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WASHINGTON (AP) — The good news is the budget deficit for the current year is projected to come in well below what was estimated just a few months ago. The bad news for deficit hawks is that the development could further curb the already slowing momentum for a budget pact this year.
A Congressional Budget Office study released Tuesday cites higher tax revenues and better-than-expected payments from government-controlled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as the key reasons for this year's improved outlook. The budget office now predicts a 2013 budget deficit of $642 billion, more than $200 billion below its February estimate. This year's shortfall would register at 4 percent of the economy, far less than the 10.1 percent experienced in 2009, when the government ran a record $1.4 trillion deficit.
While the recovering economy is producing greater revenues, the improving deficit picture also reflects the accumulating effects of prior rounds of spending cuts — mostly tamping down day-to-day agency budgets — and January's tax hike on wealthier earners.
Often lost amid Washington's budget battles is that the nation's dysfunctional capital city actually has had success in cutting the deficit — up to $3.9 trillion over the upcoming decade, depending on how one does the math.
Now, the improving picture seems likely to make it more difficult for events to force Washington's exhausted budget combatants closer to a deal. For starters, it means that the deadline for increasing the government's borrowing cap has been postponed until October or November, the CBO said. It had been expected that lawmakers would have had to act this summer to increase the so-called debt limit, which could have been a catalyst for a broader budget deal.
Last year's deficit was $1.1 trillion, capping four consecutive trillion dollar-plus deficits during President Barack Obama's first term. The accumulated federal debt currently exceeds $16 trillion, almost double what is was at the end of 2006.
The deficit picture is expected to continue to improve next year and beyond, with the 2015 deficit now projected at $378 billion, just 2.1 percent of the economy. All told, the budget office predicts deficits over the coming decade of $6.3 trillion, down $618 billion from earlier projections.
The CBO report comes as Washington has again hit budget gridlock after enacting a $600 billion-plus tax increase on upper-bracket earners in January. The report could sap momentum from further deficit-cutting efforts since the shortage will fall below 3 percent of the economy for several years, levels considered by many economists to be sustainable.
The deficit cuts enacted in previous, hard-fought battles between Obama and Republicans have come disproportionately from the category of the federal budget known as "discretionary" spending. That's the money provided annually in congressional appropriations acts. Such funding goes toward the day-to-day operations of government agencies, including the Pentagon and domestic agencies. Examples include federal aid to schools, medical research, the military and operating national parks and the air traffic control system.
The cuts to discretionary programs began in 2011 with two rounds of appropriations bills that have wrung more than $1.5 trillion from projected agency spending over the 2014-2023 time frame. Such savings generally are claimed by taking away much of the inflation increases assumed under Washington's arcane budget rules. There's an additional $300 billion in interest savings because the government has to borrow less money.
And $850 billion in deficit cuts over the coming decade comes from the January tax increase on higher-bracket earners and commensurate interest savings. Added to the cuts to agency budgets, and there's a total of $2.7 trillion in deficit savings
There's disagreement over how to count $1.2 trillion in additional deficit savings over a decade from across-the-board cuts known as sequestration, which result from the failure of a 2011 deficit "supercommittee" to agree on a plan to replace them. The original idea behind the cuts was that they would be so harsh as to drive the supercommittee to strike a deal. A subsequent "fiscal cliff" solution in January only partially repealed the sequester cuts.
Democrats leave the sequester out of their calculations, preferring to replace them in their entirety. But under the rules binding the CBO, the nonpartisan agency that does economic and budget analysis for Congress, they are included in official projections.
If one adds in the sequester savings, the amount of already accomplished deficit reduction — measured over the upcoming 2014-2023 budget window — gets as high as $3.9 trillion.
The White House's math is a little different, but top advisers to Obama say much of the deficit problem is taken care of.
"We have already achieved $2.5 trillion in deficit reduction and believe achieving $1.5 trillion-$1.8 trillion more in a balanced way is the best way to hit that target," White House economic adviser Gene Sperling said in a White House online chat earlier this year. By Sperling's calculations, finding $1.2 trillion in spending cuts or new revenues to eliminate the across-the-board sequester cuts would solve most of the remaining problem.
One of the reasons for the burst of additional income tax revenues, the budget office says, is that upper-income taxpayers claimed more income late last year in order to avoid paying the higher capital gains tax rates enacted in January.
The CBO predicts that publicly held U.S. debt, currently estimated at 75 percent of gross domestic product, will shrink to 71 percent of gross domestic product over 2017-2019 before inching up again at decade's end. As recently as 2007, the budget office notes, federal debt was just 36 percent of GDP.
"Such high and rising debt later in the coming decade would have serious negative consequences," the CBO says, citing longstanding arguments that high deficits and debt reduce national saving and investment and increase the risk of a full-blown fiscal crisis.
Projected lower deficit could slow any budget deal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The good news is the budget deficit for the current year is projected to come in well below what was estimated just a few months ago. The bad news for deficit hawks is that the development could further curb the already slowing momentum for a budget pact this year.


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Legal Position of Women on Waves tlll 2018 What we can do and what we are allowed to do
A short explanation of our legal situation.
According to the Dutch law of Termination of Pregnancy, (the WAZ) abortion treatment is only legal in clinics that have been granted a license by the Dutch minister of Health, Safety and Sports.
Women on Waves applied for such a license in 2001 to be able to perform first trimester abortions in its mobile treatment room.
This application was denied by the Dutch minister.
After receiving a protest followed by appeal initiated by Women on Waves, the Court of Law of Amsterdam reversed the juridical verdict on June 1st, 2004, and ruled that the minister would have to make a new decision. On July 9th, 2004, the dutch minister decided that after three years of juridical battle, Women on Waves would finally receive the license in which it would be acknowledged as an official WAZ-clinic. However, the dutch minister appended one condition to this decision, the condition that the mobile treatment room could not be used outside of a 25 kilometer radius of the Slotervaart Hospital. Women on Waves has appealed this condition in the Law Court of Amsterdam and won and since 2008, Women on Waves' mobile clinic has a first trimester abortion license.
However, very early abortions till 6,5 weeks do are not regulated by the Dutch abortion law. Therefore Women on Waves has always been able to sail out with the ship even though it did not have the clinic license. As there is no need for a operation room to take a pill, Women on Waves decided to leave the mobile clinic at home and sail out with a yacht during the campaign in Spain in 2008. This provoked the Dutch health inspection to ask the public prosecutor to start legal procedures again Women on Waves. The public prosecutor refused and said that there was no indication that Women on Waves broke any Dutch laws.

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Highly touted prospect Douglas Lima (19-4 MMA, 1-0 BFC) recently advanced to the semifinals of Bellator's season-five welterweight tournament, but the win was anything but easy.
In fact, "The Phenom" was nearly ousted from the bracket in the opening round of his Bellator 49 bout with Steve Carl when a right hand clipped him behind the ear.
It was a lesson for Lima, who admitted the early blow affected his performance throughout the fight. However, he said he also learned a few valuable lessons along the way, including his new favorite dance move: the stanky leg.
"The fight was hard, as I expected," Lima told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). "He knocked me down toward the start, and that hindered everything. I managed to recover quickly, but even then I didn't manage to go back to 100 percent."
The 23-year-old wisely dove in for a leg, using the time to recover and avoiding any further damage. Known predominantly for his jiu-jitsu skills, Lima credited his recent focus on wrestling for pulling him through in a pinch.
"I trained wrestling with coach Eric Albarracin for a few weeks," Lima said. "It helped a lot."
Lima took control after the initial damage, working crisp striking on the feet and controlling the positioning each time the fight hit the floor in the closing rounds.
"I trained a lot, and I wasn't going to let the fight end after that first punch," Lima said. "But ultimately, I was happy because I controlled the fight after that scare."
The win was Lima's seventh-consecutive victory, and he'll now face a very tough Chris Lozano (9-1 MMA, 2-1 BFC) at October's Bellator 53 event. Lozano downed Brent Weedman at Bellator 49, preventing Lima from avenging a May 2008 loss to the fellow up-and-comer.
Lima said there's no disappointment regarding his semifinal opponent.
"Weedman put up a great fight, but he ended up losing," Lima said. "No worries. I said before I wasn't thinking about avenging that loss. I was thinking about winning my own fight."
Ben Saunders (11-3-2 MMA, 2-0 BFC) vs. Luis Santos (50-6-1 MMA, 2-0 BFC) fills the other season-five semifinal bout, and the bracket winner earns a shot at the winner of an upcoming title matchup between current champion Ben Askren and challenger Jay Hieron. Lima insists he's not looking too far beyond his next appearance, but his ultimate goal includes wrapping the belt around his waist.
"The plan for the next one is the same: train hard and go hard for the win – carefully of course," Lima said. "My main focus is to win the tourney and get the belt. I'm training very hard, so my performance will always be better. This fight wasn't as I expected, but the next one will be much better.
"I did do the 'stanky leg' in the first round. Great dance move I learned. I'm just glad I recovered and won the fight."
For more on Bellator 53, check out the MMA Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.


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Sliding speed and ice temperature affect the surface friction of ice more than had previously been thought. The thermodynamic model developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland research scientists shows that under certain conditions ice warms and melts when an item of material slides across its surface. The ice then becomes more slippery. Conversely, the friction coefficient can rise a hundredfold when sliding speed reduces and the temperature drops. Among other potential uses, the model can be employed in developing road and runway maintenance, and tyres, footwear or winter sports equipment.
Ice friction was modelled by VTT's Principal Scientist Lasse Makkonen and Research Scientist Maria Tikanmäki. They have discovered that earlier theories concerning ice friction have led in part to erroneous interpretation. Makkonen says that one of the key observations in VTT's research is that of friction melting the ice when the temperature rises to form a water film between the ice and the sliding material. They discovered that the film has multiple contact points, whereas previously it was assumed to cover the surface evenly.
"Now we can make a proper calculation of the friction coefficients," says Makkonen. "We have been able to confirm the functionality of the model through measurements. At the same time our research shows that many earlier laboratory measurements are useless for theoretical interpretation and fail to represent what is happening in practice."
Ice friction has been a subject of investigation for close to 150 years. The early explorers charting the Polar Regions were among the first to notice how extreme cold made their journey akin to dragging their sleds across sand rather than gliding over ice. Makkonen says VTT's new thermodynamic model offers a method for determining friction between ice and practically any kind of material, under any conditions. Uses for the model include applications connected with the maintenance of roads, runways and pedestrian routes, or in developing tyres, footwear and winter sports equipment.
"A novel aspect is the modelling of the reciprocal contact between blocks of ice, which promises benefits in icebreaker development, among others. We are now also able to model ice topped by melt water or rain water."
The research conducted by Lasse Makkonen and Maria Tikanmäki was recently published in the Cold Regions Science and Technology journal, the best-known publication in the field. The research was funded by the Academy of Finland.
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- 500g green beans, trimmed
- 60g butter
- ⅓ cup (50g) chopped pine nuts
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- cracked black pepper
- Place beans into a steamer and steam over boiling water until just tender.
- While the beans are steaming, place butter into a small saucepan over medium to low heat. Allow butter to simmer until light golden brown. Remove from heat and add pine nuts.
- Place beans in a serving bowl and pour over the brown butter. Sprinkle with lemon juice and pepper and serve. Serves 6 as a side.
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About 25 million people will need a new cell phone this year because theirs has been lost or stolen. That's why so many customers buy "equipment protection plans" for their wireless phones. These insurance policies, which normally sell for $4.99 a month, promise to replace your phone if it is lost, damaged or stolen — conditions that are not covered by the manufacturer's warranty.
But do people who spend the extra money to protect their phone understand how these insurance policies work? Under terms of a settlement given preliminary approval by a federal judge in Florida last week, two of the biggest cell phone insurers agreed to clearly disclose the terms of their policies — and to pay more potentially as much as $60 million in compensation to millions of past customers.
Carlos Perez of Miami lost his cell phone in July 2004. He reported the loss to Asurion Insurance Services, the company that covered his Verizon phone. Asurion told Perez he would be required to pay a $50 deductible to get his replacement phone, which he did.
According to court documents, the replacement phone Perez received "was refurbished and/or of lesser value" than the one he had purchased from Verizon. The suit also alleges the phone "had many problems and simply did not work well." For example, the battery was not tightly connected and would continuously detach from the phone.
In his lawsuit, which eventually became a class action, Mr. Perez claims he did not know he would have to pay a deductible or that the replacement phone would be refurbished and not new.
Consumers need to understand
Adam Moskowitz, counsel for the plaintiffs in this class-action suit, says other consumers had similar complaints. "They just didn't understand how the process works."
The purpose of the class action, Moskowitz told me, was to require the companies selling cell phone protection plans "to give customers more information, so they can decide whether this insurance is a good product for them."
The suit names the three major cell phone insurance companies: Asurion Corp. of Nashville, Tenn.; Lock\line LLC of Kansas City, Mo.; and Signal Holdings of Wayne, Pa. Since the lawsuit was filed in April of 2005, Asurion has purchased Lock\line and revised all its brochures to better explain how their protection programs work.
The brochure for Signal's "Direct Protect" service continues to say it will "replace your equipment with the same model you had." Attorney Moskowitz says that is "not adequate" because it does not clearly state that this replacement phone could be refurbished.
What's the big deal about a refurbished phone?
Wireless companies have always said that their refurbished phones are as good as new. But I bet if you asked most people, they'd tell you a phone that's been used by someone — and possibly turned in for repairs — is not as good as or worth as much as a new one.
After looking at tens of thousands of phone company documents, attorney Moskowitz found that many refurbished phones do get "a pretty strict quality check." He also says he was surprised to learn that these refurbished phones usually have a higher value than the deductible, but not always.
Since 2004, as many as 15,000 people across the country were sent refurbished phones worth less than the their deductible, according to court papers. They paid $50 and received phones worth $44 to $47.
Preliminary settlement reached
Last Friday, the federal judge handling this case approved a preliminary settlement between the plaintiffs, Asurion and Lock\line that will affect as many as 13 million cell phone customers. Signal Holdings did not settle and is still in the lawsuit.
Under the terms of this agreement, all Asurion brochures, advertisements and marketing materials will state that claims may be fulfilled with "new and/or refurbished equipment" and that each replacement is subject to a non-refundable deductible per loss. Asurion has also agreed that if the value of the replacement phone is less than the deductible, customers will be told so they can decide whether to pay the deductible and proceed with the claim.
Who gets what?
The nationwide class consists of all former and current Asurion or Lock\line customers who made premium payments, filed a claim, and received a refurbished phone between January 20, 2004 and January 26, 2007. They will get a phone card worth at least $5. This will cost Asurion at least $1.5 million and potentially as much as $60 million.
The 15,000 or so customers who submitted a claim during this time period and got a refurbished phone — generally worth $3 to $6 less than the deductible — will get a voucher for a new phone worth $75 to $100. No other purchase is required to use this voucher — as is often the case with class action settlements — and the voucher is fully transferable, so it can be given or sold to someone else.
Letters will soon go out to all 13 million members of the class, giving them details of the settlement and explaining their rights to remain in the class or opt out. The judge in this case has scheduled a final hearing in May to approve the settlement.
The lawsuit against Signal Corp. No trial date has been set. I spoke to the company's attorney and asked him why Signal decided not to settle. He told me the company would have to answer that. No one at the company ever responded to my calls.


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Finally buck up and get into the mood of work today, started the WAR!
Hm.. You may think that I have been over reacted. But I can tell you, no I am not! If you ever know what happened before.. Anyway, whatever passed is past.
The point is now, right? As long as I did my very best, do whatever have to be done, say whatever have to be said. Don't think they will do anything harm to me right?
Prayed for me to successfully pass this 5 months safe and sound.
Anyway, something happened then.
Went to look for MLD to get some information regarding his module, where the module I'm working on some how inter-related with his. Then, the big-snake overheard our conversation and joined in. Few minutes later, they started to talk Hindi. I was like, OMG do you ever know that I'm not an Indian I couldn't understand Hindi at all? Some more they speak very fast, I can't interrupt at all.
Argh... So I have to make use of my innocent eyes, and look at them blurly, hoping they will pity me and speak English! But, they didn't even look at me, and continue with their own language.
After some times, finally they realize of my existence. Quickly, I requested them to speak English so I can understand what they are discussing. They smiled, and use English, for few minutes... Then, I decided not to bother, just try to catch whatever they are saying.
OK, now they said MLD's module shouldn't handle for this request, where it should be handle by another module, and they call that guy in, the hamsap-eyes. Well, ofcourse, it's Hindi again.
Right about one and a half hour later, where it's about time to off work, they came out something as conclusion, and dismissed the meeting. Big-snake explained to me what happened just now. But, there is something I don't agreed.
My module has a function for user to retrieve information from what captured in MLD's module. MLD's module is the main, while mine is just the summary. So logically, don't you think when we wants to view the detailed information, we should link to MLD's page, rather than I have to come out my own page?
Big-snake said I should have my own page, the most I can extend my object from MLD's object. So whatever changes made in MLD's, will not affect ours. Bull shit! As common sense, as a logic person, don't you think this is just redundant and its just crap? It should be other way round right? Whatever changes made in MLD's, we should changed too, to maintain the consistency. Otherwise, don't you find its awkward this two page showing different details, while the it's actually the same thing?
Do not bother.... Must get big-snake to confirm with the bad-guy tomorrow. Hm! Not going to waste my time on this thing.. shit!
MLD - as pronounced in Chinese, Mou Liu Dou (没料到)
Big-snake - as pronounced in Chinese, Dai Xie (大蛇)
hamsap-eye - this guy always use his hamsup eyes to look at people hamsuply.
bad-guy - not that he is bad, but his name contain the word "jay"
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Welcome to Buzzed io9, an occasional column highlighting experiments of dubious scientific merit that readers can conduct when totally wasted. Today's question: can humans taste water? Flies can. Are you going to let a Drosophila show you up?
It's unclear whether humans can actually taste water. Yes, we can taste the minerals and various impurities in our tap water. We can feel the water sloshing around in our mouths. But can we actually taste H20 in all of its wet deliciousness? If we can't, then it's another win for our six-legged nemeses, the dreaded insects. Sure, insects may have a greater biomass than humans and possess all sorts of marvelously stabby appendages, but we Homo sapiens have the scientific method. And hooch!
According to cell biologist Peter Cameron of UC Berkeley, "Insects have a unique set of neurons, including water sensing ones, but the actual water taste receptor was [until recently] unknown." In a recent study Cameron published in Nature - "The molecular basis for water taste in Drosophila" - Cameron and his team isolated a protein, PPK28, that allows flies to taste water. PPK28 may not be the only mechanism that allows flies to taste water, but Cameron notes that "evidence strongly suggests that PPK28 alone serves as the water sensor; it doesn't seem to sense anything else."
Okay, so those stupid flies can taste water. But can humans? Hopefully Cameron's work will jumpstart awesomely trivial research concerning the human capacity to taste water. In the meantime, what are you going to do for science? You're going to have a WATER TASTING PARTY.
Step 1.) Invite a dozen of your closest friends over.
Step 2.) Rent Waterworld. Or Ice Pirates. Or some other film in which hydro is a precious commodity.
Step 3.) Get your pals three sheet to the wind. We'll let you decide how.
Step 4.) Serve half of your friends distilled water and half of your friends tap. Convince your friends that you distilled their water the same way Kevin Costner did in Waterworld. This will make them ornery and excited for science.
Step 5.) Allow your glassy-eyed colleagues to argue amongst themselves whether or not humans can taste water. Some folks may argue that "the taste" of water is due to impurities or the absence thereof. Some folks will claim that they can taste water because of some superior gustatorial upbringing. Some folks will begin crying about their spouses or lack thereof. Stanch that quick by blasting TLC's "Waterfalls" whenever the conversation deviates. They must learn Pavlovianly.
Step 6.) Time to up the ante. Tell your friends whoever states his or her case the loudest wins the scientific method.
Step 7.) Explain to the police office that you are conducting a science experiment. He will probably write you a ticket. Hey, it could be worse. Galileo was placed under house arrest.
[Nature via Ars Technica]


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Have you ever thought that your life was going great, only to be stopped on your tracks by an unexpected event?
Many of us have experienced "being on a roll" and happily singing in our heads "nothing can stop me now" - only to later find that we have been blind-sided by events in life, that when seen in hind-sight, seem they could have been easily avoided. When this happened, maybe you felt like life was unjust.
It is a little like feeling you were sent into unknown territory without a map, or that you were asked to assemble a complicated machine without an instructions sheet. Shouldn't someone have handed you an instructions manual for life?
What if there was a blueprint for life? A map that could tell you all that you needed to take into account in order to build a happy life for yourself?
Hi! My name is Moni and I want to tell you that such a blue print exists, and has existed for thousands of years in the far East, but it only made it to our Western culture in the last 60 years, and in the United States it only started to be recognized in the 1980's!
Feng Shui, the Art of Space Arrangement, gives you this blueprint, and is based in the same ancient Chinese wisdom behind acupuncture and other Chinese healing arts. This is evidence-based knowledge that has been passed on from master to teacher for thousands of years.
BUT Why is it so confusing?
Most Feng Shui enthusiasts that have set out to learn Feng Shui on their own find themselves fascinated by the subject, but at the same time confused. What is infuriating about it, is that the more they study, the more confused they get.
The same thing happened to me. I was so frustrated because my experience prior to Feng Shui was that whenever I studied something more, I would gain more clarity about it, not more confusion!
For this reason I set out to take the confusion out of Feng Shui! The way I did this was by contrasting Feng Shui knowledge with knowledge from other branches of Traditional Chinese Medicine. (Feng Shui is one of these branches, and the others are Acupuncture, Herbalism, Massage and Chi-Kung/Tai-Chi.)
By doing this I was able to identify beliefs and practices that were not part of the original teachings and did not contribute to those original teachings, but instead created fear and superstitions. This is not all I did. I also looked at the Feng Shui knowledge from my perspective as a Western architect, so that people who follow my system could apply Feng Shui in a way that is pleasing to their senses and their taste.
I discovered that Feng Shui had become so confusing because over thousands of years knowledge that was not originally part of Feng Shui had been attached to it, coming from different cultures, that really did not mesh well with Feng Shui. Another reason is that a group of Chinese rulers encouraged the production of Feng Shui books containing errors and contradictions on purpose, so that people would become confused.
If you have been confused about Feng Shui, you are not alone. Most people have shared in this confusion at some time or another. However, now you have found a way to end that confusion and increase your knowledge of Feng Shui in a way that is empowering to you!
All of my students have told me they were frustrated and confused trying to learn Feng Shui on their own, but this is what they say once they have completed the courses:
I first learned about Moni when she was teaching Feng Shui classes for the Scott Community College Community Education program. After that first course I was hooked and took all that she offered.
Moni impressed me by being very knowledgeable, and the way the lessons were arranged made sense. It was easy to apply the principles to areas in the home that needed enhancements or corrections.
I had been interested in Feng Shui for a few years and had many books on the subject, but a lot of the information contradicted itself. When I took her classes it started to become much clearer and easier to understand and apply. I also noticed or could feel a strong spirituality about her!
After I took these classes, Feng Shui became almost second nature to me as I could spot errors or bad Feng Shui in my own environment and others.'
The most significant idea I applied was to balance the elements in all areas of my home ...then I addressed each area and made corrections or enhanced the area if needed depending on the problems. Usually as an area was corrected or enhanced that particular corresponding life situation improved. The most significant was enhancement of the Career area and a more satisfying job experience followed. Also balancing the elements in the entire home made for a more comfortable environment and people would remark about it.
When Moni created the online course she invited me to take it. I had enjoyed the live classes because they were more personal and interactive, but the online courses was a great review and answered many questions I had after the live classes. The content of the online course was more extensive I think because I learned things I did not learn in the live classes, but both were great.
I thoroughly enjoyed the classes live and online and Feng Shui is an integral part of my life as a result.
Claudette Short, DeWitt, Iowa
Dear Moni,
Thank you so much for offering your Nine Steps to Feng Shui® Online Course.
It is so much easier to learn about it and work on the things I have learned, one step at a time... I am so grateful that I found your site. You make it simple and easy to understand.
I like being able to review the prior videos as well.
Many Thanks,
Robin R., Montana
The content was very informative and easy to understand. I feel that I can go into a home or business and practice the 9 Steps System with ease and grace.
Moni was a great instructor, being a teacher myself I know the importance of conveying information in an effective way and not make the student feel "silly" for asking a question.
Moni answered all of my questions quickly and she made me feel excited about feng shui.
The videos were clear and detailed and were posted in a timely manner so that the course "flowed" and there weren't any interruptions because you could refer back to the manuals and charts that were included in the course.
I have previously read many books about feng shui but I was always confused about doing it as a profession because of the conflicting information out there.
Moni brings a fresh perspective that is both holistic and healing and she teaches it from a love paradigm which is absolutely awesome!
Tatia Biddle, Milwaukee, WI
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It has never been easier to learn Feng Shui, from the comfort of your own home, on your desktop or laptop computer.
Our learning programs are very easy to follow, and a great value for the knowledge!
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Get your Feng Shui training online, in the comfort of your own home. Star whenever you are ready, and advance one week at a time. We are here to help. The Nine Steps to Feng Shui® online course organizes and breaks down the information so it can be easily learned and remember. This is the number one site for easy Feng Shui classes online!
I loved the Nine Steps to Feng Shui® Online Course.
This program offers so many opportunities for a novice as well as anyone well read in the art of Feng Shui.
The course offers the viewer the opportunity to learn at your own pace. If you don't understand you can re-watch or Moni is always available and approachable with questions.
The best part of the Nine Steps to Feng Shui® Online Course is it advocates making small changers don't have to repaint your whole house!
One of the best things I learned is you can't just make changes for the bagua area but also take into account what the purpose of the room is.
You also get to learn from other people's challenges and that really helped in my understanding of Feng Shui.
While the Nine Steps to Feng Shui® Online Course makes small changes it also explains concepts that I never learned from other Feng Shui books or practitioners, so the small changes have a big impact.
I whole heartedly endorse the Nine Steps to Feng Shui® Online Course for anyone that wants to gain a greater understanding of a complex and fascinating art.
Lynda Concord, Knoxville, TN
My name is María Feliza and I have known Monica since she lived in Ecuador. Several years after she left for the USA, I had the opportunity to attend a Feng Shui Seminar with her.
We have been in contact through internet & when I received the great offer of her online Feng Shui Course I did not doubt a second.
This online course gave me a mature, integrated & actual knowledge on Feng Shui. I have been able to ask her questions on the topics of the course applied to my home, and always received complete video online answers!! This is one of the fabulous benefits we have!!
I have applied the necessary suggestions & cures on my own home and everyone who visits me always say: "Wow, what a nice place, so welcoming, I feel SO well here!!!"
If I have made my own place a harmonious, peaceful, beautiful place to live in, it is thanks to you, to your knowledge & permanent hard work to share with all of us.
Thanks always dear Moni.
Feng Shui is the art of space arrangement, that teaches you "what to put where," and in what colors, shapes and materials, so that you can be more relaxed, have better relationships, and be more productive, all this while being Happy, Healthy, Prosperous and Free in each and every one of the Feng Shui Nine Life Areas.
Feng Shui reads the signs in the environment to find out what is going on in people's lives, and then suggests small changes that can be done in the space so that it resonates with the person's goals.
Good Feng Shui is like having a loving parent or caretaker, who constantly gives you positive feedback: "You are doing great, you are loved, keep going!"
Bad Feng Shui is like having a suppressive parent or caretaker that constantly puts you down: "You are a mess, you do nothing right, you will never succeed."
Which would you rather have? The Chinese have a saying: "Everything in your home is constantly talking to you – make sure they have nice things to say.
Our website has lots of resources for the Feng Shui enthusiast.
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This riff on traditional fried rice plays the sharp, spicy flavor of ginger off the sweetness of fresh pineapple to delicious effect.
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- 2 1/2 cups long-grain white rice
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- 1/4 cup peanut or vegetable oil
- 3 tablespoons finely grated (with a rasp) peeled fresh ginger
- 5 scallions (white and pale green parts separated from greens), finely chopped
- 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
- 3/4 cup diced (1/4 inch) cored peeled fresh pineapple (labeled "extra sweet")
- 1 teaspoon Asian sesame oil
- Rinse rice in several changes of cold water in a large bowl until water runs clear. Drain in a colander.
- Transfer rice to a 4-quart heavy saucepan, then add water (3 1/3 cups) and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and cook, covered, until steam holes appear on surface and water is absorbed, about 13 minutes. Remove from heat and let stand, tightly covered and undisturbed, 5 minutes. Fluff rice with a fork and spread in a large shallow baking pan to cool quickly, about 45 minutes. Chill, covered with plastic wrap, at least 4 hours.
- Heat a wok or 12-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat until a drop of water vaporizes instantly. Pour oil around side of wok, then tilt wok to swirl oil, coating side. When oil just begins to smoke, stir-fry ginger, white and pale green parts of scallions, and salt until fragrant, about 1 minute. Crumble rice into wok and stir-fry until lightly browned, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from heat, then add scallion greens, pineapple, and sesame oil, tossing to combine. Season with salt.
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After five days on the shelves in the U.S. and just two days in Europe and Asia, Medal of Honor shot its way to the top of the charts, claiming the No. 1 spot in the UK, according to GfK-ChartTrack data.
"Medal of Honor is one of EA's most storied franchises and we're thrilled to see that fans worldwide have embraced it," EA President Frank Gibeau said in a statement. "In this ultra competitive category, Medal of Honor stands out from the pack. By portraying the Tier 1 Operator as so elite, so tough, Medal of Honor offers a view into a world that has the power to resonate with FPS gamers everywhere."
If you're among the more than 1.5 million that picked up the rebooted FPS, EA has a little thank you in store: two new multiplayer maps and a new mode titled Clean Sweep. The maps (Bagram Hangar and Khyber Caves) and mode will be available as a free download on Xbox Live and PlayStation Network beginning November 2.
EA described Clean Sweep as an elimination mode where players must work together as a team to make sure their unit has the last man standing. The mode will be playable on the two new maps as well as on redesigned versions of the Diwagal Camp and Kabul City Ruins maps.
EA did not mention the PC version of the DLC in its press release. We've contacted the publisher for info and will update this space when we learn more.
Sharkey says: Forgive me while I use this space as a soapbox: Dear Medal of Honor multiplayer fans, I'm all for the Sniper class, and I understand why it's so popular, but for the love of all things pixelated, if all you're going to do is watch the battle unfold from a safe distance through your scope, stay out of Objective-based games. Respawning a mile away from the objective because you don't want to actually get into the fight is a huge pain in the arse and creates a massive disadvantage for the entire team. That guy on your team who randomly keeps trying to stab you to death? That's me trying to tell you to get out from behind that rock and actually do something useful. Thanks!


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It turns out that MacOS X doesn't guarantee to provide the "wint_t" type unless you include the strange header <runetype.h> in addition to <wchar.h>. Consequently, the "do I have a system wint_t?" probe fails and an alternate gets used. Unfortunately, by the time the program gets built, one way or another that funny header winds up getting included and the "#define wint_t unsigned int" patch-up-hack mutilates the typedef. This macro will get it right.
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He's got a street, a school, a neighborhood, a park and even a tunnel named after him, but what do you really know about Thomas Lowry?
Born in 1843, Thomas Lowry grew up on an Illinois farm. Shortly after earning a law degree, and enamored by the expanding Northwest Territory, he moved his practice to Minneapolis — a blossoming metropolis. Just a few years earlier Minneapolis became the seat of Hennepin County with a population of only a few hundred people. Flour mills and other industries flourished along the river at St. Anthony Falls and our population increased to 165,000 by 1890. People needed homes and they needed to be able to get to their jobs.
With a group of investors, Lowry formed the Minneapolis Street Railway Company in 1873. Fourteen passengers faced one another on a wooden car pulled on rails by a horse. A wood stove kept passengers warm in winter. The initial four miles of track soon doubled, then tripled, and within a dozen successful years, the company took over St. Paul's fledging system and reorganized into the Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company.
The first electric cars appeared in 1889. Heavier rails were installed stretching more than 300 miles — all the way from Lake Minnetonka to White Bear Lake. Imagine getting on a streetcar Downtown and riding all the way to Wayzata then hopping one of six streetcar boats to spend the day on Lake Minnetonka's Big Island Park! It was fun in addition to being an efficient way to get to and from work.
Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company carried more than 200 million passengers in 1922 — their best year. It was considered one of the greatest interurban systems in the United States.
If only we could have kept it intact. More people were moving to Minnesota, the suburbs were growing in every direction, and then came the automobile. People wanted to get there on their own. They wanted independence. Streetcar use declined for years. In 1952 the last tracks were removed or covered up and Twin Cities Rapid Transit Company remained in business with gasoline powered busses and evolved into today's Metro Transit.
Thomas Lowry lived through the greatest days of streetcar life in Minneapolis. His home was where the Walker Art Center is today. Route 1 traveled past his house onto Douglas Avenue. A park on Douglas and Mount Curve Avenues is named after him. Lowry died in Minneapolis in 1909. What would he think of light rail today?!
A private group of citizens raised funds to create a tribute to Minneapolis's father of transportation. Designed by sculptor Karl Bittner, the memorial features a bronze statue of Lowry in front of a carved granite backdrop. Two allegorical figures on either side ponder civic life. The small park has trees and flowers, decorative light posts and numerous park benches. But the memorial wasn't always located in Smith Triangle. When it was dedicated in 1915 it was on a piece of land near Lowry's home. When I-94 cut through town in 1967 the memorial was moved.
Visit one of the city's smallest parks and ponder our history of transportation. If you need a way to get there, take a very popular lime green, Nice Ride bike — there's a rental station right next to the memorial. Lowry would be proud.
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Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. (1977) 58 (7): 614.
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If the Left's standards of justice prevailed, violence at townhall meetings in St. Louis and Tampa would be prosecuted as a Democratic hate crime. In recent weeks, left-wingers have tried to blame the murder of abortionist George Tiller on Bill O'Reilly and drafted a hate crimes bill that chills free speech. However, it was Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts who created an atmosphere of fear, loathing, and intimidation that exploded into union violence against private citizens.
As the Left would say, the recent violence "did not occur in a vacuum." Congressional Democrats, faced with hemorrhaging support for nationalizing health care insurance, systematically dismissed their constituents as pawns of pernicious drug companies, branded them "un-American" troublemakers employing "Brown Shirt tactics," and asserted their activism is killing thousands or millions of innocent Americans.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi got the hyperbole rolling, insisting, "Insurance companies are out there in full force carpet bombing, Shock and Awe, against a public option." Attacking the industry titans poll-tested well, and soon the entire Democratic caucus claimed the citizen uprising was little more than an "Astroturf" sham financed by insurance and pharmaceutical barons. The fact that they provided no proof of this assertion slowed them down not one bit.
Even after the violence, Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer published an op-ed in Monday's USA Today calling townhall protesters "un-American." Not content questioning the patriotism of such opponents, their colleague Brian Baird, D-WA, skipped a townhall meeting in his district, telling local media, "What we're seeing right now is close to Brown Shirt tactics. I mean that very seriously."
According to Congressional Democrats, the great townhall putsch has extracted a bitter harvest. The Democratic Policy Committee, chaired by Sen. Byron Dorgan, maintained in its tract Why We Must Act: Eight Years of Inaction Contributed to High Costs and a Rising Number of Uninsured, "In 2006, 22,000 people died because they did not have health insurance." Sen. Dick Durbin (who has been known to make invidious Nazi comparisons himself), blamed the tactics on avaricious insurance companies, who "are making a fortune off the current healthcare system and they want to keep their profit margins protected, and they want to stop change." By this reasoning, the middle American protesters are not constituents who disagree with Madam Speaker but unpatriotic Nazis doing the work of shadowy corporate overlords, whose actions kill 22,000 Americans annually. Can anyone be surprised by violence against murderous, greedy crypto-Nazis? MSNBC's David Shuster proved ironically prescient when he asked Rep. Jim Moran, D-VA, if anti-nationalization protesters were "putting our president in some sort of danger because of some wacko that will see this stuff and say, 'Oh, yes, it's fascism and the way we dealt with Adolf Hitler was to try to kill him, so therefore, let's do this with our president'?"
One of the uniformed SEIU members arrested for assaulting Kenneth Gladney in St. Louis last Thursday used precisely this defense. (As I outlined in "Soros Care," the SEIU is an integral component of the Soros-funded coterie pushing for the government health care takeover.) When a conservative fingered him in Gladney's attack, the union man justified himself, saying, "He attacked America!" (Here's the video; it happens at one minute in.) Media reports indicate a black SEIU member arrested in the assault called Gladney, who is also black, a racial slur, indicating he does not see his opponent as an authentic member of his own race.
The presence of union thugs at these meetings was no accident but was facilitated by leftists and Democratic members of Congress. The Soros-funded lobbying group Health Care for America Now! (HCAN) strategy bulletin Fight Back against the Right has made the rounds on leftist websites. Its underlying principle – turn out left-wing activists to drown out conservative citizens – has been accepted by members of Congress. "If they wanna organize, we'll out-organize them," said Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, a member of the House Progressive Caucus and a former Chicago community organizer. "If they turn out 100, we can turn out 200." Eyewitnesses have noted SEIU and other union activists are being sneaked into reserved seating at the meetings, presumably with the knowledge of the Democratic Congressmen.
Thus, left-wing Democrats incited the crowds with allegations of Nazism and unnecessary deaths, delegitimized their majority position on the issue, and then placed union members in close physical proximity to the enemy. Eric Holder's Department of Justice signaled that properly directed violence would be overlooked when it dropped all charges against the three members of the New Black Panther Party who brandished weapons and intimidated white voters at a Philadelphia polling place last November.
At least one leftist Congresswoman has seen the value of launching such high-profile, raucous protests before. Jan Schakowsky has experience turning violent mobs into legislative victories. Schakowsky, who sounded similarly negative themes about this spring's tea parties, organized a senior citizens' protest against then-Congressman Dan Rostenkowski over the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. As Rostenkowski exited a meeting with the leadership of local seniors groups, an angry mob demanded to speak to him. Rostenkowski, who made no such promise, ran to his car. Senior citizen then pelted his vehicle with protest signs, and shouted "Killer! Killer!" as he tried to drive off. Although Rostenkowski never changed his mind on the issue, 240 other Congressmen changed theirs and repealed the bill. Schakowsky later called this "a pivotal event."
Yet when left-wing MSNBC interviewer Lawrence O'Donnell asked Schakowsky if she "organized this very organized protest," Schakowsky dissembled: "No, no, no, no, actually not. I was there that day as head of the [Illinois] State Council of Senior Citizens, very different. The Congressman would not come in and talk to that group of seniors, who were upset about the catastrophic health care bill that didn't provide long-term care to seniors…The motivation was different. The action was very different."
Schakowsky sang a different tune in front of the 2003 "Take Back America" conference, boasting, "When I was director of the Illinois State Council of Senior Citizens, our group was chasing Dan Rostenkowski down the street."
Nor is it true the seniors objected to the act's not providing "long-term care to seniors." The act provided such coverage to all Medicare recipients – by levying a new tax on 40 percent of seniors, when 45 percent of the elderly already had "more comprehensive" supplemental insurance through their employers. Some of the signs protesters rammed into Rostenkowski's car read, "Don't Tax the Seniors" and "Read My Lips: Catastrophic Act is a Seniors Tax." Theirs was an anti-tax, smaller government rally.
Then as now, the people rose up to oppose an expanded government health care benefit favored by the Washington intelligentsia, because it raised their taxes to provide a service inferior to the one many already enjoyed through the free market. That history should be instructive as Obama seeks to nationalize the health insurance industry by squeezing a much larger group, the 85 percent of American residents (N.B.: not Americans citizens) who already have private health insurance, with incalculably higher taxes and pending service denials.
Unfortunately, making the argument can now get one "flagged" by the feds – and possibly brutalized by their union allies.


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Elections produce many things, from balloon drops to new elected officials, but they also produce mountains of data.
Analysts will spend weeks going through the 2012 results and exit polls pulling out bits and strands of numbers that explain what this state or that county did. Those facts and indicators will be what future campaigns are made of. But a quick rundown of the 2012 numbers reveals a few big trends of particularly significant note. They are important not only because of what they say about what happened on Tuesday, but also about what they say about the elections to come.
And they exist at some important hinge points in American society: race and ethnicity, income and education and the urban/rural divide.
Race and Ethnicity
Through the most basic prism, political analysts had a very good sense of how the election was going to break last night simply by looking at who voted.
Before the big states were decided the exit polls showed the national electorate was about 72 percent white, 13 percent African-American and 10 percent Hispanic. That was no good for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. He needed that figure to be closer to 74 percent. (His own staff reportedly said they would have felt comfortable at 75 percent.)
Why? Mr. Romney had a huge lead among white voters (20 percentage points), but he had bigger deficits among the other groups (an 80 point difference on the black vote and a 44 point gap with Hispanics)..
Of all the numbers Tuesday night, that breakdown is probably of the most long-term concern to the GOP. The percentage of the electorate made up of white voters continues to decline -- it was 81 percent back in 2000. The black percentage of the electorate held steady at 13 percent in 2012 and the number of Hispanics has grown steadily since 2000, from 7 percent to 10 percent.
As Republican consultant Dick Morris, who had predicted a win for Mr. Romney, said after the election: "This isn't your father's America."
The GOP's problems with African-Americans span decades and the party's current policies and rhetoric toward immigrants is hurting it with Hispanics and with Asians, which are also a growing segment of the electorate -- 3 percent on Tuesday night.
Income and Education Divide
Statistics can be tricky things. The Tuesday exit polls say President Obama won people making less than $100,000 and Mr. Romney won college graduates. But dig into those numbers a bit more and they look different.
For instance, look at the 10 wealthiest counties in America -- eight of them voted for Mr. Obama. And while Mr. Romney won college graduates (51 percent to 47 percent), Mr. Obama actually won those who had done post-graduate work (55 percent to 42 percent).
It will take some time to cross-analyze all those numbers, but they suggest a few possibilities.
They may mean Republicans are winning upper-middle class and wealthy voters, but could have longer-term problems with the very wealthy, who tend to have more advanced degrees. What seems clear in these numbers are some of the tensions within the Obama coalition. He won post-graduates, but he also captured 64 percent of the vote from those who did not graduate high school.
Those voters are bound to want different things out of government and seem set to be on different sides of the growing economic divide. It could become a tough balance for the Democrats to hold in the next few elections.
What Are the Suburbs?
The exit polls say Mr. Obama won urban locations, while Mr. Romney won rural locations and eked out a majority in the suburbs -- 50.2 percent. But that distribution of American voters -- urban, suburban, rural -- is pretty basic. There is a lot of room in there to dig further, particularly in the difference between the older, closer-in suburbs and outer-ring exurbs.
Patchwork Nation, the journalism project I lead that breaks the nation's 3,100 counties into 12 demographic/geographic types, sees the breakdown a bit differently. We see sharp distinctions in the wealthier closer-in counties we call the Monied Burbs and the more exurban counties we call the Boom Towns. See the map here.
The Burbs, which are wealthier and more socially moderate, seem to be moving more into the Democrats' tent. Mr. Obama won them by about 10 percentage points in 2008. And in this election, even after a long recession and with a lot of voters saying the county is on the "wrong track," he still won them by 6 points.
That's noteworthy because almost a quarter of all the votes yesterday came from the Monied Burbs, as you can see on this map of results from WNYC radio in New York. If that trend continues in future elections, it is problematic for the GOP.
The Republicans' hopes may lie in the Boom Towns, which tend to be more socially conservative. Mr. Romney won them by 9 points on Tuesday -- about 21 percent of the 2012 presidential votes came from those counties.
That means along with race and ethnicity, income and education, geography and the divides within regions and metro areas could play a very big role in American politics in the decade ahead.
If this suburban/exurban divide continues to show itself, some of the biggest questions for political consultants, analysts and campaigns may be: Where is the country's growth predominantly, in the suburbs or exurbs? What does that growth look like? And what are each of the two parties doing to capture votes coming out of those counties?
This post first appeared on the PBS NewsHour's Rundown Blog.


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Myer boss calls for rate cut
An interest rate cut in December will give the non-mining sector a boost and support retailers in the lead-up to Christmas, Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes says.
Mr Brookes said Myer was expecting a flat to slightly positive Christmas, and an interest rate cut would give the department store "a bit of a kick" heading into the traditionally busy trading period.
"For us, we would love to see a December rate cut," Mr Brookes told reporters after speaking at the Australian Retailers Association annual awards breakfast in Sydney.
"We think the environment warrants a December rate cut and so we will keep our fingers crossed that the Reserve Bank decides to cut interest rates when the December announcement is made."
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept the cash rate unchanged at 3.25 per cent at its Melbourne Cup day board meeting.
However, central bank governor Glenn Stevens said earlier this week the RBA was open to further rate cuts in the period ahead should conditions warrant such a move.
Mr Brookes said Myer's best-performing states for the past two years had been Western Australia and Queensland.
However, the gap between its stores in those two states and the rest of the country had narrowed in recent times, as the mining boom showed signs of slowing and the other states produced improved performances.
"Moving forward, if we can get a couple of interest rate decreases to try and kick start some of the economy and compensate for mining coming back, to me it is going to help retail trade in general and certainly going to help Myer," Mr Brookes said.
Mr Brookes said a lower Australian dollar would also give local retailers a boost.
Meanwhile, Mr Brookes said the Click Frenzy online sales promotion was a runaway success and provided retailers some good lessons about selling online.
Myer said it achieved record online sales on its website on Tuesday, then promptly doubled that again on Wednesday.
While Myer's website stayed online, the Click Frenzy website crashed as a flood of users tried to log on.
"Sure the website crashed. It crashed on the night, but it worked bloody well yesterday (Wednesday) and it gave us some tremendous sales," Mr Brookes said.
"You never get things right first time. We are still in a nursery in online and sometimes in that nursery the kids cry and sometimes they need to have a quiet sleep."
Myer was among many retailers to take part in the 24-hour online sale promotion.
At 9.05am, Myer was up five cents, or 2.38 per cent, at $2.15.
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