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The gist: A recent clinical trial with volunteer patients compared two treatments for metastatic melanoma. It showed that one of the treatments might give longer survival times for people whose tumors do not have mutations in the BRAF gene. This treatment is a drug called nivolumab. It is an immunotherapy drug, meaning that it boosts a patient's own immune system to fight cancer. In the trial, some patients took nivolumab and some took the chemotherapy drug dacarbazine. People who took nivolumab lived a few months longer than people who took dacarbazine. None of the patients had taken any previous treatments for their melanoma.
"Patients with treatment-naive, BRAF wild-type metastatic melanoma treated with nivolumab demonstrated longer OS and PFS than those treated with dacarbazine, according to phase 3 study results presented at the Society for Melanoma Research International Congress.
"Prior research showed nivolumab (Opdivo, Bristol-Myers Squibb) — a PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor — was associated with higher rates of objective response compared with chemotherapy in patients with ipilimumab (Yervoy, Bristol-Myers Squibb)-refractory disease.
"In the current study, Caroline Robert, MD, PhD, head of the Dermatology Unit at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Paris, and colleagues compared the efficacy of nivolumab vs. chemotherapy in 418 previously untreated patients.
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Research: Nerve energy loss and damage
Witte ME, Nijland PG, Drexhage JA, Gerritsen W, Geerts D, van Het Hof B, Reijerkerk A, de Vries HE, van der Valk P, van Horssen J.
Reduced expression of PGC-1α partly underlies mitochondrial changes and correlates with neuronal loss in multiple sclerosis cortex.
Acta Neuropathol. 2012 Oct 17. [Epub ahead of print]
There is growing evidence that mitochondrial dysfunction and associated reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation contribute to neurodegenerative processes in multiple sclerosis (MS). Here, we investigated whether alterations in transcriptional regulators of key mitochondrial proteins underlie mitochondrial dysfunction in MS cortex and contribute to neuronal loss. Hereto, we analyzed the expression of mitochondrial transcriptional (co-)factors and proteins involved in mitochondrial redox balance regulation in normal-appearing grey matter (NAGM) samples of cingulate gyrus and/or frontal cortex from 15 MS patients and nine controls matched for age, gender and post-mortem interval. PGC-1α, a transcriptional co-activator and master regulator of mitochondrial function, was consistently and significantly decreased in pyramidal neurons in the deeper layers of MS cortex. Reduced PGC-1α levels coincided with reduced expression of oxidative phosphorylation subunits and a decrease in gene and protein expression of various mitochondrial antioxidants and uncoupling proteins (UCPs) 4 and 5. Short-hairpin RNA-mediated silencing of PGC-1α in a neuronal cell line confirmed that reduced levels of PGC-1α resulted in a decrease in transcription of OxPhos subunits, mitochondrial antioxidants and UCPs. Moreover, PGC-1α silencing resulted in a decreased mitochondrial membrane potential, increased ROS formation and enhanced susceptibility to ROS-induced cell death. Importantly, we found extensive neuronal loss in NAGM from
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and frontal cortex of MS patients, which significantly correlated with the extent of PGC-1α decrease. Taken together, our data indicate that reduced neuronal PGC-1α expression in MS cortex partly underlies mitochondrial dysfunction in MS grey matter and thereby contributes to neurodegeneration in MS cortex.
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator (PGC)-1α is a member of a family of transcription coactivators that plays a central role in the regulation of cellular energy metabolism. This is involved in the production of energy in the powerhouses of cells (mitochondria). In certain areas of the brain, this is reduced and so the interfer is that this low level may contribute to an energy deficit in nerves that can lead to nerve damage that leads to progression. Thus more evidence that alterations in cellular energy is a problem, but what causes this. The answer is probably demyelination somewhere in the nerve circuitary so that it reduces energy in normal appearing nerves such that they are vulnerable to damage.

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The Seven Principles for Making Marriages Work
Author: John Gottman and Nan Silver
John Gottman, director of the �Gottman Institute' in Seattle, has studied hundreds of couples in his �Love Lab'. He and his team of psychologists have reached the point where they can predict within 91% accuracy which couples will eventually divorce by observing just five initial minutes (the �start up phase' of a disagreement.
In the book, Gottman shares the four signs that flag a troubled relationship and teaches you how to become adept at spotting early danger signs, which are not always what you might expect. He uses many real life examples such as �Rory' the paediatrician who didn�t even know the name of the family dog because he spent so much time at work!
Gottman also debunks many �touch-feely' myths about relationships such as sharing feelings being the most important thing and the idea that affairs are the root of most splits. Couples that survive and report most relationship satisfaction are also able, it seems, to discount and ignore major and minor areas of disagreement. This is the polar opposite of so much relationship advice, which encourages exploration, and �openness' about all feelings and thoughts - it seems that many areas are better left unshared.
Many successful marriages survive regular disagreements and even �screaming matches'. It is not so much how much we argue but the way we argue that Gottman has found to be important. The book offers an array of in depth quizzes, checklists and exercises similar to the ones used in his relationship workshops. These provide a framework for coping with differences and strengthening relationships. The book illustrates many examples of couples saved from the brink of divorce and how that was achieved.
John Gottman has revolutionised thinking and practice around marriage by engaging in years of study and research. If you are at all interested in relationship health then read this book.
Making Marriages Work Chapter Headings
One: What Makes Marriage Work
Two: Marriage Styles: Good and Bad and the Volatile
Three: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Warning Signs
Four: Your Private Thoughts Become Cast in Stone
Five: The Two marriages: His and Hers
Six: Your Marriage: The Diagnosis
Seven: The Four Keys to Improving Your Marriage
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Monica Olah , International Director of Integrative Health, Wellness and Beauty. A4B promotes higher standards in the aesthetics and beauty industry. To learn more about how to be part of the A4B Team connect with us.
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Monica has joined the team and has become an A4B all-star. Her sales have surpassed $5,000 in her first 3 months of her career. She now finds herself as a predominant part of the A4B team as the International Director of A4Beauty. She serves as a mentor to any new A4B boss lady.
A Visionary Consultant & Experienced Weaver of Emerging Health Care Quality & Outcome Concepts with Matched Benefits for Payors, Providers and Patients through Skillfully Lacing these New Principled Goals with Real Time Implementation of Evidence Based Technology, Redistribution of Tertiary Resources. Highly Skilled at Delivering Motivational Shift to Assert Meaningful, Actionable, Responsible and Fiscally Intelligent Modifiers. Leading the Evolution of modern integrative Medicine in todays Health Care Landscape. Creative yet Practical with a 25+ year successful Consulting history – working directly with Physicians , hospitals , Integrated Health Networks , Managed Care Orgaizations, Integrated Delivery Network (IDN), Accountable Care Orgaizations (ACO), Independent Provider Associations (IPA), Medical Schools, Teaching Hospitals, Community Hospitals, Retail, Institutional & Consulting Pharmacy as well as Federal, State & County Health Care – including but not limited to Veteran's Affairs (VA) Hospitals, Tricare, Prison HealthCare, County Department of Health primarily in the pharmaceutical industry, Device Industry and Health Maintenance & Disease Prevention leading groups or independently working in numerous and diverse roles. Strong Skills demonstrated in Chronic Disease Prevention – including cancer, virology, Hypertension, Diabetes, Mental Health, COPD, asthma, Cardiology, Inflammatory Diseases, Autism, Psychiatry, Othopardics, Ophthalmology, Dentistry… and more. Consultant to Industry, Teaching Institutions, ACO's, Independent Providers and Key Opinion Leaders Internationally.
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Blog: 5 Tools To Maximize Your Time
I read this article about all of us having the same amount of time in a day as Beyoncé or Oprah or anyone who seems to be super human. I've seen that saying before, and I think it was intended to be encouraging to think that someone can accomplish super human feats in the same amount of time I am allotted. But, I don't accomplish much in a given day, so that sentiment pretty-much just adds to the guilt and self deprecation that already plague me at the end of another long, exhausting day.
I think about this a lot when I consider how I want to work on my family culture. I want to be able to take the time to sit down with my husband and children and come up with stellar goals and a family mission statement. I want to take the time to uphold our family traditions and habits, and take the time to plan them out in detail. I want to take the time to respond consciously to my kids when they need discipline and correction. I also want to be able to have the time to accomplish my own goals on top of all of my responsibilities. I will be the first to admit that it is hard!
It's also important to remember that when moms and dads aren't productive, or we aren't feeling 100%, the whole family suffers. We are the ones to lead out in our family culture and make our homes a place where we can thrive.
So I thought of some ways that can help me to maximize my time. This list is a reminder for me, and I hope it helps you too!
This list contains affiliate links. Read my disclosure statement if wonder what that means.
- Self Care. You've heard that you can't pour from an empty cup, or draw from an empty well. It's true. You won't have anything to give if you aren't taking care of yourself first. Get a full night's sleep if you can. Don't wait until your kids are in bed to enjoy some much-needed "me" time and then stay up too late binge-watching Netflix (see number 2). Plan for and eat healthy meals, but also allow yourself a treat every day every so often. Take time to exercise. Hydrate. Be aware of what you need. Have a good morning routine if you can: check out The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod. I'm finding that an unhealthy body can do very little to keep up with the demands of the day. Use essential oils. Soak in a hot epsom salt bath. Get proper health care. Take a night out with your friends if that is your thing. Pause sometimes to create something, or write. Break up the monotony of the day. Which leads me to the next item on the list.
- Balance Your Energy. I recommend one of my favorite books: The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr. Everything I know about how to balance my energy comes from that book! Our energy ebbs and flows naturally throughout the day, week, month, year, etc. We are constantly in a rhythm between stress and recovery. Usually our energy ebbs every one and a half to two hours throughout the day. You might have noticed yourself being in a groove, getting stuff done, but then you start to feel your energy waning after a couple of hours. But, what do you do? I can bet you do the kinds of things I often do: you go grab a power drink or a snack, look at social media, or maybe you just power through it so that you can keep going and continue being productive. Maybe you get a second wind, and feel your energy come back, but then you're more tired, less focused, and maybe not as productive as you'd like. Or maybe, the stress starts to build up over time, and you are forced to take a break because your health and relationships begin to suffer. What you need to do is honor the ebb in your energy because you need to recover! When you ignore your natural need for stress and recovery, you are basically flatlining – as in, dying. We have four basic elements of our energy: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual. In general, we get too much stress emotionally and mentally, and not enough stress physically and spiritually. But, the amazing thing is that these four elements can balance each other out. Exercise and mediation stress you physically and spiritually, but they are great for recovering mentally and emotionally. So, whenever you start to feel your energy ebbing, take a moment to honor your need to recover: go for a walk, sing a song, doodle, meditate, get some fresh air, read or watch something that makes you laugh, and by all means, have a healthy snack, just as long as you pause to enjoy it! Schedule it in if you have to. Honor the ebb and flow of life.
- Prioritize. There might not be a way to get to everything on my to-do list for today. But, it isn't helping to procrastinate or ignore what needs to be done. Here's another great book that I recommend: The Now Habit by Neil Fiore. Start by prioritizing your tasks. Once you figure out what needs to get done, start at the top of the hour and set a timer for thirty minutes. Focus on that thing for thirty minutes without distraction. After thirty minutes, reward yourself for a job well-done! Come back to it in another hour or two, or tomorrow, and do it again. Keep it up until you have accomplished your goal. This is one of those "less is more" things. How often do we focus on one thing without distraction for any amount of time? Don't multitask. Don't look at your phone or watch TV. And, don't try to wear yourself out over that thing or you will be less likely to have the energy to return to it again (see number 2). I'm honestly trying to do this with the amount of time I spend with my kids, with them in their element, without distraction, thirty-minutes at a time. It's harder than it sounds. You might also like The 12-Week Year by Brian P. Moran for staying on task for a 12-week span to accomplish more in a year. MJ DeMarco said in my interview with him that "you are the CEO of your life." You need to be strategic about how you spend your time. Spend more time focusing on your strengths than trying to fix your weaknesses. It's good to remember that we have to choose to address the "important but not urgent" tasks on our to-do list because those are the ones that require discipline to accomplish (First Things First by Stephen Covey). Which brings me to number 4.
- Choice. In the article I mentioned above, the author says you have a choice. She is not wrong, but this is the part that people don't usually want to hear! "Here's the truth… you have to choose. You have to want something bad enough to get up an hour earlier, to shut the TV off, to play Legos with your 5 year old even when you're exhausted. You have to make the choice and keep making it all 1,440 minutes of every 24 hour day! That's how you get to where you want to be… that's how you get to who you want to be" (Rachel Hollis). I haven't read The 5-Second Rule by Mel Robbins yet, but I have heard it has some good tips for a kick in the pants to be in action. I have, however, read Leadership and Self-Deception by the Arbinger Institute, The Tools by Phil Stutz, and The Sweet Spot by Christine Carter, PhD, and they all have great advice for following your instincts, pushing through the discomfort of doing something hard, and overall good advice for being productive! When you get the prompting in your mind to do something, do it. When you know you need to do something but it is uncomfortable, force yourself to push through the discomfort, or as Brené Brown would say, lean in to the discomfort, and get it done. While there is a place for chillaxing and shutting off your brain, doing it too frequently leads to a habit. Form new habits by replacing old habits with new ones (The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg). (Can you tell this is my biggest weakness??)
- Presence. I read in a book somewhere that meditation can actually slow down time, or maybe our perception of time (could have been Eckhart Tolle or Deepak Chopra, or any one of those "new age" authors I like to read sometimes 🧘♀). I know Gay Hendricks PhD touches on this in The Big Leap when he talks about what he called "Einstein Time." Basically, when you just relax and stop focusing on time, things actually work out. A couple of great books I recommend are The Hands-Off Manager by Steve Chandler, and The Rhythm of Life by Matthew Kelly. The important thing here is about being present and mindful. Maybe we need to simplify our tasks. Maybe we need to let go of what is outside of our control and not let it rob us of our energy. Presence also allows us to be aware of what needs to be done rather than frantically running around and missing the whole point. Being present opens you up to gratitude which can make time seem to slow down, too.
Bonus: Trust the process. Beyoncé and Oprah weren't created in a day. What you don't see when Michael Phelps wins another gold medal is the hours and hours of training and practice that went into his craft. If your goal is to lose weight, a healthy rate is ONE POUND PER WEEK. That can feel like a very slow process. The point is, one, we cannot compare ours novice selves to someone else who is an expert. So when I see that Beyoncé has the same amount of time in a day as me, it doesn't mean I need to be at the same level of hustle as she is because she's been at it for a lot longer than me (not to mention the resources she has now). And, two, anything we want to accomplish takes time and consistency. Consistency is the key to accomplishing those goals. Trust the process.
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DCT2Gen takes a description of certain properties of observed Layer 2 traffic and generates a schedule of TCP payload transmissions. When this schedule is executed, this generates Layer 2 traffic on the network having the same properties as the observed Layer 2 traffic.
A detailed description of DCT2Gen can be found in our paper Philip Wette and Holger Karl: DCT2Gen: A Versatile TCP Traffic Generator for Data Centers, 2014.
Here you can find a print and a pre-print on arXiv.
Download DCT2Gen ver. 0.02
DCT2Gen comes with a set of csv-files describing the six properties
- Flow sizes (S_obs)
- Flow inter-arrival times (IAT_obs)
- Number of communication partners per node (N_obs_inter, N_obs_intra)
- Number of bytes per traffic Matrix entry (B_obs_inter, B_obs_intra)
and with the inferred properties
- B_PL_inter
- B_PL_intra
To run DCT2Gen, you need a running installation of GNU R, Java, and Gurobi (with a valid license).
If Gurobis Java bindings are not installed to <tt>/opt/gurobi562/linux64/lib/gurobi.jar</tt> you have to change that path accordingly in DCT2Gens source code.
To compute a traffic schedule, use the function <tt>makeTraffic(numMatrices, numRacks, hostsPerRack, trafficScale, fileName)</tt>
<tt>numMatrices</tt> is the number of traffic matrices to generate. Each traffic matrix stands for 10s of traffic.
<tt>numRacks</tt> is the number of racks in the data center
<tt>hostsPerRack</tt> is the number of hosts in one rack
<tt>trafficScale</tt> is a factor to linearly scale the size of the traffic matrices.
<tt>fileName</tt> is the filename storing the generated traffic schedule.
<tt>makeTraffic(..)</tt> uses the files <tt>S_obs.csv, IAT_obs.csv, N_obs_inter.csv, N_obs_intra.csv, B_TM_inter.csv, B_TM_intra.csv</tt>.
B_TM_inter, B_TM_intra are inferred from B_obs_inter, B_obs_intra. Everytime you update B_obs_inter, B_obs_intra you have to use the functions <tt>B_obs_inter2B_PL_inter()</tt> and <tt>B_obs_intra2B_PL_intra()</tt> (from <tt>Deconvolver.R</tt>) to recreate B_TM_inter and B_TM_intra.
But before you use these functions, please make sure you understand what the Deconvolver does. Be aware that the deconvolving routines take a lot of CPU time.
DCT2Gen creates a schedule of TCP payload transmissions between all hosts in a data center.
The schedule is a csv file where each line <tt>srcHost, dstHost, startTime, payloadBytes</tt> represents one backlogged TCP connection between srcHost and dstHost that is established at startTime and transfers payloadBytes Bytes of payload from srcHost to dstHost.
Host IDs are created based on their location in the datacenter. They start at <tt>1</tt> and end at <tt>numRacks * hostsPerRack</tt>. Hosts <tt>1</tt> to <tt>hostsPerRack</tt> are located in rack <tt>1</tt>, Hosts <tt>hostsPerRack + 1</tt> to <tt>2 * hostsPerRack</tt> in rack <tt>2</tt>, and so on.


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Bring your home to life by framing original H. Lively textiles. Fabric is cut to your desired dimensions and left unframed so you can select a frame and framer of your choice.
Two finished edge options are available: sewn edge or frayed edge.
Each fabric art piece comes with a certificate of authenticity, signed by the artist, that can be given to your professional framer.
Gold frame shown in primary photo is not included but can be purchased through Framebridge.
Pattern placement will vary. If you want specific placement, message me directly.
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Fabric designed, hand drawn and sewn by Haley
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Larger fabric art pieces will be folded for shipment and will require steaming or ironing to eliminate creases (iron on back side of printed fabric only)
Each fabric art piece is hand made so please allow 10-14 days for this item to ship
Fabric art pieces will be packaged in plastic with cardboard backing to ensure safe delivery
Larger fabric art pieces will be folded and will require steaming or ironing to eliminate creases. (iron on back side of printed fabric only)
Custom sizes available! If you are looking for a different size message me and I will send you a quote!
At H. Lively, I take design and craftsmanship very seriously and I want you to love these pieces as much as I do! The items are carefully inspected prior to shipment, but damages can happen, and I ask that you inspect your pieces upon receipt and notify me of any damage within 48 hours and I will promptly work on a replacement. I do not accept returns, exchanges or cancellations.


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A school in Markfield Leicestershire, suffered a serious fire in a classroom thought to be caused for a PV Solar panel. This was attended by senior officers covering emergency calls during the fireman's strike. This could well have been much worse. Click for Story. This really asks why Councils are playing loose with our children's safety to make a few pennies in comparison to the overall costs of running any school. The story of The Highland Councils construction of wind turbines in school grounds is now seemingly mirrored by ambitions in Fife. This is all about indoctrination of our children into the now
exposed fiasco of the IPCC AGW scam and the false impression of CO² as a planet poisoner. The small photo shows Bower School, Caithness, which is a wooden school building covered with solar panels and with a Proven Technology Turbine, such as failed at Raasay, in the playground. A disaster looking to happen. There never was or is a consensus, just a pack of lies believed by a gullible political elite who believed that terrifying the world with the apocalypse would give them all the power that they craved. What is easier than to paint a normal fact as a disaster. Climate changes and has done over millenia: FACT! Not DISASTER!
Slightly off centre but following the same eco-centric direction, this link might amuse


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The organisers of the Tour de France are promising that the route of the 2019 race will be "the highest Tour in history."
Andre Greipel has signed for Fortuneo-Samsic, the team announced on Thursday via their Twitter account.
Chris Froome has every reason to want to get home after the Tour de France. His wife Michelle is due to give birth any day now, a second child for the Team Sky rider.
He pushed Geraint Thomas all the way but Tom Dumoulin doesn't the Welshman the win in Paris.
After stepping off of the podium on the Champs Elysee, Geraint Thomas was joined by wife Sara, and the pair spoke to Matt Rendell
Egan Bernal was an eye-catching rider throughout the duration of the Tour de France. He shared his experiences of his first ever ride down the Champs-Elysee in the final stage.
After finish just outside the podium places in the Tour de France Primož Roglič took stock of an impressive three weeks.


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Space on ELRAP tours is limited!
In order to secure your reservation, a non-refundable down payment of US$100.00 is required. If you need to change your initial reservation, you may do this twice at no extra charge.
FIFTY PERCENT (less US$100.00) of the down payment must be made, not later than midnight Manila time, SIXTY DAYS before the confirmed tour date. If you choose not to send the down payment, it will be assumed by us that you do not wish to take the tour and your reservation will then be cancelled. The tour date always begins on a Saturday. Please arrive in Manila not later than the Friday before your tour date. Should you cancel your trip, for any reason, between 60 and 31 days prior to your tour date, a refund of 90% of this down payment can be returned to you. The remaining 10% of the down payment will be retained by ELRAP to cover the costs of processing your refund.
FULL PAYMENT for your tour must be made not later than midnight, Manila time, THIRTY DAYS before the confirmed tour date. The tour date always begins on a Saturday. Please arrive in Manila not later than the Friday before your tour date. If full payment is not made on the date indicated, your reservation will be considered cancelled, and the fifty percent down payment will be retained in full by ELRAP in order to cover expenses incurred on your behalf.
What we expect of our guests:
The Philippines is a conservative country. We expect that our guests will conduct themselves with the proper decorum at all times. Drunkenness, lewdness, and inappropriate behavior will not be tolerated, and ELRAP reserves the right to eject persons exhibiting such from the tour. No use of recreational drugs will be tolerated at any time during the tour.
Guests are expected to secure their own VISA to the Philippines. Visitors to the Philippines will automatically be granted a 21-day visa up arrival at the airport PROVIDED THEY HAVE AN OUTWARD BOUND TICKET. If you are not holding an outward bound ticket, you will be required to purchase one at the airport, or you will not be allowed to enter the country.
If you wish to renew the twenty-one day visa while here in the Philippines, you will be required to make a trip to Immigration where you will be given a visa for an additional thirty-eight days, but you will have to pay PHP3,030.00 (approx. US$70.00) for it. It is advisable to contact the Philippine Embassy or Consulate nearest you and obtain the FREE fifty-nine day visa from the Consular Office before you depart your home country.
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As part of the cost of your tour, you will be enrolled in Blue Cross Travelsafe travel & medical insurance for a period of 60 days (please review the brochure Blue Cross Travelsafe medical/travel insurance)
Therefore, your travel insurance is valid for:
"The period of insurance shall be in effect two hours upon arrival NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) Manila which shall also be considered as the point of origin, or the commencement of the policy (declared start date of the policy), which ever of these occurs later. Coverage under the policy and the endorsement with respect to all benefits stated in the official confirmation of coverage, except for trip cancellation benefit shall also be in effect on the above condition.
Policy ceases whichever of the following occurs first:
- A. The expiry date of the insurance coverage as specified in the Official confirmation of coverage in the schedule of benefits
- B. 2 hours upon arrival in the terminal premises of the point of origin, which is NAIA, on their scheduled departure going back to their country of residence."
Should your trip be cancelled for the reasons outlined in the parameters of the policy, stated below, a refund shall be forthcoming from Blue Cross:
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scheduled departure date. The cancellation must be due to death, life threatening
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Please be advised that this policy is valid for persons up to the age of 75 years only. If you are 76 years old and above and wish to go on this tour, please advise Betsy Malca at email@example.com and arrangements will be made accordingly.
The contact person for any questions you may have about Blue Cross Travelsafe Insurance is Mr. Randy de la Cruz who can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Lacson & Lacson Insurance Brokers Inc. 15th Fl. Burgundy Corporate Tower 252 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City 1200 Philippines Tel # (63-2) 844-5773 & (63-2) 844-7930. Please advise Mr. De la Cruz that you are with ELRAP.


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Market Recap for Monday, April 9, 2018
Once again, Monday was the tale of two markets. The first half of the day was quite bullish, but it was all for naught as sellers stampeded the bulls in the afternoon session. Our major indices finished with across-the-board gains so if you only tuned in at the close, you'd have been quite happy. But the entirety of the trading session was not nearly so bullish as the Dow Jones finished nearly 400 points off its intraday high. The S&P 500 traded within 2 points of its 20 day EMA before dropping 1.5% over just the final two hours:
The red arrows mark the recent failures at the declining 20 day EMA. While breaking above this moving average wouldn't necessarily end the two month correction, it would at least be a nice start. And continuing failures at this moving average will lead to major price support tests identified on the chart above at 2581 and 2532.
Industrials (XLI, -0.30%) claimed the honor of worst performing sector yesterday and actually closed at its lowest level since the 2018 swoon began. There's plenty of support, however, for the XLI to make a recovery. Check it out:
The 71-72 level represents solid short-term price support and I expect that to hold. Obviously, if it doesn't, it will embolden the bears and we could see swift selling resume. I expect to see the bulls make a stand at recent lows.
Consumer stocks also suffered on Monday as both consumer discretionary (XLY, -0.24%) and consumer staples (XLP, -0.06%) joined the industrials in negative territory.
Pre-Market Action
Despite an inflationary March PPI report, U.S. stock futures are on the rise and the 10 year treasury yield ($TNX) is barely higher, up just 2 basis points to 2.80%. Crude oil prices ($WTIC) are surging 2% to $64.68 per barrel. The energy ETF (XLE) has been threatening key price resistance at 69, so will this morning's crude oil surge be the catalyst the XLE needs to finally clear that 69 hurdle?
China President Xi Jinping discussed plans for China to open up its trade policies a bit, specifically indicating lower tariffs for autos. Not coincidentally, many auto stocks are up solidly in pre-market action.
Given that the Volatility Index ($VIX) remains in the 20s for now, it'll be very interesting to see if trade fears shift to inflationary fears. Dow Jones futures are up nearly 300 points, but as we've seen so many times over the past 2-3 months, early bullish action doesn't necessarily translate into late bullish action. The news out of China is quite encouraging, but let's see how we close today.
Current Outlook
Transports ($TRAN) are in a fairly well-defined trading range between 10000 price support and 10800 price resistance. Currently, and after Monday's weak finish, the TRAN is very close to its price support level and needs to see a recovery:
Airlines appear to be the weakest link among the transports, but if there's some good news, it's that all of the areas of transports - railroads, truckers and airlines - are holding their February lows. Many technicians look to transports for confirming strength and/or weakness, so we want to play close attention to the price support levels marked above.
Sector/Industry Watch
Those invested in tires ($DJUSTR) have probably grown a little "worn" waiting for the "rubber to meet the road" (ok enough puns for now). Performance in this area has been no laughing matter. February and March produced big losses, but there is a silver lining as a strong positive divergence has emerged. I expect this industry to rally over the next few weeks, potentially gaining 6-7% or so by month's end. Here's why:
While I do look for a nice short-term rally here to perhaps 100-101, there's plenty of technical work to do before I'd become bullish this group longer-term. For now, I'd expect to see that positive divergence play out by testing its declining 50 day SMA and resetting the PPO at its centerline (blue arrows). Once that occurs, I'd re-evaluate.
Historical Tendencies
The Dow Jones U.S. Tires Index ($DJUSTR) has history on its side for the next few weeks as April has produced an average monthly return of 6.0% over the past 19 years. After a brutal March in which the DJUSTR lost close to 8%, the positive divergence reflected above in the Sector/Industry Watch section suggests history could be proven correct once again.
Key Earnings Reports
Key Economic Reports
March PPI released at 8:30am EST: +0.3% (actual) vs. +0.1% (estimate)
March Core PPI released at 8:30am EST: +0.3% (actual) vs. +0.2% (estimate)
February wholesale inventories to be released at 10:00am EST: +1.1% (estimate)
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Westminster: Moderator's prayer to a loving God
Published on 22 March, 2017
The Moderator, Rt Rev Dr Russell Barr has responded to the Westminster attack with this statement and prayer:
"It has been reported that a police officer has been stabbed, the alleged assailant has been shot by armed police, a woman has been killed and others including school children have been injured.
"The House of Commons has been suspended and Westminster is in lockdown
"Clearly it is a major incident and I can only imagine it must be a terrifying experience for everyone affected.
"As the day passes there will doubtless be more detail and about who was involved and what happened and the hurt and pain it has caused
"In the meantime let me offer this simple prayer"
Loving God
We pray for all who have been involved in today's terrible incident at Westminster
especially the family of the woman who has been killed and the people who have been hurt and injured.
We pray for the police and the emergency services as they respond to events
Surround all who have been left traumatised and afraid with Your healing presence and power
And in the darkness of this dreadful incident and all our fearfulness, bring to light the love and peace of Christ our Lord
Crown Court Church
Rev Philip Majcher, minister at Crown Court Church in London, said members of the church are at Westminster today acting as hosts to the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry, which is on display in the Palace of Westminster. The minister has been in communication with them and none of them were hurt in the attack.
He said:
"My thoughts and prayers are with the injured and with the families of everyone who was hurt in this terrible event."


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My aim is to use this site as a test bed for existing and emerging research ideas plus points of interest to me. Some of the blog stuff might be a bit raw, back-of-fag-packet or just for fun, so treat it as a bit of a scrapbook. I'll try to refine the bits of continuing interest in the menu pages.
Just in case your interested here's some more info about me :
Over 18 years in the Electrical Steel Industry. In order: Research, Production, Business Improvement (UK & Germany), Product Application (Germany), Customer Service, Technical Manager and Lean & Continuous Improvement Manager, with Health & Safety thrown in, plus some project work elsewhere in Corus / Tata. I left the business at the end of May 2011.
After this I considered myself an independent researcher, house-husbanded and worked with Cardiff Business School's "Lean Enterprise Research Centre" (LERC) with increasing frequency on research themes, the Lean Competency System, e-learning systems, client work, assignment assessment and a bit of MBA mentoring thrown in – as an associate.
I contributed to the LERC's Shingo Award winning publication "Staying Lean – Thriving, Not Just Surviving", Hines, Found*, Harrison & Griffiths, whilst Lean Manager at Cogent Power and started developing further research ideas with Dr. Pauline Found in 2010 and subsequently also with Dr. Donna Samuel (who has now moved into consultancy)
We collaborated on articles in the Manufacturer/Lean Management Journal (Jan 2010) and most recently for the British Academy of Management (BAM Sep 2011) on visual techniques for characterising and tracking economic & business systems, by way of an introduction to wider research themes. I've explored some of these ideas with Richard Winterbottom within his business, contributing to his MBA in early 2012
Since then, LERC as a tangible centre, has been disbanded by Cardiff Business School. I have continued to work on the continuity of some LERC services from the school (LCS, E-Sensei, consultancy) either directly or indirectly, and on WRAP (physical waste reduction) projects with a local consultant (structuralchange.co.uk).
The Lean Competency System is currently undergoing a re-launch, in which I am involved. It will operate as a licenced service of Cardiff University, continuing the promotion and development of lean understanding and application in organisations through the provision of a structured lean qualifications system. There are currently over 20 LCS Accredited Organisations and more in the pipeline.
During the second half of 2012 I was priviledged to act as a judge for the Manufacturer of the Year competition, on the World Class Manufacturing Award (The Manufacturer Magazine, SayOne Media), with heavy lean-type components. Having honed down 17 or so applicants to a final six, the three of us judging, went to visit their sites around the country – new to the competition. A very worthwhile experience.
The winner of this particular award, Case New Holland (tractor manufacturer) of Basildon, also grabbed the overall prize – UK Manufacturer of the Year.
Lean Thinking or Systems Thinking ?
My views on the bounds of what we call Lean Thinking are fairly broad, and have always considered it as part of (and practiced) an overall systems approach (in which I did an MSc), rather than a narrow set of tools and techniques – which it is often portrayed as, and indeed practiced, sometimes inappropriately.
Info on Degrees etc…
BSc Mathematical Sciences (Portsmouth) Dissertation : "The Mathematical Significances of Stonehenge" 1989
MSc Systems Engineering (Cardiff), Thesis: "Human Skin Dynamics" 1992
Engineering Doctorate (EngD) "Domain Refinement Techniques for the Improvement of Grain Oriented Electrical Steels" (Cardiff) 1998
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April15 at EveryTrail
Map created by EveryTrail:GPS Geotagging
Fighting with the net the previous night a bit late and there goes my plans of getting up early for a toss. Its 8.30 when i am finally packing the panniers of my bike. Then i get a call from Mitch, whome i had tried to contact. Now Mitch is from US and has been riding solo in the north east for like a few months now. It was nice talking to him and he gives me info of the path ahead and i had to be starting earlier as the road was bad. Now i lost casualness and wanted to get going.
Started towards Jowai. But not before passing through not so vella part of Shillong. Then on it was smooth two laned twisties till Jovai. kinda lost enthu to look out for the town of Naritiang as i thought it was getting late. Had i seen a board would have gone but did not put any effort. But it would have taken valuable one hour. Should have started early for that. Any way missed the deviation for the village and realized later.But not for long. The road gets very bad in patches. All the while slowly getting down the mountains. Remember especially the town named Ladiramby, ohh my god it was a night mare to cross the town, with horrendous road of just stones, lotsa trucks and general town population. The roads only got worser. East Meghalaya is not so good at all.
continuing on, descended to the planes and so did the temperature rise and quite a bit, and add truely moonscape road and the dust and in short not a very pleasurable road. Was afraid the panniers would break of. Things improved nearing Bhadarpur and I turn towards karimganj. Blessed with awesome roads intermittently. The villages around the road again sleepy ones. There was this green carpet on either side of the road. I was very hungry by now and was looking out for a ok place to eat and couldnt fine one. At last found a lone hut by the lonely road and stopped to have what ever they had. And there i had the cheapest meal of the trip. Five bux for two rotis and peas curry! Was expecting a welcome to tripura board but it wasnt there. Was expecting to see vehicles with the registration of TP but instead found TR :D. Found my way to dharamnagar which is a deviation off the highway to the Agartala and from there to Kailashahar.
It turned out ot be an awesome ride after i had been through the day. Pretty cool now and tight smooth twisties going through the forest. Saw the board to Unakoti cultaral park with just one km as deviation. Took a couple of pix of the large face carvings over there. Like Mitch had said it was bettor in the evening as morning sun with stare at the lense, Saved me a good hour for tomm.
Reached Kailashar and with unclear directions. This town is right on the Bangladesh border, hope to check out the gate tomm. Found the Unakoti tourist lodge. 300 bux for AC room and i will take it. Here have the network problem again. Airtel does not work here! gosh this is so frustrating. Here only BSNL and Aircel works! But again my BSNL prepaid does not work! I barrow the bsnl sim of the hotel caretaker. And it has only 30 Rs balance and calls not happening as well. It was easier to get fone connection in foreign country!
To save time in the morning, as the care taker to get me hot water for bath and there goes the power!. Yes i did it!. Now what are the chances of one have a candle light bath in a AC room? !!
Talked to MR SK Das, police inspector at Agartala, whose contact i got from Shreekumar, in turn who had met in his cycle ride in NE. I was enlightened about the first convoy from Manughat to Agartala is at Nine AM. Yes vehicles are escorted by armed Military personal between this route as the area is currently very sensitive in insurgency and militancy. Will have to make the Sixty KMs before that time. The Convoy itself will take some Four hours for Hundred KMs. Should be interesting as i will have no freedom to stop when i want!
My not so impressive holdup at Shillong...
Shillong full of Maruthi 800 taxis
Climbing the Meghalay mountains to the east...
Tourism around Meghalay
Lot of coal factory activities...
Some spot for a breather after endless company of Trucks...
A Tunnel
There is nothing on top of the tunnel. Whats the point??
Bad roads approaching Badrapur...
Had to stop here. was too hungry... The cheapest meal of the trip. 5 bux for 2 rotis and peas curry!
Jeetendra the host
I thought it was for Welcome to Tripura board but is was not...
Huts with compounds in Tripura villages...
The forest road from Dharmanagar to Kailasher...
Unakoti Carvings...
The sun has to set...
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Day 38 - April 15 - Shillong to Kailashaher
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Awesome pics and narrative.
Keep it up!!
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'He Used to Be in a Coma, I Used to Be a Fat Guy.'
It started with a deal.
"He used to be in a coma, I used to be a fat guy," Rick Delashmit wrote on a photo he posted to Imgur of him and his son this week. "If he's standing, I'm running." That photo has since earned more than 2.5 million views.
My son is recovering from a brain injury. We have a deal now…if he's standing, I'm running. He's up to 90 minutes and I'm down 70 lbs.
The Delashmit family was in a car accident in 2008, leaving everyone virtually unharmed, except for the oldest son Reece. The then 4-year-old was airlifted from the scene, fell into a coma and spent almost four months in the intensive care unit.
Reece, now 12, has made great strides since the accident. Although he's still unable to speak, he's now able to eat and drink normally. Reece uses a wheelchair, but he can walk a few dozen yards with the help of a gait trainer.
"He's come so far from being tube-fed, bed-ridden, unresponsive to stimulus when he came home from the hospital after our accident back in '08," Delashmit told The Mighty in an email. "He's in school, he's learning, he's communicating, he's a chick magnet, he's smiling and laughing all the time."
Last year, Delashmit realized that his weight was tipping the scales at 215 pounds, heavy for his 5-foot-2 stature. He decided to make a deal with Reece that's resulted in great progress for both of them. When Reece practices standing up, Delashmit runs on the treadmill.
To date, Delashmit has lost 70 pounds, and his son can now stand for 90 minutes. Before the pact, Reece couldn't stand for more than a half hour, and Delashmit couldn't run 1.5 miles without stopping. Now, Delashmit can run 6 miles in about 50 minutes.
The Delashmit home has been completely accessible since early 2014, and their home gym/therapy room has enough space for all of Reece's equipment, as well as a treadmill and weight machine.
"It just occurred to me that I've got the most amazing motivation for hard work and perseverance right in front of me," Delashmit told The Mighty. "Once we could be in the same room working at the same time, there really was no excuse any more not to keep up with his pace."
The pact has brought the Delashmit family even closer, and Delashmit often captures Reece's determination, as well as his other family moments, and posts photos and videos to Imgur, Reddit, YouTube and Facebook.
My oldest hasn't been able to speak since suffering a brain injury in 2008, but that doesn't stop him from comforting his little brother when he's not feeling well.
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I feel you, Chris Cocker.I mean okay. Maybe you went...erm... overboard, but I hear you. And I totally understand you defending Britney.
I mean, like I said (a coupl'a days ago) - Britney Spears is just human, like us. She goes through difficult times and phases like us. Thing is she's this big celebrity - everyone wants a piece of her. People have been so hard on her and everything. Lately I like looking at the bigger picture. I really put myself in their situation and that's when I start to understand, even if I don't know a thing or two of what's really going on in their personal lives.
Celebs, Models, Actors doing drugs. Totally wrong, but somehow totally understandable (not saying anyone should still do it - I'm just saying that this is reality. They shoot things up their noses for reasons we can never really understand, but get. Got me?). Showbiz. It eats you.
We are born critics, yes. But I hope we can somehow limit ourselves to judging people, that's all. Like I said - let's just judge her music or the way she dresses, but not who she is as a person. I hope one day we'd all stop being fascinated with their personal lives (but I find it hard to not be fascinated by Kate Moss. Hmm).
To wrap this up, it all goes down to this - When it comes to other people, we don't know any better. Its complicated. But that's how it is.
Thanks for showing me the Seth Green reply to that vid, Spikky.


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I'm trying to create a parser that will scan an entire text for lines that start with either "ACTIE" or "TODO" after which it returns the rest of the line except for the word at the start
This is an example text
ACTIE this should be returned
more text etc.
should return:
this should be returned
The regex I have created so far is:
\s*(\bACTIE|TODO\b) ([^\n\r]*)
which returns both ACTIE and the line after it as two hits:
ACTIE, this should be returned
Is there any way I can let it drop "ACTIE" or "TODO" at the start and only have it return the rest of the line?
Use a non-capturing group:
\s*(?:\bACTIE|TODO\b) ([^\n\r]*)


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Stategy is the craft of the warrior. Commanders must enact the craft. and troopers should know this. There is no warrior in the world today who really understands the Way of strategy.
There are various Ways. There is the Way of salvation by the law of Buddha, the Way of Confusius governing the Way of learning, the Way of healling as a doctor, as a poet teaching the Way of Waka, tea, archery, and many arts and skills. Each man practices as he feels inclined.
It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of the pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way. Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. Although not only warriors but priests, women, peasants and lowlier folk have been known to die readily in the cause of duty of out of shame, this is a different thing. The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men. By victory gained in crossing swords with individuals, or enjoining battle with large numbers, we can attain power and fame for ourselves or our lord. This is the virtue of stategy.
In China and Japan practitioners of the Way have been known as "masters of strategy". Warriors must learn this Way.
Recently there have been people getting on in the world as strategists, but they are usually just sword-fencers. The attendants of the Kashima Kantori shrines of the province Hitachi received instruction from the gods, and made schools based on this teaching, travelling from country to coundtry instructing men. This is the recent meaning of strategy.
In olden times strategy was listed among the Ten Abilities and Seven Arts as a beneficial practice. It was certainly an art but as a beneficial practice it was not limited to sword-fencing. The true value of sword-fencing cannot be seen within the confines of sword-fencing technique.
If we look at the world we see arts for sale. Men use equipment to sell their own selves. As if with the nut and the flower, the nut has become less than the flower. In this kind of Way of strategy, both those teaching and those learning the way are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower. They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit. Someone once said, "Immature strategy is the cause of grief". That was a true saying.
There are four Ways in which men pass through life: as gentlemen, farmers, artisans and merchants.
The Way of the farmer. Using agricultural instruments, he sees srpings through autumns with an eye on the changes of season.
Second is the Way of the merchant. The wine maker obtains his ingredients and puts them to use to make his living. The Way of the merchant is always to live by taking profit. This is the Way of the merchant.
Thirdly the gentleman warrior, carrying the weaponry of his Way. The Way of the warrior is to master the virtue of his weapons. If a gentleman dislikes strategy he will not appreciate the benefit of weaponry, so must he not have a little taste for this?
Fourthly the Way of the artisan. The Way of the carpenter is to become proficient is the use of his tools, first to lay his plans with a true measure and then to perform his work according to plan. Thus he passes through life. These are the four Ways of the gentleman, the farmer, the artisan and the merchant.
The comparison with carpentry is through the connection with houses. Houses of the nobility, houses of the warriors, the Four houses, ruin of houses, thriving of houses, the style of the house, the tradition of the house, and the name of the house. The carpenter uses a master plan of the building, and the Way of strategy is similar in that there is a plan of campaign. If you want to learn the craft of war, ponder over this book. The teacher is a needle, the disciple is as thread. You must practice constantly.
Like the foreman carpenter, the commander must know natural rules, and the rules of the country, and the rules of houses. This is the Way of the foreman.
The foreman carpenter must know the architectural theory of towers and temples, and the plans of palaces, and must employ men to raise up houses. The Way of the foreman carpenter is the same as the Way of the commander of a warrior house.
In the construction of houses, choice of woods is made. Straight un-knotted timber of good appearance is used for the revealed pillars, straight timber with small defects is used for the inner pillars. Timber of the finest appearance, even if a little weak, is used for the thresholds, lintels, doors, and sliding doors, and so on. Good strong timber, though it be gnarled and knotted, can always be used discreetly in construction. Timber which is weak or knotted throughout should be used as scaffolding, and later as firewood.
The foreman carpenter allots his men work according to their ability. Floor layers, makers of sliding doors, thresholds and lintels, ceilings and so on. Those of poor ability lay the floor joists, and those of lesser ability carve wedges and do such miscellaneous work. If the foreman knows and deploys his men well the finished work will be good.
The foreman should take into account the abilities and limitations of his men, circulating among them and asking nothing unreasonable. He should know their morale and spirit, and encourage them when necessary. This is the same as the principle of stategy.
Like a trooper, the carpenter sharpens his own tools. He carries his equipment in his tool box, and works under the direction of his foreman. He makes columns and girders with an axe, shapes floorboards and shelves with a plane, cuts fine openwork and carvings accurately, giving as excellent a finish as his skill will allow. This is the craft of the carpenters. When the carpenter becomes skilled and understands measures he can become a foreman.
The carpenter's attainment is, having tools which will cut well, to make small shrines, writing shelves, tables, paper lanterns, chopping boards and pot-lids. These are the specialities of the carpenter. Things are similar for the trooper. You ought to think deeply about this.
The attainment of the carpenter is that his work is not warped, that the joints are not misaligned, and that the work is truly planed so that is meets well and is not merely finished in sections. This is essential.
If you want to learn this Way, deeply consider the things written in this book one at a time. You must do sufficient research.
Warriors, both commanders and troopers, carry two swords at their belt. In olden times these were called the long sword and the sword; nowadays there are known as the sword and the companion sword. Let it suffice to say that in our land, whatever the reason, a warrior carries two swords at his belt. It is the Way of the warrior.
"Nito Ichi Ryu" shows the advantage of using both swords.
The spear and the halberd are weapons which are carried out of doors.
Students fo the Ichi school Way of strategy should train from the start with the sword and long sword in either hand. This is a truth: when you sacrifice your life, you must make fullest use of your weaponry. It is false not to do so, and to die with a weapon yet undrawn.
If you hold a sword with both hands, it is difficult to wield it freely to left and right, so my method is to carry the sword in one hand. This does not apply to large weapons such as the spear or halberd, but swords and companion swords can be carried in one hand. It is encumbering to hold a sword in both hands when you are on horseback, when running on uneven roads, on swampy ground, muddy rice fields, stony ground, or in a crowd of people. To hold the long sword in both hands is not the true Way, for if you carry a bow or a spear or other arms in your left hand you have only one hand free for the long sword. However, when it is difficult to cut an enemy down with one hand, you must use both hands. It is not difficult to wield a sword in one hand; the Way to learn this is to train with two long swords, one in each hand. It will seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first. Bows are difficult to draw, halberds are difficult to wield; as you become accustomed to the bow so your pull will become stronger. When you become used to wielding the long sword, you will gain the power of the Way and wield the sword well.
As I will explain in the second book, the Water Book, there is no fast way of wielding the long sword. The long sword should be wielded broadly, and the companion sword closely. This is the first thing to realise.
According to this Ichi school, you can win with a long weapon, and yet you can also win with a short weapon. In short, the Way of the Ichi school is the spirit of winning, whatever the weapon and whatever its size.
It is better to use two swords rather than on when you are fighting a crowd, and especially if you want to take a prisoner.
These things cannont be explained in detail. From one thing, know ten thousand things. When you attain the Way of strategy there will not be one thing you cannot see. You must study hard.
There is a time and a place for use of weapons.
The best use of the companion sword is in a confined space, or when you are engaged closely with an opponent. The long sword can be used effectively in all situations.
The halberd is inferior to the spear on the battlefield. With the spear you can take the initiative; the halberd is defensive. In the hands of one of two men of equal ability, the spear gives a little extra strength. Spear and halbertd both have their uses, but neither is very beneficial in confined spaces. They cannot be used for taking a prisoner. They are essentially weapons for the field.
Anyway, if you learn "indoor" techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters.
The bow is tactically strong at the commencement of battle, especially battles on a moor, as it is possible to shoot quickly from among the spearmen. However, it is unsatisfactory in sieges, or when the enemy is more than forty yards away. For this reason there are nowadays few traditional schools of archery. There is little use for this kind of skill.
From inside fortifications, the gun has no equal among weapons. It is the supreme weapon on the field before the ranks clash, but once swords are crossed the gun becomes useless.
One of the virtues of the bow is that you can see the arrows in flight and correct your aim accordingly, whereas gunshot cannot be seen. You must appreciate the importance of this.
Just as a horse must have endurance and no defects, so it is with weapons. Horses should walk strongly, and swords and companion swords should cut strongly. Spears and halberds must stand up to heavy use: bows and guns must be sturdy. Weapons should be hardy rather than decorative.
You should not have a favorite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well. You should not copy others, but use weapons which you can handly properly. It is bad for commanders and troopers to have likes and dislikes. These are things you must learn thoroughly.
There is timing in everything. Timing in strategy cannot be mastered without a great deal of practice.
Timing is important in dancing and pipe or string music, for they are in rhythm only if timing is good. Timing and rhythm are also involved in the military arts, shooting bows and guns, and riding horses. In all skills and ablilities there is timing.
There is no timing in the Void.
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior, in his thriving and declining, in his harmony and discord. Similarly, there is timing in the Way of the merchant, in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this. In strategy there are various timing considerations. From the outset you must know the applicable timing and the inapplicable timing, and from among the large and small things and the fast and slow timings find the relevant timing, first seeing the distance timing and the background timing. This is the main thing in strategy. It is especially important to know the background timing, otherwise your strategy will become uncertain.
You win battles with the timing in the Void born of the timing of cunning by knowing the enemies' timing, and thus using a timing which the enemy does not expect.
All the five books are chiefly concerned with timing. You must train sufficiently to appreciate this.
If you practise day and night in the above Ichi school strategy, your spirit will naturally broaden. This is large scale strategy and the strategy of hand to hand combat propagated in the world. This is recorded for the first time in the five books of Ground, Water, Fire, Wind, and the Void. This is the Way for men who want to learn my strategy:
It is important to start by setting thses broad principles in your heart, and train in the Way of strategy. If you do not look at things on a large scale it will be difficult for you to master strategy. If you learn and attain this strategy you will never lose even to twenty of thirty enemies. More than anything to start with you must set your heart on strategy and earnestly stick to the Way. You will come to be able to actually beat men in fights, and to be able to win with your eye. Also by training you will be able to freely control your won body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten men with your spirit. When you have reached this point, will it not mean that you are invincible?
Moreover, in large scale strategy the superior man will manage many subordinates dextrously, bear himself correctly, govern the country and foster the people, thus preserving the ruler's discipline. If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of strategy.


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When we try to name the one thing that makes America great, we are forced to conclude that the answer is "quality of life," defined as "working toilets." We are blessed with the finest toilet system in the world. When we go to a public place such as a shopping mall or restaurant, we know that we will find public restrooms meeting all the standards of the Federal Interstate Commode Quality Act, including:
Modern soap and paper-towel dispensers designed to conserve our planet's precious resources by always being out of soap and paper towels.
Bad words that have been written on the walls by irresponsible, reprehensible, antisocial, degenerate perverts who can be pretty funny.
A sign that says "EMPLOYEES MUST WASH HANDS BEFORE LEAVING RESTROOM AND ALSO FOR GOD'S SAKE PLEASE STOP SPITTING INTO THE ENTREES."
A person who has been in a stall for at least two days making noises like walruses mating.
Also, sometimes, if prankish youngsters have not stolen it or attempted to flush a rental security guard down it, there will be a TOILET THAT ACTUALLY WORKS. This is not the case elsewhere in the world. Ask anybody who travels a lot. In foreign countries, you constantly find yourself in scary situations involving plumbing that was built thousands of years ago by the Etruscans, who chose to become extinct rather than try to use it. These facilities are often guarded by very short, very wide, very hostile women who watch you like a hawk and expect you to tip them for tending the mold colonies and making sure the toilet paper is rigid enough to slice luncheon meat.
Perhaps you believe I am overstating the scariness of foreign toilets. Well, perhaps you should dig out your December 1993 issue of the Scottish Medical Journal, a copy of which was sent to me by alert research scientist Elliot Cowan. On page 185, you will find an article entitled "THE COLLAPSE OF TOILETS IN GLASGOW." This article, which I am not making up, describes three cases wherein people were injured "whilst sitting on toilets which unexpectedly collapsed." All three patients had to receive hospital treatment for wounds in the buttocks region. (The buttocks region is located just west of Edinburgh.)
The article describes the collapsing-toilet incidents in clinical scientific terminology, which contrasts nicely with a close-up, full-face photograph, suitable for framing, of a hairy and hefty victim's naked wounded butt, mooning out of the page at you, causing you to think, for reasons that you cannot quite explain, of Pat Buchanan.
"The cause (of the toilet collapses) remains unclear," states the Scottish Medical Journal, "except that all of the toilets were believed to be very old." (The article does not come right out and use the term "Etruscan," but we can read between the lines.)
So my advice is: If you must go to a foreign country, go to the bathroom before you leave. Although I personally would stay right here in the United States, because we could be on the verge of a major scientific breakthrough in the form of -- get ready -- a MICROWAVE TOILET.
I have here the May 26, 1993, issue of the Bloomsburg, Pa., Press-Enterprise, sent in by alert reader David Hill; right on the front page is a story, written by Ellen Condron, about a man named George Welliver, who is hoping to manufacture a toilet that would use microwaves to convert waste to ashes, thereby saving water. The article is accompanied by a stunningly artistic color photograph, taken with the camera tilted at an arty angle, showing Mr. Welliver sitting (fully dressed) on his bathroom commode, holding a microwave oven in his lap. I have been to some of the world's finest museums, and I can honestly say that I have never seen a work of art, photographic or otherwise, that more clearly expresses the classic dual themes of "microwave oven" and "toilet."
The article quotes Welliver as saying that he originally considered a LASER toilet, but decided against it. I think this was a wise decision. I'm sure I speak on behalf of guys everywhere when I say that I would not want to get any closer than about 50 feet from a laser-powered toilet, so accuracy would be a real problem.
But I think the microwave toilet is a great idea. In fact, I can foresee a day in the not-so-distant future when there would be one multipurpose microwave device in your home, which would automatically, at a pre-set time, load a frozen burrito into itself, heat it up to serving temperature, then switch over to Toilet Mode, incinerate the burrito, and whisk the ashes away without any human involvement whatsoever. That is the wonderful thing about this great country: The quality of life is constantly improving in ways that we cannot begin to comprehend without massive doses of Prozac, with each generation producing something new and amazing. And then forgetting to flush.
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By Rory D. Sweeney
FERC last week rejected a key part of PJM's controversial proposal to reallocate uplift costs, saying it had failed to justify its plan to begin charging up-to-congestion (UTC) transactions (ER18-86).
The order addresses Phase 2 of a three-phase proposal by PJM to address how to spread the costs associated with uplift more equitably. PJM proposed allocating uplift to UTCs in the same way it is applied to incremental supply offers (INCs) and decrement demand bids (DECs). INCs receive balancing — or real-time — operating reserves. DECs, which are treated like demand, are allocated both balancing reserves and day-ahead operating reserves because they allocated equally to demand bids and exports.
UTCs aren't allocated any uplift because they were originally created as a way for market participants wheeling power through PJM to hedge against real-time congestion. They later evolved into purely financial products through a series of market rule changes, prompting FERC to open a Section 206 proceeding in 2014 to determine whether they were being improperly favored compared with other virtual transactions. (See FERC Orders Review of UTC Rules.)
Following a lengthy stakeholder proceeding that failed to produce a consensus proposal, PJM proposed treating UTCs as a separate INC and DEC, with the source side receiving balancing operating reserves and the sink side being allocated day-ahead and balancing operating reserves.
PJM argued that although UTCs can change what resources are committed in the day-ahead market and therefore affect uplift, it was "effectively impossible" to measure the impact of individual transactions.
But FERC said because the RTO had "not attempted to quantify the approximate magnitude of UTCs' impact," the filing lacked justification for the proposed cost allocation.
"We find that PJM has not adequately justified its supposition that UTCs behave in the markets with sufficient similarity to paired INCs and DECs to support allocating uplift to UTCs in the same way it allocates uplift to INCs and DECs," the commission wrote. "While PJM claims that its proposal treats UTCs equivalently to INCs and DECs, we find that the proposal essentially allocates uplift to a UTC twice because the proposed allocation methodology would allocate uplift to a UTC as if it were instead a separate INC transaction and a separate DEC transaction."
Commissioners also questioned the argument that UTCs are identical to a combined INC and DEC because the latter clear the market separately — "allowing for the possibility that one side of a pair may not clear" — while UTCs clear as a whole.
Uplift Proposal Not Dead
While FERC shut the door on this proposal, it remained open to an alternative method for allocating uplift to UTCs, saying, "We recognize that it may be appropriate to allocate some uplift costs to UTCs."
Proponents of the proposal, including PJM's Independent Market Monitor, had argued that UTCs carry comparatively lower costs per transaction than do INCs and DECs but are not exposed to the same energy pricing risk, fueling their growth to 80% of the virtual transaction market.
Monitor Joe Bowring found hope in the commission's ruling.
"The IMM is disappointed in the commission decision but is encouraged by the commission's openness to UTCs paying uplift," Bowring said in an emailed statement. "It is clear that the current rules, which entirely exempt UTCs from paying uplift, provide a noncompetitive advantage to UTCs over other virtual trading instruments, as evidenced by the fact that UTCs have pushed the other instruments almost completely out of the market. Any proposal to continue a noncompetitive advantage for UTCs, even a reduced one, will not resolve the market design problem."
Ruta Skučas, who represents the Financial Marketers Coalition, said members are "thrilled" by the ruling but frustrated that PJM's stakeholder process did not pre-emptively address FERC's concerns. (See PJM MRC OKs Uplift Solution over Financial Marketers' Opposition.)
"We think FERC made the right call," she said. "We also wish that conversations with PJM and the stakeholders would have been more productive over the five years of the [Energy Market Uplift Senior Task Force]. We spent the better part of two years arguing that a double deviation could not possibly be just and reasonable, instead of working on more productive solutions."


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