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The Dallas Stars have been in a weird state of limbo for four years now. They've been one of those tweener mediocre teams since their last playoff berth after a decade of sustained success. Those teams generally have two directions they can go to get their franchises back on track. They can either tank and rack up the lottery picks or rebuild on the fly.
I used to lean towards the tankers. The closest thing I ever came to witnessing a full rebuild firsthand was the Stars dropping into the bottom five to draft Ric Jackman in 1996, and he had absolutely nothing to do with the immediate transformation of the franchise the following year. Needless to say, my thoughts on the topic weren't fully vetted.
I'm not going to spend the energy trying to convince you one way or the other on the broader topic of tanking vs. trying. I'm more interested in the trying to retool on the fly side of the equation. Joe Nieuwendyk and the Stars have been ruthlessly implementing change in Texas since the season ended. He has his detractors, but he's done yeoman's work with the Stars roster the past two weeks and for the organization as a whole since the Finals ended. The Stars are laying out a blueprint for rebuilding on the fly that is going largely unnoticed.
Building The Foundation
I'll let Mr. Zona get us started:
I really liked Dallas' draft last year, and Joe Niuwendyk's staff did it again this year. Radek Faksa is a year away from the NHL and an all-around talent and a big centre. They followed that up with Mike Winther at 54. He's a playmaker and has all kinds of agility. They can wait for a couple of years on him to develop. In between those two, they grabbed Ludvig Bystrom at 43. Bystrom has all of the skills, but lacks strength – Dallas can wait.
They also tacked on a talented Finnish defenseman, Esa Lindell and Gemel Smith another forward with speed. Smith is really small, by the way, one of the smallest players I saw on Saturday.
If the Stars decide to target some offense in Jiri Hudler and some defense in Daniel Winnik or Jay McClement next week, they've put together a really strong base for a team. It's pretty amazing, no? A rebuild without tanking? I was told this was not possible.
Not only is it possible, but the Stars appear to have pulled it off with their flurry of moves between the draft and the first week of free agency. The Stars strange financial situation of the past three to four years basically mandated that they had to be mediocre. They were unable to spend much anything more than the salary floor because excess spending was never in the best interest of the crumbling Hicks Sports Group or the 30+ lenders who more or less owned the team. Tanking was never an option because it would drive the value of the franchise down.
Because of that situation (and Nieuwendyk's personal feelings against trading picks) the Stars kept and used all of their premium picks from 2009-2012. Some of their first round decisions have been questionable. Jack Campbell for one and punching bag Scott Glennie being the other. The Stars are very high on both players though. In watching a couple AHL games late in the year both players were impressive.
They've really been hitting later in the draft though. Prior to this most recent draft the Stars had 11 forwards in their system who had NHL equivalent point totals of 24 or more. That includes three wingers (Austin Smith, Reilly Smith, and Alex Chiasson) over 40 points. These prospects, most likely, aren't superstars. A lot of them are NHL talent though. The same story is true on the blueline. They are very high on Jamie Oleksiak, Patrik Nemeth, Philip Larsen, and Brenden Dillon with Jyrki Jokipakka and John Klingberg playing in Europe.
Misleading Indicators
The prospect foundation is nice, but the Stars also have talented young core pieces in place. Jamie Benn, Loui Eriksson, Alex Goligoski, and Kari Lehtonen is a hell of a start for a franchise. When the Stars traded Mike Ribeiro at the draft it signalled to the hockey world that the Stars were going into a rebuild. In a way that's true. What they were doing was shifting the focus of the roster to Jamie Benn. He was an elite scorer last year, but he wasn't put in the best position to succeed because of how much they had to protect Ribeiro. That will be different in 2013 for sure.
Both the Stars top and third lines were mediocre possession lines last year. The biggest culprit in the top six was Ribeiro with his -4.4 Corsi Relative in cupcake minutes. The Vern Fiddler, Radek Dvorak, and Eric Nystrom line was solid defensively, but offered nothing in the way of offense. Only 46 forwards in the league were on the ice for fewer shots than Fiddler.
Their astonishing lack of depth up front is what forced that trio into a checking role. Brenden Morrow was off all year. For half of the season Adam Burish and Steve Ott were on the wings with Jamie Benn. That just isn't a recipe for success. Any number of prospects could have been rushed for the 2013 season to fill those holes. Instead, with as little long term risk as possible, they pursued stop gap options in Derek Roy, Ray Whitney, and Jaromir Jagr.
Roy and Whitney are the two more interesting acquisitions. Roy has a history of playing tougher minutes for the Sabres. At worst the Sabres haven't felt the need to protect Roy. At best, last season, he performed well in pretty tough ice time. Whitney is a guy not known for his defense, yet Dave Tippett hasn't felt the need to protect him the past two seasons. Last year, in fact, Whitney's line was routinely matched against the top line of the opposition. Both players have a history of doing well in possession metrics too. The Stars seem to love #fancystats now.
Foundation Repaired
The veteran additions to the roster have given the Stars a stable foundation with which to introduce their young players to the NHL. No prospect is going to be required to step into tough minutes or too much responsibility. They haven't handed out long term contracts so the prospects also have a lot of upward mobility. It may not seem like a rebuild in the tradition sense of the word, but everything the Stars have done is geared towards creating a positive atmosphere to allow their young players to develop.
So, when you see analysis such as this from EJ Hradek…
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@9modano got run out of DAL at age 40, but now they sign 2 40-year-olds (Jagr/Whitney). Youth movement?
…feel free to laugh not only at the comparisons of 40 year old Modano to the highly productive Whitney, but at the shallowness of the analysis. Fortunately noted prospect supporter Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News gets it.
Of course, it all has to come together, but the Stars have started the transition forward. The coaches have some veterans as crutches, but they are definitely going to have to rely on the 20-something core players more than ever.
And that's a big reason all of these changes are being made — to move toward the youthful future but to do so with a safety net in place.
That phrase is the key for rebuilding without tanking. You don't need 1-1 picks for four drafts in a row to build a team. Draft and develop your prospects then give them a structured positive environment where they are given ample opportunities to prove their worth. The Stars have executed that plan almost flawlessly this offseason. It should be fascinating to see how it all plays out.
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We've written on this blog many times -- including in The Fix's Monday column -- about how Republicans in Congress have very little impetus to compromise on the "fiscal cliff," given how conservative their states/districts are.
And it's true; the vast majority of these members only have to worry about their primaries, where compromise amounts to a Scarlet Letter.
But in the lame duck session, there are also many members of Congress who don't have to worry about their next reelection campaign. That's because they are retiring or lost in November.
In fact, there are more than enough of these Republicans in the House to pass a "fiscal cliff" deal if they and Democrats vote in unison.
In the House, 39 GOPers are leaving -- well more than the 26 crossover votes that Democrats would need to get to 217 votes. And in the Senate, there are six outgoing members -- enough to get to 59 votes and just shy of overriding a filibuster.
These members, unless they plan to run for office again, have little to be worried about politically by casting a vote that is unpopular with the GOP base. And they will often be the first members that congressional leaders go to when seeking votes for such a deal in the lame duck.
In fact, in 2008, there was a concerted and successful effort to get these members on board with the controversial Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailout. In the end, 26 of 31 outgoing House members supported TARP, according to Josh Kraushaar, and nearly a third of the 65 Republicans voting for it fit that description.
A case in point is retiring Rep. Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio), an ally of House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) who has spent much of the last month pushing his party toward compromise. He and fellow outgoing Reps. Robert Dold (R-Ill.), Mary Bono Mack (R-Calif.) and Charlie Bass (R-N.H.), in fact, were among the first to urge their colleagues to allow for tax cuts for the wealthy to expire.
In both chambers, of course, it's not just about getting a majority. It's also about getting the bill to the floor for that majority vote. (And in the Senate, in particular, it has taken 60 votes to avert a filibuster and pass basically anything).
What's more, several of these outgoing members are very conservative (see: DeMint, West, Walsh, etc.), and we should hardly count on them to vote for something that goes against their principles in the name of bipartisanship.
But as we get closer to a potential vote, the outgoing Republicans listed below should be among those considered most likely to support a deal, because they have the least to lose:
(Special thanks to Roll Call's great Casualty List for the info below):
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Steve Austria (R-Ohio)
Dan Burton (R-Ind.)
David Dreier (R-Calif.)
Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.)
Wally Herger (R-Calif.)
Tim Johnson (R-Ill.)
Steven LaTourette (R-Ohio)
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Sue Myrick (R-N.C.)
Ron Paul (R-Texas)
Todd Platts (R-Pa.)
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Ann Marie Buerkle (R-N.Y.)
Quico Canseco (R-Texas)
Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.)
Robert Dold (R-Ill.)
Frank Guinta (R-N.H.)
Nan Hayworth (R-N.Y.)
Jeff Landry (R-La.)
Dan Lungren (R-Calif.)
David Rivera (R-Fla.)
Bobby Schilling (R-Ill.)
Joe Walsh (R-Ill.)
Allen West (R-Fla.)
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Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.)
Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.)
Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio)
Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.)
John Sullivan (R-Okla.)
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Rick Berg (R-N.D.)
Connie Mack (R-Fla.)
Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.)
Bob Turner (R-N.Y.)
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Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas)
Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)
Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)
Defeated (1)
Scott Brown (R-Mass.)
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A diode, in lay terms, is a semiconductor that has two electrodes and that passes electric current in one direction only. An ideal diode offers no impedance to current flow in .one direction and an infinite impedance in the other. A typical solid-state diode has a very low forward resistance (resulting in a 0.5 to 1.5V drop) and a reverse current of a few milliamperes when blocking several hundred volts, as shown in Fig. 1.
What causes current flow?
A typical semiconductor diode has what are called N-type and P-type materials. These materials are created by altering their crystal structure; in other words, some atoms within their crystal are replaced with atoms from another element.
An N-type material is created by adding atoms from an element that has more electrons in its outer shell than the crystal. This provides more free electrons and since they have a negative charge, the material is called N-type ("N" for negative).
The same procedure is used to create P-type material, except that atoms from an element having fewer electrons in its outer shell are added to the crystal. This results in empty holes in the crystalline structure and these represent positive charges; hence, the name P-type ("P" for positive).
When voltage is applied to a diode, the holes in the P-type material are filled with the free electrons from the N-type material; thus, the current flow from negative potential to positive potential. (Note that in electron theory, current flows from negative to positive, whereas conventional current flow is positive to negative.)
The above is a very simplified explanation; however, it provides the justification for uni-directional current flow.
Which end is which?
When you apply the proper polarity to a diode, it's called forward bias and results in forward current. When you apply the opposite polarity, it's called reverse bias and this results in a reverse current that is very close to zero.
As shown in Fig. 2, the symbol for a diode has two parts: a straight line representing the cathode and a triangle representing the anode. As we discussed earlier, electrons flow from the cathode to the anode.
Manufacturers denote anode and cathode locations in varying manners. One method has the diode symbol on the surface of the diode; another uses a band around the diode indicating the cathode; a third method has the cathode end physically larger than the anode end; and a fourth method has the cathode end beveled.
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Testing diodes
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Open diode. When taking two sets of resistance readings, one with test leads connected positive-to-anode, negative-to-cathode, and one with negative-to-anode, positive-to-cathode, high resistance readings are obtained in both cases.
Shorted diode. When taking two sets of resistance readings, one with test leads connected positive-to-anode, negative-to-cathode, and one with negative-to-anode, positive-to-cathode, low resistance readings are obtained in both cases.
Good diode. When taking two sets of resistance readings, one with test leads connected positive-to-anode, negative-to-cathode, and one with negative-to-anode, positive-to-cathode, the first connection provides a low resistance reading and the second connection provides a high resistance reading.
If a diode is open or shorted, it must be replaced.
Diode capacity and derating
The amount of current at which a diode can operate without damaging itself is limited by two factors: the size of its heat sink, which helps dissipate heat, and its P-type material, N-type material (PN) junction temperature rise.
Most diodes are rated to operate at 25[degrees]C, or at room temperature. This is a reflection of the diode's PN junction temperature rise. If the ambient temperature increases, the diode can't dissipate as much heat and must then be derated. This means that the diode's maximum operating current must be reduced. Manufacturers offer derating tables to help you find these limits.
Solid-state equipment manufacturers usually install heat sinks to permit internal diodes to operate at or close to maximum operating current. In retrofit or trouble-shooting activities, you may want to install a heatsink to overcome frequent diode damage. Again, this information is available from solid-state equipment manufacturers for your use.
Typical diode application
Diodes are usually seen in rectifiers, gates, modulators, and detectors. Let's talk about rectifiers here. While AC power is generally the most available, many electronic devices require DC power for operation. As such, AC power must be converted to DC. Circuits that provide this conversion are called rectifiers and these circuits use semiconductor diodes.
The simplest form of a rectifier circuit is the half-wave rectifier, as shown in Fig. 3. The circuit includes a load resistor, [R.sub.L], along with a diode across an AC source. A rectifier circuit affects the AC voltage by cutting it in half or, as is commonly said, rectifying it. Because the signal now travels in only one direction, it's called pulsating DC. This type of power supply circuit is only one in which diodes are used.


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During the past six weeks six of my friends or acquaintances have died.
Some of them were comparatively young, of my son's generation, but in most of these cases I had been personally involved in their care, making remedies for them as seemed necessary. In the most recent case I had made up an essence – Crowea, from the Australian Bush flowers – to help him to stop worrying, And within 12 hours of his receiving it I heard that he had died.
After this I felt that I needed a remedy for me. I dowsed for what I needed, as I usually do (see my Dowsing blog) and came up with four essences from the Range of Light made by Flower Essence Services of California (FES).
The first essence was Hawthorn. Hawthorn is for 'overly strong will that depletes heart balance', says FES. More particularly it is for someone who is 'easily agitated or stressed when personal will forces are not satisfied.' The next essence I selected for my new remedy was Mountain Forget-Me-Not which was for 'soul angst and alienation, feelings of isolation due to lack of connection and guidance from the spiritual world; confusion about life purpose and direction.'
A pattern seems to be emerging here: I am feeling uncomfortable because something I want to happen – so much that I can't even hear the promptings of my heart or my spirit guides – is not happening. My third essence is Ocotillo, and it appears to add an extra emphasis to my imbalance: Ocotillo is for 'excessive psychic "fire" leading to emotional reactivity, psychic projection and distortion, or various forms of anger and violence.' This is strong stuff: clearly I'm feeling what I'm feeling with considerable force. And finally Pedicularis goes into the mix, and this essence helps with 'excessive emotionality which inhibits deeper understanding of one's soul pain.'
So what is this 'soul pain' that has been so troubling me? I think the answer is that I was running with the idea that I should be using the essences to 'save' people from death, and that if I made a remedy for someone it would so dissolve their problems that they could go on indefinitely. I know that I didn't really believe that I could cheat death, but nonetheless I had a tendency to get angry if someone died that I had been treating – they should have responded more positively or, worse perhaps, I blamed myself for not coming up with the right remedies at the right time to ensure that they lived on!
I think the penny has dropped at last. When we are working with the essences we are working towards our better self-understanding, to finding out what is the very best for us, and then doing it to the very best of our ability and with the greatest enjoyment. Death will have his day, but until then we owe it to ourselves to get the greatest possible satisfaction from this life.


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Chokramudi Trekking – The lonely giant.
I have been travelling in Idukki district frequently for the last three years atleast. The exclamatory part of the travel in the district of Idukki is that every time when I go to Idukki I will come back with minimum 2 or 3 new places added to my "to do list". This time it was Rohan (Idukki trekking, Kolukkumala Trekking) who lighted the fire inside me to step on top of Chokramudi. Chokramudi stands as a unique piece of Elevated Mountain at an altitude of almost 7200 feet (not very exact as there are seldom any authentic descriptions on this peak in internet.) Unlike the other hill ranges in Idukki it stood separately and is not attached to any other hills or ranges of hills. I remember I wondered in the past trips to Idukki seeing this peak majestically standing there so many a times. But honestly speaking I never had any intentions or ascend Chokramudi.
Though you may not have heard of this peak earlier it is sure that you would have seen this peak at least once if you have ever been to Munnar. When going to Munnar from Adimaly side just before reaching Munnar you can see two majestic hills standing on the right side of the road in a distance in the midst of vast tea estates. But the actual base of the peak is in the gap road and the trekking starts from gap road itself. From Munnar it is almost 16 km towards Madurai SH gap road and right from the curve from where the actual gap road begins the trekking can be started. It was in my last trek to Kolukkumala with Madhu, Rohan mentioned about this peak and from that time itself I was searching for more details. At last I found Monichan's number after a series of phone calls to old acquaintances and non- acquaintances of Munnar. I was told that monichan is one person who can help me ascending Chokramudi. I managed to get Monichan's number. But it was very dis heartening to know that he is very busy with guests for the time being as it was a busy season in Munnar. But he was very good to me and gave the contact details of Sreeraj who was his friend and together they were starting an adventure tourism venture in the name of Astoria adventures. I contacted Sreeraj and soon the relationship flourished into a friendship and I was just waiting for an opportunity to meet them.
Thus on a Saturday evening I started for Munnar with a warm invitation from Sreeraj and Astoria. I reached Munnar by 9 pm and met Sreeraj on the way. We went to their new camp site at Pothamedu. The facilities arranged by Sreeraj were commendable. Luckily there were no guests for them that week end and I could stay in their Bamboo house in the night. The climate was very chilling and the night was well spend with a camp fire in the open area of their camp site. There was a family who takes care of the food and other amenities for the guests. The food prepared was sumptuous and I enjoyed the night to the core. Monichan, Santhosh and Suni also joined the camp. It was a very nice company and they made the day splendid with lot of crackling jokes and shared experiences of their daily life. We went to bed little late as they had a lot of adventure experience to share and I got a lot of valuable information and some ideas about some new routes from them. Our plan was to ascend Chokramudi in the morning. As Monichan was having guests he couldn't join us. Santhosh and Suni also had their work scheduled for the day and hence left early in the morning
It was a comparatively cold night but it was warm inside the Bamboo house and I could catch a good sleep. I woke up early in the morning to the chirrups of numerous varieties of birds. I could see some species which I haven't seen since then. Thought of roaming around for some time but as we had to start for the trek we got ready and started for Chokramudi. Having breakfast from the nearest hotel we straight away entered the Gap road. It is almost 16 Km from Munnar town into the gap road from where we were supposed to start the trekking. Needless to mention that the sceneries enroute gap road was very inviting and I couldn't stop myself stopping for some pictures in between. As Sreeraj was very familiar with the areas he pointed the best places where I could have breathtaking views of the unending tea estates and hill ranges. In 15 – 20 minutes we reached the base point of trekking. Eventually I learned from Sreeraj that from this point the actual Gap road begins.
Parking the bike on the road side we entered into a private property through which we can reach the base of Chokramudi and start the trekking. The initial gradient was not that steep but consisted of small rocks and mud path. But soon the gradients become tougher and it was turning out to be steeper at each step. There was a clear trail leading through the hill side covered with grass. The view were good from the beginning itself. The view to the back side was literally superb.
We could see a vast portion of the gap road as we attained some heights. The curling road was very beautiful to look at from the heights we were at. There were numerous varieties of flowers every were and Sreeraj was very knowledgeable about each species. He named every species with their characteristics and I wondered how he knows all this things. He was equivalent to a researcher in this part of the world and seems to know every bit of the terrain. I envied him . Our climb was very slow. We have dedicated the whole day for Chokramudi and hence we decided to take it really slow capturing everything on the way. There were many varieties of butterflies flying all around and I could get some pics.
Some flowers captured enroute…
The trekking to Chokramudi can be divided into four parts. The initial stretch is more than an average steep climb with rocky, muddy and grassy terrain. After that the gradient completely changes into a complete rocky terrain which is steeper and a bit dangerous also. The rocky terrain would take us to the Cross erected on the second stage of the trekking. It is till this point usually tourists come and leave. From the cross we need to enter a small shola cover which is very dense and need to be taken care of due to frequent disturbance of animals including Elephant, Guar, Snakes barking deer and so on. The rest of the terrain is the actual hard core trek wherein we will find it very difficult to show respect to out lungs and limbs. Thankfully the shola cover is very small and we could cover the same in 10 minutes if we walk without breaks. Though the cover is very small it was one of the densest shola I have covered in recent past. After the Shola forest we will emerge into a grass land which will soon turn into a cruel hard core climbing experience possessing threat to all our senses and physique.
After reaching the second stage we had a little break. I was not feeling so tired as the climate was very pleasant and a little misty. The view to the back side was getting better at each intervals and the peak was getting covered in mist which was a wonderful view from our elevated view. We had to stop over for some time as there was thick mist covering the shola forest and rest of the stretch. It would be a bad idea to enter into the shola forest when it is misty.
Anything can happen over a mist covered shola cover and besides that the fact that we may end up in shaking hands with and elephant or guar made up our mind to wait for some time giving the mist little time to play its role. We dare not play hide and seek in the shola forest in that mist. The wind was strong and the mist was spreading all over the rest of the stretch. I could see the top of Chokramudi in between and the very sight drained out the energy which was left with me. I could easily establish that the last stretch of the climb is going to be a cruel one.
We waited for almost 20 minutes but there were no indications of mist getting cleared and finally we decided to do the rest of the part in the same condition. Grabbing some strength we entered into the shola forest. It was very dense and our views were blocked by the thick mist. Luckily the shola stretch was very small and we emerged out of the other side of the shola in another 10 minutes.
The very sight of the last stretch was truly discouraging. It was literally steep. Nothing else. In the last stretch we saw some variety of floras. There was some Rhododendron trees flowered. The ascend was very slow due to steepness and I was a little tired also. For some time the mist got cleared but didn't last for long. In another 20 minutes we reached the top of the peak but were unable to have any views due to thick mist. It was really chilling and I was feeling very hungry. The breakfast we had has been completely consumed. Though the trek can be completed in two and a half hours with an average speed we took more than three hours as we explored all the nuke and corners of the peak.
After half an hour we decided to get back as there was no chance for the mist to get subsided and it was becoming very cold. The decent was also difficult due to the steepness. But comparatively easier to the ascend. It was almost 2 pm by then. Both of us felt really hungry. We explored the other part of the peak while descending. Clouds floating beneath our eyes and vast area of grass land and shola covers were a feast to eyes. As Chokramudi stood alone the surrounding places were so beneath us. We completed the top stretch and the shola in 30 minutes and had a break near the cross. In another 30 minutes we could complete the whole descend. By 3.30 we reached the normal grounds and headed back to our camp site. The road was so good and scenic. Chokramudi seemed majestic from the gap road and the actual shape and size of the peak was visible only from a distance.
Back at the camp I was so tired and so was Sreeraj. I was planning to return back on the same day but as it was already very late Sreeraj insisted to start in the early morning and so did I. We had an early dinner that night and went to sleep early. Woke up early in the morning to roam around birding. Had some good catch. I could see red headed bee eater, Bull bull, and Wood pecker.
By 7 am I started for Cochin bidding good bye to Sreeraj. That would a just a beginning of a wonderful acquaintance I am very sure about it. We have already discussed and finalized some other adventures. Hoping to materialize the same sooner. Thanks to Sreeraj Monichan and Astoria adventures for making Chokramudi possible for me and for their wonderful hosting.
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SHOCKWAVES – Kasumi
SHOCKWAVES (82 min) is a darkly comic psychological thriller about a man whose traumatic memories of childhood send him on a hallucinogenic carnival ride of self-destruction and murder. Through a surrealistic Möbius strip of alternate realities, shifting times and multiple dimensions, SHOCKWAVES weaves a kaleidoscopic nightmare tapestry of abuse and revenge.
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Kasumi, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow and director of the critically acclaimed experimental feature film, Shockwaves, is an artist working most recently in cinematic assemblage, taking the visual and auditory components of our culture and reconstituting them as bold representations of the human experience. She uses traditional and modern media to imagine the complex processes of the human brain, synthesizing different methods of expression into a metaphorical language that resembles the stream of messages and subconscious connections making up human perception.
Kasumi has won global acclaim for her experimental films and video performance pieces.She has performed in settings including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Württembergischen Kunstverein Stuttgart and the Chroma Festival de Arte Audiovisual and has collaborated with artists as diverse as Grandmaster Flash, DJ Spooky, Modeselektor, the New York Philharmonic, members of the Cleveland Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra.
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For me, art is the use of any achievable means to attain understanding: a way to solve a problem, to describe a condition, to illustrate a concept or to ask a question. Filmmaking is an especially effective means of depicting the labyrinths of our interior lives—that strange alchemy of consciousness that transmutes memories, desires and experience into the stories that provide each of us with some sort of way to make sense of the world.
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To my friends on JET,
Recontracting is all anyone can talk about these days. For a while, I had been considering writing a post explaining why I'm not recontracting, why I'm doing one year on the JET Program. But I feel that, through so many different conversations — both with many of you here and with friends and family back home — I've actually expressed it pretty clearly already.
What I want to write about instead is the reception of my news that I'm leaving in August, and how much it disappoints me, saddens me, stresses me out. Explaining my decision to my supervisor a few days ago was certainly a somber occasion, but after just one question she accepted my decision and that was that.
The reactions of some of my fellow JETs, on the other hand, have all too often been accusative, pitying, and altogether lacking in understanding and support. People have nagged me about all the great stuff happening after August that I'll miss; they have insinuated that they know better than I how I should spend my youth (many other JETs are older than me) and that it is a waste to leave the program after one year.
A wise fellow JET told me a while ago that the root of people's negative and unsupportive reactions is their insecurity at knowing I and others will be leaving while the recontracting JETs stay behind in Japan: they become afraid to grow too close with me because soon I won't be around. I understand this feeling of uncertainty and fear. I also understand that JETs who have been here longer than I, but have decided to return home this year, experience similar misunderstanding and guilt-tripping from their friends here. But I think the pressure on me and the other one-year JETs is harsher and is patently unfair.
Let me first say that I had absolutely no inkling when I applied to the Program that not only was staying for more than one year the norm, but there would be such intense pressure to stay — not from my workplace, but from other JETs! In fact, part of why I chose to apply to and then to accept a position through JET was that it began with a one-year contract; other well-known programs like Teach for America and the Peace Corps have a minimum commitment of two years.
My plan from early in university, maybe even from high school, was to spend a year abroad after graduating, and that plan did not change throughout the JET application and acceptance process. So I feel like I'm being punished, by people who just met me a few months ago, for having my own expectations and ideas for the near future. Had I arrived in Japan and chattered constantly about my glowing plans to stay for three years, and then backed out, I could better understand people's disappointment and judgment. But I have known myself and my goals since the beginning.
- [Note: There are many other facets to my decision to leave: it's not as simple as "I made a plan and I'm sticking to it." For a while after I had begun to settle into life here, I was seriously considering staying another year. If you're interested in the other factors in my decision not to recontract, I'd love to talk about it online or in person!]
Here's the simple truth: I am not you. Every single person here on JET comes from different circumstances and accordingly has different plans and values. To presume that you can discern or even prescribe my goals and priorities insults me.
Maybe this post has begun to sound like I resent everyone who signed the "Yes" box on our recontracting papers. Far from it! I'm calling you out on your treatment of my decision not because I dislike or disrespect you — it's the opposite. Many of you have become my closest friends already. I love that I have the privilege of getting to know such different people from so many parts of the world. I am so honored to be a part of this program; I know my time here will be a fond memory for the rest of my life. And having had such an amazing time so far, I completely understand why many of you want to continue your experience for another year or more.
However, I feel that my friends' obsession and unease over my "imminent" departure (six months! The blink of an eye!..) harms our relationships. I can't connect with you if you see me as a calendar date rather than a person. I want to settle this point of misunderstanding so that we can enjoy more comfortable friendships for the remainder of my time here.
Please remember also that this focus on my leaving tarnishes my experience. As a one-year JET, I am working extra hard to pack in as much fun, travel, work experience and friendship as I possibly can, and it is difficult to live in the present when I'm constantly being reminded of my departure.
For everyone except the few JETs who will end up living in Japan long-term, this is a temporary situation. Mine is more temporary than many of yours, but we will all have to deal with departures and goodbyes at some point. So I'm asking you to do me the great service of accepting that I will leave you in August, for reasons that are legitimate and my own, and moving on to enjoy the significant amount of time we still have together.
I want to hear from everyone out there, too: What is on your mind as the recontracting deadline approaches? What are some communication difficulties between leaving and recontracting JETs, and how do you approach them? Should JET change its minimum contract to two years?
One last thing: this post certainly does not sum up the behavior of all the JETs I know, and I want to thank many of you for being incredibly supportive, respectful and understanding. I already feel that I'll look back on JET as a time of significant personal growth, and it's in large part to do with the really quality people with whom I've had the good fortune to become friends. Stay classy, Toyama. 🙂


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Antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, and beta-blockers are the most common medications used for anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders include:
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)
- Panic disorder
- Social phobia
Antidepressants were developed to treat depression, but they also help people with anxiety disorders. SSRIs such as fluoxetine (Prozac), sertraline (Zoloft), escitalopram (Lexapro), paroxetine (Paxil), and citalopram (Celexa) are commonly prescribed for panic disorder, OCD, PTSD, and social phobia. The SNRI venlafaxine (Effexor) is commonly used to treat GAD. The antidepressant bupropion (Wellbutrin) is also sometimes used. When treating anxiety disorders, antidepressants generally are started at low doses and increased over time.
Some tricyclic antidepressants work well for anxiety. For example, imipramine (Tofranil) is prescribed for panic disorder and GAD. Clomipramine (Anafranil) is used to treat OCD. Tricyclics are also started at low doses and increased over time.
MAOIs are also used for anxiety disorders. Doctors sometimes prescribe phenelzine (Nardil), tranylcypromine (Parnate), and isocarboxazid (Marplan). People who take MAOIs must avoid certain food and medicines that can interact with their medicine and cause dangerous increases in blood pressure. For more information, see the article on medications used to treat depression.
Benzodiazepines (anti-anxiety medications)
The anti-anxiety medications called benzodiazepines can start working more quickly than antidepressants. The ones used to treat anxiety disorders include:
- Clonazepam (Klonopin), which is used for social phobia and GAD
- Lorazepam (Ativan), which is used for panic disorder
- Alprazolam (Xanax), which is used for panic disorder and GAD.
Buspirone (Buspar) is an anti-anxiety medication used to treat GAD. Unlike benzodiazepines, however, it takes at least two weeks for buspirone to begin working.
Clonazepam, listed above, is an anticonvulsant medication.
Beta-blockers control some of the physical symptoms of anxiety, such as trembling and sweating. Propranolol (Inderal) is a beta-blocker usually used to treat heart conditions and high blood pressure. The medicine also helps people who have physical problems related to anxiety. For example, when a person with social phobia must face a stressful situation, such as giving a speech, or attending an important meeting, a doctor may prescribe a beta-blocker. Taking the medicine for a short period of time can help the person keep physical symptoms under control.
What are the side effects?
See the article on antidepressants for a discussion on side effects. The most common side effects for benzodiazepines are drowsiness and dizziness. Other possible side effects include:
- Upset stomach
- Blurred vision
- Headache
- Confusion
- Grogginess
- Nightmares
Possible side effects from buspirone (BuSpar) include:
- Dizziness
- Headaches
- Nausea
- Nervousness
- Lightheadedness
- Excitement
- Trouble sleeping
Common side effects from beta-blockers include:
- Fatigue
- Cold hands
- Dizziness
- Weakness
In addition, beta-blockers generally are not recommended for people with asthma or diabetes because they may worsen symptoms.
How should medications for anxiety disorders be taken?
People can build a tolerance to benzodiazepines if they are taken over a long period of time and may need higher and higher doses to get the same effect. Some people may become dependent on them. To avoid these problems, doctors usually prescribe the medication for short periods, a practice that is especially helpful for people who have substance abuse problems or who become dependent on medication easily. If people suddenly stop taking benzodiazepines, they may get withdrawal symptoms, or their anxiety may return. Therefore, they should be tapered off slowly.
Buspirone and beta-blockers are similar. They are usually taken on a short-term basis for anxiety. Both should be tapered off slowly. Talk to the doctor before stopping any anti-anxiety medication.


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Monday, August 3, 2009
AB HOME Interiors Art by Paragon
Ok so exciting things on the home front. I apologize for the absence, but running a business, two blogs and trying to make clients happy (they pay me) is becoming a daunting task!! BUT I have been approached, cross your fingers, with an idea that looks like it may actually stick! One of my favorite art lines, Paragon, recently saw my article in Nashville Home and Garden. They want to use my photos to promote their product. Well I think that is a GREAT idea but what is even better is ME teaming up with Paragon to create MY OWN art line. Ok, so its not Target, but you all know how much I love artwork and this could be the answer!! SO put that prayer chain together and lets get an art line!!
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How exciting, Amanda! I love the prints in your post; the ferns are my favorite - I have a series of them on the wall over my bed in bamboo style frames.ReplyDelete
WOOHOO!! Congratulations! Fingers crossed for you!ReplyDelete
Excellent news I wish will come to fruition for you. Apparently, you've got great taste in great art! Prayers sent your way Amanda...ReplyDelete
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I don't think I've ever really truly been ambivalent about anything before. In high school and university I garnered a reputation for being almost unflappable; that I could let anything slide. Something went wrong, and it wasn't a big deal. Never really experienced ambivalence, as it's properly described—that the subject feels strongly about the object, but in opposite directions at once. Not until now, not until tonight.
I have never been simultaneously so happy to have largely abandoned Microsoft's operating systems and Web browser for my daily use and first-line development testing, and so spectacularly frustrated. I've been having some difficulty with the Windows XP partition on my main computer at home for a while now, mainly because I was using a particularly poorly-designed firewall (Comodo Personal Firewall, for those keeping score—I'd advise you to never install it)… I'd attempted to upgrade the software, but the previous version refused to be removed first. Deleting it didn't help; there were still innumerable system hooks that actually wound up making it impossible to use the Internet! I thought perhaps the firewall had rewritten the network stack, and hypothesised that upgrading the operating system to Service Pack 3 would help. Needless to say, it didn't, but I eventually managed to excise the demonspawn firewall. Somewhere in here, I also upgraded to Internet Explorer 8—after even Microsoft started actively encouraging the switch, for safety reasons, I knew its time had finally come and I could stop supporting it.
Unwisely, I tried the new version of the firewall, and now explorer.exe has become quite possibly the least-responsive piece of software on the computer. I can't be 100% certain that these are causally related, because I can't find any trace of the firewall on the system, and I've followed the same removal steps as the last time, and Windows Explorer hasn't improved any.
This is all just context… a secondary source of frustration, because it means my computer is running far slower than it ever normally did prior to all these changes. The real frustration is that I'm jumping through all these hoops (all the while trying to install Subversion, Apache and MySQL on a FreeBSD 6.0 server with a 500 MHz Celeron processor in PuTTY) so that I can track down an IE-specific rendering bug in my new contract. Unfortunately the bug is so specific that it's only appearing in Internet Explorer 7! At this point, anyone who's intimiately familiar with how deeply-tied Microsoft's browser and operating system are knows exactly what's become necessary: In order to install IE7, I have to first uninstall IE8. However, in order to uninstall IE8, I have to revert the SP3 upgrade. This is a large and significant problem, because the upgrade itself cost me more than two hours! That process is currently running in the background as I write this (and checkout the current branch of the project to the small Celeron machine, dubbed
mouse). I am, nonetheless, quite distinctly far from amused by Microsoft's decision to make IE8 and SP3 so deeply integrated that, if IE8 is installed prior to SP3 (which I'm fairly sure is what happened; while Comodo had disable the majority of my connectivity, Windows Update continued to operate), then removing the former requires removing the latter by design. It's certainly further motivation to move to Europe!


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I'm all about contouring. Even if it's the slightest hint of a contour during the day. I suppose you could say we are best friends. I've been dabbling with contouring for many years now and trying to find that perfect product, colour and application method. Application wise, you can see this a number of times on my tutorials. When it comes to the best contour powder, I think I may have found the one. Or should I say 4.
If you're wondering what contouring is, it is all about creating shadows on your face which makes your face appear more defined and also at times 'thinner'. Not only that but you are able to alter the shape of your face drastically with different application methods and heavy contours. But a light contour can help define your cheek bones and add shadows to your face to define your features. It's a great technique to use in your everyday makeup routine to help give dimension to your face – rather than it looking all flat and one colour!
I've tried many, many contouring products but there are a handful of products which I keep coming back to. There seems to me a theme running through them – they are all cool toned. This means they are on the 'grey' side of brown, rather than red. This helps your face from looking 'muddy' and too bronzed up. Personally, I don't understand why more brands aren't creating more of these cool toned contour powders.
My 2 favourites are the 'Crushed Walnut' eyeshadow by Natural Collection and 'Delicious' eyeshadow by Makeup Revolution – you can read more about that particular shadow in my Sunday Beauty Steal post here. Crushed Walnut was my first cool toned contour love. At £1.99, it is the perfect blend of product and pigmentation when applied to the hollows of your cheeks. You'd be a fool not to pick it up when you're next at Boots. 'Delicious' eyeshadow (which is only £1!) on the other hand is much more pigmented, in comparison – definitely not for the heavy handed. But beautiful as a contour when you become BFFs. I can't stress enough how much I love these in my life.
For those who are scared of the idea of cool toned contours, I have 2 bronzers which have a hint of 'coolness' within them and must easier to apply as they aren't heavily pigmented. 'Bahama Mama' from theBalm cosmetics and 'Chocolate Soleil' by Too Faced are great options to start at. Simply apply these in the same way you would a contour, and bam. You'll have beautifully contoured cheeks with such ease.
Next on my list is the Kevyn Aucoin Sculpting Powder – but I can't justify the price tag of it when I love these already! Speaking of contouring, I am planning to do lots of contouring videos on my YouTube channel this year, so make sure you hit that 'SUBSCRIBE' button to keep up to date with them 😉
Crushed Walnut by Natural Collection £1.99 available HERE
Delicious Eyeshadow by Makeup Revolution £1 available HERE
Chocolate Soleil by Too Faced £25 available HERE
What do you think of cool toned contours? Have you tried any before? If so, share them below!


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It was around 2010 when I started reading beauty blogs. Back then, informative ones were very limited. Product reviews, swatches, and recommendations weren't really a thing. I do remember beauty videos already existing, but I was always more fond of reading. I can still name most of the blogs I followed at that time — some of them still exist up to this day. One blog that has always stood out to me was Project Vanity, created by Liz Lanuzo.
Back then, Liz managed PV all on her own as a personal blog. Now, it is the PH's Top Beauty Resource run by a team of brilliant writers! The content creators are a merry mix of people with different tastes in beauty, different features, and various input and opinions. Liz, of course, is now the Editor in Chief.
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Salesforce.com Chairman and CEO to Keynote at Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Global Technology Conference
Event to be audiocast live on salesforce.com's investor relations website
SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2013– Salesforce.com [NYSE: CRM], the world's #1 CRM platform, today announced that Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO, will keynote at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Global Technology Conference on Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 12:15pm (PT) / 3:15pm (ET) in San Francisco, CA.
An audiocast of Mr. Benioff's keynote will be available on salesforce.com's website at www.salesforce.com/investor.
Salesforce, the global CRM leader, empowers companies to connect with their customers in a whole new way. For more information about Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), visit: www.salesforce.com.
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I'd like to point out at the begining here that it's an ideal she's aiming toward and not hard fast rules. Also, this post is for discussion and understanding purposes. It is not perscriptive as to how anyone else should eat (hell, I eat enough meat for both of us).
The idea of the "no-kill" diet is simply, "Avoid killing whenever possible... even plants."
Even though it fits in a sentence we've found there's a lot to think about:
- obviously no fish, fowl, or mamal flesh.
- no perenial or biennial root vegetables because picking them would kill the plant (carrots while being technically edible at the point of their second winter, are too bland and tough)
- currently no cereal grains(like oats), corn, or soy because we can't grow/harvest our own to allow the main plant to remain til it dies naturally in winter and comercial practices kill all the mice and such that live in grain feilds
- no cauliflower, cabbage, or head lettuce because when the head is harvested the bare root would not continue to survive (broccoli is okay because it is on stalks with leaves that send out more heads)
- sugar from canes is fine but from beets is not
- baby spinach and salad greens okay because they just trim off leaves and the patch grows more
- carefully harvested perenial greens like dandelion or kale are also in, as well as loose leaf lettuce once we have room to grow our own and pick a few leaves at a time (grocery stores sell the whole head killing the plant)
- while onion and garlic bulbs are out, their greens provide very similar flavours
- mushrooms are definitely in as they are just flowers of a larger underground plant
- brussel sprouts are fine as they're harvested without killing the plant
- all berries, tree fruits, tree nuts, and fruit type vegetables (cucumber, squash, peppers, etc) and seed type vegetables (peas, beans, sunflowers, etc) okay
- milk, cheese, yogurt, etc still in, as well as honey and eggs
- potatoes and other tubers are tricky since they're basically cloning themselves so it becomes a question of whether a clone is it's own being (we're edging toward potatoes being okay as long as we replant from each plant)
- peanuts and waterchestnuts are probably in with the same restrictions
Now our farm is years away and things may change in that time, but for now I'm planning so my love can eat well off our land without killing.
We live in a wonderful era where food is so abundant we can choose what to eat based on more than just "is it poisonous?" and I think it's a great idea to do science to your patterns and see what works best for your mind body and soul, but I understand this isn't a choice that everyone has the luxury of exploring.


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The real estate market can be confusing without some basic knowledge. Most people want to have the information in and easy-to-understand format. If this is you, read on for the information you are after. This article presents some practical real estate buying guidelines that are easy to understand.
Reduced prices usually go together with lots of repairs and updates. This allows you to save money up-front, and work on the house at your own rate over an extended period of time. Renovations will give you equity with each step, while also allowing you to choose what your home will look like. Make sure that you are looking at the potential a house has, instead of focusing on the negatives. It may be that your ideal home lies beneath some ugly wallpaper and dated cabinetry.
Find an honest, reputable partner that can be trusted when looking for an expensive, large commercial piece of real estate. This can make it easier for you to get qualified for the loan needed when buying the property. A partner can provide help with credit and a down payment necessary to be qualified for a loan.
When considering the purchase of a new home, it's very important that you look at the long-term and not just the short-term. If you plan on living in the home you purchase, then you might want to view the nearby schools even if you do not have kids. You might want them someday, and it's better to be safe than sorry.
Request a checklist from your Realtor. Realtors often have a home-buyer's checklist that includes everything you need to do or consider when buying home, from figuring out what you want in a house to finalizing a mortgage. Such a checklist enables you to dot all i's and cross all your t's.
When you are trying to buy a home, make sure you consider your offer wisely. Between you and the seller, you can find a price that is agreeable to you both.
When making the offer on your dream home, you can ask the seller if they will help out with the closing costs, or give you other financial incentives. One common practice is to request that the seller "buy down" interest rates for one or two years. By asking for financial incentives, you are possibly keeping the seller from negotiating the selling price.
Go online and check out if there are any sex offenders registered in the area of houses you want to buy. You can do this quickly and easily, and it could keep your whole family safer in your new home. The information is publicly available and free to obtain. It is highly unlikely that any real estate agent would have knowledge of the sex offender status within a neighborhood, and if they do, you won't find out about it. Research it yourself for peace of mind.
In conclusion, we have provided you some of the most crucial aspects regarding buying real estate. We hope that you not only were able to learn something, but that you also will be able to successfully apply it. Follow our advice and you will be one step closer to being an expert in this subject.


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How to treat an inflammation of the uvula (uvulitis) ;
The uvula is that dangly thing that is in the back of the throat.
Technically his full name is the uvula, but the full term usually do not need to use.
Like tonsils , another forgettable function of the mouth, a swollen uvula can occur under certain circumstances.
A, enlarged swollen uvula can be extremely uncomfortable, but, fortunately, is not as common as other forms of inflammation.
An inflamed uvula has a small number of potential causes to investigate why his swollen uvula is not as difficult as other ailments.
Still, take some time to become familiar with its normal functions can help understand how the uvula problems develop in the first place.
The uvula is an organ that descends from the soft palate (the roof of the mouth)
the uvula is an organ that descends from the (roof of the mouth) soft palate, and has four main functions:
the entrance to the nasal passage is behind the uvula, and when ingested bends slightly back and blocks the opening. This prevents Swallow anything goes in the right direction and prevents food from going up the nose.
The uvula produces a thin form of saliva every time you speak or swallow, mucosal lining of the throat. If you have ever tried to talk with a dry mouth, it is understood how useful it can be. The uvula also helps in the production of certain sounds.
Along with the tonsils, uvula helps trap microorganisms and prevents them from getting further into the body. The uvula also helps regulate the swallowing reflex and strength of the reflection depends in part on how sensitive the bell of a person becomes.
The uvula are believed to have some relationship with snoring or sleep apnea as has been observed to be enlarged in individuals experiencing these conditions. However, it is not clear if the size of the uvula cause these problems or if the expansion is the result of stresses caused by snoring or sleep apnea.
In addition to a sore throat , a swollen uvula (called "uvulitis") has several characteristic symptoms that can be easily recognized and they reported to your doctor. The most obvious symptom (besides pain) is that visual inspection will reveal an inflamed, enlarged uvula. Inflammation can cause certain specific problems on their duration, including:
There are only a few potential causes of a swollen uvula and fortunately, most are easy to identify or rule.
Like tonsils, uvula an infection may develop if the immune system is not able to send a pathogen trapped. As the uvula becomes infected, inflamed and swollen. Both bacterial and viral infections are capable of causing uvulitis, including strep throat, mononucleosis or respiratory infections. It is worth noting that anything capable of infecting the uvula is also able to infect the tonsils and epiglottis, a muscle in the back of the tongue, making it also swell. A inflamed epiglottis is especially dangerous in children because it can block the airway. A child with a swollen uvula should be evaluated by a physician to rule out this risk.
Allergic reactions can cause rapid accumulation of fluid in some parts of the throat and mouth, leading to inflammation. If the reaction is severe enough, the fluid (edema) may extend into the uvula and make it swell. This is usually a sign that an anaphylactic reaction is occurring and requires immediate treatment. Administer an injection of epinephrine (EpiPen) or seek medical attention immediately.
A cleft lip or cleft palate is a type of congenital trait that affects the roof of the mouth. This can lead to changes in the uvula, as is expanding, out of place, shrunk, or are missing altogether. An elongated uvula is hereditary and although this is not per se inflammation, can cause many of the same symptoms due to their size. There is also a rare genetic condition called hereditary angioedema that causes inflammation in various parts of the body and sometimes it can affect the uvula.
A dry mouth is actually the most common cause of uvulitis and results from persistent irritation. Anything that can cause a persistent dry mouth, such as dehydration, is also capable of causing uvulitis by extension.
As with most parts of the body, injuring uvula can cause swelling, but fortunately the Uvular trauma is not very common. Trauma can occur as a result of injury to the throat or uvula accidentally hit during placement of a breathing tube (intubation). It is also possible to obtain a swollen uvula after drinking or eating something special hot through an accidental burn.
A mixture of home remedies and doctors can be used to treat a swollen uvula. Some solutions are more suitable for certain causes swelling more than others.
The main drugs used in cases of a swollen uvula are antibiotics and steroids. Antibiotics should be used only if a bacterial cause has been identified and should be taken throughout the course in order to ensure complete eradication. Steroids help reduce inflammation and can be used in the treatment of an allergic reaction. If the pain is difficult to handle, an analgesic can be used as well.
Chewing ice will cool and numb the throat, both to reduce swelling (especially if caused by irritation) and ideally it is to relieve pain.
If dry mouth, drinking water is the most obvious way to help keep everything properly lubricated. If the problem is not being caused by dryness, gargle salt water can help soothe inflammation in certain cases.
Honey has antibacterial properties. Although it is difficult to rub honey directly on the uvula (but congratulations if you carry it out), licking two teaspoons of honey a day can be a way of trying to get some kind of antiseptic action in case of an infection.
A swollen uvula is usually not something that requires the attention of a doctor, except to rule bacterial causes. There are certain circumstances, however, where scheduling an appointment is highly recommended, such as:
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Mindful Classrooms
5 Minute Daily Practices to Empower Teachers & Students
James Butler, M.Ed.
Founder and Author of Mindful Classrooms
2014 Austin ISD Teacher of the Year
I have been teaching since 2002, mostly in Austin, TX in Kindergarten and Pre-Kindergarten classrooms. I have my BS in Education and Early Childhood from Manchester University (IN) and MEd in Curriculum and Instruction from Grand Canyon University (AZ). In 2014, I was honored to be named Austin ISD Teacher of the Year.
In 2009, I volunteered as a HS English and Math Teacher in Namibia (southern Africa). In Namibia, I began occasional usage of Mindfulness in my classroom as a means to cope with the overwhelming need of my students. When I returned to Austin to teach in AISD again, I started implementing Mindfulness as part of our daily schedule. The routine and consistency of breathing daily was incredibly helpful for my Kindergarten students at a Title I school. It also helped me as a person and as a teacher as I was faced with personal struggles of my own. I then brought the daily practice to a Pre-K classroom in a non-Title 1 school. The impact on the students was just as great.
In 2015-2016, Mindful Classrooms was piloted in one of the largest urban school districts in the state of TX, and in a few other districts as well. It was used in 50 classrooms (Pre-K to 5th grade) across Austin and in Pflugerville, TX and Wilmington, DE. The 900+ students practicing daily mindfulness have been responding well, even utilizing some of the skills at home during stressful situations. The teachers participating in the pilot have even noticed a difference in their own self-awareness. I truly believe incorporating mindfulness into the daily schedule of a classroom has the power to change students' lives and enable them to learn to their fullest potential.
As a result of my work, I am now the SEL (Social & Emotional Learning) Mindfulness Specialist for the Austin Independent School District working with teachers, staff, administration, parents and PreK-12th grade students. During the 2016-2017 school year, I helped mindfulness get established in one way or another in all 130 AISD campuses.
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For JP's birthday in late December, the gang met up at Rare Bar & Grill over on Lexington Ave for burgers.
As we waited for the rest of the gang to show up – BF & I were the first to arrive, surprisingly, exactly on time – I decided I wanted a (gin) martini. No, that is not a martini – I browsed the cocktail menu and found a drink called the blood orange cosmo; Absolut Mandarin, cointreau, lime juice and blood orange puree. But I didn't want vodka, so I politely asked the server if he could switch both alcohols out for Bombay Sapphire (my gin of choice), and he agreed without a fuss. Awesome. Also, it tasted really good.
Once the whole gang was assembled, two orders of the fry tasting baskets were ordered for our table. The bottom of the special serving tray was loaded with sauces: ketchup, chipotle ketchup, garlic aioli, red pepper aioli and a maple syrup dipping sauce.
The top of the tray was filled with sweet potato fries – amazing with the maple dipping sauce! – cottage fries, which were also good, and regular hand cut fries. All pretty tasty, and for $10, not a bad deal.
When I saw fried pickles on the menu, I had to order them. JP and I talked briefly about them, and he asked me, "Well, how can you mess up a fried pickle?" I think he regretted asking me when I answered honestly and went into detail about the many ways to mess them up… In any case, these were not a good example of fried pickle. Though the dipping sauce was tasty enough, the batter on these was quite thick and kind of cake-like – it was sweet, and puffy. Very odd. I wouldn't order it again.
Another appetizer for the table – a very serviceable spinach & artichoke dip with chips.
Side order of onion rings; another tasty item, though a bit difficult to eat with everything else on the table. Slightly greasy and near impossible to eat more than a few with my burger…
Though we were at a burger joint, BF decided he wanted one of the day's specials. Chicken pot pie. I said, "But this is a burger place." He said, "But I want chicken pot pie." Okay, fine. I also pointed out in vain that I had homemade chicken pot pie at home that I could give him, and he grumbled, then ordered it anyway. I felt vindicated when he ate some and declared that it wasn't "chicken-y" enough and was really just alright, though he did finish most of his portion.
My burger, the M&M – no clue where the name came from – which is their classic flambeed in whiskey, topped with caramelized shallots, cheddar and apple smoked bacon. Mmm.
Put it all together with a slick of mayo, and here's the cross section. A damn good burger – I was pleased with the juicy meat, cooked to the proper doneness, and the flavor of everything worked very well together. It was a little on the greasy side, and I eventually had to put it down and eat it with a knife and fork as the buns had disintegrated with all the juices flowing out. Still: very tasty, and I wouldn't be unhappy if this landed on my plate again.
MM also ordered the M&M burger but insisted that I take a picture of his burger. Actually, I had to hand my camera down the other end of the table for his wife, Spoon, to take this picture. He was just so enthralled with how big it was, that he felt compelled to ask me how to eat it; I responded by taking my own burger – which was the same – and shoving it in my mouth. Yep. I did.
Yvo says: I thought this was a fun place to hang out and grab drinks & burgers with friends, catching up. We were in the back room, so it wasn't as noisy as it might have been in the front room, but still. It wasn't cheap, but I thought for the quality of (most of) the items, it was in the right price range. Yum.


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A voritor lizard was an aggressive, poisonous reptilian creature commonly found on Dantooine and Dathomir. The average voritor was two meters long, with a fan-like dorsal spike. When one decided to attack, it charged its target with incredible speed.
Behind the scenesEdit
Voritor lizards appeared in the video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online-role playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts, prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (First appearance)
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
- From Pencil to Pixel: The Art of Star Wars Galaxies
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Total Experience: Prima Official Game Guide
- Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game – Champions of the Force (Card: Voritor Lizard)
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
- Book of Sith: Secrets from the Dark Side


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Deformations of Categories of Coherent Sheaves and Fourier-Mukai Transforms
Grigg, Nathan
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In modern algebraic geometry, an algebraic variety is often studied by way of its category of coherent sheaves or derived category. Recent work by Toda has shown that infinitesimal deformations of the category of coherent sheaves can be described as twisted sheaves on a noncommutative deformation of the variety. This thesis generalizes Toda's work by creating a chain of inclusions from deformations of schemes to commutative deformations to deformations of the category of coherent sheaves. We define projections from coherent deformations to commutative deformations to scheme deformations and show that the fiber of the projection from commutative deformations to schemes is a gerbe. We also prove that for two derived equivalent K3 surfaces in characteristic p and any scheme deformation of one of these, there is a scheme deformation of the other so that the two deformations are also derived equivalent.
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Emerging markets: firing on all cylinders
Industry Voice: Over the last two years, emerging markets have enjoyed a strong return to outperformance, driven by the first synchronised global growth episode since before the global financial crisis. With emerging market economic indicators accelerating rapidly - and faster than those in developed markets - Ewan Thompson discusses why this growth has driven a dramatic improvement in earnings prospects for corporates across the board.
In the video Ewan discusses:
- Key drivers behind the emerging markets' outperformance
- The resilience of emerging markets in the recent global sell-off
- The Neptune Emerging Markets Fund's portfolio positioning
- Valuations and areas he is avoiding
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There are few African-Americans or women in the Social Science Fiction, Occult Fiction, Fantasy, and Dark Comedy genres. However, they have been a passion of DaKarai Noshell Yuko's forever. She has an affinity for writing multicultural stories with flawed characters and strong female leads, as well as progressive poetry.
D. K. N. Yuko put together The Dakaverse, a dark-yet-hilarious compilation of many of her stories and projects. The Dakaverse is a rich, fully-connected universe filled with eccentric and exciting characters, whose stories overlap. The stories take place in four fictional cities: Plumesworthe, Ponderer's Point, Pensburg, and Tellurium Ridge. Each area has its inherently distinct social climate, which affects the story and the characters from that city. Many of the titles are available in graphic novel form. Yuko also incorporates Veclage Art in many of her graphic novels and book covers. Veclage Art is an expressive art form created by using layered and textured collages of vector clip art.


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Display Problem after falling
I have a macbook pro A1278. The laptop fell and the LCD Hinges broke. I started getting a very dim (without any backlight) I got a replacement lcd, after replacing the lcd I saw little smoke near the connector on the motherboard. Know there is no display.
Any fix or solution is appreciated
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EBT cards are issued by the SNAP programmers and provide people a lot of benefits for Food and cash. It is also used by the state welfare department to make the transfer of the benefits to your account. Cash benefits can be used by you to buy any retail item of your choice. Whereas the food benefits help you avail the food items as well as the non-alcoholic beverages. Also, you can get the cash withdrawal from the ATMs to inhibit the give cash benefits. But the most important aspect to consider about the EBT cards is the question what is ebt card used for. This article will try to discuss the topic in detail and tell you more about it.
The people willing to apply for the benefits can avail them easily from the local food stamp office or even online, all you need to do is fill out a form stating the same. One can avail the benefits depending on their eligibility and the level of help they actually require. Once you are done and registered for the benefits you will be enabled to use it anywhere and anytime you wish to. All your benefits are stored in your account and can be gained access to by a plastic EBT card that works similar to the debit cards. The card is issued along with a secret Pin number that allows you to use the card and works as the electronic signature enabling you the benefits in your account and protecting your card to be used by any undesired person.
All of the cards are same in outlook and used by people to take in use their food stamp account benefits. The processor automatically verifies the details and lets you use the benefits once your Pin matches. Once you make the purchase of the items your account is debited to the amount immediately and that amount of money spent is them transferred to the retailer's account. In case the PIN you enter is incorrect the denial is returned and the payment made is canceled. So need to make sure using the correct card with the reliable secret PIN as well in order to use the card and be able to buy items from it.
In older time instead of the food stamps, the coupons or paper stamps were used and issued to the people in need. But as the time advanced the technology grew and now we have the EBT cards to avail the benefits immediately and effortlessly according to our convenience. A number of states merged the benefits of the cards with other projects and programs as well and allowed people to use the benefits through these debit card replicas.
But you first of all need to have a SNAP account in order to avail the EBT benefits. Also, make sure these are used in the right and relevant way it is required to and not misused in any of the situation keeping in mind the what is ebt card used for.