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International Symposium on Security Affairs Past Events
NIDS holds an open symposium annually, inviting Japanese and overseas experts on international security. This symposium aims at contributing to security dialogues, as well as encouraging public discussion on security issues.
The NIDS International Symposium on Security Affairs from 1999 to 2016
"Maintaining Maritime Order in the Asia-Pacific"
- Date and Venue:
- July 19, 2017 (Monday)
- Hotel CHINZANSO Tokyo
- Speakers
- You Ji, Professor, University of Macau
- Iis Gindarsah, Researcher, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Indonesia
- Renato De Castro, Professor, De La Salle University, Philippines
- Do Thanh Hai, Senior Fellow, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam
- Mariko Kawano, Professor, Waseda University
- Raul Pedrozo, Deputy General Counsel, Department of Defense, USA
- Takuya Shimodaira, Senior Research Fellow, NIDS
- Seiya Eifuku, Research Fellow, NIDS
- Discussants
- Masafumi Iida, Senior Research Fellow, NIDS
- Tomohiko Satake, Senior Research Fellow, NIDS
- Chairperson
- Tomotaka Shoji, Head, America, Europe, and Russia Division,NIDS
- Yasuaki Hashimoto, Director, Policy Studies Department, NIDS
"The Kim Jong Un Regime (or North Korea) and the Future Security Environment Surrounding the Korean Peninsula"
- Date and Venue:
- July 25, 2016 (Monday). 9:10 am –5:35 pm.
- Hotel CHINZANSO Tokyo "Ball-Room" (Hotel 1F).
- Speakers
- Peter Hays (Professor, The George Washington University)
- Joel Wit (Visiting Scholar, US-Korea Institute, Paul H. Nitz e School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University)
- Boo Hyeong Wook (Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses)
- Bruce Bechtol (Professor, Angelo State University)
- Dongho Jo (Professor, Ewha Womans University)
- Scott Snyder (Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations)
- Kang Choi (Vice President, Asan Institute for Policy Studies)
- Rumi Aoyama (Professor, Waseda University)
- Motohide Saito (Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Policy and Cultural Studies, Chuo University)
- Hideya Kurata (Professor, National Defense Academy)
- Hiroyasu Akutsu (Senior Fellow, Asia and Africa Division, NIDS)
- Discussants
- Hajime Izumi (Professor, Tokyo International University)
- Hideshi Tokuchi (Senior Fellow, GRIPS ALLIANCE)
- Takeshi Watanabe (Senior Fellow, Asia and Africa Division, NIDS)
- Koichi Arie (Fellow, Government and Law Division, NIDS)
- Chairperson
- Yasuaki Hashimoto (Director, Policy Studies Department, NIDS)
- Tetsuo Murooka (Director, Security Studies Department, NIDS)
- Sugio Takahashi (Chief, Policy Simulation Division, NIDS)
- Sukeyuki Ichimasa (Senior Fellow, Defense Policy Division, NIDS)
"Outer Space Security: Trends and Challenges"
- Date and Venue:
- November 30, 2015 (Monday). 9:40 am. –5:05 pm.
- Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo (The Ballroom, First Floor).
- Speakers
- Peter Hays (Professor, The George Washington University)
- Jean-Daniel Testé (Brig. Gen., Commander, French Joint Space Command)
- Xavier Pasco (Senior Research Fellow, Foundation for Strategic Research)
- Brian Weeden (Technical Advisor, Secure World Foundation)
- John Sheldon (Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council)
- Shinichi Nakasuka (Professor, The University of Tokyo; Member, Committee on National Space Policy)
- Setsuko Aoki (Professor, Keio University; Member, Committee on National Space Policy)
- Teruhisa Tsujino (Visiting Fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency)
- Yasuaki Hashimoto (Director, Policy Studies Department, NIDS)
- Chairperson
- Yasushi Horikawa (Technical Counselor, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
- Hiroshi Yamakawa (Professor, Kyoto University; Member, Committee on National Space Policy)
- Yasuaki Hashimoto (Director, Policy Studies Department, NIDS)
The Seventeenth Symposium, November 5, 2014
"New Trends in Peacekeeping: In Search for a New Direction"
- Keynote Speaker
- Nicholas Sambanis, Professor, Yale University, USA
- Speakers (Order of Presentations)
- Paul D. Williams, Associate Professor, George Washington University
- Thierry Tardy, Senior Analyst, European Union Institute for Security Studies
- Ekkehard Griep, UN Desk, Political Department, German Federal Ministry of Defence
- Adrian Johnson, Research Fellow, Royal United Services Institute, UK
- Gustavo de Carvalho, Senior Researcher, Institute for Security Studies, South Africa
- David Capie, Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Hikaru Yamashita, Senior Fellow, NIDS, Japan
The Sixteenth Symposium, November 12, 2013
"Prospects of Multilateral Cooperation in the Asia Pacific: To Overcome the Gap of Security Outlooks"
- Speakers (Order of Presentations)
- ASEAN: Dr. Leonard Sebastian, Associate Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore
- Australia: Professor Nick Bisley, Professor, La Trobe University
- China: Dr. Li Mingjiang, Associate Professor, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore
- India: Dr. Jagannath P. Panda, Research Fellow, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA)
- Japan: Dr. Tomotaka Shoji, Senior Fellow, National Institute of Defense Studies (NIDS)
- Republic of Korea: Professor Kim Tae-hyo, Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
- Russia: Dr. Dmitri Trenin, Director, Carnegie Moscow Center
- United States: Dr. Satu Limaye, Director, East-West Center in Washington
The Fifteenth Symposium, October 26, 2012
"Strategic Management of Military Capabilities: Seeking Ways to Foster Military Innovation"
- Special Lecture Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University
- Speakers (Order of Presentations)
- Dr. Edward N. Luttwak, Senior Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
- Admiral(Ret.), Takasi Saito, Adviser, Hiatchi Ltd.
- Professor Yasuhide Yamanouchi, Visiting Researcher, the University of Tokyo
- Professor Michael Clarke, Director General, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
- Williamson Murray, Professor Emeritus of Ohio State University
- Paul Cornish, Professor, University of Bath
- Sugio Takahashi, Senior Fellow, NIDS
- Dr. Andrew Davies, Director of Research, Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI)
- Sang Jin Lee, Professor, Korea National Defense University
- Dr. Robert Dalsjö, Deputy Director of Studies at the Division for Defence Analysis, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
- VADM(Ret.) Arun Kumar Singh, Strategist
- Chairperson
- Tomonori Yoshizaki, Director, Security Studies Department, NIDS
The Fourteenth Symposium, November 9, 2011
"The Role of the Military in Disaster Relief Operations"
- Speakers
- Ryoichi Oriki, Chief of Staff, Joint Staff Office, JSDF
- Julian Lindley-French, Eisenhower Professor of Defence Strategy,Netherlands Defence Academy
- Mark Phillips, Research Fellow for Military and Intelligence, RUSI
- Kaoruko Seki, Humanitarian Policy Officer, UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
- Sadamasa Oue, Director, Defense Plans and Policy Department, Joint Staff Office, JSDF
- William B. Crowe, Deputy Commander, United States Forces Japan
- Timothy Gellel, Former Australian Defence Attaché in Tokyo
- Jinkwan Jung, Professor, PKO Center, Korea National Defense University
- Mely Caballero-Anthony, Director, External Relations, ASEAN Secretariat
- Tomonori Yoshizaki, Director of Security Studies Department, NIDS
- Keishi Ono(Chief, Society and Economy Division, Security Studies Department)
- Masahide Oka, Director, Maintenance & Service Operation Department, Network Business Headquarters, NTT East
- Robert D. Eldridge, Deputy Assistant Chief of Staff, Government & External Affairs (G-7), Marine Corps Installations Pacific/Marine Forces Japan
- Rumiko Seya, Director, Japan Center for Conflict Prevention
- Eisuke Kigami, Senior Fellow, Policy Studies Department, NIDS
- Chairpersons
- Yuzuru Kaneko, Exective Director, NIDS
- Yoshiaki Sakaguchi, Director of Policy Studies Department, NIDS
- Eiichi Katahara, Director of Regional Studies Department, NIDS
The Thirteenth Symposium, December 2, 2010
"Deterrence and Dialogue- The Korean Peninsula after the Cheonan Incident -"
- Speakers
- Rhee Sang-Woo, President, New Asia Research Institute
- Larry Niksch, Senior Associate, CSIS
- Hideshi Takesada, Executive Fellow, NIDS
- Scott Snyder, Director, Center for U.S.-Korea Policy, the Asia Foundation
- Shen Dingli, Executive Dean of Institute of International Studies, and Director of Center for American Studies, Fudan University
- Andrei Lankov, Associate Professor at Kookmin University in Seoul
- Takashi Kawakami, Professor, Takushoku University
- Chung Min Lee, Dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University
- Yukio Okamoto, a former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
- Satoshi Morimoto, Professor, the Graduate School of Takushoku University
- Fumio Ota, Professor, National Defense Academy
- Tetsuo Murooka, Senior Fellow, NIDS
- Chairpersons
- Yuzuru Kaneko, Director, Research Department, NIDS
- Hideshi Takesada, Executive Fellow, NIDS
The Twelfth Symposium, November 18, 2009
"Major Powers' Nuclear Policies and International Order in the 21st Century"
- Speakers
- Morton Halperin
Senior Advisor, Open Society Institute, USA
- Yukio Satoh
Vice-Chair, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Japan
- Elaine Bunn
U.S. National Defense University, USA
- Yuri Fedorov
Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK
- Liping Xia
Tongji University, China
- Rajesh Rajagopalan
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
- John Simpson
University of Southampton, UK
- Bruno Tertrais
Foundation for Strategic Research, France
- Chairpersons
- Yuzuru Kaneko
NIDS, Japan
- Yoshiaki Sakaguchi
NIDS, Japan
- Eiichi Katahara
NIDS, Japan
The Eleventh Symposium, February 3, 2009
"The Role of the Military in Peacebuilding A New Approach to Conflict Resolution in the Twenty-first Century"
- Speakers
- Michael Clarke
Director, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), UK
- Hans Binnendijk
Vice President for Research, National Defense University, USA
- Jonathan Eyal
Director, International Security Studies, RUSI, UK
- James Cotton
Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy
- Noboru Yamaguchi
Former Commandant, Ground Research & Development Command, JGSDF
- Peter Schmidt
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Germany Etienne de Durand: Institut Francais des Relations Internationales (IFRI), France
- Tomonori Yoshizaki
Chief, Fifth Research Office, Research Dept., NIDS
- Co-Chairs
- Tomonori Yoshizaki
Chief, Fifth Research Office, Research Dept., NIDS
- Keishi Ono
Chief, Third Research Office, Research Dept., NIDS
The Tenth Symposium, December 13, 2007
"North Korea's Nuclear Issues: Toward Peace and Security in Northeast Asia"
- Speakers
- Zhu Feng
Professor, Peking University, China
- Chung-In Moon
Professor, Yonsei University, ROK
- Andrei Lankov
Professor, Australian National University/Kookmin University, ROK
- Victor Cha
Professor, Georgetown University, USA
- Tetsuo Murooka
Senior Research Fellow, NIDS, Japan
- Charles Pritchard
President, Korea Economic Institute, USA
- Han Yong-Sup
Professor, Korea National Defense University, ROK
- Hideshi Takesada
Executive Director, NIDS, Japan
- Satoshi Morimoto
Professor, Takushoku University, Japan
The Ninth Symposium, February 1, 2007
"China's Rise and its Limitations:China at the Crossroads"
- Speakers
- Kwan Chi Hung
Senior Fellow, Nomura Institute of Capital Markets Research, Japan.
- Yasuhiro Matsuda
Senior Research Fellow, NIDS, Japan.
- Bernard D. Cole
Professor, National War College, USA.
- M. Taylor Fravel
Assistant Professor, MIT, USA.
- Aaron L. Friedberg
Professor, Princeton University, USA.
- Chairperson
- Shinichi Ogawa
Director, Research Department, NIDS,Japan.
- Yuzuru Kaneko
Deputy Director, Research Department, NIDS, Japan.
The Eighth Symposium, February 1, 2006
"Military Transformation in the 21st Century: Challenge for New Security Environment"
- Keynote Speaker
- Larry Welch
Former President, Institute for Defense Analyses, USA.
- Speakers
- Michael O'Hanlon
Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, USA.
- Bernard Loo Fook Weng
Assistant Professor, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Singapore.
- Nam Chang-Hee
Professor, Inha University, ROK.
- Chris Donnelly
Senior Fellow, UK Defence Academy in Shrivenham, Englans, UK.
- Chairperson
- Noboru Yamaguchi
Vice President, NIDS,Japan.
- Shigekatsu Kondo
Executive Director, NIDS, Japan.
The Seventh Symposium, February 2-3, 2005
"The Second Bush Administration's Security Policy and the World"
- Keynote Speaker
- Patrick Cronin
CSIS Senior Vice President and Derector of Studies.
- Special Speaker
- Akio Watanabe
President,Research Institute for Peace and Security(RIPS),Japan.
- Speakers
- Michael Brown
Director of the Security Studies Program and Center for Peace and Security Studies at the Edmund A.Walsh School of Foreign Service,Georgetown University,U.S.A.
- Alexander Pikayev
Director, Department of Disarmament and Conflict Resolusion,Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Rissia.
- Hyun In-teak
Professor,Korea University,Republic of Korea.
- Heigo Sato
Senior Raserch Fellow,fifth Research Office,Research Department,NIDS.
- Michael Richardson
Senior Visiting Research Fellow,Institute of Southeast Asian Studies(ISEAS),Singapore.
- Jolyon Howorth
Visiting Professor of Political Science at Yale University,U.S.A.
- Chairperson
- Sigekatsu Kondo
Executive Director,NIDS,Japan.
The Sixth Symposium, January 20-21, 2004
"Security Environment in the 21st Century and the Transformation of the Military"
- Panelists
- Chu Shulong
Professor, Tsinghua University, China
- Paul Dibb
Professor, Chairman of the Strategic and Defense Studies Centre,The Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University, Australia
- Yves Boyer
Assistant Director, The Foundation of Strategic Research, France Alexander G. Savelyev, Head, Department of Strategic Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russia
- Yoshiaki Sakaguchi
Chief, 2nd Research Office, 2nd Research Department, NIDS, Japan
- Patrick M. Cronin
Senior Vice President and Director of Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States
- Discussants
- Jun'ichi Abe
Senior Research Fellow, Kazankai Foundation, Japan
- Yuzuru Kaneko
Chief, First Research Office, Second Research Department, NIDS, Japan
- Noboru Yamaguchi
Major General, Director for Research, Ground Research and Development Command, JGSDF
- Chairperson
- Shigekatsu Kondo
Director, 1st Research Department, NIDS, Japan
※The keynote speech scheduled to be given by General (ret.) Michael P.C. Carns, Senior Advisor to the Defense Science Study Group and former Vice Chief of Staff, USAF, was cancelled at the request of General Carns for personal reasons.
The fifth symposium of fiscal 2002, January 21-22, 2003
"Nontraditional Roles of the Military and Security in East Asia"
- Keynote speaker
- His Excellency Fidel V. Ramos
Philippines, Former President, Republic of the Philippines
- Guest Speaker
- Yoichi Funabashi
Japan, Ph.D., Chief Diplomatic Correspondent and Columnist of the Asahi Shimbun
- Panelists
- Wang Yizhou
China, Ph.D., Professor, Deputy Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Science
- Susumu Takai
Japan, Director, Archives and Library, NIDS
- Takashi Watanabe
Japan, Major General, GSDF, Chief, Logistics Management Division, Logistics Department, Ground Staff Office
- James Cotton
Australia, Ph.D., Professor, Head of School of Politics, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Tan See Seng
Singapore, Associate Professor, Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, Nanyang Technological University
- Heigo Sato
Japan, Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, First Research Office, Second Research Department, NIDS
- Commentator
- Atsushi Kusano
Japan, Professor, Keio University
- Matake Kamiya
Japan, Associate Professsor, National Defense Academy
- Chairperson
- Seiichiro Takagi
Japan, Ph.D., Director, Second Research Department. NIDS
The fourth symposium of fiscal 2001, January 15-16, 2002
"Essence of Military Power at the Dawn of the 21st Century"
- Keynote speaker
- William A.Owens
United States, former Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Speakers
- Martin van Creveld
Israel, Professor, Hebrew University
- Brian Bond
United Kingdom, Professor Emeritus, King's College, University of London
- Williamson Murray
United States, Senior Fellow, Institute of Defense Analysis, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University
- Richard Cobbold
United Kingdom, Director, Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (RUSI)
- Chung Min Lee
Republic of Korea, Associate Professor, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University
- Shinichi Ogawa
Japan, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director, Second Research Department, NIDS
- Yuichiro Nagao
Japan, Chief, First Research Office, First Research Department, NIDS
- Discussants
- Eiichi Funada
Japan, Chief, Organization Planning Section, Maritime Staff Office (MSO)
- Tetsuya Umemoto
Japan, Professor, Shizuoka Kenritsu University
- Akira Kato, Japan
Associate Professor, Obirin University
- Chairman
- Yoshinaga Hayashi
Japan, Director, Military History Department, NIDS
The third symposium of fiscal 2000, January 24-25, 2001
"International Order of the 21st Century and the Security of East Asia"
- Speakers
- Carolina G. Hernandez
Philippines, President, The Institute for Strategic and Development Studies, Inc. Professor, University of Philippines
- Wang Jisi
China, Director, The Institute of American Studies at Chinese Academy of Social Science
- Kyongsoo Lho
Republic of Korea, Associate Dean and Department Head, Seoul National University
- Gennady Chufrin
Russia, Project Leader, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
- Harry Harding
United States, Dean, The Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University
- Hideshi Takesada
Japan, Chief, Third Research Office, Second Research Department, NIDS
- Commentators
- Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Japan, Professor, University of Tokyo
- Yuji Suzuki
Japan, Professor, Hosei University
- Akiko Fukushima
Japan, Senior Researcher, National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)
- Chairman
- Seiichiro Takagi
Japan, Director, Second Research Department, NIDS
The second symposium of fiscal 1999, October 7-8, 1999
"War and Peace in the 21st Century: Reflections upon the Century of War"
- Speakers
- Robert O'Neill
Australia, Professor, All Souls College, University of Oxford
- Edward Luttwak
United States, Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Georgy Arbatov
Russia, Director Emeritus, Institute of USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Yuan Ming (paper contribution only)
China, Professor, Peking University
- Kiyoshi Aizawa
Japan, Senior Researcher, Military History Department, NIDS
- Discussants
- Ryoichi Tobe
Japan, Professor, National Defense Academy
- Hisashi Takahashi
Japan, Professor, Sophia University
- Tomoyuki Ishizu
Japan, Senior Researcher, Second Research Department, NIDS
- Chairman
- Yoshinaga Hayashi
Japan, Director, Military History Department, NIDS
The first symposium of fiscal 1998, January 13-14, 1999
"Strategic Environment in Northeast Asia at the Beginning of the 21st Century -Deterrence and/or Cooperative Security?-"
- Keynote speaker
- Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
United States, Dean, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Speakers
- Richard K. Betts
United States, Director, Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University
- Victor A. Kremenyuk
Russia, Deputy Director, Institute of the USA and Canada, Russian Academy of Science
- Chin Kin Wah
Singapore, Deputy Head, Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore
- Luo Peisen
China, Senior Advisor, China Institute for International Strategic Studies
- Toshiya Hoshino
Japan, Associate Professor, Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), Osaka University
- Shin'ichi Ogawa
Japan, NIDS Chief, First Research Office, First Research Department, NIDS
- Chairman
- Shigekatsu Kondo
Japan, Director, First Research Department, NIDS


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Pain in The Top of The Foot Symptom, Causes & Questions
Understand your pain in the top of the foot symptoms, including 8 causes & common questions.
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8 Possible Pain In The Top Of The Foot Causes
The list below shows results from the use of our quiz by Buoy users who experienced pain in the top of the foot. This list does not constitute medical advice and may not accurately represent what you have.
Morton neuroma
Morton neuroma, also called by the older name Morton's neuroma, is a thickening of fibrous tissue in the ball of the foot. This tissue encapsulates the nerve leading to the third and fourth toes. It is not actually a tumor of the nerve, as the name suggests.
The thickening is caused by years of trauma, irritation, and/or compression to the feet. High-heeled shoes, especially if narrow or tight, are a common cause. The condition is most often seen in women over age 45.
Symptoms include burning pain in the ball of the foot, especially with walking or running. The condition will not heal on its own and can lead to chronic foot pain.
Diagnosis is made through physical examination of the foot with simple range of motion exercises, and sometimes x-ray.
Treatment includes changing to better-fitting shoes that do not compress the nerve; using orthotics in the shoes to take more pressure off of the nerve; and in some cases the use of corticosteroid injections.
Rarity: Rare
Top Symptoms: foot numbness, pain in the sole of the foot, pain when touching the foot, pain in both feet, foot injury
Urgency: Self-treatment
Rheumatoid arthritis
Arthritis is a general term for multiple conditions that cause painful inflammation and stiffness throughout the body. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic condition that is autoimmune in nature, meaning that the body's immune system which normally protects the body by att...
Posterior tibialis tendinopathy
The posterior tibialis tendon attaches the calf muscle to the bones on the underside of the foot. It provides stability and arch support. If this tendon is damaged, the result may be a flat, unstable foot.
Posterior tibialis tendinopathy is most often a sports injury, where the tendon becomes inflamed or torn through overuse or high impact.
Symptoms include pain down the ankle and into the foot, sometimes with swelling. The pain becomes worse with any activity, even standing or walking. When standing, the patient's arch will be collapsed and flat and the front of the foot will point outward. The patient will be unable to stand on the injured foot and raise the heel.
Diagnosis is made through patient history, physical examination, and imaging such as x-ray, CT scan, or MRI.
Treatment involves rest, over-the-counter pain relievers, orthotics (shoe pads,) braces, and sometimes steroid injections into the damaged tendon. Surgery can be tried, but tends to be complex and cannot always restore the tendon completely.
Rarity: Ultra rare
Top Symptoms: swollen foot, pain in one foot, limping, pain in one ankle, spontaneous ankle pain
Symptoms that never occur with posterior tibialis tendinopathy: recent cutting accident
Urgency: Primary care doctor
Fibromyalgia is a set of chronic symptoms that include ongoing fatigue, diffuse tenderness to touch, musculoskeletal pain, and usually some degree of depression.
The cause is not known. When fibromyalgia appears, it is usually after a stressful physical or emotional event such as an automobile accident or a divorce. It may include a genetic component where the person experiences normal sensation as pain.
Almost 90% of fibromyalgia sufferers are women. Anyone with rheumatic disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus, may be more prone to fibromyalgia.
Poor sleep is often a symptom, along with foggy thinking, headaches, painful menstrual periods, and increased sensitivity to heat, cold, bright lights, and loud noises.
There is no standard test for fibromyalgia. The diagnosis is usually made when the above symptoms go on for three months or more with no apparent cause.
Fibromyalgia does not go away on its own but does not get worse, either.
Rarity: Common
Top Symptoms: fatigue, arthralgias or myalgias, anxiety, depressed mood, headache
Symptoms that always occur with fibromyalgia: arthralgias or myalgias
Urgency: Primary care doctor
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Flat feet
Pes planus, or flat feet, are a common and usually painless condition where the arches on the inside of the feet are flattened. Usually this is due to poor arch development during childhood.
Rarity: Uncommon
Top Symptoms: pain in the top of the foot, pain in the middle of the foot
Urgency: Wait and watch
Foot bruise
A foot contusion (bruise) is the result of physical damage to the veins and capillaries (which help move blood back toward the heart). The blood pools in the damaged area and creates that blue/purple color.
Rarity: Common
Top Symptoms: pain in one foot, foot injury, foot pain from an injury, pain when touching the foot, foot bruise
Symptoms that always occur with foot bruise: foot pain from an injury, foot injury
Symptoms that never occur with foot bruise: recent cutting accident
Urgency: Self-treatment
Foot sprain
A foot sprain is damage to ligaments within the foot. The term "sprain" refers to overstretching or tearing of ligaments — the strong, fibrous bands of tissue that hold the bones together within the joints. Foot sprains are usually sports or dance injuries. Any sort of running movement that involves sud...
Complex regional pain syndrome (crps)
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is also called reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD.) It is a type of chronic pain that results in an unexplained, and unexpected, level of discomfort.
The cause is not entirely known. CRPS most often appears after a severe, traumatic injury to an arm or leg, but may also arise after surgery, illness, or a less serious injury. It may be due to a problem with the nervous system's response to inflammation from the injuries or illnesses.
Symptoms include an area of the arms or legs that is throbbing, burning, swollen, and overly sensitive; may appear cold, sweaty, white, mottled, blue or shiny; and may display weakness and atrophy (muscle loss.) The pain may be exacerbated by emotional distress.
It is important to see a medical provider for these symptoms. The sooner treatment can begin, the better the results.
Diagnosis is made through patient history and physical examination. Nerve studies and imaging may also be done.
Treatment involves some combination of neuropathic pain relievers, antidepressants, corticosteroids, and various physical therapies.
Rarity: Rare
Top Symptoms: pain in one arm, pain in one leg, pain in one foot, tremor, fatigue
Urgency: Primary care doctor
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Questions Your Doctor May Ask About Pain In The Top Of The Foot
To diagnose this condition, your doctor would likely ask the following questions:
- Have you ever been told you have flat feet?
- Did you recently injure your foot?
- How would you explain the cause of your foot pain?
- Has a bunion formed on your foot?
If you've answered yes to one or more of these questions
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Pain In The Top Of The Foot Symptom Checker Statistics
People who have experienced pain in the top of the foot have also experienced:
- 7% Swollen Foot
- 5% Swelling Of The Top Of The Foot
- 3% Big Toe Pain
People who have experienced pain in the top of the foot were most often matched with:
- 42% Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 42% Posterior Tibialis Tendinopathy
- 14% Morton Neuroma
People who have experienced pain in the top of the foot had symptoms persist for:
- 32% Over a month
- 26% Less than a week
- 22% Less than a day
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By JT - Jul 18,2019 - Last updated at Jul 18,2019
A Nubian Nightjar is seen in this undated photo. The critically endangered bird has been found nesting in the Fifa Nature Reserve, the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature announced on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of the RSCN)
AMMAN — A Nubian Nightjar bird was spotted late last month nesting for the first time in Fifa Nature Reserve (FNR), the Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature (RSCN) said on Wednesday.
The bird is considered critically endangered in Jordan and Palestine due to habitat destruction, but on June 28, a female Nubian Nightjar was found nesting with its two chicks in the FNR for the first time, according to an RSCN statement.
FNR Manager Ibrahim Mahasnah said that studies have been conducted on the bird since 2014 and a number of cameras have been installed to locate, observe and document their nests.
The Nubian Nightjar is a nocturnal species known for its large eyes and big beak, which help it hunt at night, he added.
The bird's habitat range used to include the Dead Sea, Aqaba, Fidan Valley and Tassan, but as a result of habitat destruction, the Jordan Valley and now the FNR have become bird's sole home. There were 52 sightings of male birds in the two regions in 2014, the statement added.
The reserve said it plans to raise awareness about the importance of Nubian Nightjars as well as the importance of the reserve by developing specialised education programmes.
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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M: Lower middle-class graphics card based on the 28 nm GF117 (Fermi).
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Introduction: Smash and Grab Bowl_Cast Concrete + Glass.
This is a bowl cast from concrete, utilising glass fragments from one of the infamous 'smash and grabs'. I am not sure if this is an international term, of if it is mostly understood in my hometown Johannesburg and the rest of South Africa. I have featured this on my website, but I know that Instructables reaches a lot more people/ inventors/ magicians.
If you've grown up in Jozi (Johannesburg), you have more than likely seen the extra large glitter sprinkled messily beside your car. If not you, then someone you know. This sadly is not glitter. Rather, it is the cookie crumb trail left by the izinyoka (the snake) to whom you have just donated your car radio/speakers/ anything forgotten on your car seat. This happened one evening to a car parked outside my house. Lurking in the darkness with a dustpan and plastic packet, I collected all the glass fragments as I knew there may be a possible use for them in the future. These remained in a tub on my shelf for many months until I decided to use them as aggregate in a cast concrete bowl. It was a couple months after I made the badass concrete rocket, in which rubber fragments were used as aggregate.
The contrast of the matt, porous concrete and the sharp smooth greenish glass fragments create an interesting visual appeal. This however does not translate into an easily usable product for storing household items... The concrete grit will scratch your phone, or get transported on an apple and end up chipping your teeth.
Even though there are many sharp corners, they get enveloped by the concrete and create a relatively soft form.
What I would like to do next, is use a much higher percentage of glass, which may allow some light to pass through solid concrete. I have seen this online, but it is much easier said than done as concrete is a very difficult medium to 'tame'.
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Maybe crush up some wine bottles? Maybe some blue wine bottles would look good
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You may not be aware of this (the instructable author as well!)... So I won't give the initally 'unbelievable secret' away right here but I will give everyone a web site to the French Chemist that discovered this over thirty years ago and has great utility today...I dare say you could make a cup out of this and drop if from 250 feet and not break it... There is a lot on the web site and a book(s) you can buy to learn more about this and to make it yourself... I think that I am going to 'pour' my own house of it...in Granite.
Here the U.S. Military is using it and there are a lot of great links in the below story too:
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One can purchase hollow glass beads which can be used with the cement in lieu of sand. It can make the cement object semi translucent and can be used to form many types of items. Additionally the glass beads make the material much lighter and have a much higher thermal R value than standard cement. A 6 inch block of cement made with hollow glass beads can pass shadows through the brick in bright sunlight and is rigid and strong enough for a permanent building material. . The University of Alabama built a canoe using this cement mixture with fiberglass and carbon fiber and built a light weight strong and curiously flexible ( the lateral flex actually helped propel the canoe) racing canoe. As the beads are rounded one can create an extremely smooth surface of the cement items. The cost of the hollow glass beads is about 4 times the cost of standard sand but if one is interested in the special properties it is probably better that waiting for your window to be broken for material. Interesting project
Nice bowl, but this is not an instructable is it?
Sometimes you can just post a slide show to inspire others. :)
Thanks everyone for all the feedback! I will sift through all my images and try find the photos of the actual moulding process...
I am familiar with a smash and grab. It happened to me twise and I live in Lancaster Pennsylvania. I am preety sure it was not an amish person though.
Also cast some concrete shoes for those caught smashing windows.
Seriously, glass can show off its best with nice cracked edges. There is a special ice like gloss in the edges of a fracture. I like the way you did this more than if the glass was tumbled first. Small pieces of solid copper wire can add to the look as well.
If you turn this into a proper instructable and tell us how you cast this I will tell you cool ideas how to coat the inside of this bowl with felt, leather or straw. -_-
Well, this all very interesting but I sure would like an Instructable on how to make these beauties.
The easiest way to make "Transparent" concrete, that lets light through, is with fiber optic cables, but glass shards might work.
Positive or 'critical'. Come one, come all!
Would like to have had instructions on how to make it.
"Smash and grab" is certainly the popular name for any such property crime here in Memphis. There's also Shoot and scoot, Stab and grab, Gun and run, you get the idea.
I saw a show at the National Building Museum in Wash DC of advanced concrete and you are on the right track. Concrete is made of rocks, sand and cement. Glass gravel is your rock, and finer glass could be your sand, but portland cement is opaque.. Using polyester resin as your cement gives a product called polymer concrete which would be much more translucent.
Bowls and sinks like this are cast using big and smaller bowls, which I get from restaurant supply houses or more industrial sources, such as tank head makers. Or, Target!
You can't really sand concrete. You might do better to rub-in the surface with fine sand and cement mix (wear rubber gloves.)
here you go, this is based on what some potters use/do to create small windows in porcelain...what they do is press rice into the walls of the vessel. when the bisque fire is done, the rice has burnt out leaving holes. the glaze fills those voids during the glaze fire and creates filled, semi transparent "windows".
what about using very old, dry bread or toast or crackers...then when the concrete is cured, you can wash out the core making bits and filled with the larger bits of glass that you have...mortar them in place. maybe use small silicon shapes cut our from material or like the cruciform shapes used as tile spacers...carefully push them through, once the concrete has set.
I like your final product. If you are concerned with "grit" coming off the bowl, just seal it with a food safe varnish. But, this isn't really and instructable, it's a picture, there is no instructing going on. Please describe the process and techniques you used to create the bowl. What was used as the mold? What was the ratio of the concrete mixture? What releasing agent did you use? How did you keep the bowl flat on the bottom? Document with good pictures and explanations.
Very Niece piece! Granny Jones has a good idea tumbling the glass first to smooth the edges. Although you can still sand the bowl and smooth out the edges.
When I saw your design and read your comment about using bigger pieces of glass to allow light through, I thought of "See through concrete". I remembered a novel design where they mix clear plastic fibers in the concrete and mold it into bricks. I've included a link so you can see how neat the idea is. You could use a similar technique to make your bowls.
I would think you could take fishing line cut into short lengths maybe 1.5" to 2" mix it with the concrete - mold the bowl then sand the bowl with increasingly finer sand paper until the fibers a become transparent. Actually you could course sand the bowl to smooth out and expose the ends of the fiber then quickly "paint" the surface of the bowl with a torch. Melting the ends of the fiber, not burning them makes them more transparent.
Check this out. http://dornob.com/see-through-light-transmitting-concrete-material/
Since it sounds like you are a very frugal person who never waists anything - like we should all be. While searching for the see through concrete I stumbled on this very unique brick design that uses leaves and plastic - I thought it is ingenious - maybe its a material you could use? Keep up the good work, it is a very niece looking bowl!!
Novel concept for a green brick - interesting choice of material I thought:
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- Phil
Found another link here on instructables with a similar design that maybe of interest.. https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Light-Transmitting-Concrete-Video/
I would suggest breaking thrift shop colored glass into bits and then tumbling in a rock tumbler to make it look like sea glass.
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Metal and Alloy Uses in Engineering, Domestic, and Medical Industries
Introduction to Alloys
Alloys have been produced for centuries and are used in domestic, medical, and engineering applications.
Metal alloys are made using several methods, such as adding the element to the base metal in a furnace or by hot press process in which the metal and elements are sandwiched and pressed to form an alloy.
The alloys have many applications in engineering in which high temperature, low corrosiveness, toughness, and durability are required.
This is an article on alloys in which we will examine the elements used to attain the required properties and some of the applications of alloys in engineering, along with some of the benefits of metal alloys.
Images of Sparton Alloy Steel Construction and Phase Diagram for Base Metal Alloys
Elements Used to Produce Alloys
The main alloys produced from base metal cast and carbon steels currently used in engineering include titanium alloys, aluminum alloys, zinc alloys, copper alloys, magnesium and nickel alloys. However, I have listed a few more popular elements below along with the properties they bring to the particular alloy.
Copper is used along with tin to produce the alloy bronze, whose properties can be modified by altering the amounts of tin and copper added to the steel.
The main properties of bronze are resistance to corrosion and metal fatigue along with good thermal and electrical conductivity.
Applications include numerous plumbing fittings, gearing, valves, and piping components.
Aluminum is one of the most versatile elements available to today's engineers; however its properties can be further improved by the addition of other elements such as copper manganese and zinc. These improve the aluminium's strength, hardness, cast-ability and resistance to corrosion.
The main application is in the transport sector, particularly in the construction of aircraft and railway rolling stock. Aluminum alloys are also used extensively in the car industry in the production of engines and gearboxes.
Zinc is used along with copper to form brass, and was used exclusively for valves when I was serving my time in Harland & Wolff shipyard in the sixties, where within the engine-works department there was a large dedicated brass valve turning shop.
However, brass is not as popular in engineering nowadays apart from manufacture of brass fittings on fire hoses, screwed rod and screws, the main application being in the domestic sector and in the production of musical instruments.
Zinc is also alloyed along with lead and tin to make solder, a low melting point alloy used in soldering.
- Used to produce bronze and solder as previously discussed but also to form the alloy Babbitt, used to line white metal bearings.
- As previously noted, lead is used with tin in the formation of solder alloy. It is also used in the formation of typesets in the printing industry and again in Babbitt white metal alloy production
- The main application of vanadium alloys are high speed tool steels (HSTS). Its properties give a reduction in weight, an increase in tensile strength, and resistance to corrosion. It is also used along with chrome in the formation of hand tools such as spanners and socket sets.
- Chromium is used to produce stainless steel and is known for its resistance to corrosion and hardness properties. Stainless steel has many industrial uses – the main ones being tools, surgical equipment, specialist valves and piping, liquid storage tanks, and structural sections.
- Manganese gives an alloy the properties of hardness without causing brittleness. Applications are the production of railroad tracks, switching points which require the above properties. Manganese is also used to produce a very hard alloy known as Spartan steel being used in the steel construction industry.
When small quantities of tungsten are added to steel, a very hard-wearing, tough alloy is formed. It has many applications in the military sector both as armor and armor piercing components. It is also used in engineering where high temperatures are prevalent such as gas turbine components and where the properties of toughness without brittleness are a requirement.
Tungsten alloys are also used in x-ray tubes and incandescent light fittings as well tungsten inert gas welding components, due to its high melting property.
Nickel is corrosion resistant and it is used along with other elements to form stainless steel, brass and bronze with their attendant properties. Its applications are in power station rotary components which require the alloys properties of resistance to cracking, deformation, corrosion under sustained high temperatures are numerous.
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63mm Metal Jar Lids
Stylish and colourful lids for jars and some sauce bottles.
Our range of 63mm lids is more extensive because this size of lid has a large database of jars which use them; such as the popular 1lb jam jar or 314ml Orcio. Each of our lids is practically lined with a plastic poly seal which prevents rust from occurring and enables vinegar's to be stored safely inside the jar of choice. The twist-off design is favourable as it allows easy access to produce with little effort whilst offering excellent protection and security once tightened.
Not only do we have the traditional black, gold, silver and white lids in this size, we also have the esteemed blue gingham and red gingham (chequered pattern) variations too.
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The ADL includes LGBTQ issues in its tolerance education, has weighed in on rights and hate crime legislation, and maintains relationships with some LGBTQ groups including the National LGBTQ Task Force. It also advances the idea of Israel as a "safe haven" for LGBTQ people in the Middle East, pinkwashing Israeli state violence that targets Palestinians and others in the region regardless LGBTQ identity.
What's wrong with ADL LGBTQ rights work?
As LGBTQ communities attempt to work through hard questions of racism, Islamophobia, and homonationalism that complicate US gay rights, the ADL has regularly weighed in as an outside voice against LGBTQ Muslim, Jewish non-Zionist, and people of color. The ADL has succeeded in creating media and funding pressure on some LGBTQ organizations, moving them to act against LGBTQ communities working to stop violence, and to shut down conversations about race and power. The ADL is especially dogged about undermining LGBTQ opposition to pinkwashing, smearing LGBTQ activist groups as anti-Semitic, and attempting to manage LGBTQ community discussions from outside.


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Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic
Archaic period
(776–479). The conventional date for the beginning of the historical period of Greece is 776, the date of the first Olympic Games on the reckoning of Hippias (2). This may be about right for the event in question; but the early 8th cent. was innovatory in several other ways. Iron began to be worked with new sophistication; the alphabet was taken over from Phoenicia; and colonies began to be sent out in a more organized way (see colonization, greek), esp. from Euboea, which between 750 and 730 colonized Cumae and Pithecusae in the west and was involved in Al Mina in the east. The 8th cent. was also the age of polis formation and political synoecism, perhaps themselves a result, in part, of the colonizing movement, but also of the rise of religious leagues or amphictionies. The emergence of the polis was marked by the placing of sanctuaries, often dedicated to Hera, at the edge of polis territory. Some of these developments, not just writing, but perhaps even the idea of the self‐determining community, may actually be Phoenician in inspiration. But whatever the truth about Semitic primacy, early Greek society soon acquired distinctive features and institutions, most of which continued to be important in classical times and later. Among these were athletics and religiously based athletic events like the Olympic Games; the gymnasium, which provided training for both athletics and its elder brother, warfare; the symposium, at which aristocratic values were inculcated; and homosexuality, which was related to the three phenomena just mentioned. Some other characteristic features of Greek society are more easily paralleled elsewhere, e.g. ritualized friendship; but institutionalized proxeny, which developed out of it, was specifically Greek.
All this contributed to such shared Greek consciousness as there was (see ethnicity; nationalism), but the chief way in which early Greek states interacted was through warfare, a paradoxical activity in that in Greece at most periods it was conducted according to shared custom (see war, rules of), but at the same time war is, obviously, an assertion of separateness. Equally the four great panhellenic ('all‐Greek', see panhellenism) sanctuaries, Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia (see isthmian games), Nemea, were a symbol of what Greeks had in common, but they were also a focus for interstate competition (see delphi), and constituting an alternative to war; indeed struggles for influence at sanctuaries sometimes developed into wars proper, see sacred wars. And sanctuaries were the repositories of tithes or tenth‐parts of the booty which was a reason for and result of warfare; this booty was often turned into dedications (see votives).
The first war which can be called in any sense general was the 8th‐cent. Lelantine War fought by Chalcis and Eretria for control of the plain between them; but each side had allies from further away. Commercial and economic prosperity on the one hand, and individual ambition on the other, combined on Thucydides' view to produce tyranny. Colonization and trade were certainly connected, and the combination meant that Greece was exposed to luxuries on a new scale. But the chief modern explanation for tyranny is military. Hoplite warfare involved a partial repudiation of individual aristocratic fighting methods, corresponding to that political repudiation of control by hereditary aristocracies which was the essence of tyranny. The first tyrannies, of Pheidon at Argos and Cypselus at Corinth, are best put at mid‐7th cent., when hoplites appear.
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Name of the Community : Gangbuk-gu
Country: South Korea
Number of inhabitants: 339,272(as of June. 2012)
Programme started year: 2009
International Safe Communities Network Membership: Designation year: 2013 Name of the Certifying Centre: Center for Community Safety Promotion (Korea) Info address on www for the Programme : http://www.ehealth.or.kr
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Name: Hyunjoo Moon / Minhee Park
Institution: Gangbuk-gu Community Health Center/Dept. of Health Sanitation
City: Gangbuk-gu, Seoul
Country: South Korea
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About the Campaign
The Lightness of Dark by Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel is an ethereal and collaborative journey into the depths of loss, mourning and recovery. Recorded in Australia for Piano, String Quartet (Kanimbla Quartet) and voice, the album focuses on the way forward and the exploration of lightness within the dark.
We all experience loss at some time in our lives, loss of health, friendship, a pet, lost youth or the loss of a loved one. When real life becomes art, experiences can be shared, learned from and resonate with others in similar situations. This album invites the listener to find the beauty in the sadness and move forward in a positive way.
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A motorcycle group called "Bikers for Trump" is ready to be responsible for the security during the Donald Trump's inauguration set for January 20, the group's leader said.
A motorcycle group called "Bikers for Trump" is ready to protect citizens and ensure security at the streets during the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump set for January 20, the group's leader said.
"We will form a wall of meat. We will be shoulder to shoulder with our brothers, we will be toe-to-toe with anyone who is going to break through the police barriers, who is going to be assaulting women, spilling on them, throwing things at them," Chris Cox said Saturday in an interview with "Fox & Friends" news show.
Cox added that the bikers were sure that the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, Capitol Police and US Park Police were able to prevent any violence, still they would gather in the District of Columbia ready to help.
'Bikers for Trump' Ready to Prevent Violence on Inauguration Day https://t.co/OqLbmutStL
— Markets Post (@themarketspost) January 15, 2017
He stressed that they were anticipating a peaceful transition of power.
The "Bikers For Trump" was formed as a group of "patriotic bikers" seeking Trump's presidency, and mainly engaged in preventing violence at "Trump for President" appearances. After November 8 elections the group has been traveling around the country to inform voters on the issues confronting the United States. The group comprises some 200,000 people.


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What do dreams about hair mean?
Category: Dreams Dictionary
What do dreams about hair mean?
Hair, since it grows out of your head, may represent other things that come from your head, such as your thoughts or way of thinking.
Length of Hair
If your hair longer than usual, you may be (or should be) thinking long and hard about a problem.
If it is shorter than usual, you may not be thinking enough about a problem.
Fixing Hair
If you are combing or brushing your hair, you may be (or should be) putting your thoughts in order and getting your facts straight; or you may be concerned about your physical appearance and sexuality.
If your hair is tangled, you may not be thinking clearly or something is on your mind that is leaving you in knots.
If you are parting your hair, you may be divided on an issue; or you may be considering a separation from someone or something in life.
If you are coloring your hair, you may be allowing someone or something to color your thoughts or influence you.
If you are brushing someone else's hair, you may be 'brushing them off' or ignoring them, or trying to make them more appealing to you then they are.
Losing your Hair
Dreaming you are losing your hair may be symbolizing a fear of getting older or becoming less attractive to someone.
May symbolize forgetfulness.
Puns and Figures of Speech to Consider
These are some common idioms related to hair that may or may not make sense in the context of your dream. You may think of others which can help you determine what your dream means to you.
• A Bad Hair Day. (Emotionally Distressed.)
• In The Cross Hairs. (A Target.)
• Let Your Hair Down. (Relax And Enjoy.)
• Pulling My Hair Out. (Stressing Over A Situation.)
• Splitting Hairs. (Arguing Over Unimportant Or Minor Details.)
• Comb Through Something; Go Over Something With A Fine-Tooth Comb. (Go Through Something Very Carefully Looking For The Fine Print Or Smallest Details That Are Easily Overlooked.)
• Brush-Up. (Study Or Refresh Your Memory.)
• Have A Brush With Someone. (Have An Interaction With Someone, Usually In A Negative Way.)
• Tarred With The Same Brush. (Have The Same Characteristics Or Traits,)


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Festival 40 will have larger purses
The final race of the 2018 season at Elkins Raceway is two weekends away. Make your plans to be at the track Saturday evening on Sept. 29 for the Festival 40 for the super late models and larger purses in all the other divisions. Gates will open one hour earlier than normal at 5 p.m., with hot laps at 6:30 p.m. Admission will remain $15 for adults and free for children under 12 with a paying adult. Load up the in-laws, outlaws, family and friends have supper in the concession stands and see the final night's action. No points are on the line just bragging rights for all winter as the Festival Race winner. Hope to see everyone there!
NASCAR action was at the mile-and-a-half Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend. It all started with the Camping World Truck series on Friday evening with the World of Westgate 200. Noah Gragson pushed his KBM Toyota to the early lead and stage one win. Grant Enfinger grabbed stage two. Cautions sometimes breed cautions and this led to three attempts at a green, white, checker finish. When the speedy-dry dust settled, Noah Gragson held on to take the race victory over Johnny Sauter. Justin Haley finished third. Ben Rhodes and Matt Crafton rounded out the top five.
On Saturday evening, the Xfinity cars took to the high banks in the D C Solar 300. Ross Chastain caused quite a stir after his great run against the top Cup Teams at Darlington in the Chip Ganassi number 42. He was back in the seat for this Chase race. He absolutely dominated the event, sweeping both stages and grabbing his second ever victory. Justin Allgaier finished a close second and challenged him in each corner. Cole Custer continues to impress everyone with his strong runs. Christopher Bell and Elliott Sadler rounded out the top five.
On Sunday afternoon, the South Point Casino 400 for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series rolled off. Martin Truex Jr. was the first stage winner. Brad Keselowski took the second stage and the overall race win. This was the 500th victory for his car owner Roger Penske. Keselowski held off a hard-charging Kyle Larson in the overtime race ending. Martin Truex Jr. finished third. Keselowski's teammate Joey Logano finished fourth. Ryan Blaney rounded out the top five. All three series run next week at the 3/4 mile Richmond International Raceway. Tune in or make the trip across the mountain to see for yourself the spectacular events of the races live. I'm sure there are plenty of choice seats still available. I plan to drive over to Lexington, Virginia, this weekend and see the unveiling of the exact replica of the 1970 Dodge Daytona car number 22 Bobby Allison's Coke Machine. I'll try to bring back some photos of this large car show and try to interview Bobby and Donnie Allison, Dave Marcis and Harry Gant. Also the first lady of motor sports Miss Hurst Shifter, Linda Vaughan, will be signing autographs. Until next week remember at the end of the straightaway there's always another left turn.


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Article published in the Institute of Sales Management "Winning Edge".
Although the term storytelling has become a business buzzword in the 21st century, the art of storytelling has been around since our ancestors lived in caves and drew on their walls.
Stories have the power to entertain, educate, preserve culture and instill moral values through accounts of imaginary or real people and events.
Stories also have the power to sell. You only need to look at an experiment called the "significant objects experiment" (http://significantobjects.com/) where a hundred cheap objects with an average value of $1.25 were sold for a total of $8,000 simply by adding a story to each.
While stories are common in the world of business to consumer marketing and sales – from the smouldering romance of the Gold Blend adverts of the 80s and 90s and the long-running Oxo family - stories in business to business sometimes need more thought. Let's explore how the components of a story can help shape our creativity when writing a business proposal. Along the way, we'll call on a few experts including the folk on the Pixar movie team - renowned for consistently making brilliant stories.
A plot is a sequence of major events leading from somewhere to somewhere or something to something. A plot often relates to a problem that needs to be solved or a quest for a physical or emotional goal. The cause and effect of each major event drive the story forward.
The German writer Gustav Freytag described five stages of a plot (Figure 1), to which most stories conform, in the form of a pyramid.
Pixar has a tried and trusted formula (below) for outlining a plot – by filling in the blanks, you can tell just about any story:
"Once upon a time there was…..Every day…..One day…..Because of that…..Because of that…..Until finally….."
Pixar urges us to focus on a core idea (a mother lode) to hang everything on. We can add sub-plots, but they should relate to the main plot – perhaps be a deeper dive to develop aspects of the storyline. Avoid parallel plots (like solving a crime alongside an affair between two of the characters), which only serve to dilute the main story
Turning to our proposal, our plot is getting our customer from a problem or ambition to an endgame or vision where they have achieved their desired outcome or result. The major events are the points in the journey we will take them on to get from start to finish – maybe checking their needs, then creating a solution, then implementing the solution and realising the benefits. We can use sub-plots to enhance different aspects – for example, our commercial and technical plots.
Characters in a story are real or imaginary. They play out the events and triumph or suffer in the causes or effects.
To bring characters to life, their personalities need developing. Perhaps they are heroes or villains, larger than life or shrinking violets, dazzlingly handsome or sorrowfully ugly. As they unfold, we will learn to love them or loathe them – the best characters evoke strong emotions.
Few of Pixar's characters are humans – they are toys, cars, insects, fish, to name a few. They are all vividly brought to life and, without noticing, you become absorbed in their worlds and their struggles and victories.
When they are reading our proposals, our customers need to be entertained and influenced to love or hate the characters. We need to know our customers and what they care about, so we can write for them.
We can make the features of our solution the heroes, and the features of our competitors' solutions the villains. But to be heroes, our features need to be developed from flat, one-dimensional characters into endearing multi-dimensional characters by matching them to a customer requirement and bringing out their benefits and value.
The theme is the message or purpose of the story, a point or lesson which the audience can recognise – not necessarily straight away, but by the end.
Although Pixar's movies have big, colourful stories, there is always a theme underneath. "Finding Nemo" isn't just about the adventures of a father clownfish dashing around the world's oceans to rescue his kidnapped son – it's about parenting. The "Toy Story" trilogy isn't a bunch of toys rollicking around – it's about loyalty, handling change and doing the right thing. Remember the old end to many a tale: "…and the moral of the story is…"
Andrew Stanton, one of the Pixar team, talks about needing a strong theme. And that's what we need in our proposals. Our themes create the compelling reason why the customer should choose us and not our competitors.
Business coach and storyteller John Bates has a great piece of advice: "Give us what matters to us. Pick three points and don't cram unnecessary information in. Bring just the key things to the top."
Hurrah to Andrew and John. Proposals that cram in every differentiator or Unique Selling Point in a pile it high fashion, won't cut it. You will confuse and alienate. Between one and three themes, carefully crafted to express benefit and value for the customer, then woven through the proposal will beat a shedload of bragging any day.
For a story to stick, we need to identify with the plot, the characters and the theme. Soundbites from Stanton - "make me care", "tell it from the heart", "create wonder" – emphasise the point. Pixar suggests empathy is the "third level of liking". The first two levels are superficial, based on physical attractiveness and positive personal traits. True empathy comes when you engage more deeply and get under the surface, possibly even sharing and supporting each other's challenges.
Remember that buying is as much about emotion as it is about logical argument. As Bates comments: "None of the facts and figures matter until you have some sort of emotional connection."
So, we need to create empathy on the page through emotional connection. Connect on the first two levels by using your customer's name (or "you") often and explaining "what's in it for them" by describing the outcomes they will achieve either personally or corporately.
Mirror your customer by using their language and playing back any discussions or diagrams they have shared with you. Show you care by writing from the heart and making strong, positive commitments about getting things done. Reinforce this by showing vulnerability by being open about any risks and issues you or they face and how you will deal with them together.
Get away from dull business-speak when you can by using vibrant, action-based language and images. And share stories of how you've solved similar problems before.
Both your "once upon a time" and your "happily ever after" need to be captivating. Stanton suggests making a promise at the beginning – one that you can come back to at the end. Freytag introduces us to the terms exposition (introduction) and denouement (resolution) – solid front and end anchor points either side of a roller-coaster of a story. Strong beginnings and endings make your story complete and fulfilling.
In your proposals, remember to get to the point at the start. Don't waffle around with please and thank you and how delighted you are to be submitting a proposal. Instead, tell them how you will solve their problem and what the outcomes will look like. Do this in the executive summary and each section of the proposal. At the end of the executive summary and each section, summarise and bring the customer back to outcomes for them.
The bits in the middle are where you paint the picture of the journey you will take together to get from problem to outcome, developing your characters and themes. Ensure you have a logical and balanced structure throughout your proposal.
There will be times when your customer makes it hard to set out your story in a format and structure that suits you. But don't forget, you can start a story in the middle and then fill in earlier and later gaps. Whatever constraints your customer puts forward, these are simply like the obstacles in the movie that fox the protagonists and cause some action to get back on track.
On my journey through the lands of storytelling, I have found some techniques that don't quite suit the world of proposals. The two that get a thumbs-down are:
There are probably more, but we want to end on a positive note.
My narrative ends fittingly with a denouement – interestingly a word that translates as untie, rather than tie up (all the loose ends). The diagram below definitely ties things up by bringing the various strands together.
Am I telling you anything new or different? Possibly not – the proposal suggestions are best practice, and I always counsel clients to work out their approach before they write. But the overriding conclusions from my storytelling journey on this occasion are: one, check you've got the component parts of the story covered, and two, stay focused.
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MADE In Chelsea stars aren't perhaps the first act you'd think would be making their way to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe, but Francis Boulle and Jamie Laing are more than willing to step out of their comfort zone.
The reality TV duo cast away the shackles of the E4 series to bring their hit podcast Private Parts to life on the big stage.
To a sell-out crowd in the Udderbelly, the pair recount tales of high-jinks and debauchery – usually on the part of Jamie.
His Trainspotting homage is quite the way to start the show, and threatens to make Private Parts live even closer to its name.
The pair balance each other out well, with Jamie's natural, fun vibe exuding out of him as he happily recounts (mostly true) embarrassing tales from his life.
And Francis's dry wit shines through as the two bounce off each other with quick putdowns and decent gags.
There are parts where it's clear they've been memorising a script, and there are also times when they forget their lines altogether – but this adds to the charm.
After all, this isn't the slick, edited world of Made In Chelsea but a project entirely created by the pair and revealing different dimensions to themselves.
There's a fun piece of audience interaction, free sweets and the pair take it in turns to read amusing extracts from their diary.
And you get to see the startlingly graphic consequences of getting a hair transplant in Nottingham.
Sometimes crude and childish, the pair are clearly good friends and have a natural chemistry as a double act despite not being used to performing in front of a live audience.
Perhaps a quip about becoming the new Ant & Dec isn't beyond the realms of possibility…
Verdict ★★★1/2
While it's clear Jamie and Francis are new to this game, the likeable pair have plenty about them to make this an entertaining show if you know a bit about them. With a bit more polish and finesse it'll be a hit.


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The Dark Side of Classical Music
A Lawsuit of Epic Nastiness to Ponder—and Learn From
Jan. 12, 2006: Vol. 2, Issue No. 3
2 Musicians in a Legal Dispute Will Keep Their Instruments
An anonymous donor has stepped forward with $200,000 to help members of the Audubon String Quartet avoid the loss of their instruments in a legal dispute with a member they had dismissed, people involved in the case said yesterday.
—Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, Jan. 11, 2006
On Feb. 21, 2000, at a rehearsal of the world-renowned Audubon String Quartet, first violinist David Ehrlich was coldcocked.
He was handed a letter informing him that his three colleagues had met and that he was being fired on the spot after 16 years.
Ehrlich promptly sued the other members of the quartet for wrongful dismissal. On Dec. 20, 2001, the court awarded Ehrlich $611,000.
The founder of the quartet, cellist Clyde Thomas Shaw, and his wife, Doris Lederer, the violist, filed for bankruptcy and will likely lose their house, bank accounts, snow blower, lawnmower and car. In addition, they were ordered to turn over their instruments to a court-appointed trustee in Roanoke, Va. at 4 p.m. on Dec. 23, 2005, for public sale to help satisfy the judgment.
The third member of the group, Akemi Takayama, has also filed for bankruptcy. Her case is currently in limbo, but she may lose the violin given her by her grandmother.
In a late development this week, it appears that the musicians will not lsoe their precious instruments. (See below.)
It is unimaginable that in the effete and genteel world of classical music, a string quartet could blow sky-high in a very public way.
The story is not only fascinating, but directly relates to every business in the world.
My neighbor's son-in-law is an elegant, young viola player named David Yang, tall and thin with a long, aristocratic face and a neatly trimmed thatch of black hair. Very well connected in the world of classical music, both in Philadelphia and nationally, David performs, teaches, coaches and gives master classes.
Denny Hatch is the author of six books on marketing and four novels, and is a direct marketing writer, designer and consultant. His latest book is "Write Everything Right!" Visit him at dennyhatch.com.


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We recognise the social and cultural diversity of families and its impact on parenting practices. That is why we believe in consultation, collaboration and negotiation.
We have an open-door policy where family members are encouraged to spend time in the classrooms, especially during pick-up and drop-off times. There is also a shared dining area where families can join their children for breakfast. The children often end up playing "host", introducing their family members to others!
From emails, face-to-face conversations and phone calls, to informal notes and classroom blogs, we employ multiple communication channels in order to cater to the varied preferred communication modes of family members.
Our children and their families come from all walks of life. We recognise and embrace this diversity.
One of the areas our teachers closely examine is how love, care and concern are expressed within each family. For example, to a crying child who tripped and scraped a knee, one might offer a hug; another might say that it is a small matter and ask the child to get up; while another might buy a toy to pacify the child.
Our teachers are trained to objectively consider what each response tells us about a family's values, for it is through empathy that trusting relationships can be formed.
We are mindful that a child may have more than one primary caregiver in the family, and this can include parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and domestic helpers. Interactions with each caregiver can provide a holistic perspective of the child's life, and the potential impact on growth and development.
Teachers and parents are both experts on the child in their own right. In addition to daily face-to-face conversations facilitated by our open-door policy, the centre allocates uninterrupted time to meet with each family thrice a year. These parent-teacher meetings enable two-way conversations about the child's development, and result in a co-constructed image of the child that helps both parties work better as partners. The centre seeks to communicate through both formal and informal channels.
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