Archive for May, 2009

Land of Smiles Is Also the Land of Photo Opportunities

Saturday, May 30th, 2009

Thailand is one of the best places to take your camera. Why would that be? Because there’s so much happening in daily life in Thailand. First off, everyday life lends itself to photography with a real social assemblage on the streets : foodstalls, youngsters playing, mobile “kitchens” attached to motorbikes (Thai version of fast food?), and even elephants idly tredding the streets. That’s not all, the weather can be quite amazing, with electrical storms appearing and disappearing in minutes. You are not in short supply of photo opportunities in Thailand.

Thailand is a “what you see is what you get” type of country – full of affable people, dangerous drivers, food stalls on every corner, and dogs everywhere. Nevertheless despite the apparent bedlam, expect a very high quality of service in the eateries, bars and hotels of Thailand.

So you want some examples of such photos of Thailand to give you an idea of what I’m rambling about here? Then check our photo gallery on thailandimpression.com. Our website boasts photos from all different types of scenes in Thailand : from countryside photos, to sunset photos of Thailand, city and urban photos as well as more traditional photos such as ones of temples. We show you our impression of this wonderful country, not only via the lens of a camera, but in manipulation of the resulting picture via photographic software – to twist the reality into sometimes subtle, sometimes fresh new views of what the camera found. We hope the photos you view on our website will sway you to visit “The Land of Smiles” with your own camera. Even if for some inexplicable reason you felt you’d exhausted all the possibilities Thailand has to offer you, there are the neighbouring countries of Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia to travel through too!

Relationships Created to Last

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

For one, I couldn’t characterize myself as terribly happy being bored with most men (who isn’t?) and be 100% truthful. Even then, I’m not unhappy in that way, either. I just mention it in this blog as a delicious personal tidbit setting up the story I am prepared to reveal to you

A week ago today yours truly met for coffee with Trisha, considering joining a dating service for Phoenix singles. Today, I sit to the blogosphere as a surprisingly pleased member of the singles network. For real, it’s true. It’s full of fun, attractive people! If you’ve been paying attention, you may be wondering, “You totally owe me an explanation.”

Here’s how it went down, I saw these Great Expectations Reviews and felt encouraged. They’re for quality and professional singles who know dating isn’t a game.

Because in all honesty I’d never been interested in what serial daters (ie: everyone I know) so aptly entitled “The Dating Game.” I got it more than you know. Each night they ask, “You’re still single? ” and “You should date!”

“Nonsense,” I say to them, without missing a beat. “Have you seen what’s out there?”

“Not true,” they level with me. “You haven’t dated in a year, you wouldn’t know!”

Thankfully, that’s my partner in crime (on a good day) (hehe) Patty Feldman. She offers common sense directly to my core to put me back on course. Loved ones never fail for fresh advice. No countering that, and I thank her for it.

Back to the theme of this blog entry. As I browsed from more than three hundred combinations of outfits for my first singles event with Great Expectations, I realized something true. For the longest time, I hadn’t allowed myself the greatest of actual great expectations for dating and myself in the serendipitous path of life. It’s good to be single, only with healthy optimism. Having great expectations does wonders on a cynics social life.

–Denise Ross

Serious Malignant Mesothelioma Has no Single Test, Due to Many Signs Are Grouped with More Common Conditions

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Malignant pleural mesothelioma is a rare and quick acting tumor for which no effective treatment has been discovered despite the finding of quite a few possible molecular and genetic targets. The final stages of MPM diagnosis and the long latency that exists connects some exposures and diagnosis have made it tricky to comprehensively evaluate what risk factors do and the resulting molecular effects.

A lot of hospitals are now seeing increasing numbers of patients that are suffering from peritoneal cancer. This gives pathologists diagnosing the patient many problems, which can be separated into those encountered in making the distinction between mesothelioma and harmless changes and those seen in differentiating mesotheliomas from other types of e-cadherin and tissue tumors that connect. IHC plays a major role in diagnosis, however, it must be taken into consideration in regards to the clinical setting and radiological characteristics, and with a knowledge of the broad morphological variations seen in cancer of the mesothelium.

Mesothelioma is a primary cancer of the serosal cavities, an anatomic site that also gets affected frequently by metastatic disease, largely from primary carcinomas of the ovary, lung and breast. Advances in immunohistochemistry have caused an enhanced diagnostic sensitivity and precision in the differential diagnosis in both cytological and histological material. Lately, the authors faction employed increased levels of throughput technology to the recognition of new signs that could help in being able to tell the difference between cancer of the mesothelium from cancer in the peritoneum and ovaries, closely related histogenesis found in tumors and antigenic profile. In addition to the better tools accessible for cancer of the serosa diagnosis, realizing the biology of cancer of the mesothelium has accumulate lately.

The Importance of Contents Insurance

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

According to the Home Office, there were a staggering 2 million burglaries in the UK in 2005. Compare this to the number of home fires in the same year, just 300,000, and you’ll see that a burglary is six times more likely to occur than a home fire. Yet when most people purchase their home insurance policies, it is protection against the loss of the home itself, such as due to fire, that they think about. Most home owners don’t realize that, despite the more likely threat of burglary, home insurance policies without comprehensive riders for contents have definite weaknesses.

These weaknesses make home owners vulnerable to financial loss when a burglary occurs. For example, if a purse is stolen outside of the home, home owners insurance alone may not cover the contents. Additionally, home owners insurance may not properly cover any item that is worth over £2,000 which is exactly the kind of item burglars are seeking.

The fact that the contents of your home are vulnerable to situations that ordinarily do not affect the home itself means that home contents insurance is essential to your policy coverage. A thorough home contents insurance policy will protect you if an item such as a fur coat is stolen or damaged, whether or not it was in your home at the time of the burglary.

When purchasing home contents insurance, it is important to make a record of the more expensive items it will cover. Using a camera to photograph your possessions and storing the photos offsite is an extremely good idea. Keep any bills of sale you may have in this file. Another good reason to catalogue your items is to ascertain their collective value more accurately. Using this figure, you can be confident that you are not underinsured or paying for coverage you don’t need. Alternately, knowing the fiscal value of your home’s contents will help you distinguish between financial value, or the value the insurance company will reimburse, versus the sentimental value of an item. Although you rightly cherish a picture your mother painted, the insurance company cannot place a high financial value on it.

Your home is more than an investment; it is the place in which your life unfolds. Comprehensive home contents insurance, in addition to educating yourself about fire and theft prevention, is one of the most important steps you can take to protect the fruits of that journey.

Buying a Home when Rates go Up

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

Many people fret the rising tide of interest rates. You’ll hear things like, “Did I miss the boat? Is it too expensive now to buy a home? How can I afford the house of my dreams? Maybe I should wait! Maybe I should just rent for a while! Maybe the rates will go down in a few weeks. “

Stop! Nonsense, I say!

I bought my first home at close to 9%. Buyers from the 80’s told me I was getting in at a bargain, and anyway, who cares? I don’t. I refinanced long, long, long ago. 9% is just a part of history now.

So, here’s 5 important points you need to keep in mind, when the ebb and flow of interest rates, ebbs up, more than it flows down…

1. There’s no better time, then NOW!

2. Long Term Investing

3. Creative Financing

4. Uncreative Financing

5. Buying a Home when Rates go Down

1. There’s no better time, then NOW!:

I know it sounds cliché, but it’s true. There’s no better time to buy, then now. Why?

a) Because if rates are going up, then the law of supply and demand insists that the rising price of homes will likely slow down.

b) Since appreciation slows down when rates go up, this is an opportunity to buy at a perceived discount

c) Remember, rates fluctuate, and nothings forever. So, it’s more important to get your darned foot in the door, right now. You can always refinance later, as rates ebb and flow back down. You’ll still have the benefit of having gotten into the house, at a lower, discounted price, and you can then enjoy both a low rate when you refinance, alongside knowing that you got the house when prices slowed down, maximizing the gain when appreciation revs back up again.

See what I mean? Don’t wait. It only gets more expensive. There’s always, no better time, then NOW!

2. Long Term Investing:

If this is your first home, then you have to think beyond the next year or so, and move your frame of reference into a longer futuristic point of view.

a) Are you going to live in the same house, for at least 5 years?

b) Most of us would answer yes, therefore, you need to be more concerned with real estate in the long term, let’s say beyond 5 years, and you need to be less concerned with the short term rise and fall of rates. You’ll drive yourself nuts otherwise.

c) 5 years is a pretty solid range of time, for rates to go both up, and down. In other words, history proves that for the most part, you’ll live through the ebb and flow of rising and falling rates, as a homeowner, and you know what? You’ll survive; in fact, you’ll thrive, because you’ll enjoy a net gain in appreciation over the long term.

So rates go up and down in the short term, but in the long term, real estate always appreciates, and that means that homeowners always win.

3. Creative Financing:

This is the good stuff. When rates go up, opportunities abound. You see, many homeowners, builders, and developers, find themselves in more negotiable positions because of the laws of supply and demand. Surplus rises, and buyers slow down.

a) If financing is an issue, then you may be able to negotiate with the owner to carry the note, and completely bypass more conventional lending institutions.

b) If affordability is an issue, then perhaps you’ll find many more re-sales out there, perhaps fixer-uppers, ready to negotiate for a lower price (Can you say, built in equity?)

c) If discounts and incentives are your game, then perhaps you’ll locate some developers anxious to move inventory, with a flare for adding a rebate, or doing you’re landscaping, or building that retaining wall you wanted.

The key here (and this is very important), is to find an excellent real estate agent. I can’t stress enough, how important it is to have someone on your side, who understands the lay of the land. Don’t go at it alone. Just go find someone knowledgeable, who you can trust, and who is ready and willing to roll up their sleeves, and go to work for you.

4. Uncreative Financing:

As of the writing of this article, rates are still very, very low. Anything below 7%, for a fixed rate, in my opinion, is totally workable.

a) Between 1979 and 1990, fixed interest rates ranged from 11% to 16% on average. This is highly unusual historically, of course, but it is an excellent benchmark, when you evaluate how good, or bad, things are right now.

b) So as you’re exploring your choices, don’t lose sight of the big picture. Getting your foot in the door is more valuable, then being left out in the cold.

c) One other important point. For all those homeowners that purchased in the 80s, do you think they’re terribly concerned now about the ebb and flow of rates? Do you think they kept their 11% fixed rate loan, or do you think they refinanced when it dropped down to 6% (or paid the house off by now). I’d venture a guess, that virtually all of them; have a nice, hefty, bulky, attractive pot of equity sitting on their front porch step today.

5. Buying a Home when Rates Go Down:

When rates go down, of course, it’s obvious that getting a loan and buying a house is extremely attractive.

a) But when rates go down, there is a lack of homes on inventory.

b) Can you say, “Non-negotiable”, or “bidding war”, or “oops, sorry…Already sold!”

c) When rates go down, the seller is in the driver’s seat, and the buyer is running around with checkbook in hand, yelling “Where do I sign?”

Keep that in mind. Which would you prefer? Personally, I dislike high rates, but I LOVE being in the drivers’ seat. I guess in the end, you’ve just got to work with whatever environment exists today. Any way you look at it, you can’t stop and wait until the cards stack up in your favor. You just have to dive in, and get started. If you like to be creative, if you like opportunities, and if you like to be in the drivers seat then rising rates shouldn’t bother you in the slightest. Renting is more of a crime to your finances, in the long run.

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Good Fridays, Bad Choices

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

“You can’t answer the cell phone during prayers,” I said to myself. “Especially during these prayers at the hour that Christ died.”

“But this is probably an emergency, and you are a doctor as well as a priest!”

“No, it’s not right. Don’t answer it.”

Whenever I talk to myself, the dialogue is always feisty.

The phone buzzed in my pocket, unanswered, three persistent times. It could wait. The prayers would be over in just a few more minutes. The phone buzzed again. I discretely looked at it, just to see what name appeared on the screen. It was Raphael. That could mean only one thing: that she was dead.

My blood turned cold, and a shiver ran down my spine. The hougan (voodoo priest) had told this perfectly healthy young woman, just a week ago, that she would not live past the “prayers of Calvary hill.” It was in her cards. She could not live past the hour of Christ’s death, unless she drank the potion he could make to save her. Now sure enough, she was dead. As the prayers of Calvary hill were coming to their conclusion, so was she coming to hers.

Her name was Marie Louise. She and her brothers and sisters were born to impoverished Haitian cane cutters in the bitter sugar fields of the Dominican Republic. The mother and father having died, the children were thrown over the border into Haiti a dozen years ago, during one of the frequent Haitian roundups by Dominican officials. They landed in Haiti where they had never lived, where they knew no one, and where they could not even speak Creole. A Haitian social worker gathered them up and delivered them to our orphanage, where we have spent many years getting to know and love, and struggling to deal with, this complex family.

Earlier Good Friday morning, while enjoying a coffee, a few of us were getting ready to start the day. I was getting ready to go to visit a friend who is facing the huge challenge of brain cancer. Good Friday was a good day for such a visit: we were commemorating an absolutely stark reality, that was nevertheless overflowing with grace; a grace as dark as it was powerful. Our chatter was interrupted by a disturbing call. Marie Louise was very sick in Kenscoff, and needed help. Off we went. Sure enough, her condition was disastrous. It was clear to me immediately that her whole nervous system was under full scale attack. I was sure she was reeling from a poison. We did our best to resuscitate and stabilize her, and when there was nothing more we could add to her treatments, I left her in the care of Raphael. I had other sick people to see, and I also needed to be on time for the prayers at 3pm at the orphanage on the mountain. I thought Marie Louise stood a chance with our treatments. I had seen these things before. Usually there is a lot of hysteria associated with them. I underestimated this time how much was terror and how much was the physiology of poison. I didn’t underestimate in terms of treatment, but in terms of prognosis. I did not expect her to die.

In shock, I uttered the final “prayer of Calvary hill”. I had no idea what to think or what to do next. But for sure, I needed to get her body. The Sisters and children of the orphanage started to pray the rosary for Marie Louise. Alfonso and I headed to Port au Prince to find a coffin, and to bring her body home.

It was a long sad drive back up the mountain. It was late at night, and we gathered to bathe her body and dress her, and place her in the coffin. As we bathed her, I thought of Joseph of Aramathea, and the sacred body he prepared for burial, freshly taken off the cross, two millennia ago that very day. Both his corpse and ours were destroyed by jealousy and hatred. And there was no lack of blood in either case. His, from many afflicted wounds, hers from massive internal bleeding that poured out her mouth and nose as we prepared her for burial. Across the span of twenty centuries, we understood the sadness and the urgency of what Joseph had done for the dead Christ- the last possible act of kindness and respect.

Joseph had to observe the Jewish command to bury Jesus before sunset. We were supposed to observe the Catholic command not to bury Marie Louise until Monday. But we could not keep this un-embalmed body, in the tropics, and full of poisons, in an orphanage, from Friday to Monday. We had no choice but to arrange a simple burial, with prayers and without a funeral mass, on Holy Saturday morning, and that is what we did.

Timid heads of hundreds of orphan children peered into her coffin. Alfonso, with wet eyes and trembling hands, placed an image of the risen Christ into her cold hands. Susana and others who spoke a last goodbye did so with quivering and broken voices. And all of us had hearts as heavy as the heaviest lead.

We struggled to understand the story, the one that Marie Louise had herself painted. She had come to see Alfonso a week before, to explain a grave problem. She was in love with a man who already had a girlfriend and a child. She also had become pregnant by him. Even though the boyfriend insisted on her ending the pregnancy a few months earlier, there was still strong jealousy on the part of the other woman, who went to see a hougan to put a death curse on her. A different hougan, whom she sought for help, wanted $300 Haitian dollars to make a potion to protect her. Marie Louise was looking for that money.

Alfonso insisted, rightly, that God’s power is absolute, that to buy into these cures and this way of thinking is like stepping into quicksand. To stay close to the God of life, and to stay away from these evil incantations and their hypnotic power, was the only way to face them. (Good Friday is the most dramatic expression of this message imaginable.) He gave Marie Louise a cross to wear around her neck, to remind her of God’s love and power. Such discussions are almost daily occurrences in Haiti, so alive are the convictions that misfortune, illness and death have their source in a personal curse.

Two days before her fateful one, Marie Louis was at the orphanage again. A lovely dress, fresh makeup, cheerful conversation, helping in the kitchen. But before she left, she asked again for $300, which was once again denied.

Desolation of desolations. After her burial, we went to Kenscoff to try to understand more fully everything that had happened. I spoke with the boyfriend, the two girls who lived with her, with neighbors. I tried to find the hougan. I spent Easter Sunday in this dreary pursuit, only to find out that Marie Louise’s life was one of prostitution and drugs, of nightlong parties in filthy bars. Desolation of desolations. Those who filled her days and nights were nowhere to be found when she needed them. We were the only ones to try to rescue her from deadly poisons, to shed tears for her, to prepare her tenderly for burial, to commend her to the earth with prayers for her soul. Desolation of desolations. In spite of all her years with us, she never centered herself in what is true about love, but sought it in the places where, as the Bible says, Satan crouches like a lion ready to devour you if you are foolish enough to come near. Desolation of desolations. Marie Louise had come to us as child out of a nightmare, only to leave us as a young woman into a nightmare again. But this I know for sure: at five years old and again at twenty years old, we were truly home for her. May she rest in that comfort now.

Religions have always played contradictory roles in society. Some aspects are liberating and life-giving. Others are enslaving and destructive. Christianity has dealt some death-blows in her long and very human history. So has Voodoo. But Christianity is a religion that lives in the public eye, with an identifiable authorities that must take responsibility for her activity in society. Voodoo lives in the shadows, ever secretive, with never anyone to hold responsible. Christianity must continually restate her purpose and goals, ever refined by public challenge. Superstitions become replaced by convincing descriptions of mystery, and the demands of mystery on us. Maybe one day Voodoo will be forced into this most necessary dynamic.

Late that night, Good Friday, after a long tragic day, I stepped outside exactly at midnight to look at the stars. There was a wonder in the sky. The southern cross, of all things, shone like a diamond in the velvet sky, beneath clouds lit up by the full easter moon. I thought of God’s promise to Noah, after the great flood. If there could ever be a rainbow at midnight, there it was.

“Desperado, won’t you come down from your fences, Put down your defenses, and open the gate. It may be raining, but there’s a rainbow above you! You better let somebody love you Before its too late.”*

*Jackson Browne

Fr. Rick Frechette
NPH Team for Excellence in Healthcare
NPH cares for orphaned and abandoned children in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1954.
www.nph.org

Fr. Rick Frechette is the Director of the Team for Excellence in Healthcare of NPH International. NPH cares for orphaned and abandoned children in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1954. Fr. Rick works every day in the slums of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Pass Hair Drug Testing

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

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Some Details to Contemplate before You Purchase Glassware

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Before buying restaurant glassware or stemware for your hospitality venue, restaurant, or catering venture, there are a couple of things you should consider. Sometimes, the glassware you decide on can play a role in whether a catering company flourishes or fails. Your customers’ eating sensations will be wrecked by serving expensive vintages in cheap stemware, for example. On the contrary, putting delicate crystal glassware on your stations in a busy dining establishment can end up costing you unnecessary replacement expenditures as a result of breakage.

Purchase The Glassware That Best Matches The Food You Serve

Figuring out what you want is the essential facet to making the wisest choice in glassware. Purchasing the brand names you are already experienced with is the general guideline in the case of most tableware. If a maker has a solid repute for making select glassware, chances are you won’t fail.

You mostly receive what you pay for, so if you are not educated about any of the options you see, then your best calculation is to make this supposition. Fitting the monetary value of the fare with the cost of your glassware is what we advise. Patrons dropping for a high-priced dining experience will expect to drink from top quality glassware and clients looking for cheap anticipate drinking from cheap glassware.

Keep An Watch Out For A New Breed Of Glassware

The other main feature you might want to also keep a watch for are the new glassware technologies now in existence. Some types of glassware like Bormioli Rocco’s proprietary Magnesium recipe blend the delicacy of high quality crystal with the durability of heat proof glass. Because your glassware lasts longer, even though you spend a bit extra, you eventually save money over time.

Did You Know the Likelihood of Winning the Euro Millions Is a One in Seventy Six Million? Can We Modify those Odds? Lets Find out if Its Practicable

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

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Acquire Cheap Tennis Equipment on the World Wide Web Today

Friday, May 15th, 2009

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Most of the latest tennis racquets balance heavier in the handle than in the head for faster action. When picking a racket, the player is advised swing a couple different rackets and identify the one that appears to suit them.

Protection of Tennis Racquet: The tennis racquet is recommended to be stored in a press and watertight container at all times that it is not being used. For the duration of the winter it ought to be stored in a dry location, where no dampness can reach it. Or else the string threads are expected to decompose and the frame bend.

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