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hatterwest wrote:What Im still trying to figure out (your posts have confused me) is when you are getting up to interact with these things.. are you mentally aware of your physical body still being in the bed still?
My physical body is up and playing,walking etc. i have never left my physical body in bed, so im not lucid dreaming, it can happen from 30mins of trying to goto sleep (so i havnt actually fallen asleep yet) and at any point during the night through any stage of sleep. Last night i went to the toilet and saw (what appeared to be) an outline of a child about 5 metres from my door, i didnt do anything but look at it then went back to bed, i am totally aware and physically up.Are you at times also interacting with them with your physical body during daily life? eg really getting physically up and interacting? or interacting at other times during normal daily life?
During the day, absolutely nothing happens. it all all at night time, i have never meditated or anything to take me to a state to experience it during the day, we are looking into meditation to help me sleep.
False awakenings, im going to say i havnt experienced these as my physical body is always where i think it is lol, with the people i follow, and their smell.. they all go to the same place in my house, into my wardrobe although i do see things when i stay in other peoples homes aswell.
Sorry if im not answering your questions very well. Im still learning all the terms. There is a lot involved in this lol
sorry bear with me, Im still trying to work out if any of these may be false awakenings or not. Seeing you havent gone to sleep at all it is more likely it may not be a false awakening, with false awakenings one does believe one is in ones physical body and if you look at the bed cause it is a dream which you dont know it is, one wont see ones physical body there. So people believe they actually just got out of bed physically.
To complicate this it is also possible to have a waking induced lucid dream (so I'd think a waking induced false awakening would be very possible too). With these one may not experience going to sleep at all as ones waking consciousness can flow from the completely awake state to a dream state without any break in awareness at all eg no awareness that one just has fallen asleep. A combo of this and a false awakening would be extremely confusing and seem real. Now thou Im thinking due to what you said, it isnt this.. as if one has a false awakening.. there does come a point in which the person does "wake up" and realises it was a false awakening they had before. If you arent waking up at any point.. yeah you must be awake.
It would cause thou confusion if you have gone back to bed after a false awakening and then experienced yourself going to sleep and then later wake up from that....as you wouldnt then realise that you were asleep before that. Many people experience false awakenings in which they get up to go to the loo or get up to get a drink. During these period where you get up and see things.. do you have others in your house who can later confirm you actually got up as you believe you have??? Do you wake others up at the time who can later confirm it was real (and not a waking dream you then went back to bed from and then go to sleep consciously from there).
Your incidences do sound like common natural medium stuff. So im going to advise on that level as if you are dealing with actual spirits or other entities. Next time you see a being, this is what you need to do.
1/ Say a protection prayer.. use whatever beliefs you have to do that (just in case its bad things messing with you) eg innerly ask please god and the holy angels.. protect me from anything evil etc (or whatever you want to say). Know you are safe (your belief in the protection will strengthen it), imagine divine white light surrounding you.. protecting you.
2/. Focus on your heart and while doing so.. think of some time when you felt a lot of love (if you have children this could be at the birth of your child etc). Then imagine this love going out to the spirit you see, surround and cover it with love. (If its a negative one you will see it dont like that energy at all, it will get fearful or react in another way. Ive had beings at that point change eg a beautiful goddess like being who was trying to fool me (but I didnt know.. I do these checks as a precaution thing), once changed to a hag and went off screaming in agony.. the energy hurt it).
If the being dont like the love energy.. then call god or whatever you want for divine energy (or just think "divine energy" and imagine this DIVINE (white light) coming down from above, entering your crown.. and then project this energy out of your hand towards the being. Order it to leave and get out of your space (if you are christian you can order it in the name of Jesus Christ). Only very rare beings would be able to stay if you are using your will and doing this and ordering them to leave. Most entities/demons are very easy to get rid of. They are quite weak really if you start doing these things and projecting divine light at them and ordering them to leave your space. (I arent even Christian so dont have that power behind me but still easily manage to get rid of most of these).
3/ If the being is a good one who only seeks your help to move on or whatever.. after its passed these checks, you need to innerly, with your mind and thoughts (or if it helps say it outloud) ask it what it wants you to do? Find out its problem .. (if you cant hear it..dont let that concern you, just tell it its time here is over and to look for the divine light and enter it. It is true that some spirits dont know they are dead and need to be told. Some may need reassurance to move on). You could also ask it if it has something it wants to show you.
If you are a natural medium.. its a special role you have to play, its no good trying to run from your path.
You may also have an angel or high guide waiting to work with you with this if you call to them to start working with you and make themselves known (test these in the same way as the other things are tested.. evil can take on many forms). eg an example of the thought you could project out seeking help "I call upon a guide or angel to divinely help/teach me and ask this to be for my highest good".
Post back and let me know how you got on.. (I have many other things I can share with can help).
Where you scared of the spirit child? If so.. why?
If you end up not being able to bring yourself to start dealing with these things (Im a lightworker and willing to help you with that without opening yourself up in any dangerous ways, i have some experience in this).. you may then need to seek out a mediumship or spiritual group who does mediumship and has no fear in this area and go and learn throu them.
I personally think you are better off thou if you can start dealing with this now as if you go to a group and start learning this stuff.. its going to be happening to you MUCH MORE and have much more to deal with. it will be like turning your ability wide open and like as if you are wearing flashing lights on your head telling the spirits "come to me, I can see you". Some groups thou they have that gift and skill.. some of them arent acting in safe ways and bringing things into their bodies (eg there was a medium at a spiritualist church in my city who run a class and all the ones there ended up being possessed!! and were all laying on a floor completely out of it and couldnt be brought back to reality. Another healer had to be brought in to fix things. That other had done things in an unsafe way. Possession does and can happen (Ive been called in to deal with it and experienced it a little myself) and hence why Im not going to recommend you to go and find a mediumship group as I cant give you any good recommendations for one. Some groups can see and work with spirits but they may not be able to percieve other negative entities (so could be working with bad things). There is also individuals and groups out there who are working for the dark side and purposely will infest people with stuff and put them into trouble (good verses evil thing is very much going on).
But anyway..that being said. I can help you to help yourself if you are willing to do so, which I think is safer then going to unknown groups for help in getting over your fear. You can safely learn how to deal with this stuff.


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What is cardiomyopathy?
Cardiomyopathy is any disease of the heart muscle in which the heart loses its ability to pump blood effectively. In some instances, heart rhythm is disturbed and leads to arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats). There may be multiple causes of cardiomyopathy, including viral infections. Sometimes, the exact cause of the muscle disease is never found.
How does cardiomyopathy differ from other heart disorders?
Cardiomyopathy differs from many of the other disorders of the heart in several ways, including the following:
- Cardiomyopathy can, and often does, occur in the young.
- The condition affects about 50,000 Americans (adults and children).
- The condition tends to be progressive and sometimes worsens fairly quickly.
- It may be associated with diseases involving other organs, as well as the heart.
- Cardiomyopathy is a leading cause for heart transplantation.
What causes cardiomyopathy?
Viral infections that infect the heart are a major cause of cardiomyopathy. In some instances, cardiomyopathy is a result of another disease or its treatment, such as complex congenital (present at birth) heart disease, nutritional deficiencies, uncontrollable, fast heart rhythms, or certain types of chemotherapy for childhood cancers. Sometimes, cardiomyopathy can be linked to a genetic abnormality. Other times, the cause is unknown. Three types of cardiomyopathy affect adults.
What is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy occurs when the muscle mass of the left ventricle of the heart is larger than normal, or the wall between the two ventricles (septum) becomes enlarged and obstructs the blood flow from the left ventricle. Because it prevents the heart from properly relaxing between beats, it fills with blood, which eventually limits the pumping action. A heart murmur may be heard.
- This is a rare disease and in most cases it is inherited.
- It can affect men and women of all ages, and symptoms can appear in childhood or adulthood
- Symptoms include shortness of breath on exertion, dizziness, fainting, and angina pectoris.
- Some patients experience cardiac arrhythmias, which may lead to sudden death.
What is dilated cardiomyopathy?
Dilated cardiomyopathy is the most frequent form of non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. The cavity of the heart is enlarged and stretched (cardiac dilation) causing the heart to become weak and not pump normally.
- This occurs most often in middle-aged people and more often in men than women, but has been diagnosed in people of all ages, including children.
- Most patients develop congestive heart failure.
- Dilated cardiomyopathy can be caused by chronic, excessive consumption of alcohol along with dietary deficiencies.
- It occasionally occurs as a complication of pregnancy and childbirth.
- Other suggested causes are: various infections (mostly viral, which lead to an inflammation of the heart muscle, called myocarditis), toxins, and (rarely) heredity. Sometimes drugs used to treat a different medical condition can damage the heart and produce dilated cardiomyopathy. However, in most cases, a specific cause for the damage is never identified.
What is restrictive cardiomyopathy?
Restrictive cardiomyopathy, the least common type of cardiomyopathy in the US, occurs when the myocardium of the ventricles becomes excessively rigid, and the filling of the ventricles with blood between heart beats is impaired.
- It usually results from another disease, which occurs elsewhere in the body.
- Restrictive cardiomyopathy does not appear to be inherited, but some of the diseases that lead to the condition are genetically transmitted.
- Symptoms may include fatigue, swelling of the extremities, and difficulty breathing on exertion.

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As Costa Mesa approaches its 60th anniversary as an incorporated city, the City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a celebration and a committee to organize it.
The makeup of the Costa Mesa 60th Anniversary Committee, which will work for 10 to 12 months, is still being determined, but it is expected to include representatives from the Costa Mesa Chamber of Commerce, Conference and Visitor Bureau, Planning Commission, Senior Center, Sanitary District and school district.
The council also suggested adding representatives from the band booster clubs, South Coast Plaza, the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa United, Lions Club and Kiwanis.
The committee's meetings will be public and subject to the state's open-meeting laws, with agendas available beforehand.
City CEO Tom Hatch said the city may also invite various other organizations to have their own events alongside Costa Mesa's.
Welcome, farewell sign
The council also unanimously approved a monument sign at the end of the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway north of 19th Street.
The design incorporates a concrete base with steel columns supporting two identically sized meshed steel signs. One reads "Welcome to Costa Mesa" and the other "Thank You for Visiting Costa Mesa."
Pending Caltrans approval, the letters will be backlit, and the sign may have uplighting.
The approved project will also have additional landscaping and a decorative median barrier wall.
Council members have said they want the sign's design to be "in line with the evolving downtown and Westside areas," according to a city staff report, which also said the sign is maintenance friendly with corrosion protection and a graffiti-proof coating.
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A member of Israel's Knesset on Sunday dropped everything and insisted that his colleagues do the same in order to pray upon arriving at one of his people's most important biblical sites.
MK Amnon Cohen (Shas) had apparently never before visited the Jewish community of Shilo in central Samaria. The modern community is situated adjacent to the ruins of ancient Shilo, which served as the capital of Israel for centuries prior to David's conquest of Jerusalem.
Archeologists have uncovered much of ancient Shilo, including the spot where the Tabernacle, the precursor to Solomon's Temple, was located. Upon reaching that revered site, Cohen insisted that he, his fellow lawmakers and several other local officials participating in the tour stop what they were doing and pray.
"This is a place where all of the children of Israel should be brought," Cohen was quoted as saying. "This is where the Sanctuary stood for almost 400 years, before the Temple was built in Jerusalem. This is where the roots of all of us are located."
As a "cohen" (Hebrew for "priest"), Amnon Cohen is a direct descendant of the very Israelites who ministered at the Tabernacle in Shilo, and later at the Temple in Jerusalem.
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The RN-236 panel strap is designed for use with MC cable. Available in standard 20-in. lengths, the panel strap can be cut to custom sizes. In addition, the product is manufactured of lightweight polycarbonate plastic and supports up to 20 cables at a time with only three screws, according to the company.
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Comprised of a receiver, transmitter, and voltage detector probe, the RT30 AC circuit identifier combines non-contact voltage and light detection with RF transmission technology. According to the company, the product wirelessly detects mid-run AC cables, circuit breakers connected to remote cables, switched branch circuits, individual string lights, and AC power outlets. For hard-to-reach areas, users can employ the clip-on NCV probe to identify AC cables.
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Stout Tool
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EMC Extends Information Governance to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the new EMC® SourceOne™ for Microsoft SharePoint which enables organizations to adopt a proactive information governance strategy for content spread across multiple SharePoint sites and farms. SourceOne for SharePoint delivers operational control, compliance and e-discovery capabilities without impacting SharePoint end-users. As a result, IT departments can reduce costs, improve system scalability and performance and ensure compliance.
SourceOne for SharePoint is the newest addition to EMC SourceOne, a family of modular, integrated products for archiving, compliance and e-discovery that makes information governance actionable. Support for SharePoint 2010 in addition to earlier versions will be immediately available when SourceOne for SharePoint is released at the end of June 2010.
With SourceOne for SharePoint, EMC is delivering a building block approach to help customers address their operational challenges. This includes reducing the costs of managing content in both active and inactive SharePoint sites. As their needs mature, customers can be confident that the right content is managed, retained and disposed off according to internal policies and external regulations.
The EMC SourceOne portfolio of information governance solutions also helps customers simplify e-discovery across multiple content types including those contained in SharePoint. EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon allows early case assessment and automates the identification, collection, preservation, processing, analysis and review of content located in a variety of managed and unmanaged sites including SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, IBM Lotus Domino, desktops, laptops, common Internet file systems (CIFS) and network file systems (NFS), networked attached storage and other content management repositories.
Key Benefits of SourceOne for SharePoint
- Enhanced SharePoint performance and scalability and reduced costs. Customers can automate the removal of SharePoint content from Microsoft SQL Server and archive it to EMC SourceOne. This allows IT to proactively manage the proliferation of inactive SharePoint sites and all the content kept within them while reducing the impact of exponential growth of SharePoint content in the production environment. IT also benefits from cost savings associated with tiered storage management and reduced SQL Server backup windows and restore times.
- Improved compliance. SharePoint content that is stored in the EMC SourceOne archive can be managed for long-term retention and disposition to comply with internal policies and external regulations.
- Complete end-user transparency. Users can continue working within the SharePoint environment and maintain complete content accessibility. SourceOne for SharePoint Server leverages Microsoft's external binary large object (BLOB) storage application programming interface to preserve native Microsoft Office integrations, existing workflows and explicit document links.
Facts on Adoption and Use of SharePoint
According to an InfoTrends report, "Gathering MOSS? Revealing SharePoint Opportunities and Costs," August 2009:
- The U.S. SharePoint market is expected to grow to $5.05 billion by 2012.
- Almost half of medium, large and very large companies reported that they have SharePoint 2007. One-third of organizations with SharePoint provide access to over 90 percent of their employees.
- Very large companies create 109 SharePoint sites each month. Total survey participants reported having an average of 213 SharePoint sites currently in existence.
- 24.7 percent of SharePoint sites were currently inactive or not in regular use.
- When asked if SharePoint was capable of addressing their company's compliance, privacy and security needs, only 28 percent of total respondents answered affirmatively, and another 31 percent stated that these needs could be met with certain add-ons.
- As a percentage of total costs, survey IT participants reported that SharePoint server software and user licenses (32 percent) as well as servers and storage (25 percent) accounted for the greatest proportion of their SharePoint expenses.
Comprehensive EMC Solutions to Further Extend Information Governance to SharePoint
Only EMC provides the breadth of solutions—from hardware to software and services—to help customers address their information governance challenges related to SharePoint. These solutions include:
- EMC Centera® content addressable storage, a purpose-built archiving storage platform designed to guarantee authenticity and support customer environments that require compliance with strict regulatory mandates.
- EMC Celerra® unified storage provides a platform approach that combines primary storage with archive capabilities and file level deduplication and compression.
- Next-generation backup and recovery solutions, such as EMC Avamar®, EMC Data Domain® and EMC NetWorker®, leverage data deduplication and disk-based backup technologies to help ensure rapid and reliable access to SharePoint content.
- The RSA® Solution for SharePoint addresses the security, deployment and optimizing requirements that arise with a large, distributed SharePoint environment. The RSA Secure View tool for SharePoint provides customers with a hierarchical view of the SharePoint environment from servers to files within SharePoint sites. The RSA DLP RiskAdvisor for SharePoint leverages RSA Data Loss Prevention Datacenter for automated discovery of sensitive information and provides a snapshot of potential exposure within the SharePoint environment. RSA DLP Datacenter was further validated through the EMC Proven methodology and demonstrated to scale in a 1 terabyte live SharePoint environment.
- EMC Global Services: As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, EMC offers customers innovative information infrastructure, solutions and services optimized for their Microsoft environments. EMC Consulting, a unit within EMC Global Services, works with Microsoft Corp. to develop and deliver services that help customers streamline deployment, migration and management of all of their Microsoft technology platforms. As a participant in the Microsoft SharePoint Server Technology Adoption Program (TAP), EMC is providing services for assessment, planning, and development that help customers readily adopt and migrate to SharePoint Server 2010, create social media platforms, portals and e-commerce systems and integrate with EMC SourceOne.
EMC Executive Quote
"EMC is committed to enabling our customers to execute on their information governance strategies. With the new SourceOne for SharePoint, we are providing them with a building block approach to address operational and compliance challenges related to SharePoint content without any impact to the end-user experience and value they already enjoy."
– Jeff Bettencourt, Vice President and General Manager of Information Governance, Information Intelligence Group,* a division of EMC
Supporting Quotes
"The incredibly viral nature of SharePoint has brought increased productivity and collaboration to everyone in an organization. But because it is administered by the end-user, IT tends to lose control creating an information governance risk. The EMC SourceOne for SharePoint puts the control back to IT by allowing them to set up policies for retention and disposition thereby freeing up needed storage space and system capacity."
– Laura Dubois, Program Director at IDC
"We have many clients who have adopted and deployed SharePoint. Most of them are experiencing rapid growth in content and are struggling to maintain required performance levels in their SharePoint sites. The value that EMC SourceOne for SharePoint brings is in helping our customers drive down their storage costs while enhancing the performance of SharePoint by off-loading inactive content from the SQL Servers that support it. In addition, our customers can ensure that any content that gets moved out of SharePoint and into a long term archive is being managed according to specific retention policies."
– Mike Alsup, Senior Vice President, Gimmal Group
"For the past year, ICI has had tremendous success, through their information governance assessments, in driving EMC SourceOne deals to help our customers implement the foundation of a sound IT governance strategy within their enterprise. The majority of our customers are either using SharePoint or are beginning to implement it. With the new EMC SourceOne for SharePoint, we are able to continue our IT governance strategy by introducing information governance for SharePoint in our customer conversations. We're extremely excited about this because it opens up additional opportunities for us to increase our business and to help guide our customers' strategy for IT governance."
– Jamie Shepard, Executive Vice President of Technology Solutions, International Computerware Inc., an EMC Velocity partner
Availability and Support
SourceOne for SharePoint will be generally available by the end of June 2010. It will support SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3. EMC SourceOne eDiscovery - Kazeon is generally available today.
New EMC SourceOne activity screen includes SharePoint archive
SourceOne for SharePoint supports multiple content types
SharePoint users can access any content through the archive search
Jeff Bettencourt, Vice President and General Manager of Information Governance, EMC Information Intelligence Group
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
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Acu-Polarity, biofield therapy, charkas, chi, energy anatomy, fixation, Ida, ki, life force, oval fields, Pingala, polarity balancing, polarity energy balancing, polarity therapy touch, polarity yoga, prana, qi, rajas, rajasic, sattvas, satvic, somatic process, subtle energetic therapy, sushumna, tamas, tamasic, therapeutic presence, yang, yin.
Polarity was initially developed in the 1940s by Randolph Stone, ND, DC, DO. Pierre Pannetier, ND continued Dr. Stone's teaching after the mid-1970s. Polarity integrates the three principles and five charkas of Ayurvedic (traditional Indian) medicine, and draws from ancient Hermetic philosophy. Touch with the hands is used with the intention of influencing flow of body energy. Polarity treatment may also involve exercise and lifestyle changes. Energy-based bodywork and education are used to promote energetic and cleansing principles of eating and increased self-awareness. Polarity yoga is said to balance the human energy field. Bodywork is thought to remove energy blockages and strengthen energy fields. Dietary changes (believed to purify or build health), counseling, yoga, craniosacral therapy, and other bodywork techniques may be employed.
There is limited scientific study of the effects of polarity in humans. Polarity therapy has been used to improve pain, anxiety/stress, and side effects from surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation therapy (including nausea, hair loss, neuropathy/nerve pain, radiation burns, or hardening/scarring of tissue in mastectomy patients). However, these effects have not been thoroughly evaluated or proven with scientific research.
Polarity is based on a theory that energy flows through the body along five predictable pathways, and that this flow can be affected by the placement of therapeutic hands at specific points to correct disorders or imbalances. It has been hypothesized that cells in the body have negative and positive poles that are involved in this flow of energy. Polarity therapists believe that the clockwise flow between the positive and negative aspects of the body's electromagnetic field must be in balance and flow freely to maintain health. The spinal column is thought to have five neutral energy centers (ether, air, fire, water, earth), with each of these areas corresponding to bodily functions. Practitioners aim to access a patient's energy using palpation, observation, and patient interviews. Polarity shares some principles with the yin-yang concept in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the chakra system in Ayurvedic medicine.
Polarity providers believe that maintenance of good health requires free flow of life energy through the body, without areas of excess or depletion. Polarity therapy uses four different approaches with the goal of balancing life energy: body work, nutrition, exercise, and counseling. A session may consist of bodywork treatment and a combination of work in the other three areas. An overall goal of the polarity approach to health and well-being is to give clients multiple tools to use in maintaining a balanced way of life. Responsibility and self-esteem are often encouraged.
Polarity treatment often begins with a detailed consultation and case history. The client may lie on a treatment couch in underwear or light clothing, and the therapist may use physical manipulation techniques and apply pressure to points on the body. Three levels of touch are used: light, medium, and deep, which are theorized to stimulate the neutral, positive, and negative fields.
Sessions usually take 60 to 90 minutes. Duration of treatment may vary, but one session per week for up to eight weeks, with occasional follow-up treatments to maintain health, may be suggested. Dietary advice may also be suggested, based on the concept that types of foods and ability to digest can cause blockages to energy fields.
Polarity yoga consists of a group of simple exercises with the intention to relax, ease pain, cleanse, improve muscle tone, or energize patients. Postures use gentle rocking and stretching movements combined with vocal expression. Home use of polarity yoga exercises may be encouraged.
Evidence Table
These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
Polarity therapy may improve self-reported fatigue and quality of life. More research is needed in this area.
* Key to grades
: Strong scientific evidence for this use
: Good scientific evidence for this use
: Unclear scientific evidence for this use
: Fair scientific evidence for this use (it may not work)
: Strong scientific evidence against this use (it likley does not work)
Tradition / Theory
The below uses are based on tradition, scientific theories, or limited research. They often have not been thoroughly tested in humans, and safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider. There may be other proposed uses that are not listed below.
Anxiety, arthritis, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, cancer, cerebral palsy, chemotherapy side effects reduction, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, digestive disorders, eating disorders, exhaustion, exercise-induced asthma, fatigue, fibromyalgia, hair loss, headache (chronic), improving clear thinking, infertility, insomnia, lumbar back pain/sprain, menopausal symptoms, nausea, neuropathy (nerve pain), pain, plantar fasciitis, post-surgical side effects, psychological conditions, radiation therapy side effects, respiratory problems, scar healing (mastectomy patients), sciatica, stress, trauma, wound healing (post-surgical).
Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
Serious adverse effects have not been reported. Polarity is not recommended as the sole treatment approach for potentially serious medical conditions.
This information is based on a systematic review of scientific literature edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (
Clifford D. Hospital study shows benefits of polarity therapy. Energy News Amer Polarity Ther Assoc 1997;12(2):1.
Dudley H. Polarity therapy case study: working with Evan. Energy News Amer Polarity Ther Assoc 1998;13(4):1.
Gilchrist R. Polarity therapy and counseling. Energy News Amer Polarity Ther Assoc 1995;10(4):17.
Harwood M. Study: using polarity therapy with ADHD. Energy News Amer Polarity Ther Assoc 1997;12(3):26-27.
Roscoe JA, Matteson SE, Mustian KM, et al. Treatment of radiotherapy-induced fatigue through a nonpharmacological approach. Integr Cancer Ther 2005;4(1):8-13.
Siegel A. Polarity Therapy - The Power That Heals. Dorset, UK: Prism Press, 1987.
Sills F. The Polarity Process - Energy as a Healing Art. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 1989.
Stone R. Polarity therapy- the collected works of Dr. Randolph Stone. Sebastopol, CA: CRS pubs, 1986.
Young P. The Art of Polarity Therapy - a Practitioners Perspective. Dorset, UK: Prism Press, 1990.
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Brother MFC-9840CDW
This is a small tutorial to make the printer Brother MFC-9840CDW work on Arch, through a wired (ethernet cable) network connection.
Currently, you can set it up with either the generic postscript drivers, or PCL-6 drivers with gutenprint (as the MFC-9840CDW supports PCL-6 emulation).
TIP: You can add multiple versions of the MFC-9840CDW by repeating the steps below, and then for each version, changing the printer settings with the Set Printer Options button in CUPS. This way, you can quickly set up default settings that you use often (e.g., color vs. greyscale), and then print with these options by simply selecting the corresponding printer in your application.
Setup with PostScript
The MFC-9840CDW natively supports the postscript format, so for basic printing functionality we'll be using the generic postscript driver that comes with the foomatic packages. (Although it's probably better to convert the official Brother drivers for Linux (currently available in either .rpm or .deb format), no one has done so yet.)
- Install the cups package. Make sure it's working by going to http://localhost:631
- Install the foomatic-db, foomatic-db-engine, and foomatic-filters packages (to get the generic postscript driver that we need).
- Make sure the printer is connected to your network router/switch. If your router is acting as a DHCP server, the MFC-9840CDW will automatically get an IP address assigned. Make note of this IP address. (You could also assign a static IP address to your printer, but that is outside the scope of this article).
- Go to http://localhost:631 to open up the CUPS web interface.
- Click on the Administration tab and then click on Add printer.
- Select the "Internet Printing Protocol (http)" option for the Device.
- For the Device URI, use: http://IPADDRESSOFPRINTER:631/postscript_p1. E.g., http://192.168.0.102:631/postscript_p1
- For the Make/Manufacturer, click on Generic, then Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/Postscript (en) (do not choose the "Level 1" variant, as it is an older postcript driver for older printers)
- Click on Add Printer to finish the wizard.
Print out a test page to see if everything works. The above configuration allows you to change the duplex and resolution (dpi) settings within CUPS, via the Set Printer Options button under the Printers tab, but is missing the "Toner save" option. Of course, this and all other settings are still accessible via the printer's own web interface, which makes any changes the default settings of the printer (see the official Brother documentation).
Setup with PCL-6 and Gutenprint
The MFC-9840CDW also natively supports (via emulation) the PCL-6 format, so we can take advantage of this feature. The procedure is essentially identical as with the postscript configuration above, except for a couple of things.
- Install the gutenprint package.
- Instead of postscript_p1 in the Device URI field, use pcl_p1 (the pcl has a lowercase 'L', not a numeral 'one').
- Under For the Make/Manufacturer, click on Generic again, but instead choose the Generic PCL 6/PCL XL Printer - CUPS+Gutenprint v.5.2.3 (en) option. (The Gutenprint version number is dependant, of course, on which version of gutenprint you have installed.)
Customize the default printer settings, to the extent that they are controlled by CUPS, by clicking on the Set Printer Options button in the CUPS web interface. You will notice that the Gutenprint driver has many more options than the generic PostScript driver. You may want to repeat the procedure above and add a second printer, and then customize this second printer's settings to your liking (e.g., color instead of greyscale).
Note: As there are many different PCL-6 drivers available, you may want to experiment with using these different ones instead of the CUPS+Gutenprint one. To change the driver, click on Modify Printer and go through the wizard, just like when you were adding the printer from the beginning.


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The big news for Thursday is that gold formed a weekly swing. Considering that the QE4 manipulation stretched the intermediate cycle way beyond its normal timing band, this weekly swing should confirm that the yearly cycle low is complete.
We did see profit-taking come into the market as soon as gold tagged its 50 day moving average. I don't see anything unusual in that, as gold has delivered a 75 point rally in only nine trading days. The 50 day moving average is a logical place for short term traders to lock in some profits.
On another note, this was the third attempt in two weeks by the shorts to drive gold down. It worked for a couple of weeks after QE4 and even for two days at the beginning of January, but I think the complete failure today to hold gold down against its natural trend is probably the signal that the market has broken the short-term manipulation. I think any further attempt at short-term manipulation and the shorts are just asking to get their head handed to them. Shenanigans are not out of the ordinary on options expiration. So we could very well see another attempt to drive gold down on Friday. If this one fails also, and it probably will if the dollar is falling, then I don't think it will be long before the gold chart starts to look like the platinum chart.
Next I want to discuss the mining stocks. It seems everyone has an excuse for why the miners have underperformed lately. Needless to say I don't really buy any of that nonsense. However, I am as confused as everyone else to come up with a reasonable explanation for why miners continue to sell for these ridiculously cheap valuations.
Whenever I am confused the first thing I usually do is pull up a very long-term chart so I can get a feel for what is really going on and thereby eliminate the distraction of the day to day wiggles. I think we are all wondering when the miners are going to join the party as it certainly appears that gold and silver both have formed major yearly cycle bottoms.
What I saw was quite a surprise. The character of the mining sector has changed completely. For the first time in this bull market miners are forming a rounded base instead of the typical V-shaped bottom. A rounded bottom is a much more powerful basing structure than a V-shaped recovery.
If you believe as I do that gold is going to $3500 - $4000 over the next two years, then I would have to say there is no way it is going that high without taking the miners with it. As a matter of fact, I don't think there's any way gold goes to even $1900 without taking the miners with it.
The complete loathing & disgust we are seeing for the mining sector, coupled with the character change in the bottoming process is the setup, in my opinion, for a huge move in this asset class over the next two years.
I can't tell you exactly when the move will begin, but as I said, I don't believe for a second that gold is going to $4000 without taking the miners along for the ride.
For what it's worth, I saw the exact same sentiment in silver back in August of 2007. When silver broke through its last support level everyone threw in the towel. As you can see from the chart that was the exact moment one should have been buying, or if you already had positions, it was a huge mistake to get knocked off the bull.
This is just another example of technicals not working in the volatile precious metals sector. I'm pretty sure every technical trader in the world sold when silver broke through that $12 support level. It caused them to miss an almost 100% rally over the next six months.
If you believe in the bull market, and I think most everybody here does, as I tend to focus on gold, and I suspect that is the reason most people bought a subscription in the first place, then all one needs is the patience to let the bull run its course. If you get sidetracked like the silver traders in the summer of 2007, you aren't going to do yourself any favors.
If you are here to ride the bull market, then ride it and don't worry about whether or not you made money today or yesterday. The only thing that makes any difference is how much money you make by the time the next C-wave tops, and that has nothing to do with what happened this week, last week, or last month. It has to do with what is going to happen over the next two years.
If I'm right about where gold is going then it is definitely going to be worth the hassle of letting the miners complete this rounded base, because the upside once it's finished is huge.
If you don't believe in the bull market then you probably have the wrong newsletter. My goal isn't to make a couple of percent trying to jump in and out of momentum stocks. My goal is to double or triple your portfolio by 2014. However, I can't do that unless you have the patience to hold on through all of the bull's tricks and curve balls. I can keep subscribers focused on the big picture, but patience is something everyone has to learn on their own.
I can say that the traders that had patience during the last C-wave were well rewarded.
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- Catholic bishops warn of "organized mafias" that run trafficking networks
- They pledge to do more to fight human trafficking in South America
- Child sex trafficking rings are also operating in the area, the bishops say
Dozens of Roman Catholic bishops in South America say human trafficking has seen "alarming growth" in the region.
The 60 bishops from Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay issued a statement after a meeting in Argentina last week, calling the practice "a shameful and outrageous reality" and pledging to do more to fight it.
"We warn of the existence of organized mafias that use smaller networks that are present in nearly all of our cities and towns," the statement said.
Citing reports from global nonprofit groups, the bishops noted that child sex trafficking rings were also operating in the area.
The bishops pledged to raise awareness of the problem, push for legal reforms and assist victims -- noting that within the church there had been "an absence of proposals dedicated to attracting young people (to the church), and the absence of a more decisive and broad response to the problem (of human trafficking)."
Such an approach is not surprising, said Sergio Rubin, a journalist who has written extensively about the Catholic Church in Argentina.
"The church is assuming its role, and they believe that they must work a lot more in the formation of religious values," Rubin said.
Mario Ganora, a lawyer who works with La Alameda, an Argentinian nonprofit that helps victims of human trafficking, said the increase in human trafficking was connected to an increase in drug consumption.
"How? ... The women who are used for sex trafficking are also used for the delivery of drugs," he said.
According to official data from Argentina's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, 176 people were rescued from human trafficking networks in Argentina in April, a higher number than the entire previous trimester.


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I'm getting creamed with email lately, mostly from writers asking questions about ebooks. I wish I had time to individually answer all of them, but I'm on deadline and can't. So here are the most common questions I'm getting, and my responses.
Q: Should I publish on Kindle?
A: That depends on your goals. Kindle and ebooks are no more a guaranteed success than any other type of publishing. If you want to be widely read, and have the potential for earning a lot of money, find an agent. If your agent can't sell your book, or if you have out of print books, I highly recommend self-pubbing on Kindle and Smashwords.
Q: I've tried to get an agent. They keep rejecting me.
A: Perhaps your writing isn't strong enough yet. Are you sure you want to release a book that may not be ready?
Q: How do I format for Kindle?
A: Contact Rob Siders at www.52novels.com. He's fast, reasonable, and very good.
Q: Who does your covers?
A: My artist is a friend of mine named Carl Graves. He's at cgdouble2(at)sbcglobal.net. Tell him I sent you. Expect to pay around $300 for a cover, though the price fluctuates depending on your needs.
Q: What do I do to promote my Kindle ebooks?
A: I post at www.kindleboards.com whenever I have a new release. That's pretty much all the promo I do. But I'm lucky to have a popular blog, and lots of folks who talk about me on the net. I also have a print backlist.
Q: Do you need to have a popular blog and a backlist to be successful on Kindle?
A: No. Many others have sold well without the platform I have. But you shouldn't ever compare yourself with other authors, or their sales. Your mileage will vary.
Q: What are the most important things to keep in mind when uploading a book to Kindle?
A: 1. A professional cover and professional formatting. 2. A good product description. 3. A price between 99 cents and $2.99. 4. A good book.
Q: Are ebooks going to take over traditional publishing?
A: Eventually. But print will be around for a while.
Q: I was offered a print deal. But you say I should keep my erights, but my publisher won't let me keep them. What should I do?
A: Right now, I'm selling about 230 ebooks a day. In July (when the royalty rate changes to 70%), I'll be making about $470 a day on Kindle. I won't give up my erights unless a publisher can pay me more than that. But these are my numbers. Your numbers may be different. So you have to set your own goals and follow your own path. But be very wary about signing away erights.
Q: What about iPad, Sony, Kobo, and Nook?
A: Use www.smashwords.com. They'll upload to all of those, including Amazon, and take a small percentage. I have no idea how well I'm doing on these platforms yet, because Smashwords reports quarterly and I haven't gotten my numbers yet. I don't expect them to be anywhere near my Kindle numbers, but it's really early in the game. Who knows what the future holds?
Q: How did you get movie deals on your Kindle books?
A: The folks who bought the rights came to me. Then my agent made the deals. My agent is also currently working on selling foreign rights to my self-pubbed ebooks. Bottom line: get a good agent.
Q: Don't you think the ebook bubble is eventually going to burst?
A: If I maintain my current rate of sales, I'll earn $170,000 a year on ebook sales. That's just on the Kindle, and ebooks currently account for less than 6% of all book sales. What happens when ebooks account for 10%? Or 30%? What about platforms other than Kindle?
Eventually, there will be tens of millions of ereading devices out there, and I'm going to keep publishing new ebooks--many of them per year. I can envision a time in the future where I'm selling 500 or 1000 ebooks per day. If we predict that 40 million people will have ereaders in the year 2015, and I sold 1000 ebooks per day, it would take me over a hundred years to completely saturate that market. I'm not in any danger of maxing out my potential fanbase anytime soon.
Q: You seem to really be down on print publishers lately.
A: I love print publishers. But the traditional publishing industry is flawed, and I don't see any signs it will be fixed anytime soon. It used to be the only game in town. If you wanted to make a living as an author, you had to accept small royalties, no control, and a system dependent on others who may not have your best interests in mind. Not a healthy environment for an artist. While I've been extremely lucky in my career, I've also felt that I was at the mercy of a broken industry.
With ebooks, the majority of the money, and all the control, goes to the writer. That's incredibly liberating. I set my prices. I pick my titles. I choose the cover. I edit according to my taste. I'm not dependent on pre-sales or buy-ins. I'm not at the mercy of coop. I don't worry about returns. I don't have to tour, or advertise, or do all the crazy self-promotion I've done in the past. Distribution is no longer important. Going out of print is no longer a worry. I don't have to wait 12 to 18 months for the book I wrote to get into the hands of readers. I don't have to suffer because of someone else's mistakes. I don't have to try to fit a certain model. Past numbers don't matter. I'm not tied in to any contract. I get paid once a month, not twice a year. And I don't have to answer to anybody.
Ebooks truly are the greatest thing to happen to writers since Gutenberg.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
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When you're dealing with industrial and commercial power systems, it's often necessary to pool resources of operational, maintenance, and safety standards. To help fulfill this need, IEEE recently introduced its new Yellow Book.
If you work in an industrial or commercial plant, chances are you need fast answers to maintenance, operation, and/or safety issues every day. You need guidance from an authoritative source, so where should you turn? Several industry guides address such issues including: Recommended Practice for Electrical Equipment Maintenance (NFPB 70B), Standard for Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces (NFPB 70E), and the National Electrical Code (NEC). Now, there's a new standard to use as a supplement to these references. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) recently published Std 902-1998, IEEE Guide for Maintenance, Operation, and Safety of Industrial and Commercial Power Systems (IEEE Yellow Book) as a companion to its other color books.
According to its jacket, IEEE Std 902-1998 is a reference for the fundamentals of safe and reliable maintenance and operation of industrial and commercial power systems, regardless of system size or complexity. The book covers maintenance, operation, and safety considerations in system design and also discusses how to develop and use the following:
Maintenance and operations strategy to ensure long-term reliability.
Record keeping and documentation files.
Testing and inspection methods.
Procedures for auditing maintenance and operation performance.
Procedures to ensure safety.
The following Yellow Book chapters, which address safety issues, should help you troubleshoot problems in the industrial and commercial power systems arena.
Chapter 7: Introduction to Electrical Safety. NFPA 70E-1995, Electrical Safety Requirements for Employee Workplaces, defines an electrical hazard as "a dangerous condition, such that, inadvertent or unintentional contact or equipment failure, can result in shock, arc flash burn, thermal burn, or blast." It defines electrical safety as "recognizing hazards associated with the use of electrical energy and taking precautions as that hazards do not cause injury or death."
Why is electrical safety so important? Referring to the table (original article), you can see just how the electrical characteristics of the human body change when exposed to different environments. The figure (on page 54, original article) depicts what amounts of electrical current and voltage affect the human body under these differing conditions. Even the smallest amounts of electrical current and voltage can cause serious harm, therefore, it's critical you institute an electrical safety program.
To understand the NFPA definitions and apply them correctly, you must understand the four main phases of electrical hazard protection:
Design and construct safe electrical installations by complying with the criteria of recognized and generally accepted good engineering practices.
Maintain the integrity of electrical equipment, with particular emphasis on enclosures, insulation, operating mechanisms, grounding, and circuit protective devices.
Unless there are serious overriding circumstances, place electrical equipment in an electrically safe work condition before maintenance personnel work on or near it. You should also use safe practices to establish an electrically safe work condition.
Understand and use safe work practices and adequate protective equipment, tools, and test equipment when it's not feasible to establish an electrically safe work condition, or when de-energizing would create a greater hazard.
Chapter 8: Establishing an Electrical Safety Program. You should practice good electrical safety not only for personal reasons, but also for business, and regulatory/legal concerns. The premise of an electrical safety program is to keep personnel from unnecessary exposure to electrical hazards by either workplace conditions or peoples' actions. The standard lists five major objectives:
To make personnel aware of the rules, responsibilities, and procedures for working safely in an electrical environment.
To demonstrate the employer's intention of fully complying with federal law.
To document general requirements and guidelines for providing workplace facilities free from unauthorized exposure to electrical hazards.
To document general requirements and guidelines directing the activities of personnel, who could be deliberately or accidentally exposed to electrical hazards.
To encourage and make it easier for each employee to be responsible for his or her own electrical safety.
A complete electrical safety program should incorporate directives on management commitment; organizational support; electrical safety policy; electrically safe facilities; documented safe electrical work practices; training and qualification of all personnel; use of protective equipment, tools, and protective methods; use of electrical equipment; documentation; oversight and auditing; technical support; and emergency preparedness.
Chapter 9: Providing and Maintaining Electrically Safe Facilities. Workplace conditions should not be the cause of an electrical shock, burn, or blast; especially for properly designed, installed, and maintained electrical installations. To help you establish an electrically safe workplace, make sure you're familiar with the two major legal documents relating to electrical design, installation, and maintenance requirements in the United States. The first document falls under the authority of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Of particular importance are 29 CFR 1910, Subpart S (general industry); 29 CFR 1910, Subpart R (special industries); and 29 CFR 1926, Subpart K (construction industry). The second is the NEC, which carries the force of law only when adopted by a governing entity.
Providing safe workplaces begins with the initial design of a facility, process, or piece of equipment. During the installation phase, you should comply with following:
Install equipment in accordance with the operating diagrams, manufacturer's instructions, and other design documents.
Know the NEC requirements.
Neatly install equipment.
Challenge any design information appearing to disagree with the NEC.
After installing new equipment or modifying existing equipment and facilities, you should initiate a safety and fire protection inspection; whether it's required or not. Also, make sure you consider future maintenance in the design of a facility and its electrical equipment. When maintenance requires repairs or replacement parts, remember the potential safety considerations of poor workmanship or "jury-rigged" fixes.
Chapter 10: Safe Electrical Work Practices. Another major objective of an electrical safety program is to establish safe electrical work practices. A significantly greater number of injuries and fatalities are the result of poor or careless practices than poor equipment conditions. Here are some basic rules to follow:
Always assume any electrical circuit conductors, whether bare or insulated, are energized until proven otherwise.
De-energize, lock out, and test all conductors for the absence of voltage before working on or near them.
Only trained, qualified, and authorized personnel should work on or near electrical circuit conductors and circuit parts.
Always use appropriate safety practices, personal protective equipment, tools, and test equipment.
Chapter 11: Protective Equipment, Tools, and Methods. Electrical protective equipment eliminates or reduces hazard severity, the likelihood of an accident given that a hazard exists, and the severity of injury if an accident occurs. Tables 3-3.6 and 3-4.11 of NFPA 70E-1995 summarize the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) standards pertaining to the selection, care, and use of protective clothing, equipment, and tools.
Chapter 12: Safe Use of Electrical Equipment. The safe use of portable electric tools, temporary extension cords, and testing instruments is dependent on your knowledge of the task and specific equipment used; the integrity of facility grounding and protective systems; and the systems in place to manage inspection and maintenance. People without an in-depth knowledge of the electrical characteristics of the equipment often perform the operation of distribution, utilization, and control equipment. However, they should be knowledgeable of the hazards involved in operating this equipment.
Keep in mind, IEEE standards are not mandatory: Their use is strictly voluntary. Nevertheless, it's good to be aware of all industry standards, specifications, practices, or guides applying to your area of expertise. So if you don't have to use them, why should you? Most of these standards take into account many years of practical experience. This allows you to learn from others' mistakes. Not using nationally recognized standards may lead to legal and monetary problems.
Sidebar: Related Yellow Book Chapters Dealing with Maintenance and Operation
Chapter 1: Overview. Two sentences clearly state the intentions of this standard:
"The objective of this guide is to provide plant engineers with a reference source for the fundamentals of safe and reliable maintenance and operation of industrial and commercial electric power distribution systems."
"The most effective utilization of the information contained in this guide would be its inclusion in a long-term maintenance and operation strategy that is tailored to the individual needs of each power system."
Chapter 2: Operating Diagrams. This guide defines operating diagrams as "road maps" to the operation and maintenance of an industrial or commercial power system. Operating diagrams are items such as vendor drawings and instruction manuals, plant drawings, maintenance histories, spare parts lists, and standard operating procedures. Without these diagrams, anarchy reigns. Keep in mind, consistency is king when it comes to keeping these diagrams readable and understandable.
Chapter 3: System Management. A well-designed and constructed power system will not provide a safe and reliable operation unless you manage it properly. Discussion stresses the fact that you must account for human error in the design, operation, and maintenance of any electrical distribution system; no matter how large or complex. Detailed are load distribution, system integrity, power factor, system protection coordination, and operating economics. A properly managed system usually has relatively few problems, except for forces beyond your control.
Chapter 4: System Control Responsibilities and Clearing Procedures. Despite the skill level of the owner, he or she is ultimately responsible for control of the electrical system. However, everyone who interacts with the power supply and distribution system of an industrial or commercial establishment has some responsibility for the control of that system. This includes maintenance personnel, contractors, and your local utility. Discussion here also centers on the different levels of clearing procedures required for isolating sections within the varying complexities of different electrical distribution systems.
Chapter 5: Maintenance Strategies. NFPA 70B-1998 states "Electrical equipment deterioration is normal, but equipment failure is not inevitable. As soon as you install new equipment, a process of normal deterioration begins. Unchecked, the deterioration process can cause malfunction or an electrical failure." Although most of us agree preventive maintenance is necessary to ensure the reliability of electrical power systems, a wide disparity remains as to the content of a preventive maintenance program. Explained are strategies of proper maintenance and the necessary fundamentals behind those strategies.
Chapter 6: Maintenance Testing Overview. Maintenance testing is an important procedure that can detect deficiencies in electrical equipment before the equipment fails catastrophically. By simulating the various failure modes with nondestructive test methods, you can locate and correct these deficiencies. Described are various nondestructive maintenance tests; however, the standard doesn't include the exact steps. The bibliography lists various testing standards that include instructions to perform the tests.


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Heading into the holiday season, my fiancée and I agreed on a strict budget when it came to gifts for one another.
Maybe it's the power of love or maybe it's because we are a tad competitive when it comes to who can elicit the biggest smile on Christmas morning, but both of us blew that budget out of the water. (I won, in case you were wondering.)
Sometime in the next week or so, a credit card statement will land in my inbox and with it my personal debt to income (DTI) ratio will have risen again.
Thankfully, it's on par with the Canadian average, which, Statistics Canada announced just before Christmas, had hit an all-time high of 171 per cent in the third quarter of 2017. That equates to $1.71 in credit marked debt — consumer credit cards, mortgages and non-mortgage loans — for every dollar of household disposable income.
While the DTI isn't the most in depth indicator of one's financial health, it definitely helps understand one's situation a little better.
The less you spend on servicing debt, the more you have toward other financial goals. However, the more you spend paying off debt, the more it can put you in a precarious position in the long term.
"You're not retiring the debt, so you're almost on the forever and ever plan, and you're jeopardizing your financial situation that if interest rates rise and you're spending more and more of your income towards your debt, then that number is going to increase as interest rates grow and that's going to put you in an even more challenging position," explains Jeff Schwartz, executive director of the non-profit Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada.
There are some in the Canadian financial community, however, who insist that DTI lacks strength as an indicator. Schwartz says it's because the figure doesn't take into account one's asset base.
"If your asset base is growing or let's say you've been a particularly shrewd investor in the stock market and we've gone through a particularly good time, then the debt to income ratio doesn't take into account what kind of assets you have," he says, noting that one can tap into assets to help pay off debt.
One way or another, your DTI is generally the first thing that jumps out to potential lenders and creditors when they're assessing the risk of taking you on as a client and the subsequent interest rates you'll receive.
But they're going deeper and looking closely at gross debt service ratio (GDS) and total service debt ratio. Again, the lower the number, the better off one is.
"It really brings it down to what you're spending on a monthly basis versus what you have coming in and the question becomes, 'are you going to be able to afford this debt payment on a regular basis?' and 'what kind of risk is associated with that so you don't have to sell any assets?'" suggests Schwartz.
At Consolidated Credit Counseling Services of Canada (consolidatedcredit.ca), they recommend calculating your DTI on a regular basis as a way to detect early warning signs and they've got a handy calculator (consolidatedcredit.ca/debt-solutions/debt-to-income-calculator/) that will churn out a percentage indicator from the budget figures you input.
If it comes up 36 per cent or less, you're in good shape. If it falls between 36 and 50, it's time to make some moves like channeling any extra cash toward debt and maybe even consider a debt management program. Anything above 50 is an indicator that your financial house is likely not in order and that it's well past time to get some help.
If you're not sure what moves to make and aren't ready to incur the added expense of a contracting the services of a financial advisor, Schwartz encourages you reach out to his organization to speak with a credit counsellor free of charge to get a better understanding on your situation and the moves you can make to improve it.
At this time of year, with fresh debt on the way, the time to act is now.
"The key message there is don't wait, reach out and get help if you're confused, or at least look for resources that might be available to help you through."


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Shadow and Light
By John Doyle
Label: Compass Records
Shadow and Light tracks
1. Clear the Way
2. Little Sparrow
3. Killoran's Church/Swedishish
4. Liberty's Sweet Shore
5. The Arabic
6. Wheel of Fortune
7. Farewell to All That
8. Tribute to Donal Ward/The Currachman
9. Bound for Botany Bay
10. Bitter Brew
11. Selkie
The New Traditionalist
It is not often that a single artist defines a genre, but then there is
John Doyle
and Traditional Irish music to consider. Doyle seems to be a Jack of all musical trades and a master of all. Great composer, lyricist and performer. I had the pleasure of watching him perform in an old church in Knoxville, Tennessee on a cold January night. The turnout was not a large as I thought it would be, but after the first song the whole shebang turned into a parlor concert and I was fan for life. Hailed as the best Irish guitar player on the planet, Doyle's latest album
Shadow and Light
is a remarkable mixture of story song and instrumentals and frankly, I can't stop playing it. As Yeats was responsible for the Irish Renaissance, so is Doyle for the revitalization of Traditional Irish music. Go figure, they both have roots is Sligo County.
John Doyle's story songs starts out with
Clear The Way
. The tale is of the Irish Brigade that fought in the American Civil War. History shows us that the Irish never shun a skirmish that promises freedom and this story is no different. The upbeat tune features the fighting Irish as valiant soldiers, but their numbers were devastated. There's that history repeating itself again. Great fiddle by
Stuart Duncan
and button accordion by
John Williams
Little Sparrow
is a sweet, little song almost sung as a childrens song and no wonder. It is dedicated to Doyle's daughter, Rossagh. As I listened to it I could imagine Rossagh's adoring look as the song unfolded. It is about all the amazing gifts that a child gives without even knowing it, but best of all the gift of love. As I listened not only to the concert, but this album, it was obvious that Doyle's one true love is not Irish music, but the love of family.
One of my favorites on Shadow and Light is called
Wheel of Fortune
. It is one of Doyle's best efforts about a lost love and the only answer is to get away from yourself as the man did in the song. He went west 6000 miles and ended up in the gold fields of Dawson City in the treacherous Yukon Territory of northern Canada.
During the concert I attended, John suggested a sing-a-long and the tune was
Bound for Botany Bay
which also appears on the recording. Since at least half of Ireland was condemned to the penal colonies at one time or another, it was expected that such a story song made for great enthrallment. The rebellious James O'Donnell is shipped off to Australia and all hope is lost.
"My name is James O'Donnell in irons and chains I'm bound
In exile from my native land as a traitor to the crown".
Many cultures have the mythology of man/creature transformation and the Irish have their
. A seal like creature that dons the mantle of man or woman for a time, but after seven years must reacquaint its bond to the sea in order to survive. John offers his dream-induced ballad and I learned of the fate of the Selkie, and, of course, it is a sad one at that.
John Doyle made a name for himself as a great musician, as a member of the group Solas and as a respected partner and collaborator. This latest effort solidifies his standing as a leader in the Irish Traditional Music community. His love of life, family and tradition make his music memorable on many levels. John lives with his family about sixty miles from me in Asheville, North Carolina. I'll be scanning the news for concert dates. As I said, I am a fan.
Rating: Excellent
- reviewed by RJ Lannan on 1/27/2012
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Two weeks ago today my grandmother died. I haven't really been able to write about it, because it's taken me awhile to process it all. Even though she was 97 years-old and had lived a long, full, life, and I knew she was declining physically, I wasn't ready for her to die so suddenly.
I have written about my grandmother before, here, here and here, and I have finally added her own story to this blog, here. Last March my grandmother fainted while my mom was with her. My mom called the paramedics and my grandmother was admitted to the hospital. They conducted all kinds of tests, including an ear-splitting MRI. While she was getting the MRI, I was allowed to stand next to her and pat her feet as she was slid into a tunnel of bright light and screeching sound. The test was intended to determine if something happened inside her brain. In the end, the doctor's had one diagnosis– she was old. She may also have been dehydrated. The remedy was for someone to be with her, making sure she was eating and drinking fluids. But, the doctors didn't know my grandmother. She was independent, feisty and above all stubborn. My mom tried to get her to move in with her and my dad. She refused. We hired some people to come to my grandmother's and take care of her. No way. She kicked them out. We hired Meals on Wheels to provide the food and a daily visit. She didn't eat their food and barely acknowledged the visit. In the end, we all realized it was futile. She was not going to accept our help, and the only thing that would make her happy and keep her alive was to let her live her life on her terms. Independently. She said she didn't want to be a burden on anyone, yet sometimes it did feel like a burden, the worry and care-taking that was involved in letting her live alone.
About a month after her hospital stay we had a family meeting to discuss how we could take care of grandma. My uncles, my mom, my brother and I each agreed to visit her once a week and bring food and sit down and have a meal with her. My day was Friday. On Fridays I went to her house for lunch, or I would go over after work. We would sit together and I would eat with her. I would bring her food I knew she liked. Fresh pineapple, a pastry, coffee and donuts. The salt-free, healthfully prepared Meals on Wheels would go untouched. We would visit. I recorded her stories, and I would sometimes sneak a photo of her, because she did not like having her photo taken. She probably hated getting her picture taken as much as she hated doctors.
Even though I spent nearly every weekend with here when I was a child, it had been years since I spent so much time with her on a weekly basis. Sometimes, it seemed like an inconvenience to have to drive to see her and race back to my office, or visit her on my way home from work on a Friday evening, when I was anxious to start my weekend. But, I did it and with each visit, I felt happy about the time we spent together, and glad that I had taken the time to see her. It's funny, I thought I was there to take care of her, but really, I think she was still taking care of me. She would protest when I would get up to wash the dishes, throw out her trash or do any household chore. She would make me feel cared for, and I would leave feeling loved, and grateful for the time we spent together.
On the last Friday I spent with her I could tell something was wrong. She seemed tired and weak. Usually she was anxious to go outdoors and sit on her patio so we could visit. On our last visit I asked if she wanted to sit outdoors in the warm sun. She said she would rather stay inside. When I asked if she felt okay, if she was tired, she replied, "No honey, I am not tired, I am old." I tried to take her picture but she wouldn't let me. When she wasn't looking, I did it anyway.
The day she died, I was at work when my dad called to tell me that my mother had arrived at my grandmother's for her Monday visit. She found my grandmother. She had probably died at night, alone in her house, the way she wanted. I left work immediately and went to her house where my parents and my uncles had gathered. I was sad that she was gone, but I also felt at peace. These past several months when I visited her, took her for drives, brought her donuts, those visits allowed me to have peace in this sorrowful moment. I knew that her insistence that she live alone, as challenging as it was for all of us, created an opportunity for us, to spend time with her, to care for her, and for her to care for us. As sad as it is to imagine her spending her last few moments alone, I know that dying in her own home was what she wanted. It was the reason she had so fiercely resisted all our interventions.
She did things on her own terms. And so, it seemed fitting that during the funeral mass, my cousin surprised the priest when he read a poem by Emily Dickenson, instead of the New Testament scripture that was pre-selected and indicated on the program. The organist missed her cue and the deacon kept looking through the program to see if he'd missed something. Even I didn't know what was happening since I had never heard the Gospel According to Emily Dickenson before. But, when it dawned on me what my cousin was doing, I laughed and thought how much my grandmother would have loved that. The priest seemed equally exasperated when, as the mass was ending, and it became apparent the priest wasn't going to allow time for my prepared eulogy, my father yelled from the first row, "Wait! There's a eulogy!" The priest just threw up his hands at that point, and I sprang from my seat to get to the altar before I lost my window of opportunity. The priest didn't seem to know what to do with us, these grandchildren who wanted to do things in their own way. I know that's probably the way my grandmother would have wanted it too.


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Writing Your Own GPS Applications: Part I
Desktop-as-a-Service Designed for Any Cloud ? Nutanix Frame
"I am continually amazed by how little code is required to use atomic clocks in satellites 11,000 miles above my head."
What is it that GPS applications need to be good enough to handle in-car navigation? Also, how does the process of interpreting GPS data actually work? In this two-part series, I will cover both topics and give you the skills you need to write a commercial-grade GPS application that works with a majority of GPS devices in the industry today.
One Powerful Sentence
This first part in the series will explore the task of interpreting raw GPS data. Fortunately, the task is simplified thanks to the National Marine Electronics Association (www.nmea.org), which introduced a standard for the industry now in use by a vast majority of GPS devices. To give developers a head start, I chose to use some Visual Studio.NET source code from my "GPS.NET Global Positioning SDK" component. (The code is stripped of features like multithreading and error handling for brevity.)
NMEA data is sent as comma-delimited "sentences" that contain information based on the first word of the sentence. There are over fifty kinds of sentences, yet an interpreter really only needs to handle a few to get the job done. The most common NMEA sentence of all is the "Recommended Minimum" sentence, which begins with "$GPRMC." Here is an example:
This one sentence contains nearly everything a GPS application needs: latitude, longitude, speed, bearing, satellite-derived time, fix status, and magnetic variation.
The Core of An Interpreter
The first step in making an NMEA interpreter is writing a method that does two things: separating each sentence into its individual words and then examining the first word to figure out what information is available to extract. Listing 1-1 shows the start of the interpreter class.
Listing 1-1: The core of an NMEA interpreter is a function which divides NMEA sentences into individual words.
'******************************************************* '** Listing 1-1. The core of an NMEA interpreter '******************************************************* Public Class NmeaInterpreter ' Processes information from the GPS receiver Public Function Parse(ByVal sentence As String) As Boolean ' Divide the sentence into words Dim Words() As String = GetWords(sentence) ' Look at the first word to decide where to go next Select Case Words(0) Case "$GPRMC" ' A "Recommended Minimum" sentence was found! ' Indicate that the sentence was recognized Return True Case Else ' Indicate that the sentence was not recognized Return False End Select End Function ' Divides a sentence into individual words Public Function GetWords(ByVal sentence As String) As String() Return sentence.Split(","c) End Function End Class


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