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Years ago, a comment on my blog said something about how my writing had become more introspective since moving back to Tokyo. My mental response had been – I still remember it now – that when you're in a shitty situation, you realize the things that matter most to you.
I shouldn't blame Tokyo, per se, for my lack of happiness. It's more the combination of an inclination towards sometimes severe depression and the social ostracization of being different. The bike helped tremendously, until I got chewed out too many times at a bike shop for "being stupid." I remember standing in the middle of a Tokyo street, crying so hard I could barely breathe, sending smoke signals in the form of desperate emails to two best friends. The bullying, the harshness of being different, of being too independent or foreign, the hints that maybe I should change who I am…it all sucked. A lot.
The bike kept me sane for a while, but this past winter, I hit a new kind of low. The kind that keeps you indoors and off the bike and barely above "slightly functional." Save for those two short visits from Adam, I couldn't remember how to smile.
I never believed that clinical depression was something to be proud of, because though the moments are sometimes too rare, I like to be happy. That's the other side of it; when you can get your head above water for a bit, depression helps you realize what really makes you happy. It's makes you a little braver, too, to tell the people you care about that you love them and that they make you happy. It encourages putting a song on repeat all day – no matter how pop-y – and to paint with food, if that's what it takes to keep the monsters at bay. If dancing around my apartment to British boy bands, classic punk rock, and American indie rock between painting portraits of pro cyclists gets me out of bed, then that's exactly what I'm going to do. Bikes still feed my soul, but these past few months, I remembered something else. When too many people are shitty to me and I start to break a little bit inside, I can always use music to patch it up until I'm good to go.
I believe there's very little a good bike ride and a bass line can't fix. When I need a second wind, good coffee and punk rock have always delivered. So let's start there.
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On Mitigation Talk Vs. Mitigation Cost
Roger, If CO2 emissions are the problem?
That is the question.
I have believed for sometime now that it is at best half the problem and that heat accumulation in the oceans is the more important half.
James Lovelock now seems to concure.
When asked recently whether he thought climate change would be less extreme than he previously thought? He replied, "We shouldn't have forgotten that the system has a lot of inertia and we're not going to shift it very quickly. The thing we've all forgotten is the heat storage of the ocean — it's a thousand times greater than the atmosphere and the surface. You can't change that very rapidly."
You can however change it for the better by converting some of that stored heat to electricity - perhaps as much energy as we currently derive from fossil fuels - and moving more heat to the relative safety of deep water.
On What is the Greenest Source of Electricity?
One codicil to this comment, it would only be true of OTEC with a deep water condenser design because upwelling through a cold water pipe has the potential to release CO2 due to the reduction of pressure.
On What is the Greenest Source of Electricity?
A 2010 paper Economics of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC): An Update by Luis Vega puts the cost at less than 0.18 $/kWh or about mid range of your previous study of electricity prices around the world.
This cost is based on a design using a cold water pipe. The deep water condenser design has the potential to shrink this by about 30 percent due to the reduction in the size of piping and supporting infrastructure.
And these costs are for first of kind efforts.
On What is the Greenest Source of Electricity?
Lindsay, . the University of California, San Diego Physics department puts the economically feasibile hydro capacity at 1.0–1.4 TW. Prof. Gerard Nihous, Department of Ocean and Resources Engineering, University of Hawaii puts the maximum steady-state OTEC electrical potential at about 14 TW.
Since 14TW will replace all fossil fuels the logical answer to your question is OTEC.
On Energy With Benefits
Thank you for this Jeff. OTEC operates pretty much the same as Enbridge's Turboexpander. Excpept that ocean surface heat that is and will be doing the damage of global waming boils a working to fluid to produce the vapor that drives the turbine that produces electricity. This in turn electrolyzes water to produce H2 rather than getting it from natural gas where you get 1 CO2 molecule for every 4 H2. When you electrolyze water at a depth of 1000 meters, hydrogen arrives at the surface at a pressure of 100 atmospheres or about one third the 350 needed to compress the gas sufficiently to get a reasonable volume for most transportation applications. In moving the surface heat to deep water to produce the necessary power you starve tropical storms of their power and limit sea level rise. You also rein in atmospheric warming as witnessed by the hiatus of the past 15 years that has been brought about by mixing due to stronger than normal trade winds. When you produce hydrogen with OTEC you start with water and end with water, whereas with natural gas you start with a greenhouse gas and endup with another. Other than that Enbridge gets the benefit of hydrogen pretty much right on in their video.
It would be nice if they could be convinced to produce it in the most environmental beneficial way possible. And of course if they want to market energy to the Asian market, hydrogen can be produced on their doorstep.
Severin Borenstein points out in his article It's Time to Refocus California's Climate Strategy, "The primary goal of California climate policy should be to invent and develop the technologies that can replace fossil fuels, allowing the poorer nations of the world – where most of the world's population lives – to achieve low-carbon economic growth. If we can do that, we can avert the fundamental risk of climate change. If we don't do that, reducing California's carbon footprint won't matter."
I think OTEC presents greater opportunities for California than your examples.
On Powering to Climate Mitigation
Robert, agreed it will take decades. Waste heat is not however a byproduct of OTEC. The thermodynamics are precisely the reverse, the conversion of heat to work. For every TW of energy produced you have an instantaneous 3 TW benefit over nuclear and instantaneous conversion of heat to power. Over a century this would be a conversion of 1,400 TWh with OTEC an addition of 2,800 Twh with nuclear.
A 2010 NOAA study found that during the 16 year period 1993 to 2008 the ocean stored enough heat to power nearly 500 100-watt light bulbs per each of the roughly 6.7 billion people on the planet. I make this to be 330TW so whether you are adding 28 more a year or subtracting 14 and moving the rest to the deep, seems to me to be a pretty significant difference.
On Powering to Climate Mitigation
Robert, for the 14 TWs referenced in the article, nuclear would produce 28 TW of waste heat most of which would end up in the oceans which are already storing the equivalent of 4 Hiroshima bombs worth a second.
OTEC would convert 14TW worth of this heat to energy and move about 300 more to the relative safety of the deep ocean.
I think the greater environmental benefit offered by OTEC over nuclear is self evident.
I would welcome your assessment however of how nuclear instantaneously rolls back the risks cited in the IPCC paper.
On Is A Super El Niño Coming That Will Shatter Extreme Weather And Global Temperature Records?
Max, there doubtlessly would be thorough investigation before OTEC was implemented on any kind of scale that could have significant impact. So far though it is seems like the only rationale way we can produce energy that undoes the effects of global warming. So far there is no investigation going on in relation to the deep water condenser design, which would produce the benefits I am convinced could be forthcoming and this, to my mind, is troubling.
On Is A Super El Niño Coming That Will Shatter Extreme Weather And Global Temperature Records?
Max, the method I propose does not upwell cold water. It takes the surface heat to the depths the same way the air conditioning system in your car removes heat to the exterior. See recent post here. This can rein in global warming as has been demonstrated by the recent hiatus, which was brought about when strong trade winds moved heat to between 100 and 300 meters in the Eastern Pacific. OTEC would move the heat at least 3 times as deep and therefore would keep it there long enough for atmospheric CO2 levels to decline. This is a positive outcome we in Canada should be promoting but of course that is not the case.
On Global Warming: It Ought to Be Illegal
Jim, I tried to make this point in the post previous to this.
John A. "Skip" Laitner, a visiting fellow of the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, says in his paper Linking Energy Efficiency to Economic Productivity: Recommendations for Improving the Robustness of the U.S. Economy, "it turns out that the U.S. economy converted only 14 percent of the total energy consumed in 2010.
For some reason it is exceedingly hard to put this point across.
OTEC converts a small fraction of the waste heat accumulating in the ocean to work and moves about 20 times more to the safety of the deep ocean.
On Global Warming: It Ought to Be Illegal
Keith, a lot of the cost, corrosion and environmental problems are addressed by a heat pipe design which reduces the piping size by one order of magnitude. Condensation takes place in deep cold water with such a system and thus the biofouling problem is mostly overcome. As the MIT paper shows movement of heat to the deep stalls global warming and would also stall sea level rise due to the fact the coefficient of expansion of sea water at 4C and 100 atmospheres is half that of the tropical surface water.
Most estimates I have seen show plant life of 60 years, which is at least as good as nuclear.
I believe that the environmental and economic benefit of massive implementation more than compensate for the capital costs, which are about the same as nuclear and of course the fuel cost subsequently are free.
The correct way to account for energy is to include the externalities and give credit for the environmental benefits.
On Is A Super El Niño Coming That Will Shatter Extreme Weather And Global Temperature Records?
Upper-Ocean heat is moved to depths of as much as 1000 meters by ocean thermal energy conversion using a heat pipe or deep water condenser design. As the MIT article, How the ocean reins in global warming, points out, this would delay long-term global warming, even as it could produce as much energy as is currently derived from fossil fuels.

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Head back down the hill and explore Capri Town at leisure, perhaps visiting the elegant Piazetta (Piazza Umberto) or browsing the shops for keepsakes of Capri to take home. Meet your guide at the pre-arranged time, board your boat and return to your coach at Naples Port.
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These are my very first attempt at Environment Painting.
It took them a long time to do since I didn't know anything haha. Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
It took them a long time to do since I didn't know anything haha. Fall 2009 - Spring 2010
The top right one is epic. You should go back and give us a full size =]
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Don't kill your motivation with too many "shoulds" or "oughts."
Don't say, "I'm doing this because I should."
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Focus on "choice" and focus on the benefits that you're moving towards, or the pain that you're moving away from.
Focus on your freedom to make choices and take actions. What you should or ought to do are inputs, but ultimately you choose to do what you do.
In Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Revised and Updated, David Burns writes that using coercion takes away motivation.
Key Take Aways
Here are my key take aways:
- Don't should or ought yourself to death. This drains your energy and takes away your choices.
- Make it a choice. Drive for results by choosing your actions. Sure they may still be the things you should or ought to do, but the key is that you're exercising your freedom to choose.
Coercion Can Kill Your Motivation
Don't ruin your motivation with "should" and "oughts." Create choice for your actions, and exercise your choice.
Burns writes:
"A deadly enemy of motivation is a sense of coercion. You feel under intense pressure to perform – generated from within and without.
This happens when you try to motivate yourself with moralistic "shoulds" and "oughts." You tell yourself , "I should do this" and "I have to do that."
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Mark A. Smith is professor of Political Science and an adjunct professor of Comparative Religion and Communication at the University of Washington. His research focuses on economic and religious groups, ideas, and influences in American politics. In his new book, Secular Faith: How Culture Has Trumped Religion in American Politics, Dr. Smith argues that religion is not nearly the unchanging conservative influence in American politics that we have come to think it is and is best understood as responding to changing political and cultural values rather than shaping them.
Pat Robertson Challenges Creationism
Welcome to the Morning Buzz, PRRI's morning dose of religion-related news with a shot of data – because what doesn't liven up a morning round-up like some public opinion numbers?
Medieval dancing mania: caused by psychedelic bread or fear of God? You decide.
After a divisive election, it appears that most voters – Republicans and Democrats alike – want their lawmakers to move past ideological logjams and find a balanced solution to the budget crisis. Dr. Robert P. Jones has more at Figuring Faith.
Pat Robertson has certainly never been predictable. Last week, Robertson challenged creationism on his Christian Broadcast Network TV show, declaring, "If you fight science, you are going to lose your children, and I believe in telling them the way it was." A majority (57%) of Americans believe that humans and other living things have evolved over time, compared to 38% who say that humans and other living things have existed in their present form since creation.
A student group for atheists and agnostics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is set to gain the largest grant from an institute of higher learning ever awarded to a nontheistic, student-led organization.
What's next for Michelle Obama? Some wild speculation from Samuel L. Jackson and others.
The Menorahment: even if it's a little flimsy, it's "awesome for world peace."
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Here in TN, they have taken steps though new legislation to allow creationism back into the classroom. This law turns the clock back nearly 100 years here in the seemingly unprogressive South and is simply embarrassing. There is no argument against the Theory of Evolution other than that of religious doctrine. The Monkey Law only opens the door for fanatic Christianity to creep its way back into our classrooms. You can see my visual response as a Tennessean to this absurd law on my artist's blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/04/pulpit-in-classroom-biblical-agenda-in.html with some evolutionary art and a little bit of simple logic.


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"Americans' Attitudes Toward Owning a House Have Changed"
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"Survey Finds Shifting Views on Rental Housing, Homeownership"
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How Housing Matters Survey Finds American Attitudes Transformed by Housing Crisis, Changes in Lifestyle
National Opinion Survey finds strong support for Rental housing and more balanced national housing policy, even as Americans believe the housing crisis continues. Read More
March 31, 2013 - Publication
Using Video Games to Measure, Support Learning
To succeed in today's interconnected and complex world, workers need to be able to think systemically, creatively, and critically. Read More
March 29, 2013 - From the field
Datafest Contest Prompts Journalists to Use Technology to Examine Money in Politics
Winning entries from the competition included projects that created the first-ever searchable database of the federal government's daily spending, mapped campaign contributions from Silicon Valley tech firms, and more. Read More
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Multifamily Housing Offers Opportunity For Utilities To Meet Energy Efficiency Goals
For utilities seeking to meet energy efficiency goals, the multifamily housing sector represents a sizable opportunity achieve energy savings through target energy efficiency programs. Read More
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'The Back of the Line': Explaining Immigration Lines, Wait Times, Visa Categories
Contrary to popular belief, there is not one "line" that leads to legal permanent residence in the United States; current immigration law provides multiple paths to permanent residency. Read More
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Examining the Cost of a Youthful Mistake
"Mistakes Kids Make" is a storytelling project that advocates for juvenile justice reform that veers toward rehabilitation for young offenders and away from a punitive, unforgiving, and outdated system. Read More
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Jenkins comes with a good support for analyzing JUnit tests results and producing reports, for instance, a trend graph — number of tests executed over builds:
It would be nice to include the test trend graph into email notifications.
Jenkins comes with a good support for analyzing JUnit tests results and producing reports, for instance, a trend graph — number of tests executed over builds:
It would be nice to include the test trend graph into email notifications.
git is awesome. Duh! And so is
vim. Why not combine them? At least, to resolve git conflicts.
Hello there. It's a tiny post today to save you a couple of seconds when opening the "System Preferences" app on OS X.
One way:
F10/your shortcut for Spotlight/Alfred/etc., type something like "sys" ("System Preferences" should be suggested),
The fastest way I've found accidentally: press
F12 => the "Sound" tab in "System Preferences" opens, and the search bar is already focused, so you can easily type e.g. "display" to go to Display settings. So you use
Fx keys to change brightness, volume, etc., and by adding
Option you can open the corresponding settings tab. Very quick!
TimeMachine is a backup system working out-of-box on OS X, supports encryption and is quite easy to setup. Backing up is only a half of the deal though; you may need to restore it some day. You can restore the whole system on a new Mac, and it's also possible to get the individual files if the need arises.
I've used shell commands to rename projects a few times, and it worked better than renaming from Xcode itself. Here are the steps (given we want to rename
warnings_test =>
BestAppEver) (you may need to install a few extra tools with
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A quick post for those of you who use boots/sneakers with shoelaces.
I was taught to make a know which is called "Two Loop Shoelace Knot". It is good, but is untied once in a while. I came across the "World's Fastest Shoelace Knot" by Ian Fieggen, which, I must say, can be tied much faster indeed and is also stronger. Here's an image:
All in all, the website itself is fascinating too. It's wholly dedicated to shoelaces and knots. There is even one that can be tied with one hand (related to Neurobics).
Let's say I have an iOS project, and I'd like to build it in a number of configurations: "Debug"/"Release", for device/simulator, and with/without debug logs. Jenkins has the multi-configuration (aka matrix) project build plugin for that. Not all of the steps are required/possible everywhere (e.g., testing is allowed in the simulator only, or checking the license is enough one time only).
This is a revised post on how to setup source code license check on your Jenkins. The first version is here. The basic idea is the same, but there are a few important changes described below. So to set this up, please follow the first post, except for a few values overridden here.
It's a quick post on how I set up a build step to lint a
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rbenv here! So a
podspec is a simple file that describes how your library's metadata and how to include it in an app.
This post describes how to setup test code coverage report for an iOS project on Jenkins. As an example, here I'll use the ConnectSDK-Lite project. This post assumes your Jenkins setup is based on my post: Jenkins in OSX guest in VirtualBox for iOS jobs – full setup guide, if something doesn't work (e.g.,
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Need some quality art projects to set the kids loose with this winter break? You're in luck! My friend Jean – art aficionado and founder of The Artful Parent – has a new eBook out filled with great ideas.
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I am working on a teaser microsite to briefly explain responsive design to unprofessionals.
Everythings is going fine with the browser's interpretation. Also for Mobile Safari.
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because nothing says "Shepard, why won't you love me?" than the taste of vanilla ice cream mingled with salty tears ...
Shepard, Kaidan Alenko / Mass Effect © BioWare
Shepard, Kaidan Alenko / Mass Effect © BioWare
So true. So true. So cute.
That is soooo hillariously cute !!!!!!!
Kaidan... so cute... (tries not to cry over keyboard but fails)
I guess everyone is going to wonder what happens to every new ice cream delivery...
I love broody Shepard...
Though why are they going around barefoot on the ship??
I guess everyone is going to wonder what happens to every new ice cream delivery...
I love broody Shepard...
Though why are they going around barefoot on the ship??
Oh this is too cute! :3
This pretty much sums up my every playthrough of ME1
but hey, they did get together in ME3 and it's the best romance I know of in a video game - may require some head-canon
and thanks for the watch
and thanks for the watch
And.. On Horizon?
This is so cute and my absolute favorite pairing of all time!
too cute~!
LOL. That was just hilarious. Depressed shep is cute.
Barefoot Kaidan eating ice cream! That is just TOO ADORABLE. XD
This is so adorable!!! Hugs for Kaidan!
Close enough to my thoughts Very cute <3
I love that Kaidan's eating ice cream. So cute!
it must be late. i'm getting all teary eyed reading this one. yeah... late.... ::
Awwwww.... so sad.... still cute though
hahaha both love yet they wont confess
Who mShepard should have romanced in ME1 =.=.
kaidan's shyness and hidden badassness is wat makes him sexy , well to me tht is
I won't lie... The little fire in my heart that burned for Kaiden during MA1 was relit in MA3. He's such and interesting character and came out better than I personally thought he would. I'm glad Bioware decided to listen to it's fans and finally allow the relationship as now not only can I play my Shep as I intended him to be, but so can the rest of the fans out there :3!
Wonderful work ! Kudos!
Wonderful work ! Kudos!
haha!! this is so cool!!!! love it!
Aaaaah man this nearly has my crying, although that may be the hormones and James Blunt playing in the background. See this is why I love PC, you can enable the console and make them a romance in the first game
Aww I love this! It's not quite the same as my head cannon (which had Kaidan deep in the closet or possibly just incredibly dense), but your version is lovely! My Shepard was so happy when Kaidan finally confessed in ME3 and so was I, for both their sake. ^______^
D'aww ..... how NOT to confess your love
Just too adorable for words! Definitely how my head canon works whenever I play ME1. I always wanted an option to be like "I'm the one being a bother; talk to me~!". I bothered him so much... XD
yay for head cannoning.
Awww.... Poor guys.
Awwwwwww. I just want to hug them both!!!! Also, I've missed these sketches. Moar?
Haha, awwww, they are so cute. And this is so accurate for my gay Shepard who was pretty much in love with Kaidan from ME1 and waited for him until ME3.
Oh my word, this is perfection
It's really sad, but the image of Kaidan sitting in a corner with a huge tub of vanilla ice cream has now been forever implanted in my brain. I giggled. A lot.
I find this adorable and sad :')
I don't know why but I want to run around the Normandy barefoot now.
I love how you always draw them barefoot. And the last panel made me giggle. Awwwhh.
drawing those tiny toes is infinitely cuter and more fun and trying to draw shoes or boots
It jumps the cute factor exponentially! I just want to scoop them both up under each arm and force them into a hug.
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Lee County, IA – A food tour set to take place in Lee County will highlight foods that are grown locally. The Buy Fresh Buy Local tour will take place Saturday, September 17th. Spokesperson Krista Perkins says the event will showcase opportunities to buy locally-grown fruits, vegetables, and meats. Perkins says buying food that is grown locally provides a boost to the regional economy. The tour stops are Dave's Old Fashioned Meats in Montrose, as well as Faeth Orchards and Kathy's Pumpkin Patch. Each site will be open from 8 AM until 6 PM.


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- NicaraguaRetailFunding via MiCredito
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Yessenia Del Carmen
Update on Yessenia Del CarmenYessenia continues in her business selling hardware. She works together with her husband on a small stretch in a bus terminal which is very busy with people. Two of her children still live with her and so she continues working hard for the good of the family.
Yessenia has bought more products such as hosepipes and flashlights, which are what her customers request the most of, and other products thanks to the loans she has received from Afodenic. She will invest this new loan in buying flashlights, plugs, scissors, nails, adhesive, screwdrivers, electrical wire, lamps, hammers, wrenches, water pipes, sealant, trowels and other products so that she can maintain her sales because she has a lot of demand.
Yessenia ha comprado más productos en manguera, lámpara de mano que es más demandada por los clientes, entre otros productos que aumentado gracias a los préstamos otorgados en Afodenic, con este nuevo préstamo invertirá en lámpara de mano, enchufes, tijeras, clavos, pega, desarmadores, alambre para luz, lámparas, martillos, llave crece, tubos de agua, sellador, cuchara de albañil entre otros productos, para mantener sus ventas, ya que la demanda es mucha.
Previous Loan DetailsYessenia is married and her children are in school. Her plans are for her children to have careers for a better future. Together with her husband, she has been able to start out her own business. They started out some time ago with a small business loan. Their goal is to expand their business wit... More from Yessenia Del Carmen's previous loan »
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About AFODENICThis loan is administered by AFODENIC, La Asociación para el Fomento al Desarrollo Nicaragua, a Kiva Field Partner based in Managua, Nicaragua. Founded in 1999, AFODENIC was created to promote the socio-economic and cultural development of sectors that are excluded from commercial banking. Integrating economic and human resources, AFODENIC offers affordable and adaptable financial services aimed at strengthening the family unit of their clients, who include students, producers, and micro- and small entrepreneurs from rural and urban areas. AFODENIC is a socially responsible institution engaged in society and making a positive impact on its professional partners and communities.
Supporting a borrower through AFODENIC contributes to the pursuit of innovation in mitigating poverty in Nicaragua. Visit AFODENIC's partner page for more information.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
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- El SalvadorFoodFunding via PADECOMSM
FabianEl SalvadorFoodFunding via Apoyo Integral
Nehemías EsaúEl SalvadorFoodFunding via CrediCampo
Luis Alonso
Update on Luis AlonsoLuis wants to restock his store by purchasing more consumer products, and also wants to start growing staple grains. He is asking for this loan so he can purchase eggs, beans, oil, sugar, corn, fertilizer, and better seeds to plant. Luis plans to make full use of his resources in order to make a good investment.
Luis says that his previous loan had a very positive effect on his business, since he was able to restock his store and add new products. He also says that his business and his family's situation have improved so far, and that he has been able to use his earnings to purchase some household items.
Él nos comenta que el efecto que le dio el préstamo anterior al negocio fue muy positivo, ya que surtió y agregó nuevos productos a la tienda, manifiesta tener una mejor condición en el negocio y su familia hasta el momento se ha mantenido bien, han logrado comprar de sus ganancias algunos artículos para el hogar.
Previous Loan DetailsLuis lives with his wife and two children. He has a store selling basic goods, ( rice, beans, sugar, corn, oil) he started it out of his own initiative 16 years ago. He works everyday and has no established hours since the business is out of his home, which is why he tends to customers at any h... More from Luis Alonso's previous loan »
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This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
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Taking, collecting, and uploading photos of borrowers is one of the most challenging elements of using Kiva for our Field Partners. In order to make Kiva easier for Field Partners to use, we have allowed them to post successive and concurrent loans without taking a new photo of the borrower if the criteria above are met.


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Ive often wondered, what is it I want to accomplish as a writer? How seriously do I want to take my career as a writer, and most importantly, why is it that I write?
The answer to all this and above, for me, has always been simple : I write because I want to. I want to express my ideals, my opinions, my fantasies , in a way that other people can -hopefully- enjoy as well. I don't hope to achieve fame through my writing or anything like that. I like feed back, I love it, but my writings not ideal. More often than not I find myself unable to focus, or get the unbelievable story in my head down into the text you are now reading. I have ti give myself time. That is why for the time being I am discontinuing any stories that are in progress, there would be no satisfactory in publishing crap. I need to improve as a writer above everything else, and that means not stressing about materials for my stories. For now I will stick to short stories, poems, and essays. Then maybe I can think about publishing something worth while.
Call me Akoi, It's not my real name, and I don't know what it means. I just...like it. I feel like the name of a writer can be very impressionable on it's readers. I often find writer have very up and fancy names. This applies to Literature buffs, authors are important to them. I find myself enjoying the cretin readings of authors after reading a book. But it's the name its self that give you an Ideal about them other than the occasional "About the Author Page". There are some who just don't care. I need a name, in order to exist but I don't want my name toi have an impression on my writings, as one could be very different from the other. Nor will I include any longer, information about myself. I dont want ME to be the stories that I write. I don't exist in my stories. Inevitably parts of me will form in my pages, and from that you may learn parts of me. All that you need to know. Is that I love writing, but I often cannot. (I also really love feed back.)


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Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez can't watch football on TV for his own safety, the sheriff in charge of the prison said on Saturday.
"When somebody with any kind of fame comes in, there are already wise guys who try to improve their own stature by hurting him," Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson told The Associated Press. "We don't want to have any problems."
Hernandez has been held without bail at the Bristol County House of Correction in North Dartmouth, Mass., since he was charged in June with the murder of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semi-pro football player. The Patriots released him on the day he was arrested.
Hodgson said last week that Hernandez won't be able to watch his former teammates play in the AFC championship game against the Denver Broncos today because he isn't allowed to watch TV at all. The sheriff said on Saturday that Hernandez is kept separated from the other inmates under "special management" because of his fame.
"My job is care and custody. First and foremost, we have to be concerned about the safety of the inmate and the officers," Hodgson said. "I can't put this guy in a vulnerable situation where there are people who would like to prove they're more important" by hurting Hernandez.
Hodgson said the decision to keep Hernandez separate was made when the former NFL star first arrived at the prison. He is only allowed outside of his cell three hours a day, and never at the same time as other inmates.
"I've spoken to him about it, and he understands it," Hodgson said. "I'm not going to tell you that he enjoys it all the time."
Hernandez is different from the other inmates in special management because he is still awaiting trial. Most of the others in the separate unit were in the general population before losing privileges due to bad behavior.
"Of course, we recognize that everyone's innocent until proven guilty," Hodgson said. "But also a judge doesn't feel like you're able to be in the community on bail. I don't make those decisions to send people to our institution, but when they get there, I have a responsibility to make sure they're safe, they're fed."
Unlike those who have lost their privileges, Hernandez is allowed access to the prison commissary, Hodgson said. But it wouldn't be safe to have a TV in the unit.
"He does get some privileges that the others don't because he is a pretrial detainee," Hodgson said. "There are times when he's asked for a TV. But we can't have a television in the unit he's housed in. That would be looked upon by the other individuals in the unit as a special privilege and create animosity."
Hodgson said the decision to separate Hernandez from the general population is reassessed periodically,
"He knows that I'm looking out for his welfare," the sheriff said. "It's not the ideal situation. It's jail.
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I was told that I need to force my body to make extra and store it.
I tried explaining that I tried storing, and failed.
the lady even told me to start feeding my 3 month old (who has eaten up to 6 oz at one time) to only feed her 2 oz and store the other and pump an extra time during the day (to increase my production)
That is why I requested formula because I can't always pump and have a place to store it!
I'm trying to go back to school and getting her watched and getting what I needed to get done to go back to school, I can feed her on breasts and then can't pump because I have no time or place to!
How can you tell me to only give my baby 2 oz!? that's putting her on a diet.
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This is more of a 'where to start' kind of question and less of a 'how do I fix this thing I broke' question.
My company has an old Delphi 7 MDI application that we are porting to Delphi XE2 and my manager has asked me to look into methods by which we could make the application re-size to fit different monitor resolutions (it is currently forced to 1024*768 - yes, it is THAT old).
Although I have an idea of placing each component, with its dimensions and layout co-ords, in an array for each base resolution, and then multiplying these values by a ratio difference to achieve this 'scale to fit' issue, I am wondering if this is the most efficient method to achieve what we are seeking?
The MDI application, and it's children, only need to go to a bordered full screen, and then minimized, there will be no handling for a partially re-sized screen.
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More than African American women
There are significant racial differences in the association between education level and weight change for middle-aged women, according to an article in the March 14 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, by Ten� T. Lewis, PhD, of Rush University Medical Center.
Lewis and colleagues examined the interactive effects of race and three levels of education: low, high school or less; moderate, some college; and high, college degree or more, on body mass index (BMI) and changes in BMI. BMI is calculated as weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. Researchers followed 2019 women whose average age was approximately 46 years old from Chicago, Detroit, Boston and Pittsburgh for four years as part of the Study of Women Health Across the Nation (SWAN).
Lewis found there were no differences in BMI in African American and white women with a high school education or less. However, Lewis found that black-white disparities in BMI widen with increasing levels of education.
"We observed significant racial differences in the effects of education on weight for middle-aged women. At all levels of education, African American women were equally heavy, while white women were thinner with increasing baseline educational attainment. These results are consistent with previous studies of young girls, adolescents and adult women. In this respect African American women do not seem to benefit from educational attainment in the same way that white women do."
The authors state that "While overall rates of obesity have increased dramatically in the United States, the prevalence rates of overweight and obesity remain disproportionately higher for African American women than for white women. Although the excess weight observed in African American women has been primarily considered a result of low socioeconomic status (SES), evidence from previous studies suggests that SES may influence overweight and obesity for women of different racial groups."
"The lack of an observable benefit on BMI for educated African American women is particularly alarming given their disproportionately high rates of obesity and obesity-related illnesses," Lewis said. "Because race-education patterns appear to be well established by midlife, prevention efforts aimed at reducing the prevalence of obesity in African American women should begin in adolescence or early adulthood."
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A video has gone viral of Lewis completely berating some unidentified crowd members after he saw them inappropriately touching a young female crowd-surfer. The band was in the middle of a set at Kansas City's Rockfest on May 31, and Lewis cut into their song Something to Remind You.
The impromptu speech is expletive-ridden, to say the least, so we can't post it in its entirety on our family-friendly site, but here's the gist:
All right, listen up. … That … girl right there is like 15 … years old, and you … are molesting her while she's on the … crowd. Your … mothers should be ashamed of themselves. … If I … see that … again, I swear to God, I will point you out in the crowd and have everyone around you beat your (expletive)…
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LAKE HAVASU, Arizona — Conventional wisdom says that if you want to watch a great artistic achievement, you look to accomplished filmmakers. If you just want to have a good time and eat some popcorn, you choose something loud, gory and unapologetically exploitative. But somewhere in the middle are the "Piranha" films — and when we recently visited the set of the franchise reboot, we found a unique mix of blood, babes and bona-fide actors.
"The movie is going to be insane, because as much blood as it has, it has the equal amount of boobies," grinned Paul Scheer, the "Human Giant" funnyman who stars in [movie id="341169″]"Piranha 3-D"[/movie] alongside a huge cast that includes Elisabeth Shue, Richard Dreyfuss (in a nod to his "Jaws" role), Christopher Lloyd, Eli Roth and Ving Rhames. "It's boobies and blood. And we supply the boobies!"
When MTV News was on set, an enormous water tank served as home to a half-submerged party boat — the last remnants of the "Girls Gone Wild"-like party Scheer's and Jerry O'Connell's characters bring to Lake Havasu. As the sleazy duo do their best to talk girls into exposing themselves for their cameras, a group of prehistoric killer fish are unleashed in the lake below, leading to a mess of half-eaten, half-naked hot people — all in glorious 3-D.
"I play the local girl from Lake Victoria," "Gossip Girl" star Jessica Szohr explained of the horror flick, directed by "The Hills Have Eyes" remaker Alexandre Aja. "I come back from college and somehow get persuaded to come on this crazy, 'Wild Wild Girls' boat with Derek — who's played by Jerry O'Connell, and then some crazy stuff happens … and then piranhas start to attack."
On the day we visited, two actresses were filming a nude scene in the water. Porn star Riley Steele was still talking about some recent photos that had hit the Internet (you can do your own search, folks), showing her giving co-star Kelly Brook a "motorboat." But before you dismiss "Piranha 3-D," know this: The 1978 film and its 1981 sequel "Piranha II: The Spawning" launched the careers of respected filmmakers Joe Dante, John Sayles and James Cameron — and these fish have been known to swim in deep waters.
"The piranha go for the one defining feature on each of us that seems to tell everything about our character," Brook laughed. "Jerry O'Connell's character has a pretty unsightly situation with some piranhas and parts of his anatomy that will remain unspoken about on MTV."
"Ving Rhames does something to get back at the piranhas with a homemade piranha-killing device," O'Connell revealed. "Which I think will be my favorite scene in the film."
"There's one person in the film who wears sunscreen on his nose the entire time, and it's kind of funny because he gets attacked by one on his face," Szohr laughed, discussing the killer fish that will be added in later via CGI (producer Mark Canton said some of the piranha will have recognizable "personalities," à la "Gremlins"). "I'm dying to see how that ends up turning out in 3-D."
"Over 600 gallons of blood were used in this movie so far, and we're not even done," Scheer grinned. "This is gonna be the most boobs and blood in any motion picture of all time."
"This movie is probably going to win the record of most dead people — and most blood and most nakedness and most everything," Brook agreed.
"I might show my boobs at some point," added Adam Scott, who plays a geeky scientist-turned-action-hero out to stop the toothy fish. "All I know about piranhas is they're scary as sh–. And they will eat you. I'm not joking: They will eat you fast; they will take you down."
So, when "Piranha 3-D" finally swims into theaters next March, which will audiences see more of, the boobs or the blood?
"In the beginning, I would say boobs, but now that they've shot all of the bloody scenes and the attacking, I think they are a tie right now," Szohr said. "It's a little crazy."
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I have a 3 month old and 21 month old. Currently use the moby and love it but looking for something a little quicker. Plus this time around my back gets sore after a bit with the moby. Any recomendations or advice would be helpful. Are there different types of Ergo and which do you prefer? TIA!!!
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And OP, just search in YouTube for ergo styles or go to their website. As a pp mentioned, there is a vid explaining the different types. After watching it though they basically all do the same things.
I got it originally at Buy Buy Baby and then realized Nordstrom sells it with patterns so I returned my navy blue for a navy blue plaid. I don't know what kind it is. I thought they were all the same but the colors.
LOVE my Ergo!
I have the Original one that I that I use when we go out in public (to stores, etc.
Also got the Performance one for working around the farm.
LO LOVES being worn and either sleeps or quietly observes throughout.
I just started using my Ergo without the infant insert and he's doing great!
We have the Ergo Organic. We've been using it with the infant insert and are just starting to use it without. The organic is really yummy soft material. I hear that the performance and sport are cooler, so maybe better if you live in a warm climate. I think the sport is also a bit lighter and agree with PPs that there is some difference regarding strap length, better for taller/shorter people, etc. But, all in all, I think the Ergos are great because they use backpacker features, such as supportive weight strap and chest strap, which help distribute weight better. I've also heard good things about the Beco, Boba, etc. Check out the babywearing page on here; lots of good tips! Ideal if you can try a few out before buying, so hit up your friends.
I have an ergo and recently got a boba, and think I'm going to sell my ergo now. Boba works for an infant without an insert, which is nice, and has some handy snaps on the straps to hold your bag/keys in place. Love it, and so does LO - she immediately zonks the second she gets in there!
I have the sport, I read it's not as good for small people but im 5'4 and currently weighing at 135 and it fits fine and is very comfortable my baby loves being in it. I still use the insert although I put her in without and she fit fine,
LOVE my Ergo. So comfy. I prefer it over my Baby K'Tan, and so does baby. He takes such great naps on me in the Ergo :-)