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March 13, 2019
Former Lat-Night host Jay Leno appeared on NBC's 'Today Show' to discuss Cholesterol and Late Night comedy. Leno slammed current Lat-Night hosts as being one sided politically and makes it hard for people to watch.
NBC hosts asked, "So it's been five years since you left 'The Tonight Show,' and you see the place we are right now in this country. Do you miss being on the show? Or is it such a different time that it would be hard to do?"
Leno responded, "No, it's different — I don't miss it," said Leno. "You know, everything now is if people don't like your politics — everyone has to know your politics."
Leno continued, "I kind of used Johnny [Carson]'s model," he explained. "People couldn't figure out: 'Well, you and your Republican friends…' or 'Well, Mr. Leno, you and your Democratic buddies…' And I would get hate mail from both sides equally. And I went, 'Well that's fabulous! That's exactly what I want.'"
Leno stated, "But when people see you as one-sided, it just makes it tough," Leno said. "And plus, I did it when, you know, Clinton was horny and Bush was dumb, and it was just a little easier."
Leno noted, "You know, now it's all very serious, everything so, so na—. I'd just like to see a bit of civility come back to it, you know?"
Leno talked about making jokes about Trump, "People say, 'Oh, it must be easy to do jokes with Trump. No, it's actually harder because the punch line of the joke used to be 'That's like the president with a porn star.' Well, now the president is with a porn star. Where do you go with that?! … How do you get more outrageous than that?! Exactly."
The hosts asked if he thinks the pendulum will swing back the other way, Leno concluded, "Of course, I think it will swing back the other way."


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This week we feature SolidDreams, a Fitocrat who lifted 13 million pounds in 2013. He's lost 150 pounds, competed in a body building show, and he's done it all while dealing with depression. He's also one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. If you'd like to nominate someone for a Fitocracy Member Spotlight, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Username and level
SolidDreams, Level 41
How did you get started in fitness and training? Do you have any pics to share?
When I was 13 I was 5'4 and 240 pounds, decided to start running cross country because I was reading It and Ben (the fat kid) lost all his weight running. Dropped to about 190 after that and wrestling, then had a growth spurt over the summer and hit 6'1. Played football etc, but had some injuries and stopped lifting for a good 7 years, devoted myself to being depressed and fat. So basically I had to start over, but I was 360 pounds instead of simply 240. Dropped down 150 pounds in 2 years and did my first bodybuilding show in September!
How did you find the site? How has it changed your workouts?
I kept reading about it in sites such as Kotaku etc, and I was always interested because I'm a pretty huge nerd, and the idea of fitness leading to leveling up seemed like a huge, brilliant idea.
Do you have any long term goals or direction you plan to take your training?
My long term goal is to become an IFBB pro. I don't know how likely it is, but it's definitely a dream for me. I want to be able to also complete a Tough Mudder/Warrior Dash, and maybe even do a marathon, although honestly it's not a huge thing for me, considering I'm so accident prone that I worry I'll have a catastrophic injury.
What are things you've learned through trial and error? What areas do you hope to learn more about?
The hardest thing for me to learn is to not beat myself to death, because I tend to think if I take a rest day or have to take time off, that I'll instantly fail. This all came to a head right after my bodybuilding show, I had hoped to do really well and got 9/10 out of 15 people. Because I always want to be the best, I kept pushing myself despite my coach and friends telling me that I needed to take time off, and caught the flu AND pneumonia, wrecking finances and knocking me down for a good 2-3 weeks. I'm still recovering and I get sick easily, so I'm having to really remember to ramp back everything for me (although I'm not doing a very good job of it!).
Currently, where would you say your weakness lies? Where do you excel?
My main weakness is my depression. It makes it very difficult for me to get out and go, and even when I do it most of the time, I feel like I don't put 100% in because I'm dragging or apathetic.
My main body weakness is my back (rhomboids, lats, and rear delts). If I can't see it, I have an awful time really hitting them properly, so that from the front and side I do well, then back I fade. My two best body parts are my chest and hamstrings. With my chest I can look at a weight and blow up. Another good thing (or bad, depending on how OCD I'm acting) is that I'm regimental in my training and eating, if I know I have to do something to get results then I stick to it to the letter, regardless of how crappy I feel at the time.
Are you using any supplements or special dietary changes to achieve your goals?
I use creatine, whey, bcaas and carb powder intra, fish oil, and a multi vitamin. I was using fat burners during my show prep, but not now that I'm trying to gain.
If you could give advice to someone starting off, what would you tell them?
Never ever ever give up. It'll be hard, it'll suck, you'll want to quit, you'll want to lie down on the floor… Don't be like those posters that act like oh you should push yourself beyond your breaking point… get to your breaking point, back off, recover, then go again. push yourself the smart way.
What's your 'secret weapon,' the thing that pushes you or gives you an edge?
I feel like if I don't do my best, then all the people who have supported me thus far will be let down. I know it's not the truth, but for myself, I tend to work better with external goals instead of internal. I also tend to hulk out if i can't get something, so most of my personal records have come from failing, getting pissed off and then doing it before I realize that I'm not really supposed to be able to. And then, of course, I go to the best gym in the world, with the best coaches, motivation walking around (Steve Kuclo, Dana Linn Bailey is a regular, etc) and people who are doing the same thing as me, day in and day out.
What has the overall impact of Fitocracy been in your life?
I've met a lot of wonderful people who have always been willing to support others despite whatever horrible crisis they may currently be in. It gives you perspective when you're rolling around on the floor about how horrible your life is when someone somewhere else is dealing with abuse, the loss of a loved one, or a crippling disease or accident.
One thing I want people to take away from my story is…
If a fat kid like me can achieve a dream, anything that you want to aspire to is possible. People told me I was crazy for wanting to be a bodybuilder when I first started, and now that I've stepped on stage and AM one… it's the best feeling in the world.

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Today started out with the announcement of the Retiring Items. Wowzers! What an amazing list of wonderful products! If you missed that post (including the Retiring List), check it out here.
Today didn't go exactly as planned, though, and I hope you haven't given up hope. Throughout the day, the Stampin' Up! site was either inaccessible or completely down. When it is available, it is super-slow (reminds me of the days of dial-up). Still, the determined were able to get through and pace orders – so some items are already disappearing from the Retiring List.
Here are some tips that will hopefully help you maneuver through the rest of this evening and tomorrow:
- Monitor the Risk. Accessories (dies, punches ribbons, etc) on the Retiring List will be discontinued as soon as the current stock runs out. Some items are already disappearing from the list. Stamp sets, though, will continue to be manufactured by Stampin' Up! through the end of May. If there's something you really want from the list that's at risk of going away soon, place your order NOW and wait out the slow connection.
- Tomorrow is Big, Too! Today's Retiring List promotion really slowed things down as lots of people attempted to place orders. On April 22, though, we are told the Clearance Rack will be restocked with new items – that means MORE people will be accessing the site. While my fingers are crossed that the systems issues are fixed, but be forewarned that you might have to be super-patient tomorrow, too.
- Earn Big. While you take advantage of the great sales promotions on the Retirement List and Clearance Rack, remember that you can earn free product from the upcoming catalog when you place a $50+ order with me. Read more about my In with the Old & In with the New promotion below.
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The Scent of Buenos Aires
Stories by Hebe Uhart
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The Scent of Buenos Aires offers the first book-length English translation of Uhart's work, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life: moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a cacophonous homeowners association meeting. She writes in unconventional, understated syntax, constructing a delightfully specific perspective on life in South America. These stories are marked by sharp humor and wit: discreet and subtle, yet filled with eccentric and insightful characters. Uhart's narrators pose endearing questions about their lives and environments - one asks "Bees - do you know how industrious they are?" while another inquires, "Are we perhaps going to hell in a hand basket?"
Advance Praise
"Hebe approached her subjects from an astonished and oblique angle that, at first, might appear naive. Not so. Her short stories feature protagonists rarely seen in Argentine literature [...] Always rescuing the voices that no one pays attention to, yet not at all in a pompous way, for, if there was one thing that Hebe Uhart never wanted to do, it was to fall into the common position of giving voice to the voiceless and other slogans that she would consider idiotic." — from "Perfect Pitch" by Mariana Enriquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire, in Página/12 "I do not like authors who are too satisfied. The best tradition of Argentinean literature was built in these vacillations: the uncertain narrator of Borges or of Hebe Uhart, that idea that meaning is always being constructed, and that opposes other traditions in which the narrator is sure of the order of things." - Ricardo Piglia "Hebe Uhart is the best contemporary Argentinean storyteller." - Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill "[In Uhart's writing] from simplicity one penetrates depths and labyrinths where you can only advance if you participate in the magic of that new world...It neither clarifies nor completes a known reality. It reveals, or rather, it is a unique, distinct reality." - Haroldo Conti "Hebe is the best and the strangest. After decades of writing and publishing narrations, Hebe became an author that dominated a central genre for the Argentine tradition: the short story. However, this has the geographic particularity of being transnational: when we think about stories in Argentina we think about literature created in the Río de la Plata, between Argentina and Uruguay. And that was one of the strongest nuclei in Hebe's literary identity, by which it was not a national but an inherently Río de la Plata literature." - Inés Acevedo "Hebe's texts (her fiction as well as her chronicles) played with the world in a manner that didn't fully coincide with Victor Shklovski's definition of defamiliarization, that disposition of finding the strange and the unfamiliar within the quotidian. This is perhaps because the quotidian perception of Hebe Uhart in the world was, in itself, lacking automatization from the beginning, being always full of amazement, of a cultivated sense of bewilderment. That register was then translated to her texts through a writing that was ingeniously natural, with a simplicity that was only simulated." - Martin Kohan "The world of Hebe Uhart, which so intensely appears in her stories, is abundant, collective and absolutely personal ... She as given Argentine Literature countless unforgettable, exciting characters that establish, when talking or acting, when having certain feelings over others, a way of existing, of resisting, of withstanding." - Elvio E. Gandolfo
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It is a pleasant April morning in Kashmir. The temperature swings between a comfortable 14 and 20 degrees Celsius and the towering Zabarwan range shimmers in the glassy waters of the Dal Lake. But Mohammad Shafi Sheikh, 52, who plies shikaras on the Dal, is distressed. "In the past few years, there were lots of tourists, but this year has been bad. No one is coming and we don't earn anything. I don't know what has happened this year," he laments.
His colleague, Ghulam Mohideen, interjects, "Pulwama happened this year. After that, travellers stopped visiting. Only tourists from some countries are coming," he says pointing to two ladies from Southeast Asia. In recent years, tourists from the region have been visiting Kashmir in significant numbers.
Nearby Ajaz Ahmad Kotroo, 43, relaxes on the deck of Pigeon, one of the oldest houseboats on the lake. Although he has not hosted any tourists in the past few weeks, he is positive. In three decades, Kashmir has gone through many such slumps and emerged out of those, he claims. "Tourism comprises seven per cent of our economy. Even without it, we will survive," he declares with a smile. "Tourism will flourish in the Valley when you make it conflict-neutral. For long, the government has been linking tourism with peace and consequently, after every untoward event, it is the first industry to get derailed and last to return on track."
Kotroo's houseboat is behind Hotel Leeward. In 1996, when only 375 tourists visited Kashmir, the CRPF occupied the building and has stayed put since. Nobel Laureate V.S. Naipaul stayed in the second storey of the property in 1962. In his travelogue An Area of Darkness, Naipaul referred to the hotel as "Doll's House on the Dal Lake". The edifice now has bunkers on all sides and concertina wires on the walls. Armed men patrol the compound and motorboats ferry security personnel.
"The drop in tourist arrivals this year is unprecedented," remarks Asif Iqbal Burza, director of Ahad Hotels and Restaurants. "A negative perception has been created that this place is not safe. The absence of tourists has nothing to do with the recession in the economy or the elections across the country. Other tourist destinations are thriving. Why would the recession and elections hit us alone?" he says. Burza runs luxury lodges in Gulmarg and Pahalgam. In the latter, a few hotels have shut down.
Hoteliers in the Valley compare the present crisis to that of the early 90s. In 1988, 7.22 lakh travellers, including 59,938 from abroad, came to Kashmir. 1989 saw the highest number of international arrivals—67,762. Most of them came from Europe and the USA. In 1990, as mass uprisings and armed insurgency broke out in the Valley, the number of tourists went down to 10,772. Remarkably, half of them were foreigners headed for Gulmarg for skiing in winter. There was a revival of sorts, when 2 lakh tourists thronged the Valley in 1999, but a decline ensued subsequently. 2005 was a remarkable year for tourism—6.05 lakh people visited Kashmir. In the following years, tourist arrivals kept rising.
Abdul Wahid Malik, president of Kashmir Hotel and Restaurant Association, claims that the influx of tourists transformed the Valley's economy: "We opened up many guest houses. Kashmir only had 16,000 rooms in the 90s, but now, we have 55,000 rooms. Lakhs of people are associated with this sector. There are thousands of handicraft shops—all dependent upon tourism." After a pause, he adds, "But the present situation looks scary. Some hoteliers are shutting down their properties and some are turning them into hospitals. Things have never been so gloomy." IAS officer-turned-politician Shah Faesal quipped that the present distress in the tourism industry would turn Kashmir from a hospitality-driven economy to a hospital-driven economy.
Remarkably, two large-scale uprisings in 2008 and 2010—in which nearly 200 civilian protesters were killed and thousands others wounded—did not dent tourist inflow. In 2011, tourist arrivals crossed the million mark for the first time. The next year, 13 lakh tourists, including 29,143 foreigners, enjoyed the delights of the Valley. Last year, foreign arrivals touched 56,029— most from Southeast Asia.
As the numbers grew, so did the investment in the tourism sector. Hospitality chains such as ITC, Taj, Sheraton, Sarovar and Lemon Tree established hotels in the state. The government spruced up Gulmarg, Tangmarg and Sonmarg with large-scale infrastructure projects and began exploring the possibility of establishing new tourist destinations.
Ashfaq Ahmad Dug, president of Kashmir Travel Agents Association, says that after the September 2014 floods in the Valley, tourist numbers came down. Since then, travel agents and government officials are hosting road shows and marketing events across the country, especially in Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal, to reinforce the fact that tourists are safe in Kashmir. Dug stresses that tourism in Kashmir is an economic activity and shouldn't be seen as a barometer of peace. "Here, there are no crimes against visitors," Dug declares. "It is the safest place for tourists, but still, a negative perception has been created on social media after the Pulwama incident. It is hurting tourism terribly."
After the Pulwama attack, the governor of Meghalaya, Tathagata Roy, exhorted people to completely boycott Kashmir. His tweet read, "An appeal from a retired colonel of the Indian Army: Don't visit Kashmir, don't go to Amarnath for the next 2 years. Don't buy articles from Kashmir emporia or Kashmiri tradesman who come every winter. Boycott everything Kashmiri. I am inclined to agree (sic)." Faiz Bakshi, MD of Shangrilla Hotels, says that travel agents who recently visited the Valley claimed that as part of a whispering campaign against the state, many of their peers were asked to not encourage tourism in Kashmir.
Officials in the tourism department of Jammu and Kashmir have not disclosed the statistics on tourist arrivals in 2019. However, they agree that the industry is beset by a massive crisis and slump. "We haven't seen many tourists this year," says a senior official.
"The current crisis is different. After Pulwama, there has been a coordinated attempt to isolate Kashmir and strangle its tourism sector," says Rouf Tramboo, a well-known trekker from the valley. "Tourism helps a lot of people—there are guiding services, taxis, hotels, huts outsourced to self-help groups and tourism facilitations centres, all of which employ locals. People in the tourism industry are on the verge of unemployment. Airfares are soaring, no special trains are being run and there are no incentives for the tourism sector. This is a campaign to boycott Kashmir."
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Volume 62
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- Chapter One. Heuristic Bias and Conflict Detection During Thinking
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Review of Conflict Detection Studies
- 3. A Case for Logical Intuitions?
- 4. Further Implications
- 5. Conclusion and Take-Home Message
- Chapter Two. Dual Processes and the Interplay between Knowledge and Structure: A New Parallel Processing Model
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Dual Processes and DI Accounts
- 3. Conflict Detection and Dual Process Architecture
- 4. Logical Intuitions
- 5. Effortful Beliefs
- 6. General Discussion
- Chapter Three. People as Contexts in Conversation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Audience Design and Perspective-Taking in Conversation
- 3. People as Contexts in Conversation: Mechanisms of Encoding
- 4. Loose Ends and Future Questions
- 5. Conclusions
- Chapter Four. Using Multidimensional Encoding and Retrieval Contexts to Enhance Our Understanding of Stochastic Dependence in Source Memory
- 1. Introduction to Source Memory and the Relevance of Multidimensional Paradigms
- 2. A Renewed Focus on Multidimensional Source Memory Retrieval
- 3. Evidence for Source-Dependent Retrieval in Multidimensional Paradigms
- 4. Evidence of Stochastic Dependence from Neuroscience
- 5. Distinguishing Theoretical Mechanisms of Stochastic Dependence
- 6. Implications for Memory Representation and Feature (In)dependence
- 7. Conclusions
- Chapter Five. A Review of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in the Contexts of Learning, Eyewitness Memory, Social Cognition, Autobiographical Memory, and Creative Cognition
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting: The Phenomenon and Theoretical Accounts
- 3. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and the Use of Testing in Education
- 4. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and Eyewitness Memory
- 5. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and Social Cognition
- 6. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and Autobiographical Memory
- 7. Retrieval-Induced Forgetting and Creative Cognition
- 8. Broad Considerations for the Study of Retrieval-Induced Forgetting in Context
- 9. Conclusion
- Chapter Six. Perceiving Absolute Scale in Virtual Environments: How Theory and Application Have Mutually Informed the Role of Body-Based Perception
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Perceiving Absolute Distance
- 3. Perceiving Absolute Scale in Action Space within VEs
- 4. The Importance of Body-Movement for Improving Performance in VEs
- 5. A New Type of Body-Based Feedback: Avatars
- 6. Conclusions and Future Directions
- Index
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Psychology of Learning and Motivation publishes empirical and theoretical contributions in cognitive and experimental psychology, ranging from classical and instrumental conditioning to complex learning and problem solving. Each chapter thoughtfully integrates the writings of leading contributors, who present and discuss significant bodies of research relevant to their discipline. Volume 62 includes chapters on such varied topics as automatic logic and effortful beliefs, complex learning and development, bias detection and heuristics thinking, perceiving scale in real and virtual environments, using multidimensional encoding and retrieval contexts to enhance our understanding of source memory, causes and consequences of forgetting in thinking and remembering and people as contexts in conversation.
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Social Media in Clinics and Hospitals
Our last blog looked at why should we bother with social media in occuaptional therapy. We examined the benefits of re-telling, or passing on stories.
We also promised to turn our gaze to the Mayo Clinic.
The Mayo Clinic was the source of the YouTube video of a couple playing the piano together. It is a wonderfully uplifting film clip, and just the tip of their media iceberg.
Here is their dedicated YouTube channel, their Sharing Mayo Clinic blog, and, inevitably their Facebook page, with more than 15,000 fans.
This is a remarkable effort, and one that has apparently been recognised through their nomination to receive a Webby Award, the Oscars of the internet world.
Why do they do it and what does it achieve?
Well, the introduction to their blog states this;
"A blog with stories from patients, families, friends and Mayo Clinic staff". Stories again. The stories humanise what could be an intimidating organisation – both in its size and also its nature.
But staff blogging? Many here believe that is a serious no-no within healthcare, but at the Mayo there is no such disapproval. That is not to say that they do not care, far from it. They have a strong social media policy in place though, you can read it here. When organisations have policies and guidelines such as these then obstacles to communication can be managed. Staff can be encouraged and developed in social media skills, and given the tools to get the organisation's message out there, namely that they care, that they are human and relate to their clients as humans too. That is powerful and much better than simply prohibiting staff from engaging with online communities that might come into contact with the clinic.
And look at that Facebook page.
One reason for prohibiting social media interaction is that someone might say something bad. On the Facebook page, people do raise objections on cost, interference in sociol-political campaigns and even a veiled attack on competence, which is perhaps inevitable. It is not an issue though, the Mayo Clinic has built up such a loyal following around it, that the less favourable comments do not stand out and you have to look pretty hard to find them.
Oh, and they even have their own Second Life area as pictured above.
What similar systems, where patients, clients, families and staff are encouraged to speak out have you seen in the organsations you work in?
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This November election is critical, for if the regressives get the majority the good Senator lays out their agenda. Is this what you want? If not, get out to vote damn it. From his recent email:
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Senate, let me tell you what a Republican Senate will mean for America. Are you concerned about
campaign finance law, and the ability of billionaires to buy elections?
Well, not one Republican in the Senate voted in support of a recent
effort to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
In fact, many Republicans now want to eliminate all restrictions on
campaign spending.
Are you concerned about
global warming and its threat to our planet? Well, the new Republican
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recently wrote a book calling global warming a "hoax."
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the need to raise the minimum wage to a living wage? Well, the new
Republican Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension
Committee which has oversight of labor issues may be Sen. Lamar
Alexander. He has stated publicly that not only should we not raise the
minimum wage, but that we should eliminate the concept of the minimum
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Eastern Strings: The Art Of Arabian Oud Solos by Amer AmmouriOctober 19, 2008
Oud Mosaics by Amer AmmouriOctober 18, 2008
The oud is the most soulful of Middle Eastern instruments.In Oud Mosaics, Amer Ammouri performs Egyptian, Iraqi, Lebanese and Syrian favourites.
Amer Ammouri lives in Aleppo, Syria; he performs regularly with famous Syrian singers such as Sabah Fakhri and Shadi Jamil. He is the lead oud player for the Salatin Al Tarab,an ensemble that performs the Muwashahat and Qudud Halabiyya styles of Syrian Folklore.Oud Mosaics Amer Ammouri Syria's Top Oudist Arabian


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Just getting started with the Marketing API? See the following documents for details on using this API:
- Using eBay RESTful APIs
- Marketing section of the Selling Integration Guide
- Marketing API Overview
Promoted Listings requirements and restrictions
Promotions Manager requirements and restrictions
- Marketing API Reference
See the API Site Status for announcements regarding current and recently resolved system wide issues. Visit the Developer Support page for support options and information on filing bugs.
The API release history
The following table lists the releases for the Marketing API:
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Promoted Listings: Increased the maximum amount of listings per campaign from 25,000 to 50,000 and added support for Promoted Listings methods to the following eBay marketplaces:
Promoted Listings: The start and end times for Promoted Listings reports is standardized on MST.
Promotions Manager: Added volume pricing to item_promotion resource and added two new fields to address the increased functionality.
Promotions Manager: Added the item_price_markdown resource and four associated methods to support markdown promotions.
Promoted Listings: The maximum value allowed for bidPercentage was raised from 20% to 100%.
Version 1.3.0 contains the following updates:
Added methods to support new reporting features for Promoted Listings.
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Added a new method that returns the listings associated promotions created with Promotions Manager.
Added a container to support creating threshold promotions using a set of rules.
|Version 1.0.0
|Initial release of Version 1.
Version 1.7.0
This release increases the maximum amount of listings per campaign and adds Promoted Listings support for new eBay marketplaces.
v1.7.0: Changed functionality
This release includes the following Promoted Listings functionality changes:
- The maximum amount of listings per campaign has increased from 25,000 to 50,000.
- The Promoted Listings methods are now supported for the following eBay marketplaces:
- Canada (English)
- Canada (French)
- France
- Italy
- Spain
The table below lists the links to terms and conditions for all marketplaces that support Promoted Listings:
|Promoted Listings Terms and Conditions URL
|Canada (English)
|Canada (French)
|United Kingdom
|United States
Version 1.6.0
This release standardizes the start and end times used for Promoted Listings reports.
v1.6.0: Changed functionality
This release synchronizes Promoted Listings report start and end times with Mountain Standard Time (MST).
Promoted Listings reports are aggregated on a daily basis where each reporting day begins at midnight. With this release, the start time and end time for all Promoted Listing reports is synchronized with MST, which is calculated by subtracting seven hours from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). In other way, all Promoted Listings reports start and end at midnight, on the specified dates, based on Mountain Standard Time.
Version 1.5.0
This release adds volume pricing functionality to the item_promotions methods, plus some updates to the Promotions Manager functionality:
v1.5.0: Schema changes
Volume pricing has been added as a new type of promotion you can create with the Promotions Manager item_promotion resource. Volume pricing gives you the ability to give buyers deeper discounts as they purchase higher quantities of items from your store.
With this release, volume pricing is supported on all the marketplaces on which Promotions Manager is supported by the API (
EBAY_US). Volume pricing can be added to both single variation and mult-variation fixed price listings on all supported marketplaces.
To support volume pricing, the item_promotion resource has been updated in the following ways:
- promotionType has been added for use with both item_promotion and item_price markdown resources.
- The promotionType field supports the following enumeration values:
ORDER_DISCOUNT, and
- While promotionType is optional for
MARKDOWN_SALEpromotions, you must include the promotionType field in your requests to create volume pricing promotions.
- The applyDiscountToSingleItemOnly Boolean flag has been added to the ItemPromotion type. Evaluated only for volume pricing promotions, this flag indicates if the promotion applies to just a single item in the set of items being promoted, or if the discount applies across any of the items being promoted in the seller's Store.
v1.5.0: Changed functionality
This release includes the following Promotions Manager functionality changes:
For Promotions Manager:
- The requirements for creating promotions have been relaxed in that you no longer need to opt-in to a Promotions Manager program to create threshold or markdown promotions.
- The listing requirements for markdown promotions have been refined. For full details, see Promotions Manager requirements and restrictions.
- The allowed values for amountOffItem have been expanded for markdown promotions, as detailed here: amountOffItem.
Version 1.4.0
This release adds several new methods to the Marketing API, plus one schema change to support item price markdown promotions.
v1.4.0: New methods
A new resource (item_price_markdown) and several methods have been added to the Marketing API. Item price markdown promotions are available in all eBay marketplaces.
Here is the list of the methods that were added to support item price markdown promotions:
- createItemPriceMarkdownPromotion =
POST /item_price_markdown
Creates a markdown promotion.
- deleteItemPriceMarkdownPromotion =
DELETE /item_price_markdown/{promotion_id}
Deletes a markdown promotion by ID.
- getItemPriceMarkdownPromotion =
GET /item_price_markdown/{promotion_id}
Retrieves a markdown promotion by ID.
- updateItemPriceMarkdownPromotion =
PUT /item_price_markdown/{promotion_id}
Updates a markdown promotion by ID.
v1.4.0: Schema changes
There is a single schema change to support the new item price markdown promotions:
- A new query parameter, status, has been added to getListingSet to filter the promotions returned by their status. This parameter is valid for only markdown promotions.
v1.4.0: Changed functionality
The Marketing API v1.4.0 release includes the following functionality changes:
- In Promoted Listings, the maximum value that you can specify for bidPercentage was raised from 20% to 100%.
- In Promotions Manager, the maximum number of inventory items or listing IDs that you can include in a promotion has been increased from 500 items to 2,000 items. These increases are reflected in the inventoryItems and listingIds fields in the inventoryCriterion container.
v1.4.0: Documentation changes and errata
This version of the API documentation formally introduces Promotions Manager as a product, and identifies two flavors of promotions: markdown promotions and threshold promotions. In previous versions of the documentation, Promotions Manager had only a single set of functions, all of which supported threshold promotions with the item_promotion resource.
Version 1.4.0 introduces "item price markdown promotions" and these, along with threshold promotions, are grouped under the Promotions Manager umbrella.
Version 1.3.0
The following sections detail the updates that have been made for this release:
v1.3.0: New methods
The following method was added in this release:
- getPromotionReports =
GET /promotion_report
This call generates a report for all the seller's
PAUSED, or
ENDEDpromotions for the specified eBay marketplace. It summarizes the seller's performance at a promotion level on a given site. You must specify the eBay marketplace and can limit the report by using a search keyword or by specifying the promotion status to include. You can also control the number of promotions returned in the result set.
v1.3.0: Schema changes
Several errors were changed to warnings in the createItemPromotion and updateItemPromotion methods:
|The listing ID must be numeric if you're using listingIds.
|The listing ID is invalid.
|The SKU or custom label used in inventoryReferenceId exceeds the maximum length, which is {skuLength}.
|This listing is not eligible for a promotion because it's an auction-style listing.
|This listing is not eligible for a promotion because it's a minimum advertised price (MAP) listing.
|You haven't included PayPal as a payment method. In order to make this listing eligible, update it to include PayPal.
|This SKU used in inventoryReferenceId matches an item that is part of a listing with variations. This SKU is only eligible if we add all of the listing variations. To add this listing, use the parent, or main, SKU (custom label).
|Invalid Store category. Please refer to API documentation to source allowed values.
|Invalid Marketplace Category ID. Please refer to API documentation to source allowed values.
v1.3.0: Documentation changes and errata
Information was added on how to use the Taxonomy API to retrieve category IDs.
Although the list of eBay category IDs is not published, you can use the Taxonomy API to retrieve the default category tree for a seller's marketplace. The Taxonomy API provides calls that enable the seller to browse or search the category tree hierarchy and select categories to use as criteria for the promotion. See the Taxonomy API.
Version 1.2.0
This release adds several new methods to the Marketing API.
v1.2.0: New methods
The following report-related methods have been added to Promoted Listings:
- getReport =
GET /ad_report/{report_id}
Downloads a Promoted Listings report by ID.
- getReportMetadata =
GET /ad_report_metadata
Retrieves metadata that details the fields returned in all Promoted Listings reports.
- getReportMetadataForReportType =
GET /ad_report_metadata/{report_type}
Retrieves metadata that details the fields returned in a specific Promoted Listings report.
- createReportTask =
POST /ad_report_task
Creates a report task, which generates a Promoted Listings report.
- deleteReportTask =
DELETE /ad_report_task/{report_task_id}
Deletes a Promoted Listings report task and any associated reports by ID.
- getReportTask =
GET /ad_report_task/{report_task_id}
Retrieves the details on a Promoted Listings report task by ID.
- getReportTasks =
GET /ad_report_task
Retrieves a detailed list of the seller's report tasks. You can filter and paginate the result set.
Version 1.1.0
The following sections detail the updates that have been made for this release.
New methods
This release added one new method:
- getListingSet =
GET /promotion/{promotion_id}/get_listing_set
This method returns a paginated result set of the listings associated with the specified promotion that was created with Promotions Manager.
Schema changes
The following changes were made to the schema:
Added new inventoryCriterion.ruleCriteria container
The inventoryCriterion.ruleCriteria container was added to the createItemPromotion, getItemPromotion, and updateItemPromotion calls. This enables sellers to select the listings to include in the promotions created with Promotions Manager by using a set of rules such as a list of eBay or seller's Store category IDs, items constrained by minimum and maximum prices, and the item brand or condition. You can explicitly exclude up to 100 eBay listing IDs or seller inventory reference IDs (also known as an SKU or custom label). Also, a single promotion can have multiple rules.
Documentation changes and errata
More examples were added to the Configuring discounts for threshold promotions topic.
Version 1.0.0
This is the initial release of the Marketing API, Version 1.
For a list of resources and methods, see the Marketing API Reference.


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- Ruby Red Slippers said...
That is too funny-Our kids would eat salsa with a spoon at a certain restruant...they thought evryone ate it that way for the longest time!
- March 17, 2009 at 8:41 AM
- Unknown said...
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- March 17, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Nicole said...
You're kids are adorable too! I'm going to check out your blog now!
What Bible Studies are you doing? I am wanting to start one up with my girlfriends and am looking for a good one that will catch their attention!
- March 17, 2009 at 9:02 AM
- Joanna said...
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- March 17, 2009 at 11:14 AM
- Jen @ tatertotsandjello.com said...
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- March 17, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Katie said...
too funny! Your children sound totally adorable. And you must have good taste when it comes to eating out - Chipotle sounds totally yummy especially since it is lunch time :)
- March 17, 2009 at 12:07 PM
- Heidi Boos said...
That's super cute! It sounds like something my daughter would be really observant about. We don't have a Chipotle close by, but we do have Baja Fresh that is a family favorite. Whenever we get close (even if we're not going to eat there), my daughter shouts out, "Ha Ha Fresh!"
Happy Tuesday to you!
- March 17, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Wendy said...
I have never been to Chipotle, in fact, I have never heard of Chipotle. Sounds like I'm missing out.
The color I used in my bathroom is Latte from Sherwin Williams. Thanks for stopping by.
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- March 17, 2009 at 2:22 PM
- Laurel @ Ducks in a Row said...
Oh, funny. I love Chipotle!
- March 17, 2009 at 3:55 PM
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TOTALLY funny! :) Did you guys get your burrito bag in last weeks paper? Andy already used ours... nothing like a free burrito :)! YUM!
- March 17, 2009 at 4:15 PM
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That's hilarious!!
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How funny is that! Let's just say that the kid has a great memory. Thanks again for entering the giveaway. Hope you have a great Tuesday!
- March 17, 2009 at 10:24 PM
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That made me laugh out loud. Most homes in America could sound the exact same way!
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Two of the world's greatest givers, Christ Jesus and one who reverently followed him, Mary Baker Eddy, show us through their words and works how to be active participants in the healing work of brotherly love, charitable kindness, generous spirit, and spiritual witnessing. We could say that, instead of keeping to themselves all the spiritual good they loved and lived, they gave of their "heart's rich overflow" (Minny M. H. Ayers, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 139)—Jesus, the Master Christian and Way-shower, demonstrating for all mankind the healing truth of being; and Mrs. Eddy, obeying his command that we heal and, in so doing, discovering the Science of what he taught and practiced.
Jesus applied his clear comprehension of the allness and everywhereness of God's power and presence to each human scene that testified otherwise.
Jesus was the most consummate giver of all time. Look what he gave! For instance, to a woman taken in adultery he gave nonjudgmental compassion and spiritual regeneration, cutting through the public condemnation, restoring her dignity, and seeing her spiritual worth and integrity (see John 8:3–11). We read in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick" (pp. 476–477). This observation is a master class to us as we open our thought to live for others.
Jesus acknowledged the perfect, spiritual selfhood of everyone he met, whether he was gathered with sinners or encountering someone with a longtime affliction or who appeared to have died. He applied his clear comprehension of the allness and everywhereness of God's power and presence to each human scene that testified otherwise. He met each challenging discordant picture with love and healing compassion, unimpressed by the carnal mind's claims of severity, longevity, or incurability.
The result was healing that was immediate, complete, unconditional, final. And his example shows us that we too can demonstrate such healing. Christ Jesus was, without a doubt, the ultimate giver.
Mary Baker Eddy, walking in the path pointed out by the Master, discovered and gave to the world the Science of the healing Christ, "with signs following" (Mark 16:20). She labored to discern and explain to others the inspired message of the Holy Bible, and recorded it in Science and Health for all to study, practice, and apply—enabling us to demonstrate the profound Science of healing seen in Jesus' life and healing works. She taught many students and nurtured their healing work, changing and redeeming lives and restoring health.
Mrs. Eddy's résumé of healing work includes cases of all kinds of bodily illness and human suffering, many of which were diagnosed as incurable. Her exceptional tenderness and love for children brought remarkable healings, such as the one of a seven-year-old boy with club feet. She came upon this child, who had never walked, while he was waiting for his mother to return from an errand. When the mother came back, "she was stunned to find him walking hand in hand with a stranger. The mother and the strange woman [Mrs. Eddy, then Mrs. Patterson] looked in each other's eyes, then both of them wept and joined in thanks to God" (Robert Peel, Mary Baker Eddy: The Years of Discovery, p. 201; most of the original account is available to read in Mary Baker Eddy: Christian Healer, Amplified Edition, pp. 67–68). Through her clear realization of the child's God-given, God-governed identity as His perfect child, reflecting the divine substance of Spirit, Mrs. Eddy gave to the woman a wholly restored son, and to the child complete healing and the opportunity for a productive, happy life. And to the world, she gave Christian Science.
Jesus taught that to inherit eternal life, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself" (Luke 10:27). He then shared a parable illustrating how to put this into practice, expressing tender regard and healing compassion even to strangers in our experience. Importantly, he ends the account with a command: "Go, and do thou likewise" (Luke 10:37). Mrs. Eddy and those who first followed her teachings lived this directive, and we too have the privilege, duty, and ability to obey this command and give of our "heart's rich overflow."
Several years ago I had an opportunity to do this in an important way. A man in the prison system with whom I visited and exchanged letters discussing Christian Science was taken to a hospital for examination and evaluation. Evidently he had a gunshot wound from someone who had attempted to rob him prior to his incarceration. The injury had never healed, but up to that time it had not caused a problem.
Now, however, the collarbone was infected, and the man had lost a great deal of weight. The doctors felt the infection would spread and determined that significant surgery was needed.
I shared with this man the written account of Joseph Mann, an early student of Christian Science, who had been accidentally shot, the bullet lodging near his heart. Mann had received fatal predictions from four physicians, but "Christian Science awakened [him] to a new sense of life which brought with it an almost instantaneous restoration to health" (We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Expanded Edition, Volume II, p. 160).
We have the privilege, duty, and ability to obey Jesus' command, "Go, and do thou likewise."
I also shared a copy of a testimony in which the testifier was healed of a shoulder difficulty when she realized nothing could prevent her from reflecting God and being His perfect image and likeness (Jane M. Brueckner, "All things are possible," Journal, February 2006). Her testimony, and another she referred to, struck me as convincing proof of the power of Truth to expel anything foreign to man's innate purity as a child of God.
I cherished these clear accounts of the power of the healing Christ to break through the dream of human suffering and establish man's health. These lines from a much-loved hymn played over and over in my thought: "The Christ is here, all dreams of error breaking, / Unloosing bonds of all captivity" (Rosa M. Turner, Christian Science Hymnal, No. 202, © CSBD).
I prayed to keep my thought free of the discordant, material picture. Mrs. Eddy writes, "A spiritual idea has not a single element of error, and this truth removes properly whatever is offensive" (Science and Health, p. 463). I affirmed man's spiritual purity and perfection, knowing that whatever is not in the original and only source, God, cannot be in the reflection, man.
The next time I visited this person, I noticed the weight had been regained, and he looked healthy. He told me that shortly after I'd shared the accounts of healing with him, the fragments of the bullet had been naturally expelled. The infection was completely gone, and the opening in the flesh closed; the body was fully restored to normalcy, without the surgery the doctors had felt would be needed.
We all have countless opportunities to give spiritually through love and healing, to behold all those we meet as the expression of the majesty of the one grand creator, God. These experiences, awaiting each of us, enable us to experience the spiritual thrill of giving of the "heart's rich overflow."
The starting point is a heart overflowing with a deep, spiritual love for God and all that is real and true, good and pure; and gratitude for all we have learned and demonstrated in Christian Science through our love for God and the healing Christ. This spiritual understanding and heartfelt love equips all of us to bless and heal our fellow man.
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Noun - Characters, enemies and even ships are described by their level. This refers to their overall strength, both attack and defense. Pirates are ranked by their Notoriety level or earned experience points. Also, skills are listed by achieved level of proficiency.
In the game, the highest notoriety level you can reach is 50, and for skills is 30. Currently the maximum level for Potions and Fishing is 20.
- Ex. - "That Dragoon is a level 29, and my pirate is only level 20 - so I better try to avoid him."
Verb - The act of increasing a skill or Notoriety level, usually through continued practice of it (ex. Fighting enemies with a Cutlass to 'level' the weapon and increase the level of the Cutlass skill.)
- Ex. - "I went to Kingshead to 'level' my grenades."
Game Notes
The higher level your pirate is, the stronger your attacks, strength, and defense will become. Also, the higher level you become, the more health and voodoo you will have obtained. Another benefit of leveling up is that your accuracy increases. As you level, you will see less and less of that dreaded word, "Miss".


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Species group: Other Softbills
Other common names: Groove-billed Barbet; Barbican à poitrine rouge; Barbudo Pechirrojo; Furchenschnabel-Bartvogel
Scientific name: Lybius dubius
The basics:
Because of their rarity in aviculture and the expensive care required, the Bearded Barbet is recommended to the well-heeled expert who has experience with other aviary birds. As a species that has been regularly bred in captivity, the Bearded Barbet has sometimes been suggested as a first barbet.
The barbets in general are an exotic-looking group of tropical birds related to the woodpeckers, and, like their relatives, they are able to excavate their own holes to create their own cavity nests. However, the Bearded Barbet's bill isn't as adapted to drilling as a true woodpecker's bill, and it does look for an easy job, either excavating into the rotten wood of a dead tree or even stealing a cavity that a woodpecker has already started. The Bearded Barbet is a common, confident species that can use gardens and orchards as well as natural forests. They originate from a rather wide area of western and central Africa.
The splendid Bearded Barbet is a large, impressive scarlet and black barbet that offers a fierce, primitive look. The light yellow bill is heavy and grooved, with a thick tuft of bristles – the so-called "beard" -- at the base. To make sure you have a true pair, check the flanks under the wings. The females have small black spots on the white patch you find there, and the males do not.
80 - 108 grams (2.8 - 3.8 oz.)
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Hand-fed Bearded Barbets are adorable, but before you allow your bird to become a shoulder pet, you should consider that the large, powerful bill is capable of inflicting a serious bite. You are advised to play with your pet every day to keep it tame and friendly, and if you teach it to ride on your hand or a perch, you can keep a better eye on its behavior.
Bearded Barbet breeding pairs are deceptively strong for a bird of their size. They need their own quarters, where they will not be tempted to attack your other birds. There is a report from a breeder who succeeded in providing three females to a single male, and this quartet successfully raised a youngster, but you need to be very alert and watchful if you want to try this technique.
A single pet Bearded Barbet needs a generous, easily cleaned cage. They aren't particularly powerful fliers, and they will enjoy hopping about, so place the perches to allow them to enjoy this activity. They love to bathe after eating, and a shallow pan of clean water should be available for that purpose.
A pair of Bearded Barbets should enjoy its own spacious, heavily planted quarters, complete with a nestlog that they can customize to their own satisfaction. They are tropical birds who will require a source of warmth in winter. They are aggressive, and it is usually considered unwise to ask a breeding pair to share with anyone else, because their powerful beak gives them the ability to inflict a killing wound on a bird that can't escape their territory.
The Bearded Barbet follows a pattern seen among many softbilled birds. Although mostly frugivorous as an adult, it will feed insect food to bring up its youngsters. However, the fruit taken in the wild tends to be a very rich, calorie dense wild fig, so they cannot be maintained on a diet of chopped fruit alone, since most available fruits are too high in water relative to their wild diet. Breeders have succeeded with a diet that includes a chopped fruit salad, a low iron softbill pellet, and some addition of live insects, especially during the breeding season. When making the chopped salad, be sure to include plenty of soaked raisins, figs, and similar nutrient-dense fruits, in addition to standards like apple, pear, banana, grape, cherry, and so on.
Don't try to take any shortcuts with the pellets. You should not substitute pellets designed for parrots, much less dog biscuits. Bearded Barbets are considered to be at risk for iron storage disease, so they should be offered only a high quality, well-regarded low iron pellet intended specifically for at risk softbills. For the same reason, since citric acid helps the body store iron, you should probably avoid using any citrus fruits, pineapples, or tomatoes in the fruit salad.
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We got a Bearded into our sanctuary once when a bird hoarders house was seized. I was not familiar with this breed until then. I called this bird "Crazy Eyes" because Beardeds always look like they have the craziest looks in their eyes, its so goofy! Combined with their "beards" they are truly silly to look at. They are related to Toucans and primarily wild and hard to tame. Our Bearded was relatively friendly but you could tell it was very "on edge" and anxious a lot, which isnt good for such a wild bird because you never know how they will react. I have heard stories of other people not having good luck taming a Bearded into being truly domesticated, but I think they still make a very interesting bird for a collector or someone with a lot of time to work with the bird, becuase they def. have potential. They usually only get aggressive around sexual maturity, so raising them from babies helps a lot. very interesting bird, though! Very funny to look at, too. :).
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I have written before that it feels important to me to keep remembrances of those who have danced into the light, so I created a list and post it here at my blog regularly. It feels like a way to visit and think about someone whom we have lost from time to time so that we can keep them close to us after they have danced into the light.
It also seems important to me to keep a list of the blogs that some of our metsters have left and their families have allowed to continue. You will find the blog links in the list of those who danced into the light as well. Someone asked me why someone's family would want to keep a blog up even after someone passed. I answered that it was like a photograph that you keep and enjoy far beyond the time of the event that rekindles the memories you had of a person. A blog does the same for me. I visit the blogs of those who are dancing with angels because it gives me the opportunity to feel a kind of closeness, different from before but still viable, with that person and helps me to relive a moment that made us laugh or cry at the time.
In honor of my metsters who have danced into the light I will continue to keep their memory alive here and hope you will visit from time to time to honor them.
To Eileen, Ellen, Suzanne, Kathleen and all the others whose contributions to our lives made such an impact. We love all of you.
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8:05pm: Roman Josi and Kevin Fiala will both also be journeying to Denmark to play for Switzerland, raising the total to seven Predators who will be in the tournament. The huge contingent of players just reiterates how talented the Nashville roster is, especially with others likely turning down offers.
4:15pm: After facing elimination at the hands of the Winnipeg Jets last night, several Nashville Predators players will be heading to the IIHF World Hockey Championship. We learned earlier today that Eeli Tolvanen would continue his whirlwind season with Team Finland, while Nick Bonino will join Team USA. Chris Johnston of Sportsnet also reports that Viktor Arvidsson, Mattias Ekholm and Filip Forsberg will all join Sweden.
All four new additions will be huge for their respective countries, as the tournament heads towards the elimination rounds next week.
Bonino hasn't represented the USA at the tournament since 2015 when he was still with the Vancouver Canucks. That year, he registered four points in 10 games en route to a bronze medal. He'll join a team that just crushed Korea 13-1 to win their fifth-straight game to open the tournament. That's a feat the team hasn't accomplished since 1933, and one that bodes well for their chances in the medal round.
Ekholm and Forsberg have both appeared in the tournament on multiple occasions, but this will be Arvidsson's first time around. The 25-year old winger last represented Sweden at a major international tournament in 2013, when he helped their World Junior squad to a silver medal. All three should increase Sweden's odds of a medal tremendously, as three All-Star level talents from the NHL.


text: The original Jersey Shore gang is back together again, and though they've been apart for several years, their common interests have brought them back together again — namely, drinking copious amounts of alcohol. Sure, they might now have kids, or kids-on-the-way, but that doesn't mean they can't fist pump their way through adulthood, or at least through a season of an MTV reality series. The crew has ditched the beaches of the Garden State for Miami, but not much else has changed. Snooki promises, "As we age we just get more delinquency." Words to inspire you as you gym, tan, and do laundry in the days leading up to the April 5 premiere.


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Moon phase on 26 January 2089 Wednesday is Full Moon, 15 days old Moon is in Leo.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Full Moon is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 100%. The 15 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
* The exact date and time of this Full Moon phase is on 26 January 2089 at 11:25 UTC.
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Moon rises at sunset and sets at sunrise. It is visible all night and it is high in the sky around midnight.
Moon is passing about ∠8° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 1% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1967" and ∠1948".
The Full Moon this days is the Wolf of January 2089.
There is high Full Moon ocean tide on this date. Combined Sun and Moon gravitational tidal force working on Earth is strong, because of the Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy alignment.
The Moon is 15 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the middle part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1101 of Meeus index or 2054 from Brown series.
Length of current 1101 lunation is 29 days, 18 hours and 58 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. It is 1 hour and 50 minutes longer than next lunation 1102 length.
Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 14 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 49 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠185.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠211.9°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
1 day after point of perigee on 25 January 2089 at 19:36 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 11 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 7 February 2089 at 10:18 in ♑ Capricorn.
Moon is 364 395 km (226 425 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves farther next 11 days until apogee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 406 252 km (252 433 mi).
7 days after its descending node on 19 January 2089 at 04:30 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next 5 days, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 31 January 2089 at 14:33 in ♎ Libra.
21 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♎ Libra, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
2 days after previous North standstill on 23 January 2089 at 16:28 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.817°. Next 10 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.740° in the next southern standstill on 5 February 2089 at 19:19 in ♐ Sagittarius.
The Moon is in Full Moon geocentric opposition with the Sun on this date and this alignment forms Sun-Earth-Moon syzygy.


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Arcade Contemporary Art Projects: Saturday, 3 February 2018
The exhibit runs Feb. 3-28 at the Arcade Gallery
"Daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, photographs and electrotypes, good and bad, now adorn or disfigure all our dwelling... Men of all conditions may see themselves as others see them. What was once the exclusive luxury of the rich and great is now within reach of all."
-Frederick Douglass, Pictures and Progress, 1864
The Arcade Contemporary Art Projects Gallery at Webster University's Gateway Campus hosts a collection of work featuring student artists in the Department of Art, Design & Art History. Adorn or Disfigure showcases a collection of work that is an extension of the artists' exploration of contrast, perception, and self-representation within their own practice.
Featured Webster University student artists in the Department of Art, Design & Art History (DADAH) of the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts are Brennan Stamulis, Niki Harris, Aleida Ruelas Hertel, David Pulphus, Alex Williford, Katie Dineen, Andrew Gurney, Moira Smith, Krista Valdez, Quinton Ward, Nathan Walton.
Adorn or Disfigure is a group exhibition rooted in and inspired by the words of African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman Frederick Douglass, especially within the greater context of its meaning in the book or essays, lectures and photographs, "Pictures and Progress: Early Photography and the Making of African American Identity," by editors Maurice O. Wallace and Shawn Michelle Smith.
"Pictures and Progress explores how, during the nineteenth century and the early twentieth, prominent African American intellectuals and activists understood photography's power to shape perceptions about race and employed the new medium in their quest for social and political justice. They sought both to counter widely circulating racist imagery and to use self-representation as a means of empowerment."


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Return to the peaks: After disasters, Nepal hopes to bring back climbers
After two consecutive years of natural disasters, the Everest avalanche of 2014 and the earthquake of 2015, Nepal hopes to bring back foreign climbers.world Updated: May 01, 2016 11:32 IST
Time heals. And when it doesn't, at least it dulls the first shock of a tragedy and gives one some semblance of recovery.
So a gathering to commemorate possibly the worst disaster in the history of a community, may, to a casual onlooker, assume the appearance of a celebration. At Kathmandu's Durbar Square on Sunday, April 24, Nepalese youngsters, dressed in their best, walked about arm-in-arm, laughed and chatted and clicked selfies on their smart phones. Seen from a distance, through the big glass windows of the Himalayan Java Coffee, a popular café chain in Nepal, it could have looked like a festive gathering. Only the ruins of Durbar Square, the pamphlets motivating people to rebuild their heritage, the thousands of candles lit in memory of those who lost their lives and the presence of the international media were reminders of the fact that it was the one-year anniversary of the earthquake that shook Nepal on April 25, 2015, causing damage to both life and property.
And cutting off one of Nepal's most important sources of livelihood – tourism – for the next few months. "Nepal politics has been in the doldrums for many years. Those in the government don't care about the common people. But as long as we had a flourishing tourism, we weren't hit by the political upheavals," says a taxi driver in Kathmandu, who says his business dropped by 60% after the earthquake and is yet to revive completely.
Fall from high
For those in the niche business of mountain tourism, the 2015 earthquake was the second blow in two consecutive years. On April 18, 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu icefall at the Everest killed 16 Sherpas. As the Nepal Tourism Board website says, "It was mountaineering that first opened Nepal to the outside world." Of the world's fourteen highest peaks – those above 8000 metres in height – eight are in Nepal. "After the 2014 avalanche only expeditions to the Everest were cancelled. But the 2015 earthquake impacted all mountaineering expeditions and treks," says Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of Nepal Mountaineering Association. Among the first pupils to have studied at the school built by Sir Edmund Hillary in the Khumbu region of Nepal, Ang Tshering gave up professional climbing in the 1980s and owns the Asian Trekking company in Kathmandu. "We have two kinds of expeditions – mountaineering and trekking. While mountaineering requires more technical skill, treks are of shorter duration," he explains.
Read | One year of Nepal earthquake
He estimates a 95% drop in the number of foreign climbers coming to Nepal in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, in May last year. "We have two climbing seasons, spring and autumn. There was a 55% drop in the number of mountaineers and 68% drop in the numbers of trekkers last autumn. For the 2016 spring season we have seen an 87% return in the number of mountaineers. It is difficult to estimate the trend in the trekking crowd at present," he says.
Ready for the risk?
Phurba Namgyal Sherpa, general secretary of the Nepal National Mountain Guide Association, feels that the impact of the natural disaster has been less on mountaineers than on trekkers, because "mountaineering has an inherent element of risk, which serious climbers are willing to face."
He was at the Everest Base Camp at the time of the 2014 avalanche. "It was around 5.30am. I was in my tent, when I heard a loud sound. But since ice fall is so common there, I didn't think it was serious. Then another guide came and told me there had been an avalanche and people were trapped or injured and needed to be rescued. In ten minutes I was dressed and out of the tent," he recalls.
Dr Nima Namgyal Sherpa, a high altitude doctor, who was also at Everest on April 18, 2014 has similar memories. "After the avalanche of 2014, there was another avalanche last year triggered by the earthquake. I see fewer tents in that area this year." There are exceptions. Tony Fairbrother, from UK, was on his seventh visit to Nepal last week. "I was at Durbar Square on the day of the earthquake. I was nervous about coming this year but I also wanted to be here," says Fairbrother, who went on an expedition before returning to Kathmandu to spend April 25 in the city.
But the lure of the mountains is not enough to make everyone overcome their apprehensions. The Sherpas, the generic term used for guides and other support staff who form the backbone of the mountaineering industry in Nepal, have not been untouched by a sense of foreboding either. "I have heard many Sherpas this year say that they will go north (towards Tibet), but not the south side (the areas impacted by the earthquake). Families are also scared to let them go," says Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, one of the few women guides in the area.
Living close to nature has given the Sherpas an uncanny ability to sense danger. "On April 25, before the earthquake, I was with a group of clients. I remember watching a lizard and squirrel moving about agitatedly and thinking that something was wrong," says 54-year-old guide Agasta Bahadur Mukhiya.
Feeling the Pinch
When they are able to go on an expedition, the money earned by the Sherpas is good. According to some estimates, a guide can earn up to $5,000 a year compared with Nepal's average annual salary of $700. And this is what has lured generations to risk their lives on the climb. But with expeditions cancelled and tourists staying away last year, most felt the pinch.
"I had rented a house in Kathmandu because all the expedition operators are here. I had to pay a monthly rent of $ 75. My house in the village was damaged and is yet to be repaired. I had been booked for trips, but when they were cancelled I didn't get any money," says Anjan Rana, a trekking guide.
Of course, the Sherpas were not the only ones to have suffered. Shops selling mountaineering gear to tourists complain of poor sales. "There is 40% less business this year," says Dhruba Raj Bhattarai, of Manakamana Export Traders. According to Sarad Pradhan, media consultant of the Nepal Tourism Board, the total drop in tourism in 2015 as compared to 2014 was 31%. "Countries like China issued a blanket advisory against travelling to Nepal even though only 14 out of 75 districts were affected. We are requesting foreign tourists in Nepal to use the hashtag # IAmInNepal now, when they use the social media, to attract others to come," says Pradhan.
Read | What has changed in a year
But disgruntled Nepalese – about one million of whom are directly or indirectly associated with tourism – are unimpressed by the efforts of the government. At Durbar Square, a shopkeeper selling artwork complains, "The government hiked entry fee to Durbar Square from Rs 100 to Rs 150 for those from SAARC countries and from Rs 500 to Rs 1000 for others to raise funds for repair. But nothing has been done yet."
Engaged in the business of rebuilding their lives, few complain about the actual disaster. At a hotel in Thamel, Kathmandu's busy tourist district, a hotel manager struggles to lock the window in one room. "The locks have stopped working since the earthquake," he says with a smile, pointing to the cracks in the bathtub in the room – another reminder of that day. He also talks of water and power scarcity – power cuts of up to ten hours a day are common in Kathmandu and many of Nepal's water sources were impacted by the earthquake, he says. Like the youngsters at the memorial meet in Durbar Square perhaps, his refusal to feel sorry for himself is not born out of lack of grief, but a determination to put the tragedy behind him and reclaim his life.
Read | No homes for earthquake victims
Climbing Sherpas of Nepal
It's the most common title that fills the rank and file of the mountaineering industry in Nepal. From tour operators sitting in the comfort of their Kathmandu offices, to guides risking life and limb on mountains, the Sherpas of Nepal are synonymous with climbing. "Now their ranks are joined by people from other groups, and those Nepali people who earn a living from working in the mountains are also now generally accepted as being Sherpas," explains the website of the Nepal Tourism Board. But many from other tribes feel the Sherpas resent this loss of monopoly. In the minds of the locals there is a clear line between the Sherpa clan and the Sherpa profession. Many from other ethnic groups do not like being called Sherpas.
Even within professional Sherpas there are hierarchies. Most start as porters, cooks and odd job staff, before graduating to becoming guides. "Among guides too there is a demarcation – those with international licenses and others," says Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, one of the few women guides.
"The main guide, or the leader, can earn $60-70 a day while on an expedition. Others earn much less, about $15-20 dollars a day." Not that the international license is a safeguard against every hazard. Take gender discrimination for example. Though an international license holder with experience of working abroad, Lhamu says she is yet to act as a guide on an Everest expedition. "People prefer men." she says simply. Lhamu rues the absence of a uniform government scale for pay and qualifications of a Sherpa. In its absence, it is left to the expedition operating company to decide payment and other benefits.
In pictures | Then and now: Nepal, a year after the devastating earthquake
In 2014, after the Everest avalanche, Sherpas went on a strike to demand more insurance. The government gave in and increased the life insurance cover from $10000 to $15000. The medical insurance cover was increased from $3000 to $4000. None of it is paid by the government, but by operators, or rather by the tourists who pay for the expeditions. "There is no mandatory scheme to support a Sherpa after his retirement, or to take care of his family in case something happens to him while on an expedition. Some companies have such schemes, others don't," says Damber Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators Association – Nepal.
Written contracts are not always entered into. Speaking of the hardships of the last year, Phurba Sherpa says, "Licensed guides fared better because they had a contract with their employers which ensured that they got paid once they were signed for an expedition, even if the trip was abandoned. Non-licensed guides often don't have such contracts and many of them didn't get paid." It is only fair for the guides to have been paid, because as Parajuli explains, "Once the bookings have been made, the client has to give the tour operators the money because we need to pay the royalty for the trip and also invest in food and lodging. If after that an expedition is abandoned because of natural conditions we don't have to pay them back."


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