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Drug Abuse Treatment In Missouri ? What You Should Know About It …

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

For countless people who are hooked on drugs one of the most difficult in addition to essentially the most important decisions they\?re able to make is always to choose that they need to end their drug habit plus they like to get better. Change is normally not an easy thing, for essentially the most disciplined person mainly because it involves looking at your way of life differently and changing individual preference come in your daily life, in addition to the method that you spend your time to yourself and ways in which you cope with the stresses which come into your life.

For countless those who find themselves enslaved by drugs probably the most difficult and the single most important decisions they could make would be to determine that they want to end their drug habit and they also like to get better. Change can often be no easy thing, for probably the most disciplined person because doing so involves investigating your way of life differently and changing individual preference are usually in your lifestyle, in addition to the method that you spend your spare time and exactly how you take care of the stresses that come into your life.

If you\?re an substance abuser it will take courage or a wide range of strength to spot to yourself that you\?ve got a problem that you just ought to do something relating to this. It is possible to make modifications to your existence and recovery isn\?t as far because you might think. The best thing will be to search for the proper substance abuse treatment plan for the problem.

Change is hard, irrespective of how you perceive it. The more time you have been while using drug and the often you use it the greater difficult will the transition be because the drug in to a colleague of yours. But change is incredibly smart and won\?t just help the quality you have ever had however it preserves your lifestyle too. As you start to think inside of a proactive manner about change you should absorb when using the drug and exactly how much of it you choose. Write the details down so you bear in mind it. By so doing it will be possible to check out for your self the amount addiction has had over your lifestyle and you\?ll understand that all things in your life is planned around your drug use.

List by yourself precisely what the pros plus the cons are of giving up the habit once and for all. Such as list the rewards as well as the disadvantages of continuing to implement the drug. When you sit down and write down a subscriber base then you\?ll definitely clearly be able to compare the rewards and charges of performing the one thing or other .If the family members have been coaxing you to definitely face a drug addiction treatment program then you need to honestly consider how your addiction is affecting those who thank you probably the most. It also affects your well being Free Information, your job and how your experience yourself.

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THE TRIBE IS BROKEN | HerCanberra

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Posted by emma grey on Feb 13, 2012 in motherhood | 2 comments

Mums? groups can get a bad rap.? The worst of them are competitive and cliquey ? a minefield of ?mummy wars? ? a place where women facing the gauntlet of new parenthood hope for support and guidance and leave feeling judged and alone.

Not so in my group.? In the two years since we met in an online ?due-in? thread on a baby website, we?ve morphed from slightly wary strangers (potential ?axe-murderers?, according to some of our partners) into something I?d never have believed was possible except ?in real life?.

We do the things that best friends do.? See each other through the deaths of parents, the end of relationships, the excitement of engagements, weddings and pregnancies.? Mourn together through miscarriages, support each other over the loss of jobs, encourage the flourishing of careers and pitch in to rebuild after the destruction of homes in floods and fire.

We?ve supported each other through custody battles and court cases, through post-natal depression, after car accidents, through the development of anEthiopian orphanage, the set-up of businesses, the hiring and sacking of employees?We?ve opened up about things we?ve never opened up about before ? to anyone.? Domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse.

We?ve shared our dreams, our grief, our belongings, our money.

And right now, we?re sharing our hope.

As I write this, forty-two of us are embracing each other in our little, private Facebook hideaway, while one of our own fights for the life of her newborn baby girl in Western Australia.

A Queenslander suggested we buy her a bracelet with her baby?s name engraved on it.? One of the Victorians wants to send money to a Perth member so she can deliver a home-cooked meal on her behalf.? Someone from NSW is looking into the?Heartfelt?organisation, which provides free professional photography of very ill or stillborn babies.

This is the second critically-ill baby we have had.? We lost our first, and mourned him like Aunties, while holding our precious babies even closer.

This was a group of random women across the country.? It?s now a tribe.

There?s a twenty-year age gap between our youngest and oldest members.? We?re single, married and divorced.? We?re atheist and religious.? We?re career-driven and staying-at-home.? We?ve breastfed, we?ve bottle-fed, we?ve controlled-cried, we?ve attachment-parented, we?re private schooling, we?re public schooling, we smack, we don?t smack, we immunise, we don?t immunise?
We?re all of that. ?On paper, it looks like a recipe for a giant, PMT-fuelled electronic catfight.

But it?works.? More than that, it thrives and deepens the closer we get, the more we go through ? as if we?ve known each other all our lives.

Maybe it?s because we?ve never met in person that we get along so well?

Maybe it?s because we?re fabulous??:-)

Right now, all that matters is little Emilia Jayne, whose tribe of online Aunties is heartbroken once again, and wrapping her and her beautiful Mummy, Bek, in our arms.

Whatever happens ? we?ll be here.

Online, in real life.

Emma Grey is the Canberra-based author of ?Wits? End Before Breakfast! Confessions of a Working Mum? and Director of the life-balance consultancy, WorkLifeBliss. She writes, speaks and coaches on motherhood, career and relationships and ?having it all?, while parenting a teen, a tween and a toddler.? She?s currently writing a sci fi romance novel for teenagers and blogs on life balance at?www.worklifebliss.com.au??and sometimes at?www.emmacatherinegrey.blogspot.com?. A free eBook on the 7 Types of Busy is available on her website.

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Steven Pinker: Humans are less violent than ever

Sunday, October 23rd, 2011

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Pessimists, anti-capitalists, conservatives and greens, take note ? we are much more peaceful now than we used to be, says the psychologist

Interactive graphic: The 20 worst things people have done to each other

What got you interested in the history of violence?
I was struck by a graph I saw of homicide rates in British towns and cities going back to the 14th century. The rates had plummeted by between 30 and 100-fold. That stuck with me, because you tend to have an image of medieval times with happy peasants coexisting in close-knit communities, whereas we think of the present as filled with school shootings and mugging and terrorist attacks.

Then in Lawrence Keeley’s 1996 book War Before Civilization I read that modern states at their worst, such as Germany in the 20th century or France in the 19th century, had rates of death in warfare that were dwarfed by those of hunter-gatherer and hunter-horticultural societies. That too, is of profound significance in terms of our understanding of the costs and benefits of civilisation.

Isn’t this topic a departure for you? Your earlier books focus on how the mind and brain work…
Two of my earlier books, How The Mind Works and The Blank Slate, were not about language or even cognition, narrowly, but about human nature. In them I talked about violence, for example, the abolition of barbaric customs such as torturing people to death for religious heresy, to reinforce the point that human nature comprises many components, some of which incline us toward violence, some of which pull us away from it. The fact that violence has declined and what this implied for human nature were spelled out in both books, but I decided that those paragraphs deserved to be expanded into a book of their own.

Where did you find evidence for how violence has changed over time?
For prehistoric times, the main evidence is from forensic archaeology: the proportion of skeletons that had bashed-in skulls, or arrowheads embedded in bones, together with archaeological evidence such as fortifications. For homicide over the last millennia or so, there are records in many parts of Europe that go back to the Middle Ages. And we know from documents of the era that crucifixions and all manner of gory executions took place in the ancient world.

For data about wars, there are many databases that estimate war deaths, and in recent eras, governments and social scientists have tracked just about every aspect of life, so we really can get a clear view of things like child abuse, spousal abuse, rape and so on.

How do you explain the decline in violence?
I don’t think there is a single answer. One cause is government, that is, third-party dispute resolution: courts and police with a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. Everywhere you look for comparisons of life under anarchy and life under government, life under government is less violent. The evidence includes transitions such as the European homicide decline since the Middle Ages, which coincided with the expansion and consolidation of kingdoms; the transition from tribal anarchy to the first states. Watching the movie in reverse, in today’s failed states violence goes through the roof.

Do you think commerce helps too?
Commerce, trade and exchange make other people more valuable alive than dead, and mean that people try to anticipate what the other guy needs and wants. It engages the mechanisms of reciprocal altruism, as the evolutionary biologists call it, as opposed to raw dominance.

What else has contributed to the decline?
The expansion of literacy, journalism, history, science – all of the ways in which we see the world from the other guy’s point of view. Feminisation is another reason for the decline. As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures men are the more violent gender.

Has human nature, specifically our inclination toward violence, changed? Or is it more a change in how this inclination manifests itself?
I argue for the latter, although it’s not inconceivable that the former has taken place, that we have literally evolved so that the more pacific parts of human nature have been strengthened, at least over a span of centuries or millennia. I have a lengthy discussion in the book for how that could happen: it’s certainly biologically possible.

But some of the declines are far too recent to be explicable by natural selection, which has a speed limit measured in generations. So the most parsimonious explanation is that all the changes are environmental rather than genetic, while not ruling out the possibility of genetic changes.

Why do so many people think we live in incredibly violent times?
I think there are a number of systematic biases, what I call “historical myopia” being one of them. The closer you get to the present, the better the records are, and I think this is a major distorter of our impressions of violence. We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them.

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What You Need To Know About Energy-Efficient Lighting ? Home …

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

By Kathy Knopp, CLC (Certified Lighting Consultant), C Lighting

To help cut down on carbon emissions and save energy, you can extend the life of bulbs by using dimmers on existing light fixtures such as recessed lighting, table lamps and chandeliers. This usually saves the life of the bulbs by 4 to 5 times and cuts back on heat dissipation from the bulb. Also know that compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) are 4 times more efficient than incandescent and contain less mercury (which is not harmful to humans), have better color rendering index (usually 80? CRI is best) and are closer to the color of incandescents than ever before.

Sticker shock in LED prices will get better with time, just like everything else. Although these are not LED, notice the beautiful lighting provided by halogen festoon lamps in the picture below, which are still very energy efficient. These provide up to 10,000 hour life and continue to put out similar to incandescent colors.kitchenlighting

kitchenlightingecofriendlyRe-Mari-kit2Light emitting diodes (LEDs) provide up to 100,000 hours of life because they do not produce heat, they are mainly a solid state? semiconductor that tiny light bulbs fit easily into electrical current, which are mounted on a circuit board. Research is now producing better color rendering in LED. Usually up to 4000 degree Kelvin, is typical, great for under counter lighting, however, there are many options to produce colors closer to incandescent for all projects.

Incandescent bulbs are inefficient and only use 10% of electrical energy to produce light. 90% is emitted in the form of heat! This 140 year old technology is being transformed into new lumens and better wattage by new methods.

Check out the September issue of Atlanta Home Improvement for more ideas and advice on energy-efficient lighting.

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Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner dies in US (AFP)

Monday, June 20th, 2011

MOSCOW (AFP) ? Soviet dissident Yelena Bonner, the widow of Nobel Peace Prize winner Andrei Sakharov and tireless critic of Vladimir Putin, has died aged 88 in her adopted home in the United States.

A pediatrician by training but a historic figure in life, Bonner died on Saturday in Boston after undergoing heart surgery for a third time, her friend and fellow rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva told AFP.

After a suburban Boston ceremony, Bonner’s ashes will be interred next to her husband’s remains at Moscow’s Vostryakovo Cemetery, her daughter said in a statement released Sunday.

A seminal figure in the rights movement, Bonner was remembered as an unbowed fighter for Soviet freedoms who became so disillusioned with the course taken by modern Russia that she spent her last years in the United States.

“I am still stunned that our youth do not remember who Sakharov is. Unfortunately, Bonner is even less known. It is sad, but she is not the figure here that she is in the United States,” said the Moscow-based Alexeyeva.

There was no immediate reaction from President Dmitry Medvedev or his predecessor and current premier Putin, an ex-KGB man whose resignation Bonner demanded in a 2010 open letter titled simply “Putin Must Go”.

The Rossiyskaya Gazeta government daily called Bonner “a real citizen, a talented doctor, and veteran of the Great Patriotic War (World War II),” while making no mention of her years in exile or rights campaigns.

As was the case throughout most of her life, Bonner’s name was remembered most fondly in the West, with former Polish premier Jerzy Buzek saying “the world has lost one of the most inspiring and dedicated human rights defenders.”

European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso for his part noted “the courage she showed in standing up for fundamental freedoms and human dignity that people worldwide demand.”

And Lithuanian Foreign Minister Andronius Azubalis whose country currently chairs the OSCE, Europe’s top security body, also paid tribute to Bonner, hailing her as “a true activist and defender of human rights”.

A daughter of Jewish revolutionaries, Bonner served as the West’s only link to her exiled husband and other dissidents in the 1980s, exposing abuses in Chechnya a decade later and demanding action over recent media restrictions.

After marrying the nuclear scientist Sakharov in 1972, she accepted his Nobel Peace Prize at an Oslo awards ceremony three years later as the Cold War raged, her husband being barred from travelling abroad because of his activism.

Sakharov died aged 68 in 1989 in the closing years of the Soviet regime, becoming a public critic of Mikhail Gorbachev after being allowed to return to Moscow together with Bonner during the last Soviet leader’s perestroika era.

With the country in disarray after the Soviet Union’s 1991 collapse, Bonner helped organise Russia’s nascent human rights movement and backed its first president Boris Yeltsin, who brought hope to those who suffered from oppression.

But she famously quit Yeltsin’s rights commission for his 1994 decision to launch the first Chechen war, which killed tens of thousands in a Muslim region where violence festers to this day.

She spent her last years in the United States after expressing dismay with Russia’s course under Putin, an era that saw the state win back control of major television stations and rights groups com under a new wave of pressure.

Bonner said little in public about Medvedev, who has promoted modernisation while coming under criticism for achieving few results.

Instead, she took pains to capture and relay to the world the great tragedy that the Soviet people suffered under communism.

Born in the Soviet republic of Turkmenistan, Bonner was raised during the bloodiest years of Joseph Stalin’s atrocities, an era in which the lives of tens of millions were gripped in fear.

Her father, a leading Communist Party intellectual, was executed in 1938 when she was 14 and her mother was sent to a labour camp for eight years.

“Today, summing up my life … I can do so in three words. My life was typical, tragic and beautiful,” Bonner told the Oslo Freedom Forum in 2009.

She called herself one of “the strange orphans of 1937″, the worst year of Stalin’s purges.

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Bankruptcy ? It is Time For Getting a Fresh Start …

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

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Let?s start at the beginning, you started borrowing money to improve your life. You are 21 and back from the Armed Forces. Life looks good and you are looking forward to your new life. Sounds like your life so far or close to it. Then it happens, we meet the love of our lives and decide to get married. Now there is more than just yourself, there is your wife to think about also.

Life moves to the next phase, an apartment together, each of you has a car that has a loan that is due every month along with your monthly rent payment. During this time period, there were multiple credit card offers that were accepted and now there is also a monthly credit card payment of one or two. Life is great, buy what ever both of you want and enjoying life together. Your wife wants furniture, so guess what, a new bedroom suite along with another monthly payment. Payments are starting to creep up and you realize, wow, there is not enough money to live on. What do we do?

This is the typical scenario of a young couple struggling with a fresh start in life. It can be simple or even more complicated, but it happens. Debt starts to slowly take over your life. Money is spent at Orlando for a vacation and before you know it, it is a struggle to make ends meet. Then, disaster hits and the company that you work for goes out of business. The two of you are slowly getting further behind and the furniture gets repossessed by the loan company. A terrible story but true for a couple that I know that it happened to. His wife also got laid off but found another job quickly at lower wages. He has since found a job but at lower wages also.

This story is simplified and is much more complicated. They both had to hire a Bankruptcy Attorney to get them out of the mess they were in. They decided to file Chapter 7 and get a fresh start because of the harassment of the bill collectors. They were getting phone calls at all hours of the day and night. They could not take it anymore. I also forgot to mention about the medical bills that were incurred during the time he got laid off and had no hospitalization because he could not afford the payments to Cobra to continue the insurance.

This couple has a new start in life with a new financial perspective. They have decided to be a little more conservative with their spending and are slowing getting their lives back on track. Did I tell you, they now have a little boy who helped change their lives also. This is a sad story that ends good in the end. They are slowly re-establishing their financial lives together now.

In conclusion, life starts out easy and fun but somehow we get into a mess because of lack of financial skills. Financial skills are usually learned the hard way due to lack of experience. Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is not for everyone, but in certain cases with the advice of an Attorney, it could be your answer for your nightmare. Remember to always consult with legal counsel before making any financial decisions like Bankruptcy.

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  4. Knowing the Options on Bankruptcy For Businesses
  5. What Is A Chapter 13 Bankruptcy?

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