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In the late 20th century, Soviet science verified that repetition kettlebell lifting is one of the best tools for all around physical development.
A study observed two groups of college students over a period of a few years:
A standard battery of armed forces physical training tests was used which included the following: pullups, a standing broad jump, a 100 meter sprint, and a 1 k run. The control group followed the typical university physical fitness training program which was military oriented and emphasized the listed exercises. The experimental group just lifted kettlebells. No other training of any kind.
In spite of the lack of practice on the tested drills listed above, the kettlebell training group showed better scores in every one of them.
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Company Ends Year with Cash and Investments of $81.4 Million
RICHMOND, Calif., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: SGMO) today reported 2007 fourth quarter and year-end financial results and accomplishments and provided an outlook for 2008.
For the fourth quarter ended December 31, 2007, Sangamo reported a consolidated net loss of $6.7 million, or $0.17 per share, compared to a net loss of $8.9 million, or $0.26 per share, for the same period in 2006. As of December 31, 2007, the company had cash, cash equivalents and investments of $81.4 million.
Revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $2.8 million, compared to $2.2 million for the same period in 2006. Fourth quarter 2007 revenues were primarily from Sangamo's agreements with Dow AgroSciences (DAS), Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, research grants and enabling technology agreements in protein production.
Research and development expenses were $7.9 million for the 2007 quarter, compared to $10.1 million for the same period in 2006 which included the one-time costs of Sangamo's acquisition of Edwards Lifesciences' ZFP Therapeutic(TM) angiogenesis program, a transaction valued at $5.8 million of common stock. Excluding the one-time 2006 charge, the increase in research and development expenses for the fourth quarter of 2007 of $3.6 million was primarily due to advancing the Company's clinical development program in diabetic neuropathy and pre-IND programs to develop ZFP Therapeutics for the treatment of HIV/AIDS and glioblastoma, as well as increased R&D personnel costs and lab supply expenses. General and administrative expenses were $2.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2007, compared to $1.9 million for the same period in 2006. Total operating expenses for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $10.4 million, compared to $12.0 million for the same period in 2006.
Net interest and other income was $935,000 for the fourth quarter of 2007, compared to $858,000 for the same period in 2006, primarily due to higher average cash and investment balances.
Full Year Results
For the year ended December 31, 2007, the consolidated net loss was
$21.5 million, or $0.58 per share, compared to a net loss of $17.9 million,
or $0.55 per share, for the year ended December 31, 2006. Revenues were
$9.1 million for 2007, compared to $7.9 million in 2006. Total operating
expenses were $33.9 million in 2007 and $28.6 million in 2006. Operating
expenses in 2006 included the acquisition of the Edwards Lifesciences' ZFP
Therapeutic angiogenesis program, a one-time cost for Sangamo of $5.8
million. The increase in operating expenses for 2007 was primarily
associated with Sangamo's clinical development program in diabetic
neuropathy and pre-IND programs to develop ZFP Therapeutics for the
treatment of HIV/AIDS and glioblastoma, as well as increased R & D
personnel costs and lab supply expenses.
2007 Highlights
-- Presentation of first clinical data from Phase 1b study of SB-509 in
subjects with diabetic neuropathy (DN). Data from the Phase 1b
clinical trial were presented at the American Diabetes Association
Meeting in June and the Society for Neuroscience Meeting in November.
The data demonstrate statistically significant improvement in
quantitative sensory testing and clinically relevant trends toward
improvement in nerve conduction velocity in subjects with mild to
moderate diabetic neuropathy over a six month period after a single
administration of SB-509. SB-509 is an injectable formulation of
plasmid DNA that encodes a zinc finger DNA-binding protein
transcription factor (ZFP TF(TM)), designed to upregulate the vascular
endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) gene.
-- Initiation of additional Phase 2 clinical trials of SB-509 in moderate
to severe DN (SB-509-701) and stem cell mobilization (SB-509-703). In
April, Sangamo announced the initiation of a randomized, single-blind,
placebo-controlled, repeat-dosing Phase 2 study designed to evaluate
the clinical safety and effects of repeat administration of SB-509 in
subjects that have moderate to severe DN (SB-509-701). In January
2008, Sangamo announced that it had initiated a randomized,
single-blind, placebo-controlled, multi-center Phase 2 clinical trial
(SB-509-703) in subjects with mild to moderate DN designed to evaluate
the pharmacokinetics of stem cell mobilization into the bloodstream
after treatment with varying doses of SB-509 as well as the clinical
safety and clinical effects of SB-509 administration.
-- Completion of enrollment of Phase 2 clinical trial of SB-509 for mild
to moderate DN (SB-509-601). In December, Sangamo announced that
enrollment was complete in a randomized, double-blind, repeat-dosing,
placebo-controlled, multi-center trial to evaluate SB-509 for the
treatment of mild to moderate DN. The company expects to have data
from this trial in the second half of 2008.
-- Establishment of major alliance with Sigma-Aldrich Corporation. In
July, as part of an agreement to develop and commercialize high value
laboratory research reagents based upon Sangamo's ZFP technology,
Sangamo received an upfront payment of $13.5 million which included
license fees and the purchase of one million shares of Sangamo stock.
Sangamo is also eligible to receive research funding, development and
commercial milestone payments of up to $24 million and sublicense
payments and royalties on product sales.
-- Achievement of multiple milestones in Dow AgroSciences collaboration.
As part of their joint Research and Commercial License Agreement the
companies achieved milestones that represent the successful
application of Sangamo's ZFP technology to the generation of specific
traits in two major crop species -- maize and canola.
-- Sangamo closed a registered direct offering to institutional
investors. In July, Sangamo sold an aggregate of 3,278,689 shares of
common stock to a group of institutional investors in a registered
direct offering, resulting in gross proceeds to the company of
approximately $30 million before fees and expenses.
-- Appointment of H. Ward Wolff as Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer (CFO). In December 2007, Mr. Wolff joined
Sangamo's senior management team after serving on the Board of
Directors of the Company since June 2006. In this newly created
position, Mr. Wolff oversees the company's administrative, financial
and business development activities and operations.
-- Sangamo hosted an Investor and Analyst Briefing. On December 5,
Sangamo provided an update on its achievements in 2007, its
therapeutic programs, progress in its collaboration with Dow
AgroSciences and its objectives for 2008 during its annual Investor
and Analyst Briefing held in New York. The event was webcast and the
replay is available on Sangamo's website at
2008 Objectives
In today's conference call members of Sangamo's management team will
discuss the company's plans and objectives for 2008 that include:
Therapeutic Programs
-- Present additional data from the completed Phase 1b study designed to
evaluate the effect of a single administration of SB-509 in subjects
with mild to moderate DN.
-- Complete follow-up and presentation of data in the second half of the
year from a Phase 2 study (SB-509-601) to evaluate the effects of
SB-509 in subjects with mild to moderate DN.
-- Complete accrual, follow-up and presentation of data from a Phase 2
study (SB-509-701) to evaluate SB-509 in subjects with moderate to
severe DN.
-- Complete accrual and treatment in the recently initiated Phase 2
pharmacokinetic trial (SB-509-703) to evaluate the effect of SB-509 on
stem cell mobilization
-- Initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial to evaluate SB-509 for the treatment
of ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, also known as "Lou Gehrig's
-- Advance ZFP Therapeutic pipeline by initiating Phase 1 clinical trials
of ZFP Therapeutics for glioblastoma and HIV / CCR5.
-- Present preclinical data in spinal cord injury, stroke, neuropathic
pain and ZFN(TM)-mediated gene modification.
Business -- Strategic Collaborations & Enabling Technology Agreements
-- Pursue strategic partnering in ZFP Therapeutics.
-- Achieve additional research milestones in Dow AgroSciences
collaboration in plant agriculture.
-- Increase visibility and value of ZFNs by developing commercial
research reagents in collaboration with Sigma-Aldrich.
-- Establish new commercial license agreements using ZFNs to improve
cell-lines used in protein production and other biological
Financials and Operations
-- Maintain year-end 2008 cash and investments balance of at least $55.0
Conference Call
Sangamo will host a conference call today at 5:00 p.m. ET, which will be open to the public. The call will also be webcast live and can be accessed via a link on the Sangamo BioSciences website in the Investor Relations section under "Events and Presentations" http://investor.sangamo.com/events.cfm. The webcast replay will also be available for two weeks after the call. During the conference call, the company will review these results, discuss other business matters, and provide forward-looking guidance with respect to 2008.
The conference call dial-in numbers are 877-545-1489 for domestic callers and 719-325-4844 for international callers. The passcode for the call is 4452025. For those unable to listen in at the designated time, a conference call replay will be available for one week following the conference call, from approximately 5:00 p.m. PT on February 5, 2008 to 11:59 p.m. PT on February 12, 2008. The conference call replay numbers for domestic and international callers are 888-203-1112 and 719-457-0820 respectively. The conference ID number for the replay is 4452025.
About Sangamo
Sangamo BioSciences, Inc. is focused on the research and development of novel DNA-binding proteins for therapeutic gene regulation and modification. The most advanced ZFP Therapeutic(TM) development program is currently in Phase 2 clinical trials for evaluation of safety and clinical effect in patients with diabetic neuropathy. Phase 1 clinical trials are ongoing to evaluate a ZFP Therapeutic for peripheral artery disease. Other therapeutic development programs are focused on stem cell mobilization, ALS, cancer, HIV/AIDS, neuropathic pain, nerve regeneration, Parkinson's disease and monogenic diseases. Sangamo's core competencies enable the engineering of a class of DNA-binding proteins known as zinc finger DNA-binding proteins (ZFPs). By engineering ZFPs that recognize a specific DNA sequence Sangamo has created ZFP transcription factors (ZFP TF(TM)) that can control gene expression and, consequently, cell function. Sangamo is also developing sequence-specific ZFP Nucleases (ZFN(TM)) for gene modification. Sangamo has established strategic partnerships with companies outside of the human therapeutic space including Dow AgroSciences, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation and several companies applying its ZFP Technology to enhance the production of protein pharmaceuticals. For more information about Sangamo, visit the company's web site at http://www.sangamo.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding
Sangamo's current expectations. These forward looking statements include,
without limitation, references to the research and development of ZFP TFs
and ZFNs, clinical trials and therapeutic applications of Sangamo's ZFP
technology platform, achievement of research milestones and objectives,
strategic partnership with collaborators and anticipated amount of cash and
cash equivalents. These statements are not guarantees of future performance
and are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are
difficult to predict. Factors that could cause actual results to differ
include, but are not limited to, the early stage of ZFP Therapeutic
development, uncertainties related to the timing of initiation and
completion of clinical trials, whether clinical trial results will validate
and support the safety and efficacy of ZFP Therapeutics, and the ability to
establish strategic partnerships. Further, there can be no assurance that
the necessary regulatory approvals will be obtained or that Sangamo will be
able to develop commercially viable gene based therapeutics. Actual results
may differ from those projected in forward-looking statements due to risks
and uncertainties that exist in the company's operations and business
environments. These risks and uncertainties are described more fully in the
company's' Annual Reports on Form 10-K and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q
as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking
statements contained in this announcement are made as of this date and will
not be updated. Contact
(in thousands, except per share data)
Three Months Ended Twelve Months Ended
December 31, December 31,
2007 2006 2007 2006
Consolidated Statement of
Operations Data:
Revenues $2,767 $2,193 $9,098 $7,885
Operating expenses:
Research and development 7,904 10,057 25,559 21,527
General and administrative 2,470 1,942 8,310 7,087
Total operating expenses 10,374 11,999 33,869 28,614
Loss from operations (7,607) (9,806) (24,771) (20,729)
Interest and other income, net 935 858 3,291 2,865
Net loss $(6,672) $(8,948) $(21,480) $(17,864)
Basic and diluted net loss per
common share $(0.17) $(0.26) $(0.58) $(0.55)
Shares used in computing basic and
diluted net loss per common share 40,226 34,098 37,355 32,502
December 31, December 31,
2007 2006
Cash, cash equivalents, and
investments 81,412 53,975
Total assets 83,900 55,780
Total stockholders' equity 72,122 48,705
|SOURCE Sangamo BioSciences, Inc.
Copyright©2008 PR Newswire.
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This is wonky, but it might be interesting for those who are trying to figure out how much revenue Facebook can generate over the next couple of years.
Facebook's revenue comes from two sources:
- Ads
- Payments
Ads comprise the majority of Facebook's revenue--82% in Q1.
But Payments revenue is growing much faster than Ads: 98% in Q1, versus only 37% for ads.
Analysts expect Payments revenue growth to keep charging along. A couple of early analyst models I've looked at project Payments growth of ~75% this year, which would nearly double the size of the business to $1 billion.
But that might be tough.
Here's why:
- Part of the strong growth of Payments revenue has come from the requirement that all of Facebook's games partners start using Facebook Payments on July 1 last year. That requirement presumably contributed to the rapid growth of Payments revenue over the last three quarters. It will soon anniversary.
- Payments revenue declined sequentially in Q1 after rising sharply in Q1 last year--so the decline wasn't the result of seasonality. This suggests that the organic growth drivers of Payments revenue may be flattening. See numbers below.
- Zynga accounts for almost all of Facebook's payments revenue, and Zynga's stock is cratering. Falling stock prices often indicate weakness in the business.
I played around with a rudimentary model (below) and came up with a 2012 Payments growth rate that is about half of that projected by the early Wall Street estimates that I looked at.
If Payments growth slows sharply, this won't clobber Facebook's growth for the year--the Payments revenue stream is still relatively small. But Ad growth is slowing rapidly, and 30% growth by the end of the year (as projected below) may end up being a stretch.
For context, when Facebook told its underwriter analysts to cut their estimates two weeks ago, just before the IPO, the new 2012 revenue estimate the company was aiming for was $4.8 billion. The model above puts the company just north of that, at $4.9 billion.
Here's a link to the spreadsheet, if you want to look at it in more detail.
It includes 4 sections:
- My aggressive 5-year earnings estimates
- My "likely" 5-year earnings estimates
- Wall Street's current estimates (provided by the company)
- Quarterly breakdown of revenue through 2012
SEE ALSO: Here's Why Morgan Stanley Is Blaming Me For The Facebook Selective Disclosure Scandal


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A full service salon and day spa servicing central Texas
The Cutting Edge Salon and Spa uses a level system to determine prices. The Levels will be determined by experience, knowledge, and demand on their time. Only the Salon Employees are part of this Level System. Booth Lease Stylists are Self Pay and make their own prices. We have been an Educating Salon for quite some time now. Our employees are hired into an Associate program working under a Master Stylist. This leads them to be Masters in this Field. As they come out of the program they start at entry Level and work up to become a Master Stylist and Educator, where they educate their own associate. All Levels will have their own set of prices and will increase by level.
All Chemical and Hair Extension prices are starting prices. Prices may go up depending on additional color used, length, and thickness of the hair.


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ActiveX opt-ins, information bar and cross-domain protection: Step 4
Trying to find out what's so special about IE7? Read up on the new security features present in IE7, and learn which of these features are user configurable.
One of the most powerful tools that malware authors have had at their disposal is an ActiveX control. At one time, malware authors commonly developed malicious ActiveX controls and tried to trick their victims into installing them. Today, security features built into IE and into third-party anti-malware software greatly reduced the practice of installing malicious ActiveX controls.
A lot of people don't realize that there are a number of ActiveX controls built into IE6. Although these built-in controls are not malicious in and of themselves, they are frequently used as components in malware attacks.
In Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft disabled almost all of the built in ActiveX controls by default. If a Web site needs to use a control, Microsoft notifies the user through the information bar and has the option of enabling the control.
ActiveX controls can also be manually enabled or disabled through the Add-on Manager, which is accessible through Internet Explorer's Tools menu. As you can see in Figure C, the Add-on Manager allows you to manually enable or disable ActiveX controls individually.
Figure C: Add-on Manager allows you to enable or disable ActiveX controls individually.
The Information Bar
The Information Bar in IE6 notifies the user when Internet Explorer has taken action against a possible security exploit. One change made to the information bar in IE7 is that it is now color-coded. For example, if IE7 is absolutely confident in a site's identity because the site is using a high-assurance certificate, then the information bar is presented in green. On the other hand, if a site is a known phishing site, then the information bar is presented in red.
Another minor, but security-oriented change to the IE user interface is that all browser windows now contain an address bar. This helps prevent malicious pop-up windows from appearing to be part of a legitimate Web site.
These forms of protection are built in to IE7 and are non-configurable.
Cross-domain protection
One last non-configurable, behind the scenes security feature that I want to talk about is cross-domain barriers. In order to prevent malicious code from taking advantage of holes in poorly coded legitimate Web sites, IE7 and its cross-domain protection feature prevents scripts on a Web site from interacting with sites located at other domains.
Configuring IE7 security on Vista
Home: Introduction
Step 1: General security configuration
Step 2: Phishing filter
Step 3: Protection against international domain names, URL handling
Step 4: ActiveX opt-ins, information bar and cross-domain protection
Step 5: Windows Vista and IE7
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Brien M. Posey, MCSE, MVP
Brien M. Posey, MCSE, is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for his work with Windows 2000 Server and IIS. He has served as CIO for a nationwide chain of hospitals and was once in charge of IT security for Fort Knox. As a freelance technical writer, he has written for Microsoft, TechTarget, CNET, ZDNet, MSD2D, Relevant Technologies and other technology companies. You can visit his personal Web site at www.brienposey.com. Copyright 2006 TechTarget


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So, where are *you* going next?
Posted 15 July 2005 - 09:48 PM
Cameron and I are going to Seattle (our 'other hometown') in October for a long weekend. Then in late December/early January, we're going to Thailand for 19 days on one of Kasma Loha-unchit's culinary tours. We've put off this trip for at least 3 years (it's been so long, we've actually forgotten when we originally said we'd go), so we're really looking forward to it. We also have a 3-night stopover in Tokyo on the way to Bangkok, which we're in the process of planning.
How 'bout you? What's in your "upcoming itineraries" folder?
Posted 15 July 2005 - 09:53 PM
Arthur Hugh Clough, 1819-1861
Arise ye prisoners of starvation
Arise ye wretched of the earth
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In October I will make my yearly visit to Colorado, to visit my best friend from college.
In December, Eyebrows and I are planning on going to Belize for a week to 10 days, I will do a lot of scuba diving and Eyebrows will dive for the first time!
February will bring us back to Switzerland, where I will go to ski school in Lenzerheide, plus we'll be in Zurich, and back to the Waldhaus in Sils Maria, and probably we'll visit our friends in Varese (northern Italy).
May will involve some kind of trip. I'm thinking either Madrid or Buenos Aires. Hard choice for me. I have close friends in Madrid, which is one factor. But my re-entry into the world of latin dance makes Argentina very appealing.
That's about as far as we go at this point.
There, that should give you folks plenty to focus on over there. Have a ball.
Posted 15 July 2005 - 10:43 PM
My old blog: http://newyorkandels...e.blogspot.com/
My new blog: http://newwalksinnew....wordpress.com/
Both defunct
Posted 15 July 2005 - 11:07 PM
Certified Nerd and Oh So Boring...
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Australia for the entire month of October! We've been planning this for 3 years: Melbourne, Adelaide, Kangaroo Island and Coober Pedy. There's a big food fest in Adelaide the last two weekends of October. I've signed us up for two seminars: Australian Olive Oil tasting and blending, and an Australian cheese class.
I'm cashing in the stock that I've held on to for sentimental reasons for 20 years to pay for it.
After having had two friends die last year without realizing their dreams, the "you can't take it with you" has hit home hard.
Donations are always gratefully accepted.
Posted 15 July 2005 - 11:31 PM
Stone, my brother went to Iceland and adored it. Among other things, the nightclubs never close.
Right now I am going to go have a BIG cocktail. Still at work on a Friday in July at 7:30. And a very annoying day in general.
The mistake one makes is to react to what people post rather than to what they mean.---Dr. Johnson
I want to be the girl with the most cake.
Posted 15 July 2005 - 11:35 PM
I just purchased our tickets today for New Orleans in September with another couple.
In November we will be traveling with friends to Willamette Valley, OR for our annual Pinot Noir wine tasting trip.
And we are in the midst of planning a trip to Paris and St Petersberg over Christmas/New Years.
Luggage Tag
Posted 15 July 2005 - 11:41 PM
Now looking forward to Long Boat Key, Fl- alot of time to be spent there in the near future
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Social Forestry
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Highest-ever sales of Fertilisers by NFL in 2019-2020
Sh. Nirlep Singh Rai has taken over as Director (Technical), NFL
Notice - Closure of Trading Window - 31.03.2020
Notice - Interim Dividend for the financial year 2019-2020 and intimation of record date
Notice - Closure of Trading Window - 28.02.2020
NFL support to Startup.
Sh. Manoj Mishra, C&MD, NFL has received Leadership Award IN 7TH Governance Now PSU Award on 19.02.2020.
Sh. Lalit M Pandey has joined as CVO, NFL
Reduction of MRP of Bentonite Sulphur in all the states
Brief of Interview of C&MD with News Channel
Notice of Board Meeting
Terms and condition of disposal of fly ash
Notice - Closure of Trading Window - 24.12.2019
NFL has completed a cervical cancer screening and awareness camp project under CSR in Noida on 24.11.2019 at Corporate Office, Noida
NFL has observed Samvidhan Diwas on 26.11.2019 at Corporate Office, Noida
NFL sales jumps by 36% in second quarter
Unaudited Financial Results for the quarter and nine months ended 31.12.2019
Notice of 439th Board Meeting
Brief of Interview of C&MD with News Channel
NFL records Highest Ever Kharif Sale of 27 Lakh MT
NFL organizes cleanliness drive on Gandhi Jayanti
Caution Notice for Dealers
Voting Results of 45th Annual General Meeting of the company held on 18.09.2019
माननीय अध्यक्ष एवं प्रबंध निदेशक की ओर से जारी अपील
Addendum to 45th Annual General Meeting Notice
Swachchta acitivies undertaken during Observation of Swachchta Pakhwada at NFL Corporate Office Noida
Sh. Yash Paul Bhola takes over as Director (Finance), NFL
NFL wins Best Fertilizer PSU Award for 2nd year running at D&B Awards 2019
45th Annual Report
Notice of 45th Annual General Meeting, Book Closure and Remote e-voting Information
Reduction in M.R.P.of Imported Kisan D.A.P. & N.P.K
NFL donates Rs. 1.5 crore for Assam Flood Relief
Unaudited financial results for the quarter ended 30.06.2019
Notice of Board Meeting
Notice - Closure of Trading Window - 24.06.2019
NFL targets a turnover of Rs. 13,500 crore in FY 2019-20.
NFL delivers Best Financial Results in Company History.
Audited Annual Financial Results for the Financial year 2018-19.
NFL Celebrates Ambedkar Jayanti
Press Release : Dealers' Meet at Shillong
Press Release : NFL fertilizer sale soars to 49 Lakhs
Notification on New Dealer's Recruitment Process
Notice - Closure of Trading Window - 03.04.2019
NFL sets new record of urea production in 2018-19
Secretary (Fertilizers) visits NFL Nangal Unit
International Women's Day celebrated at NFL
Interview result of experienced Accounts Officer - 2018
Govt. approves NFL's Pay Revision
NFL Presents Interim Dividend of Rs. 39.95 Crore to Government
NFL, Ladies club distributed items to needy children
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NFL profit soars to Rs. 344 Crore in nine months of 2018-19
Unaudited Financial Results after Limited review for the quarter ended 30.12.2018
Interim dividend for the financial year 2018-19
Press Release: 70th Republic Day celebrated at NFL
Press Release: NFL receives Governance Now PSU Award for Resilient Growth
Press Notice of Board Meeting
Press Release : NFL to set up three Seed Processing Units.
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Press Release - NFL bags IFA Excellence Award
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Press Release : Kerela Relief Fund
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NFL observes Swachhta Pakhwada from 16th to 31st August 2018
NFL profit jumps 66% in first quarter (Q1) Press Release : NFL wins Best PSU Award
Press Release : NFL bags award for use of Official Language (Hindi)
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The first in this swank chain of memorial parks (these guys thought up the term "memorial park," because "cemetery" sounded so gloomy), Forest Lawn gives the deceased an upbeat, sun- and light-filled final resting place. So until Angelenos find a Botox-injected cure for death, we can pay our respects in these wide-open spaces – no depressing monuments here! Because it's relatively close to the Hollywood sign, many elements of this 300-acre park are over the top. The wrought-iron gates in front are said to be the world's largest. More than one million visitors pass through them each year, including thousands of schoolchildren on field trips (whaaat?). Some come to visit the 250,000 people interred here, but many come just for the artwork. That's right, hoo boy, the "artwork": a stained-glass "Last Supper," replicas of Michelangelo statuary, a jumbo "Signing of the Declaration of Independence" in 700,000 mosaic tiles, a giant moai carving from Easter Island, an oversize bronze of George Washington that Congress forgot to pay for, so Forest Lawn bought it. It's all big, bigger than life. Oh, now we get it: This is a place to get what you didn't have the first time around. The expanses of lawn are amazing, and the living will earn your next meal walking from Great Mausoleum through the Labyrinth to the English reproduction chapels. You won't get a lot of help from the management in locating your favorite luminaries, armies of whom rest here. Just as you couldn't sit at their table at Chasen's when they were alive. Oh well. This is a cemetery, after all, where reverence and decorum count. Even in Los Angeles.
1712 S. Glendale Ave., Glendale, 800.204.3131, forestlawn.com. Open daily 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. (to 6 p.m. in daylight savings time).


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Historian David H. Bennett contends, "Only in extraordinary times could nativism shape the policies of and give its name to a major party. Such was the situation from I852 to 1854" as regards the Know Nothing Party.
Men of political prominence began to join. In several New England states, the Know Nothings became a formidable force by appealing to the antislavery wing of the former Whig party. But throughout much of the South, displaced Whigs looked to nativism to protect their proslavery institutions. Passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act accelerated the movement's growth; with talk of "bleeding Kansas" on every lip, converts flocked in at the rate of five thousand per week in 1854. Men with promising futures began to seek entry. In the South there were John Bell (right), to be presidential candidate of the Constitutional Union party in 1860, and John J. Crittenden, senior senator from Kentucky, author of the compromise plan to solve the sectional struggle in the months before the outbreak of war. Henry Winter Davis, powerful Whig from Baltimore, and Andrew Jackson Donelson became Know Nothings. In the North, Nathaniel P. Banks and Jerome C. Smith, who would ride the antialien tide to prominence, one as Speaker of the House of Representatives and the other as mayor of Boston, were initiated. Henry Wilson, vice-president of the United States two decades later, Edward Everett, a future secretary of state, and Edward Bates, Lincoln's attorney general, came to the new party. After considering the triumphant run of victories for the Know Nothings in the fall elections, even Millard Fillmore joined, taking the secret rites of the Star Spangled Banner in his own home in late winter.
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Choo just gave a clinic on how not to run the bases in that inning.....
Choo just gave a clinic on how not to run the bases in that inning.....
They didn't really deserve that run anyway.
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I'm not sure why they didn't just send him to begin with.
This is the ol Left Hander rounding third and heading for home.
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Choo takes the 3rd opportunity of the inning to finally get thrown out on the basepaths. Unreal.
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I'm not exaggerating when I say Choo is literally the worst baserunner I've ever seen.
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That was the weirdest inning of the year. The got gifts on the base paths, but their first two outs were line drives. The 3rd was a gift back. A re-gifting if you may.
Choo's baserunning of late makes me wonder if Choo is trying to up his SB totals in anticipation of free agency.
Don't understand why Choo is still in the game.
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Hikianalia, a new state-of-the-art voyaging canoe, is expected to be in Hilo Harbor by dawn tomorrow morning, Sunday, November 18. She will have traveled more than 4,000 miles to come home to Hawai'i since her launch in early October.
It has taken Hikianalia 17 days to sail from Papeete, Tahiti (French Polynesia) to Hawai'i, and it took 16 days to sail her from her launch site in Auckland, New Zealand, to Papeete.
After clearing customs at Hilo Harbor, Hikianalia will make her way to Radio Bay, where Hikianalia and the entire crew will be formally welcomed by the Keaukaha Community Association.
"We expected them in the afternoon, but now that they are arriving in the morning, it will be a quiet welcome," explained master navigator Chad Kālepa Baybayan, who has co-organized the Hilo reception. "Still, we know the community will come out to see her."
Baybayan navigated Pacific Voyager canoe Faafaite from Auckland to Tahiti, escorting Hikianalia during the latter's maiden voyage. Master navigator Bruce Blankenfeld captained Hikianalia during that first leg of her voyage home to Hawaiʻi.
Most of the Hikianalia crew changed in Papeete. Captain Bob Perkins and master navigator Chadd 'Ōnohi Paishon are part of a crew of 15 bringing the canoe to Hawai'i in a portion of the voyage that included crossing the equator. Overall, for the course between Tahiti and Hawai'i, the skies have been clear and the winds fair, except for a brief passage through the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, where they experienced quirky weather.
Hikianalia will accompany Hōkūle'a during the Polynesian Voyaging Society's 2013-2016 Worldwide Voyage as her sister vessel, providing a second floating classroom, and the main platform for communication and technology. The two wa'a will partner in messages of sustainability. Neither uses fossil fuels; both rely on the wind in their sails and solar energy for their lights, communication and – in Hikianalia's case – engines.
Hōkūle'a and Hikianalia are Hawaiian names for stars Arcturus and Spica, respectively, which break the horizon together in Hawaiian skies.
"It's been a privilege to bring Hikianalia home to Hawai'i," says Perkins. "She will finally meet her sister Hōkūle'a."
Hikianalia is expected to sail directly from Hawai'i Island to O'ahu next weekend.
To track Hikianalia, or to learn more about the upcoming Worldwide Voyage, visit our website http://hokulea.org.
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Since then the J/37 has enjoyed success racing under the PHRF handicap system.
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Interior- The layout of the interior is simply luxurious. It is functional with a V-berth, walk-thru head forward, proper settee berths in the main salon aft of a centralized galley. The 28hp Volvo engine is located just under the companionway ladder with quarterberths to both port and starboard.
Rig- The J/37 has a double spreader masthead aluminum rig with a high aspect mainsail and overlapping headsails. Running rigging is Navtec rod with open body Navtec turnbuckles. The spar package was built by Hall Spars of Bristol, RI.
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Kim Bruhn-Rasmussen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 44 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
I'm a guy in the mid 30, now decided to focus 100 % on my own business.
The company will focus on the nordic market, but first the Danish market where I'm located.
I'm an entrepreneur type and get many different ideas that I would like to explore.
Small to midsize companies. My desired companies are those who look for a better solution where they could save money on their IT budget.
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Organic and Fair Trade Chocolate For Valentine's Day
Make Chocolate Count: Organic, Fair Trade, and Vegan Picks
I'm definitely a fan of Valentine's Day, but mostly because I like the excuse to eat chocolate. Besides tasting good, dark chocolate is full of heart-healthy flavonoids (equal to many fruits), can soothe a cough, increase blood flow, and lower blood pressure.
Spread the love even more this holiday by buying my picks for chocolate that's organic, Fair Trade, or health-inspired, and don't forget to throw in a cute card — your sweetie will love you even more for it!
- Vosges chocolatier Katrina Markoff fuses her premium chocolates with things like curry, wasabi, and ginger, but we especially like Vosges because of its yoga and chocolate weekend workshops. Make vegan and gluten-free friends happy with the Vosges vegan truffle collection ($25) — with ingredients like agave nectar, organic coconut milk, pomegranate, and acai, this collection is sure to be a hit with health conscious friends.
- The handmade Drunken Figs ($35) from Cocoavino are made with red wine and dark chocolate — talk about antioxidant overload! Chocolate from Cocoavino is organic and Fair Trade certified, made with wind power, and sold in eco-friendly packaging.
- Forget Nestlé Crunch; Dark Quinoa Chocolate bars ($5) from Alter Eco give you that same crunch except with a tiny burst of protein. Alter Eco sources all of its ingredients from Fair Trade farms and also helps fund community development programs.
To see what other chocolate made the cut, read more.
- The Belle of the Berries ($22) box from Lillie Belle Farms is completely organic and made from raspberries, strawberries, and marionberries straight from the Lillie Belle Farm in Oregon.
- If you're looking for pure chocolate without the frills, grab a Kallari chocolate bar ($6), one of the few organic, Fair Trade, or Rainforest Alliance bars that got good marks from The New York Times. The Kallari story is unique in that the company is a cooperative of indigenous Kichwa farmers from the Ecuadorian Amazon; the group is made up of cacao farmers, self-taught chocolate makers, and other artisans.


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Blueseed, a visa-free startup incubator planning to locate on a vessel anchored in international waters near the coast of Silicon Valley, announced in a survey that 550+ entrepreneurs from 180+ startups in 50+ countries have shown interest in taking up residence on the ship.
In the survey, 25.2% of startups originating from the US have shown interest in locating on Blueseed. While 8.9% of Indian startups and 5.4% of Australian startups have shown similar interest. Check out the graph for details on other countries:
Founded in late 2011, Blueseed was started by two former employees of The Seasteading Institute. The company aims at working on launching a ship near Silicon Valley which will serve as a visa-free startup community and entrepreneurial incubator. The project is funded by PayPal founder Peter Thiel. The need for such a vessel originated as existing Visa system in the US does not support Entrepreneurs and there has been no progress on legislation like Startup Visa Act. Entrepreneurs like Amit Aharoni, an Israeli national and a graduate of Stanford Business School, who secured $1.65 million in venture capital funding, received a letter from the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) denying his visa request and notifying him to leave the country immediately. His startup, at that time, employees 9 employees. However, when the issue went public, he was granted a Visa.
Benefits Blueseed offers
Blueseed's vessel is to be located 12 miles from Bay area in International waters. As the Ship will be in the international waters, entrepreneurs will require no visa to visit or work. Domestic US laws will also not be applicable on people living on the ship. However, it's assuring that the US still has the right to "act to prevent violations of its environmental, customs, fiscal, or immigration laws, or to apprehend vessels suspected of violating them" within that zone if it sees fits, according to Wired, as fully international waters begin only 44km offshore. Blueseed aims to create a dorm type environment where it wants to bring together the best technology minds and ideas from around the world. Apart from that, Blueseed will also be offering facilities such as 1GBPS internet connection, twice a day ferry to the coast, and more.
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Blueseed hasn't confirmed yet, but it is expected to register its vessel with the Bahamas or the Marshall Islands for international tax regulations.
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Although the idea is novel, what concerns us is that with a bunch load of talented people on board, the ship is going to face hell lots of poaching issues which might lead to yet another Anti-poaching agreement. Not only are such agreements distasteful, they might slow down employees over all growth.
While 38.1% of Startups would move to Blueseed if the environment met their needs right now, Blueseed is slated for launch only in Q3 2012.


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Graeme_scope necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 77 diseños de 28 diseñadores freelance.
We are a small to medium 4 star accommodation, but aiming to move away from the motel image and more towards a smart casual image, providing comfortable small suite accommodation. Located close to the city centre but in the urban fringe cafe/bar/restaurant suburb of Ponsonby. A Kiwi family owned business that has a friendly green outdoors attitude that mostly caters to a modern corporate clientele.
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Our current/target market is the business professionals that prefer to stay on the fringe of town rather than the CBD as our suburb has a relaxed but trendy cafe/bar atmosphere. They are between the age of 25-55.
We also want to attract travelers and local guests which have a upper to mid range budget.
We are looking for a logo (typeface and icon) that represents our business that can be used for signage and advertising.
The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out, modern and recognizeable as an accommodation business.
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Two SUNY Canton Students Receive Chancellor's Awards
A student who helped build a primary school in South Sudan and the SUNY Canton men's ice hockey captain each received a Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.
"The students we honor have strong records of achievement as student leaders, scholar athletes, aspiring artists and community volunteers," said SUNY Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher at the April 4th awards ceremony in Albany. "By exhibiting excellence in class, on campus and in their local communities, these students truly represent the power of SUNY and we honor them with great pride."
Zachary J. Smith, an Industrial Technology Management major from Lisbon, was a recipient of the Canino Scholar Award and the College's Academic Award in recognition of holding the highest grade point average while he was in one of the College's certificate programs.
Smith is also the bachelor's-level Outstanding Graduate for the year and will be honored at SUNY Canton's Commencement Ceremony.
"I will earn three degrees in eight semesters when I graduate in May," Smith said. "To achieve this, I've taken large class loads during regular semesters and additional classes during Summer Session and Winterterm."
Smith also designed, engineered, managed and led the building of a training facility and primary school in South Sudan in the spring of 2012 through a Christian organization. "My faculty adviser thought this project would fit well within my academic studies," he added. "Upon graduation, I hope to return to Central Africa, employing the skills I've acquired at SUNY Canton to lead further humanitarian and development projects."
He was the vice president of Campus Ministries Club, and won a certificate of appreciation from the Christian Fellowship Center in Madrid.
John Payne, a Sports Management major from Manchester, N.H., and originally from Port Moody, B.C., was the men's ice hockey captain from 2011 to 2013, and was among the select few players to reach 100 goals during his SUNY Canton hockey career. He was vice president of the Student Athlete Advisory Committee and a member of the Intercollegiate Athletics Board and the president of the Sports Management Student Association.
He received Academic All-American awards from three conferences and received the Chancellor's Scholar-Athlete Award in 2012. He was the recipient of four scholarships through SUNY Canton foundation.
"John's leadership skills extend beyond the ice and locker room," said Matthew G. Metcalf, assistant athletic director. "He always volunteers and participates in community service projects in the local community."
His volunteer work included community service projects as part of the Roos Give Back program, volunteering at the Grace Episcopal Church's Friday Soup Kitchen meal and participating in the Reading Roos program at local elementary schools.
Payne is currently interning with the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League.
The Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence was created in 1997 to recognize students who have best demonstrated, and have been recognized for, the integration of academic excellence with accomplishments in the areas of leadership, athletics, community service, creative and performing arts, campus involvement, or career achievement.
Each year, campus presidents establish a selection committee, which reviews exemplary students. Nominees are then forwarded to the Chancellor's Office and are subject to a second round of review. Finalists are then recommended to the Chancellor to become recipients of the award. Each recipient receives a framed certificate and medallion, which is traditionally worn at commencement.
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The Marx Family Saga by Juan Goytisolo
1999 (first published 1993), Paperback
Translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush
Winner of the Instituto Cervantes Ramón Valle-Inclán Prize for Literary Translation
Surreal fiction from Juan Goytisolo, Spain's greatest living writer. A resurrected Karl and Jenny Marx sitting on their sofa in Hampstead watching a television documentary about the landing of Albanian refugees on a private Italian beach, flourishing photocopies of dollar bills in search of paradise Dallas. Find out how Karl reacts to the demise of the systems Josef Visionariovitch and Co. built on his word! Read all about the family life of the Marxes, moving upmarket from Dean Street to Highgate and beyond, yet never free of the hock shop. Marx visits scenes of former triumphs in Moscow, where MacLenin T-shirts and harmburger freedom are all the rage, and returns to a Hampstead housewarming reception and ball filmed by the cameras for a Merchant-Ivoryish Red Baroness-which subsequently becomes the subject of a Saturday-night talk show featuring a feminist sexologist from UCLA, an anarchist from the Spanish Civil Bar, Bakunin . . . But the narrator's publisher, the urbane pipe-smoking Mr. Faulkner, wants a best-selling novel, a proper story with real facts and heart-rending descriptions of the Marx menage. Some hope!


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THURSDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Most spouses or partners of doctors in the United States are happy with their relationships, according to a new study.
Mayo Clinic researchers conducted a national survey of about 900 spouses or partners of doctors and found that 85 percent said they were satisfied in their relationship. And 80 percent said they would choose a physician spouse or partner again if they could make their choice over.
These rates are similar to those of married adults in the United States overall, the researchers noted.
Among the spouses or partners of doctors, one-fourth are men. Of all study participants, most have jobs outside the home. Of those with jobs, most work 30 hours or more a week and nearly 40 percent work full-time, according to the study, which was published in the March issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
Survey respondents' satisfaction was strongly related to the amount of non-sleeping time spent with their physician spouses or partners each day.
On a less-positive note, participants reported that the medical member of the couple frequently came home irritable, too tired to engage in home activities or preoccupied with work.
It's often believed that doctors' personal relationships suffer due to the demanding and consuming nature of their work. But there is little evidence in these survey results to suggest that doctors have lower-quality relationships or are more likely to get divorced, said study first author Dr. Tait Shanafelt.
"The findings challenge a number of stereotypes about physician relationships," Shanafelt said in a Mayo Clinic news release. "While every relationship has challenges, our research shows that on the whole doctors' spouses and partners are extremely happy in their relationships."
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Smoke detectors are located in each residence room, as well as in hallways and lounges. All smoke detectors in sleeping rooms are hard-wired, with a battery backup. Smoke detectors in public areas are battery operated.
There are pull stations in the hallways. The fire alarms emit loud sounds. Any student requiring strobe lights may request to live in Assisi Hall.
Fire extinguishers are located in key locations around the residence halls. Residence hall staff, security staff, and physical plant staff are instructed in their use. During their nightly rounds, residence life staff members check to insure they are properly charged, and report any issues promptly.
Smoke detectors are located in each residence room, as well as in hallways and lounges. All smoke detectors in residence rooms are hard-wired, with a battery backup. When the smoke detectors and pull stations in Assisi Hall are activated, the fire department is automatically notified.
The Assisi Hall fire system has strobe lights in addition to the standard alarm sound.
There are pull stations in the hallway. Assisi Hall is equipped with a sprinkler system. The hall has a PA system that can be used to give residents instructions.
Fire drills are scheduled annually in cooperation with the North Shore Fire Department.
Each year, residents are reminded of fire safety through their all hall meetings, during which a fire safety video is shown. Resident assistants are annually trained in emergency procedures, including fire emergencies.
There were no residence hall fires in 2014.
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Students who see or smell fire are urged to stay clear of the fire, pull the fire alarm, evacuate using the stairs (never the elevator) and call 911, then campus security at 410-4220.
People who hear the fire alarm are required to evacuate. To do otherwise not only creates a safety issue, but leaves one vulnerable to disciplinary and legal action.
If you hear the fire alarm, feel your room door. If it is hot, open the door slowly, leading with something other than your body, to determine if it is safe to evacuate. If you cannot safely evacuate, put a towel under the door (wet with water if possible), call 911, and signal for help. Waving something bright out the window, like a red shirt, will help to attract the attention of rescuers.
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If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it.Priscilla Welch
Loathing Running from an Early Age
Over a year ago, when I was considering adding some form of exercise into my life, my well-intentioned friend Rebecca — a runner — suggested that I start running. I told her I'd only run "if someone was chasing me with a knife." And I kind of meant it.
I'd hated running since high school freshman gym class when — at the end of the semester — we had to run "the mile." The distance of a mile seemed impossibly long and I dreaded it for months. After grudgingly completing it, I remember getting terrible shin splints, probably due to running in my Keds. They were very painful and took a long time to heal. So yeah, it was easy for me to decide running was NOT my thing. I'd rather do just about anything than run.
Catalyst for Change
Fast forward 20+ years (OMG) to July 2013. My local unschooling group planned a moms' night out that included a hike of Mount Sanitas in Boulder. Hiking is something I usually enjoy so I was up for it, even though I was a little nervous since it was a 3.1 mile moderate to strenuous hike with +1,323′ net elevation gain. While I eventually made it to the summit that evening, that hike showed me that I was in terrible shape. I had to stop to rest several times along the trail and even felt light-headed and needed to sit down and eat an energy bar along the way. It was kind of discouraging to find out I was so out of shape, but it was also the kick in the pants I needed to start doing something about it.
I decided that come what may, I was going to give running a try. If other friends could do it and enjoy it, maybe I could too. I wasn't sure how due to my history, but I was open to it. Instead of doing a couch to 5K program (which I had tried and failed at in the past), I decided I would just put one foot in front of the other and follow my body's cues. If I felt like I could run, I would run. If I needed to walk, I would walk.
My daughter Ava helped me pick out a new pair of tennis shoes — black with bright pink laces. My previous pair was white (blah) and who knows how old since I never actually used them to run — they could've lasted forever!
My First Run
Exactly one year ago, on July 24, 2013, I went for my very first run. And guess what, I didn't hate it! I ran, I walked, I ran, I walked. It was hard, but it felt good. And, most importantly and surprisingly, I wanted to do it again.
I started going for runs a few times a week. I'd get dinner ready for my husband Jody and the kids, then when he'd get home from work, I'd pop out for an evening of running. It helped that I found a few really pretty places to run near my house. Granted I needed to drive a few miles to get to the pretty spots to run, but I figure if I'm more likely to run if I drive somewhere first, then it's worth it to do so. The distance I could run without walking became longer and longer and what initially seemed impossible — running a WHOLE mile without walking — became a reality. I was on my way!
In October 2013, I did my first 5K (3.1 miles) race, along with my husband Jody and friend Heather. I pushed too hard in the beginning up a hill and ended up having to walk part of the course, but I finished.
In November, while in Kansas visiting family for Thanksgiving, I did another 5K race — this time on my own. It felt good and I was able to run for the whole race. I didn't run as much over the winter, but tried to get at least one run in a week.
Somewhere in there I also went to a running store to get fitted for shoes. The ones I had weren't good for my running form (I've been experiencing some pain during my runs) and after they checked me running on a treadmill, they were able to get me in shoes that worked for me. I got a shiny new pair of Brooks and they've been awesome.
In April 2014, I did another 5K race with my mom, followed by my first 10K (6.2 miles) race — The Bolder Boulder — with my friend Sarah in May. Aside from stopping at the aide stations to drink, I was able to run (albeit slowly) the entire race. I was pretty proud of myself.
The last race I've done to date was on July 4 in Crested Butte, Colo. The family and I were planning to go there for Independence Day week, and I saw there was a 1/3 marathon (8.56 miles) race (the Gothic to Crested Butte 1/3 Marathon) happening, so I signed up for it. I'm not sure I would do that race again, but I'm happy to have completed it. There was a lot of elevation gain on the first half (not to mention the altitude was 4,000 ft. higher than where I live) and I definitely did a fair amount of walking on that one, but that was OK with me. My only goal was to finish it and I did!
Looking Ahead
I'm setting my sights on a half-marathon (13.1 miles) trail race next, maybe in November so I won't have to train through the heat of the summer. After doing the 1/3 marathon, I feel confident that I can do a half, but I also know I have a lot of training ahead of me to get to that point.
The crazy thing for me has been how much I enjoy running. I'm not setting any speed records and I have no desire to, but I am running for me and doing it on my terms and I think that makes all the difference.
I love this quote my friend Heather shared with me when I was first getting started and someone asked me if I was a runner now. I said I didn't feel like one yet, but I hoped to be one someday.
"If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." — John Bingham
I never in my wildest dreams would have expected to be a runner. And yet, I am. I am a runner. And I like it.
I hope to write about running again soon so I can share more about what has worked for me on this journey. Stay tuned.
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The word Rokoko comes from the combination of the French word rocaille, which means stone, and coquilles, which means shells, because of attachment to objects from the decoration motif. The term rokoko can certainly be interpreted as a combination of the word "barocco" (regular form of pearl, possibly derived from the word "baroque") and the French word "rocaille" (a popular form of garden and interior ornamentation using decorative shells and gravel), and may also be used to explain the subtle and beautiful style that became fashionable in Europe during the 18th century. Because the Rokoko style likes and focuses on decorative art, some critics use this term to imply that the style is reckless or just fashionable. When this term began to be played with in England around 1836, it became a colloquial meaning "outdated ".In fact, this style received harsh criticism, and for some as something superficial and inferior, because the mid-19th century, the term was accepted by art historians. Despite this there is still debate about the historical influence of this art in general, Rokoko is now widely known as great period in the development of European art. Source form Wikipedia


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This one's on management
Look, it gives me no pleasure in ripping people. OK, some people over the years, maybe it has. But the fact is, the Avs are currently made up of a good group of people, who treat others with respect and are good denizens of the community.
But this is the big leagues, and if you're going to make the big bucks and want all the glory, you've got to be ready to take the slams that come your way from people who follow the team for a living, like me.
So here goes: It doesn't surprise me one whit the Avs are winless after three games. Why doesn't it surprise me? Here's a quick list off the top of my head, for starters:
1. This is a team whose management decided that it didn't want to pay $4.5 millilon per year for the goalie that they had paid an average of nearly six million dollars per year over the previous two-plus years.
This goalie, Jose Theodore, was acquired from Montreal with a Hart Trophy on his mantle, and who the Avs raved about and said would turn his career around in Denver. It took a while – almost two full seasons – but Theodore eventually DID turn his career back around. He was one of the league's best in the last half of last season, and stole – and I mean, he stole – a first-round playoff series against the division-winning team.
He got sick at the start of the next round, his team's best players in front of him mostly all got hurt and the Avs lost the series to the eventual Cup winner, Detroit. Tough to take, yes, but nothing to be ashamed about.
So what does management do? Instead of saying what I and most other Avs followers thought, something along the lines of "Well, at least we've got a goalie who showed he's back to being one of the NHL's best – and, get this, he's willing to take a 25-percent pay cut to come back to us – as a potential unrestricted free agent, no less!" – they instead decide to start counting pennies and get all huffy and walk away when Theodore doesn't accept their offer of $3.5 million for the next two years.
They get all huffy at the goalie who bailed them out in the second half, DESPITE the fact that there is another offer on the table, from Washington, at $4.5 million a year. They get all huffy DESPITE the fact that Theodore tells them he'll choose Colorado over Washington if the offers are the same.
So, they end up losing Theodore for nothing in return. The guy who was their BEST player in the second half of the season and playoffs is cut loose, all over $1 million a year. It's called pennywise and pound foolish, folks.
Then, management tells its fans that it's no big deal, that they've still got a guy, Peter Budaj, who will be great in goal and not to worry – despite the fact that Budaj barely played in the second half, did not perform all too well in the first half and lost his starting job to Theodore. Oh, and never mind those pesky stats like a 4-11 career shootout record, bad numbers in overtime games and a lot of late goals in clutch situations.
To further bolster the positon of goalie, management goes out and gets a backup who had his contract bought out by another team and who had the worst numbers of any goalie in the league last year.
So where are we now? We've got a team that is 0-3, one that has allowed 13 goals and blown all three games in the third period, that's where. You've got a starting goalie with a saves percentage worse than a drunk preacher, and a team that has zero confidence in him. No, nobody has explicitly said that, and never will. But it's the truth.
Budaj is a good kid, who wants to succeed and his teammates do like him. But liking someone and having confidence he'll make the tough save in the really tough moments of a hockey game are two separate things.
The fact is, this team is a mess right now, and I lay the blame at the feet of a management group that, based on its off-season decisions, seemed to lose their minds over the summer.
Not only is the Theodore story truly difficult to fathom, but the fact that ZERO changes were made to a penalty-killing unit that finished 22nd in the league last year is just plain bizarre. This is the same Avs team that can't clear pucks, who are always beaten on weakside passing plays while short-handed and who can't win faceoffs.
The fact that the two big off-season transactions were for a goalie nobody wanted and a pesky but aging winger – the type of player they already had enough of – is even more bizarre.
Throw in the fact management didn't feel like it needed a heart-and-soul forward, Andrew Brunette, who did nothing but put up points on a regular basis and make smart plays, and, well, I just can't figure it out anymore.
And, as much as I like Tony Granato personally, I still think it's weird that this team fired – oh, sorry, decided to mutually part ways with – a coach who took a team to the final eight last season even though he had the seventh-most number of injuries to deal with in the league.
Yes, there is still good talent around and yes, they might still get things going and win some games and yadda, yadda, yadda. But until management corrects some of the mistakes it made – and didn't need to make – over the summer, I don't see anything changing much from what we've seen so far.


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Our recent post about the merits of accurate garbage collection over reference counting prompted Tezka to ask for measurements demonstrating the performance differences between an accurate GC and the reference counted shared_ptr smart pointers provided by the Boost C++ library.
The benchmarks we have been using to prototype allocators for our HLVM project provide the perfect setting for such an experiment. We already have C++ code that solves the n-queens problem using logic programming with a variety of different allocation strategies. Adding another version of our benchmark using Boost's shared_ptr gave the following remarkable results:
These new results highlight just how slow reference counting can be. The C++ code using Boost's reference counted smart pointers is running up to 10× slower than OCaml!
Note also the new "stack" section that is the first C++ to beat OCaml, albeit cheating by exploiting the fact that this implementation of this benchmark always happens to allocate and free in FIFO order. So this approach is problem-specific and cannot be used as a general-purpose allocator. However, it is worth noting that the only allocation strategy to beat C++ also (like OCaml's nursery) exploits the ability to collect many freed values in constant time by resetting the stack pointer rather than using repeated pops. Therefore, the only allocation strategies likely to approach OCaml's performance on these kinds of problems are those that exploit sparsity. For example, by manipulating free lists in run-length encoded form.
We have yet to find a general-purpose allocation strategy that can match the performance of OCaml's generational garbage collector for these kinds of applications but we can make two interesting observations from these new results:
Reference counting is the only difference between the "free" results (using malloc and free in FIFO order) and these new "shared_ptr" results, so around 80% of the time is spent handling reference counts, far more than is spent in actual allocation and deallocation!
HLVM currently performs poorly on this benchmark because around 70% of its time is spent maintaining the shadow stack, a comparable overhead to the use of reference counting (but one that handles the collection of cycles correctly).
Finally, we should note that our "region 12" results are also new and note that they are significantly worse than the previous "region" results. The difference is that the previous results allocated and deallocated in FIFO order explicitly in the inner loops of the benchmark whereas these new results are a more accurate reflection of the allocation and deallocate patterns that the current version of HLVM generates, specifically the inner loops only maintain the mark bits and deallocation is now performed by sweeps triggered by sufficient allocation. Sweeping results in much worse performance (from 20% slower than OCaml to 2× slower than OCaml). We have invented two ways to attack this problem. Firstly, the thread-local current region could be swept locally, either using a remembered set or just back to the previous write barrier. Secondly, runs of consecutively-allocated unreachable values are likely to appear near the end of the allocated list, so sparse free lists will hopefully accelerate the collection of contiguous sequences of unreachable values.


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Students in GEP 690/EES 79904 Workshop in GISc Research, Spring term 2011.
Back row, standing, left to right:
Kristen Grady (EES Doctoral Program); Hildegaard Link (EES Doctoral Program); Prof. Maantay; Aviva Rahmani (GISc Graduate Program); Emily Peterson-Perez (GISc Graduate Program); Zakkiyyah Shah (Geography/GISc Program); Tiffany Mae Brown (GISc Graduate Program, GISc Lab Tutor); Cordelia Nervi (GISc Graduate Program).
Front Row, Seated, left to right:
Ronald Alphonse (GISc Graduate Program); Brian Morgan (Geography/GISc Program, GISc Lab Manager); Rachel Goffe(EES Doctoral Program); Patricia Reed (GISc Graduate Program)
I teach both GEP 350/650, Special Projects in GISc: Environmental Modeling and Spatial Analysis in the Fall terms; and GEH 490/GEP 690,Workshop in GISc Research in the Spring terms. Many students take these two courses as a sequence, and they are both required for the Certificate Program in GISc, as well as for the MS-GISc (PEAR Option). I will also be teaching GEP 310/610/PHE 717, Geographies of Urban Health/Spatial Analysis of Urban Health, in Spring 2014. GEP 470/670, GISc Internship Seminar, is offered every Fall and Spring terms under my supervision.
GEP 350/605, Special Projects in GISc: Environmental Modeling and Spatial Analysis is an intermediate-level GISc course, focusing on real-world environmental applications of GISc. In this course, we build on the principles of GISc presented in the introductory courses, but delve deeper into GISc concepts and geographic theory, develop basic environmental models, conduct complex spatial analyses, engage in quantitative reasoning as well as qualitative methods, and create advanced cartographic products. But most importantly, students in this class use what they have learned in order to design a GISc research project based on their individual interests.
In past years, these student projects have included such diverse topics as adapting a model to estimate sea ice thickness in Antarctica; conducting an historical analysis of the relationship between elevation and socio-economic class in NYC; calculating the earthquake hazard in the Bronx; developing a hazard vulnerability assessment tool for flooding in NYC; examining the historical process of gentrification/neighborhood change in north Philadelphia; mapping the distribution of sandalwood trees in Fiji; modeling forest fire risk in Colombia; assessing the impacts of tourism on deforestation in Nepal; estimating fish species richness in the Bronx River; studying the process of gentrification in Greenpoint-Willismsburg, Brooklyn; and predicting the optimal locations for carbon sequestration sites in the U.S., to name only a few.
GEH 490/GEP 690, Workshop in GISc Research is a very interesting and challenging class where students have the opportunity to implement their project ideas that they developed during the prior term in GEP 350/605. Because the students have developed project concepts that reflect their own interests, there is always a very wide diversity of project topics, utilizing various methodologies and data sets, and representing all different parts of the world for their geographic study extents. Students benefit from all the cross-pollination of ideas and subject matter, and generally learn a considerable amount, not only about GISc and its applications, but also background information on many other topics that are being explored by the other students in the class, and which are often applicable to their own work. Projects are meant to be substantive and comprehensive, including thoroughly researched background information, a critical analysis of the relevant body of literature, a well-designed hypothesis and methodology, GISc analysis and interpretation of the results. Students are expected to make a professional-quality presentation, prepare a final report, and create a poster summarizing their work.
A sample of the project titles from recent classes demonstrates the wide range of research topics:
- Radioactive Colonialism: Environmental Racism and the Exposure of Native Americans to Uranium Mines;
- Using GIS to Assess the Loss of Cultural and Historical Sites and Resources Resulting from Hurricane Katrina;
- Location, Location, Location: Understanding the Environment of Outdoor Drug Markets;
- Graffiti in Community Board #2, Queens: (Individual Expression in the Public Realm);
- Geographical Disparities in Infant Mortality: Using GIS to Aid in Determining Community Characteristics that May Impact Infant Deaths in Brooklyn, New York;
- Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant: Get to Know Your Neighbors;
- Modeling Air Emissions from Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) Facilities and Estimating Potentially Affected Minority Population in Westchester County;
- Democracy Cracked, Packed, and Bushwhacked: The Impact of GIS on Redistricting for the U.S. House of Representatives;
- Childhood Lead Poisoning in the Bronx: Using GIS to Locate High Risk Neighborhoods for Targeted Public Health Interventions;
- Ridges, Rivets, and Ruralization: Effects of the Industrial Revolution and Topography on Population Trends in 19th and 20th Century Massachusetts;
- The Identity Crisis of New York City's 21st Century Waterfront: Rezoning, Redevelopment, and Climate Change;
- Medicinal Plant Use in the Dominican Republic (The Use of GIS to Display Traditional and Non-Traditional Health Care in a Rural Community in the Dominican Republic;
- Rooftops - the Fifth Façade as Urban Frontier;
- Harvesting the Wind: Using GIS for Optimal Offshore Wind Farm Location;
- Re-Mapping FEMA: A Study of the 2006 Flood Plain Rezoning and the Potential Impact on Economic Development Project Sites;
GEP 310 Geographies of Urban Health/GEP 610 Spatial Analysis of Urban Health focuses on urban health issues using a geographical framework and covers topics such as the historical perspective of health, place, and society; mapping and measuring health and health impacts; the social and spatial patterning of health; the geography of health inequalities and disparities; health and social/spatial mobility; and the effects of urban segregation, overcrowding, and poverty on disease. Current research, as well as the seminal early works on the geographies of health, will be reviewed. Geographic Information Science will be used in the laboratory exercises to illustrate the theoretical concepts and to produce worked examples of health geography.
Fall 2014 students who completed GISc Internships (GEP 470/GEP 670, GISc Internship Seminar).
From left:Tonya Lavender-Davis (Voice Unbroken, Bronx not-for-profit organization); Michael Sullivan (NYC Dept. of Information Technology and Telecommunication – DoITT); Carimaxy Benitez (Neighbors Allied for Good Growth – NAGG – Brooklyn not-for-profit organization); Keri-Dean Scarlett (US Environmental Protection Agency - EPA); Ragnar Thrastarson, Amelia Zaino, Meg Baker, Mary Grey, (all at NYC Dept. of City Planning); Cristina Sarkissian(DoITT); Li Chen (NYC Dept. of City Planning)
GEP 470/GEP 670 GISc Internship Seminar involves discussions on current issues in the Geographic Information Science (GISc) profession, with weekly work as an intern in one of various governmental, non-profit, academic, or consulting organizations. The course requires a minimum 150 hours of GISc-related project work.


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Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams.
I was actually going to do "New York I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down," but my wife reminded me it's the one LCD Soundsystem song she didn't like so… I'll save it for the NYAS.
Of all the "cool" bands you should like, you should actually like LCD Soundsystem. You have to listen to it a few times to like it, but do so. You don't have to listen to Bat for Lashes or Swan or even Dirty Projectors. You don't have to listen to any of it. Listen to LCD Soundsystem as it is undeniably, inarguably, indefatigably cool.
Blame James Murphy. At 22 they offered him a job writing scripts for a show based in NYC that was later named Seinfeld but instead he decided to live on an inflatable mattress fucking around with a guitar. Worth it.


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The Power of Attention: Magic and Meditation in Hebrew "shiviti" Manuscript Art
Exhibit - Artifacts | January 24 – June 23, 2017 every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
Created from the early-modern period and into the present, shiviti manuscripts are found in Hebrew prayer books, ritual textiles, and on the walls of synagogues and homes throughout the Jewish diaspora. Wrestling with ways to externalize the presence of God in Jewish life, these documents center upon the graphic representation of God's ineffable four-letter Hebrew name, the Tetragrammaton, and associate it with words and imageries that evoke mystical powers, protective energy, and angels, as well as key places and characters in Biblical and Jewish history.
Deciphering the content of a shiviti manuscript, or simply classifying it within the realm of Jewish cultural production, is a fascinating puzzle for today's scholars. Research on these documents encompasses the analysis of biblical and prayer texts, magical formulas, visual motifs, and various modalities of material culture across the Jewish world. The very presence, and use, of the shiviti in such varied contexts as individual and communal prayer, the celebration of life cycle events, and the production of (and demand for) amulets for personal and household protection, opens new paths in the understanding of the role of text in Jewish culture. The persistence of these documents in Jewish life attests to the ongoing beliefs in the power and efficacy of magic and meditation that accompany the more normative aspects of Judaism as we know it.
The exhibition highlights a selection from shiviti manuscripts, books, amulets and textiles in The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, and is accompanied by insightful resources that allow viewers to penetrate their elaborate textual and visual elements while experiencing the inherent power of these unique cultural objects.
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