 of places where synthetic drugs were sold. New Zealand effectively took control.
That's exactly what regulation is – taking control. And when we control the manufacture, distribution and use of a drug, we can begin to control the harms they cause. We can intervene earlier in the cycle of harm that users experience when we know who they are, we can provide information and education, and we can divert them into treatment. And, most importantly, we can save lives.
The New Zealand model might have met a roadblock, but the goal of regulation is still worth pursuing.
Matt Noffs is chief executive of the Noffs Foundation.
New User? Sign upDr. Seuss is a genius. His story about an elephant who hears things is remarkable. When Horton proclaims, “A person’s a person, no matter how small,” he is making a profound statement of humanity. Everybody matters.
Last week, I read two articles that were important to me. One talked about the importance of reclaiming the pro-life movement (here). The other talked about the importance of showing our love for gay people with our actions (here).
Both stated a similar theme: people are people to be loved, not issues to be won.
For too long, we have spent so much time trying to be right that we have forgotten to be loving. All the animals in the forest knew that Horton was crazy because no one could live on the tip of a flower. They were so convinced they were right they were ready to cage Horton and boil the flower.
They were so convinced they were right. But they were wrong.
Dr. Seuss has given us a parable for how we interact with our communities today. Sometimes, we are in danger of focusing so much on doing everything right that we forget we are called to love, serve, and minister to people.
In other words, we need to quit loving our ministry and start loving people.
I first heard this idea at the National Urban Ministry Conference last month. NUMA president Jim Harbin said this as he addressed the conference attendees. Stop loving your ministry. Start loving people.
Falling in love with a ministry is akin to falling in love with an ideology. In politics, this leads to people being more loyal to their party than to their constituents. In business, this leads to people making decisions to improve the bottom line instead of employees’ lives.
In churches and para-church organizations, this leads to people tying their specific formula to the path to Heaven instead of following the call of Jesus to love people.
Stop being convinced of your right-ness to the detriment of your love to others.
We must remember that a person is a person, no matter how small. Or how poor. Or what ethnicity they are. Or gender. Or orientation. Or religion.
We are called to love and to serve. We do that by loving people, not our ministry.
When Jesus’ disciples started bragging about stopping a person from driving out demons in Jesus’ name because “he wasn’t one of us,” Jesus rebuked them. He said, “Anyone who offers another a cup of cold water in my name is doing the will of My Father.” The importance was the presence of love; not being included in a certain group.
Let us go love people.
Posted on March 10, 2014 by Paul Mathis.	This entry was posted in 12 Steps, Addiction, Community, Relationship, Restoration Movement. Bookmark the permalink.
The Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) Series is an extensive four-part import and export training program designed for global business professionals who are developing or expanding their international business activities. Participants can attend the four-day CGBP series or register for the individual sessions that best fit their needs.
The CGBP series concentrates on delivering real-world import and export knowledge, management perspective, and experience from industry experts involved with import and export activities. Upon completion, CGBP participants will possess in-depth knowledge of global finance options, supply chain management skills, and the necessary marketing tools to successfully enter international markets.
Participants will also be prepared to earn their NASBITE Certified Global Business Professional (CGBP) credential should they choose to sit for the exam. The exam is optional. The CGBP certification is the only professional credential for global business professionals in the United States. It is the benchmark for competence in global business. Learn more at http://www.nasbite.org/.
Business professionals who register for the CGBP series will also have a unique opportunity to complete a practical group project. Each participant group will identify an international trade project that relates directly to their organization(s). Groups will apply the knowledge and research tools from the program to identify new markets for their products, analyze competitors, determine pricing, manage risks, etc. Past participants used this project to develop a blueprint for entering new markets, which they implemented following the CGBP series.
Optional: the NASBITE CGBP exam.
CGBP participants will receive a certificate from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse upon completion of the four-day CGBP series.
From someone who was there and witnessed this in person, it looked completely serious. He appeared to be seizing and spasming very realistically. It got the point where Triple H, HBK, everyone was out there, refs were throwing up the X hand symbol (which yeah is not always used appropriately), paramedics came out to stabilize him on the stretcher. It took a long time and eventually we were simply asked to clear the building as he was taken back. They really had us all thinking he had a serious emergency, despite apparently saying that was never their intention after the fact. I'm just saying, best sell I've ever seen if that's all it was.Ok, I admit returning my TouchPad on the 14th day, the same day HP announced they will no longer make the TP. I, of course, now miss it. Anyway, HP's site now says Coming Soon instead of Out of Stock.
Time to keep F5 (browser refresh) many times/hour!
Welcome back, prodigal son.
Glad to be back! My local BestBuy says they have some, and HHGregg was supposed to get some yesterday or today. I'm going to check there after work too.
So, reading bluenotes link, it seems doubtful HP could be selling more on their site? That would stink. I'll keep looking regardless I guess.
Are you sure? I took this about 15 minutes ago (let me know if this is not visible for you). Says all orders after 4am Monday the 22nd will be cancelled.
bluenote's link is from HP's SMB (Small Medium Business) store. They aren't getting anymore other than enough to fill already placed orders. HP's Home/Home Office store is supposed to get more at some point. ETA still unknown. That's according to Bryna Corcoran, one of HP's Social Media Managers.
Hmm. The site says Coming Soon, but I'm not sure if it will.
Thank goodness they accept Paypal/Bill me Later. If they actually get any in, even 32GB, this appears to be my last option.
My luck will be that they will do it in the middle of the night, and by the time I find out about it they'll be gone. I guess I don't sleep for a few days.
Damn HP, let buy us one!
I'm going to change my Touchpad's boot screen to a flashing "Coming Soon!"...
If it was a pre, it'd have to say "In the coming months"We’re here to help! Call or email the RussianFoodUSA.com Customer Loyalty Team.
We’re available to answer questions Monday through Friday 9am - 5pm.
Got a question? Drop us an email. We respond to emails in the order they are received, and will reply as quickly as possible.Newspapers by now were supposed to have become the dodo birds of the new-media environment, extinguished by a cruel and changing world in which they could never compete.
The prophecy hasn’t quite come true. Granted, a sad number of local papers of note have been felled by the advance of digital publishing and the concomitant shift in advertising revenues and reader appetites. Who wants a newspaper on their doorstep when they can read it on their smartphone?
The losses have been especially hard felt in former two-newspaper towns that have just one daily paper anymore, usually with a much smaller news hole and opinion pages, and far fewer reporters and editorial writers than in the good old days. Boston comes to mind. So do Cincinnati, Detroit, and Seattle.
Yet solid regional newspapers of substance survive, and even flourish. That’s true in part because they’ve been able to adapt their business models and cross the digital divide by establishing an all-important online presence to go with their traditional newsprint product, which it turns out some people still want. The other key ingredient, it seems, is in honoring the principals of why newspapers have readers to begin with.
The Paducah Sun is a case in point. Like most modern newspapers, the Sun publishes both in print and online. It doesn’t give its content away, however, like many news organizations do—you have to drop a little coin to see what’s behind the pay wall at paducahsun.com—which is one reason it’s been able to manage the digital transition. The other reason is that it publishes substantive journalism.
The family-owned Sun is a throwback in several ways, in fact. Beetle Bailey and Bl