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Most of my techies are spending their time on human resource and acquisition. It's dragging us down.
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Schlosser said she and other IT leaders in government are trying to address the issue directly. A CIO Council subcommittee headed by Transportation Department CIO Richard McKinney and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission CIO Darren Ash is looking at the skill sets needed to succeed in today's environment, training individuals already in government to take on different roles, and spreading the gospel on agile development processes and methodology.
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Even when using direct hiring authority, which he sometimes does, the process can still not be as quick or easy as it should be, Zelvin said.
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"My experience is that you don't need to sign off on every dollar spent on procurement, but what we do need to do is have a seat at the table when strategy is being established, when a budget is being put in place, when the priorities are being laid out, what the agency or organization is going to invest in in terms of technology," Schlosser said. "Making sure there is that language between business strategy and mission for what we're spending the IT dollars on."
CIOs agreed that government initiatives such as PortfolioStat have helped them to more effectively track their spending: 42 percent found that PortfolioStat helped reduce redundant spending, 39 percent said it didn't, and 19 percent said it is still unknown. However, 60 percent said it has had an impact on their agency's understanding of IT spending.
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This topic may have been touched on before , if so I missed it . We all have them from time to time but in your honest opinions what is the best and safest way to dispose of malfunctioned rounds ? I would think a .22 rimfire would be the worst , and I dont especially like pulling bullets or dont have the tools to dis-assemble a live round . Im also sure just throwing them on the ground for the lawn mower to have fun with is not the safest route either , nothing bothers me more than a large or a hot round not firing like it should . A buddy of mine swears they wont go off or they will just pop and make a small fire if they are not chambered but I have to strongly disagree with him on that one . Most of my ftf's are .22 rf and after dropping the hammer a few more times I eject them into a pot of water and there they sit . The probabilty of it going off 30sec after ejection is low but nonetheless it still contains live powder in a enclosed cartridge .
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For many years I have been throwing them in my burning barrel. When I burn the trash they cook off, you get a little "pop" and a puff of ashes - no big deal. On a hangfire I just count to 30 before ejecting it. Never had one go off outside the weapon. My main concern is the empty brass or fired shotgun hulls. We do a lot of shooting at my place and it is understood that you will police your empties. As you noted the mower & empties don't mix. I mow around my buildings with a garden tractor. I've ran over an empty shotgun hull and the blade cut the brass, (plated steel) at an angle, next pass it went thru the thin part of the tire, instant flat. Years ago I had a couple boxes of surplus FN .45ACP that were snap-bang and tarnished. I took them down to the creek and pitched them in. It sort of depends how much effort you want to put in, burying them would probably be best but I'm very, very lazy.
"The older I get, The better I was"
I've thrown some into heavily wooded areas, where I know the chances of a horse stepping on it or it getting run over with a lawnmower is almost nonexistent. Rimfire are the ones I'm most careful with. I have a friend who was shot in the leg when he ran over a .22 with a push mower. It did minimal damage, caught the outer edge of his calf and lodged just under the skin after traveling only about 2 inches from the entry wound. But imagine if that had been a testicle.
I was pulling a trash can across the shop floor where evidently a .22 happen to lay . POP , Wtf was that ? looked down and saw the casing . Another reason not to leave them on the ground is that 19month olds will find EVERY SINGLE ONE and try to eat them . As for the mower I have a 74in deer front mow / bush hog / car crusher / bull dozer and stump grinder . So I ques that when thrown in a fire the heat must expand the casing a bit and when the charge does light its not that power full ? I did manage to chunk about 2k 209 primers in the fire one time , that was fun
when i get them after a couple tries i set them aside. take em home take em aprt with plyers and light the powder with a match to watch it go poof.. that way its not a completely wasted round because i still get enjoyment from it
I don't guess i get many duds, but they get pitched in a ditch or other area unlikely to get traffic out at the shooting area (low traffic area itself).
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You know what I meant! Lol, your right though, one thrown at high velocity would probably just squish and bounce.
The components can be salvaged and most reused. Pull the bullet and reload it. Polish the case and reload it. The primer is toast. The powder can be sprinkled on the lawn, it is high in nitrogen. For rimfires, buggered up centerfire brass or berdan primed cases, toss the case in a bucket, when you have a full 5 gallon bucket, take it to the recycler and get $2+ a pound
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The tallest is the Irish wolfhound ( 30 - 37 inches ) then Scottish deerhound ( 28 - 35 inches ) then the Limburger ( 29 - 34 1/2 inches ) then the great Dane ( 28 - 32 inches, although some can reach 36 inches ). The smartest is the border collie then poodle then German shepherd then golden retriever then doberman pinscher. The heaviest is the English mastiff weighing in at 170 - 250 pounds, then the st Bernard weighing 160 - 220 pounds. The strongest is the dogo argentino ( Bred to hunt jaguars, pumas and other large dangerous aggressive game ) 24 - 28 inches and 80 - 130 pounds )
Then the American bulldog ( They have the weight pulling record of 11, 300 pounds or something close ) 22 - 28 inches and 70 - 140 pounds.
Then bullmastiff ( Bred to out power and overpower a human no matter how big strong or heavy the person is ) 24 - 29 inches with 28 proffered, and 90 - 140 pounds.
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World's largest dog…The world's heaviest as well as longest dog recorded was an Old English Mastiff named Zorba. In 1989, Zorba weighed 343 lbs and was 8 feet 3 inches long from nose to tail.
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Well, I know the slowest was my old Basset Hound. Used to take us 1/2 hr to walk 4 blocks.
My guess would be:
Slowest-Fat ones LOL
Smartest-Australian Shepards
Strongest-Bull Mastiff
Tallest-Irish Wolfhound
Heaviest-Great Dane or St. Bernard
My personal favorite is the Boxer. They are wonderful with children and other pets if brought up right. -
This sight is all about dogs, dogs and more dogs!! Click on Breed Profiles, and it will tell you everything u need 2 know!! K, good luck!
Strongest, Tallest, Heaviest, Smartest, Least Smartest, Fastes breed, Slowest dog breed?
Just out of curiosity, what is the fastest dog breed, The slowest dog breed, the smartest dog breed, the least smartest dog breed, the strongest dog breed, the least strongest dog breed, the tallest dog breed, and the heaviest, dog breed ?
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Nayapul, Nepal
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Nayapul Travel Blogs (11)Last 2 days - Our trek comes to an end
... bond in their tutting at me and nagging at me....hee hee... Tomorrows walk is famous but not for a good reason.. Ulleri down to NayaPul where we will catch a bus back to Pokhara is down down - 3280 steps of down (theyve been counted) Knee taping and ...
Leaving for Pokhara
... destination. We arrived at Nayapul nearly an hour later after steadily climbing a mountain road and leaving Pokhara far behind. Nayapul means "New Bridge" in Nepali and there are several villages in this region of the same name. Like many, Nayapul ...
The beginning of the coolest thing ever
... a crate size of boxes filled with live chicks. They were chirping the whole ride. We were dropped off in Nayapul and began walking about 3 hours to our tea house. The hotels are called tea houses along the trekking trails and most are ...


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Element 1 - Testing & Analysis Task 220.127.116.11 Nail and Screw Fastener Connections
PI: Fernando S. Fonseca (Brigham Young University)
Main Objectives
The objective of the research is to establish a database for sheathing-to-wood connections from which parameters necessary for modeling purposes can be extracted.
A simplified testing apparatus has been designed and built for the testing of the connections and is shown below.
Figure 1: Overall Testing Setup
Figure 2: Loading Apparatus
The database will be established using the results from the coupon tests of this research project. The database will be used to describe sheathing-to-wood connections and to define default parameters of a modified hysteretic model. CASHEW A Computer Program for Cyclic Analysis of Wood Shear Walls has been developed for the practicing user.
The modified model uses a monotonic envelope curve as the backbone and a hysteretic rule-based model to describe unloading and loading characteristics. The main parameters describing the backbone curve are the initial stiffness, the secondary or post-yield stiffness, the load at which the post-yield stiffness intersects the load axis (load corresponding to zero slip), and the maximum deflection, which defines the maximum load and the starting of the descending branch. The modified model takes advantage of hysteretic rules to describe unloading and loading possibilities. The main parameters describing the hysteretic model are the unloading stiffness, the slip load, the slipping stiffness, and the reloading stiffness, which is defined by the previous maximum unloading point.
Photo of the two types of coupons used for this test. Testing Jig: The testing apparatus running the test. Graph of the load-slip curve of the real data vs. the load-slip data from Hyster.
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Scottish Cup 4th Round Draw: Hibs v Hearts
The insolvent one's coming to Easter Road
The 4th round of the William Hill Scottish Cup was drawn this afternoon, and has once again pitted Hibs against fierce rivals Hearts.
In a repeat of last season's Final, the Jambos will visit Easter Road on either Saturday 1st or Sunday 2nd December.
The full draw was as follows:
Aberdeen v Motherwell
Partick Thistle v Dunfermline Athletic
Kilmarnock v Queen of the South
Hibernian v Hearts
Airdrie United or Raith Rovers v Deveronvale
Turriff United v Albion Rovers or Morton
Livingston v Dundee
Rangers v Elgin City
Forfar Athletic or Nairn County v Ayr United
Ross County v Inverness Caledonian Thistle
Celtic v Inverurie Locoworks or Arbroath
Dumbarton v Hamilton Academical
Cowdenbeath v St Johnstone
Stranraer or Queen's Park v Dundee United
Stenhousemuir or Berwick Rangers v Falkirk
St Mirren v Brechin City or Bonnyrigg Rose
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<— That's Ed Faulkner, the program manager of our Microsoft Across America "Mobile Event Experience".
Ed has a blog now, and he's using it to put up stories (and pictures) about how several of these trucks are being used in the efforts to help hurricane Katrina victims in Louisianna and Mississippi. (Here's my earlier blog entry about those trucks.)


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THE BOOKWORM SEZ: Book highlights the many ways that people express spirituality
For most of your life you've had a good relationship with God.
He's a close, personal friend, in fact, and you talk to him often. He even lives nearby, so close that you visit him often. He's a good listener, too.
But is the God you know the same God your friend knows?
Can the reality of God mesh with science, nature and culture?
In the new audiobook "What We Talk about When We Talk about God," written and read by Rob Bell, you'll see how we're at the edge of a whole new way of answering those questions.
Turn on any news channel or pick up the paper, and it seems like everybody knows what God wants. The thing is, said Bell, a pastor for more than 20 years, "we have a problem with God." That is, two people who talk about him are talking about "two extraordinarily different realities while using the exact same word."
When we talk about God, "We are all over the place." Yet people want to talk about him — what they were taught, what they believe and what makes them hopeful. Even when in a group of atheists, Bell was asked about the miraculous.
And how can there not be miracles? Bell points at the universe, its size and how the miracle of you ("a phenomenon that simply didn't exist here for billions of years") leads to holism, which leads to God — who defies analysis and description. We talk about God using words, but he goes beyond words.
Still, God is with us. He's there when we realize we're seeing something our soul wants us to remember, in the big moments and the small ones. He is for us and wants the best for all of humanity, whether they believe in him or not, whether we know we need help or not. And he is ahead of us, "pulling us forward" for greater understanding, rights and peace.
Talking about God, said Bell, isn't so much about the words said as it is about being open in heart and mind while you're saying them. It's about recognizing that spiritual life isn't separate from regular life. It's about knowing that "we are loved and we belong and we are going to be just fine."
"What We Talk about When We Talk about God" is packed with grace and goodness. There's also a lot of thought-provoking here, which is why I enjoyed this audiobook so much.
In meshing evolution and science with Bible teachings, and atheism with Christianity and surfing, Bell brings God to modern readers. Along the way, he questions his own faith and uses anecdotes from friends and family to illustrate God in his life.
That adds up to what will be the best, most helpful sermon you've ever heard, in an audiobook you'll want to share. I think, in fact, that "What We Talk about When We Talk about God" is definitely something you'll shout about.
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Personally I would have wrote:
I am glad you received the bag, that at least gives me confidence that I know your address is really your residence. It is a 800 mile drive for me, but I reckon 12 hours I could be there anytime, day or night.
Yours sincerely,
"Your worst enemy"
Only kidding, but looking for something Chilling and Creepy.
Or something like "I'll be accompanied by my Coach Authentication Expert, Mad Max. What's for dinner?"


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Just stumbled onto this pot and was wondering if anyone had it. I would be glad to add my own weldless fittings, sight glass etc. reviews would be appreciated. Thankshttp://m.webstaurantstore.com/60-qt-...roduct+Details
I have 3 of these pots. they are nice, no problems at all. just a sid note. They dont have a claded bottom. http://www.ebay.com/itm/CONCORD-60-Q...item20c24289d5
Get the stainless for that price. Update International SPS-60.
You could consider this one as well (it's a little more, but free shipping), I have one and it's perfect for home brewing.http://www.amazon.com/Bayou-Classic-...+Bayou+Classic Keyth
15 gal stainless brew pots. Range from $99-119, depending on if you want a kettle with 0, 1, or 2 welded fittings. I have the 9 gallon and can't complain.https://www.homebrewing.org/Brew-Pots_c_79.html
Check out Spikebrewing.com (I think thats the correct url) they are a vendor here and have good prices.


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Sweden Winter Tours
Stockholm Christmas Markets - 3 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Stockholm.
Visit the many festive Christmas markets in winter Stockholm. The capital of Sweden is lit up by spectacular Christmas decorations, Advent stars and flickering candles. Stroll down the medieval streets of the Old Town and go on a cruise on the frozen archipelago. Possibility to combine the tour with a visit to Copenhagen.
Stockholm, the 'Venice of the north', is built on 14 islands and boasts one of the most spectacular locations of any capital city in the world. Stockholm offers trendy restaurants, vibrant bars, a lively arts scene and more than 150 museums and galleries. Included in the tour is an Archipelago cruise.
Sweden's Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi is located 200 km north of the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland, and was the first Ice Hotel to be constructed anywhere in the world. Each winter new rooms with new designs are created with 30,000 tons of snow and 10,000 tons of crystal clear ice from the nearby Torne River.
Northern Lights & Ice Hotel Break - 3 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Kiruna.
Stay at the world renowned Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland and explore the Northern Lights during the dark polar nights. This tour includes a 1,5- hour dog sledding excursion and an evening visit at the famous Aurora Sky station in Abisko.
Visit Stockholm, and travel by overnight train to Abisko where you have excellent chances of observing the Northern Lights from the Aurora Sky Station. Combine your adventure with a stay at the world's largest Ice Hotel with optional overnight safaris by either snowmobiles or husky dogs in Swedish Lapland.
Staying at an Ice Hotel is a must for the modern adventurer – an experience unlike any other hotel stays! Stay at the world famous Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi and travel by train through the stunning Arctic wilderness to Norway. Join a cruise by Hurtigruten along the Norwegian coastline to the Northern Light city of Tromsø.
Sweden Ice Hotel & Treehotel - 4 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Kiruna.
Travel to the Swedish Arctic and stay at spectacular accommodation at the world's first and largest Ice Hotel located in Jukkasjärvi and at the Treehotel in Swedish Lapland. Join optional winter activities such as Northern Lights dog sledding, snowmobile safaris and experience indigenous Sami culture.
Swedish Lapland Winter Experience - 4 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Kiruna.
Experience a guided winter adventure in Sápmi Sweden, the land of the Sámi people. You will try dog and reindeer sledding, visit the famous Ice Hotel, and have good chances of spotting the Northern Lights. Overnight in cozy wooden cabins at the Reindeer Lodge. Full board included. Small groups with max 8 persons. Arrival on Mondays and Thursdays.
Treehotel, Northern Lights & Tromsø - 7 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Stockholm.
Visit Stockholm and travel from there to the extraordinary Treehotel in Swedish Lapland and the famous Aurora Sky station in Abisko where you have excellent chances of observing the Northern Lights. From Sweden you travel further north to Norway to visit the Northern Lights city of Tromsø.
Sweden Northern Lights Adventure - 6 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Stockholm.
Stay at the extraordinary Treehotel in Swedish Lapland and at the world famous Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi. The tour starts in Stockholm taking you north by overnight train to your Swedish wintre wonderland. Observe the Northern Lights from Abisko's Aurora Sky Station in the dark polar nights.
Ice Hotel, Northern Lights & Hurtigruten - 9 days
Sweden Winter Tours: Start in Stockholm.
Travel to a magical winter Lapland and join optional dog sledding, snowmobiling and king crab safaris! Start in Stockholm and continue by overnight train to the Ice Hotel in Sweden. Travel to Abisko for Northern Lights observations at the Aurora sky station before making your way through the Arctic wilderness to Norway. Cruise with Hurtigruten from Harstad to Kirkenes.


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Tuxedo's Debut Album is Available Now!
Posted : March 3, 2015
The long-awaited debut album from Tuxedo is available now digitally on iTunes and on CD and vinyl on StonesThrow.com.
The long-awaited debut album from Tuxedo is available now digitally on iTunes and on CD and vinyl on StonesThrow.com.
Mayer Hawthorne will be performing at the Governors Ball Music Festival at Randall's Island Park in NYC on June 7, 2015! Tickets are available now by clicking here.
Take a listen to Tuxedo's debut album now on NPR's First Listen! The album comes out on 3.3.15 but can be pre-ordered now digitally on iTunes, Amazon & Google Play. Vinyl copies are available at StonesThrow.com.
Tuxedo posted their live DJ set from their gig in Berlin. Take a listen in the player above for a boogie funk mix with bonus drunk Mayer karaoke.
Tuxedo just released the Flaunt Edwards Edit of their jam "Do It". Check it out in the player above.
Bobbleheads are back! Gets yours in Mayer's web store.
Tuxedo just released their new song "Number One" – a dance floor banger inspired by Snoop Dogg's classic, "Ain't No Fun." Tuxedo explained, "We always wondered what the original sample was for "Ain't No Fun." Since we couldn't figure it out, we decided we would make it."
Click here to pre-order Tuxedo's debut album now digitally and on vinyl!
Mayer just released several new shirt designs that can be ordered now in his web store.
These mixtapes are part of the reason Tuxedo exists. Jake and Mayer made them before they knew each other, about 10 years ago. Shortly after meeting they exchanged these mixtapes and realized they had a mutual adoration for this type of music before it was cool again.
Happy Holidays from Tuxedo.
Original by some guy named Paul McCartney.
Mayer Hawthorne and Jake One have teamed up to release their debut album Tuxedo on March 3, 2015 through Stones Throw Records!
Pre-order now on iTunes to get an immediate download of "Do It". 2/LP Vinyl pre-orders are also available through StonesThrow.com.
Mayer wanted someone who could capture the youthful spirit of the 'The Stars Are Ours', so he had his 13 year old cousin Jake shoot it. To view it on mobile, click here.
Mayer believes good song is a good song regardless of what style it is and he wanted to test his songwriting to see if it would hold up when performed a completely different way. What do you think of his disco version of "The Stars Are Ours"?
Take a listen to Mayer Hawthorne's cover of "Stay" by Rihanna that was recorded live in Madison, WI and premiered on Esquire.com yesterday.
Vocals & rhythm guitar – Mayer
Drums – Quentin Joseph
Bass guitar – Joe Abrams
Lead guitar – Christian Wunderlich
Keyboards – Quincy McCrary


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A lot of our ideas for what "pretty" is gets determined on the pages of magazines and the screens of our televisions. For little girls, even the dolls we play with say something about waistlines, eye shadow and super cool ponytails. However lots of things are changing for the better! Dove ads have revealed the beauty of everyday women. Clothing lines like Calvin Klein and H&M are featuring models long considered plus size (translation: sizes 6-10) in their campaigns. Now, even Barbie is getting a makeover. Continue reading
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Sunday, November 9th was the very first World Adoption Day and people took to the technosphere to share their stories of adoption and family. Sponsored by Adopt Together, an organization that helps families crowdfund a process that can sometime price in the neighborhood of $25,000, they asked that in honor of the day, people draw a smiley face on their palm and share it via social networks. What started with a team in Los Angeles turned into an explosion of more than 10,000 photos on Instagram alone from all over the world including Patagonia, Kuwait and the Duck Dynasty. Continue reading
Name It to Tame It
A Powerful Tip I read about in "Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain" by Dr. Dan Siegel
I was dropping off my 12 year old daughter to her 7th Grade retreat, and I could see that she was nervous. It was a 2-night trip with new classmates from her new school. She is not one who is keen on retreats – in fact, she generally doesn't like sleep-overs and has never wanted to go to a sleep away camp. At the same time, she was excited with the discovery of independence at Middle School, and knew that the retreat was a great opportunity to make new friends.
I reminded her that when she is feeling anxious, the first step is to breathe. Pause. Take deep breaths. One. Two. Three. Let the air coming in help push the anxiety out. She didn't smile exactly as I spoke, but I could see her slowing down with deeper breathes as she listened.
I added a new twist to the exercise – something I had just read about in Dr. Dan Siegel's book, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain.
"In the brain, naming an emotion can help calm it… Name it to Tame It."
He explains:
"For all of us, as teenagers or adults, when intense emotions erupt in our minds, we need to learn to feel them and deal with them… Learning to deal with emotions means being aware of them and modifying them inside so that we can think clearly. Sometimes we can name it to tame it and help balance our brains emotional intensity by putting words to what we feel… There are even some brain studies that show how this naming process can activate the prefrontal cortex and calm the limbic amygdala!"
As Tara was away on her retreat, I found myself practicing the Name It To Tame It technique, and the effects were dramatic. When feeling stressed or upset, I would pause, breathe, recognize the sensations in my body, name the emotion (frustration, anger, anxiety), and continue. In fact, in a particularly frustrating work situation, I named my feelings through my negotiations, and felt I was much more calm, clear headed and non-emotional.
Tara returned from her trip with a big smile and lots of stories about their adventures. She noted that there were moments when she felt alone and anxious, but she reassured me she took deep breaths, recognized her feelings, and proceeded.
Dr. Dan Siegel is a prolific author and presently a clinical professor of Psychiatry at UCLA School of Medicine. Learn more about him at his website or purchase your own copy of Brainstorm: the Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain and let us know what you think!
Facing My Ebola Fear
On July 23, gravely ill Liberian-American diplomat Patrick Sawyer flew into Murtala Mohammed Airport. He died at a Lagos hospital four days later, after exposing scores of airline passengers and medical personnel to the Ebola virus.
Ebola had arrived in Nigeria. It has since spread to other areas of the country.
I live in Lagos but on the day Patrick Sawyer delivered his terrible gift, I was an ocean away. My three children and I were on vacation at my parents' house in suburban Massachusetts.
It was disconcerting to be far from Lagos when it was in crisis. I read articles about Ebola in the newspaper, watched reports on CNN, and tried to ignore the panicked emails from expat women I know.
My parents urged us not to return to Nigeria. They suggested I enroll the kids in the elementary school down the road, which I attended as a child.
It was tempting. The children could walk to school along the same forest path I had used. My mother would cook delicious Indian meals and my father's wine cellar would allow me to remain in a continuous state of inebriation. At 41, I would have no responsibilities and could spend my days in the basement hula hooping and taking naps.
My children, however, were sick of America. They missed their father, their friends, and their toys. They were desperate to return. My husband, John, assured us we would stay safe in Lagos, that Ebola in Nigeria could be contained. But it is very unnatural to willingly travel into danger. It takes courage, which I lack.
I couldn't decide whether to stay or go. And then one day my husband phoned me from Lagos to complain about our housekeeper. He had broached the subject of Ebola with Marie and was annoyed by her response.
"What do you know of Ebola?" John had asked her, intending to discuss precautions to prevent the spread of disease.
"I don't know him," Marie replied. "Is he Yoruba?"
"Can you imagine," John told me, "she thought E. Bola was a man's name! Has she been living under a rock?"
And that was how I decided it would be safe for us to return to Lagos. If Marie—my barometer for all matters West African—had never heard of Ebola, it must not be a big deal.
The kids and I arrived in Nigeria in mid-August. As we taxied to the gate, the newlyweds beside us slipped on latex gloves.
After deplaning, the passengers queued up in neat lines for body temperature scans. This was the first time I had ever seen thermometers used at an airport or anyone in Nigeria stand in a line without trying to cut to the front.
The ordinarily bustling terminal was silent. It was as unsettling as in the weeks following 9/11 when New Yorkers stopped honking their horns and giving each other the finger. I felt like a cold hand was squeezing my heart. This wasn't the Lagos I remembered. Was coming back a mistake?
I noticed a number of people pulling out bottles of hand sanitizer and squirting their palms as we cleared customs. Suddenly every surface seemed to be writhing with toxic germs. I wished there was a giant barrel of sanitizer I could dip my children into by the ankles, Achilles-style.
We exited the airport, dropped the suitcases at home then drove around looking for a place to eat. It was 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday night and Lagos was dead. We tried three restaurants but they were all closed.
We ended up at The Radisson, a shiny hotel perched on the lagoon.
I took a seat by the water and waited for my family to join me outside. From my table I had a view of the lobby. I saw a man near the bar lurching back and forth, vomiting. Then his face tipped up and I saw white discharge covering his mouth. At that moment, John and the kids walked by him.
John was stoic. As I saw my husband and children become infected with the Ebola virus, my eyes filled with tears. We had just become a cautionary tale.
My 4 decades on the planet, my 22 year romance with my husband, and my 3 beautiful children were about to be reduced to a handful of hysterical Facebook posts and a few mistakenly pressed thumbs ups.
Then the man straightened and I saw a shiny vacuum in his hand. His back was bucking because he was cleaning. What I had thought was white vomit was a surgical mask over his mouth.
John and the kids joined me at the table. They appeared to be Ebola-free.
Our first week back in Lagos was tense. I considered offering Marie an immediate early retirement because she coughed twice in an afternoon.
Despite my anxiety, we settled back into Nigerian life. My daughter got her hair twisted at the salon. I went grocery shopping. The children spent a happy day at the pool splashing with friends.
My fear began to dissipate. The number of Ebola cases in Nigeria, meanwhile, began dropping.
Aside from the strategically placed dispensers of hand sanitizer that had materialized around Lagos, it was business as usual.
I had no way to know how severely the Ebola virus would impact our lives when we returned. My decision was a bit impulsive, perhaps, but was borne from a desire to reunite my husband with his children. And I am certain I made the right choice. This is home.
It is in moments of adversity that we see the true worth of a people. Against all odds it seems that this awful virus has been contained here. Nigeria has been tested and I'm proud to say that she has come through with flying colors.
In the end, all I suffered was anxiety, nightmares and sleepless nights. Compared to thousands of our fellow Africans, we got off easy.
Intention in Nature
Dear friends,
I am on safari in the Serengeti in Tanzania as I write these words on my iPhone for this week's newsletter. The power of intention could not be more powerful here where the circle of life plays itself every day. Watching a cheetah scope out its prey, baboons playing in the trees, giraffes elegantly chewing leaves, and elephant leaving behind downtrodden trees as they slowly walk through the bush, a mother lion suckling its young cubs. Such images are nature perfectly, harmoniously, acting out intention in perfect balance. I feel blessed to be here. Here are some photos which I hope give just a hint of the extraordinary magnificence of the gifts of our planet. Enjoy!
Campaign Video Teaches Lessons in Empathy for War Torn Families
If you made a compilation video of one second of every day for a year, what would it look like? A campaign video to raise awareness of the political strife in Syria wanted to show you what it would look like for a child stuck in the middle of a war zone. It follows a little girl from blowing the candles out on her birthday cake to exactly one year later. She goes to school. She reads books. She hangs out with her parents. Then small things start to change and rapidly her one one second a day shows her being scared, being shuffled from place to place, her neighborhood being bombed, refugee camps and hospitals.
The world doesn't change with one person but we can start making a small difference with one intent at a time. Thanks to this video I intend to live with more empathy. What can you do to make the world a more compassionate place?
The Power of Breath in Meditation and Fitness
I was nine years old when my father, Deepak Chopra, taught me to meditate. Meditation has become an invaluable tool in my life to help me stay calm, centered, and focused since then.
A vital part of meditation is breath. It is also an important aspect of yoga in wisdom traditions. We know through sciences that breath is a critical component of the cardiovascular system, supports our digestive and lymphatic systems and is a reflection of our nervous system.
I use breath constantly as a tool to calm down when I'm feeling stressed or overwhelmed. And my daughters have also been taught to meditate to help them deal with stress at school. Your breathing is an expression of the activity of the mind. When we are settled, our breath slows down. When we are excited or anxious our breath gets faster.
There are a few simple breathing techniques you can try to help you stay calm and focused in a nerve-wracking moment. I go through a few of them in these guided meditations from The Chopra Well.
Ann Bruck, a trainer with Sports Club/LA explains that there are two different types of breathing when you are doing physical activity. There's stimulating breath which aims to increase energy and alertness. You breathe in and out rapidly through your nose with your mouth closed for 15 seconds at a time. The other type is relaxed breath, where you inhale for a count of 1 and exhale for a count of 1. Then inhale for a count of 2 and exhale the same, until you reach a cycle of five. This will help calm your nervous system and bring your body back to balance.
What kind of breathing techniques do you use when you are working out? Do you have any meditations or exercises you use during the day to help you stay focused? I'd love if you shared in the comments below!
4 Ways to Build Your Kid's Resilience
by Becky Karush
Resilience is the key to bearing up under stress—not just for you, but for your kids, too. Their worries may seem innocuous enough, but you only have to think back to your own memories as a kid to know that childhood stresses are not just traumatic at the time, but can also affect you in the long run. Building resilience is the backbone of the meQuilibrium system—and resilience is not just a skill you can strengthen for yourself, but something you can teach your kids as well.
Take my friend Darcy, for example. She grew up in poverty in Boston. Her family wasn't just going to the food pantry for a bag of groceries now and then; theirs was a "we own one bed and no one's making it to college" kind of struggle. The odds were stacked against her, but Darcy had two amazing things going for her.
First, she found a strong, supportive, and inspiring connection with a caring teacher. Second, no matter what downright awful situation hit her, she kept moving in the direction of her dreams, whether it was going to the library, getting into a private high school, or working in China as a financial analyst.
Darcy achieved all those things. During vacations at the private boarding school she attended on scholarship, she cleaned faculty members' houses for extra cash, and one day she flipped through book on a psychology teacher's shelf. She called up her roommate and best friend. "I found the word that describes my life!" she said. "It's 'rez-a-LEE-ance'!"
So she couldn't pronounce it, perhaps—but she knew it because she had it. And so can you.
Teaching Kids Resilience
Given that stress is inevitable for all of us, a parent's job is helping a child learn how to meet it. meQ's Chief Science Officer Andrew Shatte says, resilience is the key to keeping ourselves strong in the face of stress. It's a hands-on skill that affects how you and your kids deal with stress now—and later.
For younger children, Paul J. Donahue, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist and author of Parenting Without Fear offers simple tips to help give kids a foundation for resilience; below are a few of our favorites.
1. Establish healthy sleep patterns. Nothing will throw a kid off like going to bed and getting up at irregular times. Setting a regular bedtime for every night of the week, not just weekdays, ensures that your child has a solid foundation of rest–without which resilience is going to be next to impossible.
2. De-structure playtime. When a kid's days are scheduled to the minute, he loses the chance to learn to think for himself. Free play, which might include that uncomfortable feeling of having "nothing to do," promotes independence, creativity, and confidence in children in ways that structured activities can't.
3. Spend time outside. Being outdoors is literally used as therapy for kids who have suffered loss or trauma. Activities like climbing a tree or simply cloud-watching have a natural restorative effect that loosens the grip of stress on the body and helps kids return to the problem at hand refreshed.
4. Read more books together. Not only does reading together strengthen your bond with your child, it also begins to build her understanding of how the world works and how to move in it. Picture book characters can become role models and companions of a sort to guide a child through a hard moment.
(Read the complete list of Dr. Donahue's tips.)
Showing Kids Resilience
Bottom line: You need to model resilience to foster it in your children. When you practice building up your own resilience, your children get to see what it looks like when a grown-up handles obstacles with grace, and even uses that stress energy as a catalyst for action.
Darcy's first baby is due early in 2014. What a lucky kid that will be, to have a mom whose life got bigger, better, and more resilient with every hard time she faced.
Becky Karush is a writer and editor in New Hampshire specializing in healthy child development and child health care reform. Becky is also a writer for meQuilibrium.com, a website and app designed to help you manage stress.
Managing the Chill Mindfully
Close that door, it's freezing out! has been the most often heard command in my house this week. It has edged out, No candy canes before dinner!, Don't throw ice at your sister!, and even the recurrent Put-on-your-snow-boots-we're-gonna-be-late!!!!!
Welcome to winter in New England – five plus months of chattering teeth and cracked lips, drippy noses and numb fingertips. The cold here is called biting for a good reason. The wind has teeth and its nips can hurt.
This morning I took a quick drive downtown to run errands, nestled cozily in my car's seat warmers. I parallel parked and pushed the door open, gasping as a frigid shock of air flooded the driver's seat. Heaving myself carefully onto the slippery pavement, I skated to the curb, searching out salty spots to plant my feet.
Making my way to the bank, I skidded over the brick sidewalk, involuntarily tightening my lower back muscles with a shiver and tremble, reflexively recoiling from the cold, adjusting my balance to stay upright while defending a blast of wind. I hustled into the bank and scuffed the salt off my boots, relishing a few minutes of warm reprieve before heading back into the bluster.
As I walked out the door and stiffened immediately, I realized I was fully engaged in an internal battle against the cold – clenching my body so much my back felt achy. The discomfort triggered my mindfulness practice. I don't need this discomfort. It's only here to tell me something. And I'm listening carefully to what it's saying.
I took a deep breath, inhaling frigid air into my warm lungs, releasing it as steam through my mouth. Warm steam. I could produce warmth. I relaxed my tense muscles and took a few steps, continuing to walk that way until I noticed my lower back aching and mindfully melted the contraction again. Thich Nhat Hanh would've been so proud of me.
This time I envisioned warm blood flowing freely through my body, heating up my skin and keeping my muscles loose. Cold isn't bad. It's just another way of being. Be comfortable, I thought over and over. I considered my young children who dive into the snow hatless and spend hours digging out forts from the plowed white heaps along the driveway. Why is it they don't seem to battle the freezing cold like adults do? Maybe it's because joy trumps discomfort. They're not surviving the storm; they're reveling in it.
I walked with this thought for a block or so, doing my best to fill up on joy, when another blast of wind surged, stopping me in my tracks. My head lowered, my watery eyes squeezed shut, my hands plunged deeper into my coat pockets. Be one with cold, be joyful in the cold, I urged myself, this time out loud. I looked up and caught the eye of another soul braving the single digit temps. "Brace yourself," he warned. "The Almanac calls for a harsh winter." I smiled and tried to feel thankful for all of the opportunities I'll have to practice mindful freezing this year.
I climbed back into my car, the radio tuned to Christmas music. "I really can't stay… Baby, it's cold outside." You can say that again.
Juggling Glass and Wood: How to Prioritize Your Life
My father likes to explain life using a juggling metaphor. "Life is all about juggling glass and wooden balls. Sometimes you can't keep all of them in the air. The trick to being successful is that if you have to drop any balls, make sure they are the wooden ones." If a wooden ball drops on the floor, it'll just roll away whereas the glass ones will break and cause an even bigger mess. So now not only do you have to juggle, but you have to watch your feet so you don't step on any of the shards. Inevitably that will cause you to drop all the balls – and that's a full fledged level 5 disaster.
I've always found that metaphor useful when I'm starting to feel stressed out. Like recently as I've been trying to finish projects for the end of my first quarter of school, scheduling blogs, making appointments with my over-priced personal trainer, writing stories for my storytelling seminar… It gets to be a bit much. And I'm not even trying to pretend to be like many of you who are juggling jobs, children, relationships with everything else.
Those responsibilities can grow exponentially during the holiday season when you add buying gifts, cooking family meals, sending out Christmas cards, making that pot luck dish for the office party – it never ends. So how do you deal with it? Get out a piece of paper and start identifying what balls you have in the air.
How do you tell if something is a glass ball? If you answer yes to any of the following questions, it's glass.
Is this essential to me paying my bills at the end of the month (aka keeping my job, etc)?
Does not doing this negatively affect my health or the health/safety of those around me?
Is this essential to the happiness and stability of my family (or for you personally)?
If it does not fall into one of those categories, no matter what pressure anyone else is putting on you – it's a wooden ball. This means the world isn't actually going to end if one of them drops, even if it seems that way. However, there are still more important wooden balls than others and prioritizing them will only help you further. Try these tips for figuring out the most important tasks.
- Order the tasks by timeline (what has to be done the soonest?)
- Tackle the tasks that will take the most time and effort first (as you complete one hard task it'll only energize you to tackle the others)
- Are there any tasks that completing them will make the others easier? These definitely go first!
- Which tasks reap the largest rewards? Whether that's time with family (or for yourself!), financially, or space in your calendar – line them up in order of payoff.
At this point you should have a good idea of the essentials and know the order of your task list. Now you can get started, and if the clock starts winding down and you know you aren't going to get to everything – start dropping from the bottom. It's all wood, you're going to be okay. Breathe. Keep tossing and catching. Toss and catch. One at a time and steadily the list gets smaller and smaller until you get down to only the essential balls that hopefully will feel by instinct at this point so you can rest.
How do you determine your glass and wooden balls? Leave your tips below!


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"Transitioning neighborhood." I was introduced to that concept six years ago as I sat in my partner's rowhouse in the historic Mount Vernon Square section of Washington, DC. It was a gorgeous and peaceful spring day, so we had the front door open. The sounds of a nearby church's jazz band drifted in and out, in between dog barks and car horns. Then, a sudden loud and crackling rumble. Jerry jumped out of his chair.
"The crackhouse fell down," he said.
My response was simply: "What?" I'd heard his words, but--what?
We ran to the door and saw a rising pillow of dust rolling towards us from the end of the street. What had been an abandoned two-story brick rowhouse in an empty lot was gone. In its place, a pile of bricks and splintered wood at the base of a house seemingly cut in half. Neighbors slowly began to file into the street, calling the police or taking photos on their cellphones. It was so surreal.
"Wow," I said, "The crackhouse really...fell down."
This neighborhood and the areas surrounding it are no strangers to sudden changes. Wedged between Shaw to the north and Chinatown/Penn Quarter to the south, Mount Vernon Square transformed from a mixed working and merchant class commercial district to a solidly middle class African-American residential neighborhood by the middle of the 20th century. In April 1968, the riots that devastated large portions of Washington also severely crippled much of the neighborhood for much of the next 30 years. The crack epidemic of the 1980s did even more damage to the social and economic fabric of an already vulnerable part of the city. But long-time residents persevered, and newer residents moved in or opened businesses.
In my teens and twenties, I had no idea of the history of this place. I came to this part of DC to hang out in the underground punk and gay clubs. Much of the building stock was abandoned or empty, especially at night, and the streets weren't terribly safe. But the scene was unpredictable and cool. What else did a bored suburban kid like myself need?
Scenes, of course, cool down. We grow up. Neighborhoods keep changing. In Mount Vernon Square and Penn Quarter, new subway stops brought new development. The Verizon Center arena opened. A new convention center was built. Highrises and the chain stores popped up one after the other. And Gallery Place gradually became DC's "Times Square."
Honestly, I'm ambivalent about the path this part of DC has taken. It is ironic that I decided to settle down in the very place where I'd misspent so many of my formative years. And we live here now, so it seems a little silly to complain about the streets being too safe or the grocery store being too convenient.
Still, there's a part of me that misses the old 'hood. Ms. Tao, the Chinatown restaurant where I had a first date, is now a CVS. The 930 Club where I'd spent my youth losing my hearing to Fugazi or the Mekons is now a realtor's office. AV Restaurant is gone. The Warehouse Stage looks like it's gone. The DC Eagle may be next. Then what?
Two years after the crackhouse fell down, Jerry and I attended an open house on that exact spot for a row of five, brand new $1 million condominiums. They were beautiful. If we'd had a pile of money, we may have even bought one.
Obviously, neighborhoods aren't the only things that transition.
-- Warren Shaver
Warren Shaver is director of online communications at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. This is our final post leading up to the inauguration from National Trust staffers telling their stories about the greater D.C. area. Coming to town for the historic event? Be sure to visit our new Preservationist's Guide to Washington. And when you're done, share your photos with us.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation works to save America's historic places. Join us today to help protect the places that matter to you.
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The Changing Face of Evolutionary Theory?
Is evolution driven mainly by random genetic variation, or are there other factors at play? Michael Burdett reviews the scientific debate.
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Is evolution driven mainly by random genetic variation, or are there other factors at play? Michael Burdett reviews the scientific debate.
By getting rid of the miracle stories in the Bible, Bultmann and his followers hoped to make the Christian story more palatable to modern man. Although I recognize the emotional weight of this sentiment, I am not convinced that it is an intellectually coherent approach, mainly for reasons of self-consistency.
A common challenge to evolutionary theory is that while life does indeed change over time (what is known as microevolution), no one has ever seen one species evolve into another species (macroevolution).
John Calvin really believed that the sun revolved around the earth, but we shouldn't dismiss the rest of his theology because of this error.
Wright reminds us that robust Christian faith takes evidence on board, but fuses reason with faith, hope and love.
Written by BioLogos Fellow of Biology Dennis Venema, this series of posts is intended as a basic introduction to the science of evolution for non-specialists.
God invites us to understand his power and nature through studying what has been made.
Conflicts occur when people argue one worldview against another. They may be arguing Atheism versus Monotheism, then pull out science as a weapon saying, "science proves I'm right because of this or that..." In my view, science is rather more limited than this. Science has a lot of interesting resonances with the big questions, and can inform them, but I don't believe it can answer them.
We now take for granted an understanding of the Christian story that was largely worked out by Paul and later theologians. Even though the Gospels were composed after Paul's letters, they were concerned to tell the story itself in all its strangeness as it had been preserved by the first generation of Christians. And what we find in the stories themselves is the shock and wonder and surprise that the resurrection caused.
There is often a worry that working in or studying science is a threat to faith, but stories of scientists who are Christians in the top ranks of academia show that this is not the case.
How should we interpret the Bible? What is the role of tradition? What is the role of science? Who gets to decide whether traditional interpretations need to change?
"I believe that we must now ask for more than simple avoidance of cognitive dissonance. I believe we should seek for cognitive consonance."
Carl's dramatic lines that opened his Cosmos were repeated in Cosmos II: "The universe is all there is, or was, or ever will be." When I told Haines Stiles that many people took that as a statement of atheism, he responded with surprise. "Really?" he said. "We just put that in because it sounded poetic!"
A deep love for scripture, coupled (ironically) with a lifelong struggle with religious doubt, led Robert Boyle to write several important books relating scientific and religious knowledge. We explore aspects of this fascinating interaction.


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