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I thought I'd share something from the archives - a remembrance of Hermann Prey and my experience performing with this legendary bass-baritone artist.
"Accompanying Hermann Prey"
from The Depot Beat - Autumn 1998, vol. V
This July the world lost one of its greatest baritones in Hermann Prey. Hermann had just become a friend and the news of his death brought great sadness to me, as I am certain it did for many.
In 1994 I received a call from Trudy Miller at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, asking me if I would like to participate in the Schubertiade accompanying Hermann Prey. Little did I know how life-altering the experience would be; I did know how inarguably lucky I was and would be always.
Having prepared three songs – Heidenröslein, Nachstück and Der Schiffer – I arrived at the 92nd St Y early, and I was nervous. "You're playing with Hermann Prey?" my friends said. "You'd better practice." I had worked myself into a frenzy. He entered the room, took off his coat, and, after a brief hello, said, "Let's go." The first two songs went wonderfully (he kept saying "Wunderbar!"). Most of Schubert's songs were arranged for the guitar during his lifetime. Der Schiffer was less guitaristic than the first two, making it more difficult. I began my intro and I could tell he was worried. he said, "It's difficult, yes?" Not being a quitter, he continued, "Why don't you strum it? Make it flamenco-like." When I improvised a new accompaniment sounding like Pete Townsend-meets Schubert-meets Paco Peña, he loved it! "Yes, that is it. Strum the whole thing!" I went home and arranged the song in this new style.
The next day at the dress rehearsal hours before the concert, he said, "Maybe you could do both – strum some, and pluck other sections." So I went into the dressing room and rearranged it again. Hermann's enthusiasm and love for the music made you do anything. I thought that his attitude and approach would be one of a purist. However, he was anything but a purist, and would do anything to serve what he felt the song was really about, even if it meant strumming like a wild man.
A year later at a rehearsal for our second concert together, he asked me to improvise a little introduction for another Schubert song, exclaiming, "Go ahead – I don't care what the critics say!" This was a great teaching.
In 1997, during several rehearsals in Cologne for the second concert – the entire Die Schöne Müllerin at the Schubert festival in Bad Urach – we really got to know each other. I shall never forget the profound discussions we had over meals – topics ranging from the various pianists that had accompanied him to what it was like being a boy in Germany during the Second World War. "Hermann, you really should write an autobiography", I said. To which he replied, "I have, it's called First Night Fever."
In any case, he had recorded Die Schöne Müllerin three times and said to me at the first rehearsal that he had just realized the key to the song cycle. He had really just discovered how it should be sung. He felt each song should, within reason, resemble the tempo of the first song, which is about the stream. The rhythm of the stream is the thread that holds the whole cycle together. He was thrilled with how beautifully the sound of the guitar fit the music. We would change color and even register of phrases in each rehearsal just to get closer to what he felt the song meant. It was inspiring to see such a champion of this work constantly seeking a new meaning to the songs.
But when we began the eleventh song in rehearsal, he looked at me in horror, and I asked, "What's wrong?" "The key," he said, "I can't possibly do it in that key." This was a huge problem, as changing keys in the middle means a whole new arrangement on my part. He realized this and looked at me with pity and exclaimed, "Shitissimo!" It will always be one of my favorite expressions. Off we went to buy some music paper in a nearby shop so I could get busy arranging it in the proper key.
Just before we began the performance at Bad Urach, he shot me a glance, as if to say, "I'll see you at the end." He waved his hand in tempo, and I began the first song, and, like an actor who goes into character, Hermann became the miller. How deeply this man felt each phrase and mood, both of the music and of the character. We did the entire cycle without a break. At the end of the last song (there are twenty in total, the piece takes fifty minutes to perform) he slowly came out of character. The audience began their applause, and he took my hand in his and said, "What a journey – what a journey."


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An Alabama church has removed a pew that honored Confederate President Jefferson Davis saying the memorial had no place at a time when rebel symbols have been adopted by white supremacists.
The pastor of St. John's Episcopal Church, Robert C. Wisnewski Jr., posted a message on the church website last week saying the wooden pew was dedicated more than 90 years ago at a service featuring a pro-lynching segregationist.
"Confederate monuments and symbols have increasingly been used by groups that promote white supremacy and are now, to many people of all races, seen to represent insensitivity, hatred, and even evil," Wisnewski wrote. "The mission of our parish is diametrically opposed to what these symbols have come to mean."
The mostly white church is in Montgomery, where Davis lived briefly before the Confederacy moved its national capital to Richmond, Virginia, in 1861. Church lore maintained that a pew marked with a bronze plaque honoring Davis dated to the start of the Civil War, the pastor wrote.
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Vernon Bogdanor likes to say that, as a scholar of the British constitution, he makes his living out of something that doesn't exist. Such a comment could not be made by his counterparts in Ireland, France, Germany or the United States. The central question of this book is how far it still holds good for the UK. In the light of the constitutional reforms of recent years and decades, how far does the old unwritten British constitution still survive? What are its prospects for the future?
Our historical unwritten (or, to be pedantic, uncodified) constitution has proved sufficiently flexible to allow for a gradual and peaceful transition from an aristocratic polity under a powerful monarch to a modern representative democracy governed by elected politicians on the basis of universal suffrage. The problem with this arrangement is that the old constitution was largely unexamined and taken for granted. There was never any guarantee that it would keep pace with changing social and political developments, and in some cases it patently failed to do so - one example being the survival of the House of Lords' veto until 1911, which ensured that Irish Home Rule was kept off the statute book until it was too late. By the latter part of the 20th century, the old constitution - while still undoubtedly functional - was showing definite signs of wear and strain. From the 1970s onwards, and particularly under New Labour, a series of changes was set in train that, in Bogdanor's view, changed the old British constitution into something new and different.
The old constitution was based on two specific ideas, one of process, found in the work of Walter Bagehot, and one of substance, found in the work of A.V.Dicey and having its philosophical roots in the writings of Thomas Hobbes. The processual principle was that of organic evolution. The British constitution had developed and grown, unplanned, as a result of historical contingencies. It did not represent the outcome of anyone's blueprint, frozen for ever in a codified document at a particular 'constitutional moment'. As late as 1979, the late Prof. J.A.G.Griffith could write that the British constitution was "no more and no less than what happened". The substantive principle was that of parliamentary sovereignty. Whatever Parliament enacted was the supreme law of the land: it could not be judged by reference to any higher constitutional law or annulled by any court. There was no constraint on Parliament's authority from outside the United Kingdom, and its only remotely serious competitor at home was the ill-fated Parliament of Northern Ireland, which ruled that unhappy territory between 1921 and 1972.
Conservatives by definition supported the old order - but then so did politicians of the left. Old-school socialists like Nye Bevan were firm believers in parliamentary supremacy and showed no enthusiasm for counterbalancing the authority of a left-wing government with a reformed House of Lords, a strong judiciary or devolution of power away from Westminster. The only party that showed much desire to experiment with constitutional reform was the minority Liberal Party, whose motives were transparently self-interested. Admittedly, some politicians took what seem like counter-intuitive positions. The most memorable critique of parliamentary sovereignty came from the Conservative politician Lord Hailsham, who, in a famous lecture delivered in 1976, described it as "elective dictatorship". Similarly, the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was in part the progeny of the Conservative grandee Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, and was adopted only grudgingly by the Labour government in 1951.
Bogdanor's thesis is that the two pillars of the old constitution have been undermined if not subverted. Unplanned evolution has been replaced by explicit programmes of liberal reform, while parliamentary sovereignty stands challenged both from above by the European Union and from below by the devolved legislatures of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Ironically, as Bogdanor also notes, Parliament has also become more assertive within its own sphere - the Commons is less subservient to the executive than it was in the 50s or 60s, and the Lords has carved out an important new role for itself as an expert revising chamber since the 1999 reform.
The old constitution began to break down in the 1970s, with the outbreak of civil war in Northern Ireland, the rise of Scottish nationalism and the UK's accession to the EEC. Bogdanor rightly nails the myth that the British people were misled by the Heath government into believing that the EEC was no more than a trading bloc which entailed no diminution of national sovereignty. It had been apparent since at least the 1960s, and was made clear at the time, that joining the Community would mean accepting the supremacy of its law for as long as the UK remained a member. It was still, however, a bit of a jolt when, in the Factortame case in 1991, the House of Lords took the unprecedented step of granting an injunction to disapply an Act of Parliament. (This isn't to say, though, that some Eurosceptics' fears about the powers of the EU over the British Parliament aren't exaggerated, as I have argued elsewhere.)
Perhaps a little surprisingly, Bogdanor does not see Britain's EU membership as the 'cornerstone' of the new constitution. Instead, he assigns that role to the Human Rights Act. He notes that the Act is a rather messy compromise between parliamentary supremacy and a US-style bill of rights, and that judges and politicians hold sharply different views about how rights should be protected. He makes the point that the conflict between judges and the legislature that tends to occur in systems with written constitutions has arisen much more quickly in Britain following the enactment of the Human Rights Act than was historically the case in the United States or France (or, he might have added, Ireland).
Bogdanor argues that devolution of power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (but not England) has led to a "quasi-federal" system. The sovereignty of the UK Parliament over Scotland, for example, has now effectively been reduced on a range of issues to a general power of supervision of the Scottish Parliament. Bogdanor has little time for the West Lothian Question or questions about England's position in the new Union - such issues may be theoretically intractable, but in practice England can get by well enough. He argues that David Cameron's policy of 'English votes for English laws' would effectively mean creating a new English Parliament at Westminster, and will potentially result in the highly unsatisfactory scenario of a government elected on a UK-wide mandate being unable to enact its programme for 80% of the country. He also points out the little-appreciated fact that it is not easy to identify and isolate 'English laws', since any 'English' measure with public spending implications will end up having fiscal consequences for Scotland and Wales.
The devolved legislatures have resulted in coalition and minority governments becoming a standard feature of British political life. It is not always realised that such arrangements were common at Westminster under the old constitution. Coalitions and minority governments were the norm during the first half of the 20th century, and the situation changed only after the Second World War (even then, minority governments held office in 1974, 1977-79 and 1996-97). Nonetheless, as Bogdanor notes, a reduction in the number of marginal seats across the UK means that parties have had to win increasingly decisive victories to secure a majority in the Commons. In the context of a system in which many more people vote for 'minor' parties than was the case in 1945, this means that majority governments at Westminster will become increasingly infrequent - though this process could well be retarded by the current implosion of the Lib Dems.
Bogdanor's observations on the House of Lords are well-informed and interesting. Far from being unfinished business, the reform of the upper house into a modern democratic chamber is a project that has been as much deliberately neglected by politicians of the left as resisted by politicians of the right. Few commentators argue that a country of the size and complexity of the UK would enjoy a higher quality of governance under a unicameral system, but there is no very satisfactory answer to what sort of second chamber we should look for. Bogdanor notes that most countries with bicameral parliaments are dissatisfied with their upper houses. He also observes that there is general satisfaction with the present-day House of Lords, operating as a revising chamber with a reservoir of specialist and often non-political expertise, and that the manner in which the House performs its duties would inevitably change if its composition was altered. Like it or not, a reformed Lords would be composed mostly or entirely of politicians elected on a party ticket who would comport themselves accordingly.
One increasingly important part of the new constitution is the referendum. This device was essentially a creature of the 1970s and an outcome of the need to hold together a split within Harold Wilson's Labour Party over the question of EEC membership. Since then, it has effectively become an alternative means of giving authority to legislation, almost incorporating the electorate as a third chamber of Parliament. As Bogdanor notes, the referendum is a fundamentally conservative device. The Yes to AV campaign recently discovered that it is easier to use it to stop a change that you don't want than to endorse one that you do. This is why Eurosceptics have been so eager to press for referendums on adoption of the Euro, the Lisbon treaty and other measures integrating Britain with the EU. However, New Labour mostly tended to use referendums for progressive purposes - to introduce devolved government in Scotland, Wales and London, and to ratify the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland.
Local government in England is weak and neglected. One reason is the relatively large size of municipal units. French communes have an average population of 1,500, whereas the average English district council serves an area of almost 140,000 people. Another is the rise of partisan politics at the local level, though Bogdanor points out that the era of widespread independent councillors had its own problems. The decline of local government long predates Ted Heath's Local Government Act and Margaret Thatcher's forays into rate capping and abolishing councils that opposed her policies. It can be traced back to the Attlee administration and its conviction that social justice demanded uniformity enforced by a strong central government. Bogdanor also has no difficulty in blaming the voters themselves. If they insisted on holding central government to account for failings in locally administered public services - notably education - they could hardly object when Whitehall elbowed the local town hall aside. Moreover, people can hardly demand localism one moment and damn the 'postcode lottery' the next.
Bogdanor is right that the forms of the new constitution are quite different from those of the old one. One doesn't have to be a paranoid Eurosceptic to believe that the sovereignty of Parliament is not what it was - and a good thing too, many of us would say. But one wonders whether Bogdanor is not exaggerating to some extent. Britain's relationship with the EU is still ultimately governed by a good old fashioned Act of Parliament, the European Communities Act 1972, and the compromise structure of the Human Rights Act seeks to balance parliamentary authority rather than to subvert it. The devolved legislatures have considerable scope for independent policymaking, but the purse strings are still held by Westminster.
More importantly, Bogdanor overestimates the extent to which the spirit of the old constitution has been snuffed out. Evolution rather than revolution is still the order of the day, and most of the changes in recent years have more or less venerable precedents. The Human Rights Act can be traced back to the UK's accession in 1951 to the ECHR, which, as already intimated, was an essentially British document. The devolution project can be traced back further, to the establishment of a separate Scottish Office in 1885 and the tabling of the first Irish Home Rule Bill in 1886. The House of Lords was a busted flush since at least 1911, if not 1832, when it had been strongarmed into passing the Great Reform Act. Referendums were championed as long ago as 1890 by Dicey himself. Even the use of alternative electoral systems has longstanding precedents: the 11 university seats in the House of Commons were elected by STV prior to their abolition in 1950, and in the 1920s STV was imposed wholesale by Westminster on the new parliaments of Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.
Bogdanor naturally raises the question of whether Britain could or should adopt a written constitution. Our one experiment in this regard, the Cromwellian Commonwealth, was an unhappy episode that has never been repeated. Nonetheless, the idea was toyed with by Gordon Brown before his administration was deluged by the recession, and the new Cabinet Manual which is currently being introduced in Whitehall can perhaps be seen as an intermediate stage to a codified constitutional text. It is not clear, however, what a future written constitution would contain (would it, for example, attempt to incorporate the various conventions which play such a major role in the governance of Britain?), or how it would be enacted.
This is a useful book which manages to be both comprehensive and concise. It deserves to become a standard text on the post-Blair constitution.
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Tuesday, 21 June 2011
The New British Constitution, Vernon Bogdanor
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This article originally appeared in Expansion Management.
VT Halter Marine, like any American company, is searching for ways to remain viable in a fiercely competitive international market.
One ace up its sleeve is its location within a Foreign-Trade Zone, which saved the company $150,000 in its last fiscal year.
VT Halter, headquartered in Pascagoula, Miss., reports that its Foreign-Trade Zone status gave it a competitive advantage in the construction of two fisheries research vessels and a 579-foot car carrier.
"It's able to compete in an industry that includes a lot of foreign competition," said consultant Greg Jones, who counts the shipbuilder among his clients. "It's nice to see companies using their smarts, and it's great to see government programs that make sense and help them remain competitive."
Foreign-Trade Zones are unique among government incentive programs. They do not reduce property taxes or provide tax credits. Nor do they provide huge cash grants or work force training funds.
Instead, companies that receive federal Foreign-Trade Zone Board approval are eligible for import and export tax benefits that help them gain a competitive edge against foreign firms. The program defers, reduces or eliminates U.S. Customs duties on products that are admitted to the trade zone.
Each zone is a U.S. location aligned with a customs port of entry where products are considered to be in the stream of international commerce. For the purposes of tariff law and customs duty payments, zones are treated as being outside the customs territory of the United States.
"The overriding benefit is that the use of the zones enables U.S.-based companies to lower their costs of production," said Jones, corporate secretary and senior consultant with Foreign-Trade Zone Corp., in Mobile, Ala. "This enables them to better compete in today's global economy.
"The zones program offers a number of cost-saving strategies that make it economical for a company to conduct value-added activities in the United States rather than outsourcing those activities to offshore locations."
Benefits include:
- Duty exemption on exports: No duty must be paid on products that are exported after being placed in a zone. If the merchandise is sold in the United States, duty is paid only when it leaves the zone.
- If materials are manufactured into a product with a lower duty rate than the raw materials, then the lower rate applies when duty is paid.
- Elimination of duties on most waste and scrap.
- No duties on rejected or defective products.
- Deferred duty: Products (including spare parts) can sit in a zone for an unlimited period of time without being charged duty.
- Elimination of inventory taxes: Foreign products and merchandise awaiting export are free from state and local inventory taxes.
- Duties are not owed on labor, overhead or profit attributed to zone operations.
- Duty is waived on sales to the U.S. military or NASA.
- Simplification and streamlining of import and export processes.
There are about 250 Foreign-Trade Zones in all 50 states and the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. In addition, there are more than 450 subzones that usually serve the needs of individual companies.
According the Foreign-Trade Zones Board, the industry that makes the most prominent use of the zones is petroleum refining. Other significant zone users include the automotive, electronic and pharmaceutical industries.
"There are a number of industries that have not discovered the program yet," Jones said. "Sometimes a tariff problem can exist in an industry for several years before a company makes a move to a zone, then its domestic counterparts often follow suit."
To zone or not to zone?
Should your business locate in a Foreign-Trade Zone? It depends on your particular importing and exporting requirements. Consultants such as Jones and the staff of some local trade zone offices provide cost-benefit analysis services.
Although any company can locate in a zone, businesses must get approval from the U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board in order to participate in the program and receive the economic benefits. The board must determine that the decision will result in a net economic benefit to the U.S. economy.
Application fees range from $4,000 to $6,500, depending on the number of classes of products that will be assembled and the particular zone status the company is seeking. In addition, local zone administrative offices charge user fees.
Jones described the paperwork and application process as manageable in terms of return on investment.
"The trouble and cost to meet the requirements are modest compared to the benefits," he said. "In operational terms, you have to go to a little bit of extra trouble, but not that much."
Subzones are created when general purpose zones can't meet the needs of a company. An example is the Mercedes-Benz plant between Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, Ala., which needed a greenfield site, not the urban general-purpose zone that was available nearby.
"Mercedes-Benz would never consider putting an automotive assembly plant in a downtown area," Jones said. "If you can't go to the zone, the zone can come to you. It's of greater benefit to the U.S. economy for Mercedes-Benz to build vehicles in the United States than in other locations."
Zone locations are diverse
Properties available in zones are as diverse as the American real estate market itself.
With more than 10,000 acres, the Kansas City, Mo., area contains more zone space than any metro area in the nation, with corporate giants such as Sony, General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co. and Bayer occupying real estate. Some of the zone is in the Hunt Midwest SubTropolis. At five million square feet, it's the world's largest underground business complex.
Kansas City is seeking to maximize its zone benefits for businesses by establishing a Mexican Customs office in the city. That way, merchandise could be cleared more locally and quickly instead of at the Mexican border. In addition, efforts are underway to develop a multimodal trade corridor connecting the city to Asia by way of a ships-to-rail terminal at the Port of Lazaro Cardenas in Mexico. Combined with recently-reduced Mexican customs fees, this would provide an alternative to California's congested ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles.
Atlanta's Foreign-Trade Zone will soon have 10 industrial parks within its boundaries. Once additional space is added, the zone will contain 5,000 acres of developed land, including spec buildings and general purpose warehouses. The area ranks fourth in the nation in terms of its logistics employee base.
"There are a variety of zone environments," Jones said. "You have waterfront sites, mature industrial parks and industrial parks under development. The program offers flexibility to companies."


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On Sunday, I received and email from the folks at Winged City Chapbooks (an imprint of New Sins Press) that they had selected my manuscript "The Geography of Removal" as their annual contest winner.
Thrilled could be used to describe my reaction. Perhaps squeeing might be a better aural approximation.
I had submitted "Geography" at the beginning of February and to three other contests/publishers. I got a "no" from two of the publishers earlier in the summer. One thing I try to do with submissions is to forget about them as often as possible. I have a list of who I send things off to. I might even write on the calender "Check with Journal X" three or four months out from the date I send things off, but otherwise I try not to think about where my work is at. After six months I was thoroughly surprised.
Now things heat up. I found out this week that my chapbook will be released at the end of February, just in time for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference (AWP). This means that I will be in Chicago for the conference and to do a book signing at the New Sins Press table.
I will keep you all informed as things progress. Thanks to New Sins Press and thanks to all of my readers for your continued encouragement and comments.


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Deconstructing the Beautiful Beverage of Craft Beer
CraftBeer.com's new poster explores the basics of beer
The new Deconstructing Craft Beer poster is packed with information about the amazing beverage that is craft beer. From perception to ingredients, this poster textually and visually deconstructs craft beer in a way never seen before.
"Craft beer lovers are proud to hold a beer in their hands and admire and discuss the tastes, aromas and colors in their glass," said Julia Herz, Craft Beer Program Director for the Brewers Association. "Now those same beer lovers can proudly display their appreciation of craft beer with one of the most informative and beautiful posters on the topic."
You'll be seeing this poster in brewery taprooms and better beer bars across the country, and now you can proudly hang it on your wall. Visit the Brewers Association Craft Beer Enthusiast Store to pick up this awesome and information-packed poster that just plain makes you thirsty.
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Nice Toss!/
When I was in San Francisco for the Decorator Showcase (more to come on that BTW!), I had to do a little shopping, of course! We headed over to Chestnut Street in the Marina District to browse around and came across THIS gem of a shop!
Toss is a shop with a little of everything a girl wants.....cute bags and totes, cuter shoes, fun belts and hats, perfect tops and colorful scarves.....and lots of gifts perfect for your girlfriends, Mom's, daughters, MIL's and SIL's.There is vibrant color everywhere you turn. I absolutely loved how there were shoes and belts tucked into each color story area in the store.
Toss Design is a San Francisco design house founded in 2004 known for their travel totes and bags in fresh patterns and vibrant colors. There are now tunics and dresses in the same brilliant patterns in the shop.
See those cute orange flats on the shelf below? And I almost took the black sandals above home with me.
One of the nicest things about the shop is that the prices were very do-able. Cute, fun, affordable and lots to love here. What could be better?!
I am all over these sandals with the caning on them.
Hop on over to the Toss Website for a little online shopping if you can't get to the City by the Bay. Summer is a-comin' and a little travel bag might be just the ticket for you or that upcoming grad gift! (I have a grad of my own....so shhh! Don't tell her!)


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Securing the Firefox Web Browser whilst surfing the net, using a Sandbox Programme Called "Firejail" along with "Firetools" that also gives the programme a decent GUI.
Also, Linux Sandboxing another application
Bare in mind...................I'm using this Sandboxed environment in Linux (Mint) here, but it should work in Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Centos, RHEL.
The packages I installed were both amd64.deb (Debian) and were easy to apply without compiling. You may have to search around yourselves for a compatible version (hey this is Linux not Windows).
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Now days security threats are everywhere in the web, new security holes are discovered everyday, but sadly there are no instant patches available. If you are a firefox user, this problem is worse, as it lacks the sandbox feature like chromium or google-chrome browser.
Here's how to protect yourself from such threats by running Firefox in Sandbox environment with Firejail.
What is Firejail ? ?
Well.......Firejail is an extremely lightweight Linux namespace based Sandbox application, could be used with both GUI and CLI applications with minimal effort.
It could effectively run most apps with limited permission and system resource to minimize security risk. There's also a GUI app firetools , to launch and monitor apps with Firejail.
Installing Firejail and Firetools......................
Firejail is already in Debian testing and Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) official repository, there are also binary deb and rpm packages available at sourceforge. Download the relevant binary package from this sourceforge repository (firejail: Linux namespaces sandbox program) install it with your package manager.
sudo dpkg -i firejail_0.9.30_1_amd64.deb
Now download the relevant firetools package from here and install it. Firetools requires basic Qt4 or Qt5 application runtime libraries, make sure they are installed too.
sudo dpkg -i firetools_0.9.30_1_amd64.deb
Firetools is optional, but it is easy to launch applications and monitor them with firejail.
You could also install firejail in Debian testing and Ubuntu 15.10 straight from the official repository.
sudo apt-get install firejail
Firetools is the graphical user interface component of Firejail.
Firejail is a SUID sandbox program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces, Linux capabilities and seccomp-bpf.
Start firefox in sanadbox environment with Firejail
Now It's the time to run firefox in sandbox environment, first we are going to do this with command line,
firejail firefox
in a Terminal or, it should be in Menu where you can just click to launch it.
BTW Just this ! Make sure that no other previous Firefox instances are running already. In caseit is, use this command
firejail firefox --new-instance
in the Terminal Window.
Some advanced Firejail sandbox commands are:
Start Firefox in a seccomp sandbox environment
firejail --seccomp firefox
Start Firefox in a Linux capabilities sandbox environment
firejail --caps firefox
Start a Firefox with a new tmpfs private home directory
firejail --private firefox
List all running sandboxes
firejail --list
Print a tree of all sandboxed processes
firejail --tree
Launching and monitoring Sandboxed Firefox or other apps with firetools................
(Firetools is the GUI app for monitoring and launching other apps in the sandbox environment, just find the Firetools launcher icon and Launch it. This will most likely be in Menu; All Applications>Firetools)
In Action..........Check with Terminal Command, as stated above: firejail --list
When you close Firejail down the session is now unprotected once again.
Further edit.............................................. .
Configure for use.....Right Click the Firefox Icon and select Edit. Give it a title and use the wording listed in the boxes below it, as screen shot
From then on you can see the activity of CPU usage etc from the Tools and Stats Sandbox List
I know this is not Sandboxie, but this is going somewhere when Linux users and scripters are pricking up their ears, regarding today's security issues.
It also looks as though these other icons are configurable, removable and addable as well. This looks very promising indeed.
Link to the site which originally caught my eye;
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The Chai Notes is one of Cornell's co-ed groups.
Founded in 1996, The Chai Notes is Cornell University's best and only Jewish-themed, co-ed a cappella group. We sing songs in both Hebrew and English, including current popular hits. A tight-knit bunch, we love spending time and singing with one another, and are recognized for our fun and dynamic performances. We have one concert every semester, "ChaiLights" in the fall and "Chai on Life" in the spring. We also regularly perform at gigs in the Ithaca area, and travel across the U.S. for regional tours and a cappella festivals. On top of live music, we have released four studio albums and are currently recording a fifth.
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Ok, its not original, but its new, the Tropicale in Palm Springs across from the Spa Casino. Recently opened Restaurant and Lounge that harkens back to some old Palm Springs mid-century favorites, like the Chi Chi and The Doll House.
A decent job was done on the decor, including the Coral Seas lounge....and outdoor bar. Its a welcome additional to Palm Springs and hints back to the days of super clubs and great bars to hang out and martini!
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Brady Quinn had a lengthy wait before finally hearing his name called on the first day of the 2007 NFL Draft. Quinn slid down the board before the Cleveland Browns traded with the Dallas Cowboys to move up and select Quinn with the 22nd overall pick.
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"During that pick, I was on the phone with the Baltimore Ravens the entire time," Quinn said. So, I was talking to (general manager) Ozzie Newsome, coach (Brian) Billick and coach (Rick) Neuheisel because I hadn't interviewed with them, hadn't worked out for them or anything.
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Quinn said the Ravens were planning on taking him with the 23rd pick, which may imply a potential deal with the Ravens had ready to go with the Kansas City Chiefs to move up. Instead, the Chiefs selected receiver Dwayne Bowe with the 23rd pick and the Ravens held their place and selected guard Ben Grubbs.
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And the members of the Wallace Masonic Lodge were doing a big business selling tickets on a big basket of lobsters.
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text: Share: Comments Print September 25, 2013 at 7:05 AM The Affordable Care Act Posted by Letters Coordinator Self responsibility First, let me say that I believe that The Times did a wonderful job of explaining the Affordable Care Act. ["Insuring health: Navigating your way through the Affordable Care Act," Section J, Sept. 22.] With today's political parties playing fast and loose with the facts, your insert was absolutely necessary. To the Army veteran, now student, who is skeptical of Obamacare, I would say: OK, this is your choice to make. I defend your right to do so. But I would call a screeching halt when he states that he will deal with the consequences if he gets in an accident or something. Once he is 27, and possibly earning little or no money (especially if he is still in school), who is going to pay his bill when he shows up at the emergency room? One of the key benefits of the Affordable Care Act is that people without insurance now, can get insurance. Thus, the rest of us should not have to pay for uninsured people going to the emergency room. Alan Zelt, Kenmore Comments | More in Health care, Politics | Topics: Affordable Care Act, emergency room, insurance


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"A quartet of state lawmakers are pushing back on Philly's pop-up [beer] gardens, taking issue with something called an off-premise catering permit that allows vendors to 'cater' alcohol sales at these pop-up gardens for months at a time," reports Jon Geeting.
The key to the controversy is the Prohibition-era policy of county quotas, according to Geeting. "The state caps R licenses at 1 license per 3,000 people per county, and the number of licenses in Philadelphia has actually been declining as the population has grown, as many have been taken out of circulation due to liens and violations."
Washington D.C.'s liquor licenses sell for $9,000-11,000, so Philadelphia's $85,000 liquor licenses constitute a significant barrier to entry into the bar and restaurant business by comparison.
"That's what makes the pop-up beer gardens so innovative," explains Geeting, "a restaurant with a liquor license can obtain an off-site catering permit for $500 to extend that license to another location, and cater one of these temporary outdoor bars for a few months in the summer and fall. The legality of a single permit holder serving the same beer garden for months at a time is what state lawmakers are contesting…"


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VistaJet Malta Finance P.L.C. and VistaJet Co Finance LLC, subsidiaries of VistaJet Group Holding SA ("VistaJet"), announced today that they have now closed their offering of USD 300 million aggregate principal amount of 7.750% senior unsecured notes due 2020. Interest on the 5-year notes is payable semi-annually on June 1st and December 1st, beginning on December 1st 2015. The notes are guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis by VistaJet.
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Last weekend was a good one. We headed out to Mt. SAC for 734's Dad's second race in the Triple Crown Series. It was a beautiful, clear fall day. It was fun to watch him tear up the course and come through the chicanes by the feed zone right after the pros. He had a good time out there and won his age group. (Yup, I was pretty proud of him.) Once I was done passing out bottles, I got a couple of shots of him finishing the race.
Then it was my turn. There was a nice cushy track a few steps away from the finish line. 734's Dad grabbed the camera for the momentous occasion. I finally got a chance to run again. The past three months has been a lot of trial and error, trying to get the new orthotics dialed in. Couldn't run without 'em. Every time I tried to run with them, I got blisters under my arches. After two adjustments, the third time was the charm.
I was so happy to be out on that track that I ran a mile straight. Then I walked/jogged another mile. Didn't want to tempt fate too much, doing too much too soon. My cardio definitely suffered the past year, but it felt so incredibly good to break a sweat.
It was a start. Not a false start. A start. I'm looking forward to getting back to that point where I can run for miles without breathing so heavy that I sound like a bad prank caller. I want that sense of peace that comes from moving meditation during solo runs. I want to gab with old friends on group runs. I want to challenge myself with speed work and trail runs. I know all of that will come in time. But just to get out on that faded red track with the painted white lines for twenty minutes was pretty exhilarating.


text: DigitalTop 5 Ways to Donate Through Social NetworksIt's the most wonderful time of the year...and the time you're expected to open your pocketbooks and give to others. The month of December alone is when $48 billion is given to charities across the U.S. You're online, on your phone, or on Facebook all the time anyways, so why not look there to start your holiday giving? Here are 5 easy ways to use your social networking skills to donate this holiday season.By Katie Kindelan|December 15, 2010 ShareBy Katie Kindelan|December 15, 2010 Share It's the most wonderful time of the year…and the time you're expected to open your pocketbooks and give to others. The month of December alone is when $48 billion is given to charities across the U.S. You're online, on your phone, or on Facebook all the time anyways, so why not look there to start your holiday giving? Here are 5 easy ways to use your social networking skills to donate this holiday season.1) Download an App: Don't let the skirmish over the Apple ban on non-profit apps fool you. Apps are still an easy, quick way to donate. This holiday season The Salvation Army took its famous bell-ringer fundraising program mobile, offering a free iPhone app that lets users manage their virtual Red Kettle accounts from the iPhone. Another option, the iPhone and Android app CheckPoints earns shoppers points when they take pictures of the bar codes of items the app chooses to feature. The points are redeemable for not just gift certificates and airline miles, but also charity donations. And, keep an eye out for an easy way to donate through PayPal on your Android phones. The company has promised it will introduce in-app donations to its Android app before the end of the year.2) Text: Many national charities have a text-to-give campaign where donors can just text the given keyword to the charity's short code to make a donation that will then show up on the donor's billing statement. You can visit the Web site of your favorite charity to see if it has a holiday mobile-giving campaign in place or, take the quick route, and view the whole list here. And here are a few examples to get you started:• Salvation Army Greater New York: Text NYSA to 52000 to make a $10 donation• The William J. Clinton Foundation: Text CLINTON to 20222 to make a $10 donation• Paralyzed Veterans of America: Text 4VETS to 25383 to make a $10 donation• National Wildlife Federation: Text NWF to 20222 to make a $10 donation• Food Lifeline: Text MEALS to 20222 to make a $5 donation3) Visit Facebook: It's the most popular social networking site in the world, and a great place to spend your donations wisely. Walmart has set up an End Hunger page on the site where communities are encouraged to press the "like a community" button for a chance to win a $1 million donation from the company to the most "liked" community in the country, or $100,000 to the next five most liked communities. Over at the Salvation Army's page, users can donate and receive a virtual kettle with their name on it that can then be sent to all of their contacts and filled as a visual reminder of how close they are to reaching their fundraising goal. Another easy option is Causes.com which has one of the largest applications on Facebook with more than 140 millions users. Visit their page to join the Holiday Wish pledge drive campaign.4) Tweet: In just 140 characters or less, you can make a real difference. One option is to visit helpattack.com, log in using your Twitter account and create a pledge. Essentially you pledge to give a dollar amount for each tweet between now and 30 days from the day you make your pledge. OneRiot, a Twitter-centric advertising network, and oneforty, a Twitter app directory, have launched a campaign to raise money for Charity: Water, a nonprofit that supplies clean drinking water to people in developing nations. Users who use certain holiday keywords in their tweets will see ads with the words "Give Water" in large text and, just clicking the ad brings users directly to a donation page.5) Catch a Clip: Not just the domain of jumping cats and dancing babies, YouTube can be a force for good. Charities are using the site's visual impact to tug at donors' heart strings with inspirational videos. The YMCA in Fort Worth, Texas, for one, produced a video that told the emotional story of a boy named Matthew who was born premature but, at the age of 7, learned to swim at the Y. And rap artist Nelly has partnered with DoSomething.org in a new video challenge that asks teens around the country to join their "Tackle Hunger" campaign and collect 1 million pounds of food in December. *** And here's a bonus if money is tight and you'd rather give of yourself. A generosity campaign, "How Good Grows," from Yahoo! invites people to conduct random acts of kindness and update their online status to get others to join in. On the kindness.yahoo.com website, post status messages and watch as your ripple of kindness grows on the site as you inspire your social networking friends to also do kind acts. 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Our project increased employees of the Absentee Shawnee Tribal Health Clinics participation in moderate intensity physical activity (MIPA) during the workday. The CDC Winnable Battle strategies utilized were Strategy #6 - Creation of or enhanced access to places for physical activity combined with informational outreach activities and Strategy #3 - Social support interventions in a community/worksite setting.
In 2010, the leadership developed and enacted a physical activity policy, which allowed up to 3 hours per week of paid release time for employee participation in a health and wellness programs. Five years later, only 10% of employees were utilizing this policy to participate in physical activity. We utilized information outreach to broaden and expand the emphasis of policy from 'exercising for fitness' to 'participating in physical activity for health'. We amended the previous policy to include at least two MIPA (brisk walking) breaks that can be preformed in 15- minute sessions at the worksite. To increase participation and reach those employees that were not used to exercising, we included employee incentives and developed a 'buddy system' to support participation in MIPA.
Absentee Shawnee are actively and proudly traditional. We used our traditional concept of 'looking back and looking forward'- Meaning we looked back at traditional living/activity and are looking forward to incorporate those pieces of the past into today by redefining balance and a healthy state of being. We also addressed reducing barriers for positive health behaviors.
We issued pedometers and found both regular walking steps and brisk walking steps increased over the 13-week program. The number of days employees were physically active for 30 minutes or longer and social support for physical activity scores increased. Evaluation surveys reported 91% of respondents believed the signs and emails of encouragement were useful in helping me become more physically active at work; 86% enjoyed participating in the program and would participate in another walk for health program; and 91% believed the program helped them to become more physically active.
Our project successes are a permanent policy inclusion for two 15 minutes per day MIPA breaks, positive employee feedback, and increased physical activity. Our goal was 100 employees and we had over 150 regular participants. We learned that developing walking and route maps were helpful for employees and the competition aspect motivated participants.


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"You make time for what's important."
I've heard - and said - this phrase for years; it's something of a mantra for me anymore, and it's relevance only increases as time marches on.
These last few weeks, that list of important things to make time for in my life grew by 1 with the arrival of my second child. With time being as finite as it is, having something added to the list of important stuff means something else gets cut back or bumped off altogether.
So here we are, at the intersection of "I love my kids" and "I play video games." You can probably guess which of those two statements takes precedence in the hierarchy of time allotment.
Yeah, I get it - #Firstworldproblems. I'm not special or unique in this way - there's lot of parents in the world, and there's bound to be some who play games - but with the precious few minutes I have between changing diapers, foraging for food or feeding kids, or avoiding toddler-created disasters, I have found that many adjustments and concessions to my personal time (time normally spent on hobbies and interests) had to be made in order to maintain a semblance of harmony in the home. Many of the adjustments are common sense (games obviously come second to time with/needs of kids, I generally wait until nap/bed time, adjust the games you play during waking hours as to avoid scarring children), but some adjustments made were made for the sake of convenience and accessibility in order to allow me to continue to indulge in my hobbies (read: maintain sanity).
So, in the coming days/weeks/years(?) I'm gonna share some of my #gamedad thoughts (which all applies to game mom/parents just as much) where I'll detail out some of my everyday experiences as well as some of the adjustments/lifehacks I've made in the last few years and going forward.
Brief preview - you may have noticed that the pictures above all contain a mobile device of sorts. For years I've had most of the Gameboy models and a PSP, but they were far from my preferred platforms. Really, the only use they saw was on lengthy trips. That changed when I found that around the house I could sometimes sneak even just a few minutes in during a lull.
This can add up and there are certain game types that can fit this erratic play (RPG or quick hit games for example - I'll detail some of my favorites out later on). The ability to pause, power off/on and pick up right away is huge.
After I found a rhythm in timing as well as some games that fit into that odd pace, I was really able to experience and enjoy some titles that I had either in my backlog (Chrono Trigger for DS was my first big post-kiddo completion spread out over a few weeks), or experience some games that I may have not tried otherwise (Risk of Rain has become one of my favorite titles for the Vita, but I had never even given it a second look on PC). I've since invested quite a bit more in expanding my 3DS library than I had previously, and I recently purchased a Vita that I've really been getting into over the last few months.
I'll outline more of this in detail down the road, but just know that if you struggle to fit games in between being a functional and contributing member of a family, you're not alone. It took a little adjusting in my case, but you can care for and be part of your family, and still enjoy games.


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Before life turned him into a vintner, the Rev. John Staten taught academic theology. Nearly 40 years ago, he was my partner's adviser when she was an undergraduate. Now he annually offers a blessing of the harvest at his family's Field Stone Winery in Sonoma County's Alexander Valley. This past weekend, we were privileged to join a group of Staten friends and fans for the annual celebration.
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There is a reality in blessing. It doesn't enhance sacredness, but it acknowledges it, and there is power in that. I have felt it passing through me.
I found it easy in this setting to drift off into the beauty of the land.
After song and reflection, we all shared grape juice so fresh it tasted alive.
Katrina Staten chatted with her guests.
The Alexander Valley was quiet and bountiful on Saturday afternoon.


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The recent suicide of Matthew Warren, son of Saddleback Church's Pastor Rick Warren, has brought renewed attention to the issue of depression and the tragic implications it can have for many young people and their families.
Research studies have estimated that one in eight adolescents may be suffering from depression. Unfortunately, only about 30% of young people facing mental problems ever receive any type of treatment or intervention. The result of this lack of understanding about, and attention to this problem can be seen in the approximately 4,600 suicides among young people between the ages of 10 and 24 each year, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Suicide, and thoughts of committing suicide, is more widespread in this age group than most people realize. A nationwide survey reported that 16% of students reported having seriously considered taking their own life sometimes in the previous year, and 8% reported actually having attempted suicide.
The CDC reports more than 150,000 young people are treated in emergency rooms each year for self-inflicted injuries.
"The challenge in dealing with this issue is that parents may not recognize the signs of serious depression in their child, or may find it impossible to believe that their child could be even thinking of something as drastic as suicide," observed David Kaplan, Ph.D. and Chief Professional Officer for the American Counseling Association.
"Most teens will appear moody and withdrawn at times," Dr. Kaplan noted, "and that can make it difficult for parents or friends to recognize when the problem is more serious than a teen simply reacting normally to the pressures of school, puberty, relationships and all
the other life issues today's teen faces."
Dr. Kaplan explained that clinical depression, as opposed to just normal moodiness or irritability, is often described as an exaggeration of the duration and intensity of "normal" mood changes. He said that a mental health professional will work with a checklist of signs and behaviors, and that when a number of symptoms are being seen on a daily basis for more than two weeks, clinical depression is a very real possibility. Seeing multiple symptoms of depression, repeatedly displayed over a short period of time, is a good indicator to parents that their child may be facing issues that require professional help.
Such symptoms can include sad, empty or anxious moods, trouble concentrating and remembering things, severe changes in eating and sleeping, loss of interest in ordinary activities, decreased energy and feelings of helplessness, hopelessness and pessimism.
"Of course," Dr. Kaplan advises, "when a teen begins to talk about or express excessive feelings of guilt or worthlessness, or reports thinking about death and suicide, parents need to seek help as soon as possible."
If a parent suspects that an adolescent is struggling with depression, there are positive ways to help. Just encouraging your child to share their thoughts and feelings can make a difference. The secret is to listen to their concerns without being judgmental. You want to acknowledge that you understand the pain and suffering they may be feeling. A parent may want to share similar experiences or feelings that he or she has experienced, while being careful not to minimize the concerns and worries that the child is currently feeling.
If a parent feels a child may be facing clinical depression, help is available from a counseling professional who specializes in adolescent developmental changes. A school counselor can assist your child in better understanding what he or she is facing, and can provide direction to help in dealing with the pressures and problems of the adolescent years. The counselor can also help parents understand what their child is going through, and can offer assistance for dealing with their child's issues.
Teenage depression, not so long ago, was a problem often overlooked by parents, schools and mental health professionals. Thanks to increased depictions on TV shows, reports in the media, and interest in social media, depression among teens gets more attention today. There are now a number of online sources, for example, where parents can learn more about this problem and how to help their teen. On good web site linking to a large number of resources is on the "Cry for Help" section of the Public Broadcasting System at www.pbs.org/wnet/cryforhelp/episodes/resources/hotlines-and-web-sites-for-parents/8/
When parents pay attention to the mood swings that their teen displays, especially when they are extreme and continue for extended periods of time, they may be able to recognize growing problems before it's too late. Talking to your teen then is important to do, but when the problems seem severe, seeking out your child's school counselor or other mental health professional can be an important step to getting your teen back on track and fully enjoying his or her adolescence.


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You will not be able to renew your licence online if:
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- you hold a laminated licence—you will have to renew your Queensland driver licence in person
- you need glasses or contact lenses to drive and your licence does not already have an 'S' condition
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- your licence has expired by more than 28 days (Note: you must not drive with an expired driver licence)
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Competition and evolutionary-enlightened treatments: competition (part 1)
Here at Moffitt we are privileged to work with physician-scientists like Bob Gatenby that understands and encourages the use of mathematical modeling in cancer. It is his effort, after all, that made our department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology possible in the first place. One of the ideas that Bob has been championing is called Adaptive Therapies (AT). This approach (explained in Gatenby et al CR 2009 and Silva et al CR 2012) means that instead of trying to kill all the tumor cells we can with standard treatments like chemotherapy, we should instead aim to just kill as many as we can get away with without selecting too strongly for resistant cells. The basic facts are that in a heterogeneous tumor (like most are), resistance is likely present before the application of the treatment. Also, in the case of chemotherapy, resistance comes at a cost to the resistant cell: the energy required to produce the pumps to discard the drug before it causes any harm would impact the cell's proliferation.
With these two pieces of information, the idea is that ATs work by letting the tumor susceptible population recover from the treatment and limit the proliferation of the chemo-resistant cells. Basically you give up on the dream of completely eradicating the cancer in a patient for the more solid possibility of being able to control its growth and manage resistance.
During my meeting in Barcelona, a few days ago, I met with researchers working on managing the emergence of resistance in a variety of fields including bacteria and agriculture. One of the atendees was Andrew Read, a biologist from Penn State with a distinctive Kiwi accent, working on infectious diseases. My understanding of the conversation was that he was not convinced that there was enough evidence that susceptible cells supress the growth of resistant ones. He (together with Silvie Huijben and Troy Day) posits that in managing diseases like malaria with existing drugs, relative fitness is not as important as absolute fitness.
Here is the logic, which feels rather intuitive: resistant cells may grow at a slower pace but if there are abundant resources and space and all the relevant action happens on the growing edge of the tumour then where's the competition that will make sure resistance cells are kept in check?
The image that heads this post corresponds to a simulation image of a very simple agent-based model where every pixel represents a cell. The colours (mostly shades of grey) represent the degree of resistance (1-100) so that darker shades are less resistant and tad faster proliferators. As the tumour grows from the middle it becomes easy to see that:
- Heterogeneity appears and given the weakness of selection is, to some extent, maintained.
- The tumour gets darker as it grows showing that, over time, the faster proliferating/less resistant cells increase their proportion of the tumour burden.
The simulation can be seen more clearly here:
As the above figure shows, our interpretation of the head figure is not misleading: as the tumor grows the average cell decreases in resistance potential and increases in proliferative potential.
Certainly not groundbreaking results but they help define our intuition of how even small differences in proliferation can lead to dominance of certain clones on the growing edge of a tumour. As we start with a cell with moderate amounts of resistance/growth (30/100), we see how faster proliferators (with values that quickly reach the low 10s and then 1) start occupying increasingly more of the space on the edge of the tumour. Thus limiting the proliferation of cells that have more resistance. This is taking into consideration that mutations are relatively rare (1%) and very incremental (they change resistance/growth by 1 unit). Why is this important? without that dominance in the tumour's growing edge, ATs are a non-starter. We will see soon why this is important.
Code for this quick and dirty model can be found in my github.


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January 23, 2015
5 Tips For Perfect Instagram Photos for Bloggers
I love Instagram and naturally as a blogger, I also love taking pretty pictures... I'm not a professional photog by any means but we all have that special gift that allows us to learn the basics right?
I often admire several bloggers whose Instagrams are flooded with gorgeous photos that really share a lot about who they are, what they love, and the things that keep them different from others.
January 16, 2015
LeKair Natural Curls
LeKair, a name that many of you naturalistas may have heard of some time ago. If you're not familiar with them, they're the makers of the epic hair cholesterol. Not to be confused with the other brands in that niche. LeKair is owned by The Stephen Co, founded in 1897 and is a premier manufacturer and distributor of hair care products. I was recently asked to check out their latest product release, LeKair Natural Curls with Avocado Oil.
January 9, 2015
Nerd Tech| Improve Your Blog Post SEO in 5 Minutes, Easily
We all come to this point once in a while where we plan to be the best at what we do and write. I've been blogging since 2011 and if I knew then what I know now, my blog would definitely be in a totally different place by now. Up until two years ago, caring or even thinking about improving blog SEO wasn't even a thought in my mind. Then I got into internet marketing and it changed my blog life forever.
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First post of the new year!! I'm excited for what's to come in the year 2015! You'll be seeing some new blog aesthetic, opportunities, giveaways, and so much more this year! But first, let's take a moment to say in unison how terrible many of us natural are when it comes to keeping up with out bobby pins!
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