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Celebrations are in full-swing for Asian Heritage Month which is celebrated in both Canada and the USA during the month of May. This is a time to honor the legacy of generations of Asian Canadians and Asian Americans who have enriched their country's history and are instrumental in its future success. It is a time to participate in festivities that celebrate the many achievements and contributions of Asians who, throughout history, have done so much to make Canada and the USA the culturally diverse, compassionate and prosperous nations we know today.
As part of their celebrations for Asian American Heritage Month, the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association announced the winner and honor books in the 2009 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature. These awards promote Asian/Pacific American culture and heritage based on literary and artistic merit, and our congratulations go out to Wabi Sabi, written by Mark Reibstein and illustrated by Ed Young, which won the picture book award. Back in 2008, PaperTiger bloggers Marj and Aline were thrilled to see the proofs for Wabi Sabi at the Bologna Children's Book Fair and Marj posted a great review of Wabi Sabi here.
Winners have also been announced in the Growing Up Asian in America Art and Essay contest, which is open to students in grades K – 12 who reside in the San Francisco Bay Area. This year's theme was "Change- If you could change one thing to make the world a better place, what would that be?". I was especially drawn to Claire Dworsky's essay entitled Change Your Assumptions, in which she wrote:
To me, growing up Asian is the same as any kid most of the time. I go to school, gymnastics, soccer, play with my dog, play outside – normal stuff.
But sometimes other people say things that make me feel sad or different. They make fun of my eyes and call me Chinese. They yell, "Hey Chinois!" They ask questions that aren't really questions, like "Are you really adopted?" I say "Yes I was adopted from Kayakhstan, a country between Russia and China. I can show you on a map if you want." But they're really using these questions to make fun of me. And it's even worse. When Asian girls pick on me by saying "Oh, you have blue eyes you think you are all that." Racism is hurtful, no matter who says it.
Claire concludes her essay with a powerful statement that all of us, young and old, should take to heart: "When you know how it feels to be discriminated against you should use that feeling to imagine how others feel, and change yourself so you can help others." The winning entries of the Growing Up Asian in America contest will be on exhibit at several locations throughout the Bay Area until February 2010. Click here to see the schedule.


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Figure 1 : Basic Idea of rDNA Technology
Recombinant DNA technology or (rDNA) is one of the newly emerging knowledge that has been well known nowadays.
The word recombinant comes from the word combination, in which means the joining of two things. The term recombinant gives a meaning of two things that has been joining back again. Overall in a simple way of understanding, DNA recombinant technology is a kind of technology that rejoining two DNA of different traits into a single DNA. On the other hand, rDNA is also referring as gene manipulation or genetic engineering, as the original gene is being artificially altered and change. Gene manipulation or recombinant DNA technology can be defined as the formation of new combinations of heritable materials by insertion of foreign nucleic acid molecules into any virus, bacterial plasmids or other vector system as it allows incorporation into a host organism in which it is not naturally occur but still capable of continued propagation. In rDNA technology, the DNA will be able to cross natural species barriers in which the gene of interest of one organism is being place into another unrelated host organism and it will have the ability to propagate a defined and relatively small piece of DNA in the host organism. There are three methods in order to make rDNA which are transformed, page introduction, and non-bacterial transformation. In brief, transformation involves the insertion of gene of interest into a vector, and followed by the insertion or transformation of vector into the host organism such as E.coli. For non-bacterial transformation, basically it involves the same procedure as normal transformation, but does not use any bacterial since the DNA or gene of interest is directly injected into the nucleus of the cell being transformed. Lastly in phage introduction, the rDNA is made up by using viral infection instead of bacteria in a process named as transfection.
There are a lot advantages that can be gained while implement this technology. One of the good flow or procedure while introducing new technology is to ask "what does the future hold?", "how far it can helps to improve the quality of life?" First of all, rDNA approach helps to reduce genetic disease in agriculture field in order to produce better crops that able to cope with drought and heat resistance due to unstable weather. Other than that, rDNA also helps in producing plants that able to generate their own insecticides and generally reduce the effects chemical pesticides that are widely used. In the medical field, rDNA approach helps in order to produce huge amounts of insulin, recombinant pharmaceutical product, and production of recombinant vaccines such as in the treatment of Hepatitis B. On the other hand, this useful and advance technology also contributes in the effort to prevent and cure of sickle cell anaemia and cystic fibrosis. Last but not least, this genetic manipulation approach also highly contributes in the gene therapy treatment.
As the world society keeps on improving and implementing this advance technology in order to improve the quality of life, there would be some of the worst impacts or disadvantages while introducing this knowledge. One of the most famous questions while implementing this technology is in terms of ethical view. It is undeniable that ethical issue can be so subjective because it might depend of the personal individual's perspectives. The most popular question that frequently asked by the society is "are we playing with God creation by manipulating His perfect creation?" There is no ultimate right and wrong answer when this kind of question being asked for the answer is really subjective and may vary. In addition, the safety and environmental concerns also being discussed since rDNA technology able or have tendency for the viruses to develop antibiotic resistance and resistance to fungi. In conclusion, this benefit recombinant DNA technology or genetic engineering method is expected to contribute a lot of positive contribution and improve the quality of life as well.
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Opalesque Industry Update - OneVue Holdings Limited (OneVue) has agreed to acquire Select Asset Management Limited, trading as Select Fund Services and Select Investment Partners Limited.
Completion is expected to occur tomorrow. Select Fund Services (SAML) is a specialist provider of responsible entity (RE) services and one of Australias leading REs for multi-asset trusts.
The business also provides services to leading single strategy managers and access to Australia via unit trust fiduciary services for global offshore groups. Select Fund Services acts as RE for groups such as Neuberger Berman and Smarter Money Investments (50% owned by Yellow Brick Road) who are also clients of OneVue. It has a 12 year track record in fiduciary and RE services with a stable and experienced operations, technology and compliance team.
Select Investment Partners (SIPL) is a specialist multi-asset investment manager and implemented portfolio consultant with a track record of over 12 years managing diversified multi-asset portfolios. The business is based in Sydney with 15 people. SIPL works with financial planners to enable them to offer Customised Portfolios to their clients.
The acquisition follows OneVues stated objective to grow the company organically and acquisitively and is strategically important in delivering value added services to both OneVues Fund Services and Platform Services clients, said Connie Mckeage, CEO of OneVue. The consideration for the Select businesses will be paid $2.7m in cash and $4.3m in OneVue scrip. There is also an incentive component, payable in scrip, for total revenue growth above an agreed threshold in Select Investment Partners during FY2015. Shares issued will have an escrow period of up to 12 months. The cash component will be funded from existing cash holdings.
A summary of the key terms is attached.
Brendan Foley, Chairman and CEO of Select, said, Having worked successfully with OneVue over the last year on a range of projects from unit registry and mFund services to the development of a managed account solution for our customised portfolio solutions, we have seen the complementary nature of our respective client lists and service offerings. By merging the businesses, the current value proposition s for our respective clients will be enhanced.
Select and OneVue are complementary businesses. SIPL strengthens OneVues superannuation trustee business, MAP Funds Management. SAMLs services enhance OneVues existing Fund Services offering by creating a broader suite of unit registry, RE services and mFund distribution.
One of the cornerstones of the transaction is the strong cultural fit of the businesses, and that OneVues management capabilities are broadened and deepened.
The acquisition is expected to deliver a number of key financial benefits for OneVue:
Select employees will join OneVue at their Sydney office. Brendan Foley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Select, will be appointed Deputy CEO of OneVue and two other Select directors will be appointed to the executive team . This acquisition will enable us to more effectively deliver a broader range of client solutions. I welcome our new shareholders and I am delighted to be working with a team of people who are aligned with the OneVue team in their thinking and equally committed to making a difference Connie Mckeage, CEO of OneVue, concluded.


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The Kingsessing Players include the Wind Ensemble, Guitar Ensemble, String Ensemble, Brass Ensemble and Jazz Ensemble. Membership in one of these groups is great for the musician who wants to continue playing an instrument, to collaborate with others and to perform. There is one rehearsal a week for each group, and everyone who rehearses with the group has the opportunity to perform at the end of the semester. Students may also register for an ensemble as a class and receive one credit per semester.
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At FMC Elementary in Beeville, the youths listened as the choir sang patriotic songs and learned why they should appreciate those who served in the military.
Becky Ochoa, commander of the American Legion, said during the Beeville Garden Club's ceremony at Veterans Memorial Stadium, "It is the veteran, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.
"It is the veteran, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of press.
"It is the veteran, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.
"It is the veteran, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.
"It is the veteran, not the politician, who has given us the right the vote."
Numerous veterans spoke during this 45-minute ceremony.
State Rep. José Aliseda, guest speaker, said, "Today America honors its heroes.
"Ten years ago I addressed a crowd and I made the observation that freedom isn't free.
"It is paid for by the blood of our patriots.
"The crowd looked at me because I said we are going to have to prepare to send our children to war.
"We have a lot of young men and women over there. I know myself at the time I had two sons who were in the ROTC program and I didn't know I would be letting them go off to war."
Aliseda paused a moment. His voice was then changing, choked up as he thought about his boys.
"So would y'all please rise," he called to the veterans in the audience. "These are our patriots."
His message didn't stop there.
He called upon the other parents in the audience whose sons and daughters were of the age to join the military.
"I would encourage you, if you have children thinking about service in the military, to encourage them," he said. "It was a very difficult thing for my wife and me to send our boys off to war. But it has to be done."
Ochoa also took a moment to salute those veterans who didn't make it back from the wars.
"As we honor the more than one million American men and women who have given their lives for their country since our nation's founding, our debt to these Americans can never be repaid, but our gratitude and respect must last forever.
"For many veterans, our nation was important enough to endure long separations from their families, miss births of their children, freeze in subzero temperatures, bake in wild jungles, lose limbs and, far too often, lose their lives.
"Through their blood and sacrifice, veterans have given us freedom, security and the greatest nation on earth.
"We must appreciate them and remember them."
Joe Richard Rodriguez, with the Vietnam Veterans of America Tomas Gonzales Chapter 929, said, "We have but a few days of the year in which we gather to honor our veterans.
"There are many people who celebrate this day because it is a federal holiday, a day off from work.
"Veterans Day is a day we honor and thank all of our veterans for their service to our country, whereas Memorial Day... is still set aside as a day to remember and honor our men and women who died for the service of our country.
"Whether it is Veterans Day or Memorial Day, we owe our veterans a debt that can never be repaid. We must continue to remember and honor their sacrifices."
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Sean Lien to announce plan to run for mayor of Taipei Feb. 24: sources
February 20, 2014, 12:20 am TWN
TAIPEI -- Sean Lien (連勝文), son of veteran politician and former Vice President Lien Chan (連戰), will formally announce his bid to runfor mayor of Taipei on Feb. 24, according to sources close to him Wednesday.
Though the location of the press conference has not yet been set,it is most likely to be held at a cultural establishment park appropriately called "The Mayor's Residence," according to the sources.
The Kuomintang Central Committee member is expected to be accompanied by members of his "shadow Cabinet" consulting team at the press conference, where he plans to share the lengthy decision-making process that led him to throw his hat into the ring for the November election.
Lien's advisors reportedly include people from political, educational and industrial circles, echoing the consulting team formed by now-President Ma Ying-jeou when he first ran for the Taipei mayorship.
Before he can run for city hall, however, the 44-year-old businessman will have to compete against others in his party with similar ambitions.
After announcing his candidacy, Lien will need to come to arrangement with Kuomintang lawmakers Ting Shou-chung (丁守中) and Tsai Cheng-yuan (蔡正元), both of whom entered the race early on. Otherwise, the party will need to hold a primary to determine its candidate.
Incumbent Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) is not eligible for reelection because of a two-term limit, making the Taipei race one of the most hotly watched ahead of November's seven-in-one elections.
A considerable number of candidates from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) have expressed their intention to run, including former Vice President Annette Lu (呂秀蓮), attorney Wellington Koo (顧立雄), City Council Deputy Speaker Chou Po ya (周博雅), and lawmakers Hsu Tain-tsair (許添財) and Pasuya Yao.
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The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Release Date: October 4th, 1977
G|1 hr. 14 min.
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Sebastian Cabot narrates the adventures of bumbling bear Winnie the Pooh as he battles a nest of vicious bees over a trove of honey, weathers a terrible wind storm and endures the foibles of the hyperactive tiger Tigger, all while singing and bumbling his way through the Hundred Acre Wood. Kanga, Piglet, Owl, Rabbit and Eeyore round out the menagerie in this trio of animated tales adapted from A.A. Milne's celebrated series of children's books.
Cast: Sebastian Cabot, John Fiedler, Sterling Holloway, Clint Howard, Barbara Luddy, Junius Matthews, Howard Morris, Bruce Reitherman
Directors: John Lounsbery , Wolfgang Reithermann
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I Had Crabs in Acting School
Way back when I was a recent college graduate, I actually took acting classes on a whim, going once a week to study with William Hickey at HB Studios in the Village.
Hickey was the brilliant actor who played the drunk in the original The Producers and who went on to get Oscar-nominated for a very sharp, career-defining turn in Prizzi's Honor.
And he was a grand teacher, urging us to find genuine feeling and apply it to the roles (a message he conveyed even more strongly after he'd sip his cup of "tea" laced with lots of booze).
Hickey generally gave me good reviews, until the day I came in with a scene from a Sam Shepard play in which my character had crabs.
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I proceeded to gleefully dig my hand into my pants for the whole scene and scratch away as if scratching a bitchy drag queen's eyes out.
Hickey was appalled. "What you did up there was like masturbating in public," he announced as I decided to follow journalism.
I didn't realize acting teachers could be so prudish. I was simply following the text!
I started wishing I had actually masturbated because at least that would have been pleasurable.
Before I ran off to cry myself to an eternal sleep, he did give me a useful criticism:
"You scratched a lot, but you never felt the itch."
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Hi All,
Just trying to solve:
I try:
0>=-2 (not the answer I want)
I tried:
x>=1/2 (can't be this, it is undefined)
I also tried:
x>=-1/2 (but this answer doesnt work with the inequality...0>=1??)
Not sure what to do now...by looking at the graph I think x>=1/2...but like i said, this is undefined...
But, any way, sometimes intuition proves to be invaluable.
If both the numerator and the denominator are greater than zero, then the given quotient will be greater than one.
If both the numerator and the denominator are less than 0, then the given quotient will be less than one.
If both the numerator and the denominator are zero, then the given quotient is undefined.
You were on to something when you were thinking about x=1/2. Look at that again...
Thanks for the help guys. I appreciate it!
To Mr. Fantastic....this is a question for a maths test (well, its a test to test my maths knowledge to be a maths teacher), and Im sure the answer is something more than looking at the graph (which I have done, and see the answer) I just need to show it mathematically.
To VonNemo19....I sort of understand what you are saying...but not sure how it helps me...
I'm wondering if I should take a limit from the right hand side? ie
lim x-->1/2+ of (2x+1)/(2x-1)
to show that it is greater than 1?


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Resonant Laser Ablation (RLA), which combines Laser Ablation (LA) and Resonance Ionization Spectroscopy (RIS) simultaneously with a single laser, can be used as a simple analytical technique of trace elements with high sensitivity and elemental (isotopic) selectivity for solid samples. However, the elemental selectivity falls off in the higher laser power range because of an increase of an ion yield produced non-resonantly in laser ablation process. To enhance an ion yield produced through the resonant ionization process, the incident laser is split into two beams for LA and RIS, respectively. In the present study, we have developed a simple theoretical model to simulate the RLA process and checked the validity of the model by analyzing some experiments to detect a trace of Al. The dependence of the elemental selectivity and the detection limit on the incident laser power is mainly discussed to optimize the trace element analytical technique with RLA.
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Draft Environmental Impact Statement Released For Folsom Dam Road Access Restriction
Media Contact: Jeffrey McCracken, 916-978-5100
For Release: December 03, 2004
The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review and comment the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Folsom Dam Road Access Restriction. The Draft EIS addresses impacts of continuing to keep Folsom Dam Road closed to the public. The document describes and presents the environmental effects of the preferred alternative, the no-action alternative, and two additional alternatives that provide for partial road opening.
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Written comments on the Draft EIS must be received by Tuesday, January 18, 2005. Please mail comments to Mr. Robert Schroeder, Project Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Central California Area Office, 7794 Folsom Dam Road, Folsom, CA 95630-1799. They may also be faxed to 916-989-7208 or e-mailed to email@example.com.
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A Modified Rehabilitation Intervention for Working Persons With Arthritis (Work It)
This study is ongoing, but not recruiting participants.
Boston University
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The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of a brief vocational rehabilitation intervention on individuals with arthritis who are concerned about their ability to remain employed.
Behavioral: Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Efficacy of a Modified Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention for Work Disability
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Primary Outcome Measures:
- Change in work status [ Time Frame: Baseline, 6, 12, 24 month follow up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Work limitation will be assessed using the Work Limitation Questionnaire, a tool developed to assess limitation in ability to work due to health.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|June 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|March 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|December 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Physical Therapist/Occupational Therapist Intervention
This group will be assigned a physical therapist or occupational therapist to meet with followed by 2 phone consultations.
Behavioral: Vocational Rehabilitation Intervention
Physical or occupational therapist will deliver a vocational rehabilitation intervention using the Work Experience Survey for Persons with Rheumatic Conditions (WES-RC) assessment tool to assess subject's health and vocational background as well as work barriers.
No Intervention: Control
This is the control group. This group will not receive the vocational rehabilitation intervention from an occupational or physical therapist. They will receive written information regarding job accommodations and disability advocacy.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|25 Years to 63 Years (Adult)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Live or work in eastern Massachusetts
- Age 25-63 years
- Risk of work loss due to arthritis
- Arthritis
- Chronic back pain
- Currently employed
Exclusion Criteria:
- Unemployed
- No arthritis
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Peaceful and calm New Year's days we had. One thing different from the last year is that we didn't have to visit my parents' house because no one lives there any more. My father passed away in January 2007 and my mom with dementia now lives in a nursing home. Instead of visiting we invited my mom to our house to spend New Year's days together. I believe (hope) she enjoyed being with us.
2008 is the Year of the Mouse. According to a fortune telling, I will face some sort of changes in my life. I have no idea currently what changes are waiting for me. I just hope they will be good ones.


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Exclusive bottle feeding of either formula or breast milk is associated with greater infant weight gain than exclusive breastfeeding, but findings may not reflect a causal effect of bottle feeding
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The paper by Li et al addresses a topic that has been much studied and debated over the last several decades: the relationship between type of infant feeding and growth in the first year of life. This study adds a new twist, however: the consideration of bottle feeding, even among infants who receive breast milk via the bottle, rather than formula. Although formula and other nonhuman milk can be provided only by bottle, breast milk can be provided either via the breast or the bottle. Many breastfeeding mothers, particularly those who choose to or are obligated to return to work during …


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Hi guys 😀 It's me againnnnnnn. 😉 How's your night goin? I'm so glad ya'll like the pasta primavera recipe- totally appropriate for this time of year!
I have a confession to make…
Kale is stinky.
Not just "put some deodorant on" stinky, but "haven't-been-washed-in-two-weeks socks on a haven't-bathed-in-two-weeks man" stinky.
It's one of the very few veggies that has to be disguised for me to like it.
Either in raw chip form:
Or raw massaged salad form:
I've also found that organic kale is less rank than the conventional version, so I will usually only make kale goodies after a Whole Foods trip (Valdizzy doesn't have organic kale).
This afternoon, I decided to make use of both bunches by putting some raw kale chips into the dehydrator (the standard recipe is found here– I change it up a little though)
And making a massaged kale salad for lunch.
Super easy.
In a bowl, I put 1/4 avocado, 1 T rice vinegar, 2 t nama shoyu, garlic powder, sea salt, pepper (don't be afraid to be generous with the seasonings), juice of 1/2 lime, 1 t extra virgin olive oil, cayenne and 1 t agave.
I mashed everything together with a fork:
And topped with 2/3 bunch of kale (ribs removed and saved for green juice and leaves torn into large bite-size pieces), a sliced carrot and 8 sliced grape tomatoes.
Next was the fun part: massaging the kale. Hubba hubba 😉
You just use your hands to move the kale around the bowl, squeezing and making sure the dressing is evenly distributed. This takes about 3 minutes of so. Next, I like to let the kale stand for about 10 minutes so that the acid from the lime juice can break it down a little (giving it a "cooked" feel).
Topped with hemp seeds, it was pretty glorious.
What's your favorite stinky veg???
Mine is broccoli, by a landslide 😀
(with 3 egg whites, onion, half a jar of 365 hot salsa –not joking- and a salad)
Any veggies you have to disguise to enjoy??
I used to do it with cauliflower all the time (mashed potatoes!), but now I love it raw 😀
Hope you all have a great night- I'm about to snuggle up with the puppers and watch the DWTS premiere.
Workout jam of the day: "Imma Be" by the Black Eyed Peas. I know it's been around for a while but I've been singing it all weekend (and on Twitter- sorry guys, haha) and can't. get. it. out. of. my. brain.


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Rebounding Videos:
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"One of the best all-weather aerobic exercises"
"It strengthens every organ in the body. Please take the time to pursue this life-enhancing form of exercise."
Anthony Robbins
International lecturer, advisor to world leaders…
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"For similar levels of heart rate and oxygen consumption, the magnitude of the biomechanical stimuli is greater with jumping on a trampoline than with running, a finding that might help identify acceleration parameter needed for the design of remedial procedures to avert deconditioning in persons exposed to weightlessness...
Report in the Journal of Applied Physiology 49(5): 881-887, 1980
"I keep my rebounder at the foot of my bed and use it daily"
Bob Hope
"Rebounding allows the muscles to go through the full range of motion at equal force. It helps people learn to shift their weight properly and to be aware of body positions and balance."
James White, Ph.D.
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N.A.SA. Reports Trampoline Bouncing Beats Running!
The external work output at equivalent levels of oxygen uptake was significantly greater while trampolining than running. The greatest difference was about 68%"
Report in the Journal of Applied Physiology 49(5): 881-887, 1980
"It's crazy, but it works… I've seen a lot of sports fads come and go… but this thing [rebounding] is so phenomenal, it's the exercise of the future."
C.E. Meuller
30-Year Director of Recreational Sports – University of Minnesota
(Quoted from
"Rebound Exercise—The Ultimate Exercise For The New Millennium, 2006, Albert Carter
Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation
"The mini-trampoline [rebounder] provides a convenient form of exercise with a major advantage being its apparent low level of trauma to the musculoskeletal system."
"The lymphatic pump becomes very active during exercise, often increasing lymph flow 10 to 30 fold."
C. Guyton, M.D., and John E. Hall, Ph.D.,
Textbook of Medical Physiology,
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Don't Run... Rebound
Take a Cue From Kids...
"Your heart circulates your blood continuously, delivering nutrients, oxygen, and hydration to your cells. But what about your cell's waste products? Although running is good for the lymphatic system, over time it can take a toll on your joints (and on your heart believe it or not). So, on balance, running is not the best way to move your lymph fluid around. Skipping, 'spirited walking', and rebounding are your best choices. Time to take a cue from kids — jump!"
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Arabian Ostrich
The Middle Eastern Ostrich or Arabian Ostrich (Struthio camelus syriacus) is an extinct subspecies of the ostrich which once lived on the Arabian Peninsula and in the Near East.
Its range seems to have been continuous in prehistoric times, but with the drying-up of the Arabian Peninsula, it disappeared from the inhospitable areas of the Arabian Desert such as the Rub'al-Khali. In historic times, the bird seems to have occurred in two discrete relict populations: a smaller one in the southeast of the Arabian Peninsula and a larger one in the area where today the borders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Syria meet. Towards the Sinai Peninsula, it probably intergraded with the North African subspecies camelus in earlier times. It looked exactly like that form; possibly, the females were of a slightly lighter coloration. The only certain way to distinguish camelus and syricaus was the smaller size of the latter, with only marginal overlap: the tarsus was 390–465 mm long in syriacus versus 450–530 mm in camelus.
The widespread introduction of firearms and, later, motor vehicles marked the start of the decline towards extinction of this subspecies. Earlier hunting methods with bow, arrows and dogs had allowed most animals of a group to escape, but rifles enabled poaching and excessive game hunting to diminish the species into extinction. By the early 20th century, the Arabian Ostrich had become rare. Its main stronghold was the northern Nefud northwards to the Syrian Desert, between latitudes 34°N and 25°N and longitude 38°E eastwards to the Euphrates Valley, and it was most plentiful in Al Jawf Province, where it associated with herds of the Saudi Gazelle and the Arabian Oryx, both also extinct or very rare, respectively, nowadays. Some of the last sightings include an individual east of the Tall al-Rasatin at the Jordanian-Iraqi border in 1928, a bird shot and eaten by pipeline workers in the area of Jubail in the early 1940s (some sources specifically state 1941), two apocryphal records of birds suffering the same fate in 1948, and a dying individual found in the upper Wadi el-Hasa north of Petra in 1966.[citation needed] Remains of old eggs are still found in the former range of the southern subpopulation, which disappeared between the 1900s and the 1920s, probably mainly because of increasing aridity. Some eggshell fragments were collected by St. John Philby from Mahadir Summan, Arabia around 1931.[2] Following analyses of mtDNA control region haplotypes that confirmed the close relationship of the Arabian and the North African subspecies,[3] a reintroduction project using S. c. camelus was set up in Saudi Arabia.[4] Today the Somali Ostrich is re-introduced from captivity to the open areas of the Negev in Israel where the Arabian Ostrich lived before.[verification needed]
Human Culture
The Arabian Ostrich has long had a significant place in the culture of the region. An adult with 11 offspring is featured on the famous prehistoric "Graffiti Rock I" near Riyadh. In Mesopotamia, it was used as a sacrificial animal and featured in artwork, painted on cups and other objects made from ostrich eggs, traded as far as Etruria during the Neo-Assyrian period. In Tang China, an ostrich was a welcome exotic gift fit for an emperor: ostriches figure in the decoration of the Qianling Mausoleum, completed and closed in 706. The Jewish view of this bird was less favorable. The fact that the female ostrich may leave the nest unattended (because the eggs are too thick-shelled to be easily broken open by predators) is the reason why the bird is contrasted with the parental instinct of the stork in the Book of Job (Job 39:13-18.[5][6]) This is also the reason why the Book of Lamentations (Lamentations 4:3) refers to the female ostrich as heartless.[5] The Arabian Ostrich is possibly[7] among the birds forbidden to Jews as unclean under the kashrut in Leviticus (Leviticus 11:16), though the Israelites would just as likely have known the birds from the North African subspecies which was extant in the Nile Valley of Egypt at that time.
In Roman times, there was a demand for ostriches to use in venatio games or cooking. These birds usually would have come from the North African subspecies rather than from the Arabian one, as the latter was only found in the unruly frontier regions of the Roman Empire, although it is to be noted that much later, the plumes of the Arabian Ostrich were considered superior material for millinery compared to those of the North African subspecies.
After the rise of Islam, the Arabian Ostrich came to represent wealth and elegance; ostrich hunting became a popular pastime for the rich and noble (if slaughtered properly, ostrich meat is halaal to Muslims) and eggs, feathers and leather were extensively used in handicraft. Arabian Ostrich products as well as live birds were exported as far as China. A Tang Dynasty source states that the "camel bird" inhabiting Arabia is
"four chi and more in height, its feet resembling those of a camel; its neck is very strong, and men are able to ride on its back...".
The Arabian Ostrich was also discussed in Mesopotamian scholarly writings from the time of the Baghdad Caliphate, such as Zakariya al-Qazwini's cosmography 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat, the Kitab al-Hayawan ("Book of Animals") of Al-Jahiz, or Ibn al-Manzur's dictionary Lisan al-Arab.
The Arabian Ostrich is mentioned by T.E. Lawrence in Seven Pillars of Wisdom when one Arabian tribe brings eggs to Faisal I of Iraq as a peace offering. It is mentioned that the Ostrich is plentiful in that tribe's territory.
- Aharoni, I. (1938). "On Some Animals Mentioned in the Bible". Osiris 5: 461–478. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0369-7827(1938)1%3A5%3C461%3AOSAMIT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7.
- Parmelee, Alice (1959) All the birds of the Bible;: Their stories, identification and meaning Harper p. 207
- Peters, James Lee (1931) (PDF) Checklist of Birds of the World 1 Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press p. 4 http://archive.org/details/checklistofbirds11931pete
- Rothschild, Walter (1919). "Description of a new subspecies of Ostrich from Syria". Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 39: 81–83.
- Robinson, Terence J.; Matthee, Conrad A. (1999). "Molecular genetic relationships of the extinct ostrich, Struthio camelus syriacus: consequences for ostrich introductions into Saudi Arabia.". Animal Conservation 2 (3): 165–171. doi:10.1111/j.1469-1795.1999.tb00062.x.
- Seddon, Philip J.; Soorae, Pritpal S. (1999). "Guidelines for Subspecific Substitutions in Wildlife Restoration Projects". Conserv. Biol. 13 (1): 177–184. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97414.x.
- ^ Peters, J.L. (1931)
- ^ Philby, St. John (1933) The Empty Quarter. Constable and Co. scanned book
- ^ Robinson, T.J. & Matthee, C.A. (1999)
- ^ Seddon, P.J. & Soorae, P.S. (1999)
- ^ a b Parmelee, A. (1959)
- ^ Although with a nod to the beauty of the bird's plumes: כְּנַף-רְנָנִים (chenaf r'naim), "the charming wing"
- ^ The correct identification of the בַּת הַיַּעֲנָה (ba't haYa'anah), "daughter of the desert", as ostrich is not certain; it may be the Pharaoh Eagle Owl (Aharoni 1938 and compare NIV Leviticus 11:16).


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Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project
January 2, 2013
By: Jeff Bercovici
FORBES – David Karp is in the midst of a rite of passage that seems universal for the young tycoons of the Internet's social era: He's buying himself a proper swank pad. And like Mark Zuckerberg's luxe but dowdy $6 million manse in Palo Alto and Sean Parker's Greenwich Village carriage house-cum-party palace, Karp's choice says a lot about him–and Tumblr, the blogging platform he founded nearly six years ago. The 1,700-square-foot, $1.6 million loft, which he's currently remodeling, is quite modest for a 26-year-old whose net worth, on paper, exceeds $200 million. That's in part because it's located in the world's hipster capital, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where irony trumps showiness–he's quite possibly the richest person in the neighborhood. But the most telling feature is on the inside, which contains … virtually nothing. A spartan bedroom with a half-empty closet. A living room area with nothing but a sofa and a TV. (One concession to opulence: a restaurant-grade kitchen for his girlfriend, Rachel Eakley, a trained chef.) "I don't have any books. I don't have many clothes," Karp shrugs. "I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff."
"He owns, like, three items," confirms Marco Arment, Karp's first and, for a long time, only employee at Tumblr. "He's always looking for ways he can get rid of something." Even Karp's person is spare in the extreme: His one suit, though trimly cut, flaps around his 6-foot-1 frame when he fidgets, which he does a lot. Maybe it's all the calories he burns this way that keeps him skinny, like a teenager who has yet to fill out his bones. "I've always been 40 pounds underweight," he says.
For Tumblr's CEO, minimalism isn't just an esthetic choice. It's the key to freedom. When he travels he avoids making plans more than a few days in advance, even on his trips to Japan, and packs only the sveltest of carry-ons. "It's my Jason Bourne or James Bond fantasy, wanting to be perfectly mobile," he says. One of Tumblr's directors, Roelof Botha of the Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital, recalls showing up at a board meeting in New York toting only "the tiniest of duffel bags" for his trip. "David took one look at me and said, 'You really brought all that stuff?' "
Karp's intolerance for the inessential imbues Tumblr. Where others looked at the twin revolutions of blogging and social networking and saw new tools for communication, Karp saw possibilities for making them radically easier and more intuitive. Tumblr lowered the bar to creating a beautiful, dynamic website and raised the payoff in the form of positive social reinforcement.
If Facebook is where you check in with your real-life friends and Twitter is how you keep up with current events, the Tumblr experience can be boiled down to people expressing themselves publicly. Like those other two networks, Tumblr is organized in the form of streams of posts. But it's far more sensory and emotive, a swirl of photographs, songs, inside jokes, animated cartoons and virtual warm fuzzies. On the main Tumblr feed compiled by its editors, a photojournalist's visual diary of Afghanistan might be followed by a cartoonist's impressionistic drawings of Darth Vader, which give way to a gallery of hamsters that look like President Obama.
Users make sense of the chaos with the aid of a dashboard, the interface for finding and following other users and keeping track of the feedback their posts receive. Hearts are good; "reblogs" are better, suggesting another user liked your post enough to share it with his or her followers. The tools for creating these multimedia posts are simple: seven buttons that let you add text, photos, hyperlinks, video, music, dialogues or quotes with a click.
The result: classic hockey-stick growth that's getting steeper by the month. In November it shouldered its way into the top ten online destinations, edging out Microsoft's Bing and drawing nearly 170 million visitors to its galaxy of user-created pages, according to the measurement firm Quantcast. Tumblr's tens of millions of registered users create 120,000 new blogs every day, for a total of 86 million and counting, which drive some 18 billion page views per month. Its latest funding round, in September 2011, valued Tumblr at $800 million, making Karp's 25%-plus stake worth more than $200 million. Then its traffic doubled.
An impressive start. But this is Tumblr's make-or-break year, where it needs to prove three things: That it can continue the growth. That it can actually make money. And that David Karp, the creative genius and quintessential minimalist, is the right guy to lead Tumblr to glory. "The road is littered with dead companies that made the wrong move at the wrong time, the MySpaces of the world," says Gartner analyst Brian Blau. "They've got to be really careful."
Karp has momentum. When Hurricane Sandy flooded massive data centers in New York, knocking the Huffington Post, Gawker and BuzzFeed offline, all three gravitated to Tumblr as their temporary publishing platform. Hollywood has taken note, with no fewer than three new TV series in development spawned by Tumblr sensations that went viral. And this: When Oxford Dictionaries U.S.A. designated "GIF" its word of the year for 2012, it credited Tumblr with pushing the term, a technical name for a type of compressed image file, into the mainstream. "The growth we've seen in the last year just totally overshadows everything that came before it," says Karp. "To be honest, it's a place I never thought we'd be."
And, in some ways, never hoped to be. Tumblr is growing up and, as anyone with a baby or a mortgage can tell you, that means expensive complications. "I really like David, but he's got a brutal year ahead," says Gawker Media owner Nick Denton. "The pressure on Internet media companies to deliver revenues is going way, way up." Karp, who once showed disdain for advertising, finally allowed ads on Tumblr last May. The company finished 2012 with $13 million in revenue; the hope in this "leap" year is that it'll get to $100 million.
If it can hit that sales figure, profits should follow — the key benchmark even for social media firms, which, until Facebook's troubled public offering, could get away with being the shiny new social platform. "I don't think there's anybody that's pushing for short-term maximization," says Botha. "But to the extent we can get to profitability soon, it's a good thing because you don't have this existential crisis every day."
And how soon is that? Money isn't that pressing an issue–yet. Karp says Tumblr has banked "most of" the $125 million it has raised. But Tumblr spent an estimated $25 million on its operation last year and will likely have to shell out up to $40 million this year. In 2013 David Karp has a race on his hands: Can he break into the black before needing to hold his hand out again for investors?
When he started down the path that led to Tumblr, Karp was just another teenager obsessed with tech and too smart even for his elite public high school, New York City's Bronx Science. Karp's mother, a teacher on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and his father, a musician, knew their son, the older of two boys, needed more avenues to pursue his interests. So his mom approached Fred Seibert, a family friend whose children she taught. A longtime executive at MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera, Seibert was running his own animation production company. "David's mom said, 'Fred, your business has computers in it, right?'" Seibert recalls. "'You know, my 14-year-old is really interested in computers. Could he come by and visit?'"
"I was terrified," Karp says of that first meeting. But his fascination with the work of the engineers outweighed his trepidation, and the visits became regular until, Seibert recalls, "one day, he said, 'I can come by every day now–I'm going into home schooling.'" That, he decided after crunching admissions statistics, was his best shot at getting into MIT–the best launchpad for computer engineers. He also began taking classes in Japanese at the Japan Society and seeing a math tutor, with whom he worked on writing software for winning at blackjack and poker.
But MIT was not in the cards. By the time his peers were writing application essays, Karp was working as head of product at the parenting website UrbanBaby. After CNET acquired the site in 2006, Karp used the proceeds from the sale of his shares to start his own little for-hire development firm, Davidville, where he also dabbled in creating products of his own. While he'd built a multiuser blogging platform for Seibert's company, he wasn't satisfied with it. "One day he came by and said, 'This blogging thing is really hard. Isn't it too hard?'" recalls Seibert, who had no idea what Karp was talking about. Knowing he was out of his depth, Seibert turned to one of his own investors, Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital.
"Fred called me up and said, 'Hey, you've got to spend more time with David. He's unbelievably talented,'" remembers Sabet. They got together, and Karp showed him a Web application he'd invented that made creating and sharing all kinds of digital content–text, photos, videos, hyperlinks–remarkably simple. It was Tumblr. "I was just blown away," says Sabet. "I hadn't seen anything that beautifully designed."
But getting Karp to commit to it as a business was tough. He "didn't want to be known as a business guy. David didn't conceive of Tumblr as anything other than a tool he wanted for making his life better," says Seibert. "He exhibited a passion early on, but it wasn't a passion for building a business."
"I basically spent the summer of 2007 trying to talk him into starting a company around it," adds Sabet. "He was like, 'Hey, I like my consulting company.' But he was also intrigued about startups." When Sabet brought Karp his first term sheet for a proposed venture investment, Karp balked, saying it was "too much money with too much pressure." But when the kitty was reduced to $750,000 at a valuation of $3 million, led by Spark and the famously founder-friendly Union Square Ventures, Karp allowed himself to be persuaded.
Or, partly so, as Karp has to be talked out of his initial reluctance on a lot of fronts. As Tumblr has grown from embryo to leviathan, he has had to learn to subordinate his own instincts and inclinations to those of Seibert, Sabet and his other investors, whom he refers to collectively as "my mentors" and speaks of only in the most complimentary of ways, even when disagreeing with them.
One focus of disagreement was over Tumblr's proper size. In its first year it was a two-man shop, Karp and Arment, whom Karp recruited via a Craigslist ad. In April 2008 they hired Marc LaFountain to handle user support, but he was in Virginia, and it took over a year before he met either of them in person. "So even when he had an employee, it didn't feel like we did," says Arment.
Around this time Karp told Sabet he'd been looking at the organizational structures of other digital media companies, from Craigslist, which had 26 people, to MySpace and Facebook, which each employed roughly 1,000. "And he says, 'I could do it with four people for the rest of my life,' and he really believed it," says Sabet.
But reality bit. As Tumblr's user base climbed into six and seven figures, the site increasingly had stability issues. Product fixes and improvements got stuck in a bottleneck. "We were getting overwhelmed," says Arment.
"I was a little too clever at times," Karp acknowledges. "The fact that I didn't have the foresight to build out a bigger engineering team earlier cost us some serious months. The reason we're so much more productive today is we've got people now who've been through this stuff before."
But there's a tradeoff. The bigger Tumblr gets, the more time Karp spends doing things that don't play to his strengths Schmoozing clients, dazzling analysts, rallying the troops, raising the fear of God–these don't come easily to the reserved Karp. "We've never seen him angry," says Rick Webb, who helped run a digital marketing agency, the Barbarian Group, before joining Tumblr as its "revenue consultant."
For years most business-side duties were handled by John Maloney, whom Karp had hired as Tumblr's first president after working for him at UrbanBaby. But as the company took on executives to oversee those areas, Maloney told Karp he was ready to leave. "There weren't a lot of politics around it," says Maloney. "It got to the point that there were a lot of people in the room. I wanted to go and do my own thing." He left last April, with Karp taking over his reports.
These days what keeps Karp up at night isn't buggy code but "team stuff. Am I being a good enough leader for these guys? Am I giving them everything they deserve and setting this up as a collaborative, positive environment? When it feels like it's slightly off, it's all I can think about until I fix it."
"The process is not completed, but he could probably give you a pretty good assessment of how far along he is in that process," says Brad Burnham from Union Square Ventures, a Tumblr board member.
Yet the process might well end with Karp back where he started. Ever since Maloney left, insiders have discussed bringing in a bigger league version of him, à la Sheryl Sandberg at Facebook–adult supervision, leaving Karp free to focus on product strategy and vision. "David's smart enough that if he needed to manage, he could, but he doesn't relish that, so why put him in that box?" asks Sequoia's Botha.
"I do think it's a good idea," says Burnham of hiring a strong number two with a broad remit. But that doesn't mean it's imminent. "It's going to take a pretty special person to go into a situation where they really complement David's strengths and work effectively with him."
No one is talking about booting Karp from the top spot. "My commitment to David is he's CEO as long as he wants to be CEO," says Sabet. Adds Botha: "Tumblr wouldn't be Tumblr without David. He needs to be a part of the core business if we're going to make this a spectacular success."
For Tumblr, spectacular success now boils down to one metric: profits. As recently as 2009 it was still trendy to doubt whether advertising or commerce could thrive on social platforms or whether users would rebel at intrusions into their personal conversations and creepy behavioral targeting.
For all its well-documented growing pains, Facebook has proven social's revenue efficacy several times over–when it first crossed into the black in 2009 and, more recently, when it revealed that its nascent advertising efforts on mobile are already driving $3 million in revenue per day. Twitter, while smaller, is on a similar trajectory, with more than $545 million in ad revenues expected in 2013, according to eMarketer.
Tumblr, says Sabet, is "where Twitter was two or three years ago." Now the company has to evolve into a sales machine, something that's clearly not Karp's forte: While no longer a teenage shoe gazer, he's still too shy and introverted for the table-pounding, back-slapping role. That explains why Tumblr poached Groupon's Lee Brown, a ten-year Yahoo vet, to become its head salesman last September and armed him with a dozen sellers, focused on bringing in sponsors like Adidas, GE and Coca-Cola.
None too soon. Until ending its ad ban in May, the only real monetization of Tumblr came from other people. More than 50 writers have leveraged their Tumblr blogs into books, and some have scored TV deals, including Lauren Bachelis, whose Hollywood Assistants is being adapted by CBS, and Emma Koenig, whose F–k! I'm in My Twenties is headed to NBC. Commerce within Tumblr has mostly revolved around the creation and licensing of design "themes" to users looking to spruce up their pages. "For the people who are making those themes, it's incredibly lucrative," says Chris Mohney, editor-in-chief of the in-house news organ Storyboard. But it's less so for Tumblr itself, whose cut of the sales adds up to less than $5 million annually, reports the research firm PrivCo.
But if Tumblr's moneymaking efforts to date have been modest, its ambitions are outsized. Karp proposes to reinvent Internet advertising all over again and to do it while eschewing the path blazed by Google, Facebook and Twitter.
In his critique of those companies' offerings, the normally polite-to-a-fault Karp doesn't pull punches. "Hyper-hyper-targeting of little blue links" is how he dismisses them. In 2010 he made headlines by publicly declaring that Web advertising "really turns our stomachs" and would never wind up on his network, a remark Karp's nervous investors have been urging him to explain now that the company's sales reps have started calling on Madison Avenue.
Here's what he says he meant: Those "little blue links" are effective, but only in the most limited way, at the narrow end of the so-called purchase funnel. "It's about grabbing you at the moment you're ready to buy," he says. Google, Facebook and Twitter can use a combination of behavioral targeting and borrowed social relevance to do that with a high degree of success, but they have little effect on consumers' attitudes and emotions. That's the job of so-called brand advertising.
Right now, despite the great migration of time and money to the Internet, almost all brand messaging occurs in traditional media, especially TV. "There's $50 billion in brand, but none of it's really on the Web," says Tumblr's revenue guy Webb.
The spenders of that $50 billion, Karp says, are awaiting digital advertising formats whose artistry and expression forge an emotional connection with consumers–the sort, romanticized in Mad Men and celebrated in Super Bowl commercials, that can make them laugh, cry or call their mothers.
The same tools that make Tumblr a favored medium for creative types make it the ultimate blank canvas for marketers. What brands pay for isn't the ability to create content–that's free for anyone–but the ability to promote it in two modules central to the Tumblr user experience: Spotlight (an accounts-to-follow suggestion) and the Radar (editors' picks). Together these two venues generate more than 120 million impressions per day. The vast majority go to organically popular content, but 5% to 20% of those are made available for paid promotion. Rates are relatively high: The cost for a thousand impressions (CPM) ranges from $4 to $7, pushing into the premium end of the digital ad market. (Facebook's CPMs range from 30 cents for small, generic banners to almost $10 for social ads delivered over mobile devices.)
Ad agency Droga5 used Tumblr to promote the launch of Kraft's new, youth-targeted chewing gum brand, iD. One piece of content created for the campaign, an animated GIF of a dinosaur, was promoted through Radar and got more than 40,000 interactions, according to Chet Gulland, the agency's head of digital strategy. About half were "reblogs," meaning users essentially reposted the ads on their own pages and shared it with their friends. "It was really exciting to have a platform like that where you could reach a huge audience of exactly the right people and they seem so willing to engage with it," he says.
The iD campaign also ran on Facebook, which, like Tumblr, charges for the ability to promote content. But recent changes to the algorithm governing Facebook's main news feed have made it harder for brands to get their content seen without paying for extra promotion; some have likened this to extortion. In an angry blog post about the changes, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban cited Tumblr as a platform that brands should consider as an alternative to Facebook's strong-arm tactics. "David has done a great job of making Tumblr a staple of younger demographics, to the point where for many it's replacing Facebook as a day-to-day destination," says Cuban. (The two are acquaintances.)
Another key difference is privacy. Whereas Facebook exploits users' data to target them with specific ads, Tumblr doesn't and won't start, says Webb. "We don't want to get mired in that crazy, scary privacy world Facebook is in," he says. "That's a big red line for us."
While Tumblr does plan to roll out a limited degree of targeting before long, it's doubtful it can ever come close to Facebook's audience, much less its revenue. Whereas Mark Zuckerberg's company strives to "make the world more open and connected," Tumblr's motto invites users to "Follow the world's creators." Catering to artists gave Tumblr an identity and a ready-made market but, in the long run, it's measured in the hundreds of millions, not billions, of members. The whole world may not need a Tumblr. "I do sort of wonder how they're going to transition from where they are today," says Gartner's Blau. "Tumblr has to change the perception that they're only for the creative crowd."
The key challenge for Tumblr going forward is the same one confronting every social network phenom: how successfully it can accommodate an audience that is rapidly transitioning from laptops and desktops to tablets and smartphones–and learn to make money off it. Though Tumblr's minimalist design and intuitive navigation leave it better positioned for the move, it's still a critical juncture. "This company was born on the Web," says Sabet. "It was not a mobile-first company, as it were."
Low-rated mobile apps that were initially outsourced have been redone in-house and now receive much higher ratings from users. While Tumblr still hasn't quite figured out how some of its most popular features, like a browser bookmarklet that streamlines the sharing of Web pages, translate into the app universe, time spent on its mobile app is growing three times as fast as on the Web. "The inflection point we're looking at is the beginning of 2014, where it flips to being majority mobile, and that keeps getting pushed up," says Karp.
He's a quick study. Besides, his mentors aren't afraid to give him a good, hard correction when they think he needs one. "For all my learning how to be a CEO, I've made way fewer mistakes," he says, thanks to "that support system I really trusted who could grab me by the back of the sweater and say, 'David, you should pay attention.'"
These days, when Karp gets the urge to tinker, he doesn't dive into code. Instead, he rolls up his sleeves and works on one of his three motorcycles. While that may seem to violate his rule against accumulating stuff, he likes how simple they are compared with cars. Almost no one can fix his own jalopy anymore, but with bikes, he says, "it's all hanging out. Anything you want to get to, you can just pull it out and work on it." Plus, you can't have more than one backseat driver.
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Cola Fruit and Date Loaf
Total Time
Prep 50 mins
Cook 1 hr
--Adopted Recipe-- The original submitter says that this fruity loaf showed up in Coke and Seven-Up cookbooks. The recipe was adapted from "Cooking With Coke" - a publication of the Coca Cola Company. Be sure to make a day ahead of time, because it is best the next day.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 (8 ounce) package dates
- 1 1⁄4 cups cola drink
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed firmly
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon lemon rind, finely minced
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or desired flavor)
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, chopped
- Preheat oven to 350 Fahrenheit.
- Generously grease a 9 by 5 inch loaf pan.
- Chop dates.
- Heat cola to boiling. Remove from heat and stir in dates, mixing very well.
- Stir in sugar and oil. Cool while preparing other ingredients.
- Stir dry ingredients together and add to cola mixture. Stir in egg, extract and nuts.
- Spoon batter into pan. Bake about 1 hour until cake tests done. Cool on a rack for 20 minutes then remove from pan and wrap.
- Store overnight before slicing.
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I don't know why this is called a fruit loaf, as the date IS the fruit, but anyway, this was great and easy to prepare. I used 1 c. nuts instead of the 1/2 c. The dates and nuts are always a great combination and we loved it with the lemon and cinnamon!
I had one of those "clear out cupboard" days. Found a pack of dried dates from previous Christmas and a lonely can of Coca cola, also from Christmas past. Had all the other ingredients. Made it. Very easy to follow, and make. Wrapped it in foil and left it til the next day as suggested in recipe. What a fantastic loaf. And from left overs that I was going to throw out!! Will make this again, and very soon. I never used the lemon zest, I don't like it so don't add it to any recipe.
The 5 stars are with my changes. I have been very uncertain as to how to review this recipe because in making it diabetic friendly I changed it a lot. The date amount was dropped to between 2 and 3 ozs and they were not boiled but chopped and added. The cola became Diet Cherry Vanilla Coke and it was used cold. The brown sugar became 1/3 cup of Splenda.The extracts were 1/2 tsp each of vanilla and cherry and I skipped the nuts. Even with these changes it's wonderful in flavor and light and very tender inside. I will use an 8x4" pan next time I make this as it didn't get very high in the 9x5 I used. I find it plenty sweet enough with the drastic cut in the dates and sugar. I don't even want to imagine how sweet it would be in the original form. This is easy to put together and bakes up a to a very nice color. My DH came following his nose for the second time today asking what was baking.


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We don't want to explain the popularity of "Kolaveri Di" song. But here you can find out what others speaking and how others created some excellent remix or dub songs.
Original Song in HD
Why This Kolaveri Di – Lipdub Songs:
The whole office is singing this song. From boss to security the action and screenplay is super. All over fun from an IT company.
Same here. From Chief to Security. Again the whole office is dancing for this song. Video conclusion invites you to the joyful career at Strategic Outsourcing Services. Without missing any fun in life? ___(Fill the blanks)
And this one from SCIT, Pune. Nice screenplay.
The real South Indian action for this song. By CyberFreax.
Some other variations:
Kid Version – Action and Voice is super by kid Nevaan Nigam.
Female version. Not bad. But they killed the entire song. Nice screenplay.
Finally Hitler gets angry about "Why this Kolaveri Di" song!
So what is Kolaveri Di?
"Kolaveri Di" is a Tamil word, means "Killer Rage" in English. In the upcoming Tamil film "3 (2012)" a drunken guy dumped by a girl, singing this song with the starting line, "Why you dumped me?". (Listen to the original song, it has good English Sub-Title).
Important Stars in this Song: Dhanush, Shruti Haasan, Anirudh Ravichander, Aishwaryaa R Dhanush
Media Coverage:
- BBC – Tamil 'nonsense' film song goes viral in India
- FIRSTPOST – Eight lessons marketing professionals can learn from Kolaveri
- Time.com – Nonsensical, Semi-English Music Video Goes Viral in India
- FIRSTPOST – Cool-u song-u, hear-u hear-u: Why this Kolaveri di?
- WSJ – Video: 'Kolaveri Di' Goes Viral. But Why?
- Times of India - B-schools hit by the Dhanush's Kolaveri di attack


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Report: The Hornets Won't Trade Eric Gordon Anytime Soon
dimemag.com Updated Dec 31, 2012
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After a very eventful offseason, the Philadelphia Flyers still may have another trade up their sleeve. Despite all of the roster moves made by the club over the summer, there are still a few players on the roster the front office would like to move—for the right return.
Here are three Philadelphia players that could be traded before the season starts, if the right offer could be found.
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Proprietary Recertification Form 300A
2016 Recertification Application for Schools Certified to Operate in Missouri
The complete application for recertification is available in two formats. The Microsoft Word version is for schools that wish to complete the application electronically then print it. The PDF version is for schools that wish to print the application and fill in blanks by hand or via typewriter.
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In addition to the complete application, all data forms are available as separate files. Below are the individual forms for the 2016 Application for Recertification to Operate in Missouri (300A).
Additional Site Information
Student Financial Aid Awarded by Source (DHE 14-P)
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Vitis vinifera (2n=38) is part of the Vitaceae family, which comprises 17 genera, mostly woody or herbaceous lianas primarily inter-tropical in their distribution. Only one genus, Vitis, produces edible berries. It contains about 60 dioecious species that are distributed almost equally between America and Asia and represent a considerable resource for resistance to pathogens (Mullins & al, 1992). Vitis vinifera L. is the only species originating from Eurasia and it has been spread throughout the world by human cultivation. The Vitaceae family is a basal family of the rosids (Jansen & al, 2006).
The number of chromosome per haploid genome across the Vitacea family varies from 11 to 20. Cytological observations of F1 hybrids between Vitis vinifera (2n=38) and Muscadinia rotundifolia (2n=40), suggested an allopolyploid origin of the Vitis genome (Mullins & al, 1992).
Perennial liana like Vitis vinifera have many developmental aspects different from Arabidopsis, poplar, Medicago and tomato, which include a unique shoot architecture with petiolated leaves opposite to either inflorescences or tendrils. Inflorescences have a pyramidal branched structure with an asynchronous development of flowers. The five petals of the flowers are jointed into a cap structure which falls at anthesis, liberating the stamens and the pistil. Particularly adapted to avian dissemination, the berry pericarp undergoes multifaceted metabolic changes common to most fleshy fruits species as they shift from a repulsive to an attractive status. The transition between these two status is abrupt and the trigger remains unknown (Mullins & al, 1992). Unlike in tomato, berry ripening occurs without an increase in respiration, or a significant emission of ethylene.


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3 Foundational Tactics to Improve your Income
Everybody wants to make more money. Some people, however, REALLY want to make more money! The contrast I'm trying to show here is that some people merely talk about raising their income as if it's a dream, and others actually DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
But why would you want to make more money in the first place? What is your driving factor? For me, money is only a means to creating more time in the long run. Soon, I'll write an article about time creation and what it can do for your life. But today, let's focus on getting your income up, shall we?
In the past, I made very little money. I was satisfied with the amount I was making, and didn't care to make any more. There would be nothing wrong with that except for the fact that I didn't have any long-term goals in place. I was stagnant.
After I got myself into gear and decided that I wanted to do something more with my life, I started experimenting with ways to make more money.
I have found three foundational tactics to improve your income. These not only are spoken about in various financial books, I have found them to be true in my own life as well. Apply them, and your income will go up over time. Ignore them, and you'll remain stagnant (not a fun place to be, trust me).
What are the three foundational tactics to improve income?
- Gain HOPE. I have seen people sag down under the burden of not seeing a way to earn more money. They think it's a complicated process, and therefore lack any hope of progressing. Speak confidently that you will raise your income, will progress, will succeed. Drill it into yourself. You will make more money!
- Read BOOKS. I can't tell you how important reading is. You can gain an advanced education by simply reading books. It's less expensive than a traditional college education (although I highly recommend college), and provides you with ideas and concepts you may have never encountered. Books provide skills that you can take to the marketplace. Knowledge is a valuable commodity! Know something, make something!
- Meet PEOPLE. There are many people out there that can teach you about ways to make money. Sit down and interview a millionaire. Follow up on leads from coworkers and friends. Get social! The more people you know and meet, the better your odds. Listen to the simple suggestions of caring friends, and you'll be on your way!
Remember these three foundational tactics. Implement them and watch your income soar!


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