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Be part of Global Solstice Movement Meditation that creates a yoga wave around the globe!
Dear Friends,
Just over a week ago, I was asked by my friends Chris Decker, founder of Earthdance and the UPLIFT2012 and Stephen Dinan of The Shift Network and BIRTH2012 as well as Debra Guisti of the Synthesis Festival at Chitzen Itza to help spread the word about the worldwide meditations that are happening over four days and concentrated around the Sosltice Dec. 21-22nd.
The Global Mala Project is assisting in spreading the word of this simple action:
Offer your meditation as part of the positive emerging collective consciousness that is being held by indigenous leaders, spiritual communities, gatherings at sacred sites, yoga malas in yoga studios, family and personal meditation.
Please join us in your own way wherever you are around the world to be part of the meditations going on over the Solstice weekend. My homepage at www.yogadventures.com has information on how to lead a yoga mala.
1) Whether you will be in your own home or want to gather community or perhaps are already offering a Solstice class, please connect with www.Birth2012.com and sign-up your event.
2) Please forward the flyer to anyone in your community to help spread the word. Click here to view / download
3) Please forward on Facebook. Click here to connect to the event.
4) If you are in the Los Angeles area, please join us at Exhale. Details here.
Thank you for your connection and helping to spread the word. I am here to support any goodwork you are offering.
Love all ways,
Yours in Service
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Full Moon Eclipse Blessings
Dear Friends,
It is the sacred Friday energy of lighting the candles and igniting a different rhythm.
I am very happy to be part of the worldwide synchronization of the Winter Solstice 2012.
Our Rebirth of the Light In-town Solstice Retreat with Dave Stringer, Donna De Lory, Demetri Velisarius, and Global Sonic DJ Fabian Alsultany is happening from 2-10pm at Exhale on the 21st as part of four days of worldwide activities. We will continue at Agape that night and I will be helping activate the yoga community for the first sunrise meditation at 7:00 am at Agape with Donna De Lory on Dec. 22nd which will be part of the global telecast that is happening through www.Birth2012.com. More about this all next week.
This retreat will be the culmination of our Ten Days of Peace from 12-12-12 to the Winter Solstice. I am very happy to welcome friend and tribal artist Deb Rubin to Exhale at the same time for a women's gathering. All is below.
Light your inner and outer lamp.
In passion and peace
Love all ways
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Thanksgiving Blessings
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
- Albert Schweitzer
Dear Friends,
I am really really grateful for you all. You keep our spark going here. I think everyone on the teaching path knows this. Like the last ten days at Exhale. The presence of every student-friend was really inspiring - the way you show up with openness, adventure - your heart, breath, sweat and soul.
Without you, there is no circle. Like musicians showing up to play with no dancers. You ignite the breath. You have made this path really satisfying on an inner level - the sense that our movement is part of a larger movement. You must know that truly and sincerely.
I am grateful to my bones to be in a community where we can cultivate peace and are not living in fear. We are able to practice without being afraid of expression, our bodies, men and women practicing in the same room. We have spiritual freedom, freedom of movement, music, speech, coming together. This is not a right everywhere. In fact, in Mali right now where some of the greatest musicians and dancers in the world live - music and dance is once again illegal in some parts punishable by violence and imprisionment. I am grateful for the freedom to pray for peace with our whole bodies and not be afraid to walk out our doors.
I give thanks that we have enough to give back. We are supporting the collective classes that are being organized around the country all month for those who need support from Hurricane Sandy in NJ and NY organized through Debbie Kaminsky and Seane Corn through Off the Mat. Thank you yoginis. Please join us for a donation class tomorrow for Thanksgiving Day at 10:30 a.m. at Exhale to stoke our inner fire in peace.
Also save the date for the the Winter Solstice Retreat on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012 at Exhale! Yoginis please join us on Dec. 15th as we offer a special class with incredible SFTribal movement artist Debra Rubin.
We are offering a special online program Shanti Sadhana - Ten Days for Peace. This is a potent meditation practice requiring only 30 minutes a day to bring into your life from 12-12-12 to 12-21-12.
So grateful for Kristen Townsend - the PULSE newsletter editor, and our new team at Samudra including Glenisse Pagan for Teacher Training and Julian Rea as Media Coordinator (good things coming in 2013) and all the amazing Prana Flow open community of teachers, mentors and friends. Maha pranams and gratitude to my beloved, family and Teachers you are my spark, fuel and shared flame.
Tender love to you to you all,
Let the feasting begin in remembrance, joy and gratitude!
Love All Ways,
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Triumph of the Spirit
Triumph of the Spirit!
Celebrating Obama! and all Movers and Shakers everywhere.
I turned my book in today and I may be celebrating till the Solstice! 271 pages, 71,000 words, 18 months interspersed through all of householder life, endless hours at my writing perch later I release "my triplets" - a small offering to the collective fire. I give thanks to my family, Demetri, Jai, Julian, Big Daddy, Kera, Layla (my family), my editors Haven, Sheridan and the visionary Tami Simon, the scholarship of Chris Tompkins who provided translations and instrumental comraderie, Paul Muller-Ortega and Daniel Odier for inspiration and many other inner and outer Gurus, and the great Samudra team particularly Kristen Townsend who was there from the beginning, Julian, Maria Garre, Glenisse, photographers to come in the design process such as Jenay Martin, Lisa Firefly for calendar muse, Lorin Roche, Ron Alexander and Bob Wisdom for the initial encouragement to write and all of my friends for your patience during this process. Shiva is coming out of the cave and celebrating this week for a long time!
We are celebrating Pujya Swami's birthday and looking forward to being part of Ganga Fest to highlight sacred activism for the Ganga at the Maha Kumbha Mela. We will release all the details next week for Diwali.
We are so honored to welcome Paul Muller-Ortega for an afternoon of meditation and satsang as the culmination of a great week with some extraordinary guests. I am looking forward to offering the fluid power-chakra vinyasa cycle of sequences for my Exhale friends.
Keep tending your fire,
Love all ways
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Full Moon Blessings
I hope you are in your fullness as we open to one of the last of the three full moons over the next six weeks till the Winter Solstice 2012. We have been in very steady and grounded practice here in Kerala - mantra, meditation, massage, kalari, prana flow in our 10-days of misty, cloudy, sprinkling, nourishing yet tropical warmth here - my favorite experience of Kerala yet. We went to the Shiva-Devi-Ganesh temple last night to throw coconut offerings walking in the misty rain. It has been so good for our sadhana.
With the Hurricane Sandy and election upon us in the USA, let us keep steady in our prayers, our tender human truths, remember our ancestors and stay clear in our actions as we show up and VOTE!
Howl for Halloween with the kiddies…
See you at Exhale soon if you are local for the New Moon and Diwali, the festival of lights.
So happy to welcome an incredible group.
Love all ways,
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Victory to the Mother!
Victory to the Mother! The last day of Navaratri, Vijaya Dasami was part of our initiation of new students ceremony today in the Kalari! Each student sitting before the altar first wrote a Ganesh mantra
as a way of connecting to Saraswati, knowledge and the auspicious new cycle.
We then offered respect to the Gurukaal lineage and then some were introduced to new weapons.
I received unexpectedly the first steel blade weapon with great respect and learned the movements with my teachers. I am vibrating in a deep, settled and dedicated way and can see the transformation during these 10 days in my life as mirrored in through many people's lives in small and large ways:
We all have released some hinderances. We have all awakened to some deeper truths. We have all re-membered and activated a creative potency and are opening to a new cycle that will be given time for integration and then emerge in the coming months if we are able to follow the guidance we have received. We lost some great beings - freedom fighters - George McGovern and freedom dancer Gabrielle Roth. Victory to the Mother!!!
As we bring closure to our altars and this process, what is the samkalpa, dedication that can connect us to the deeper movement that we are all going to pass through for the rest of Fall into the new year. Let us write down all that we learned and rededicate ourselves to our individual and collective path with a sense of greater service to the source energy of life on our sacred blue planet as we voyage through the infinite space as a bead turning in the cosmic mala.
On Oct. 31st, it will only be six weeks left of the year.
Let us awaken now and forever to the deepest and extraordinary love that embraces every experience
we could ever have or envision. We are her sons and daughters - she dances through us. Jai Jai Ma!!!!
Love All Ways,
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India Pilgrimage and The Breath of Durga's Tiger!
I am here at home, being a Mama before heading out for Shakti pilgrimage to India next week.
First we are heading to NYC to support the wonderful community through Sonic Yoga (Lauren Hanna, Twee Merrigan, Tracey Mohr, Jeffrey Duval, Elitza Datcheva and Lori McCalister) and initiate the upcoming Navaratri cycle (see below).
On Sunday, we then head towards Manali for Guru Padmasambhava and his consort Lady Mandarava's Cave where Demetri will stay for Dzogchen retreat with Lama Tsultrim. In this region, there is one of the 52 Shakti Pithas there called Naina Devi (the eye of the Goddess) where I will begin our the pilgrimage for Navaratri before heading to Kerala for the rest of the 10-day shakti fest and study Kalaripayattu with my teachers and support our Kerala Shakti Retreat with folks coming from all over the world.
This is a dream come true as it has been 20 years since I experienced Navaratri in India while a student. I will share all of this experience with you through our group and some post through the PULSE. Our beloved Maria Garre will be in India as well climbing Durga's peak.
May we stay grounded and inspired during this fertile transition to fall.
Love All Ways,
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Global Mala Celebration
The Fall Equinox is here and we just offered a Global Mala from our retreat in the ancient Herault valley in Southern France where caves, extraordinary cathedrals and river gorges brought us into the earth power.
Thank you to those who joined us live for the Yoga Mala and an amazing group of teachers from all over Europe.
There will be a live stream of the Global Mala in Newark on Sunday if you would like to tap in wherever you are as we connect with the thousands of UN international peace projects around the world.
Our new series on the Danda and the Lotus begins with this new cycle.
May your creative energy flourish and peace prevail on earth…
Shanah Tovah!
Blessings in all directions,
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New Moon Blessings
A new moon and the Fall Equinox are upon us initiating the final seasonal turn of the year. We offer you our best harvest and the seeds for 2013.
This year the Global Mala for Peace will have over hundred global mala events around the world. The Global Mala is an opportunity to connect with the yoga community at large: across all borders, all styles of yoga, forms of yoga. This year I will be joining the New Jersey Global Mala which takes place in the $24 million newly renovated, Newark Public School's New School Stadium. There is plenty of space for the more than 1000 attendees we expect on Sunday, September 23rd. Global Mala NJ will run simultaneously with Yoga Festival by the Sea Global Mala event in Asbury Park. There will be live streaming. Together, this will be the largest yoga event in the Garden State, becoming one community.
Learn more about Global Mala NJ at www.globalmalanj.org
To learn more about the roots of Global Mala and ideas on how to host your own event, please see www.globalmala.org
Thank you to National Yoga Month and Juil Shoes for your support!
Love all ways,
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Bhakti Fest * Danda and The Lotus
Bhakti Fest is this coming weekend and is one of the great gatherings of the year. We are all born as lovers and this is the place to come out of the closet as a Bhakta, joining a sea of wonderful bhaktas from all paths, backgrounds and forms. I will be offering bhakti sadhana with the Mayapuris and the Hanumen (John de Kadt, Benjy Wertheimer, Gaura Vani).
We are offering a special online course for men and women separately as part of the Danda and the Lotus series. This is a very special 3-part course the is a follow-up to wonderful Sacred Belly Sadhana for women and the Danda practice for men offered with Demetri.
The 2013 Calendar is out! See all dates on the website.
Love All Ways,
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Newly appointed Chief Justice Nancy Rice approved the banners, which were hung before the Broncos' AFC championship win over the New England Patriots.
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Some cool stuff happening in the Raptors-Cavs game on NBA TV.
LeBron James became the Cavaliers' career steals leader in the first quarter, passing Mark Price. In the opening minutes, LBJ tipped away a pass and went in for an uncontested dunk -- one of several, each more ferocious than the last -- for his 735th steal in 412 games. Price had 734 in 582 games.
In the second quarter, LeBron backed away from a defensive rebound and let it go to Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who passed Brad Daugherty for the franchise record. I don't know about you, but as a young basketball fan, I loved watching those Price-Daugherty-Larry Nance-Craig Ehlo teams. Loved how they played beautiful basketball, and cringed at all the heartbreak at the hands of Michael Jordan.
I'm going to steal a phrase from my former colleague, Alan Hahn of Newsday. With all these dunks by LeBron tonight, I'm gathering that the Toronto coaching change wasn't geared toward stepping up the defense. It's 59-51 Cleveland at halftime.
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Tanks outside Egypt presidential palaceComment on this story
Cairo - At least four tanks deployed outside the Egyptian presidential palace on Thursday in a street where supporters and opponents of President Mohamed Morsi had been clashing into the early hours of the morning, Reuters witnesses said.
Three armoured troop carriers were also in the street outside the palace. The violence that had stretched from Wednesday afternoon into the early hours of Thursday had abated and the streets were calm.
The soldiers' badges identified them as members of the Republican Guard, whose duties include guarding the presidency.
Traffic was moving through streets strewn with rocks thrown during the violence. Hundreds of Morsi supporters were still in the area, many wrapped in blankets and some reading the Koran.
"We came here to support President Morsi and his decisions. He is the elected president of Egypt," said Emad Abou Salem, 40, a Morsi supporter. "He has legitimacy and nobody else does." - Reuters
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The Department of Transportation is said to be looking at a blanket ban on up-in-the-air chatting.
The in-flight service's latest trick lets you text and talk as though you were on the ground. CNET boarded Gogo's private jet to find out more.
CNET boarded Gogo's private jet to find out more and test the company's latest service: texting and talking as though you were on the ground.
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1323. leftyy4201:02 AM GMT on September 07, 2006
back to the weather i also think some of us need to consider option 3.
3. the storm loops as the weakness closes. than who knows what most likly the next trof shoots her north but theres a chance at even a jeane like scenario. just throwing that out there casue i been thinking bout the ukmet and the last run has a bend back and the gfs is so hard with tis turn and next the slowdwon predicted by all the models now around day 4 and 5. Remebr if there is a slowdwon we have weka steering currents and thats where models fail specialy predicting loops. once again just a 3rd option
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A man who raped a 15-year-old girl had his sentence cut by a quarter because a judge said he was a young man and had a difficult childhood.
Nicholas Tobela was convicted of kidnapping and raping a 15-year-old girl in the Ramaphosa informal settlement near Reiger Park, Boksburg, in 2010. He was 22 at the time.
Acting Judge TP Mudau, of the Johannesburg High Court, last month dismissed Tobela's appeal against his conviction, saying the evidence "overwhelmingly proved" he had raped the girl.
However, he substantially reduced the sentence, from an effective 25 years to an effective 18 years.
The judgment was confirmed by Judge Fritz van Oosten.
Tobela had grabbed the girl in the street and dragged her to his nearby shack, with passers-by ignoring her screams for help because he told them she was his girlfriend.
He raped her, then offered her money, which she refused.
She escaped by telling him she needed to use the outside toilet. She left her cellphone and hat in the shack to give the impression she would return, and fled home.
She immediately told her mother and, on the same day, the police. Tobela was caught after the police found her cellphone and hat at his shack.
He claimed the sex was consensual, which the trial court dismissed.
Judge Mudau reduced the sentence because "I am of the view that a sentence of 25 years' imprisonment for a young man of 22 years of age, at the threshold of his life, is shockingly inappropriate and not proportionate to the crimes he has been convicted of".
He said Tobela was a first-time offender and cited his "difficult upbringing".
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Free Posters on Fitting Bicycle Helmets: Download Or Order Copies
April's a Busy Month for Injury and Violence Commemorations
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Choose an event or topic that matches your current programs, and check out the web link for ideas and opportunities to tie your activity to a commemoration.
Commemorative Days and Weeks in April
April 3 - YMCA Healthy Kids Day
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April 7 - World Health Day--Road Safety
WHO Regional Office for the Americas
Road traffic injuries pose a global public health crisis, killing more than a million men, women, and children around the world each year. Tens of millions more are injured, some of whom become permanently disabled. In the United States, road traffic injuries are the leading cause of death for persons 1 to 34 years of age, killing more than 40,000 people and injuring more than 4 million more. The CDC Injury Center's World Health Day page includes an information kit on family road safety with crash injury facts, ideas on what you can do in your community, potential partners, resources, a sample news release, newsletter article, and mayoral proclamation.
April 8 - National Alcohol Screening Day
Screening for Mental Health, Inc.
April 2-4 - Alcohol-Free Weekend
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
April 5-11 - National Public Health Week (highlighting health disparities)
American Public Health Association
Minnesota Public Health Association (for examples of activities in Minnesota)
April 26-30, 2004 - National Playground Safety Week
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Month-long Commemorations in April
Alcohol Awareness Month
National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, Inc.
National Youth Sports Safety Month
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Sexual Assault Awareness Month
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Child Abuse Prevention Month
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3. Combined Federal Website Lists Product Recalls
Recalls.gov is a collaboration of six federal agencies and acts as a one-stop online shop for government product recalls. Find information about thousands of dangerous or defective products including toys, children's car seats and playpens, cosmetics, medications, foods, boats, cars and trucks.
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4. School Safety Training Offered in Minnesota Cities
Basic Emergency Lifesaving Skills in Schools (BELSS) is designed to increase the number of school-aged youths who are competent in safety, first aid, CPR and AED skills by training their instructors and providing curriculums to promote the development of these skills. Two Minnesota trainings are scheduled for 2004:
- August 25-26, 2004 at the Duluth Holiday Inn
- December 1-2, 2004 at the St. Paul East Holiday Inn
Coordinated School Health offers information about these and other training opportunities.
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Also see > National Center for Injury Prevention & Control (NCIPC), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, for the latest injury prevention news at the national-level.
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Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., formally asked the House to recognize the court challenge in Florida's 13th Congressional District in the Sarasota area. Buchanan won by just 369 votes, but Democrat Christine Jennings contends the electronic voting machines didn't work correctly because 18,000 people who voted in other elections did not vote in the House race.
Pelosi said the notice had been filed with the clerk.
"The House remains the judge of the elections of its members," Pelosi said. "The seating of this member-elect (Buchanan) is entirely without prejudice to the contest over the final right to that seat."
Pelosi added that the contest is being reviewed by the Committee on House Administration.
Ralph G. Neas, president of People For the American Way Foundation, applauded the House leadership for making it clear that Buchanan's time in Congress is provisional until the matter is resolved.
"Only after court proceedings and a congressional investigation seeking answers about the Sarasota undervote have run their course, and only after Sarasota's election problems have been remedied, should someone be permanently seated," Neas said.
Buchanan and Jennings were vying for the seat to replace Katherine Harris, who lost her Senate challenge to Democrat Bill Nelson.


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Guardian short stories podcast + The Guardian Books Podcast
James Salter, the veteran American novelist and short story writer, reads a story by Lydia Davis, winner of the 2013 Man Booker International prize
Lucy Wood builds a story from glimpses and suggestions in 'Notes from the House Spirits', says Jon McGregor
Yiyun Li reads William Trevor's 'Three People', a short story which moved her to write a story in reply, 'Gold Boy, Emerald Girl'
Penelope Fitzgerald looks at the world anew in her short story 'At Hiruharama', says AS Byatt
Franz Kafka's story of a man who starves himself for entertainment, The Hunger Artist, is 'absurb, moving and timely', says Hanif Kureishi
In the last of our 12 tales for Christmas, Helen Simpson reads Angela Carter's 'triumphant comedy', 'The Kitchen Child'
For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and Helen Dunmore reading Frank O'Connor, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open thread
Ali Smith reads a 'breathtaking, breathgiving' look at an argument between an elderly father and his writer daughter
Tessa Hadley reads a story from one of her 'writing family', Elizabeth Bowen's 'The Jungle'
Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield's 'memorable, painful' The Doll's House – the first adult short story she ever read
For more podcasts, including Philip Pullman reading Chekhov and William Boyd reading JG Ballard, visit the Guardian short stories podcast page. To nominate your own favourite short story, join the discussion on our open thread
- Short stories
- Fiction
- Classics
- Franz Kafka
- Charles Dickens
- Lydia Davis
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Ernest Hemingway
- Julian Barnes
- Man Booker International prize 2013
- Simon Callow
- Ali Smith
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Nadine Gordimer
- Penelope Fitzgerald
- Angela Carter
- Will Self
- José Saramago
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Playback Displays
The X100 can play back images either on its rear LCD or using the EVF. In both cases the view is much the same, so here we're showing the rear LCD versions.
Thumbnail views
The X100 gives a choice of four thumbnail displays in playback, but the first two aren't tremendously useful, and the final one crams so many images onto the screen that it's difficult to make out what's going on.
|Pressing the 'zoom out' button in playback once gives this not-very-useful view.
|Pressing it a second time gives this alternative not-very-useful view.
|A further press brings up this finally-useful 3x3 thumbnail grid.
|One more press brings up this 100-frame view, in which each thumbnail is near-unrecognisably small, and portrait format images displayed the wrong way round.
Image search menu
One of the X100's more useful playback menu items is the Image Search option. Using this it's possible to sort images by various criteria: most usefully by date taken or favorites rating, but also by whether you've marked them for upload to Facebook.
|The Image Search menu lets you sort though your pictures and movies in several ways.
|Perhaps most useful (and informative) is the By Date option.
|You can also view just your favorite images (as long as you've marked them first)...
|...or find pictures of your favorite people by searching for images with faces.
In-camera raw conversion
One of the X100's most interesting, and useful features is its in-camera raw conversion capability. This is far from unique, of course (lots of SLRs can do it too), but Fujifilm offers an unusually wide control over the development parameters, including independent control over highlight and shadow tone, plus noise reduction and dynamic range. The interface is simple and very approachable too. Strangely though you can't choose the either the aspect ratio (which is always the full 3:2 of the recorded raw file, even if the original JPEG was recorded in 16:9) or the output size and compression of the generated JPEG (which is always Large Fine).
|Press the RAW button in playback mode and up pops this screen. You can choose to simply reflect the shooting conditions, or alter the processing parameters to taste.
Dynamic Range can be decreased from that originally used, but not increased (you can't magically turn a DR100 raw file to a DR400 JPEG, for example - the data's simply not there).
|Scroll down and you reach a second set of options. Note that the thumbnail image on the left doesn't update to reflect your new settings (and is too small for this to be very useful anyway).
|Press 'RAW' again after selecting your settings and the camera will display a preview for you to approve and save, or cancel. Only at this point you can see the affect of your changes, for example conversion to monochrome. If you're happy, press 'OK' and the camera will save a new JPEG.


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3-Steps to answer the Questions Everyone in Your Church is Asking
"I know a couple that has stopped giving…said they don't understand what we're doing."
One of the staff members told me this recently, and it really felt like a stab!
What!? Don't know? Don't understand? How can that be?
We have communicated our vision and plan very well (I said to myself). Well…upon further investigation I came to realize many of those actually committed to the church, didn't really understand our plan.
The lack of communication…It was like a huge zit on my nose and I was the last person to see it! I realized this was indeed a crisis and needed correction quickly. Here are 3-Steps that helped alleviate the questions they were asking…
1- Have a Plan
I mean a simple written ministry plan EVERY year. In your plan, you should answer the basic questions everyone asks:
Mission- What are we going to do?
Vision- How are we going to get it done?
Direction – Who is responsible?
Provision- How much will it cost?
2- Present the Plan
Now this is a big challenge but… Your plan should fit on 1-page! I'm not talking about the entire detailed plan, but the summary of what you share with the church. If you present and lay out the detailed plan, but nobody will remember it. You want those with you to know the plan and run with it. So keep it simple.
3- Implement the Plan
Make it clear what immediate steps are going to take place in order for the new plan to materialize. Don't get detailed right up front, make macro strokes so as to not get bogged down with to many questions so be answered.
Set firm dates when these new initiates are going to take place. Make the measurable so those with you can celebrate the win!
Categories: Leadership, Small City Church, Small Town Tuesday, Vision Casting
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Great plan Artie, thanks for the reminder that vision casting never ends.
Dude. You are so wise!


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Athlete, virtuoso,
Training for happiness,
Bend arm and knee, and seek
The body's sharp distress,
For pain is pleasure's cost,
Denial is route
To speech before the millions
Or personal with the flute.
The ape and great Achilles,
Heavy with their fate,
Batter doors down, strike
Small children at the gate,
Driven by love to this,
As knock-kneed Hegel said,
To seek with a sword their peace,
That the child may be taken away
From the hurly-burly and fed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, said
The curious Socrates,
I have asked, What is this life
But a childermass,
As Abraham recognized,
A working with the knife
At animal, maid and stone
Until we have cut down
All but the soul alone:
Through hate we guard our love,
And its distinction's known.
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Poem: For The One Who Would Not Take His Life In His Hands
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June 12th, 2010Personal
I need a device that pauses time. In my work and personal life, time keeps on slipping away…
It's been months since I've written a credible blog on here (tho I have started a recipes blog in that time, which has a few posts), and I never find the time to do things in the evening that I want to be doing – mostly because evenings are my work 'research' time…
Life is busy, and as more commitments are added to work and personal life, it adds to that slippage.
At work I'm the 'team leader' of the seo department. I think I'd like a better title than that, although I guess that isn't for me to decide.
Essentially, whilst I don't have to concern myself with the human resources issues of the staff, I am in charge of making sure everyone services their clients properly and fully, and I'm charge of the way that we approach seo.
Despite this, I also have a full portfolio of clients to manage as well as being responsible for our companies seo, although I don't always have the control over that, that I would like. I'm not going to gloat about it here, but there are some things that we are doing pretty well for at the moment, although I have targets for improving this further.
In my personal life at the moment, my partner for the last 7 years (well almost, it's our anniversary next month) has had to deal with an immense amount of problems with her back, as well as starting a new job, having finally escaped the shop floor at HMV, she is now an artworker at b&q's head office, finally landing the role with graphics she has been seeking since returning from her round the world travels.
She does love the job, although the commute can clearly be a drag. Still, she's learning fast how to drive (I've never had a lesson in my almost 28 years of life :s ) and that should make life easier. It might stop the question 'when are we moving to southampton' being asked (quite so frequently).
But it's her back that really causes her problems. Mich is the same age as me, 27, but for the 8 or 9 years we have known one another, her back has been in a serious decline.
It is hard seeing the ones you love in pain, and being utterly helpless in the face of it.
Mich has what seems to be an uncurable condition in her lower back, which 2 years ago when she had her last MRI scan affected 4/5 of her vertebrae – though I suspect that it is likely to be affecting more than that now, something I guess we'll find out soon, as she has another back specialist to see in just over a week. I think this will be the 5th or 6th specialist she has seen now, and whilst I want to hope that this can offer the attention and treatment she needs, I've mostly come round to the fact that this is a permanent condition, that ultimately we are going to have to live with.
This week has been a particularly bad one for the poor girl, but with lots of commitments at work, I haven't been able to pay her the attention she not only needs, but thoroughly deserves.
This is why I need a device that can warp time, as sadly my workload is dictating that I need to work this weekend, when I really need to be paying attention to the woman i love.
I guess… Who ever said life was going to be easy
Just a quick post about a new website that I have decided to spend some of my free time on.
I spend a lot of my time in the kitchen when I get home from work, and usually am cooking up a variety of meals with all sorts of styles. As a result I thought I would start writing a food blog, and have now take the plunge and launched Quick Easy Dinners.
I guess it's still a work in progress at the moment, as I haven't had the time to get enough posts on there, but over the coming weeks and months, I'll be adding a number of food ideas and recipes to the site from myself, and a number of friends and family that have agreed to contribute. I'm still unsure about the template that I am using as well, but we'll see how things go on.
If you have a recipe idea that you would like to share, then by all means either contact Peter Handley or contact Quick Easy Dinners.
I've just been reading an article over at the BBC where James Murdoch was complaining about the BBC giving the news away for free!
Why should we have to pay to receive news? What with the use of Twitter for far speedier communication of the latest events around the world, trying to make people that have a wealth of information at their fingertips pay for short news stories on websites, that are already rehashing whatever is said elsewhere! It's absolutely non-sensical!
I read news on the BBC fairly regularly, but don't read the sun website. Reason? The sun quality is poor- the only reason I have ever bought the paper is because of their sports coverage, but it's pretty rubbishon their website.
News corp are gonna start charging you to read their news – so, I won't read their news!
I wonder how long they will give it after making people pay before they go back to an ad supported model? Will they take off the ads if you are paying to view this content? I suspect not, but I guess we will have to wait and see what develops
Morning guys and gals – been way too long since I last wrote a blog.
Since then I've been off on a stag do that I organised for my good friend Ben, been playing lots of resident evil 5 (god I hate those guys with Chainsaws) and have been working hard at the office to keep on top of everything.
This morning I managed to get my "vanity" facebook URL – I'm www.facebook.com/ismepete – a strange name "ismepete" I'll grant you, but its been a name that I have been using for years, and its not something that anyone else seems to use – I'm ismepete on lots of sites, its my PSN id, my twitter name, used to be my MySpace name (before I got bored of it and joined the legion of people leaving the place), so at least I am consistent. Not quite sure if there is any real point in getting one, but hey ho, why not eh?
So, I'm up early this morning and I am working on my best man speech now that the stag is done and dusted. Or rather, I should be – I'm not as I am writing this blog instead. I thought I had made a really good start on this when I started thinking about it a few months ago, but having just typed up my notes I'm a bit disappointed. 3 paragraphs is all I have written, and I thought I was about 3/4 of the way there – big exageration!
I'll get there though, and this weekend too – as it needs to be translated for the spanish folks that are attending! Wish me luck
I've also decided that I am going to try and get a 32GB iPhone next week – getting to work early and gonna head down to town for 9.30 when they start to go on sale. Hopefully there wont be as much demand for these, as I desperately need a new phone! I'm no iPhone fanboy – I just want a decent media phone, and there is still no release date for the n97, so enough is enough, I'm going to bite the bullet and get a new machine.
Finally, the bane of my life this week is something that I wrote a blog about over at work – Strange US search results mixed in with the normal UK Google searches.
Why Google are doing this, I do not know – for lots of search terms, this is destroying the credibility of the engine, as the results being shared with users just arent as relevant as they have been.
With Bing pushing strong to improve it's market share (Bing is the new name for MSN's rebranded search engine), I think that these poor results are really coming at the wrong time for Google – and I really think that they should do better than this, as Google have always said, another search engine is only ever 1 click away. All it takes is a few searches with poor results and people could switch over to another engine in an instant.
I dont really think that Google's dominant market share is in danger at the moment, but I dont think that these are improvements to their engine – quite the opposite in fact, and something that Google should be fixing as a priority!
Over and out for now – I'll try not to leave it so long until I blog next – maybe next week when I've had a chance to play with my new phone (fingers crossed I can get one).


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SACRAMENTO- Sacramento's police and city fire departments could be getting some much needed relief from budget cuts, thanks to sales tax money from Measure U.
The city council will be reviewing where that money could be going after the the city manager presents his recommendations Tuesday night.
Measure U was approved by Sacramento city voters last November.
The temporary half-cent sales tax increase is expected to pour $5 million into the city before the end of this fiscal year. Of that money, the city manager recommends $1.5 million should go to Sacramento police.
The Sacramento police officer's union says the money would let the department hire more officers.
Dustin Smith, the president of union, said, "Our hopes is to get up to 65 officers up and running through the academy process so they'll be ready to hit the streets some time in December."
Meanwhile , the Sacramento City Fire Department was supposed to see a fourth brownout starting last month. But, the city manager recommends that Measure U tax funds be used to help defer another brownout.
"Currently, every day there are three fire companies in Sacramento that are closed. This money is designed to bring those back," said Ryan Henry, vice president of the local firefighters union.
Other Measure U funding recommendations include allocating a quarter-million dollars to the Parks and Recreation Department so six swimming pools and five wading pools could operate through summer.
Measure U goes into effect April 1. The temporary sales tax measure is expected to generate $28 million a year.
In response to expected revenues, councilman Steve Cohn said, "Certainly, we'll use a lionshare of Measure U to restore police and fire services. We cut back so much five years ago. We're not going back to those levels. But, we'll be able to restore some of that and we're excited."
Councilman Steve Hansen said Measure U funds are restoring services -- exactly what voters said they want.
"(We're) getting the money to the streets sooner and at the same time, we're trying to be very smart about how we use these funds since they are temporary," Hansen said.
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Top Ten Prospects: Oakland Athletics
Complete Index of Top 10s
By Casey Tefertiller
Baseball America's Top 10 Prospects lists are based on projections of a player's long-term worth after discussions with scouting and player-development personnel. All players who haven't exceeded the major league rookie standards of 130 at-bats or 50 innings pitched (without regard to service time) are eligible. Ages are as of April 1, 2004.
2. Joe Blanton, rhp
Age: 23. B-T: R-R. Ht.: 6-3. Wt.: 225.
Background: Acquired with a first-round pick from the Yankees as compensation for Jason Giambi, Blanton is the best prospect from the A's 2002 "Moneyball" draft. He dominated the low Class A Midwest League last year, winning the strikeout crown despite being promoted in late July. Unlike Oakland's other 2002 draftees, he also made an easy transition to Double-A.
Strengths: Blanton has the makings of a classic power pitcher. He usually throws 93-94 mph and hits 96 with his fastball, and he has tremendous command of the pitch. MWL managers rated his slider as the league's best breaking ball, and his curveball also can buckle hitters' knees.
Weaknesses: Blanton is learning the art of pitching. He sometimes relies on one or two pitches, and he must learn to sequence pitches to keep hitters off balance. His changeup is just beginning to develop. An intense competitor, he'll overthrow and lose control at times.
The Future: Blanton will return to Double-A Midland to start this season. He made dramatic progress during 2003, and similar improvement could land him in Oakland in 2005.
3. Dan Johnson, 1b
Age: 24. B-T: L-R. Ht.: 6-2. Wt.: 225.
Background: Undrafted out of high school and junior college, Johnson became a star at the University of Nebraska. He set school records for homers in a game (three) and season (25) and has continued to mash as a pro. He led the Double-A Texas League in homers, RBIs and total bases (271) last year.
Strengths: Power and patience are the organization's watchwords, and Johnson has both in abundance. He's a great fastball hitter with power to all fields and has outstanding plate discipline for a slugger. After making major adjustments to shorten his stroke, he makes consistent, hard contact.
Weaknesses: Johnson is big and slow, limited to first base and DH. Though he has worked hard on his defense, he's only adequate. Some scouts remain skeptical whether his power will translate to the majors.
The Future: The A's will send Johnson to Triple-A to see if he can continue producing as he has. If he does, he could be an upgrade for them at first base after they got just 16 homers and a .399 slugging percentage out of the position in 2003.
4. Brad Sullivan, rhp
Age: 22. B-T: R-R. Ht.: 6-1. Wt.: 190.
Background: Sullivan came within 10 whiffs of becoming the first pitcher since the 1970s to successfully defend an NCAA Division I strikeout title, but he wore down late in the spring and slipped out of the top 10 picks. After signing him for $1.36 million, Oakland handled him gingerly.
Strengths: Sullivan's darting fastball and hard slider are both plus offerings with excellent movement. His curveball also is an out pitch at times. He's athletic, which allows him to repeat his delivery and field his position well. He has terrific feel for pitching and keeps hitters off balance by varying his arm slot, location and velocity.
Weaknesses: Sullivan also played first and second base for Houston in the NCAA playoffs, and he was exhausted when he joined the A's. The velocity on his fastball dipped from 91-93 mph to the high 80s, and his slider dropped from 82-85 mph to the high 70s. The hope is that he'll bounce back after a winter of rest. Oakland has revamped his mechanics to improve his durability.
The Future: If he's 100 percent, Sullivan should be able to start this season at high Class A and reach the majors before most 2003 draftees. An optimistic ETA would be late 2005.
5. Graham Koonce, 1b
Age: 28. B-T: L-L. Ht.: 6-4. Wt.: 225.
Background: Released by the Tigers in 1997, Koonce spent two years in the independent Western League. He signed with the Padres in 1998 and has exploded since the A's took him in the minor league Rule 5 draft in December 2001. He led the minors in homers and was the Pacific Coast League MVP in 2003, and served as Team USA's first baseman in the Olympic qualifying tournament.
Strengths: Koonce is similar to Dan Johnson in many ways. As he has grown older, he has developed outstanding power. He's a good fastball hitter who uses the whole field. The A's particularly adore his knack for drawing walks.
Weaknesses: At 28, age is Koonce's enemy. He's slow and relegated to first base or DH. He's an adequate defender, slightly better than Johnson and adept at digging balls out of the dirt.
The Future: Koonce will compete for a big league job. He's known for his slow starts, which could send him back to Triple-A. He has the potential to offer a lot more production than Oakland got out of DH Erubiel Durazo and first baseman Scott Hatteberg last year.
6. Nick Swisher, of
Age: 23. B-T: B-L. Ht.: 6-0. Wt.: 194.
Background: The A's made Swisher their No. 1 target in the 2002 draft and were ecstatic to get him 16th overall. His father Steve was a first-rounder in June 1973 and an all-star catcher in 1976. Nick's transition to pro ball has been erratic. He struggled in his pro debut and again after a promotion to Double-A last year.
Strengths: Swisher works deep counts and can hit once he gets there. Oakland says he has plus power potential from both sides of the plate. He has excellent instincts and an average arm in the outfield, and could be a Gold Glover at first base.
Weaknesses: Swisher has struck out too much as a pro because pitchers have learned he'll chase offspeed pitches out of the zone. He's a below-average runner who may lack the speed for center field. Other teams don't like his power as much as the A's do. He's too hard on himself, which has hampered his ability to make adjustments.
The Future: Swisher will return to Double-A. His supporters see him as a player who combines patience, power and defense. His detractors see him as a tweener who doesn't profile as a standout at any position.
7. Omar Quintanilla, ss
Age: 22. B-T: L-R. Ht.: 5-9. Wt.: 185.
Background: Quintanilla was somewhat of a surprise as a supplemental first-round pick, but his strong pro debut was not. He had established a sterling track record at Texas, where he was the Big 12 Conference freshman of the year in 2001 and a key player on a College World Series championship team the following year.
Strengths: Quintanilla has solid all-around tools and knows how to get the most out of them. He's capable of producing for average and gap power. He has average speed and good baserunning instincts. Defensively, he has excellent hands and makes the routine plays.
Weaknesses: He entered pro ball with tendinitis in his throwing arm, so Quintanilla never showed what he could do at shortstop. He's thick-bodied and will have to work hard to maintain his quickness, and still may have to move to second base. He often hits in early counts, contradicting the A's preference for their hitters to take pitches.
The Future: Quintanilla will return to high Class A and try to build on his early success. The A's say he can stay at shortstop, and he'd still be an above-average offensive player at second base if he moves.
8. Mike Rouse, ss
Age: 23. B-T: L-R. Ht.: 5-11. Wt.: 185.
Background: A Big West rival of Bobby Crosby at Cal State Fullerton, Rouse came from Toronto in a November 2002 trade for Cory Lidle. After missing half of 2002 with a broken hamate bone in his right wrist, Rouse returned to Double-A last year and hit with more authority. When Crosby was unavailable, Rouse took over at shortstop and starred for Team USA at the Olympic qualifying tournament.
Strengths: With great hands and exceptional ability to read the ball off the bat, Rouse is a solid defender at shortstop. He has excellent focus, which helped him lead Texas League shortstops with a .967 fielding percentage. He handles the bat well, gets on base and runs OK.
Weaknesses: Rouse doesn't have the arm or range to make plays in the hole, and he'll probably wind up at second base. Oakland also wanted him to get stronger over the offseason.
The Future: Rouse is ready for Triple-A and may get time at second base. The A's envision him as an everyday middle infielder, though he'll have to fight off Mark Ellis ahead of him and Omar Quintanilla behind him to earn that status in Oakland.
9. Andre Ethier, of
Age: 21. B-T: L-L. Ht.: 6-3. Wt.: 190.
Background: The A's drafted Ethier in the 37th round out of Chandler-Gilbert (Ariz.) Community College in 2001 and signed him out of Arizona State two years later. In between, he earned all-Pacific-10 Conference honors in both years with the Sun Devils and finished his college career with a 23-game hitting streak.
Strengths: Ethier has tremendous hand-eye coordination, the basic ability that can make for a great hitter. Some scouts say he could compare with Shawn Green once he fills out. He has the patience at the plate that Oakland likes. He also has average speed and arm strength, and his instincts allow him to play all three outfield positions. He's highly motivated.
Weaknesses: Ethier has a tendency to guide the ball with the bat, slightly pulling off rather than attacking it. He made outstanding progress learning to drive pitches in instructional league. He doesn't cover a lot of ground for a center fielder and might fit best in left.
The Future: Ethier is ticketed for high Class A, and Oakland is eager to see what develops. Some club officials say he has the highest ceiling among their farmhands.
10. Justin Duchscherer, rhp
Age: 26. B-T: R-R. Ht.: 6-3. Wt.: 190.
Background: A car crash after the 2001 season led to back problems that ruined Duchscherer's first year in the system. He bounced back in 2003 to become the Pacific Coast League's pitcher of the year and wins leader. He was at his best on Sept. 9, shutting out the Angels for seven innings to earn his first win for the A's.
Strengths: Duchscherer is a poised and crafty control pitcher. He upsets hitters' timing by changing speeds on his fastball and curveball. His curve is his best pitch, and his changeup is right behind.
Weaknesses: None of Duchscherer's pitches grades better than average, and his fastball doesn't even rate that high. He pitches at 85-87 mph and rarely breaks 90. He needs to improve his cutter so he can work inside to righthanders. While his package was devastating against Triple-A hitters, how it translates to the majors remains a big question mark.
The Future: The A's say Duchscherer could emerge as a successful big league starter after gaining a couple of years of experience at that level. Oakland's offseason trade for Mark Redman paves the way for Duchscherer to learn in a middle-relief role in 2004.


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Kathryn Weise, MD, is a pediatric intensivist who currently practices pediatric hospital medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital for Rehabilitation. Her primary appointment is in the Department of Bioethics, where she is Program Director of the Cleveland Fellowship in Advanced Bioethics. She is a member of the Cleveland Clinic Ethics Committee, and chairs the Cleveland Clinic Pediatric Ethics Task Force.
Her medical school training was at The University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, followed by residency in Pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care at the Children's Hospital National Medical Center in Washington, DC. She practiced pediatric critical care at Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in the Department of Pediatric Critical Care and Pharmacology, and the University of Virginia Department of Pediatric Critical Care before coming to the Cleveland Clinic in 1997. She completed a degree in Biomedical Ethics from the master's program at Case Western Reserve University in 2000, has subsequently become adjunct faculty in the Department of Bioethics at Case and at Cleveland State University, and has served as a lecturer and clinical preceptor for the Case Bioethics Master of Arts program.
Regionally, she is the coordinator of the Northeast Ohio Regional Pediatric Ethics Consortium. Nationally, she is a member of the Bioethics Section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Bioethics, and serves as an ethicist on several national data safety monitoring boards. She was formerly the Director of the Pediatric Palliative Medicine Service at the Children's Hospital of the Cleveland Clinic, and is board-certified in that field. Her interests include pediatric critical care, pediatric end of life care, care of children with multiple handicaps, clinical ethics, and professional ethics.
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M.A. in Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University, 2000
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NSA, Raytheon Hack U.S. Power Grid
If you're a Robert Redford fan, you probably remember 1992's crime drama, Sneakers. The opening scene of the movie depicts a ragtag team of security experts expertly hacking and breaking into a bank, nabbing $100,000 in cash. The group, consisting of Dan Aykroyd, River Phoenix, and Sidney Poitier, are actually good guys who make a living by being hired by banks to test the vulnerabilities of their security systems.
It turns out that today's U.S. government has enlisted similar services to that of Redford's band to test for vulnerabilities on the U.S. electricity grid. A newly released, highly redacted report shows that the National Security Agency (NSA), along with defense contractor Raytheon, has assembled a team of 28 engineers tasked with hacking into the U.S.'s electricity grid. And, much like Robert Redford's team in Sneakers, Raytheon has been successful in gaining access to secure systems and infrastructure throughout the nation's electric grid.
One would hope that the team of NSA and Raytheon "penetration testers" represents the very best hackers in the world and that unwanted attacks on electric grid are highly unlikely. Unfortunately, countries like Iran and China, along with groups like Anonymous, have shown an increasing willingness and capacity to hack into both private and public websites and networks. Countries and groups like these have found cyber-espionage a relatively easy and cost-effective way to implement physical and financial damage on the United States. In fact, the Department of Homeland Security said it responded to 95 attacks against energy utilities' systems in fiscal year 2012.
What are Utilities Doing?
Pike Research's Bob Lockhart has evaluated how utilities are protecting against cyber-attacks on their industrial control systems. Control systems, which are the backbone of distribution and substation automation systems, are increasingly reliant on IT-enabled devices. Unfortunately, Pike Research has shown that these embedded IT systems' "threats and vulnerabilities are many and well known." Despite yearly revenue of $369 million for 2012, Pike Research's Industrial Control Systems Security report adds that "technology innovation for the smart grid ICS security is stagnant." Clearly, a well-functioning electricity grid is a vital part of the U.S.' economy, security, and livelihood. While the report mentions that utilities are becoming more proactive in protecting their infrastructure and assets, in the meantime, it doesn't hurt to have the NSA using a variety of innovative tactics to keep the grid secure. The Sundance Kid probably wouldn't hurt either.


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The concept of virtual power plants (VPPs) most often refers to the aggregation of supply-side resources, usually renewable energy resources. However, in Europe for example, the term "VPP" can also refer to the ability of commercial consumers to purchase capacity at the wholesale level via an auction from base-load fossil fuel facilities for short periods of time. However they are defined, VPPs can provide extraordinary value and services to transmission and distribution (T&D) grid infrastructure as well as to myriad stakeholders engaged in the provision of electric power. According to a recent report from Pike Research, an explosion of interest in VPPs for demand response (DR) mechanisms is transforming the overall VPP market landscape and driving strong growth in the sector. VPP capacity will increase by 65% between 2011 and 2017, rising from 55.6 gigawatts (GW) to 91.7 GW worldwide during that period. That will translate into $5.3 billion in annual revenue in 2017, the cleantech market intelligence firm forecasts.
Under a more aggressive forecast scenario, worldwide revenue for VPPs could reach $6.5 billion in 2017.
"The list of companies looking for VPP opportunities continues to grow, and increasingly overlaps with microgrid technology providers," says senior analyst Peter Asmus. "Many of these companies are familiar names – Cisco, GE, Siemens, Schneider Electric, and IBM – but the market also includes some new names – Blue Pillar, Calico Energy, Xtreme Power, and Princeton Power Systems."
In contrast to the microgrid sector, utilities will have to play a major role in the evolution of the VPP market, by nature of their ownership of the transmission and distribution grid infrastructure and their control over smart grid investments. Many potential VPP market participants, however, feel that the risk-adverse culture of utilities, particularly investor-owned utilities (IOUs), may limit the creativity associated with new business models, such as the VPP. It is quite possible that smaller, municipally-owned utilities may actually be more innovative in the short term, since the interests of their customers are aligned with the interests of the utility. To date, however, most high-profile supply-side VPPs have been launched in Europe, with Siemens recently announcing a planned expansion of an existing hydro-based VPP from less than 10 megawatts (MW) to 200 MW of renewable supply by 2015.
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Some readers of Martin Amis's new collection of essays, The Second Plane: Terror and Boredom (Alfred A. Knopf), have found the marriage of nouns in its subtitle a consternation, an inglorious instance of Martin Aimless. "[H]e repeatedly draws a nonsensical analogy between terrorism and boredom," wrote Michiko Kakutani,
trying in vain to argue that they are flip sides of the same coin. Boredom? Try telling the families who lost loved ones at the World Trade Center or the Pentagon or on United Flight 93 that their relatives and friends died in the opening chapter of the "age of boredom."
How nonsensical, though, are those two nouns taken together? To ask the question a different way, how unprecedented is such a pairing?
A few weeks ago happenstance led me to an admittedly provisional and narrow answer. I was reading, for no good reason beyond pleasure, Saul Bellow. The novel was Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics), a book which seems to provide the paternity for what Kakutani condemns as Amis's "nonsensical" pairing. On page 201 the book's narrator, Charlie Citrine, waits at a courthouse before a meeting with his ex-wife. He's killing time by going over his "boredom notes"—notes to an essay on the topic that Citrine, a fictional Pulitzer Prize-winner, has been planning, which is to say not writing.
Bellow's mode in the excerpt below is the lyric, not the analytic; or, if the analytic, the analyric (not a word, my O.E.D. tut-tuts, as I burn with shame). In any case, setting aside the contumacious matter of how well Amis—that great lover of Bellow the writer and the man (see M.A.'s excellent Experience (Vintage))—has managed his own boredom project, consider, at least, the idea that "boredom and terror" might be a good deal more than "nonsensical" after all:
What—in other words—would modern boredom be without terror? One of the most boring documents of all time is the thick volume of Hitler's Table Talk. He too had people watching movies, eating pastries, and drinking coffee with Schlag while he bored them, while he discoursed theorized expounded. Everyone was perishing of staleness and fear, afraid to go to the toilet. This combination of power and boredom has never been properly examined. Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.
There were even profounder questions. For instance, the history of the universe would be very boring if one tried to think of it in the ordinary way of human experience. All that time without events! Gases over and over again, and heat and particles of matter, the sun tides and winds, again this creeping development, bits added to bits, chemical accidents–whole ages in which almost nothing happens, lifeless seas, only a few crystals, a few protein compounds developing. The tardiness of evolution is so irritating to contemplate. The clumsy mistakes you see in museum fossils. How could such bones crawl, walk, run? It is agony to think of the groping of the species–all this fumbling, swamp-creeping, munching, preying, and reproduction, the boring slowness with which tissues, organs, and members developed. And then the boredom also of the emergence of the higher types and finally of mankind, the dull life of Paleolithic forests, the long long incubation of intelligence, the slowness of invention, the idiocy of peasant ages. These are interesting only in review, in thought. No one could bear to experience this. The present demand is for a quick forward movement, for a summary, for life at the speed of intensest thought. As we approach, through technology, the phase of instantaneous realization, of the realization of eternal human desires or fantasies, of abolishing time and space the problem of boredom can only become more intense. The human being, more and more oppressed by the peculiar terms of his existence–one time around for each, no more than a single life per customer-has to think of the boredom of death. O those eternities of nonexistence! For people who crave continual interest and diversity, how boring death will be! To lie in the grave, in one place, how frightful!
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|Hexokinase II and Reperfusion Injury: TAT-HK2 Peptide Impairs Vascular Function in Langendorff-perfused Rat Hearts.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 23329796 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|Rationale: Mitochondrial-bound hexokinase II (HK2) was recently proposed to play a crucial role in the normal functioning of the beating heart and to be necessary to maintain mitochondrial membrane potential. However, our own studies confirmed that mitochondria from ischemic rat hearts were HK2-depleted, yet showed no indication of depolarization and responded normally to ADP. Objective: To establish whether the human TAT-HK2 peptide used to dissociate mitochondrial-bound HKII in the Langendorff-perfused heart may exert its effects indirectly by impairing coronary function. Methods and Results: Ischemic preconditioning was blocked in rat hearts perfused with 2.5 µmol/L TAT-HK2 before ischemia or at the onset of reperfusion. However, TAT-HK2 also decreased the phosphocreatine:ATP ratio that correlated with reduced rate pressure product and increased diastolic pressure. These effects were preceded by increased aortic pressure (Langendorff constant flow) or decreased coronary flow (Langendorff constant pressure), which was also observed, albeit less pronounced, at 200 nmol/L TAT-HK2 and was prevented by coperfusion with the NO-donor diethylamine NONOate. Mitochondria from TAT-HK2-perfused hearts showed no loss of bound HK2, unlike mitochondria from ischemic hearts where the expected loss was prevented by ischemic preconditioning. Conclusions: In the perfused rat heart, TAT-HK2 should be used with caution and careful attention to dosage because some of its effects may be mediated by vasoconstriction of the coronary vasculature rather than dissociation of HK2 from myocyte mitochondria.
|Philippe Pasdois; Joanne E Parker; Elinor J Griffiths; Andrew P Halestrap
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|Gla-containing proteins of bone.
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|PMID: 2691199 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Bone has high levels of two proteins which contain the vitamin K-dependent Ca2+ binding amino acid, gamma-carboxyglutamic acid (Gla). Bone Gla protein (BGP, osteocalcin) is a 49 residue water soluble protein and matrix Gla protein (MGP) is a 79 residue water insoluble protein. BGP is synthesized only by calcified tissues while MGP is synthesized by calcified tissues, cartilage, and all soft tissues tested. The synthesis of both proteins in osteoblastic cells is stimulated by 1,25(OH)2D3. Treatment of rats with the vitamin K antagonist Warfarin causes secretion of a non-gamma-carboxylated BGP which cannot bind to hydroxyapatite. Warfarin treatment reduces bone levels of BGP to 2% of normal, but does not appear to affect the structure of bone. The only abnormality seen in rats treated with Warfarin is the mineralization of several cartilages. The pattern of cartilage calcification is similar to that seen in the fetal Warfarin syndrome in humans, and may be due to abnormal synthesis of MGP.
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|Department of Biology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093.
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