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Loving Others: The Worst Thing A Codependent Can Do

Psychology AftermathYesterday I mentioned that people who are labeled as codependents typically receive counsel to put their own (felt) needs first rather than sacrificing themselves for the sake of others. In the sort of “Christian” counseling that uses Scripture (generally quoted of of context) to authenticate psychological principles, counselors find ways to convince clients that God would not want them to lose themselves in service to others.

In their article, Codependency, A Biblical View, the writers at Southern View Chapel say:

We are being told that it is very difficult to discern whether the behavior of a codependent was caused by his “illness,” or the “illness” was caused by his behavior. At any rate, Melody Beattie groups the problems of codependent people around the following categories: caretaking, low self-worth, repression, obsession, controlling, denial, dependency, poor communication, weak boundaries, lack of trust, anger, sex problems, miscellaneous and progressive (Codependent No More, p37-45). After reading her lists, you realize that few, if any, can totally escape the codependent label.

Minirth and Meier blame addictions and compulsions on codependency. Even more importantly, they claim that a codependent is unable to obey God: “The Christian’s foremost privilege and responsibility is to hear and respond to God. The codependent can neither hear clearly nor respond adequately. It’s that simple” (p171). How cruel God must be, to demand obedience from people who cannot obey because of their emotional illnesses (caused usually by harsh parents), then punish them because of their disobedience. Either the apostles of codependency are right, or God (in His Word) is — we cannot have it both ways!

I believe, based on my own involvement in “counseling ministry,” that Southern View Chapel is absolutely correct in their assessment that the theories on codependency diametrically oppose Biblical teaching. I’ve seen several instances in which Christians (whether genuine or merely professing) have declined to serve others out of concern that doing so might pull them into codependent behaviors. In essence, teachings on codependency boil down to convenient excuses for selfishness.

The Bible, on the other hand, calls Christians to exercise the same sacrificial love that Jesus Christ exemplified on the cross. As it so happens, the passage I’ve been working through in my Quiet Time lately reinforces God’s command to love at one’s own expense:

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. ~~1 John 4:7-11 (ESV)

Let me be clear that Christ’s death on the cross extends far beyond a mere example of self-sacrificial love. Regular readers know that I’ve written many essays on Christ’s purpose in giving Himself to be crucified, and I’ll undoubtedly write many more such essays as time goes on. I definitely don’t want to reduce the implications of Christ’s atoning work to simply an example for Christians to follow. It means so much more than just that!

Yet Scripture does plainly teach that the Lord’s act of dying in our place establishes the standard of Christian love. The apostle John maintains that this type of love marks true believers. In contrast to codependency theories, love demands self-denial and calls Christians to set aside our own interests in order to benefit others.

Teachings on codependency appeal to our sinful natures. Perhaps saying it that bluntly seems harsh, but shouldn’t we be a bit harsh when it comes to mortifying our flesh? As Christians, we must reject psychological principles that lure us to disobey Scripture, and especially when they promote selfishness. Love, for Christians, is more than a choice — it’s a command from God.

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  1. Co-dependence is not a willingness to sacrificially serve, it is an overwhelming desire to fix someone who is struggling. I have put myself in mortal danger trying to help my son who is mentally ill. I have not listened to my family and their fear and concern for my safety. I could not change my behavior until I learned that I was not helping my son, I was destroying my life. My son has made choices about drug use and I can’t stop that. I pray for him diligently. He ended up spending two years in jail for violently attacking a woman while he was hallucinating. Co-dependence is an unhealthy drive to rescue others. You can’t hear God’s will if you are listening to your own will. Just my thoughts on the matter.

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How to Build a Lacrosse Wall

By Robert Preston

A good rebound wall is an invaluable tool for a developing lacrosse player. While commercial models can often be cost-prohibitive, a simple woodworking project can create a sturdy rebound wall, which can be leaned at various angles to give a developing player all the rebound angles he needs.

Line up one of the long boards flush along a long side of the the plywood, with the plywood sitting on the broad side of the board. Place the other boards beneath the plywood to help it lie flat.

Nail the plywood to the first board roughly 2 inches from each end of the plywood. Put two more nails equally spaced between the two corner nails.

Repeat step 2 on the other long side of the plywood with the other longer board. Each of the plywood's long sides should now be supported by a two-by-four.

Cut the shorter boards to fit snugly between the longer ones.

Position two of the shorter boards flush beneath and along either end of short sides of the plywood.

Nail the shorter boards to the plywood the same way you nailed the longer ones. Also nail one shorter piece in the center below the plywood.

Lean your rebound wall against a wall or tree, trying different angles to change the rebound trajectory of your shots.

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The Technique To Burn Fat and Build Muscle Fast!

If you’ve hit a plateau with weight loss or are just bored as heck with your workouts and need something to light things up, you should give cardio accelerations a try!

What is cardio acceleration?

Cardio acceleration is when you combine high-intensity cardio with strength training.  Instead of taking a typical rest break between your lifts, you do some type of cardio, all out, for one minute.   I prefer to jump rope, however, you could do any type exercise for your cardio acceleration.  Here are some examples: running in place next to the bench, jumping jacks, squat thrusts, skaters, dumbbell cleans, step-ups, etc.

fullsizerender-1Jumping rope is hands down my favorite tool for keeping my body conditioned and agile.  Read more about the benefits for jumping rope along with training tips here:

What is the benefit?

I got turned on to this training technique when I did Jim Stoppani’s Shortcut To Shred program.  His program did get me shredded.  Another benefit is that there is no hem hawing around waiting for the next set, which is perfect for my adult ADD;) LOL.

My hubby always teases me because if I’m not doing cardio intervals between sets, I’m stretching;)  This was him poking fun of me yesterday when I was stretching between my bench presses.  LOL

One thing I REALLY love about this technique is that it fills in for my 20-30 minutes of cardio on the step mill or treadmill!

  • Check this out, 20-30 minutes of these high-intensity intervals burns more fat than spending that amount of time on a treadmill. Trust me, your metabolic rate will be up the entire workout and that means you are burning a lot of calories during and after your workout!

I now cycle through this program twice a year, and lately, I’ve been throwing in cardio accelerations with my leg day once a week.

After doing a set of squats, I do 100-200 revolutions jumping rope.  (BTW, I’ve been performing squats recently with a box to make sure I’m nailing my form and getting good and low).

If you’re worried that the cardio could take away from the strength of your lifts, here is research that Stoppani shares from his Shortcut To Shred Training Overview:

A University of California, Santa Cruz, study found that when subjects did cardio between weightlifting sets, they were able to recover better because of increased blood flow. Cardio acceleration elevates your heart rate, which means more blood pumps to your working muscles throughout your workout.

Ready to HIIT it now?  Let’s go!!

1000 Calorie Workout

Happy Thanksgiving!                                                                                woodchop

I hope you all have fun, food-filled plans in store with family or friends.  Starting your day off with a high intensity workout is a great way to set a positive and healthy tone for the day.  Vigorous exercise will keep the body burning calories for hours after the workout is finished.

This “1000 calorie” high intensity workout I designed will ignite your body’s metabolism into burning the turkey before you even start feasting!  It’s balls to the wall intense, so get your game face on and have some water nearby.

This can be done at home or at the gym.

Here is what you need:

jump rope, dumbbells, stopwatch and a mat

How it works:

You will be running for 2.5 minutes, then going straight into Tabata intervals for 4 minutes.

Tabata is a type of High-Intensity Interval Training (H.I.I.T) that lasts four minutes, but it’s likely to be one of the longest four minutes you’ve ever endured.  You will work hard for 2o seconds, rest 10 seconds, and complete 8 rounds.  I suggest that you download a free tabata timer on your phone.

In this workout I have 4 rounds.

  • Each round consists of 2.5 min of running (or brisk walking).  I play around with my speed and incline each round to keep it interesting.
  • Tabata intervals with 2 exercises that you alternate performing during the 4 minutes.  For example, perform up and down planks for 20 sec., rest 10 sec., then perform weighted jump rope for 20 sec., etcetera.
  • Rest for 2 minutes then start the next round.

*Modify if necessary to make this work for you.  If you need help with modifications, leave me a comment.

Let’s get this party started!

*warm up for 5 min with a walk or jog.

1st Round:

  1. Fast run for 2.5 min.  If you are on a treadmill increase the incline to a 3 and increase your pace.  When I do this at the gym, I jack the speed up to 7.5 (I generally run at a 6.5)
  2. Tabata Time!

▪Up and down planks

▪Weighted or traditional jump rope (if you don’t have a jump rope do Jumping Jacks)

2nd Round:

  1. Fast run for 2.5 min.
  2. Tabata Time!

▪Russian Twist (use 1 dumbbell or a medicine ball)

3rd Round:

  1. Fast run for 2.5 min.
  2. Tabata Time!

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▪Scissor leg lifts:

4th Round:

  1. Fast run for 2.5 min.
  2. Tabata Time!

▪Mountain Climbers

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Chia Pudding with Kiwi and Nana/Mix Berries Smoothies

Monday Smoothies

Here’s the thing.. Me and my husband is slightly bit over-weight (at least as per our concern), so we want to have a healthy lifestyle. There’s a lot of goodstuff that we can find in the internet or books out there related to healthy lifestyle such as Raw Food Diet, Food Combining, etc. I’m a beginner for this such thing, so I think the best-easy-and simple way to start is by making fruit and veggies smoothies as breakfast.

Making fruit&veggies smoothies every morning is surprisingly easy. Its perfect for you who has a busy lifestyle and always didn’t find a time to cook some breakfast for your family. For me and husband, this breakfast can last until lunch hour and its match with the foodcombinging idea (which is only eats fruit and veggies for your breakfast). For me, the key is to add frozen banana and don’t add too much water to your smoothies. That will thickened your smoothies and also satisfying your tummy.

Here’s the recipe for this monday morning smoothies: (2 jar of smoothies)

Prepare on the night before:

  • 1 kiwi, peel and slice
  • @ 1 cup of soy/almond milk
  • @ 4 tbs chia seeds
  • agave/maple syrup to taste

  • 2 frozen banana
  • 4 strawberries
  • 6 cherries
  • 4 rapsberries
  • 1/2 cup orange juice
  • 1 cup of ice
  • 1/2 cup water

  1. on the night before, placed kiwi at the bottom of each jar and then pour soya milk, chia seeds, and syrup. Mix well and then refrigerate.
  2. Take all the smoothies ingredients to the blender from low to high level until smooth
  3. Pour it to the chia pudding mixture
  4. voila ready to serve!

Hope u enjoy the recipe as much as i do.. cao!


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Electric Cloud announces ElectricInsight 3.2

Electric Cloud is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ElectricInsight release 3.2. It includes numerous fixes and performance enhancements, as well as the following new features:

- New reports:

   - Build manifest - lists all files that were read and/or written by the build

   - Jobs by agent - lists the number of jobs run by each agent in the build

   - Jobs by file - lists which jobs read or wrote a particular file

- Longest serial chain report now enables you to display the longest serial chain leading to a specific job

- Job time by type report now displays a 'heat-map' of build time grouped by task category

- ElectricSimulator report now identifies the minimum possible build time for the build, which is equal to the time of the build’s longest serial job chain

- A completed build can now be replayed. The replay toolbar controls include play, fast forward, pause, and stop

- ElectricInsight is now able to monitor a running emake build, allowing you to view its progress and how it is distributed (This feature requires ElectricAccelerator 4.5.1 or later)

- The Job Details dialog now includes a Serial Order field

- The main interface now has a 'reload' button to re-open the current annotation file

- Changed how unusual job status is displayed. Now, if a job has an unusual status (conflict, reverted, or remake), that color is used only for the lower portion of the job. The upper portion retains the color of the job type

- The main navigation screen’s left pane (which contains the Overview, Legend, and Job Summary) is now collapsible

Note that with ElectricInsight 3.2, the Solaris platform is no longer supported.

Please refer to the release notes for full details on this release.

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‘Godzilla 2’ Director Mike Dougherty Teases New Monster Foes In Call Sheet Photo

With the Godzilla sequel currently in production, fans are eager to see the how the next installment of Legendary’s burgeoning MonsterVerse will lead into the much-anticipated showdown between the titular kaiju and King Kong. However, it appears the King of Monsters will have to win a fight or two before he faces off against the King of Apes as director Mike Dougherty has teased the appearance of several classic Toho monsters in the Godzilla sequel.

Dougherty shared an image of a call sheet where the names of classic movie monsters King Ghidorah, Mothra, and Rodan were listed.

You can check out the image in the post below!

Are you excited to see these classic Toho monsters appear in the Godzilla sequel? Share your thoughts below!

The new story follows the heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch as its members face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah.  When these ancient super-species—thought to be mere myths—rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity’s very existence hanging in the balance.

The film stars Kyle Chandler, Millie Bobby Brown, Vera Farmiga, Zhang Ziyi, Anthony Ramos, Ken Watanabe, Randy Havens, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Aisha Hinds, Thomas Middleditch, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins and Charles Dance.

Godzilla 2 will be released in theaters on March 22, 2019.

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MonsterVerse With both 2014’s Godzilla and this year’s Kong: Skull Island managing to outperform expectations, the MonsterVerse from Legendary Pictures and Warner Brothers is off to a good start. That being said, there’s room for growth amongst the roster of kaiju – thus far, only five classic kaiju have been confirmed to exist in the MonsterVerse: Godzilla, King Kong, Mothra, Rodan, and King Ghidorah, and of those, we’ve only seen two of them in action. Should the series continue to succeed, the setting’s going to need more than original monsters like the M.U.T.O. and the Skullcrawlers – it will need to pull in some fan-favorite monsters from the classic creature features to keep things interesting. Here are ten of Toho’s best kaiju that would make fine additions to the MonsterVerse, with explanations of who they are and why they need to be a part of the setting.

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TCOTD – High Priestess – 20 9 12

Today its the turn of the High Priestess. She comes with gifts of intuition, calm and an inner knowing. She is very powerful, and knows the secrets of the mind.

Today, its a case of following your intuition, and acting upon what you feel. Sometimes we ignore the very obvious signs, and it does not always do us good – but today you can change that! We all have an inner knowing, but we do not always acknowledge or accept that. Today remember you are a powerful and wonderful being – and that our intuition can serve to help us as we go through life.

A day for listening within.

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 We all know some people who get sick all the time. They're just getting over one thing when here comes the next round of illness. We also know people who just seem to be full of energy. Those people never get sick or so it seems. What are the key differences between these North and South Poles of health? One key difference is healthy behavior.

On the North Pole side, people who frequently get sick think this is something that happens to them. In other words, their health problems are related to fate. "I catch whatever's going around the office", they say. "I catch whatever my kids pick up at school" is another common refrain. These individuals - and they represent most of us - don't seem to realize it's their behaviors, actions, and choices that lead to their continual state of unwellness. For example, two-thirds of all American adults are either overweight or obese. Is this fate? Or something else?

On the South Pole side, people who are rarely sick are usually very clear about what's going on. These individuals have trained themselves to take control of their health and well-being by making active choices. These choices, known as healthy behaviors, result in: a stronger immune system,
lower serum cholesterol, lower blood pressure, improved cardiovascular health, weight loss, more restful sleep, and a positive mental attitude.

Healthy behaviors have been shown to reduce blood glucose 1 (good news for diabetics) and reduce the occurrence of life-changing disorders such as stroke.2 What are these action steps? Everybody knows them, even North Pole people. Healthy behaviors include: regular vigorous exercise (the Federal Department of Health and Human Services recommends 30 minutes of exercise five times per week) - 30 minutes of walking fulfills your daily exercise requirement. Eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables (the Federal Department of Health and Human Services recommends at least five portions per day) Also, eat a balanced diet including high quality protein, complex carbohydrates, and mono- and polyunsaturated fats. 3
Make sure to get the rest that you need (seven hours of sleep per night is the recommended average).

Healthy behaviors do require discipline and effort. In the 21st Century, good health does not come for free. To be healthy and well, we need to do the planning, make our schedules, and put in the time. Of course, there's a very big payoff. How great would it be to have a healthy height/weight ratio, normal levels of blood glucose, and a normal-for-age blood pressure? It would be very great.

The payoff is not only adding years to life, but also adding life to years. It's much more fun to have good health. We all know how not-fun it is when we're sick.

Your local chiropractor can be an important part of your plan for good family health, and  is an expert in all aspects of healthy behaviors. We will be glad to help you design plans and programs that will work for your needs and those of your family.

1 Hamman RF, et al: Effect of weight loss with lifestyle intervention on risk of diabetes. Diabetes Care 29:2102-2107, 2006
2 Forman JP, et al: Life style as a blood pressure determinant. JAMA 302(4): 437-439, 2009
3 KKhan LK, et al: Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the U.S. MMWR Recomm Rep 58(RR-7):1-26, 2009

Exercise - An All-Purpose Health Tool

Exercise is the gift that keeps on giving. Our high school PE teachers ("gym teachers" if you're old school) had it right. When they were yelling at us to climb those ropes or do another ten squat-thrusts or get back on our feet and finish that one-mile run they were really helping us, not hurting us.

But it's important to listen and not only hear. Now that we're older, in our 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond, exercise is more important than ever. Scientific research has consistently proven that exercise reduces blood pressure, reduces blood glucose levels, and improves lung capacity and circulation. Of course, these critical results are in addition to the "looking good" benefit.

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Date published: 2017-08-19
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Excellent Bar I am very pleased with quality, durability and strength of the ES bars. I run mostly 24/25" (84 drive links) on my 046, 660 and 661. Use longer bars when needed. The 362's can pull the 25" too but usually run 20". The 362cm came with an E bar but dealer upgraded to ES. Over the years I tried an 'O' brand and For___ brand. They were less expensive but no bargains because much lesser quality. Lesson learned.
Date published: 2016-02-04
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Excellent - Wish more sizes were available and longer bars were less expensive I've been running Stihl Rollomatic ES bars for years. They wear great and are extremely durable. I do, however, wish Stihl offered more sizes in the larger bars. I like running 3/8" chain on everything, and have had great luck running it on long bars. Stihl only offers 3/8" pitch Rollomatic bars up to 36", and doesn't even offer a 47" .404 bar anymore.Also, the pricing on the longer bars has gotten a bit ridiculous.Those issues aside, I will continue to run ES bars for all of my saws in the sizes that fit my needs.
Date published: 2016-01-21
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Get the upgrade... Most of the saws a person will buy will have the Rollomatic E standard guide bar. This is the standard bar that comes on Stihl chainsaws (unless you buy a professional grade). Having said that, the ES allows the user to plunge cut often without worrying about the nose sprocket bearings going out. And if the bearings do go out, you can get a new nose assembly and not have to plunk down the dollars for a new bar. I would definitely recommend this product to the individual who wants a little durability in a bar. And even if you're not plunge cutting often, the novice user has the option-if they ever wear the tip out-to replace a smaller/more inexpensive part.
Date published: 2015-05-02
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Cant go wrong with this bar Working as a logger this bar coupled with a Stihl chain is darn near bulletproof. This bar is very strong and durable. I have a co-worker who has an "aftermarket" bar and he is always trying to bend it back into shape and fix it. I told him to pony up the money and get a Stihl bar like I have. He refuses to pay the extra money. As he is bending his bar back I am shaking my head and moving on to the next tree. Yes it costs a few extra dollars but its way worth it in the long run. I always carry to bars with me and 2 chains. People ask why I say why not easy to swap out and put the other one on there. And then sharpen the other one later.
Date published: 2014-03-19
Rated 5 out of 5 by from one of the best bars made I have always bought the es bars with my saws unless they already had them, I prefer the widenose 6 rivet sprockets for extra plunge cutting durability.
Date published: 2013-04-07
Rated 5 out of 5 by from Pay the extra up front,you won't be disappointed! Over the years I have purchased this bar in lengths from 18' to 41". When you purchase a STIHL chainsaw, I always look at it as an investment in my enjoyment of a piece of equipment. I therefore purchase a HIGH QUALITY long lasting bar and chain so I can be out in the woods cutting and not having to worry about any problems with my bar. If you are going to spend the money on a STIHL, you might as well spend a little extra on the bar and have the TOTAL PACKAGE!
Date published: 2012-12-02
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G. Dep may be facing 15 to life for confessing to a 1993 murder back in 2010, but that isn’t stopping the Harlem rapper from telling his story. Now, the former Bad Boy emcee is planning to pen his autobiography from behind bars.

According to a recent report from XXL, G. Dep has decided to put his life in print. He explained that because he is unable to rhyme while incarcerated, he hopes the book version of his life story will serve as an example of how a person can avoid the mistakes that he made.

“The book is an autobiography,” he said. “It’s one of those things where I’m not trying to explain or justify anything, it’s just I’m trying to just give people my last option. Obviously I can’t record. I don’t know if people are wondering what’s going on or even care, but this is something from an artistic point of view that will kind of close out what I was doing, for now. It might kinda answer some people’s questions. I’m really just putting it out there as an example. You can make your own synopsis of what you think of it or what you’re trying to do with yourself. Really, I’m just putting my story out there. And I’m trying to give a positive message at the same time.”

G. Dep, who is currently being held in prison before he goes to trial, also discussed his adjustment to prison life. He said that while the transition to prison is difficult, he feels that serving his time for his crime is needed for him to change his ways and grow as a person.

“It’s sacred to me what’s going on with this thing here,” he explained. “I’m day-to-day. I’m getting through day-to-day. Like anything, you feel down. But the ups and downs are – it’s something that I needed to deal with, anyway. I was out in the street, and I wasn’t really dealing with anything anyway. So, you know, the ups and downs, it’s probably more beneficial that it goes this way anyway. I felt like I was going nowhere, fast. It was like Groundhog Day. I was going through the days. Somebody was waiting for me to do something. If I was gonna be an idiot and keep acting like I didn’t understand what was going on, I was just gonna go further and further into the hole.”

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About HKL Research

HKL Research, Inc. is a privately-held company founded in 1995 by Zbyszek Otwinowski and Wladek Minor. It is presently located in Charlottesville, VA.

The company was established to distribute the HKL program suite written by Wladek Minor (XDisplayF) and Zbyszek Otwinowski ( Denzo, Scalepack).

Wladek Minor, presently a Professor at the University of Virginia, School of Medicine, in Charlottesville, wrote the initial version of the XDisplayF program, while at Purdue University between 1988 and 1995.

The first versions of Denzo and Scalepack were written by Zbyszek Otwinowski at the University of Chicago between 1983 and 1988, and then at Yale University until 1994. Presently Zbyszek Otwinowski has his lab at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.

The HKL package evolved into more advanced and extended version - the HKL-2000 program, which provided a user friendly interface. The HKL-3000 software, in a way a successor of HKL-2000, combines all its functions with a number of other macromolecular crystallographic computer programs to add structure determination capabilities.

Every year since 1997 we have funded a Master Thesis Award for experimental or theoretical work and thesis at the Physics Department of Warsaw University (the Alma Mater of both Authors).

HKL Research also sponsors poster awards for graduate students and young scientists.


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Bariatric Surgery in Israel

Obesity is known to be one of the serious epidemics of the modern era. Severe obesity is extremely hard to treat by diet and exercise alone. Surgical intervention is the next course of action when other methods have failed. Overall, Obesity has a detrimental effect on the patient’s health and wellbeing, putting them at risk of developing many serious, chronic conditions that may shorten their lifespan.

Weight Loss Surgery

Bariatrics is the field of medicine that deals with obesity, offering a number of surgical procedures (of the stomach and/ or colon) that may put an end to the disease and be of benefit to the patient. Bariatric surgery can be complicated (pre- and post- surgery) and the patient will have to make indefinite lifestyle habits, but the results of the surgery in general, drastically improve the patient’s health and influence their weight loss.

The Bariatric Department at Herzliya Medical Center operate professionally and responsibly, dedicating all its energy in achieving a successful outcome for each patient. Following bariatric surgery in Israel, the patient can continue to maintain a normal, healthier lifestyle by adapting to various lifestyle changes and following a strict, controlled program of diet and exercise. Weight loss surgery has become one of the most popular surgeries in the Western World.

What is my BMI?

Overweight and obesity deviation is determined mainly by a person’s Body Mass Index (BMI) and is calculated by a person’s weight and height. Calculate your BMI below:

  • A BMI between 20-25 is considered a normal weight
  • BMI 35-40 is considered obese and is linked with related health issues like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and/ or cholesterol, sleep apnea and cardiovascular damage (to name a few)
  • BMI of 40, severely obese

However, it should be noted that obesity is also defined by the percentage of abnormal body fat tissue; this is in accordance with an international table that determines the recommended weight.

What is Bariatric Surgery?

Bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) is conducted by constricting the stomach, resection or bypassing a part of the stomach. The result of most of these surgeries is that a person can no longer consume as much food as before; this surgery drastically reduces the actual physical amount of food consumed, the patient feels fuller faster.

What Are The Requirements for Bariatric Surgery?

Doctors who specialize in bariatric surgery in Israel state that a patient is suitable for weight loss surgery if they have an exceptionally high personal BMI of 40 or higher - this a situation that requires urgent surgery. Incidentally, there are patients with a BMI index of 60, which is already an extreme case that may lead to death.

However, patients with a BMI of 35 or less can also opt for treatment in Israel; especially recommended if they suffer from other diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, abnormal cholesterol level and more. In this situation, a patient must undergo extensive screening to determine whether they are eligible for any of the weight loss procedures. Following this, a consultation with the specialist will advise the best-suited, appropriate surgery to the patient.

Types of Bariatric Surgeries:

As noted, there are four types of surgeries performed in operating theaters worldwide, among which three are detailed:

  • Adjustable Gastric band - known also as lap-band, is in fact the simplest surgical procedure of all the bariatric surgery types. A sort of pouch is created during surgery by placing a narrow ring at the top of the stomach. In this way, most of the solid food cannot reach the stomach itself, and the result - less intake of food.
  • Sleeve Gastrectomy (or gastric sleeve) - is just that, making the stomach organ long and narrow like a sleeve. Part of the stomach is removed and a new sleeve-shaped stomach is created. This method helps you feel full quicker than before and you cannot digest a lot of food. The doctors use a stapling device.
  • Gastric bypass - is the most common surgery in the United States in the field of Bariatric surgery. The surgeon divides the stomach into two parts and creates a gastric pouch, a small volume of 30 cc, which leads directly into the small intestine and bypasses the stomach. As a result, the patient will feel full and eat less food. By bypassing a portion of the small intestine, less calories are absorbed.

Every weight loss surgery has its advantages and disadvantages that may be expressed differently depending on the patient’s medical status. A follow-up for these surgeries is also required; this includes monitoring diet, lifestyle and any related medical conditions. It is important that a patient will be able to adapt to this drastic surgery, and change their lifestyle habits and diet.

Herzliya Medical Center, a leading private hospital in Israel, will gladly assist in any questions you may have regarding bariatric surgery or other weight loss strategies that you can apply before turning to these procedures. Herzliya Medical Center personnel will accompany you and offer full guidance regarding treatment in Israel, to ensure that the surgery and post-surgery will be successful and that all necessary follow-ups are undertaken. The hospital is dedicated in enhancing a healthy lifestyle and a prolonged life for each patient.

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75th Anniversary of the Anschluss

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany on 12th March 1938, the London Jewish Cultural Centre is showing the photographic exhibition ‘Double Exposure: Jewish Refugees from Austria in Britain’. The exhibition is accompanied by a film, which follows the lives of the men and women depicted in the portraits and explores their double exposure to the cultures of Britain and Austria.

Sunday 7 April, 4.30pm. £10 in advance (£12 on the door):

Talk at the Weiner Library

On Monday 25th March, the Weiner Library will hold a talk on the Protestant Churches and the Holocaust.

Dr Christian Staffa, theologian and former director of Action Reconciliation Service for Peace will discuss this issue in conversation with Canon Dr Giles Fraser, theologian and former Canon of St Paul’s Cathedral.

The event is free but booking in advance is recommended – see the Weiner Library website for details

Ludwig Guttman – Father of the Paralympics

The BBC’s The Best of Men will be shown again on Sunday 2nd September on BBC 2 and BBC 1HD at 10pm.

Claudia Zimmermann will be speaking about the legacy of Ludwig Guttman at the London Jewish Cultural Centre’s special German and Austrian Jewish Refugees Seminar on 13th September.

Confessions of a Butterfly

To mark the 70th anniversary year of the deportation of Janusz Korczak from the Warsaw ghetto,and in support of the Gisimba Orphanage in Kigali, Rwanda, the play Confessions of a Butterfly will be on at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre, Kentish Town from 10th to 29th September.

The play has been written by Jonathan Salt, a Fellow of the Imperial War Museum. It is set on August 5th 1942, the day that Janusz Korczak led 200 children of the orphanage through the ghetto streets to the Umschlagplatz from which they would be deported to Treblinka extermination camp. We spend the last hours in his company in the Ghetto orphanage as he contemplates his life and prepares to meet his destiny.

In a previous post, I outlined Korczak’s progressive approach to the education and treatment of children. His work became the basis for the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Confessions of a Butterfly is previewing in Peterborough at the Key Theatre 16th – 18th of August, and you can get tickets for the preview by phoning the Box Office on 01733 207239.

Ashton to Auschwitz

Caroline Slifkin, a freelance Holocaust Educator, educator for HET and artist has organised a student art exhibition and survivor talk at Ashton Sixth Form College, Tameside on Wednesday 30th May at 6.30pm.

Caroline has worked with many schools and colleges to help students formulate a creative response to the Holocaust and this evening is the culmination of the work she has been doing with Ashton College.

“a community celebration of artwork by students”

The private exhibition view will be followed by a talk and Q&A by Holocaust survivor Jack Aizenberg (beginning at 7pm).

If you are in the area, this is an excellent opportunity to listen to a survivor speak about his experiences, as well as to look at how students are responding to their studies about the Holocaust.

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Unique talk at UCL

From Experience, to Memoir, to History: Henny Brenner in Nazi Dresden

Monday 21 May 2012, 6.45 pm
Gustave Tuck Theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1

It is my great pleasure to invite you and your students to what will be a very memorable evening that is being jointly staged by the Anne Frank Trust UK and University College London.

The event features a presentation and discussion with Henny Brenner, born in Dresden Germany in 1924. Henny, a Jewish girl, survived Nazi rule in Dresden as a forced labourer, until the firebombing of the city by the Allies enabled her liberation. Henny is the author of This Song Is Over: A Jewish Girl in Dresden, translated by the late Baradar Fischer.

Henny will speak about her experiences as a child in Weimar Germany, a teenager under the Nazis, and the subsequent period under Soviet domination. This Song Is Over has been described as “A rich and significant account…The fleshing out of the details of her family’s normal bourgeois life, including wash-day and monthly theatre visits is exemplary.  Likewise, Brenner’s account of school life is illuminating from a number of perspectives, not the least of which is the initial lesson in racial ‘biology’ from a Nazi teacher, in which she was identified as a ‘typical Aryan girl’.”

This will be a fascinating insight into living under two tyrannies and will be a once in a lifetime experience for sixth form students of European history.

The evening is free of charge but by prior reservation by calling Marsha Selwyn on 020 7284 5858 or email referencing ‘Talk by Henny Brenner’.  I do hope you will be able to join us, with your students.

Lucy Glennon

Head of Education

Anne Frank Trust UK

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9 principles of innovation from Marissa Mayer

One of the biggest stories of last week was the hiring of Google executive and its first female engineer, Marissa Mayer, to take the helm at Yahoo, so now is an interesting time to take a step back in time – 2008 to be exact – to see what her principles of innovation were as shared with Chuck Salter of Fast Company.

“There are two different types of programmers. Some like to code for months or even years, and hope they will have built the perfect product. That’s castle building. Companies work this way, too. Apple is great at it. If you get it right and you’ve built just the perfect thing, you get this worldwide ‘Wow!’ The problem is, if you get it wrong, you get a thud, a thud in which you’ve spent, like, five years and 100 people on something the market doesn’t want. Others prefer to have something working at the end of the day, something to refine and improve the next day. That’s what we do: our ‘launch early and often’ strategy. The hardest part about indoctrinating people into our culture is when engineers show me a prototype and I’m like, ‘Great, let’s go!’ They’ll say, ‘Oh, no, it’s not ready. It’s not up to Google standards. This doesn’t look like a Google product yet.’ They want to castle-build and do all these other features and make it all perfect.

I tell them, ‘The Googly thing is to launch it early on Google Labs and then iterate, learning what the market wants–and making it great.’ The beauty of experimenting in this way is that you never get too far from what the market wants. The market pulls you back.”

“We have this great internal list where people post new ideas and everyone can go on and see them. It’s like a voting pool where you can say how good or bad you think an idea is. Those comments lead to new ideas.”

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Angel Baby – Remembering Jacob Finley

Angel Baby – Remembering Jacob Finley

The month of October is Pregnancy, Infant and Child Loss Awareness Month. Throughout the month, we will be sharing stories from families about their loss and honoring their pregnancy journey and their angel babies. Today’s story comes from Rachel Martin. Rachel is actually my cousin on my husband’s side. When we were making a list of moms to reach out to for the blog this month, I remembered her briefly sharing about her story on Facebook a couple of years ago. She is now pregnant with her beautiful Rainbow Baby girl, and I’m so excited for her. Thank you, Rachel, for sharing your story with us. We are so honored to have you be a part of this.

The sound of my alarm awoke me, and I dragged myself out of bed sleepy because it was still only 3am. I was working as an EMT, and as a college student my schedule included many early mornings and late evenings.
I had a physical fitness test at work that day and was required to provide proof that I was not pregnant in order to participate. I laid the pregnancy test on my dorm counter to process while I finished getting into my uniform. Just before I headed out the door, I remembered the unread pee stick and turned to read it. I blinked several times, thinking surely my sleepy state was making me see things, because in bold letters it said “Pregnant”.

I shook my best friend and roommate awake, saying “I think I’m going to pass out. You need to wake up I’m freaking out!” When she finally opened her eyes, I told her in a very stunned voice that I was pregnant.
She is the exact opposite of a morning person and mumbled something about me going back to bed because it must have been a dream. Not wanting to be late for work, I allowed her to go back to sleep and headed out to work with my mind reeling.

Once I got settled in at work, I texted my boyfriend a picture of the positive test with the headline “guess what…” It was not meant to be romantic at all. I just wanted someone to share in my shock.
He replied almost instantly with so much excitement that it was contagious. For the first time, I felt something other than shock, and realizing he was happy about this eased my fears.
I had experienced a very early miscarriage in high school, so we were instantly worried for our baby. However, I dismissed it as a fluke. It couldn’t possibly happen again.

Throughout my first few weeks, I experienced severe cramps, but since there was no bleeding and my hormone levels were rising perfectly it was dismissed as just growing pains. I left college to move home and be closer to my boyfriend and parents, and began care with a nurse midwife at home.

At 6 weeks, I went in for an ultrasound that showed out little bean growing healthy and right on schedule. We proudly posted the ultrasound picture on Facebook and told the world we were going to be parents. My boyfriend got a better paying job, and we began to make plans, pick out names, and even purchase baby gear. Friends and family laughed at our enthusiasm, but we had very little understanding of how dangerous the first trimester could be.

At 7 1/2 weeks pregnant, the cramps returned, along with bleeding and passing large clots. My mother, boyfriend and myself rushed to the hospital in hopes that something could be done. Once the sonographer began her exam, I saw my baby still clinging to my womb and a tiny flicker within its chest. I burst into tears of relief at seeing that tiny heartbeat and knowing my baby was strong and healthy. The doctor diagnosed me with a small bleed on my placenta that was causing the bleeding and sent me home on bedrest in hopes that the bleed would resolve itself.

The last ultrasound of Baby Jacob.
The last ultrasound of Baby Jacob.

Over the next week, I continued to pass clots, however the cramping became less and less. I was still so paranoid that each clot I passed I would run under water just to be sure it dissolved and was not my baby. During this time of rest, I ate as healthy as I could for the baby, sang to my baby and told it how much it was loved and wanted. That week was truly a bonding time as I had nothing else to do but focus on my baby and its needs. Unfortunately, this was not a bonding time for my boyfriend and I. We drew further apart as I felt very annoyed with his poor efforts to help me, and he would pressure me to try and focus on something besides the baby.

On November 24th, I was 8 weeks 5 days along. Throughout the day, I had cramps that I occasionally had to breathe through, but for the most part I felt about the same. Towards evening, my cramps began to intensify and become regular contractions. I knew what labor looked like from my years as a doula, however I refused to recognize the pattern of contractions I was experiencing. Around 5pm, I posted a cheerful message on Facebook showing off my homemade chocolate covered strawberries that my mother had made, because I had been craving them all day. Soon after, my contractions intensified. In an effort to keep my pain a secret, I withdrew to my bedroom, where I listened to music to help me relax while I swayed back and forth, leaning on pillows during each wave. I began to need to moan through contractions about an hour later. However, I still remained in my room, unwilling to accept anyone into my space or the reality of what was happening.

At 7pm I had a horrible contraction that my relaxation methods were unable to help me through. After it was over, I made my way to the bathroom and began running a warm bath in hopes it would ease my pain. I sat on the toilet, waiting for the water to fill, and experience another contraction which brought with it a need to bear down. Within a few seconds, I felt my baby leave my body and heard a loud plop in the toilet. I sat in total shock, sure of what had just happened, but unwilling to believe it. I finally reached in and pulled out a perfect little bubble filled with fluid that was attached to a mass of tissue. I laid it on the tub and walked out to the living room to calmly announce that I needed to be taken to the hospital because I had just had the baby. My mother was shocked because I had said nothing all evening. She rushed to the bathroom to find a bloody mess and my baby laying on the bathtub. I grabbed a container to put the baby in and we rushed to the ER, unsure of when or if my bleeding would stop and if I would need medical attention.

By the time we reached the hospital my shock had turned to denial, and I was on my phone researching any other possibility of what the bubble could be. I refused to open it to see my baby and to this day that is my biggest regret.

The most memorable part of the experience for me was when a lab tech walked into my triage room and actually took the time to sit down beside me and say, “May I take your baby with me to the lab now?” Despite my denial, the fact that he asked my permission and called the small box of “tissue” my baby was an act of compassion that I will never forget. It was also huge for me in accepting what had just happened. I finally broke down and accepted that sonogram screen and saw my empty womb. Although the sonographer couldn’t tell me anything, I knew and she quickly turned the screen away so I couldn’t see anymore.

I began crying when I left the hospital, and I continued to cry for two days. I had no idea that I had that many tears in me. Even while watching TV, I would stare blankly at the screen with tears running down my face slowly. I refused to eat because for the last 9 weeks every bite I ate had been for my child’s nutrition and now the thought of eating just for myself repulsed me. My boyfriend tried to help by saying things like, “We will have another baby.” My answer was to just cry harder and tell him that all I wanted was MY baby.

I had a strong maternal instinct that my baby was a boy, and I needed a name to call my child. We had decided if the baby was a boy we would name him Jacob Finley. All I wanted was to have people share my grief with me, call my baby by his name, and acknowledge that he was real and alive and loved, and that he didn’t just fall out of my body – I had labored him and given birth to him.

My mother bought me a beautiful necklace with a mother and child on it. I wear it almost constantly and treasure it as a beautiful memory of my child and how real he was in my life.

Miscarriage is hard enough on a seasoned couple but it proved the beginning of the end for my relationship. My boyfriend became controlling and obsessed with taking me away from my family, who I needed more than ever during that time. He still contacts me on Mother’s Day to thank me for being his son’s mother and although things ended badly, this is something that is so important for me to hear from my son’s father.

Due to concerns that my endometriosis was becoming worse, I was advised to have a child as soon as possible. I had no interest in another relationship at this time, so I decided to use a donor and become a single mother by choice.

After 18 months of trying for my rainbow baby and facing the fear that I may not be able to conceive, those magical two lines finally showed up for me. I was seen by a high risk provider who put me on medications for the first 12 weeks that I truly believe saved this pregnancy.

A rainbow baby is the understanding that the rainbow does not negate the ravages of the storm, but is something beautiful that is born after all the pain and provides hope, healing, and light. Rainbow pregnancy is not easy. Through my joy, I often have those horrible fears creep in and I have spent many nights in tears claiming promises and begging God to watch over my Rainbow baby girl.

One of my favorite songs is “The Dance” by Garth Brooks. In this song, he talks about how he could have missed all the pain but to do so he would have had to miss the experiences that make up a life well lived. I love this song because even if I could have looked ahead, I would still have wanted Jacob in my life for those 8 weeks. He made me a mother and the pain I experienced is making the love I have for my daughter that much sweeter and deeper. Jacob changed my life, and I can’t wait to thank him for coming into my life when I hold him someday in heaven.

To us, these babies are not a lost pregnancy. They are real. They are beautiful. And they are loved human beings.

ariRachel is a single mother, eagerly awaiting the arrival of baby Ariadne Eliana (“the most high has answered”) in February. She is currently serving as an EMT at her local trauma center in Wyoming. Rachel hopes to resume her doula practice someday and, in the mean time, serves as a backup for other area doulas. She is also enhancing her doula training by taking a course to be a bereavement doula through StillBirthday, a wonderful organization that continues to provide her with support and love since her loss and help her through the fears that accompany a rainbow pregnancy. She wants to be there for others who go through this and provide them with love and support, while helping to raise awareness and destroy the stigma of miscarriage and loss.

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Oklahoma Neglect

Another name and face for us to remember and pass around in hopes that no other animal has to suffer at his hands.  I’ve got my fingers crossed this guy gets the book.

Dan McWilliams

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  1. Hmmm. I like the picture of the guy running from authorities. I am glad to report that in my neck of the woods, mostly because of the recession weeding a lot of people out, along with sky high hay prices, horse neglect is not as bad as it used to be.

  2. GRRR!!!! What is wrong with people!! There have been a few instances in my neck of the woods of people turning their herds loose, and selling it to the media as “majestic, wild horse herds” to both raise funds and cover up the neglect. Take a look at this recent blog entry written by a neighbor of one such herd: http://dianetibert.com/2015/02/05/wild-horses-of-milford/
    It angers me to no end that they put a spin on their neglect and try to cover up the irresponsible breeding. And “natural selection”….really?!?!?!
    A few days later luckily it appears they were seized: http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1268268-horses-reportedly-seized-in-milford

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Homecoming / Prom Proposals

This is going to be a soapbox post about something that has been bothering me...So sorry...Um, no I'm not...

I don't know if this is happening in high schools across the U.S., but here in Pittsburgh any big-ish school event such as Homecoming, Prom, etc... has gotten completely out of hand when it comes to the "proposals".

The boys (boys' moms??) are coming up with more and more involved ways of asking girls to attend these dances - here are some examples just from my own circle of friends:

Painting proposals on billboards
Carving 15+ jack-o-lanterns to spell out Will you go to H.C. with me?
Fire spelling out the proposal
Giant displays during Friday night football games
Spelling out proposals in flowers in school parking lots
Lining sidewalks with numerous gift bags to give clues to the question
and on, and on, and on....

There are pinterest pages, tumblers, twitters, facebooks, all dedicated to collecting the MOST imaginative ways to propose a date for a dance.  For this generation, nothing actually happens unless it's documented on social media.  Most of these displays seem to be contrived for Instagram.  I mean, is EVERY guy so smitten with EVERY girl or is it an excuse to brag online?

Now that my own son has reached dating age, I see this as a negative in so many ways!  It puts an enormous amount of pressure on the boys to come up with this elaborate display to impress the girls.  Like a bird displaying it's plumage to impress it's mate.  Imagine the humiliation if she says no?

It's also creating a society of entitled "princesses" who expect this huge display from all potential suitors - dance, monkey!  Or the flip side, it can a girl who feels obligated to go to a dance with a boy after such a big display was made.

What the heck is left when it's time to propose marriage?  Imagine a couple who have been involved in  more and more elaborate proposals since junior high facing a marriage proposal that seems not to measure up??  What are we doing to our kids?

I've talked about it to several friends who think us moms need to step in to put an end to these elaborate proposals to lift the weight from our kids and let them see that a dance is just a dance.  Sometimes a date is just a date.

Am I crazy here?  Is this phenomenon as out of hand in your school as it is in ours?  Can you give me a reason why this would be a positive thing for our kids? Help me to understand so I can embrace it or if not help me come up with solutions to stop it.

  1. I agree with you 100% on this! I haven't had to deal with this yet with my son but I have heard of this going on and I think its ridiculous. I have the same thoughts and concerns as you. Why does everything have to be so over the top? First of all, it's high school!! Why are the parents encouraging and adding to the pressure to their own kids to "top" each other. I think it's sad that a lot of moms are taking this over to be their project also. Get a life and stop living through your kids. What kind of message are you sending them that they will always have to put on a huge display or show to get a girl to like you? Maybe if more of us keep raising concerns about this the media might work to our advantage? We need to spread the word that this is dumb and needs to stop!

  2. I have to blame social media - would they go to such lengths if they couldn't brag about it online??

  3. I wrote something about this a few years ago. http://www.holy-craft.com/2012/05/what-is-it-with-prom-these-days.html
    I totally feel the same way two years later. My thoughts haven't changed especially since my son is now of dating age. I think it's over the top and sets up things that should be momentous for failure (actual proposals).

    1. I am going over to read your post - so glad I'm not alone! I was waiting to get slammed for this post!

  4. My son is only 4 so I am far off from this being a problem for me but I can't stand the idea. I believe we should raise our son's to be loving and great to girls but this is going to far. I think these boys and moms are doing it for one of two reason. 1 is because everyone else is and they feel they won't get a date if they don't and 2 is to show off. Both of these are bad reasons to do something and they make me sad! I hope things change.

    1. I agree, it's not great for a girl's self esteem either - there is such a thing as being OVER inflated when it comes to self esteem!

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How Brits like me are watching the 2008 election

My fellow Brits and I, have really made an effort to stay up to speed with the candidates in the 2008 presidential race.

For me, it all began when I was living in the States, so the first stint was somewhat coloured by the version of events CBS, ABC, NBC and CNN wanted me to see and hear. None of these supposedly independent sources could get a cigarette paper between their differences on each of the so-called early front runners, all of whom, with the exception of Clinton, are now out of the race.

FOX, of course, was a different matter – but I should imagine, or at least hope beyond hope, that only a tiny minority of Americans seriously thought Paris Hilton stood much of a chance at being nominated.

Since getting back in the UK, however, I’ve had a much wider pallet of information, not least being because I now have working internet (long time readers might recall my horror at what AT&T California consider to be an acceptable service). That and the fact that dear old Aunty BBC has a much better service in her home nation than she does overseas, has enabled me to see how certain events in the race, would come across very differently, were I watching them on the other side of the pond.

The BBC’s flagship nightly news magazine program Newsnight (which my American chums can stream via the website) is, despite the outward appearance of being neutral, clearly angling for an Obama democratic nomination. Not least because of the focus on economic news which dominates the agenda in the UK.

For too long now we’ve had better growth rates than the entire rest of the developed world and, being a race of pessimists, there’s a general air of apprehension that it can’t last for long, especially if McCain’s only opposition ends up being a woman who lies more than her husband. Another republican in the White House would be disastrous for home owners, service families and commuter drivers in the non-voting 51st State of the Union.

Newsnight, so much is their focus on economic matters, failed almost entirely to mention the misconstrued comments by Obama’s pastor, which have played out on the US networks – of which I am only aware thanks to the millions of bytes of blog tube opinions on the debacle. Not that they have entirely ignored it, but religion is such an American issue here, that it almost goes without saying that “those wacky yanks” have to get it off their chest now and then, while we potter along, happily headed towards an increasingly secular society.

Clinton’s image in the UK has gone from being untouchable; “wouldn’t it be great if we had a female president”, to “Oh my, what is she saying? That’s a lie! Let’s hope they don’t vote for her” in a very short period of time.

Hillary was interviewed by the Brit TV equivalent of Regis and Kelly, the married couple talk show hosts, Richard & Judy – only a few weeks before announcing her intention to run for the democratic nomination. The sun was quite literally shining out of her arse the next day, in the UK press. A R&J interview is guaranteed to get whatever is being promoted by the interviewee either a best selling book or a highly rated TV show; but I would doubt there is very much she could do now to turn around the British opinion of her, as being a manipulative liar.

McCain is almost completely unknown here. I would doubt you could walk down the high-street of an average town in an average county and get an accurate description of who he is from an average person. His war record, his position on Iraq / Iran, his “100 years” comment – almost all of the news we get on this guy is from the intertubes; and as a consequence is usually biased towards those with a liberal agenda (as-in the US definition of the word, as opposed to the European one, meaning open minded).

What I have yet to see from any of the people who will one day become president, is an open attitude towards people who believe in freedom from religion. Each of them are happy to make comments which are decidedly open to interpretation, like their “personal relationship to god”, but reluctant to say anything about how this actually boils down; such as how it informs their opinion on cell mutation and defining the moment a Blastula becomes capable of experiencing pain; or the independently corroborative evidence from both the fossil and the genetic inheritance record, that life on Earth in considerably older than the evangelical vote is prepared to admit.

This is an on-going blog thread for me and I would hope that my next mention of it, follows some real dialogue between whoever gets the democratic nomination and McCain, on the teaching of science in schools. I’d also like to hear more on the role Obama would have Al Gore play in tackling climate change – the US being now the only major industrialised nation on Earth not to sign the Kyoto protocol.

As a non-American, what do you want your next president to talk about more?

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  1. I want a dialogue on how the economy is increasingly rewarding the rich; how consumerism out of control is not the way to create a healthy economy; how a safety net in the form of decent health care, education and social services is as vital to everyday life as clean drinking water and sewers; how the environment needs to be respected, and dependence on fossil fuel must come to an end; and a continued discussion on racial polarization such as Obama started in his speech last month.For starters.

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Pot Use Cuts Career Short

There is lot of press these days about marijuana becoming more widely accepted. However, you should be aware that marijuana use can have a very negative impact on your career. Employers can legally refuse to hire people who test positive for marijuana use. Many employers require drug tests for prospective employees, some use random drug tests on current employees. Since these tests can detect marijuana in your system for up to a month after using it, you basically need to not use it – even on your own time. I am writing about this topic because it has recently cut short the career of a promising student. He graduated and got a job in the field working with a good company. He was excited to get the job, and the company was happy to have him. He seemed to be working out – everyone was happy. Then he failed the drug test. End of job. The student really needed the job. The company was disappointed because they needed the help. However, they can’t afford to keep him. Their insurance won’t allow it. This is not just about someone’s idea of morals or right and wrong, it is about common sense. People who are not in full command of all their mental faculties should not be working around high voltages, driving, using torches, or any number of other potentially dangerous things air conditioning techs must do. There may be some companies that are OK with drug use – generally speaking these are not good places to work. First, they know you can’t get a job elsewhere, so the pay is low. Second, do you really want to work in a potentially dangerous field around a bunch of people who may not be fully conscious? Even if you don’t blow yourself up while you are high, the guy next to you might. If you want a full, productive career – stay clean.

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  1. Carter, you are correct about the use of drugs and drug testing. I would like to add that even though alcohol is legal good companies will not allow the drinking of any alcohol during the work day. Just one beer leaves a smell on your breath and the customer will think you are drunk if you have an accident or do not complete the job correctly. When I ran a contracting company technicians were informed that there job was on the line if they had as much as one beer during lunch or the job.


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Chi Sagitarii – In a much-anticipated move, the HWT Commission for Gambling, Alcohol, and Non-Aerosol Hair Products announced the most recent winners of the HWT Lottery. The winning lottery number is 6-E-Q-U-J-5.

“We’re delighted to finally have a winner from the Milky Way Galaxy. The lucky winner has 12 months to claim the jackpot, which recently set new records as the highest jackpot in almost two millennia,” stated Lucy Melford of the Chi Sagittarii Gaming Council.

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Monetary policy may constitute a short-term explanation of the non-linearity in the relationship between oil prices and output. The role of oil prices in the ECB reaction is thus investigated with an extended Taylor rule including several oil prices indicators.

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