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Colonoscopy with Propofol or with Nothing?
I`m a 49 year-old female with a first-degree relative who died from colon cancer at an early age, and I realize that I am late in getting a colonoscopy (9 years late). I had several bad polyps removed via flex sig last year and now need to get a colonoscopy done. I would prefer to get the exam done unsedated because of a previous bad sedation experience (became combative from IV diazepam and the experience was awful). I realize that other drugs are available, I just don`t want to risk them if I can avoid it. One gastro told me that propfol is great, but another told me it`s not such a great idea for colonoscopy because when a patient is deeply sedated the often can`t respond to pain such as when the scope gets looped and is about to perforate the colon. Yikes! The nurse who works for the gastro who doesn`t like propofol says (confidentially) that his negative opinion stems from having to wait for the anesthesia nurse to arrive when a patient wants MAC and this slows them down.
I`m confused. I don`t think that midazolam is an "evil" drug, I just think that it too close to valium for me to consider; I read a lot of opinions from people who consider the amnesia issues to be a big deal…My question: assuming that the benzomidazolam will be out since I`m allergic to valium), right? my choices will be propofol or nothing. From an anesthesia point of view, could you please give me your opinion of colonoscopy with propofol or with nothing? One GI doc says that a sedated patient is more likely to get perforated; but he also says that a sedated patient is more likely to get a "quality" exam because they tend to rush when the patient is in pain. His associate offers the opposite opinion: deal with the pain of an unsedated exam because it forces them to slow down and you will get a better exam. Sorry for all of the detail; they just really have me confused. Thanks.
This is a controversial issue and you've captured the different points of view very well!
Here are a few points that may or may not help you decide:
Perforation of the colon during colonoscopy is very rare and probably has more to do with the operator than the type of anesthesia.
An anesthesiologist or other qualified provider sedating you for a colonoscopy can offer you a very comfortable experience, using the variety of drugs now at our disposal. If you have an aversion or preference with regards to a particular drug this can usually be accommodated. Propofol, used appropriately, is safe, effective and provides complete oblivion during the procedure (most people like that idea).
Most people find the preparation for colonoscopy (purgatives to clean out your bowel) much more difficult than the procedure itself.
A colonoscopy, especially when risk factors like a strong family history exist, can save your life. Just go and get it done, as soon as possible!
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World Watch Magazine: July/August 2004
Washington, D.C.—Growing demand for meat has become a driving force behind virtually every major category of environmental damage now threatening the human future, write the editors of World Watch magazine in the July/August issue. Total meat consumption has increased five-fold in the past half century, putting extreme pressure on Earth's limited resources, including water, land, feed, and fuel.
In "Now, It's Not Personal!" a survey of each major category of environmental impact regarded as critical to the sustainability of civilization reveals how central a challenge this once marginal issue has become.
- Deforestation and Grassland Destruction: The world's appetite for meat is razing forests at an accelerating rate. In Central America, 40 percent of all the rainforests have been cleared or burned down in the last 40 years, mostly for cattle pasture. In the process, natural ecosystems where a variety of plant and animal species thrive are destroyed and replaced with monoculture grass.
- Fresh Water: Water experts calculate that humans are now taking half the available fresh water on the planet—leaving the other half to be divided among a million or more species. Producing 8 ounces of beef requires 25,000 liters of water.
- Waste Disposal: Waste from livestock production exceeds the capacity of the planet to absorb it. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that livestock waste has polluted more than 27,000 miles of rivers.
- Energy Consumption & Global Warming: It takes far more fossil-fuel energy to produce and transport meat than to deliver equivalent amounts of protein from plant sources. This heavy use of carbon-rich fuels also contributes significantly to the emissions of global-warming gases.
- Food Productivity of Farmland: In the U.S., 56 million acres of land produce hay for livestock. Only 4 million acres produce vegetables for human consumption, reports the US Department of Commerce. Such inefficient use of land means that food production will not keep up with population growth.
- Diseases: Mass production of livestock has generated large-scale increases in both infectious diseases and degenerative or "lifestyle" diseases.
- Biodiversity Loss and Threat of Extinction: As Earth becomes more crowded, poor populations are increasingly venturing into wildlife reserves for meat. Poaching and black marketeering of bush meat is decimating remaining populations of gorillas, chimpanzees, and other primates.
Behind the headlines of Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the Middle East, a grassroots non-profit comprised of Jordanian, Israeli, and Palestinian environmentalists is working to save the shrinking Dead Sea. In the process, the international group is providing an example of successful transboundary cooperation within a land of seemingly relentless strife.
In "Water and Peace," Gidon Bromberg, director of the Israeli office of Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME), describes how this multinational group came together under a shared passion for this ancient sea—and under shared alarm over its demise.
"Human desperation is never greater than when water is no longer in reach," writes Bromberg. "But for the Dead Sea to be managed sustainably, we believe there needs to be transnational cooperation at a level nearly unheard of in this region."
To facilitate this cooperation, FoEME embarked on an effort to forge a common understanding of the Basin's real value, taking into account the Sea's ecological, recreational, and cultural values as well as the industrial ones. In a study of people's "willingness to pay," they found that Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike are willing to pay substantial amounts of their own money to preserve the Sea.
The Dead Sea, which straddles the border of Israel and Jordan, is the lowest point on the planet and one of the most mythic and storied places on Earth. Despite its name, the sea is abundant with life. Springs and oases along its shores provide water for 90 species of birds, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, 24 species of mammals, as well as 400 species of plants. In addition to its cultural and environmental value, the Sea is a center for tourism and potash and mineral mining, making it economically important to the region.
Fed by the Jordan River, the Dead Sea's surface level is dropping by nearly a meter per year as 90 percent of the river's flow is being diverted for agriculture and urban use. The inflow of water from the Jordan has not kept pace with evaporation, which is causing a host of problems including thousands of large sinkholes along the shore and quicksand-like areas of mud.
FoEME is working to arrest the falling sea level through on-the-ground recommendations for better flow management of the Jordan into the Dead Sea, smarter resort development, and protection of shoreline as nature reserves, among other things. To accomplish these goals, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan all need to coordinate, managing competing needs of farmers, city-dwellers, tourism, mining, and religious pilgrims.
"The hope of cooperation among the Middle East's embattled neighbors is not all 'daydreaming,' says Bromberg. "It's actually happening as we work to save the Dead Sea."
There are more ingredients in one quarter-pound hamburger than meet the eye. To start, 8,000 calories of fossil-fuel energy are used in the agricultural production of one 400-calorie burger, not including the bun. It's estimated that 55 square feet of tropical forest containing 165 pounds of living plants and animals are destroyed to produce one patty made from Central American Beef. All together, the land, fuel, and water used to raise cattle and transport beef from farm to plate takes far more energy than the burger gives to the person who eats it. Add byproducts such as water pollution, high blood pressure, and heart disease, and the negatives of burgers outweigh their food value.
Ranching Accelerates Amazon Deforestation: Rising international demand for Brazilian beef is encouraging high rates of Amazon deforestation, according to the Center for International Forestry Research, an Indonesia-based NGO. The area lost in 2002-2003 is expected to exceed 25,000 square kilometers, a plot the size of Uruguay. Cattle ranching is the reason behind most of this loss. The cattle population has exploded in the Amazon, from 26 million in 1990 to 57 million in 2002. A widening share of the beef produced by this supply is exported to overseas markets.
U.S. Food Crops Widely Contaminated by Genetically Modified Seed: A study by the U.S. based Union of Concerned Scientists has found evidence that DNA sequences from genetically modified (GM) crops have found their way into many of the country's traditional food crops. GM crops were found in up to 1 percent of individual seeds and in more than half of the batches of seeds. This contamination is essentially irreversible and could doom organic farming, present risks to human health, and possibly disrupt U.S. agricultural trade.
Atmospheric CO2 Reaches Record High: In 2003, the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2), the principle global warming gas, reached its highest level in Earth's atmosphere in 42,000 years. It's likely that this was the highest level of CO2 concentration in 20 million years.
Ocean Dead Zones Multiplying: The number of oxygen-starved areas in oceans and bays around the world has doubled to 146 since 1990, according to the Global Environmental Outlook Yearbook 2003, released by the United Nations Environment Programme. The cause of these "dead zones" is several types of pollution—including excess human waste, airborne industrial waste, and traffic fumes—that cause nitrogen build up. These zones are inhospitable to most forms of life, posing a huge threat to fishers and others who depend on marine resources for their livelihood.
Too Much Mad Cow Safety? Less than a year after the first case of mad cow disease was discovered in the U.S., the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is refusing to let a small, upscale beef-packing company test all of its cattle for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), voluntarily and at its own expense. Creekstone Farm's testing plan stands in contrast of the USDA's policy of testing only a fraction of all cattle slaughtered in the U.S. The USDA says Creekstone will imply cause for consumer concern that is not scientifically warranted. Larger meat packing companies oppose such testing. Meanwhile, Creekstone is losing $200,000 a day since it can't export its products to Japan any longer, which has banned imports of untested U.S. beef.
Also in Environmental Intelligence:
- Plant Genetic Resources Treaty Enters Into Force
- Heroic River Diversion Plan Resurrected
- UN Launches Campaign to Clean Up Coastal Waters
Jane Goodall, who has studied chimpanzees for 45 years, warns that within 10 to 15 years, humanity could lose chimps and other animals like gorillas and bonobos as Earth's population continues to grow and the bush meat trade expands into forests.
Over-fishing, destructive fish farming, and toxic contaminants are requiring consumers to be more careful about the kinds of fish they are eating and the frequency at which they eat them. A study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found that 16 percent of American women of child-bearing age have levels of mercury in their blood high enough to put their offspring at increased risk. To avoid risk, consumers should educate themselves about the mercury content in the fish they eat, avoid eating the skin and fatty parts of fish, and limit the amount they eat—especially in the case of children, pregnant women, nursing mothers, and women of childbearing age.
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|Cumulative time the average American will have spent watching TV, by the age of 65
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Hours per year the average American youth spends in school
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Number of people in the world who had a conventional telephone line in 2002
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It's your lil one's birthday and school doesn't allow treats. What to do? We received an email from a mom stuck in this exact situation, searching for creative, food-free ideas for making her son's big day a hit in the classroom — without busting the budget. After searching our favorite sites, we've found fun toys and gadgets perfect for tots of all ages. To cut down on costs, simply purchase them in bulk and package them up in cute goodie bags. Even if your celebration allows cakes and candies, these fun playthings are great additions to any party.


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Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Sea-buckthorn and Amaretto cheesecake
There's a little deli in our neighbourhood, Delicato, and they sell a lovely cheesecake with a sea-buckthorn and Amaretto topping. A cheesecake so good that I immediately wanted to make something similar at home. They use a rich mascarpone layer in their cake, I went with my favourite cheesecake instead. A lovely and not-so-sweet baked cheesecake that uses one of the nature's superberries (Sea-buckthorn - the new acai berry?).
Sea-buckthorn and Amaretto cheesecake
(Toorjuustukook Amaretto-astelpajuželeega)
Serves 8
125 g Digestive-biscuits (about 8 cookies)
50 g butter, melted
Cheesecake layer:
600 g full-fat cream cheese, at room temperature
3 large eggs
85 g caster sugar (100 ml)
1 tsp vanilla extract
Amaretto-seabuckthorn jelly:
200 g sea-buckthorn berries, fresh or frozen
3 Tbsp caster or soft brown sugar
3 to 4 Tbsp Amaretto
3 to 4 Tbsp hot water
4 gelatine leaves (and some cold water for soaking)
Preheat oven to 180°C/350F.
Grease a 24 cm/10 inch round springform/loose-bottomed cake tin with butter, line the base with parchment paper. Process biscuits into fine crumbs, add melted butter and combine. Press the cookie mixture over base and sides of the prepared tin. Refrigerate for 15 minutes.
Meanwhile, beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla together until smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until combined.
Pour over the biscuit base and bake in the middle of a preheated 350F/180C oven for 30 minutes, until the filling is more or less set (it shouldn't wobble too much, when you lightly shake the cake tin).
Remove from the oven and cool completely.
To make the jelly layer, soak the gelatine leaves in cold water for 5 minutes.
Place the (defrosted, if necessary) berries into a blender and process until smooth. Press through a fine sieve to remove the seeds. Season to taste with sugar and Amaretto.
Squeeze the gelatine leaves to remove excess cold water, then stir into hot water (about 4 Tbsp) until dissolved. Stir into the sea-buckthorn purée. Pour the mixture carefully over cooled cheesecake.
Place into the fridge for at least 4 hours to set.
Sea-buckthorn berries @ Tallinn Central Market, September 2007
More sea-buckthorn recipes @ Nami-Nami:
Sea-buckthorn jelly with kama mascarpone cream
Sea-buckthorn sorbet
Topless sea-buckthorn and apple tart
9 comments:
- Hovkonditorn said...
This looks and sounds great!
- 4:25 am, October 26, 2011
- James Mackenzie said...
Gosh, what does sea buckthorn taste like? Also, what might the gelatine-free version be?
- 7:11 pm, October 27, 2011
- Missy said...
Wow, those berries are so beautiful!
- 5:09 pm, October 30, 2011
- Pille said...
Thank you, Hovkonditorn and Missy!
James - they're sharp and sour and sweet and very refreshing :) You could use agar-agar, but you'd need to adapt the amounts.
- 9:28 am, October 31, 2011
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- 3:45 am, November 03, 2011
- Hexy said...
Supper hea kook!!
- 9:57 am, November 11, 2011
- Paula said...
Looks fain and surely it is a healthy desert. I will try it! Thanks!
- 11:39 am, November 17, 2011
- Lina said...
wow... nice... need to try it. One of the popular berry in the world. Sea buckthorn is the latest fruit to gain "superfood" status.
- 5:14 pm, March 25, 2012
Yum..am going to try this - thanks. Have just collected lots of sea buckthorn and am writing about this on my blog - have included your recipe as a link on this piece x
- 12:21 pm, September 18, 2012


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VANCOUVER - The crew member who was navigating the Queen of the North passenger ferry when it sank, leaving two passengers missing, appeared distraught and possibly suicidal in the hours after the disaster, the captain of the ship testified Thursday.
Karl Lilgert was on the bridge when the ferry struck Gil Island on March 22, 2006.
A B.C. Supreme Court jury is hearing accusations against Lilgert of criminal negligence causing the deaths of two passengers who disappeared and were presumed drowned.
Colin Henthorne, who was asleep in his cabin when the ship struck Gil Island, testified about the evacuation and what happened after the crew and passengers left the ship in a flotilla of life rafts and life boats. Roughly two-thirds were taken to the nearby First Nations community of Hartley Bay, while the rest, including himself, Lilgert and several senior officers, were transported to the coast guard ship Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
It was on the Sir Wilfrid Laurier that Henthorne grew concerned about Lilgert, who until then had been an essential part of the evacuation, said Henthorne.
"You thought he was suicidal or might do some damage to himself?" asked Glen Orris, Lilgert's lawyer.
"Yes," replied Henthorne.
Henthorne later told police he became so concerned about Lilgert's mental state that he asked another crew member to keep an eye on him.
"He was looking really distressed, terribly distressed — I was worried about him," Henthorne said in a statement to police investigators, a transcript of which was read in court.
"When we first got to the ship and we were waiting to see where we were going, he was standing by the door looking deathly ill, and one of my crew said to me, 'Should I look out for Karl?'"
Henthorne told police the chief officer of the coast guard ship expressed a similar concern, and they initially considered having Lilgert transported to hospital immediately. Instead, Lilgert was eventually transported to Hartley Bay, where he was picked up by a helicopter and flown to Prince Rupert with several other crew members and passengers.
The trial has heard Lilgert was on the bridge with quartermaster Karen Bricker, his former lover, when the ferry missed a critical turn as it sailed down B.C.'s Inside Passage. It was their first time working alone together since their affair ended.
The trial has already heard from another crew member, electrical engineer Bruce Boughey, who found himself on a life raft with Bricker. Boughey told the court Bricker was curled up in the "fetal position" and was unresponsive.
Bricker is expected to testify in the coming weeks.
The Crown claims Lilgert failed in his responsibilities to keep the ship and its passengers safe when he missed the turn and sailed the ship into an island.
The defence has said the crash was instead caused by a combination of poor training, shoddy BC Ferries policies and unreliable equipment.
Henthorne also testified about his own career at BC Ferries, which ended with his dismissal less than a year after the sinking. He said he believed he was fired because he raised safety concerns about the company's operations.
Henthorne said his work troubles began after he appeared before an internal investigation several weeks after the sinking and was questioned by a panel largely made up of BC Ferries executives.
Henthorne said he was asked whether he had ever identified any safety issues to his superiors, and he replied there was a long list of safety concerns that he had reported but they were not fixed.
"They became irate over that and I believe that's why they fired me," recalled Henthorne, who now works as a rescue co-ordinator for the coast guard.
He was asked to detail those concerns in writing before returning to the panel for a second appearance, he said.
"There was some expressions of disbelief — they suggested my way of presenting them must have been ineffective in order for them not to be dealt with," said Henthorne.
"Then they pledged they would correct all of them and deal with them. But the mood at that meeting was much more hostile than the previous one."
Soon after, he was placed on paid leave, and in January 2007, he was formally dismissed.
At first, Henthorne said he and his lawyer were told his dismissal was for "operational requirements."
When they pointed out the company was actively recruiting new captains at the time, BC Ferries offered a different explanation.
"Eventually, they claimed that they had lost confidence in me," Henthorne said.
There were 101 passengers and crew on the ship that night, but two passengers, Gerald Foisy and Shirley Rosette, were never seen again and were presumed drowned.
Lilgert pleaded not guilty to two counts of criminal negligence causing death.
His trial is expected to last up to six months.
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Every so often, I'll get a question like this one, from Gina:
I am a federal employee and I get my paycheck every two weeks but all of my bills are monthly. What's an easy budgeting system?
This is a pretty consistent problem, actually. Many employees receive their pay on a weekly or biweekly schedule. Meanwhile, most bills come on a monthly basis, some even less frequently.
How do you easily reconcile the two and take on a budgeting plan?
This is a problem I had to deal with in the past. Prior to 2008, I was employed in a situation that paid me every two weeks. It was a bit of a struggle to find a good balance between the paycheck and the monthly bills. My wife was also on a biweekly system, but her paydays were on different days than mine.
Here's how we handled it. This system works well regardless of how often you're paid, as long as that pay isconsistent.
First of all, we mostly just used a very straightforward monthly budgeting system. We didn't do anything strange or unusual in terms of our budgeting. We actually used something very similar to the budgeting templates found in The Total Money Makeover or Your Money or Your Life to get us started. Similar budget templates are found in many other personal finance books.
We made a few adjustments in accordance with the specific needs of our lives, as everyone does when they try to take on a ready-made budgeting scheme. We had to figure out how much we needed to save each month for our irregular bills, for example.
Still, that straightforward kind of budgeting system really worked well for us. So, where did the biweekly (or weekly) checks come in?
Our total amount that we budgeted with each month was the total of just two of each of our checks.Since we were each paid on a biweekly basis, we used two of my paychecks and two of her paychecks as the basis for our budgeting. Our monthly spending and saving plans were all based on that amount.
Of course, over the course of a year, we received more checks than that. A person who is paid biweekly receives 26 checks per year, whereas a person who is just budgeting using two of those checks every month only accounts for 24 checks. That leaves two left over. Similarly, a person who is paid weekly receives 52 checks per year, whereas a person who is budgeting using four checks per month is only accounting for 48 checks, leaving four left over.
Those "left over" checks were used strictly to push us ahead financially. At first, we used them entirely for debt repayment. Four times a year – twice due to my "extra" check and twice due to her "extra" check – we made a giant extra payment on a debt. This did not affect our normal monthly budget except for how it paid off debts, because we accounted for a certain amount each month as our "debt snowball."
This system works regardless of how frequently you're paid as long as you're paid a consistent amount. What if your pay is inconsistent? I'd suggest reading a book that focuses on that specific challenge, because it can be really tricky, especially at first.
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How many ways to send?
Pop quiz, hotshot: how many types of sends are there in MPI?
Most people will immediately think of MPI_SEND. A few of you will remember the non-blocking variant, MPI_ISEND (where I = "immediate").
But what about the rest — can you name them?
Here's a hint: if I run "ls -1 *send*c | wc -l" in Open MPI's MPI API source code directory, the result is 14. MPI_SEND and MPI_ISEND are two of those 14. Can you name the other 12?
Here's a complete list:
- MPI_SEND: Standard send (a.k.a. "blocking"… but that's not always true!)
- MPI_ISEND: Immediate (a.k.a. "non-blocking") standard send
- MPI_SEND_INIT: Persistent standard send
- MPI_SSEND: Synchronous send
- MPI_ISSEND: Immediate synchronous send
- MPI_SSEND_INIT: Persistent synchronous send
- MPI_BSEND: Buffered send
- MPI_IBSEND: Immediate buffered send
- MPI_BSEND_INIT: Persistent buffered send
- MPI_RSEND: Ready send
- MPI_IRSEND: Immediate ready send
- MPI_RSEND_INIT: Persistent ready send
- MPI_SENDRECV: Standard send and receive
- MPI_SENDRECV_REPLACE: Standard send and receive into the same buffer
If you look closely, there's really only 4 types of sends, but there's 3 variants of each:
- Standard mode sends are what most people think of when they think of MPI sends. Standard mode sends may or may not block (depending on the underlying MPI implementation). When standard mode sends complete, it is guaranteed that it is safe for the application to use the buffer again. It is not guaranteed that the receiver has actually received the message yet (or even that it has been sent yet!).
- Synchronous mode sends are similar to standard mode sends, but provide one additional guarantee: a matching receive has been posted. This usually means that the receiver has at least started to receive the message.
- Buffered mode sends mean that the MPI will likely copy your message to internal storage before trying to send it. Buffered sends are evil. Don't use these.
- Ready mode sends are an optimization. They are only correct when the application can guarantee that a matching receive has been posted. The thought is that the MPI implementation can take some shortcuts in sending if it knows that the receiver is already ready to receive this specific message.
For each of those 4 types, there's 3 variants:
- The plain variant: exactly as described above.
- The immediate variant: also known as "non-blocking," immediate calls return (more-or-less) immediately. The application will get an MPI_Request back that must be tested or waited on for completion. Progress on the send is occurring "in the background."
- The persistent variant: a persistent send can be executed multiple times; they're good for applications that need to send the same buffer repeatedly (e.g., sending boundary information in an iterative algorithm). The rationale is that the MPI implementation can incur the setup overhead for this particular send once, and then quickly initiate the actual sending mechanism each time after that.
The last 2 of the 14 are SENDRECV and SENDRECV_REPLACE. These are not really new modes / variants in themselves; they are actually both forms of the plain standard send. The interesting part about these two sends is that they are combined with a receive — but not necessary from the same recipient as the send!
For example, you can "send to the left" and "receive from the right" in a single call. Cool!
The REPLACE version allows you to use the same buffer to send and receive; MPI guarantees that the correct message will be sent and the receive buffer will contain the entire received message. It's a good optimization for large messages; an application doesn't need to use 2x the buffer space.
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There are other issues outside of performance why buffered sends are evil. A buffered send can complete to the application immediately, having been successfully copied to the internal buffer space specified via MPI_BUFFER_ATTACH. If a matching receive is never posted at the peer, there is no way for the application to reclaim that used buffer space – there's no way of cancelling the request since it has already completed locally. There is also no way for the application to detect when it is safe to call MPI_BUFFER_DETACH. The normal options for apps to track (and cancel) their non-blocking send requests don't work when using MPI_BSEND. Note that I single out MPI_BSEND here because there are cancelation semantics defined for the non-blocking variants.
Why are buffered sends evil?


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The rotund Rishi Kapoor, currently going through what he calls the best years of his acting life, has finally decided to take his weight issue into his hands. He is doing yoga, and hopes he can "kick" away his alcohol intake.
Apparently, Rishi, with notable help from his diet-conscious wife Neetu Singh, wanted to shed the flab a year back. But director Nikhil Advani had a particular girth in mind for Rishi to play an international terrorist in "D-Day". But now the 60-year-old has become seriously weight conscious.
"Yes, I've already started doing yoga. That gives me peace of mind. I'm unhappy about the fact that I can't kick my habit of consuming alcohol. It's not good for my health. That's one thing I'd like to change in my life. And I will," said Rishi.
"I'd also like to cut down my weight. But my producers get worried about the continuity in their films. 'Please finish my film and then lose weight'. they say. Uss chakkar mein nahin ho raha hai (That's why I'm being unable to lose weight). But now I'll certainly take care of my weight," he added.
Rishi is getting rave reports for his performance in "D-Day", which released Friday. "It feels good. I know it's happening quite frequently these days," he chuckled, and added: "I've waited very patiently for this rush-hour. I am getting the variety of roles that I always craved for. If in 'D-Day' you see me as a terrorist, in Maneesh Sharma's 'Shuddh Desi Romance', you'll see me as a Marwari wedding planner."
Rishi has a total of seven releases in 2013. "I must tell you, some people close to me disapproved of my presence in 'Housefull 2'. Some felt this was not my forte, but I wanted to prove that I could do equal justice to my villainous character in 'Agneepath' and the goofy dad's role in 'Housefull 2'. I enjoyed myself doing that part," said the actor, who is the father of current heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor.
On the career front, Rishi has been going through a continued spell of success with films like "Student Of The Year", "Jab Tak Hai Jaan" and "Chashme Buddoor" doing well in a row. "I did one scene for Yashji's sake in 'Jab Tak Hai Jaan'. I haven't seen the film. But I'm told that scene is very important to the film," he said.
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DANA POINT – Riding in an inflatable boat, Tom Southern tossed a grapple line in front of an orange buoy racing through churning sea swell as it was towed by a 35-foot tour boat.
The larger vessel trailing the line and buoy simulates an entangled whale, and the grapple throw is part of a disentanglement training exercise. Southern, a veteran whale-watch captain, held steady and hit his mark. With the grapple in place, he bent the line attached to the boat over the bow of his inflatable and went for what is referred to as a Nantucket sleigh ride. The training is a modification of an old whaling technique called kegging.
Southern, 51, of San Clemente is one of a dozen members of Dolphin Safari Whale Rescue, assembled to aid whales caught in fishing gear, traps and marine debris. Dave Anderson, of San Juan Capistrano, who founded the first Orange County whale rescue group, started the new task force to raise awareness about whale entanglement and the nearly 1,000 whales and dolphins dying each day in nets and fishing gear across the world.
The entanglements and the often highly publicized rescue efforts have drawn out marine mammal enthusiasts, whale-watch captains and marine mammal rescue groups wanting to help. While the groups' passions are well-intentioned, some rescue attempts have led to controversies and, in some cases, competition over who is in charge of a rescue in California.
This has led the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service – the federal agency that protects marine life – to review rescue groups and develop protocol to avoid confusion and mishaps.
"Right now, if a whale shows up, there isn't a set protocol on who will do what with it," Anderson said. "Right now, we and the Pacific Marine Mammal Center are just two different groups responsible to respond to a whale that's tangled. The way it seems now is whoever gets to the whale first takes the lead. Our two groups are not on good terms with one another. If they are in charge of disentanglement and we're not involved, I don't feel that that is in the best interest of the whale."
In April, boat captains outside Newport Beach spotted a gray whale caught in a crab trap. A rope from the trap went around its head, through its mouth and pinned its left pectoral flipper. Anderson and his team came upon it off Dana Point. For two hours, they stayed with the whale and observed its behavior.
Anderson, who had succesfully freed a whale just weeks before, contacted NOAA to begin disentanglement but was told the Pacific Marine Mammal Center was in charge. Anderson and his crew followed the whale for two hours until PMMC's crew arrived and Anderson said his help and input was dismissed, though at the time the two were part of the same group.
"Normally we attach ourselves to the netting, allow the whale to tow us along and use a pole with a knife to disentangle it," he said. "The whale was peacefully swimming next to us, and we realized the only way to free it was to cut the rope from around its head without attaching ourselves or buoys."
Pacific Marine Mammal Center staff attached three buoys to try to help the whale.
The whale dove, disappeared and a highly publicized search was on. A week later, the whale was spotted near central California. NOAA fisheries sent boats and a plane to locate it but were unsuccessful. In early May, crab fishermen in Bodega Bay spotted it and freed it using the technique Anderson wanted to use weeks before.
After the incident, Anderson and other boat captains wrote letters and filed complaints with NOAA. They asked why the marine mammal center, a rescue and rehabilitation center for seals and sea lions, was given priority on the rescue. The dispute led to a rift between the groups.
Lauren Saez, a marine biologist with the fisheries group, said the center was put in charge because the group was the lead under direction of an agency member who was on leave. Saez said the situation became even more difficult because of the multiple whale rescues last year and because it was difficult for NOAA officials to know what was going on from their offices.
Keith Matassa, the marine mammal center's new executive director, said everything his group did during the rescue effort was under direction of NOAA. Since then, he's had several meetings with the agency and considers the past "lessons learned."
"My biggest thing is to have PMMC work with NOAA and with Captain Dave and as a team do the best thing for the whale," Matassa said. "When the whale call comes in, NOAA will dispatch whoever they think is necessary."
Under the Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program, NOAA oversees whale disentanglements nationwide. In California, NOAA has required all rescue groups to become certified. They are now formalizing a protocol for the rescue process.
NOAA rates each rescue group based on its background, experience and knowledge of marine mammals. Right now, Anderson's group and the Pacific Marine Mammal Center are designated as level-three responders. That means that, once they've identified an entangled whale, they report the sighting to NOAA. Keith Yip, of Sea World, is a level-four responder and will be responsible for directing Anderson and the center on the best way to proceed.
Ed Lyman, who oversees NOAA's whale-disentanglement training on the West Coast, helped develop the rescue protocol. "To do this type of work is dangerous. You have to have the correct tools," Lyman said. "Whales can be hurt or harmed, and people have gotten hurt or killed. We look at people with a combination of experience and training. Working on the water helps learning whale behavior. It can give you an edge in freeing the animal and working around it."
Warning signs include changes in whales' behavior, such as erratic diving, tail swishing, trumpeting from humpbacks or wheezing while clearing a blowhole, he said.
The number of verified entangled whales in California has risen from 10 in 2004 to 20 last year. Sightings are opportunistic, and their location does not necessarily coincide with the location where they become entangled, Saez said.
Ninety percent of gray whales migrate each year from Alaska to the lagoons of Baja California and back. Most of the entangled animals are found heading north, leading experts to say entanglement debris is being picked up in Mexico, Saez said.
Federally protected humpback whales and local fin whales are also found trapped.
"Cutting the whale free will save one," Lyman said. "Figuring out what happened can save many. As hard as Dave Anderson's trying to find them and save them, in the end, he's not going to find them all."
Anderson said he became passionate about helping entangled whales after realizing that thousands who come out to whale watch don't know entanglements are the animal's biggest threat.
"If my passengers who love whales enough to come and visit them are unaware that this is the biggest threat dolphins and whales face, then others who don't certainly don't know."


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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will produce, in association with La Jolla Playhouse, a re-imagining of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell's Side Show. Directed by Academy Award winning director Bill Condon, the musical will play at La Jolla Playhouse now through December 17 and will open at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater in spring 2014. The musical features book and lyrics by Bill Russell and music by Henry Krieger who will revise the show before its debut at La Jolla. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Based on the true story of conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton who became stars during the Depression, Side Show is a moving portrait of two women joined at the hip whose extraordinary bondage brings them fame but denies them love. The original 1997 Broadway production of Side Show was directed by Robert Longbottom and received four Tony nominations, including a shared nomination for co-stars Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner, the only time in Tony history where two people were co-nominated for the Best Actress award.
The show's leading ladies - conjoined twins "Violet Hilton" and "Daisy Hilton" - will be played by Broadway favoritesErin Davie (Grey Gardens) and Emily Padgett (Rock of Ages) respectively; Manoel Felciano (Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd) as "Terry Connor"; Matthew Hydzik (Broadway revival of West Side Story) as "Buddy"; David St. Louis (Broadway's Harlem Song) as "Jake."
Henry Krieger began composing for Off-Off Broadway in his twenties, a venue that led to his meeting with playwright-lyricist Tom Eyen. Together with director-choreographer Michael Bennett, they created the long running Broadway hit musical, Dreamgirls, which opened at the Imperial Theatre on December 20, 1981. Dreamgirls won six Tony Awards and Mr. Krieger was nominated for his now legendary score for which he won the Grammy Award for Best Original Cast Album. Dreamgirls generated new success with new audiences as a Dreamworks film written and directed byBill Condon. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards including three nominations for Mr. Krieger for "Love You, I Do," "Listen," and "Patience." He received a Grammy Award for, "Love You, I Do." Side Show, his most recent Broadway musical, was directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom with book and lyrics by Bill Russell. The musical received four Tony nominations, including Best Score. His last collaboration with Bill Russellresulted in Up in the Air, which made its world premiere at the Kennedy Center in 2008 under the direction of Amon Miyamoto.
Bill Russell wrote the book and lyrics for Side Show, receiving a Tony Award nomination for book and sharing a nomination with composer Henry Krieger for score. Mr. Russell co-wrote the book and lyrics for Off-Broadway's long-running musical Pageant (with collaborators Frank Kelly, Albert Evans, and Robert Longbottom), and directed it at the King's Head Theatre in London. The production transferred to the West End, received two Olivier Award nominations, and won that prestigious prize for "Best Supporting Performance in a Musical" for Miles Western's portrayal of Miss West Coast. He authored the book and lyrics for Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (music by Janet Hood), directing it in New York and in London's Fringe and West End, among many others, including a celebrity benefit in New York which was recorded by Fynsworth Alley. Other credits as bookwriter/lyricist include: Off-Broadway's Fourtune and The Texas Chainsaw Musical (co-author), Family Style (Minneapolis), Everything's Ducky and Lucky Duck (with Henry Krieger and Jeffrey Hatcher), and Kept with Henry Krieger and Steven Chbosky. He adapted the book of Call Me Madam for City Center Encores! The Last Smoker in America, for which he wrote the book and lyrics with composer Peter Melnick, will open off-Broadway this summer.
Bill Condon is a celebrated film director and Oscar winning screenwriter known for directing actors to critically-acclaimed and award winning performances. His adaptation of the Broadway smash Dreamgirls won two Academy Awards and three Golden Globes, including Best Picture - Musical or Comedy. Condon directed from his own screenplay and was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award. Condon also wrote and directed Kinsey, for which he won the 2005 Best Director Award from the British Directors Guild. He also wrote and directed Gods and Monsters, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Condon wrote the screenplay for the big-screen version of the musical Chicago, for which he received a second Oscar nomination. The film, which starred Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere, won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture of 2002. Condon serves as President of Film Independent, as well as the Independent Writers Steering Committee of the WGA. He is currently in post-production on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, which Condon shot concurrently with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1.
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Emily Padgett as 'Daisy' and Erin Davie as 'Violet'
Robert Joy (front) and the cast of La Jolla Playhouseâ€s re-imagined production of SIDE SHOW
Emily Padgett, Erin Davie and Manoel Felciano
Barrett Martin, Emily Padgett, Erin Davie and Matthew Hydzik
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David St. Louis (center) with Emily Padgett, Erin Davie and the cast of SIDE SHOW
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obstetrics [ob-stet´riks] the branch of health science dealing with pregnancy, labor, and the puerperium. adj., adj obstet´ric, obstet´rical. ob·stet·rics (OB), (ob-stet'riks), The specialty of medicine concerned with the care of women during pregnancy, parturition, and the puerperium. Synonym(s): tocology [L. obstetrix, a midwife, fr. ob-sto, to ...
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Obstetric definition is - of, relating to, or associated with childbirth or obstetrics. Recent Examples on the Web. Between 1999 and 2009, the obstetric hemorrhage rate increased from 1.5 percent to 4 percent of pregnancies. — Olivia Campbell, SELF, "How California Cut Its Maternal Death Rate in Half," 9 Aug. 2018 That's called doing an obstetric exam, to see if the cow is fertile.
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BBQ Sweet Potato And Avocado Grilled Cheese Sandwich
Get ready for grilled cheese nirvana!
April is National Grilled Cheese Month. What better time to introduce this beauty of a sandwich to the world? You could settle for a regular, Joe-Schmoe grilled cheese, or you can try this version! The perfect blend of sweet and savory, with a decided POW! of BBQ tang, makes this sandwich the king of the lunch table.
Sit back and prepare for cheesy heaven on a plate!
BBQ Sweet Potato & Avocado Grilled Cheese Sandwich
- 1 medium Sweet Potato, peeled and sliced into 1/4″ thick rounds
- 1/2 Tbsp Olive Oil
- 1 tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp Paprika
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
- 1/2 tsp pure Maple Syrup
- 2 slices Udi's Gluten Free White Sandwich Bread
- Butter
- 3 Tbsp shredded Mozzarella Cheese
- 1/2 Avocado, thinly sliced
- 2 slices Tomato
- 1/4 cup Baby Spinach
- 2 tsp BBQ Sauce
- Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, and line a baking tray with foil.
- Put sweet potato rounds in a medium bowl and drizzle with oil, cinnamon, paprika, salt, sugar, and maple syrup. Toss until evenly coated.
- Place sweet potato rounds in an even layer on the foil lined baking sheet and bake in preheated oven for 15-18 minutes, until soft.
- Once sweet potato rounds are finished cooking, begin assembling your sandwich.
- Start by lightly buttering the outside of the 2 slices of Udi's bread with butter.
- Next, evenly sprinkle the shredded Mozzarella cheese on the inside of one slice of bread.
- Top cheese with 3-4 sweet potato rounds, 4 thin slices of avocado, 2 slices of tomato, and 1/4 cup baby spinach. Spread BBQ sauce on the inside of the second slice of bread, and place on top of the spinach.
- Heat a skillet sprayed with non-stick cooking spray over medium-low heat.
- Place sandwich in the skillet and cook until desired level of char is achieved and cheese begins to melt.
- Using a spatula, carefully flip the sandwich and continue cooking on the other side until done.
Enjoy! Have a be-UDI-ful day!
5 responses to "BBQ Sweet Potato And Avocado Grilled Cheese Sandwich"
Ohhh….God! It feels like forever since I ate a pizza.
We started making our Grilled cheese sands on our George Forman grill, works real good, this should work there also. I;m going to give it a try.
sounds very yummy. can it be made for diabetics?
Enjoy your posts! I am also avoiding lactose and glutin and am new to this and finding it very difficult.
Love my Udi bread. Can't wait to try this! Sounds really yummy 😀


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Crime is one problem the troubled Metro-North does not have. But Tuesday's news of a Metro-North employee masturbating on a female passenger who was napping on an early morning train from Grand Central was so awful as to raise the question of safety on the train.
"It was an isolated, unique and extremely unfortunate incident," railroad spokesman Marjorie Anders said. "Crime of all kinds is rare, almost nonexistent on Metro-North trains."
Metro-North officials including outgoing president Howard Permut expressed dismay that one of their own had been accused of acting in such a deviant manner, but cast the lewd and sordid incident as an anomaly on a railway where crime on trains and in stations is uncommon, and procedures are established to send an immediate police response to head off the potential escape of thieves, attackers and other suspects.
Indeed, the numbers of serious crimes reported on the trains or Metro-North property are low, given the numbers of people who ride the trains. For all of Metro-North, including its Port Jervis and Pascack Valley lines west of the Hudson, there have been 40 felony assaults, one rape and no murders since 2010, according to records filed with the railroad's board. The serious crime that happens the most is larceny, with 419 reported since 2010. Lesser crimes that are not felony offenses were not included in the numbers.
The public indecency and breach of peace charges against Manny Ramos, of Brooklyn, N.Y., are all misdemeanors -- not felonies. He was released on $1,000 bond.
The fact that he is a Metro-North employee is disturbing, but Anders said the Metropolitan Transportation Authority vigorously screens its job applicants.
All MTA job applicants are subject to pre-employment background checks by outside vendor Sterling Infosystems to verify claimed educational qualifications as well as their previous work experience, drug testing, as well as driving and criminal records, Anders said.
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Ramos' background check showed he had no criminal record, Anders said. He was hired as a car cleaner in 2011, and had been in the engineer-in-training program since March 2013.
Admission to the 13-month engineer-in-training program is fairly rigorous, as is ongoing training efforts, said Anthony Bottalico, general chairman of the Association of Commuter Rail Employees, which represents engineers.
Depending on their specialty, railroad employees can be subject to a different range and scope of tests that go to great lengths to parse their psychological makeup, values and personality, in addition to criminal, financial or credit problems, Bottalico said.
Even just concerns about an applicant's credit history can scuttle a job bid to be a conductor or ticket agent where the honesty of workers handling money is a major priority for human resource specialists, Bottalico said.
Bottalico said that in his 30-plus-year career he cannot remember an employee being arrested for a violent or lewd crime.
"More often you hear about passengers assaulting conductors," Bottalico said.
Both engineers and conductors undergo a so-called Hogan Psychological Profile exam which attempts to predict whether the applicant has the right attributes to succeed in the job. In the case of engineers, to an extent the test is used to determine if the candidate is an introvert, which is considered a positive indicator of their ability to handle steering the train.
"If you're looking at conductors who are going to deal with passengers, they want them to be more extroverted, but a locomotive engineer who spends a lot of time in an enclosed, confined space they look for someone who is perhaps more introverted," Bottalico said.


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I've just started using LyX for my Economics essays. Using Inkscape, I have been able to create some very neat diagrams to go with them.
However I really need to be able to insert graphs (XY charts, bar charts, histograms etc.) into the document, preferably without having to go via excel. I don't need anything fancy, just something that works with LyX.


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A national retail chain that sells restaurant supplies and groceries in bulk plans to open its first store in the Volusia-Flagler area in the Kmart-anchored shopping center here on West International Speedway Boulevard.
DAYTONA BEACH — A national retail chain that sells restaurant supplies and groceries in bulk plans to open its first store in the Volusia-Flagler area in the Kmart-anchored shopping center here on West International Speedway Boulevard.
Gordon Food Service, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based chain that describes itself as a "food delivery company," has leased a 20,000-square-foot storefront space next to Kmart in the Daytona Plaza shopping center where it will will open a GFS Marketplace store.
The store is a cross between a wholesale membership club — but without a membership fee — and a typical supermarket, but with a limited product selection.
"(GFS) Marketplace is a unique operation," said Mark Dempsey, a Gordon Food Service company spokesman. "Our primary customers are food and food service operators. We are also open to the public selling retail, but you wouldn't do your weekly grocery shopping with us. Rather it's a place to stock up on products of great value because we can buy them in bulk."
Most merchandise at GFS Marketplace is sold in large and bulk quantities. It's designed to serve restaurants, large families, hotels, bars, party planners, caterers, golf courses, churches, schools, daycares centers, stadiums, hospitals and convenience stores.
Gordon Food Service is the largest family-owned food-delivery company in the nation, according to the company website. It serves the upper midwest between Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and south to Tennessee and in Florida. It was founded in 1887, but created GFS Marketplace in 1979.
The store idea is to provide a place that truck delivery customers could go and get items in an emergency, between deliveries or in smaller quantities than on the trucks and also to reach new customers through its retail sales.
The stores carry meats, poultry, seafood, prepared foods, produce, paper products, dairy, frozen foods, bakery, beverages, special dietary foods, grocery items, cleaning supplies and chef supplies. There are national name brand and store brands. A customer can buy 20 pounds of ground beef, 300 paper plates, a chef's jacket, a 12-can case of soda and a standard bottle of mustard.
There are about 150 GFS Marketplace stores in nine states including 16 in Florida. The company's store in Altamonte Springs, which opened roughly a year-and-a-half ago, is the closest to Volusia County.
"We already have delivery customers in the Daytona Beach area and the store will allow us to better serve them," Dempsey said. "The area also has peak weeks and we're there for restaurant emergency needs, fill in needs and for smaller operators who don't have the storage space for large deliveries or who want to cash and carry. We are convenient. Quick in and out."
The new Daytona Beach store will be close to Halifax Health Medical Center, Mainland High School, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona International Speedway, Volusia Mall and dozens of restaurants. It will employ about 35 permanent employees, Dempsey said.
GFS Marketplace stores also have a Menu Wizard to help customers plan and determine the cost for large meals, gatherings or parties.
Local industry observer Costa Magoulas, dean of the Mori Hosseini College of Hospitality and Culinary Management at Daytona State College, is uncertain how area restaurants with vendor contracts would use the new GFS Marketplace store. However, he said he's excited about a new business coming to town and is eager to take his students to the store to learn how it operates.
News of yet another national retail chain coming to the Volusia-Flagler area should not come as a surprise, some local real estate observers say.
"We have some fantastic locations at great prices right now," said Claude Gardner, managing director at Prudential Commercial Real Estate FL in Daytona Beach.
Cuhaci & Peterson Architects Engineers Planners in Orlando did the design work for the GFS Marketplace store at Daytona Plaza. Schmid Construction in Clermont is the project's general contractor. Work to renovate the storefront space to meet Gordon Food Service's specifications are in the early phases, so a target opening date has not yet been set.


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Are you fighting for followers or cultivating a community around your brand?
We've been following celebrities for as long as we can remember—whether it was flipping through trashy gossip magazines in the checkout line, perusing gossip blogs during down time at our 9 to 5, or indulging in Joel McHale's antics on episodes of The Soup.
These days, however, there's a new celebrity in town: YOU.
- You have a hit YouTube show (well, it will predictably become a hit when more people learn about it).
- You have a blog where you put those CNN correspondent-worthy journalism skills to use to share the latest on The Hill with your twenty readers (okay, eighteen, not counting your mom and sister).
- You're the next big thing in the world of Downtown Los Angeles landscape photography, and you attracted other aspiring artists to your work.
Whoever you are, wherever you are (Twitter, YouTube, WordPress), and whatever you specialize in, you have a call to make. You owe it to your brand, your business, and your peeps. Answer me this: Are you fighting for followers or cultivating a community?
Followers v. Community
A follower is a devotee—often, someone who wants what you have.
A community or tribe member is a fellow instigator—often, someone who is inspired by your brand and starts their own initiatives.
I want to argue that "Follow me!" should not be your prevailing request. I believe in cultivating community to bring like-minded people together to exchange ideas, support each other, and move mountains.
As Seth Godin defines it, a tribe is a group of people who are connected to one another, a leader, and an idea.
(S/O to Krissdidit.com for the fun graphic!)
"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." -Margaret Mead
How do you know if you have a tribe? (Hint: Take the Tribe Test.)
Although some of the most prolific tribes formed organically with almost no prodding from the tribe leader, a lot of tribes sprout roots because the tribe leader takes the initiative to bring their peeps together. Here are four ways (five, including the bonus) to give your peeps what they need to form a community.
- Provide a place for your peeps to gather. This could be online or offline, public or private. Nomadness Travel Tribe has a private Facebook group and meetups all over the world for members.
- Empower your peeps to talk amongst themselves. You're not the only one engaging with your peeps, but they're engaging with each other. They seek and provide specialized advice they can't get readily from anywhere else. In the Nomadness Travel Tribe private Facebook group, members exchange travel saving tips, organize group trips, and provide moral support. For instance, a member expressed frustration regarding single friends' unwillingness to travel by themselves, and this garnered 66 comments in just two days! (We're new here are Brand New Nation and are building up to this!)
- Rally your peeps around a common purpose. Every tribe has something that binds them together—a common passion, set of beliefs, goal they want to accomplish, specific way they want to change the world, etc. At Brand New Nation, we rally our peeps around the desire to #getbrandnew—that is, constantly learning new skills and knowledge to drive our brands and businesses forward.
- Inspire your peeps to start their own initiatives. Followers watch and admire you from afar. They admire your accomplishments but take no actions themselves. You know you have a tribe when your brand has legs. You find that your peeps are starting initiatives of their own, inspired by your brand. For example, at the 2012 World Domination Summit, Chris Guillebeau gifted all attendees a $100 bill to invest somewhere (in themselves or others). Because of this, WDSers are off starting their own revolutions with the $100, including Natalie Sisson who created the $100 Change program.
BONUS: Address your peeps by a special name. One way to create a sense of community amongst your peeps is to address them by a name. Lady Gaga created an online community for her peeps and refers to them as her Monsters. We call our peeps—you guessed it—Brand New Nation. This isn't an essential step in establishing a tribe; it's merely another way to cultivate a sense of belonging to a larger body.
Who has grown a tribe around its brand? Let me know in the comments below!
Know Your Common Thread (Do Love Daily No. 4)
Attract your next customer with these five words. (Do Love Daily No. 3)


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Come to TheFunded's 2011 Investor Awards, at the 9th Founder Showcase
TheFunded.com News
Posted by Jonathan Greechan on 2012-01-10
The 9th Founder Showcase is scheduled for January 19th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View, and for the first time will feature TheFunded.com's Entrepreneur Investor Awards, where we will celebrate the best investors of 2011. All in all, this will be our most exclusive event yet - with just 175 tickets available to the general public.
Applications to the FREE Pitch Competition are open until December 31st, 2011, at http://foundershowcase.com/apply. Over $30mm has been raised by previous presenters, so apply now and start collecting votes.
These Investor Awards are not your average popularity contest. In fact, the main criteria are the 2011 ratings and reviews investors receive from you, the members of TheFunded.com. You could call it the "People's Choice" awards - but we prefer to call it an "Entrepreneur Investor Awards."
The awards up for grabs are;
- Most Disruptive Investor: Reserved for an investor who consistently demonstrated an investment strategy in 2011 of supporting innovative companies with big aspirations to disrupt established markets.
- Top Rated Investor in the Americas: Reserved for an investor who demonstrated an impressive track record in 2011, and received the highest acclaim from TheFunded.com's members in 2011 across North, Central, and South America.
- Top Rated Investor in Asia: Reserved for an investor who demonstrated an impressive track record in 2011, and received the highest acclaim from TheFunded.com's members in 2011 across Asia.
- Top Rated Investor in Europe, Middle East and Africa: Reserved for an investor who demonstrated an impressive track record in 2011, and received the highest acclaim from TheFunded.com's members in 2011 across Europe, Middle East, and Africa.
- Best New Fund Manager: Reserved for a new investor in 2011 that received the highest acclaim from the TheFunded.com's members, and who has immediately demonstrated savvy and a willingness to help promising entrepreneurs succeed.
We'll be announcing the finalists shortly, so stay tuned.
Second, as part of the awards, we will have on-stage, interactive discussions with three of the top investors of 2011. These discussions will leverage input from attendees, and address critical new trends in startups and investing for 2012. So far we've confirmed:
- Mark Suster, General Partner at GRP Partners, and Writer at Both Sides of the Table
- Mike Maples, Jr., Managing Partner of FLOODGATE and investor in Twitter, Digg, Chegg, and ng:moco
- Our third speaker will be announced shortly.
Finally, the stakes for both our Pitch Competition and Demo Table Competition have been raised as well. Only 8 companies will compete in this Pitch Competition (versus the usual ten). And, there will now be three winners to the Demo Table Competition, who will each get to speed-pitch one of the Keynote speakers on stage in front of the audience. Get your Demo Table today at http://foundershowcase.com/tables.
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Because I haven't learned anything - because I haven't done any research this week.
But this is not necessarily a bad thing. The Big Cleanup and Organization Project has been leaving me physically tired but mentally energized. And I am getting in better and better "mental health shape" for research and learning.
Tomorrow I WILL learn something, because Steve Luxenberg, author of Annie's Ghosts, will be speaking at Fairfax Genealogical Society's September meeting.
Here is the blurb from the FxGS newsletter:
"When a family secret alters our understanding of the family tree - such as learning about a hidden relative, marriage, divorce or cause of death - where do we begin to unravel what had always been kept out of sight? This presentation shows how to make the journey, and how one secret can lead to others. Mr. Luxenburg traveled through burial records, birth certificates, hospital records, immigration documents, and wartime records from diverse locations - imperial Russia, Depression-era Detroit, the Philippines, and European war zones - and assembles them into a coherent paper trail."


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Area home sales were up 7 percent in the third quarter compared with a year ago, the Greater Rochester Association of Realtors Inc. reported Friday. The median sale price was up 8 percent.
Closings for the quarter were 3,084, compared to 2,887 last year, according to Genesee Regional Real Estate Information Services Inc., the information subsidiary of GRAR. The median sale price was $133,000, up from $123,000 a year ago.
There were 4,714 homes on the market, a decline of 4 percent, compared with 4,926 in the year-ago quarter.
"New listings tend to slow down as the seasons turn," GRAR president Steve Babbitt said, in a statement. "The drop in inventory indicates more of a balance between buyers and sellers, supporting sustained price growth."
New home permits rose 16 percent to 648 in Monroe County compared to the same period in 2011, Rochester Home Builders' Association reported. Ontario and Wayne counties posted new home permits of 157 and 49, respectively, down from 209 and 77 a year ago.
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Ballethnic Dance Company
Increasing artistic opportunities and outlets for the
community, Ballethnic \bal-eth-nik\ Dance Company, Inc. is enhancing cultural diversity.
The organization is comprised of two components, Ballethnic Dance Company and Ballethnic Academy of Dance. The Company is a classically trained, culturally diverse performing company, while the Academy provides professional training for children and adults.
It is our mission to involve the community, especially youth and those who are financially disadvantaged, in an appreciation of our unique art form. Through our programming we instill in children an interest in the culture of dance and offer them new outlets for expression and enjoyment.
Founded in 1990 by Nena Gilreath and Waverly T. Lucas II, both former members of Dance Theatre of Harlem and Atlanta Ballet, Ballethnic's goal is to inform, educate, and entertain through dance.
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Finishing the favor
I prayed to St Josemaria for a job for my dad.
I prayed to St Josemaria for a job for my dad.
At the end of May I gave up my job to look for one where I could specialize as a psychologist and at the same time earn my living. The first days of...
We used to read the book together with my husband and we fell in love with this saint and his teachings.
We took her to the doctor three times but none of the medicines cured her cough.
My boyfriend, who has great devotion to St Josemaria, advised me to pray to him, find out about him, and learn to love him. And astonishingly, that is...
The atmosphere at home was somewhat against religion.
I was recommended to a good job which I did not even apply for.
The move was a painful one and had a bad effect on our family unity.
I had problems with one of my jobs that made relations with my students very uncomfortable and strained.
She refused to talk to me about it and did not want to see me.
My father gave me a prayer-card of St Josemaria.
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I have a Sony Bloggie camera that produces MP4 files. I want to edit them and upload them as fast as possible to youtube, in the best quality available.
Currently i'm using Kdenlive, that gives me a relative good output in .mpeg in HD 1280X720, but the rendering takes sometimes 4-5 hours for a 15 min clip edited project.
Is there a better way? BTW, i'm on 10.04 on a dell Studio 1557.


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This pioneering book by Dr. John A. McDougall, founder of the nationally renowned
McDougall Program, addresses ways to combat the number one killer of Americans
today--heart disease. At St. Helena Hospital in the Napa Valley of California, Dr.
McDougall teaches cardiac patients a revolutionary new way of living that frees them
from fear of future heart attacks and allows them to lead healthy lives. Now he offers
readers the same breakthrough advice that thousands of people have learned through
his clinical practice.
Combining step-by-step diet, exercise, and lifestyle recommendations, it is designed
to bring about dramatic health improvements in less than two weeks. A lifesaver for
patients who have already suffered a heart attack or been diagnosed with heart
disease, it is equally valuable as an authorative guide to prevention. This comprehensive
manual for anyone concerned about heart disease includes:
- A 12-day full menu plan and more than 100 recipes
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The McDougall Program for a Healthy Heart is the most up-to-date and useful
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Slash Me, Mash Me, Spread Me.../
A while back, I mentioned that Jonathon Lethem, author of The Fortress of Solitude, Motherless Brooklyn, and Men and Cartoons, had poached a passage from Textual Poachers in an article he wrote for Harpers about copyright and creativity. Since Lethem, along with Michael Chabon ( The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay), has emerged as one of the poet laureates of fanboy lit, I was delighted to discover that my work on fan culture had made it onto his radar screen. But it just keeps getting better. Annalee Newitz was interviewing Lethem for Wired and asked him directly about his relationship to Textual Poachers, as she reports in her blog:
Lethem, always a fan of art that exists in a copyright gray area, is eager to encourage fanfic writers of all stripes. He admires Henry Jenkins' seminal book about fanfic, Textual Poachers, and champions the creative appropriation of pop culture icons. "Fanfic is a beautiful allegory of appropriation," he said. "But that doesn't mean the exact gesture is the most aesthetically promising one." Translation: Fanfic rules because it tweaks copyright law, but it's not always good art. Maybe Lethem just hasn't read some of the fantastic Harry Potter fanfic that's out there?
Moreover, Lethem has laid down a challenge to the fan writing community, which I am happy to help publicize here:
The award-winning nerd novelist revealed that he'd love to be in a slash fiction story. Whom would he want to be paired with? "I want to be surprised! I want to see ones I wouldn't think of!" he enthused, eyes wide with anticipation -- or possibly fear. Lethem believes he's been "slashed" only once, paired with fellow geek novelist Michael Chabon in a "sublimated homoerotic comic by Patricia Storms that was just an inch away from being Kirk and Spock."
Lethem may well be the first celebrity in my memory who has publicly campaigned to be the subject of a slash story. I can certainly think of plenty of examples where stars and writers not to be subjected to the slash treatment. (Personally, I am rooting to see Lethem climb into bed with The Goatman, the aptly-named character from one of his short stories, but then what do I know...)
I became aware of the Lethem effort to encourage people to slash him about the same time that I learned about the latest efforts of Steven Colbert to encourage his own brand of grassroots creativity. As his website at Comedy Central explains:
For Your Editing Pleasure
It all started when House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel told freshmen Democratic congressmen not to appear on the Colbert Report. The complaint? That Stephen gets final cut on interviews. So in the interest of playing fair, Stephen has decided to put it all out there for you. And by "it," we mean footage of an interview with Stephen that you can edit any way you like.
Download the footage at www.colbertnation.com. The knife is in your hands, Americans. Wield it wisely.
So, at a time when other producers are sending out cease and desist notices to shut down mashups of their content, Colbert is encouraging you to re-edit and recontextualize incriminating statements from his show (and believe me, what made the sketch so funny when it first aired was the whole series of potential meanings behind seemingly innocent statements once he planted the idea in your head.) Of course, none of this has stopped Viacom from trying to get Colbert Show segments removed from YouTube in what is surely a classic example of a media company speaking out of both sides of its mouth at once.
And all of this recalls the contest launched awhile back by A Ok Go, the pop group which has risen to fame primarily on the basis of some pretty compelling videos distributed on YouTube. The group used YouTube to launch a contest to have their fans do their own version of their "A Million Ways" video, again encouraging their fans to have their way with them.
Of course, not everyone gets a clue. For several months now, I've been hearing about a short-lived Veronica Mars preview competition launched by the production company: fans were to make their own shorts promoting the series but one small catch, for copyright reasons, they weren't allowed to use any actual footage from the show. Supposedly, the competition died a quick death when very few people submitted videos, feeling justly frustrated by the mixed messages involved in that particular set of rules.
So, we now have celebrities from literature, television, and pop music who want us to slash them, mash them, but above all, spread them. Indeed, we can see each of the above as reflecting the sensibilities of a generation of popular artists who have grown up in an era of cult media and participatory culture. They know what fan creativity can accomplish and they want to be part of the game rather than sitting on the sidelines.
At the same time, we can see this as reflecting the growing appreciation within the media industry of what often gets called "viral marketing": that is, they recognize the buzz that comes when grassroots intermediaries embrace a property and pass it along to their friends. C3 research associate Joshua Green and I have begun exploring what we call "spreadable media." Our core argument is that we are moving from an era when stickiness was the highest virtue because the goal of pull media was to attract consumers to your site and hold them there as long as possible, not unlike, say, a roach hotel. Instead, we argue that in the era of convergence culture, what media producers need to develop spreadable media. Spreadable content is designed to be circulated by grassroots intermediaries who pass it along to their friends or circulate it through larger communities (whether a fandom or a brand tribe). It is through this process of spreading that the content gains greater resonance in the culture, taking on new meanings, finding new audiences, attracting new markets, and generating new values. In a world of spreadable media, we are going to see more and more media producers openly embrace fan practices, encouraging us to take media in our own hands, and do our part to insure the long term viability of media we like.
Indeed, our new mantra is that if it doesn't spread, it's dead.