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Judgment Day For The Silver Fox
Posted: Thursday, April 27, 2006

By Linda Edwards

In the unprecedented judgment that Mr. Panday will go to jail for corruption, I see some real possibilities of change in TnT: Here is my wish list and comments.

1. I hope we earn a better rating on the Corruption Index that Transparency International issues periodically. Many parts of the world are corrupt. We are publicly doing something about it. We need to be promoted above Bangladesh, at least.

2. I hope that that gadfly Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj finds peace within his soul. He knew all along that his leader was corrupt, and he paid the price for saying so. Those who still think that "even if it name Crapaud, if is we party an' we go vote for he", may now rethink their positions. (Remember the $50,000 donation from abroad meant for the party fund?)

3. I see that President Robinson was right to give Manning the nod back in 2001. (The Privy Council has also found that Manning did no wrong in staying in office).

4. The cost of major projects should drop since everyone connected with them should be as transparent as clear crystal; there will be no cost overruns to line personal pockets.

5. Ish should take in front and surrender his Chaguaramas Hotel to the Government, before they seize it.

6. The generous benefactor of the Panday children, who gave the wife some small change for the children's bills that her husband did not bother about, would put an equal ten million or so into special projects in the Laventille area, especially in the field of additional educational services.

7. This message, of prosecuting the highest crooks would be picked up by the Government of Nigeria who should indict the US Vice President Cheney on corruption charges, since his company Halliburton admitted to bribing a Nigerian official three million US to avoid paying a ten million dollar tax levy. Corruption has a briber and a bribee. Its never one man alone. Cheney was in charge at that time.

8. The airport bribery and corruption scandal - of which this London account was a big player - should proceed, and the government must build an extension to the maximum security wing at Golden Grove in the meantime.

9. It should become the motto of every youth group in the nation that honesty and integrity matter, and crime, including white collar crime, does not pay.

10. The government should review the compensation packages of the police and military people. A decent wage is a motivation towards honesty.

11. Government property, that has a way of quietly disappearing off the books, should be returned quietly, whether they be 4-wheel drive vehicles owned by the Mininstry of Works in the previous government or dump trucks that were part of the airport project or whatever.

12. All those on the public payroll who are inclined to cheat by not putting in a fair day's work, should start really earning their pay lest the forensic auditors get them in their sights.

13. All the time wasting that some members of Parliament indulge in to distract from the people's business should now cease, and all should get to work nation building instead of name calling.

14. The Director of Public Prosecutions should look into filing corruption charges against the doctor mentioned in Dr. Bartolomew's case of misdiagnosing and overcharging. He should however, make sure that if he gets sick, he has a quick exit to a hospital in Cuba, Miami or Jamaica. Alternatively, he should have a family member who is a doctor.

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Vacation Travel Tips

Essential Packing Lists

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Planning Your Trip

Our Experience in Barcelona

Check out the architecture. Places to visit include Parc Guell, La Sagrada Familia, La Padrera, Montjuic, Montserrat.

Don't miss La Rambla and the great Mercat de la Boqueria market.

The Metro was clean and easy to navigate. It reminded us of the T in Boston.

People are out all night. On our early morning cab ride to the airport, we passed people still stumbling around La Rambla.

Watch out for pickpockets. While I was in line at a Falafel shop, a single female tourist was in front of me paying for her lunch. A local guy and his buddies entered the small shop. The tallest of them cut in front of me in line. I was annoyed but wasn't about to start arguing with him. Then I realized what was happening: while the woman was handing her money to the cashier, the guy who cut in line reached into her backpack, grabbed whatever was there (papers and money?) and casually walked out of the store with his buddies. She had no idea she had been robbed. I felt like an idiot just standing there, but the entire transaction took about 6 seconds.

Map of Barcelona Spain

Must-Pack Items

Barcelona is a modern city. You will walk alot and use public transportation.

Universal Packing List

This packing list contains stuff we bring on just about every trip.

A carry-on shoulder bag contains:

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SPORTS SCENE: Young captains eye spring thaw hockey

Raylee Hendsbee, left, Holly Masters and Trinity Fancy are captains with Wilsons Home Heating Cyclones hockey teams.
Raylee Hendsbee, left, Holly Masters and Trinity Fancy are captains with Wilsons Home Heating Cyclones hockey teams. - Submitted

TRURO, N.S. – The fourth annual Wilson’s Home Heating Spring Thaw Hockey Tournament gets underway Thursday, March 15 and runs into Sunday.

Taking place at the West Colchester United Arena in Debert and the Don Henderson Memorial Sportsplex in Brookfield, this female tournament has grown from 18 teams to 28 teams in the past year.

The captains of the Wilsons Home Heating Cyclones teams, atom A, peewee A and midget AA, were interviewed for Sports Scene.

“This is my second year playing in this spring thaw tournament,” Raylee Hendsbee, 10, of Truro Heights, an atom A player, said. “I’m looking forward to the tournament. Our team is the kind of team that never gives up, our players are pretty competitive so we’re hoping to do alright.”

Hendsbee, who plays defence, recalled her hockey start.

“My first hockey was when I was around four, I played in Timbits in Brookfield. My inspiration was my dad (Tony Hendsbee); I kept falling but he would always get me up. He made suggestions how I could get better, my dad really encouraged me a lot. As I went along, skating was the exciting part, I always enjoyed learning new stuff about hockey. I skipped one year playing, I’ve now played hockey five years.”

Trinity Fancy is a peewee A centre under head coach Bill Chappel. This is her third tournament appearance.

“Our team has had a pretty good year,” Fancy, 12, of Valley, said. “We’ve had really great bonding – our players get along well together, both in the dressing room and on the ice. Going into this spring thaw tournament I’d say we’ll be very competitive. We won’t give up, win or lose.”

Fancy, as a five-year-old, played her first hockey at Deuville’s Rink in Salmon River. “Hockey is great, I love meeting new friends. I also enjoy learning new skills. I really like the competition, it’s fun being part of a hockey team. My inspiration was my older sister (Shawndelle); I watched her play, she was having a lot of fun, so I decided to give hockey a try as well.”

Holly Masters, who plays centre in midget AA under head coach Ken Dyas, praised tournament organizers and coaches.

“They are the ones who make it possible for us to do what we love, Masters, 17, of Murray Siding, a Grade 11 CEC student, said. “Our two coaches this year, Carla

Hamilton and Leah Benoit, they both played for the Cyclones when they were young. They both went on to play university hockey for Saint Mary’s; this inspires us young players – we realize we can go on and play bigger hockey. Having coaches we look up to, it makes a big difference.

“In our league you play the same teams. What I like about tournaments, like the one coming up, it’s an opportunity to play against teams we haven’t played before. Playing this spring thaw tournament in our home area makes it even more fun, your friends and family can come out and watch.”

Masters played her first hockey for the Truro Bearcats in the Truro & Area Minor Hockey Association. The team was made up of both girls and boys.

“Every kid loved to score, so that was part of my early interest. Being part of a team and making a bunch of new friends, that was of course very nice.”

Charlene Bagnell, the president of Wilsons Home Heating Cyclones hockey, said many volunteers take great pride in the annual tournament.

“Our association is small but our girls are very proud to wear the Wilsons jerseys. We appreciate that Wilsons are working with us to build our program.”

Scott Masters, a member of the spring thaw tournament committee, said things are coming together nicely for next week’s event.

“The growth of this tournament has been exceptional, we went with eight teams the first year,” Masters said. “We’ve had tremendous community support along the way, volunteers have certainly stepped up.”

Shawn Evans, the coach/general manager of the Maritime junior A champion Truro Bearcats, makes time to coach the atom A Cyclones.

“For our atom team, this tournament is a good lead-up for we have our Nova Scotia playdowns next weekend.” Evans said.

The former high scoring defenceman in professional hockey politely reminded me to try to get out and catch a couple games.

Shawn, I definitely intend to.

Lyle Carter’s sports column appears Saturdays in the Truro Daily News. If you have a story idea, contact him at 902 673-2857.

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As individuals and businesses within an industry that can generate its fair share of waste, we are all accountable for bringing about positive change in whatever way we can, especially when it comes to being kind to the environment.

Take note of these six companies with eco-friendly services and products that can help your event show our planet some love. We’ll call them our little green helpers!:

Urban Garden Catering

L-eat Catering

From May to late fall, chefs working the kitchens of L-eat Catering and its sister business,  Paese Ristorante, harvest fresh herbs, tomatoes and other home-grown goodness from a 3,000-sq.-ft. urban garden out back. “As an Italian, having a kitchen garden is second-nature to me,” says company founder and chef Tony Loschiavo. “As an industry, we produce a lot of waste! So it’s important we do what we can to reduce our carbon footprint.” The garden, which doubles as an outdoor event space, grows over 60 items, including tomatoes that can trace their origins back to seeds brought from Italy in 1965. Menus are devised around what’s in season or readily available locally. While the fresh picked is used mainly in the restaurant’s dishes, the garden’s wares are also turned into house-made preserves and pickled goods pulled into catering service throughout the year. Other environmental initiatives include rainwater collection, recycling and composting, driving low-emission diesel vehicles and saving fryer oil to be turned into biofuel.

Divert Event Waste

Wastenot Farms

Did you know that a full-day festival with food trucks can generate minimum one pound of food waste per attendee? Did you also know that a few worms can devour 10 lbs of that waste, transforming it into one pound of rich garden manure within a month? Self-professed “garbage geek” Jocelyn Molyneux teamed up with a barnful of red wriggler worms a few years ago to launch Wastenot Farms. The unique composting service collects and picks up food waste (including compostable packaging and paper), feeds it to worms and returns it back to the environment as soil-boosting fertilizer. The company recently extended its services to events and festivals. Wastenot’s team does a pre-event assessment, preps vendors, provides signage, and sets up/staffs its recycling bins to maximize education and on-site diversion. A post-event report delivers the resulting eco-impact deets along with 25% of the worm manure produced for community donation. Gotta love those worms!

Explore Veggie Cuisine

Plant-based Soirées

More and more events are opting for vegetarian or vegan-based cuisine. While a vegetarian diet potentially delivers a decreased carbon footprint, it likely won’t save the earth alone. However, it is a decidedly healthy option that’s being embraced by a lot of event-going guests. And vegetarian/vegan is definitely a fitting platform to team up with an eco-friendly cause or theme. Plant-based Soirées is a new Toronto-based boutique event-planning company specializing in orchestrating all the details necessary for hosting occasions built around a plant-based lifestyle. Founder, certified wedding planner and passionate vegan Rachel Osbourne sources and coordinates every plant-based detail possible, from the menu, caterer and venue to gifts and other vendors. The company is a division of FoodPar, an online hub designed to connect veggie-loving diners with plant-based restaurants and events around the world.

Earth-savvy Gifts

Yahvi Jute

Be smart about event promotional gift items — make them useful, purposeful and eco-friendly. Yahvi Jute is new on the event scene, offering jute-made items, from bags and binder covers to all-natural décor items like table linens, cushions, craft fabric and ribbons. Yahvi means “earth” in Sanskrit. Jute is a fast-growing sustainable crop with several earth-pleasing attributes including being compostable and biodegradable. Company owner Sujata Singh, who sources primarily from India, the world’s main producer of jute, has a doctorate in geography and is a passionate environmental advocate. A volunteer climate leader trained by Al Gore, Singh also offers environmental education presentations. Jute bags and other items are available for custom-branding.

Nature Education

Events With Purpose

From late spring to fall, Events With Purpose, a division of the Xpeerience Group, partners with the Toronto Botanical Garden to offer Urban Buzz, a scavenger hunt-style teambuilding program. Armed with tablets, groups set out on an interactive quest around the gardens to solve pollination- or plant-themed clues that lead to the location of puzzle pieces — eight bee house parts. The final challenge: Assemble the bee houses and paint them for take home or donation to urban pollinator initiatives. The company also offers a Charity Bike Build with challenges customizable to the importance of pedal power when it comes to saving the environment.

Print Responsibly

Warren’s Waterless Printing

Going paperless is an obvious choice when it comes to event best practices and environmental preservation. However, not everything is replaceable by digital signage or an online presence. For essential printed pieces, opt for a company that takes an earth-friendly approach. Toronto-based Warren’s Waterless Printing gets top marks for its environmental stewardship. The first Bullfrog Powered printer in Canada, the company uses vegetable-based inks and certified recyclable papers. In addition to digital printing, the company is recognized for its waterless offset presses that eliminate the use of water in the printing process along with the need to dispose of tainted water.

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Email marketing software

Marketmailer email and newsletter management

Recently we had another look at the email marketing tool ‘MarketMailer’ (

Since first using it several years ago the software has improved in almost every way possible. This is a great credit to the developers.

Market Mailer is more than a list manager it also is a newsletter creation tool. It enables you to target your messages to the right people.

As they say themselves:

Marketmailer is: “a full featured email marketing solution, allowing businesses to create, send and track email newsletters in a cost-effective and anti-spam compliant manner.”

The pricing structure is varied to suit a wide range of requirements either paying monthly or annually.

And there is telephone support there when you need it.

All very impressive and user friendly.

The other major piece of software that compares with Market Mailer is Mail Chimp which we will look at later in the year.


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Time Team - Season 5

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  • High Worsall, North Yorkshire
    Medieval Village The Team is in High Worsall, near Middlesbrough. It has long been known that there is a deserted medieval village here but no idea how or why the population apparently disappeared into thin air.
  • Downpatrick, County Down
    Saint Patrick's first church In a sleepy corner of Northern Ireland, surprisingly close to the bustle of Belfast, lies the market town of Downpatrick, an eminently respectable place which could proudly boast that nothing very exciting had happened there for centuries. However before that upon Cathedral Hill St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland built his first settlement, and the team are sent to investigate the site that also boast s Bronze-Age encampments and later Benedictine monasteries.moreless
  • Aston Eyre, Shropshire
    Medieval Manor House At this dig, the Team's efforts are concentrated as much above the ground as beneath. They travel to Aston Eyre, where a farmhouse converted from a medieval gatehouse is just the starting point for three days of hard work. Behind it is the derelict Old Hall that, in the 14th century, was the great hall of the lord of the manor. Over the centuries, the hall has been greatly altered but as the layers are peeled away the deserted manor comes to life. And from the written records of the period, a poignant tale about the fate of the family who lived in the manor house comes to light.moreless
  • Deya, Mallorca, Spain
    Copper Age Settlement The team visits Mallorca in pursuit of the Beaker people, an enigmatic culture thought by some to have been responsible for the introduction of metal work into Britain. The team work on the three main sites of the Maze, the Son Mas sanctuary, and the San Oleza settlement.moreless
  • Turkdean, Gloucestershire
    One of the largest Romano-British villa complexes ever found in Britain

    Tony Robinson and the team return to the site of the live dig in 1997 which unearthed a massive Roman villa complex in the Cotswolds. They discover that the villa dates from the very first days of the Roman occupation. Amongst their new finds is an entire, untouched Roman water course.moreless
  • Orkney, Scotland
    Orkney, Scotland
    Episode 4
    9th Century Viking Graves The team go in search of evidence of the invasion of the Vikings, and its influence on ancient Britain. They travel to the Orcadian island of Sanday to try to find out whether four mysterious mounds there are evidence of a Viking settlement or even a Viking burial site.moreless
  • Greylake, Somerset
    Greylake, Somerset
    Episode 3
    Bronze Age Trackway The team go to the Somerset levels in search of a 4,000-year-old wooden trackway. The quickest way to get across the marshes that used to exist here in the Bronze and Iron Ages was across wooden walkways. Now they hope to find evidence of these footbridges.
  • Richmond, Surrey
    Richmond, Surrey
    Episode 2
    Royal Palace at Trumpeters House

    This time the Team look at the grounds of Trumpeters House, in Richmond, near London. Records show it was the site of a royal palace from the time of Edward III through to Elizabeth I, who died there. Destroyed during Cromwell's Commonwealth, the site has lain unexcavated ever since and the team are aiming to find the remains of the inner sanctum of the royal apartments.moreless
  • Bawsey, Norfolk
    Time Team Live Event.
    Anglo-Saxon Settlement
    An enigmatic ruined Norman church on a small mound in the middle of Norfolk farmland was the focus of this year's live broadcasts. Aerial photographs revealed a large ditched enclosure around the site, and metal detectorists working closely with the local archaeological unit unearthed a staggering amount of finds, ranging chronologically from the Bronze and Iron Ages to Roman, Saxon and medieval.moreless
  • TT Special 1 Much Wenlock, Shropshire

    As a curtain-raiser for the new (1998) series of Time Team, which started in January, Tony and the Team gathered to celebrate the festive season with a look back over the last five years and the archaeological odyssey that had taken them from prehistoric Oxfordshire to the dawning of modern age technology in Victorian Britain.


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Hogsmeade Village and Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey at Universal Orlando’s Islands of Adventure.

We arrived in Hogsmeade village via the Hogwarts Express, such a great way to arrive in Hogsmeade village. The first sights on arrival are the snow capped village houses and the Hogwarts castle spires. The gray block buildings stand on … Continue reading

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Welcome to the Gastroenterology Research Page

The mission of Gastroenterology Research at the University of Colorado is to contribute to the development of new understandings, treatments and cures for diseases in Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

The University of Colorado is the Rocky Mountain region's only academic medical center, and has been recognized as one of America's best hospitals, according to U.S. News & World Report. At CU, we conduct widespread clinical trials in our continuing effort to discover more effective treatments and cures. These trials have led to significant breakthroughs in numerous areas.

The work of the staff in Gastroenterology Research at CU is governed by values of:

  • Patient safety
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  • Accurate and ethical data collection
  • What is a clinical trial?

A clinical trial (also called clinical research or research study) is a study in human volunteers to answer specific health questions. Clinical trials are the fastest and safest way to find treatments that work to improve health.

Why participate in a clinical trial?

Participants in clinical trials can play a more active role in their own health care, gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available, and help others by contributing to medical research.

Benefits of participating in a clinical trial:

  • Clinical trials allow people to:
  • Play an active role in their health care.
  • Gain access to new research treatments before they are widely available.
  • Obtain expert medical care at a leading health care facility during the trial.
  • Help people in the future by contributing to medical research.
  • How to find out more information about clinical trials?

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History of UD for Information : Japan

In Japan, the movement for the accessibility of IT began in the latter part of the 1980s. Influenced by Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1986, in 1988 the Humanity Electronics Research Committee Research Committee" was established by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Japan. The Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) was offered the position of executive office.

Although this research committee has changed its name several times since, it has continued to participate in deciding guidelines for more accessible machines for the elderly and persons with disabilities. And in 1990 April 20th, it announced the 'Accessibility Guideline of Information Processing Technology for Persons with Disabilities' (Japanese title: Shyougaishyanado Jyouhoushyorikiki Accessibility Shishin'(Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry , Notification No. 231)

At this stage, the term Universal Design was not used, but since June of 2000, when a revision considering the current development of IT, the decreased price of technology and progress of technology, it was restated that the consideration of universal design is its new policy. Currently there are increased demands for PCs, hardware, software, and contents that can be used with assistive technology as well as the Universal Design of the products themselves. Since 2000, the Jimukikougyou Committee has also heavily debated the UD of office machinery and tools. Many industries have also begun to consider Universal Design standards not only for IT products but for every day products such as ATMs, vending machines and home electronics.

In 1990, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications also began its efforts towards creating more barrier free information. As long as Universal Access is their mission, they will continue to create fair services for a wide range of users. Regarding the design of machines, the 'Accessibility Guideline for Electronic Telecommunication Facilities for Persons with Disabilities' (Japanese Title: Shyougaishyanado Denkitsushinsetsubi Accessibility Shishin) was published in October of 1998. They are also beginning to consider barrier free forms of broadcasting such as captioned broadcasting.

Recently, a heavily debated topic has been the accessibility of Internet content. We must innovate methods to universally design web sites that offer information that can be read with ease by the persons with a variety of human-machine interface needs. In May of 1999, two missions were announced: Plan to ensure human assistance and web accessibility for the elderly and persons with disabilities using information technology' and To achieve accessibility of the Internet, and spread the development of assistive technology. The homepage of new ministry offices have incorporated UD, yet the government has yet to exercise more power over the activities of self-governing bodies and industries regarding these missions. Consequently, there are few accessible homepages in existence.


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Event: Bellator 25: Blackburn vs Hornbuckle

Date: August 19, 2010

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Venue: Chicago Theatre

Broadcast: MTV 2

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Bellator 25 was a mixed martial arts event held by Bellator Fighting Championships. This event took place on August 19, 2010 at the Chicago Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.

The card featured tournament fights in Bellator's third season. The event was distributed live in prime time by FOX Sports Net and its regional sports network affiliates. In Japan, the event was distributed with a short delay by Cavea.

Brad Blackburn vs Dan Hornbuckle:

Round 3: One two punch from Hornbuckle, then a right jab scores. Blackburn with a nice right, again. Body kick from Hornbuckle. Nice right from Blackburn. Nice exchanges from both guys and each one landing some decent shots. Nice right from Blackburn.

Two minutes left. Hornbuckle with a couple nice punches, being more aggressive, lands a big leg kick. Right hook from Blackburn. Again. Straight left from Hornbuckle. Blackburn shoots, gets stuffed.

Thirty seconds left and Hornbuckle landing some solid punches and a couple of knees. Hornbuckle got that round pretty easily by being more aggressive, especially turning it on at the end. He made a necessary adjustment after round one and did what he needed to do to get the job done. (Jack 10-9 for the round 29-28 for the fight) (Richard 10-9 for the round 29-28 for the fight)

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Hornbuckle defeated Blackburn via unanimous decision

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Grabowski defeated Barrett via unanimous decision

Frausto defeated Pene via unanimous decision

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Taylor defeated Carter via unanimous decision

Gassaway defeated Knabjian via unanimous decision

Robertson defeated Kolosci via submission

Kriegermeier defeated Cypriano via submission

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"Somebody who’s born again, he is obviously different than what he was, different from the world, he is progressively seeing victory over sin, he’s progressively seeing conformity to Christ. That’s the main thing. I mean, you look at David’s life, if you just looked at one period of his life where he fell, you would say, “No way!” But you look at the big picture of his life and you can see, here’s a man that he did love God, he did have a heart for God, he was after God’s heart, before and after the fall."
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A watershed is the area of land that drains into a common waterbody.
The contributing water includes both surface water (above-ground) and groundwater (below ground) flow.

Anything that is picked up by the flowing water can be carried to the receiving waterbody.
The moving water is called runoff (or stormwater runoff) and can carry "runoff pollution" with it.

Every waterbody, whether it is a creek, river, lake, ocean or wetland, has a watershed
that is defined by the ridge lines that separate it from adjacent watersheds.

  • Why do watersheds matter?
    Rain that falls anywhere in the watershed will eventually find its way to the creek by flowing over the surface or through the soil just below the surface. As it goes, the water will also carry material from the land surface into the creek. Water picks up dirt and oil while flowing over streets and parking lots, then flows through storm sewers that empty into creeks.

    Rainwater will also wash other material from the surface into the creeks: soil and sand, pesticides and herbicides, fertilizers and other chemicals, spilled oil, and wastes of all types (industrial, animal, and human). All the activities in the watershed can potentially affect water flow and water quality, which is why watershed management is such a powerful strategy for environmental action.

  • What is watershed management?
    Watershed management is an approach to protection of ecosystems and human health that focuses on a naturally defined unit (the watershed) and takes in a wide range of interconnected issues that affect it. Watershed approaches usually include comprehensive monitoring of conditions and integrated local planning to maintain and improve conditions. Community involvement in decision making is also an important element of the watershed approach.

    Taking a watershed approach to planning can help control pollution, erosion, and flooding and protect the ecology, recreational uses, and esthetic value of our waterways. It also can protect water supplies for drinking and washing: in the Kentucky River basin, 95% of our water supply is from rivers or creeks.

  • What is a river basin?
    A river basin is the watershed of a river: it consists of all the watersheds of all of the creeks that flow into the river. For example, the Kentucky River Basin covers 7,000 square miles and all or part of 41 counties. Water drains off this area through a network of creeks whose combined length is more than 16,000 miles.
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    The Kentucky Watershed Management Framework is a watershed approach to protecting human health and the health of the ecosystems on which we depend. The framework's goals are to enhance cooperation between government agencies, develop stronger partnerships among state and local governments and other organizations, and encourage citizen participation in watershed planning.

    Major river basins in the state are assigned to five basin management units (Big Sandy/Little Sandy and Tygarts Rivers; Four Rivers; Green/Tradewater Rivers; Kentucky River; Licking River/Ohio River tributaries; Salt River/Ohio River tributaries; and Upper Cumberland River. Each management unit has a basin coordinator and a basin team. Members of the river basin teams come from state agencies and other organizations in the partner network, and serve as a technical resource group.

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a fellow contributor here at United Liberty, wrote an interesting piece yesterday about the wisdom of not passing an all-encompassing federal budget, even in light of the chaos currently surrounding the shutdown over what gets passed as a continuing resolution and what, in the case of Obamacare, gets funded at all.

Some have argued that mandating the passage of a federal budget — and by “mandate” I mean actually tied to consequences for not doing so — is one way to prevent future shutdowns. But as DesOrmeaux argues, this may not be the most effective way to skin — or herd — a cat:

Many say we have to be responsible and pass a real budget. But the truth is the concept of a single federal budget is actually pretty new. While the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 created the first federal budget process, it wasn’t until the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 that the current version of mandatory budget proposals and resolutions was adopted. For the 150-200 years before that, all federal funding was appropriated with specific bills for programs or departments.

A single federal budget is, as we have seen over the last few years, both the cause and casualty of Congressional division. When the entire government is funded with one bill, a stalemate over that bill can be disastrous. Many have argued recently that the founders intended the Constitution to foster inaction and gridlock. And while that is certainly true given the many checks and balances required for most action, the founders didn’t envision the funding of the whole government to be a single process subject to those forces. In fact, the word “budget” does not even appear in the Constitution. (Though some would like it to.)

It’s an interesting argument, calling the mandatory budget the very reason stalemates exist at all. And there’s probably a lot of truth to that. If, as DesOrmeaux suggests, we had single appropriations for each program’s spending, Obamacare would be the only thing at issue in the Obamacare debate. It wouldn’t, by virtue of a federated system of appropriations, be tied to a larger CR and could be debated on its own merits alone.

However, there’s another great piece in today’s Wall Street Journal that makes a similar case with one caveat: there is room for improvement as regards the shutdown for sure, and that improvement must involve changing the law:

To avoid future stalemates like the current one, making a legislative change is clearly imperative: The current debt-limit law, despite its name, operates to make the debt larger, not smaller. The law should be rewritten to mandate continuous spending restraint when debt exceeds the ceiling.

The author, David Malpass, president of Encima Global, LLC and former deputy assistant Treasury secretary under Reagan, appears to agree (without specifically mentioning an individual appropriations process) that an uncomfortable majority of federal spending is unjustified (he cites 80% as operating on “autopilot”), something that would naturally be addressed if each program was looked at individually and appropriated based on its merits alone. But he puts a great deal more weight on what can be done to address the system we have now, where all budget considerations can necessarily be tied to a discussion of the debt limit.

And fixing what’s broken requires that same federated and piecemeal approach that DesOrmeaux sees as useful for evaluating the worth of program spending.

Jettisoning useless, expensive programs; rewriting laws to mandate restraint when our debt exceeds the ceiling; inferring that the idea of a shutdown shouldn’t be feared and considered apocalyptic if it leads to some fiscal restraint. These are all suggestions that can be addressed one at a time:

To break the impasse, and to address the government’s disastrous finances, the president must lead the way. Mr. Obama has made clear that he will not change ObamaCare, but given the challenges the country faces, a blanket insistence on keeping the whole government unchanged isn’t defensible.

So, before we can get to Mr. DesOrmeaux’s quite reasonable plan of offering individual and distinct appropriations submissions to be funded as separate entities, we must take the same piecemeal approach to fixing the laws, regulations, and policies — real and precedented as “just the way things have always been done” — that keep us from thinking that change is a good idea.

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What You Need To Know About Hearing Loss And Memory Problems?

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Hearing loss is a common phenomenon and it could affect individuals across all age groups. The main causes for hearing impairment could be hereditary factors, trauma, ear disease, noise exposure, and most importantly, age. Hearing loss is known to trigger cognitive decline and memory loss in older adults. Audiologists have been seeing a boost in demand for their services by aged clients whose communication issues are triggered by hearing impairment and cognitive decline. For all these aged people, early detection or diagnosis of cognitive decline is crucial as it is mandatory to provide prompt medical intervention and also assure social support.

Hearing Loss & Cognitive Decline

According to researchers and experts in the field of audiology, hearing loss is certainly a factor in deteriorating mental acuity in aged individuals. Persons with severe hearing loss would be having greater chances of developing some sort of a cognitive disorder and a definite boost in mental function decline while individuals with even mild hearing would be experiencing cognitive issues such as dementia, memory changes, and even increased falls.

The exact connection between hearing impairment and cognitive decline is yet not completely understood. It could possibly be because of a surge in cognitive load. The brain is overwhelmed because of increasing demands on its already limited resources. Hearing impairment could result in increased social isolation to which aged adults seem to be already prone to. Social isolation is certainly a risk factor for dementia and cognitive impairment according to audiologists.

Diminished hearing abilities could result in reduced brain stimulation, which again is a great risk factor for declining thinking abilities. It could also be plausible that by compelling the brain to work overtime for effectively processing the signals coming from the ears, it is obvious that the hearing impairment would be taking away all the energy and vitality from the brain’s thinking parts.

Ways Hearing Loss Could Cause Memory Problems & Dementia

Physiological Pathway: Perhaps the most obvious cause is a physiological pathway that plays a role in cognitive decline, as well as, hearing loss, like blood pressure.

Cognitive Overload: The most common cause of memory loss issues is the cognitive overload which is actually, the constant endeavour you are putting in, for understanding what you are apparently hearing. You are constantly straining and this could prove to be stressful to your brain. Moreover, an older adult has been drawing away resources from brain functions like working memory would eventually bring down the resilience of the brain.

Changes in Brain Structure: Experts believe that hearing impairment could affect the brain structure in such a manner that cognitive issues or memory problems would arise. Images of the brain demonstrate that aged individuals with hearing impairment have relatively less grey matter in that portion of the brain that is known to receive and process sounds coming in through the ears. This does not imply that they are losing brain cells.

You could say certain brain cell structures are shrinking due to lack of stimulation. Many experts believe that when the brain is again able to receive clearer speech signals with the use of cutting-edge hearing aids, these brain structures could be recovering and going back to their previous function and size. This may lead to the restoration of hearing.

Social Isolation: Social isolation seems to play a pivotal role in cognitive decline or memory problems. When you are having hearing issues, you tend to avoid friends and social gatherings as it becomes difficult to carry on a conversation. When you become socially isolated there would be a definite increase in the risk of cognitive decline leading to dementia.

It would possibly take a lot more research for accurately determining what factors lead to memory issues triggered by hearing loss. The important thing is to understand that an advanced hearing loss treatment including state-of-the-art hearing aids could be successful in delaying or preventing cognitive decline and even dementia.

Our audiology clinic in Southern River Family Practice offers varies hearing solutions for all your hearing problems. Feel free to make appointment today with our audiologist to understand further on preventing hearing loss.

Hearing aids improve brain function in people with hearing loss

Published on January 30, 2016 at 2:35 AM

A recent study by Jamie Desjardins, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the speech-language pathology program at The University of Texas at El Paso, found that hearing aids improve brain function in persons with hearing loss.

Hearing loss, if left untreated, can lead to serious emotional and social consequences, reduced job performance and diminished quality of life. Untreated hearing loss also can interfere with cognitive abilities because so much effort is put toward understanding speech.

“If you have some hearing impairment and you’re not using hearing aids, maybe you can figure out what the person has said, but that comes with a cost,” Desjardins explained. “You may actually be using the majority of your cognitive resources – your brain power – in order to figure out that message.”

As people age, basic cognitive skills – working memory, the ability to pay attention to a speaker in a noisy environment, or the ability to process information quickly – begin to decline.

Desjardins studied a group of individuals in their 50s and 60s with bilateral sensorineural hearing loss who had previously never used hearing aids.

They took cognitive tests to measure their working memory, selective attention and processing speed abilities prior to and after using the hearing aids.

After two weeks of hearing aid use, tests revealed an increase in percent scores for recalling words in working memory and selective attention tests, and the processing speed at which participants selected the correct response was faster.

By the end of the study, participants had exhibited significant improvement in their cognitive function.

Hearing Aid Research”Most people will experience hearing loss in their lifetime,” said Desjardins, who joined UTEP in 2013. “Think about somebody who is still working and they’re not wearing hearing aids and they are spending so much of their brainpower just trying to focus on listening. They may not be able to perform their job as well. Or if they can, they’re exhausted because they are working so much harder. They are more tired at the end of the day and it’s a lot more taxing. It affects their quality of life.”
Hearing loss affects more than 9 million Americans over the age of 65 and 10 million Americans ages 45 to 64, but only about 20 percent of people who actually need hearing aids wear them, Desjardins said.

Desjardins’ new study focuses on the use of hearing aids by Hispanics. Research shows that only five percent of Mexican-Americans wear hearing aids. She has developed a survey to investigate their attitudes toward hearing loss. The survey will be conducted at health fairs in the community, including the Mexican Consulate in El Paso,Texas.

Source:The University of Texas at El Paso

How to prevent hearing loss?

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How to prevent hearing loss and protect your hearing?

  • Noise-induced hearing loss is usually permanent and progresses with each exposure. Use proper ear protection when working around loud noises.
  • Never put foreign objects in the ear.
  • Do not use cotton swabs to clean or probe the ear canals.
  • Do not put cotton balls or liquids into the ear unless prescribed by a doctor.
  • Treat middle ear infections as soon as possible. Hearing loss may be prevented by prompt treatment. Most doctors believe that fluid in the middle ear (called an effusion) lasting longer than 6 weeks should be drained and tympanostomy tubes(ear tubes) placed in the middle ear.
  • If you are taking medications that can cause hearing loss, your doctor should carefully monitor their levels with blood tests.

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Signs & Symptoms of hearing loss

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Hearing loss usually develops gradually that you don’t notice the loss of these subtle everyday sounds. Someone with hearing loss will only realize how much they have been missing once they get help.

For adults, below symptoms could be taken as warning sign…

  • You hear people speaking but you have to strain to understand their words.
  • You frequently complain that people mumble.
  • You find it harder to hear in public gatherings.
  • You play the TV or radio louder than your friends, spouse and relatives.
  • You don’t always hear the doorbell or the telephone ringing.
  • You frequently ask people to repeat what they said.
  • You find that looking at people when they speak to you makes it easier to understand.
  • You talk loudly.
  • You find it difficult to distinguish speech from other sounds and noises.

If you have any of these symptoms, you should see an audiologist for hearing assessment. A hearing assessment allows the audiologist to determine the nature and degree of your hearing loss, and it tells the audiologist how well or how poorly you understand speech. A thorough investigation also includes a comprehensive case history (interview) as well as visual inspection of the ear canals and eardrum. The results of the hearing evaluation are useful to the physician should the audiologist conclude that your hearing problem may be treated with medical or surgical alternatives. If the results indicate that you are a suitable candidate for hearing aid, hearing aids that suit your type and degree of hearing loss, lifestyle, dexterity and budget will be prescribed. Post- fitting follow- up will be customised to ensure that you hear better in short time.

 As for children, below are some symptoms:

  • Risk factors during pregnancy, such as maternal rubella or syphilis.
  • Significant head trauma.
  • Meningitis.
  • History of congenital hearing loss.
  • Recurrent middle ear infections.
  • Ototoxic medication
  • Speech or language delay.
  • Risk factors in the new-born, such as premature birth, low birth weight, severe jaundice.
  • Parent or teacher has noticed or suspects a hearing loss abnormalities of the ears, nose or throat.
  • Syndromes such as Down Syndrome.

Children should have their hearing tested if one of the above occurs.

At vCare Hearing, we provide comprehensive hearing assessment for both adult and children to detect early stage of hearing loss before it occurs.


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December 27, 2016

Baby Shower

Yesterday was my baby shower and let me just tell you,  i t   w a s   t h e   b e s t. My friends put everything together without telling me any details other than the date of the shower. I had no clue what they were up to until I got there and it was an amazing surprise. I am a HUGE fan of the show Parks and Recreation and they went with that as a theme, but also had it at an adorable little tea place. It was clever, hilarious, cute and absolutely perfect and I’m so grateful to Julia and Dez for putting it all together for me and to everyone who attended. All of the little details were so good, the games were fun, the gifts (diapers and wipes only! although a couple of people snuck in other gifts as well) were perfect and much appreciated. I’m just a happy mama. I can’t believe we’re going to have another little lady in a few short months... I hope she likes Aziz Ansari as much as I do because she’ll be rocking a onesie with his face on it come March lol. I’m feeling very thankful and loved. 🤗

Please excuse a few blurry photos but I had pictures taken from my DSLR, my phone, other people’s phones and it’s just an assortment of fun moments that I didn’t want to leave out of this post just because they weren’t crystal clear.

December 26, 2016

Christmas Day

Our Christmas was pretty awesome this year. Everyone was in good spirits and really, when you have a kid, that’s enough to make your day. No tantrums, woot woot! We woke up at 6am and started the present opening... My parent’s slept over Christmas Eve so they could spend Christmas morning with us so I made an eggs benedict casserole to pop in the oven Christmas morning so I could just hang with everyone and take pictures/open presents instead of dealing with lots of cooking. Everyone loved all of their gifts from Santa & Rowan got everything she put on her wishlist so she scored. After presents we ate breakfast (cinnamon rolls for Rowan) and hung out for a couple of hours until we left to see the movie Sing, which was super cute. After the movie we were off to have dinner and visit with my brother-in-law’s family where we enjoyed carne asada burritos and played Pie Face. I highly recommend this game, it's so fun and hilarious. After visiting the family we headed home, got ready for bed, in our comfy pjs and watched some of The Office until bedtime. It was the perfect Christmas. I hope that you all had a great day as well and although I’m sad that Christmas is over, I’m very excited to ring in the new year and all that comes with it. Happy holidays!

December 24, 2016

Holiday Music EP

I threw together a simple Christmas EP, including the White Christmas cover from last year. Hope you all enjoy and happy holidays!

You can listen here or click on the “music” tab above.

December 22, 2016

Christmas Cookies

Today is the first day of Rowan’s winter break so we started it off with some cookie baking, complete with Christmas music on blast, giggling and a sneaky little elf who couldn’t resist dipping a finger into the frosting every 20 seconds. I really don’t want the holidays to end..


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Those That

The Forgotten Benefit

Laura Martinez, USVCP Staff Writer

Original Publication Date: March 17, 2016

Republished:  March 14, 2018

It can be a major undertaking to sift through all the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits for the savviest of experts.  One seemingly forgotten benefit is the Survivors’ and Dependents’ Educational Assistance (DEA) Program under Chapter 35.

Under this seldom used education program, family members of troops killed in action or those with 100% service-connected disabilities are able to obtain up to 45 months of education benefits in the form of a monthly stipend.

The DEA program provides education and training compensation to eligible dependents of veterans who are permanently and totally disabled due to a service-related condition or of veterans who died while on active duty or as a result of a service-related condition.

The amount allocated to a dependent can be up to a maximum of $1,021.00 a month for full-time students per rates as determined in October 2015.

The money from this program is intended to be used as supplemental income for dependents seeking degrees, certificate programs, apprenticeships, or on-the-job training.

The DEA program is separate from the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill. Dependents of service members who died in the line of duty or served adequate time to be able to transfer their G.I. Bill benefits can also be eligible for the DEA program, but only for up to 81 months of total full-time benefits. However, both programs may not be used concurrently.

Dependent children planning to apply for this benefit must fall between the ages of 18 and 26. As a dependent child, he/she will have up to age 26 to use the benefits. Spouses must use it within 10 years from the date VA finds one eligible or from the date of death of the Veteran.

The bill appears to be flexible in that children of fallen or disabled service members can be married, the money can be used for colleges or job training programs, and there are rates that vary and can apply to part-time or full-time schooling — unlike with the Post-9/11 G.I. Bill.

In order to apply, dependents must complete VA Form 22-5490 and submit it to the VA for consideration.

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“Good for You” for 4/28/05

“Fizz” and Bill Splain! Cindy Stewart of Canaan has nominated “Fizz” and Bill Splain of near Vevay for this week’s “Good for You!” award.

Cindy Stewart writes: “While stranded in Madison recently, I was lucky enough to run into ‘Fizz’ and Bill Splain. Before I knew it, she was making phone calls for help, and they even gave me a ride back home to Canaan. Thanks for ‘going out of your way’, ‘Fizz’.

Vevay Newspapers says “Good for You”, “Fizz” and Bill Splain. For being caring residents of Switzerland County, you will be receiving a rose compliments of Edelweiss Florists in Vevay.

Know someone who deserves to be recognized with a “Good for You” award? Write down their deed and bring it to the Vevay Newspapers office. Your entry should include your name and address; along with the name and address of the person that you are nominating. Winners will have their rose delivered by Edelweiss Floral, or you may also stop by the flower shop and pick up your rose yourself.


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The Most Ridiculous Sequel Names In Movie History

  • Think Like A Man Too

    [Photo Credit: Sony Pictures]

  • Dumb & Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd

    [Photo: New Line Cinema]

  • Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit

    [Photo Credit: Buena Vista Pictures]

  • Die Hard 2: Die Harder

    [Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox]

  • I Still Know What You Did Last Summer

    [Photo Credit: Columbia Pictures]

  • Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

    [Photo Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]

  • Leprechaun: Back 2 tha Hood

    [Photo: Lionsgate]

  • Air Bud: Golden Receiver

    [Photo: Walt Disney Home Video]

  • Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel

    [Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox]

  • Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo

    [Photo Credit: TriStar Pictures]

  • Piranha 3DD

    [Photo Credit: Dimension Films]

As Think Like A Man Too continues to rake in money at the box office, we have to ask: Is the sequel to the ensemble film based on Steve Harvey’s self-help book succeeding because of its commentary on gender and relationships, or its terribly unclever title? When big movies warrant a continuation, the temptation to go for the pun becomes way too real. Puns are fun! People like to laugh! As much as slapping a number on the end of each spin-off can feel like the easy way out, it’s also the least embarrassing way to go.

Disney’s Air Bud was about a lovable household pet with abnormal athletic talents. It’s success led to another installment, and here’s a totally made up but likely thought that ran through a studio exec’s mind: “Bud is a golden retriever, so — hey, receiver rhymes with retriever! That’s a sports position right?” [Pauses to envision dollar signs.]

Legally Blonde protagonist Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) made a name for herself around Harvard thanks to her yellow locks and knowledge of different styling routines. Why not drive home just how blonde she really is by using the word twice in the sequel (Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde)? But really, even the most ridiculous movie titles become accepted by pop culture for different reasons. Thanks to the follow-up to 1984’s breakdancing flick, Breakin’, we now know what to tack on to any underwhelming piece of media in order to best signify it’s mediocrity (that would be the extra-ludicrous, “Electric Boogaloo”). Because, why put your mind to work when you can just say “boogaloo”?

Check out some of the silliest sequel names in the gallery above, and let us know your idea for better titles in the comments.

[Photo Credit: 20th Century Fox, TriStar Pictures]


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Romain Gary Statue

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Romain Gary Statue

Sculptor: Romualdas Kvintas. 2007

This small statue was made in remembrance of renowned writer Romain Gary, a famous French writer of the 20th century as well as a pilot, diplomat and director. The small and frail figure of a boy, positioned next to the house where the writer once lived, quaintly stands out against the busy crossing. The story of the statue stems from the autobiographic story of the writer in his book Promise at Dawn (La promesse de l’aube), in which he tells of his childhood in Vilnius and his admiration for a girl named Valentina. Struggling to win her attention the writer would cut and eat a gumshoe.

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Transit Zone: A Dirty Underpass in a Hungary Railway Station Becomes an Isle of Humanity

by Krisztina Danka, Ph.D. (Krishna-lila Dasi) The Huffington Post on Oct. 7, 2015

 “The wise men treat everybody as equals, whether it be a learned and cultured brahmana, a cow, an elephant, or a dog and an outcaste. He does not differentiate between anybody.” (Bhagavad-gita 5.18)

Recently, I had trouble sleeping for weeks. When I lay down in my comfortable apartment in Budapest, Hungary, all I could see in my mind are images of babies and little children lying on the dirty floor of Budapest’s railway stations, or a damp field near the border waiting for their transfer to a new, safer and better life. I would get up, tuck my beautiful five-year old daughter in, and pray that she would never face the hardship those innocent children have had and still have to endure.

In early summer 2015, when my family and I came back from New York to spend some months in my home country of Hungary, I saw the forest of giant government-sponsored posters exhorting Middle-Eastern refugees in Hungarian to respect the country’s culture and not to steal Hungarians’ jobs. I told my husband, “Oh boy, this is going to be ugly.” Although born and raised in New York, and having only a vague knowledge of my country’s past and present, he could read between the lines too, and tell who these messages were really for, and what kind of reactions they were meant to evoke in an ethnically homogeneous country, where citizens are not accustomed to coexist with different cultures, religions or those of a different skin color.

What happened turned out to be way worse than we expected.

Over this past summer, Hungarian people started to hear a gradually increasing number of stories in the media about refugees (alternately called migrants or immigrants) coming from war-torn countries, or their neighboring nations, allegedly stealing fruits from Hungarian people’s orchards, leaving garbage on the roads near the border, or complaining loudly about the over-crowdedness of the refugee camps or about not being allowed to leave for western countries as soon as possible. In a majority of these stories, the refugees are portrayed as uncultured, arrogant or violent criminals.

Being a filmmaker myself, I know how easy it is to present certain narratives as “facts.” So finally, I decide to do my own research and make my own assessments: what kind of people are these migrants, really; and am I supposed to be so afraid as to feel threatened by them?

Early on the morning of September 1st, 2015, I join with some Hare Krishna friends who, at the request of Migration Aid, a local volunteer group, have been serving hot breakfast to hundreds of refugees, who have arrived from the country’s southern border to Budapest’s so-called Transit Zones, specifically designated areas at railway stations. Here, there are ostensibly basic facilities such as water, toilets and first aid, with clothes and food provided by volunteers and non-governmental organizations.

When I arrive at around 6 AM, I see Kata, a Hungarian aid worker, welcoming hundreds of exhausted refugees getting off the train. She gives them a big smile, and with the help of a handful of policemen, she shepherds them into the Transit Zone, while handing out leaflets in Arabic, Farsi and other languages containing useful information to help them get their bearings in this country. When I ask her why she has been coming here almost every morning for three months, Kata replies: “I got very upset by those posters. No one should greet asylum-seekers in my name with prejudice and hatred. They should be helped, and treated with love and respect.”

While playing catch with a four-year old Syrian boy, a volunteer called “Baba” – a big, tattooed fellow of Hungarian and Egyptian origin – adds, “a society is not determined by it’s religion or political system, but by how it behaves towards those who are in need.”

The first impression I have of the refugees themselves is the presence of an overwhelming number of families with babies and small children, which is unexpected. Hungarian national television has elected to show only muscular young men among them. Although most of these people have not had a warm meal for weeks, they are patiently queuing up in front of the food tents, with children and women first. Considering how far they have had to travel, and under what conditions, they look clean, neat and relatively well groomed.

By their looks and demeanor, one can tell that though these people may be literally homeless, they are not vagrants.

While 28 year-old Aya changes the outfit of her four-month-old son on the dirty floor of the railway station, she tells me that she is an elementary school teacher. Her doctor husband was running a private clinic in Aleppo, Syria, before their town was invaded, their house bombed, and they had to flee. She once had a beautiful home. Still, here in Budapest, when a volunteer offers her a mat to sit on and an umbrella to protect her small children from the scorching heat, Aya’s eyes are filled with tears of gratitude.

Aref tells me he was a university professor of comparative linguistics in Damascus. Some of his close relatives were executed, so feared for his life he decided to leave the country. Although he knows it is not going to be easy to start over, Aref seems hopeful about the future. The only time he chokes up and diverts his eyes away from me is when he talks about his parents, who fled to Jordan, and who, due to visa restrictions, he has not seen in over two years.

Over a bowl of lentil soup, 16-year Ahmad from Afghanistan tells me that he was the junior kickboxing champion in his country. He speaks three foreign languages: Urdu, Hindi and English, and his dream is to go to university in Germany. His older brother was beheaded by the Taliban because he was an interpreter working for the American troops. Ahmad fled the country with his brother’s eight-month pregnant widow and her two small children. (Wow, I thought, when I was eight months pregnant I could barely move, and this woman has just crossed half a continent.)

As I hand out bread, fruit juice, chocolate, plus a stuffed pink bunny and a small cow from my daughter’s toy stash, to Ahmed’s nieces, a smiling man steps over to me and introduces himself as Abdulhay from Daraa, Syria. He apologizes for bothering me, and says he just wants to thank me and all the Hungarian volunteers for what we have been doing to help the people in need here.

We start chatting. I find out he was an interior designer running his own company with over a hundred employees. His wife is a Shiite, he is Sunni, but this has never created a conflict between the two of them, he says — they have been happily married for fifteen years, with two teenaged boys. He tells me that their house and business got bombed and were completely destroyed; so he and his family fled to save their lives. Despite the hardship he has endured at home, and on the arduous journey across the sea and the Balkans, Abdulhay seems to have maintained a positive attitude, and a solid faith in the kindness of humanity.

I wish I could say the same about some of my countrymen.

While thousands of Hungarians have been compelled to help and are busy making life a little easier for those who have been stripped of their last shred of dignity, and unsure about what is going to happen to them, many others in this country have started to express fear and serious objections towards the presence of, as they have put it, these “aliens”, “Muslim invaders” or “uncultured horde.” Facebook walls are full of photos of piles of garbage and discarded food left behind by the “animals,” with attached remarks about the naiveté of the members of the civil organizations that, in the absence of substantial help from the government, have decided to pick up the slack to offer aid.

At first, I patiently comment on these online postings, explaining that if a Muslim is given a salami sandwich, he is not going to eat it; not because he’s not hungry, but because his tradition forbids him to touch pork. (Being a strict vegetarian throughout my adult life, I can relate to that.) I also point out to some of my rageful fellow Hungarians that when you have to flee your country at a moment’s notice, it is unlikely that, along with your kids, passport, some money and a set of clothes, you will think of packing a broom, a pail, garbage bags or a bottle of disinfectant so you can clean the spot on the roadside, railway station or refugee camp where you are detained, then suddenly shepherded away from by the police.

As the days and weeks go by, and the situation escalates with more arrivals, an increasing number of migrant-condemning comments also come my way. I have to admit, I get angrier about this, since almost every one of the comments are from people who never met or talked to any one of the refugees. They do not see them as human beings, rather as a faceless, threatening mass.

A huge gap has developed within the Hungarian society. Heated arguments and harsh words erupt, even within families; lifelong friends “un-friend” one another. In this societal and cyber civil war, nobody’s life seems to be unaffected.

After my initial visit, however, I keep going to the Transit Zone. Why? Because that is a rare part of my country that I feel at home these days.

I keep going because I believe the only thing that should be separated by color is laundry.

I keep going because I don’t want to fail these people as human beings, and because I have seen first-hand how simple acts of humanity, like a piece of bread, a song, or even a smile, can make a difference.

I keep going because I feel inspired in the company of selfless aid workers, coming from different backgrounds and faiths, Jews, Christians, Muslims and Hindus, tirelessly tending to wounds or trying to ease the pain of the displaced and the dispossessed.

I keep going because I genuinely have grown to like many of these Muslim people; I feel good among them; I learn from them, as we exchange thoughts and laughter.

And I keep going because I feel indebted to these refugees for providing me the opportunity to experience the greatest of all joys – the feeling of being a small instrument of God’s grace.

Just as I am leaving the Transit Zone, I see a Hungarian Christian volunteer accidentally cut her finger, bleeding and in pain. Without hesitation, two young Muslim men, both Syrian refugees, come rushing over, tend to her wound, put a bandage on it, and stop the bleeding.

Behind them there is a young Syrian girl, who, just before boarding the train heading towards Austria, writes a message on the Transit Zone’s chalkboard wall:

“May God bless all nations and all countries.

May He protect you all, and guard you from fear and war.

What you give is what you get.

It doesn’t matter if we don’t meet again,

but what you have given to us,

will always remain with us.

Barbed wire, tear gas, water cannons and new laws ultimately convince the refugees to find another route. The Budapest Transit Zone becomes obsolete; and now, it has closed down.

For me, however, the Transit Zone always will be remembered as a blessed place. In a sea of war, hatred, confusion and prejudice, during one of Europe’s largest humanitarian crises, a dirty underpass in a railway station became a little isle of humanity, where everyone – asylum-seekers and their helpers alike – understood that after all, we are not Muslims, Hindus, Jews or Christians, in the end; we are not Afghans, Syrians, Hungarians or Americans.

We are all migrants on a journey, seeking safety, love, peace and happiness.

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