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Thoughts for Starting the New Year
Senia Maymin and Kathryn Britton are the senior editors of PositivePsychologyNews.com. Together they have edited two books in the Positive Psychology News series: Resilience: How to Navigate Life's Curves and Gratitude: How to Appreciate Life's Gifts. Kathryn co-edited the third book in the series, Character Strengths Matter, with Shannon Polly. Their co-authored articles are here.
Senia Maymin, MAPP '06, is the coauthor of Profit from the Positive. Maymin is an executive coach to entrepreneurs and CEOs. Her PhD is in organizational behavior from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Full Bio. Her solo articles are here and her articles with Margaret Greenberg are here.
Kathryn Britton, MAPP '06 also co-authored Smarts and Stamina on using positive psychology principles to build strong health habits. Blog. Full bio. Her solo articles are here.
Positive Psychology News has a tradition of pulling together thoughts for the New Year, remembering that many people are taking stock and making resolutions. As you look ahead, perhaps the ideas below will help you find ways to make your life more happy and healthy. We also recommend that you follow Alicia's lead and look back at 2016. What worked especially well then? What do you want to make sure you do more of in 2017?
Kathryn Britton: Remember that approach goals are easier to achieve than avoidance goals, so express your resolution in terms of something you want to move toward rather than something you want to move away from. If you really want to get away from something, set up an implementation intention: "If I start wanting to do X, then I'll do Y." That way you can keep your mind from running around and around what you want to avoid like a mouse in a treadwheel, basically reinforcing thoughts of the item you want to avoid. So instead of "I want to avoid cake," think "If the idea of cake comes to mind, I'll go drink a glass of water (climb stairs) (eat a carrot)." Might as well put the urge to work reinforcing a behavior that you want to develop. Check out Emily vanSonnenberg's article,
- Watch, Ask, Adapt. Use responsive care giving tools that respect the rights of children and build meaningful relationships between parent and child.
- Create more FLOW experiences with children using loose parts.
- Conscious Discipline- let children feel negative emotions.
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Even in the darkest hours, there is always hope. I remembered this article Doug Turner wrote when PPND was first launched. It was so poignant that a decade later I was able to draw upon it for my own family. Thank you Doug!
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If this year has taught us nothing else, it's that we must be active consumers of information. We cannot just read and accept — we must think about it! This holds double when it comes to our personal development.
Let me share my advice to myself for 2017, and maybe it will help others. 2016 was extraordinarily busy in all sorts of ways, and I got used to it and now I find it hard to relax, hard to sit back, hard to enjoy the moment. Yet even though I'm so busy, I really enjoy everything that I do. It's not easy to just drop the miserable things. It's hard to pick and choose.
So for 2017, I'm going to focus more on me. I've signed up for a mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) course, I've signed up for some Pilates and Yoga classes, I went back to dance lessons. I haven't done those in 30 years. I'm dropping some of my extra work: I resigned from a Board, I am done teaching, and I've finished a few other smaller projects.I want to craft a new lifestyle for myself, one that is still full, but meaningful in my focus. I want to read more, exercise more, be present more, and learn how to resist the call of emails and work outside of working hours.
2017 will bring new adventures, and I want to be there for them. I have never been good at sticking to New Year's resolutions, so this isn't a resolution. Instead it's a life shift. It won't be easy. I have a lot of bad habits to break and good habits to acquire. But even a small step in the right direction is still forward motion.
What is your forward motion? What is your intention? Start the way you mean to end. What lifestyle do you want for yourself? Are you living it now? If not, what is the small step in the right direction that you want to take first?
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Both 2015 and 2016 have been difficult years for me. I thank my lucky stars I have been trained in positive psychology which got me through. I think sometimes because we practice this we believe we need to be up and positive all the time. That is just not the case. We have to show ourselves compassion and allow ourselves to embrace our imperfections. Use the power of this amazing community to help you cushion your falls. It is a soft place to land!
Editor's note: Louisa reminded us to collect stories that show the generosity of the human spirit in
This is a reminder to have self-compassion. People usually are too hard with themselves and want to do everything perfectly. Breathe. Your self-worth is not tied to achievement, productivity, or compliance. The best way for you to move forward from critical thoughts is by being kind to yourself. Turn those negative voices into positive ones. If you are compassionate with yourself, you are more likely to be compassionate with others.
If the year ahead appears difficult, you might also be interested in the idea of Sisu, the spirit and strength that enable people to persevere through difficulties despite feeling they have reached the end of their physical or mental capacities.
As we enter into the New Year and this strange new political climate, don't forget the value of gratitude. In particular, one very concrete way of exercising gratitude is in the form of writing thoughtful thank you notes that demonstrate appreciation and care to others.
Choose one thing that's important to you and do it every weekday. Maybe it takes five minutes every weekday. It doesn't need to take long.
One of my earliest PPND articles is about using good constraints to make good behavior come automatically:
The advice is to be brave in going deeper in relationships, and yet on the other hand, to lighten up. Beyond the superficial, I'm curious to go beyond the surface in order to create a better understanding between and among people I care about, or would like to know better.
Also, I love the quotation, "Angels fly because they take themselves lightly." The transcendent strength of humor shared is a real gift, helping to build bridges, positive connections, and better health. Authentically priming depth and lightness in ourselves and our relationships can boost our whole health and well-being.
Want to think about ways to use humor? Try out Laura L. C. Johnson's article,
We have been collecting ideas about starting a new year since 2008. If you would like to hear more wishes for your well-being, suggestions, and wisdom about resolutions, check out the articles listed below. These ideas never grow old.
- 2008: Happy New Year from PPND
- 2009: Happy New Year 2009 from PPND
- 2010: Planning for 2010: How Daily Mental Time Travel Can Increase Happiness or Decrease Anxiety by Bridget Grenville-Cleave
- 2011: Resolving New Year's Resolutions by Emily vanSonnenberg
- 2012: Starting the New Year Afresh
- 2013: Starting 2013
- 2014: Welcome to 2014
- 2015: Looking Ahead at 2015
- 2016: Ideas for the 2016 New Year (Part 1) and Ideas for the 2016 New Year (Part 2)
Happy New Year, everybody.
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Parivrtta Hasta PadangusthasanaDefinition - What does Parivrtta Hasta Padangusthasana mean?
Parivrtta hasta padangusthasana is a standing yoga posture that involves balancing on one leg. Derived from Sanskrit, parivrtta means "revolved," hasta means "hand," pada means "foot," angusta means "big toe" and asana means "pose."
In this pose, the yogi begins in tadasana then lifts the right foot up, holding the outer side of the foot with the left hand. The right leg is stretched straight in front of the body then brought across the body to the left side. The right hand is extended sideways and the gaze is fixed on the extended hand. The pose is held for 20 seconds then repeated on the opposite side.
Parivrtta hasta padangusthasana is also known as revolved hand-to-big-toe pose in English.
Yogapedia explains Parivrtta Hasta Padangusthasana
Performing parivrtta hasta padangusthasana requires balance and flexibility. Those with a lower flexibility level can use a yoga strap to hold the foot of the outstretched leg.
Parivrtta hasta padangusthasana strengthens the legs, stretches and improves spinal flexibility, opens the hips and strengthens the core.
The mental health benefits of parivrtta hasta padangusthasana include:
- Promotes sense of balance
- Calms the mind
- Improves mental focus
- Improves perseverance
- Energizes the mind
Parivrtta hasta padangusthasana activates the manipura chakra. A balanced manipura chakra promotes peace, self-respect, positive attitude and courage. It also aids in self-motivation, decision-making and boosting confidence.
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Keeping in touch with life in modern Britain
Laurence England has a post St George and the Dragon which just made something click inside. Along with many others, I have been sporadically glued to live updates of the discussions going on in various offices in central London to try and put together a Government for Britain. In the meantime, George is doing a gravelly-voiced cover of "Sweet Caroline" with Laurence playing the guitar with a fag hanging out of the corner of his mouth and a hat on. This is a pilot of a possible online busking initiative for George to get a new mattress and and dental implants. For the love of God!
As I say, reading this, something clicked. I've bashed out a comment to promise send the funds for the mattress by any means convenient. I don't know how much the dental implants are, but I'm sure we can sub that between us. They may put up a paypal button or let us know some other online service. Or we can just send tenners in the post. Not recommended, I know, but if the chap can play the guitar and keep a smoke on the go, maybe we don't need to go down the road of risk assessment on this one.


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The real problem in using big data is the privacy issue
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August 18, 2014 | By Pam Baker
The real problem in using big data is the privacy issue. While many researchers and privacy advocates hail the de-identification route to protect privacy, others say that simply won't do. This is because anonymization makes a mess of the data sets. To make the data more open and useful, one group of researchers focused on the social sciences recommends we stop trying to de-identify private data and hold researchers responsible for protecting privacy instead.
"In this article, we show that these and other de-identification procedures necessitate changes to data sets that threaten replication and extension of baseline analyses," write the authors Jon P. Daries, Justin Reich, Jim Waldo, Elise M. Young, Jonathan Whittinghill, Daniel Thomas Seaton, Andrew Dean Ho, and Isaac Chuang. "To balance student privacy and the benefits of open data, we suggest focusing on protecting privacy without anonymizing data by instead expanding policies that compel researchers to uphold the privacy of the subjects in open data sets."
Read their entire paper in the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Queue for more of the reasoning behind their argument. I would like to hear your thoughts on this matter. Please share them in the comments below or send me an email. I'm also hoping Dr. Barth-Jones, who penned a guest post on FierceBigData earlier on the subject of de-identification, and some of his peers that advocate de-identification will also weigh in on this debate regarding which is the best course to protect privacy and data integrity.
Quality social science research and the privacy of human subjects requires trust.
Open data has tremendous potential for science, but, in human subjects research, there is a tension between privacy and releasing high-quality open data. Federal law governing student privacy and the release of student records suggests that anonymizing student data protects student privacy. Guided by this standard, we de-identified and released a data set from 16 MOOCs (massive open online courses) from MITx and HarvardX on the edX platform. In this article, we show that these and other de-identification procedures necessitate changes to data sets that threaten replication and extension of baseline analyses. To balance student privacy and the benefits of open data, we suggest focusing on protecting privacywithout anonymizing data by instead expanding policies that compel researchers to uphold the privacy of the subjects in open data sets. If we want to have high-quality social science research and also protect the privacy of human subjects, we must eventually have trust in researchers. Otherwise, we'll always have the strict tradeoff between anonymity and science illustrated here.
The open in massive open online course has many interpretations. Some MOOCs are hosted on open-source platforms, some use only openly licensed content, and most MOOCs are openly accessible to any learner without fee or prerequisites. We would like to add one more notion of openness: open access to data generated by MOOCs. We argue that this is part of the responsibility of MOOCs, and that fulfilling this responsibility threatens current conventions of anonymity in policy and public perception.
In this spirit of open data, on May 30, 2014, a team of researchers from Harvard and MIT (including this author team) announced the release of an open data set containing student records from 16 courses conducted in the first year of the edX platform. (In May 2012, MIT and Harvard launched edX, a nonprofit platform for hosting and marketing MOOCs. MITx and HarvardX are the two respective institutional organizations focused on MOOCs.)6 The data set is a de-identified version of that used to publish HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, a report revealing findings about student demographics, course-taking patterns, certification rates, and other measures of student behavior.6 The goal for this data release was twofold: first, to allow other researchers to replicate the results of the analysis; and second, to allow researchers to conduct novel analyses beyond the original work, adding to the body of literature about open online courses.
Within hours of the release, original analysis of the data began appearing on Twitter, with figures and source code. Two weeks after the release, the data journalism team atThe Chronicle of Higher Education published "8 Things You Should Know about MOOCs," an article that explored new dimensions of the data set, including the gender balance of the courses.13 Within the first month of the release, the data had been downloaded more than 650 times. With surprising speed, the data set began fulfilling its purpose: to allow the research community to use open data from online learning platforms to advance scientific progress.
The rapid spread of new research from this data is exciting, but the excitement is tempered by a necessary limitation of the released data: it represents a subset of the complete data. To comply with federal regulations on student privacy, the released data set had to be de-identified. This article demonstrates tradeoffs between the need to meet the demands of federal regulations of student privacy, on the one hand, and our responsibility to release data for replication and downstream analyses, on the other. For example, the original analysis found that approximately 5 percent of course registrants earned certificates. Some methods of de-identification cut that percentage in half.
It is impossible to anonymize identifiable data without the possibility of affecting some future analysis in some way. It is possible to quantify the difference between replications from the de-identified data and original findings; however, it is difficult to fully anticipate whether findings from novel analyses will result in valid insights or artifacts of de-identification. Higher standards for de-identification can lead to lower-value de-identified data. This could have a chilling effect on the motivations of social science researchers. If findings are likely to be biased by the de-identification process, why should researchers spend their scarce time on de-identified data?
At the launch of edX in May 2012, the presidents of MIT and Harvard spoke about the edX platform, and the data generated by it, as a public good. If academic and independent researchers alike have access to data from MOOCs, then the progress of research into online education will be faster and results can be furthered, refined, and tested. These ideals for open MOOC data are undermined, however, if protecting student privacy means that open data sets are markedly different from the original data. The tension between privacy and open data is in need of a better solution than anonymized data sets. Indeed, the fundamental problem in our current regulatory framework may be an unfortunate and unnecessary conflation of privacy and anonymity. Jeffrey Skopek17 of Harvard Law School outlines the difference between the two as follows:
...under the condition of privacy, we have knowledge of a person's identity, but not of an associated personal fact, whereas under the condition of anonymity, we have knowledge of a personal fact, but not of the associated person's identity. In this sense, privacy and anonymity are flip sides of each other. And for this reason, they can often function in opposite ways: whereas privacy often hides facts about someone whose identity is known by removing information and other goods associated with the person from public circulation, anonymity often hides the identity of someone about whom facts are known for the purpose of putting such goods into public circulation (p. 1755).
Realizing the potential of open data in social science requires a new paradigm for the protection of student privacy: either a technological solution such as differential privacy,3which separates analysis from possession of the data, or a policy-based solution that allows open access to possibly re-identifiable data while policing the uses of the data.
This article describes the motivations behind efforts to release learner data, the contemporary regulatory framework of student privacy, our efforts to comply with those regulations in creating an open data set from MOOCs, and some analytical consequences of de-identification. From this case study in de-identification, we conclude that the scientific ideals of open data and the current regulatory requirements concerning anonymizing data are incompatible. Resolving that incompatibility will require new approaches that better balance the protection of privacy and the advancement of science in educational research and the social sciences more broadly.
BALANCING OPEN DATA AND STUDENT PRIVACY REGULATIONSAs with open-source code and openly licensed content, support for open data has been steadily building. In the United States, government agencies have increased their expectations for sharing research data.5 In 2003 the National Institutes of Health became the first federal agency to require research grant applicants to describe their plans for data sharing.12 In 2013 the Office of Science and Technology Policy released a memorandum requiring the public storage of digital data from unclassified, federally funded research.7These trends dovetailed with growing interest in data sharing in the learning sciences community. In 2006 researchers from Carnegie Mellon University opened DataShop, a repository of event logs from intelligent tutoring systems and one of the largest sources of open data in educational research outside the federal government.8
Open data has tremendous potential across the scientific disciplines to facilitate greater transparency through replication and faster innovation through novel analyses. It is particularly important in research into open, online learning such as MOOCs. A study released earlier this year1 estimates that more than 7 million people in the United States alone have taken at least one online course, and that that number is growing by 6 percent each year. These students are taking online courses at a variety of institutions, from community colleges to research universities, and open MOOC data will facilitate research that could be helpful to all institutions with online offerings.
Open data can also facilitate cooperation between researchers with different domains of expertise. As George Siemens, president of the Society for Learning Analytics Research, has argued, learning research involving large and complex data sets requires interdisciplinary collaboration between data scientists and educational researchers.16 Open data sets make it easier for researchers in these two distinct domains to come together.
While open educational data has great promise for advancing science, it also raises important questions about student privacy. In higher education, the cornerstone of student privacy law is FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act). FERPA is a federal privacy statute that regulates access to and disclosure of a student's educational records. In our de-identification procedures, we aimed to comply with FERPA, although not all institutions consider MOOC learners to be subject to FERPA.11
FERPA offers protections for PII (personally identifiable information) within student records. Per FERPA, PII cannot be disclosed, but if PII is removed from a record, then the student becomes anonymous, privacy is protected, and the resulting de-identified data can be disclosed to anyone (20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(1) 2012; 34 C.F.R. § 99.31(b) 2013). FERPA thus equates anonymity—the removal of PII—with privacy.
FERPA's PII definition includes some statutorily defined categories, such as name, address, social security number, and mother's maiden name, but also
...other information that, alone or in combination, is linked or linkable to a specific student that would allow a reasonable person in the school community, who does not have personal knowledge of the relevant circumstances, to identify the student with reasonable certainty (34 C.F.R. § 99.3, 2013).
In assessing the reasonable certainty of identification, the educational institution is supposed to take into account other data releases that might increase the chance of identification.22 Therefore, an adequate de-identification procedure must remove not only statutorily required elements, but also quasi-identifiers. These quasi-identifiers are pieces of information that can be uniquely identifying in combination with each other or with additional data sources from outside the student records. They are not defined by statute or regulatory guidance from the Department of Education but left up to the educational institution to define.22
The potential for combining quasi-identifiers to uniquely identify individuals is well established. For example, Latanya Sweeney,21 from the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, has demonstrated that 87 percent of the U.S. population can be uniquely identified with a reasonable degree of certainty by a combination of ZIP code, date of birth, and gender. These risks are further heightened in open, online learning environments because of the public nature of the activity. As another example, some MOOC students participate in course discussion forums—which, for many courses, remain available online beyond the course end date. Students' usernames are displayed beside their posts, allowing for linkages of information across courses, potentially revealing students who enroll for unique combinations of courses. A very common use of the discussion forums early in a course is a self-introduction thread where students state their age and location, among other PII.
Meanwhile, another source of identifying data is social media. It is conceivable that students could verbosely log their online education on Facebook or Twitter, tweeting as soon as they register for a new course or mentioning their course grade in a Facebook post. Given these external sources, an argument can be made that many columns in the person-course data set that would not typically be thought of as identifiers could qualify as quasi-identifiers.
The regulatory framework defined by FERPA guided our efforts to de-identify the person-course data set for an open release. Removing direct identifiers such as students' usernames and IP addresses was straightforward, but the challenge of dealing with quasi-identifiers was more complicated. We opted for a framework of k-anonymity.20 A data set is k-anonymous if any one individual in the data set cannot be distinguished from at leastk-1 other individuals in the same data set. This requires ensuring that no individual has a combination of quasi-identifiers different from k-1 others. If a data set cannot meet these requirements, then the data must be modified to meet k-anonymity, either by generalizing data within cases or suppressing entire cases. For example, if a single student in the data set is from Latvia, we can employ one of these remedies: generalize her location by reporting her as from Europe rather than Latvia, for example; suppress her location information; or suppress her case entirely.
This begins to illustrate the fundamental tension between generating data sets that meet the requirements of anonymity mandates and advancing the science of learning through public releases of data. Protecting student privacy under the current regulatory regime requires modifying data to ensure that individual students cannot be identified. These modifications can, however, change the data set considerably, raising serious questions about the utility of the open data for replication or novel analysis. The next sections describe our approach to generating a k-anonymous data set, and then examine the consequences of our modifications to the size and nature of the data set.
DE-IDENTIFICATION METHODSThe original, identified person-course data set contained the following information:
• Information about students (username, IP address, country, self-reported level of education, self-reported year of birth, and self-reported gender).
• The course ID (a string identifying the institution, semester, and course).
• Information about student activity in the course (date and time of first interaction, date and time of last interaction, number of days active, number of chapters viewed, number of events recorded by the edX platform, number of video play events, number of forum posts, and final course grade).
• Four variables computed to indicate level of course involvement (registered: enrolled in the course; viewed: interacted with the courseware at least once; explored: interacted with content from more than 50 percent of course chapters; and certified: earned a passing grade and received a certificate).
Transforming this person-course data set into a k-anonymous data set that we believed met FERPA guidelines required four steps: 1) defining identifiers and quasi-identifiers; 2) defining the value for k; 3) removing identifiers; and 4) modifying or deleting values of quasi-identifiers from the data set in a way that ensures k-anonymity, while minimizing changes to the data set.
We defined two variables in the original data set as identifiers and six variables as quasi-identifiers. The username was considered identifying in and of itself, so we replaced it with a random ID. IP address was also removed. Four student demographic variables were defined as quasi-identifiers: country, gender, age, and level of education. Course ID was considered a quasi-identifier since students might take unique combinations of courses and because it provides a link between PII posted in forums and the person-course data set. The number of forum posts made by a student was also a quasi-identifier because a determined individual could scrape the content of the forums from the archived courses and then identify users with unique numbers of forum posts.
Once the quasi-identifiers were chosen, we had to determine a value of k to use for implementing k-anonymity. In general, larger values of k require greater changes to de-identify, and smaller values of k leave data sets more vulnerable to re-identification. The U.S. Department of Education offers guidance to the de-identification process in a variety of contexts, but it does not recommend or require specific values of k for specific contexts. In one FAQ, the department's Privacy Technical Assistance Center states that many "statisticians consider a cell size of 3 to be the absolute minimum" and goes on to say that values of 5 to 10 are even safer.15 We chose a k of 5 for our de-identification.
Since our data set contained registrations for 16 courses, registrations in multiple courses could be used for re-identification. The k-anonymity approach would ensure that no individual was uniquely identifiable using the quasi-identifiers within a course, but further care had to be taken to remove the possibility that a registrant could be uniquely identified based upon registering in a unique combination or number of courses. For example, if only three people registered for all 16 courses, then those three registrants would not be k-anonymous across courses, and some of their registration records would need to be suppressed in order to lower the risk of their re-identification.
The key part of the de-identification process was modifying the data such that no combination of quasi-identifiers described groups consisting of fewer than five students. The two tools employed for this task were generalization, the combining of more granular values into categories (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 become "1-5"); and suppression, the deletion of data that compromises k-anonymity.21 Many strategies for de-identification, including Sweeney's Datafly algorithm, implement both tools with different amounts of emphasis on one technique or the other.18 More generalization would mean that fewer records are suppressed, but the remaining records would be less specific than the original data. A heavier reliance on suppression would remove more records from the data, but the remaining records would be less altered.
The following section illustrates differential tradeoffs between valid research inferences and de-identification methods by comparing two de-identification approaches: one that favors generalization over suppression (hereafter referred to as the generalization emphasis, or GE, method), and one that favors suppression over generalization (hereafter referred to as the suppression emphasis, or SE, method). There are other ways of approaching the problem of de-identification, but these were two that were easily implemented. Our intent is not to discern the dominance of one technique over the other in any general case but rather to show that tradeoffs between anonymity and valid research inferences a) are unavoidable and b) will depend on the method of de-identification.
The SE method used generalization for the names of countries (grouping them into continent/region names for countries with fewer than 5,000 rows) and for the first- and last-event time stamps (grouping them into dates by truncating the hour and minute portion of the time stamps). Suppression was then employed for rows that were not k-anonymous across the quasi-identifying variables. For more information on the specifics of the implementation, please refer to the documentation accompanying the data release.10
The GE method generalized year of birth into groups of two (e.g., 1980-1981), and number of forum posts into groups of five for values greater than 10 (e.g., 11-15). Suppression was then employed for rows that were not k-anonymous across the quasi-identifying variables. The generalizations resulted in a data set that needed less suppression than in the SE method, but also reduced the precision of the generalized variables.
Both de-identification processes are more likely to suppress registrants in smaller courses: the smaller a course, the higher the chances that any given combination of demographics would not be k-anonymous, and the more likely that this row would need to be suppressed. Furthermore, since an activity variable (number of forum posts) was included as a quasi-identifier, both methods were likely to remove users who were more active in the forums. Since only 8 percent of students had any posts in the forums at all, and since these students were typically active in other ways, the records of many of the most active students were suppressed.
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- 1 lb green beans, stemmed
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
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- Adjust oven rack to middle position; heat oven to 450º F.
- Line rimmed baking sheet with aluminum foil; spread beans on baking sheet.
- Drizzle with olive oil; using hands, toss to coat evenly.
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper, toss to coat, and distribute in an even layer.
- Roast for 10 minutes.
- Remove baking sheet from oven. Using tongs, redistribute beans.
- Continue roasting for 10 to 12 minutes, until beans are dark golden brown in spots and have started to shrivel.
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Thursday, October 13, 2011:Quiet Revolution
Right now in the United States and elsewhere, thousands of people are peacefully protesting in the streets in the "Take Over Wall Street" movement. They're revolting against everything from environmental damage to outlandish profits taken in by banks and oil companies.
You can join a slightly different, peaceful revolution. You don't have to go to Wall Street to do it. And you don't have to worry about getting arrested. It's completely safe, quiet – and it's even entertaining.
All you have to do is go to the ballet.
A revolution? In ballet?
Sure. If the noise of pop culture is making you squirmy, or on the other hand you're ready for something refreshingly new, check out the quiet revolution going on in contemporary ballet.
"Dance has been developing a lot recently," National Theatre Ballet dancer and choreographer Jan Kodet tells Opus Osm."It's revolting against a long period of stagnation." Today, after centuries of dance following a traditional formula, it's moving in many different directions at once, he says. "We have to observe and understand it, and then decide what we like and what we don't like." And you can help decide its future direction. You don't have to take this revolution to the streets, simply to the theatre seats: Check out the ballet.Mr Kodet explains that video technology is making a large impact on dance today. "We have the ability to record dance, and that's changing everything," he points out. True, before video, the choreography could be written down. But now artists can study the whole archive of current dance in actual performance, precisely the way it was recorded at the moment.
But video technology is also being incorporated as a kind of additional character right into the dance itself. "For me as a choreographer, I like crossover abilities," Mr Kodet explains. "I like very much the new media – video projecting, live recording incorporated into the dance … and today lighting design, set design, and costumes are especially important in this new way of 'feeling' dance." In some pieces even the orchestra gets involved, with dancers interweaving with musicians and musicians moving along with the dancers.
Take his choreography for Camouflage. "It's not just one, clear story," he says. "The audience is free to be emotionally active, to think, to create their own emotions and dreams. After the show, some people say they are emotionally 'woken up.' They can find parallels to their own lives – and sometimes some people were even crying" because it was so moving, he says.
Today, audiences of any age can still choose a traditional Sleeping Beauty (at the National Theatre next spring) or try something more contemporary such as Moonshine with music by Bob Dylan, and The Rolling Stones (at The National Theatre, mid-November and early December).
Mr Kodet, who is currently creating the choreography for next spring's Gloriana opera, adds that more young people are discovering ballet. "Here's what usually happens," he says. "A girl wants to take her boyfriend to the ballet. He wants to go to the football. So they compromise: this weekend, they'll go to the ballet, next weekend, the football. They go to the ballet and the guy is really amazed. He likes it."
There's only one pre-condition for joining the ballet revolution, regardless of your age, background, or education, according to Mr Kodet. "You have to be open and curious, and ready to learn."
Let the revolution continue. – oo
– Mary Matz
Photo Credits: c Diana Zehetner, National Theatre Ballet


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Nature's Secret, Candistroy, 2 Part System, 2 Bottles - 60 Tablets Each
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|210 mg
|Zinc (as Zinc Oxide)
|18 mg
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Goldenseal powder (root), Garlic extract (0.8% allicin) (bulb), Pau d'Arco powder (bark), Oregon Grape (Mahonia aquifolium) powder (root), Barberry powder (root), Cassia powder (bark), Clove powder (bud), Licorice (Glycyrrhiza glabra) powder (root), Orange Peel extract (8:1) (fruit), Peppermint powder (leaf), Thyme powder (leaf)
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|Proprietary Blend
Fructooligosaccharides (FOS), N-Acetyl-d-Glucosamine
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|Lactobacillus acidophilus (1 billion/g**)
|50 mg
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|25 mg
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not bad!
I really tried everything else I could find in Romania for my Candida. And as a last resort I bought this from another continent. I really felt good! I am right now in the second stage and it really helped. I hope I can say that after I finish it as well. For now, 5 stars becaouse its the only thing that ever helped me.
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I like this product ad have recommended it many times. it is very effective in neutralizing yeast . it is not a cure all but an aid with a change of diet. The price here is very good.
Don't waste your money
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Bought two orders, one for my husband and myself. Pills are bulky and taste awful. A few days after taking we experienced extreme fatigue. We were tired all day and had no energy. I passed it off as die off which I did not expect from this product. Husband missed a dose on accident and had no fatigue that day. As for the changes in our condition, NONE. As a matter of fact it seems to be getting worse! We're not even onto probiotics yet. Candex, although expensive, was a lot more effective and no dieoff.
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I really tried everything else I could find in Romania for my Candida. And as a last resort I bought this from another continent. I really felt good! I am right now in the second stage and it really helped. I hope I can say that after I finish it as well. For now, 5 stars becaouse its the only thing that ever helped me.
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Felt awful(flu-like no fever) for about 4 days and got some pimples. Then all better after. Note:I did nothing to prep for this program. Ate carbs and sugars right up to the day I started, but stopped while on the program. Happy with the result.
Candistroy worked on chronic yeast problem!
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I had yeast infections/candida since high school. This is the only product that completely destroyed the yeast along with the Candida Diet plan. My husband and I both took the herbs for about 3 months. I have been yeast free now for over 15 years! Yeah! Good price for the product too!


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Patrick Meadors, PhD, LMFT
Carolinas HealthCare System's Levine Cancer Institute continues to expand access to care throughout the region by offering virtual support groups for patients with bladder cancer, and, most recently, head and neck cancers. The unique model of these support groups is connecting patients located in rural communities with social workers, nurses and other patients located across the Institute's network of cancer centers in North and South Carolina.
"Levine Cancer Institute is committed to providing 'cancer care without walls,'" said Patrick Meadors, PhD, LMFT, Psychosocial Oncology Manager at the Institute. "A virtual videoconferencing support group allows patients to bridge geographical distances, meet other patients with similar diagnoses, give and receive support from patients and facilitators, and have access to expert physicians and interdisciplinary clinicians across the Institute's network in North and South Carolina."
Hosting support groups virtually exemplifies the Institute's belief that a patient's geographical location should not determine how they receive cancer care. "Many rural communities don't have the population or personnel to implement support groups for various cancer diagnoses and this group model will help address this gap," said Dr. Meadors.
The virtual bladder cancer support group was piloted in June 2013. Eventually, the virtual support group model will expand to include other cancer diagnoses and symptom management. Currently, virtual support groups are held once a month at nine of the Institute's locations, including Carolinas HealthCare System Stanly and Roper St. Francis Health System in Charleston, S.C.
Any cancer patient, their spouse or caregiver is able to attend the group, regardless of where they are in the treatment or survivorship continuum.
The bladder cancer support groups are currently offered on the second Tuesday of each month, from 1:30 to 3 p.m., and the head and neck cancer support groups are held on the first Tuesday of each month from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Learn more about the support groups as part of the Institute's evolving survivorship program.


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I just can't help myself…and that means teaching you a thing or two! Today, let's talk about some recent coupon folly.
You may recall that a few weeks ago, I won a contest through MaraNatha nut butters and received a free jar of any nut butter. Awesome. I was so excited. Yay, MaraNatha!
So I decided to use my coupon on a jar of macadamia nut butter. Then I forgot to use the coupon at the store. Stupid, stupid. I wonder if there are statistics on how many people do this and how much it costs Americans every year. I mean, not only did I spend the money on the macadamia nut butter, I also bought a bunch of other things from Whole Foods that I didn't need, even though I only went there to use the coupon.
Coupons are probably a pretty brilliant marketing technique.
Anyway, I was looking over the coupon again, excited to use it on my next nut butter purchase, and I realized that it said, "On any nut butter" …and then in fine print, "Maximum value $4.99." Well, none of the MaraNatha nut butters at my local grocery store were $4.99…but I assumed it was because sometimes there is a higher mark-up on specialty products at big grocery stores that don't carry a lot of them. OK…fine.
So last weekend, I went back to Whole Foods with the coupon, bound and determined just to use it before I could forget. Nut butters have a long enough shelf life, so I figured I'd just buy something now. And I really wanted to use it on raw almond butter. I had had it once a long time ago and really liked it. Since I have every other kind of nut butter right now, I wanted to use my free coupon on something special.
Well, at Whole Foods — where the MaraNatha prices are definitely cheaper than my local grocery store — there still was not a single nut butter that cost $4.99. Even the peanut butter cost $5.99! The raw almond butter? $9.99. TEN DOLLARS for the smallest jar of nut butter I've ever seen.
[I think ten dollars is pretty steep for an eight ounce jar. Coconut oil is only $6 for twice that and coconut oil can double as lube. Unless you're this one guy I know from college, nut butter cannot double as lube.]
OK — I'm calling BS on MaraNatha. I'm sorry, but you know the mark-up on your products. How can you design a coupon for a free product when you know damn well it will not, in fact, get anyone a free product? The only way this would have gotten me a free product is if I had ordered a jar of peanut butter from their Web site. (And then paid shipping…???) And it says "any" butter. Not "only peanut butter, which is not any kind of exciting at all."
And I can sort of see scamming people with a coupon like this in the newspaper. Kind of a bait-and-switch? I mean, I think that's illegal, but I can sort of see how that might happen. But I won a contest. You wouldn't give someone a coupon and call it a gift card, but that's pretty much what they did. And then said, "Congrats, lucky winner!!!!"
Here's an idea: when someone wins a contest, e-mail them. Say, "You have won one free jar of any of our nut butters! Which would you like? We'll have it sent right out." Let me choose the most expensive option if I want to. I won the contest; if I choose to parlay that win into a bath in a $10 jar of ground-up nuts, then that is my right as a winner.
Back at Whole Foods, I just decided to try to use the coupon on the more expensive butter. Maybe the cashier would be super high on life like most Whole Foods grocery employees and wouldn't notice. Unfortunately, she did; the best I got was a $4.99 discount on my raw almond butter.
And now they have gotten me with the second part of why coupons are so brilliant — because now I'm hooked on an expensive product!
Because really, it is delicious. It doesn't taste like other nut butters. It tastes more like a great spread; I think it would be so good on a foodgasmic roasted eggplant panini.
But isn't this how druggies get you? Like, "Oh, you, cute little rich white girl…you have won the contest for looking super vulnerable and open to ruining your life and the prize is…free cocaine! OK well actually you have to pay for half the coke and you'll be back tomorrow for more because the high doesn't last long but it's so good you'll be addicted…thanks for entering, lucky winner!"
My fridge is now overflowing with the delicious crack of MaraNatha, none of which was free.
The moral of the story: Do not get addicted to expensive shit via coupons and contests. And when a company does do this, call their crunchy asses out.


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Monday, June 13, 2016
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Rich -
I'm not sure the techniques would work. They were attempting to read through a crust of dirt and debris and parts of the device and we're attempting to clarify words that are visible on the paper but are out of focus. Of course, any suggestion is welcome at this point and I'll be sure that the others see the suggestion as well.
By KRandle, at Tuesday, June 14, 2016
The mention of "image technology," Kevin, made me think that maybe there was other technology besides x-ray that might be usable.
I'm wondering if something like a CT scan might work.
(Obviously, my medical credentials are nil.)
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Night at the Movies
What's better than sitting in comfort watching new releases at local theaters? Throughout the fall, you pick the show and see it at a discount with these passes. Due to the popularity of this event there will be a limit of two student tickets and 5 guest tickets, for each theater, per week.
Roosevelt Theater or Lyceum Theater (Red Hook, NY)
Students: $4.00 Guests: $5.00
Regal Cinemas in Poughkeepsie Galleria or Fishkill 12
Students: $7.00 Guests: $9.00
Tickets for trips go on sale for students January 23, 2017. Student may purchase only one student and one guest ticket until the open ticket sale date on February 6, 2017. After this date, non-students and those wishing to purchase additional tickets may do so at the guest rate.
NHL Hockey
Islanders Vs. Devils
February 18
Slap shots, fast breaks and stick saves, check out the fastest sport on ice as the Islanders take on the Devils in a classic battle. The bus leaves Lot D at 4:00 p.m. and returns immediately after the 7:00 p.m. game.
Students: $49.00 Guests: $59.00
March NYC Trip
March 25
Here's your chance to browse through the historical city for the day or take in all of its cultural and culinary delights. Or, just shop till you drop! The bus drops off and picks up at Bryant Park. Bus leaves "Lot D" at 8:00 a.m. and departs New York City at 6:00 p.m.
Students: $10.00 Guests: $15.00
April NYC Trip
April 22
Hit the museums, see a show, or just tour the city. We'll drop you off and you can wander at your leisure. The bus drops off and picks up at Bryant Park. Bus leaves "Lot D" at 8:00 a.m. and leaves the city at 6:00 p.m.
Students: $10.00 Guests: $15.00
Broadway Play:" Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"
April 29
When Charlie wins a golden ticket to the weird and wonderful Wonka Chocolate Factory, it's the chance of a lifetime to feast on the sweets he's always dreamed of. But beyond the gates astonishment awaits, as down the sugary corridors and amongst the incredible edible delights, the five lucky winners discover not everything is as sweet as it seems.
A chocolate garden, an army of squirrels and the curiously peculiar Oompa-Loompas must be believed to be seen in this gigantic new musical that is choc-full of fantastical treats to dazzle your senses. Bus leaves from "Lot D" at 3:00 p.m. and returns immediately after the show.
Students: $49.00 Guests: $59.00
NOTE: You MUST be currently enrolled in spring 2017 credit-bearing classes to be eligible to purchase tickets. See the following for further guidelines.
1. Tickets for all trips are available on a first-come, first-served basis in the Office of Student Activities located on the main floor of Dutchess Hall (D-201).
Tickets for all discount tickets trips start for students:
Monday, January 23
Tickets will be available from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday - Friday
Cash and Credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, & Discover) are accepted. Please note there is a $10 minimum for credit cards. NOTE: YOU MAY ONLY PURCHASE TICKETS FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR GUEST(S).
2. Buses will leave the College at the stated time and will depart the activity not later than 10 minutes after the activity has concluded. Students not returning on the bus must inform the escort. If you miss the bus, it is your responsibility to obtain transportation to your destination at your own expense. Students are responsible for their personal belongings and the College and any part thereof is not responsible for any personal damage or loss ensued while participating in trips sponsored by the Student Activities Program.
3. Your SUNYCARD ID CARD must be presented when signing up for events and when receiving tickets on the bus. (A registration receipt is NOT acceptable.) Tickets are non-transferable (i.e. you may not give tickets to friends or relatives).
4. Students may bring one guest per trip unless otherwise noted.
5. For trips where bus transportation is provided, ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO RIDE THE BUS.
6. REFUNDS – Refunds will be granted in full only if you bring in your tickets and receipt at least ten (10) school days prior to said event. (PLEASE NOTE: NO refund will be granted for tickets returned less than 10 school days from the event. However, an exception to this ruling is if the event is a "sell out" AND the returned tickets are re-sold. Only under these circumstances will a refund be granted for tickets returned after the allowed return date.)
7. The open date policy for additional tickets for students and tickets for the general public is as such: Each semester a date will be set whereby remaining trips will be opened up to the student body and general public. The "open up" date for the fall 2016 semester is:
For All Events: Monday, February 6
8. The Student Activities Office reserves the right to suspend ticket sales to anyone who violates these guidelines.
We offer you the option of meeting the bus at several locations. When traveling south, buses will stop at Dutchess Community College South, Hollowbrook Plaza off Myers Corners Road. When traveling north, buses will stop at Stop and Shop in Rhinebeck (in front of the store). Pick up time for this stop is approximately 30 minutes after departure time from the college. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PICKED UP AT AN ALTERNATE LOCATION, YOU MUST INFORM US WHEN YOU PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS!


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Hold on to your credit cards, ladies, this week sees the launch of shopping apps by Yoox, Rue La La, and Mango that will make it easy to update your wardrobe wherever you are. Plus: MAC has launched a mobile site!
The Spanish retailer's new iPhone app gives you everything from store locator to the collections, sharing your favorites with friends, virtually combining your own wardrobe with Mango items, and exclusive discounts for users. You will also find styling tutorials from whatshouldiwearbymango.com and a feed from the chain's blog, keepthebeat.mango.com. The app is available in four languages.
Rue La La
The sample sale site has launched apps for the iPhone and iPad to go with its mobile website, m.ruelala.com. To celebrate the launch, Rue La La will be giving away one iPad and a $500 shopping voucher every day through June 6.
The cosmetics brand has launched a mobile website, accessible on the mobile device of your choice, allowing you to shop products and watch how-to videos on the go. A store locator is also part of the offering.
Glamour Ask a Stylist
There are countless styling advice apps on iTunes but this one links you to professional stylists in real time: US Glamour has partnered with shopping website Like.com to respond to your outfit questions in minutes. All you have to do is take a picture of the outfit you're unsure about, submit it to a Glamour stylist of your choice, and tell them what occasion you're planning to wear it at.
The magazine has teamed up with Swarovski Crystal Palace for a free app to get the publication's content from wallpaper.com onto your iPhone: art, fashion, travel, architecture and technology are all part of the coverage in the daily edit that comes with extensive picture galleries and videos from design events and fashion shows.
iPad apps:
With the shopping site's new app, you can shop all over the world, buy presents and have them delivered, create a wish list of your favourite products, and share your choices with your friends.
Letter to Jane magazine
Designed specifically for the iPad, this new magazine makes a triumphant debut with contributions from Yoko Ono, Hedi Slimane, and the Band of Outsiders. Selling for just $0.99, the 'zine is set to become a must-read for the style-loving.
Norma Kamali swimwear
As part of the Interview app (below), designer Norma Kamali has launched an interactive ad for her swimwear collections that can be browsed on the iPad as well as shared with your friends.
A 'mood video' has also been released: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA8GZrS1DIM.
The magazine's app includes more than 300 screens featuring an interview with British actress Carey Mulligan, a controversial photo shoot starring the male cast of Jersey Shore and supermodel Bar Refaeli, and more celeb stories on the likes of Ke$ha, Justin Bieber, and Kellan Lutz.
Many reviewers are claiming that the shopping experience is more graphical, seamless, and all in all more enjoyable than on the auctioner's website. Comes with integrated access to your personal eBay account.
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UPDATE 2-Rio Tinto not looking at acquisitions to raise defences against Glencore
* CEO says focus on improving mining operations
* Says "not looking to do anything stupid"
* Open to offers for some assets at right price (Adds Rio strategy context, iron ore market)
By Silvia Antonioli
LONDON, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Global mining company Rio Tinto is not looking to make any major acquisition to protect itself from a potential Glencore takeover, Chief Executive Sam Walsh said at a meeting with investors on Thursday.
Since Rio Tinto rejected a tentative approach from smaller rival Glencore in July, speculation has mounted that it might rush to make an acquisition to raise its defences against another takeover attempt by the mining and trading giant.
But Rio Tinto's boss said the focus remained on improving mining operations and delivering more cash to shareholders, rather than becoming involved in disruptive mergers and acquisitions.
"I see speculation that we are going to rush out and buy somebody. Let me reassure you that we are not looking at any major M&A. We are not looking at doing anything stupid," Walsh said.
Glencore Chief Executive Ivan Glasenberg has criticized the strategy of rival miners BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto to flood the market with new iron supply to squeeze out smaller competitors. He says the move has backfired and led to a fall in the iron ore price, which is down 50 percent this year. Continuación...


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CANADA STOCKS-TSX may open lower as soft commodities offset data
June 10 (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index looked set to open lower on Friday as softer prices for oil, copper and other commodities offset the benefit of firmer Canadian jobs data.
Canada's unemployment rate fell to 7.4 percent in May from 7.6 percent as 22,300 jobs were added, marked by a solid shift towards full-time private-sector employment, according to Statistics Canada data on Friday. [ID:nN10163513]
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A Honey of a Cause-Related Marketing Campaign
Try as I might I can't imagine the focus group that suggested
' fun and creative campaign cause-related marketing to save the American honey bee.
You've probably seen it. The super-premium ice cream maker is doing an old-fashioned cause-related marketing campaign to save the stressed and overstretched honey bee in America. Over the last several years 25 percent of Western honey bee population has disappeared, which is being attributed to the poorly-understood threat called
Colony Collapse Disorder
But let's put a little meat on that bone: 1/3 of our food supply relies on honey bee pollination.
When you buy any of the 11 varieties of Haagen-Dazs ice cream whose ingredients require honey bee pollination, the company makes a donation to
research at
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rich with content that explains the issues and offers suggestions for what you can do, campaign branded t-shirts, an outreach campaign, lesson plans, computer wallpaper and screensavers, a bee advisory board and more. I've also seen at least one FSI for the campaign.
The website is cute, although it has a few silly hiccups.
The wonder of all this is the pairing of Haagen-Dazs, which is owned by
General Mills
, and bee research. General Mills is rightly well-known for its cause marketing. A cursory glance suggests that perhaps 50 percent of its brands actively utilize the practice.
But odd as it seems at first glance, if you go beneath the surface it makes sense.
The bee crisis is real and has gotten a fair amount of media attention in the United States.
With their astonishingly complex culture that has been studied since before the time of the Ancient Greeks along their many beneficial activities, bees are the mostly cuddly insect around.
Haagen-Dazs has genuine self interest in a future of healthy apiaries.
I like it.
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Annual Turnover: £374,114 Annual Net Profit: £35,282
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Intelligent Business Transfer are pleased to bring to the market a reputable contractor specializing in property maintenance renovation and general building works for commercial clients. It has a great reputation within the sector with contract with many high profile commercial clients in addition to a skilled workforce. The business has garnered an excellent reputation in Leicester and within the industry itself.
The business has the potential to grow if advertising was to be increased and if time was spent proactively seeking new clients. Embracing social media accounts would present an effective marketing platform and allow the business to increase its exposure. Hiring more qualified workers would also allow the business to manage a larger workload and would effectively help increase the yearly takings.
The turnover of the business is currently £375,000 a year, but has been as high as £750,000 in recent years but has declined in line with the construction industry as a whole. As the economy improves the turnover of the business is likely to increase significantly.
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There should be a double bonus for Australian financial stocks today. First, American financial shares rallied overnight. The shares of Wells Fargo, the fifth largest bank in the United States, were up over 33% after the bank raised its dividend by ten percent and said its revenues were up 16%.
That's the kind of lead that should be good for the local market. And then there is that speech Glenn Stevens gave yesterday in Sydney.
Stevens said that higher interest rates look like they've slowed down demand in the Australian economy. As a result, "It looks more likely now than it did a couple of months ago that this more moderate track for demand will continue," and that it would "in due course begin to exert downward" pressure on inflation.
The papers loved it. "RBA boss hints at rate cute," reports the Age. "Australia winning battle against inflation," reports the Herald Sun. "Reserve may cut rates despite 'high' inflation," says the Canberra Times. We are told that even a big CPI number on July 23rd won't worry the RBA too much, now that the fight against inflation appears to be won.
Hang on.
We are going to ask an obvious question. Sometimes the obvious is so obvious that everyone ignores it. But we feel compelled to be obvious this morning and are not afraid of looking stupid for challenging a basic assumption. It wouldn't be the first time.
Does the Reserve Bank (and the bulk of the Australian financial press) believe that consumer demand causes inflation? If so, it is either a deliberate deception or monumental monetary stupidity. Let's unpack that, as Dr. Phil might say.
If you think that rising demand causes inflation, the sensible thing to do is reduce demand. You do that by raising interest rates. The higher cost of money causes people to cut back borrowing and be more prudent. Aggregate demand in the economy falls, and, presumably, so do prices.
But that is all catastrophically backwards. It is a text book cause of putting the cart before the horse. In simple terms, it is a faulty definition of inflation. Inflation is not "rising prices." More on this crucial point in just a moment.
While we're on the subject of inflation, both consumer and producer prices in the U.S. blew out this week. Big time. Uh oh.
Wholesale (producer) prices in the U.S. grew by 9.2% over the last twelve months, according to data published yesterday by the Commerce Department. It was the fastest 12-month growth rate in 27 years. And today, we learn that consumer prices are rising, too.
Consumer prices for food, fuel and other things people actually buy rose by 1.1% in June. But over the last twelve months, the rate is more like 5% (and probably much higher than the official figures suggest). It's a shame if you're living on fixed income in America these days. The Fed is plundering the value of your savings to bail its buddies in the risk-mismanagement business. Too bad.
However, the bad news for savers kicked of a perverse rally in the U.S. dollar. P-day will have to wait. Ignoring the actions and words of the Fed, some traders apparently believe the higher inflation figures mean the Fed is more likely to raise rates this year, making the greenback a bit more attractive than it currently is (how much uglier can it get?)
The merest possibility of a rate hike, plus the good news from Wells Fargo, sent the Dow up 276 points. The money centre banks (Wells Fargo, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America) were all up, with the industry index itself climbing by 16%.
Here's some more obvious free advice: Don't be fooled by the fake-out rallies. The big money centre banks are unlikely to fail. Why?
Well, take a look at who's on the Board of Directors of the New York Fed and you'll see why. The big American banks won't be allowed to fail because they ARE the Fed. The smaller banks that have GSE debt on the balance sheet (but don't have friends in high places) aren't going to fare as well.
Even though we expect the money centre banks to look out for each other (via the Fed), there are signs of dissension in the ranks among the Wall Street elite. It's kind of fun to watch. We read yesterday that Lehman's CEO Richard Fuld is rumoured to have confronted Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein over even more rumours that Goldman traders were disseminating bogus information on Bear Stearns and Lehman to make a profit.
Now that could ever happen, could it? It would be illegal to profit by knowingly circulating false or misleading information. We can't imagine anyone in the investment banking business doing it.
Yes, internal quarrelling is a sure sign that Wall Street is really worried about its model. It's like watching a bunch of high school cheerleaders gossip about who's cheating on who's boyfriend. Normally these institutions are united in their Olympian disdain for the individual investor. They are now divided over their mistrust of one another.
To modify an ancient phrase, "Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make envious."
Now, about this inflation issue.
If you navigate your way to the Glossary of Terms and Definitions at the Reserve Bank's website, here is how you'll find the word inflation defined:
A measure of the change (increase) in the general level of prices.
That is simply wrong. But rather than acting like a school teacher about it, we'll give you an example of why this definition mistakes an effect for the cause.
Let's say you're in a bar having a quiet drink. Next to you is a man drooling on his chicken parma. He later rouses himself and turns to make conversation with you, only his tongue is so thick you can't understand anything he's said. Much later, he strips naked and dances up and down the length of the bar, shouting that the Dow is going to 20,000. After the police come and arrest Jim Cramer, they ask you a few questions.
"Did you know the suspect was drunk because he couldn't hold his head up?"
"Did you know the suspect was drunk because he danced a jig in your mashed potatoes?"
"Did you know he was drunk because he claimed the Dow was going to 20,000?"
"Then how did you know he was drunk?"
"Because I saw him drink eight beers, three shots of vodka, and a purple hooter."
"You mean you knew he was drunk because he'd consumed too much alcohol?"
Inflation is caused by an increase in money supply. Rising prices are merely the effect of the increased money supply. You wouldn't blame rising prices on excess demand any more than you'd attribute a man's drunkenness to his behaviour. The effects cannot be the cause.
-You don't cool inflation by cooling demand. You cool inflation by making sure the growth in the money supply does not exceed the growth in the economy. When money supply growth exceeds real growth in goods and services, prices are going to rise. It all begins with the artificially adjusted supply of money.
Simple price rises are not inflationary. For example, with low unemployment in Australia, wages are going to rise. This is a simple case of supply and demand, and doesn't have as much to do with the supply of money. But rising prices don't always indicate inflation. You get inflation when the money supply expands, plain and simple.
For years in Australia, money and credit growth has exceeded GDP growth. This is what causes inflation. The RBA knows this. It published the graph below. What do you think it means?
The RBA says that, "Broad money is defined as currency (that is, notes and coins held by the private non-bank sector) and highly liquid assets held at financial institutions by the private sector, including deposits, cash management trusts (CMTs) and certificates of deposit (CDs)."
You can't make this stuff up. It is what it is. The Bank erroneously believes that inflation is a rise in prices. But a rise in the general level of prices can only occur if there is first a rise in the money supply. And as you can see, the Bank knows full well that broad money has been growing at double digit rates for years, most recently at 17%. It should not come as a surprise then, that prices are rising. But you can't blame it on consumer demand. Inflation begins and ends with money supply growth.
Just exactly why governments pursue systematic inflationary policies is another question. And it's not just an economic question either. It's partly moral and partly philosophical and somewhat diabolical. More on that tomorrow. And by all means, if you believe we've made a mistake in our interpretation or mischaracterised the RBA's definition of inflation, let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Cavaliers dump Warriors to force Game Seven to NBA Finals
By Frank Pingue
CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The Cleveland Cavaliers took another step in their historic comeback attempt with a 115-101 win over the Golden State Warriors on Thursday to force a once-unthinkable decisive seventh game to the NBA Finals.
The LeBron James-led Cavaliers, one victory away from becoming the first team to win an NBA championship after falling behind 3-1 in the Finals, will now head to Oakland for Sunday's winner-take-all showdown riding a wave of momentum.
"It's two of the greatest words in the world, and that's 'Game Seven,' so I'll play it anywhere," James told reporters when asked about hitting the road for Sunday's game.
Cleveland used an explosive first half in which they led by as many as 22 points to set the tone and never allowed the usually sharp-shooting Warriors to settle into a rhythm or get any closer than seven points the rest of the way.
The Cavaliers built a 24-point lead in the third that looked like it might spell the end for the Warriors but the reigning champions finally closed out the quarter on a 10-0 run to pull within nine points.
But the Cavaliers, who got a game-high 41 points from James, managed to hang on for the win and keep alive their hopes at a maiden NBA championship.
Stephen Curry scored a team-high 30 points for the stunned Warriors but the two-time reigning league Most Valuable Player fouled out of the game late in the fourth quarter and then, in a rare display of frustration, threw his mouthguard into the stands to earn the first ejection of his career.
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Development of male-specific SCAR marker in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.)
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- Dhawan, C., Kharb, P., Sharma, R. et al. Tree Genetics & Genomes (2013) 9: 1143. doi:10.1007/s11295-013-0617-9
Genetics of control mechanisms that underlies sex differentiation in date palm is not known. Sex of the plants becomes known only at the time of first flowering, which takes around 5 years. In comparison, molecular diagnosis (if available/feasible) promises quick and reliable identification of sex types very early when plantlets are growing in seedbeds. To develop such an assay, genomic DNA from 45 individual plants (25 female and 20 male) belonging to different varieties of date palm was subjected to PCR amplification using 100 random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and 104 intersimple sequence repeat (ISSR) primers. Initially, two bulk genomic DNA samples (each made by pooling DNA from ten male and female plants, separately) were used. A primer showing sex-specific band in bulked samples was further used for amplification of the genomic DNA of the individual samples of that bulk. Only one RAPD primer, OPA-02, amplified a fragment of ~1.0 kb in all the individual samples of male genotypes, whereas this fragment was absent in all the female genotypes. This male-specific fragment was cloned and sequenced (GenBank accession no. JN123357), and a sequence-characterized amplified region (SCAR) primer pair was designed that amplified a 406-bp fragment in both female and male genotypes and a unique fragment of 354 bp in only male genotypes. The SCAR marker was further validated using 25 female and ten male date palm plants belonging to different varieties collected from different locations.


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Things You'll Need
- Eye exam
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- Lose weight
- Healthy diet
- Doctor's note of your physical capabilities if you are disabled
- Breathing techniques
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- Weights to lift
Discontinue drug usage, unless it is for prescription drugs. You will be tested for illegal drug usage. If you are under a doctor's care and are taking prescription medicine, explain this during your police medical.
Have an eye exam prior to the police medical exam. Get fitted for contact lenses or glasses if you need them. Police officers are required to have 20/20 vision with corrective lenses. In addition to eyesight, your hearing will be tested. If you wear a hearing aid make sure you have it on during the test.
Be in reasonably good physical condition. The doctor will test all of your vital organs. If you have high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol change your diet and get these things under control. Lose weight if necessary. You should be within normal weight range for your height.
If you have had any surgeries in the past, such as knee surgery, have a note from your doctor that explains your level of physical capability. If you need to have surgery for any condition, check with the police department you are applying for to see if having your problem corrected will make a difference in getting hired.
Prepare for your psychological exam by being relaxed and calm. Be prepared to answer all questions honestly to the best of your knowledge. Never lie in the psychological exam or the polygraph test. Pass the polygraph test by practicing breathing techniques. Taking a polygraph test may make you nervous and your breathing may get erratic and skew the test results, even if you are honest. To past the test, practice even breathing keeping your voice calm, while answering tough questions.
Get in shape. Train everyday by running, doing sit-ups, pushups and pull-ups. Take classes at the gym and lift weights. Get a personal trainer if necessary. During the exam you may be asked to run 1.5 miles in less than 15 minutes, do 27 sit-ups within a minute, do 18 push-ups within a minute and climb a six-foot wall.


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Gajanan Mishra (3rd April 19sixty / Tikapali, Patnagarh, Balangir, Odisha, India now at Tapobana, Titilagarh, Odisha, India)
In Everything In Everybody - Poem by Gajanan Mishra
I know You are everywhere.
You know everything here there
That are happening always.
I know my name is not correct
I know my life is not permanent
I know there is nothing called time
Still I am here and You are watching me.
Nothing is in complete form I understand
Always everything is changing I realized.
It is not within my purview to show what is what
And You are watching me and awaiting for a reply.
I have no word to express myself
It is You who knows me better what for I am here.
Poet's Notes about The Poem
To Omniscient
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