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The Biorepository for Scripps Health (BIF)
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The investigators propose to establish a Biorepository of both diseased and normal tissue collected from subjects undergoing surgery for solid tumor resection. In cooperation with the Scripps Cancer registry, the investigators will also establish an anonymized database of corresponding clinical information including response to treatment, disease status, and recurrence.
The Biorepository for Scripps Health will be able to process, preserve, and distribute samples to scientific and medical researchers at Scripps.
|Other: No study intervention
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
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|The Biorepository for Scripps Health
- Establish a Biorepository of both diseased and normal tissue [ Time Frame: six years ]Establish a Biorepository of both diseased and normal tissue
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
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|November 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2020
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|December 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Patients undergoing surgical resection of a solid tumor.
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Biorepository samples will be utilized in a variety of research studies intended to help in the diagnosis and/or treatment of patients, including the possible identification of therapeutic targets or genetic identifiers of cancers and possibly other diseases. Various technologies including gene expression, genotyping, DNA and RNA sequencing, protein and metabolite analysis may be used in the course of the various studies An exemplary project currently under consideration is one in which Scripps Genomic Medicine is comparing the DNA sequence of both a patient's tumor and their germline DNA to identify genetic differences between the two. These differences could help identify specific pathways that are regulating the tumor and disease thus leading to potentially valuable information in how to treat that individual patient as well as other patients with similar genetic characteristics. In addition, differences between the tumor and germ-line observed in multiple patients could help identify therapeutic targets that are cancer specific. A secondary exemplary project which is currently underway is one in which Scripps Genomic Medicine is undertaking RNA sequencing to identify "fusion genes" which are hybrid genes formed from two previously separate genes and are a type of genetic mutation that has been identified in certain types of cancers including those of the prostate and breast and certain forms of leukemia. Identifying new fusion genes could provide valuable insights into both treatment protocols and new therapeutic targets.
The goal of this project is to expand and improve the bio-repository already established within the Scripps Genomic Medicine (SGM) group. Presently, the collection has been focused on the collection of predominately prostate tumors and blood as the corresponding normal tissue. The current collection is annotated with pathology information and limited medical information collected from the patient during the consenting process; no post surgical information is collected. We believe that collection can be enhanced by (i) modifying the tumor collection process, (ii) simplifying the means of consenting the patients such that it relies upon the general surgical consent and (iii) using de-identified medical data already consolidated in the Cancer registry as a means of annotating the tissue samples.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
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|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age 18 or older
- Undergoing surgical resection of solid tumor
- Completion of general surgical consent (authorizing "pathologist to use his or her discretion in the disposition or use of any tissues removed during surgery or other procedure unless otherwise directed by my physician. I understand that tissues that are removed may be used for teaching purposes as well as research, institutional or commercial".)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Does not meet all of the inclusion criteria above.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01006239
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|Scripps Mercy Hospital
|San Diego, California, United States, 92103
|Principal Investigator:
|Eric J Topol, MD
|Scripps Translational Science Institute and Genomic Medicine
|Responsible Party:
|Eric Topol, MD, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute, Scripps Translational Science Institute
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01006239 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|October 29, 2009
|Last Updated:
|May 2, 2017
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Anyone else watching the trend towards embedded computer applications that get you going long before a traditional boot-up? Having seen it recently with SplashTop coming to the Lenovo S10e netbook and included with the Voodoo Envy, it's impressive. These solutions are usually some type of Linux module that fires up in just a few seconds and offers you near-instant access to a few apps like a browser, Skype client or e-mail application. Since you don't have to sit through a minute or more of booting, you get in, do your thing and get out as needed.
Phoenix Technologies, a long-time provided of BIOS solutions for computers, just announced their partnership that brings Opera to an instant-on, always connected solution. Phoenix calls their platform HyperSpace and claims 25% more battery life for your computer with this approach. Of course, you'd have to use the HyperSpace environment in lieu of your standard computing model to see any overall battery savings, but the idea is sound. Interestingly, Phoenix says that their virtual computing environment runs independent of Windows while booting, shutting down or even when Windows itself is up and running.
Usually, these approaches go with a Mozilla-based browser, but Phoenix opted for the popular Opera browser for HyperSpace. This doesn't sound like a slimmed-down version of Opera either since some of the best features will be available: Opera Link for synchronizing bookmarks and widgets for additional bite-sized bits of functionality are supported. I'd expect to hear about more apps joining with Opera in Phoenix's HyperSpace virtual environment… the company also offers BeInSync, which would be a great addition to HyperSpace in my opinion. If you could sync various docs and data with your other devices before your computer is even booted, it could save even more time.

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Poll: Which woman inspires you the most?
The following women received the most nominations from readers. Which one most inspires you?
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- Catherine Hamlin
- Fiona Wood
- Your mum
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The word "inspires" from the question settled it for me. I admire Dr Hamlin and Germaine Greer for different reasons.
But Julia Gillard 'inspires' me because it shows that all that work we older feminists put in 30+ years ago can bear fruit. And now that we have both a woman PM and a woman GG, we have stepped up the role modelling for everyone.
Young women with ambitions. Foolish people who would have said, in the 70s, that women cannot do demanding jobs. Parents of girls.
It's all good.
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The expectation of how my life would pan out changed on reading The Female Eunuch. I am now financially secure, retired at the top of a satisfying career and am blissfully happy childfree.
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- March 08, 2011, 10:53AM
To be 'inspirational' I reckon is more than being just a high achiever. Somebody gave up the opportunity to be a highly paid high achiever in the best country in the world so that the lowest in a third-world country could have new life, dignity, and know they are loved. Hats off to Dr Hamlin.
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I originally posted this on the Belfast Telegraph's comment pages, in response to a gay Christian with whom I was on the same side of the debate, but for different reasons. He believed there was no scriptural evidence that homosexuality was a sin. I consider scriptural evidence of any kind as bullshit, and defend his sexual orientation on purely moral humanistic grounds.
"For an omnipotent, omni-prescient being, he does a piss-poor job of making himself known.
And why 'he'? If he is indeed the only god, and has only ever been (i.e. there are no goddesses to get funky with), then he does not reproduce and would have no gender. God should be an 'it' – just another example of the misogyny of religion 😛
I've heard the possibility that we are an experiment, our Universe sat in a petri-dish in a lab. If so, it seems God just nipped out for a cig* (edited – my original choice of a word for cigarette could have been better chosen in view of the topic!) and some coffee and missed the last 13.7 billion years of our existence while he was dipping his digestive….sloppy 😛
I've always felt that if I was going to make a Universe, I'd design it with rules that I didn't subsequently need to violate to make stuff happen – I'd far rather allow stuff to emerge by itself (morality is itself emergent, a natural product of any social species). If I was a gardener, I'd just plant a bit of woodland and let it go 'au naturel' – the result would be more beautiful than I could manage.
I recall once pointing out to a bright lad who happened to have taken the 6 day creation for granted – "If I was God, and I was making a Universe, why would I rush? I'm immortal, right?". I'm not saying you're a young Earth creationist, GC (I credit you with too much intelligence for that), but religions of all kinds are stacked on heaps of assumptions. I feel on much firmer ground perched on the shoulders of giants, all of them peer-reviewed, their ideas tested to destruction. I allow myself the odd indulgence of my own opinion too, mind."


text: You could then put your 2000 reals in a Brazilian bank, earn 200 reals interest, and one-year later, exchange them back for $1,100. Since you locked in the exchange rate in the future, you were able to make a risk-free trade. Essentially, you put American dollars into a Brazilian bank for one year by completely eliminating currency risk. This is a textbook example of arbitrage. Traders (now high speed computers) will execute these trades over and over until the risk-free profit disappears. The purchase of reals today will push up the spot price, such that $1 buys less than 2 real. The buying of dollars in the future will raise the future price of dollars. Investors will have to pay more for real today and get less in return when they switch back one year from now. In this way, the profit opportunity is closed. Furthermore, interest rates could change to make the profit disappear. If everyone is switching from dollars to reals today, the U.S. interest rate may increase and the interest rate in Brazil may fall. The benefit of these contracts is that they allow a foreign investor to approximate the return of a money market fund in a foreign currency, thanks to the implied yield that is calculated into the contract. In some cases, where arbitrage is easier to conduct, this gets very close to the actual rate of interest in a country. Through August, almost every currency ETF in WisdomTree's lineup that was in existence before 2009 has outperformed the currency itself, thanks to the implied yields in the forward contracts.


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Macquarie Equities analysts have cut their earnings forecasts on listed property trusts with high exposure to the United States, based on the stronger Australian dollar. They now expect our dollar to end the calendar year at US99¢, up from its previous forecast of US94¢. EDT Retail Trust was hardest hit, Macquarie slashing its EPS forecast by 2.5 per cent, 3.5 per cent and 4.2 per cent for fiscal 2011, 2012 and 2013 respectively.
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Warehouse operator ProLogis has failed to lift its stake in ProLogis European Properties since its April 22 bid. ProLogis has bought 8818 ordinary units in the Luxembourg-based fund known as PEPR, taking its stake to 39 per cent. At the time of the bid, it owned 38.9 per cent of the units and valued the fund at €1.2 billion ($1.63 billion). Bloomberg
Colliers International has appointed Peter Black as its national design director. He was most recently interiors principal at HASSELL, responsible for designing workplace, hospitality and building refurbishment projects. Ainslie Chandler
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package: www.debian.org Hi, <h01ger> http://www.debian.org/releases/ says etch is obsolete. shouldnt that say its "current oldstable release" and changed to "obsolete stable" once security support is ceased? <luk__> very probably, please be so kind to update it :-) ~/Projects/debian-www/webwml$ cvs up cvs [update aborted]: connect to cvs.debian.org(18.104.22.168):2401 failed: Connection timed out I'd appreciate if someone else could do it ;-) regards, Holger
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27 August 2012
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This series of tutorials is designed for developers with an intermediate to advanced understanding of ActionScript 3 and building Adobe AIR applications. Familiarity with Flash Builder, Java, and Objective-C will also be helpful.
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Lately, I've been focused on writing native extensions for Adobe AIR. The project I'm currently working on requires numerous custom behaviors, many of which I could only deliver using native extensions. I've learned a great deal, particularly since I haven't coded extensively with iOS or Android.
In this tutorial series, I share what I've learned and show you how to create your own AIR native extension for both iOS and Android. At the end of the series you will have a fully functional and useful native extension. You can also download the completed extension for your own use via the GitHub link above or at the end of this tutorial.
Changing the volume of a video while it's playing in Flash Player in a web browser is easy, particularly if you're using Open Source Media Framework (OSMF). You simply change the value assigned to
MediaPlayer.volume . Unfortunately, when the video is playing in an Adobe AIR application on a mobile device, changing the value assigned to
MediaPlayer.volume does not produce the behavior that you might expect.
Both Android and iOS have a system-wide media volume. Pressing the hardware volume buttons while media is playing causes the media volume to be adjusted. The system volume is applied to the Adobe AIR application and overrides the volume set by the user within the Adobe AIR application. This leads to a problem when the AIR application is set at full volume, but the system media volume is muted. If you want to use a slider control in your application to control the audio (or if you have any UI elements or logic that is based off of the volume) you're in trouble as you will be accessing the wrong volume.
To solve this problem, you can create a native extension that interacts with the native layer to modify the system media volume, instead of using the usual methods within AIR to change the volume.
The volume native extension must have two parts. The first part is a method that can be called in AIR to adjust the system volume. The second part is a mechanism for notifying AIR whenever the user changes the system volume, either by using the hardware volume buttons or by using a different application.
The native extension has four parts:
The next three tutorials in this series will walk through each part, discussing how to write the code and potential pitfalls to consider. In the final part I cover building the ANE file.
If you are only interested in using the finished volume native extension you can get it here.
Note: If you plan on using the extension on iOS you must compile the IPA (both debug and release versions) from a Mac. It is possible to specify an external iOS SDK on Windows with AIR 3.3; however, Flash Builder for Windows does not yet support this option. You must also specify the location of the iOS SDK in the native extension settings for iOS in Flash Builder. If you'd like more information on why that is or how to do it, see Part 3 of this series.
To learn how to build the ActionScript library and the default implementation, proceed to Part 2 of this series.
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I am new to FrontlineSMS and just getting started. I am wondering whether it is possible to send sms to a group of people even if I do not have access to computer. Can I do this by simply using my mobile phone?
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Hi Pallavi,
Thanks for your post. FrontlineSMS software runs on a laptop or desktop computer, with a USB or phone connected. You can send SMS to a group of people through your mobile phone without the use of FrontlineSMS, but in order to make use of FrontlineSMS functionalities (such as managing SMS in contact groups, setting up auto-replies, exporting and analysing data etc.) you need to run the software from a computer or laptop.
You can read more about FrontlineSMS functionalities in our Help Files. Please note we also have a data collection tool called FrontlineForms, which works slightly differently, and you can find out more about this here.
I hope this helps. If you have further questions please feel free to ask.
Hi Florence,
Thank you for the response.
I do realize that FrontlineSMS runs from the computer. It's just that sometimes when we suddenly see riot in the street, which is not unusual here for safety concern we want to report this to a certain group of people like say around 70 to 80. Since you cant have access to computer or laptop at such time (night or day/or have people readily available to update online) we have been using cell phone to SMS. However, we have found difficulty sending sms from a mobile phone even though we might have created a group in the cell phone. So, I was wondering whether there were any other alternative. If FronlineSMS cannot be operated directly from a 3G cell phone do you know of any other platform that does?
Thank you for your quick reply.
Hi Pallavi,
Thanks for further information / context on your question. It is possible to use a phone to send a text message with a keyword into FrontlineSMS which will then forward directly onto a contact group. You can read more about doing this here in our help files: http://help.frontlinesms.com/manuals/184.108.40.206/keywordActions/autofo.... This is a useful function (although there are programme considerations to take into account when using it - monitoring content that gets auto-forwarded, cost of outgoing SMS etc).
I hope this is helpful, but please feel free to ask if you have further questions.
Hi Florence,
Thanks once again for the quick response.
Am wondering whether the auto-response works even when the computer where frontlineSMS is downloaded is switched off. Does this mean that the computer needs to be running all the time for auto-response to function?
Hi Pallavi
Yes the computer needs to be on all the time for you to use the Keyword feature.
Best of luck
Thanks, Domingo, for responding here. Pallavi - as Domingo says, the FrontlineSMS system does have to be on and running for the auto-forward to work.
Please let us know if you have any further questions, and feel free to keep us updated on whether you decide to use FrontlineSMS in your work.
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Mt. Pleasant Borough Council adopts map equalizing all 3 wards
Mt. Pleasant Borough Council Monday revisited an issue that came up in 2003 during the primary election when it was told it had to make sure the borough's wards were aligned so that there was an equal number of residents in each.
Mayor Gerald Lucia explained that the borough was sued in 2003 because the population of the wards in the borough was not balanced. Council was ordered to realign the wards, which took several months to complete.
In the end, 208 residents were taken from the second ward and moved into the third ward. These were residents living between Hitchman and Diamond streets, including Spruce, Howard, Washington, Braddock, Warden and the east side of Main streets.
The borough also moved 132 residents from the second ward to the first ward, including those living at Ridgeview Apartments, Harmon House and Hemlock Street.
"Unfortunately, the election board has no record of all the work that was done in 2003, so we need to pass a resolution that rectifies this," said Lucia.
On Monday, council passed a motion to adopt the map established in 2003. Council members Cory Snyder, David Pritts, Fred McCloy and Kevin McFeaters were absent from the meeting.
In other borough business, borough Manager Jeff Landy told council that an intern has been working on the borough's website.
"It's been updated — the information has been improved and so has the navigation," said Landy.
Landy also told council an area at the bottom end of town — that may potentially be called Penn Park — is going to be a reality soon.
"The county has asked that we start meeting with the engineers to begin the process," he said.
The county has awarded the bid for demolition of the old theater in that area and the process will continue to move forward pending one more historic clearance that's needed, since the building is located in the borough's historic district.
A grant from the state allowed the borough to purchase surveillance cameras that should be installed at Willows Park soccer fields as well as the playground in Frick Park by the end of the week.
Landy also told council the agenda has been set for the G-7 conference that is set for April 18 through 20. The borough will be hosting the discussion on crime control and relationships with state and regional police.
Councilwoman Diane Bailey reminded pet owners to continue cleaning up after their animals, especially if it's on someone else's property.
Council passed motions to hire Diane Washington as a part-time crossing guard and to accept a proposal from Higbee Insurance Inc. for workers' compensation insurance from March 1, 2013, to March 1, 2014 in the amount of $46,551.
This cost includes $43,372 for workers' compensation and $3,179 for police heart and lung insurance.
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It seems a lot of clothing designers are venturing off into jewelry land; Dolce & Gabbana has joined that crew.
One of their first pieces, these D&G Dolce & Gabbana Candy Bangles, $225, are quite loud and gaudy. But that's no surprise coming from the provocative Italian designing duo. I can see J.Lo rocking them, but I would prefer them if they didn't have the crystal embellishments. What do you think?
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Campus Watch Archives
October 29, 2004
Engineering-Science Building, 2501 Speedway
Occurred on 10-27-04 between 11:25 a.m. and 12:05 p.m.
Theft: A grey and black case containing a white Apple iPod was stolen when it was left on a desk in an unsecured 3rd floor computer lab. The owner had engraved his name and telephone number on the device. Loss value: $350.00.
Parking Lot 117, 1900 Comal Street
Occurred on 10-28-04 at 10:50 a.m.
Assist Outside Agency: A non-UT subject was found soliciting change from pedestrians in the Parking Lot. The subject was found to have an outstanding outside agency arrest warrant for theft and an outstanding outside agency arrest warrant for an alcohol violation.
Union Building, #4 West Mall
Occurred on 10-28-04 at 10:28 a.m.
Criminal Trespass: A non-UT subject who had been reported as making threatening statements to a UT student was found in a 1st floor room. The subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning.
Union Building, #4 West Mall
Occurred on 10-28-04 at 4:40 p.m.
Criminal Trespass: A non-UT subject was found soliciting for cash while playing a musical instrument on the south side of the building. The subject was issued a written criminal trespass warning.
200 East 21st Street
Occurred on 10-29-04 at 3:13 a.m.
Public Intoxication: A non-UT subject was stopped for speeding and driving without headlamps while driving a 1997 Toyota Camry. A UT student, who was under the age of 21, was found "unconscious" in the back seat of the vehicle. The student was found to be under the influence of an alcoholic beverage to the point Austin EMS transported her to a local emergency room for the treatment of alcohol poisoning.
Campus Wide
Occurred at various times.
Noncriminal Calls: In addition to the above criminal cases, UTPD responded to 7 alarm calls, 6 suspicious activity calls, 8 public assist calls, 1 found property call, and 2 unsecured door reports between 10-28-04 and 10-29-04.


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Rosy Rhubarb Dessert Recipe
Elsie Wigdahl bakes this comforting almond-and-rhubarb delight in her Ruthven, Iowa kitchen. "This sure-to-please dessert is quick and easy," she says.
- 4 cups chopped fresh or frozen rhubarb, thawed
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup strawberry gelatin powder
- 1 package white cake mix (regular size)
- 1 cup hot water
- 1/2 cup choppeed sweetened shredded coconut
- 1/3 cup slivered almonds, toasted
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1. Arrange rhubarb evenly in a greased 13-in. x 9-in. baking dish. Combine sugar and gelatin powder; sprinkle over rhubarb. Sprinkle dry cake mix over gelatin mixture. Pour hot water over cake mix (do not stir). Top with coconut and almonds. Drizzle with butter.
- 2. Bake at 350° for 40-45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool on wire rack. Yield: 12-15 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 piece: 288 calories, 10g fat (5g saturated fat), 12mg cholesterol, 283mg sodium, 47g carbohydrate (33g sugars, 2g fiber), 3g protein.
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A NEW woodland has sprung up on the edge of a South Lakeland village with the help of a conservation charity.
The final trees were planted on land at The Helm, near Oxenholme, by Friends of the Lake District volunteers.
During the past three years 1,500 trees have been planted and seven work parties have been busy this spring putting a further 736 into the ground.
The final 150 were planted by volunteers, including young people from the Brathay Trust at Ambleside, regular Friends of the Lake District volunteers and a group of friends planting eight oak trees in memory of a friend who often walked at the beauty spot on the edge of Kendal.
The wood has been created with help from grant funding from Natural England through Higher Level Stewardship.
The scheme helps fund land management for the environment by rewarding conservation work such as tree planting and habitat creation.
Trees have also been donated through the Woodland Trust free tree scheme, as well as by local people, some of whom have bought a tree as a gift for a loved one.
Friends of the Lake District policy officer Judith Moore said: "I have really loved working with our partners and local volunteers to create this new wood.
"Volunteers have planted a range of native trees including oak, cherry, hawthorn, blackthorn, rowan, birch and hazel.
"These trees will look lovely all year round, with autumn colour and winter berries, creating a beautiful wood for both people and wildlife."
Regular Friends of the Lake District volunteers have been at the heart of creating the new wood, sourcing local trees, planting them and looking after them through the summer.
Arthur Robinson, a regular volunteer for the Friends, asked people in the parishes of New and Old Hutton if they had any native trees from their gardens they could donate to the Helm.
In total Mr Robinson collected 110 trees, including holly, yew, oak, rowan and birch.
Work in the wood will now involve looking after the trees by keeping the bracken down and making sure tree tubes and stakes are secure.


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Do you procrastinate? If you're an actual human being – not a replicant, nor an android, nor an AI – and you're being honest, then you should probably be nodding your head. But what's odd about a ubiquitous behavior like procrastination is that it's almost unanimously regarded as being detrimental to our success, our happiness, and our progress as human beings, and yet we still put things off until later. Counterintuitive yet persistent behaviors fascinate me to no end, because they suggest (at least to me) an evolutionary incongruence at hand. They suggest that in another context, another environment, the counterintuitive was anything but.
Is procrastination just such a behavior? Let's explore:
Dear Mark,
I have noticed that procrastination is a huge problem for many of my friends and colleagues. I know that I too will make myself miserable by putting a project off until the very last minute, yet even though I recognize the misery and it's very avoidable cause, I continue to do it anyway.
Do you think there is a primal solution to this issue? Why do you think we feel the need to put off our to do lists? I cannot imagine that this attitude would have served our ancestors well. Why is it such a struggle for so many people?
I have read up on this topic a bit. There are different theories, but two of the most prevalent are the theory that procrastination is due to perfectionism and the theory that procrastination is caused by impulsivity. I would love to get your perspective on this issue and how rampant procrastination might be caused by a misalignment of our modern world with our primal selves.
Thank you!
As you mention, there are competing ideas about the cause of procrastination.
The "procrastination as perfectionism" idea says that procrastinators are actually perfectionists who are paralyzed with fear at failing to do things absolutely perfectly. They continue to put things off to avoid the chance of doing something less than perfectly. On its face, this seems limited. Sure, you could argue that the English student with an essay to write procrastinates because she can't come up with a good, defensible thesis, but what about the guy who waits til the last minute to do his taxes or pay the water bill? How does perfectionism enter into those situations?
A 2007 meta-analysis concluded that perfectionism was likely not at the heart of procrastination (PDF [1]). In fact, perfectionists are actually slightly less likely to be procrastinators. It's just that perfectionists who are procrastinators were more likely to seek professional help (because, being perfectionists, they wanted to beat procrastination), and this created a self-selection phenomenon [2] in which clinicians would report a preponderance of procrastinating perfectionists and thus skew their perception. They're not seeing all the procrastinators who aren't perfectionists, because, well, "I'll just make the appointment another day."
Piers Steel (author of that meta-analysis and bearer of a romance novel protagonist name) thinks that we procrastinate partly because the task at hand simply isn't pleasant to do and partly because we're not confident in our abilities to perform it – common sense factors that, I think, we can all agree on. If something is boring and hard to do, we're less likely to do it right away and more likely to wait until the last minute. Makes sense, right? But at the "nickel-iron" core of procrastination, says Steel, lies impulsivity. We don't like waiting for rewards, and, according to Steel's research [3], we're even inclined to take the lesser reward (say, $1000) instead of the greater reward (say, $2000) if the former is available immediately and the latter is available only a year from now.
As far as procrastination being yet another manifestation of the modern world's misalignment with our Primal selves? I think there's something to it. Consider the possibility that daily life in the millenia past was more "check to check" (without the checks, of course). Most tasks we had to complete literally could not wait – gathering the day's water (or else have none), building or finding shelter (or else be exposed to the elements) . These were tasks that, upon completion, provided immediate, tangible rewards. I think we're built for these short-range tasks with immediate rewards, but we live in a society of lists and goals and projections and commitments and schedules which don't always offer noticeable rewards upon completion.
I'm of the mind that many of the things we're "supposed to do" are alien concepts to our ancient brains. What is paying bills, really? You scribble some stuff on a slip of paper (or go online and clack on some keys) that represents a portion of your hard earned money and send it off to some faceless entity? We understand why we need to pay the water bill, but do we really get it? Nothing happens when we pay it. Nothing really changes. If we hadn't done it that day, the water would still flow, probably for at least a month. Or how about waking up early and trudging into the office to shuffle some papers for eight hours? Many of us are so disconnected from the bigger picture at our jobs, and work for such large companies, that the immediate effect of the work we do is tough to judge. And thus, to our Primal mind's eye, the work is meaningless and unfulfilling. Perhaps this accounts for some of the burnout seen in the corporate world.
What are the hardest tasks to put off? The ones that choose you, that pop up without much warning, the ones to which you must react and respond immediately. The easiest? The far-off decisions, the "safely at a distance" ones that sound good and necessary and completely rational from afar, until the day actually approaches and you realize you're going to have to do the thing – and then you don't do it, or agonize for hours and days before doing it. On one extreme, it's a falling tree branch headed straight for your head – you don't procrastinate about moving your head out of the branch's path. On the other extreme, it's deciding to go hunting when you've just nabbed a 600-pound elk cow the day before. The muscle meat is sliced and hung to dry over [4] the smoke pits, the bones and trimmings are being processed into grease, and you're eating last night's organ-stuffed intestines for breakfast. Your people have enough meat for at least a week or two, but another kill would keep you stocked for perhaps a month. You could head out and spend the day trying to nab another animal and be set for awhile if you succeed, or you could chill out by the fire, sip some fermented honey, and enjoy what you have.
What can you do, though, when you live in a world of deadlines and commitments, schedules and calendars?
Victor Hugo would strip off his clothes [5], give them to his butler, and have him hide them until he finished writing. That way, he'd be stuck indoors with no other option but to write. A Primal solution might be to take the tasks that you find yourself putting off and break them up into smaller, manageable chunks with deadlines, more akin to what our ancestors would have dealt with. I briefly detailed the Seinfeld method of productivity in this post [6], which involves making a calendar for each task with goals and deadlines on each day; take a look and see what you think. Think of it as tricking your brain into thinking a large, sprawling task is several small ones with immediate rewards.
Another option is to set things up so that you are penalized for not doing a task. Try one of the productivity tools mentioned above [6], or just give a friend a hundred bucks and tell him not to give it back unless you write the paper. Grok often completed tasks because his life and livelihood literally depended on their completion; you're probably gonna stick around regardless of your procrastination, so give your mind something tangible (not) to look forward to. Create a meaningful penalty for yourself so that your Primal brain notices and "fears" it enough to get you to do it.
In related news, the Primal Blueprint 21-Day Challenge is coming next week, so if you're a chronic procrastinator in regards to health, fitness, or you're just lagging on going Primal in general, stay tuned for the antidote: tangible rewards! Thanks for reading, guys, and be sure to leave a comment about your experience with procrastination.


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"Expectation is a prison." - Robert Fripp
"Belief is the death of intelligence." - Robert Anton Wilson
I'm easy-going and open-minded (see above).
I have a lot of friends and I tend to hang onto them.
I like to meditate daily and I can be very introspective, yet I'm
also very social and I tend to be out with friends often.
I have goals, but climbing the corporate ladder isn't one of them.
I work from home for a startup, which allows me to travel. I still
can't stop trying to help startups get off the ground,
even if most of them fail. Something about them still interests
I love listening to music, especially live. I tend to enjoy music
that is outside the realm of pop although I'm still a sucker for
Hall and Oates.
I don't connect with the culture around golf, but I love to play.
Working from home has given me the opportunity to be mobile and I've been taking full advantage of it. I've worked from the South Jersey shore, New York City, Hawaii (Kauai), Los Cabos, Lima, Saigon, Barcelona, and Buenos Aires. I'll be heading to Iceland, Mexico, and Berlin shortly.
I've been using some of my free time to help a few organizations and friends with their websites. This is by far the most rewarding work I've done so far, and hope to do more of it.
I make sure that I see as much live music as possible. I've planned several trips around concerts, and plan to do more of that in the future.
My favorite authors are Robert Anton Wilson and Kurt Vonnegut. The best book that I've read recently is "The Minotaur Takes A Cigarette Break."
I enjoy movies but I don't go see them very often. Two movies that moved me when I was young and still do are "Excalibur" and "Star Wars." I recently saw "The King's Speech" and absolutely loved it. I really enjoyed "The Matrix" too, but just the first one. Oh, and I thought "Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay" was a fantastic satire of the xenophobic environment the Bush administration helped foster after 9/11.
As for food - I love it! I'll eat any style of cooking and I'll always find something to enjoy.
My friends
My music collection
The beach
Physical activity
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'Confluence' took decade to go from dream to stage
In the decade since she began working on "A Confluence of Dreaming," playwright Tammy Ryan has seen her play become more and more timely.
When former City Theatre artistic director Marc Masterson first commissioned the play in 2000, the World Trade Center buildings were still standing. Internet chat rooms, instant messaging and e-mails were starting to take off as new forms of communication. Cyber sex sounded like something adult robots might engage in.
"Sometimes my plays tell the future in weird ways," says Ryan, who lives in Shadyside and has had plays produced at theaters across the country. "When I pitched the play to Marc, it was about the Internet and how it was going to affect us. ... Some of the things I was guessing about have come to pass."
Tonight after numerous developmental readings and workshops, as well as hours of rewrites and revisions, "A Confluence of Dreaming" will have its world premiere as the final production of the 2009-10 season of The Rep, Point Park University's professional theater company.
The play has always focused on Carol, a restless suburban housewife, frustrated by her marriage, under-appreciated by her husband and daughter. Concerns about dirty laundry and broken hot water heaters move into the background when she enters the online cyber sex world, engaging in virtual sex with a Manhattan resident she knows as TALL+DARK+HANDSOME.
Fantasy collides with reality when she takes his online dare to come visit him in New York City.
The play is now set in the weeks and days just before the attack on the World Trade Center reduced the two towers to rubble, a decision Ryan made based on her reactions to that event.
"Suddenly, the whole play didn't make any sense to me. As an artist I didn't think I could write any play that wasn't about 9/11," she says. "As I rewrote it, it became about this couple. ... A lot of the play was seen through the prism of Sept. 11."
Also, Ryan says, around the same time Internet usage was becoming more widespread and having a greater impact on people's lives. A lot of people were getting involved in cyber sex — attracted, Ryan believes, by the freedom of having anonymous interaction with people.
"This was my effort to understand that," says Ryan.
Over the next 10 years, Ryan would put "A Confluence of Dreaming" away while she worked on other plays. But she kept returning to work on it.
Despite its dark side, the play is funny, Ryan says.
"I wanted it to be a comedy and I think people are going to enjoy it," she says.Additional Information:
'A Confluence of Dreaming'
Produced by: The Rep, Point Park University's professional theater company
When: Through June 12. Performances: 8 p.m. Thursdays through Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays
Admission: $15 today only, $24 to $27 rest of run
Where: Studio Theater, Pittsburgh Playhouse, 222 Craft Ave., Oakland
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Abe's friends lend him wrong ideas
Japanese PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe's administration is receiving flak all round, a situation made worse by friends and like-minded people that he has recruited to push his nationalist right-wing agenda. Of particular note are Seiichi Eto, one of several special advisers to the prime minister, and KoichiHagiuda. The latter is also a special adviser to Abe but in his capacity as head of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
These two men have never held Cabinet positions. But they share Abe's nationalistic views, and are said to have the ear of the prime minister. Eto andHagiuda were believed to have talked Abe into praying at the controversial Yasukuni shrine last year. And it was Eto that Abe dispatched toWashington lastNovember to seek theUnited States government's understanding for his Yasukuni visit.
Despite negative feedback fromWashington, Abe visited Yasukuni on Dec 26, drawing an immediate reaction of "disappointment" from the US embassy. In February, in a YouTube video rebukingWashington, Eto said: "Why doesn't the US treat its ally Japan better? We are the ones who are disappointed." The government spokesman, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, rushed to explain that Eto was only voicing a "personal opinion".
However, with an April state visit by US President Barack Obama in the works, the offending video was quickly removed and Eto was made to retract his remarks. But he had already done his job of signaling to Abe's right-wing constituency that the Japanese leader couldn't care less what Washington thought.
Last month, Abe vowed to honor the landmark 1993 Kono Statement acknowledging Japan's forcible use of "comfort women" sexual slaves in WorldWar II, including Korean women. This was to persuade Korean President Park GeunHye to agree to a trilateral summit at TheHague, along with Obama.
But on the weekend before the summit, Hagiuda upset Seoul by declaring that if a reviewof the "comfort women" issue threwup fresh evidence, the government should consider rewriting the 1993 Statement. Government spokesman Suga quickly tookHagiuda to task. But wasHagiuda, like Eto, also speaking the prime minister's mind?
Highly likely, say critics, as Abe had long talked about issuing his own statement in August 2015 to mark the 70th anniversary of the end ofWorld War II. Abe is using his aides to speak to the country's nationalist fringe when he himself cannot do so for political reasons.
Unlike his first stint as prime minister in 20062007, when he surrounded himself with friends in the Cabinet, this time, Abe has clearly placed people who share his ideology in positions where they are more effective in pushing his agenda. But they are also proving to be a liability.
Take the case of KatsutoMomii, the newchairman of public broadcaster NHK, which Abe professes no liking for. SinceMomii, Abe's preferred candidate, became chairman of NHK in January, the broadcaster's traditional independence has arguably suffered.
Abe is known to consider NHK too left-wing in its views. In 2001, when he was Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, he had tried to get the broadcaster to cancel a documentary on Japan's involvement in the comfort women issue.
Significantly, Momii's first public remarks on assuming office were to cast doubt on Japan's guilt in the comfort women issue. Accused by opposition lawmakers of being unsuitable for the job of NHK chairman, Momii, a former businessman, continues to be a source of embarrassment for both the broadcaster and Abe.
But Abe's greatest liability has turned out to be former diplomat Ichiro Komatsu. An international lawexpert, Komatsu shares Abe's conviction that Japan should be allowed to take part in collective self-defense with other countries, something that is banned under the longstanding interpretation of Japan's Constitution.
To Abe's disgust, all previous directors of the Cabinet Legislative Bureau, which is responsible for vetting state-sponsored legislation, have pooh-poohed the idea of revamping the constitutional interpretation, citing legal arguments. Headhunted by Abe to head the bureau, Komatsu has the job of convincing Parliament that the current interpretation is no longer valid.
Abe thought he had the matter all sewn up. But Komatsu inexplicably picked verbal fights with elected lawmakers, both inside and outside Parliament. But Komatsu has refused to quit his post and Abe does not appear to be actively looking for a replacement either.
Abe is expected to reshuffle his Cabinet after the current parliamentary session adjourns in mid-June. But unlike his previous stint as premier, his biggest headaches this time lie outside the Cabinet. He could do with more people of the calibre of Chief Cabinet Secretary Suga, an unassuming politician who represents the voice of reason and who has proven capable at times of restraining the loose cannon that is Abe.
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Bryen et Butor
6 pm, Feb 04, 2013 | $10 general; $5 students and seniors
French experimental writer Michael Butor and French poet and painter Camille Bryan corresponded with letters, drawings, paintings and collages. Blandine Chavanne curates an exhibition of their work during this period and talks about the two men and their project.
Where: Santa Fe Art Institute
Phone: 505-424-5050
1600 St. Michael's Drive
Santa Fe, NM
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can't live without music (funk, soul, electro, 90's, 80's ...)
easily pleased in terms of movies (except maybe for scary movies)
"bon-vivant" ... yumme !
damned ... life's such a dilemma !
and so much more !
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"He's a fiery guy, and players are feeding off that. Joe is a straight shooter. When you're doing something well, he'll tell you. If you're not, he's not worried about hurting your feelings. He coaches with a lot of positive reinforcement, and guys accept that even more."
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"Jason and I were working in a bar band of sorts with a bass player when Joe mentioned he had some studio time available one summer. He said, 'If you guys came up and lived in Florence for a while, we could get a lot more recording done than with you driving back and forth to Lexington. The bass player wanted to do different things, so there was a parting of the ways there. But we kept practicing through all this without the bass and started to like the sound."
"Joe has probably been our most consistent player on both ends of the court. When you look at his offense, his defense, all of the little things he does on the court, his willingness to take the big shot, he's become a pretty versatile player, and that's what we expected out of him."
"When you're a great finisher, you'll become popular. Joe Louis was a great finisher. So was Ray Robinson. Ray Leonard. They got a man in trouble and they threw everything they had at him. Bring him down."
"The average Joe, when they see somebody on the street, a prostitute or homeless person, they turn their head and look away."
"When I hear a little about something like this, I want to get the whole story. Joe was one of the biggest icons in sports, and Marilyn was one of the biggest icons in the entertainment industry in history. It was a meeting of the two worlds."


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Azerbaijan Gazete 525, 27 August 2008
Adnan Oktar: In 1800s, there was no information, no culture, no research. We are now in the era of Internet. There are books, CDs and people's minds are wide open. They know a lot and now we merely laugh at those enmities and consider them to be very irrational….If we approach the matters with the mind of 1800s, we can accomplish no results. THE RATIONALE OF THE 1800s WILL DISAPPEAR. WE SHOULD BY NOW ENTER THE BEAUTIFUL, LOVING, UNIFYING RATIONALE OF THE 1800s. Our age is the Golden Age. We are entering an age when the Turkish-Islamic Union will be established and the entire world will live in bliss. Those dark ages have remained in the past; those times of the cold war, the detonation of atom bombs, the extermination of millions of people, prison camps. Such a picture is infamy. We will forget this infamy. This is a shame of the past times, a sin peculiar to them. We are not of the same mind. We believe that they have gone wrong. They have made grave mistakes.
TASCA (TURKISH-ARAB SCIENCE, CULTURE AND ART ASSOCIATION), 21 November 2008
Adnan Oktar: Whereas love, peace, mental calm, openness and joy lie at the heart of Islam. There is an atmosphere of celebration and friendship. To establish these things among Islamic countries and Turkish states. To establish a Turkish-Islamic Union under the leadership of Turkey and the Turkish states. We want good will and sincerity to rule here, for there to be free, reciprocal investment in industry, science and technology, and for passport and visa requirements to be lifted to that end.
Yeni Asya, 20 July 2011
Our Religion is the Religion of love and peace
Ahl al-Bayt Culture and Solidarity Foundation hosted some Sayyids (people descended from the line of our Prophet (saas)) from Iraq. Iraqi Sayyids told that peace and brotherhood are the requirements of Islamic world and said: "Our religion is a religion of love and brotherhood."


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This article was published 4/11/2013 (1386 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I had a lot of money, and two large inheritances from my family invested. I also have a professional career. But I was lonely. Along came this beautiful younger woman and suddenly I have a new expensive house in Winnipeg, a place in Florida and her kids are going to university in the U.S. on my money. She is into my money like there's no tomorrow and I can't seem to stop her. She has high-limit credit cards, which I pay, and she uses them for clothes, furniture for the house and expensive trips to see her mother and her sister overseas. She stays home (she has never had a career) and is happy to be a shopping housewife.
On the other hand, she cooks like a real chef, treats me like a king, she's wonderful in bed and says how much she loves me and I just can't seem to say no to her. Yesterday I had a talk with my accountan, and he just kept shaking his head. He said, "I've been a friend of yours as well as your accountant for 20 years and I have not seen anybody's money decrease at this rate for a long time." Then he showed me the numbers and where I was headed. My wife's last husband left her for reasons I never completely understood. She told me he was "an OK guy, but very bad with money." It appears he doesn't have much now, as he's in an apartment. Is this my fate too? Is she really a gold digger, as my accountant implies? -- Losing My Shirt to Love, Winnipeg
Dear Losing My Shirt: This woman is clever enough to choose men who can't say no to her sweetness and sexuality and she quickly gains major control of the money. Ask your accountant what should be done to stop the bleeding of your accounts, then start making changes where it makes sense, not out of anger and malice. She may leave you and find herself another guy who's easier to manipulate, but that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. If you figure out this relationship is not about love, and her sugary treatment of you in and out of bed is simply a means to get at your fortune, you will start falling out of love yourself.
If you two really do love each other, and she is more of a spoiled teenager than a conniver, you may just need to lay down the law. Relationship counselling would help you take back your power. It's interesting she said her last husband didn't know how to manage money. Clearly she doesn't respect that. With your accountant's help you can show her you can manage money well, and she can learn to respect that, or depart.
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Do you have documentation of the debits from your account. Or in other words can you print a bank statement to show the court that you have overpaid?
Okay. The amount compensated is $28...yes?
Well 14 to me and 14 to JA
Cool. Yes. I have auto-debits going from my account to hers (we both have accounts at Security Service). The only other factor is we both bought my son a car and insurance. She told me to take her half out of child support. She won't contest that she didnt say that. Her angle is I make more money and she wants more....but like I said I've paid her more based on our verbal agreement WAY beyond what the court stated I owed.
I pay her portion of car payment/ins ($155) plus two auto debits 340 and 352. However our court order divorce agreement gives me the kids during summer months and we agreed I didn't pay during summer months.....so the monthly payment is really $675 times 9 months...I paid her $1050 times nine months spead out over 12 months for past 3 plus years.
The court will definitely consider that you have been paying 375 over what was ordered. So you have filed a petition to modify child support?
At this point we've agreed to do a review at the CPU. If that doesn't pan out then I will probably have to decide to take it to court. What is your thought on the review at CPU level?
Advise me about what a CPU is, in the state of Texas.
I have the request to do so but my ex has already requested the same thing...they actually really screwed up and took her notes on when I paid (she excluded summer months) which we both agreed were correct and the CPU IMMEDIATELY stated I was in arrears and interest 26K! They've since have been contacty by my ex stating I was not in arrears and stated they are taking Arrears off...without me doing anything...this all happened in the last six days! So if all goes wel that will be gone and we'll hopefully agree to an amount at the review. CPU is the child support unit (CSU) oops:) they act on behalf of Texas State Attorney general. My ex asked them for income review and they ignored that for her but processed "missed" payments...which they seem to acknowledge was in error now. Dust will settle and I just need to know based on Texas experiences if they normally grant overpayment if it was mutual between both parties and that we never had to go through court for payments.
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I'm trying to keep "kid gloves" on before involving lawyer because she does ADMIT that I've paid her more and I can prove it. Unfortunately some rulings seem to take overpayment and generocity...I'm trying to brace myself for a HUGE increase in child support if I don't get overpayment credit...could go up from $675 to 1500.
You are in good shape. The ex is willing to vouch for you that you have over paid in child support, voluntarily, for the past couple of years, you have sufficient documentation to present to the review board to corroborate that claim as well. At the review, you can definitely present that evidence to the board, and they will consider a reduction in child support. I can not speak for the CSU, but it seems as though they would have take this information under consideration and grant you a reduction or maybe even reimbursement.
All relevant financial information is taken under consideration at these types of reviews.
Thanks. I have to go. Perhaps I'll chat further with you again soon. I really need to get an idea of how these types of reviews have historically went in TEXAS...they shoot first and pickup dad's later:). Thanks.
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On the 15th of October 2011, protestors gathered outside St Paul's Cathedral in London as part of the Occupy London Stock Exchange movement. As the sun beamed down on those gathered with unseasonal intensity, there was a palpable sense of cause and necessity.
The crowd buzzed with a sense of optimism, energy and organisation. Within the first few hours of the protest first aid, kitchen and toilet facilities had all been established. Process groups were meeting to express their concerns, speakers were provided with microphones that were amplified from megaphones and a large range of well-informed views and solutions were discussed.
The driving cause was to address the inequalities within society- inequalities that are seen as real and significant threats to individuals, communities and the biosphere and which require serious action and change. There was a clear will amongst those gathered for a modified economic model with new measures to deal with 'corporate greed'.
The necessity of the protest was driven by a sense of disenfranchisement. The overriding sense was that 99% of the individuals who make up society are not represented through current channels of political decision-making. There were demands for social justice policies that would have greater regard for youths, families, as well as future generations and a desire to create a more participative democracy.
This positive, peaceful and proactive demonstration was a credit to all who took part. This video aims to capture the thoughts, words and motivations of the protestors so that more people can understand exactly what they stand for. From this impressive and solid starting point, and with the key issues clearly identified, there is now a great sense of anticipation for the practical solutions and next steps that those gathered can generate.
Filmed & edited by Ross Domoney
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Is there a way to see a list of the subscribers who joined the list using the subscribe form?
Hi jdancisin,
This isn't possible at this time as our system does not differentiate the source of the subscriber. Sorry.
Just to be clear though, you could certainly record the source of a signup yourself - see http://www.campaignmonitor.com/blog/post/2464/how-to-personalize-your-permis-1/ for an example of how recording that during signup can come in handy.
There is actually a way to track this by adding a hidden input field in your form and tracking that field as a Segment in CM.
I was curious about this myself and added a line like this to my form:
<input type="hidden" name="xx-x-xxxxx" id="Source" value="Web" />
That's easy enough to track as a Segement. Hope that helps.
That's right nebelung, it's a hidden field method that is used in the blog post above too, perfect for passing through some information about where the subscriber came from.
Ahh, sorry Matthew, did not mean to repeat what you had already posted. I looked, or should I say glanced, at the blog post without scrolling below the fold and missed that part. So I thought they were recording it in a separate database during sign up... my mistake.
Now if we could only see those custom fields as part of our subscriber list instead of having to create segments, it would be perfect. :)
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CITY of York Athletic Club sprinter Tom Somers is eyeing outdoor success after starring on his indoor international debut.
The 16-year-old broke two event records representing England at the Under-20 International meet in Cardiff.
Yearsley-based Somers, a Queen Ethelburga's School pupil, won the 200 metres in 21.89 seconds beating the previous meeting record of 21.97 seconds.
In the 4x200m relay, Somers helped England storm to victory in an event record time of one minute 27.09 seconds.
City of York coach Geoff Barraclough said: "He is in good shape for the outdoor season.
"This was probably his last indoor event and we will now concentrate on the summer and the World Junior Championships in July."


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Charlie Sheen spent money on prostitutes because he "ran out of things to buy."
The former Two and a Half Men star – who was a client of notorious madam Heidi Fleiss for years and recently was alleged to have hired "hundreds of women" from a former porn star known only as Felony – blamed his bulging bank balance for his escort habit when asked at his stage show in Chicago on Sunday night why he paid for sex.
Sheen, who was paid about $2 million per episode before he was fired from Two and a Half Men, replied: "Because I had millions to blow. I ran out of things to buy."
Sheen also hit out at his former wives Donna Peele, Denise Richards and Brooke Mueller. When asked how many times he had been married, the three-times wed star said "seven thousand. That's why I'm broke" and called Brooke a "kidnapper b***h".
However, he had kind words for his girlfriends, the "goddesses" Natalie Kenly and Rachel Oberlin, saying, "They have not disallowed me everything that makes me happy. Period. The end."
Sheen also admitted he would love to return to Two and a Half Men, calling co-star Jon Cryer a "rock star".
Although he was booed off stage during the kick-off date of his "Violent Torpedo of Truth" tour in Detroit on Saturday night, the troubled star redeemed himself in Chicago and left the stage to a standing ovation after making a number of changes to the show, including using a talk show-style format with an unidentified interviewer asking the actor questions.
Sheen later tweeted: "I LOVE YOU CHICAGO! (the new Rock City!!!) c (sic)".
Rapper Snoop Dogg is reportedly set to join Sheen for a few shows during his 20-date tour.


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The potential new series will be introduced as a special two-parter in season 11 of the CBS hit drama series.
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The potential new series will be introduced in two episodes of "NCIS" season 11. The two-parter will be filmed in February and air in spring. "NCIS" star/executive producer Mark Harmon and executive producer/showrunner Gary Glasberg will executive produce the spin-off.
The logline for the spin-off reads, "The NCIS New Orleans office handles cases from Pensacola through Mississippi and Louisiana to the Texas panhandle. New Orleans with its rich setting of music, fun and debauchery is a magnet for military personnel on-leave. And with fun comes trouble. It is a natural backdrop for a unique character driven spin-off."
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By Mark Lagerkvist | New Jersey Watchdog
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is refusing to release nearly $800,000 in American Express credit card bills for the travel costs of his state police security detail.
The governor's staff rejected a New Jersey Watchdog reporter's request for the monthly statements, contending releasing the records would jeopardize Christie's safety.
The denial follows a New Jersey Watchdog report last week revealing the travel costs of the Executive Protection Unit have grown by 1,800 percent since Christie became governor in 2010. Those expenses have totaled $959,856, not including unreleased expense information for the fourth quarter of last year, according to state records.
Much of the increase can be attributed to Christie's frequent out-of-state trips for political and personal purposes.
Last year, Christie traveled out-of-state more than 100 days while visiting 36 states, Mexico and Canada, primarily to help raise $106 million in campaign contributions as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. This month, Christie's trips to Dallas Cowboys football games raised questions on his gifts from team owner Jerry Jones, plus the public expense protecting the governor wherever he goes.
More than 80 percent — or $793,007 — of the EPU travel expenses were charged to one or more American Express credit cards used by the governor's office, which later sought reimbursement by the state police. Presumably, those bills include transportation, lodging, meals and other costs.
"We are unable to provide you with the detail from the American Express card monthly statements from February 2010 through September 2014 because the monthly statements indicate the names of the of the Executive Protection Unit members, the number of Executive Protection Unit members and the location of these members on a day-to-day basis," records custodian Heather Taylor said in the denial letter.
But rather than black out the names of the officers, Christie's office seeks to withhold all of the American Express records from public disclosure.
If the dispute goes to court, it would not be the first time a judge has decided whether the governor's travel records should be released. In Mercer County Superior Court last October, Judge Mary C. Jacobson issued a split decision in a similar case.
Jacobson ordered the governor's office to release air travel records of past trips, rejecting the argument that disclosure of that information would pose a security risk. Yet in the same ruling, the judge allowed Christie's staff to keep secret the names of hotels where the governor stayed.


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Wednesday, 7 March, 2001, 17:05 GMT
Hague attacks 'cynical' Budget
The Conservatives have attacked Gordon Brown's Budget, saying his targeted tax cuts are "a cynical election ploy".
Tory leader William Hague said the chancellor was giving with one hand, but taking back with the other through "stealth taxes".
He announced targeted tax cuts for business, less well off families, savers and pensioners.
Mr Brown said the Budget was about "investing in the long term" and ensuring "stability".
But Mr Hague said: "Every measure he has announced is set against the stealth taxes."
He added: "He gives back to people for a limited period only a tiny part of what the chancellor has taken from them."
Mr Hague compared Mr Brown to "the thief who steals your car and comes back the next day to return the hub caps."
'Labour MPs duped'
He told Labour MPs that they had been duped into believing Mr Brown's Budget.
"For example, when he talks about helping women and children they will remember that he scrapped the married couples allowance."
He continued: "People will be suspicious about some of the claims he has made today.
"So many of the claims he makes on budget day turn out to be false."
'People conned'
Mr Hague suggested voters knew the tax cuts were not real.
"As the chancellor tries to con people that he has been suddenly been converted to tax decreases he must think the people of this country are stupid."
The Tory leader said stealth taxes had hit the poorest fifth of households the hardest.
Mr Hague said the chancellor could have use his Budget to reform Whitehall, tackle welfare fraud and give money back to "the hardworking people of this country".
He also suggested Mr Brown would have been better to take more pensioners out of the tax net and that he could have done more to help married couples.
'Double counting'
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy said the chancellor had behaved as Labour's election campaign chairman in his Budget.
He also hit out at the failure of the chancellor to scrap university tuition fees in England and Wales.
Mr Kennedy also accused Mr Brown of "double counting" over the extra money for schools and hospitals.
"All of next year's extra spending is simply money he failed to spend this year."
He added: "The choice is now clear. Only the Liberal Democrats will invest significantly in more police, teachers, nurses and raise the pension substantially.
"And we will tell people how much they will pay in tax and what their money is being spent on - so there will be no stealth taxes with the Liberal Democrats."
The Scottish Nationalist Party and Plaid Cymru have also been critical.
SNP leader John Swinney said the Budget did little to combat stealth taxes.
Plaid Cymru leader Ieuan Wyn Jones said the measures would do nothing to help farmers or manufacturing.
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HOUSTON - Police are searching for the driver who stole a vehicle with a child inside.
It happened at around 7:15 a.m. Thursday in the 1900 block of Evergreen Drive near Linden Street in southeast Houston. Houston police say a woman left her car running outside of the Little Bo Peep Day Care with her 7-year-old son in the backseat while she dropped her younger child off inside.
Frank Cordova lives across the street and saw the whole thing.
"I saw one of the workers who works there chasing down a car so I came to the end of the block to witness what was going on," Cordova said.
Police say the little boy was able to get out of the car a short time later and he was rescued. The suspect, however, ditched the car about a mile away and hasn't been found yet.
The child's mother says it's a miracle he wasn't hurt
"God saved him, God did it," the mother said.
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If Natalie were still around though, yeah, she'd be good.
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If Natalie were still around though, yeah, she'd be good.
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Gill is terrible. Honestly, I have not seen as incompetant a PG on the Pacers as him.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
I think you guys are too hard on Gill. Saturday was his first playoff game. He certainly has his faults, but name another third-string pg who would have contributed as much as he has this year. Brewer? Edney???
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Think how much better a situation we'd be in right now if Freddy had more experience at PG.
This space for rent.
I thought Fred did a decent job last night. He is more of an open court player than a half court player but he handled it better than Gill did.
I don't think Gill's skills are needed on this team at all.
In fact, if we could just count on Tinsley to remain healthy, I'd say we don't even need a 3rd PG. We would have:
1. Tinsley
3. Freddie
4. Emergencies - SJAX / Artest
I think that Gill's roster spot would be better filled by a specialist. Maybe a lights out shoot that can do nothing else. Or a defensive stopper without an offensive game.
In other words, someone extremely gifted at one aspect of the game that has major flaws in most other aspects of the game. Those players can help you for a few possessions at a time, but will not require much more than a minimum contract.
I thought Payton was really playing physical on Freddy, knowing that Mr. Jones was playing out of position. Freddie didn't really initiate any offense but at least he wasn't forcing passes and giving up turnovers. Eddie G was pretty poor in that first game.....Sooner or later one of Freddie's drives to the hoop will pay off. Right now he's shooting as bad as Austin.
this is a bit off topic but every single time i see his name i just start laughing
because a nickname i gave him was "CARDIAC BORCHARDT", cardiac came from a nickname ron artest was given, "cardiac artest" (cardiac arrest) and for some reason i gave it to him...you guys might not find this funny, but decided to share it anyways
Everyone here seems to be watching a different team than me.
Fred Jones is an excellent player for the money
He is a solid defender....and in the beginning of the season he was stroking it from three. He fell into a slump, but the man has played in more games than anyone on our team this season. Fred seems out of gas to me, he is young and needs proper conditioning....NBA conditioning.
Fred Jones to me will peak at a Stephen Jackson esque level. Probably not all-star caliber, but right there.
We gotta keep Jones. If he learns anything from being a teammate with Reggie Miller, he should be good.
Its not you JT,,,, most of these posts are from over a year ago.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A little over a fortnight before China conducted sea trials for its first aircraft carrier, an Indian naval ship slipped into the South China Sea.
INS Airavat, an amphibious assault vessel designed to launch troops on enemy beaches, was on a show-the-flag mission in July when it was challenged as it sailed from Vietnam's Nha Trang port near the deep-water harbour of Cam Ranh Bay.
A caller identifying himself as an official of the Chinese navy warned the ship on an open radio channel that it was entering Chinese waters as it steamed toward the Vietnamese port of Haiphong, the Indian foreign ministry said.
Nothing happened, the ship sailed on, and both India and China have since played down the incident, with New Delhi saying the vessel was well within international waters in the South China Sea and that there was no confrontation.
China's foreign ministry also dismissed the report, saying there was no truth to it.
But the news has stoked concern that the navies of the two rapidly growing Asian giants could be on a collision course as they seek to protect trade routes and lock in the supply of coal, minerals and other raw material from faraway lands.
The Airavat is part of a fleet based in the Andaman islands, nearer to Indonesia than the Indian mainland, where New Delhi is spending $2 billion to set up a military command.
The islands are also the gateway to the Bay of Bengal, which is shared by India, resource-rich Myanmar, Bangladesh and western Thailand.
"It was a bit slow in the beginning, but the command is being strengthened now. It will become a premier base by 2015," said a defence ministry official in New Delhi on the Andamans plan, launched under a "Look East" policy started in 2001.
"The movement of commercial shipping in the area is just as important to us as it is to others, including China," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"If you have to, you can get to the South China Sea fairly quickly, you are sitting right there."
India's trade with East and Southeast Asia dwarfs that with Europe or the United States, and the country imports most of its much-needed edible oil, coal and minerals from Southeast Asia.
Beijing, concerned about the flow of its energy supplies, is seeking a chain of friendly ports in the Indian Ocean, stretching from Gwadar on the Pakistani coast to Chittagong in Bangladesh.
The Indian navy, worried about what it sees as Chinese encirclement at sea, is deepening defence ties with long-term partner Vietnam, and cautiously stepping up its presence in the South China Sea, whose mineral and gas resources are claimed by six countries, including China.
"While the Chinese do not consider the Indian Ocean to be India's ocean or even India's strategic backyard, they do consider the South and East China seas to be China's seas," said former Indian navy commander Probal Ghosh, now a senior fellow at Observer Research Foundation, a New Delhi think tank.
India and China have on the surface a friendly relationship, but the two nations fought a brief border war in 1962. China is close to Pakistan, India's arch-enemy, while it has suspiciously eyed New Delhi's warm ties with Vietnam.
S.D. Muni, a former Indian ambassador to Laos and now a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore, said he expected more flare-ups as the two expanding navies begin to rub against each other.
"They are getting bigger in size, extending their reach, probing each other's defences," he said.
Viewed from Beijing, India's military has expanded its area of operations westward to the Persian Gulf and eastward to the Malacca Straits, encompassing the key sea lanes that three quarters of Chinese oil imports must transit.
"The Indian navy entering the South China Sea is a relatively new development," said Zhao Gancheng, director of South Asia studies at the Shanghai Institute for International Studies. "I think it shows that the Indian navy is currently expanding its scope of activities."
He said the navies of India and Vietnam had established a certain degree of cooperation, and carried out joint exercises. China and India, on the other hand, appeared to have little interaction with each other, increasing the risk of misunderstanding.
Traditionally, India's navy has long been the biggest player in the Indian Ocean - after the United States - and it was the only Asian state to operate an aircraft carrier as far back as 1961.
That carrier has been retired but it has another one in service and two more on order, including one to be based in the eastern sector.
Media reports say the Indian navy is shifting focus from the western command, which faces Pakistan, to the eastern command and the Andamans. Its nuclear submarines will be based in the east, along with guided missile destroyers, stealth frigates and maritime patrol aircraft.
China, by contrast, is just starting out on a carrier task force, and analysts say it could be up to 10 years before it assembles a battleship group.
"The Indian navy is certainly the most ambitious and strategically significant of all the service arms," said Shashank Joshi, an associate fellow at London's Royal United Services Institute.
"Its doctrine places remarkable emphasis on non-violent diplomatic roles - what it calls showing power and projecting presence. That is the thin end of India's wedge into East Asia."
(Additional reporting by Chris Buckley, Sui-Lee Wee and Ben Blanchard in Beijing; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan and John Chalmers)


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