all organic, pure essential oils & grape seed oil. Ginger, chamomile and peppermint all work together to help tame that bad tummy feeling. This blend can be rubbed on the soles of your feet, or directly on your belly. Even on your shoulders and back, it has a calming warm soothing feeling. Enjoy, Tummy Tamer Massage Oils today and hopefully you will feel a little better in your belly!

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In his first fight as a pro, Aaron Pico earned a good payday this past weekend at Bellator 183. The highly touted featherweight prospect scored a $50,000 for his first-round victory over Justin Linn at Bellator 183, per the numbers disclosed Tuesday by the California State Athletic Commission to MMA Fighting.
Pico scored the first win of his professional mixed martial arts career on Saturday when he knocked out Lin with a starmaking shot on the main card of Bellator 183. Pico, who first inked a developmental deal with Bellator in 2014, earned $25,000 to show and $25,000 to win for the performance, while Linn earned just $4,000.
Overall, the card’s top earner was Bellator lightweight Patricky Freire, who cashed a $110,000 purse for his split decision win over former UFC champion Benson Henderson ($50,000) in the night’s main event.
Former UFC competitors Lorenz Larkin walked away with $40,000 and Roy Nelson with $60,000 walked away with co-main event winner Paul Daley coming away with $50,000. These figures do not represent a fighter’s total earnings, as sponsorship incomes, certain contractual clauses, and discretionary earnings are not publicly disclosed.
A complete list of the Bellator 183 salaries can be seen below.

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When Full Frontal With Samantha Bee returns on Sept. 12, things will be noticeably different. Not only will fans see a new set and opening credits (designed by the production company Sarofsky, owned by Erin Sarofsky), but Bee will introduce a brand new app, This Is Not a Game: The Game, which is meant to incentivize consumer engagement in the 2018 midterm elections.
All of this is part of Full Frontal 2.0, which the host tells ET “represents a lot of possibility” for the series, which, in its first two seasons, has already hosted a Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner special, filmed episodes in Iraq and Puerto Rico, navigated the Ivanka Trump controversy and earned seven Emmy nominations in 2018, including one for Outstanding Variety Talk Series. Now, halfway through its third season, its pushing things further.
“It’s a way to reflect that we’re becoming very established. We’re occupying a little more territory, so we might as well own it a little bit,” says Bee, who likens the sleek, new design to the moment when Sandy gets made over at the end of Grease.
And the transformation is apparent. The previous set was a long, skinny platform with a pair of larger monitors behind it, which was dramatically destroyed in August before the show took a brief hiatus. Now, the stage literally takes up more space, with a wider area for more Music Man-like moments and plenty of space for Bee to move around in.
“I think what it really represents is we now have the opportunity to pursue these big ideas,” she adds.
Not only does the app encourage engagement through cash prizes and challenges meant to check things like users’ voter registration, but it introduces “comedy into this space” -- something the Full Frontal team says hasn’t been done before. The game itself mixes AP U.S. History-type questions with some political humor -- all in the voice of the show, which Ghalayini admittedly says was the hardest thing to perfect.
“It would be nice to imagine that people could -- unrelated to the show -- just play the game and actually enjoy it on its own merits,” Bee ultimately says of the app, which she hopes will be played by people who aren’t even regular viewers.
When it comes to the show itself, there will always be a necessary urgency to what Full Frontal covers -- especially as the November midterm elections near -- and it will continue to push beyond expectations, but the format is not expected to change. The team views going on location (especially the Emmy-nominated Puerto Rico special), as one-off ideas that feel inspired, not a drive to constantly take the show on the road.
Full Frontal With Samantha Bee airs Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. ET / 9:30 p.m. CT on TBS.

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Loot From 150 Easy Clue Scrolls! Amazing GP! [Runescape 3] Dying to do Clues!
Frozen BoWitch Stronger Than Ever! TH11 Attack Strategy – Level 4 Witches and Buffed Ice Golems!
This RSPS is SO CLEAN!! *SO MUCH CONTENT* | RSPS Tour ; Traya – HUGE Giveaway!
I wish you a pleasant viewing and good mood!

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Wow! Never seen something like this before.
It must be a great experience to take in all those fragrances!
Thanks Indrani....its some thing 'perfumaniacs', or enthusiasts or actual perfumers might seek out....But i say its a must visit for anyone who loves to travel and gain newer experiences!!


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Ishqeria, featuring Richa Chadha and Neil Nitin Mukesh looks like a complete entertainer. Directed by Prerna Wadhawan, the trailer for the film was launched on 30 August.
Ishqeria is scheduled to hit the theatres on 21 September, 2018.


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Jotrin Provide complete and available electronic product design solutions in various fields.
ALLEGRO 4.75V ~ 5.25V DUAL FULL-BRIDGE PWM MOTOR Driver ICs.
Micron 32Mbit 4M x 8bit Serial NOR Flash Memory.

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Beautiful 6 bedroom villa with an easy access to Cannes and the beaches. Located on the edge of Vence, this beautiful property is close to the legendary St Paul de Vence. The coast, beaches and Nice airport are easy accessible. A medieval village is within 10 min walking distance. Villa’s spacious terraces, indoor and outdoor dining with nighttime illumination make this a truly remarkable property for anyone wanting to enjoy the French Riviera.
The villa has been entirely renovated and is in perfect condition. The 6 bedrooms are split between the main house and the guest house. Nestled within a 3 hectare site, the landscape gardens comprise of tropical trees and shrubs, terraced olive groves and Mediterranean forest with uninterrupted sea views.

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Greetings and welcome to a new page in our website, the 'History of Ibiza'. It has been our experience that many people are interested in history, but few will admit to it publicly. Perhaps the privacy of a web page is the means by which the deeds of Ibiza's venerable past may be made known to the reticent seeker. There is no need to further resist indoctrination: the eminence of Ibiza's antiquity is a given. It is attested to by a cornucopia of archaeological findings, ancient documents and monumental architecture which, in turn, have spawned a wealth of written materials, ranging from the general and informative to the technical and specific. It is a wonder that so much of this historical legacy goes unheeded by so many. One clear question, then, seems to emerge: do you wish to remain in the dark, or to join the ranks of the informed elite?
Well, now that we've used various psychological tactics to inveigle you into reading us, I suppose it's safe to say that this week we will not be reporting on history! - unless a tradition that began three years ago could be classified as historical, which I doubt. Instead, due to a timely coincidence in current events, we have decided to devote our first instalment to a political happening which, granted, could become an historical fixture in time.
Getting to the point, the Thursday just gone, March 1st, was 'Day of the Balearic Islands', a newly created bank holiday in Ibiza. As of 1999, this date has been set aside by each of the four main islands in the archipelago (Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera) to commemorate the start of autonomous provincial rule, i.e. independence from the central Spanish government in matters of local legislation and law enforcement. The actual Statute of Autonomy was signed all the way back in 1983, but it was not until three years ago that the first of March - the day the statue went into effect - was established as a day of public commemoration. The Balearics have been running their own show, so to speak, for eighteen years now, for which reason local journalist, Mar Serra, has quipped that the archipelago has finally come of age in terms of national politics.
This year, local politicians have demonstrated a high degree of sensibility to the large number of foreigners living within their shores and, to this end, have translated their Statute of Autonomy into both English and German. Interesting as that reading will undoubtedly prove to some, a nutshell résumé may be in order. The fundamental institutions of Balearic government are the 'Govern Balear', a trans-insular council which serves the four main islands, and three subsidiary councils (a.k.a. 'Consell Insular') one in Majorca, one in Minorca and one in Ibiza which serves both Pitiuses. As a matter of interest, the term 'Pitiusa' refers to Ibiza and Formentera jointly. These ruling bodies are run along the accepted lines of European democracy with elections being held every four years.
Each year one of the islands takes it in turn to celebrate its own achievements, and as fate would have it, this year the honour fell to Ibiza. Two medals were given, one to the Institute for Ibicenco Studies in gratitude for their long years of service, and the other to the Ibicenco painter, Rafel Tur Costa in recognition of his success within the international art panorama. We, at LiveIbiza, are very happy that some type of awards ceremony has finally been created so that the hard work and dedication of the islands' many institutions and individuals will no longer go unnoticed. In particular, we owe an incalculable debt to the Institute for Ibicenco Studies for the storehouse of information they have put at our disposal, always with genuine kindness and always as a free public service. As the weeks roll by, we are sure that you who read us will come to share our appreciation.
Now that we've delved into the islands' new-found political identity, let's take a few lines to explore where the Balearics came from, long before councils ever existed. The rock from which these islands are made was born from the sea some 155 million years ago during the Jurassic period. This rock was not yet in the form of islands, but belonged to a larger land mass. Then, at the beginning of the Lower Tertiary, Eurasia and Africa collided, causing the still undifferentiated Balearics to be heaved up into a chain of rock known as the Betica Mountain Range. This petrous arm extended from the southern coast of Spain to what is now Majorca. As the continental plates continued to shift, the rock split up, forming the individual islands of Ibiza, Formentera and Majorca.
Curiously, Minorca was already standing, exactly where she stands today, for millions of years before any of this happened - a passive onlooker, as it were, to an approaching band of geological splitters. Although her present-day vegetation is similar to that of her 'step-sisters', it is clear to see that her contours are much less jagged than those of the other islands, having been rounded by primal winds for many more aeons. Minorca, then, is included in the Balearic Archipelago purely by coincidence and bears no geological kinship to the rest of the islands.
As for the three southern isles, the geological progression from one to the other is quite observable. The northern part of Ibiza is a continuum of Majorca's ruggedness, while its southern shores already foreshadow the graceful smoothness of Formentera. In fact, depending on the fluctuations of the Ice Age seas, Ibiza and Formentera would at times comprise one continuous land mass before being separated again by rising Pleistocene waters. It is not so surprising then that, in the modern day, the Pitiuses should be represented by one council. They have been linked since the beginnings of time.
Well, that wraps it up for this week. We hope you've enjoyed the history page - despite the fact that we've jumped from current events straight back to the Mesozoic, bypassing the historical era altogether. We do urge you to join us next week when we might just get round to something pertinent. Special thanks to Mar Serra, political specialist, for her valuable time and information.

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Shelly Jett McEntire has returned to Bank 34.
McEntire officially re-joined Bank 34 in December as a Mortgage Loan Originator. She is now working with Bank 34 in providing financial services in many communities. With more than 30 years of experience in the industry, she is knowledgeable on the requirements of both purchasing and refinancing under conventional and government loan products. Having been in the lending business for some time, McEntire has assisted many people with the dream of homeownership.
A second-generation resident of New Mexico, she was a mortgage loan originator for Bank 34 from 2008 to 2010 and has worked in mortgage lending in Las Cruces for the past 17 years. Previously, she worked in Alamogordo in various positions in the banking industry.
Does your business have new hires, promotions or personnel awards to share? Submit your Names in the News to jgibbs@lcsun-news.com.

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Adorned with textured glass rings, this contemporary mini pendant radiates sophistication.
Illuminate a classy modern space with this gorgeous, contemporary mini pendant light. Its hand-blown glass shade is beautifully embellished with textured glass rings for an elegant dash of intrigue. Its single light, cloaked in a clear covering, will provide a bright burst of light to any room you choose.
13" high x 6" wide. Canopy is 5" wide. Weighs 4 lbs.
Includes 8-feet of cord and lead wire. Sloped ceiling adaptable.
Uses one maximum 60 watt standard-medium base A type bulb (not included).
Contemporary mini-pendant. Part of the Ribbon collection by the Jamie Young Company.
A wonderful look for dinning rooms, bars and kitchens and powder rooms.
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"The Mirai is at the forefront of a new age of hydrogen fuel cell cars that allows you to enjoy long distance zero-emissions driving. As well as only producing water from its tailpipe – which means no impact on our planet when you're driving – the Mirai brings the unique Toyota Hybrid driving experience to a new level.
When you experience the Mirai’s silent, responsive and intuitive feel-good drive, it will instantly put a big smile on your face."
When you pump hydrogen into the Mirai, the gas travels to carbon fibre fuel tanks where it’s stored.
Oxygen from the outside enters through the Mirai’s front air vent.
Hydrogen and air travel separately to the fuel cell stack where electricity is generated through a chemical reaction.
When you put your foot on the accelerator, the electricity powers the motor which is activated to move the Mirai.
In the end, the only by-product of this process is water, which leaves through the tailpipe.
No internal combustion engine. Zero-emissions driving. Explore the inner workings of the Mirai, the car built with flexible Toyota Hybrid architecture and know-how at its heart.
Large intake grills within the front bumper provide cooling to the Mirai’s radiators.
The Power Control Unit has two roles: managing the power from the fuel cell stack and battery, as well as readying its supply to the motor. This is part of what makes the Mirai so efficient.
The Toyota Fuel Cell Stack generates power by combining hydrogen with oxygen from the outside air. The stack features a compact size and a world-leading power output for responsive performance.
Two high-pressure carbon fibre tanks store the hydrogen as fuel. These lightweight tanks feature a world-leading power density and are capable of withstanding incredibly high forces.
Just like other Toyota Hybrids, the Mirai has a nickel-metal hydride battery. It stores energy that is recovered while decelerating and also assists the fuel cell stack when you need more power during acceleration.
Toyota Mirai: infrastructure Hydrogen is steadily powering a revolution in motoring. Find out how technology and infrastructure is developing as we look to the future with hydrogen. Toyota Mirai: the facts Years of meticulous research, rigorous testing and lots and lots of innovative technology have gone into the creation of the Mirai, here’s the facts... Toyota Mirai: why hydrogen? Discover the many reasons why hydrogen fuel represents the future of motoring. Mirai goes the extra mile… and then some Toyota’s new hydrogen fuel cell vehicle, the Mirai, has set a new record for the greatest driving range of a zero-emissions car.

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The Rich Barber hair studio, located at 2504 J St Sacramento, is the dopest barbershop in northern California. With styles ranging from freestyle designs to the classic taper with waves, our barbers will leave you with a irreplaceable feeling. To give you the best experience possible, all men’s cuts at The Rich Barber hair studio in Sacramento feature great conversation and an even better haircut. If you’re unsure which style you are looking for, our professional barbers can recommend a look that fits your personality and face’s structure.
Below is a list of our professional barbers. Don’t forget to check out their Instagram pages to see all of their work!
If you have any questions about men’s cuts in our hair studio in Sacramento, send us an email at support@therighbarber.com or check out our FAQ page.


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Traffic. We all know that without it our sites will sit there lost in cyberspace. Gathering nothing more than the occasional spider crawling across lonely electronic cobwebs.
If you've been around the e-business scene, for at least a few months, you're familiar with the typical and common methods of site promotion.
You've taken the right steps. Submitted your site by hand to the *oh-so-powerful* TOP 10 search engines and directories. Now, it's a waiting game to see if you get listed or if you have to try submitting again.
You've learned the hard way and wasted too much time using Biggy Blasters to post gazillions of links on FFA sites. Only to see little more than a trickle or two of visitors to your site.
You've gotten on the right track by testing and placing ads in ezines. But it'll take you some time to find the RIGHT ezines in your target market that produce results BEFORE you can roll out a full fledged ezine advertising campaign.
Don't lose heart. There ARE some overlooked and little used methods that WILL work to get you that surge of life-giving traffic your site needs.
Here's 3 different methods you can use. Two will cost you (but won't break the bank) and the other will only cost you the time it takes to organize and initiate.
FIRST overlooked and little used method..
I've seen the cost as low as $28 for 1200 visitors! That's only .02 cents per visitor.
Some lotto sites load YOUR webpage in a frame.
Some have you place a tiny button link on your page during the lottery run.
TIP: You will get more of a *response* from the lottery playing visitors by offering them something for FREE. Some examples would be.... free downloads, free subscriptions to ezines and free access to member sites. Make it easy for them to get it by sending a quick email where your autoresponder will send them the download site and/or any instructions.
Granted this isn't exactly *targeted* traffic. But if you're clever, you can give them a *freebie* that's sure to bring them back again when their not playing the game.
SECOND overlooked and little used method..
Although many marketers already know about the pay-per-click search engines, very few are purchasing guaranteed banner click-thru's that are available on hundred's of sites.
Look for sites that cater to your target market and look for, or ask for, their advertising rates. Slowly but surely most of the sites that sold banner impressions are starting to offer performance advertising in the form of pay-per-click.
THIRD overlooked and little used method..
Creating a permanent reciprocal link page is the easy part. Actively searching for other sites, then asking if the webmaster would be interested in giving you a permanent reciprocal link is hard work.
I've found a great piece of software called Zeus that is helping me to automate the process from finding sites I would WANT to get a reciprocal link with, to automatically sending out the email to the webmaster of the website.
Building your business on the Internet requires a great deal of effort on your part. It's important to become a student of marketing and promotion.
As fast as the net is changing there's bound to be new ways to market and promote, to replace methods that no longer work.
Keep your eyes open, read marketing ezines, and apply what you learn. The traffic will come if you never give up.
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Macy's Parade Studio Tour-Grade 5H and 5F were invited to this special event and left with gifts and an experience that they will always remember! A great time was had by all!
Macy's Parade Studio Tour-Grade 5H and 5F were invited to this special event and left with gifts and an experience that they will always remember! A great time was had by all!


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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune condition affecting about 1.5 million adults in the United States alone. It occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the body’s joints, leading to inflammation that damages and thickens the synovium (the connective tissue lining the joints, sometimes also called the synovial membrane). The result is a progressive, chronic disease characterized by pain, swelling, and immobility of affected joints (typically the hands, fingers, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles, and feet, and often in a symmetrical pattern—meaning both sides of the body are affected). Over time, the joints can become deformed and unable to properly function, due to tendon tethering and joint surface erosion that occurs with the disease. In some cases, rheumatoid arthritis can also affect the skin (rheumatoid nodues, and vasculitis), kidneys (renal amyloidosis), lungs (fibrosis), and eyes (episcleritis or scleritis). Although the condition can strike men and women alike, women are three times more likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis (especially between the ages of 30 and 60), and men are more likely to develop the disease later in life.
What Genes Increase Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis?
Like many autoimmune conditions, rheumatoid arthritis has an important genetic component that acts in conjunction with environmental factors (such as smoking, which raises RA risk significantly) to trigger the onset of the disease. The most important RA-related genes are in the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) region, which encodes several important molecules for the immune system and is associated with a variety of autoimmune diseases (such as celiac disease, type 1 diabetes, and Graves’ disease).
The biggest genetic risk factor for RA is carrying the HLA-DRB1 shared epitope (in technical terms, a sequence of five amino acids in residues 70-74 of the HLA-DRB chain). The most-studied alleles coding the shared epitope include HLA-DRB1*1402, HLA-DRB1*1001, and alleles in the HLA-DRB1*04 group (such as *0401, *0404, *0405, and *0408).
The vast majority of RA patients have the shared epitope (upwards of 80%), and of the ones who don’t, many have non-inherited HLA antigens that they acquired through pregnancy or through in-utero exposure. Researchers are still trying to figure out the exact mechanisms linking the shared epitope with rheumatoid arthritis. For now, genetic tests like 23andMe can tell us whether we have the HLA alleles known to raise our risk of this disease!
So, why is finding out your genetic risk for RA so important? Because knowledge is power! The initial stages of RA can occur without any clinical symptoms, meaning damage is already starting to occur under the radar. Worse, the joint damage resulting from RA can be irreversible, so identifying and managing the disease in its early stages (or better yet, preventing it from developing in the first place!) is key for avoiding a future filled with debilitating joint problems and other complications. Testing for RA genes lets us identify whether we’re at high risk of developing the disease, and helps inform us about what kind of lifestyle changes we should make to keep our joints as healthy as possible.
Quit smoking (or avoid ever starting!). Obviously, smoking isn’t good for anybody, but in the context of genetic predisposition, the effect of smoking on rheumatoid arthritis risk is extreme. Smokers with two copies of the shared epitope have a 40 times higher risk of developing RA than non-smokers who aren’t genetically susceptible! And, it can take up to 20 years after you quit smoking for your RA risk to return to that of a non-smoker.
Maintain optimal vitamin D levels. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked with rheumatoid arthritis (among many other autoimmune diseases!).
Consume omega-3 rich foods. A variety of clinical trials have shown that omega-3 fats can help reduce symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis, and may also protect against developing the disease at all. Fatty fish like salmon, mackerel, and tuna are great sources!
Maintain a healthy body weight. Obesity appears to increase the risk of rheumatoid arthritis by raising levels of leptins and proinflammatory cytokines involved in the disease.
Reduce your risk of viral infections. Certain viruses (including Epstein-Barr virus, Parvovirus 19, and Mycoplasma) can spark the onset of rheumatoid arthritis in genetically predisposed individuals through molecular mimicry, direct invasion of the synovium, or toll-like receptor activation. Although it’s impossible to completely eliminate our risk of infection, maintaining a robust immune system (through following a nutrient-dense Paleo diet, getting good sleep, and adopting other health-promoting lifestyle habits), and avoiding situations where known risk of viral exposure is high, is a good plan.
Consume plenty of antioxidant-rich foods. The antioxidants found in fresh plant foods (particularly vitamin C, lycopene, carotenoids, and vitamin E) have been shown to have a protective effect against rheumatoid arthritis. Eat a variety of vegetables and fruits encompassing the entire rainbow!
Maintain good dental hygiene and nip gum disease in the bud. Porphyromonas gingivalis, the main bacteria responsible for periodontitis, has been implicated in rheumatoid arthritis. And, periodontitis is associated with higher levels of disease activity for people who’ve already developed RA. Prioritizing oral health may help reduce the risk or severity of RA in susceptible people.
Avoid extremely high intakes of coffee. Excessive coffee intake appears to be a risk factor for some forms of rheumatoid arthritis (but moderate consumption should be fine).
Keep in mind, having a higher genetic likelihood of developing RA doesn’t guarantee you will actually get the disease! To officially diagnose RA in people with symptoms, doctors will typically test for rheumatoid factor and anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide, which are antibodies associated with rheumatoid arthritis. The goal with learning our genetic risk isn’t to feel doomed and helpless, but to be empowered to make changes that support lifelong good health!
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du Montcel ST, et al. “New classification of HLA-DRB1 alleles supports the shared epitope hypothesis of rheumatoid arthritis susceptibility.” Arthritis Rheum. 2005 Apr;52(4):1063-8.
Gough SCL & Simmonds MJ. “The HLA Region and Autoimmune Disease: Associations and Mechanisms of Action.” Curr Genomics. 2007 Nov;8(7):453-465.
Hitchon CA, et al. “Antibodies to porphyromonas gingivalis are associated with anticitrullinated protein antibodies in patients with rheumatoid arthritis and their relatives.” J Rheumatol. 2010 Jun;37(6):1105-12. doi: 10.3899/jrheum.091323. Epub 2010 May 1.
Holoshitz J. “The Rheumatoid Arthritis HLA-DRB1 Shared Epitope.” Curr Opin Rheumatol. 2010 May; 22(3): 293–298.
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Welcome to another Freshly Brewed Projects from the Latte Girls. This week it is all about Christmas Packaging.
What a great timely category to be looking at. I started my Christmas shopping the other day. So I don't have a mad rush Christmas Eve, I need to start getting my packaging sorted now. I hope this week we can help you as well.
Here is what I made. A cute box that will make any gift a special treat to give and receive.
I made this cute little gift box out of the Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper using the Gift Box Punch Board. I created a vertical belly band around both sides out of real red card stock and more of the Candy Cane Lane Designer Series Paper, and then the real red stitched ribbon. I also added a bow of the ribbon on top. The tag has the cute gingerbread man on it from the Cookie Cutter Christmas stamp set.
Now that you have seen what I have made, it's time to see what the other Latte Girls have been up to.
There is still time to grab your supplies and get some Christmas cards and packaging made. Did you know that a lot of Christmas items are on special at the moment. It is that time of the year when Stampin' Up! does a massive Year-End Closeout. There are some great bargains to be had, some at 60% off. So make sure you drop by my online store and grab a bargain today.


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How many of you keep a diary or journal? A few years ago I came across a couple of old diaries which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. My only disappointment was the lack of consistent entries, I wanted more! That prompted me to start writing again in the hope I will be able to have the same enjoyment in years to come.
Curious about how others felt about writing a diary, I asked a number of friends and was fascinated with the variety of responses. Some claimed they didn’t have time to write but would love to have one, others thought it was self indulgent, others were simply afraid someone might read it and didn’t think it was worth the risk and a few mentioned they write on a regular basis.
I decided to do a little bit of research around the phenomenon of diary keeping. I came across an article in The Guardian suggesting that keeping a diary actually makes you happier.
To me this highlighted there are opposing views and feelings as to a diary’s usefulness.
I was also surprised to learn there are so many sites that offer you the possibility of keeping a personal and confidential diary online. I suppose my traditional and old fashioned side still thinks that diary writing is one of the few opportunities we have to put pen to paper. I also feel the emotions that pass from through the pen would be stronger than if you have a keyboard in the way.
For what it’s worth, I think that writing a journal/diary is a good way of consolidating thoughts without any interruptions or criticisms. It can also be a great way of releasing stress and may act as a catharsis. I believe it is the most intimate and private writing and it almost takes courage to be honest and spontaneous. I sense it is a good way of sharpening and training your memory as we all have a tendency to forget people, places, and events. Some might argue that if you forget it’s because it’s not worth remembering. Whilst this may be valid in some instances, more often than not we forget because we replace images and information in our brain with new ones.
It’s also about keeping memories alive. People seem to be very happy to keep photo albums and the most part enjoy going through old pictures. They say a “picture speaks a thousand words” and it does indeed yet it does not tell the whole story. In addition to all of the above keeping a diary is like writing your own personal history. They also say every man should write a book and plant a tree and whilst the latter may be easier a diary may be the only book you get to write.
Is it right to write clearly appears to be a matter of opinion. Notwithstanding, the historical importance of diaries such as those by Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank is difficult to challenge. Both are very useful eyewitness accounts of important periods of history, in addition to offering enthralling insights into personal lives and relationships. Both were published after the authors’ death and neither was intended for publication.

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With architecture as grand as the surrounding terrain, this destination easily lives up to its majestic title. If you would like Mother Nature to foot the bill for your decorations consider having your ceremony on the snow-covered lawn, then enjoy a reception in the solarium where epic views of Glacier Point, a rustic yet refined ambiance, and a massive fireplace greet you. Oh, and the photo locale options are so awe-inspiring in Yosemite, wedding magazines just might hound you to let them publish your pics.
If you prefer looking at the cold, instead of actually being in it, the panoramic views of a Rocky Mountains sunset during a ceremony in the Altezza Deck, followed up by a reception in the Altezza restaurant, which overlooks the San Juan Mountains, will be the ideal wedding combo. And, for all the brides who hear the call of the Telluride Ski Resort, The Peaks is just a free gondola ride away from the slopes.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be married in a nature-made chapel? Yes? Then check out the Forest Chapel at Tamarack Lodge. To reach your ceremony guests will journey over a footbridge and enter a land that looks like it probably houses snow-loving fairies. Luckily, you’ll look stunning because the unbeatable views of the lake and mountains from the Forest Chapel are hard to ignore. For the reception, head to the Mill Café where the cabin-like feel, complete with massive fireplace and old-school ski décor, will fill your guests with all the quintessential warm and fuzzy feels.
If you want your wedding to be legendary, you might as well say your “I Dos” with one of the United State’s most legendary views looming behind you – the 13,700-foot Grand Teton. The snowy playland of Spring Creek Ranch rests on a wildlife sanctuary about 1,000 feet above the town of Jackson and offers a variety of ceremony and reception venues. A favorite option for both the ceremony and reception is The Granary Restaurant, which provides a sweeping mountain vista and award-winning menu options designed by Chef Marc Boussarie.
This boutique hotel, which is an iconic historical landmark in Park City, is ideal for an intimate wedding set amongst snow covered aspen trees. The unique details in this space, like antique mirrors, white antler chandeliers, reclaimed oak barn wood floors, and vintage modern paintings, will help to ensure your special day stands out. If charm, hospitability, and coziness are on your must-have list, you’ve found your ideal match.
Mega-privacy is offered at this location as you don’t just rent out a ballroom, but the entire restored ghost town. Your private wedding town will include mineral hot springs, a dance hall and saloon, bathhouse, yoga studio, boxing gym, open-air chapel, two spa treatment cabins, 13 luxury cabins, and all meals for up to 44 guests. And the menus for those meals? They’ll be a collaborative effort between you and the Executive Chef to ensure you’re noshing on your wedding dream food.


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The founder of crypto exchange BitFunder was arrested by the U.S. government. The investigation was managed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Jon Montroll has been found guilty for unfolding the exchange’s activities without an authorized license. He also has carried out numerous frauds on investors.
The founder of BitFunder was arrested on 21 February 2018, related the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice.
The founder’s case has dates back to 2013 when BitFunder was shuttered. However, Jon Montroll continued to carry out its crypto activities under the name of WeExchange. During the next months, the new exchange platform was attacked and the wallet lost about 6.000 Bitcoins. This hacking led the company in the period of insolvency.
The fact that attracted the SEC’s attention was that in November 2013, Montroll has filed a testimony on its own responsibility claiming that BitFunder’s balance is about 6,700 BTC.
Besides the Montroll’s problems with SEC, he was found guilty for another criminal case. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, New York, “he is charged with two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice”.
According to the law in force, only for one perjury- the culprit may be penalized with maximum 5 years, and for an obstruction of justice with another 20 years.


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Ryan Smith of the Giving Kitchen / Staplehouse along with friends Terry Koval of the Wrecking Bar, and Jeffrey Wall of Kimball House and superb bartenders Kellie Thorn and Shanna Mayo present a late afternoon filled with wild libations and a family style meal inspired from "spring tonics". Spring tonics are the first wild plants to grow each spring and are nutritious edibles traditionally gathered to rejuvenate the body after a winter diet of heavy and stored foods.
Upon arrival at Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet, guests will enjoy traditional "tonic" cocktails with a wild twist crafted by Kellie Thorn and Shanna Mayo. After a stroll through the farm, chefs will present a family style dinner utilizing wild, foraged, and heirloom produce grown with love on the farm and the community. Guests may enjoy the meal at a private table or community table on the farm.
Proceeds will support Community Farmers Markets' double SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program), Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet, and the Giving Kitchen. Your support comes at a time of year when farm income can be both most critically needed and in shortest supply.
The Spring Tonic will offer a culinary experience sure to delight and invigorate.
Chris Clinton and Isia Cooper started Crack in the Sidewalk Farmlet eight years ago hidden away in the forgotten backyard of the city, otherwise known as South Atlanta. Beginning as a small personal garden they've grown to encompass numerous neighboring properties transforming a blighted neighborhood into a community based around sustainable farming practices, homesteading skills, and mutual empowerment. Their specialty is foraged wild edibles, heirloom varieties of vegetables and unique crops.
Community Farmers Markets manages the East Atlanta Village, the Grant Park, the Decatur Farmers Markets, the Westside Farmers Market, the NEW Ponce City Farmers Market on the Beltline and related educational outreach and events, and local food advocacy in the metro Atlanta area. The mission of Community Farmers Markets is to develop a local food infrastructure for long term sustainability and meaningful community impact. Our purpose is to preserve, root, and grow a diverse local food culture by maintaining an authentic space for all people to share community, fair food, and healthy lifestyles while providing a sustainable living for producers who steward the earth.
The Giving Kitchen's mission is to provide crisis grants to members of Atlanta's restaurant community facing unanticipated hardship. TGK was inspired by the outpouring of support generated when Atlanta chef Ryan Hidinger was diagnosed with late stage cancer in December of 2012. The undeniable generosity shown to care for him and meet his medical and other needs, which were well above and beyond his available insurance coverage, was a moving experience for all of those involved. As a one-of-a-kind platform for fulfilling the mission of TGK and creating a sustainable source for funding, Staplehouse Restaurant opened in 2015. Combined with funds raised by TGK from charitable contributions, the profits of Staplehouse will help TGK fund grants to help pay excessive medical and other expenses for the people who anonymously and graciously nourish so many of us during our dining experiences and who may find themselves in a time of need.


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Sorry so absent from the page. But I actually had work to do. I know. Incredible. My plan is to continue through the Winter Solstice, break for the holidays, and then reorganize my purpose for this writing in the New Year.
This makes me think of how much of ourselves functions without our conscious effort. The aging process, or the process by which bad cells are disposed by our immune system. Or the way our liver and kidney filter out the harmful garbage from our bodies. Or the way that our lungs move oxygen from the air into our bloodstream. That alone is miraculous. The transubstantiation of the flesh. To move certain properties from a gas into liquid so that our brains can perform the ten million lightning quick tasks that are required for me to get the cup of coffee from the kitchen to the table and then to my lips.
Who needs church when I can sit in my own living room and make myself aware of the vast constellation of miracles that are happening right now inside my skin, as I move this pen across the page. Look at that! Symbols with meaning!
What I like about Emily’s poem—once again—is her bold heresy when she writes “a God”. The insertion of that mild-mannered indefinite article before God makes that statement heretical in her context. It also occurs to me that she probably didn’t have many people to share her ideas about the solitary human as the equivalent of a God. Most of her community probably were afraid of what she was thinking, I imagine. And did that make her unwilling to speak any of it out loud? Or simply unwilling to allow any of it to be published? She must have known that none or few of her contemporaries were ready to hear any of this. Maybe Emerson could get away with it because he wore pants. But I’ll bet no one was ready to see or hear an iconoclast in white lace.
I imagine that she kept the work to herself to protect the poems themselves. Not because these were so frail. But because they would have so frightened contemporary readers. More to the point, she was protecting everyone else from what her poems might have done. Cracked them wide open. Why start trouble if you don’t have to? That was Emily’s way.
Yesterday was my father’s birthday. He is 78 years old. When I called to wish him a happy birthday, he told me he had just come home from a poetry reading. Retired surgeon. Hyper-rationalist. Go figure. When I was in school, my father told me, “Pigs and poets are best appreciated after they’re dead.” Thirty years and one major stroke later, his brain is half gone, but he’s a big poetry guy now. His friend, a fellow retired doctor, wrote a poem about my dad, actually. They have a poetry club together, reading, writing, talking. Another miraculous transformation.
I just read a few of your recent posts, and you tackle tags like, transubstantiation, the Saints, undercloths and Dad, pretty darn well. Pig and Poets, my favorite so far. Amazing writing, really.


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The Conservative party's lead over Labour has widened to 17 points, according to a new ICM poll for the Guardian.
The poll puts the Conservatives on 43%, and the Labour party on 26%. The Tories' lead has increased by 2% since their annual conference at the beginning of October.
Political parties normally expect some bounce in the polls after a conference, as ministers make major speeches and generate favourable media coverage.
Although the Tory conference generated many negative newspaper headlines, research shows that major policy announcements made by cabinet ministers were in fact widely popular with the public.
Theresa May's plans for a "hard" Brexit and Amber Rudd's "British jobs for British workers" plans both enjoy wide support, mainly from those who voted to leave the European Union.
The Tories may also have taken some support from UKIP, whose support fell by 2%. The party was embroiled in scandal last week when two prominent MEPs from the party were involved in a serious altercation, and one was hospitalised.
A 17-point margin is the joint second highest result recorded for the Conservatives by ICM, whose polling goes back to 1992. Only once, when Gordon Brown was at his least popular in 2008, have the Conservatives enjoyed a bigger lead.
Labour's 26% figure, meanwhile, is only one point higher than their lowest ever ICM rating — the 25% they recorded in June 2008 and August 2009.


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An alternate title for Caitlin Jemma’s latest studio album, Love Notes, might be Notes on Love. Each track explores a different shade of the feeling. After all, love can be true, it can be selfless, and it can be tough.
The first song, “Ain’t That Something,” kicks it off with a soulful exploration of self-love. “There ain’t nothin’ wrong with being your baddest,” croons Jemma with all the authority of a woman confident in her own skin. What better way to begin, especially considering Jemma’s journey to self-discovery that brought this album to fruition was one of self-acceptance and release.
Listen to the new record 'Love Notes' below and then catch Caitlin Jemma's album release show at The Liquor Store on May 3The album certainly has the texture of liberation, alternating between classically country tunes (“Nothing Left to Lose”) and more sultry, jazz-inspired tracks (“All Night”). The production, led by Bart Budwig, is delightful and deliberate in its simplicity, recorded live on stage at the OK Theatre in Enterprise, Ore. What results feels like a study in spontaneity and passion, particularly in Jemma’s vocal performance. Featured on the album is Joseph Hein on grand piano and organ, as well as Michael Steinkirchner on electric guitar and upright bass, Nevada Sowle on electric bass and electric guitar, Cooper Trail on drums, Budwig on trumpet, and Meg Graham on violin.
What’s next? Go on with your bad self and listen to the album now. Then, catch her album release show on Thursday, May 3 at The Liquor Store.


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text: The SRL – Social Relations Laboratory – at Rhode Island College conducts research on interpersonal and intergroup behavior. Our research on interpersonal processes has been on basic phenomena that emerge in the dyadic context of two interacting people. Research on intergroup behavior is focused on interactions of people of different races, social status, gender and developmental levels.

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Because of the wide array of current issues concerning different types of individuals on the planet, there clearly was a prerequisite to pay attention to the specific situation from a perspective of a certain selection of people. In doing this, you can find unique practices and styles in approaching the subject to effectively cope with the topic of interest such as for example an incident research.
It may be tough to publish such types of research as you need to narrow straight down your ideas and theories into particular tips. Despite this task that is seemingly difficult do, there are a great number of ways which you yourself can give consideration to on paper your research study.
Led by the five aspects of nature, check out important reminders in producing your research study.
Your introduction provides an overview of just what the research is all about. Included in this section will be the range and purpose regarding the research. This the main paper must establish the issue or topic become talked about into the study.
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After coping with a big course of current resources around you, it really is expected which you make a ‘review’ regarding the related texts you have got acquired through the procedure. This portion of your paper is certainly not a synopsis but an assessment for the literature you’ve got taken.
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If you're running an e-commerce site, one of the most frustrating aspects is seeing how many visitors fail to take the final step of becoming a customer. After all the hard work of driving traffic and marketing your products, a majority of people bail just before the vital checkout stage.
Why does this happen so often? One of the main reasons is that the visitor has a niggling objection that prevents them from going through with their purchase.
Here are the eight most common reasons people think twice about completing the checkout process, along with some ideas on how you can address them.
1) "I Need Time to Think"
For anything but the smallest, most impulsive purchases, customers need to overcome a reluctance to take action. The best way to encourage this is to appeal on an emotional level, as this is usually stronger than the rational. Make the customer feel, don't make them think.
2) "I Need to Talk About It"
Many customers will be wary of making a spending decision without consulting their significant other. Provide them with some ammunition for this discussion, by describing how their purchase can't fail to meet with grateful approval.
3) "Can I Get a Better Deal?"
In the e-commerce arena, a competitor is only ever a click away, and you need to convince a shopper that you're offering the best deal around. If possible, provide a price guarantee to overcome this objection. Failing that, show clearly how your offer is uniquely attractive, regardless of any price issues.
4) "I Can't Afford It"
Consider making purchasing more accessible by offering a free credit facility, or show how your product will save the buyer money in the long run.
5) "Is This Product Right for Me?"
If a customer is wavering on the brink of purchasing, offering a free trial or a money-back guarantee can tip them over the edge by reducing the risk involved in buying.
6) "I'm Wary of Spending Online"
7) "I'll Finish Buying Later"
In many cases, even genuine intentions to complete a purchase later will come to nothing through forgetfulness or distraction. Create a sense of urgency by offering an attractive time-limited discount or bonus upgrade, which is only available if they take action right now.
8) "Do I Really, Really Need This?"
People tend toward inertia and may tell themselves that they don't need the product or service that you're offering. As a marketer, it's your job to show just how necessary this purchase is, and what a positive impact it'll make in the buyer's life.
In e-commerce, even a small increase in website conversion can make a huge difference to profitability. Taking a proactive approach to addressing customer objections can make a significant impact on your bottom line, making the most of your traffic and marketing efforts by stopping the customer falling at the final hurdle.


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Pain in the back and neck simultaneously, are types of pain which can occur for many reasons, and may be a case of pain in one area causing referred pain in the other. Ensuring healthy, strong neck and back muscles may minimize the risks of acute pain and trauma if involved in accidents, but there are also many degenerative conditions that can lead to chronic neck and back pain.
Accidents, such as falls, car collisions, and contact sports injuries can lead to neck and back pain through damage, fractures and inflammatory responses. Ensuring proper safety equipment is used, along with adequate rest between activities, and good nutrition can all keep risks to a minimum.
Conditions such as spinal stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, osteoarthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis can cause both neck and back pain. Compression of the spine may lead to restricted space through which nerves can travel, with repercussions such as nerve root damage or even severing of the nerves on acute trauma in a stenotic condition. Ischaemia can also occur which interrupts the necessary blood supply (carrying nutrients and oxygen) to the cells. This can cause the cells to function sub-optimally, with abnormal signalling and pain generation, or even the atrophy and die.
Carrying extra body weight also makes neck and back pain more likely, especially as adipose tissue (fat) increases the amount of pro-inflammatory substances produced in the body. The extra strain on the muscles and joints also causes further degeneration, making it essential to achieve and maintain a healthy weight throughout life.
Basic daily activities such as checking email, reading online news and standing in the kitchen whilst cooking can lead to back and neck pain if poor posture is adopted. Having the keyboard and screen at the correct height, and having work surfaces and cupboards at a comfortable level make a big difference as these simple everyday tasks are repeated so frequently that any discomfort is amplified over time.
Ensuring adequate vitamin and mineral intake is also essential to maintaining optimum muscular, nervous, joint, and circulatory function. Without essential minerals in the body, such as calcium, magnesium, and manganese, the muscles are unable to contract and relax as appropriate, with muscle weakness, cramps, and risk of injury increased.
With so many potential causes of back and neck pain there are numerous corresponding treatments. Manual therapies such as massage, chiropractic treatment, and osteopathy provide possible solutions for realignment. Anti-inflammatory medications, analgesics and surgery may comprise conventional treatments for neck and back pain. Alternative remedies, such as herbal anti-inflammatory supplements may provide a solution without the side-effects of such drugs as NSAIDs.


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This is a description of programs like Shake-a-Paw that have been shown to work.
Topics discussed in the presentation include positive effects on hormones, attentiveness, improving knowledge about dog-related careers, and building several skills through training dogs.
Indeed, just petting a dog can reduce the petter's blood pressure and heart rate (while having a positive effect on the dog as well).
Probably the most similar program to Shake-a-Paw that runs on an outpatient basis is Teacher's Pet: Dogs and Kid's Learning Together located in Michigan. According to the program website (teacherspetmi.org), the program has been running for almost ten years, alongside numerous other community partners (including animal control facilities, schools, and local businesses and not-for-profits) and has obtained funding from Banfield Charitable Trust. Teacher's Pet is an intervention program that pairs troubled youth with hard-to-adopt shelter dogs for a workshop in positive, reward-based training and behavior modification in an effort to make the dogs more adoptable. The program meets across many weeks, twice a week, for two hours a day. This program has received a lot of attention from the media since 2007 and is still running strong. The program appears to use a model very similar to the Strategic Humane Intervention Program (Loar & Colman, 2004), including positive reinforcement training, with the aims of troubled youth experiencing empathy, gaining patience, and learning anger management skills. The youth in the program also learn about responsible pet ownership and humane treatment of animals, all of which are very useful life-skills.
k9 connection is another program that works in collaboration with schools - this time in California. The following information is taken from the k9 connection website. k9 connection’s programs in high schools offer teens the chance to break through learning and life barriers by training and bonding with homeless dogs. Experiential learning enables the teens to find self esteem, self determination and empathy while they in turn enable homeless dogs to develop the skills to be adopted into permanent loving homes.
In 2008, k9 connection commissioned an MSW student researcher to conduct a formal k9 connection program evaluation. The researcher used primarily qualitative methods while studying one intensive three-week program which took place at the Vista Del Mar residential treatment facility in July of 2008. Her evaluation included focus groups and one-on-one interviews with facility counselors. Conclusions suggested the program resulted in students’ improved images of self, development of patience, compassion, and empathy.
During the 2012-2013 school year, Jessica Thomas, a researcher from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology did her Doctoral dissertation on “Human Animal Interaction as an Intervention with At-Risk Youth: Assessing the Change in Cognitions, Emotional Intelligence and Empathy,” based on a study of a year of k9 connection programs with pre-and post-tests given to all k9 connection students. Her results showed a statistically significant increase in emotional intelligence and empathy, and a decrease in antisocial and self-serving perceptions. In lay terms, the students showed significantly more developed social and emotional abilities following participation in the three-week intensive k9 program. Measureable gains were achieved in the teens’ ability to recognize and express their emotions, to understand and relate to others, to cope with stress, to begin thinking in a less negative or self-serving manner, and to give increased consideration to the thoughts and feelings of others.
For details on the quantitative study, check out k9connection program evaluation poster.
Since 1959, Colorado Boys Ranch near Denver has sprung great interest in structuring client-animal partnering as a route to develop social skills or overcoming barriers to motivation or relationship development. This proposal will be modelled after a specific program offered at Colorado Boys Ranch. These programs have had popular interest from the media (E.g., Fischman, 2005).
Probably the most similar model to MEHEP available is the already established and empirically-supported residential treatment program at the Colorado Boys Ranch called “New Leash on Life”. At Colorado Boys Ranch, male adolescents with a variety of psychiatric/mental health issues are in residential treatment. This program includes social and occupational skills training for youth as well as youth involvement in preparing traumatized dogs for adoption. The NLOL program has outcome data against which to compare and validate the NLOL in different settings was called for in their Evaluation Research Project Final Report (Seiz & Koralewicz, 2003). This report contains details about the NLOL and the outcome evaluation. Details about the program itself can also be found at www.coloradoboysranch.org.
To summarize the model, the NLOL forms a part of an integrated treatment and educational system involving youth, parents, and referring professionals (including animal-care professionals) who work as a multidisciplinary team. The youth who volunteer, and are recommended as participants after screening for NLOL, provide ten weeks of ‘care’ with shelter dogs after which the dogs are adopted out. Participating dogs are provided health screening by veterinarians and receive updated vaccinations prior to admission to NLOL. The dogs receive medical care, customized nutrition, regular companionship, training, playful interaction, and exercise. NLOL receives strong administrative support for the program because of its potential impact on the therapeutic growth of the youth and its ability to save and train dogs. Since the beginning of 1995, 168 dogs have completed their training and have been successfully adopted out. There is a waitlist for the program’s “educated dogs” that are “matched” with adoptive families. The adolescent trainers assist with – and participate in – an adoption ceremony that marks the completion of each dog’s period of training. Animal Planet TV has featured the NLOL program.
The outcome research study over 12 – 14 months included nearly 40 boys, about ½ of whom spent 1.5 hours per day in NLOL activities, interacting and training their dogs and interacting with the NLOL instructor. During the course of the 10 weeks, NLOL participants learned specific handling techniques, social skills related to care and nurturance of dogs, and development of self-discipline and self-control involved in training dogs. The study found that significant differences from pre-treatment to post-treatment on Canine Bonding appeared in communicating with others about the dog, the dog being perceived by youth to help them through tough times, and the dog helping the youth to relax. In addition, based on analysis of standardized behavioural observations by program staff, parents, teachers, therapists, and animal trainers, social performance measures yielded a significant increase over waitlist controls in prosocial behaviours and social skills as observed in peer and adult interactions by boys in the NLOL program. Prosocial behaviours and skills included developing significant attachments with the dogs, felt responsibility for dogs they were training, and increased socially-appropriate conversations about their experiences with the dogs with both peers and staff. It is not merely incidental that the development of feeling responsible for a form of life outside oneself is viewed as a characteristic of growing socioemotional maturity.
Project POOCH was founded by Joan Dalton in 1993 (the following information is taken from www.pooch.org). Project POOCH’s mission is to provide opportunities for youth in corrections to develop the personal and vocational skills they will need to become responsible, productive members of the community. The program accomplishes this by teaching youth to care for and train shelter dogs for adoption. In the program, The youths work with their dogs daily, and practice the principles of positive reinforcement and behavior modification. As the trainers manage their dogs, they learn how to manage their own behavior. They also earn school credits, develop good work habits, and acquire valuable occupational skills.
Two major research projects have been conducted on Project POOCH. Dr. Sandra Merriam at Pepperdine University, surveyed MacLaren staff and youth enrolled in the program in structured interviews. She reported that the youths who participated in Project POOCH showed marked improvement in the areas of respect for authority, social interaction and leadership. In addition, program youth interviewed reported that they felt they had changed and improved in the areas of honesty, empathy, nurturing, social growth, understanding, self-confidence and pride of accomplishment. Not only that, Dr. Merriam reviewed recidivism data and found zero recidivism among the Project POOCH youth she interviewed.
On the occasions when animal welfare advocates and human rights advocates find they have a shared interest in providing humane care to all living creatures, despite their offenses, there exists the potential for a powerful alliance to influence reformation of care for sheltered dogs and for incarcerated individuals.
Green Chimneys is a testament to the durability of a well-founded vision of providing animal-assisted therapy to youth with mental health issues. Green Chimneys serves this population in a residential setting. At Green Chimneys, adolescents with mental health issues are treated using the methods of animal-assisted therapy (Brooks, 2006). Recognized as a worldwide leader in animal-assisted therapy and activities, Green Chimneys operates residential treatment for children and a special education school. Founded in 1947, Green Chimneys offers specialized treatment and educational and recreational services. Each year, Green Chimneys' restoration system gives hundreds of children and their families the tools that enable them to positively experience their youth, regain a sense of self-worth and create hope for the future as independent, positive and productive adults. Green Chimneys provides innovative and caring services for children, families and animals, and targets its services at restoring and strengthening the emotional health and well-being of children and families, and fostering optimal functioning and independence.
The Strategic Humane Intervention Program model developed by Dr. Lynn Loar of the Latham Foundation has been widely used in programs attempting to teach empathy to at-risk youth with mental health and behavioural problems. SHIP is widely respected and forms the basis of humane themes taught in the Shake-a-Paw program. The Stand-by-Me program takes Shake-a-Paw a step further and out into the real world. Together, Shake-a-Paw and Stand-by-Me are programs which challenge young people to develop the skills necessary for independent living while caring for other living beings (both human and animal) in their communities.
Loar, L., & Colman, L. (2004). Teaching Empathy: Animal-Assisted Therapy Programs for Children and Families Exposed to Violence. Alameda, CA: Latham Foundation.


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The British-American Project (BAP) is a transatlantic fellowship of over 1,200 leaders and opinion formers from a broad spectrum of occupations, backgrounds and political views. BAP operates on a not-for-profit basis, funded through its membership and support from corporate partners. It was originally named the British-American Project for the Successor Generation.
The Project meets annually for a four-day conference on a topic of current concern to both countries. Each year, roughly 24 new participants are selected from either side of the Atlantic, on the basis of service to their communities and professional achievement, and sponsored to attend the conference as Delegates. At the end of each conference, Delegates are elected Fellows of the Project. Fellows from past years attend the annual conferences at their own expense, with many returning in successive years.
Established in 1985 BAP was created to help maintain and enrich the long-standing relationship between Britain and the United States. The Project was the brainchild of Nick Butler, an economist at BP who at that time was also a prospective Labour parliamentary candidate and a research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House). Along with many others in the US and Britain who viewed the special relationship favorably, he had become concerned about a growing tide of anti-American sentiment among his generation in the UK. Butler's response was to propose a series of conferences, similar in format to the annual get-together of Anglo-German leaders at Konigswinter, developing relationships between the participants and broadening understanding. This rapidly gained backing from Chatham House and the US Embassy in London. It was Sir Charles Villiers, the former chairman of British Steel, who secured funding by inviting in two American anglophile friends, Lew van Dusen and Isadore Scott, who were able to secure funding and fulfill the dream of creating, in a younger generation, a multiplicity of transatlantic friendships like their own.
A US BAP organiser describes the BAP network as committed to "grooming leaders" while promoting "the leading global role that [the US and Britain] continue to play".
BAP strives to draw its membership from as wide a selection of backgrounds and fields as possible. Fellows have included senior members in nearly every executive administration in the US and the UK over the past thirty years, the leader of the British Labour Party, heads of national security, a former chief of the British armed forces, US Mayors, Members of Congress and US Senators, award-winning comedians, high-profile journalists, distinguished academics and filmmakers, CEOs of major corporations, faith leaders and successful entrepreneurs. The competition for places is generally fierce. Each year BAP organizes a rigorous selection process to identify approximately 20 individuals from the US and 20 from the UK who will join the Fellowship from all walks of life, including business, media, law, government, the military, sports, the public sector, NGOs, music, visual and creative industries. BAP receives over 200 nominations annually from existing Fellows, Advisory Board members, donors and outside organizations.
The annual conference is the key event in the calendar, bringing together 150-200 Fellows and newly chosen nominees (known as Delegates) from both sides of the Atlantic. Delegates are invited to attend the conference with all associated costs paid for by BAP. BAP's 2018 Conference will be held in Seattle, Washington.
Each year, roughly 40 new participants are selected from a variety of backgrounds among the intellectual and influential society on both sides of the Atlantic. At the start of each year, each existing member can nominate people in the general age range of 28 to 40. The nomination processes are different in the U.S. and UK. The UK nominees are interviewed and tested: there are competitive debates, management games and personal presentations; U.S. nominees must submit letters of recommendation and have a separate process of selection. Once selected, the Delegates attend the centerpiece of the British-American Project, its annual conference, held in November each year and alternating between the U.S. and the UK.
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The overarching goal of the yearly conference is to provide a wide range of issues (with a variety of presentation styles) to provoke thought and debate, to inform and challenge, and to foster greater understanding among participants about competing views on a topic. Discussions often grapple with the similarities and differences between the attitudes of representatives of the two countries to the issues addressed during the conference.
The British-American Project is now affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). BAP is a non-profit, funded by its members and donations from corporate partners. While acknowledging the connections made among journalists and the political class in the two countries, a 1999 article in The Observer noted critics saying it was another example of too much US influence in Britain. Participants have been highly favorable about the project.
During the administration of President Bill Clinton in the US, the Australian journalist John Pilger attacked the BAP as an example of "Atlanticist freemasonry." He asserted in November 1998 that "many members are journalists, the essential foot soldiers in any network devoted to power and propaganda."
Lord Robertson, another former Secretary General of NATO.
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Worcester, Mass...The Clark University women's tennis defeated Becker College on Tuesday afternoon on Clark's Corash tennis courts, 9-0. The Cougars had 11 different players register a point in their frist win of the season. The Couars improved to 1-2 and the Hawks fell to 0-3.
Sophomore Anna Gates (North Scituate, R.I.) defeated Jacqueline Andrade (Somerset, Mass.) at the number one singles spot, 6-0, 6-2. In number one doubles Clark's senior Isabelle Long (Bellevue, Wash.) and sophomore Chloe Dunnell (Montclair, N.J. ) won 8-2 over Andrade and Victoria Puczydlowsk (Dudley, Mass.).
Becker is back in action when they host St. Joseph's (CT) on Tuesday, September 19 at 3:30 pm. The Coguars return to action after over a week off when they travel to non-conference opponent Johnson and Wales on Sunday, September 24 for a 12 p.m. start.


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What to make of this latest war of words between Britain and EU?
On one level it sounds quite serious. Theresa May badly needs a transition deal to be signed off next month or else businesses that have been waiting and watching developments could start implementing contingency plans for a damaging hard Brexit.
And from David Davis’s intemperate words yesterday to Michel Barnier’s riposte today it sounds like the two sides are very far from agreeing a deal.
But public utterances can be misleading. The EU side knows that Mrs May is under huge domestic political pressure not to agree to a transition deal which, in the words of the arch Eurosceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg, would turn Britain into a “vassal state”.


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A BRAVE new motoring world beckons: Volkswagen recently presented what it described as “solutions for the CO2-neutral, sustainable mobility of the future” at the 38th Vienna Motor Symposium.
Electric power, natural gas propulsion and a new coasting function for internal combustion engines were part of the German carmaker’s presentation.
For the first time at Vienna, Volkswagen described a “coasting — engine off” function that shuts off the engine completely.
The company is upping its game on the natural gas front as well — with a new, compact three-cylinder engine for the Polo.
In the new Golf TSI BlueMotion, which launches this summer, the system works in tandem with a direct-shift (DSG) gearbox.
It offers the driver hybrid-style characteristics: lift off the throttle and the Golf can coast with the engine completely deactivated. The system reduces fuel consumption.
This new Volkswagen system adds a compact lithium-ion battery to the 12-volt vehicle electrics, with the battery supplying power when coasting.
At the end of the coasting phase, the Golf TSI BlueMotion’s engine can be started in different ways, depending on driving speed and situation — using the starter, using the clutches of the DSG gearbox, or in combined fashion using starter and clutch.
In the middle of the electric power range is the plug-in hybrid concept of the Golf GTE4 and at its top end the 100 per cent battery-powered drive system, such as Volkswagen is offering in the new e-Golf. This results in a big increase in range — from 190 km previously to up to 300 km.
Volkswagen is taking on the next big step in the switch to electric power by using “all-electric architecture” — the first model using this completely new drive system will be launched in 2020.
“The all-electric architecture combines local zero-emission driving with superb long-distance mobility,” said Mr Eichler.
“It forms the basis for our new generation of electric vehicles that we will be offering globally in high volume.
A second technology with which Volkswagen is shaping the transition to the sustainable mobility of the future is propulsion using compressed natural gas (CNG).
Dr Wolfgang Demmelbauer-Ebner, head of Volkswagen petrol engine development, said: “Due to its chemical composition, natural gas as a fuel already reduces CO2 emissions if it comes from fossil sources.
“If, however, it is produced in a sustainable way, for instance as biomethane from agricultural waste, then looked at from well-to-wheel it facilitates a form of mobility that produces appreciably less CO2.
Volkswagen has been represented in the marketplace with CNG engines since 2002. A special feature of the new three-cylinder turbocharged engine with a cubic capacity of 1.0 litre and high torque (pulling power) shown at the Vienna symposium was its bivalent concept — it can be run on petrol or CNG.
In gas-powered mode it works in a low-emission manner — and that applies both to CO2 and NOx particulate emissions. The compact 1.0 TGI is a new engine specification for the small car class in the Volkswagen group.
Volkswagen says it is “pursuing every path leading to CO2-neutral mobility”.


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This is a city of shifting alliances, strange partners, feuds folding into rapprochement, the constant clash of ego and expedience. But not many can figure out the relationship between Newt Gingrich, conservative bomb thrower, and Richard G. Darman, Machiavellian budget maker.
Over the last month the two men have engaged in a public duel that included speeches, philosophical debate, subtle and not so subtle digs, even an ultimatum. At the same time, privately, they keep talking -- and talking and talking, 10 to 12 hours in a variety of settings over the past three weeks, said one Republican close to Mr. Gingrich.
Burton Pines, a senior official at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative study group, struggled to explain the two men in a recent interview and then sighed, saying it was, perhaps, a task better suited to his wife, a psychotherapist. But there is more at work here than id and ego, although there is probably plenty of that.
"I think it's partly about real issues, it's partly psychodrama, and it's partly posturing," said one senior Administration official.
Like many great political spats, it all began with a speech. This one was delivered by Mr. Darman, the White House budget director, and grandly titled, "Neo-Neo-Ism: Reflections on Hubble-ism, Rationalism and the Pursuit of Excellence (After the Fiscal Follies)."
Some say the talk was intended to be lighthearted, a whimsical trip through domestic policy and the fads that often sweep it. But there is little room for whimsy among Republicans these days, riven as they are between right and left, old imperatives and new paradigms. Mr. Darman's speech, to the Council for Excellence in Government, a nonpartisan organization of former senior Government officials, was taken very seriously by some conservatives, a slap by the dark prince of establishment Republicanism at their search for new ideas.
Mr. Gingrich, the House Republican whip, was coming off a harrowing autumn, having broken bitterly with the White House over the budget negotiations and having endured a humiliatingly close re-election race in his district in the Atlanta suburbs. But being Newt Gingrich, a man whose political passions are in a permanent state of arousal, he had room for another fight left in him.
Mr. Gingrich said his initial reaction was that the Darman speech was sad, an exercise in "preppy humor" and -- most insulting of all in Washington policy circles -- "not very important in and of itself." But in the days that followed, the Georgia Republican decided that Mr. Darman was trying to take on the conservatives and their search for a new domestic policy.
So Mr. Gingrich delivered a public ultimatum to the budget director: Recant or resign. Mr. Darman, to whom the word arrogant is assigned as often as hothead is to Mr. Gingrich, did neither, and Washington braced itself for the mighty clash of two formidable egos.
Instead, the two men began to talk.
The Darman-Gingrich tension is just part of the broader battle for the soul of the Republican Party. The struggle over the budget last fall reflected these passions: Many Republicans found the Administration's acceptance of higher taxes a stunning repudiation of not only the economic orthodoxy of the party but also of a successful political formula, a victory for the accommodationist wing of the party.
Mr. Gingrich broke with the White House over the budget and became a leader of the opposition. He scoffs at the notion that, after 10 years of Reaganomics and growing deficits, it was simply an act of good government to raise some taxes and reach a budget deal with the Democrats.
"In Washington, governing is almost always a synonym for tax increases," Mr. Gingrich said. "When you see someone described as willing to govern, it means they're willing to raise taxes."
Mr. Darman, on the other hand, is the embodiment of establishment Republicanism, a man of process as well as politics, a principal deal maker in this fall's budget making. This alone rubs some people the wrong way. It is hard to be a Republican in the House, after 36 years of Democratic rule. It is harder still to watch a Republican Administration, in the person of Mr. Darman, underscore your lack of power by striking deals with Congressional Democrats.
Mr. Darman, moreover, approached the budget talks with considerable pride of authorship. Some Darman-watchers theorize that he considered the eventual agreement a crowning achievement and was hurt at the scorn heaped upon it. "He had just pulled off this great budget deal and nobody liked it," said one senior Republican who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. "This was supposed to make him Jim Baker Jr."
Indeed, in his celebrated speech, Mr. Darman declared that the budget agreement was "a giant step toward controlling the deficit," but added, "I realize I may be the first to suggest unequivocal support for the five-year deficit reduction program just enacted."
The budget director then proceeded to warn against a rush toward "new paradigms" for governing, and cast a skeptical eye on the general American affection for new ideas, including, he said at one point, "New-Newt-ism." Such approaches, he said, should be tempered with pragmatism, and reflect "the hard choices of detailed program design and resource allocation."
Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Darman give big speeches with big ideas and big titles. So it was only natural that Mr. Gingrich would respond to Mr. Darman's "Neo-Neo-ism" speech with one of his own. It was called: "Beyond the Incrementalism, Hard Choices vs. Hard Thinking."
Mr. Gingrich told his audience: "I am not as smart as the director of the budget. I did not go to the Kennedy School." (He did, however, embark on a Gingrichian tour of ideology, values and American culture, raising questions like, "Are families simply randomized gatherings of humans who happen to cohabitate for a brief period?").
On the matter at hand, striking a blow for new paradigms against the onslaught of the managerialists, Mr. Gingrich raised the specter of another Kennedy School graduate, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts.
Mr. Darman was wrong to dismiss the "isms" that sweep this country, Mr. Gingrich asserted: "Ideological battles matter. If they didn't matter, we would be talking about President Dukakis, he himself would be giving a large part of this speech, because he is a technocrat and he wanted us to believe that ideology didn't matter."
In the capital, this is strong stuff.
It is less clear why the two men are doing all this quiet talking.
"We're trying to find a common ground of reform," said Mr. Gingrich. "What he thinks is sustainable within the budget agreement and other things that he is wedded to, and what I think meets the basic needs of the Republican Party and the constituencies we represent." But the Georgia Republican acknowleged that his fellow conservatives are wary of all this consorting.
"They're real glad I took him on and they're real worried that I'm talking to him," Mr. Gingrich said. "There's a sense that it's easier to drive him out of the Government than it is to work with him."
A senior Administration official theorized, "I think they have these meetings and then they go home and trash the other guy to their friends."
The denouement is not far off. Once President Bush produces his budget and his State of the Union, Mr. Gingrich will either be within the White House fold, with Mr. Darman, or outside it. The fact that he is talking to Mr. Darman, Mr. Gingrich says, should not be overestimated. "There's a tendency to say, 'We've had these nice talks; doesn't that mean something?' " the Georgia Republican said. What matters is the result, he added.
Or, he said as he reflected, "In the land of pure process, the principled man is a heretic." Can this marriage be saved.