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For 47 years, Earth Day has inspired individuals to renew their commitment to environmental protection. People around the world get together to celebrate nature, get educated on environmental issues and learn how to live greener lives. A good time for contemplation and for making some small but significant changes.
Reinventing the old
One way to be "green," that can include being eco-conscious is upcycling or repurposing your old jewelry.
"Upcycling" is taking something old and creating something new out of it.
Give cherished family heirlooms new life
Upcycle jewelry for Earth Day by cleaning out your jewelry box and finding ways to revitalize your treasures. If you're able to bring new life to an old piece of jewelry, you'll feel good about doing something good for the Earth.
We all know what the basis of Recycling is: a practice that takes an item and targets it for reuse, returning it back to the cycle of daily contribution to society rather than discarding it to trash. Think plastic bottles turned into carpet, toys or fleece.
Upcycling is described as reusing a material without degrading the quality and composition of the material for its next use. The possibilities are endless with redesigning jewelry. Engagement rings can be turned into pendant necklaces, as can brooches and watches. Necklaces can be formed into earrings, rings, bracelets etc.
Jewelry is meant to be worn, so reinventing an older, heirloom into a piece of new jewelry that reflects your taste makes it more likely that you'll wear it, and is a great way to keep the memories of loved ones alive.
Even cost-conscious and environmentally friendly brides are even choosing upcycled wedding dresses, which use old dresses to create new ones or accessories. It's a great way to treasure family heirlooms while incorporate your own personal style.
Here are a few tips and ideas to help breathe new life into an older piece of jewelry:
1. Wear it in a new way. Take an old chunky necklace and wrap it around your wrist instead and it becomes a bracelet. How about using a brooch as a hair ornament or pendant. Pierced or clip earrings, either single or a pair, can be attached to a jacket as a decorative accent.
2. Reimagine an old piece. If pieces that are too small, fragile, or damaged to be worn such as a dainty diamond watch that is too small for the wrist or a vintage diamond brooch, think about attaching to a wide gold cuff.
3. Turn a larger piece of jewelry into several smaller ones. The gems in a statement necklace can become earrings. Diamonds in a large cocktail ring or brooch could be used to make a pendant with matching earrings, etc.
4. Change the metal. A colorless diamond set in platinum or white gold band will make the diamond appear whiter and give the piece a contemporary feel.
5. Repurpose the gemstones in a new piece. Mount them in a new piece of your own desigm and create a piece of jewelry that will become an heirloom for future generations that still has ties to the past. You can also divide the gemstones among siblings and other loved ones, so everyone can share the memories, and create their own heirlooms.
If you decide to remove the gems from a piece, consider sending them to an independent laboratory like GIA for examination, before having them reset. A diamond grading report, or gemological report for colored stones, will document what the stone is, whether it is natural or synthetic and if there are any detectable treatments. This information is key for the appraiser to determine the stones' value for appraisal and insurance purposes; In addition, knowing how the gems were treated will help the jeweler determine the best way to handle the stones during setting, repair and cleaning.
6. Make it fresh and wearable again. Sometimes all a piece of heirloom jewelry needs is a "tune up". Bring in your vintage or antique treasure to make sure no gemstones are loose and to give it a proper cleaning. The piece may have a patina (oxidized film) that you may or may not want removed.
Even if you don't own any heirloom jewelry, you can always acquire a piece that was preowned. Just follow these GIA tips for purchasing estate jewelry. These treasures can be restored or reimagined to create your own piece of history and become a memento to pass on to loved ones.


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A Cosmic Quest for Dark MatterPosted: February 15, 2015 Filed under: Robotics, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Ancient technology in Stargate, ATLAS experiment, CERN, Dark matter, Elementary particle, Geneva, Higgs boson, James Bateman, Large Hadron Collider, Max Planck Society, Particle physics, Standard Model, Subatomic particle Leave a comment
Scientists are hunting one of the biggest prizes in physics: tiny particles called wimps that could unlock some of the universe's oldest secrets
A wimp—a weakly interacting massive particle—is thought to be the stuff of dark matter, an invisible substance that makes up about a quarter of the universe but has never been seen by humans.
Gravity is the force that holds things together, and the vast majority of it emanates from dark matter. Ever since the big bang, this mystery material has been the universe's prime architect, giving it shape and structure. Without dark matter, there would be no galaxies, no stars, no planets. Solving its mystery is crucial to understanding what the universe is made of.
"If we don't assume that 85% of the matter in the universe is this unknown material, the laws of relativity and gravity would have to be modified. That would be significant," says physicist Giuliana Fiorillo, a member of the 150-strong team searching for the particles at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory, 80 miles east of Rome.
The quest for dark matter has intensified since the discovery of the Higgs boson particle two years ago, which helped to narrow the field in which wimps might be hiding. Today, more than 20 different teams of researchers are hunting for the elusive stuff, using some of the most elaborate and delicate experiments ever devised.
Dark-matter detectors have been installed on the sea bed nearly 8,200 feet beneath the surface. Others operate deep inside mines. There is one on the International Space Station. China's new dark-matter experiment sits 1.5 miles beneath a marble mountain. When it restarts later this year, the Large Hadron Collider will look for wimps, too, by smashing together subatomic particles.
Scientists estimate that visible matter makes up just 4% of the universe, while dark matter makes up 23%. The remaining 73% is an even bigger puzzle, a repulsive force known as "dark energy."
Dark matter neither emits nor absorbs light. We know it is out there, because scientists can measure the immense gravitational force it exerts on stars, galaxies and other cosmic bodies. The best candidate for what dark matter consists of is the wimp: an ethereal being that barely interacts with normal matter. Every second, billions of wimps flow through the Earth without hitting anything. Read the rest of this entry »
James Kakalios: Finally, Science Explains Why No One Can Lift Thor's HammerPosted: November 13, 2014 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Science & Technology, Think Tank | Tags: Age of Ultron, Avengers (comics), Captain America, CERN, Dark matter, Discovery (observation), Elementary particle, Higgs boson, Iron Man, Large Hadron Collider, Mjölnir, Mjolnir (comics), Particle physics, Standard Model, Subatomic particle, Ultron, University of Southern Denmark 1 Comment
James Kakalios writes: These are exciting days for physics, with several recent experimental observations providing important information on some of the most important mysteries of nature. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has found the Higgs boson, the last missing particle in the Standard Model, advancing our understanding of the origin of the mass of fundamental particles. The discovery by astrophysicists that the expansion of the universe is accelerating implies that 75% of the universe is composed of "dark energy." And a recent trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron suggests an explanation for the long-standing open question: can the Hulk lift Thor's hammer?
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The scene in question aired Oct. 28 during an episode of Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC. In this clip, the Avengers are relaxing in their street clothes in Tony Stark's penthouse apartment, and are discussing the "enchantment" on Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, which stipulates that it can only be lifted by those "deemed worthy," and whoever does so will "possess the power of Thor." Thor places his hammer on a coffee table (actually, as shown below, it is resting partially on some books on the table), and various heroes attempt to pick up the hammer, to no avail. Thor then hefts the hammer and casually flips it into the air.
And thus one proposal for why the hammer is unliftable is put to rest. Astrophysicist and Director of the Hayden Planetarium, Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, has speculated that, if Mjolnir is composed of neutron star matter, the densest material in the universe outside of a black hole, then it would weigh as much as three hundred billion elephants.
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Water has a density of one gram per cubic centimeter, and lead has a density of eleven grams per cubic centimeter, but they pale compared to neutron star matter, which has a density of one hundred million million grams per cubic centimeter. In this case Mjolnir would weigh roughly twelve thousand trillion pounds. I know Tony Stark is rich, but even if he could buy a coffee table that could support such a weight, I can't imagine any book, even an impenetrable physics text, that could bear up under this force. No, we must look elsewhere for an explanation as to why only Thor (and a few select others—more on this in a moment) can raise Mjolnir. Read the rest of this entry »


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Nico Hulkenberg says that Force India has a strong foundation on which to build across the 2014 season.
Hulkenberg finished the Australian Grand Prix in sixth place and raced to fifth in Malaysia, giving him 18 points after the opening two rounds of the year.
Force India has traditionally fared well in Bahrain - former driver Paul di Resta was fourth last season - and Hulkenberg believes Force India has a good base on which they can build.
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St. Patrick's Day is March's most iconic holiday. To help you celebrate this holiday, the Hillside Commons Blog is sharing some fun dessert recipes that are perfect for any St. Patrick's Day celebration! Make these tasty treats in your apartment and then share them with your friends and family in the Oneonta, NY area!
Shamrock Pretzels from The Spruce
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Mint Chocolate Lasagna from Inspiring Cooks
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The payments process is the beginning of so many important parts of good business—customer experience, supply chain efficiency, accurate financial reporting and data security. But one of the major pain points to leveraging these benefits is validation and reconciliation. Automation can help make the payment process more efficient—and ultimately help achieve those business goals more easily.
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A group of parent organizations, including Friends of North Springs (FONS) Parent Teacher Organization (PTO), Friends of Math and Science (FOMAS), the Theater Booster, and the Spartan Athletic Booster Club (SABC), have provided a multitude of services for North Springs recently through the Fall Teacher grants.
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Armidale arrest: Jasmine Leigh Clarke and Wayne Laurence Clarke found unconscious in car in Armidale; charged with drug supply and firearm possession
TWO people have been released from hospital after they were found unconscious in a ute with methamphetamine, firearms and ammunition.
Jasmine Leigh Clarke, 62, and Wayne Laurence Clarke, 27, fronted Armidale Local Court on Friday on several charges.
The pair were found unconscious inside a Nissan Navara ute parked in Lions Park on the New England Highway at Armidale on Wednesday about 6pm.
After police officers found the pair, they were taken in an ambulance to Armidale Hospital in a serious but stable condition.
Police allege methamphetamine, cash, drug administering equipment, four unregistered firearms and ammunition were found in the vehicle.
Once released from hospital, the man and woman were arrested and taken to Armidale Police Station and charged.
The pair lodged separate bail conditions in court on Friday morning.
The registrar granted the woman's bail on the condition she be of good behaviour; not enter any international point of departure; remain in the Armidale township; not drink alcohol or drugs; and report to Armidale police everyday.
Ms Clarke is charged with supplying less than a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug and entered into a bail security agreement of $2000.
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The 27-year-old man was refused bail. He faces eight charges including the supply of less than a commercial quantity of a prohibited drug; possessing an unauthorised firearm; possessing ammunition without a licence; possessing three unregistered firearms - one of which is a prohibited pistol; and possessing a prohibited weapon without a permit.
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Why Are Some Beliefs So Hard To Overcome?
In 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published a revolutionary idea that the Earth revolved around the Sun. But it took 200 years for the Copernican model to be accepted.
To confirm the theory, the work of many other scientists was needed: Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, Giordano Bruno and Isaac Newton.
For such a well established belief to fall, there had to be loads of solid evidence. Especially when this theory implied that the Church, the authority of the day, was wrong.
Do You Have Any Well Established Beliefs Like This?
Have you ever noticed that some stuff is written on your mind like it is written on rock? You do The Work on these beliefs but it keeps bouncing back.
What's going on? Why do some thoughts resist questioning so much?
It's not because they aren't painful. Some very painful beliefs persist in the face of inquiry. And it's not because these beliefs are rock solid theories of life. There are some pretty shoddy ideas that still resist questioning.
So why do our core beliefs resist questioning?
Our Core Beliefs Persist For Two Main Reasons
1. Because we're not really open to questioning them
2. Because we don't do enough research to prove them wrong
This is exactly what happened to the Copernican model of the universe. The Church was not open to opposing theories. And it took centuries to gather enough evidence to prove that the Church was wrong.
And the same thing can happen to us when we're doing The Work.
We May Think We're Open When We're Not
Have you ever sat down to do The Work and found that you just can't sink into it? You might answer the questions with a wave of the hand. Or you might simply be unable to find genuine examples of the turnaounds.
In these cases it may seem that The Work doesn't work for us. We were just as stuck after doing The Work as before.
It could be that we were not really open to answering the questions. We may have answered them somewhat, but our mind was not willing to look for real evidence. This lack of openness keeps us from finding the truth.
And it keeps us from another thing.
It Keeps Us From Doing Enough Research To Prove The Point
For the Copernican theory to be accepted, it took 200 years of research to come up with enough solid evidence to support it in the face of the Church's opposition.
When we do The Work, it's easy to give up too soon in the face of our own internal opposition. This is especially true when looking for examples of the turnarounds. And when we give up too soon, we go back to the old paradigm. Until the new theory is proven, the old one still stands.
That's why we keep on believing the same thing, even after doing The Work.
But if You're Serious About The Work, You'll Keep Looking For Examples
Let's say you're working on a core belief that "I have to be successful." The turnaround is "I don't have to be successful." This may sound nice at first, kind of like a dream. "I don't have to be successful. How nice." And you may find some examples of how you would be OK even if you weren't successful. But you don't really believe it.
And when you're done with The Work, you can feel how you still believe the thought. "I have to be successful." It's still sitting there. So what to do? The Work didn't seem to work the first time. Should you do it again? And how long should you keep on working a stressful belief that is so firmly embedded in your mind?
The Answer Is: It Depends
It depends on how interested in finding out the truth you really are. Maybe you're just not that open right now. Who knows, you may be more open at some other time.
But if you are open to continuing the inquiry, then here are three suggestions that can help when you're dealing with a core belief that seems like it's etched in stone.
1. Focus on Specifics
2. Come at it from different angles
3. Test it in real life
Let's look at each of these one by one.
1. Keep Inquiry Focused On Specifics
Galileo didn't try to prove the Copernican model in general. He focused on the phases of Venus. And from looking there, he soon found solid evidence to support the theory in general.
When you start to do The Work on the concept, "I have to be successful," your mind may have trouble getting a handle on the concept. It's too general. What does successful look like? Successful at what? The lack of specifics is a handicap.
But if you think of a specific time when this thought came up for you. Or if you wait for the next time that this thought pops up. Then you have a specific situation to deal with. And specifics are always easier for the mind to handle.
For example, maybe the thought, "I have to be successful," came to you the last time you visited the house of a friend who is successful. The specifics of that situation will give you a plethora of concrete examples as you do The Work.
Do The Work on "I have to be successful" from that situation and you will be much more likely to find something convincing as you do The Work.
This brings us to the second thing that can help as you question a core belief.
2. Come At Your Core Belief From Different Angles
If you're getting nowhere doing The Work on your belief, "I have to be successful," then keep an eye out for as many real life examples as you can.
Maybe last week, the thought came up, "I have to be successful," when you were playing cards with a friend. Another time, you had the thought when you were choosing a major in college. And just today, the thought popped up when someone criticized your work.
These are all real life examples of how this belief, "I have to be successful," is operating. By doing The Work on "I have to be successful" in each of these real life situations, more and more of the pieces of the puzzle will come together.
For deep beliefs, you may end up doing The Work on them dozens of times using dozens of different situations as reference points. Over time, the belief will weaken as the evidence continues to pour in from all sides.
And this brings us to the third thing that can help with stressful core beliefs.
3. Test Your Turnarounds In Real Life
Do what the scientists have always done. Test it. It's one thing to see intellectually that "I don't have to be successful." This is a turnaround. But it does not become a living turnaround until you try it out in real life.
You might test it one day like this. You're playing cards with your friends, and instead of trying to win, you back off a bit and see how it goes. This is a living turnaround. You're testing the idea that "I don't have to be successful."
This is practicing what you preach. It's asking the question, "Does the real world uphold the turnaround or not?" If you test it, you'll find out. And as you keep testing, more evidence will keep pouring in. Evidence that eventually will turn the tide.
So Let's Summarize
Some core beliefs persist even after doing a session of The Work on them because we're not really open to questioning those beliefs, and we don't persist in finding evidence to prove them wrong. These beliefs are deeper, and more dear to us. And they need special treatment.
If you are open to doing The Work on your most precious beliefs, here are three things to help:
1. Focus on Specifics
2. Come at it from different angles
3. Test it in real life
This is what the scientists did to prove that the Earth revolves around the Sun. They focused on specifics. They came at it from different angles. And they tested it. The result of their efforts has changed the way we view the world.
The same thing happens when you do The Work. If you put these three points to practice, you will eventually uncover the truth. Not just intellectually, but in the core of your being.
Todd Smith is a facilitator of The Work of Byron Katie, and can help you go deeper in your work. Find out how you can schedule a longer session with Todd.
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This Brett Whiteley article discusses some reasons why the famous Australian artist, was such an international hit, consistently selling paintings for record prices.
It also warns against losing your life to your art.
Brett Whiteley was a famous Australian artist who died a sad death in 1992. He became a dominant painter in the years before his fatal overdose, managing to sell paintings for record prices in Australia.
Point 1. Whiteley was a highly talented artist and very street smart. Becoming well connected amongst international art circles.
Brett Whiteley was born in Sydney on 1939 and after leaving school at age 17 he spent time working in an advertising agency named Lintas. He was mostly a self taught artist, and contemporary of Fred Williams . Brett was heavily influenced by famous Australian artists like William Dobell, Lloyd Rees and Russell Drysdale.
Point 2. Brett understood a formal art degree is not a prerequisite to becoming a successful artist.
He once said that, "Art is an argument between what a thing looks like and what it means." It seemed much of Whiteley's life was an internal argument.
Point 3. The creative personality must be careful to maintain a healthy balanced mind to continue creating high quality art.
Unfortunately, Brett Whiteley suffered in this area. Losing control of his life. It was a continual struggle between two opposing forces, a creative drive, which built his life on art, but also a destructive drive, which finally claimed his life, after a heroin overdose in a lonely hotel in Wollongong, Australia.
Like many creative souls, Whiteley can remember distinctly when he knew being a painter was his destiny. He recalls one Sunday in a Presbyterian church he picked up a book on Vincent VanGogh and studied it intensely and found a love for art .
Point 4. Life changing occurences can profoundly alter a creative destiny at any given moment
He says, "I remember having this very, very powerful sense that my destiny was to completely give myself to painting – that I would be a painter and it was a remarkable moment of knowing that."
Point 5. There is tremendous freedom , power and success in knowing what you love and are meant to be and do in life.
In another publication Brett Whiteley recalls, "about eleven I decided, and I quite deliberately decided, that I would go into an art which I didn't have to answer to anyone"
Brett was a highly sensitive personality, with a sharp artistic eye and wonderful sense of perspective and creative balance. However, as his personal life lost a healthy balance and he began to spin out of control due to a heroin addiction, the prices of his paintings soared. In a strange irony, it seemed his troubled and tormented personal life added credibility and depth of volume to his fine art.
Point 6. Trials and tribulations adds character and depth to an artists body of work.
In 1999 Whiteley's painting called 'The Jacaranda Tree' was sold for $1,982,000, a record price for any contemporary Australian painter . Then again in 2007, he broke a local record with his painting 'The Olgas for Ernest Giles' which sold for $3.5 million. Another painting, depicting the Sydney Opera House, was sold for $2.8 million.
Point 7. Brett Whiteley continues to sell paintings for record breaking prices in Australia after his death.
These figures came as no surprise to many who knew Brett Whiteley, who always planned his exhibitions with shrewd calculation in order to gain maximum public impact. But underneath the marketing and publicity buzz, he was a hard working and dedicated painter.
Point 8. Brett didn't limit himself artistically, but rather experimented and left his trademark style open to change.
In a most interesting observation by the internationally famous Australian art critic Robert Hughes, who wrote in The Bulletin magazine about Whiteley saying, "his outstanding act as a painter is the decision not to be original – not to narrow his style into the crippling uniqueness of a trademark, but to keep it open, and to preserve the flow of ideas between his art environment and his own experience".
But the mild cynicism underlying his statement is typical from Robert Hughes. I believe, like many others, that much of Whiteley's art is highly original, especially his abstract images and the Bathroom series in which he painted his wife naked.
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This is Part 2 of my prior post, Mobile Application Development Best Practices Part 1, that covered SDLC, Usability, and Security. In this post, I cover mobile app Testing and Deployment best practices.
Testing mobile apps presents a unique set of challenges not typically encountered on the more traditional desktop platform. Besides the considerable fragmentation of devices and operating systems, many additional factors contribute to the mobile ecosystem's complexity: the variety of device hardware/form factors/screen resolutions, reliance on network bandwidth, as well as interference from background tasks/alerts/notifications. Multiple app-testing platforms exist, from virtual simulators to cloud solutions to the actual devices themselves. Knowing when to leverage each platform for testing will lead to significant cost savings and increase overall effectiveness.
- Simulators and On-Device Testing – To most-accurately measure a mobile app's usability and performance, simulators can be leveraged early in the development process but any final testing must be conducted on the device itself.
- Test Coverage – Ensure adequate device/browser/OS coverage when testing to identify any unusual behaviors caused by nuances or edge-case scenarios.
- Continuous Testing – Making testing a part of continuous delivery will help identify defects sooner rather than later, making them easier and cheaper to correct.
- Automation – Scripts are an effective way to automate testing, thereby reducing the time and cost of the process.
Testing "in the wild" – Performing tests under real-world circumstances will paint a true picture of how the app will perform on a user's device, allowing testing for scenarios such as multiple apps running at once, blotchy network, inadequate memory, busy processor, etc.
- Mobile Specific Scenarios – Never overlook testing for mobile-specific conditions such as memory leaks, battery performance, network variability (switching between 3G/4G/Wifi), interruptions from other apps (e.g. incoming phone call), walk-away, timeouts, etc.
Though several options for deploying mobile apps exist, it is critical that an organization picks the distribution channel appropriate to their target audience. The technology stack chosen to initially build the mobile application will also affect later deployment options. Organizations must understand the benefits and drawbacks associated with each deployment option.
- Release Cycles – A well-defined release cycle plan for deploying mobile apps is instrumental for smooth deployments.
- Hosting Environments – An explicit delineation of hosting environments (development, test, production, and a strategy for promoting code from one environment to the next) is also important. Additionally, it is crucial to maintain consistency across these environments.
- Continuous Deployment – Adopting continuous deployment as part of delivery will prevent massive deployments (large download files) and help minimize downtime for end users.
- Automation – Automating the process of installing, configuring, and provisioning mobile apps based on established policies and profiles will save time and ultimately result in significant cost savings.
- Developer Certifications – When deploying to commercial app stores, always ensure developer certificates are up-to-date to prevent any possible delays.
- App Properties – Delays may also be prevented by ensuring all properties of the mobile app have been updated (signature, version, compatibility, etc) prior to deployment.
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Born in Madrid (Spain) on October 26, 1964. Spanish citizen and US
permanent resident. Licenciado (B.A.) in Economics at the Universidad
Complutense de Madrid in 1987. Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard
University in 1992. Member of the Faculty at Brown University since 1992, where he is a full professor since 1997. he has held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and Universidad Carlos III and CEMFI (Madrid). He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and has been a Member of the Council of the Game Theory Society. He has been a Co-Editor of Economics Letters and an Associate Editor of other journals, including Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Economic Theory, Research in Economics and Mathematical Social Sciences. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Deutsche Bank. He was the recipient of the Fundacion Banco Herrero Prize, awarded to Spanish economists under 40. His updated CV is here: http://www.econ.brown.edu/faculty/serrano/pdfs/cv.pdf
A. M. Feldman and R. Serrano, Welfare Economics and Social Choice Theory (2nd edition), Springer, New York, (2006).
R. Serrano and R. Vohra, "Information Transmission in Coalitional Voting Games," (2005), Working Paper 2005-01, Department of Economics, Brown University.
G. de Clippel and R. Serrano, "Marginal Contributions and Externalities in the Value," (2005), Working Paper 2005-11, Department of Economics, Brown University.
R. Serrano, "Alfred Marshall," entry in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, (2005 edition).
R. Serrano and R. Vohra, "A Characterization of Virtual Bayesian Implementation," Games and Economic Behavior 50, (2005), 312-331.
R. Serrano, "Fifty Years of the Nash Program, 1953-2003," Investigaciones Econ´omicas 29, (2005), 219-258.
P. Gottardi and R. Serrano, "Market Power and Information Revelation in Dynamic Trading," Journal of the European Economic Association 3, (2005), 1279-1317.
A. Kar, I. Ray and R. Serrano, "Multiple Equilibria as a Difficulty in Understanding Correlated Distributions," (2005), Working Paper 2005-10, Department of Economics, Brown University.
M. Kandori, R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Decentralized Trade, Random Utility and the Evolution of Social Welfare," (2004), Working Paper 2004-06, Department of Economics, Brown University.
R. Serrano and R. Vohra, "Mixed-Strategy Equilibrium Implementation," (2004), Mimeo, Department of Economics, Brown University.
A. Ben-Shoham, R. Serrano and O. Volij, "The Evolution of Exchange," Journal of Economic Theory 114, (2004), 310-328.
T. Kunimoto and R. Serrano, "Bargaining and Competition Revisited," Journal of Economic Theory 115, (2004), 78-88.
R. Serrano, "The Theory of Implementation of Social Choice Rules," SIAM Review 46, (2004), 377-414.
R. Serrano, "The Measurement of Intellectual Influence: the Views of a Sceptic," Economics Bulletin 1, No. 3, (2004), 1-6.
Y. In and R. Serrano, "Agenda Restrictions in Multi-Issue Bargaining," Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 53, (2004), 385-399.
R. Serrano, "Adam Smith," entry in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, (2004 edition).
R. Serrano, "On Watson's Non-Forcing Contracts and Renegotiation," (2004), Working Paper 2004-03, Department of Economics, Brown University.
R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Mistakes in Cooperation: the Stochastic Stability of Edgeworth's Recontracting," (2003), Working Paper 2003-23, Department of Economics, Brown University.
R. Serrano, "John Forbes Nash Jr.," entry in World Book Encyclopedia, World Book Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, (2003 edition).
Y. In and R. Serrano, "Agenda Restrictions in Multi-Issue Bargaining (II): Unrestricted Agendas," Economics Letters 79, (2003), 325-331.
R. Serrano, Axiomatic Consensus Theory in Group Choice and Biomathematics by W. H.E. Day and F.R. McMorris, (2003), SIAM, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, SIAM Review 47, (2005), 392-393.
R. Serrano and R. Vohra, "Bargaining and Bargaining Sets," Games and Economic Behavior 39, (2002), 292-308.
R. Serrano and R. Vohra, "Implementing the Mas-Colell Bargaining Set," Investigaciones Econ´omicas 26, (2002), 285-298.
R. Serrano, "Decentralized Information and theWalrasian Outcome: a Pairwise Meetings Market with Private Values," Journal of Mathematical Economics 38, (2002), 65-89.
S. Baliga and R. Serrano, "Multilateral Negotiations with Private Side-Deals: a Multiplicity Example," Economics Bulletin 3, No. 1, (2001), 1-7.
M. R. Blouin and R. Serrano, "A Decentralized Market with Common Values Uncertainty: Non-Steady States," Review of Economic Studies 68, (2001), 323-346.
R. Serrano, R. Vohra and O. Volij, "On the Failure of Core Convergence in Economies with Asymmetric Information," Econometrica 69, (2001), 1685-1696.
R. Serrano and R. Vohra, "Some Limitations of Virtual Bayesian Implementation," Econometrica 69, (2001), 785-792.
J. Dreier and R. Serrano, "Rationality and Paradox in Decision Making," Brown University Faculty Bulletin, (Fall 2001), 30-33.
R. Serrano and K.-I. Shimomura, "A Comparison of the Average Prekernel and the Prekernel," (2001), Working Paper 2001-30, Department of Economics, Brown University.
N. Dagan, R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Bargaining, Coalitions and Competition," Economic Theory 15, (2000), 279-296.
R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Walrasian Allocations without Price-Taking Behavior," Journal of Economic Theory 95, (2000), 79-106.
N. Dagan, R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Feasible Implementation of Taxation Methods," Review of Economic Design 4, (1999), 57-72.
R. Serrano and I. Zapater, "The Three-Legged Race: Cooperating to Compete," Games and Economic Behavior 22, (1998), 343-363.
R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Axiomatizations of Neoclassical Concepts for Economies," Journal of Mathematical Economics 30, (1998), 87-108.
N. Dagan, R. Serrano and O. Volij, "Comment on McLennan and Sonnenschein 'Sequential Bargaining as a Noncooperative Foundation for Walrasian Equilibrium'," Econometrica 66, (1998), 1231-1233.
R. Serrano and K.-I. Shimomura, "Beyond Nash Bargaining Theory: the Nash Set," Journal of Economic Theory 83, (1998), 286-307.
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Review: Captain Marvel
By aleanaf
23 Mar 19
Badass but not quiteCaptain Marvel gained immense pressure to excel well as its first female lead in a MCU film.
The character was strong and determined but lacked a bit in terms of personality, although was contrasted with the humour given by Samuel L. Jackson's 'Nick Fury'.
It's a solid start for an origin story with some awesome action sequences and light hearted moments between characters
The cinematography and tone of the film could have taken more advantage of the 90s Top Gun Vibe froma directorial stand point but I still enjoyed watching this film and am excited to see more of her in future film.


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What is your current job? I work as a lululemon athletica educator and go to school full time as a marketing major at the University of San Diego.
How many hours a day do you work out? I work out between 2 and 3 hours a day. I spend 30-60 minutes during cardio and the rest of the time lifting weights.
When and why did you first get interested in becoming fit? I was always involved in sports growing up as a kid. I played volleyball, soccer and was a thrower for track and field. My first year of college, I started dating a bodybuilder who introduced me to the gym/fitness lifestyle, and from then on I was hooked.
Where does your largest motivation source come from? My largest motivation comes from my biggest inspirations, like Anllela Sagra, Nikki Blackketter, and Ekaterina Shokhina.
What is your current workout routine? I work out six days a week. On Day 1, I work on my glutes, hamstrings and abs. On Day 2, I work on my shoulders and triceps. Day 3 is for my back and Biceps. On Day 4, it's my quads, calves and abs. Day 5 is for my chest, shoulders and triceps. And on Day 6, I work on my legs and abs.
What is your secret to gaining muscle? My secret to gaining muscle is maintaining a lean diet, lifting six times a week with heavy weights and lower numbers of repetitions.
What is your diet like? I'm following a ketogenic diet right now. It's very low carb, but a higher fat diet. It lowers blood sugar and insulin levels and shifts the body's metabolism away from carbs, and towards fat and ketones.
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Meal 1: 1 cup egg whites and 1 whole egg with spinach and tomatoes
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Meal 4: Almond milk, protein powder, peanut butter, cocoa powder and stevia as a milkshake
Meal 5: 4 ounces lean steak or bison, 2 whole eggs and a side salad
Do you change your training and eating based on what time of the year it is? Or do you stay lean year long? I try to stay lean all year long with the exception of my favorite holidays, Thanksgiving and Christmas and my birthday. Although I will eat off my diet on these days, I try not to go crazy and avoid a food coma at all costs.
What is your favorite past time, besides working out? My favorite past time was after my first National Physique Committee Bikini competition in Vegas. I had just gotten off stage from placing in the top 5 in both the Open Division and Novice Division, when my dad approached me with a big hug and told me that he has never been more proud of me than at that moment. It's a time I will never forget.
What is your favorite sports team? Favorite sports teams are the Los Angeles Kings and the Seattle Seahawks.
What is the one food you can't live without? Oh, a food I can't live without… both pizza and donuts. Although I don't eat either of them too often, not having them as my cheat meal in my life would be devastating.
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What is your favorite quote? "When you want to succeed, as bad as you want to breathe, then you'll be successful." Eric Thomas
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The Inspector General's report on Andrew McCabe reveals a phone call he got reprimanding him for the Clinton Foundation investigation.
In August 2016, amid an ongoing Clinton Foundation investigation, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe received a phone call from the principal associate deputy attorney general Matthew Axelrod. Whatever McCabe's problems, he told the IG that he considered that call way over the line. Axelrod was angry with the FBI for investigating the Clinton Foundation and was calling to say so.
Other experts agree with McCabe that such a call is wrong. Yet Axelrod did it anyway.
Did he act on his own without fearing any possible consequences? Or was he ordered or pressured to try to get the investigation stopped?
The Washington Times reports, "Obama Justice Dept.'s attempts to influence investigations exposed in McCabe probe."
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Tucked inside the inspector general's report on former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was the story of an August 2016 phone call from a high-ranking Justice Department official who Mr. McCabe thought was trying to shut down the FBI's probe into the Clinton Foundation at a time when Hillary Clinton was running for president.
The official was "very pissed off" at the FBI, the report says […].
Former FBI officials said the fact that a call was made is even more stunning than its content.
James Wedick, who conducted corruption investigations at the bureau, said during 35 years there he never fielded a call from the Justice Department about any of his cases. He said it suggested interference.
"It is bizarre – and that word can't be used enough – to have the Justice Department call the FBI's deputy director and try to influence the outcome of an active corruption investigation," he said. "They can have some input, but they shouldn't be operationally in control like it appears they were from this call."
Although the inspector general report did not identify the official, sources at both former FBI and Justice Department officials identified him as Matthew Axelrod, who was the principal associate deputy attorney general — the title the IG report did use.
As it was, Mr. McCabe thought the call was out of bounds.
He told the inspector general that during the Aug. 12, 2016, call the principal associate deputy attorney general expressed concerns about FBI agents taking overt steps in the Clinton Foundation investigation during the presidential campaign.
"According to McCabe, he pushed back, asking 'are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?'" the report said. "McCabe told us that the conversation was 'very dramatic' and he never had a similar confrontation like the PADAG call with a high-level department official in his entire FBI career."
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In the bitter cold of winter, Tomas and his son, Peter, come to a small Eastern European village and settle there as woodcutters. But Tomas is a man with a past; a past that is tracking him with deadly intent. When a flamboyant band of gypsies arrives, Peter is quickly infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess, Sofia. But meanwhile, the dead don't seem to be staying in their graves. And as surely as the snow falls in the forest of a hundred thousand silver birch trees, father and son must face a soulless enemy and a terrifying destiny…
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